"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Gu Jiawei stood up, his forehead bleeding.
Wu Yunqing smacked his lips and felt a little depressed for some reason. Big Ming's scholars had become silly from reading!
"I have received orders from the heavens and am the true True Dragon Son of Heaven. All ghosts and monsters can't escape my eyes!”
Wu Yunqing swept his gaze across the crowd. Borrowing the remaining power from before, everyone did not dare to make a sound and listened in awe.
"I don't care what you think, it's best to put it away. If you have any thoughts, use them on the enemy. Don't just be a rat carrying a gun in your nest!
That's all I have to say. You all have to take care of yourselves!”
The ministers all agreed gloomily. They were originally prepared to impeach him vigorously, but who knew that they would end up being scolded like this!
However, Wu Yunqing was not done yet." What does an Imperial Censor do?
I am very puzzled about this. The so-called rumors and reports mean that you can say anything you hear, right?
But was it true?
If you don't distinguish between true and false and talk nonsense, then do I still need to deal with state affairs and only listen to your nonsense?
From now on, any Imperial Censor who impeached him must have real evidence, or else he would be investigated for the crime of slander!”
As soon as Wu Yunqing finished speaking, the audience exploded.
"Your Majesty, this won't do. The role of an Imperial Censor is to report things. If you do this, what use will an Imperial Censor have in the future?”
"That's right, Your Majesty. If you want to find evidence, where can the Imperial Censor find it?”
"Your Majesty, please retract your order!"
"All of you shut up. This matter is settled. As for how to collect evidence, that's your own business. Think of a way. Otherwise, what's the use of having you?”Wu Yunqing snorted coldly.
"Many people have just impeached Wei Zhongxian. I can't just listen to your side of the story. The Ministry of Justice will hand it over to you to investigate and then give me an explanation."
The Minister of Justice, Zhou Yingqiu, was the leader of the Ten Dogs and Wei Zhongxian's subordinate. He immediately agreed.
When the ministers saw this, they immediately knew that the Emperor was protecting Wei Zhongxian!
However, there was no problem with the procedure.
Wei Zhongxian's tense heart relaxed. As expected, the Emperor still trusted him.
Without waiting for others to object, Wu Yunqing continued," Now, our Ming Dynasty is facing internal and external problems. We are short of money everywhere, but look, farmers have to pay all kinds of exorbitant taxes, but merchants only have 30% tax. It's too little!
I have decided to raise the business tax to 1/10, and it will be implemented from now on!”
Although Wu Yunqing had shocked everyone just now, his words still made the ministers feel a great threat!
What threat? Of course, it was a threat to their interests.
The officials of Great Ming were all big businessmen, or perhaps they were born into big businessmen. When they heard that the business tax was going to be raised, they immediately exploded.
"Your Majesty, you can't. 30% tax is the ancestral system. The ancestral system can't be violated!”Gao Panlong immediately stood up and said loudly.
"What ancestral system? The ancestral system even said that you would skin the daylilies if you embezzled five taels of silver. Do you dare to say that you have never embezzled five taels of silver?
If you dare to say so, I will immediately get the East Chamber to investigate!”Wu Yunqing immediately said.
Gao Panlong was so choked that he didn't dare to speak. Not to mention him, any official would dare to say that they had never embezzled five taels of silver.
Besides, even if the East Military Department went to investigate, something would happen!
Gao Panlong stopped talking, but there were still people. Zheng Sanjun stood up and said," Your Majesty, please reconsider."
The business tax involved too much. If it was implemented, it would probably be detrimental to the country!”
"That's right, Your Majesty. This is a move to fight for benefits with the people. It's not appropriate!”
Sun Chengzong also stood up." Your Majesty, please consider it carefully.
Now my Ming Dynasty is troubled internally and externally, we really can't afford too many changes.”
He was very worried because Sun Chengzong knew that once this business tax was implemented, there would be a huge backlash.
Of course, Wu Yunqing knew what these people were talking about. He wanted to implement the business tax immediately, but when he saw Sun Chengzong's expression, he had a thought and agreed.
"Oh, then let's study it again.
However, they could try it out in the capital first. These merchants who paid 10% of the city tax would no longer pay the city tax and would be protected by the tax department.”
Wu Yunqing took a step back, but he wanted to try it out.
As for the city tax, this was the current situation in Ming Dynasty. When merchants passed through a city, they had to pay a toll, and the toll was collected by the local officials and not handed over to the court.
The ministers still wanted to object, but Wu Yunqing didn't want to listen to their nagging. He stood up and left." Dismissed!"
"Retreat!" Xiaode Zi shouted and followed the Emperor.
Wei Zhongxian also followed Wu Yunqing and was very happy. It seemed that although Sun Chengzong, the backbone of the Donglin Party, had come, the Emperor did not listen to his opinion.
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