Seeing the bewildered expressions of the teenagers, the prince couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that they were still young and whimsical.
The first thing Man Bao thought of was, could it be that the idea they had racked their brains for a month before was useless
Not to mention her, even Bai Shan was greatly shocked, his eyes were almost red, "So the method of prohibiting the immediate family members of officials from doing business in the jurisdiction is also unusable?"
The prince raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, and asked, "Who came up with this idea?"
Bai Shan said aggrievedly: "The three of us figured it out randomly."
Seeing their aggrieved looks, the prince couldn't help laughing and asked, "Did you put in a lot of effort?"
Bai Shan didn't want to show weakness, so he said, "It's not a lot of effort."
Seeing his insincere expression, the prince smiled and said: "This method sounds good, and it has some effect. However, aren't you officials yourself? I remember that you have a lot of property in your own family, right?"
Why do you have to think of such a way to embarrass yourself so hard
Bai Shan took it for granted, "Because it's the best for the people and the court."
The prince raised his eyebrows and looked at him, then turned to look at Zhou Man after a while, suddenly smiled and said: "I just remembered, Zhuang Shidao is your teacher?"
The three nodded together.
The prince just smiled, "You are a bit like your teacher."
The three of them became happy when they saw the prince's smiling face, and waited excitedly for his comment.
Bai Shan thought: Is it wise
Man Bao thought: It must be wisdom, right
Bai Erlang counted all kinds of things in his heart, who is beautiful, kind, smart and wise...
The prince secretly said: "It's naive."
But he didn't say it, but nodded to the three of them, and asked along the way: "Aside from this method, what else do you think of?"
Bai Shan spoke on behalf of the three people, "It is best to stipulate that the relatives are within three generations, and the wife's family can relax to two generations. In addition, the Ministry of Households should also strictly assess taxes to reduce tax evasion. The behavior of some officials to engage in business."
The prince asked: "How to determine?"
He looked at Liu Huan who was sitting beside him, and asked with a smile, "Are you counting on the Minister of the Household Department? Ask Liu Huan, would his grandfather offend the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty for a little tax?"
Bai Shandao: "It's not enough to offend the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, like Mr. Wei..."
"Wei Zhi is a special case," the prince interrupted him directly. "Manchu civil and military, except for Wei Zhi who really rented out his own shop to collect rent, who really lived on rent and salary?"
"Have you been in and out of many Duke's homes?"
Man Bao Bai Shan and Bai Erlang nodded together.
"Have you ever seen someone like the Wei family?"
The three of them paused and were speechless.
Not to mention the Duke’s Mansion, like Wei Zhi, it’s the Hou’s Mansion, apart from Yang He’s calligrapher and Yin’s family.
The Yang family is still a big family, the Wei family and the Yin family are not comparable, but in terms of family history, the Wei family and the Yin family should be similar.
"Wei Zhi lives in a small mansion, and his wife and daughter have to cook and work. Whose house is like his?" The prince looked at Chang Yu and said, "Your marriage with Wei Yu is about to be settled. , you should know all of this, right?"
Chang Yu lowered his head.
Of course she knew, and it was precisely because she knew that she planned to live in the princess mansion in the future. The cost of the princess mansion cannot be relied on by her husband's family, and she can only maintain it by herself, so she wanted to make some money. invest.
But a little plan of hers actually attracted this meeting, which is nothing, it even attracted the prince and brother, and then ate the steamed meat that she had been thinking about for a long time.
Changyu recollected the piece of meat he ate just now, he couldn't get enough of it, and wanted to eat it even more.
The prince didn't know what was going on in her heart, seeing her lowered her head, he thought she was not happy about this marriage, so he simply stopped poking her sad things, turned his head and said to Bai Shan: "The Ministry of Finance is willing but powerless, many things are It can’t be true, for example, if a long-term merchant brings a hu pearl into the city, it will cost one tenth of the tax, and if the non-resident merchant brings it into the city, it will be thirty one tax.”
Seeing that they were listening seriously, the crown prince smiled slyly and asked, "Then if the Gu's gatekeeper brought pearls into the city and said that the pearls were dedicated to Gu's and not for sale, what would you do with the city gate officials and the household department?" tidy?"
Not only Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang, but also Ming Da and Princess Changyu all opened their mouths.
Only the well-informed Yin He and Liu Huan looked indifferent, thinking that this is not common sense
Man Bao swallowed, and asked in disbelief: "Also, can you still do this?"
The prince said: "Of course, not only the lonely disciples would do that, but also those officials and wealthy families themselves, their relatives and servants would do the same."
It is said that it is their own things, their own luggage, how do the city gate officials and the household department collect taxes
Even the most serious person can't keep staring at other people's things.
Most of the valuable things will be transported back to the house, and then slowly look for opportunities to sell them, or give them away, or barter with them, the household department has no control over these.
Man Bao was stunned. She accidentally turned up the distant memories when she was a child, "I remembered that when the second sister Fu left our Luojiang County with Fu county magistrate, she brought special products of all ages. I seem to listen to who I mentioned it, and said that it is not good for County Magistrate Fu to go back to Beijing empty-handed, so I plan to bring some special products to Beijing, but if I can’t send them out, I can sell them to earn some travel expenses.”
The prince nodded, but he felt that the county magistrate surnamed Fu was too petty, and he wanted to earn travel expenses.
Bai Shan murmured: "No wonder when our homework was handed in, the husband only said that we had good intentions, but we were not thoughtful enough, nor reasonable enough, let us think again..."
The prince smiled and said, "Then you can continue to think about it."
But he thinks it's hard to improve. Who doesn't like money
Bai Shan also said: "Interests are the most touching. It is said in a book that interests can seduce people's greed. As long as the interests are big enough, they will dare to trample on the law, not to mention morality, even if they pay for it." life."
Man Bao said weakly: "I dare not, I am afraid of death."
No matter how much money you have, you have to live to spend it. Man Bao turned his head and said to Bai Shan, "Don't be corrupt and pervert the law in the future. I don't want my house to be ransacked. In fact, as long as there is enough money to spend, it's fine."
Bai Shan nodded, "Don't worry, I won't let you be ransacked with me unless you were wronged."
Everyone: ...
The prince's teeth became sour, he didn't bother to pay attention to their naive words and thoughts, he got up directly and said: "Let's play until it gets dark, you are still so young, don't think about these things."
After that, he turned and left.
Everyone hurriedly got up and saluted him. After the prince had disappeared, everyone turned to look at the two empty bowls on the table. Man Bao sighed.
Chang Yutan was bigger than her, she only ate one piece, one piece!
The prince went directly to find the princess for dinner.
The concubine was indeed waiting for the prince, and it was time for dinner. Since the prince came back and didn't tell her to eat first, she naturally wanted to wait for him.
Seeing him, the princess smiled and asked, "Why did your Highness remember to eat steamed meat today?"