total war broken

Chapter 362 The Righteous Lingran Merchants
Xiao Chuan didn't know what was going on outside the city. Under the dim candlelight, Yamato helped him tidy up the blue robes carefully. Some Hanfu robes were very difficult to wear anyway. Someone helped to tie it at the back, and there was the fragrance of Yamato's body between his mouth and nose, Xiao Chuan said strangely: "Don't be so troublesome, it's just a banquet, I can go in armor."

"How can this be so, Ogawa-kun, the banquet is a very important occasion, so you must wear formal attire like this." Yamato said, nodding again, Ogawa was helpless that formal attire should be official, but he didn't seem to have an official attire. Clothes?Yes, because I think the clothes are uncomfortable to wear.

"Okay?" Xiao Chuan was a little impatient. It took Yamato nearly half an hour to dress himself up, and it took almost half an hour to dress himself now. Yamato wrinkled his beautiful face, and said with sadness in his big eyes: "Okay, since Xiao Chuan If you don’t want to dress up, Mr. Yamato said, he was wearing a white kimono embroidered with white lilies.

Xiao Chuan saw her appearance, she was a woman who would not show her sadness, and said, "You are so beautifully dressed today, Yamato." Yamato raised his head with a different smile on his face.

Yamato showed a knowing smile, and said, "Then Xiaochuan-kun, let's go, Mr. Wang has been waiting outside for a long time."

You're still so slow after a long wait, get out of the front hall

There were already Wang Heng and others outside. He looked indifferently at a map on the table, which was the whole map of Shandong. He saw Xiao Chuan coming with a sad face, raised his head and followed Xiao Chuan out and said: "My lord , how do we collect commercial tax?"

"Naturally it's tariffs, and city taxes," Xiao Chuan said. In the late Ming Dynasty, tax revenues had reached ridiculous levels. All taxes on the court except for agricultural taxes would be resolutely suppressed and resisted by the Donglin Party, especially where the southern parties belonged. Local taxation has become a joke. For example, Jinhua, Zhejiang, where business is well-developed, does not pay more than seven taels of silver a year. Various tax evasion methods emerge in endlessly, which makes people dazzled. Let it deal with it, or hang a fake sign on the ship to show off, which is equivalent to hanging a government sign. Ming Dynasty officials also collected taxes according to the method, but these talents at the bottom really couldn't collect taxes.

Therefore, scholars in the Ming Dynasty were quite wealthy as long as they could be admitted as scholars. Then they could help merchant ships avoid paying tolls and withdraw the commission, or they could pretend to occupy land to evade agricultural taxes. It was really an essential industry. It was a pity that Chongzhen ended up pawn palace. Chinese necessities, but do not know where the money went.

"My lord, it's not within our scope to implement the policy of commercial taxation." Wang Heng said, he considered it more comprehensively. After this implementation, wouldn't it really become the enemy of those scholars all over the world? Those talented scholars in Shandong who evade taxes by helping water transport all want to criticize them. "At that time, there will be a lot of people, and their verbal criticism"

"So what about their verbal and written criticism?" Xiao Chuan took out a superstitious letter: "This is a letter from His Majesty, and it will be enough to keep the memorial to China and not send it out." There are guards in various places. At this moment, the land of other guards in Shandong is still occupied by families from all over the country, enclosing fertile land and employing tenants to cultivate the land. He wondered: "By the way, how do those businessmen know that we have to collect business taxes?" Xiao Chuan was surprised. This matter should be kept very confidential
"Is it a spy?" Wang Heng said, but after thinking about it, there were Beidou spies everywhere, and this kind of thing couldn't be spread at all. He said, "Maybe they are worried that we will spread Qingzhou's tax collection method to all parts of Shandong?"

Xiao Chuan froze for a moment, shook his head, there was no need to do this, business tax is secondary, the main thing is to take back the land of the various guards.

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The two came to the palace of the king in the city under the escort of a group of witches. It is also the residence of Wang Yan, the place where the prefect of Shandong is located. The stench, mixed with the smell of fresh paint on the gate, has a different feeling.

A group of witches followed, with a different kind of fragrance in the air, and then walked inside, the rockery pond built in the inner courtyard was extraordinarily luxurious, as if a layer of white light had been split off the mountain under the moonlight, making it even more beautiful.

Walking into it, there are already tables and banquets on both sides of the inner hall, and the people in the main seat are Liu Zeqing, Wang Yan, and Zou Yuan, and there are many businessmen sitting around, as well as guards from various places. Many of the officials, many of whom were former comrades-in-arms of Xiao Chuan, saw the astonishment on the faces of the witches behind Xiao Chuan, and were shocked by their beauty.Just followed them one by one to say hello
A smile flashed across Liu Zeqing's face, without the guards, the explosives would be useless, and this nice house would be left, when the time came, he would send someone pretending to be a thief to intercept and kill him on the way.

Wang Yan first got up and smiled, "General Qin, I have long heard that you fought against the Tartars in the land of Hebei and repelled the elites of the Manchu and Qing. You are really a minister of the Ming Dynasty."

Everyone stood up and began to congratulate. Xiao Chuan was a little flustered when he heard it, but outside the seats came a group of young women in gauze clothes. They were petite and exquisite, with snow-white and purple skin, and they started dancing. All the guests who were seated were Start to comment or watch the orchestral sound with fiery eyes.

"This is the dancing girl from the old man's mansion, what does General Qin think?" Wang Yan said with a smile, Xiao Chuan looked at it naturally, thinking that this old man is really good at raising such a group of beauties, and he is not afraid of emptying himself, saying: "Of course not bad!"

"Since General Qin likes it, then I will send it to General Qin." Wang Yan said, Liu Zeqing was jealous. These are a group of beauties that he had begged for a long time. It was because he thought for a while that if he sent someone to assassinate him first, there would be noise tomorrow, whether he would live to the day after tomorrow was not sure, or he didn't speak.

Looking at this dancing beauty and the fragrance in the air, I naturally want to agree immediately. This is a man's instinctive reaction, but suddenly I think that if I agree, who knows what details are involved, then Wang Heng wanted to reject him, but said, "My lord, you can accept such a beauty."

Suddenly, a burst of icy breath came from the air, and Xiao Chuan felt the murderous aura on Yamato, her face was still calm, and she said: "That's right, General, you can be my subordinate."

Women like to talk ironically, especially when what Yamato says agrees with her thoughts, especially when the other party is a gentle and black-bellied woman, Xiao Chuan doesn't want the food that he eats tomorrow to suddenly become extremely salty, or go out on a horse Suddenly the horse fell to the ground.Wang Yan, who was about to refuse, said, "Haha, since General Qin is interested, I will send them to your residence, General!"

Xiao Chuan made one backwards, see, I didn't agree, this is what he forced on me, Yamato still had a smile on his face, but Xiao Chuan read from her face that you will cook by yourself tomorrow.

Seeing Xiao Chuan accepting the gift, Zou Yuan on the side suddenly said: "General, this old man is Zou Yuan, a businessman from Jinan Prefecture, Shandong." Seeing Xiao Chuan accepting the gift, he struck while the iron was hot.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zou. I have heard of Mr. Zou's name for a long time, and when I saw it, it really lived up to its reputation." Xiao Chuan said, in fact, he didn't even know what the other party's name was, but he came up to make up nonsense.

Zou Yuan stroked his beard, he was able to look at the few merchants beside him who were also merchants, and said, "I heard that your lord will increase the merchant tax."

What this said is very strange. The business tax Ming Dynasty itself existed, but there are too many people who use scholars to evade taxes. Xiao Chuan said: "It's not to increase, but to garrison troops at various checkpoints to prevent pirate attacks! As a Shandong Naturally, the commander-in-chief cannot just sit and watch the merchant ships of all kinds of adults being attacked by pirates, and it is the bounden duty of our Shandong army to protect everyone," Xiao Chuan said.

"Pirates?" Everyone laughed as if they had heard some funny joke. Liu Zeqing said: "The general is just joking, the pirates here? Where are the pirates!"

After Xiaochuan smiled, you will know where there are pirates, and said: "I heard that there is a group of pirates on the sea who are planning to loot checkpoints everywhere. I plan to set up troops at the checkpoints to protect the merchant ships, caravans, and families from all over the world."

"General Gao Yi, I admire you, but the general's army is used to protect the people of Ming Dynasty, not my family. Even if my Zou family was robbed to death by pirates, we will never mobilize the master of Ming Dynasty!" Zou Yuan said, very He was upright, as if he was such a great person, he didn't know that his words would really come true in the future.

"Mr. Zou is very righteous, so naturally we are too."

"That's right, general, we don't need the protection of the caravan. General, you can distribute the soldiers to the surrounding villages and protect the people. The merchants are willing to be ransacked by pirates and protect the people without worry. When the pirates ransack us, we will naturally not rob." The people in the vicinity" and several other people also said that they were very great.

They all thought that this was a joke by Ogawa and he was just trying to find a high-sounding excuse to collect taxes from the passing caravans. They all said that they started to talk about themselves as being very great.

Xiao Chuan is holding his stomach and wants to laugh, wait a few more days to see if you are still so great, a family patriarch, and an official vowed to protect the people of Ming Dynasty from pirate attacks, willing to be killed The robbery ended in an atmosphere full of positive energy.They didn't know that they would really be attacked by pirates in a few days.

Liu Zeqing, who was on the side, said a few words and then stopped talking. He was worried that Xiao Chuan would take over his army. He had prepared several sets of excuses for not handing over the military power, but the other party didn't talk about it at all. It also made him break out in a cold sweat. Watching the other party leave, he secretly called his subordinates to arrange any attack on the road.

(End of this chapter)