Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

And 70% of the southern officials in the court came from aristocratic families!

So in a sense, this money can be said to have been taken out of the pockets of these officials!

If it had happened a few years ago, I'm afraid a large number of people would have knelt down and died outside the Meridian Gate.

But now..........

The cement durian skin is there, whoever wants to go can go.

Kneeling to death is not scary, what is scary is that you can’t kneel to death but can’t stand up…

In addition, the emperor had martial arts skills and was ruthless in dealing with even the vassal kings. Who would dare to go against the court for a little money?

When Guo Yunhou was collecting taxes, he brought his army with him!

When he raided temples in Shanxi in the middle of the year, he hired the Jinyiwei and paid a heavy price for it.

But when it came time to collect commercial taxes, they brought the guards with them...

The official from the Ministry of Revenue who was sent to mobilize the troops only said one sentence besides showing the garrison the order from the Ministry of War!

Gun in hand, follow me, pay me, full pay!

Anyone who refused to cooperate would be taken action on the spot by officials from the Ministry of War, dismissed from their posts and handed over to the Embroidered Uniform Guard for questioning.

It is said that when a scholar meets a soldier, he cannot explain his reason clearly.

But they were faced with a group of petty clerks from the Ministry of Revenue who valued money more than anything else, a group of local garrisons who were so poor that they could barely make ends meet, and rich businessmen who were already in the wrong. Who would dare not pay the money?

I heard that someone from a noble family in Jiangnan had hanged himself because of this matter...

The impeachment memorial could not even enter the palace because it was seized by the Cabinet and the Imperial Household Department.

Not only that, but he was also interrogated by the Jinyiwei afterwards. He was not given any chance to object at all!

Looking at the silver, countless heart-breaking voices seemed to be heard among the crowd at a corner of the city wall.

It will be very difficult to make money from business in the future...

It is said that people become officials only for money. If this path is lost, there is another way to commit corruption.

But since the salary increase was announced at the grand court meeting at the beginning of the year, the price of corruption has approached that of the Hongwu period!

If the amount is over 1,000 taels, the property of three generations will be confiscated, and within three generations, they will be banned from taking official positions and imperial examinations, and then they will be beaten with a stick in the imperial prison...

This one point alone is enough to scare away 90% of those people with bad intentions!

I don't know when a saying started to spread in official circles.

Corruption feels good for a while, but it leads to a mass grave afterwards.

One thousand taels is only the annual salary of a seventh-rank official.

Who would care about this one thousand taels of silver if they are qualified to be greedy?

So, since you are greedy, it is impossible that you are greedy for only one thousand taels!

As a result of being implicated collectively, three clans were implicated, and after they were beaten to death with a stick, it was difficult to find someone to collect their bodies. In the end, they could only be thrown into a mass grave outside the city and buried hastily.

More than a thousand boxes of silver were counted from morning till sunset.

The Western Factory took away the 28.11 million taels belonging to Zhu Youxiao, and the Ministry of Revenue transferred the remaining 690,000 taels to the Lu Mi Warehouse and sealed it.

Zhu Youxiao sat there for less than an hour before he got up and left.

However, on the way back to the palace, he thought more and more that something was wrong, so he called Sun Kangwang to his side.

"Has anything happened in Mr. Guo's family recently?"

"Your Majesty, it seems that there is no........."

Sun Kangwang frowned and thought for a moment, then answered uncertainly.

"Go check it out. I always feel like someone has been giving him advice behind his back these days." Zhu Youxiao said casually.

Since returning from Shanxi, Guo Laokou's brain has become increasingly useful, as if he has become a completely different person. It is really puzzling.

Sun Kangwang nodded and called a flag bearer over and whispered to him for a while.

The Jinyiwei were very fast. As soon as Zhu Youxiao stepped into the gate of Changchun Palace, Sun Kangwang got the result.

"Your Majesty, Lord Guo's daughter is engaged!"

Standing in front of the gate of Changchun Palace, Sun Kangwang reported in a low voice.

Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, "Oh? Is this son-in-law who has not yet married into the family very special?"

Sun Kangwang said, "Mr. Guo's son-in-law is a centurion under Eunuch Wang of the Western Factory, and his name is Ding Xiu!"

"This Ding Xiu participated in this year's imperial examination and scored 95 points in mathematics and 93 points in business."

"But he only scored two points in the classics, history and policy essays, so he failed to make the list."

Zhu Youxiao:.........

My goodness, this subject made him biased!

They all went to grandma's house!

"Tomorrow afternoon, let Guo Laokou bring his son-in-law to the palace to see me."

After giving his instructions, he turned and entered Changchun Palace.

Concubine Liang was already standing outside the palace waiting. When she saw him coming, she hurriedly bowed to him along with a group of palace maids.

"Your Majesty, your servant, welcomes you respectfully!"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and sent away the palace maids.

"Everyone go down and rest!"

After saying that, he stretched out his hands and held Concubine Liang's slender waist.

Concubine Liang, Wang, was only nineteen years old. Although her appearance was not as good as Zhang Yan, she was also a rare beauty.

With her looks, if she lived in later generations, she would at least be considered a school beauty.

However, since she entered the palace at the age of fourteen, she has never had any children.

After entering the hall, Concubine Liang untied Zhu Youxiao's outer cloak, and took off her own coat and hung it aside.

But what she wore under her coat caught Zhu Youxiao's attention.

Good guy!

Chang'e...

Green nightgown, black stockings...

Even Zhu Youxiao was stunned!

Seeing his staring eyes, Wang felt so happy in her heart, but she still pretended to look pitiful and spoke timidly.

"I heard from the Queen that Your Majesty likes some strange makeup and clothes, so I asked someone to make one like this. I wonder if Your Majesty likes it?"

"Hahahaha, I like it! Of course I like it!"

Zhu Youxiao laughed and pulled her into his arms.

"Since you like to dress like this, I will give you a few more skins."

"What skin?"

Wang was stunned when she heard this.

"Oh no, it's clothes. Go, get some paper and pen, I'll draw it for you, and you can ask someone to make it later."

Zhu Youxiao said this and slapped her on her beautiful buttocks.

It was clearly a "pop" sound, but the visual experience it gave people was a "duang" sound.

Wang's pretty face turned red, and she ran to the back hall to get something.

Drawing is just a basic skill, not to mention that drawing is a man’s favorite.

He took the paper and pen from her and started drawing on the paper quickly.

Shangguan Wan'er with purple hair......

Nakolulu wearing a bow tie........

The brown-haired Garo holding a longbow...

And the blonde Athena holding a scepter...

Can't stop, can't stop at all!

Chapter 576: Jinlaohui

While Zhu Youxiao was working hard, there was a bustling scene in Zuixian Tower in the city.

In the past, although Zuixianlou had a booming business due to the high prices, it never turned away customers.

But today, a sign was put up outside the door of Zuixianlou.

The Ministry of Revenue has reserved the entire venue and no outsiders are allowed entry.

More than 200 wealthy businessmen were gathered here, and each sat together with people they knew, discussing and waiting.

Li Jinjiu, a cloth merchant from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, accidentally saw the wrist of his friend at the same table and couldn't help laughing.

"Brother Ma actually brought this Jin Lao as well?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Datong, a porcelain merchant from Jiangxi, stretched his wrist forward, exposing his watch completely to everyone.

"Of course not! I got this golden medal with great difficulty. It cost me one thousand taels of silver!"

"If my family had not been childless, I would not have been willing to spend so much money on such a thing."

Although he said this, his face showed an extremely proud expression.

I don't know when the name Jin Lao began to spread.

Because Zhang Yan's watch was a gold watch and she had the merit of giving birth to a child, she got this name.

Up to now, the Ministry of Industry has only produced less than 500 watches.

At first, some people who got the watches would choose to give them away or sell them at a high price.

But the Ministry of Revenue has detailed information about every owner of the form!

After the sale of twenty watches every day, this information will be sent to the Northern Pacification Office as soon as possible, and then the Jinyiwei will send people out to monitor it.

If it was given to someone, we need to find out who it was given to.

If an official accepted it, they would be visited by the Imperial Guards.

If you resell it and make a profit from the difference, the Ministry of Revenue will come to collect taxes.

Guo Yunhou played this trick very well.

No matter how much money is paid, there will be a 50% tax bill when you arrive.

Although the tax bill did not include the cost of three hundred taels, it still made the scalpers feel like a dumb person eating bitter gourd.

However, the Golden Labour is being produced continuously, so if you want to make money by selling it, you have to sell it as soon as possible.

The Northern Pacification Office invested a lot of manpower in this, but it was not a loss at all!

For every tax collected, Guo Yunhou would take out one-tenth of it as a reward.

The result is that those who bought the gold Rolex wanted to use it as a bribe, but found that no one dared to accept it.

So they could only resell it privately.

In the past month, the Ministry of Revenue has worked with the Northern Pacification Office to collect taxes until their hands were full.

The most exaggerated watch was one that had its tax collected four times in a row, and the last tax was collected even after it was tracked down in Shaanxi!

The four taxes added up to eight hundred taels of silver!

It's just outrageous...

Across the table, another sugar merchant from Guangxi, Ye Zhong, also rolled up his sleeves. On his wrist, he also had a gold watch.

"What's Brother Ma's Gold Labour number?"