Daming heir

Chapter 84 Did I break the law by paying taxes?

Xia Yuanji?
I actually bumped into this guy!
Just listening to the voice coming from behind the gate of the household department, Zhu Yunxie's eyes were already burning with fire.

In just a moment, Zhu Yunxi looked at the empty gate of Hubu with fiery eyes.

His eyes were like the young man who was about to marry his bride, waiting for the long-awaited red hijab to walk out of the gate of his mother's house.

During this moment of waiting, Zhu Yunxi only felt as if time had slowed down.Time became like a river, flowing slowly in front of him visible to the naked eye.

That's Xia Yuanji!
There are countless veterans of the five dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, and they are evergreen trees in the political arena.

He was also in charge of the money bag of the Daming Household Department all his life. He used troops repeatedly in the Ming Dynasty and launched countless Northern Expeditions. Behind the scenes of the Southern and Northern Wars, he firmly guarded the financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Go through war without food and clothing.

In the history of Zhao Zhaoming, Xia Yuanji was crowned as the chief minister and had the reputation of being a royal minister.He even praised him with the phrase "Applying to philosophers to assist his heirs" in "Shangshu".

If it weren't for this economic talent in the early Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the actions of the successive emperors in the early Ming Dynasty to expand the territory would have affected the livelihood of the people all over the world.

Xia Mou sincerely has a heart of loyalty and love for me, and he drives away before finishing his speech. '

Zhu Yunxi was very excited, thinking about the records in Zhao Zhaoqing's history, his eyes became more and more eager to look forward to it.

next second.

Behind the household department, a young man wearing a light green uniform embroidered with egrets stepped across the threshold of the household department with a calm posture and a smile on his face, stood in front of the door, and stared calmly at Zhu Yunxi and others in front of the household department.

"Natsuhara Yoshi!"

Zhu Yunxi suddenly shouted involuntarily, stretched out his hand and waved to Xia Yuanji who was puzzled.

This is the future God of Wealth from... the Ming Dynasty!
This is something that excites Zhu Yunxi more than meeting Xie Jin.

Xia Yuanji, who was a whole round older than Zhu Yunxi, frowned when he saw Zhu Yunxi who was shouting at him.

He doesn't know this man.

but……

Suddenly, the image of a person in Xia Yuanji's mind overlapped with the young man in front of the household department.

He raised his brows immediately, and hurriedly walked down the steps with his official robe in hand, and arrived in front of Zhu Yunxi.

"Xia Yuanji, the head of the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, see Prince Huaiyou."

Zhu Yunxie couldn't stop smiling, as if seeing a gold ingot, put Uncle 23 down, stepped forward to help Xia Yuanji, and said eagerly, "Master Xia, you don't need to be polite, I never thought that I could see brother Wei Zhe by chance today, It just so happened that my business was handed over to brother Wei Zhe."

Wei Zhe is Xia Yuanji's word.

Originally wondering why Huaiyou County King came to the household department, and why Xia Yuanji knew him, but when he heard that Zhu Yunxi even knew his own characters, he was even more suspicious for a while.

Is His Highness treating himself too much...

He couldn't describe it.

He could only say with a dry smile: "Your Highness loves you, how can the next official, He De, be called an elder brother by His Highness."

After experiencing Xie Jin's trial, Zhu Yunxie already has a certain understanding of people like them.

Sincerity is the best weapon.

Just like between men and women, the role of sincerity.

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand: "I've heard about Brother Wei Zhe for a long time, and when I saw him today, it turned out to be just like the rumors. He is a rising star of our country's Chaoying talents!"

While talking, he was already dragging Xia Yuanji and Zhu Gong to the yamen of the household department.

Xia Yuanji, who was confused, was planning to go to the office of the Tongzheng Secretary to handle some errands, but now he was able to follow Zhu Yunxi back to the office of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Sun Cheng, who was lagging behind, smiled slightly. The third master was very familiar with the methods of the chief envoy of the Ministry of Household Cleaning Department called Xia Yuanji.

He smiled, turned his head to signal to everyone, and carried a box full of money into the household department.

The construction of the six yamen in Yingtian City is the same, the main hall and the class room.

The Ministry of Household Cleaning Department is the place responsible for the taxation of the world, and it is divided into different cleaning departments according to different regions.

Xia Yuanji, as one of the heads of the Ministry of Household Cleaning Department, has a class of his own.

Filled with puzzlement, Xia Yuanji led Zhu Yunxi into his classroom, attracting the attention of several small officials in the classroom.

Xia Yuanji moved two chairs: "Your Highnesses take a break, I asked someone to bring tea for your Highnesses."

After speaking, he ordered the little official to go out to pour tea, and stood in front of Zhu Yunxi with his hands folded.

Zhu Yunxi sat down with a smile, at this time Sun Cheng also came in with someone, and seven boxes full of money were dropped together into a pile.

The silver coins in the box rattled non-stop.

Every sound made Xia Yuanji's heart tremble.

When he was about to leave the yamen earlier, he could hear clearly that the Huaiyou county king in front of him came to the household department to pay taxes.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do when you come to the household department?" Xia Yuanji asked in a low voice with some anxiety.

Zhu Yunxi leaned back with a smile: "Of course I'm here to pay taxes, can I still take out money from your household department?"

This year the imperial court started the Northern Expedition again, and the Ministry of Households has now become a poor place where even mice can't even look at it.

Xia Yuanji twitched the corner of his mouth twice, and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, what are you going to do?"

In the world, there is no precedent for the Ministry of Households to collect taxes from the royal family and grandchildren.

Besides, I am only the head of the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Household Department of the sixth grade. If I really accompany the Huaiyou County King to accept the money, I am afraid that I will be impeached by my close and friendly colleagues in the court tomorrow. Home.

Even if he is only in his 20s now.

Zhu Yunxi repeated again: "I came to the Ministry of Households to pay taxes. There are 700 taels of Wenyin here. This time I borrowed the four shops of Chang's family to sell iced food and ice jade jelly. The total profit was more than 700 taels. I took it. A total of [-] taels were sent."

Hearing this, Xia Yuanji's legs softened immediately, and he almost knelt on the ground begging Zhu Yunxi to take the 700 taels of silver back to the palace.

He sighed and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, you don't need to pay taxes. What's more, Daming's business taxes can't be collected from you. Even if you have to collect them, it's only [-] in [-]..."

With a profit of more than 6000 taels, the tax is only more than 200 taels of silver.

But what Zhu Yunxi brought was worth [-]% of the profit.

However, Zhu Yunxi tilted his head and looked at Xia Yuanji, who is now only the head of the Department of Cleaning Officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Why, did I break the law by paying taxes?"

After asking.

Zhu Yunxi sneered twice for no reason, he thought of an anecdote he had heard.

Later in the Ming Dynasty, someone went to the government to pay taxes, because someone in his family was an official in the court.The government did not accept the money and drove the man away.

But it didn't take long for the person who was an official in the court to find a reason and asked the court to demote him from office.

It's really a tax crime.

And this is also one of the reasons for the financial difficulties in the late Ming Dynasty. Although it is sitting on the land of nine states in the Central Plains, with a population of tens of millions, the taxes collected by the court are not as good as half of the income of the former Song Dynasty, which lost the sixteen states of Yanyun.

It's all because none of the taxes that should have been collected fell into the entrainment of the imperial court, but instead were embezzled by the local gentry and bureaucrats.

In the end, the imperial court had no money, and neither did the common people, which made the people in the middle fatter.

Xia Yuanji opened his mouth, with a smile uglier than crying.

"His Royal Highness took the initiative to come to the Ministry of Households to pay taxes, never broke the law. It's just..."

(End of this chapter)