Although Fei Yi's words sound a bit energetic and destroying his own majesty, he expressed the key point...

Li Dongyang’s background is there, it is indeed not comparable to Fei Hong. How can you fight with Li Dongyang?

Fei Hong narrowed his eyes and looked at Fei Yi, but said lightly: "You don't understand that the students' anti-business have different purposes. Some are anxious and some are slow. When Mr. Li came to this point, he attracted the urgent villain. Look, next, Mr. Li will strongly oppose all Wang Hua's governance; but people are different. Some people think that this merchant may not be reversed to the end. In other words, they need someone in the court to compete for their status and interests for the living, but they also agree that the country must have merchants. In short, the road is far away and the horsepower will be seen in the long run. You will invite Zhao Zhijing, Wang Kang, and Liu Shen in the evening. I have something to do with them."

Zhao Zhijing was a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, and was Fei Hong's son-in-law, Wang Kang was a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Fei Hong's disciple. Liu Shen was both in the Hanlin Academy with Fei Hong. He was both a colleague and a close friend, and now he is the Minister of Works.

These three people are all Fei Hong's confidants, and many of his disciples and former officials rely on them to contact him.

Fei Hong is falling too badly now. If you want to regain your strength, you must think of a way to deal with it. Before that, the first thing you have to do is to stabilize your position and tell them that you will still remain in office, and even have the support of the palace and the cabinet, as long as the black hat is still there.

In this way, after public recommendation, the wailing disciples and old officials will be relieved, because no matter what happens next, they all know that the Fei Guild can stop it and will do their best to maintain their position. As long as people are united, they can regroup.

Just then, someone came hurriedly and said, "Mr. Fei, there are a few merchants outside asking for a meeting."

"Merks? Who is it?" Fei Hong was stunned at first, and then hesitated: "I don't see you, I want to avoid this suspicion."

The man said, "It is not actually true that it is a merchant. However, they have done a big deal in Zhenguo Mansion, but they are also famous people. They said that they knew that Mr. Fei might not be willing to see them, but they had some small meanings, so they asked Mr. Fei to accept it with a smile."

After saying that, the man took out a stack of thick bills.

Fei Hong was stunned for a moment and asked Fei Yi to take it. When he took it, he found that it was a stack of promissory notes from Zhenguo Mansion Money House.

Fei Hong was shocked. These were promissory notes printed by Zhenguo Mansion. They were known as Shengyuan National Treasure Notes. Unlike the Daming Treasure Notes, this banknote has excellent credit and can be exchanged at any time. Therefore, it is very popular among merchants. This...

The promissory notes of a hundred taels of money should look like there should be 100,000 taels.

Fei Hong couldn't help but say, "What does this mean? Do you want to bribe me?"

The man hesitated for a moment and said, "They said this was a fee, and it was used to support Fei Gong's next public recommendation. They have admired Fei Gong for a long time and said that the prince had Taibai Society. Can't Fei Gong have a new society?"

Fei Hong suddenly realized, and he understood suddenly, his face seemed to be gloomy and sunny. After a while, he actually put the money aside and said, "Go and tell them, in a few days, when I finish my work, I will naturally ask them to come and talk."

After sending the door, he looked at Fei Yi and said, "I understand everything now. Ye Chunqiu's ultimate goal is to use my husband's hands to completely build up Mr. Li. I am still an anti-Shanghai, but there are some merchants behind it who are willing to support him. Therefore, although they are anti-Shanghai, they are not banned. What they support is scholars. With wealth, enough support, and a black hat, and enough connections, they can dig out some of the anti-Shanghai students and establish their own business. Perhaps now, I am far from being a match for Mr. Li, and even still have infamous reputation. However, as long as I operate slowly, my background will naturally become fuller in time. When it comes to time, there is no need to be afraid of Mr. Li."

After saying that, he took a deep breath. In fact, Fei Hong understood very well that he was used as a gun by Ye Chunqiu, but so what? It was just a mutual use. Ye Chunqiu could accept himself, but he could not accept the more ambitious Li Dongyang. If he wanted to regroup, he needed to get Ye Chunqiu's support.

Now that I have decided not to give up, what I have to do is make a comeback.

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Countless people have begun to visit the Ye family. The Taibai Poetry Society has celebrated this great victory in various places, which is very lively. At the same time, many people have asked for their visit and come to congratulate them one after another.

Ye Chunqiu refused to accept this. As far as he knew, the merchants were already crazy about Zhenguo Mansion. At the same time, within the Taibai Poetry Society, a new commercial law was being drafted, and what he wanted was to use Wang Hua to carry out reforms.

The next morning, Wang Hua entered the palace to see the emperor. His first words to the emperor were: "Your Majesty, if you say that the country is worthy of the country, you must first enrich the people. There are only two things to need to enrich the people. One is to discover gold and silver for the people. The second is to work in agriculture. The more grain is produced, the more people will be rich. Merchants have always been called "vagrants and food". People all over the world believe that they are not only not engaged in production, but also live too extravagant, but I think it is not. If you want things to be unyielding, you will be better than to consign and invest in farmers. If you want the people but not to be trapped, you will be more likely to be lightly guarding the market and profiting farmers. The old ministers think that instead of banning merchants, there is nothing better than to protect merchants. At the same time, they guide merchants to be used by the court. Now that your Majesty is not abandoned, I will be willing to redeem commercial taxes and enact commercial laws to enrich the world."

The essence of this statement is two: the former is taxation and the latter is a fixed law.

In fact, the imperial court had almost no taxes specifically targeting merchants, but even so, merchants still had taxes.

What is the problem?

Merchants need to pass through the prefectures and counties, or even arrive at the ferry with goods, or cross the checkpoints, all of which need to pay taxes, and there are quite a few taxes, but has the court benefited from these taxes?

No.

Not yet.

The income tax is too small. On the one hand, it is local taxes. On the other hand, it is because of layers of deductions, one hundred pieces of silk cloth, and the ones that can finally enter the national treasury may not even have ten pieces.

Therefore, the so-called establishment of commercial tax does not mean re-issuing taxes, but canceling all taxes and then levying them uniformly by the court.
Chapter completed!