freenovelworld Chapter 730 Provocation
Chapter 730 Provocation
Chapter 730 Provocation
Among other things, the land of the aristocratic family also has to pay taxes. If there are people in the household department, part of the land can be concealed, and taxes can also be owed.
You read that right, you owe taxes.
Why owe it.
Here we have to talk about the ancient decree of "amnesty to the world".
Many people read some TV novels and saw the words "amnesty to the world".
Take the Song Dynasty as an example, because Zhao Kuangyin left a will before his death, he could not be sentenced to scholar-bureaucrats, which also led to the fact that as long as the civil officials of the Song Dynasty did not rebel, they would be exiled at most.
And those officials in exile, as long as they encounter an amnesty, they can regain their freedom.
Take Su Shi as an example. He was exiled in his later years, and later met with amnesty, and died on the way back to the north.
This also caused people to misunderstand the amnesty of the world, thinking that the amnesty of the world only includes criminals.
Not so.
In ancient times, the world was generally amnesty when the yuan was changed, the suburbs were sacrificed, the emperor was honored, the emperor ascended the throne, and the crown prince was established.
Occasionally, some more special and less common reasons will be used to amnesty the world - such as the emperor's tour, the suppression of rebellion, the discovery of auspiciousness, the establishment of a queen, the consecration of Zen, the visit to the Taimiao, the solar eclipse, etc...
From the reasons for these amnesties, it is not difficult to see that the amnesty is actually for celebration.
That being the case, how can an amnesty only pardon prisoners?
In fact, amnesty also includes tax arrears.
Although there is a natural disaster in a certain place, the imperial court will exempt taxes for some years.
But it does not mean that people will be able to pay taxes on time if the weather goes well.
In fact, there are always some people in the world who cannot pay taxes for some reason.
Amnesty includes those who owe taxes.
Many people may think that if this is the case, then everyone owes taxes, how can the court collect taxes?
In fact, as long as ordinary people can pay, they dare not pay taxes in arrears.
Those who did this were wealthy, landed, and prestigious gentry families.They generally evade taxes by half-paying and half-arrears, for example, paying part of the tax, and then using various reasons to default on part of the tax.
Because the families of tax-payers hold the right to speak in local public opinion, and many families also have officials in the court, so when encountering such a situation of tax arrears, local officials and officials who call for tax payment dare not resort to violence The means of collection can only be put on hold. Anyway, as long as there is enough tax money to be handed over to the court, local officials can use other methods to make up for it, such as oppressing ordinary people and businessmen with no background by clever means, or using the excuse that the harvest is not good Ask the court to cut taxes and so on.
And the taxes owed will not be paid until the amnesty order of the imperial court comes down.
The prerequisite for doing all this is to have their people in the Ministry of Households, so the official position of the Ministry of Households is more important than the official position of the Ministry of Officials in the eyes of the aristocratic family.
If we really want to follow Li Shimin's request, there are basically not many people left in the household department.
This is unacceptable to them.
"Your Majesty said that this is his bottom line. If you don't agree, there is no need to talk about it. The old man thinks it's okay to agree. Although those official positions are more important to the few of us, compared to the reputation of the few of us, which one? More important?" Lu Yuan said.
Cui Hao said suspiciously: "Your Majesty wants our family to give up their official positions in the household department. Why didn't you propose to give up the household servants as well? Could it be that your Lu family reached a deal?"
Several other people also looked at Lu Yuan suspiciously.
In addition to Shangshu, the two ministers of the household department have the most power. Why didn't Li Shimin ask the Lu family to give up the position of the servants of the household department?
Lu Yuan was a little flustered in his heart, but he pretended to be angry and said on his face: "Since this is the case, I don't care about this matter, you can do whatever you want, and our Lu family will not participate."
After speaking, he got up and was ready to go.
"Brother Lu, don't be angry, Brother Cui also said unintentionally." Several people hurriedly pulled Lu Yuan back.
Lu Yuan said with a livid face: "Obviously he didn't discuss with us and made things up on his own, which caused our family to suffer losses. Now I still doubt the old man. His Majesty didn't ask the old man to give up his position as the servant of the household department. Could it be that your family gave up the position of servant?"
When everyone thought about it, Lu Yuan was right.
Although Li Shimin wanted a lot of positions and they were all important, but he really didn't want to be at the level of a servant.
Everyone's doubts were gone, but because of Lu Yuan's words, they were a little dissatisfied with Cui Hao.
As Lu Yuan said, this incident was completely caused by Cui Hao himself, but it caused losses to several of them.
Cui Hao's face changed, and he said: "You are talking nonsense, the old man did this for the five of us, without any selfish intentions."
"Why don't you discuss with us without selfishness?"
"Yes, if you discuss it with us in advance, there will be no trouble now."
Everyone began to criticize Cui Haolai.
Lu Yuan sneered in his heart, but luckily the Lu family chose to join Li Shimin.
How could they be Li Shimin's opponents who were so close to each other.
"Everyone, the old man feels that the most important thing is to solve the immediate matter as soon as possible. As for the losses of our family, we will report to the family at that time, and the family will naturally negotiate with the Cui family." Lu Yuan said.
Cui Hao gritted his teeth and looked at Lu Yuan. Although the others were somewhat dissatisfied with him due to this matter, they did not show it.
Not only did Lu Yuan's few words arouse the anger of the crowd, but he even suggested that their family should seek compensation from the Cui family together.
If one or two Cui families can still firmly refuse, but if the other four families are together, the Cui family can only try to appease them, and I am afraid that they will have to cut some flesh in the end.
Can the family let him go by then?
No matter what Cui Hao thought, the eyes of the others lit up.
As the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed with the bystanders, they patronize and feel distressed before, and subconsciously want to refuse.
But if he can make up for it from the Cui family, the loss will be within an acceptable range.
"Brother Lu is right. The longer this matter drags on, the worse it will be for us."
"That's right, the old man heard that tens of thousands of untouchables were going to the gate of the palace to kill those kneeling people. If the imperial guards hadn't stepped forward and stopped them, something serious would have happened. There must be someone behind this incident. If the people behind it continue to incite those untouchables to come to our family, which one of us can resist?"
If they were in their ancestral land, they would naturally not be afraid, but this is Chang'an, and they don't need tens of thousands of people, even a few thousand people can trample their mansions in Chang'an to the ground.
Thinking of this, they shuddered and wanted to solve this matter as soon as possible.
Cui Hao didn't want to agree, but the other families had reached a consensus. If he didn't agree, he would offend the other families to death.
In desperation, Cui Hao could only agree.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan admired Li Shimin very much.
In fact, he suggested that Li Shimin relax the conditions, but Li Shimin did not agree.
Li Shimin told him with certainty that the family would eventually agree.
Unexpectedly, it was as expected by Li Shimin.
(End of this chapter)