Chapter 468

Just as a group of Donglin Party members lingered around the Qinhuai River every day as usual, and the large gentry everywhere were also trying to escape the poll tax, the East factory and the supervision office of the state of Qin were quietly established.

Thousands of eunuchs, who had been sent by Qin Huan to farm, put down their hoes again, straightened their waist and gathered around their big eunuch, father-in-law Gao.

In fact, Gao Qiqian was not the most senior Eunuch in Nanjing, but Gao Qiqian had done tartar head business with Qin Huan in Shandong at the beginning. The two sides were quite happy. With this relationship, Qin Huan would naturally choose him as the senior eunuch of the supervision office.

Although Qin Huan did not intend to create eunuchs in the future, he could use the remaining eunuchs. After all, most of these eunuchs were literate and familiar with civil servants and gentry.

Because if you want to investigate by formal means, you can't be illiterate. Those old literati can't trust him, and women are not cruel enough. Therefore, it's most appropriate to combine women with eunuchs, women to supervise and eunuchs to work.

Qin Huan didn't officially announce the establishment of the supervision office and the terms of reference of the supervision office until all the people were in place. Suddenly, the officialdom of the great Qin Dynasty was crying. It can be seen how terrible the reputation of the east hall was.

Although the name has been changed, everyone knows that the supervision office is the East Hall. Although there is no imperial license to cut first and then play, any official has to cooperate with the investigation of the supervision office. Although the final conviction and judgment will be made by the court, it does not explain whether the supervision office can commit lynching, which is really frightening.

Not to mention those former Ming officials, even officials of the two houses, such as Wang can and Qian bin, were terrified and had a heavy heart.

At this time, the poll tax everywhere also received 7788. Qian bin originally planned to collect it after verification, but Qin Huan ordered that it should be collected directly according to the data reported by everyone without verification.

In the following days, the sons of the supervision office were sent to investigate the tax situation in batches. Each batch was composed of a wife, several female soldiers and several eunuchs.

I don't know. I was startled by the investigation. In the past six months, many businessmen in the South have secretly smuggled weapons, grain powder, salt, cloth and other strategic materials to Houjin in the north.

The salt merchants in Lianghuai were the first to bear the brunt, and most former Ming officials were evading taxes in their hometown. To Qin Huan's surprise, he thought that no one would play tricks on the land tax and business tax, but he never thought that he underestimated the greed and luck of the gentry and landlords.

He also did not expect that in just a few months, in the face of the temptation of money and beauty, the officials sent to various counties began to be unable to resist, and some people took risks. As for the officials transferred, they were unbearable. It can be seen how terrible the corrosion of people's hearts in the south of the Yangtze River is.

It's only a few months. In a few more years, I'm afraid no civilian's ass will be clean. It's estimated that most of the military generals everywhere can't resist it.

All those who smuggle strategic materials to Houjin will be copied and exterminated, and the fine for evading poll tax will be ten times. All those who bribe officials and evade land tax and commercial tax will be copied and exiled, and the officials will be dismissed and investigated. As for the crime of tax evasion and smuggling of officials, the crime of evading taxes and smuggling will be increased by one grade. The men of the three ethnic minorities will be beheaded, and the women will be brought into the teaching workshop.

In just one month, thousands of big families in Jiangnan were copied, including Huainan salt merchants, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cloth merchants, and countless scholarly families. Almost all the big families who were fined did not run away.

It can be said that throughout the south of the Yangtze River, large gentry families are copied almost all the time, and then they are tried publicly by local judges in front of the people, or sentenced to death or exile.

Qin Huan wanted to let everyone know that tax evasion was as serious as rebellion in the state of Qin.

After all, in this era, the means are limited, and tax evasion is impossible to prevent, and tax is the cornerstone of a country. In addition to strengthening supervision, thunder means should be used to deter it.

Let those who want to evade taxes in the future weigh whether it is for a small profit and worry about the end of family destruction and confiscation after being found out. Who is more cost-effective to pay taxes honestly, and then sleep with his wife and concubine.

Zhou family in Yixing.

Hearing that Qin Huan dared to risk the world's condemnation, he washed the whole south of the Yangtze River with blood. He was trembling with anger. He looked up to the sky and shouted, "tyrant, eternal tyrant!"

If Qin Huan had known that he was so cruel, he would have fought the Qin army to the end even if he had exhausted his family property. He would never surrender, but now it's too late to say anything.

"The master is not good. A group of people outside claimed to be from the supervision office to investigate the master..."

At this time, the old housekeeper ran in in panic. When the whole Zhou family heard that the people of the supervision office came to the door, there was a burst of chicken flying and dogs jumping and crying. It was obvious that the supervision office had a great reputation in just one month, surpassing the factory guard of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the factory guards arrested people to copy their homes. At most, there were more than a dozen at a time. For example, the supervision office raided thousands of large households and arrested more than 100000 people in a month.

"What are you panicking about? I haven't evaded taxes. I'm not afraid of the shadow. Today I want to see what they can do to me. "

Zhou yanru shouted loudly and walked to the gate. He didn't believe that Qin Huan dared to arrest him, a great Confucian of Donglin, with unwarranted charges. If so, it would be a joke for Qin Huan to rule the country according to law.

As for that matter, he was not worried at all. He believed that Qin Huan had absolutely no evidence to prove that he was behind the scenes. It was not enough for Da Qin Guang to have someone's evidence.

At this time, all the servants of the Zhou family were facing great enemies at the gate with weapons, and the surrounding people were surrounded by people who came to watch the excitement, because several big families in Yixing had been copied these days.

Every family in Yixing is a high-ranking existence. We didn't expect that today it was the turn of the recently deceased former inspector's house, Zuo governor, Donglin great Confucian, Zhou yanru and Zhou family.

"Put away all your weapons and open the door to me." When Zhou yanru came to the gate, he shouted at a group of servants.

Naturally, the servants immediately put away their weapons and opened the door. After all, they were just pretending. They really wanted them to take the risk of copying their families and destroying their families and fight those soldiers with knives. No one wanted to.

The door opened, and sure enough, there was a woman dressed as a man, two eunuchs, and a team of heavily armed national guards.

"Master Zhou, we are from the supervision department. This Mrs. Wu is the head of our supervision department. There is a smuggling case for Houjin, which involves master Zhou. Please go back to the Yamen with us for investigation!"

As soon as Zhou yanru stepped out of the gate, a eunuch came forward with a sharp voice and said with a smile. The sad smile made people nearby cold and bristle.

Mrs. Wu, who even took the second half step, shivered all over. Although she was the nominal head, she was only responsible for reading, recording, but not investigating.

As for the laoshizi stall, these eunuchs started it all by themselves. She has never admitted it. Her official position is the special envoy of the supervision office and the official of the fifth grade.

"Hum, nonsense. If you want to add a crime, why don't you have words? My Zhou family doesn't run any business. Even in this Yixing City, there is no shop. They have been farming and reading for generations. How to smuggle? "

Zhou yanru snorted coldly, and then said in a loud voice. The people around him nodded and talked one after another.

Indeed, whether in the Ming dynasty or the great Qin Dynasty, Zhou yanru did not leave anyone with a handle to attack in order to seek the first and second place. The Zhou family not only did not operate any business, but even most of their land properties were listed under the name of the next branch.

"Hehe, the Zhou family really doesn't operate their own business, but master Zhou has a lot of dry shares. Not only the salt merchants in Huainan, but also the cloth merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even the porcelain merchants in Jingdezhen, master Zhou accounts for shares, with an income of hundreds of thousands of liang of silver every year." The eunuch smiled and spoke calmly.

"So it is..."

Some onlookers suddenly realized that Zhou yanru was anxious when he saw the people's reaction. He blushed and shouted, "slander, this is a naked slander. Do you have evidence that I joined the stock?"

"Hehe, if master Zhou doesn't take a stake, why do those businessmen give you more than 100000 liang of silver every year instead of our family? As for the certificate, master Zhou, dare you let us search the house? "

"Presumptuous, I'm at least the censor of the left capital of the former capital inspection institute. Why should you search my house without evidence?"

"Master Zhou, I don't think you know much about the law of the great Qin Dynasty. Let alone that the miscellaneous family has more than ten businessmen's confessions in hand, but they don't. our supervision office also has the right to search your Zhou mansion."

The eunuch still took out a stack of confessions from his chest and raised them. Then he said to the soldiers, "search for our family and don't let go an inch. Who dares to stop and arrest them first for the crime of hindering official duties." Speaking of the back, the sharp ears were tingling.

Zhou yanru looked at the officers and soldiers who were like wolves and tigers and was about to rush inside. Knowing that it didn't make sense with the eunuch, he stepped forward and said to the Wu Fu Humanitarianism: "does madam just let her men mess like this? Ruin your Majesty's reputation? "

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. If someone harasses the family members, damages or takes property during the search, the envoy will inform his majesty and will never be selfish."

Mrs. Wu said with a trace of apology that although she hated the eunuch's face, what she could do was to supervise them and prevent them from mess.

"What are you doing? Go in and search. Do you have to wait until they destroy all the evidence?"

The eunuch jumped and shouted at the soldiers.

Suddenly, a group of national guards rushed into Zhou's mansion. Zhou yanru quickly asked his servants to stop him, but no one dared to stand up and stop him.

In only half an hour, the letters and account books between the Zhou family and major merchants everywhere were found one by one, and there was no time to burn them.

In fact, Zhou yanru didn't know anything about the smuggling of Houjin to the merchants who took shares. He was only responsible for collecting silver every year.

Even there is no certificate to buy shares, because that thing is dispensable. As long as the Zhou family does not lose, there are officials in each dynasty, which is the best equity certificate. The Zhou family has declined. No one will give you money even if the equity certificate is more detailed. As for the amount of silver allocated each year, it depends on how big the official is.

Most of the businessmen in Jiangnan and those official families are also in this mode. Pure big businesses need clothes attached to official families to survive. This kind of clothes attached is not one generation or two, but generations.

Of course, there are also some business children who can get rid of their business identity and be promoted to an official family if they succeed in the examination and become senior officials.

Some declining official families will eventually become businesses and work for those official families, which is mostly the case in the early and middle Ming Dynasties.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the concerns of the official family were also much less. Except for some who wanted to be the first and auxiliary minister, they still insisted on bomeiming. Others had personally rolled their arms and fought, regardless of officials and businessmen.