Liu Haojia was having dinner at home when he received the news in Tianjin, and he sneered a few times after reading the secret letter he sent, and then threw the letter on the table. Zhang Peijia took the letter and read it with Tan Cuiying and said, "Brother, this official in the court is so hostile to my brother, I'm afraid it won't be good for a long time!"

Liu Haojia said nonchalantly, "So what? I think it's light! In the past few days, my sister has borrowed me a batch of accounts, and I want to plan to collect taxes in Tianjin and the canal!"

Liu Haojia's words scared Zhang Peijia and the others! Tan Cuiying said, "Master Hou, this matter of Sun County's order has just been calmed down in the imperial court, and you have made a second thing, isn't this what you are doing against those officials!"

Liu Haojia said: "I think it's just not deep enough to stimulate them! When they get used to it, they won't say anything more!"

Zhang Peijia and the others didn't worry at all when they heard this, because the two of them were used to singing and following their wives, and it was Liu Haojia who killed people, and they thought about the wind, so the two of them directly discussed the deployment of personnel.

Not long after, Liu Haojia's recital was sent to the imperial court, causing an uproar again! Because he openly declared in the book that he was going to increase the commercial tax in Tianjin! The reason is that after the opening of the sea in Tianjin, many merchants attracted a lot of merchants, and the merchants of Tianjin made a fortune through his fiefdom, but refused to pay a penny in taxes, which is not right and must be changed!

The second is that the canal is maintained by errand guards to open up the water transportation. But now the boats are being carried by officials and merchants at all levels, not to mention that these commercial taxes are stolen, and they also affect the canal transportation, so taxes must be collected!

Moreover, the tax rate set by Taizu is too low, and it is no longer suitable for the present, so it must be charged according to the thirty tax!

Liu Haojia's recital has aroused the opposition of all civil and military officials, and the most fierce opposition is still civil officials, as for Xungui, he just shouted twice with the crowd! Because their most profitable business is with Liu Haojia, and they have already paid taxes when they do business!

In addition, although they still have a lot of business in other places, the profits are much worse than those of the shops in Tianjin, and compared with the taxes paid in Tianjin, it is even more heaven and earth, so it doesn't matter! Of course, if you can oppose success, it is also a good thing!

And the civil officials here are like stabbing a hornet's nest, and opposition is rising one after another! You know, it's not a question of how much you pay, it's a question of whether you pay taxes!

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and scholars have never paid taxes, if this opening is opened, wouldn't all the gentry in the world have to pay taxes? So this opening must not be opened!

However, they opposed and opposed, but it was difficult to stop Liu Haojia for a while, because he wrote clearly in the transcript, and it began to be officially implemented two months later, and all the taxes obtained were handed over to the imperial court, and he did not collect a penny. Moreover, the collection of commercial taxes has existed since ancient times, that is, when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, there was also a tax rate, although it was a little lower, but it was clearly recorded in the legal book, so what the gentry are doing now is actually using the power and public opinion in their hands to evade taxes.

So on the day of receiving the transcript, almost all the civil officials who could attend appeared in the early dynasty, and everyone unanimously demanded that the emperor and refute Wu Ninghou's transcript, and issued an edict to apply for it!

The reason why the officials are so angry is not that Liu Haojia has made any mistakes, but that they are afraid that the mistakes they made will be brought out, and the emperor will understand that there will be no good fruits to eat in the future!

During the Taizu period, the world had just been pacified, and it could be said that all industries were withering and extremely poor! And Zhu Yuanzhang came from a low background, so he naturally knew the hard work of the small people, so he lowered the tax rate in the hope of being able to live with the people's livelihood and let the country recover as soon as possible.

Objectively speaking, this practice did promote the restoration of national strength at that time, but there were also drawbacks. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's arbitrary temperament was used by civilian officials!

In Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, his personality became more and more violent, and his requirements for officials became more and more stringent! One year, there was a county order to report that this year's commercial tax was overfulfilled, and he thought he would be rewarded, but he didn't want to cause a disaster!

After Zhu Yuanzhang saw his notebook, he thought that this county order was being expropriated by the people, so he collected a large number of merchants

taxes, so directly send this official to the frontier!

But he didn't want to think that it might be normal for the local to overfulfill the sailors. Because the world has been recuperating for a long time, commerce and trade are naturally prosperous, as long as the officials in various places are honest and collect all the business taxes, it is very easy to even exceed the quota!

But most of the officials don't want to be meritorious, but they can't, so they no longer collect taxes once they are full, so that some people evade taxes in vain, and it is often the local gentry who evade taxes!

There are also officials who deliberately collect less taxes or no taxes, but instead write books about how poor the local people are, ask for tax relief, and so on. But if the imperial court really approves the tax reduction, I am afraid that he will let go of the gentry and the big households, and then exploit the small people, and then this part of the money will go into his private pocket!

As for saying that the county order is so unlucky, whether there are any officials in the court who have made a black hand behind his back and treated him as a head bird, this is a very possible thing! Therefore, with the help of disposing of this matter, the collection of commercial taxes in various places will be more arbitrary! He even deliberately lowered taxes to show his image of loving the people!

Therefore, officials from all over the country want to fool the emperor, which is full of tricks! Even if Zhu Yuanzhang set up a special department for Jinyi Wei to inquire about the news, he may not be able to listen to it at the same time! And with this matter as a foundation, Daming's commercial tax can be regarded as a complete collapse!

By the time of the Hongzhi year, the prosperity of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty had reached a considerable situation, but the officials still refused to collect commercial taxes! At that time, a Hangzhou county magistrate put a table in front of the county yamen, on which a cash box and an account book were placed, and asked business people to register and pay taxes on their own! As a result, it lasted more than three months, and only a few hundred dollars were collected!

And this brain-dead practice of damaging public fat and private interests was actually praised by the people in Shilin at that time, who was also known as the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties! It's a ridiculous joke!.

The reason why officials are reluctant to collect business taxes is because they can fill their own pockets, and the main reason is that they themselves are born from the gentry, but the gentry is precisely the leading force in the commerce of the Ming Dynasty.