At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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The officials were worried and wanted to object, but they dared not object directly, for fear that the emperor would take them under the knife. After much deliberation, they reached a consensus.

You can't attack by force, you can only outsmart.

Playing the weak card, playing the emotional card, by telling about the suffering of businessmen, describing the difficult life of the people, and indirectly extending to the injustice of imposing business taxes, so as to convey everyone's will to the emperor without interruption.

Then by the way, attack Wang Can, Cao Cao, and kill them through everyone's political means, which can also convey everyone's will.

Just like a year ago.

In a word.

Be sure to keep everyone's wallets.

We have always been the only ones who suck blood, not us who are sucked blood!

So Guo Peng soon received a list from some officials. Some of the content of the list could be called human deception in Guo Peng's view.

Of course, most of them are all kinds of grievances and grievances against wealthy businessmen, which is very interesting.

Among these deceptive behaviors in the world, the above table of Cui Qu, an official of the Ministry of Industry and a member of the Ministry of Yu, is particularly symbolic.

He is a clansman of Cui Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and logically speaking, he should have some academic standards. Cui Yan also recommended this person, saying that he is very talented, and tried to push him into the cabinet to become a close minister of Guo Peng.

As a result, he actually called the money earned by those wealthy businessmen as hard-earned money.

???

Hard-earned money?

Guo Peng didn't understand what this guy meant for a while.

Helping people clean up is not enough to do this, right?

Do I really look that stupid?

Cui Qu said that they risked their lives and sweated hard to earn money from traveling all over the world. The money was forged with blood and sweat, and it was not easy to come by.

Many people paid with their lives for this.

Tired to death, fell to death, died of disease, starved to death, robbed to death, every trade route is full of blood and tears of merchants.

They are generally miserable.

When some people left home, their parents were still alive. After returning home, their parents had died of illness, and they never saw each other for the last time.

Some wives who left home were still looking forward to his return, only to find out that his wife had remarried when he came back, because he hadn’t heard from him for so long and thought he was dead.

Some people are even more miserable. When they leave home, their wives are not pregnant. After returning home, the child is three years old, and he has not been able to catch up with the joy when the child was born.

That's it, separated from his family like this, and the money earned by working his life, will the emperor still need to levy business taxes?

???

Someone Guo suddenly had question marks all over his head.

After pondering for a long time, Mr. Guo realized that what he wanted to express should be that it takes a long time to travel a long-distance business route, rather than the age of the child. This is a rhetorical technique, an exaggerated metaphor, not Reality.

Right?

Otherwise, this person is really miserable.

At the end of the performance, Cui Qu made a summary——

"The ancient sages did not do things to fight for the interests of the people. Your majesty is so talented. He takes the ancient sages as the benchmark in everything. Don't you understand the hearts of the ancient sages? Could it be that your majesty also wants to do this kind of struggle with the people?" Is it a matter of benefit? I privately think that this is not advisable, please think twice, Your Majesty."

Well, the theme was sublimated all of a sudden, pointing to the core of the problem.

Someone Guo nodded in satisfaction, and remembered the person's name in his heart.

Qinghe Cuiqu!

Cui Yan, you can!

Guo Peng smiled very happily.

This memorabilia is a more representative one among many memorabilia. It is very interesting and made someone Guo very happy after reading it, so it has a deep memory.

There are also some memorabilia written in a very innovative way, all kinds of quotations, pulling out the famous sayings of Confucius, distorting and explaining them, and then drawing their own conclusions, saying that it is wrong for someone Guo to levy business taxes.

Relying on the right to interpret the classics, this group of people acted recklessly and bullied Confucius.

It feels to someone like Guo that he did reading comprehension in his previous life. No one knows what the author means, and of course it doesn't matter. What matters is the standard answer.

These unworthy disciples and grandchildren.

Guo has decided to replace Confucius and deal with them severely, and he can't let Confucius die in peace.

He is obviously a Shandong man with a personality like a raging fire, with clear love and hate, but you have made the old man look weird and yin and yang!

But it's not over yet.

Officials' counteraction isn't over yet.

This first wave was obviously just a test, to see whether the emperor's will was firm, and whether Wang Can and others were able to do things effectively.

Six days later, the new commercial tax bill jointly formulated by the Ministry of Finance and the cabinet was placed in front of Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Jin happened to enter the palace to greet Cao Lan, visit his brothers and sisters by the way, and then came to Guo Peng to greet him. Guo Peng asked Guo Jin to read the draft with him.

One look, drink, this guy!

Not to mention Guo Jin, Guo himself was a little surprised.

Cao Cao and Wang Can are going to dig up the ancestral graves of those wealthy merchants!

Guo Peng's initial goal was to achieve the fact of toll booths. Toll booths were widely set up on major traffic arteries, and these wealthy businessmen were drawn from the upper reaches of the commodity economy.

In this way, business taxes are collected by turning a corner, and they will not be slaughtered so hard that they will damage the vitality of commerce. A delicate balance can be achieved between taxation and commerce. Everyone can accept it. There will be widespread resistance.

Mr. Guo still has some preparations and ideas. Basically, he is satisfied with achieving this goal, and this stage is considered a success.

In the end, I didn't expect Wang Can and Cao Cao to play so big together.

Chapter 905. 910 five can't let them have the possibility of reconciliation

Wang Can probably had been bullied too hard before, and he felt resentful and wanted revenge.

Cao Cao probably also felt dissatisfied, and was very jealous of these people who did not have to pay taxes.

So the two teamed up to formulate a rather radical plan.

Basically, the tax will be collected from the time when the goods are loaded locally.

Taxes are collected on the road, taxes are collected on the road, taxes are collected when entering the trading city, taxes are collected in the trading venue, taxes are collected after each transaction of goods, and taxes are collected on the final profit obtained.

Collecting taxes all the way to the end, the tax collection ratio is quite high, close to the level of four out of ten taxes.

Wang Zhongxuan, Cao Mengde.

You are the real proletarian revolutionaries, right?

You probably also came here through time travel, right?

Dog bites dog bites so badly?

Guo Peng looked at the content of this draft and really wanted to laugh.

I feel that if this plan is announced, it will cause an uproar.

"Father, this draft is a bit too radical. Taxes are collected in every link from the road, and every link is not missed. The tax rate is still very high. This... no one can stand it?"

Guo Jin was surprised.

Guo Peng smiled and nodded.

"I thought they could calm down a bit, but now it seems that they have planned for a long time, and they have accumulated grievances in their hearts for a long time. Father gave them a channel to release them, and they spewed out all at once, which is quite intense. If this draft is announced , Tsk tsk, there is absolutely chaos in the hall."

Guo Peng didn't go on, but Guo Jin also understood.

"Father only wanted toll booths, but in the end they wanted them all. The prince and uncle were a little too radical. This would cause a very violent dispute in the court. Now that the external situation is unstable, nothing can happen inside the court."

Guo Jin shook her head, thinking that this is not feasible.

Guo Peng also nodded, feeling that what Guo Jin said made sense, so he picked up a pen, intending to type this plan back and let Cao Cao and Wang Can rearrange it.

Make it a little softer and less aggressive.

If it is so radical, the court will become a vegetable market, and in the end it will become a battle of spirits. Can any effective results be achieved?

Someone Guo raised his pen.

But when he picked up the pen and was about to write something, Guo suddenly stopped writing.

Looking at the playlist, someone Guo suddenly narrowed his eyes.

This matter is a bit interesting.

They are so radical, which in itself means that there is a force in the DPRK that is very dissatisfied with these people who rely on business to make huge profits.

This is definitely not for the sake of the country or for Li Shu, or there are some reasons for this, but it is not the main body.

According to Guo's judgment, it can be said that they are limited to their own weakness or other reasons and cannot do business, but they are very jealous of this group of people who make a lot of money.

Seeing people making a lot of money, enjoying this very extravagant life, and even seeking political benefits through it, I feel very upset and very angry.

So I want to deal with them severely, and use the emperor's power to vent my anger on myself.

The typical mentality is that if you can't get it, you don't want others to get it. At worst, everyone will die together.

This mentality is all too common.

It's really cheap, but...

Isn't this just my favorite dog biting dog?

Dog bites dog, bites the hair of the mouth, let them tear each other out, and tear out some of the other's scandals, until the face is red and the ear is red, and it can't be ended, and then come out to be a peacemaker, isn't it wonderful?

For more than two years since the founding of the country, Mr. Guo has been busy with government affairs and wars. Everyone in the court has worked together for a long time, and there has been no dispute for a long time.

This is not good, a healthy court must have disputes, and there must be tit-for-tat forces competing with each other, which is the best for the emperor.

And it doesn't make it possible for them to reconcile.

It is necessary to let them know how much hatred they have for each other, how much hatred they have for each other, and how much they hate each other. They will tear each other's faces and become political enemies completely, so that there will be continuous disputes in the future.

Every time something needs to be done, you can use this kind of dispute to make them fight, and you can also benefit from it as an arbitrator.

Mingxiu plank road, dark Chencang.

Isn't it the emperor's opportunity to fight among officials?

With this in mind, Guo made up his mind.

"Father?"

Guo Jin was grinding ink, and it was a little strange to see Guo Peng suddenly stop writing.

"A Jin, don't change it, let it out like this."

A certain Guo laughed, and said, "Just release it as it is, let everyone know, and say that this is a bill that the court will implement, and see what kind of attitude those people have, as a father, I am very curious. "

"This……"

Guo Jin turned pale with shock: "Father, the content in this is too much, it will definitely cause fierce disputes!"

"Is this the draft you wrote?"

Guo Peng looked up at Guo Jin.

Guo Jin shook his head blankly.

"That's fine. This is not written for my father. It has nothing to do with my father. It was drafted by Cao Shoufu and Wang Shangshu. If those people want to hate and fight back, they are looking for them. What does it have to do with our father and son?"

Guo Peng took it for granted and said with a smile: "I'd like to see what tricks they can do. Two red-eyed hounds biting each other. What would it feel like? The court cannot calm down. If it gets down, there may be things that are out of the control of the father."

"Father, this...is uncle after all, and so is Wang Shangshu..."

Guo Jin seemed a little unbearable, and felt that it was not very good to do so.

Guo Peng's face turned cold.

"uncle?"