"What's wrong?" Both Zhu Su and Queen Ma were taken aback. Lao Zhu actually called himself "I", which shows the depth of his anger. Queen Ma hurriedly comforted Zhu Xiongying in her arms, and asked Lao Zhu at the same time.

Lao Zhu was still angry, pointed at Erhu and said, "Go, bring us the Hubu Shangshu Yan Xizhe, go quickly!" ”

Erhu didn't dare to slack off and immediately retreated. Old Zhu was still indignant, and Queen Ma asked gently, "What's wrong?" Qi like this? What happened? ”

"The household department deceives people too much, and deceives people too much!" It's okay not to ask, but when I asked, Lao Zhu was even more furious. "The entire property of the officials of Ying Tianfu in Beijing paid less than 100,000 taels of commercial tax...... This group of thieves, they are called Hanako? ”

"When Chongzhen was about to die in the country, he asked hundreds of officials to raise money, and he also raised 200,000 taels...... Why, do those thieves think that we are the kings of the dead country, and if they want to give us a sign of the dead country? ”

It turned out that because of this, Zhu Su was also dumbfounded when he listened to it. It has been a full month since the imperial court tried to implement the tiered commercial tax system among the court officials, and only 100,000 taels were collected......

Don't look at the number of 100,000 business taxes, it seems to be quite acceptable at the moment when the world is in ruins and business is not prosperous, but you must know that the place to try out the ladder commercial tax system is the day!

You must know that Ying Tianfu is the most prosperous place in the world, and it is also where the imperial capital is located. Even when the Northern Yuan Dynasty was ravaging, the Jiangnan provinces, including Yingtianfu, were also prosperous in commerce, and all kinds of large and wealthy merchants emerged one after another.

And most of the people who can do business at the feet of this Son of Heaven are people in the court. Previously, even if the Shen family was the richest man in Jiangnan, because there was no one in the court, they would tremble in Yingtian. In other words, most of Yingtian's restaurants and shops today are actually the properties of court officials or nobles.

With the commercial volume of Yingtian, even if the first step is only to expropriate the property of the relatives of the court officials, how can it be that it is only 100,000 taels? The group of people in the DPRK and China, do they really think that the butcher knife in Lao Zhu's hand is not sharp?

Zhu Su shook his head speechlessly.

Under the instructions of Queen Ma, Zhu Su followed Lao Zhu and moved to the Jinshen Palace. Before he could wait long, he saw a rather young official trotting into the hall tremblingly, and when he reached the steps, he didn't dare to raise his head, so he quickly knocked down in great fear: "Minister Yan Xizhe, meet ......"

"Yan Xizhe, this 100,000 taels of music, but you played it by the household?" Lao Zhu was angry, and without waiting for Yan Xizhe to finish speaking, he threw the book directly at his feet. "Your household is so calculating, what, do you treat us as a flower child, piece it together, and use it to prevaricate us!"

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare! Don't dare! Yan Xizhe kowtowed one after another, and in his heart he had already scolded the group of old immortal colleagues in the household department.

As mentioned earlier, he is a scholar who catches ducks on the shelves, and all the power of the household department falls into the hands of a group of old ministers of the Yuan Court. That group of old fritters bullied him young, and he didn't take this young new Shangshu to play much on weekdays, and this time he intended to secretly divide the treasure money promotion division with Li Shanchang, and even isolated this Yan Xizhe from letting him know.

Therefore, Yan Xizhe only thought that the so-called increase in commercial tax this time was just a normal policy change. Although he is also a minister of the Yuan Court, he was only a small county magistrate in the remote Fujian region before, and he mixed up with the change of dynasty in the mixed days, where do you understand the twists and turns of these bigwigs in the DPRK? It wasn't until those old fritters took the aggregated numbers and asked him to use them that he didn't feel right. In response to the prosperity of Tianfu's commerce, these colleagues are all wealthy, and the commercial tax is increased, and it is impossible to only levy 100,000 taels in any case.

The kind of glass Buddha statue that His Royal Highness made out with a price of tens of thousands of yuan, these colleagues are almost a town house in their hands!

"Lord Shangshu doesn't know, this figure is calculated by the officials of our household department, and it is true. If you don't believe it, how about you do it yourself? ”

"It's just that Your Majesty is in a hurry to get this number. If the palace blames him, the lower officials are not responsible. The old squire who presented the results to him said in a weird way.

Yan Xizhe was helpless at that time. He was able to be promoted by Lao Zhu to be the head of the household, naturally he had two brushes in the way of arithmetic, and he also knew how much calculation was required.

What's more, he is just an airborne Shangshu, and the entire household has long been run by these old men into a monolith, but it is not under the control of him, Shangshu.

Even if you let the people below calculate it, those people will inevitably go against the sun.

It can only be said that relying on the old and selling the old, workplace bullying, ancient and modern.

However, although Yan Xizhe knows some arithmetic, he does not know the way of the emperor, and he only promises when he encounters trouble, but he has become a shield for other colleagues in front of him. This time it was the same, although there was a little doubt in my heart, but I didn't dare to postpone. In desperation, I could only report this performance according to the meaning of those household colleagues.

Sure enough, how can such a figure satisfy His Majesty, and this is a violent storm, swept in.

Bitter also!

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that this figure is wrong, but the minister has asked his colleagues in the ministry several times, and they all swear that there must be no mistakes or omissions." Yan Xizhe kowtowed and said loudly. "Your Majesty is aware of it, and the ministers will never dare to deceive Your Majesty when they are promoted by Your Majesty!"

Lao Zhu wanted to scold again, but Zhu Su saw that Yan Xizhe's forehead was red, and after thinking about it, he still said something to stop him: "Father, why bother Yan Shangshu." ”

"I think this matter has nothing to do with Yan Shangshu. Even if those people want to deceive the king, they are afraid that they will not be stupid enough to directly use the numbers. ”

"As the saying goes, there are policies and countermeasures. Those people have been officials longer than you have been emperors, and they will never be so superficial. Their countermeasures must be in addition to the numbers. ”

“…… Hum! Old Zhu snorted coldly. What you're saying is. Those thieves are the faint kings who recognize us as Dayuan! ”

"Erhu, go look for Mao Xiang. We have something for him to check! ”

He really didn't pay attention to Yan Xizhe anymore, but took care of himself and ordered Erhu, Yan Xizhe was like being amnestied, and cast a grateful look at Zhu Su.

What a man! This highness, how benevolent!

Zhu Su was not interested in this somewhat nerdy Shangshu, but discussed it with Lao Zhu: "Do you want to use Jinyiwei to search directly?" ”

"Since this group of people dare to do this, they want to use it to use yang schemes that are not afraid of seeing the light, such as transferring assets to slaves and wives. Using Jinyiwei, I am afraid that it will no longer be taxed according to the law, but a house. ”

"In this way, I am afraid that this tax increase policy will also exist in name only."

(End of chapter)