You have committed so many serious crimes, what are you going to do?" Liu Che asked calmly.
Shi Dan was stunned for a moment, hearing the hidden meaning of the emperor's words.
When I thought about it more carefully, I couldn't help but feel ecstatic.
"If His Majesty didn't need to use our house, why would he approach me in person? It's even more impossible to ask such a question!" Shi Dan thought in his mind.
As long as a person with normal intelligence can think of this kind of thing calmly and for a moment, they can think of it.
The son of a rich man cannot sit in the palace, let alone the emperor.
If the emperor really wanted to take action against his master, why would he need to go to such trouble?
One small official is enough to destroy the whole family!
Without any time to think about it, Master Dan immediately kowtowed and said: "I know that I am guilty of death, and I am willing to submit to the law, but Your Majesty will be punished..."
At this time, he did not put any blame on himself and excused his clan members.
The reason is very simple, whether it is dead or alive, whether it is round or flat, it is not up to him to decide.
The emperor can do whatever he wants, and if he chatters and rambles, he may annoy the emperor and bring disaster to the whole clan.
"What a shame..." Liu Che chuckled: "The Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family in Linqiong bribed officials, smuggled people, and embezzled the national workshops and mines. I asked them to pay for the construction of the Baoxian Road. The total amount was
The standard of one hundred thousand yuan..." Liu Che squinted his eyes, looked at Shi Dan, and asked, "Tell me, what do you want to use to atone for your sins?"
Shi Dan's heart skipped a beat, and with a smile that was even uglier than crying, he bowed: "Your Majesty, my family has a small business, and I dare not compare with the two Linqiong people..."
What a joke!
One hundred thousand dollars?
Even in the heyday of the Master's family, it probably only had a family fortune of 30 to 40 million yuan. This is after taking into account all real estate, servants, and foreign debts.
The Zheng family and Zhuo family in Linqiong City were very wealthy.
But that's because they swallowed up Deng Tong's property in Shu County and became rich.
Who in this world dares to compare their wealth with these two?
However, the emperor was indifferent and still looked at him with a smile, which made Shidan feel a little embarrassed.
Shi Dan knew in his heart that if there was no blood today, he would probably not be able to see the sun tomorrow.
Even hundreds of people in the family will die!
Moreover, when a person dies, his money and property will still fall into the hands of the emperor.
There was no other way. He gritted his teeth and cried, "The little people from Luoyang to Guanzhong have seen the track carriage built by your majesty. It is very exquisite. It can be said that it is used all over the world. It can be said that the merits are immeasurable. The little people know that their sins are unforgivable."
, I am willing to donate 10 million yuan every year to build a track carriage from Chang'an to Hangu Pass to atone for the sins committed by the common people!"
Liu Che finally beamed, showing a spring-like smile, and said: "First pay 30 million to the young master!"
Shi Dan's heart was bleeding, thirty million dollars?
This is almost all the current liquidity of the Shi family.
But what can he do?
Now, people work as swordsmen and I work as fish and meat.
It’s impossible not to bleed!
Shidan could only kowtow and say: "Nuo!"
Liu Che also sighed, these businessmen are basically such urchins.
I think in history, in order to raise funds, Xiaozhu showed off his face, said all his good things, and hoped that businessmen would donate money to help the country.
Unfortunately, except for a fool named Bu Shi, no one liked him.
That's all. Xiaozhu took another step back and levied additional commercial tax, vehicle and vessel tax, and accruals, hoping that merchants would make concessions on taxes.
But still no one liked him.
So, the little pig went crazy and overturned the table, and then the doom of the merchants came.
Under the orders of Gao Wei, no one can survive.
Not only the big businessmen died, but also the small and medium-sized businessmen suffered the same fate.
Facts have proved that before the knife was placed on the neck, businessmen would definitely dare to sell the rope to hang themselves for profit.
This is the bad nature and nature of businessmen all over the world.
There is no cure at all.
It was precisely because he saw these things that Liu Che knew that if he increased business taxes now, there would be almost no businessmen willing to take advantage of him.
Take Shi Dan in front of us as an example. If we do not rely on the power of the emperor and threaten the great terror between life and death, but simply promulgate a law, how much business tax is the master family willing to pay? Do we have half a million?
The answer is that maybe even fifty thousand dollars is too much.
On the contrary, now, for 30 million yuan, I didn't even pay back the offer, I just agreed in one fell swoop.
"It's not enough to just rely on big households..." Liu Che sighed in his heart.
How many big businessmen in the world have a fortune as large as that of the Master's family?
It's only a matter of ten fingers to hold him to death.
Even if you break the bones and suck out the marrow, how much can you get? And it's just a one-shot deal.
Only by restoring the commercial laws of the Empress Lu period, and even elevating commercial taxes to an important supplementary position in national fiscal revenue, is a long-term solution and a sustainable future.
However, now I can only think about it.
Businessmen, public opinion and courtiers would not allow Liu Che to do this.
It can only be done subtly and slowly.
Liu Che even had a premonition that in order to achieve this goal, he had to first defeat the Xiongnu and fulfill the long-cherished wish of the fourth emperor of the Han Dynasty, and then use this unparalleled achievement to establish the position of being unbiased and independent of the Holy Heart.
Successful implementation.
Now...
Liu Che looked at Shi Dan, stretched out his hand and said: "There are a few more things that you have to do before I will consider them and let bygones be bygones!"
How dare Shi Dan have any objection? He immediately kowtowed happily: "Your Majesty, please give me your permission!"
At this moment, Shi Dan really felt that the 30 million yuan expenditure and the 10 million yuan annual contribution that he had promised before were really a good deal!
This investment can even be regarded as Shijia’s sixty-year investment!
because……
From now on...
My family is the emperor's minions, the emperor's merchants, and the extension of the emperor's will.
As long as the things assigned by the emperor can be done well, who can touch their family?
And with the help of the emperor's tiger skin, where can the world's defenses, prefectures, and master's families go? What kind of business can't they do?
Even the governor of Henan County, Zhidu, whose nickname is Goshawk, might be helpless to his family if we meet again.
What a huge profit!
Shi Dan only felt that in his own eyes he could see the future in which the Shi family would become one of the most powerful families in the Han Dynasty, and would be so majestic that they would even become prime ministers and generals.
"It is said that after the Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family made donations to build the Baoxie Road, His Majesty accepted their family's daughter as his concubine..." Shi Dan's eyes quickly rolled.
Offering a daughter to serve as the emperor's bed attendant was like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate in the Han Dynasty.
Back then, Shi Fen's sister was only named a young envoy for Emperor Taizu Gao, which laid the foundation for the Shi family's sixty-year wealth!
But Shi Dan knew that he had to let go of this matter first. Now, all he needed to do was to listen wholeheartedly to the things ordered by the emperor, keep them firmly in his heart, and then complete them beautifully at all costs! (To be completed.)
Continued.)
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