Wanli 1592

Chapter 110 Tax Game

In fact, they all know what the mining tax is all about.

Daming's agriculture is stuck in a bottleneck, unable to increase higher taxes, but the business tax has a lot to do. However, the historical practice is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and the business tax is extremely low. The business tax that should be a big one often becomes a small one. The sense of existence, starting from the Jiajing period, the emperor began to deal with commercial taxation. The controversy about whether to ban the sea was actually a game between the Jiajing emperor and the landlord and gentry group represented by a large number of administrative officials and officials for commercial taxation.

This game ended with Longqing switching, Emperor Longqing was fooled successfully, and most of Kaihai's interests fell into the pockets of local business groups. However, Zhu Yijun is obviously higher in IQ than his father, and he was taught by Zhang Juzheng, a wealthy blaster. Zhu Yijun is definitely not a good person.

Therefore, he used his brain a little, and saw through every detail of his grandpa Jiajing's fight with the officials at a glance, and perfectly bypassed the civil service system, and found another way to fight for the commercial tax that should belong to the imperial court.

However, this obviously touched the interests of the local business groups. As the spokespersons of the business groups, the civil servants of the imperial court will naturally oppose it desperately, vigorously resist, occupy the moral high ground and criticize the emperor verbally. It intensified to the climax, and the emperor continued to fight a set of combined punches, successfully distracting the attention of the officials, making the opposition of the officials weak and powerless, and the emperor temporarily achieved a staged achievement.

But is it that easy to snatch food from a tiger?Even if the other party is the emperor, it is better to say that it is because the other party is the emperor that you must not let go.

With the great development of the empire's industrial and commercial economy, the landowners, gentry, and large merchant groups were full of brains, but the officials and businessmen joined forces to evade taxes, and lost more than half of the country's tax revenue every year. This is an open secret among the civil official groups, precisely because it is An open secret must be guarded even more.
Faced with this situation, it is impossible for Zhu Yijun to pass the resolution to increase the commercial tax in a formal way. Civil officials will definitely obstruct it in every possible way. ", because of public opinion, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to not compromise, so Zhu Yijun directly sent eunuchs down to share a cup of broth with them, and there was only so much broth in a pot, and if one more person shared it, the amount would be less.

At first, everyone reached a consensus to divide the profits, but now Emperor Zhu ran over with a big spoon and a bowl to scoop it up. Isn't this breaking the rules?
The point is, the emperor is the sky. If Zhu Yijun becomes addicted to drinking broth, it will be a bad thing. Maybe he will take this meat bowl away. There is not even scum left, so where are we going to cry?Therefore, when everyone saw Emperor Zhu doing something like this, they were anxious at the time. In short, everyone followed suit and tried all kinds of methods to prevent the emperor from intervening in the distribution of related benefits.

Song Yingchang and Liu Huangshang, who were well versed in the truth, understood Xiao Ruxun's thoughts at that time, and also understood what situation Xiao Ruxun would face if these words were read by those civil officials in the capital.

"Xiao Jixin trust me..."

Song Yingchang sighed so much, he is the commander-in-chief, and Liu Huangshang also has the background of a general. In fact, the two of them are no longer accepted by the civil official group. After this battle, Liu Huangshang may continue to stay in the Ministry of War, but he Once Song Yingchang wins this battle, he will end up no better than Ye Mengxiong. Naturally, he won't wear a pair of trousers with those pen-pointing gentlemen at this time.

"It's hard to find a famous general, but you must not die in this matter, Mr. Jinglue, what do you think?"

"What should I do?" Song Yingchang sighed, thought for a while, and said, "Only you and I have seen this good news, burn it, and write another copy, and then I will write a letter to Ji Xin, and let him Be careful with your words and deeds, don't say such things again, this matter is in the eyes of you and me, no third person will know, for the sake of the country, Xiao Jixin must be kept! A good general is rare!"

Liu Huangshang nodded: "This subordinate understands."

Song Yingchang nodded, took out a fire pocket and blew it up, and burned the memorial completely, and then wrote a personal letter to warn Xiao Ruxun about the inside information of the civil society and the basic principles of being a general in the current season , and that red line, he didn't want the seed of such a famous general to fall on such a thing.

In the countless years after that, Xiao Ruxun was extremely grateful to Song Yingchang and Liu Huangshang because of this incident, and because of this lesson, Xiao Ruxun began to reflect on his behavior and began to learn how to be truly cautious OK.

At this moment, Xiao Ruxun is in the big tent of the military camp outside Pyongyang, holding the string of beads that Zhu Yijun gave him in one hand, and turning around in one hand, and checking the terrain of North Korea's Hwanghae and Gyeonggi provinces on the map with the other. He learned that the Japanese invaders in Huanghai Road were scared away by a letter and two heads from Yuan Huang, left the empty Huanghai Road, and then stationed their troops in Kaesong, north of Seoul and east of Linjin River , that is, one of the three capitals of North Korea.

There is also intelligence that the main force of the Japanese pirates in Gangwon Province has also begun to move towards Seoul. There is a possibility that the entire army will be in Seoul, defending Seoul and the Ming army’s plan to confront Gang. After that, they led the army to go south to take Hwanghaedo and attack Kaesong, using Kaesong as a springboard to Seoul, and let the North Korean army take Hwanghaedo and Gangwon-do, which had become unclaimed lands.

The main force is the infantry, which moves slowly and needs to work with the grain and grass transportation brigade. It will take about two days to do so, but the cavalry is not subject to such restrictions, and the terrain of the Yellow Sea Road is relatively flat. Starting from Pyongyang along the west side Galloping all the way to Kaesong, you can arrive within three days, rest overnight, and attacking the city is not a problem.

Xiao Ruxun planned to let Nurhachi bleed a lot, let the Jurchen soldiers fight the Japanese army to the death, and consume the Japanese army, just to soothe Li Rusong's restless heart.

"General, General Li and General Tong are here."

"Please."

Xiao Ruxun walked back to the seat and sat down.

Li Rusong and Nurhachi opened the curtain and walked in.

"Meet the admiral."

Nurhachi was extremely obedient, so Li Rusong just put his fists together and pretended not to lose face.

Xiao Ruxun smiled, didn't care, stretched out his hand and said, "Two generals, please sit down."

The two sat down, and Xiao Ruxun said: "The two generals are invited to come here today, because there is a matter for the two generals to do."

Li Rusong blinked and said, "What's the matter?"

"According to the information, the Japanese pirates have basically withdrawn from Huanghai Road, and there are [-] troops stationed in Kaesong. The governor wants you two to lead the cavalry to take Kaesong as our army's forward base."

"what?!"

Li Rusong and Nurhachi spoke in unison, but the difference was that Li Rusong was inexplicably surprised, while Nurhachi was inexplicably frightened.

(End of this chapter)