Sima Yi was very confused when he remembered the Emperor Majesty who had revealed what he thought about in his entire family.

He was completely unable to understand why His Majesty the Emperor had to impose commercial tax at this time.

At this time, taxes will be increased, and the world will be stable and people's hearts will be stable. Wouldn't the Emperor worry about another disturbance?

Isn’t the best choice for a peaceful and prosperous era?

Why is this?

But this has nothing to do with Sima Yi.

Since the chaos in the world, his family has long changed to the family-running mode. Now he is trying hard to go to the officialdom. His children are suppressed by Sima Fang at home and then look for people to marry around to try to rebuild a network of personal connections belonging to the Sima family, and they have no intention of managing business.

The emperor gave him enough rewards to his family. Cao Cao also had friendly sponsorships and his own land, so Sima did not have to worry about the money at all, just wanted to climb up and get power.

Power is the most important thing.

The same is true for the Zhuge Liang family.

Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin are both officials, and Zhuge Liang is both studying and waiting to become an official after becoming an adult. The family lives in Luoyang with two salary from Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin. They live a wealthy life, without shortage of food and clothing, so Zhuge Liang's tribe has nothing to do with business.

They just want to be officials seriously, make breakthroughs in their careers, become high-ranking officials, grasp power, and realize their ideals and ambitions.

This storm will not affect Zhuge and Sima, but it will affect many others, not necessarily including cabinet officials.

So Cao Cao could see some cabinet officials showing worries and frowning, as if they were worried.

But I have to say that Cao Cao was happy to see this happening.

He was very happy and even willing to vigorously promote this matter, do his best to fight against the anti-trade tax group, and he would help Guo Peng promote the passage of this policy and implement it in any case.

Previously, Guo Peng took the initiative to summon Cao Cao, Zao Zhi and Wang Can and explained his thoughts to them.

In order to achieve a larger war and construction in the future, he would impose commercial taxes, and at the same time save unnecessary expenses, increase revenue and reduce expenditures, and accumulate funds in the treasury.

The previous commercial tax storm was because he had no energy to take care of it, so he put it aside. Now that he has the energy to take care of it, he has to do it.

Guo Peng decided to use Cao Cao, Wang Can, Zao Zhi and others as the main force to defeat the anti-commercial tax group, promote the new commercial tax policy, and successfully achieve his goals.

Cao Cao and the other three were overjoyed and immediately called to start the action according to Guo Peng's order.

Cao Cao's actions were quick, and he really wanted to see the decree of imposing commercial taxes into implementation.

Of course, this is not without a reason.

Cao Cao has always regarded himself as an emperor's confidant, but this kind of thing needs to offend many people. How could he easily get involved in it?

The biggest reason is Cao Hong and the Cao family caravan.

The main person in charge of the Cao family caravan is the clan member of Cao Hong.

The nature of the Cao family caravan has long been no longer the Cao family's private caravan. The actual controller of the Cao family caravan has long been changed, becoming Guo himself, and no longer belongs to Cao Hong.

Cao Hong is now in the Guards, and there are not many things. Sometimes he will personally arrange the Cao caravan, and sometimes he will leave it to his tribe members who are good at managing.

The entire Cao family basically has a shareholding, and Cao Cao has also participated in it.

The Guo family and the Xiahou family also participated in a group according to Guo Peng's arrangement. Therefore, although the Cao family caravan was headed by Cao Hong, it was actually a joint caravan formed by a royal relative. Guo was the controller behind the scenes.

The capital is strong, the industry is rich, and the business scope is wide. What's more important is that Guo Peng can directly intervene in and issue administrative orders. The Cao caravan must be completed, but Cao Hong dared not stop him.

Therefore, according to Guo Peng's request, the Cao caravan, which made a lot of profits, had to pay a relatively heavy tax and directly pay it to the treasury.

In addition, the profits of the Guo family's shareholding will be charged into the inner treasury and will be controlled by Guo himself.

Cao Hong did not dare to say or do anything, and honestly followed Guo Peng's orders to cooperate with him and paid the money honestly.

He was afraid that Guo Peng would die, so he did not dare to do rashly. He made a lot of money, but he paid a lot of taxes. Cao Cao would shake the amount of taxes for a while when he learned about it.

But Cao Hong himself was quite satisfied. At least he would not be punished or beaten. He would have a luxury life to live.

It's just a little bit distressed.

Coincidentally, the same is true for the Mi caravan.

The Mi caravan supported Guo Peng earlier than the Cao caravan, so they developed earlier and received Guo Peng's support earlier, injecting huge amounts of money into them and arranging trade routes and trade directions.

Therefore, the business engaged in Mi’s caravan can compete with the Cao’s caravan, and naturally there are a lot of taxes.

However, as far as Cao Cao knew, there were also Guo's shares in the Mi caravan, with a large number of shares, and the Tian family led by Guo Peng, but the actual controller was Guo himself.

Therefore, some of the profits will also enter Guo Peng's internal treasury and be controlled by him.

It is equivalent to Guo Peng taking action himself, joining the royal family around him, using their funds to inject them into the caravan, taking himself as the core, using Cao Hong and Mi Zhu to master the two caravans of Cao and Mi family, and doing bulk goods transaction business.

For example, food, fruits and vegetables, salt, iron products and wine.

Footprints have long been spread across the country.

In addition to dividends, the taxes were included in the national treasury, and he included the part of Guo's family in the emperor's treasury.

The huge mi caravan and Cao caravan are actually Guo himself. He is the real controller of these two caravans. He can dominate the business behavior of these two caravans and is also the biggest profiter.

However, Guo Peng's behavior did have the effect of stabilizing prices.

Especially the most important food. It is almost impossible for those powerful people to rely on hoarding and raise the price of grain. Many other daily necessities are also difficult to raise the price, because the Cao family caravan and Mi family caravan have strong strength.

With Mr. Guo as his backing, it is difficult to be poor in strength.

As for what Guo Peng's inner warehouse got so much money for, Cao Cao didn't know all of it, he just knew one thing, it seemed to be for the development of Linzi Camp.

Linzi Camp is a spy agency specializing in exploring intelligence and collecting military information. It requires a lot of money. Guo Peng uses it specifically to collect military intelligence and engage in anti-espionage operations.

Linzi Camp made great contributions to Guo Peng's warlords sweeping the world.

This is the consensus of basically all the civil officials and military generals who knew the existence of Linzi Camp.

As for the others, Cao Cao didn't know very clearly. He vaguely understood that Linzi Camp seemed to have other responsibilities.

But he had no idea what was specific, and he was not from the Staff Platform. It is said that the Staff Platform cooperated more with the Linzi Camp, and senior military generals also cooperated with the Linzi Camp.

But he knew exactly how much tax the Cao family caravan and Mi family caravan had to pay.

So whenever Cao Hong complained to him that he paid so much taxes while other large caravans of wealthy families did not have to pay taxes, Cao Cao would feel jealous and resentful.

Can these bastards not pay taxes based on their background?

Why do we hand in so much but you don’t?

The two of them dared not object to Guo Peng, so they could only expose their anger to the wealthy merchants.

In addition to their status discrimination, when Wang Can and Zao Zhi attacked the commercial tax, Cao Cao also followed their steps and used his power to create momentum and fuel the fire.

Cao Cao also wanted to kill these bastards who picked up the bowl and ate and put down the bowl to curse.

But Guo Peng did not say anything, and Cao Cao could do nothing.

Originally, he even complained a little about Guo Peng, but now that Guo Peng suddenly attacked, Cao Cao suddenly felt relieved physically and mentally.

Guo Peng is also preparing for his relationship!

Hahahahahaha!

Comfortable!

When Cao Cao heard the news, he felt extremely happy and immediately took the order to come to the cabinet to start arranging the handling of this matter, thinking that he would deal with these bastards hard no matter what.

Let them bleed and cut off a piece of flesh so that they can feel psychologically balanced.
Chapter completed!