"I want to change taxes!" Zhu Xiongying said firmly.
"Change taxes?" Lao Zhu raised his voice. He was about to walk to the palace gate now. Lao Zhu's words immediately attracted the attention of many people.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about it when we get back!" Lao Zhu looked around and said.
"Okay!" Zhu Xiongying nodded.
The two of them returned to the Wuying Hall amidst repeated bows from everyone.
Lao Zhu sat directly on his dragon chair, looked at Da Sun, and pointed directly at the place where he was sitting before.
That was where Lao Zhu sat when Zhu Xiongying was handling government affairs.
"Dasun, sit here!" Lao Zhu said.
"Well!" Zhu Xiongying also sat down and immediately took a book he had saved before.
Zhu Xiongying made the records himself before, just to remember the problems that he or Ming need to solve in the future.
The feudal king's problems were recorded before, and now we need to add another court shop, as well as commercial taxes.
There was even a faint word for "military". Lao Zhu didn't understand it, but he didn't ask.
Lao Zhu just watched his eldest grandson record the business tax matters without interrupting, but he also frowned.
After Zhu Xiongying put away his fold, Lao Zhu became serious and asked,
"Tell me, why do you have such an idea?"
"Grandpa!" Zhu Xiongying also became serious and said from the beginning,
"If the Ming Dynasty had just been founded and everything was in ruins, I wouldn't have said anything!"
"But now, all walks of life in Ming Dynasty have prospered."
“Grandpa’s suppression of business, I don’t know how this happened!”
"They have money, but grandpa doesn't handle their money, but handles it from other places!"
"I don't understand this!"
“My idea is, if they have money, take their money and collect their taxes!”
"Every money they make, I, Ming, will take part of it!"
"In this way, if Ming Dynasty has money, they will not be too different from other ordinary people!" Zhu Xiongying said,
"You can even use this money to compensate those people for their taxes!"
"Why, grandpa, I feel like I charge more money to whomever I value!"
"It's like my Ming Dynasty has a ship carrying people. For the people who get on the ship, the people have little money, but they have to charge more, and the merchants are rich, but they have to charge less!"
"But what grandpa did was to make the merchants kneel on the boat, but it still looked like they didn't collect the money!"
"In my opinion, merchants need money to board the ship, or even more money!" Zhu Xiongying said.
After listening to Zhu Xiongying's words, Lao Zhu smiled slightly and said,
"But what if the merchant pays more but wants a better location or a better cabin?"
Zhu Xiongying also laughed and said,
"Haha, grandpa, merchants and people are not in the same cabin."
"The common people are in another cabin, and the merchant's cabin is. The richer you are, the more things you bring with you, so you need to pay more!"
"If you want some benefit, you can give it to me, but the decision is in my hands!"
"Haha, Grandson, you have to know that people's greed is infinite, and they will always look forward to Shu!" Lao Zhu said.
"Does this mean they won't be able to do it?" Zhu Xiongying asked back,
"When they have money, they buy land, support scholars, and win over officials!"
"The more money they have, the heavier this thought will be, because what they need is no longer money!"
"And once the people they sponsor reach high school, won't their status also change?"
"So I cut them off at the source! Let them stop having so much money and use their money to feed the court!"
"Instead of just suppressing their social status like grandpa!"
"Contempt does not mean not to deal with it, but it means suppressing and suppressing their wealth!"
"In this way, the more money my Ming Dynasty has, the stronger my power will be. When they have money, my Ming Dynasty will be more powerful."
"They will never be able to climb our Wuzhi Mountain!"
"And what grandpa did is just to restrict their status!"
"When they have enough money to influence Ming Dynasty in the future, can they still suppress them?"
"So we need to deal with them at the root!"
After saying that, Zhu Xiongying also paused and continued,
"As for what I want to do and what other requirements I have, I feel that after paying so much tax to Ming Dynasty, I should get more!"
"Then they are dreaming!"
"Didn't Ming Dynasty provide them with an environment for doing business?"
"Their money is already many times that of the common people, and they still want more?"
"Rebellion?"
"The sword is in my hand, I have the final say!"
Lao Zhu listened and kept thinking,
"Are you thinking of suppressing them in a more ruthless way?"
"Not bad!" Zhu Xiongying nodded and said.
"The knife is in your own hands!" Lao Zhu murmured after listening to Zhu Xiongying's words, and then asked,
"What if they make trouble?"
"Hahaha, grandpa, throughout the ages, generals have rebelled, and people have rebelled. Have you ever heard of merchants rebelling?"
"This is even more ridiculous than the rebellion of scholars!" Zhu Xiongying said.
"It's like these shops of mine have made so much money in just a few months!"
"Of course, they may not make money as fast or as much as me, and they may not be as strong as me."
"But some big merchants also have a lot of money. What will they do if they keep the money?"
"And if you buy land, if the people don't want to sell it, will they bribe officials?" Zhu Xiongying asked,
"Also, in other dynasties, there has never been such a low business tax like grandpa!"
"Didn't they save the restrained merchants?"
Lao Zhu listened and made up his mind. There was a fierce flash in his eyes, he patted the table and said,
"Okay, at the next court meeting, we will ask someone to bring it up and let everyone discuss it!"
"I'll change it, but it won't change..." As he said that, Lao Zhu became serious again,
"Changes are necessary, but many people usually do small business, just like Widow Ma and others!"
"If the burden is too heavy, it will be difficult for them to live!"
Zhu Xiongying listened to Lao Zhu's words and knew that he was thinking that he would be cut off like him.
No matter what, taxes are collected uniformly.
"Haha, don't worry, grandpa, I won't just cut it all off!"
"Things like Widow Ma are still the same as before!" Zhu Xiongying said with a smile.
"What I want to add are the big merchants, not the small traders and ordinary people like now!"
"Taxes are collected based on their income! If their monthly income must exceed dozens of taels, their taxes will be increased!"
"Grandpa doesn't have any objections to such people, right?" Zhu Xiongying said with a smile.
"Hahaha, no!" Lao Zhu laughed, very satisfied with Zhu Xiongying's answer.
"Ordinary people can even get more exemptions!"
"The most numerous people in our Ming Dynasty are people like this. They are the cornerstone of our Ming Dynasty!"
"As I said before, whoever dares to ruin my reputation, I will destroy their jobs and chop off their heads!" Zhu Xiongying said with a murderous look on his face.
"Hahaha! Okay, Da Sun is domineering!" Lao Zhu said with a smile.
"Moreover, it doesn't have to be implemented in the entire Ming Dynasty at once. You can choose a few places. If nothing happens, we can implement it nationwide before it is too late!" Zhu Xiongying said,
"Anyway, Ming Dynasty's taxes are not that low now, so there's no need to worry!"
"Pay attention to this!" Lao Zhu's eyes lit up and he said to Zhu Xiongying,
"Not only these, but other things can also be done in this way in the future!"
"Yes!" Zhu Xiongying nodded.
"Okay, let's leave this matter as it is for the time being, and let's wait and see what's discussed at the meeting!"
"It's getting late. Let's deal with these memorials and then go back and rest!"
"Okay!" Zhu Xiongying also smiled, and the atmosphere suddenly relaxed.
While Zhu Xiongying was dealing with it, Lao Zhu was also watching.
After waiting until it was almost done, Lao Zhu suddenly said,
"Grandson, didn't you ask Concubine Guo to show you whose girl is suitable?"
"Now there's news!"
"Oh?" Zhu Xiongying was a little curious, wondering whose girl they valued.
"Whose family does it belong to?" Zhu Xiongying asked.
"Hahaha, are you anxious too?" Lao Zhu teased and said with a smile.
"What am I worried about? I'm just curious!" Zhu Xiongying smiled and said.
"Is it also from Xungui's side?"
"Yes!" Lao Zhu nodded and said,
"But your marriage, Dasun, is really hard to find!"
"You are our eldest grandson. Logically speaking, you should also find the granddaughters of those nobles!"
"But for their granddaughter, I looked for several, but none of them were suitable!"
