Shen Lie smiled, with a dismissive look. Seeing the smile on his lovely wife's pretty face, Shen Lie couldn't help but feel a surge in his heart.
Look at the beauty under the lamp.
The more I watch, the more I fall in love with it.
With infinite affection in his heart, Shen Lie grabbed his sweet wife's soft white hands and patted them, but a look of dignity appeared between his eyebrows, and his smile gradually turned cold.
"Hehehe."
Shen Lie sneered.
Are the adults making trouble?
Then I will let them know what a gun barrel is!
Zhang Jingxiu pursed his lips and smiled, watching his master pick up the iced lotus seed soup and take a sip, and looked outside the wooden shed not far away intentionally or unintentionally...
Little Lady Bai's plain white figure was looming, and she passed by not far away either intentionally or unintentionally, and she stretched her neck to look at something.
"cough."
A slight cough, two places of worry.
In the trouble of happiness.
The dark night fell again.
And at this time.
The imperial tax rolls that Shen Lie asked someone to borrow from the Inner Court Ceremony Officer arrived. The eunuch in charge brought in the box containing the tax rolls and repeatedly warned them not to lose them.
Only then did Shi Shiran leave.
As the jujube box was opened, Shen Lie took out the tax book, patted the dust on it, and then looked through it carefully to see the real Ming Dynasty in the early years of Wanli.
A mysterious veil opened in front of Shen Lie, the time traveler.
"Last year, the imperial court collected taxes. Rice grains were converted into 26,520,000 taels of silver. Among them, agricultural taxes were converted into silver... 20,800,000 taels, commercial taxes... 2,230,000 taels, and miscellaneous taxes. Three million four hundred and eighty thousand taels."
Under the light of the hunting torch, these shocking figures appeared.
An unknown fire surged up in Shen Lie's heart.
I really saw it!
Only then did Shen Lie realize the absurdity of the world and the shamelessness, arrogance and greed of the literati group. Shen Lie made a rough estimate, which meant that the entire Ming Dynasty was a miserable peasant.
Bearing 80% of the taxes of the entire dynasty!
And the Shilin Group, which owns salt, iron, tea, horse, Tianxia Bank, silk, cotton, tea and other hugely profitable businesses, the royal relatives and relatives were responsible for the taxes of the Ming Dynasty...
More than 10%.
With deep shock, Shen Lie continued to look through the tax rolls and quickly found the salt tax. The royal court's salt tax revenue in the ninth year of Wanli was.
Shen Lie wiped his eyes hard and looked at the numbers on the tax roll.
A moment.
I thought I was living in a dream.
Shen Lie, who looked dull, couldn't help but murmur to himself: "Last year, the royal court's salt tax revenue was... 130,000 taels, tea tax was 26,000 taels, mining tax was 160,000 taels..."
I read it for a while.
Shen Lie tried to find records of tariffs, but found nothing.
correct.
I remembered.
There are no tariffs at all in these years.
Looking at this shocking tax book, Shen Lie was numb. He wiped his eyes hard and looked through it carefully...
That’s right.
it is true.
At this moment, Shen Lie's heart was filled with ups and downs. He never expected that in the early year of Wanli, the Shilin Group would have gone so crazy.
Sitting on the most profitable salt business in the world, he only paid a measly 130,000 taels of tax silver to the court a year, and the tea tax was only a pitiful 26,000 taels.
And a famous Qinhuai prostitute from the Qing Dynasty was worth tens of thousands of taels.
And even for this small amount of tax, the Jiangnan Shilin Group, represented by the Donglin Party, actually doesn't want to pay it, and is still making noise every day to abolish the tea tax.
"hehe."
Shen Lie was extremely angry.
Close the tax book slowly.
His face became uncertain for a while, and at this moment Shen Lie thought of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as the crazy smuggling of silver along the coast.
Obviously.
His father-in-law, Zhang Juzheng, had implemented the New Deal for ten years, but had only raised agricultural taxes and had not yet had time to take action on commercial taxes.
or.
Zhang Juzheng also threw a rat-averse weapon.
The night is quiet and silent.
And next to you.
Zhang Jingxiu looked at her husband-in-law worriedly, her bright eyes becoming worried, and she was silent at this moment.
a long time.
Shen Liecai seemed to wake up from a deep dream, biting his back teeth and chanting: "Squeeze, squeeze me hard!"
There is no way to squeeze the oil out of these people.
I, a member of the Dongchang Thousand Households and the Commander of the Imperial Guard, have all worked for nothing!
the next day.
early morning.
In Cining Palace.
The sky is dark and bright.
The eunuchs and palace maids who got up early got busy, gently bringing copper basins and hot water into the Queen Mother's palace, and taking care of the Queen Mother's daily life.
And Queen Mother Li put on her palace clothes after washing herself...
Had a quick breakfast.
As usual, we received visits from the emperor, the empress, Wang Gongfei and others, and the voices of greetings came and went, day after day, and year after year.
But the Queen Mother and the Emperor were both a little absent-minded.
Looking at the emperor's son, who was becoming more and more majestic, Empress Dowager Li comforted him with kind words: "There will be a road to the mountain, so the emperor doesn't have to worry too much."
at this time.
A valet walked in quietly, bowed in front of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and then whispered a few words.
"To the Queen Mother Shengci, your majesty...the father-in-law of the Taiguo wishes to see you."
Zhu Yijun waved his hand nonchalantly and let his grandfather in. As soon as his grandfather entered the door, he became very angry and shouted at him.
"There is no justice!"
"No one can live anymore!"
The Taiguozhang's shout made Zhu Yijun and Empress Dowager Li frown at the same time. Zhu Yijun couldn't say anything, but Empress Dowager Li turned cold towards her father.
After some questioning.
What happened again?
The Taiguozhang blushed and muttered, saying that his two sons and the emperor's two biological uncles had been arrested by the Jin Yiwei again.
"Why?"
Zhu Yijun was stunned and hurriedly asked, only to find out that last night Jinyiwei and Dongchang swept away thousands of brothels, large and small, in the capital.
That’s not all!
This time, even the large and small casinos were demolished. Now the Jinyiwei Prison is filled with people, and the whole capital is in a state of panic.
After a while of silence.
"Ha ha!"
Then I saw the 19-year-old Wanli rolled up his sleeves, raised his neck, and laughed heartily: "Hahaha!"
"Walk."
Maybe it's too relieved.
Long Live Master excitedly said to the chamberlain: "Prepare the car, let's take a look!"
Seeing that the emperor and a group of servants were rushing towards Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town in great excitement, Empress Dowager Li could not stop her, so she could only watch in silence.
He looked at his father who was blushing and angry.
Queen Mother Li was also a little embarrassed and angry, and said angrily: "Dad...can't you just take care of it!"
How many times has this happened!
Every time a factory guard caught a prostitute, there were two Taiguo uncles. This meant that as a queen mother, she couldn't put her face to the factory guard every time and ask for mercy.
After being complained all over by his daughter, Tai Guozhang was so embarrassed that he could not speak.
soon.
Queen Mother Li woke up from her embarrassment and quickly took on the role of Queen Mother and scolded her a few times. This time she had no shame to speak to Shen Lie.
"Hurry up and hand over the fine you deserve."
Empress Dowager Li, who had driven away her biological father, quickly began to wonder whether the factory guard suddenly showed up again and was trying to extort money again.
Empress Dowager Li's dignified and charming face became a little tangled at this moment. She felt that the emperor's son, whom she had raised with so much hard work, was about to be led astray by that Shen Lie.
The Queen Mother always felt that something was not right, but she could not put her finger on it.
It is indeed the responsibility of the factory guards to clean up these beautiful streets and willow alleys. No one can find any faults, but...
