As soon as the "Theory of Taxation" was published, it was like a huge bomb was placed in the capital, which immediately detonated the entire capital.

The next day, the newsboys who were still hanging a cloth bag along the street to sell newspapers suddenly found that they did not have to work so hard, these newsboys were surrounded by the crowd as soon as they came to the street, and many people who had been waiting on the street all flocked to the newspaper, you and I bought the newspapers one by one, and some even bought several copies at a time.

When someone asked them why they bought the newspaper, these people said with great vigour: I can't read the words on it, but I can ask a literate person to read it to me.

This was true of the common people, not to mention the officials and gentry landlords. Yang Feng criticized them the most in the tax theory, Yang Feng described these people as moths clinging to Daming's body, desperately sucking Daming's flesh and blood, they enjoy the benefits brought to them by Daming, but they are unwilling to pay even the slightest obligation.

Whenever the imperial court needed them to help, they would find excuses to desperately prevaricate, and on the other hand, once they had benefits, they would rush forward as soon as they smelled blood, Yang Feng described these people as the episkeletons of the Ming Dynasty.

With the rush of people to buy, Yang Feng soon announced that the 5,000 newspapers they printed were exhausted, and Yang Feng, who received this unexpected joy, waved his hand and only said one sentence: "Print another 10,000 copies!" ”

Seeing Yang Feng's decision, Zheng Toniang, Da Yu'er and a group of editors all advised Yang Feng to be cautious, even if he wanted to print two or three thousand more copies, ten thousand copies were too risky, and if he didn't make so many newspapers, he would have to smash them in his hands.

However, Yang Feng ignored everyone's dissuasion, and only used one sentence: Benbo has money and can afford it. just blocked everyone's mouths, people are rich and capricious, what else can you do?

However, the development of facts also proved that Yang Feng's prediction was correct, hundreds of apprentices and workers in the printing workshop worked overtime, and each newspaper was taken away by the newsboys as soon as it was printed, and then it was sold out, and by the evening, most of the 10,000 copies of the newspaper printed by the printing workshop had been sold, and the remaining more than 1,000 copies of the newspaper were believed to be sold out the next day.

As the seventh issue of "Pravda" spread in the capital, the whole capital was a sensation, and the next day's court meeting was like a fried pot, countless officials impeached Yang Feng to Zhu Youxiao as if they had eaten explosives, and many people knelt on the spot and asked Zhu Youxiao to order to kill Yang Feng, the traitor of the country.

In the face of the surging emotions of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Zhu Youxiao's reaction was still not as they expected, he was not angry or anxious, but said to the ministers: "The ministers have heard it, the more they argue, the clearer it is, since you think that what Yang Feng said is a fallacy and a disaster to the country, then you can also refute it, as long as you can prove that what Yang Feng said is wrong, then I will naturally not stand idly by, otherwise I will now Xuanjiang Ningbo go to the palace and let you confront him on the spot, as long as you can convince him to deal with him, what do you think Aiqing?" ”

Zhu Youxiao's words came out as soon as many people were dumb, after several confrontations, these officials knew that Yang Feng was not one of those martial artists who could only dance with knives and sticks, not only did they have strong hands-on ability, but they were also extremely good at mouth cannons, didn't you see that last time even Gao Panlong, the leader of the Donglin Party, was so angry that he fell ill?

It is not ordinarily difficult to argue with him in the court, not to mention that everyone can see that Yang Feng's article is purely Chiguoguo's sycophant slapping Zhu Youxiao, after all, it is the Ming Dynasty that is consolidated by paying taxes, and Zhu Youxiao will oppose it unless he is a fool, Yang Feng is covered by the emperor Lao Tzu, and he holds the military power seal in his hand, and it is too difficult for them to get Yang Feng down through the means of the court.

The influence of the tax theory continues, what is the capital? It is known as the foot of the Son of Heaven, the most important capital of the Ming Dynasty, everything that happens here will be concerned by the officials, gentry and even the people of the world throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is high-ranking officials or ordinary people, everyone is talking about Yang Feng's tax theory. To tell the truth, from ancient times to the present, even the old farmers who farm the land know that it is a matter of course to hand over the emperor's grain, but no one has ever written an article in the vernacular from the perspective of a country to explain the importance of taxation for a country, and Yang Feng wrote more than 10,000 words in this tax statement.

It not only expounded its source, but also raised the tax to the perspective of the rise and fall of the country, and thus also strongly criticized the gentry and merchants in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and asserted that if the situation was allowed to continue to deteriorate, the demise of the Ming Dynasty would happen sooner or later.

Yang Feng didn't tighten this map, with the rapid spread of the tax theory in Daming, the entire Ming Dynasty boiled like a pot, and for a while, the name Yang Feng also resounded throughout the Ming Dynasty again, and even spread to the Manchu Qing outside the Guan.

Of course, there are many people who hate this "Taxation Theory", but there are no absolutes, and there are also many people who applaud this article. At the same time that many people denounced Yang Feng's "fallacies and heresies", there were also many people of insight who stood up to support Yang Feng, and the first person to stand up for Yang Feng was none other than our father-in-law Wei.

Many people were surprised to see this, Gonggong Wei is nine thousand years old, and he has no friendship with Yang Feng on weekdays, and even coveted Yang Feng's overseas sea route a few years ago because of the business problems of the silver building under his command, although the two sides did not turn their faces, but some dirty things have happened because of this, how can they support Yang Feng now, this is not scientific?

In fact, the person who said this didn't know Wei Zhongxian, what kind of person was Wei Zhongxian, before Yang Feng came to Daming, he was Zhu Youxiao's most trusted confidant, and the two positions of the eunuch Bingbi concurrently served as the commander of the East Factory are the best proof.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao gave Wei Zhongxian so much trust was not because Wei Zhongxian was handsome, nor because Wei Zhongxian was an old man who accompanied him from the diving mansion, otherwise there were at least dozens of eunuchs around Zhu Youxiao when he was in the diving mansion, why did Zhu Youxiao only trust him?

The reason is actually very simple, that is, Wei Zhongxian was able to get money for Zhu Youxiao. As the saying goes, if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, the Ming Dynasty is so big, there are so many places that need to use silver, and there are too many places to spend silver. In order to get silver, Emperor Wanli even sent his eunuchs to various parts of the Ming Dynasty to collect mining taxes from the local government.

However, the Wanli Emperor underestimated the local gentry's dedication to silver, and in order to oppose the Wanli Emperor's policy, they even did not hesitate to incite the people to kill the eunuchs sent by the Wanli Emperor, and then beat them up to let their spokesmen in the court bite back, saying that those eunuchs made the local people miserable and were killed by the angry people after the popular uprising. Although Wanli knew the reason, he could only knock out his teeth and swallow blood in the end.

Before Yang Feng appeared, Wei Zhongxian undertook the heavy responsibility of getting silver for the emperor, and he had been in charge of the ceremonial supervisor for a long time, so he naturally knew that the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty had become very bad.

To be honest, although Wei Zhongxian is indeed very greedy, as a typical representative of eunuchs, he has not put less money in his pocket, but correspondingly, he has also made money for Zhu Youxiao. Before Yang Feng appeared, the situation in Liaodong could be maintained, in addition to the efforts of Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi and the soldiers of Liaodong, it had a lot to do with Wei Zhongxian's ability to continuously transport silver, food, weapons and equipment to Liaodong.

It is precisely because he knows the financial predicament of the Ming Dynasty that Wei Zhongxian has the feeling of meeting a confidant after seeing this issue of Pravda, and he even said to Wang Tiqian in private, "This Yang Feng is worthy of being a great talent, as soon as this "Taxation Theory" comes out, his name will be in the history from now on!" ”

But the happiest person after the tax talk came out was naturally Zhu Youxiao, because although Zhu Youxiao's name was not mentioned throughout this article, every word in it was related to Daming and him Zhu Youxiao, the court is rich, who is the person who benefits the most? Of course, it was Zhu Youxiao, who was the emperor.

In the six years since he ascended the throne, Zhu Youxiao has felt the most that there is no silver in his hands, which means that everything he does will be restricted. It costs silver to fight at the border gates, it costs silver to provide disaster relief in a certain place, it also costs silver to give some benefits to officials during the New Year's holidays, and even if one's own house is broken, it needs silver to repair, so it can be said that it is difficult to move an inch without silver.

But now the silver of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the gentry and merchants everywhere, but the silver that the imperial court can collect is getting less and less, whenever Zhu Youxiao wants to collect a little tax from the rich merchants, the officials will jump out at the same time and say loudly what to say and compete with the people and other old tunes, which makes Zhu Youxiao very angry.

At this time, Yang Feng appeared, and as soon as this "Taxation Theory" came out, it immediately laid a theoretical foundation for the imperial court to collect commercial taxes.

Don't underestimate this, the most important thing for Huaxia to do anything from ancient times to the present is whether this thing is justified.

For example, both sides have to send a submission before the war, scolding the opponent for how evil they are, and at the same time dressing themselves up as angels, so as to win the support of the people. When the prince is competing for the throne, he will also give his opponent a charge of unfilial piety and brutality, in order to prove how he obeys the mandate of heaven and how he wins the hearts of the people, and the same is true for taxation.

In the past, whether it was the Wanli Emperor or the Emperor of the Apocalypse, once the local tax was levied, there would be a group of officials who had been fed by the gentry and businessmen who jumped out to denounce how absurd and mediocre the emperor's behavior was, and then scolded the emperor with the reason of competing with the people, and the emperor could not return the favor after being scolded, otherwise he would be denounced by the people of the world as a faint king. Now, as soon as Yang Feng's "Taxation Theory" came out, it laid a solid theoretical foundation for the emperor's taxation, and the emperor was no longer afraid of being scolded if he wanted to collect money.

Zhu Youxiao could see this, and those officials of the Donglin Party naturally saw this, and for a while, many people in the open or in the dark also began to move......

A few days ago, the gold boss of the tea house in order to catch up with the fashion also specially ordered a "Pravda", so that the storyteller of the tea house will tell the guests in the tea house after reading the dream of the Red Mansion in each issue, he did this The effect is really good, the business of the tea house is better than usual, which also makes the heart of the gold boss happy, and when the "tax theory" came out, the gold boss was surprised and immediately instructed the storyteller of the tea house to put this "tax theory" It was also said to the guests in the teahouse like Dream of Red Mansions, and Mr. Storyteller did not agree to do so at the beginning.

"Boss, it's taboo for you to do this."

The storyteller in the teahouse is about 50 years old, and because his surname is Wang, people are used to calling him Lao Wang.

Lao Wang took the copy of "Pravda" and said to Boss Jin anxiously: "Boss, on weekdays, there is no problem for you to ask Xiao Lao'er to say anything about the Yang family generals, the Water Margin and even the Dream of Red Mansions, after all, these are either things from the previous dynasty or things about love and love, so naturally there is no problem in saying it." But now this "Taxation Theory" was written by Jiang Ningbo, and you must know better than me who it is aimed at. It's not easy for you to open this teahouse, I'm worried that if we really want to talk about it, it will bring disaster to our teahouse. ”

Seeing the anxious look in Lao Wang's eyes, Boss Jin flashed a trace of emotion in his heart, but then he was left behind by him, only to see him change his usual kind eyebrows, with a cold expression on his face: "Lao Wang, you have been telling stories in our teahouse since I opened this teahouse, and you have been talking for more than ten years, you also know my temper, I will leave the words here today, if you don't want to say it, then I will invite another person who is willing to say it, you have to think about it carefully." ”

Seeing that Boss Jin looked like a king eating scales, Lao Wang sighed lightly, shook his head and stopped persuading, anyway, he had fulfilled his responsibility to dissuade, and it was his business whether Boss Jin listened or not.

Soon, Lao Wang's unique hoarse voice sounded in the teahouse. Soon, the tax theory that Lao Wang said immediately aroused the interest of the guests.

Looking at Lao Wang, who was telling stories on the stage, a fat figure walked up to Boss Jin and asked in a low voice: "Master, what do you mean by letting Lao Wang say this tax?" In my opinion, once this tax theory spreads, this is a great thing for the Ming Dynasty, aren't you afraid of the people above blaming you for doing this? ”

"Blame?" Boss Jin laughed gloomily: "You don't want to think about it, the more this article circulates, the more people that person will offend, and then I'm afraid that they won't have to do anything with us, and their own people will kill him, if this person dies, who else can stop our Qing Dynasty's iron horse?" ”