Xia Yuanji?
I actually bumped into this guy!
Just listening to the voice coming from behind the door of the household department, Zhu Yunxi's eyes were already burning with fire.
In just a moment, Zhu Yunxi looked at the empty door of Hubu with ardent eyes.
His eyes were like that of a young man who was about to marry his bride, waiting for the long-awaited red hijab to walk out of the door of his parents' home.
During this moment of waiting, Zhu Yunxi felt as if time had slowed down. Time becomes like a river, flowing slowly in front of you visible to the naked eye.
That's Xia Yuanji!
There are countless elders 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 Ming Dynasty's household department for his whole life. During the Ming Dynasty, he used troops continuously and launched countless northern and southern campaigns. Behind the scenes, he firmly guarded the finance of the Ming Dynasty. He never once let the soldiers on the front line of the Ming Dynasty. Experiencing war with lack of food and clothing.
In the history of Zhaozhao and Ming Dynasties, Xia Yuanji was given the title of "gutong" and had the reputation of being a Zongzong minister. He was even praised by the saying in "Shangshu" that "I seek out wise men to assist my descendants".
If it were not for this economic genius in the early Ming Dynasty, who was working at the desk of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Finance year after year, I am afraid that the expansion of the territory of the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty would have long implicated the decline of people's livelihood in the world.
'Xia was sincerely loyal to me, and he drove to Yan before he finished speaking. '
Zhu Yunxi was very excited. Thinking about the records in Zhaozhaoqing's history, his eyes became more and more eager to look forward to it.
The next second.
Behind the household door, a young man wearing a light green uniform embroidered with egrets crossed the threshold of the household door with a calm posture and a smile. He stood in front of the door and looked calmly at Zhu Yunxi and others in front of the household door.
"Xia Yuanji!"
Zhu Yunxi suddenly shouted loudly involuntarily, stretched out his hand and waved to Xia Yuanji, who looked puzzled.
This is the future God of Wealth from...the Ming Dynasty!
This is what excites Zhu Yunxi more than getting to know Xie Jin.
Xia Yuanji, who was a whole round older than Zhu Yunxi, couldn't help but frown when he looked at Zhu Yunxi who was shouting at him.
He doesn't know this person.
but……
Suddenly, the image of a person in Xia Yuanji's mind overlapped with the young man in front of the door.
His brows suddenly raised, and he quickly walked down the steps with his official robe in hand and arrived in front of Zhu Yunxi.
"Xia Yuanji, the head of the Qing Li Department of the Hubu Department, is here to see the Prince of Huaiyou County."
Zhu Yunxi had an unstoppable smile on his face, as if he had seen a gold ingot. He put Uncle Twenty-Third down, stepped forward to help Xia Yuanji up, and said eagerly: "Master Xia, you don't have to be polite. I never thought I would meet Wei Zhe by chance today." Brother, I just happened to leave my affairs to Brother Wei Zhe."
Wei Zhe is Xia Yuanji's character.
Xia Yuanji, who was already wondering why the Huaiyou County Prince came to the Ministry of Revenue and why he knew him, became even more suspicious when he heard that Zhu Yunxi even knew his own name.
Is Your Highness treating yourself too much...
He couldn't describe it.
All he could do was smile dryly and say: "Your Highness loves me so much. How can I, a lowly official, be treated like an elder brother by Your Highness?"
After experiencing Jie Jin, Zhu Yunxi already had a certain understanding of people like them.
Sincerity is the best weapon.
Just like the role of sincerity between men and women.
Zhu Yunxi waved his hand: "I have heard about Brother Wei Zhe for a long time. When I saw him today, it turned out to be just like the rumors. He is a rising star among the talents of our country!"
While he was talking, he was already pulling Xia Yuanji and Zhu Huang towards the Hubu Yamen.
Xia Yuanji, who was confused, was originally going to go to the General Affairs Department Yamen to do some business, but now he was able to follow Zhu Yunxi back to the Hubu Yamen.
Sun Cheng, who was lagging behind, smiled slightly. The third master was very familiar with the methods of Xia Yuanji, the chief envoy of the Department of Internal Affairs and Clearance of the Household Department.
He smiled, turned around to signal to everyone, and carried the box full of money into the household department.
The construction of the six yamen in Yingtian City are all the same, including the main hall and the waiting room.
The Qing Li Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs is responsible for the taxation of the whole country. It is divided into different Qing Li Divisions according to different regions.
Xia Yuanji, as one of the heads of the Department of Cleaning and Cleaning of the Ministry of Household Affairs, has a squad room of his own.
With full of confusion, Xia Yuanji led Zhu Yunxi into his squad room, attracting the attention of several minor officials in the squad room.
Xia Yuanji moved two chairs: "Your Highnesses, please take a short rest. I will have someone bring tea for your Highnesses."
With that said, he asked the clerk to go out and 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 walked in with someone. Seven boxes full of money were left together in a pile.
The money in the box kept clanging.
Every sound made Xia Yuanji's heart tremble.
When he was about to leave the Yamen, he heard clearly that the Prince of Huaiyou County in front of him came to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay taxes.
"What exactly are you going to do when Your Highness comes to the Ministry of Household Affairs?" Xia Yuanji asked in a low voice with some anxiety.
Zhu Yunxi smiled and leaned back: "Of course I'm here to pay taxes. How can I still take out money from your household department?"
This year the imperial court started the Northern Expedition again, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has now become a poor place that even mice can't look down upon.
Xia Yuanji's mouth twitched twice, and he smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, what are you going to do?"
There is no precedent in the world for the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect taxes from the royal family.
Besides, I am only the head of the Cleaning Department of the Household Department of the sixth rank. If I really accompany the Prince of Huaiyou County to accept the money, I am afraid that I will be impeached by my close and friendly colleagues in the court tomorrow. Hometown.
Even though he is only in his twenties now.
Zhu Yunxi repeated again: "I came to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay taxes. There are 700 taels of silver here. I borrowed the Chang family's four shops to sell iced food and ice jade jelly this time. The total profit was more than 6,000 taels. I took I sent you seven hundred taels."
When Xia Yuanji heard this, his legs suddenly became weak, and he almost knelt on the ground and begged Zhu Yunxi to take the seven hundred taels of silver back to the palace.
He sighed and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, you don't have to pay taxes. What's more, the Ming Dynasty's business tax will not be collected from you. Even if it is collected, it will only be one in thirty..."
The profit of more than 6,000 taels, the tax is only more than 200 taels of silver.
But what Zhu Yunxi brought was worth 10% of the profit.
Zhu Yunxi tilted his head and looked at Xia Yuanji, who was now just the head of the Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "How come, am I breaking 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 government. The government refused to accept the money and drove the man away.
But before long, the person who was an official in the court found a reason and asked the court to be demoted and dismissed.
It is really illegal to pay taxes.
This was also one of the reasons for the financial difficulties in the late Ming Dynasty. Although it clearly owned the land of nine states in the Central Plains and had a population of tens of millions, the taxes collected by the court were not as good as half of the income of the former Song Dynasty, which had lost the sixteen states of Yanyun.
This is all because none of the taxes that should have been collected fell into the hands of the imperial court. Instead, they were embezzled and shared by local gentry and bureaucrats.
In the end, the court had no money, and the people also had no money, and the poor people in the middle got rich.
Xia Yuanji opened his mouth, with a smile uglier than crying.
"His Royal Highness took the initiative to come to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay taxes. He has never broken the law. It's just..."
