Song Xuan's words decided the life and death of more than a dozen officials.

What surprised Zhu Yuanzhang was that in the entire hall, whether it was a civilian official or a military attaché, no one spoke to the decision of the marshal.

Not to mention opposition, there is not even one who comes out to persuade him.

You must know that when Guo Zixing is under the command of Guo Zixing, even if Guo Zixing, as the commander, wants to kill people, there will inevitably be other officials and generals who will speak out and dilute the mud, and the big things will be turned into small things.

It was the first time he had seen a situation like Song Xuan with absolute authority.

After deciding the life and death of more than a dozen officials, Song Xuantang said: "As for their family property, it was directly confiscated and confiscated into the government treasury, and their families were reduced to slavery and dragged to open up wasteland!" ”

The sixth nodded repeatedly.

Li Shanchang was even more ashamed and said: "It's the Weichen who is not strict under the rule, which disappoints the lord!" ”

Song Xuan waved his hand, "When the stall is big, there will always be some moths, this is normal, just catch it and clean it up."

Ruling has been a big problem since ancient times, and it is not something that can be solved overnight, and Mr. Li does not need to blame himself. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Liu Bowen and said, "Mr. Liu, the taxes in Zhejiang are still going well?" ”

Liu Bowen said with a smile: "The firecrackers of the tax department go to that station, no matter how stingy the businessman is, he will only pay taxes honestly, and the lord can rest assured!" ”

"By the way, the lord, there are a lot of good things in the big families of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, during the tax collection, I found some ointment to remove scars among the people, found some soldiers to try, the effect is very good, after using it a few times, the scar is almost invisible."

Song Xuan said with satisfaction: "Mr. has a heart!" ”

Seeing this, Li Shanchang couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

During this time, I was busy with government affairs, but I forgot about it, this is the future queen's favor, and it fell into the hands of Liu Bowen, it's a pity!

"By the way, there's something for you to discuss."

As he spoke, Song Xuan took a stack of folds from the table on one side and said, "These notes are all requested by Shangshu to abolish the commercial tax.

What do you think about how businessmen are not easy, and what do you say about competing with the people for profit? ”

Li Shanchang hesitated a little, as the lord's territory became larger and larger, many of the officials in the Ministry of the Interior were from the gentry class, and he was naturally not surprised that those people put forward proposals to abolish the commercial tax.

After all, who of these gentry class does not have a huge estate?

The commercial tax set by the Lord is based on the amount of revenue taken from the fifth, which is not a heavy tax.

Although he is the head of the Ministry of the Interior, the wishes of his subordinates must also be considered, and even if he wants to oppose it, he is not the first to speak.

Song Xuan's eyes swept over him, and he had a more accurate understanding of Li Shanchang's temperament.

This person's ability to handle government affairs is good, but he still lacks some courage to do things.

However, Liu Bowen, although he was born in the gentry family, but for those so-called gentry class, he was not soft at all, and he dared to speak at critical moments.

"My lord, Weichen thinks that those who propose the abolition of commercial taxes are either stupid or bad! How wealthy the merchants in Jiangnan are, you all know very well when you think about it.

Our Jinling regime can raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers, build firearms, cast warships, and even continuously contain displaced people to reclaim wasteland, and there is still a surplus of money and food, the main source of which is commercial taxes!

The common people are bitter and only have a few dollars in their hands to farm the land, and those who say that they want to abolish the commercial tax and increase the agricultural tax, if one is counted as one, they should all be killed! ”

Song Xuan smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, these words have offended those businessmen and gentry to death!" ”

Liu Bowen didn't care and said: "As long as it's beneficial to the people, what if it's offended?" ”

Song Xuan snorted, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who was thoughtful, and said, "General Zhu, what do you think?" ”

This sound of General Zhu made Zhu Yuanzhang's heart skip a beat, and he knew that the real test had begun.

The answer is good, the generals of their brothers can be regarded as settled.

"Dashuai, I'm a martial artist, I don't know what the principles of governing the country are, I don't collect commercial taxes, and I don't know how much to collect.

I was born as a farmer, and my parents, brothers and sisters all starved to death, so I had no choice but to become a monk. Later, the temple had no food, so he had no choice but to go out to beg, and by chance he joined the rebels.

We brothers don't have much to offer, and our biggest wish since childhood is to have a big cake to eat at every meal, and never have to go hungry.

For those of us who are peasants, we really don't care whether we collect commercial taxes or not, what we care about is how much tax farmers have to pay after working for a year, and whether the food at home can feed the family after paying the taxes.

In our eyes, as long as we don't starve to death, it is a prosperous age.

If you can still have extra money to add clothes to your family and buy books for your children on the premise of having enough to eat, then it is really the treatment that only the people of the Heavenly Empire have! ”

Speaking of this, his voice was even choked, "On the way here, I saw that the government was in charge of food and housing, encouraging the development of wasteland, and there was even a share of fields."

If our family could meet a good official like you back then, how good would it be?

But as long as there is a way to live, who is willing to take the risk of the Nine Clans to rebel! ”

He didn't have much truth in what he said, but he said it very sincerely, and the civil and military officials in the hall were silent for a while after hearing it.

Some of them are from the grassroots, and some of them are from the noble family, but to tell the truth, as long as they can read and write, even if their families are poor, they will definitely not be difficult enough to starve to death.

There is hardly anyone who can really empathize with the peasants like Zhu Yuanzhang!

Even if Song Xuan, the lord, raised an army to fight for the world, the biggest motivation was only to restore the glory of the Han family, and he didn't want this great river and mountain to fall into the hands of the Tartars.

After a while, Song Xuan smiled and said, "Very good, this handsome mansion really needs an official who understands the people's sufferings and speaks from the perspective of farmers." ”

When he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little embarrassed and smiled awkwardly.

At the moment, he felt a little annoyed in his heart.

Damn, if you accidentally talk too much, this young Song Dashuai shouldn't think that we have the ability to govern the country, and let us become civil officials, right?

Our old Zhu is really not that material!

"Okay, the matter of commercial tax is discussed here for the time being, and those who propose to abolish commercial tax will be removed from their posts directly! If it is proposed to reduce the commercial tax, a fine of half a year will be imposed to observe the after-effects.

Mr. Liu, write down these lists and see which families they are from, and add 10% of their taxes to the coming year! ”

Liu Bowen immediately got up and took the order.

Song Xuan looked around and said, "I'm easy to talk to, and I usually don't want to kill too much, but the premise is that you have to be self-aware.

This time, they will come to test which business tax, Ben Shuai will not kill, and there will be a next time, then let Tsing Yi Wei come to talk to them!

This sentence, when Mr. Liu collects taxes, he can clearly tell them! ”