"Tan Aiqing, is there any news from Mr. Xu Ge?" King Yu asked Tan Lun straight to the point.
"Here, there may have been some changes in Mr. Xu Ge's house. Now all letters, large and small, have to go through Mr. Xu Fan of Xiao Ge before they can enter the house. I don't know what Mr. Xu Ge's attitude is. ”
Tan Lun recently asked the Xu family to perform surgery.
The Duke of Wei and the Xu family were the first to respond to the new learning, so the yamen at all levels in South Zhili naturally had to get the news and be more generous.
But in the past six months, as prices have fallen, the two families have become more and more aggressive.
Xu Kun of the Xu Mansion directly came forward and recruited no less than 50,000 merchants. Think about it, these 50,000 households all operate in southern Zhili under the name of the Xu Mansion and with official merchant certificates. . How bad would the impact be.
Now, except for the local Songjiang Prefecture in Xujie, where Hai Rui is in charge, the whole of Jiangsu is basically a merchant and workshop industry in the name of the Xu family.
That’s not all. The Xu family even opened many merchants in Huizhou Prefecture, Nanjing City.
This matter has always been forbidden by the Huizhou Prefecture of Nanjing City and the two Xu Kingdoms, especially Wei Guogong. After all, he has been a stay-at-home in Nanjing for a long time. He is the real military and political leader of Nanjing.
Of course, even so, with Wei Guogong Xu Pengju's experience, he would not be able to knock on the door. The key is that the admission fee in Xu Ge's hometown is too low. Peers are outright hateful.
Both parties were wholesale merchants. As a result, the price at Xuge’s hometown was less than one-third of that at Wei Guogong’s, and there was an entire Ming civil service system to protect the interests and safety of these merchants.
The price is cheap and the service quality is high, which makes the Duke of Wei almost helpless.
It was nothing at first, but after the land price plummeted, the Duke of Wei relied on the filial piety of businessmen for most of its income. As a result, Xu Ge's hometown came directly to Nanjing City to slap him in the face, and the Duke of Wei, who had always endured the turmoil, lost his good temper.
Especially Xu Kun has recently been wandering around Nanjing with the notorious Gao Shengguang. Even the inferior Qi Shengguang can hang around in front of Wei Guogong's shop, which is simply intolerable.
But even so, Wei Guogong Xu Pengju was still very polite. He did not directly lead his troops to destroy the store, but sent a memorial to King Yu. He even threatened to give up the tax-free rights and punish the Xu family's second little pavilion elder, and of course the arrogant Qi Shengguang.
Xu Pengju’s approach was to truly kill two hundred enemies and lose one thousand to himself. On the surface, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the scope and amount of tax exemption of the Guogong Mansion are larger than that of the Xu family. It's just that the Ming law is the Ming law, and now the county magistrate is not as important as the county magistrate. Xu Jie is the elder of the pavilion. Starting from Yan Song, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty tacitly agreed that the chief minister's family had unlimited tax exemption rights. Of course, it is now assumed that the Duke's Office also has unlimited tax exemption rights, but only within Nanjing. But when I met Xu Ge's hometown, I was given another discount.
The Government uses its limited tax exemption rights to compete with others’ unlimited tax exemption rights.Die together, it seems to be a relief, but in fact it is a big loss. Because the chief assistant's son will no longer be the chief assistant. And the duke's legitimate son is still the duke. The infinite scenery of the moment is nothing compared with the eternal finiteness.
It’s just that Xu Pengju was really angry, so he could use this move that was willing to kill him and bring down the chief assistant.
It’s just that Wei Guogong’s impatience and anger gave King Yu and Lu Fang a good excuse or step.
When Lu Fang went out earlier, she saw Wei Guogong repeatedly urging him to confirm that he would not change his mind, and then went to find Dongchang and Jinyiwei to make arrangements.
Because the commercial tax in South Zhili did not increase but shrank in the first half of this year compared to last year. It would be very painful to interfere with the business tax exemption rights of the powerful and powerful bureaucrats. But now that Wei Guogong is the Nanjing garrison's endorsement, naturally someone will give him a pillow when he feels sleepy, which is what he wants. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft