Jiangnan has been a prosperous place for industry and commerce since ancient times, and the benefits brought by industry and commerce far exceed the land! With enough silver, it is natural to be able to cultivate enough talents! Therefore, the gentry in Jiangnan have cultivated a large number of officials to fill the court, and how can these officials who were born in the gentry in Jiangnan use knives against their own families or even themselves?

Some people also say that the Ming Dynasty is not divided into two lists, north and south, and the officials in the north should agree to tax in the south, right? But everyone ignores one thing, Jiangnan has more money, and the more money is invested in cultivating readers, and the quality of the readers produced is naturally higher!

Coupled with the additional share of two percent, under the mutual climbing, officials from the north are often at a lower level, and it is all southerners who really have the right to speak in the court!

Take the Wanli Dynasty as an example, Zhang Juzheng was born in Jiangling, Hubei, which is now Jingzhou City! Shen Shixing was born in Changzhou County, Nanzhili, which is now Suzhou. Wang Xijue was born in Taicang, Nanzhili, and is also a native of Suzhou. Zhang Han is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang!

Only one of the sub-assistants, Zhang Siwei, was born in the north, but it is difficult to support alone! Moreover, Zhang Siwei's family was originally a salt merchant and belonged to a family of merchants, so how could he be willing to collect business taxes! What's more, he still covets the position of the first assistant, and it is too late to curry favor with those officials to support him, let alone support the collection of commercial taxes!

So in other words, the high-level officials of the Ming Dynasty are often born in the rich class in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of this rich class are basically either the land, mainly big businessmen, and the main source of commercial taxes.

They continue to train scholars, and then scholars enter the court as officials, they shelter this class after watching, and then under the protection, this class continues to grow rapidly, and then more money continues to be invested in educating the children of the clan to study, has formed a perfect closed loop! Anyone who wants to collect commercial taxes on this class is their great enemy, so it is natural to oppose the collection of commercial taxes!

It is difficult for the imaginary situation of a poor man to appear in such a situation that is close to a monopoly of knowledge! Even if it appeared, it would be quickly absorbed into its own system by the gentry through marriage and other means. A small number of people who want to break the prison either inexplicably get various crimes and disappear into the officialdom, or they can only struggle between square inches and cannot be used! Just like Hai Rui certainly has the title of "Sea Pen Stand", but if you think about it, what he has done has never exceeded the red line of officialdom, this is the reason why he can die well!

Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, the country's finances became increasingly embarrassing, and even the money in the palace could not be helped! The emperor had to send eunuchs to act as mine supervisors, tax supervisors, etc., and go to various places to collect money. However, the civil officials used the power of public opinion in their hands to directly portray these eunuchs as insatiable female thieves who looted the localities!

But is that actually the case? Not necessarily! Those eunuchs looted money, in addition to filling their own pockets, at least some of them can enter the palace and the court, while all the money looted by civil officials goes into their private pockets!

But once someone opposes it, the public opinion of the entire court will be biased in favor of these people in an instant! This is because these people protect the interests of the business and tax class! And ordinary people have no knowledge at all, so they are naturally the same as others! Anyway, the local public opinion is in the hands of the big business and tax collectors and scholars, and whatever they say, those people will believe it, and they will naturally treat these eunuchs as female thieves!

And these things were recorded in the history books, and became a model for civil officials to educate the next generation of emperors, hoping to teach another foolish emperor in order to maintain their interests!

Therefore, Liu Haojia's recital was leaked out as soon as he arrived in Beijing, and the Beijing division was shaken for a while! It's even more overcrowded in the morning! But their reasons are not so particularly sufficient, because the matter of collecting business taxes is really something that Zhu Yuanzhang set when he was in power, but the tax amount is so low that it is outrageous!.

Therefore, these officials came out one by one to make generous statements, citing scriptures and classics to oppose the collection of commercial taxes, and the reasons are just a few of them, and they can't convince people, so they can only directly target Liu Haojia himself!

After listening patiently for a while, Emperor Wanli raised his hand and said, "I heard what your Qing family meant! Let's start with the one thing that you have said the most. That is, you think that the money collected by Wu Ninghou is afraid that it will be greedy for ink, yes or no?"

One of the most vocal imperial historians just now immediately said, "Your Majesty, the martial artists are vulgar, and everyone knows it! Wu Ninghou and his subordinates may be able to fight in battle, but this kind of state affairs can't be done! Therefore, to let them do the tax business, it is tantamount to opening the door and stealing, and please think twice, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Wanli glanced at him and said, "What you say makes no sense! If Wu Ninghou is vulgar, how can he cure smallpox? Moreover, Wu Ninghou has not yet collected the tax, and you asserted that he said that he and his subordinates would definitely be greedy for ink, isn't this a false accusation out of thin air? And have you really read the notebook?"

Speaking of this, Emperor Wanli picked up the notebook on the imperial case and said, "Wu Ninghou also wrote a lot of things behind the notebook, what goods and how much tax? How are taxes collected and how much money is expected to be collected? How much silver do you have to spend, how many people are used to write clearly, and you also ask the imperial history to supervise and check the accounts, which is also called greedy ink! Stand down!"

Many officials were a little unable to get off the stage by Emperor Wanli's rhetorical question, and they were silent for a while. They were also eager to use the usual methods without consulting with each other! The way to be greedy for ink is that no matter how you do things, right or wrong, I'll pour a basin of sewage on you first! Characterize you as a villain first, and then what you do with it makes sense!

But they didn't expect that this truth would not be easy to use here in Emperor Wanli! The reason for this has to be attributed to the secret box album that Emperor Wanli handed over to Liu Haojia!

Since Liu Haojia left Jingshi, he has not been idle, and he has always used the secret box to keep in touch with Emperor Wanli. He constantly instilled all kinds of truths to Emperor Wanli, and even did not hesitate to simplify some economic theories and statecraft to tell him. So the current Wanli Emperor is not the little emperor in history who doesn't understand anything at all!

Emperor Wanli beat these imperial historians with a simple counterattack, but don't forget one thing, the imperial history is just the vanguard of the civil officials, and the strikers have suffered losses, so naturally others will come out!

At this time, I saw Wang Jianling, the imperial historian of the right capital, kneeling down and saying, "Your Majesty, the imperial court has its own laws for doing things, how can you allow Wuhou and the factory guards to participate in the imperial court's tax collection!" If this is the case, the factory guards are all over the world, as long as the factory guards everywhere say that they are involved in taxes, then they can loot the world, wouldn't it be a big mess in the world! Therefore, please think twice, this example must not be opened!"