The memorials of all dynasties, the emperor's records, the hasiths, and the imperial edicts are all stored in the imperial history at the south entrance of Nanchizi Street. If you need to call and review, you need to request the imperial edict in advance and go to the Military Affairs Office to get the tickets, and then you can go to the side hall in the imperial history to find the corresponding information.

Su Shun, with his entourage from the Ministry of Revenue, went to the south corner of the Forbidden City, and entered the imperial history. He found the officer on duty and showed his ticket. The officer was surnamed Zhou. He knew that Su Shun was the most favored minister in front of the emperor, and he was very respectful in official duties. "Sir, don't you know what file you want to find? I'll go find it for you?"

"In August of the 43rd year of Qianlong's reign, a memorial from the Gansu governor, Mr. Dong Hao. Do you go find it for me?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Please wait in the signing room for a while, and the younger one will go and find it immediately. If someone comes, why don't you serve tea to the adults?"

Su Shun was drinking tea and waiting in the signing room. Director Zhou brought people into the side hall. There were huge bookcases with a wall high everywhere. Each bookcase stated the classification, year and date.

After searching for a while, I finally found the memorial she wanted - of course a copy - "For the insufficient taxation in the province, I asked for donations and memorials to ask the emperor to submit a letter". I took it out and handed it to Sushun. He opened it and looked at it for a few times. The page was yellowed, but the handwriting was as clear as yesterday. "... Check the Gansu taxation department, in addition to tooth stickers, there are two taxes for commercial and livestock, which are divided into taxes and taxes. The taxation is the tax that should be paid by trafficking goods to other places. The taxation is to buy goods from other places and sell them in the store - that is, the land tax......"

There was too much content to be carefully read, Sushun handed the memorial to the entourage and stood up. Seeing Master Zhou’s face full of dust in order to search for the memorial, he looked like a ridiculous job in a coal shop. He felt like he was doing something: “My Lord Zhou, I have been worrying about this time.” He said politely: “How many years have you been here?”

"Five and a half years."

"Then, the salary should be full, right?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhushi replied: "There is no shortage for a while and can be promoted."

"Where is the foreign official?"

"This,..." Master Zhou seemed a little confused, but suddenly said quickly, "I have to ask the adults to cultivate this."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Su Shunzhan smiled, "My brother is lacking in pain. The emperor has known it. After a while, the merits will be fulfilled. I will think of a solution for me."

Master Zhou naturally smiled happily and thanked him endlessly.

Su Shun was in the imperial history for a while, got up and returned home, and handed the memorial to Long Rulin and Huang Xi to watch. The content of this memorial was divided into two parts. On the one hand, it was to report the situation of insufficient taxes in Gansu Province to the emperor in a regular manner, requesting the emperor to issue an order to impose commercial taxes to serve as military use; on the other hand, it was to request donations, and the funds were replenished for the rebellion and war in Gansu Province.

After the forty years of Qianlong's reign, the emperor's temperament became arrogant and elegant. The people lived in the fire and fire for a long time. The people in various places continued to change. The ministers led by Fu Kang'an were like firefighters, busy, but they went on several southern tours, and the silver was as spent as mud and sand. The treasury could not support the huge war. Because of this, Dong Hao submitted a memorial and asked the court to open the door to donate to fill the needs of the country.

The contents of the memorial come from the sixth year of Shunzhi. In order to make up for the annual expenses, the Ministry of Revenue asked the official student to start the assistance of the official student, Chengchao and others, to collect widely and cited the grand views. Dong Hao said in the memorial: "The method of donating and donating is to reward the official title and the title of the common people and officials to absorb money and grain for annual use. This is the legacy of the Han Dynasty's grain and title of the title of the emperor, which is not unique to our dynasty."

‘At the beginning of the founding of the Holy Dynasty, the three pays of Ming Dynasty were abolished in order to recruit people to plan to abolish the three pays of Ming Dynasty and also to exempt them from money and food. However, at that time, the creation was done and everything was waiting to be done. How could the country always be unable to make ends meet? Therefore, Emperor Shizuzhang... gave the monks and Taoists inside and outside the country, and approved the redemption of the other crimes such as the crimes of being abdicated. After the twelve years of Kangxi, the rebellion of the Three Feudalists was unleashed, and in order to raise funds, he opened the example of donating real officials. It has been a hundred years since then.’

In this time, he submitted a request to the emperor for donation and requesting a trial in Gansu Province, Dong Hao said, "I think midnight, only each province reports to donate one student in prison. If it is a little more convenient, it can still be counted for one hundred thousand taels a day to save the current needs. I am sending a regular case for other provinces to donate students in prison. It is a vassal department that will give it to the Ministry of Revenue, and the Imperial College will fill in the license, and send it to the province for exchange. After many years, every province donates students, and every time acquaints with relatives and friends in Beijing, they will be able to take the instructions quickly."

Dong Hao proposed a solution, which was to ask the Ministry of Revenue and the Imperial College to first hand over the blank ministry to the provincial vassal departments, so that donations can be given as much as possible.' In this case, all provinces can "do the job nearby," thinking that the plan to gather the fur and make a fur.

Due to the tension in the country's expenses and frequent wars, Dong Hao's comments could have won the emperor's heart and promoted the matter of handling donations nearby in various provinces. The bad thing lies in the section where he requested an increase in commercial tax in the comments.

During the Qing Dynasty, the commercial tax was extremely low, which led to a huge lack of fiscal taxation in the court: it was not expandable. It could not be used to increase temporary income suddenly, so there were only two ways to remedy: usually store more than a year, or temporarily increase promotion and donation.

If the financial difficulties encountered exceed the scope of the above two methods, no one can think of a solution.

In Dong Hao's memorial, he put forward an opinion that the tax rate for merchants in all dynasties was too low, and the word "contracting merchants has a very narrow meaning". It only refers to the quotation of Guanshi. Others are like salt and iron, and tea classes are not included in the contracting merchant system, so there is a strange scene where river workers and salt merchants are "rich enough to compete with the country" and the court is "tight for the expenses".

Dong Hao believed that, "The Chinese business system originated very early. Zhou Lili had a Bu. After the Han and Tang Dynasties, they also had methods to trade. Although there were differences in simplicity and traditional Chinese, they were not collected in one dynasty. Our dynasty moved into the Central Plains and carried out great good policies. Except for the emperor of the Saint-Zu Ren who never added taxes, he had to pay slight attention to all taxes. It can be said that he has a great kindness to the people."

‘For the past forty years, the tax on merchant trade was collected in the territory of Huangyu, which was less than 300,000 taels, compared with the annual income of 8 million guan in the late Tianxi period of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, this number is the statutory tax amount, and whether the number of speeches can be collected is still in the uncertain sky.’

In view of this, Dong Hao believed that commercial tax should be collected to provide a wealthy country tax. Moreover, what he is doing now is that "only the tax is levied but not the market has levied, which has led to the wealthy businessmen making huge profits but not taxes. Compared with the tax on tithes of farmers, the burden is too uneven." Therefore, he asked the court to teach the "capital size and the amount of profits of annual income." That is, if there is more than a thousand taels of capital, the profits of fishing can be calculated, and the annual profits of silver can be obtained... According to the tithe system, ten taels of silver are collected every year, and those with more capital will increase this.

In terms of tax subsidies, for those who have a business post (the business post is today's business license), "the tax subsidies will no longer be levied to avoid duplication." The last one is about the kind of "not focusing on the principal and making profits, or using the principal and making small profits, they must be levied according to the profits of the annual profits, and not the principal and bank.

The two methods proposed by Dong Hao in the memorial were greatly appreciated by the emperor. He immediately handed over the original documents to the Ministry of Revenue for consultation. Who knew that after consultation, he refuted all the documents in this memorial. Regarding the content of the collection of commercial tax, he criticized his "moral articles, which were famous for a moment, and his words were very strange."

This is just an attack on Dong Hao and has nothing to do with Tiaochen. Some people say below, "The wise rulers of all dynasties have regarded benefiting the people as the top priority. The technique of favoring the people is as good as the method of leniency. The saint's ancestors only never add the four words to the ancestors who left behind by their descendants. However, the leniency of leniency and not burdening the people has long been contained. The descendants of later generations have practiced their own actions and dare not make any moves to increase the burden on the people."

As for the method mentioned in the article, the method of opening donations in the province was also rejected by these people. However, compared with the former, the reason for this is much shallow: the method of opening donations is not a bad example that many people think. Generally speaking, Junxiu and civil and military students donate money to donate tribute students, supervise students, and internal and external officials must donate additional ranks, record and ask for bans, and some ordinary people donate ranks, which are also used to ask for bans. However, this method of donating money also adds money to all the yamen in the capital.

Dong Hao asked to open the door to donate money in the province, and cut off the financial path of these people for no reason. How can they follow it? The emperor's memorial to the Ministry of Public Discussion soon, because "the method of donation can be put into the province, although it can achieve rapid results, it may be too widespread. If this goes beyond this, it will inevitably become a last resort. People will fish in the pond and donate good deeds, which will be difficult to use.

The Ministry of Revenue sent a letter to the lieutenant general in the memorial to refute the letters. Qianlong was very dissatisfied and issued an order to discuss them again. Three times, they refuted them for the same reason, which forced the emperor to make arbitrary decision.

However, since it was submitted to the Ministry of Public Discussion, it was necessary to consider the opinions of the ministers. In the end, Emperor Qianlong decided to give the donation to the province for trial and trial in Gansu Province. If there were real results in the future, it would be promoted nationwide.

The people from the Ministry of Revenue lost a piece of investment for no reason, so they naturally became dissatisfied and started to move up and down. Dong Hao only tried it in Gansu for a year and then transferred it to Beijing to listen to it. When people left the government, such a good policy ended in vain.

Huang Xi and Long Rulin read the contents of the memorials and explained Su Shun in detail. At the end, Long Rulin closed the memorials and bowed her hand and said, "Since the emperor had a face-to-face letter on that day, I will look at what the memorials said in the memorials. I think the holy heart has settled and I want to reopen the door to donation."

Su Shun burst into tears and shook his head, "I don't think so. For the decreasing national classes, the cost of the cost is tight. When the Military Affairs Office called out a few days ago, Wen Kongxiu's comments were immediately rejected by the emperor. His tone was so stern that it was unparalleled. It was not to think that it was to reopen the door to donation by changing the regulations that had been in the past few years."

Huang Xi immediately said, "If it wasn't for donations, it must be for the levy of commercial taxes."

Long Rulin was furious and looked at Sushun's repeated words. The holy intention was either this or that. Sushun refuted what he said, but it was your turn to show off in front of the adults? He was angry in his heart, but his face was not so good-looking.

Su Shun didn't pay attention to the secret battle between the two people, and followed Huang Xi's words and said, "Mr. Hanxian is very talking about this. Please write this matter in a large amount, right? In the future, the emperor will make an excuse. Mr. Hanxian will make a lot of money. Haha."

"Adults are famous, and students should serve themselves." Huang Xi took on this literary errand and continued to ask, "What do you think of the adults?"

Su Shun was about to speak, but Long Rulin put on the topic, "What else can I say? Brother Han Xian is a talented person, can you also need Lord Dongweng to say it clearly?"

At this moment, even Huang Xi discovered Long Rulin's abnormality. His thoughts were flashing. He knew it was probably a bit, but he was not afraid in his heart. He had a smile on his face and refused to give in his tone. "Of course I know, but the memorial was sealed, but I was afraid that the emperor would imitate the legacy of Emperor Gao and hand it over to the public opinion. At that time, there would be any omissions in the memorial that delayed the serious matter. How could it be achieved? Therefore, I had to ask the adults to understand before I could start writing.? Do my brother have any opinions?"

Su Shun hurriedly persuaded him to do something bad, but the two talents did not turn against each other on the spot. Then he said to Huang Xi, "Brother Hanxian, I think it would be better to implement the new policy for several years to benefit the people of the world... Well, as for the later words, Brother Hanxian, he can naturally be clear."

Huang Xi knew that he had not read many books. When talking about official business, he would inevitably regret not expressing his meaning. However, the general meaning was to be able to understand it, and nodded and smiled, "The student understands it. Tomorrow morning, I will definitely be out of the manuscript."

"No, no need to hurry up like this. It's okay to wait for a few days."

"Old people work hard for the king's affairs, and students dare not have the idea of ​​being lazy."

"It's not about being lazy. I have to go to the department to check the matter before I can find out the details. Sir, wait a few more days."

Several people were talking in the hall, and the subordinates came to report, "Sir, a guest is here."

Sushun didn't know how many people he wanted to meet every day, so he asked, "Who is it?"

"This, the person who came from Tianjin, just said he wanted to find an adult, and the younger ones didn't dare to ask more questions."

Coming from Tianjin? Su Shun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't think of any friends he had in Tianjin. He led to the door with his servants. He saw a back-shift carriage parked at the door of the mansion. The handlebar was placing a footstool in front of the car. A handsome young man got off from above, with a very handsome face, but his eyebrows were sad and looked familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a moment: "Are you?"

The visitor smiled miserably, reached out to take off his hat, revealing a black hair. This time, Sushun recognized it, and it turned out to be the pastoral Ziyun girl.

This shock was really extraordinary. Sushun glanced at him carefully. Ziyun was wearing a blue-blue double-breasted short-sleeved jacket with a tight button on her chest. This dress was slightly smaller than what she usually wore. In front of her, her hands crossed and she was hidden on her lower abdomen. Sushun's eyes were sharp, and she saw that her lower abdomen was slightly raised, and she seemed to be pregnant?

Ziyun got out of the car and saw Su Shun staring at him in amazement. The woman smiled miserably, "Master Su, little woman? Yan Erlai, I hope Master Su will not blame me for being reckless."

"Ah" Su Shun hurried forward, bowed his hands, grinning his teeth without laughing, "Where is Miss Ziyun coming from?" He said, and then he realized something was wrong: "Oh, the weather outside is too hot, girl, please come to the hall to speak?"

He randomly brought Ziyun to the second hall flower hall. Because he was Kunke and his identity was too special, Sushun did not dare to neglect it. He ordered the maid and the woman in the mansion to come forward to serve him, but he found a reason to go outside with Long Rulin and Huang Xi.

These two people misunderstood and thought that this girl was a crime of love affair he had caused when he was in Tianjin. Now she is pregnant and has come to Beijing to join us. Long Rulin laughed before he said anything, "Sir, the student will congratulate you. The young master was adopted by King Zheng. Now, Guanyin is giving you a child and sending you blood."

Huang Xi was also joking with the idle, "Yes, sir, I'm here to join me, so sir, sir, should I treat it with courtesy."

"Do you think this is a woman who is related to me?" Su Shun didn't bother to get angry with the two of them, and briefly said the story, "What I fear most now is not the other person. Ziyun is a lowly born, and she has been born in Zhang Shuwei every day, and she keeps talking. If she says she is really a dragon seed, it's okay; if she says... " He sighed, "This confusing the blood of the Tian family is really a serious crime that cannot be repaid by a hundred deaths."

Long Rulin and Huang Xi did not expect that there was such a hidden secret in this. They were stunned when they heard this. After a while, Long Rulin asked, "What do you think you should do?"

"Set her down first, and I will go and ask for an order tomorrow."

Long Rulin felt regretful for failing to show off his face just now, but now he gave him another opportunity, "Sir, students, please wait for the matter of asking for instructions."

“How to say it?”

"The emperor asked about the arrival of Miss Ziyun, how should I answer?"

Su Shun was stunned for a moment, which was reasonable, "What about what you see?"

"You may as well place Miss Ziyun in your mansion first, and then send someone to inquire in detail. It will not be too late to report the truth until you find out the truth.

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