Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 440 Li Shanchang's Ambition
"But fifth brother, if we collect taxes in this way, what should we do?" Zhu Biao was more cautious after all. Although he also understood that the light business tax was just for the benefit of big households, he also considered more practical issues.

"If it's like what you said, wouldn't it be necessary to approve and clarify the account books under the names of each merchant every time a commercial tax is collected?"

"It's nothing more than one family or two families. If every family is like this, how much energy does the court need to invest? How much manpower and material resources will it consume?"

Zhu Biao shook his head slightly. "If this is really the case, don't talk about the Ministry of Household Affairs. I'm afraid that all the officials of the court will not be enough to apply."

"And the amount of money and food consumed in it must be huge. Maybe even if the business tax is collected, it will still be unable to make ends meet."

Zhu Su was stunned, and after a little thought, it was true that as Zhu Biao said, there were indeed many problems in wanting to levy business taxes in this way.

After all, proposing to increase the commercial tax was just a thought of his at this time, because he wanted to get money, so he naturally thought of taking the tax as a knife.After all, the tax system of Ming Dynasty is well known even in later generations.

But he still thought too simple, and underestimated the difficulty of collecting commercial taxes.The agricultural tax only needs to be collected in summer and autumn, but the commercial tax never stops throughout the year.Every summer and autumn, the household department has to be very busy. What if every household has to calculate business tax based on income?

In this era, there are no many technological means to help supervise and calculate in later generations, and there is no such powerful government execution.There are still so many tax evasion incidents in later generations, let alone Daming at this time.

Could it be that the imperial court stopped doing other things from now on, and devoted itself to fighting wits and courage with these big profiteers?
Zhu Biao saw through it at a glance, but he was still complacent... It can only be said that if the knowledge of Zhuo Yuan brought by his identity as a traverser is taken away, his political ability is really not very good...

"It's impossible to spread it all out immediately." Lao Zhu also has his own plans. "However, such a big loophole in the tax system must not be left behind for future generations."

"Lao Wu's method is very good. Even if there is no way to immediately fix the problem at the root, as long as there is a profit or two, it will be enough to help the court survive this period."

"In our opinion, it's better to write this method into the Ming Law first, and let go of this loophole first, so that the bureaucrats of future generations will not use our ancestral system to suppress future kings."

"Then, start on a small scale and experiment with the new tax system. Didn't your science say you can't just look at the theory, you have to start from reality and do a lot of experiments to know what's going on?"

"Maybe, this new tax system will really be done? If it is collected, it will be considered a solution to the current urgent need."

"Persimmons need to be picked first, and the new tax system is a hard nut to roll out. Let's see a quick solution, and we still have to get ideas from the Japanese country in the east."

"As long as we can get those gold and silver mines, we will be able to issue treasure notes and establish a bank for the collection of treasure notes..."

Lao Zhu's realm is even higher than Zhu Biao's. He never thought of achieving it overnight, but just wanted to use the name of changing the tax system to collect enough money to tide over the difficulties and levy the Japanese.

By the way, make up for your own bad governance, don't want to harm your children and grandchildren...

"Chongba, where do you start?" Queen Ma asked.

"Sister asked this question, of course the officials in the court!" Old Zhu smiled coldly. "Those officials tricked us into creating a commercial tax of [-]% of the tax. I'm afraid they have accumulated inexhaustible money in their own hometown!"

"They have worked so hard to create such a big leak, so there is no reason not to stay here and steal money!"

"Since they have swallowed our money, we must make them spit it out!"

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West of the city, the government office of South Korea.

"Mr. Li, please take care of me!" A certain servant from the household department in the study of the mansion, dressed in casual clothes, saluted Li Shanchang.One of them bowed to the end in a very humble manner.

"Hehe, it's easy to say, easy to say." Li Shanchang smiled slightly, sat on the chair, but straightened his back, and accepted the gift without moving.The two of them exchanged a few words of politeness, the servant saw that Li Shanchang was picking up the tea, he said goodbye, and left the mansion through the back door under the leadership of the servants of Li's mansion.

"...Counting this person, today is the seventh." Beside Li Shanchang, the eldest son Li Qi, who had been quietly accompanying him all the time, looked worried.

"Father, you wantonly favored the officials in the court by proposing the issuance of banknotes to His Majesty... Is this too dangerous? What if it arouses His Majesty's suspicion..."

"The lessons learned from Mr. Hu's mistakes are not far away. You have already retired...wouldn't it be nice to just spend your life in the mansion? Why do you need to step into this muddy water in the court again?"

That's right, Li Shanchang's initiative to issue banknotes does have his own selfish motives.

You must know that since ancient times, the minting of coins has been very promising for officials in the DPRK and China.The benefits of it are enough to make people flock to it. Throughout the dynasties, there have even been bloody battles between various yamen for the right to mint coins.

This is the case when expensive copper ore is needed to mint coins, not to mention that just printing a few sheets of paper can be used as a treasure for money.

The officials in the court are all human beings, how can they not smell the oily fragrance?Li Shanchang was the top leader in the imperial court in the past, the figure who once led the money and food for Lao Zhu, and the person who initiated the issuance of banknotes. If His Majesty really set up a department for raising banknotes, how could he not listen to Li Shanchang's opinion?
Even if it is to entrust all the power of treasures to him, it is not uncommon.You know, Li Shanchang was praised as the "Xiao He" of Ming Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the precious money, this South Korean official, who is getting farther and farther away from the center of power because of his resignation, the imprisonment of his disciple Hu Weiyong, and the arrest of all civil officials in Huaixi, has gradually become a member of the "Qingliu" officials who were originally incompatible with him. Get hotter.

"A child's opinion." Faced with his son's worries, Li Shanchang seemed dismissive.

"Now that Qingliu has become a big trend, it is better to take advantage of the situation than to sit still and wait for death. For the father, he used the treasure to hook up the officials. It is clear that he is actually gathering the hearts of all the officials for the superior."

"Most of these Qingliu officials are Yuan court surrenders. If there is no leader, how can they do good things for me?"

"Even in front of the superior, I have a clear conscience."

Seeing that the eldest son did not listen to him, but gradually showed doubts, Li Shanchang sighed.

"Speaking of being a father at this age, he is still so diligent in his work, and it's not for you children and grandchildren."

"You guys, your talents are mediocre and useless. As a father and a superior, you still have some friendship, and the iron certificate may be acceptable. But if you reach the crown prince or even the next generation, how can the Zhu family care about my past achievements?"

"When you become officials, if there is one or two things you are dissatisfied with, the descendants of the Zhu family will take advantage of the opportunity to find out Hu Weiyong's old accounts... My Li family will be ruined in just a moment!"

"If you can't control the court power..."

"My son doesn't want to, my family is already the family of the Duke, and I am very honored and favored. As long as you don't take power, don't seize power, and work hard, you won't offend the royal family. On the contrary, father, you win courtiers, not only can't protect yourself..." Li Qi retorted.

"Confused!" Li Shanchang's face suddenly changed, and he reprimanded: "If you don't offend others, they will offend you. Honestly, how can we keep the family business?"

"Needless to say, I've made up my mind to be a father. I've known the superior since infancy, and I know him best. Nothing will happen."

"...Yes." The father is the guide for the son, and Li Qi couldn't say anything more, just looking at his father's back that had straightened up again in the past few days, but he still had deep, deep worries in his heart.

You and Your Majesty have known each other since infancy, why not Hu Weiyong?Everyone says that being with a king is like being with a tiger, how can you allow others to sleep soundly while lying down and talking... But you wholeheartedly passed on your astrology to your disciple Hu Weiyong, and passed on the power of the court privately, so that you can continue to hold the power in the court behind the scenes.

His Majesty's arrest of Hu Weiyong, abolishment of the phase, and destruction of the Huaixi civil servant party are enough to show that he is very afraid of someone in the court trying to seize power.You have been promoted to the Duke of Korea and ranked first among the founding ministers, but why can't you let go of the power in your hands and want to step into this Vanity Fair?
Your Majesty praises you as Xiao He, but I'm afraid that you yourself are not willing to be Prime Minister Xiao of Ming Dynasty.

Instead, he wants to go one step further, to be Huo Guang and Changsun Wuji of Daming!

(End of this chapter)