He walked back and forth in his study, but finally sat down in his chair in a dejected state.

"No way!"

After just sitting for a while, Xu Jie jumped up again and circled on the ground.

Now veto the mutual market and the city to raise taxes?

That's impossible!

On the one hand, Emperor Jiajing would be furious. On the one hand, Emperor Jiajing will stop trading with each other, and Luo Xin will not go to exterminate the Japanese invaders. In this way, the two special regions of South Africa will be stopped, which is also an offense to interest groups.

For the sake of interests, these interest groups dare to confront Emperor Jiajing, just to prevent the mutual market from being completely controlled by the inner treasury, and then he Xu Jie's veto at this time, those interest groups will tear him apart. In the same way, he dared to veto the tax of one out of ten of the city's shipping divisions, and when Luo Xin used the excuse that the Japanese did not go ashore, instead of exterminating the Japanese invaders, the city shipping division would stop, and he would also offend the interest groups and make those people hate him Xu Jie.

Xu Jie knows these people too well, these people are just some interests, short-sighted, and can't see the dangers of the future. When the time came, I just knew that it was because of his Xu Jie's veto of the mutual market and the market division, which made them lose their interests. When the time comes, the recital of his impeachment will be piled up in front of Emperor Jiajing like snowflakes. And by doing so, he also offended Emperor Jiajing. With such a top and bottom together, where is his Xu Jie's life?

It is impossible to veto the increase in commercial taxes of the northern mutual market and the southern city.

"What should I do?"

"The most important thing now is to get yourself out of the cauldron. But how to escape? How do you get rid of the black pot? Dump to whom? ”

A wry smile appeared on Xu Jie's face, he was the first assistant of the cabinet, and no matter from which point of view, he was the main responsibility.

"That's not right!

And the high arches!

This responsibility can't be taken care of by yourself, at least let Gao Gong share some of it with himself. ”

Xu Jie slowly walked back to the chair and sat down, slowly falling into deep thought. Gradually, his brow furrowed.

The next day.

Xu Jie became a wood carving in the cabinet again, and became very low-key, and even everything was dominated by high arches. At the same time, there is a rumor that spreads rapidly among the teahouses.

"Did you hear that?"

"What did you hear?"

"The Northern Mutual Market has already begun to be established, and it is estimated that trade will begin in three months."

"I've known about this for a long time, brother, your news is outdated."

"That's not what I'm talking about." The man rolled his eyes.

"And that's what you're talking about?" Another person said proudly: "I also told you that in this capital realm, there is nothing I don't know. ”

"I'm talking about the commercial tax ...... of the mutual market"

"Isn't it just one out of ten?" The other person preemptively spoke.

The man was choked for a moment, and said with some anxious eyes: "Do you know that in addition to the northern mutual market commercial tax has become one out of ten, there are other places that have become one out of ten?" ”

"Is there a change in the commercial tax in other places?"

"I don't know, I'll tell you, it's the Southern City Bosi."

"Southern City? Isn't the city department closed? ”

"You know everything like you? Don't you know that Lord Luo Xinluo went to the south to exterminate the Japanese invaders? ”

"Smack~!" The man patted his forehead and said, "I remember, the Japanese have been exterminated?" ”

"That's not true, but the business tax has been raised first."

"This should be, since the Northern Mutual Market has raised the commercial tax as a special case, the City Department will naturally be one of the special cases. There's nothing strange about that, right? ”

"There's nothing strange about it, that's not what I'm talking about."

"What's that?"

"Do you know who is responsible for the increase in business taxes?"

"Who else? This is known to the whole capital, it is His Majesty who wants to turn the mutual market into an inner library, Xu Ge Lao disagreed, and finally discussed with His Majesty such a solution. ”

"The first half of what you said is right, the second half is not."

"What's wrong?"

The man looked left and right, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "Elder Xu Ge doesn't agree to the matter of raising commercial taxes at all, but you also know that Elder Xu has almost no say in the cabinet now. Although he is still the head of the cabinet, the voice of the cabinet is in the hands of the senior cabinet elders. Therefore, although Xu Ge Lao resolutely disagreed with the increase in commercial taxes, Gao Ge Lao agreed. In the end, Xu Ge Lao also fought against His Majesty and Gao Ge Lao, so the commercial tax was raised. Now it is said that Xu Ge Lao is so angry that his body has shown signs of malaise, and he has also become like a wood carving in the cabinet because he has lost his right to speak. ”

"Really? Why did Xu Ge organize everyone's opportunity to make money? ”

"I don't know."

In just three days, the news was spread throughout the capital, and with the capital as the center, it spread to the state capitals. After Gao Gong heard the news, he just smiled slightly:

"It's just a little trick by Xu Jie's struggle for power and profit, don't pay attention to it."

On the fourth day, Xu Jie was sick and rested. This time, the matter of raising commercial taxes has nothing to do with Xu Jie, and the news that Gao Gong is in charge is spreading as if it were true. But the focus of the news is no longer the increase in commercial taxes, but Xu Jie's suppression in the cabinet, so that everyone naturally ignores the issue of commercial taxes, but focuses on the issue of the two major cabinets. Many spectators also saw the latest result, that is, Gao Gong won a big victory, and Xu Jie was suppressed and was sick at home.

The officials did not think about the issue of commercial taxation at all, what they thought about was whether Gao Gong had already determined the status of the future leader of the Ming Dynasty, and whether he wanted to follow Gao Daren more closely. And Xu Jie's people are also wondering if they are defecting to Gao Gong. No one in the capital thought that this was Xu Jie's golden cicada shelling, and threw the black cauldron to Gao Gong in advance, only Zhang Juzheng, who was in Hangzhou, heard the news from the capital, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and secretly admired Xu Jie.

"High! It's really high! ”

Of course, there is another person in Hangzhou who is in a very bad mood. This person is Luo Xin. He also saw these news, and knew in his heart that this was Xu Jie's shelling of the golden cicada. And also very successfully threw the black pot to the high arch. The most terrible thing is that Gao Gong also happily took over the black cauldron, thinking that he had completely gained the upper hand in the battle with Xu Jie, and his fighting spirit was high.

Looking at the news one by one, Luo Xin couldn't help sighing. This high arch is really very serious. Once he thought that he had the upper hand, he began to purge Xu Jie's people. Although cleaning has not yet started on a large scale, there is already a trend towards it. And although Gao Gong did not start to suppress Luo Xin's people, the people who cleaned Xu Jie's positions were arranged by Gao Gong's people, which means that Luo Xin's people were no longer given the slightest chance. It seems that Gao Gong already feels that he is in charge of the dynasty alone, and there is no need to join forces with Luo Xin.

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