"So what?" Lao Zhu was quite impatient.

"In Erchen's opinion, since this failure, there needs to be a foolproof strategy to customize this matter, so that future generations can have a precedent to follow...... Zhu Su said. This can be regarded as the first case of tax evasion and tax evasion since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, and how to deal with it cannot be ignored. ”

He thought about it and felt that he didn't have any good plans for the time being, so he suggested, "...... Why don't you ask Chengyi to come and discuss? ”

Liu Bowen had previously planned to set up a tax department, and at that time, he and Lao Zhu agreed that it was difficult to prepare for the tax department for a while, so it was better to wait for this tax collection to be set up later. But he didn't want the household department to levy taxes, so he levied a very insulting 100,000 taels......

It can be seen that Liu Bowen had long expected that taxation by the household department would not work. Perhaps, he already has a way to deal with it in his heart.

"Makes sense. It's that old man who doesn't know if he wants to come. Lao Zhu's eyes lit up, and when he turned his head and saw Yan Xizhe still kneeling there stupidly, he couldn't help scolding: "What are you doing here?" Get down! ”

"Go, let Mr. Berwyn come, and you can also check with us to see if there is any mistake or omission in the tax collection accounts of the household department."

"If there is a problem with the accounts, we are the only ones who ask!"

"Yes, yes......" Yan Xizhe said no, even he knew that he must be involved in the battle between the courtiers and the emperor. I couldn't help but feel a wave of resentment in my heart: Those old people, I usually respect you and others, and you want to push me out as this scapegoat.

If there is no Fifth Highness today, I am afraid that someone in my Yan has been stripped of the daylily......

Holding back his strength, he went back to the household department to calculate the accounts.

After a while, Liu Bowen came at the invitation of the palace people. Seeing that he came so quickly, Lao Zhu couldn't help but snort and said, "We had a summons the day before, and Mr. shirked everything." How did it come so quickly this time? ”

"Your Majesty, it was the old minister who didn't know how to practice, but only knew how to be lazy and idle." In the face of sarcasm, Liu Bowen's face was as usual, and he knelt down in front of Lao Zhu. "Where you are rude, look at Your Majesty Haihan! I am willing to do my best for the future of the Ming Dynasty, and my liver and brain are smeared! ”

Lao Zhu was stunned, but he didn't expect Liu Bowen to be really abnormal, and in the face of almost heart-wrenching reprimands, he recognized it so generously. He glanced at Zhu Su, and finally didn't dwell on this matter any more, let the left and right give Liu Bowen a seat as in the old days, and then asked about the matter of collecting business taxes.

"Your Majesty, this must have done something for someone." Liu Bowen had just heard the figure of 100,000 taels, and he also made a categorical conclusion. "The matter of tax collection must no longer be left to the household."

"It is imperative that the concealment be immediately ascertained and the culpable be punished."

"After that, we can take advantage of the opportunity to split the household department and calculate the discrepancies with the newly established tax department."

"What we mean is to let Jinyiwei investigate. The fifth child felt that it was inappropriate. "Old Zhu Dao.

"The worries of the Fifth Highness are very reasonable." Liu Bowen nodded to Zhu Su on the side. Then he turned back to Lao Zhu and said: "However, this matter involves officials, except for Jinyiwei, I am afraid that no one can do it." ”

"Do you think you should send a brocade guard?" Lao Zhu was a little surprised. Liu Bowen has always been upright and peaceful, so how could he have offended the officials of the imperial court.

Do you really want to be a lonely minister and help us become the great cause of the Ming Dynasty?

"Yes. Jin Yiwei can be the supervisor and assistant, and on the bright side, the case will be hosted by the Yushitai. Liu Bowen said.

"The duty of the Imperial Historical Observatory is to conduct rumors and inspect hundreds of officials, and it is sponsored by it, which is justifiable."

"And the Jinyi Wei is famous, which can be used as a deterrent, and it can also make the imperial history know that he is always under the eyes and ears of His Majesty, and he does not dare to show favoritism." Speaking of this, Liu Bowen smiled. "Besides, the Second Highness and the Fourth Highness didn't just take the official positions in the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Jinyi Guard......"

"Let the second child host?" Lao Zhu frowned, remembering Zhu Zhang's unobtrusive appearance on weekdays. "Let him check, how can he find out?"

"It doesn't matter if it's detected or not." Liu Bowen said.

"There are many ways for officials to collect money. Even if a little can be found, it is only the tip of the iceberg. ”

"In that case, it's better to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and let them leak out of the horse's feet. Yichen deduced that it had only been more than a month since His Majesty promulgated the new tax law, and even if he directly dispersed his family wealth, he must have left some hands behind. ”

"Come to think of it, they originally wanted to prevaricate some silver taels for some time first, so that they could take care of the rest of the hands and tails."

"Let the Second Highness and the Fourth Highness go down, just to increase the prestige, and the prestige is great, they will panic and deal with the flaws in their hands in a hurry."

"If you are in a hurry, you will make a mistake, so that you can follow the vine and touch the melon, and all the ghosts and ghosts will be killed."

"Reasonable!" This plan took care of all aspects, and Lao Zhu was overjoyed when he thought about it.

"Someone!"

"Tell us the will! The amount of household business tax is different, let the second child take charge of it, and inquire about the household business tax case! ”

"The fourth leader's subordinate Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division assists, within half a month, make sure that this business tax matter is revealed!"

……

"Li Xiang, what should I do now, please ask Li Xiang to save me and wait!" In the dark room of Li Shanchang's mansion, several masterminds' court officials gathered here in civilian clothes, and when they saw Li Shanchang appearing, they rushed to meet him, and one by one they anxiously grabbed Li Shanchang's sleeves.

"You ...... You guys! Li Shan's long beard and hair were all white, and there was anger in his eyebrows. Seeing that this group of senior officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee were still pulling and pulling shamelessly, crying and crying like women, they couldn't help but flick the sleeves of their robes fiercely and shouted: "Enough! ”

"Didn't the old man say it, I want you to wait to make up a few hundred thousand taels first, Your Majesty doesn't understand the way of economy, seeing this no more or no less number, even if you are suspicious, you will think that it is because this time only the property of the children of the bureaucrats in the capital was collected, and not all of them were collected."

"In this way, you can take advantage of this time to hurry up and transfer the property to the domestic servant, and you don't need to be named, which is called 'real and nameless'. It is enough for His Majesty to think that the tax administration has failed, and to re-discuss the matter of treasure money. ”

"But I don't want to, you waited for the money to be obsessed, and when you saw the money, you only made up 100,000 taels for Your Majesty...... Are you fools to be Your Majesty? Or are you all fools? Even if Your Majesty no longer understands the way of economy, how can he not see such a big gap? ”

"The eyes of the rats are light, because of choking and waste food, rotten wood is difficult to carve, insufficient and conspiracy!"

Lao Li popped out a bunch of insulting idioms in one breath, and then, as if he had exhausted his strength, he began to gasp for breath on crutches. Behind him, although the eldest filial son Li Qi was excited about the bankruptcy of this group of people's plan, when he saw his father like this, he had to come up and caress Li Shanchang's back to comfort his father.

Li Shanchang really understands Lao Zhu very well, if this tax can only be levied hundreds of thousands, I think Lao Zhu will not doubt it, but will only feel that the commercial tax is really not profitable. After all, the Lao Zhu family has been digging in the land for three generations, so how could they have done any business? Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was bent on getting a lot of grain from the acres of land, completely unaware that commerce could produce benefits like mountains of gold and silver, and it was always negligent in controlling commerce.

It is precisely because of this that in the Ming Dynasty, the merchants in Jiangnan could not lose their tails, but the business road Dachang has always been sucking blood on the foundation of the country. The Jin merchants even dared to betray the enemy and help the Qing Tartars stab the Ming Dynasty with a fatal knife.

However, Li Shanchang also missed one point, that is, the greed of human nature. He thought that these officials were all human sperm, so he would naturally know which was more important and would pay enough taxes to confuse Lao Zhu's eyes...... Unexpectedly, it is more difficult to make these people pay than to cut meat.

A group of people with big families, who have accumulated wealth since the past, which family does not have nearly one million? scraped together, but he was only willing to take out 100,000 taels!

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen's helplessness and indignation when he pooled money from his courtiers has now been experienced by Li Shan more than three hundred years in advance.

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