Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Like the Five Armies Commander's Mansion, it is actually in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, even including the two largest fleets in the world today, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

But declaring war, or something similar to the announcement of the state of war, the issuance of military merits, etc., must go through the Ministry of War.

In short, no one can do without anyone.

After finishing Chongzhen's four-year military exercise or deterrence, especially the matter against Japan, Emperor Chongzhen was relieved.

It's basically like this now, since Jianu can't be beaten to death all at once, there is not much hope for those dwarfs who want Dongpu to kill them all at once.

After all, the soldiers of the guard are the army, the army needs money, and the navy also needs money, and it costs more than the army.

Still money is more important.

As far away as Zhejiang, the faces of businessmen are basically not good-looking.

Mr. Zhao felt that what his distant cousin Kou Shen said made sense, so he simply did it to the end as a bachelor—he just prepared all the materials that should be prepared for tax payment, and then waited to pay the tax.

But many people don't think so, even Li Yichen, a big silk businessman who has a good relationship with Mr. Zhao, doesn't think so. It is not changing the original intention.

It's too easy to conceal a tax. If you want to check the accounts, the messy account has been prepared long ago, just to guard against this day.

As for double-entry bookkeeping, I just don't want to use it. Is there a problem?

Of course there is no problem, not to mention Mr. Li alone, even all the businessmen in the entire Suzhou Prefecture have prepared their accounts. The newly appointed Zhejiang tax envoy eunuch Liu Jingzhou thinks there is no problem.

They can use whatever they want. Anyway, if the accounts can be matched and there is no big discrepancy, then they will be charged according to the normal tax collection standard.

If the accounts are not correct, and if it is found that there is deliberate tax evasion, then wait and see.

In fact, the bookkeeping method used in the Ming Dynasty, strictly speaking, has combined the double-entry bookkeeping method that began to appear in the folk, and most of them use "receipt and expenditure" as the bookkeeping symbols.

The most prominent among them is probably the existence of the Four-Pillar Playbook.

The so-called four-column memorandum is actually an account book compiled according to the four-column format of "old management, new collection, expulsion, and reality", but this thing must be used by officials according to regulations, and folks can do whatever they want.

However, in the Daming law, the detailed regulations on duty crimes involving accounting officials and the severity of applicable penalties are rare in all dynasties.

It is worth mentioning that in order to rectify the administration of officials and the economic order, Zhu Yuanzhang planned the famous "Four Big Cases in the Early Ming Dynasty" in history. Among them, two major cases belonged to the economic field. For the attention of the world.

After that, the Ming Dynasty government formulated laws and regulations to strictly punish economic crimes, and took a series of effective measures in financial management.

One of them is to change the numbers recording taxes, money and food into uppercase numbers "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and hundreds of thousands".

Generally speaking, if the government has any good things, especially those good things that have been absorbed and evolved by the people, there are really many people who follow suit.

In a place like Zhejiang, where business is very popular, similar accounting methods have been flying all over the sky.

Now he suddenly put away this accounting method, and instead used an accounting method that no one has used for a long time. If there is no ghost in it, Liu Jingzhou felt that he would only believe it if he was a fool.

But this won’t work. Although these taxes go into the national treasury, the emperor wants to use the money to build slaves. If you do this, won’t the emperor not be able to collect the money?

If the emperor can't receive the money, he will definitely be unhappy. If the emperor is unhappy, those slaves in our family will feel very uncomfortable.

This street in front of Yamen in Suzhou Mansion was Liu Jingzhou's first target.

After collecting the account books of all the merchants on the street, the mathematics students that Liu Jingzhou brought from Beijing Central began to get busy.

Running account, right?

It doesn't matter, I'll change it into a four-post ledger for you, book by book, and check every family. Anyway, our family brought a lot of math scholars from Beijing, and they specialize in this job.

And when they were working, Jin Yiwei was watching separately, and all the ledgers had to be cross-checked to prevent any student from being related to any business and cover up.

Liu Jingzhou brought enough mathematics students, and the speed of checking the accounts was indeed fast enough. With the crackling sound of the abacus, a series of questionable accounts began to surface.

And once he found out that the accounts of any family were not clear, Liu Jingzhou would directly notify the Yamen of the Suzhou government to get the person.

After taking the person, I didn’t do anything else. I just picked up the problematic accounts on the account book and asked repeatedly, and kept asking. so far.

It didn't take long, after only seven or eight days, all the ledgers in these streets in front of the Yamen in Suzhou were reviewed.

There are a total of forty shops, and there are more than 800 accounts in one year, and there are more than [-] accounts that are found to be problematic or unclear. You can find out one or two, or even two or three accounts that are not clearly recorded.

After sneering at the final result for a long time, Liu Jingzhou went to find Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture.

Kou Shen is also extremely painful.

There were forty shops, forty prominent businessmen, and an unknown number of monsters and monsters standing behind them. Except for his distant nephew, Mr. Zhao, who was safe and sound, the remaining 39 were on the arrest list.

In the past seven or eight days, the Suzhou government has already arrested five people—that is to say, 34 more people need to be arrested.

But people are easy to catch, once these shops are all closed, will the people of Suzhou Mansion survive?Will it lead to a collective strike by businessmen?

Seeing Kou Shen's troubled face, Liu Jingzhou smiled and said, "Master Kou is worried?"

Kou Shen nodded and said, "Yes, I am worried that these businessmen will cause trouble after they are arrested."

Liu Jingzhou said nonchalantly: "What else can go wrong? Could it be that these bastards still have the guts to rebel?"

Kou Shen smiled and said: "If it is a rebellion, these people must not have the guts, otherwise they would not have waited until today.

However, what I am worried about is that these big businesses will go on strike and go out of business.These people are inconspicuous individually, but the forces behind them are intricate, and most of the companies in Suzhou City are related to these people.

If these people unite with other merchants to make troubles, the livelihood of the people in Suzhou will definitely be affected. At that time, whether it is Eunuch Liu or a subordinate official, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to His Majesty. "

But Liu Jingzhou sneered and said: "Let them make trouble, our family has already got His Majesty's order when we came, and whoever dares to make trouble, we will completely close the shop and replace it with someone else.

If these bastards pay all the taxes, and pay taxes in full and on time honestly in the future, this matter will be over, but if they dare to play those messy ways, this matter will never Get used to them, and kill one when you find one.

Our family wants to see how hard these cartilage bones are! "

When Kou Shen heard this, he was even more worried.

If Liu Jingzhou was the one to pick this matter, I would impeach Liu Jingzhou to the court for wanton and reckless actions.

At that time, no matter whether the dead eunuch is the scapegoat, or there are other ways to deal with it, in short, the tax is collected, and it can be regarded as an explanation to these big businessmen, and the people's lives can go on as usual.

But now Liu Jingzhou's words mean more than what he said, and this matter was actually instructed by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

That would be very difficult.

Although Kou Shen is far away from the court, and his official position is not big or small, he is only the magistrate of Suzhou Prefecture, but he thinks that he can see clearly the behavior of Emperor Chongzhen after he ascended the throne.

At least this master didn't have the habit of letting his subordinates take the blame. Everything was done with open flames and sticks. As for the consequences, he didn't care at all.

And this master has another problem.

It is said that those who watch the excitement don't think it's a big deal, and those who watch the fight want to beat them to death at once, but this master has always rolled up his sleeves to fight and is not afraid of big things.