In the past few days, the court hall has been very lively.
The Minister of the Household Department of Gein suddenly proposed to collect travel business tax in the capital.
It not only increased taxes for the imperial court, but also provided convenience for small merchants and hawkers all over the world, allowing them to sell and set up stalls openly, without fear of being chased and arrested by government officials.
Just because of this, there was an uproar in the hall.
All the civil and military officials in the court, rarely agree, and concentrated firepower to bombard the household department.
They scolded them for taking advantage of money, acting more and more philistine, and even doing such despicable things as competing for profits with ordinary people.
The tourist tax is only a few dollars. For that little money, I don't even want the character and integrity of a literati, it's shameless.
What's more, he directly attacked Mr. Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.
Hubu Shang wrote the accusations against his colleagues with a look of bitterness and hatred.
"The household department acts, why do you have to explain it to me?"
As soon as these words came out, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest.
Buzzing, buzzing, countless wasps are flying in the ear, if you are not careful, you will be pricked. Even if you don't die, it will hurt for several days.
From the Hubu Shangshu down, the household department is almost on the verge of defeat. Only Shangshu Hubu is still strong.
"You guys are opposed to the collection of traveling merchants tax, because you want to continue to use tyranny to fine money and squeeze the last bit of wealth from the common people. To force people to ruin their families is to say that your heart is in line with your wishes."
"slander!"
"absurd!"
"Nonsense!"
Hubu Shangshu: Hehe!
"Is it to collect the traveling merchant tax, which is harmful to the interests of the common people? Or to follow the old rules, which is detrimental to the interests of the common people? In this matter, anyone with a bit of conscience knows how to choose. However, you are just trying to catch more A few people, squeeze more money, and lose all the character and morals of the literati, do you want to lose face?"
"Blood spurting!"
"For a small profit, right and wrong are turned upside down. The travel merchant tax is only a few dollars, and the household department's food is too ugly."
Hubu Shangshu is fighting against a group of people alone.
The two parties came and went, arguing for a full ten days.
During this period, Emperor Wende said nothing.
You are arguing, I am listening to your quarreling while processing the memorial.
Yes.
Emperor Wende is so wonderful.
There was a lot of quarrels in the court, and one of them took off his stinky shoes and threw them at the other party, which triggered the biggest brawl among the courtiers since the new emperor ascended the throne.
All the officials were fighting, and Emperor Wende was still sitting on the dragon chair, handling the memorial with a pen.
Emperor Wende laughed happily, "Fight, all of them desperately beat. It's a matter of beating to death."
Is this what the dignified emperor should say
As the Son of Heaven, shouldn't he scold the absurdity sharply, how decent it is, and then throw up his sleeves and retreat
That's what the emperor did.
As a result, when it came to Emperor Wende, he didn't play the cards according to the rules at all.
All civil and military officials were depressed.
After arguing and arguing, Emperor Wende didn't even give a decent response. Is this quarrel still interesting
"Is it not noisy?"
Emperor Wende looked at the quiet courtiers and asked with a smile.
"Your Majesty, please decide."
The courtiers have learned their lesson, since the quarrel is not famous, let the emperor decide.
Emperor Wende pressed his hands on the edge of the table, "It's so rare, I'm finally willing to ask my opinion. I thought I was just a carrot stamp, but you guys had arguing about the charter, and I just need to stamp a stamp. As for my Thoughts are not as important as the thoughts of your beloved ministers."
"Your Majesty, forgive me!"
"Not guilty, not guilty. Don't you just point to the law and don't blame the public, and throw me aside like a stamp."
Emperor Wende was so mean that he forced all civil and military officials to kneel down and plead guilty.
How could Emperor Wende let these people go so easily, and ridiculed the effort of a cup of tea in one breath, and didn't stop talking until he was thirsty.
After drinking half a bowl of tea, Emperor Wende asked lightly, "How much income do you think a month can be earned from the levy of tourist business tax in the capital?"
All the officials looked at each other.
In the end, an old man stood up tremblingly and said, "It's only 120,000 taels. For this little money, the imperial court will lose face, it's outrageous."
Emperor Wende laughed, and then asked Mr. Zhao, Minister of the Household Department, "According to the estimation of your Household Department, how much money can you make in a month?"
In fact, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs did not have much hope for the declaration of the tourist tax.
These days, he was fighting against everyone alone, and he persisted only because of his belief that he could not be cowardly, and that no one should interfere in the government affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
He said a relatively high number in the estimate, "about 50,000 taels."
In fact, his heart is estimated to be only two to three thousand taels.
However, mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is, as long as it is meat, it must not be let go. This is the unwavering belief that the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting has been in charge of the Ministry of Accounting for so many years.
Emperor Wende, like his father, was also a man who got into the eyes of money.
Who calls the country poor!
To build three halls, the first emperor asked his daughter-in-law to help raise money.
Don't worry about one or two thousand taels, or three or fifty thousand taels, there are hundreds of thousands of taels a year.
what is this
It's all money.
White silver.
Emperor Wende, who was short of money and crazy, supported the levy of tourist business tax from the very beginning.
It's just that he didn't express his opinion, he first let the courtiers quarrel, and at the end of the quarrel, he was the one to make the decision, and the matter would come to fruition.
It can be seen that the ruling methods of Emperor Wende and his father are completely different.
The majesty of the emperor established by the first emperor with human heads suppressed all officials and acted arbitrarily.
Emperor Wende didn't kill so much, and for the time being he didn't have the majesty of a majestic emperor like the first emperor, so he used water to grind his kung fu and put all the officials on a millstone.
In the past, all civil and military officials regarded Emperor Wende as a bastard, a scoundrel, and all kinds of shamelessness.
Now they know that they were narrow-minded in the past.
Emperor Wende was not only shameless, but also extremely patient.
It can be said that according to the history books, Emperor Wende's water grinding skills are among the emperors, at least ranked in the top five. Given time, they might be able to rank in the top three.
Meeting such an eccentric emperor, Baiguan suddenly felt chilly and had a bad feeling about the future.
Emperor Wende made a decisive decision, "Since you are all asking for my opinion, I hope that I will take the lead in this matter. Naturally, I will not let you down.
Well, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Traveling Merchant Tax will be tried for a month to see the effect, and if there are any inappropriate areas, it will be adjusted. Come back to discuss the matter in a month.
During this period, whoever dares to talk nonsense, find trouble for nothing, and waste the time of me and the courtiers, I will never be polite to him. "
The implication is that during the trial period, Emperor Wende didn't mind killing a few people at Caishikou, who dared to force him blindly, in order to find a lottery for his enthronement.
When others are looking for lottery, they are all looking for auspicious things and auspicious words.
Those who become emperors are all wonderful things. They use human heads as lottery heads, which are the only ones in the whole world.
The servants of the household department took orders in unison.
Civil and military officials also temporarily truce.
And wait for a month of trial to see the effect.
From beginning to end, Hubu Shangshu did not mention road construction. The Shaofu family order didn't mention it either.
As the saying goes, you have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to walk step by step on the road.
Let's solve the tourist tax first, and see if the tax collection system planned by Gu Jiu can work, and then it's not too late to talk about road construction.
One-off, don't give too much stimulation to civil and military officials, be careful to stimulate too much, it will be counterproductive.
After all, people are getting older, and their acceptance of new things is not as fast as that of young people.
However, among the people standing in the hall, the youngest one was in his thirties, nearly forty.
Fifty or sixty years old, sixty or seventy years old can be found everywhere.
You let this group of people pay taxes on downstream business and build roads at once, and tell them to accept it completely, and beware of rebounding when it hits the bottom, and deny it completely.
Can the road be repaired
OK!
But not everyone agrees with building that concrete road.
Moreover, if Gu Jiu came forward to build the road, it would definitely leverage the interests of some people.
If the interests of others are touched, they will have to work hard.
Even if Gu Jiu is the prince's wife, those people will not be lenient.
The Minister of the Household Department and the Household Order of the Shaofu are both prudent people who know that if you want to promote something, you must not rush and have enough patience.
The tourist tax is a good breakthrough.
…
A few days later, the streets of the capital quietly changed.
Early in the morning, the peddler Zhao Aliu went out to sell with a burden.
Zhao Aliu sells soybean paste and sauce vinegar.
He has been doing this business for seven or eight years.
Originally, he was a waiter in a restaurant, and once he offended a nobleman, causing the owner to pay a huge sum of money, so he couldn't be a waiter.
Beijing said it was big or small, and his story spread throughout the catering industry in Beijing within two days.
If you want to continue working as a junior, it's a pity that no one is willing to use him.
The mistress who caused the owner to lose a lot of money is not a good mistress, and will be blacklisted in the industry.
Seeing that he has lost his job and income, his mother-in-law is pregnant, and several children are waiting for him to support. His brothers and sisters were all poor, and it was already the end of his benevolence to help him once, and he didn't have the face to ask for help again.
Later, when he had nowhere to go, he could only start a business of peddling in the streets and alleys.
Both miso and soy sauce are bought from neighborhood shops.
After seven or eight years, at least they supported a family.
It's just that this peddling business has good times and bad times. Occasionally, I was unlucky and was caught by the yamen servants and locked up in the yamen prison, and my work was for nothing in a month.
But that's old calendar.
It's different now!
Zhao Aliu came to the street carrying a load, and a government servant stepped forward, "Bamboo sticks."
Zhao Aliu handed over yesterday's bamboo stick, plus five Wen, in exchange for a new bamboo stick.
The yamen servant put the copper coins in the left cloth bag hanging on his waist, took back yesterday's bamboo sticks and put them in the right cloth bag.
Then he took out a stick of charcoal and carefully made a circle on the hard paper hanging around his waist.
These are related to the bonus at the end of the month and must not be sloppy.
After finishing all this, the yamen servant nodded to him, "It's ok."
Zhao Aliu carefully put away the bamboo sticks and peddled them along the street.
When the yamen servant checked the bamboo sticks, he took out the bamboo sticks he had just received today.
The yamen servant compared the bamboo stick hanging on his waist with Zhao Aliu's bamboo stick, and was sure it was today's bamboo stick, and he waved his hand and let him go.
Zhao Aliu hawked from morning to afternoon, and then went to the market outside the south city gate with his load.
It's time for those migrant craftsmen to get off work in a while, and it's just the right time to go to the market outside the South City Gate to set up a stall.
After arriving outside the south city gate, I put the burden on the dam of the big locust tree, and finally I can breathe a sigh of relief.
A yamen servant came forward and said, "Bamboo sticks."
Zhao Aliu took out the bamboo stick that he received in the morning, and the yamen servant compared the design and color on it. Well, it was confirmed that it was newly received today, and the tourist tax had been paid, so he returned the bamboo stick to Zhao Aliu.
So far, there will be no yamen servants to check the bamboo sticks today.
At the end of the day, Zhao Aliu met no less than ten people checking bamboo sticks.
Every yamen servant will compare the bamboo stick in his hand with the bamboo stick hanging on his waist to make sure that he has paid the tax, so he will not embarrass him.
In this way, except for the imperial city, he can sell in any market or street in the capital, and he is not afraid of being chased and arrested by the government officials.
Although you have to pay five cents a day for traveling business tax, compared to earning a few tens of cents a day, five cents is completely acceptable.
As long as the yamen will continue to do this in the future, Zhao Aliu wiped the sweat from his forehead and grinned, good days are not far away for him. Maybe one day in the future, he will also be able to buy a house outside the South City Gate.
On the second day, Zhao Aliu repeated his life from yesterday.
The bamboo sticks received every day have different colors and patterns.
I heard people say that no one else knows what color and pattern of bamboo signs are used to collect taxes every day.
It was always early in the morning, before the market opened, several adults from the household department decided the bamboo sticks for the day, and then the government servants received the bamboo sticks for the day and started working.
This method has effectively blocked the possibility of tax evasion with counterfeit bamboo signatures.
I heard that the bamboo sticks specially made by the Ministry of Households, what else, what anti-counterfeiting functions.
Ordinary people can't imitate it at all.
Even if it is imitated, you don't know what kind of bamboo sticks are used by the yamen to collect taxes today.
Collecting and distributing bamboo sticks is related to the income of the yamen servants, and the yamen servants are also strictly guarded against counterfeit bamboo sticks.
The Tourist Tax has been on trial for a month, and the court has focused its attention on this matter again.
Everyone wants to know how much traveling merchant tax is collected by the Ministry of Households in a month.
They waited to slap the Hubu in the face.
"Don't just charge a few thousand taels. From now on, let's see what face the household department has."
"Even if you charge 10,000 to 20,000 taels, it's still shameless."
In the early dynasty, Emperor Wende was full of wickedness, so he didn't ask the household department's results for a month.
Miscellaneous, all kinds of trivial government affairs have been dealt with, seeing that the sun is rising, and Emperor Wende hasn't asked the Ministry of Households yet, someone is in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, the one-month trial implementation of the Traveling Merchant Tax has already expired. Why don't you ask Mr. Zhao to tell you how much tax you have collected in the trial month?"
Emperor Wende laughed, he already knew the exact number.
When asked how he felt, there was only one word: cool!
It was so cool that he ate an extra bowl of rice last night, and luckily got a new beauty.
It was so cool.
Emperor Wende nodded to the Minister of the Household Department, as if to say: Mr. Zhao, come out and slap all the officials in the face, and you must slap them loudly. I am optimistic about you.
Mr. Zhao, Minister of the Household Department, came out, and he did not disappoint Emperor Wende, "I would like to report to Your Majesty that the tourist tax will be tried for one month, and the tax collected will total 300,451 taels of silver."
"what?"
"Three hundred thousand taels?"
"impossible!"
"How could it be possible for mere traveling merchants to pay so much tax. Could it be that the Ministry of Accounts made fake accounts?"
"As far as I know, it is impossible for merchants in the capital to collect 300,000 taels of tax in one month."
The Minister of the Household Department chuckled, "That's because many merchants rely on big trees and don't pay taxes at all. Eighty percent of the merchants in the capital don't pay taxes. Eighty percent of them are profitable businesses. However, those merchants, as long as they If you sell on the street, you have to pay taxes, no exceptions.
Therefore, the monthly tax paid by merchants in the capital is not as good as that of merchants in the district. Ladies and gentlemen, have your shops paid taxes? "
"absurd!"
"The salaries of Beijing officials are low, and they have to support a large family. How can a servant open a shop and earn some money to support the family, so how can he pay taxes?"
"Isn't it that traveling merchants make money to support their families? How come they can pay taxes, but you and others can't?"
Asking civil and military officials to pay taxes is tantamount to mobilizing the interests of all the officials and nobles in the world. It is absolutely impossible.
Beware of this band of people banding together to rebel.
The first emperors did not dare to touch this piece, and Emperor Wende even less dared to touch it.
"Okay, okay, stop arguing. My dear friends, do you have any objections to the traveling merchant tax?"
"There is no objection."
"The household department has an extra 300,000 taels of tax money every month. Should we allocate the money and food from our yamen as soon as possible?"
"There is also money and food from our yamen."
"The Ministry of War is short of money and food, and the merchant tax of 300,000 taels per month must be tight with our Ministry of War."
"Fart! Go away, Ministry of War.
This group of courtiers began to quarrel again over how to distribute the extra three hundred thousand taels.
The quarrel was not enough in the end, and they fought directly in the Golden Luan Hall.
Let's fight, let's fight.
Emperor Wende didn't care at all, picked up a pen and began to review the memorial.
Well, reading the memorials and watching the fights at the same time, these days are really fun. Wen Dedi suddenly felt that being an emperor was not so hard.
The tourist tax makes it easier for hawkers to avoid being driven and arrested. At the same time, the household department has increased its income by 300,000 taels a month.
Such a good thing, no one will object.
Not only did he not oppose it, but he also praised it.
After the praise was over, people from various yamen continued to quarrel. For the extra money, he would not hesitate to beat his head and blood.
While the officials were busy quarreling and fighting, all the salaries owed for nearly half a year were paid out.
The desks and chairs with missing arms and legs in each yamen were also replaced with new ones.
There is money to repair the leaky yamen.
Even the daily work meal has two more slices of meat.
Beep!
Everyone in the household department is a good person!