"Can the ledger be destroyed?", someone made a very pertinent suggestion.

In fact, many times many people will be very curious, such as accepting bribes, such as embezzlement, such as the problem of withholding taxes that broke out this time. It is clearly a violation of the law, and what person who handles it often has to leave behind this evidence, which at a certain time becomes a sharp blade in the hands of the enemy, and stabs him in the chest? Why don't you simply not establish accounts, and there will be no trace left?

In fact, there are many issues related to this, and it is very complicated.

The simplest point is that there are hundreds of millions of people in a province, how do you know whose taxes have been paid and whose taxes have not been paid? What should you do if you make a mistake? Although the common people are docile and deceitful these days, it does not mean that they can be kicked by someone for no reason. The lower the society, the more powerful the clans and clans become, and these ordinary people, who have no political power, need to huddle together to keep warm against the more brutal ruling class.

If something goes wrong, it might end up in a fight, or even a big fight.

Therefore, the grassroots tax officer has to establish a basic account book to record when and under what name, and who paid how many taxes. At the same time, they also have to give a bill to the civilians who have been levied taxes, proving that you have been taxed in a certain name, and you will not have to pay this year.

Well, the basic ledger appears.

After collecting all the taxes, in order to prove that they have not embezzled or deducted taxes, the tax officials at the grassroots level will send the collected taxes and fees together with this account book to the tax officer at the next higher level, and the tax officer at the next higher level will check and count how much money has been collected from below in the year, and who has given and who has not. These numbers need to be aggregated, and a summary ledger is born.

When this level of taxation and the ledger go through one or two more passes, it is finally handed over to the local tax officer.

Then the regional tax officer needs to report the tax situation of the year to the Central Imperial Tax Authority, and also a summary account book. Of course, when it comes to this level, the district tax officer can fool people in the account book at will, for example, the commercial tax obviously collects two million gold coins, and he writes one of 1.7 million and withholds 300,000. You can't check anything on this ledger alone, but what about checking down?

No matter how the tax officer in the middle plays and changes, the most basic tax book cannot be changed.

These ledgers are eventually put together and sent to the Imperial Tax Office along with the collected taxes. The Imperial Tax Office would only check the books of the district tax collectors, check the books with the actual tax figures, and then seal all the books in the treasury, transfer all the taxes to the royal treasury, and everyone would get rich together. The Ministry of Finance will apply to the royal family for budget funds according to the budget of the previous year, and the royal family will allocate the funds according to the figures, and the rest will belong to the royal family's income.

Then why should the most basic ledgers be escorted to the imperial capital? This is the provision of the tax law, all the accounts must be clear, and no pages can be altered, so that the royal family made rules and regulations to protect their own rights and interests.

Now that the royal family has sealed the ledgers, and the Imperial Treasury has begun to review these accounts, the most troublesome are those who are not of the same mind as the royal family, such as Prince Fabio, such as Prince Heinsses.

Taxes are related to everyone's money bags, so they will definitely not let nobles who are hostile or strange to them come to their own territory, and will only use some people who are more familiar. Francisco, when he had just inherited the title, went to the fief of Prince Fabio and worked as a regional tax officer for three years, making a lot of money.

If it is traced, nearly one-third of the nobles present here cannot escape the crime of tax interception.

Tax interception is a felony punishable by beheading.

Therefore, the first shot fired by His Majesty the Emperor was very accurate, and it directly hit the vital point of all the nobles. But on the contrary, he can let his own people go, because that is His Majesty the Emperor, he has the power to pardon the royalist nobles, but he will definitely not pardon the nobles of other noble groups.

This is the benefit of righteousness.

After understanding all this, Rosie reacted, no wonder everyone had a serious and sad expression, everyone had shit on their buttocks, and the only person holding the toilet paper was the emperor.

However, Rossi's worries did not last long, and Prince Fabio came up with a very brutal solution.

The people here are all political veterans who are proficient in the tactics of struggle, and it can be said that they have seen and experienced much more struggles than Rossi, and the method given by Prince Fabio is also very simple and very rude, that is, when someone is reasoning with you, you slap him.

Since the royal family asks to investigate the tax issue, then simply don't have too much entanglement with the royal family on this issue, you check yours, we cover the tax issue with a more serious political incident than this matter, so that the royal family has no extra energy to find trouble for everyone on this.

So what could be more serious than tracing taxes?

The answer is simple, create conflict.

If you want to talk about tacit understanding, it is obvious that Prince Fabio and Prince Heinsys have a very high degree of tacit understanding.

Just as the royal family officially began to take stock of the books, another scandal broke out in the Imperial Diet.

A nobleman of the Heinsis aristocratic group is suspected of colluding with a group of thieves to kill him for money, and even killed a minor nobleman. However, the nobleman involved in the case complained that it was slander and false accusation, but he was fired on the way home, and finally died of serious injuries and died in the hospital.

There is information that it was someone from Prince Fabio's camp who did it.

The aristocratic class of the entire Tuhrman Empire was boiling, and impeachment letters and petitions demanding strict investigation poured in from all over the country like snowflakes in the palace of His Majesty the Emperor.

As the two hardcore actors, Prince Heinsis and Prince Fabio staged an all-martial arts on the day of the court meeting, and the two aristocratic groups mingled. Prince Heinsis accused Prince Fabio's noble group of sending assassins to assassinate his own falsely accused nobles without investigating and collecting evidence. And Prince Fabio shouted that Prince Heinsses was murderous, and by the way, he was framed.

The public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, anyway, before the matter was investigated, speak with your fists.

What is tacit understanding, this is called tacit understanding.

Launched at the same time, flawlessly, like there was a perfect script before that, and it climaxed in an instant.

His Majesty the Emperor's move to check the accounts could not continue, after all, there were also pawns of the other two major aristocratic groups in the Ministry of Finance, and the entire ruling class was in a mess, and there were people in various departments who waved their fists at each other, and everyone wasted their energy on pulling the bias and digging out black fists.

I had no choice but to deal with the process and truth of this matter as the most important thing at the moment.

As for the dead nobles, of course it was voluntary, and the two nobles who died were the last nobles, fifty or sixty years old, and their families were about to be kicked out of the aristocratic class. They can't find any other way, and the only way is to use their lives to let their family continue the glory and status of nobility.

As compensation, the blank canonization books of the two marquis were thrown out.

Everyone was happy.

The only thing that can't be happy may be His Majesty the Emperor, who has obviously caught the other party's eggs, but he didn't expect it to be an iron egg, and he can't pinch it, not to mention playing his hand, it's really depressing.

Everyone knows very well that there is no hope that this matter will be investigated clearly in a short period of time, and the moment when the investigation is really clear, it will be the time when the three aristocratic groups will really do it.

The ruling class of the Tuhrman Empire was as lively as a carnival and attracted the attention of the Republic and the Commonwealth.

All military operations across the Western continent have stopped, and everyone is waiting, waiting for the final victor of the Tullman Empire to appear.