Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 110 I will collect the tax of the family

Zhang Ming arrived first, and Lu Zhi also came later.

Lu Zhi's identity is also detached in the big man.

After waiting for about half an hour, Gongsun Zan and the other eight prefects also came.

There are ten counties in Youzhou.

After everyone approached Tangling Restaurant, they could see soldiers standing guard on both sides.

The soldiers were full of momentum, as energetic as standing guard in a military parade.

After Gongsun Zan saw it, he was a little worried. He was a military commander, and what he saw was different from the rest of the prefects.

At the door, Guan and Zhang are like two door gods.

The surrounding guards are tight and the soldiers are spirited.

Several prefects finally entered.

The lobby on the first floor was temporarily remodeled, and it was now arranged as a large banquet venue, but a large table was placed in the middle, and a fur carpet was laid on the floor.

"My lords, this room is polite."

Zhang Ming didn't leave the table, but stood up to greet him.

Lu Zhi also stood up, but did not speak.

Zhang Ming and them are both prefects, so they don't need to go out to meet them, of course they can go out to meet them, but Zhang Ming doesn't.

"I've seen Prefect Zhang."

In addition to being the prefect, Zhang Ming is also a township lord, and you must salute him.

"Meet Lu Gong."

Although Lu Zhi's official position is lower than theirs, his status is higher than them.

Everyone was seated and began to eat.

Both parties were chatting and getting to know each other. The atmosphere was relaxed and there was no sense of depression at all.

After eating for about half an hour, Lu Zhi stood up and said, "I'm quite tired after traveling for days, so I'll go back and rest first."

Everyone quickly stood up to send Lu Zhi off.

After Lu Zhi left, they were only the prefect, and the rest were soldiers guarding the restaurant waiter and Zhang Ming.

"Everyone, we all gather here for this purpose, we all know the purpose, let's have a good discussion next time."

"Shopkeeper, remove all the food and wine, and replace them with good tea."

Everyone hadn't thought much about eating, so Zhang Ming replaced the food and wine.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, after packing up, Zhang Ming brewed a cup of Longjing for each of them.

"Longjing tea is exclusive to Tanglin Restaurant and unique."

When everyone smelled it, it was really fragrant, but they didn't have the mood to drink tea at this time.

"Prefect Zhang, our suggestion is to pay a fixed amount of money tax every year, which can be paid to the imperial court in accordance with previous years. What do you think?"

Zhang Ming sneered, Youzhou pays very little tax every year, or even a negative amount, and the imperial court often allocates funds to Youzhou.

"I want [-]% of the tax, and you can distribute the rest separately," Zhang Ming said.

Everyone's complexion changed, and the situation imagined before appeared, and Zhang Ming was really unwilling to accept their conditions.

A prefect said with a sneer: "My Xuantu County has a population of tens of thousands, and the annual tax revenue is not enough. I need funding from the imperial court. Does Zhang Taishou also need it?"

"Humph."

Zhang Ming snorted coldly, glanced around and said, "Everyone understands that the tax is so low because the big family owns a lot of land, and they don't pay taxes. If they all pay taxes, why is this so?"

Gongsun Zan sneered and said, "Prefect Zhang is right, the situation is indeed the case, but can you collect taxes from them?"

"Okay." Zhang Ming sighed helplessly and said, "I will collect all of this part of the tax. You will get [-]% of the tax, and the other [-]% will belong to me."

"Yeah, just give up."

"It's good for both of us."

Everyone thought that Zhang Ming was subdued and gave up the right to demand taxes from them.

"No, what did you just say?" a prefect yelled.

"You said, you want to collect taxes from those aristocratic families?"

"Are you sure you want to collect taxes?"

"Are you sure you are looking for a family to collect taxes?"

Everyone was shocked. Could it be that Zhang Ming is crazy, this era is ruled by aristocratic families.

Almost all the big men and aristocratic families rarely pay taxes.

Zhang Ming actually wanted to collect taxes from them.

Looking for a family to collect taxes, even if the emperor issued an imperial decree, he would not be able to collect much.

Local officials are controlled by these aristocratic families. They conceal the land, so there are not many people registered. If these people are sent to collect taxes, they naturally pay very little tax.

This is one of the reasons why the late Han Dynasty has been so weak until now.

"Hahaha~"

Gongsun Zan laughed out loud, and everyone looked at him.

After Gongsun Zan finished laughing, he stood up and said, "What an ignorant boy, you can collect the family's tax. If you can collect it, you can collect it yourself. Collect it. I don't want a cent."

Everyone also nodded silently, thinking that Zhang Ming was too arrogant, even the emperor couldn't accept it, could he accept it?

Of course Zhang Ming can accept it, not all of Liaodong.

In the aristocratic families in Liaodong, if they want to survive, they have to pay taxes according to the regulations, otherwise they cannot survive at all.

After Gongsun Zan finished speaking, he snorted coldly and left.

Zhang Ming didn't ask to stay, they left as soon as they wanted to.

Then, the other prefects also looked at Zhang Ming with strange eyes, and then left.

Not long after everyone had left, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Xi Zhi came in.

"Brother, a bunch of ignorant things, I really want to beat them up."

The opponents were all prefects, but Zhang Fei didn't dare to say anything about twisting their necks.

Xi Zhicai frowned and said: "My lord, it has been difficult since ancient times to collect taxes from aristocratic families. All the families in the world will unite to isolate the lord."

"Isolation means isolation. Anyway, I don't have a good reputation among them. In addition, Tanglin Restaurant and its superficial controller, Luo Quan, belong to me. I let him do normal business."

Xi Zhicai was not so optimistic, he also sat at the table.

"My lord, I'm afraid many people can guess that Luo Quan is the one you pushed out."

Zhang Ming didn't take it seriously, so what if he knew?

"They will naturally know, but in the face of interests, as long as they don't tell the truth, there is no eternal enemy, only eternal interests, as long as there are interests, they will treat it as ignorance."

Xi Zhicai didn't say this anymore, but said: "Master, even so, it is not easy for us to collect taxes. We don't know how much land the family has hidden."

"I will know. If I don't know, I will pay according to the big one. I suspect that they have [-] mu. If they can't prove that they don't have [-] mu, then they will pay it according to this. If they don't, Lao Tzu's soldiers will let them hand it over. "

It is not so easy to collect taxes.

Money in your pocket is not so easy.

Today, Zhang Ming is holding the imperial decree, and none of these eunuchs will cooperate, let alone others.

"If you don't give it, we'll just grab it."

Zhang Ming's arrogance leaked out at this moment. Ever since he received the imperial decree, he never thought that this matter could be resolved peacefully.

It's not okay to not move the knife.

After the banquet was over, Zhang Ming took the army back.

And Gongsun Zan and others went to other places.

"Gentlemen, Zhang Ming is Huang Kou'er, relying on His Majesty's favor and the eunuch's support, he is lawless and wants to do such a crazy thing."

Gongsun Zan paused, looked around at the crowd and said, "In that case, we will help him. When you go back, tell all the aristocratic families, lest these aristocratic families blame us."

This is not afraid of venting anger, it is clearly trying to provoke their hatred towards Zhang Ming.

(End of this chapter)