The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

When 'Wen Siquan~yong' was finished, Gao Yi looked at the poems she had written and couldn't help but blush. It's been a long time since I wrote poems, and the poems I made are too bad to express my noble character. Only this Only the poems of the ancients can match themselves.

Gao Jincai witnessed the whole process, looked at the poems written on the rice paper with a strange expression on his face, and wondered if his brother was stupid.

This made him more determined to dissuade his brother.

Gao Jincai sighed, and said: "Brother's sentiments really make me feel guilty, I have already repented, and I will obey my brother, and I will give orders to suspend the business operation soon, and wait for His Royal Highness to rectify my business tax. Afterwards, we will continue to do business in a proper manner to make money, and we will never engage in tax evasion... Well, speaking of it, we were originally just a farming family, and this section of the business line, I am afraid that I will wrong my brother in the future."

Gao Yi was slightly taken aback.Asked: "Why do you want to wrong me 080?"

Gao Jincai counted with his fingers: "If we really want to close the business, then our family still has hundreds of acres of fertile land. After deducting the agricultural tax, the annual income is estimated to be about 300 taels of silver, but this amount of money may only be enough to maintain Our Gao family has three meals a day, as for clothes, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, I’m afraid we can’t do enough..."

"How can I only have three meals a day?" Gao Yi shook her head again and again, "I still have to entertain my friends, and I also need to dress in a decent manner, and calligraphy and paintings are a must... Otherwise, this business still has to go on. But as long as the business tax is paid enough.”

"Everything is up to brother." Gao Jincai nodded, and continued to count with his fingers: "Brother, if we still have to pay a large sum of money to the imperial court every year according to the stipulated commercial tax, then the annual income is estimated to be reduced to 3%." Less than, about [-] taels of silver per year."

Gao Yi was impatient, and also a little disgusted: "3 taels of silver per year is not too little, why are you so greedy? Sigh... brother, I am not talking about you, you always mention money, and you are so fussy , is really vulgar..."

"..." Gao Jincai felt the urge to cry.

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Chapter 196 Grohe’s Faith Shaken 【2】

It was only at this moment that Gao Jincai realized that he had protected his brother too well, making him unaware that daily necessities were expensive.

It's time for him to face reality.

Therefore, Gao Jincai began to say euphemistically: "Brother, although 3 taels of silver seems to be a lot every year, our Gao family is considered to be a big family now, with more than 100 people in each house... There are also servants, maids, and shopkeepers. , buddy... the mansion, the ancestral house, all kinds of property, the annual maintenance... and my brother's social gatherings... all these add up, thirty thousand is not enough..."

What Gao Jincai said is a bit exaggerated, but Gao Yi is a person who does not eat fireworks, so how could he see through it?

When Gao Jincai said this, Gao Yi was really dizzy: "According to you, 3 taels is not enough?"

Gao Jincai shook his head and sighed: "It's really not enough, and there is no extra silver to buy antiques and curios and the four treasures of the study for you, brother! That's why I said, I will wrong my brother in this way! Cao's rice paper, which I like, Hui ink from Jixi, excellent Huzhou Zihao brushes, precious Tao inkstones, and those antique calligraphy and paintings...I’m afraid I can’t buy these because they are too expensive.”

"How can this work? These are all my heart and soul~~ Scholars don't have these, how can they read well?" Gao Gong shook his head loudly.

Although Gao Yi doesn't like gold and silver money, he thinks it is vulgar, and the smell of copper is not smellable, but he likes authentic works of famous masters, antiques, and precious four treasures of the study, thinking that these are the real elegant hobbies.

(What makes Gao Yi sad is that these elegant things are actually bought and exchanged for vulgar things such as gold, silver and money.

Gao Jincai wants this effect.

Gao Jincai said: "Brother, there is no way to do this. The minimum daily expenditure is still needed. For example, we must have a maid at home, otherwise how will we take care of our daily life? There is also a house that needs to be maintained? Otherwise, there will be water leakage. So in the end, I can only wrong you, brother, but for the sake of the people of the world, what's the point of suffering? "?"

Gao Yi was in a hurry, and quickly asked: "Little brother, you also know that my daily style is simple, I never spend extravagantly, and I never pay attention to food and clothing. I only have such a hobby. Is it possible that in the future I will not even buy elegant toys?" Is the silver of things gone?"

Gao Jincai already had the urge to vomit blood when he heard the words 'simple style', 'no extravagance', 'no attention to food, clothing and ostentation'.In fact, the biggest expense of the entire Gao family is the so-called "elegant hobby" of Gaoyi, which costs no less than 10 taels of silver every year. After all, everything is not cheap. "

Gao Jincai: "It's not impossible, just lower the grade, such as Chengxintang paper, Songhua paper, Hualian paper, Yanbo paper, Xie Gong paper, Jinsu paper, Bailu paper, Yuban paper , Five-color curtain paper, Ciqing paper, Xuande tribute paper, these are all quite expensive, and you can save thousands of taels of silver by switching to ordinary paper books."

"No! No!" Gao Yi shook her head again and again, "If I didn't have these high-quality papers, wouldn't I lose a lot of charm when I paint and write poems on weekdays? How can I be famous through the ages? This won't work..."

"What I want is that you can't do it!" Gao Jincai was proud of himself, but he continued to stimulate Gao Yi: "In addition to paper, there are also Xuancheng Rabbit Hair, Ancient Fetal Hair Brush, Mengbi Shenghua Brush, Lotus Pond Fighting Brush...etc, It's really expensive, and my brother will only be able to use ordinary brushes from now on."

"Absolutely not, no!" Gao Yi was really excited, shaking his head again and again, his voice became louder, "How can ordinary brushes be compared with these pens? No, absolutely not!"

Gao Jincai continued to attack: "In addition to paper and pen, there are also inkstones, inkstones, the four famous inkstones, Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Taohe inkstone, and Chengni inkstone, as well as Tianfu Yuxiang ink, panchi pattern round ink, and Yunlai palace. Ink... and so on, these famous inks can't be bought anymore."

Gao Yi was simply confused.

"This, this... If I don't have these, what's the point of my writing and painting in the future? No, absolutely not..."

No one is perfect, everyone has weaknesses, but if a person's weaknesses are exploited by others, then the so-called "principles", "beliefs" and so on will no longer be so firm.

Gaoyi's weakness is his "elegant hobbies".

However, after all, Gao Yi is also a person who reads the books of sages and sages. After hesitating for a while, he quickly became firm.

"No, for the people of Liming, for Daming, for the Crown Prince, and for the sake of the future Chief Assistant, commercial and tax reforms must be implemented!"

To put it bluntly, what kind of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, what famous paintings and antiques are just belongings outside the body. Although this is a major pursuit of Gaoyi, it is the greatest pursuit of Gaoyi to be an official, to have power over the world, and to be famous through the ages!

Small pursuits, big pursuits, it is natural to satisfy the big pursuits!

Now it's Gao Jincai's turn to be confused. He thought he had grasped his brother's weakness and could force him to give up the business tax reform, but now he finds that his brother still insists on implementing the business tax reform.

What is this ghost?

After thinking about it, Gao Jincai understood Gao Yi's thoughts, so he persuaded him from another angle.

"Brother, the emperor is at its peak in spring and autumn. You are familiar with history. You should know that throughout the ages, princes who are too capable will not end well... If you wait for the prince to ascend the throne and then implement it, then the credit will still be (Wang Zhao)? Brother, yours? Since it’s the same earlier and later, why not implement it later? In this way, when the Gao family has enough savings, even if the commercial tax is introduced, the Gao family will definitely be able to support brother’s hobbies of pens, ink, paper, inkstone, antiques and curios.”

When Gao Yi heard it, he was stunned for a while.

That persistence finally collapsed.

Since I can achieve the goal of a first-class official residence and a long-lasting reputation later, and I can continue to maintain the 'elegant hobby', then I don't have to rush to implement it now, and it's not too late.

As for the common people... it will take another ten years of suffering... anyway, they are used to it.

(People: I am wronged~~~)

At this time, Gao Yi looked at the verses he had just written that praised him as "comparable to a saint" and "high in character", and couldn't help but blush.

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Chapter 197 Jiajing wants to build a pyramid [3]

On this day, a blond and blue-eyed foreigner came to the inner city of the capital, making the capital lively again.