After laughing for a while, Jian Yi didn't dare to go too far and cleared her throat, "The top five donors this time are Yan's Grain Store, Chang's Cloth Store, Wei's Tea House, Qi's Trading Company, and Du's Restaurant.

All five families donated 50,000 taels.

In order to thank these five families for their generosity, and their contributions can be regarded as a model for Yunzhou merchants, therefore, through my proposal and the permission of the Holy One, each of these five families will be rewarded with a quota for the scientific examination.

The Yan family, the Chang family, the Wei family, the Qi family, and the Du family still don’t kneel down to express gratitude.”

As he spoke, Jian Jian glanced at the reactions of these families. Seeing that their reactions were as exciting as he had imagined, he reminded him with a smile this time.

As soon as Jian Yi finished speaking, everyone in the audience immediately became excited. Everyone was in an uproar and couldn't believe it.

Several families whose names were simply called were stunned.

The surprise came so quickly that they had no way to react.

In the Liang Kingdom, culture has always been valued over military affairs, and scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have always been valued.

Although the social status of merchants is not as low as that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in a certain world, it is definitely not high.

At certain times, merchants, that is, some officials, raised fat sheep and put them in the grassland when they were not needed, and then brought them back and slaughtered them when needed.

In places like the capital, Jiangnan and other places where literary styles are prevalent, unless you are extremely wealthy or you are an imperial merchant, no matter how rich the businessman is, it will only take a matter of minutes for a scholar to take over you.

That is to say, in Yunzhou, which is far away from the capital and beyond the reach of the emperor, and the decrees cannot be fully implemented, the indigenous Yi merchants can dominate Yunzhou, oppress the people, run rampant, and even kill some high-ranking officials.

Pressed down.

Leave it to other places and let these merchants try it.

However, no matter how tyrannical these people are, their descendants will not be able to elect officials through the imperial examination.

Even if the recommendation system is implemented in the surrounding areas, no matter how many local Yi officials there are, they will definitely not have merchant backgrounds, because this is a major crime against the Nine Tribes.

Therefore, collusion between officials and businessmen is most prevalent in Yunzhou.

However, no matter how close the officials they support are, how can they be close to their own family members? If they accidentally offend them, wouldn't everything be in vain?

Therefore, it is easy to imagine how precious and delighted they are to receive this prize from Jian Jian. The head of one of the five families is nearly seventy years old. After hearing the prize announced by Jian Jian, he burst into tears of joy.

Down.

Jian Yi expressed that he was very satisfied with their reaction.

In fact, this quota was obtained a few months ago, but it has not been given out. It has been suppressed until today. In addition to not wanting to give the people who donated money the illusion of buying an official position, it is just to give them such a surprise.

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Although the reason why they paid for it in the first place, apart from his reputation and background and his plan to slaughter the fat sheep, his glass prescription accounted for a big reason.

Facts have proved that after the glass factory successfully produced glass and sold it, these people's hatred and complaints against him became much less.

Now, glass has become the most famous specialty in Yunzhou. Countless businessmen come here because of its reputation, travel thousands of miles to buy it, and then take it to other places to sell it.

However, this is not the most important thing. What is important is that with this reward, when he wants to do something and implement any policies in Yunzhou in the future, I believe the resistance will be much smaller.

There will even be a lot of people who agree with him, imagining that one day they will also get the quota allowed for merchants to take the imperial examination.

After the five families came out and knelt to thank the emperor, Jian Jian added: "Of course, I have not forgotten the others. I sent people to create five plaques of 'House of Benevolence' and presented them to the people of Yunzhou for what they have done in the past six months."

The Kang family, Fan family, Zhu family, Wei Jia and Xie family made significant contributions.

The five companies that receive plaques will receive support from the Yunzhou government, and will be exempted from one-tenth of the commercial tax after the new commercial tax is implemented after the year."

As soon as Jian Yan finished speaking, the venue reached its climax again. Everyone was talking about the new business tax. The five families who had received the plaques had gloomy faces and were very dissatisfied with the prizes announced by Jian Yan.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Jian Yi laughed again and said: "Sorry, this new commercial tax law was just approved by the emperor some time ago, and it hasn't been issued yet. But it's not a big deal, I'll call someone

Thoughts to everyone."

After saying that, he simply waved his hand to indicate that the emperor's confidant who had been waiting aside to inspect the terraces read out the new commercial tax law to everyone in the audience.

When the five families who received the plaques heard the shrill voice read about how much tax they would have to pay depending on the range of their annual profits, they were angry; but when they thought about what Jian Jian just said, they could be exempted from ten taxes.

They were very excited when receiving the commercial tax incentives.

But these five families were happy, but other merchants and officials with properties in their names were not happy. If it weren't for the fact that the person who was thinking about commercial tax was the servant waiting in front of the emperor, and the identity of Jian Jian and Princess Duan Yu.

, they were already going to fight.

Seeing how excited everyone was, after the chamberlain finished reciting, he looked at the officials' seats on the left and said with a smile: "When the rice in the terraced fields matures, it is very likely that the imperial envoy will come to conduct an actual inspection. Sir, if you arrive,

At that time, Yunzhou City is being managed in an orderly and prosperous way by you, so you will definitely be very happy. When the time comes, you will return to the capital and say a few nice words to everyone in front of the emperor. Then..."

Everyone thought deeply about the simple words, and as the pictures came to mind, many people's faces couldn't help but flush.

Seeing this, Jian Yi smiled.

He deliberately said this at this time in order to do something under the emperor's banner.

Tell the officials and gentry present that what he wants to do is approved by the emperor and must be implemented. Anyone who dares to resist, who dares to make small moves, or who dares to deviate will be killed.

Yunzhou officials, no matter whether you are transferred from other places or local natives, you must obey me and carry out his orders honestly.

Otherwise, hey, just wash your neck and wait for slaughter.

As for those wealthy gentry, well, without the support of officials, they are just paper tigers that can be broken by a poke.

The reason why I let them listen is to save trouble and stop them from fussing.

After the skin is pulled and rewards are given based on merit, it’s time to discuss crimes and punish them.

Before the officials and gentry outside had finished sorting out what was going on in their minds, Jian Jian sent his guards who had been waiting in the dark to rush forward and arrest all the officials and gentry who had been doing petty tricks since he issued the decree.

Seeing the people in a panic and listening to the screams one after another, the villain in Jian Yi's heart shook his head fiercely. After shaking it, he laughed three times with his hands on his hips, feeling extremely happy.

For today's big drama, he specially kept the masterminds who made trouble and hired murderers to assassinate him until now to deal with it. He has endured this for three months, three months.

God knows how he endured it, and God knows how much he wanted to dig out these disgusting rats and destroy them.

The ones we dealt with before were just small shrimps.


Chapter completed!