The emperor was furious, and directly put these concubines in the cold palace, and ordered the three sons to be escorted back to the palace for confinement.

The three princes turned against each other that night.

They joined forces with Beijing Palace and Ping'an Prefecture, gathered 2000 guards to attack the palace, and assigned [-] people to attack the Princess Palace, in an attempt to capture Princess Yizhong and the Jinghai King.

For this reason, they even instigated Yunguang, the military governor of Beijing.

The Jingying Jiedu envoy Yun Guang assisted the Jia family and the Wang family in many cases of champerty lawsuits. After the Jia family was confiscated and interrogated, Yun Guang was in constant panic, fearing that the emperor would liquidate him.Now that the three princes sent him a message through the King of Beijing, he had no choice but to oppose it.

The problem is that Yun Guang is willing, but the lieutenants below are not, and even some middle-level generals are not.

Miaoyu's two eldest girls, Baishu and Lianqiao, were married to the Ranger General of the Beijing Camp, who was the imperial wife of the fifth rank, and the other was married to Xiaowei Guoyi.Not only the two of them, many of the girls who followed Miaoyu to Beijing from the south, as well as the women in Zhuangzi in the past few years, all married to Jingying.

The soldiers at the middle and lower levels of the Beijing camp knew very well that the country's strange taxation system had led to the lack of regular taxes and the inability to pay them. It was the Princess Mansion who tried to subsidize them.Eating the preserved meat of the princess mansion, wearing the rabbit fur clothes of the princess mansion, and turning around to attack the princess mansion?This is not ungrateful, this is smashing one's own job!

Besides, following the rebellion of Jiedushi, they will be able to enjoy delicious food and drink spicy food?Don't be funny?Nobody is a fool.

Although Yun Guang had a good heart and killed Bai Shu's husband Tan Youqi and Lian Qiao's husband Qiao Xiaowei first, but the school lieutenants below had already got the news.So when Yun Guang opened the gate of the city with the badge of the third prince in the name of King Qin, and led them to the Princess Mansion, these soldiers directly built Yun Guang and Against the generals.

They killed Yun Guang and several generals who presided over the "rectification" together with the royal guards who surrounded the Princess Mansion, and then surrendered to the Princess Mansion.

Concubine Yizhong made a decisive decision and accepted them to rush to the palace.

The situation in the palace is not optimistic. The three concubines have been operating in the palace for many years. The emperor put them in the cold palace. .

The Supreme Empress has been pampered and pampered all her life, where has she ever been frightened like this?He tried to persuade the Supreme Emperor to hand over Miaoyu, but was smashed with tea all over his head by the Supreme Emperor.

The Taishanghuang understood very well that the fundamental purpose of those princes was not Duanhui, but the throne!

In other words, if Ningshou Palace was really beaten down by them, he, the emperor and the prince would definitely die first!

On the contrary, the empress was very calm. She and Miaoyu followed the emperor and encouraged the palace people to lean on the tall palace walls to defend to the death, while the young prince served beside his grandfather.

A day and a night passed, and when it was approaching dawn, suddenly there was a loud noise of killing outside, but the attack on the gate of Ningshou Palace stopped abruptly.

An hour later, Concubine Yizhong, dressed in armor, escorted the three princes and knocked on the gate of Ningshou Palace.

The Taishanghuang and the emperor couldn't bear to kill their grandsons and imprisoned the three princes for life. However, the families of the three princes' mothers and wives were punished by nine clans.

So far, Miaoyu's position as the regent princess is unshakable.

Miaoyu is very clear that there will be no empress after Wutian, if she wants to be the co-lord of the world, she must not.But if it's just the regent princess, it's not impossible to follow the power when the emperor is old, the emperor's health is in decline, and the prince is young.

The first thing for her to take office is to ensure the operation of the country while liquidating, and the second is that her future long-term work is set in three areas: positive tax system, economic development, and clean government.

In order to stabilize the court situation, the first thing Miaoyu did was to develop the newspaper industry.She also promulgated her three major proposals for the regency in the first residence newspaper. The first is to clarify the taxation, specifically to clarify the specific content of the regular tax, reduce a large number of miscellaneous taxes and donations, and merge the commercial tax into the regular tax.

Miaoyu has been in charge of maritime trade for many years, and has countless malachites in his hands. It is no problem to allocate some to make copper movable type.There is a school in the palace, and the maids and eunuchs are basically literate, so some people do the proofreading work.

The next thing she has to do is to post the newspapers at the gates of the cities, so that the literate people in Gyeonggi, Central Plains, and Jiangnan can read them, so she doesn't need to bother at all.

As long as the people are informed that the court will not increase taxes, the people will naturally not be chaotic.However, the official tax of the country is low, and there are many miscellaneous taxes and donations in various places. Just add a few sentences in the mansion newspaper to blame the gentry.

The fact is also that not allowing the state to collect business taxes led to a serious shortage of money in the treasury, but he himself accepted bribes, and the gentry with fertile farmland spread all over the country.

Not to mention that the Dibao directly told the world all the truth about the ban and the pirates, and the people were all angry.

You must know that the price of raw silk in Jiangnan will fluctuate with the year, ranging from seven hundred yuan to two taels of silver. In the year when the sea was banned, the raw silk in the hands of the people in Jiangnan could be sold for one tael of silver, which would be considered a good year.But what about the gentry who colluded with maritime merchants?They can earn at least nine taels!But in Kaihai, the raw silk in the hands of the common people can guarantee an average price of two to six hundred yuan, and the imperial court can still receive at least four taels of silver in taxes!

Just this one item will make the people in the south of the Yangtze River eat up the hearts of those gentry!

In the past, they had no one to make decisions for them. Now that even the court has made their attitude clear, they will still stand with those gentry?Of course, there is another reason why the people no longer support the gentry, that is, the gentry can no longer enjoy unlimited tax exemption as in the past.

Miaoyu strictly limited the amount of tax-free land that gentry of each rank could enjoy: [-] mu for scholars, [-] mu for juren, [-] mu for fellow Jinshi, [-] mu for Jinshi, and [-] mu for Sanding Jia.Anything over this amount is taxed in accordance with normal regulations.

The head tax has also been adjusted accordingly: scholars can exempt their parents, wives and children from taxes, and brothers are not included; Juren can add brothers, brothers and daughters-in-law, plus nephews, nieces, nieces and daughters-in-law, etc.; A poll tax for a person; a noble slave also pays a poll tax.

Civil and military officials, lords and nobles have also made corresponding regulations.

This is to prevent the common people from taking their family fortunes and defecting to rich families as slaves.

In addition, women also pay taxes, and the poll tax for women is half that of men.This is the first time in the Tang Dynasty that the Central Plains once again imposed taxes on women after a thousand years.

To be honest, at other times, Miaoyu might not have such confidence, but now, before the nobles and nobles were dealt with by the emperor in a big wave, and now the old minister Ben Taishang emperor has cleaned up a lot, the food markets in Jiangnan and Gyeonggi are bloody. The constraints are greatly reduced, so she naturally has the confidence to issue such a decree.

For the common people, there is a considerable risk in bringing their family property to a wealthy family. If they are not careful or if they are unlucky, they will be swallowed up by others.Since those gentry are so hateful and useless, they will naturally not take advantage of loopholes to find ways to evade taxes.What's more, if miscellaneous taxes and donations are cut, their burden will be much lighter, so they don't have to bring their family fortune to invest.

And what businessmen care about is naturally business taxes.

It's not that there are no merchants who violate the commercial tax, but don't forget that the king of Jinghai is the number one Huizhou merchant in the world!Huizhou merchants are also known as Baicheng, and there are many large Anhui merchants. Their shops are almost all over the entire Yangtze River Basin. Therefore, Huizhou merchants basically don’t stay in stores when they go to check accounts, because there are their shops in every city along the way. They live directly in their own shop.

After paying the commercial tax, you can be qualified to enter the sea trade. If you don’t pay, you will not only be ineligible to go to sea, but you will also be ransacked and questioned!

As soon as this decree came out, Huizhou merchants were the first to respond, because they had heard that business tax was divided into two levels, one was regular tax and the other was luxury tax.Ordinary tea and raw silk are taxed at one tenth tenth; luxury goods are taxed according to specific items, with a minimum of [-]% of the tax, such as red sandalwood, huanghuali and other precious woods, pearls, gemstones, and so on.

Even tide merchants responded positively.

Why?Because the tide merchants go by sea!Because they were transported by sea, they basically worked with their heads up. If they were not careful, they would be charged with colluding with pirates.Now that the country is open to the sea, as long as they pay taxes, they don't have to worry about losing their heads. Why don't they accept commercial taxes?Anyway, they used to pay protection fees to dignitaries, but now they just take the money and hand it over to the state treasury, which is safer and more secure, and they pay it clearly, and even save a lot, why not pay it?

Shanxi merchants hesitated for a while, but they heard that Huizhou merchants and Chaozhou merchants had handed over, and they also handed over.

As for the concerns of civil and military officials, it is naturally a clean government.

They were very worried that Miaoyu would settle accounts after autumn, but Miaoyu promulgated the first decree on clean government in this mansion newspaper, which was to increase the salaries of officials.

Miaoyu stipulates that the salary set before the Kingdom Dynasty is the regular salary, that is to say, as long as you have a rank, no matter whether you have a position or not, you can receive such a regular salary. Two taels of silver plus 60 dendrobium rice, Zhengqipin County Magistrate 45 taels of silver plus 45 dendrobium rice a year.

The regular salary is available regardless of whether it is an alternate official.

As for the salary increase, it is naturally added to the officials who are serving and dispatched.

After Miaoyu was regent, she directly added two salaries to the serving officials, one was dispatch fee, which was equal to the regular salary, and the other was clothing money, including silk, cotton and some silver money, the total value of which was equivalent to the regular salary.Taking county magistrates as an example, they are also Qipin county magistrates. A real-time county magistrate can get at least 130 five taels of silver, plus 45 dendrobium rations and some silk and cotton cloth.The alternate county magistrate only had 45 taels of silver and [-] dendrobium rice.

After the money was distributed, Miaoyu formally promulgated the Integrity Order, reiterating that tax evasion and corruption are serious crimes.At the same time, the Fusi of Beizhen was also divided into two. The Fusi of Northeast Town was mainly in charge of the country, and the property of officials was the focus of their investigation.Nanzhen Fusi is still responsible for supervising Beizhen Fusi and preventing internal corruption in Beizhen Fusi.

In the first two years after the promulgation of the Integrity Order, Miaoyu did not make any big moves on the surface at all, as if she had plunged into the business of earning money, and she did what she did to earn money.

With her support, the textile industry and the newspaper industry developed rapidly, and the embellishment fee officially appeared. Many middle and low-level officials began to write scripts to subsidize their living, and merchants began to publish advertisements in newspapers to solicit business.

Of course, in terms of public opinion, Miaoyu tightly controlled it.

In terms of the textile industry, the most notable feature is the reappearance of the large hydraulic spinning wheel on the land of the Central Plains.

Although cotton is still not suitable for large hydraulic spinning wheels, linen and woolen materials need such sharp tools.Also because of the vigorous development of the wool textile industry, merchants in Shanshan and Shanxi are grinning from ear to ear. Of course, the taxes paid to the country are also considerable: poll tax for weavers, commercial tax for woolen materials, commercial tax for velvet cloth, and local business prosperity. Various tax revenues from...

Before Miaoyu became regency, all the various taxes and taxes of the country were added up, equivalent to about 500 million to 3000 million silver taels. However, in the year she announced her regency, the tax soared to 200 million, and the annual tax in the second year was 6000 million. million, and continued to rise in the third year.

The emperor was puzzled.

Miaoyu’s explanation is that Dongying has ready-made gold mines and silver mines, so gold and silver are cheap and copper coins are expensive. In addition, Dongying’s casting technology is backward, and copper coins from the Central Plains have been widely used since the Tang and Song Dynasties. Therefore, the purchasing power of Central Plains copper coins in Dongying is amazing.As a result of the imperial court opening up the sea, malachite from Luzon was continuously transported to Beijing, cast into copper coins, and directly went to Shandong to exchange for a large amount of gold and silver in Dongying.

A large amount of gold was stored in the royal treasury, silver was put into circulation, and a large number of newly minted copper coins flooded into the market, which made prices stable.

The result of price stability is naturally a large amount of taxes pouring into the treasury.

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