Mr. Guo didn't believe that the salary he gave them was really enough for them to spend.

I won’t naively think that high salary can really support the cheap.

It is the essence of human beings to be more and more frugal, and it is normal to be insatiable.

Although the salary he paid was indeed not low, there are indeed officials who live on their salary now.

However, only a few of these people have good character or low material needs. Most of the remaining ones have relatively little power and are not able to develop or have the ability to go offline to run the industry to make money for themselves.

Then they can only rely on salary and business management, and they don’t have the resources to do it.

According to Guo Peng's own statistics, there are definitely no less than half of the current officials in the Wei Empire who rely on business to transfusions of blood to themselves, and absolutely more than half.

There were a lot of things in front of him that he could see, but according to the principle of iceberg, he could definitely not see more.

This commercial tax was imposed against more than half of the imperial officials.

The more you conscript, the more you will hit the officials, the more blood you suck, and the stronger their resistance will be.

Is there such a thing in the world?

In the past, everyone was lying on the empire to suck blood, but now it's better.

Times have changed, the empire has tentacles, and the roundabout attack has penetrated everyone's butt and sucked blood.

Am I sucking myself?

Is it me sucking blood or empire sucking blood?

The officials were a little confused.

After being confused, they heard that this policy was mainly promoted by Wang Can.

Now, Wang Can's bastard is jumping up and down and inspiring the Ministry of Finance officials to design a very vicious tax policy specifically for them, and to suck blood from them.

Suddenly, they were in a state of anger and wanted to go to the Ministry of Finance to swallow Wang Can alive.

It's so annoying.

This bastard is specifically against us!

If you can't make money yourself, you won't let us make it?

They really want to do it right away.

But looking at the direction of the palace city, they thought of the fierce emperor sitting upright in the palace city, the emperor who had just unified the world, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.

That is the emperor who unified the world, and the emperor who holds great power is his will. Can you really object to it?

Can you really fight?

What he supports and what he decides, seems to be nothing that cannot be done yet.

The officials were worried and wanted to object, but they did not dare to object directly, for fear that the emperor would attack them. After thinking about it, they reached an unanimous view.

You can't attack forcefully, you can only take action.

Play the weak card and the emotional card. By telling the pain of business, describing the difficult life among the people, it indirectly extends to the unkindness and unrighteousness of imposing commercial taxes, and thus continuously presents the statement to convey everyone's will to the emperor.

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

Just like a year ago.

In short, a sentence.

We must keep everyone’s money bags.

We have never been the only one who sucks blood, and we have no part of being sucked!

So Guo Peng quickly received a report from some officials. Some of the contents of the report can be called a confusing behavior in the world in Guo Peng's opinion.

Of course, most of them are all kinds of people who complain about the injustice of wealthy businessmen, which is particularly interesting.

Among these confusing behaviors in the world, the above statement of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Works Officer Cui Qu and the member of the Yu Ministry of Works are particularly symbolic.

He is a clan member of Cui Yan, the Minister of Rites. Logically speaking, it should be of some academic level. 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 merchants hard-earned money.

???

Hard-hearted money?

Guo Peng couldn't figure out what this guy meant for a while.

It’s not enough to help others to whitewash, right?

Do I really look that stupid?

Cui Qu said that they risked their lives and made money from traveling around the world with hard work. These money were made of blood and sweat, and it was very difficult to come.

Many people pay the price of their lives for this.

Death of exhaustion, falling to death, illness, starving to death, and robbery to death. Every trade route is filled with the blood and tears of merchants.

They are generally miserable.

Some people's parents were still alive when they left home, but after they returned home, they had passed away from illness and did not even see the last time.

Some wives who left home were still looking forward to his return, but when he came back, they found that their wife had remarried because he had not heard from him for too long and thought he was dead.

Some people are even more miserable. When they left home, their wives were not pregnant. After they returned home, their children were three years old. They were unable to catch up with the joy of the child when they were born.

In this way, if you separate from your family like this, will the emperor still impose a commercial tax on the money you earn from your life?

???

Mr. Guo was immediately full of question marks.

After thinking for a long time, Guo thought that what he wanted to express should take a long time to take a long distance business route, not the age of the child. This is a rhetorical technique, an exaggerated metaphor, not reality.

Right?

Otherwise, this person would be a bit miserable.

At the end of the memorial, Cui Qu made a summary-

"If you compete for profit with the people, the ancient wise men did not do anything. Your Majesty is a great talent and strategy, and you take the ancient sages as the benchmark in everything. Don't you understand the hearts of the ancient sages? Does Your Majesty also want to do such a competition for profit with the people? Is this undesirable in private, please think twice."

Well, it suddenly sublimated the theme and pointed directly at the core of the problem.

Mr. Guo nodded with satisfaction and remembered the person's name in his heart.

Qinghe Cuiqu!

Cui Yan, you can!

Guo Peng smiled very happily.

This melody is a more representative and meaningful one among many melody. It is very interesting and made Mr. Guo very happy after reading it, so he remembers it deeply.

There are also some memorials written very innovatively, quoting various scriptures and placing them out and explaining them through distortions, and then drawing their own conclusions that it was wrong for Mr. Guo to impose commercial taxes.

Relying on the right to interpret classics, these people acted recklessly and bullied Confucius.

It gives Mr. Guo a feeling that he did reading comprehension in his previous life. No one knows the author's meaning, and of course it is not important. What matters is the standard answer.

These unworthy disciples.

Mr. Guo has decided to deal with them hard on behalf of Confucius, so that he cannot let Confucius die with his eyes open.

They are obviously Shandong men with a distinct personality like a fire, and you have made the old man look sarcastic!

But things are not finished yet.

The officials' countermeasures are not over yet.

This first wave is obviously just a test to see if the emperor's will is firm and whether Wang Can and others are effective in doing things.

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 pay homage to Cao Lan, and visited his brothers and sisters. Then he came to Guo Peng to greet him. Guo Peng asked Guo Jin to read the draft with him.

After a look, drink, this guy!

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

Cao Cao and Wang Can are trying to dig out all the ancestral tombs of those wealthy merchants!

Guo Peng's original goal was to achieve the fact that toll stations were set up widely on various transportation roads, and toll stations were taken toll stations from the upstream of the commodity economy to take commissions to these wealthy merchants and big businessmen.

If you collect the commercial tax in this way, you will not kill them too hard, which will damage the vitality of business and reach a delicate balance between taxation and commercial vitality. Everyone can accept it and will not cause widespread resistance.

Mr. Guo is still a little prepared and thoughtful. He is basically satisfied with achieving this goal, and this stage is considered successful.

As a result, Wang Can and Cao Cao joined forces to play so much.
Chapter completed!