As the Ministry of Household Affairs' official letter on changes to the tax system was distributed to all prefectures and counties, it was like a huge stone being dropped into the lake. An uproar was instantly aroused, and memorials like snowflakes flew from the chief envoys to Zhu Biao's imperial case. superior.
Zhu Biao shook his head with a wry smile, looked up at Han Du, pointed at the imperial case, and said, "Look, these are the memorials submitted by the provinces, all of which are against you changing the tax system. Otherwise, this matter is still Let’s take a break for now.”
Han Du flatly vetoed, "We can't slow down! If we fail to implement it again and again, if we don't implement it this time, then we won't even think about implementing it next time. Therefore, since the Ministry of Revenue has issued an official letter, that means Everyone in the world is watching. If nothing happens because of a few memorials, how will the people in the world view the imperial court? This will be a heavy blow to the prestige of the imperial court!"
Zhu Biao was suddenly shocked, and then he realized the seriousness of the matter. Now he has reached a situation where he is riding a tiger and it is difficult to get off. He can't just give in if he wants to.
Han Du reached out and picked up a memorial, glanced at it, and then smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, this memorial has gorgeous rhetoric, but apart from saying that this is a perverse move, there is no strong evidence. It can be used to refute the new tax system. In other words, they just don’t agree with it, or they don’t want to change it, but they can’t tell what the disadvantages of the new tax system are.”
"This is making unreasonable troubles and opposing for the sake of opposition. If they complain like this and the court has to give in first, then in the future they encounter other things that make them slightly unhappy and they complain like this, how will they deal with it? ? Moreover, by then, if the imperial court has not regressed like it is now, will it arouse their anger, and instead they will fight against the imperial court more fiercely, hoping that the imperial court will make concessions again? If so, how can the imperial court's decrees be implemented? "
Zhu Biao frowned deeply and immediately understood the difficulty of this matter. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, but couldn't think of a way to properly resolve the matter.
He had no choice but to look up at Han Du and sighed: "What should we do now? These are the chief ministers of the world. Their memorials cannot be ignored, right?"
Han Du was not worried at all, and smiled and said: "The emperor is the emperor, and they are just ministers. Even if the emperor ignores them, they can only bear it."
Zhu Biao suddenly looked at Han Du helplessly.
Han Du laughed, and then said: "It's just a joke, the emperor doesn't have to take it seriously, right?"
After a pause, with Zhu Biao's eager eyes, Han Du said: "Since the emperor thought that he could not ignore it, I thought that since they had different opinions and couldn't distinguish the reasons, let the Ministry of Household Affairs discuss it with them. Bar."
Argument?
Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he pointed at Han Du with a smile, "Are you holding back something bad?"
Han Du immediately screamed aggrieved, "What did the emperor say? I am thinking of the emperor!"
I helped you solve your problem, and you actually made fun of me in return? Believe it or not, I dare to give up my choice immediately!
Zhu Biao also reacted immediately and quickly comforted Han Du, "Haha, that's what I said. Well, I'll leave this matter to you. You can make me feel at ease every time you do things."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
...
Han Du returned to the household department and called for Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu.
"Master Marquis, are you looking for me?" Wang Yuanji asked first.
Han Du glanced at the two of them and waved with a smile on his face, "Come on, come on, everyone, sit down."
"Thank you, Lord Marquis." Zhao Yu quickly returned the favor.
After the two sat down, Han Du smiled and said, "The emperor just summoned me."
Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu looked at each other and knew that something must have happened.
Han Du continued: "Because of the change in the tax system, several chief ministers were dissatisfied and wrote a memorial to the emperor to oppose the matter."
be opposed to?
Wang Yuanji suddenly felt relieved and said with a smile: "Master Hou, didn't we already expect that someone would object?
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"Yes!" Han Du nodded.
Before preparing to issue the official letter, Han Du predicted what would happen with the two of them. Among them is what the Ministry of Revenue should do if some officials resist the Ministry of Revenue's changes to the tax system.
"However, although we have already had countermeasures, who knows whether this incident is just a warning? Therefore, I want you to be extremely careful and deal with the opposition of these chief envoys carefully, do you understand?" Han Du stared at the two of them closely, giving them a focused look respectively.
Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu looked at each other and nodded heavily to Han Du, "I understand!"
The next day, Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu, in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs, sent official documents to the chief envoys reported one by one. Since they oppose changing the tax system, they must come up with strong reasons.
At the beginning, the chief envoy would reply to the household department with confidence. But they may be good at reading, but their understanding of taxes is limited to what the lower prefectures and counties escort to the province every year. In fact, they only know how much taxes each prefecture and county paid this year, but they have no idea how these taxes were obtained.
Maybe some people also know taxation well, and even go to prefectures and counties to check the tax situation in person. But such people know better how the new tax system proposed by the Ministry of Revenue will benefit tax collection, and they will not oppose it at all.
Under the leadership of Han Du, Wang Yuanji and Zhao Yu now have a good understanding of taxation. As for those chief envoys who knew nothing about taxation, the two of them refuted all the objections one by one on the basis of the necessity of collecting taxes, how the structure of taxation should be reasonable, the significance of taxation, etc.
Those chief envoys had seen such methods before, and the two of them refuted them speechless without spending much effort at all.
A storm had just started, but it was eliminated by Han Du in an understatement.
...
Zhang Yan and Qi Tai had been paying close attention to the developments in the Ministry of Revenue. From the very beginning, the emperor had received the memorials from the various envoys, and they had known about them the next day.
Some people opposed Handu's tax system, and there were several feudal officials. One can imagine how excited these two people were about this situation!
Originally, the two of them planned to observe for a while and wait until the right time to add a handful of firewood to Han Du. However, they did not expect that under the successive attacks of the Ministry of Revenue, the chief envoys would become frail.
Before they even took action, the problem was solved by the Ministry of Revenue.
The gap between the two of them from their initial excitement to their current disappointment was so great that they fell from the top to the bottom without even giving them a buffer.
Originally, they wanted to disgust Han Du, but they did not expect that Han Du would disgust them unintentionally.
"Han Du! If you don't avenge me, I will never be a human being!" Qitai's eyes were red and he cursed fiercely.
On the contrary, Zhang Yan did not have Qi Tai's strong desire to win. He was originally extremely disgusted with Han Du, but when he saw Qitai acting like a madman, he felt a little scared.
He said with a complicated expression: "Well, brother Shangyi is not like this, is he? Frankly speaking, Han Du and us have no deep hatred. At most, they are just fellow travelers. Since we can't defeat him, then we should avoid him when we encounter him in the future. Isn’t that good?”
"Avoid it?" Qi Tai suddenly raised his head and stared at Zhang Yan with red eyes, "Do you think we can live in peace if we avoid Han Du in the future?"
"What else can I do?" Zhang Yan was a little afraid of Qitai like this, and couldn't help but lower his voice.
Qitai immediately snorted coldly and said: "Don't look at Han Du who always smiles, as if anyone can bully him. But I want to tell you, this person has extremely small minds. See for yourself. Since he started his official career, has he ever let go of anyone who has offended him?"
Zhang Yan fell silent immediately. He didn't know if Han Du was being petty, but he knew that something was wrong with Qitai's expression now.
When Qi Tai saw that Zhang Yan didn't say anything, he paused and lowered his voice.
Yin said: "We have offended Han Du to death. Now either he dies or we die. At this point, how can we still have room to make concessions?"
Zhang Yan took a deep breath, looked at Qi Tai meaningfully, nodded and said, "We understand."
...
Although Han Du had made predictions in advance and suppressed the matter in the shortest possible time, it was obviously not that simple to end the matter.
Although the chief envoys could not agree with the Ministry of Household Affairs, they were very angry and unwilling.
It was at this time that Qi Tai discovered that two of the chief envoys mentioned above were his old friends. So, he wrote a letter and handed it to the two of them.
As a result, in these two provinces, an evil wind targeting the household tax system began to blow unknowingly.
First of all, the two chief envoys mentioned in front of their subordinates more than once that although the tax system of the Ministry of Household Affairs unified taxes, it was bad news for the people. The people did not have much money in their hands, but now the Ministry of Household Affairs no longer collects taxes in kind. , only collecting money, doesn’t this push the people to death?
After saying that, he still shook his head and looked worried about the country and the people.
Those who can stand in the Chief Envoy's Department are all talented people. When they saw such an obvious signal from their superior, why didn't they know what they should do?
As the saying goes, if something is good at the top, it will be worse at the bottom!
The news that the new tax system would drive people to death quickly spread to people in all prefectures and counties. Even more than that, the news spread rapidly in other provinces at a strange speed.
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