Cao Cao worked hard to promote commercial tax affairs, and Wang Can and Zao Zhi were also very surprised.

Zao Zhi immediately went to count the details of various fiscal expenditures required by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wang Can immediately began to vigorously promote the details of the imposition of commercial tax within the Ministry of Finance.

Of course, Wang Can was the most excited.

To be honest, what Guo Peng tried to promote the commercial tax reform a year ago was not what Guo Peng asked him to do, but what he wanted to do.

He took the initiative to ask Guo Peng if he could do this in advance, and Guo Peng gave him an ambiguous response.

Wang Can understood what Guo Peng meant, so he went to give it a try.

The result showed that the opposition was very powerful, and some people were even ready to attack him, and they were involved in the fight to bring him down.

Wars were frequent at that time, and Guo Peng had no energy, so he did not respond to the matter and dealt with it coldly, so the matter was left unresolved.

Wang Can thought Guo Peng would not do this anymore.

As a result, a year passed, and as soon as the united one side was unified, Guo Peng started to take action, and the speed was very fast.

Obviously, Guo Peng had long wanted to attack the wealthy merchants, but he just didn't have the energy at that time.

Wang Can was extremely excited and jumped up and down to encourage the staff to work on the highway and do things according to Guo Peng's instructions.

Not only did he have to do what Guo Peng asked for, he also added extra fuel and fire. After trying a lot of details, he thought of doing it in one go, making more tax increases, and tearing off a piece of meat from those rich merchants.

Not only did he eat their meat, but he also had to drink their blood, and he had to make him feel he was half-hearted!

Otherwise, it would not be enough to vent the anger in my heart!

Last year, Wang Can was very uncomfortable by a group of officials, and he did not receive the emperor's help and lost face. So he couldn't raise his head in front of his subordinates for a long time.

This time, he is here to take revenge.

He considered himself a member of the former Guo official group and was deeply appreciated by Guo Peng. As long as Guo Peng asked him to do something, he must do it, not only do it, but also do it more simply and thoroughly.

If Guo Peng wants to increase taxes, he will increase taxes!

Wang Can became restless.

Anyway, he was strict in managing his family and required the entire family not to do business, to honestly farm and study and pass on the family, and to live on the land rewarded by Guo Peng and generous welfare and salary.

Of course, it is not only Wang Can who is restless, but many others are also restless, but the reasons and goals of their restlessness are different from those of Wang Can.

Wang Can sharpened his knife and turned to the rich merchants, while these people gathered together in a panic and began to try every means to prevent the adoption of the tax increase policy.

Last year, the levy of commercial taxes led by Wang Can and others made this group of people feel scared.

At that time, Guo Peng did not make any statement and did not take it seriously, so the matter was left unresolved and there was no follow-up development.

But this time, Guo Peng personally issued an order, directly crossed the part he discussed with the ministers, and directly issued this matter as a decree, which caught everyone off guard and made them unable to adapt for a while.

This is a very serious matter, and Guo Peng's tone is also quite serious.

"I have been accomplicated to the throne, clear the world, unify the country, and stabilize the world, and rest with the people. However, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the previous Han Dynasty, warlords have been separating, wars have been linked to disasters, and the country has been abandoned, and all industries are waiting to be rejuvenated. Now the national treasury is empty and the daily life is tight. It is not a long-term plan. So I ordered the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance to enact charters and impose commercial taxes to make use of the state. There must be no mistakes."

The imperial edict has been issued and the heart is settled. What should I do?

A considerable number of this group of people were still thinking about how to spend their next life easily and happily, how to enjoy life, and how to enjoy life, but never expected that the situation would take a sharp turn.

Isn’t it obvious that the levy of commercial tax is to fetch their wool?

When the emperor started the official business of salt and iron, it was precisely because the emperor did not increase the tax and facilitated their business operations that they did not stop them and agreed to the fact that the official business of salt and iron was not allowed to do so.

But unexpectedly, the emperor became more and more arrogant. After passing the official salt and iron camp, he had to impose commercial taxes here.

It’s not enough that so many military farmers will squeeze you?

The official business of salt and iron has been in operation, and we have all ceded this part of the benefits to you. You have made a lot of money. If the treasury is not mentioned, you don’t know how much money is in your own treasury?

Are you not satisfied yet?

You still want to mess with us?

If we give in this time, will you attack our manor next time?

No, absolutely not!

A group of people gathered together worriedly and discussed the matter in groups of three or five.

The composition of this group of people is not the same, but one thing is clear.

Whether it is a scholar's family or a powerful family, as long as they are officials, there is no head of the family who does business in person.

No official will personally run a business.

To put it bluntly, money is the slave of power, and money cannot dominate power. In the past, it is also the same. It has always been used to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce in Chinese history, and suppressing merchants is an unchanging rule.

Power is the most important thing, so fighting for power is the top priority of imperial officials, and they are disdainful to make money.

The light business tradition since ancient times is right in front of you. No matter how much money you earn, it will be suppressed by power. No one will destroy his future in his career and manage business.

But as the saying goes, it is absolutely impossible to have no money.

If you use money well, you will gain more success on the road to gaining power and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

True smart people will use money to gain power, while false smart people will use money to make money.

Of course, some people have no way to gain power, so they can only settle for the second best and make money.

Therefore, in order to be able to eat and go far in the officialdom, money cannot be lost.

If you are doing things at the top and bottom, you will give gifts during the festival. It will be very beneficial to your career.

Being entitled must have money.

Although it doesn't necessarily mean you have money.

Some famous men who cherish their feathers are so poor that they often have no money after death. They even ask friends to raise money to buy coffin boards for him, and then let their sons carry the coffin back to their hometown miserably.

But if you look deeper, he is poor, but the important relatives in his family are different.

The society at that time was a clan society. There was definitely a family support behind an official. Of course, he could be poor by one family, but was his clan poor?

If I don’t understand this, I really think that those hermits are like Tao Yuanming who pick chrysanthemums and see the southern mountains leisurely under the eastern fence.

At that time, can these hermits of superior origin really stand the suffering of Chinese farmers?

People retire to retire, but wine and meat are indispensable.

Where does wine and meat come from?

Falling from the sky?

Innocent!

It is a traditional skill to act and establish such things.

As far as Guo Peng knows, the talents under his command will not make money in person, and will not even allow immediate relatives to make money in person.

The descendants of the direct family were busy studying and traveling around the world, then became famous in marriage, engaged in nepotism, and waited to inherit my power and continue to dominate the world.

If someone breaks out of such a thing, it will be a huge scandal, which will cause social death and will be despised by everyone.

Bah! It’s embarrassing! He actually manages business!

Otherwise, why wouldn't the Mi family's political power still be ranked?

There are many Xuzhou officials who look down on the Mi family and do not surrender to the Mi family, such as Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin, Lu Su and Zhang Zhao, who would rather survive under Guo Peng than take the shortcut to the Mi family.

If you want to check the family background of these people, don’t check them themselves, expand the scope, check their wives, brothers, close friends, students, disciples, and even slaves.

There are countless people who go out to do business under the name, bleach their identity and then go to business after they start business.

When Mr. Guo grew up in such an environment since childhood, how could he not understand the twists and turns inside?

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Chapter completed!