The first thousand and ninety-seventh section of the terrible young mansion
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As night falls slowly, the Chinese lanterns in Weiyang Palace are lit.
In order to celebrate the victory in the Battle of Heyin, Liu Che summoned all the nobles, ministers with more than two thousand stones, and their families in Weiyang Palace to hold a celebration banquet.
Taking advantage of the banquet, Liu Che called Liu She, the young master's order, in front of him.
"I heard that the Young Mansion has arrested hundreds more people recently? What's going on?" Liu Che asked, playing with the wine bottle in his hand.
Now, in Guanzhong, nothing can be hidden from him.
What's more, it's a vicious incident like arresting hundreds of people at once.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, this is indeed the case!" Liu She was also a bachelor. He lowered his head and reported: "These untouchables actually sold iron tools privately and could not pay the fine, so I had no choice but to arrest them and make them work for Your Majesty.
Pay the fine..."
Shaofu, in the past, mainly relied on oral gifts and the mineral output of Shanze Salt Pond to get rich.
However, after Liu Che came to the throne, he established a salt and iron franchise.
Relying on the profits of salt and iron, the young man's annual income is hundreds of millions!
It's really a lot of money.
Last summer, in order to strengthen national taxation, Liu Che issued an unrecorded order to the Shaofu, Da Nong and Lord Duwei Yamen.
The so-called unrecorded edicts refer to edicts that do exist but are not recorded.
This kind of edict is generally very deceptive.
It is a pit dug by the emperor for his ministers. Whoever jumps will die.
However, Liu Che's edict was not like this.
Just because that order didn't quite fit Liu Che's image, Liu Che chose not to file it, lest someone smear him in the history books.
Naturally, this order is full of philistine.
The general meaning of this order is that from now on, Shaofu, Da Nong and Lord Lieutenants can withhold one-tenth of the taxes collected in the current year as their own yamen's small treasury.
Whether they are used as welfare or to expand the yamen's institutions.
As long as it is reported and filed, Liu Che will approve it.
Naturally, this immediately aroused the enthusiasm for work in these yamen.
Even the Lord Commander and the Young Master were a little too enthusiastic.
The reason for this is actually related to the will of the bureaucracy itself.
For a bureaucracy, as long as it exists, it will expand its authority and personnel at all costs, and at the same time strive for funds and establishment.
In later generations, people can often see that both Eastern and Western bureaucracies have a common trend of more and more people and more bloated institutions.
Under a sign, there were a dozen or twenty deputy directors, standing directors, etc., and there were a lot of them.
This is representative of the corruption and depravity of the bureaucracy.
The typical example is to do nothing.
But there is another side to bureaucracy.
The fearsome and invincible Midi Internal Revenue Service, which is frightening to people and frightening to countless giants, and whose fighting power is several times more powerful than the combined power of Bi and IA, is another extreme representative of the bureaucracy.
Iron-blooded, ruthless, ruthless, loyal to the mission, and never slack off.
All to collect taxes, everything to collect taxes!
This terrible bureaucracy has always been outstanding in the history of the United States.
The gang boss who can't be dealt with by force and ia was sent to prison for tax evasion.
As long as a powerful business tycoon with countless resources dares to evade taxes, he will definitely be sent to prison.
In fact, even the Wall Street elites who claim to control the United States can't help but tremble in their calves when they hear the name of the IRS.
In the new century, this terrible bureaucracy is no longer content to run rampant within the American Empire.
They sent the tax bills to those wealthy people who did not live in the United States at all, but had American citizenship, and reminded them very kindly: Dear, it’s time to file your taxes!
In Liu Che's eyes, the Salt and Iron Division of the Han Dynasty's Young Master's Office and the Lord's Duwei Yamen already had some shadows of the Mi Empire's Internal Revenue Service.
Especially the Shaofu, who regarded the salt and iron franchise as his forbidden love.
No matter who it is, whoever dares to get involved in the sale of salt and iron will be bitten to the point of being paralyzed and bruised all over.
In the eyes of the young master, now, the meaning of its existence seems to have become to exist for salt and iron.
Because most of the Shaofu's welfare and many new establishments now depend on the retained profits of the Salt and Iron franchise.
And those large workshops, even secret research, are inseparable from the support of retained profits from salt and iron.
For the sake of money, the young man is obsessed with everything.
And if a bureaucracy is serious, the combat effectiveness it can exert is endless.
The Shaofu has an independent army, an independent prison, and even officials from other systems of the Han family.
When it seriously investigated the private trading of salt and iron, many private businessmen suddenly suffered bad luck.
Officials from the Shaofu government directly broke into the house and seized the stolen goods.
Then, the guy who was caught had only two options: one was to accept the punishment, and the other was to do hard labor.
Many people were punished by the Shaofu to the point of losing their entire fortune!
There was even a branch of the Dou family who was arrested by the Shaofu and imprisoned. He was not released until his family paid a huge fine.
As soon as this example was established, everyone else immediately behaved themselves.
At least on the ground in Guanzhong, the Shaofu basically eliminated the private salt and iron companies and completely monopolized the sales of salt and iron.
But the Shaofu was not satisfied with this.
Liu Che heard that some Shaofu officials had gone to Luoyang and planned to copy the Guanzhong model there.
Anyone caught buying and selling salt and iron materials privately will be severely punished.
Liu Che was very encouraging of this.
After all, it's rare to find a bureaucracy willing to do something, and that's a good thing.
However, everything has two sides.
This young man was so invincible that he actually imitated the food habits of the Imperial Taxation Bureau.
They even intervened in the iron trade among people of the same race.
The hundreds of people arrested this time were basically farmers. The reason for their arrest was simply that they privately asked local blacksmiths to make farm tools for them.
But the young master felt: Damn it, you common people don’t buy from the uncle? Do you want to rebel?
So, all the leading farmers and blacksmiths were arrested.
The one with the least amount of fines will be fined 10,000 yuan!
How can these miserable farmers afford this money?
Naturally, the only option is to work voluntarily for three years to repay the fine.
This matter was reported to Xiuyiwei.
Liu Che knew as soon as he saw it that this matter must be dealt with.
It is a good thing that the Shaofu government is cracking down on private salt and iron companies.
However, it is a bit too much to interfere and intervene in the salt and iron trade within the people's own clans and villages.
"Young Master, please let all these people go..." Liu Che knocked on the back of his hand and ordered: "From now on, the Young Master only needs to take care of private businessmen and those who sell salt and iron worth more than five thousand yuan...
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"The lives of other common people are already difficult. The young master should not interfere with the help within their clans, fellow villagers, and relatives and friends!"
"Promise!" How dare Liu She disobey orders? After hearing this, he immediately said respectfully: "I will inform my subordinates of the sacred order!"
"By the way..." Liu Che looked at Liu She and said, "After releasing the people, the Shaofu should pay these people some compensation according to the number of days of detention! In my opinion, fifty yuan per day will be the standard!"
Liu Che has never been afraid to do this kind of thing to gain reputation and win over people's hearts.
This is also the basic skill of being a ruler.
In fact, every ruler is a movie king.
The only difference is whether you can see through his acting skills.
Thinking of this, Liu Che couldn't help but look up at the stars again.
Tonight, the clouds are clear and the wind is gentle, and the moonlight is just right! (To be continued.)
