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

Chapter 442 Family members of officials, increase taxes first!
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, raising taxes is an evil policy! Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty, think twice, Your Majesty!"

"In today's world, there is a lot of waste waiting to be prosperous. Your Majesty will increase the business tax. This is to compete with the people... absolutely not, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty previously personally set a tax of [-] per cent, but now you want to increase it. This is tantamount to revising the imperial decree... and now that the Northern Yuan Dynasty has not been removed, this will lose the hearts of the people of the world, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, the lessons from the former Yuan Dynasty are not far away. Issuing banknotes is the way to save the country, and taxation is really the way to subjugate the country, Your Majesty!"

After a short period of silence, there was a burst of crying among the civil servants.Numerous officials came out, either expressing direct remonstrance, or robbing land with their heads, as if the increase of business tax today will cause the country to perish tomorrow.

Someone took advantage of the chaos and secretly grabbed Li Shanchang's sleeve: "Mr. Han, why don't you speak up? Your majesty listens to public opinion the most. If you can't stop your majesty, what will the majesty do?"

Li Shanchang pulled his sleeves out of the man's hands calmly, and continued to do things with his head down.What's the matter with the world? Didn't you see that the eyes of the superior became more and more fierce?
"enough!"

Li Shanchang expected it to be right.After a while, he heard the emperor's cold roar from above his head.

Old Zhu looked at the frozen officials and pointed at them: "Look at you, how are you crying and making noise?"

"Did we say we're going to harm the people? Did we say we're going to change the order?"

"We haven't said how to levy taxes, and you're all crying and grabbing the ground... What, we just want to change the business tax. Could it be that we are trying to grab food from your mouths?"

As soon as this remark came out, the officials were immediately speechless.They secretly communicated with each other with their eyes, and no one dared to say a word: This statement is too serious, and the increase of business tax is just to steal food from our mouths?It's just that the emperor dared to say this, but they couldn't admit it!
"We set a tax of [-]% before, which is indeed too light. As the saying goes, 'the rule of the king, respect the root and suppress the end, and focus on agriculture'. Business is the end of the road, and too much preferential treatment will eventually be harmful to the country."

Lao Zhu also deliberately shook his head and dragged out a sentence, which made all the civil servants under him look strange.This is exactly the rhetoric they used in the past when they persuaded Lao Zhu not to focus on business and concentrate on farming.

"Besides, the way of business is not about production, but it can easily amass money, which is inconsistent with reason." Lao Zhu continued. "Let's think about levying business tax based on the income of merchants. If the common people do some small business, it will naturally be taxed at [-] yuan."

"The higher the income, the higher the business tax. It is reasonable to collect taxes on a step-by-step basis. The specifics are determined by..."

"Let the cabinet formulate the regulations! Be sure to carefully investigate and draft carefully. After we approve it, it will be written into the Daming Law."

"Yes. My minister complies with the order." Zhu Biao, who was in charge of the cabinet temporarily, replied, with a silky answer, leaving no room for other civil servants to comment.

Originally, this kind of writing into the Daming Law was to be discussed by the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Punishment and other ministries, but now it is directly handed over to the cabinet!

Obviously, this is what this father colluded with two mornings!
"Your Majesty!" Even though Old Zhu was so determined, Zhan Tong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came forward and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is not in compliance with the regulations."

"Besides, it is necessary to investigate the income of merchants in the world, and formulate a specific tax amount according to the income... This is no different from the imperial court directly monitoring all merchants in the world. The manpower required is huge!"

"Forgive me to say bluntly, even if all the officials of my Ming Dynasty are devoted to this matter, I am afraid it will not be implemented."

"This policy is difficult to implement, and please take it back..."

As Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Zhan Tong immediately thought of the manpower issue, so he raised objections that seemed to be pertinent, and what he said was not unreasonable... Seeing this, the civil servants became active again and came up with second proposals abound.

"Well, it makes sense." Old Zhu looked at Zhan Tong playfully, "Zhan Aiqing, we remember that your Huangzhou Zhan family has a huge family business... Is it because of this reason that you object to the levy? "

"Your Majesty!" Zhan Tong raised his eyes and looked at Lao Zhu. "The minister is purely out of public interest! Most of the property in the family is owned by the clan. The minister owns only a few acres of Susukida, which are used for farming, reading and heirloom."

"If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can send someone to investigate! I can show my loyalty to your majesty every day!"

The awe-inspiring righteousness is on the face.

"Oh. What a family member, what a family heir to farming and studying." Lao Zhu was not moved, but his face was inexplicable. "We let you be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and we really didn't miss it."

"As an official, if you hold a lot of power, what you are most afraid of is using power for personal gain and amassing a lot of money." Lao Zhu stood up, "There is a saying in the Song Dynasty: three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes silver!"

"You high officials in the court, if you were in the Song Dynasty, you would all be officials in the capital. In terms of power, you are more paid than the magistrate."

"If you use power for personal gain, how can you govern?"

"Your Majesty!" All the officials, sweating coldly when they heard the words, hurriedly bowed down and said: "I dare not, I will show my loyalty to Daming!"

"You are good, we believe it." Lao Zhu said without emotion, but there was no trace of trust on his face. "It's just that even though you are clean and honest, you can't stop someone from using your tiger skin as a banner to make profits for themselves!"

As he said that, he glanced at Zhan Tong, who was sweating profusely at the Shangshu who was still performing the loyal minister show just now. "If your family and clan members use your name to amass a lot of money and make a fortune... What do you think the court should do?"

"I... I'm terrified!" Zhan Tong didn't dare to look at Lao Zhu again, bowed down and trembled.

"You said that there is not enough manpower, and you can't manage the merchants in the world." Lao Zhu returned to the topic. "Then, let's start with you officials."

"Leaving aside the people of the world, the strategy of increasing business tax is to start with your relatives who are officials!"

"During the current season, all relatives and relatives of officials in Beijing who earn income from business transactions will be taxed according to the new step-by-step commercial tax law!"

"Anyone who delays resistance, cheats and fails to report, businessmen will be imprisoned for crimes, and those who are officials at home will even sit down!"

"So it's decided, retreat!"

After speaking, under the panicked eyes of the officials, Lao Zhu waved his sleeves and left Fengtian Hall directly.

A group of officials were left dumbfounded. Although they wanted to defend themselves, they could no longer speak.

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"Li Xiang, you have to come up with an idea! You are the one who said that the policy of issuing precious banknotes is a sure thing...how come in a blink of an eye, not only are there no news of the precious banknotes, but also the business tax of us officials is being levied..." In the study room of the South Korean government, many high officials from the DPRK and China took advantage of the secret meeting with Li Shanchang to pour out their bitterness.

"Yeah, big brother, you said this morning that you know His Majesty the best...why did my promotion just blow up like that in a blink of an eye?" Beside Li Shanchang, even his own younger brother Li Cunyou had a look of resentment at this time .This big brother doesn't mean anything, and he agreed to find a fat job... I waited excitedly in the mansion for several hours, and finally came here?
Not only did he run out of oil and water to eat, but he also had to bleed himself...

What is this called?
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