In fact, it was not just the scholars and officials who were kneeling outside the Meridian Gate, hoping that the emperor could take back his orders. Even the ministers present at that time felt very regretful.

They all agreed that this matter should not be agreed so easily.

This is not only the reasons for the system and etiquette, but more importantly, the dignity of the officials. If Guo Dan cannot complete it, everything will be easy to say. If Guo Dan can complete the task, wouldn't he beating the officials in the face?

Fortunately, the contract has not been officially signed with Guo Dan, so this matter can still be saved, and there is enough time for them to think about countermeasures.

Because they knew that it would be a very long process to negotiate a contract with Guo Dan, the cotton armor transaction had been negotiated for a month, and the huge Weihui Mansion would not be negotiated for half a year, and they could pick the bones in the middle.

However, Guo Dan disappointed them again. Just one day later, Wanli held a meeting in Dongge to discuss specific contracting matters.

With Guo Danzai, Wanli is not a false alarm. Although it is not a court meeting, the candidates participating in the meeting, including the Dongchang, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Sili Supervisor, the Cabinet, and the Six Departments. At the same time, the Six Departments and the Censorate also sent Jiang Yinglin and Li Zhi as representatives to participate.

Let's not engage in any unremitting talks.

The camps were divided very clearly, with all the officials sitting on the left, and Guo Dan and Zhu Yiliu on the right, which seemed to be interrogating prisoners.

"Report to Your Majesty, this is a contract drawn up by the people of the grass. Please ask Your Majesty to take a look."

Guo Dan handed over a contract.

Li Gui immediately walked down, took over the contract, and presented it to Wanli.

"Why is that only one bit?"

When Wang Jiaping saw the contract of four or five pages, he couldn't help but blurt out.

Shen Shixing and others were also extremely puzzled.

Why does this kid always play by the rules? Last time they went to cotton armor, they thought it would be solved in just a few words, but the kid spent a month writing hundreds of pages. This time they thought they would talk for half a year, but the kid took out four or five pages of paper.

I really want to hit someone.

Can you do it normally?

Guo Dan explained: "My dear sirs, it is really too simple to contract Weihui Mansion. It is different from the last deal of cotton ar. The reason why the transaction of cotton ar has been discussed for so long is because it is more complicated."

"You said that it is more complicated to buy cotton armor and contract Weihui Mansion?" Shen Shixing said in amazement.

Are we talking about the same thing?

"Yes."

Guo Dan nodded and said, "There are many details about cotton armor that need to be discussed in detail. This time it will be much simpler. Anyway, it is stipulated that the grass-roots people will receive taxes to the court and the Weihui Mansion will leave as much money as possible."

Wang Jiaping said angrily and hilariously: "It's not that simple. How you manage Weihui Mansion, all these have to be written on it."

"Sir, I am so proud of the grass-roots people. The grass-roots people are just a businessman and will not be able to manage them at all." Guo Dan shook his head and said, "The grass-roots people's task is to restore local finances, let the people live and work in peace, and pay the taxes. It's that simple."

Is this very simple?

Many officials rolled their eyes. This pretending was really angering between humans and gods!

Wang Jiaping said: "You are governing. If you don't govern, how can the people live and work in peace and contentment."

Guo Dan scratched his head and said, "Caomin believes that having money can live and work in peace and contentment, so Caimin will only help Weihui Mansion make money. As for how to make money, there is no need to write it down. Anyway, the law enforcement power is still in the hands of the court. If Caimin violates the law, the court will just catch Caimin."

Regarding law enforcement issues, they all know that this power is in the hands of Wanli. Wanli will send someone to join forces and collusion will be easy, and this can only be inspected by the censor.

Jiang Yinglin suddenly asked, "I heard that you plan to exempt Weihui Mansion from customs and dock taxes and reduce municipal taxes. I wonder if this is the case?"

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Caomin has said this, but he may not necessarily do it. However, Caomin should have this power. Caomin only needs to hand over the tax to the court as much as possible."

Jiang Yinglin snorted: "Of course this doesn't work. How can you hand over the tax rights to you? If you bully the people and charge harsh taxes, then anyone can do it."

Wow! Why do you say that I am like you? I am so proud of me. Guo Dan smiled and said, "First of all, not everyone can do it. Now the people of Weihui Mansion have no money to pay taxes unless they cut off their meat and sell it. Secondly, this has been stated in the contract, just one thing, I only have the right to exempt tax, but I don't have the right to increase taxes."

Only tax exemption cannot increase tax.

This really leaves these officials with nothing to say!

Song Feng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was very curious and said, "If you are exempt from taxes, how can you still pay the taxes?"

Guo Tan smiled and said, "Sir, Caomin is really not good at collecting taxes, so he has never done such a thing. Caomin thinks that the cost of sending people to collect taxes is higher than the taxes collected, and it is a little troublesome. Anyway, if it is exempt, it will be exempted. Caomin even plans to exempt the agricultural tax. Caomin is also a well-known businessman, who goes to care about the kilograms of grain with the farmer every day, and Caomin really can't bear to face it."

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As soon as these words came out, everyone was speechless.

You are a little too arrogant.

The land tax in Weihui Mansion accounts for 60% of the total tax revenue. Do you dare to exempt it?

Many a little arrogant officials turned red. Who are you scolding? You are a little businessman, and you can't help asking farmers for taxes. We high-ranking officials are always looking for farmers to pay taxes all day long.

This slap in the face was a little too fierce.

"Ha ha!"

Zhu Yiliu was very happy and couldn't help laughing: "I'm right, that's the magistrates are too incompetent and know how to exploit the people every day, which leads to the current situation. Look at Guo Dan, even taxes are exempted. According to my opinion, neither of them can be compared."

Guo Tan looked at Zhu Yili and laughed in his heart, "Your Majesty, don't be humble. If you don't have your Lu Wang Mansion, I wouldn't dare to do this. Haha.

Shen Shixing and other ministers were both angry, depressed and helpless when they heard Zhu Yili's arrogant voice. The culprit was so arrogant now. Wanli made a mistake and did not dare to be arrogant. He could only act like a scoundrel and hide in the harem. If he didn't come out to see people, he would not dare to be as arrogant as you. It's really outrageous.

But, it can only be misleading.

They really have nothing to say. Not only do you pay the tax, but you also exempt it from taxes. This is really unreasonable, so you can't reason with Guo Tan.

This guy is unreasonable.

Wanli smiled slightly at this. They had already agreed on it and handed the contract to Li Gui beside him, saying, "I just looked at it. There is no problem. Look, if there is any problem, you can raise it."

Li Gui took the contract and handed it to the chief minister Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing hurriedly took it and looked at it carefully, but after careful consideration, it was only five pages of paper, and it was finished in a short while.

Shen Shixing first handed the contract to Wang Jiaping and others, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "Your contract is wrong. The taxes on Weihui Mansion are about 300,000 taels per year, but you do not state the total tax. You only wrote that you handed over to the court 180,000 taels, and Weihui Mansion left 50,000 taels, where is the remaining 70,000 taels?"

When he spoke, he felt his face hot.

Because of the current situation in Weihui Mansion, any official who takes office will definitely be exempted from taxes. Guo Dan can still pay 230,000 taels, which is very impressive. Logically speaking, they are not easy to say anything.

But the problem is that Guo Dan is a little too arrogant today. If he doesn't say anything, he seems to look down on him.

Shen Shixing has already given up on his own. You are so awesome anyway, so I should add some difficulty to it.

Guo Tan smiled and said, "The Chief Supervisor said 300,000 taels, which should be three years ago. There has not been so much in recent years."

A hint of embarrassment flashed in Shen Shixing's eyes and said with a shameless face: "These years have been caused by the construction of the Lu Wang Mansion. You contracted the Wei Hui Mansion to prove that the construction of the Lu Wang Mansion should not affect the financial affairs of the Wei Hui Mansion, so it should be calculated based on the previous one."

"The Chief Aunt said, Caomin is calculated based on the previous one. If it is calculated based on the last year, I am afraid that the court will have to allocate money to Caomin."

Guo Dan smiled and ignored their angry eyes and continued: "I checked the revenue and expenditure accounts at that time. The total tax revenue was about 300,000 taels. The fortune and retention were 73 cents. 70% were handed over to the treasury, and the local government left 30%. After 300,000 taels, the treasury should be 210,000 taels, and the local government should leave 90,000 taels."

Shen Shixing said curiously: "Since you know, why do you only pay 180,000 taels here?"

Guo Tan smiled and said, "The Chief Auxiliary cannot only count income, not expenditure. Regarding the expenditure on canal transportation, government expenditure, fire consumption expenditure, etc., it is not a small amount. After I settle in, the government will have to withdraw, and the canal transportation is not necessary, because my dental shop can pay the bill directly, and the money will of course be reduced."

Speaking of this, he smiled slightly: "Actually, in terms of accounts, even before the construction of Lu Wang Mansion, the entire Weihui Mansion's finances were basically inadequate every year. The remaining taxes were not allowed to be used randomly, but basically, the amount of use was not left every year. When encountering a little natural disaster, the court had to allocate funds to help the people. The grass-roots people still left 50,000 taels there. A year later, when the government came back, there was still some money in their hands, but it could not withstand their troubles. Haha."

Shen Shixing only felt a pain in his cheeks, and his face was slapped too hard.

Jiang Yinglin, Li Zhi and others are usually eloquent and full of witty words, but every time they meet Guo Dan, they often remain silent for a long time, because no matter what they say, Guo Dan can retort with just one word. Can you do it?

No matter how well you say it, it will be useless if you don’t have money. The key is that the emperor above loves money as his life. If you reason with him, he will not listen. If you talk to him about money, he will be better than anyone else.

Of course, although the book is only over 300,000 taels, the tax collected is actually more than that. Because of Zhang Juzheng's reform, local governments must pay taxes in full, and the taxes in each place are fixed. However, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was very low, so there was no way to raise mistresses, let alone the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little ones, the little one

This slapped hukou is the most disgusting. When people pay public grain, they have to pour it into the hukou first to check the quality. This hukou is a container similar to a large wine glass. The government requires that the hukou be filled and a cone-shaped tip should be left on it.

Then, the official in charge went up and kicked the hukou hard, asking the hukou not to fall, but the food spilled on it was not allowed to be recycled by the people. It was considered a loss in transportation and storage. The people then weighed the remaining hukou, which invisibly had to pay a lot of more grain.

They all tried their best to make money, but there was no place left to save the silver.

Guo Dan left them 50,000 taels, which was really good.

The only thing they can do is to consider Guo Dan, not to make himself so tired, there is no need to pay so much money.

After reading it, Song Qing said, "Guo Dan, there is a one on you that is not carefully written. If this one is in a disaster, how to divide responsibilities. You just mentioned that you encounter some devastating natural disasters, such as floods over half of them, like the sky collapses and the earth breaks, and you are exempted from paying taxes. If you encounter drought, can you still pay the taxes?"

Li Zhi was puzzled when he heard this. Why did you sit on us?

Song Xuan was an upright official. He felt that this contract was too unfair to Guo Dan, and the court did not dare to ask the prefect or the county magistrate like this. If you ask for it like this, then the other party would definitely run away. How could this be accomplished?

Too unkind!

"Yes."

Guo Dan nodded and smiled, "If you have a small disaster, you have to pay what you should pay. No one can lose money from the court."

"Guo Dan, just by your words, you are the most loyal people in the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yili pointed at Guo Dan and said.

"Excessive award, ex-price!"

Guo Dan nodded with a smile.

Jiang Yinglin and the others saw it, but they didn't know how to refute it. You didn't even want to give money to the court, so why are you talking about loyalty?

Song Feng was speechless.

They were originally picking the bones in the eggs, and they found a way to drag this matter first. Unexpectedly, there were only a few pages of paper, but just four or five pieces of paper really left them with nothing to say, because they couldn't do each of the pieces, and they really couldn't even do one. They were very harsh on Guo Dan, which made Song Qian talk about Guo Dan.

Too kind.

Are you a fool?

In fact, Guo Dan doesn’t need to do this at all. He is smart now. Don’t he know that the conditions he gives are too generous?

Even if all the standards are lowered by one level, they have nothing to say, but Guo Dan just wants to set it so high, because he doesn't plan to do it for only one year. He just set it very high. Who dares to pick it up in a year?

Even if it is Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, it cannot be done.

Wanli asked, "I think this contract is very good, there is no problem, what do you think?"

Shen Shixing and others looked at each other.

Shen Shixing said: "I think this matter is of great importance and need to be discussed carefully."

Zhu Yiliu said: "If there is any problem, you will say it now. If there is no problem, sign it. You can afford to wait. The people of Weihui Mansion cannot afford to wait. You still don't care about them at all."

"this."

Shen Shixing wanted to speak but stopped, and looked at everyone again.

The other party always uses the people to press them, and there is no bones in the eggs. How can you delay this?

Li Zhi opened his mouth several times, but he couldn't speak out.

Zhu Yili said aggressively: "If you don't sign, you can discuss it again, but the cabinet must issue an edict to inform the people of the world that it is your problem, which has led to the delay of the contract. If any problems arise in the Weihui Mansion during this period, your cabinet will bear the responsibility and cannot be pushed to me anymore. I have already had many unjust injustice."

Shen Shixing looked at Zhu Yili, his eyes full of contempt. He had never seen such a shameless person, nor did he see such a arrogant accomplice. So he said, "If your Majesty, Silijian, Dongchang, and Yumajian feel that there is no problem, then we have no problem either."

Who dares to bear the situation in Weihui Mansion now?

ps: Hahahaha I sent that notice in the afternoon. I saw many readers leaving messages saying that after ten o'clock, I only sent one chapter. I was really sneering in my heart and slapped the face at 8 o'clock on time. Because I copied this chapter in advance, I could upload it after I got home and modify it. I suddenly found something on the way there. It was really a puppy, but I was knocked back and got it. It was really a death to me.
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