Wenyuan Pavilion.

Outside Lin Yanchao's office, he saw the new governor of Yingtian Li Ruhua sitting quietly on the class chair with his knees.

Li Ruhua, the Lianghuai Salt Tax, made great contributions to the reform. Although he had gone through twists and turns, the Huainan Salt Law was finally established, called the Gangyun Law.

This method of fortune originated from Liu Yan in the Tang Dynasty, and then Lin Yanchao suggested to Li Ruhua to change it.

This method of fortune is to cover taxes and buy more.

The salt merchants claim the wobos, and those who are unknown in the wobos are not allowed to join. The salt merchants listed in the wobos give the court a salt tax every year. As for the intermediate process of the salt tax, the salt merchants are responsible for themselves and can directly face the salt households without having to go through the Salt Transportation Department. As for the court, the court only has the responsibility of supervising.

Once this method is released, there are all voices of approval and objection.

Lin Yanchao asked Li Ruhua to add a name to Shen Shixing's housekeeper Shen Jiu in WoBen.

Of course, Li Ruhua made a plan. After Shen Shixing stepped down, Shen Jiu also went to Yangzhou to live his own life.

He heard that Shen Jiu also tried to run the salt industry at the beginning, but in the end he still felt that it was not cost-effective. In the end, Shen Jiu took the salt amount on the WoBen to the market to sell it, and other salt merchants who were not listed in WoBen could buy the right to sell salt from Shen Jiu.

Shen Jiu made endless profits from this and lived a life as a rich man.

As a steward, Shen Jiu was like this. How much Shen Shixing took from it is not something that Li Ruhua knew, and he did not dare to ask about it. After all, he had already retired from the position of the Yanyan Censor at that time, and only Lin Yanchao and Shen Shixing knew the details.

The method of fortune gives many salt merchants the opportunity to make profits by buying and selling their money.

Of course, if the salt merchant does not pay sufficient salt tax as timely, he will be fined by the court and will lose all his money, but the probability of this is too small.

Although there are many disadvantages of the Regulations and the Law of Constitution, the Huainan salt tax that had been owed for many years was finally collected by the court by a large amount. Li Ruhua was also promoted all the way and has now been promoted to Governor Yingtian.

Now the salt merchants in Lianghuai are wise and know the taste, and have always asked Li Ruhua to suggest that the court should also implement the ruling and transportation method in Huaibei.

Li Ruhua knew that even though he was now Governor Yingtian, he would not count on this matter.

The court had no choice but to say three or five people, and the Grand Secretary Lin Yanchao who asked him to wait outside the duty room to meet was one of them.

Soon after, I saw the cabinet officials bringing another "big man" to come.

Li Ruhua glanced at the other party. This man was tall and tall, but his face was a bit rough, so he could not be called the court official.

Such a person can also go to Wenyuan Pavilion so confidential?

But when the cabinet official said to him, "The cabinet master is still seeing guests, please wait here!"

From the official's robe, he showed that he was a fifth-rank official, and there was a tooth sign hanging around his waist.

A fifth-rank official in Beijing is also a court official, but the tone of the cabinet officials is like this, and they feel that except for the prime minister who is on duty in the room, the rest of the officials have the same feeling.

Li Ruhua sat on the chair and did not get up, and he bowed to him in a common name.

It turned out that he was a member of the Ministry of Works, Bi Ziyan.

Li Ruhua thought to himself that he seemed to have heard of this person's name in the past.

Before I could think too much, I saw that the door of Lin Yan's taxi-value room opened.

A second-rank official stepped out with his hands behind his back, and Li Ruhua didn't dare to ask for help, so he stood up and saluted.

"The lower official Li Ruhua has met the Grand Secretary!"

Yang Junmin, the Minister of Revenue, stopped slightly, looked up and down at Li Ruhua and smiled, "Yes, Maofu."

The two chatted for a few words.

During the reform of the Lianghuai Salt Law, Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants fought for the allocation of quotas in the homeland, and almost torn their faces.

Li Ruhua secretly favored Hui merchants, while Yang Junmin was on the side of Shanxi merchants.

Li Ruhua was worried that Yang Junmin would not give him a good look, but now it seems that he is too worried. The little things about the Grand Master Farmer are not in his heart. On the contrary, Yang Junmin also praised him for his good work on the Lianghuai Salt Law back then.

Then Bi Ziyan, who was standing by, also greeted Yang Junmin, but Yang Junmin had no good expression on him and just nodded to give up.

At this time, Li Heng, the secretary of the Secretariat, was already standing aside.

When Yang Junmin talked to Li Ruhua, Li Heng waited on the side without urging him.

After Yang Junmin left, Li Heng stepped forward to Li Ruhua, and Bi Ziyan said, "Please come in together!"

Li Ruhua was a little surprised. He thought Lin Yanchao would meet him alone, but he didn't know that he would be with this person. Could it be that Bi Ziyan had any outstanding features?

Then Li Ruhua and Bi Ziyan came to the duty room.

As soon as I entered the duty room, Li Ruhua felt a chill. It was almost summer and the weather was a little hot, but where did the cool air come from in the duty room?

Li Ruhua thought about it and realized that as a sympathetic character of the cabinet ministers, the emperor would order the palace to bring ice from the ice cellar to cool down the heat of the cabinet ministers who were doing business in the palace.

It seems that it must be for the purpose of cooling down, Lin Yanchao put in an ice bucket in the duty room.

If it were ordinary officials, this move was too extravagant, and even if you had the financial resources, you would not dare to use it openly.

However, as the grace given by the Emperor, the Cabinet Grand Secretary is one of the few that can be used openly.

In the room, Lin Yanchao leaned against the rocking chair on the side of the desk, closing his eyes to rest.

As if he heard the sound of footsteps, Lin Yanchao opened his eyes and sat upright.

Seeing that there was bloodshot in Lin Yanchao's eyes, Li Ruhua couldn't help but sigh silently. After seeing the large plaque with the words "Do your best" written on it, he felt even more moved. Lin Yanchao really did these words after entering the cabinet.

Lin Yanchao seemed to notice Li Ruhua's gaze, looked at the plaque and smiled, "Brother Maofunian, this plaque was given by Master Zibai. After someone else, Lin did not dare to accept it, but the gift from the priest was disrespectful."

Li Ruhua knew that Master Zibai was one of the four great monks in Buddhism today, and his reputation was self-evident. No one of the scholars in the wild today can be ranked alongside him except Li Zhi.

Now that Lin Yanchao has entered the pavilion, Master Zibai asked someone to send this plaque, but compared Lin Yanchao to Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, which can be called the will of the people.

However, the Ming Dynasty's country's situation was internal and external troubles, and Lin Yanchao faced no less difficulties than the restoration of the Han Dynasty.

When Li Ruhua thought of this, he was speechless for a moment.

Li Ruhua and Bi Ziyan took their seats after ceremonializing, while Lin Yanchao sat in a rocking chair. His current status is not a rude move.

Li Ruhua first thanks Lin Yanchao for supporting him as Governor Yingtian this time.

Lin Yanchao smiled faintly when he heard this, but as for Bi Ziyan, he looked as if he was cherishing his words.

Li Ruhua ignored Bi Ziyan and said, "The lower-ranking official is about to take office in Nanjing. Before leaving, he read what the Prime Minister said in the Xinmin Daily and gained a lot."

"The officials of the lower dynasty believe that the government of the court is based on scholars, in agriculture, in work, and in business, and the four people are equal. What should be considered light and what should be more important. In the past, it was too negligent to emphasize agriculture and commerce, which was too negligent. During the Song Dynasty, the tax on the court was mostly due to commercial tax, followed by agricultural tax. However, in this dynasty, agricultural tax was the most important, and agricultural tax was the most important, and agricultural tax accounted for more than 90%. If the court continued to let go, the merchants would become increasingly extravagant and the farmers would become increasingly poor. The officials of the lower dynasty would go to heaven, and whether they could make any achievements in this matter? Please ask the teacher to give me some advice."

Lin Yanchao refused to comment and said to Bi Ziyan on the side: "The importance of taxes in Nanzhili lies in Suzhou. I heard that Jing Hui was once the Suzhou Promoter. How about the taxes in Suzhou Prefecture?"

Bi Ziyan said: "Reported to the Master Ge, since the sixth year of Wanli, Suzhou Prefecture implemented the one-whip law, the government was the Qing Dynasty. For example, brown rice, wheat was set to be worth one liang of silver, japonica rice, glutinous rice was set to be worth seven qian of silver, and a piece of silk was set to be worth seven qian of silver. Summer tax was worth three thousand liang and autumn grain was worth sixty-five thousand liang."

"As for the money, the court used to pay 10,000 guan per banknote and 20 cents of silver, and 7 cents of silver. Now, 1,000 guan is only 6 cents of silver. Ancient coins are 1,000 guan and 1,000 guan is 1,000 guan and 1,000 guan is 2,500 guan and 5 cents of silver, and the total tariff of banknotes is 65,000 liang."

"As for the salt tax, the tax is only 4,000 taels, and the miscellaneous tax is only 2,200 taels, which is better than the labor service and the silver is 115,000 taels. The court paid 2,600 taels per stone. The tax on the Hefu of Suzhou Prefecture reached 900,000 taels a year, but the banknotes, commercial taxes, and salt taxes totaled only 70,000 taels."

Li Ruhua looked at Bi Ziyan with some admiration. This person is actually a cadre official.

Li Ruhua said: "As Lord Bi said, the commercial tax in the court is prohibited, the taxes of the Guanjin and the taxes of the market and the taxes of the Suzhou Prefecture are so small that they are removed from the banknotes. The reason is that in the world, the only one of the Suzhou Prefectures does not collect the taxes of the market and the simplified people."

Lin Yanchao understood that Li Ruhua alluded to Suzhou Weaving Sun Long.

After the emperor levyed the mine tax this time, Sun Long was alone in the tax supervision of Su, Song, Chang and Zhen.

The rule in Suzhou at that time was to only charge business, not to deal with business, and the big head of business tax was supported by 65,000 taels of money tax.

Sun Long served as the Weaving Manufacturing in Suzhou for many years and has been in peace with the people. He also asked the emperor to forgive the Weaving Manufacturing in Suzhou many times. However, the emperor was also in a hurry to death and ordered Sun Long to impose commercial taxes.

After receiving the order of the emperor, Sun Long immediately closed the tax on the merchants in Suzhou.

You should know that Suzhou is the richest place in the world, with a commercial circulation of tens of millions of taels of gold and silver per year. If you really want to collect the tax on the business market, you can get hundreds of thousands of taels a year.

But I don’t know if Sun Long was too greedy or the people below were messing around, but the business tax they set was extremely high, and they took the shoulders and took one of them, and they drew one of them; they drew two of them, and the machines were drew three of them.

This move was immediately opposed by Suzhou Weaver.

Because the weaver has been under heavy weaving, the machine owner has to provide silk for the weaving bureau every year.

Sun Long again imposed commercial tax on the weaver, which led to the Suzhou weaver Uprising.

At that time, a weaver house in Suzhou named Ge Cheng was so hard that he was determined to make an appointment. He raised his arms and heard a cry, and immediately received a response from thousands of people and supported him. He killed many tax officials and tax collectors under Sun Long. Sun Long had to escape from Suzhou when he was old.

As soon as this happened, the government sent troops to suppress the people and prepared to arrest Luo and uprising the people, but Ge Cheng took the initiative to surrender and took over everything alone.

All the gentry and people in Suzhou jointly submitted a memorial to plead for Ge Cheng, and even Shen Shixing wrote a letter to interrogate repeatedly. Under pressure, the Suzhou government did not dare to deal with Ge Cheng.

After hearing what Li Ruhua said, Lin Yanchao looked at the other party and said, "What Futai refers to is the matter of coming to Suzhou Prefecture's tax supervision. The cabinet has heard a little about this matter. In the past, the court would hold the local officials accountable for the rebellion of farmers and then appease them. Then the court would not ask for responsibility for the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion of the rebellion

Li Ruhua left the chair and bowed and said, "What the Master said is very true."

Lin Yanchao reached out to signal Li Ruhua to sit down, and then smiled and said, "As Li Futai said, Suzhou's commercial taxes handle tens of millions of yuan a year, but the court cannot collect a single penny, so the treasury tax is less than so much that the court must not sit idly by. But how to urge the tax? Is this law now possible? These are another matter."

Li Ruhua was overjoyed when he heard this: "Your Majesty, Suzhou has only been known as a heavy tax over the years, but it has not been a heavy tax. At that time, local officials in Susong have always been too many officials in the court. Once they have to impose commercial tax on Suzhou Prefecture, it may be difficult to accomplish anything."

Li Ruhua's words are facts. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a heavy tax on Su Song, and then stipulated that Su Song people in Zhejiang and Jiangxi could not serve in the Ministry of Revenue. It is said that this move was because he was afraid that Su Song's officials would have selfish intentions.

Even so, Zhu Yuanzhang was still worried and added a sentence in the Hadith, "There were later words that those who changed the ancestors' system should be regarded as treacherous ministers." However, Taizu had calculated it for a long time but did not expect that although Su Song had a heavy tax on land, he still took advantage of his loopholes in commercial taxes.

Therefore, Suzhou only has the name of tribute to tribute, but it does not have the reality of quotations.

As for Taizu defending Su Song officials, they could not enter the Ministry of Revenue, but they could not guard against others. Not to mention the distance, they would just talk about the nearest ones. Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, the two chief ministers, were from Suzhou.

At this time, Bi Ziyan said with a prominent voice: "The master of the cabinet can advise the emperor to abolish Suzhou weaving, so that the court can impose commercial tax on Suzhou."

When Li Ruhua heard this, he looked at the rough man beside him for the second time.
To be continued...