Chapter 637: Face Slaps Don’t Stay Overnight

After today's court break, Hu Guang mocked Fang Xing a few words, and those words spread throughout Jinling City in an instant.

Civil servants above the fourth rank are not allowed to do business, but Wu Xun does not have this taboo.

The key point is that Hu Guang pointed out Fang Xing's essence straight to the point: Your son likes to raise the banner of Daming's interests in everything, but you are making money every day in business, and all the money goes into your own pocket. What are Daming's interests?

"Xing and Bo are cocooning themselves this time, Mr. Hu is too powerful!"

"He keeps saying that literati are shameless, but how can he benefit himself? It's not the same as competing for profit with the people!"

"Do you really think he is a saint? They are all the same!"

"That's right, hypocrite!"

"..."

Of course, Xia Yuanji knew about the material issues outside, so when he heard Fang Xing's question, he said, "That was set by the Emperor Taizu Gao, that the operation of stores is not allowed, and all of them are concentrated in collapsed houses. To this day, these prohibitions have already Don’t give it up, or your restaurant won’t be able to open.”

Fang Xing smiled: "Emperor Taizu Gao didn't want to suppress merchants, but wanted to control merchants, but centralized trading is ultimately not advisable."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't allow stores to open in Nanjing back then. The businessmen had no choice but to pile up the goods on the ship and outside the city, which made the middlemen cheaper.

In the end, the boss felt that it was not a common practice, so he built more than a dozen buildings to allow merchants to concentrate on transactions here.

"Thirty one tax, this is very appropriate for the trade of people's livelihood materials, but for certain industries, Mr. Xia, I think it is too low."

Fang Xing said seriously: "The low tax rate during Emperor Gaozu's time was to revive business, but it is still so low now, in many businesses it can only be cheaper for those merchants."

Xia Yuanji smiled wryly and said: "Do you think I don't know? But who is running those industries? Who is behind them? Wu Xun does not collect taxes for his business, and civil servants rarely pay taxes when they do business behind their backs. Send it to the Ministry of Households, but I don't even want to accept it!"

Seeing that Fang Xing still wanted to talk, Xia Yuanji got up and said, "Your topic is too big for me to handle. Otherwise, you can go talk to Hu Guang, or go directly to the memorial."

Fang Xing got up and said: "The current business tax is equivalent to nothing, and all the burdens are on the peasants. Mr. Xia, in some places, a stone of rice has to pay eight dollars of tax. There have been refugees!"

Xia Yuanji shook his head, "You have to go to His Majesty for this matter, no one else dares to touch it."

Fang Xing laughed and said, "There is something you can do, such as paying my family's taxes first."

"You are courting death!"

Xia Yuanji said angrily: "You just got the salt merchant, are you going to make those honored officials hate you to death? Huh!"

Xia Yuanji looked at Fang Xing suspiciously, and said after a long time, "You, you didn't use the salt merchant as an introduction, but you actually want to use the merchant's tax?"

Fang Xing took the account book and said, "It's nonsense, Master Xia, as the secretary of the household department, collect taxes!"

"I won't accept it."

Xia Yuanji didn't want to take this hot potato, so he hurriedly prepared to evade.

Fang Xing didn't stop him, just sat on his chair and said with a smile, "If you don't accept me today, then I will settle down here!"

Xia Yuanjiben walked to the door, turned around and saw Fang Xing's determined look,

He stomped his feet and said, "Get up, and go face to face with me."

"No need."

Fang Xing opened the wooden box he brought, pointed to the precious banknotes inside and said, "Fang believes that the tax rate of the first fresh should be set at 20 tax one, this is the account book. As for the field tax is also in it, Fang is done." gone."

Fang Xing squeezed Xia Yuanji out of the room, and walked away.

But Xia Yuanji was dumbfounded holding these treasure notes and ledgers.

accept? In what name?

It would be unreasonable not to accept it, so Xia Yuanji felt that he was sitting on wax.

After thinking about it, Xia Yuanji picked up the wooden box and went to Zhu Di with the account book.

In case of difficulty, find the boss, this is the unspoken rule of the officialdom of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di was dealing with political affairs with several scholars, and when he heard Xia Yuanji was coming, he smiled and said, "This old man Xia, didn't he come to complain to me? Let him in."

After the household department got rich, all the yamen began to ask for money. In the end, Xia Yuanji had no choice but to let them come to Zhu Di.

Xia Yuanji saluted, got up and glanced at Hu Guang, and then told the whole story...

"Your Majesty, Xinghe Bo voluntarily pays the tax according to the standard of one in twenty taxes, and the previous ones are not missed. They are all here."

I say!

Yang Rong was horrified, and immediately looked at Hu Guang, thinking that you were running on Fang Xing, but he immediately retaliated against you.

But Zhu Di's expression was a bit complicated, he looked at the account book on the imperial case, and said quietly: "How about this matter, you can try to say it."

Everyone looked at each other, Yang Shiqi lowered his eyes, Jin Youzi hesitated to speak, Yang Rong was eager to try, but Hu Guang had to speak.

The water that I poured out must be taken back no matter what.

Looking at the ledgers and banknotes on the imperial case, Hu Guang said bitterly in his heart: "Your Majesty, I think this matter should not be rushed, and should be done slowly."

This is being ridiculed in the morning and slapped in the face in the afternoon!

Sure enough, it was the magnanimous Fang Dehua's way of doing things.

"Are you hesitating?"

Zhu Di sneered and said, "Business and taxation are useless, don't you do anything?"

Salt merchant!

The word popped into Yang Rong's head, he just felt cold, and when he looked up, he saw that Yang Rong was also shocked.

Hu Guang bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, it is difficult to collect business taxes. As long as you open your mouth, the subordinate officials will be like wolves and tigers. At that time..."

"Your Majesty, Xinghe Bo has a memorial to enter."

Hu Guang was shocked, and then saw that the memorial was delivered to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di looked at it, and then handed it to the eunuch: "Read it."

After a dry cough, the eunuch read: "...Although I have enough for tomorrow, most of it comes from the rent and tax of the farmland. Your Majesty, the farmland has become corrupted. The civil and military collusion, eating empty wages, and collecting fugitives Benefits, there are even those who encroach on the fields..."

Hu Guang was a little dazed, he felt that Daming was already comparable to Zhenguan and Kaiyuan at this time, and Yongle Shengshi would leave a heavy mark in the annals of history.

But... Fang Xing's memorial was like a slap, which made his face hurt.

"...The tax burden in the southeast is the best in the world, but culture and education are also the best in the world..."

Yang Rong was agitated, looking at Hu Guang hanging in front of him, feeling a little sympathetic in his heart.

This is a vivid exposing of Hu Guang's so-called prosperity!

"...Our government gives preferential treatment to literati. All the candidates, Jinshi, and officials...are not taxed, which leads to a surge in donations, and the land that pays taxes is reduced. However, the tax collected by the government every year is still not reduced. , causing the poor to become poorer, and when it comes time to pay taxes, most of them borrow money and pay with land when the time comes, and the whole family flees and flees..."

This is a call to arms accusing literati of being shameless!

Zhu Yuanzhang gave preferential treatment to the gentry, but there were conditions: those whose families were poor and unable to pay for their food could be exempted by the magistrate.

But now this policy of helping literati households in need has long been a tool for the gentry to amass money crazily, and this is why the land annexation came about.

Zhu Di waved his hand, temporarily stopped the eunuch, and then asked, "When did the Ming Dynasty exempt the whole world from the tax for raising a scholar?"

There is no sound in the hall...

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