Mingshi

Chapter 1168
He walked back and forth in the study, but finally sat down on the chair dejectedly.

"no!"

After just sitting for a while, Xu Jie jumped up again and circled on the ground.

Now veto the tax increase of the mutual market and the shipping department?

This is impossible!

On the one hand, Emperor Jiajing would be furious.On the one hand, Emperor Jiajing would stop trading, and Luo Xin would not go to exterminate Japanese pirates.In this way, the two major special zones in South Africa will stop, which also offends interest groups.

For the sake of profit, these interest groups dared to confront Emperor Jiajing, just to prevent the mutual market from being completely controlled by the internal treasury. If Xu Jie vetoed it at this time, those interest groups would tear him apart.Similarly, if he dared to veto the Shibo Division's ten tax collection, Luo Xin would use the excuse that the Japanese pirates did not go ashore and not go to destroy the Japanese pirates. If the Shibo Division stopped, he would also offend interest groups and make those people hate him. to the bone.

Xu Jie knew these people too well. These people were profiteers with short-sightedness and could not see the danger in the future.At that time, I just knew that it was because Xu Jie vetoed the Mutual Market and Shibo Department, which made them lose their interests.At that time, the memorials to impeach him will pile up in front of Emperor Jiajing like snowflakes.And he also offended Emperor Jiajing by doing so.Together like this, where is Xu Jie still alive?
It is impossible to veto the increase of commercial tax by the Northern Mutual Market and the Southern Maritime Shipping Division.

"How to do?"

"The most important thing now is to escape from the black pot. But, how to escape? How to throw the black pot out? To whom?"

A wry smile appeared on Xu Jie's face. He was the chief assistant of the cabinet, no matter from which point of view, he was the main responsibility.

"wrong!
And high arches!

This responsibility cannot be taken care of by oneself, at least let Gao Gong share some of it for himself. "

Xu Jie slowly walked back to the chair and sat down, slowly falling into deep thought.The brows gradually stretched.

the next day.
Xu Jie became a woodcarver in the cabinet again, becoming very low-key, and even everything was dominated by high arches.At the same time, a rumor spread rapidly among the tea houses and restaurants.

"Have you heard?"

"What did you hear?"

"The Northern Mutual Market has already begun to be established, and it is estimated that trade will start in three months."

"I already knew about this, brother, your news is out of date."

"That's not what I said." The man rolled his eyes.

"Then what are you talking about?" Another person said proudly: "I also told you that there is nothing in this capital that I don't know about."

"I'm talking about the commercial tax of the mutual market..."

"Isn't it just one out of ten?" Another person said first.

The man choked for a moment, and said anxiously: "Do you know that apart from the Northern Mutual Trade Tax being changed to one out of ten, is there any place where it has been changed to one out of ten?"

"Is there any place where the business tax has changed?"

"I don't know. Let me tell you, it's Nanfang Shipyard."

"Southern Municipal Shipping Department? Isn't the Municipal Shipping Department closed?"

"With your appearance, you still know everything? Don't you know that Mr. Luo Xinluo went to the south to destroy the Japanese pirates?"

"Pa~!" The man patted his forehead and said, "I remembered, the Japanese pirates have been wiped out?"

"That's not true, but the business tax has been raised first."

"That's what it should be. Since the Northern Mutual Market has increased the commercial tax as a special case, the Shibo Department will naturally be one of the special cases. Isn't this strange?"

"There's nothing strange about that, I'm not talking about that."

"What's the matter?"

"Do you know who the person who promoted the increase in business tax is?"

"Who else could it be? The whole capital knows that His Majesty wants to turn the mutual market into an internal treasury. Mr. Xu Ge disagreed, and finally discussed such a solution with His Majesty."

"The first half of what you said is correct, but the second half is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

The man looked around for a while, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "Mr. Xu Ge doesn't agree with the business tax increase at all, but you also know that Mr. Xu Ge has almost no right to speak in the cabinet now. Although he still The chief assistant of the cabinet, but the right to speak in the cabinet is in the hands of Mr. Gao Ge. Therefore, although Mr. Xu Ge firmly disagrees with raising business taxes, Mr. Gao Ge agrees. In the end, Mr. Xu Ge also fought against His Majesty and Mr. Gao Ge, so This business tax has only been raised. Now it is said that Xu Ge is so angry that his health is showing signs of poor health, and because he has lost the right to speak in the cabinet, he has become like a wood carving."

"Really? Why did Mr. Xu Ge organize everyone to make money?"

"I don't know that."

In just three days, the news spread throughout the entire capital, and with the capital as the center, it spread to various state capitals.After Gao Gong heard the news, he just smiled slightly and said:

"It's just Xu Jie's trick to fight for power and profit, don't worry about it."

On the fourth day, Xu Jie fell ill and rested.This time, the business tax increase had nothing to do with Xu Jie, and the news that Gao Gong was in charge was spread as if it were true.But the focus of the news is not the increase of business tax, but Xu Jie's suppression by Gao Gong in the cabinet, so that everyone naturally ignores the issue of business tax, and instead focuses on the issue of the two cabinets' rivalry .Many spectators also saw the latest results, that is, Gao Gong won a complete victory, and Xu Jie was suppressed and sick at home.

All the officials didn't think about the business tax issue at all. What they thought was whether Gao Gong had confirmed his position as the future leader of Ming Dynasty, and whether he wanted to follow Mr. Gao more closely.And Xu Jie's people were also wondering if they had defected to Gao Gong.No one in the capital thought that it was Xu Jie's golden cicada escaping its shell, and threw the blame to Gao Gong in advance. Only Zhang Juzheng in Hangzhou heard the news from the capital, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and secretly admired Xu Jie.

"High! It's really high!"

Of course, there is another person who is in a bad mood in Hangzhou.This person is Luo Xin.He also saw the news, and knew in his heart that this was Xu Jie's escape from the golden cicada.And very successfully cast the blame on Gao Gong.The most terrible thing is that Gao Gong accepted the scapegoat happily, thinking that he had completely gained the upper hand in the battle with Xu Jie, and his fighting spirit was high.

Looking at the news one by one, Luo Xin couldn't help but sighed.This Gao Gong is really Wenqing's disease is very serious.Once he thought he had the upper hand, he began to clean Xu Jie's people.Although cleaning has not yet started on a large scale, there is already a trend.Moreover, although Gao Gong did not start to suppress Luo Xin's people, the people who purged Xu Jie were all assigned to Gao Gong's people, that is to say, Luo Xin's people would not be given the slightest chance.It seems that Gao Gong has already felt that he is in charge of the ruling alone, and there is no need to join forces with Luo Xin.

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