Zhou Kui returned to the mansion and immediately sent someone to tell Wu Weixian how he entered the palace, and apologized for failing to persuade the queen. Apologize and apologize, but the gold will not be returned!

"Jiadingbo can't count on it, so we can only do it ourselves." Wu Weixian said to the housekeeper Wu Liang.

"The queen is reluctant to intervene at this time, which means that Your Majesty supports the Tax Department, and we are the most right with Your Majesty, is this good?" Wu Liang said with some concern.

"Your Majesty is here to collect taxes and money, and you don't necessarily support Zhao Shujiao, so why not change someone else to be in charge of the tax department?" Wu Weixian said, "Zhao Shujiao insulted me too much, and openly killed me in front of me, if you don't take revenge, how can you gain a foothold in this Beijing city?" I can't wait to dismantle it in eight pieces to vent the hatred in my heart! Wu Weixian said fiercely.

"Then I'll contact those officials, do you want to find some more people to expand your voice?" Wu Liang asked.

"Find as much as you can, and don't be afraid to spend money." Wu Weixian said, "Zhao Thief is so arrogant, maybe many officials are waiting to impeach him." ”

The harem and the court are two-pronged, and Zhao Shujiao must be pulled off the horse, in order to regain face, Wu Weixian has already let go, and he does not hesitate to collude with civil officials with his noble body.

As Wu Weixian expected, Zhao Shuojiao's actions were too excessive, which made the court officials very angry, and many officials were gearing up for impeachment.

In fact, the establishment of the temporary yamen of the Taxation Department did not matter to the civil officials at all, anyway, most of the business of the Jingshi was monopolized by the nobles, and the collection of taxes could not be collected from them.

And these civil officials also want to see the emperor suppress these nobles, after all, some time ago, there was a tendency for the emperor to rely on the nobles to suppress civil officials. Moreover, in the past two years, the emperor has separated from the military department to organize and train the new army, which has made the civil officials really a little uneasy, and they faintly feel that the emperor has a tendency to suppress the civilian officials and reuse the military generals.

Now that the emperor has suppressed the nobles, it is natural that the civil officials are happy to see it, so the establishment of the tax department is so smooth.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen's appointment of Zhao Shujiao to head the tax department made some civil officials realize that maybe Zhu Youzhen's purpose was to rely on the new nobles to suppress the old ones, and in any case it was a dog-eat-dog, and the civil officials only needed to see the jokes.

However, Zhao led the sect's actions too much, killing people and arresting people to blatantly seal shops and rob silver, which exceeded the bottom limit of many civil officials, and made them trance-like to see that those tax supervisors and mining envoys sent by the emperor back then were also so horizontal and domineering. If the tax department is really allowed to act so unscrupulously, if the emperor tastes the sweetness, who knows if he will let the tax department continue to exist, and then send it to the prefecture and county to collect taxes?

The tax department can exist, it can only exist in Beijing, and the tax department can collect business taxes, but it can't be so unscrupulous! Zhao Shujiao's actions must be punished!

There is no need for Wu Weixian to instigate, there are many officials who write a note to impeach Zhao Shujiao!

However, when they were sent to the palace, they were all left behind, and the emperor did not seem to see the evil deeds of Zhao Shujiao, and ignored the impeachment of the officials.

On the contrary, the punishment of Gongshun Hou came down, Zhu Youzhen summoned, severely reprimanded Wu Weixian, punished him for his flagrant violation of the imperial court order to resist the payment of commercial tax, ordered him to pay the commercial tax in full, and fined 20,000 taels of silver, but the silk village was returned to Wu Weixian.

The commercial taxes paid, the huge amount of money fined, and the losses caused by Zhao Shujiao's raid of the silk village, the vitality of the Hou Mansion was greatly damaged, Wu Weixian was so angry that he killed several maids one after another, but he had no choice but to accept the punishment honestly.

Zhu Youzhen's edict made the Manchu officials see the situation clearly and their strong will to support Zhao Shujiao, and there were suddenly many fewer efforts to impeach Zhao Shujiao.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the backbone of the officials was far less than before, and there were very few civil officials who dared to stand up with the emperor. And this matter is just a military general and a noble who killed another nobleman, and it is not a big deal in the eyes of civil officials.

And Zhu Youzhen's attitude also made the other nobles silent, and everyone was trying to resist the tax department, and they all paid taxes honestly. Even the Guozhang and the Dingguo Mansion have been recognized, and the former governor of Jingying, Gongshun Hou Wu Weixian, was disgraced, and the other nobles knew that their status was not as good as the above three, so they could only pay taxes honestly.

As a result, the tax collection work went very smoothly. The people of the tax department rushed between the shops in the city every day, checking the account books, verifying the tax amount, collecting taxes and storing them, and they were busy with the continuous rotation. The treasury of the tax department also became more and more abundant.

On the fifth day of the establishment of the Taxation Department, the tax collection had reached as much as 300,000 taels, and this was only half of the shops in the inner city. Zhu Youzhen issued an order to transfer the 300,000 taels of tax silver to Shandong, Henan and other places for disaster relief, in order to prevent local officials from being greedy for money and grain for disaster relief, the Inspectorate sent the imperial historian as a messenger, and at the same time transferred Jinyi Wei to accompany the supervision.

Local officials in Shandong and Henan provinces are worried about the growing number of refugees, fearing that they will cause civil unrest, but they are relieved by the arrival of the imperial court's disaster relief mission, and with enough disaster relief money, they can at least survive this winter.

The local officials were suddenly greedy, but there was a large number of Jinyi guards who accompanied him to supervise the disaster relief, and it was no problem to ensure that most of the disaster relief money and food went to the refugees.

In the land of Henan in Shandong, the land annexation was serious, and ordinary people could not eat enough even in good years, and it was even more miserable in every disaster year, and civil uprisings occurred from time to time. And this winter, because the imperial court's relief was in place in time, it was rare that not many refugees died, let alone civil unrest.

At this time in Beijing, the tax collection of the tax department was still in progress.

A large amount of silver entered the treasury of the tax department from the shops of the nobles, and there were tens of thousands of taels of silver every day, and Zhu Youjian's inner treasury was full again.

Since the disaster situation in Shandong and Henan has stabilized and the refugees have received timely relief, there have been voices in the court to stop the increase in commercial taxes, after all, the tax department was established in the name of raising silver taels for disaster relief.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen chose to ignore this kind of voice.

The snow has melted, the time has come to February of the third year of Chongzhen, the winter is about to pass, the victims of the disaster in Shandong and Henan have already returned to their respective homes, and the tax collection of the tax department is still in progress, it is really too many shops in Beijing, the tax department is short of manpower, and the tax amount must be carefully verified, and the progress is a little slow.

At this time, the commercial tax collected by the tax department has reached more than one million taels, and it is more than one million taels after throwing away the disaster relief money!

The nobles finally couldn't stand it anymore, worried that the tax department would continue to exist, and the additional commercial tax would become a common practice, so they collectively neglected the court and asked to cancel the tax department's yamen, but Zhu Youzhen refused again.

However, in order to show the emperor's benevolence, Zhu Youzhen decreed that only large shops should be taxed, and no business tax should be imposed on those small businessmen who carry the burden of selling vegetables.

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