Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty was originally mentally prepared for the actions of his father, Emperor Taishang Zhu Zhongliang.

When Zhu Zhongliang's request was sent to Zhu Jianyan, Zhu Jianyan was in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, presiding over a meeting to discuss the promotion plan of the ticket system in the whole Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the news sent by Zhu Zhongliang, Zhu Jianyan immediately became angry.

Zhu Jingyuan originally sat at the front of the conference table, and stood up directly after reading the newspaper.

The surrounding officials did not know what was happening, but the emperor stood up, and the others did not dare to continue sitting.

As soon as the officials stood up, they heard the emperor curse directly:

"These insatiable moths!"

Zhu Jianyan is fifty-six years old this year, which is not a few years old from the oldest official in the imperial court.

He has been emperor for eleven years now, and his majesty has been fully established.

A group of officials heard the curse and almost fell to their knees on the spot.

Everyone wondered in their minds what was written in that telegraph.

Now the whole Ming ...... In the whole world, what else could make the Ming Emperor so angry?

Is there a major case of embezzlement, corruption, or tax evasion somewhere?

It has to be said that the ministers guessed basically correctly.

Now in this world, there are only a few things left that can make Emperor Ming so angry.

Then they looked at the emperor holding the telegram and turned his face sharply to look at the bachelor at the scene:

"It is proposed to order all banks in the world to suspend all loans related to marriage with immediate effect.

"All banks that have handled relevant business will suspend business for rectification from now on, cooperate with the tax authorities to investigate all relevant types of loan business in the past, recover loans suspected of tax evasion, and recover all tax evasion.

"Daming Royal Bank, the Ministry of Taxation, the Criminal Department, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei jointly organized a tax evasion investigation team to investigate large loans and capital flows from the private sector, investigate all tax evasion, and recover tax evasion.

"Immediately start to revise the tax laws, and anyone in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and any Ming person anywhere, in any form of any income obtained from anyone, must pay individual income tax uniformly.

"Remove all the exceptions to the original law that allow for the underpayment and non-payment of income tax, including gifts of property between relatives who are of any kind, including any property inherited from deceased or surviving relatives."

"Until the revision of the corresponding laws is completed and promulgated and implemented, all yamen in the world will suspend the transfer of assets involving more than 100 silver notes between relatives."

Zhu Jianyan's series of orders are basically those requirements made by Zhu Zhongliang, but they have been explained more accurately.

The ministers on the scene, when they heard the first few words, understood that they had guessed correctly.

There are really people who dare to evade taxes, and they even use marriage-related means.

Some of the ministers were surprised and curious, but many more were already panicking, and bad premonitions quickly spread.

The emperor had long wanted to collect income tax on gifts between relatives.

It's just that this tax is obviously against the interests of all the upper-class people who have certain assets in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, from the official to the non-governmental, everyone stands at the level of the traditional Eastern morality and stands on the level of humanity and righteousness.

This is the absolute political correctness of the Shenzhou tradition, and it is difficult for even Emperor Shizu to subvert it.

The Ming Emperor, who was obsessed with collecting taxes, had to abandon this idea.

But now, some people are using marriage to avoid taxes, which is to tear the banner of opposition to this tax.

The emperor considered the status quo of traditional morality and human righteousness, and did not impose this part of the tax.

As a result, these people did not know what to do, and even used this method to evade taxes.

Then now the emperor has a reason to impose expropriation.

So, where the hell did the idiot do such a thing? The point is that it was also discovered!

The ministers' bad premonitions soon became a reality.

Zhu Jianyan's next few orders made all the ministers on the scene stunned.

This is not only a tax on gifts between relatives, but also on inheritance, which is really outrageous!

Regardless of who did these things, the key now is to stop these orders.

The first to react was Tsukasa Zai Wang Tingzhen in Jiuqing:

"Your Majesty is angry, angry, what is it that makes Your Majesty so angry!"

Zhu Jianyan directly asked the secretary to hand over the telegram:

"See for yourselves!"

Wang Tingzhen took it with both hands, glanced at it as quickly as possible, and then secretly said "bitter" in his heart.

In addition to the Emperor's orders, the telegram also had a brief introduction to what the Emperor had discovered.

After reading it, Wang Tingzhen directly closed his eyes and passed the telegram to the other officials around him.

After the telegram was circulated at the scene, there was a sense of despair on the faces of the officials present.

At the same time, there is an uncontrollable anger, if it weren't for the emperor's presence, they might all have to jump to their feet and curse.

Of course, they wanted to scold not the Emperor and the Emperor, but the officials and banks in Suzhou Prefecture and those businessmen.

The first to bear the brunt must be Gusu Qianzhuang and Qian Feng, Wang Baoqing, Liu Yudong and other people directly involved.

Treating marriage as a transaction is, of course, against the morality of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this kind of behavior is also exploiting the loopholes of the law.

Tax evasion touched the absolute taboo established in the era of Emperor Shizu.

But the root cause of the ministers' desire to scold them is not just the things they did.

What's more, these things were exposed in front of the emperor.

Let the Emperor Taishang and the emperor stand on the triple commanding heights of traditional morality, court law, and the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.

It is then possible to force the collection of income tax on gifts between immediate family members.

If you use this method to evade taxes, it will be fine, at least it is not wronged.

The point is that the ministers on the scene have basically not used it.

The traditional aristocracy and professional bureaucracy did not rely on business to make money.

Even if the family runs an industrial and commercial industry, because of the status of a nobleman and a high-ranking bureaucrat, he will be more concerned about reputation and influence, and he is not willing to evade taxes on weddings.

The point was that the aristocracy and high-ranking bureaucrats were more closely connected to the imperial court and were more easily detected.

At the same time, the status of aristocrats and high-ranking bureaucrats is much more important than the tax evasion.

They don't want to lose something big.

There are also people who don't know that they can evade taxes by getting married.

So none of them took advantage of this tax evasion, and none of them could escape the increase in taxes caused by this news.

The middle and lower levels of officials below may also evade taxes, and all of them, the senior bureaucrats, have to take the lead in paying the full amount......

Whether it is for children or parents, it is necessary to involve the income tax of relatives receiving gifts.

Therefore, the current situation is that for the highest-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty present, this is completely unjustified.

There were very few reasons to prevent the emperor from collecting taxes, and even fewer were effective.

Originally, the emperor acquiesced to it, and the income of immediate family members was not taxed.

Now because of the exposure of these people, it looks like the most important one is about to be lost.

All the officials present hated the Gusu Qianzhuang gang.

Of course they want to scold these people.

But the senior bureaucrats on the scene also understood that it was too late to scold these people.

What we need to do now is to control the impact of this as much as possible.

So Wang Tingzhen, who was the first to read the news and the first to start thinking, was the first to speak:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty Taishang has discovered that Liu Yudong and Wang Baoqing, two incorruptible and shameless fools, have evaded taxes through their children's lifelong events.

"These two people are really hateful to the extreme, and they should be strictly dealt with by the relevant yamen.

However, this matter is obviously only the greed of a few people, and the vast majority of parents cannot use their children's lives to evade taxes, and the minister thinks that the court should control the influence in the local area......

"It would be ...... for the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to jointly reprimand local officials and ban the corresponding acts altogether."

Zhu Jianyan directly recited a passage of Emperor Shizu's holy words:

"Emperor Shizu said that when you see a cockroach at home, it means that there are a thousand cockroaches in a place where you can't see.

"My father was at a local bank, and he had seen a large number of similar large loans.

"In other banks, in other prefectures and counties, I don't know how many more such things there are.

"Gifts from immediate family members and between husband and wife are already tax-exempt, which is already a huge tax loophole.

"It's this loophole that allows these cockroaches to multiply quickly.

"Emperor Sejo also said that virtue is the standard for judging good people, and the law is the means by which to punish the wicked.

"It's okay to promote virtue and expect all to be good.

"But again, we have to make laws, because we can't guarantee that everybody will be good.

"From ancient times to the present, countless facts have been repeatedly proving this, including the new discoveries of the Emperor Taishang.

"Therefore the law must be changed, and no one shall hinder or disobey it, or else it will be punished as rebellion."

"That's the end of today's meeting, and we'll discuss the details of the law tomorrow morning."

The officials at the scene, including Wang Tingzhen, all sighed long in their hearts.

Regardless of whether the Emperor Taishang and the emperor were really angry or falsely angry, whether the matter of Gusu Qianzhuang was targeted or not, it has now become an established fact.

There is a large group of businessmen who are taking advantage of the loophole of the tax exemption of relatives, which can be ascertained.

The order of the Emperor Taishang and the Emperor to revise the scope of income tax collection is no longer stoppable, both from the moral level and from the needs of more than a dozen governance.

The most you can do now is to fight for the highest possible tax threshold and the lowest possible tax rate.

and to avoid inheritance tax as much as possible.

The ministers speculated in their minds that direct orders such as the immediate cessation of marriage-related loans would probably not be canceled, but the details of the law revision should still be discussed.

The former is to be sent directly to the executive agency and implemented directly in the face of the actual affairs of the private sector.

The latter is aimed at the relevant officials of the law, and there is a process of revising and formulating the law, as well as promulgating it, and it has not yet reached the specific implementation of the executive body.

It's just that the emperor's attitude is very resolute, and he doesn't know what he can talk about.

The officials retired with such complicated thoughts, and the corresponding decree was quickly issued.

At the same time, a sternly worded edict of reprimand was issued, asking the Ministry of Rites to proclaim it to the world along with other orders.

The content is very simple, first introducing the discovery of the Emperor Taishang in the private bank in Suzhou.

Then count down these insatiable businessmen, who took advantage of the court's accommodation to relatives to evade taxes, and were the scum of the Ming people.

In the end, he stood on the moral high ground and reprimanded these businessmen who only had money in their eyes.

At the same time, it clearly expressed the attitude of "now the Emperor and His Majesty the Emperor are already angry".

These edicts and edicts of reprimand were also included in the emperor's official report on the day, and were sent to the yamen, the royal family, and the government-run institutions throughout the world before the release of the government.

Most of the officials of Quan Daming were stunned after receiving the notice, and they couldn't help but jump to their feet and curse after the government was released.

Immediately after that, their relatives and friends jumped and cursed after receiving the news.

Then, whether it is a public restaurant, restaurant, teahouse, or private guild hall or manor, as long as it is the place where the upper-class characters of the Ming Dynasty are active, there are thunderous roaring pictures everywhere.

In the background sound of these pictures, there is also the Ming broadcast that is introducing the cause and effect of the whole incident.

The scope of broadcasting is much wider.

In addition to the people who have connections in the yamen, many small and medium-sized businessmen and even ordinary middle-class people also learned about what happened in Suzhou Mansion today through the radio.

And then it sparked even more outrage.

Although there are certainly no fewer people who have used Gusu Qianzhuang's routine to avoid taxes, they are really not very many if they are placed in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Like the officials of the imperial court, many ordinary businessmen don't know that there is still this routine.

There are also many businessmen who have realized this themselves, but have not had the courage or opportunity to try.

More businessmen did not find the right opportunities in their own places of life, did not find a bank willing to cooperate with them, so they did not have time to try.

As for the businessmen in other regions, who have already secretly used the same tactics, they are more panicked than angry.

The Holy Decree Order has been issued, and the Imperial Court is going to investigate similar things in the past, and it is likely to investigate on its own head.

These people are even more eager to spray the gang of Gusu Qianzhuang to death.

Why is it so coincidental, the Emperor Taishang went to inspect you, can't you make a good account book with no problems?

Shouldn't there be two ledgers? How could it be possible to show the actual report to the Emperor?

However, like the officials, whether or not they have tried and understood this method, no matter how much anger they have against the Gusu Qianzhuang gang, these businessmen have to start thinking about how to pay taxes.

The entire Ming Dynasty, most of the middle and upper-class people, didn't sleep very well that night.

Discussion and contact and swearing continued for most of the night.

The next morning, they saw the news in the official and non-governmental newspapers.

With the continuous advancement of technology, the speed of news is getting faster and faster.

(End of chapter)