Chapter Eighty-Four: Did I Break the Law by Paying My Taxes?

Natsuhara Yoshi?

I actually bumped into this guy!

Just listening to the voice coming from behind the door of the household, Zhu Yunxi's eyes were already burning with fire.

In just a moment, Zhu Yunxi looked at the empty gate of the household with blazing eyes.

His eyes are like that of a young man who is about to marry his bride, waiting for the long-awaited red hijab to walk out of the door of his mother's house.

After waiting for a while, Zhu Yunxi only felt as if time had slowed down. Time becomes like a river, flowing slowly in front of me visibly.

That's Natsuhara-yoshi!

There are a number of veterans of the five dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, and they are evergreen in the political arena.

It is also in charge of the money bag of the Ming Dynasty for life, and in the Ming Dynasty, he used troops again and again, launched countless northern expeditions, and firmly guarded the finance of the Ming Dynasty.

In the history of Zhao Zhaoming, Xia Yuanji was crowned with the position of the humerus and the reputation of the minister. He also praised him with the words "perfunctory philosophers, so as to assist the heirs" in the "Book of Shang".

If there were no economic talents in the early Ming Dynasty, who had been sitting on the desk of the household department year after year, I am afraid that the successive emperors in the early Ming Dynasty would have implicated the people's livelihood in the world.

Xia Moucheng has a loyal and loving heart, and he has not finished speaking. ’

Zhu Yunxi's heart was excited, thinking about the records in Zhao Zhaoqing's history, and his eyes became more and more eagerly anticipated.

The next second.

Behind the household department, a young man wearing a light green uniform embroidered with a heron duck crossed the threshold of the household with a calm posture and a smile, standing in front of the door, looking at Zhu Yunxi and others in front of the household with calm eyes.

"Natsuhara-yoshi!"

Zhu Yunxi suddenly shouted involuntarily, stretched out his hand and beckoned to the puzzled Xia Yuanji.

It's self-...... The future God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty!

This is something that excites Zhu Yunxi more than getting to know Xie Jin.

Xia Yuanji, who was a whole round older than Zhu Yunxi, couldn't help frowning when he looked at Zhu Yunxi who shouted at him.

He didn't know the man.

But......

Suddenly, the image of a person in Xia Yuanji's mind overlapped with the young man in front of the household department.

His eyebrows suddenly raised, and he hurriedly walked down the steps with his official robe and arrived in front of Zhu Yunxi.

"Xia Yuanji, the head of the Qing Officials Division of the Lower Household Department, see the King of Huaiyou."

Zhu Yunxi couldn't stop smiling on his face, as if he had seen a gold ingot, put down the twenty-third uncle, stepped forward to help Xia Yuanji, and said eagerly: "Master Xia doesn't need to be polite, I never thought that I could see Brother Wei Zhe by chance today, and it just so happened that my business will be handed over to Brother Wei Zhe." ”

Wei Zhe is the character of Xia Yuanji.

was already puzzled why the king of Huaiyou County came to the household department, and why he knew his own Xia Yuanji, but when he heard that Zhu Yunxi even knew his own words, he was even more suspicious in his heart.

Isn't His Highness too ...... about himself?

He couldn't describe it.

could only smile dryly and say: "Your Highness raises love, how can Your Highness be called a brother by His Highness." ”

After experiencing the trial of hand solving, Zhu Yunxi already has a certain understanding of their kind of people.

Sincerity is the best weapon.

As between men and women, sincerity works.

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand: "I have heard of Brother Wei Zhe for a long time, and when I see it today, it is really as rumored, he is a rising star of my country's dynasty!" ”

As he spoke, he was already pulling Xia Yuanji and Zhu Huan towards the yamen of the household department.

Xia Yuanji, who was confused, was originally going to go to the Yamen of the General Administration Department to do some errands, but now he was able to follow Zhu Yunxi back to the Yamen of the Ministry of Households.

Sun Cheng, who was lagging behind, smiled slightly, the third master was very familiar with the methods of the head of the household department called Xia Yuanji.

He smiled, turned back to the crowd, and carried the box full of silver coins into the house.

The construction of the six yamen of Yingtiancheng is the same, the main hall and the class room.

The Household Department is responsible for the payment of taxes in the world, and it is divided into different departments according to different places.

Xia Yuanji, as one of the directors of the Household Department of Cleaning Officials, has a class room of his own.

With a heart full of incomprehension, Xia Yuanji led Zhu Yunxi into his class room, attracting the attention of several officials in the class room.

Xia Yuanji moved the two chairs: "The two highnesses will rest for a while, and I will ask people to bring tea for their highnesses." ”

As he spoke, he ordered the little official to go out and pour tea, and stood in front of Zhu Yunxi with his hands crossed.

Zhu Yunxi sat down with a smile, and at this time, Sun Cheng also walked in with someone, and seven boxes full of silver coins were thrown together into a pile.

The money in the box clanged non-stop.

Every sound made Xia Yuanji's heart tremble.

When he was about to leave the yamen before, he heard clearly that the king of Huaiyou County in front of him came to the household department to pay taxes.

"What is Your Highness going to do?" Xia Yuanji asked in a somewhat apprehensive whisper.

Zhu Yunxi leaned back with a smile: "Naturally, I came to pay taxes, can I still take out the silver from your household?" ”

This year, the imperial court began the northern expedition again, and the household department has now become a poor and sour place that rats can't even look down on.

The corners of Xia Yuanji's mouth twitched twice, and he smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, what are you going to do?" ”

In the world, how can there be a precedent for the household department to collect taxes from the royal grandchildren of the clan.

Besides, he is just the head of the household department of the small Zhengliupin, if he really accompanies the king of Huaiyou County to accept the money, I am afraid that tomorrow he will be impeached by his close and friendly colleagues in the court and return to his hometown.

Even if he's only in his twenties now.

Zhu Yunxi repeated again: "I came to the household department to pay taxes, and there are seven hundred taels of silver here, which are obtained from the four shops of the Chang family this time, and sell ice food and ice jade jelly. The total profit was more than 6,000 taels, and I took the whole and sent 700 taels. ”

When Xia Yuanji heard this, his legs suddenly weakened, and he almost knelt on the ground and begged Zhu Yunxi to bring the seven hundred taels of silver back to the palace.

He let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, you don't have to pay taxes. What's more, Daming's business tax can't be collected on your head. Even if you want to collect it, it's only one out of thirty......"

The profit of more than 6,000 taels is only more than 200 taels of silver.

But what Zhu Yunxi brought was enough to make a profit.

Zhu Yunxi tilted his head and looked at Xia Yuanji, who was now just the head of the Household Officials Division: "What's the matter, am I breaking the law by paying taxes?" ”

After asking.

Zhu Yunxi sneered twice for no reason, and he thought of an interesting story he had heard.

Later, in the Ming Dynasty, someone went to the government to pay taxes, because someone in his family was an official in the court. And the government did not accept the money, and drove the man away.

But it didn't take long for the person who was an official in the court to find a reason from above and ask the court to depose and dismiss the official.

It's really a tax offense.

And this is also one of the reasons for the financial difficulties in the late Ming Dynasty, obviously sitting on the land of Kyushu in the Central Plains, with a population of 10,000, the taxes collected by the imperial court are not as good as half of the income of the former Song Dynasty that lost the sixteen states of Yanyun.

All because all the taxes that should have been collected did not fall into the entrainment of the imperial court, but were privately swallowed and eaten by the local gentry and bureaucrats.

In the end, the court had no money, and the people had no money, fattening the goods of these flies and dogs in the middle.

Natsuhara Yoshi's mouth was open, and there was a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying.

"His Royal Highness took the initiative to come to the household department to pay taxes, how could he have broken the law. Just ......"