Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 976 angry

  The national treasury is empty, and everything needs money. Even if she doesn’t do anything every day, she still needs to spend a lot of money. With so many officials and small officials, don’t they need salaries?

   There are also soldiers under her hands. The money and food consumed every day when she opens her eyes can make her eyes go dark.

  So the treasury has no money, so she has to create money.

  Salt and iron monopoly is not the fastest way to make money, as Zhao Ming said, taxation is.

But now the people all over the world are suffering, even if the drought in Yuzhou is mild and the disaster is not serious, but because of the war in the past six months, Yuzhou has paid a lot for logistics. , coupled with soaring food prices, ordinary people have also reached a critical point.

  So Zhao Hanzhang decided not to tax ordinary people, but to tax merchants, handicraftsmen, gentry, and officials.

  She is going to issue a counting order.

  The so-called Suanyuan decree is a decree issued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which specifically targets the property tax collected by merchants, usurers and handicraftsmen.

  However, Zhao Hanzhang has a big heart, and her counting order also added gentry and officials, basically including the wealthy family in China.

  But she also relaxed the amount of taxation. She required merchants and usurers to pay every 4,000 yuan, and handicraftsmen, gentry, and officials to pay every 5,000 yuan. In addition, there was also a vehicle and boat tax.

Except for officials, elders, and serving cavalry who have a tax-free quota for a car and a horse, the rest of the people need to pay a sum of money for a car within the specifications, or a horse. Officials and elders, the second car must also follow. Pay money together.

  Zhao Hanzhang was extremely fast. When he returned home, he asked someone to draft an edict, which would be issued the next day.

  Ji Yuan, Ming Yu, Zhao Ming, and others did not object. Even if it is a decree, Cao Wei before the Jin Dynasty still had it, and it had become a regular tax, but after the Jin Dynasty, it survived in name only and was basically not levied.

   Now that Zhao Hanzhang has expropriated it, all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty know what it is for.

  The treasury has no money.

   That is, Zhao Ming was very tolerant and didn't care about it. He generously asked the housekeeper to calculate the assets of the family, and then went to pay taxes.

   This made Zhao Hanzhang heave a sigh of relief, she was still waiting to be sprayed, but she didn't expect Uncle Ming to be so understanding and moved.

   Zhao Ming didn't slander her, but felt that someone would slander her.

   Sure enough, on the second day after the decree was promulgated, Zhao Hu dragged Zhao Song and several gentry gentlemen to the outside of Zhao's house.

This is Zhao Hanzhang's residence in Chen County, and it was occupied. The Wang family lived here most of the time. Because of the war disaster some time ago, she returned to Xiping. At this time, Zhao Hanzhang brought the little emperor and others to live here. hospital.

  Of course, the government affairs of the imperial court are mostly discussed and resolved here.

  Zhao Hu rushed to the front of the main hall, but he couldn't go in because the guards blocked him, even if he showed the old man's style, he couldn't help it.

Zhao Hu was already angry, but now he was even more angry, pinching his waist and yelling at the main hall, "Ingratitude and disrespect to elders, Zhao Hanzhang, come out for me! You have the face to tax me, don't you have the guts to come out?" ?”

  Zhao Hanzhang, who was grading papers in the hall, was taken aback when he heard the scolding, and the guards hurried in to report: "General, the Fifth and Seventh Lords of the house are here."

  Zhao Hanzhang put down his pen and was not in a hurry to go out. He walked slowly to the door and looked out.

   Zhao Song was a little displeased, and was staring at Zhao Hu, telling him to save his words when he saw someone. What does it look like to yell like this?

   As soon as the voice fell, Zhao Hanzhang poked his head out to look, and retracted almost instantly.

  Zhao Song:…

   Indecent!

  Zhao Hu also saw it, and pointed at the direction where Zhao Hanzhang retracted with trembling fingers. It was too much, too much, and she even hid!

  Zhao Hanzhang probably realized that it was useless to hide, and he appeared at the door after a while, with a bright smile on his face, and invited them into the lobby very respectfully.

  Zhao Hu snorted aggressively, passed her and went into the lobby. The three masters he brought with him looked at each other and followed in fear.

  They went to complain to Zhao Hu, but they didn't expect that he could immediately drag them to Zhao's residence to settle accounts with Zhao Hanzhang.

   To be honest, they are no strangers to Zhao Hanzhang. After all, when they need to prepare military expenses, she will come out to eat and drink with them, and look forward to the future development of Yuzhou by the way.

   Then they paid.

   But that was just friendship over meals, private communication... They are still more familiar with Zhao Ming, Ji Yuan and others.

  For some reason, they were all afraid of Zhao Hanzhang, even though she was always smiling.

  Zhao Hanzhang invited them into the lobby, and asked them to serve tea and sit down, "Why is the seventh uncle so angry?"

Zhao Hu asked with a sneer: "What's the matter with the order? This year you are short of military expenses for fighting, and I will give you 30,000 shi for food alone, and I will give you 100,000 shi of grain at the lowest price. , not to mention money, Zi Nian took at least 500,000 yuan from me, and the medicinal materials, your army still owes me money for the medicinal materials."

Speaking of this, Zhao Hu became angry, and couldn't help saying: "I asked you to give me money, and you asked me to find Fan Ying. Where is Fan Ying? She is patrolling Bingzhou Youzhou, and you still lie to me, you... "

   "Okay, okay," Zhao Song said, "These are two things, don't confuse them into one."

"This is one thing!" Zhao Hu couldn't help stomping her feet, and shouted loudly: "This is all the things she cheated on me and was ungrateful, and what's more, did she ask Chang Ning to keep an eye on me in the first few years, or else she would pay taxes every year? Then Chang Ning doesn't stare at anyone, just stare at me!"

Zhao Hanzhang hurriedly comforted him and said, "Uncle Seven, I know that you have supported me a lot, and I keep it in my heart. It's just that public affairs are public affairs, and private affairs are private. Let’s get rid of a policy of the country?”

"Fart, don't talk about high-sounding words. The counting order has always been only for merchants, those loan sharks, and artisans. Am I a worker? Or a merchant? Or a loan shark?" Zhao Hu fully suspected that Zhao Hanzhang was trying to rob His money was only given to the gentry, "I've never heard that the gentry also pay the money."

   Zhao Hanzhang asked sincerely: "Why don't the gentry need it?"

  Zhao Hu said confidently: "Scholars don't want it!"

  Zhao Hanzhang: "What's the reason?"

  Zhao Hu choked for a moment, isn't this common sense? Why ask him for a reason?

   Scholars, farmers, businessmen, scholars are second only to the royal family, so they don't need it!

  Seeing that he could not answer, Zhao Hanzhang sighed and said, "Seventh Uncle, they are all rich people. How can you discriminate against the nobles? Since they all have to pay money, we can't leave them out, or we will look down on them."

   These words are simply farting!

Zhao Hu wanted to curse, Zhao Song glared at him, turned his head and said to Zhao Hanzhang: "Sanniang, the world needs the stability and management of the gentry, and the officials are all from the gentry, so the taxes and taxes in the world are more tolerant to the gentry. If you don't have graciousness, How can you expect them to serve you?"

  China has a special national condition. From ancient times to the present, the political bureaucracy has attracted intellectuals, so most people associate studying with becoming an official.

  Scholars like Ji Yuan, because they cannot become officials themselves under special circumstances, they will choose some people to work for them, trying to participate in political activities through officials as a medium.

  Isn’t the most fundamental reason why intellectuals are so keen on being an official because of the benefits brought by being an official?

  This interest is all-round, including not only money, but also status, special status.

  For example, the gentry class can be exempted from many taxes.

  (end of this chapter)