I want to be emperor

Chapter 385 The world has been suffering for a long time
In the third year of Chengshun of the Great Chu Empire and the tenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, on May [-]th, a shocking news came out of Jinling City.

Chen Shoulin, the former director of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry who has served in many positions, and who is about to be transferred to the Ministry of Water Resources as the right servant, was taken away at home by Yushi and a group of patrolmen.

And the censor who did it was not an ordinary censor, but Wang Bingqi, the right deputy of the Great Inspectorate, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, and a senior official of the third rank.

The patrol officer who cooperated with Wang Bingqi, the right deputy imperial envoy to handle the case, was not an ordinary character, but Li Ziping, the director of the Major Case Department of the Patrol Department, who was also a senior official of the third rank.

People with important positions in the two Gyeonggi-ri judicial institutions joined forces to directly arrest Chen Shoulin and take him back for interrogation. Everyone in the Chen family was also taken back for questioning.

Not only Chen Shoulin, but also more than a dozen other officials were arrested at the same time. The crimes were basically corruption. The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Great Inspectorate took the lead, and the Major Case Department of the Patrol Department cooperated with the supervision of the whole process.

During the day, many censors and patrol officers in Gyeonggi were very busy. After all, this time the case was very big, and the impact was destined to be great.

Even Qin Gaolin, the censor of the Great Inspectorate, was very cautious during this day, and was always in the palace in the name of being on duty. On the one hand, he avoided interference from the outside world, and on the other hand, he was also in order to Report the progress of related cases to Luo Zhixue, and make changes when informed of Luo Zhixue's instructions at any time.

On the second day, Qin Gaolin formally reported the progress of the case to Luo Zhixue in the imperial council meeting.

When Luo Zhixue listened to the report, he didn't pay much attention to the details of the case, he only cared about whether the dozen or so people dug up met his own standards.

After reading the case files of these people, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly: "This time, you did a good job, and you have dealt a severe blow to the unhealthy tendencies. In the future, the yamen need to continue to work hard to get rid of the remnants of hypocrisy who have mixed into our team." , Corrupt and law-breaking elements will be removed from our ranks to purify the atmosphere of the country!"

After hearing Luo Zhixue's words, not only Qin Gaolin heaved a sigh of relief, but the other six ministers also heaved a sigh of relief.

It seems that His Majesty is quite satisfied with the severe blow this time, and agrees with the working method, so we can continue to advance.

This time the anti-corruption investigation suddenly started in Gyeonggi-ri, the outside world and even many minister-level officials may think that this is just an anti-corruption investigation, but the scale is relatively large, and the officials attacked are relatively high-level.

But only the seven ministers knew that this anti-corruption investigation was a drunkard's intention!

There are many corrupt officials in the world, and their Great Chu Empire is no exception. Even though their Great Chu Empire has only been established for a few years, corrupt officials are still indispensable.

His Majesty is naturally very clear about this. Although he often urges and pays attention to the issue of government affairs, he will not be really angry about it.

However, when the issue involved taxation, it further extended to when the remnants of hypocrisy began to corrupt the officialdom of the Great Chu Empire, and tried to criticize or even shake the foundation of the Great Chu Empire.

Your Majesty immediately exploded!

That's why the madness at the imperial council meeting at the end of last month, and the statement that the remnants of hypocrisy tried to shake the basic national policy and destroy the foundation of the empire were put forward.

And when these ministers were panicked at first, followed by anger: In the ruling class of the Great Chu Empire, a group of people who tried to destroy the foundation of the empire and tried to dig into the old roots of the Chu Empire unexpectedly mixed in. At that time, he was directly furious.

See what those hypocritical remnants say?

On the issue of taxation, the remnants of hypocrisy said that the current unified agricultural tax has a big problem. The agricultural tax is too high, and the people suffer unspeakably... They also said that the people should not be burdened too much. People and land are taxed separately, divided into land tax, small silver, corvee and other collections.

This is bullshit!

The high-ranking officials of the Great Chu Empire are all from the lower class. Even Guo Quanshu, the so-called scholarly descendant, is actually just the son of a small rural landlord. Their front half can touch and deeply understand the situation at the bottom. .

Naturally, he is very aware of the hypocritical tax policy. That thing is nonsense. It seems that there are not many regular taxes, but there are countless miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous taxes apportioned under various names, and the most important thing is that these miscellaneous taxes are all ended up by the platform. Landlords, owner farmers, and tenants, as for those medium and large landlords and gentry, they do not pay taxes because they have fame and power.

This means that a huge amount of tax revenue falls on the middle and low-level people in the end, resulting in a huge tax burden, and countless families have been destroyed.

Even the Guo family where Guo Quanshu lives is considered a small landlord in the local area. There are more than 300 mothers in the family, but because no one in the Guo family is famous, not even a scholar, so the privileges of gentry have nothing to do with them. On weekdays, the Guo family's various tax burdens are also very heavy, and all kinds of apportionments are required at every turn.

As for the unified agricultural tax of the Great Chu Empire, a unified agricultural tax is paid according to the amount of land, and apart from the agricultural tax, there are no other apportionments, corvees, or other miscellaneous taxes.

In contrast, the tax paid by the Guo family was nearly one-third less than under the Pseudo-Ming regime.

If the Guo family is like this, the burden on other self-cultivating farmers and tenants will be even lighter. Those tenants don't even have to pay a dime of tax. The life of the bottom farmers is much better than before.

Although these farmers are still living in a relatively difficult life, and even having enough food is a luxury, as long as they are honest and willing to work, if God saves face, it is not a big problem to support the family.

As for wanting to feed all the low-level people... This is a worldwide problem, and there is no solution for the time being!

Therefore, even the children of small landlords like Guo Quanshu are very supportive of the country's agricultural tax policy, and they can better understand the pros and cons of it.

Now a group of hypocritical remnants come out to say that the agricultural tax of the country is wrong, it will increase the burden on the people, and the people will not be able to live...

These people are living in dire straits...I'm afraid they are talking about those middle and large landlords!
After all, under the unified agricultural tax, only their interests are damaged, while everyone else benefits!

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The remnants of hypocrisy also say that the commercial tax of the country is also tyrannical, and say that the current commercial tax has many names and the tax amount is huge, and the people of the world are already miserable.

These remarks on tax made Chen Xingkai from the taxation department very angry. Nima does not want to pay taxes when doing business. How can there be such a good thing in this world? You don't need to take care of it, you can do business smoothly all the way by paying taxes directly, but you still don't want to...

Just damn it!
For this reason, Chen Xingkai expressed to the Chief Prosecutor's Office that if you encounter any difficulties in your anti-corruption work, our tax department is happy to help. Their other crimes are beyond their tax control, but if they evade taxes and evade taxes, their tax revenue I have to take care of it...

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The remnants of the hypocrisy are also very dissatisfied with the various industrial and commercial economic policies of the country.

For example, in the case of salt affairs, they particularly hated the monopoly system of salt administration in the Great Chu Empire.

What did you say that the salt administration must be state-run, but you can’t let a salt company cover the whole country, from production to transportation to sales, and cover all the salt business. This will cause various corruption problems , It will also cause various problems in the salt work, and the people will eat high-priced salt and so on...

Then he said that the salt import plan can be used, allowing salt merchants to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt import, so that not only can the border soldiers obtain grain, but also allow private merchants to transport and sell salt extensively, so that the people can eat low-priced salt!

Yuan Gaofeng swears directly, if these people said these words, if the salt merchants were not behind them, Yuan Gaofeng would have dared to bump his head against the pillars of the hall...

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The remnants of the hypocrisy are not only criticizing the salt affairs, they also have a lot of opinions on the various factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, um, all kinds of factories that are mainly designed for private industries, thinking that they are taking profits from the people.

They believe that big factories rely on the official background to engage in malicious competition and even monopoly, which makes it difficult for private workshops to continue.

In particular, the Hantian Textile Company under the Ministry of Industry is even more heinous. With the help of new looms and spinning machines, the cost of cloth produced by this company is only one third or even four times that of other traditional workshops. One-third, but the quality is generally better than homespun.

The most important thing is that the scale of this Hantian textile company is really too big, and it is still expanding rapidly. In addition to the Hanyang main factory in Hanyang County, Hantian Prefecture, they set up a Changsha branch factory in Changsha last summer. Jiujiang branch factory was established in Jiujiang, and Zhenjiang branch factory was established in Zhenjiang at the beginning of this year.

The several textile factories affiliated to Hantian Textile Company are all textile enterprises integrating spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing. At the same time, there are supporting quilt garment factories, which are used to directly produce various quilts and other textile products.

Adding up all the branches of the company, the number of employees has reached more than [-].

Relying on the extremely low cost and huge production capacity, all kinds of textiles of Hantian Textile Company quickly flooded into the market and seized the market of many traditional homemade fabrics.

This has greatly affected the interests of many traditional textile workshops, and the traditional textile industry is also the main way for many gentry and dignitaries in the Jiangnan area to make money.

In addition to these, many people are also extremely dissatisfied with the Grain Storage Department of the Great Chu Empire and its subordinate Dachu Grain Corporation, believing that the grain price control policy of the grain company has seriously damaged the interests of the common people/grain merchants.

Well, the grain merchants under the rule of the Great Chu Empire are dying of the Great Chu Grain Corporation.

In a word: the world has been suffering for a long time!
(End of this chapter)