Chapter 304: The Great Battle in the Court (3)

Those ministers in the hall dare not speak out, those low-level officials who have been exposed to the sun outside are all covered in sweat, and many of them are sweating, sweating, drying, flowing again, and then drying, there are salt layers on their bodies, and the smell of sweat plus the smell of foxes of some individual people can be called poison gas bombs, and the ministers in the hall are dizzy.

This can't say anything, this is the emperor in order to be sympathetic to others, deliberately let others in to hide from the sun, can only endure this smell that can smoke people to death.

Many of those low-level bureaucrats were interested in today's tax collection and came to see a fresh scene, and now with the permission of the emperor, they could observe the debate, and many people were overjoyed.

"Okay, be quiet, the official who just came in stood up a little, don't stop too much, so that the Zhongqing family can take a breath...... Okay, let's move on. Yang Gai sat on the throne, and he also smelled a smell of "poisonous gas", and he couldn't stand it, so he quickly asked everyone to stand up a little.

Although disgusting, the debate continued, and the emperor had already spoken.

The battle continues.

However, there is nothing new, nothing more than that taking a tax increase is a scourge to the people, the people are miserable, how the tax supervisor who collects taxes is arrogant and domineering, how to harm people, what about the imperial party, bite to death, now the war is urgent, no money is absolutely impossible, Liu Yanyuan is even more in the limelight, who dares to oppose the collection of taxes, he asked, in the future, you will be responsible? You died with him? Asked this question, the opposition is no one dares to respond, this kind of thing, as long as you are not a fool, you have seen the emperor's speculation, almost all believe in the possibility of the Eastern Captives entering the customs, and now the intelligence is that Lin Dan Khan has lost, and the situation is moving towards the emperor's speculation, if the money to deal with the war in the north is not in place, resulting in the entry of the Eastern Captives, who can afford this responsibility? Who wants to risk their lives? Opposing taxation is nothing more than wanting to make a few more money, but there is no risking your life to make money, and this transaction is obviously not cost-effective.

Time gradually stretched longer and longer, from the beginning, the firepower of the imperial party was fierce, gradually, the imperial party began to be weak, and this mouth talked about white foam. On the other hand, the opposition, because of its large number of people, could take turns to fight, but it was very energetic and quickly gained the upper hand.

The battle on both sides continues.

"Your Majesty, the ministers oppose the collection of taxes, and the harm of additional distribution is calculated by taxes, and the harm of commercial taxes is measured by days...... Commercial taxes are not trapped businessmen, poor people are also, businessmen buy expensive and never sell cheaply, and private goods are expensive, all of which are taxed by businessmen...... The situation is very ...... Ning Zhidi" A minister said in vain, this is fried leftovers, and when it comes to it, it's all like this.

Of course, even if the opposition opposes the emperor's tax collection, no one takes what taxes cause the heavens to be angry and resentful, and the heavens punish these and the emperor said, after all, it has not yet reached that step, and now the emperor has taken out tens of millions of taels of silver to relieve the disaster, and he has used a large amount of silver money in the north to prepare for the war, if he still says this, I am afraid that he will really not be able to say it, as soon as he says this, he will completely tear his face with the emperor, I am afraid that he will be hated by the emperor to death, and no one is willing to use this set of rhetoric.

Yang Reform scoffed at this statement in his heart, which seems to make sense, but there are obvious loopholes in this statement, such as his own Liulizhai, and the relationship between the people who are sleepy and not sleepy, they don't collect taxes, and how many ordinary people can afford to use glass? Collecting taxes by themselves has cost those who can afford glass a few more dollars, but those who can afford to buy glass, do they care about that money?

Of course, on the surface, Yang Gai still has to pretend to be very teachable, so that the opposition will be more energetic, as if the emperor has gradually been persuaded by us.

The opposition is even more aggressive.

"Your Majesty, the minister opposes the collection of taxes, today one goods and one person, tax and tax, how to ointment the marrow, one sheep and ten skins, those who come to the palace have nothing to profit, or there is harm, it is a heavy hardship businessman, as Lord XX said, how can a businessman be willing to sell cheaply? The goods of the people are expensive, and the lives of the people are difficult, Your Majesty, you must not collect taxes......" An opposition came out and objected.

Yang Gai continued to pretend, pretending to listen carefully, pretending to have a great gain, but in fact, he had already scolded the world in his heart, how could people in the 21st century be so easy to fool?

"Your Majesty, the ministers oppose the collection of taxes, and the ministers cite a column, such as a house between the rivers, the land is barren and the people are poor, the tax amount is 25,000 strange, knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow for a long time, and the husband and the people are unbearable, and if Your Majesty collects taxes, the taxes will be complicated, and the business will be difficult, and the business difficulties will be scarce, and the amount must be earned,...... For large and small cargo ships in Hexi, the shipowners have ship materials, the merchants have ship silver, the merchants have commercial taxes when they enter the store, and they have positive taxes when they leave the store...... Within a hundred miles, there are three officials in the jurisdiction, and when one goods comes, the number of taxes is ...... Your Majesty, how does this tax work? The people can't live yet, right? One minister gave an example. ,

Yang reform is even more contemptive, this kind of take a poor local tax as an example, in the future, a commercially developed city to collect taxes, can be worth several inland provinces, there is no tax collection, can not develop, tax collection, can also feed back to underdeveloped areas, such as the 21st century China, often see what counterpart support and the like, but this Ming Dynasty, in the end because of the inability to collect taxes and collapsed, let future generations of people see, inevitably have to sigh, these opposition rhetoric, can also confuse people with limited knowledge, such as Chongzhen in history, to confuse today's Yang reform, it is impossible.

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Over time.

The opposition began to show superiority in numbers, and when there was a war of words, there were many people and a lot of saliva, and the imperial party had been fighting for a long time, and there was a lot of foam in their mouths. Above the court, for a while, it was all the voices of the opposition.

Yang Gengai listened to the words of these opposition and completely dismissed, if the tax collection is wrong, guilty, and damned, then all the countries in the future will be crazy, all nerves, and idiots. These truths said by the opposition did not touch Yang Reform in the slightest, but made Yang Reform feel disgusted, and it was only these "idiots" and "fools" in the Ming Dynasty who thought and said and did this. In the future, these people who managed the country in the Ming Dynasty were either idiots or people who were selfish to the extreme.

Yang reform's arrangement today is to make it "convenient" for the opposition, and the purpose is to let the opposition win, and on the side of his own imperial party, there must be a fierce "resistance" and fierce confrontation of words, and finally because he is forced to declare defeat, the opposition will win "difficult", win "real", and win without people seeing flaws. This was an arranged play, but it was also disgusted by the disgusting thoughts of the opposition, and asked: "Since you have said that collecting taxes is such a great evil and should not be so, then I wonder if you should also abolish the land tax, salt tax, customs duties, and all other taxes?" In this way, wouldn't the people live a better life and be more relaxed? What do you think? There is also a discussion of it. ”

As soon as the emperor spoke, the ministers felt suffocated, and their heads were short-circuited, and the emperor really dared to think and dare to say it, even the abolition of all taxes in the world. All taxes have been abolished, and who will pay us? The Zhu family's world probably doesn't want it, right?

The ministers all looked at the emperor in horror and embarrassment, not knowing what the emperor meant, it seemed normal to look at the emperor, not like he was crazy

"Hehe, you go on, go on, just as if I didn't say it." Today's debate is designed to let the opposition win, even if Yang Reform has all kinds of rhetoric and theories to refute these opposition, but he also pretends not to know, not to say.

The whole debate, except for the fierce firepower of the imperial party at the beginning for a period of time, gradually failed, the imperial party suffered in terms of numbers, and it was revealed, because the number of people was small, and the speech was gradually weak, even Liu Yanyuan, who was the most capable of fighting today, now, his voice was hoarse, and several other imperial parties had long since stopped talking, because the saliva had been sprayed dry, this hall, and every place to drink water, the weather was even hotter, and it was easier to be thirsty, so Liu Yanyuan came out from time to time to violently counterattack, Then the opposition people swarmed up again, drowning Liu Yanyuan, Liu Yanyuan also learned a Zhao Zilong seven in and seven out, no matter what happened, he grabbed one, whoever dared to delay the military expenses, he was in a hurry, with whom he was desperate, and asked others to tie their lives to him, this trick frightened many people and became his killer weapon.

Even so, the people of the imperial party gradually couldn't support it, and Liu Yanyuan's voice was already hoarse, and it was difficult to speak.

Yang Reform doesn't care, today, it is to let the opposition win, win the difficulty, so that his plan can be carried out.

Because the opposition gradually overwhelmed the imperial party, they became proud, and the battle became more and more powerful. Even those soy sauce parties applaud the opposition from time to time.

Throughout the debate, the opposition has gained the upper hand.

Only Liu Yanyuan's killer weapon still plays some role, no one dares to respond to Liu Yanyuan head-on, and no one is willing to die with Liu Yanyuan, isn't it necessary to put his life into it in order to resist tax collection in order to make two more money? ,

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now the border war is urgent, and the Dongyu may make a detour into the customs, and it is indeed necessary to prevent it, and the silver taels can not be delayed, and the minister advises His Majesty to use the silver stored in the Daming Royal Bank to tide over the difficulties temporarily, and there is no need more, about two million taels is enough, and until next year, after the autumn harvest, you can collect more than four hundred thousand taels of silver, in addition to military expenses, you can also use the more than two million taels of silver borrowed this year to offset it, so that there is no need to collect taxes." The opposition also had no choice but to propose this method for Liu Yanyuan's killer feature. That is to use the silver in Li Ruolian's bank, and then use the millions of taels to be collected next year, because if the increase is continued next year, there is no need to transfer it to the matter of disaster relief and resettlement, so a lot of silver can be freed up.

This was contrary to Yang Reform's expectations, and in order to invalidate Liu Yanyuan's killer feature, the opposition was willing to give in and let himself use Liu Ruolian's money in the bank to fight.

"This secretary is also reasonable, using the additional field tax collected next year to pay off this year's expenses is a good way to save the emergency, however, many of these silvers are vassal kings and nobles, I am afraid that they will have opinions" Yang Reform wants to use the money there to make paper tickets, and use the leverage of paper tickets to turn one money into two or three copies, if these bureaucrats support their own use of that batch of money today, it is also a good thing, at least when they use that money in the future, there is no interference, and the money is called by themselves. It is very simple to transfer the money in the bank to the military, and use the military money for invoices, that is, to change the left hand for the right hand.

"Back to Your Majesty, it should be fine, I think the vassal kings, the nobles should also be considerate of Your Majesty, and they should also contribute to my Ming Dynasty, the country is in such a critical situation, serve Your Majesty, serve the court, this is as it should be, and not let them donate, just temporarily move for a day, the minister thinks, it should be no problem." This minister gave a look to the surroundings, and the surrounding ministers helped to say that it was okay, saying that there was no problem, in fact, they just wanted to abolish Liu Yanyuan's killer feature, with this money, Liu Yanyuan would no longer shout, Liu Yanyuan would not shout, this debate their opposition naturally won, this tax will not be collected, they will naturally win, as for the issue of repaying the money, they are really not afraid that the emperor will not pay it back, if the emperor does not pay it back, there will naturally be hundreds of vassal kings, countless nobles looking for trouble with the emperor, besides, With the millions of taels of silver that will be collected next year, it will be enough to pay it back, not to mention that the emperor still has a very valuable Liuli Zhai, besides, the emperor is very good at "living", no money? Who believes? I can't say how many times the Guozijian has been expanded by the emperor.

"Okay, in that case, then I will call a batch of silver from the Daming Royal Bank, and make up for it after the autumn harvest next year, which can be regarded as solving the crisis of the imperial court, but, hehe, I can say ugly things in front, if someone goes to the bank to withdraw money on a large scale at that time, don't blame me for not having money to pay" Yang Reform said with a smile, I didn't expect that today's harvest is not small, these guys, in order to prevent the collection of taxes, also put some money

"Never, never, now, my Ming Dynasty is in crisis, who dares to be selfish? The money that His Majesty raised this year only needs to be offset by a tax increase next year, because there should be no problem, and if you want to be a vassal king, the nobles will not say anything. "These ministers are also settling accounts with their fingers, how much income the emperor has, they are clearly calculated, there is a sum of money next year, four or five million taels, enough to pay off this year's account, and there will be every year in the future, if you repay the account, it should be no problem, besides, the emperor is a person who can live, the most able to make money, everyone believes that the emperor is not without money to spend, just want to find an excuse to collect taxes.

The opposition is now relieved, and the person who can "fight" the most in the imperial party should now have no excuse, this tax cannot be collected.

Sure enough, this year's border military spending was settled, and Liu Yanyuan no longer came out. This imperial party, all of a sudden, seems to have lost even the last bit of combat effectiveness, and is basically dumb.

The opposition can now be regarded as straightening its back, according to what the emperor said today, it will follow the advice, obviously, the opposition has won, and the imperial party has nothing to say now. The opposition was overjoyed and waited for the emperor to judge them to win. If the emperor cheats, they don't mind using extraordinary means to abolish those tax supervisors, so that the emperor still can't stand the taxes.

Yang Reform smiled, today's harvest is not small, it was originally to sell a flaw, let the opposition win, but unexpectedly, in order to win, the opposition actually invested a lot of capital, even the silver they stored in the bank, in exchange, they were willing to let themselves use, this opposition, but also willing to give the capital Yang Reform saw that today's goal has been almost achieved, and gave Shi Fenglai a look. ,

Shi Fenglai has fought a few times today, but soon he has no combat effectiveness, standing aside without speaking, waiting intently for the emperor's signal, he has a killer weapon in his hand.

Seeing that the emperor's signal had arrived, Shi Fenglai immediately said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a note, and this book is to ask for taxes." ”

Shi Fenglai's words, let the hall rise, it was a resurgence of waves, and the opposition thought that it was a win, and there was a Cheng biting gold.

"Self-paying taxes? What's going on? Yang Reform pretended not to understand and asked, in fact, he laughed so much in his heart that he couldn't do it, he wouldn't lose at all today, just to make the opposition think that they had won, the result of this matter was already in the hands of Yang Reform, today's debate is just a process, this matter has been arranged in advance, even if the opposition has a thousand, 10,000 reasons and rhetoric, it can't oppose others to pay taxes voluntarily, and this person who voluntarily pays taxes is his "daughter-in-law", which will make the opposition deflated, no matter how they "represent" the world, "Seeking benefits for the people" also means that it can't be on the head of Liulizhai, and it can't be controlled by Liulizhai.

"Your Majesty, this is the invention of the weighing instrument, the thermometer of the loose official Liu Liniang, which said, Liulizhai can get the trust of Your Majesty, the court, can get Your Majesty, the weight of the court, deeply honored, but also very uneasy, but also deeply feel the weight of their own responsibility, want to serve Your Majesty, serve the court, but as a businessman, there is no way to repay, so he voluntarily pays two percent of the turnover every month to help His Majesty resist foreign invasion, soothe the victims, and be a responsible, conscientious businessman......" Shi Fenglai shook his head and said the content of this note.

"Poof......" Several officials couldn't help but laugh in their hearts, but fortunately, the hall was noisy, and no one pursued it.

The people in the main hall, after hearing these words, the feeling in their hearts is called a thousand turns.

First of all, the emperor is "shameless", so did he let his concubine play a trick and help him speak? Fighting tiger brothers, going into battle father and son soldiers, what is the emperor? asked for money and even pulled the concubine.

Some people are looking at the emperor ambiguously, the emperor has a set of routines for the young couple, shouting for tax increases, and at the same time they will voluntarily pay taxes in person, which is really the answer to that sentence: husband sings and women follow.

There are also some people who have not reacted to this kind of woman and businessman for a long time, how is this done, even women and businessmen can be sparse, and it is still grandiose, but think about it, others are also seven-rank loose officials, anyway, if he is an official, he has the right to play the sparse, of course, whether he can go to the cabinet, to the emperor's hands is another matter, now, the first assistant is holding the seven-grade official's sparse, you can't say that there is any problem.

The opposition is completely dumbfounded, and there is such a thing. The emperor is also shameless, you said that this Liulizhai is the emperor's private property, don't you get the money from Liulizhai yourself? I have to come up with a voluntary tax increase of 20%, isn't this taking off my pants and farting? Is it purely disgusting to us?

The soy sauce party is purely looking at jokes, and the emperor is really talented, and he actually came up with this hand, from his left hand to his right hand, and he was about to go out of the tax, which is really speechless. It is true that Liulizhai is the emperor's private property, but in the end this is just a private secret, as long as Sun Liniang denies it, there is no problem with this matter, others Sun Liniang is willing to pay taxes, willing to relieve worries for the court and the emperor, can you still not let others voluntarily pay taxes? If you block it, wouldn't you just sit and watch the court in danger, and sit and watch Your Majesty be in danger and not save it? This crime of abandoning the king is not small.

More people are moved by the turnover of this twenty percent, Liulizhai is a golden mountain, this is the general view of the Ming people on Liulizhai, first of all, the long glass wall on the street, it can be called a scene of the capital, this twenty percent turnover, I am afraid that it is a lot. This is a windfall, a year's tax, I'm afraid it will be worth a few medium-sized governments.

The opposition wanted to cry without tears, in order to oppose the emperor's tax collection, they did not spend less thought, nor did they make less compromises of interests, but unfortunately, the emperor played this hand, and it was really played to death.