The commercial tax is six of the hundred values, which is a rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period, and it is that the merchants do not pay taxes, and they sit on the merchants to collect taxes.

Then, when Longqing switched, the intricate ship tax, price tax, amount tax, and introduction tax in the past were all synthesized into a commercial tax, that is, six percent of the ancestors became a law.

The more complex the name, the more tricks there are, the more room for operation, such as the introduction of taxes, the various cities will be quoted and peddled, and the private opening has been repeatedly banned, just like the empty seal case in the Hongwu period, the same as the Ming treasure banknote, the current ship is directly introduced by the Ming household department, the amount of tax is an additional levy on some items, silk and porcelain are the scope of the levy, which has caused strong dissatisfaction among the merchants.

During the Longqing period, it was finally agreed that these various taxes would be collected uniformly and changed to the method of drawing points, and the 100 values were drawn from 6 from there.

Zhu Yijun has not adjusted this extremely low tax, even if Li Yashi and Antonio have repeatedly expressed their strangeness about this extremely low tariff, but the emperor and the imperial court have never planned to increase taxes or taxes, the purpose is to encourage maritime trade, increase exports, and exchange for more silver to alleviate the money shortage of the Ming Dynasty.

With such a low tax and tax evasion, Zhu Yijun is already angry.

There is no heavenly reason! And there is no royal law anymore!

"Because they sell contraband, they don't dare to pass the border." Zhang Juzheng answered His Majesty's question head-on: "The Ming Law Volume 15 and the Third Military Law stipulate that horses, cattle, military quartermasters, iron goods, copper coins, duankai, silk, silk, cotton and other goods sold abroad privately, and those who go to the sea, will have 100 rods; If the population or weapons are taken out of the country and into the sea, they shall be hanged. ”

Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously: "I remember, when the switch was opened in the second year of Longqing, the ban on horse and cow silk and silk was lifted, and in the first year of Wanli, silk was strictly forbidden again, and they were loaded with raw silk on their boats, so they escaped the draw points?" ”

"Or is it the pretending population?"

Zhang Juzheng said with great certainty: "Their ship is carrying military weapons. ”

It's not raw silk or population, it's weapons.

The price of raw silk purchased by the Ming Weaving Bureau is not low, and the Ming Emperor did not prohibit the sale of finished silk to the sea, and the purpose of prohibiting raw silk from going to sea is to let the luxury households build more workshops to weave silk and increase employment.

"It turned out to be carrying a weapon, so no wonder I didn't dare to pass the test." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, his expression changed from anger to gradually calmed down.

Zhang Juzheng once discussed this issue with Zhu Yijun, which was the result of the weakening of the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade and the lack of armed maritime merchants.

The Japanese have weapons, the red-haired fans have weapons, the outlaws have weapons, the big cannibals have weapons, the Persians have weapons, and even the natives have weapons, but the Ming maritime merchants have no weapons because of the ban.

Without armament, there is no qualification for merchants, and it is destined that the scale and number of Daming maritime merchants will gradually decrease, and the sea routes and ports will be handed over to others.

In the actual inspection, in fact, for self-defense, most of them are open one eye, close one eye, once there is a vague area, there will be unspoken rules, to let the city ship inspection lieutenants close one eye, it will cost some silver, and sometimes, the silver is not very effective, you need some connections.

Silver, for maritime merchants, more or less have some, but the connection is a complicated thing.

Hai Rui frowned and said, "If the arms control is released, will they pay taxes?" If our Daming luxury tenants are really so obedient, can we still be trapped in mergers? The imperial court allowed the gentry to settle the land and herdsmen, and even gave them privileges such as taxation and justice, but they did not do so. ”

"I don't think that if the arms control is relaxed, they will honestly pay taxes, and they will definitely avoid it even harder."

"What does a luxury tenant look like? If the court gives them an inch, they will ask for a foot, give them a foot, they dare to ask for ten zhang, but whenever the court takes a step back, they can't wait to take a hundred steps, kick their noses and faces, and their greed is not enough to swallow elephants. ”

Hai Rui is very clear about the face of the powerful right.

"What Mr. Hai said is reasonable." Wang Guoguang, as the Minister of Finance, knows too well what these guys look like, these luxury households can escape, avoid if they can, avoid if they can, can't escape, can't avoid it, just find a way to do as little as possible, otherwise those temples, Taoist temples, palaces, and gentry under the name, where can there be so many tricky acres of land?

What's wrong with the low tax of six percent? If you can't pay it, you won't pay it, and you even want the court to find money.

Zhang Xueyan glanced at Zhang Juzheng and said in agreement: "If it weren't for His Majesty's Tax Council... Calling for votes, the state treasury will not be full, since Mr. returned to the dynasty, the Ming household department began to contact the accounts of the tax institute, which can only be said to be shocking. ”

Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "No, if the weapons control is relaxed, they will not pay taxes honestly, so if you want to audit taxes, you must drive the tax inspection institute from Nanya to the sea, to the city shipping department, and to the coastal defense inspection department." ”

"It is imperative to expand the scale of the tax institute."

Zhang Juzheng said the primary task of the new policy in the seventh year of Wanli, the tax court, expansion!

At present, the tax institute is still in the scope of the Nanya pilot, the effect is very good, the number of Daming coastal defense inspections is small, and a large amount of investment needs to be started to expand to ensure the normal collection of Daming taxes.

Zhang Juzheng looked left and right, and said: "Coastal defense inspection is flying on the water, waiting for the distant marquis of the pier, and the Jinyi Guard is reorganized, and the selection is to be included in the Ti Cai, the Red Helmet General, the Han General, etc., the coastal defense inspection and tax inspection authority, the lack of ship guidance, the lack of flags, no tax stamps and other merchant ships on the sea, urge or force them to dock at the port to pay taxes, if there is resistance, you can subdue or summon the sailors to encircle and sink as appropriate. ”

"If necessary, a war of medium and low intensity can break out to ensure the normal and stable fiscal and tax stability of the Ming Dynasty."

"What is the intensity of low to medium intensity?" Qi Jiguang asked with a frown.

Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said: "During the Jiajing period, there was peace. ”

"No, absolutely not!" Qi Jiguang immediately expressed his opposition, he told the emperor many times, he opposed the war, as Qi Jiguang above the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, he expressed his attitude against war more than once, and the military disaster is definitely the most ferocious human disaster in the world.

Even if Qi Jiguang himself is a good fighter.

Zhang Juzheng had a conflict with his former subordinates, this contradiction is more strange, one is that the civilian officials advocate war, and the other is Qi Jiguang, who has just chased the barbarian Khan around like a rabbit, advocates opposing the war, and as His Majesty's right-hand man, Wen Zhang Wuqi, this contradiction broke out very suddenly, which also caught everyone off guard.

In everyone's opinion, although Qi Jiguang has lost the waist card of the Quanchu Hall, Qi Jiguang is still Zhang Juzheng's person.

Zhang Juzheng was not angry, he didn't know Qi Jiguang on the first day, Qi Jiguang's sentence of reporting to the Son of Heaven and saving the head of Qian, but it was not an empty slogan, but a solid practice, he said patiently: "The country and the dynasty have a big loss of money, nothing can be done, a war, you can immediately determine the rules, and the merit is in the future." ”

"The merit is in the future, but what about now? The people of the southeast have just taken a breath, and they have only been stable for more than ten years, and they have to face the disaster again, this is not a merit, but the crime is in the present, sir, it can't always be like this! Qi Jiguang looked at Zhang Juzheng and made his attitude very clear.

Qi Jiguang's knife has never been inward, and in the face of internal turmoil, he could only ask Zhang Juzheng for help in the past, but now he can ask His Majesty for help.

"Sir, Qi Shuai, don't be impatient, don't be impatient." Wan Shihe immediately stepped forward and said with a smile: "It's all for our Ming Dynasty, it's all for the Ming Dynasty, it's all for Your Majesty, war, Mr. doesn't like to fight, Mr. is very nervous when he fights, and even the original Wu Redemption lied to the report, and the Jinggi people who were tossed were restless, and the Lord was shaken." ”

"Mr. Yuanfu, Qi Shuai is also for the sake of the Daming Jiangshan Sheji, doesn't Mr. always say that the people are the state, and the country is solid? Qi Shuai personally saw the chaos in the southeast, but I hope that the sea is peaceful, it is Qi Shuai's long-cherished wish, everyone is for the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to be angry, there is no need to be angry. ”

"It's all dissipated and dissipated, and you can take a sip of tea."

Feng Bao waved his hand, signaling Xiao Huangmen to quickly add some tea to the two of them, and after drinking tea, Xiao Huangmen also specially brought freshly boiled water from the stove, angry? Wait until the tea is warm, and then make noise after drinking.

Wan Shihe has always been a person who has always been left and right, this time he saw that he was angry, and immediately played his original role, and the effect was excellent, pulling everyone in one direction, many times, quarrels are like this, words are in a hurry, talk to death, regret afterwards, and because of scruples about face, and finally drift away.

Zhu Yijun always thinks that there must be such a sleek person in the court.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Mr. Yuanfu and Qi Shuai said has some truth, this is a dilemma, the sea tax is already so low, and the luxury households still refuse to pay, and they force their heads to pay, they will hold the people to self-respect, and the minister is really poor, difficult, dilemma." Wan Shihe saw that the two of them didn't speak, and immediately pulled the referee over.

Your Majesty, don't look at the excitement on the platform, play a role!

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "It's okay, it's not the first time that Mr. and Qi Shuai have quarreled, when a collapsed husband and wife still quarrel, it's not a big deal. ”

"Huh?" Wan Shihe was stunned, will Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang also quarrel? !

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "The second year of Longqing." ”

Everyone understood immediately.

Zhu Yijun was really curious, Qi Jiguang and Zhang Juzheng had ever blushed since the thirty-second year of Jiajing, so he asked Qi Jiguang directly, and Qi Jiguang told the truth.

In the second year of Longqing, Qi Jiguang, who had won a great victory in Fujian, was ready to go south to Guangzhou again, pacify the Japanese plague in one fell swoop, clean up the poison, and received an edict from the imperial court, requiring Qi Jiguang to take the guest soldiers to the north, Qi Jiguang could only be ordered, and after arriving in the capital, Qi Jiguang quarreled with Zhang Juzheng in the Quanchu Hall.

Qi Jiguang thought that he should continue to go south to level the Japanese, the fighter plane was fleeting, at that time he was taking advantage of the momentum of the pursuit of victory, and the Japanese were panicked, but Zhang Juzheng still transferred Qi Jiguang to the north, and the reason for the transfer at that time was naturally the first year of Longqing, and the barbarian Khan entered Kou Jinggi.

When Zhang Ju was making some choices, the first thing he protected was the imperial court, which was his choice, the left and right wings of the Tatars, really combined forces to attack Gyeonggi, besiege the Beijing Division, the world was shaken, between the imperial court and the two Guangxi wars, Zhang Juzheng preserved the imperial court.

This time, it was the same as the original quarrel, for the sake of taxes, Zhang Juzheng was tolerable enough to accept a war equivalent to the southeast because of the cost, and Qi Jiguang once again made it clear that he was against it.

Who is wrong Zhang Juzheng or Qi Jiguang? That's right, Zhang Ju is the Yuanfu Taifu, he wants to ensure the survival and operation of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang is not wrong, he is a general, his mission is to let the war happen outside the country, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can live and work in peace and contentment.

"What a dilemma." Zhu Yijun leaned back in the chair, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "I have a good way to solve the dilemma." ”

Zhang Juzheng, Lu Tiaoyang, Wang Chonggu, Wan Shihe, and all the courtiers looked at each other, no wonder His Majesty looked at the quarrel between his left and right arms, he was not panicked at all, and even looked like he was watching a play, it turned out that he had an idea a long time ago, and the courtiers of Wenhua Hall knew the emperor in front of him very well, as long as His Majesty said that there was a way, then someone would be unlucky, and it would be unlucky!

Zhu Yijun looked around, didn't sell the guanzi, and said: "In fact, the focus of the dispute between Mr. and Qi Shuai is to reduce the risk of the outbreak of war. ”

"How? What do the public think of the tax collector's office, the tax is not paid within the time limit, the goods and vehicles are merged into the official, and the goods are paid at a rate of 10 points, and 3 points are drawn to pay the informant's reward? ”

Tell the Order!

Three words crossed in the minds of the ministers in an instant, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's decree, allowing the people to supervise each other, pay taxes within a time limit, there will be a reward of thirty percent, if they refuse to pay within the time limit, all the goods and vehicles of this law are copied, and the same thirty percent belongs to the person who informed.

The most domineering part of this decree is that the whistleblowing is anonymous, as long as there is a ticket issued by the tax office, you can get a reward, and anyone, anyone, including these tax evasion families, can find a beggar on the side of the road to report it, and when it is over, take the ticket to receive the reward.

Even some unscrupulous descendants, in order to get some money, dare to make a trick of their son suing their father.

Wan Shihe has to say, ruthless, or His Majesty ruthless.

"Your Majesty, isn't this a little too much... Too... Overbearing? "Ma Ziqiang really organized the language seriously, and didn't say those vicious, ruthless, vicious words, the emperor's anonymous denunciation, and even bypassed the practice of kissing and hiding in the etiquette, anyway, it's all anonymous, I don't care who you are, if you have a clue, the clue is true, you can.

Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said helplessly: "I don't want to, don't you have so much to do if you pay taxes honestly?" The sea tax of six hundred values, the Taixi maritime merchants have to kowtow and kneel to thank the holy grace for the low tax, just like this, the luxury households still refuse to pay, even if I let them bring weapons to protect themselves, as long as they do not open their bows and fill the medicine when they enter the port, they still don't pay, so what can I do? ”

"I can't help it, it's difficult for them, it's difficult for Mr., it's difficult for Qi Shuai, it's also difficult for me, everyone, it's all difficult."

Again, again, again, again, again

The first and second times can be discussed, the third time, then there is no need to discuss, Zhu Yijun's style of acting is like this, low sea tax is the first time, it is allowed to carry self-protection weapons, and it is the second time that you are not allowed to open your bow and fill the medicine when you enter the port.

"Your Majesty, this, this." Zhang Juzheng was a little short of words for a while, and he frowned and said: "Your Majesty, the court has no big loss in its actual financial use, or don't brag too much?" Think of something else? ”

Tan Lun immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay! Your Majesty, this method is good! ”

"How do the poor coolies know that these luxury households are flying and doggy, just to let these luxury households fight by themselves, and the ministers say, just learn from those luxury households, and scatter some specious news, the Zhang family is down, the Li family is down, the Li family is down, the Sun family is sue, let them fight by themselves, and it's best to fight to the death!"

The conservatives think that His Majesty is too radical, and the radicals have begun to sing praises, Tan Lun can't wait to slap the table twice, Your Majesty's contradiction is very good.

Wang Chonggu looked left and right, and said, "It seems that there is no better way, Your Majesty's method is excellent." ”

"I think so." Wang Guoguangcai doesn't care about the risk of war, he collects cash, the poor are pants, the entire household is lying on the ground as an official, trampled on by others, and the household that can't collect taxes is still necessary?

After the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs expressed their positions, Wan Shihe, as a hardcore imperial party, of course, his attitude was to support and support all the resolutions of His Majesty.

The six and four departments agreed, even Zhang Juzheng, who was not worried about Ding Wei, had to hesitate.

"What do you think, sir?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked, at this point, Zhu Yijun still respected Zhang Juzheng's opinion very much, and his opinion still had great weight.

"Why don't you try it? If it really causes some uncontrollable disaster, let's clean it up. Zhang Juzheng finally chose to agree, Daming now has the capital of trial and error, but he really did something wrong, so he quietly, secretly, unknowingly, and unconsciously lifted the decree.

Zhang Juzheng wrote the floating ticket, and Zhu Yijun printed it, even if this matter passed the court meeting.

Expand the scope of tax auditing, expand the tax inspection institute, expand the capacity of coastal defense patrol and fly on the water, encourage the people to anonymously provide valuable clues, and report people to get a three-point reward, etc., written on the top of the note, the first court meeting of the new year is to determine a direction, how to implement it, and the six departments need to come up with a specific charter to implement it.

"Actually, in the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu and Yongle years, there was also a yamen for tax auditing." Wan Shihe looked at everyone and talked about the past.

"Is there one?" Zhang Juzheng asked with a frown.

"No, I don't." Wang Guoguang raised his own question, he is the head of the household department, and he doesn't know when Daming has had a tax department! With a tax department, can the Ming Dynasty still be poor like this?

"This one really is, you guys listen to me." Wan Shihe motioned to everyone to be restless, not to be in a hurry, and to listen to him slowly.

"Chongwen Gate, Yuan Shi called the Civilization Gate, the people called him Hade Gate, because the palace of the King of Hada is in the door, orthodox four years, Ding Jian Dagong, Beijing built nine city gates, the Civilization Gate was changed to Chongwen Gate, so far, the city gate is called Chongwen Gate, it was originally a tax gate and a wine gate, that is, a place for merchants to enter Beijing to pay taxes."

"In the early years of Yongle, the capital re-established the Capital Taxation Division and the Jiumen Xuanjiao Division, which were in charge of the tax on goods, and the inspection value was poor."

"The Department of Taxation and the Department of Nine Doors of Propaganda are the earliest tax audit yamen of our Ming Dynasty, which was established at the beginning of the fourth year of Hongwu, and the twenty-third year of Hongwu was reformed, and Yongle was reinstated."

"I don't know when, the little secluded people of the various gates were merged into the Capital Taxation Division, Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen Second Propaganda Division, Andingmen, Deshengmen Second Taxation Division, a total of five places, all subordinate to Cao Zhangxing, for the Xuanjiao Division, levy businessmen, slaughter, market miscellaneous taxes, and later set up Xuanjiao Divisions in the capitals and counties of Gyeonggi, and then changed its name to the Tax Division."

"Tianshun is a four-year reform."

Wan Shihe didn't explain too much, but the matter of Ming Yingzong, no matter how outrageous it is, everyone doesn't think it's outrageous.

"In the sixth year of Hongzhi, Emperor Xiaozong set up a tax bureau in the three alleys on Chongwenmen Street, and in the eighth year of Hongzhi, he was dismissed." Wan Shihe added the history of the Daming Tax Bureau.

The Ming Dynasty is not without a tax yamen, on the contrary, the Ming tax audit yamen, in the Yongle years has a very strong tax authority, but with the death of the Yongle Emperor, Xingwen Kuanwu, retro, the accumulation of the great disadvantages of the country and so on slowly unfolded, the tax bureau finally became a speck of dust in the long river of history.

"Ah, this, Wan Dazai is too hearted." Zhu Yijun was stunned, Wan Shihe obviously did a lot of homework, and he didn't even know about the household department, Wan Shihe actually knew so clearly, obviously someone attacked the tax institute and complained about it, Wan Shihe found the ancestor to sprinkle water and wash the floor.

The ancestors have formed a hedge over the three generations of the law, everyone is at the commanding heights of morality, you can point fingers at each other, and whoever attacks the Ming Tax Institute is attacking the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

Wan Shihe whispered a few times with a small yellow door, and soon, the little yellow door went to the household to walk, and after a quarter of an hour, he returned to the Wenhua Hall and put a few books on the table, including the records of Taizong, the records of Yingzong, and the books of "Miscellaneous Records of Wan Department", "Tongzhou Chronicles" and so on, on which are the evidence of Wan Shi and Hao's first poor scriptures.

Wan Shihe sprinkled water and washed the floor for the emperor, relying on professionalism, not strong words, and the ancestral law is the real ancestral law.

After Zhu Yijun finished reading it, he showed a smile, Wan Shihe has been in this court for a day, and the unscrupulous people are only like a fish in their throats, and they can't argue anymore, so they can only let Wan Shihe be bullied.

"Emperor Chengzu was originally cultivating the Yongle Grand Ceremony, the Five Expeditions to the Grassland, and the South to the West, and he was rich, and there was a reason for it!" After Wang Guoguang read it, he was slightly annoyed, and complained that the household department did not give the degree of support, and the household department knelt down every day as an official, and Xia Yuanji was the household secretary during the Yongle period, which was in the national treasury, and it was only in the national treasury that he could spend the money.

And it's not that there is no way, the methods are all written in the ancestral law!

Zhang Juzheng looked at Wan Shihe, and then looked at those old cases, this guy can be a hardcore emperor, and he has a few brushes.

"I remember that in the Da Ming Law, there are also informants who are rewarded, and I will go back and check it carefully." Wan Shihe looked at the crowd, he remembered where he had seen it, and there was a precedent for encouraging the people to report and expose each other, and to take out the income of the court to pay the reward to the informant.

It doesn't matter if you can't find it, if you can't adapt to the law of your ancestors, then adapt to the old and the new, Wan Shihe is so slippery, he won't go to a dead end.

"A strong army is an absolute guarantee for the cavalry to become an army." Zhang Juzheng talked about the second thing, strengthening the army, the first thing in the new policy of Wanli in the seventh year is the expansion of the tax institute, and the second thing is the cavalry that the emperor has in mind, three cavalry battalions of 3,000 people, and a cavalry battalion of 1,000 cavalry, a total of 10,000 people.

This was determined beforehand, and Zhang Juzheng meant to ensure that the cavalry battalion could become an army and had a certain combat effectiveness.

The cavalry camp will not succeed, and there is no hope of resuming it.

"It's hard." Tan Lun, as the secretary of the military department, heard Zhang Juzheng mention the cavalry camp, and said with a little annoyance: "Why did Altan Khan dare to build Bansheng City? Isn't it just certain that Da Ming has not and cannot form a cavalry battalion? ”

The one who knows himself best is the opponent, Da Ming and Altan Khan have been fighting for more than 20 years, and they are well aware of their strengths and weaknesses.

The difference in terrain and strength makes the war situation between the east and west of Daxianbei Mountain completely different, and the Ming Dynasty can still take advantage of the heavy snow to attack one or two in the northeast, but in the direction of Hetao, there is no possibility at all.

The grassland people dare to build a city on the grassland, just like riding on the head of the Ming Dynasty and laughing at the incompetence of the Ming Dynasty.

Altan Khan did so, and he lived well.

"It is not advisable to attack in winter, Altan Khan can completely rely on the depth and the rising city walls to drag out the war until after the spring comes, and then rely on the maneuver of the cavalry to constantly harass and gain the advantage of the battlefield, so that I can not advance or retreat." Qi Jiguang affirmed Tan Lun's assumption that the Ming Dynasty did not have the offensive ability in the direction of Datong and Xuanfu.

To maneuver is to take the initiative.

"How much does it cost?" Zhu Yijun looked at Tan Lun, looking wealthy, taking charge of the accounts, counting this year's 1.2 million silver, gold and silver, Zhu Yijun still has 1.5 million silver to call, if it is not enough, it is enough for the state funds to make up for it.

Daming is rich now.

The first master in Beijing is young, but Zhu Yijun himself.

"It's not about the money." Tan Lun looked at the emperor, the money is easy to handle, and the state money is also available, if it is a budget problem, Tan Lun can go to the household to play tricks, Wang Guoguang does not dare to come nonsense, after all, the big doctors say that Tan Lun is a porcelain bottle every day, and he can't afford to pay if he breaks it.

Tan Lun said quite precisely: "It's the problem of horses, the grasslands near Daningwei, Huiningwei, and Yingchang have just begun to be besieged, and it is far from enough to provide enough war horses for 10,000 people. ”

"The third lady has a war horse, she is still in the Beijing Division, you can find her to find a way." Wang Chonggu made a good suggestion.

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and asked, "Can you think of a way from the Western Regions?" ”

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