This wise man will make a mistake in every attempt. No one could have thought that Xu Jirong would become the biggest winner in the prelude to this reform.

But almost everyone believes that ministers led by the cabinet are the biggest losers.

They were not only slapped in the face by Guo Dan, but also taught a lesson by the emperor.

It's really an internal and external trouble!

But strangely, the cabinet doesn't feel that way.

The cabinet felt that it was a fisherman's benefit.

Because the ministers began to gather around the cabinet again, this evil way could not kill Guo Dan, but instead made him lose face.

Then the only way is to succeed in reform.

Otherwise, not to mention that the commercial tax would be stolen by Guo Dan, even the dominance of their officials would be impacted.

They even feel like they are fighting against each other.

However, Shen Shi succeeded in reforming and made huge concessions. During the whole process, he was relatively low-key and did not directly lead the way. Instead, he was left to Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping to lead. Wang Xijue was the same as him, but Wang Jiaping was not.

Although Wang Jiaping has a good reputation in the court, he has always paid great attention to his relationship with his colleagues, and has always been on the matter and not targeting others. He basically has no political enemies, and he is currently the eldest son, Mr. Zhu Changluode.

But his own virtues and cultivation are just one of the reasons.

The main reason is that Wang Jiaping is from Shanxi and is not from the Jiangnan faction. He is the only one in the entire cabinet. Although Yu Youding is not from Shen Shixing, Yu Youding is also from Jiangnan.

Many ministers hope that Wang Jiaping can restrain Shen Shixing to a certain extent.

Shen Shixing is not allowed to integrate the cabinet.

They just guard against another Zhang Juzheng.

This is also the reason why Shen Shixing retreated behind the scenes. He knew that if he stood up and led the court, the court might not be so united.

Li Zhi and the others could not support Shen Shixing, after all, they had already fought against each other before.

Of course, Shen Shixing was not a weakling. He was willing to release his power for the country, the people and the king. Although he did not dominate this matter, everything had to be approved by him, because he controlled the six divisions in his hands.

Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue are only one year apart. In addition, they have one thing in common, that is, they both opposed Zhang Juzheng before Zhang Juzheng's death, but after Zhang Juzheng's death, they all spoke for Zhang Juzheng.

They opposed Zhang Juzheng's arbitrary and stubborn behavior, but at the same time they supported Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

This alone is enough to see that they are still reformists in their hearts, believing that the Ming Dynasty must carry out reforms, otherwise they will be waiting for death.

After stabilizing the court, Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue began to discuss how to reform.

Although it is just about reforming tariffs, once the trigger of this reform is pulled, it cannot be just reforming tariffs. This is just a drug guide. However, if this first step is not done well, there is no way to talk about what comes later.

Therefore, the two seemed very cautious about this. They did not rush to hold a meeting and discuss how to reform. Instead, the two communicated privately first and determined a general direction.

"Although the commercial tax in our country is low, there are countless taxes on merchants by governments in various places. This river has to be charged, and it also costs to cross the bridge. When you go to the market, you have to pay taxes. All of them are not low!" Wang Xijue said.

Wang Jiaping nodded and said, "It makes sense. Zhang Juzheng's reforms were mostly aimed at taxes and service. However, unified taxes and service were not required to serve labor. During the slack season, he could still do work or trade, which promoted the development of industry and commerce. However, Zhang Juzheng did not reform the commercial tax at that time."

Wang Xijue said: "The complex commercial taxes not only bring heavy burdens to merchants and craftsmen, but also make the court less rewarded, because most of these taxes have not entered the treasury. I personally think that if we want to reform tariffs, the first step is to simplify the commercial taxes and the court will send people to collect them."

"Multiple" means that the central government cannot control it. The reason is very simple. It is impossible for the court to send so many people to collect taxes.

Just talking about the bridge fee, it must be collected by the local government or powerful gentry, so it is impossible for this money to enter the national treasury.

The complexity is simplified and collected by the court specifically. This is exactly what Wang Xijue has always claimed. In fact, it is Zhang Juzheng's proposal, which is to strengthen the central power. Only in this way can the policies formulated by the central government be well implemented.

Wang Jiaping sighed: "But the problems we encounter are the same as those of Zhang Juzheng. In fact, these tariffs are all aimed at small businessmen, and those rich businessmen have backgrounds, and they often don't even pay a penny.

When I was in Weihui Mansion, I asked some merchants why they left their hometowns and traveled thousands of miles to Weihui Mansion to do business. This is the reason. Once the court wants to pay additional taxes, the first thing they suffer will be ordinary farmers, and the second thing they are these small merchants and craftsmen.

For example, in the Luwang Mansion incident, the entire Weihui Mansion was looted at that time, but those big landlords and wealthy businessmen were not only safe, but also took the opportunity to annex a lot of land and make a fortune. If the court unified the collection, then we will inevitably face this problem. If those big landlords do not pay taxes, then this reform will inevitably fail."

Many people say that the low taxes of the Korean merchants led to the lack of money in the country. In fact, it is not. The commercial tax problem in the Ming Dynasty did not lie in the amount of taxes, but in the whether to pay or not. This is the same as the agricultural tax. Big landlords and wealthy merchants do not pay taxes, and the taxes are all on farmers and small merchants. Every time they pay taxes, they are ordinary farmers and small merchants. As long as the landlords and wealthy merchants do not make political mistakes, they are all unmoved. Sometimes they robbed the court, and sometimes they encouraged the small merchants and craftsmen to oppose the court.

This is the key.

This is also one of the main reasons why the people are not optimistic about the court reform.

If the tax system is improved, the purpose is to reduce the burden on everyone. Anyone can come and beggars can do it. I will be exempted from it if I go up. No one will object except the ruling class. If it is completely exempted, what will the officials eat?

Therefore, as long as you pursue reform, no matter which dynasty or dynasty, there must be problems with the national finance, and the purpose is to increase national income.

Because if the people's lives are in crisis, the court only needs relief, not reform.

Reform must increase the treasury income. In other words, it means increasing tax revenue. If the basic market does not change, if you do not collect income taxes from wealthy businessmen and landlords, the increased tax revenue will inevitably fall on the people again.

Everyone understands this principle. From Shang Yang to Zhang Juzheng, this is the case, but there are very few people who succeed. The most successful one is probably Shang Yang. Zhang Juzheng did not fundamentally solve this problem. Of course, Washington actually did not.

The problem is that the combination of money and power can truly become a wealthy businessman and a landlord, and they must rely on power. So who would use their own power to collect their own taxes?

Therefore, the people hate reform deeply.

After all the changes, we have more income taxes.

What kind of reform is obviously a change.

Wang Xijue sighed and said, "If we directly say we want to impose more taxes on wealthy businessmen, there will probably be many opposition parties in the court."

Not to mention others, he is actually a wealthy businessman, a landlord, and has a wealthy family, but he is willing to pay the reasonable taxes.

Wang Jiaping said: "In fact, the most successful one is the Weihui Mansion under Guo Dan. I carefully studied Weihui Mansion. The success of his lies in that he can make those rich businessmen and landlords make more money, but at the same time, he cannot do without him. If those rich businessmen and landlords do not pay taxes, they will not get more, but lose more. Therefore, the powerful and wealthy people in Weihui Mansion take the initiative to pay taxes. Unfortunately, we do not have the means of Guo Dan."

The landlords and wealthy businessmen in Weihui Mansion are willing to pay taxes, not because of Guo Dan's power, but because Guo Dan can make them earn more. They must support Guo Dan. If Guo Dan is good, they will be better. If Guo Dan is finished, they will suffer heavy losses.

This is not about policy, but about technology.

Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue have ideas and policies, strengthen central government power, simplify business taxes, reduce the burden on small and medium-sized merchants, and impose taxes on wealthy merchants, but they do not have technical support.

Wang Xijue said: "We seem to be ignoring one person."

Wang Jiaping nodded and said, "It's time to talk to him."

At the same time, Guo Dan is also preparing for the listing of the Yakushang Store. Compared to them, Guo Dan is much easier. After all, the listing of the Yakushang Store is to take everyone to make money, but in a fundamental sense, he actually wants to use this to promote business development.

The reason why he wanted a shareholding system was that he found that although some cities in the Ming Dynasty had good commodity economies, they lacked capital. The reason was that farming was more stable and profitable than buying and selling, and the money was trapped in the land and could not be turned into capital.

However, he could not advocate capital thought. Capital thought would inevitably limit the imperial power, and only on the basis of limiting the imperial power can he be further developed. He could not harm the interests of the fat man. He could only rely on listing to collect the money trapped in the land and turn it into capital in Wanli's hands.

Yinuoya!

"Son-in-law! Son-in-law!"

Xiao An suddenly ran in panic and gasped, saying, "Son-in-law, someone robbed our business."

Guo Dan smiled when he heard this: "Who is so unthinkable?"

"Yes...it's my uncle." Xiao Andu said.

"It's that idiot again!"

Guo Dan immediately became nervous, "What did he do?"

Xiao An said: "My uncle spent 10,000 taels to buy a piece of land outside the southern suburbs as a slaughter farm, and... and the business is pretty good."

“Business is pretty good?”

Guo Dan opened her eyes and said, "Where is he already open?"

"Um."

"Then why are you here to tell me now, what do you usually do? Are you squatting in the cottage and eating shit?" Guo Dan said furiously.

His purpose in doing business is to be information and data first. He has already opened it, so he will only tell him now.

"This is because... because my uncle just bought it for himself, so we didn't know in advance."

"What? Buy a chuwan field and play by yourself? This is such a prodigal son!"
Chapter completed!