One day, an iron-armed agent walked into an ordinary shop in the Empire.
He had a sudden impulse to eat a can of herring, so he sold one in the shop.
However, when he opened it, he found that it was not canned herring, but caviar that only dignitaries could eat.
He didn't care about the surprise of the emperors.
The video started.
The first thing he saw was a hairy man wearing strange clothes. He bought canned food directly from the shop.
The narration and the video were both used to express the story.
The emperors saw the origin of the caviar. It was a precious species that a large ship had caught a strange fish in the deep sea and then taken from the stomach of the fish. It was something that only high officials and nobles could eat.
The iron-armed agent quickly realized why canned herring would become a hundred times more expensive caviar.
Then, he pried open the cans he bought and found that they were all caviar. The food in front of him was not something he could eat because it was equivalent to his income for fifty years. It was just like how Great Qin's ordinary people ate gold from ordinary buns.
The agent with a keen sense of smell quickly realized that this matter was not simple. This was because the entire empire had banned the consumption of such luxury goods.
So he quickly found his superior to report
The officer soon realized that there was a shocking corruption case involved.
Iron Arm moved quickly! They soon found out that this matter involved a high official of the Empire. He was the one who replaced the caviar, which was as precious as gold, with canned herring. From there, they could hide it from the inspection department and transport it to the neighboring country to sell. Then, a large sum of money would enter the hands of this minister.
Knowing this news! The iron-armed officer was furious.
He knew that this caviar that was only supplied to the royal family could not be done by just one minister. There must be many ministers who benefited from it.
Finally, following the prisoner's confession,
They had caught even more big fish! These big fish included the prime minister of the empire, the general of the army, and even the princess of the emperor, Su Xunzong.
In the end, the iron-armed officer handed a list of 200 important officials to Su Xunzong, hoping that Xunzong would deal with these officials seriously.
However, this corruption case that shocked the empire was eventually left unsettled.
Because! In the end, the person behind the scenes turned out to be Xun Zong's closest confidential secretary…
When Xunzong questioned the secretary, the secretary told him frankly that the money was used to build a palace for His Majesty Xunzong, buy famous paintings, and award medals. If they really investigated, the culprit was actually Xunzong himself!
In the end, the matter was left unsettled, and the big matter turned into a small matter.
In the end, a minister of the Empire was transferred out of his post.
Although this incident didn't prove anything, it revealed the nature of such a powerful empire's decline. Because merchants…
Xunzong's daughter was a businessman. She discovered this industrial chain. There was an endless supply of caviar at home, so she decided to sell it. However, it was not easy to sell it this way because according to the normal procedure, the business tax for selling a can of caviar would be higher. So they replaced it with herring, which had less business tax.
At the same time, in order to form an interest group, they used a high amount of money to contact all the officials of the Empire in order to reduce the business tax! If they followed the original business tax, the empire could earn a large sum of money and continue to support the army! But because of this atmosphere of being kidnapped by businessmen from top to bottom,
The entire empire was soon corrupted on a large scale…
In the end, a powerful empire still perished…
The video soon ended with the picture and narration.
However…
The emperors who watched the video from beginning to end were all shocked.
This was the first time they had seen how influential merchants could be in an empire…how they could even influence the royal family, and how the royal family could not do anything to these merchants.
For a huge country, the destruction of its internal structure was inevitable. However, no one had expected that the influence of the trade tax would be so great.
How did Ming die!
Of course, this video was not enough to prove that the exemption of commercial taxes meant the demise of the country. Therefore, before the emperors could react, another video quickly appeared in front of the myriad worlds.
Official Wen, I heard that Emperor Chongzhen is going to levy taxes on us again?
Where did you hear that?
Hehe, I have my own channels
Why are you asking about this?
It's nothing. It's just that small business is very difficult to do. Therefore, I would like to ask Your Majesty to help us Hujian merchants say a few words and hope that Your Majesty will have mercy on us.
The merchant carried two boxes of silver and placed them in front of Wen Tiren.
the next day
Your Majesty, you can't! Rashly increasing the business tax was fighting for benefits with the people!
Yes, Your Majesty, you can't! How much money could a businessman have…
All the officials knelt down and asked the emperor to take back his order.
In order to support the army, the emperor had no choice but to squeeze out another ten thousand taels of silver from his palace treasury to give to Yuan Chonghuan.
Haha! thank you, my Lord
Haha, Chongzhen Second Young Master wants to tax me! I have 30,000 taels here. I'll spend it on Ruyi, but I won't give it to him.
Haha...
A simple video of a merchant giving gifts to avoid taxes was clearly displayed in front of the emperors.
This video was very simple and clear.
It clearly showed how a businessman could influence the operation of national policies in front of the emperors.
At the same time, in order to avoid a little bit of business tax, he did not hesitate to bribe tens of thousands of taels of silver and eat tens of thousands of taels of wine. He was unwilling to pay taxes and even made Emperor Chongzhen grit his teeth and pay for it himself.
"Ahhhh! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! These corrupt officials deserve to die!"
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when this scene appeared, the originally calm Chongzhen on the dragon throne could not help but explode with endless anger again. He smashed things in front of the civil and military officials, and his eyes were filled with killing intent as he stared at the civil and military officials in the court.
“……”
However, the monarch and his subjects looked at each other in silence.
The relationship between the entire imperial court had long fallen to freezing point. These thick-skinned officials had already given up and were no longer afraid of Chongzhen.
"Luo Yangxing! Kill, kill! Kill him! Bring that old man Wen Tiren back! I want him dead!"
Chong Zhen ordered with killing intent.
"Yes, sir!"
The Brocade Guard went out. Luo Yangxing knew that Chongzhen was going to start a massacre. Even if the scores were not announced, he would kill a large number of them first!
"Ahhh, these merchants are despicable!”
"Don't compete with the people! This was how they corrupted the Empire!”
Zhu Di was furious!
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and looked at all the officials in the court with killing intent.
Not only them, but the emperors of Lianqing also raised their vigilance against these familiar words at this moment.
After the two videos were released, they finally found out!
Why would removing the business tax cause the country to be destroyed?
Official merchants, official merchants!
What a good collusion!
The emperors were filled with killing intent!
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