Valley Emperor

Yangzhou Jiangdu Green Bamboo Garden is an extensive and exquisite garden almost everywhere. It was built by the local salt merchant Yang 20 years ago.

When Yang built the garden, it was almost a sensation, because the construction period reached several years, and although Yang did not disclose the cost, outsiders guessed that this green bamboo garden would cost at least hundreds of thousands of taels.

This shows the wealth of the Yang family!

Today, several major Yang clan members in the Green Bamboo Garden gathered together to discuss the recent difficult situation!

Yes, since the Great Tang Wang Shi captured Yangzhou, the local salt merchants have been in huge trouble. Although it is reasonable to say that the Datang Wang Shi is reasonable and will not loot houses for no reason, these local salt merchants are very rich. They are also smart people and know the importance of spending money to buy peace. After Datang entered Yangzhou, the local salt merchants paid taxes and treated Datang’s related policies. obedience.

There was no need for the local tax inspection team or the garrison to take action. At that time, more than a dozen top salt merchants in Yangzhou City proposed to donate military supplies to the army, and the amount was a huge amount of 200,000 taels of silver. .

Then, in terms of agricultural tax and commercial tax, it is also active and active. There is no need for tax officials to come to the door. People just come to pay the tax with the land and mu register and the shop register, and they do not hide it at all. paid all agricultural and commercial taxes, and more.

The proactive behavior of these salt merchants surprised the tax officials who went to Yangzhou to preside over the tax work for a while!

In other places, bloodshed will be slaughtered, and the local gentry and businessmen will pay obediently, but in Yangzhou, everything is reversed. There is no need for tax officials to come to pay, let alone dispatch tax inspection teams. These salt merchants voluntarily subscribed.

Therefore, for the gentry in Yangzhou, especially the salt merchants, the officials of the Tang Dynasty were relatively relaxed at the beginning. Since they paid the money, although they said they were jealous of the huge wealth of the salt merchants, since they all paid taxes, Then forget it.

But what I didn't expect was that in just one month, the local officials felt bad!

Why?

On the surface, the local salt merchants professed to be courtiers, voluntarily donated and turned in taxes, and they did not openly rebel against the salt industry policy of the Tang Dynasty.

But they found out that Datang Salt Industry Co., Ltd. was not very smooth when it launched the state-owned salt industry in the local area. The sales volume was far below expectations, and the profit was low, which also caused the salt tax to fall far short of expectations!

However, no one is so bold as to create superficial obstacles for them, but there is very little salt in the salt field, and after being transported to a certain place, the official salt still cannot be sold.

And they also quickly discovered the reason behind this, that is, the flood of private salt!

You can even guess who is selling illicit salt, that is, those big salt merchants, and those who can organize such a large-scale illicit salt sale can only be those big salt merchants.

Although local officials, patrol police and other departments tried to prevent salt smuggling, set up numerous checkpoints, and even blatantly monitored the main salt merchant families in Yangzhou City, trying to collect evidence of their smuggling of salt, but the smuggling caught. Although there are a lot of salt practitioners, they are all inconspicuous little characters, and it is impossible to contact those big salt merchants.

So it was formed. The local officials clearly knew that the big salt traders were selling illicit salt, but they could not find the key evidence. The local patrol yamen was powerless. Even after a few months, many people were even bought off. Now, since the establishment of the Yangzhou Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau, three patrol police chiefs have been replaced one after another.

Later, the Patrol Department personally dispatched an inspection team to Yangzhou, but a few months later, one of the more than ten main officials of the inspection team died inexplicably in the water, one was killed by a mad horse on the street, and five others died. One was found out that he suddenly obtained huge amounts of property and was arrested and directly beheaded.

Even the bribes could not be found, because according to the investigation, no one offered bribes to them at all. They all found these huge bank notes from the Royal Bank of Datang in their own rooms, with a denomination of 100 taels. , put a small box with only a small piece of paper in it, let them come to Yangzhou to eat and drink well, and then get out with the money, if they dare to do anything else, they will be at their own risk!

So they just eat, drink, and have fun every day until something happens!

Although the remaining few were confiscated, they were also patrol officers who had done nothing and were demoted to the Daguan Mansion by the angry senior officers of the patrol department. In this life, they should not expect to return to the prosperous Central Plains.

The inspection team dispatched by the Patrol Department has done nothing, which fully proves how rampant the local smuggling activities are!

Against this background, Chen Lifu came to Yangzhou!

The introduction of Chen Lifu did not arouse the vigilance of the salt merchants, because the salt merchants felt that they were paying taxes honestly. After Wang Shi of the Tang Dynasty occupied Yangzhou, the famous tax inspection team had been working with the salt merchants to keep the water from the river, and they had never heard of the salt merchant being raided by the tax inspection team.

This time, the gathering of several core clan members of the Yang family in Qingzhuyuan is not related to Chen Lifu, but to the patrol department. outraged.

It is said that the Minister of the Patrol Department, who accompanied him to the north, personally reprimanded the other senior officials of the Patrol Department who were staying in Jinling, and scolded the two servants and several chiefs of the police department as a **** leader, and even took charge of a director of the patrol department at this time. Changdu was banished to Hunan for this reason.

Afterwards, the adults of the patrol police department recruited cadres from several other places, especially from Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, and sent cadres from a number of patrol police departments, and once again formed a salt inspection team to go to Jiangbei Road.

Because of the lessons learned from the previous time, the officers of the patrol department's inspection team selected this time are all carefully selected. They are all experienced in the patrol department and have rich local experience in fighting various crimes, and they are also able to withstand consideration. The go-getter!

The arrival of the second salt industry inspection team has once again made many salt merchants in Yangzhou feel the deep malice!

They have started to take corresponding measures, and the same is true for the Yang family. However, they still need to discuss how to take countermeasures. The easiest and safest way is to suspend the private salt business first, and wait for the wind to pass. engage.

But as the Yang family with the most courage and the biggest private salt business at present, asking them to stop the private salt business for a day will cost them countless money, and the Yang family is unwilling to do so unless it is a last resort.

When they were discussing how to deal with the second salt inspection team of the Patrol Department, Chen Lifu in the city was also looking at the thick stack of files!

Chen Lifu had been to Huai'an Mansion before, and met local local officials, and then rectified the local tax system with thunderous means. He dug up a group of local tax officials and transferred them to the Inspectorate for judicial trial. The many green-skinned hooligans in the team were also severely hit by Chen Lifu.

And rectifying the internal taxation system is also Chen Lifu's old routine. Before starting local taxation work, he will first rectify the local taxation internal system to ensure that it is easier to do things. Of course, this is also Chen Lifu's selfishness , he has always disliked the messy people in the tax inspection team.

After initially rectifying the taxation system of Jiangbei Road, he came to Yangzhou!

The purpose of coming to Yangzhou is naturally very simple, that is, the local salt tax revenue is far lower than the tax department expected. Chen Lifu has only one task in Jiangbei Road, and that is to collect the salt tax that should be collected.

What is the salt tax to be charged?

Because the output and selling price of the salt farms and the number of the local population are all fixed, it is very easy to estimate how much salt tax can be collected. There must be tax evasion and tax evasion!

After flipping through the files, Chen Lifu turned his attention to one of the files!

These files are all the investigation files of the tax department on the big merchants in Yangzhou city, and these big merchants are all salt merchants!

Yes, before coming to Yangzhou, Chen Lifu was planning to take over these salt merchants. He couldn't control these salt merchants selling illicit salt, but he was going to control the sales of four-eyes to pay taxes!

He had also borrowed the dossier from the patrol police department before, but now that what these salt merchants do is very secretive, and the patrol police cannot obtain key evidence through normal means, so they arrest them and search their homes!

Although there is no evidence, according to the urine nature of the judicial personnel of the Tang Dynasty, one can directly raid the house for any reason, but the current Tang Dynasty is different from the past.

The current Datang Dynasty has already moved towards normalization, and many things can no longer be done as casually as they used to be. The raiding of homes also needs to be well-founded, otherwise it will have a bad impact.

Therefore, the judiciary and taxation agencies of the Tang Dynasty ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ pay attention to legal and reasonable home raids!

However, the salt merchants are obviously law-abiding good citizens, and they can't find any evidence of their involvement in illicit salt, which makes the patrol police quite helpless.

However, these problems are not a problem in Chen Lifu's view!

Hmph, although the patrol police department could not find any evidence that these salt merchants were involved in smuggling and selling salt, and there was no way to deal with these salt merchants, it didn't mean that their tax department couldn't!

Their tax department wants to find trouble for someone, but they have never tried it and can't find it. It is nothing more than a question of whether they want to or not!

When local officials, patrol police and other departments have nothing to do with these salt merchants, it is time for their tax department to stand up and uphold justice!

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