Song Qingyue had no control over the undercurrents surging within the palace.

By the end of July, preparations for going to the northwest were almost complete. It was the fourth brother Song Chenrui who made a fuss about going together. The reason was simple. He just wanted to go out and gain experience. After all, he had never been to the west. His quarrel made fifth brother Song Chenfei and

The sixth brother Song Chenxing was also itching, but Aunt Qiu firmly disagreed with Song Chen flying because of two reasons: firstly, Suzhou was too dangerous; secondly, next year was the year of the scientific examination and there was no time to go out and have fun.

In fact, Aunt He didn't want to ask Song Chenxing, the sixth brother, to go. However, he had not been interested in taking the scientific examination since he was a child, and he didn't study hard at ordinary times. He just liked to learn business from the He family. Mr. Song did not object, and Aunt He also wanted to take him.

Nothing can be done.

As for Song Chenrui, the Liang family is too lazy to care about him. Anyway, the eldest son and the second son have already become famous. The two younger sons, the Liang family just wants to live a relaxed and happy life according to their wishes.

So Song Chenfei looked downcast and watched the two brothers packing their luggage happily. He was so depressed that he didn't go to have dinner with Aunt Qiu for several days. In the past, he went to Qiu Yi's house to have dinner with her every day.

Song Qingyue went back to her parents' home on July 30th. She discussed with her eldest sister, fourth brother and sixth brother what things to bring to Suzhou. By the way, she also talked with the He family, Cao family and An family who were going to the northwest this time.

A brief meeting was held.

The He family, the Cao family, and the An family have all opened businesses in the capital a long time ago. They mainly deal in goods from the north and the south. To put it bluntly, they are buying and selling. Now these families heard that the eldest girl and the third girl are going to the northwest, and the imperial court may still

A special Western Region Barter Office was set up in the northwest, and they suddenly became excited, and everyone was gearing up, wanting to do something big.

Of course, this time it was mainly for exploration and research. Once the market demand is clear, we will slowly increase the quantity of goods in the future.

Nowadays, cement roads are paved everywhere, and it is much more convenient to go anywhere than in the past. There are more people doing business, and the officials who manage and issue road signs are extremely busy.

There were many voices of criticism in the court, and the censors still argued that if there were more people doing reselling and buying, there would be fewer people cultivating the land.

But Song Ge Lao, our minister of household affairs, directly slapped him in the face with statistics: Has the grain production decreased in the past three years? The answer is, no. This is still due to the severe drought in the north this year. In addition, the relief grains from the south have been delivered in a timely manner.

On the contrary, a large number of population losses were avoided.

What about business taxes?

With an annual growth rate of 11% year-on-year.

What is year-on-year growth rate?

If you don’t know this, why do you still have the nerve to be an official?

Why are you an official?

For the livelihood of the people of the world?

For the sake of the people's livelihood, you don't even know what the grain output is, how the population is increasing or decreasing, or the court's tax revenue. How dare you brazenly claim that you are doing it for the sake of the people's livelihood?

Why don't you say that your family has two thousand acres of fertile land and has not paid a penny in taxes for more than ten years, and has not given a grain of millet to the court. When your son spent a lot of money on the top of Yichun Tower, were you very proud? Your mother was last

On your birthday, you booked a banquet for one thousand taels of silver at Cyclamen. Are you very happy?

You said that you became an official for the sake of the people's livelihood. Why are you so thick-skinned?

Wang Yushi, who strongly advocated the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, was spitted all over the face by Song Shangshu.

The emperor sat behind the dragon table, struggling to hold back his laughter.

The censor was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so embarrassed that he complained about how much business Mr. Song had done in his family and scolded him for competing with the people for profit and being a sycophant.

Mr. Song choked back with one sentence: "The five thousand acres of fertile land in my family's home are taxed every year. The properties and shops under my name have also been paying commercial taxes according to the number since I was in Lingnan more than ten years ago. May I ask Wang Yushi,

and you?"

One sentence made the whole hall fall silent.

To be honest, this sentence offended the public. In the Zhou Dynasty, after winning the imperial examination, one already belonged to the ruling class and enjoyed the privilege of not paying taxes or doing corvee labor.

But Mr. Song has been working diligently for more than ten years and has paid taxes every penny.

What does this mean?

The Zhou Dynasty has been under the rule for nearly a hundred years, and land annexation has become quite serious. There are many large landowners who do not pay taxes. This will cause the fire consumption to become higher and higher, the burden on the farmers to become heavier and heavier, and the Ministry of Household Affairs to be more and more short of money.

Phenomenon.

Even if the emperor had been dissatisfied for a long time, he did not dare to speak out about it easily.

But Mr. Song just said it, and he said it so easily, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.

The emperor sat motionless on top, observing everyone's expressions.

But soon, Mr. Song changed the subject and talked about the issue of food and grass supply for the northern war, as if he had never said anything about paying taxes or not...

Everyone just acted as if they didn't hear anything, and the incident passed by in a blur.

In fact, Song Jianming himself did not know that this matter was the bottom line for scholars in the world and should not be touched.

Today was just a small temptation, and he didn't know the price this kind of temptation would cost.

After this, hostility, spying, suppression, attacks, and even frame-ups from all directions will follow.

He had already gone through this once when he reconstructed the account books of the Ministry of Accounts, and there would only be more in the future.

But he has no regrets.

He knew what he was doing, and he also had the ambition of being a scholar to serve the world and the people, so even if he died for this, he would not regret it.

However, everything has two sides. Some people are firmly opposed to it, while others want to make a living out of it.

The law says that if you raise a person or above, you don't have to pay taxes, but it doesn't say you can't pay taxes.

Maybe it's because of this kind of thing that Mr. Song Ge won favor from His Majesty? Look, he has such brains. He started paying taxes more than ten years ago when he was in Lingnan!

Besides, the tax rate of 1/20 is not high. Who dares to waste money on the land in Ge's hometown?

Mr. Wu Ge was always wearing a pair of shorts when he went out with Mr. Song, and within a few days he quietly paid his family's taxes for this year.

The food tax, not counting the fire consumption, is really not that much.

Following the example, many local officials followed Master Song and began to pay taxes. There were also a few particularly motivated people in the capital who also paid taxes secretly.

The emperor expressed his satisfaction and asked Wu Gelao, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to remember the names of these officials who secretly paid taxes, so that they would be given priority in future evaluations and promotions.

No matter what the original intention of these officials was, some later Qingliu scribes even criticized this as a disguised bribery by officials to the emperor, but it was still a beginning.

In this way, a land tax law revolution that should have been vigorous began secretly.

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