This wise man must make a mistake, and no one could have thought that Xu Jirong would become the biggest winner in the prelude to this reform.

But almost everyone thinks that the ministers, led by the Cabinet, are the biggest losers.

They were not only slapped in the face by Guo Dan, but also taught a lesson by the emperor.

It's really an internal and external trouble!

Strangely, the Cabinet is the only one who doesn't think so.

The Cabinet felt that it was taking advantage of the fisherman's profits.

Because the ministers began to gather around the cabinet again, this crooked and evil way could not kill Guo Dan, but made himself disgraced.

Then the only way is to succeed in reform.

Otherwise, not to mention that the business tax will be snatched away by Guo Dan, even the dominance of their officials will be impacted.

They even have a sense of fighting on their backs.

However, Shen Shixing succeeded in the reform and made huge concessions, in the whole process, he was relatively low-key, and did not directly lead it, but handed it over to Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping to lead, Wang Xijue was with him, but Wang Jiaping was not.

Although Wang Jiaping has a good reputation in the court, he has always attached great importance to the relationship with his colleagues, and has always been on the basis of facts, not against people, he basically has no political enemies, and he is currently the eldest son Zhu Changluode's teacher.

But his own virtue and cultivation are only one of the reasons.

Mainly because Wang Jiaping is from Shanxi, not from the Jiangnan faction, in the entire cabinet, he is the only seedling, although Yu Youding is not a person from Shen Shixing, but Yu Youding is also from Jiangnan.

Many ministers hope that Wang Jiaping can contain Shen Shixing to a certain extent.

Do not let Shen Shixing integrate the cabinet.

They just want to prevent another Zhang Juzheng from appearing.

This is also the reason why Shen Shixing retreated into the background, he knew that if he stood up and took the lead, the court might not be so united.

It is impossible for Li Zhi to support Shen Shixing, after all, they have already fought incompatibly before.

Of course, Shen Shixing is not a weak chicken, for the country, the people and the king, he is willing to let go of his power, although he does not lead this matter, but everything still has to be approved by him, because he controls the six departments in his hands.

And Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue are only one year apart in age, in addition, they have one thing in common, that is, they both opposed Zhang Juzheng during Zhang Juzheng's lifetime, but after Zhang Juzheng's death, they also spoke for Zhang Juzheng.

They opposed Zhang Juzheng's arbitrariness and self-righteousness, but at the same time they supported Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

Based on this alone, it is enough to see that the two of them still belong to the reformists in their hearts, and they believe that the Ming Dynasty must carry out reforms, otherwise they are sitting and waiting to die.

After stabilizing the interior of the court, Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue began to discuss how to reform.

Although it is only said that the reform of tariffs is pulled, once the trigger of this reform is pulled, it cannot be just the reform of tariffs, this is just a medicine introduction, but if this first step is not taken well, then there is no way to talk about the follow-up.

Therefore, the two of them were very cautious about this, and they did not rush to hold a meeting to discuss how to reform, but the two of them first communicated privately to determine a general direction.

"Although the commercial tax of our dynasty is low, but the local government has imposed countless taxes on merchants, this river has to be charged, the bridge has to be charged, and the market has to pay taxes, all of which are not low!" Wang Xijue said.

Wang Jiaping nodded and said: "It makes sense, Zhang Juzheng's reform back then was mostly aimed at servitude, however, the unified enslavement made many people not have to serve labor, and when the farm was slack, they could also go to work or do business, which promoted the development of industry and commerce, but Zhang Juzheng did not reform the commercial tax at that time. ”

Wang Xijue said: "The complicated commercial taxes not only brought a heavy burden to the merchants and craftsmen, but also outweighed the losses of the imperial court, because most of these taxes did not enter the treasury. I personally believe that if we want to reform the tariff, the first step is to simplify the commercial tax and have it collected by the imperial court. ”

"Complicated" means that the central government cannot control it, and the reason is simple: it is impossible for the imperial court to send so many people to collect taxes.

Let's just say that this bridge toll, it must be collected by the local government or powerful gentry, and it is impossible for this money to enter the state treasury.

Simplifying the complex and being specially expropriated by the imperial court is precisely what Wang Xijue has always advocated, and in fact it is also Zhang Juzheng's advocate, that is, to strengthen the power of the central government, so that the policies formulated by the central government can be well implemented.

Wang Jiaping sighed: "But the problems we encountered are the same as Zhang Juzheng. In fact, these kinds of tariffs are aimed at some small businessmen, and most of those big and wealthy businessmen have backgrounds, and they often don't even pay a penny.

When I was in Weihui Mansion, I once asked some merchants why they had to leave their hometowns and come all the way to Weihui Mansion to do business, and the reason was that once the imperial court wanted to increase taxes, the first to suffer were ordinary peasants, followed by these small merchants and craftsmen.

For example, the Luwangfu incident, when the entire Weihui Mansion was looted, but those big landlords and wealthy businessmen were not only safe and sound, but took the opportunity to annex a lot of land and make a windfall. ”

Many people say that the tax of the dynasty merchants is less, resulting in the country has no money, in fact, it is not, the commercial tax problem of the Ming Dynasty is not at all about the tax is more and less, but about whether to pay or not, this is the same as the agricultural tax, the big landlords, the rich businessmen do not pay taxes, the taxes are pressed on the peasants and small businessmen, every time the tax is increased, the looting is ordinary farmers and small businessmen, those big landlords and big rich businessmen as long as they do not make political mistakes, all of them are immovable, sometimes they loot with the imperial court, sometimes they instigate those small businessmen in the back, Craftsmen fought against the imperial court.

That's the key.

This is also one of the main reasons why the people are not optimistic about the reform of the imperial court.

If the purpose of improving the tax system is to reduce the burden on everyone, then anyone can come, beggars, and I will go up and be exempted, then absolutely no one will oppose it except the ruling class, and if it is really completely exempted, then what will the officials eat.

Therefore, as long as reform is pursued, no matter which dynasty or generation, there must be problems in the state finances, and the purpose is to increase the state revenue.

Because if the people's lives are in crisis, the imperial court only needs relief, not reform.

Reform must be to increase the revenue of the state treasury, in other words, to increase tax revenue, so if the basic situation does not change, if you do not collect the taxes of those rich businessmen and big landlords, the increased tax revenue will inevitably fall on the heads of the people.

Everyone understands this truth, from Shang Ying to Zhang Juzheng, it is all like this, but there are very few successes, and the most successful one may be Shang Ying, Zhang Juzheng did not fundamentally solve this problem, of course, Washington actually did not.

The problem is that the combination of money and power, who can really become a wealthy businessman and a big landlord, must rely on power, so who will use his power to collect his own taxes.

Therefore, the people hated reform.

Over and over again, we pay more taxes.

What kind of reform is obviously to change the cut.

Wang Xijue sighed and said, "If we directly say that we want to levy more taxes on the wealthy merchants, it is estimated that there will be many opposition in the court. ”

Not to mention others, in fact, he is also a wealthy businessman, a big landowner, and his family has a lot of money, but he is willing to pay reasonable taxes.

Wang Jiaping said: "In fact, the most successful is really the Weihui Mansion under the management of Guo Dan, I carefully study the Weihui Mansion, his success lies in his ability to make those rich businessmen and big landlords make more money, and at the same time they can't do without him, if those rich businessmen and big landlords don't pay taxes, they don't get more, but lose more, so the magnates of Weihui Mansion take the initiative to pay taxes." It's a pity that we don't have Guo Dan's means. ”

The landlords and wealthy merchants of Weihui Mansion are willing to pay taxes, not because of Guo Dan's obscenity, but because Guo Dan can make them earn more, they must support Guo Dan, Guo Dan is good, they will be better, Guo Dan is finished, then they will lose a lot.

It's not about policy, it's about technology.

Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue had ideas and policies to strengthen the power of the central government, simplify commercial taxes, reduce the burden of small and medium-sized businessmen, and levy taxes on wealthy businessmen, but they did not have technical support.

Wang Xijue said: "We seem to have ignored one person. ”

Wang Jiaping nodded and said, "It's time to talk to him." ”

At the same time, Guo Dan is also preparing for the listing of the dental store, compared to them, Guo Dan is much easier, after all, the listing of the dental store is to take everyone to make money, but in a fundamental sense, he actually wants to use this to promote business development.

The reason why he wanted the joint-stock system was that he found that although the commodity economy in some cities in the Ming Dynasty was good, there was a lack of capital, and the reason was that farming was more stable and profitable than buying and selling, and this money was trapped in the land and could not be turned into capital.

But he can't advocate the idea of capital, the idea of capital will inevitably limit the imperial power, and only on the basis of restricting the imperial power can it be further developed, he can't hurt the interests of the fat house, he can only rely on the listing, the money trapped in the land to get out, into the capital in the hands of Wanli.

A no-tooth line!

"Uncle! Uncle! ”

Xiao An suddenly ran in in a panic, panting slightly: "Uncle, someone is robbing our business." ”

Guo Danyan smiled when he heard this: "Who can't think so?" ”

"It's... It's a little uncle. "Xiao Andao.

"That idiot again!"

Guo Dan immediately became nervous, "What did he do again?" ”

Xiao An said: "The little uncle spent 10,000 taels to buy a piece of land in the southern suburbs as a hammering pill field, and... And business is not bad. ”

"Business is good?"

Guo Dan's eyes widened and said, "He's already opened?" ”

"Hmm."

"Then why are you just telling me now, what are you doing? Do you squat in a thatched hut and eat? Guo Dan said angrily.

The purpose of his business is to put information and data first, and everyone has already opened it, so I told him now.

"It's because... Because the little uncle just bought it to play for himself, we didn't know in advance. ”

"What? Buy a hammer pill field to play by yourself? What a loser! ”

Guo Dan patted his head, stood up and said, "Let's go, take me over to have a look." ”