Gong Yonggu sneered, and when he was about to refute, Zhu Youzhen stood up from the throne.

"Bi Shangshu is right, it's really not good to let the Qing family donate silver." Zhu Youzhen said lightly.

In the last life, in the most critical time, the thieves invaded the Xuanfu, but the soldiers of the Beijing camp could not even pay the silver. But even if he is closest to the royal family, Zhou Kui, the national ruler, he refuses to pay for it.

Since then, Zhu Youzhen has been desperate for these nobles and civil soldiers. In this life, he will never move such a thought again, even if these people take the initiative to donate him, he is not ready to ask for it.

I am the emperor and the Son of Heaven, and there are many ways to get silver, but it's a big deal to grab it with a knife, so why bother to compromise again!

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a way." At this moment, the best assist, Wen Tiren, stepped up.

"In that year, Liaodong Jiannu rebelled, and in order to pacify Jiannu, the imperial court began to levy Liao's salary, so Weichen suggested that this precedent could be followed." Wen Tiren said eloquently.

"Heh, Wen Ge Lao thought of a good way, not to mention that His Majesty just issued an order to stop the levy of Liao, even according to what Wen Ge Lao said, if taxes are levied, when it is collected, I am afraid that the displaced people in Shandong and Henan will starve to death." Cheng Ji, the servant of the ministry, stood up and sneered at Wen Tiren.

"Hehehe......" There was a slight laughter in the court, and many officials were very dissatisfied with Wen Tiren, who had obtained the position by flattering the emperor, especially those officials of the Donglin Party who were pretentious.

"Who said there was going to be an increase in the field tax?" Wen Tiren glanced at Cheng Ji's life and said lightly.

"If you don't pay taxes, can you turn up the silver?" Cheng Jiming sneered.

"There is no land tax, but there is a commercial tax!" Wen Tiren said lightly.

"I have a prosperous business in the Ming Dynasty, and business travel is endless, but the annual commercial tax is very few, and the imperial court treats scholars preferentially, but there are many scholars who rely on their own fame and evade the imperial court taxes when engaging in business, so that the treasury cannot collect commercial taxes.

Therefore, the minister suggested that the commercial tax could be increased, whether it was a scholar or a duke, as long as he was engaged in commercial trade, he had to pay taxes, so that as long as he was levied, he could easily collect hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in this Beijing city, which was enough for disaster relief! ”

As soon as Wen Tiren's words fell, there was an uproar in the court. Wen Tiren even openly clamored for the abolition of the gentry's privilege not to pay taxes, and even collected commercial taxes from the gentry, which was against all the officials present! Most of the officials in the court have industries at home, and they have businesses in addition to fields, especially the officials whose families are in Jiangnan, and many of them have millions of dollars! Even those who seem to be poor, even if they don't do business now, they can't guarantee that they won't do it in the future.

"Wen Tiren openly bewitched the saint to compete with the people for profit, and his crime should be punished!"

"Wen Tiren blindly flatters His Majesty, he is a minister, and he asks His Majesty to remove him from his official position and expel him from the court!"

Many officials stood up and criticized Wen Tiren. This time, even the nobles who are usually transcendent in the court also stood up and scolded Wen Tiren.

These nobles all have huge industries in Beijing, and almost every one of them has their own shop, Wen Tiren's move is clearly to cut meat from them, how can they endure it?

Under the surging emotions of the crowd, it was the henchmen of Wen Tiren's family, and they didn't dare to stand up to help Wen Tiren speak at this time.

But Wen Tiren was not afraid, and said coldly to the Manchu Dynasty: "What? The people's tax revenue will not be able to receive it from you, or are you not His Majesty's subjects and have no intention of sharing His Majesty's worries? ”

At this moment, Wen Tiren occupies the commanding heights of morality, and his eyebrows are cold against the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, which looks particularly heroic. But no one knew that Wen Tiren's heart was full of wry smiles at this moment, he didn't want to stand up and say such things, and he didn't want to be enemies of the Manchu officials, but the emperor secretly summoned him, and secretly explained the matter, how could he dare not follow the emperor's words.

Wen Tiren knew that from now on, I was afraid that I would become a real lonely minister, and I was afraid that I could only rely on the Holy Family to stand in the court in the future.

But there are losses and gains, at least from now on, I am the real Jane in the emperor's heart!

Bi Ziyan looked at Wen Tiren, and then at the emperor on the throne, and sighed in his heart, he knew in his heart that if it wasn't for the emperor's acquiescence, how could Wen Tiren dare to risk the world's disapproval? Could it be that the emperor really decided to levy a merchant tax on the gentry who were doing business?

From the bottom of his heart, Bi Ziyan is in favor of levying commercial taxes, because then the treasury revenue will inevitably double, and the imperial court will be able to do everything with money, and his own household secretary will be much better. But the identity of the gentry made him unable to conform to Wen Tiren, so he could only remain silent.

"That's it!" Zhu Youzhen stood up again, and the court suddenly fell silent.

"Wen Tiren's policy is completely for the consideration of the imperial court, in order to increase the revenue of the treasury, and you should not shout and kill it for personal gain. However, what you said is not unreasonable, and there is indeed a suspicion of competing with the people for profit. Then I will compromise on it, in order to help the displaced people, and in a hurry, I will only levy a commercial tax in Beijing.

In this way, a tax department will be established first, which will be temporarily attached to the East Factory, and the East Factory will exercise the right to supervise. The Department of Taxation may have a Director and Consul General. The imposition of commercial taxes will inevitably violate the interests of some people and will inevitably be resisted, so the person in charge cannot bear it unless he is a person with courage and blood. In this case, Ping Liaobo, you will temporarily take the position of director of the tax department. ”

Zhao Shujiao stood up with a confused face, where did he know what business taxes to collect, but he also knew that what the emperor needed most at this time was obedience, not anything else.

"Weichen takes the order!" Zhao Shujiao said angrily.

The emperor and Wen Tiren sang and harmonized, and another Zhao Shujiao came out, and he was about to settle the matter of levying commercial taxes, and the civil officials said that there was no business in Beijing, but those nobles couldn't help it, and frequently looked at the British public. Zhang Zhiji lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Zhang Shize has just made a great contribution and become the chief soldier of a town, and his future is very good, compared with the future of the British government, what is the calculation of some silver?

Seeing that Zhang Zhiji didn't speak for a long time, Gongshun Hou Wu Weixian stood up stubbornly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this move is inappropriate." ”

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "I just said, I am in a hurry, and I will deal with the difficulties in front of me first." ”

Wu Weixian had no choice but to retreat.

The civil servants looked at each other, but in the end, no one came forward. Zhu Youzhen made it clear that only commercial taxes were levied in Beijing, and most officials did not have any business in Beijing, so naturally they could not speak for these nobles.

But these people have forgotten that if they can collect business taxes in Beijing today, they will be able to collect business taxes elsewhere in the future!