Chapter One Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Five Troubles
As the official letter from the Ministry of Household Affairs on changes to the tax system was distributed to all prefectures and counties, it was like a huge stone being dropped into the lake, causing an uproar in an instant. A snow-like flurry of memorials flew from the chief envoys to Zhu Biao's imperial case.
superior.
Zhu Biao shook his head with a wry smile, looked up at Han Du, pointed at the imperial case, and said, "Look, these are the memorials submitted by the provinces, and they are all against you changing the tax system. Otherwise, this matter should be done first.
Let’s take a break for now.”
Han Du categorically rejected, "We can't slow down! If we fail to implement it again and again, if we don't implement it this time, then we won't even think about implementing it next time. Therefore, since the Ministry of Household Affairs has issued an official letter, that means
Everyone in the world is watching. If nothing happens because of a few memorials, how will the people in the world view the imperial court? This will be a heavy blow to the prestige of the imperial court!"
Zhu Biao was suddenly shocked, and then he realized the seriousness of the matter. Now he had reached a situation where he was riding a tiger and it was difficult to get off. He could not give in if he wanted to.
Han Du reached out and picked up a memorial, took a look at it, and then smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, this memorial has gorgeous rhetoric, but apart from saying that this is a perverse move, there is no strong evidence.
It is used to refute the new tax system. In other words, they just don’t agree with it, or they don’t want to change it, but they can’t tell what the disadvantages of the new tax system are.”
"This is making unreasonable troubles and opposing for the sake of opposition. If they complain like this and the court has to give in first, then if they encounter other things that make them slightly unhappy in the future and they complain like this, how will they deal with it?
?Moreover, by then, if the imperial court had not regressed like it is now, would it have aroused their anger, and instead they would have fought against the imperial court even more fiercely, hoping that the imperial court would make concessions again? If so, how could the imperial court's decrees be implemented?"
Zhu Biao frowned deeply, and immediately understood the difficulty of this matter. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, but could not think of a way to properly solve the matter. ??
He had no choice but to look up at Han Du and sighed, "What should we do now? These are the chief ministers of the world. Their memorials cannot be ignored, right?"
Han Du was not worried at all, and smiled and said, "The emperor is the emperor, and they are just ministers. Even if the emperor ignores them, they can only bear it."
Zhu Biao suddenly looked at Han Du helplessly.
Han Du laughed, and then said, "It's just a joke. Your Majesty, you don't have to take it seriously, right?"
After a pause, with Zhu Biao's eager eyes, Han Du said, "Since the emperor thinks that he cannot ignore it, then I think that since they have different opinions and cannot distinguish the reasons, then let Hu Bu
Let’s reason with them.”
Argument?
Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he pointed at Han Du with a smile, "Are you holding back something bad?"
Han Du suddenly felt aggrieved, "What did the emperor say? I am thinking of the emperor!"
I helped you solve the problem, and you actually turned around and ridiculed me? Believe it or not, I dare to give up immediately!
Zhu Biao also reacted immediately and quickly comforted Han Du, "Haha, that's what I said. Well, I'll leave this matter to you. You can make me feel at ease every time you do things."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Han Du returned to the household department and called for Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu.
"Master Hou, are you looking for me?" Wang Yuanji asked first.
Han Du glanced at the two of them and waved with a smile on his face, "Come on, come on, everyone, sit down."
"Thank you, Lord Marquis." Zhao Yu quickly returned the favor.
After the two sat down, Han Du smiled and said, "The emperor just summoned me."
Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu looked at each other, knowing that something must have happened.
Handu continued, "Because of the change in the tax system, several chief ministers were dissatisfied and wrote a memorial to the emperor to oppose the matter."
be opposed to?
Wang Yuanji suddenly felt relieved and said with a smile, "Master Hou, didn't we already expect that someone would object?"
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"Yes!" Han Du nodded.
Before preparing to issue the official letter, Han Du and the two men predicted what would happen. Among them was what the Ministry of Revenue would do if some officials resisted the Ministry of Revenue's changes to the tax system.
"However, although we have already had countermeasures, who knows whether this incident is just a warning? Therefore, I want you to be extremely careful and deal with the opposition of these chief envoys carefully, do you understand?" Han
Du stared at the two of them closely and gave them a focused look.
Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu looked at each other and nodded heavily at Han Du, "I understand!"
The next day, Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu, in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs, sent official documents to the chief envoys reported one by one. Since they opposed changing the tax system, they had to come up with strong reasons.
at the very beginning,
The chief envoy will reply to the Ministry of Household Affairs with confidence. However, they may be good at reading, but their understanding of taxes is limited to what the lower counties escort to the province every year. In fact, they only know that this year's taxes
How much taxes are paid by the prefectures and counties, but they have no idea how these taxes are obtained.
There may be people who know all about taxes, and even go to prefectures and counties to check the tax situation in person. But such people know better the benefits of the new tax system formulated by the Ministry of Revenue in collecting taxes, and they will not object to it at all.
Under the leadership of Han Du, Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu now have a good understanding of taxation. However, those envoys who knew nothing about taxation had to understand the necessity of collecting taxation and the structure of taxation.
It was reasonable, the significance of taxation, etc., and all the opposing chief ministers were refuted one by one.
Those chief envoys had seen such methods before, and the two of them refuted them speechlessly without spending much effort at all.
A storm had just started, but it was eliminated by Han Du in an understatement.
Zhang Yan and Qi Tai had been paying close attention to the developments in the Ministry of Revenue. From the very beginning, the emperor received the memorials from the various envoys, and they knew about it the next day.
There were people who opposed Handu's tax system, and there were several feudal officials. You can imagine how excited these two people were about this situation!
Originally, the two of them planned to observe for a period of time and wait until the right time to add a handful of firewood to Han Du. However, they did not expect that under the successive attacks of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the chief envoys would actually change.
It's going to start but end.
Before they even took action, the problem was solved by the Ministry of Revenue.
From the initial excitement to the current disappointment, the gap between the two was so great that they fell directly from the top to the bottom without even giving them a buffer time.
Originally, they wanted to disgust Han Du, but they did not expect that Han Du would disgust them unintentionally.
"Han Du! If you don't avenge me, I will never be a human being!" Qi Tai's eyes were red and he cursed fiercely.
On the contrary, Zhang Yan did not have Qi Tai's strong competitive spirit. He was originally extremely disgusted with Han Du, but when he saw Qi Tai acting like a madman, he felt a little scared.
He said with a complicated expression, "Well, Brother Shangyi is not like this, is he? Frankly speaking, Han Du and us have no deep hatred, at most they are just fellow travelers. Since we can't defeat him, then we should avoid him when we encounter him in the future.
Enough
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"Avoid it?" Qi Tai suddenly raised his head and stared at Zhang Yan with red eyes, "Do you think we can live in peace if we avoid Han Du in the future?"
"What else can I do?" Zhang Yan was a little afraid of Qi Tai like this, and couldn't help but lower his voice.
Qitai immediately snorted coldly and said, "Don't look at Han Du who always smiles, as if anyone can bully him. But I want to tell you, this person has extremely small minds. See for yourself from him
Since he started his official career, has he ever let go of anyone who has offended him?"
Zhang Yan suddenly fell silent. He didn't know if Han Du was being petty-minded, but he knew that something was wrong with Qitai's expression now.
When Qi Tai saw that Zhang Yan didn't say anything, he paused and lowered his voice.
Yin said, "We have offended Han Du to death. Now either he dies or we die. At this point, how can we still have room to make concessions?"
Zhang Yan took a deep breath, looked at Qi Tai meaningfully, nodded and said, "We understand."
Although Han Du had made predictions in advance and suppressed the matter in the shortest possible time, it was obviously not that simple to end the matter.
Although the chief envoys could not agree with the Ministry of Finance's theory, they were very angry and unwilling.
Just at this time, Qi Tai discovered that two of the chief envoys mentioned above were his old friends. So he wrote a letter and handed it to them.
As a result, in these two provinces, an evil wind targeting the household tax system began to blow unknowingly.
First of all, the two chief envoys mentioned in front of their subordinates more than once that although the tax system of the Ministry of Household Affairs unified taxes, it was bad news for the people. The people did not have much money in their hands, but now the Ministry of Household Affairs no longer collects taxes in kind.
, only collecting money, doesn’t this push the people to death?
After saying that, he still shook his head and looked worried about the country and the people.
Those who can stand in the Chief Envoy's Department are all human beings. When they see such an obvious signal from Shangguan, why don't they know what they should do?
As the saying goes, if something is good at the top, it will be worse at the bottom!
The news that the new tax system would force people to live in ruins quickly spread to people in all prefectures and counties. Even more than that, the news also spread rapidly to other provinces at a strange speed.
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