Xinshun 1730

Chapter 884
Those who can save money in one province are not nerds.

But some things should not be said too clearly.Although the Guangdong Jiedushi said that opium is a great harm, he didn't think it was a big deal, and it was better to find out and control it in advance.

Even if the emperor asked him to investigate and deal with it, it was just that he should investigate and deal with it, and he should go to the shuffle if he said that the thing was a big harm, so he went to the shuffle.

The implication of what he said to Liu Yu was that there was a problem with the tax law of the imperial court, and this was the major issue that the imperial court really wanted to solve.

It would be great if we could continue the whipping method and improve it to ensure that after the imperial court collects taxes, the local governments will not collect any more taxes, and then the central and local governments will share the taxes.It is appropriate to abolish corvee, perfect the labor recruitment law, and cooperate with the abolition of the small tax.

But he won't say it.As long as you say it, you will offend people.

It's not even just those with a stake in the offense.

It may even directly offend the emperor: if you do this, you will definitely have to raise taxes on the face.Which emperor doesn't want to record a sum in the history books, lightly pay a small tax, and tax one for thirty?However, if the local needs are not apportioned and collected in the national tax and then divided, it is impossible to pay a tax of [-] per cent.

It has been known since the Ming Dynasty that the imperial court has been practicing the trick of a gentleman staying away from the kitchen and hiding his ears and stealing his bell.But just like the Ryukyu issue, who has nothing to do to uncover this painting?

Plug your ears and pretend you don't know.

Wouldn't it be nice to be a good emperor with a tax of thirty one?
Why do you want to be a tyrant who taxes one?
Now that he said this to Liu Yu, in fact, he wanted to say it more clearly, just to remind Liu Yu not to have the dream of "not only wanting the horse to run, but also wanting the horse not to eat grass".

The household government did not give money.

How does the local government encourage immigrants?Encourage an egg?Swim across the ocean and puff out seeds to farm cattle with encouragement?

What's more, the household government collects the money, which is not enough in the event of a famine or war, and it is estimated that it will not be able to afford it.

Now that the opium dealer has uncovered the cover, the livelihood of tens of thousands of people has to be solved, and the reason why they have to deal with it in a low-key manner is because the court has no money at all?When the time comes, if you don't deal with it in a low-key manner and don't give money, where will the court put its face?

Guangdong Jiedu made me think that although I think this matter is good for the country, I don't think it is a good thing to move back to Guangzhou.But the trouble I caused was not caused by me after all.Now you ask me to help you solve the problem of these unemployed people going to Nanyang, and you don't give money, how can I solve it?

I thought again, anyway, I have made it clear, and I have said the advantages and disadvantages.If you are really in a hurry and want to link up your majesty's performance appraisal with your majesty, it will have nothing to do with me when the time comes to stir up a civil uprising, but I remind you.

In short, I have given you the favor, and I won't do anything about it.

The imperial court admitted that the northward movement of the trade center has indeed caused the livelihood of the unemployed refugees. I can handle it, and the local government will increase taxes to solve it for them.

I don't care if the court doesn't recognize this matter and pretend it doesn't exist.The imperial court paid money to suppress the incident, but it was not caused by my apportionment of tax increases, and the responsibility cannot be blamed on me.

Otherwise, if the court refuses to admit that something is wrong, I will take the initiative to increase taxes to solve it. If it is not resolved, something will happen.Is that your responsibility?Or is it caused by my tax increase?That's hard to tell.

Before things are done, the pot should be cleared up.

Otherwise, that is, it is better to have no merit than to have no fault.

Even if the household government has clearly stated that there is no money, it will not allocate money; the internal funds have also stated that there is no money.As long as the emperor or the Tianyou Palace, or you Xingguo Gong take the blame, you can do this by yourself.If there is no money, the big deal is to increase the pie.

But neither giving money nor taking the blame, I will definitely not do it myself.

Again.

Who gets the benefits of the change of trade routes and the northward movement of the trade center?
Most of the benefits have been attributed to domestic funds, leaving a mess in Guangdong, and it should be paid for by internal funds.

It can't be said that the nobles who have benefited from the internal funds and shares have taken it, and then let the household government Taicang treasury clean up the mess, right?
It doesn't make sense at all.

Besides, the government of treasury households doesn't pay, so why don't they let these "basic" local officials solve the problem?It doesn't matter if there is no accident, if there is an accident, isn't it just an excuse for these local officials to "distribute the distribution" to appease public grievances?

Don't mention the borrowed head of the magistrate, at least Cao Mengde will return it to your wife and I will raise it. If the head is borrowed, I am afraid that his wife will be sent to the frontier and exiled.

This is not a problem of the tiger's urgency, but a problem of stabbing and killing, saying that it is not me or a soldier.

This kind of words, stop at the point.

Liu Yu is also embarrassed to set up a banner and reason.Because once this kind of thing starts to make sense, then the legitimacy of Dashun will be gone——Your Dashun has such a reason and that reason, doesn’t it mean that Da Ming doesn’t have such a reason and that reason?Why don't you Li Zicheng, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng honestly forgive the court?
Therefore, since Dashun returned to the capital, it has always had an attitude of "abstract affirmation, concrete negation" towards some things.

This is Dashun's special political correctness.

Since the "emperor is not very dark" back then, he has not discredited the previous dynasty, and even took the initiative to wipe his ass and clean up his whitewashing.Take the most common water transportation as an example, did Dashun acquiesce in the situation of "going south but not north, and protecting the water but not the people" before Dashun?

When it comes to morality, there are no big or small mistakes, only right and wrong.

Since crows are generally black in the world, then "gentlemen stay away from the kitchen", "pretend not to know", "it's not the court who doesn't love the people, it's the court that doesn't know, if you join, it will be solved if you know it, but you don't know", it's this kind of awkwardness The most popular approach under political correctness.

Therefore, when the Guangdong Jiedu envoy came, he said that many things should be made small and trivial.

Even with political sensitivity, he could detect that there was a problem behind the opium dealer, but when the opium dealer talked about the Dayuling trade route, it involved the imperial court pretending to be deaf and blind, and this matter could not be delved into.

As for Liu Yu's whimsical desire to encourage the local people to emigrate, the Guangdong Jiedu envoy even told Liu Yu directly, stop fantasizing, it's useless.I want the horse to run, and I want the horse not to eat grass. You take advantage of it. If something happens, our local government will take care of it. We will not do it.

Therefore, if the internal funds, honors, household governments or Jiangsu Province do not pay, we will pretend that there are no refugees and unemployment in Guangdong because of the face of the court.

If you want to say that there is something, if you want to point out this matter, then you can pay for it—or, if you don’t pay, you can issue the official documents with the big seal of the Six Governments and the Temple of Heaven’s Blessing, and let our local government handle it by itself, increase distribution, and donate , what happens in the future has nothing to do with us.

After Liu Yu was tactfully sprayed by the Guangdong Jiedu envoy, he had no choice but to laugh at himself: "That's why, Han Fei said: Bole cannot be described as a horse with teeth and kisses. Obtaining no doubts about being good. Observing your appearance and obeying, listening to your words, Zhongni can't be sure to be a soldier... For the officials of the Ming Lord, the prime minister must rise from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent to the army."

"Your Majesty doesn't let me take charge of local affairs. That's the reason. It's my imagination."

Hearing what Liu Yu said was so formal, Guangdong Jiedu envoy hurriedly said: "The Duke cares about the common people, and if he cares about it, it will cause chaos. It is difficult to handle, and it is very different from military and merchants."

"If I have to wait and wait, it's really a matter of taking Taishan to overtake the North Sea. I have to do it, and I can't."

"The duke is always resourceful, or he can use unusual means to solve it. I don't know. The lower official just said that the two methods that the lower official can think of have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is extremely difficult to do it. It is not to say This matter will definitely not be solved, but I don't know how to solve it."

After giving Liu Yu enough steps, Liu Yu wanted to take the opportunity to talk about human trafficking, but after thinking about it, he felt that now was not the time either.

Guangdong Jiedu envoys will not hold back unless they publicly say that they encourage mutant human trafficking and carry the big pot on their backs.

Otherwise, as long as the three cases in Macau are settled, the Jiedu envoy and the local officials in Guangdong must have more things than less things.

But Liu Yu can't say such words that violate Dashun's political correctness, especially when the emperor is looking for excuses to punish Portuguese and British merchants.

Moreover, Liu Yu felt that even if he said it, the Guangdong Jiedu envoy, who seemed to be slippery now, would definitely be nodding on his face, but he thought in his heart that as long as the emperor didn't let go, and didn't use public documents to support him, he would I won't do it, so as not to get involved.

It was hard to say anything at this time, so I had no choice but to return to the interrogation place.

Several guards had already made their move, poked out the opium dealer's tongue and dragged him behind.

Liu Yu asked people to arraign the rest of the others with relatively large sums of money. This time, he was not as "a hero again after 18 years" as the opium dealer just now.

Although they knew that they must die, it was different from suffering inhuman torture before death.

After several sets of torture instruments were set up, it was only up to the pincers, and each of them was asking questions and answering questions.

Before Liu Yu came, the Guangdong Jiedu Envoy took the lead and had already passed the trial.

However, the direction of the interrogation by the Guangdong Jiedu envoy is still different from the direction Liu Yu wanted.

The direction of Liu Yu's interrogation is mainly the situation of the Portuguese and the British.Mainly ask online, because his real purpose is to take the opportunity to engage Portuguese and British businessmen.

The direction of interrogation by the Guangdong Jiedu envoy is mainly to go offline.Because the purpose of the Guangdong Jiedushi is to find out criminals, to really deal with the opium problem, and to prevent it from happening.

The result of the interrogation was similar to what Liu Yu had learned before.

If it is purely procedural justice, the British East India Company really can't do it: according to the confession, there are indeed British products.British goods are indeed from the British East India Company.However, the British East India Company would not use its own ships for loading, but let non-company merchants load the goods.

Moreover, when giving them the goods, they will also be asked to write a "statement" stating that the opium will not be sold to China, because Chinese laws prohibit the sale and smoking of opium.

As for whether the British East India Company knew that these people were sold to China?Ah……

Portugal is much simpler, and several major suppliers are Portuguese.Moreover, Portugal does not have a physical company, and it is all private behavior. In theory, private behavior does not involve the country. It cannot be said that because a person from a certain country commits a crime, all people from this country are completely prohibited from coming to the country.

This is the biggest difference between Portugal and Britain in the opium trade at this time.Because the UK has a monopoly corporate entity, it is difficult for non-company employees to participate in Eastern trade. Once caught, it will be the responsibility of the corporate entity and the company can be banned.

However, this is not a problem.

Because Dashun's law is completely different from their system.The British never understood that if the emperor says you can trade, you can trade; if the emperor says you can't trade, you can't trade.As for whether you act as individuals or as a company, it doesn't make any sense at all.

There is no such thing as the "Navigation Regulations" in Dashun, but if necessary, the emperor can write a few words.

Dashun has its own national conditions here.

(End of this chapter)