Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1008

They are powerful and have nothing to do with ordinary people. It is obvious who is shameful.

This is because Wei Wu is not here. If he were here, he might just pull out his gun and kill them all.

Of course, not everyone agreed. In fact, Zhou Li did not say anything along with them.

In fact, after Bao Guanjiao finished speaking, he wanted to say something, but he saw the attitudes of the people around him.

He simply swallowed what he was about to say. It was pointless to say anything in this situation.

The reason is very simple. In Zhou Li's opinion, even if the land-based tax system is fully implemented, the benefits will simply be less.

It will not cause any serious damage to these people, and they can still live a life of luxury.

Although future interests are important, staying alive is more important. There is no need to gamble with your own family or even three clans.

Everyone knows who Wei Wu is, and he is the most favored by the current emperor. Touching him is no different from seeking death.

If you think that Emperor Hongwu's sword is not powerful, just look at the fate of former Prime Minister Hu Weiyong.

So when others started to agree, Zhou Li just watched silently and didn't say anything.

Only after everyone had finished speaking did he slowly bring the topic back to how to deal with it.

"Everyone, regarding the issue of equalizing the land tax, our most important concern now is how to deal with its implementation."

Hearing Zhou Li's words, others immediately looked in his direction. After all, Zhou Li had a good reputation.

However, at this moment, Bao Guanjiao seemed to be vying for the right to speak and spoke again:

"That's right. We haven't reached that point yet. The most important thing for us now is to find a way to protect our own interests."

"In the past, we were able to obtain tax exemptions through academic achievements, but the new law has abolished the tax exemption rights of scholars, which is very disadvantageous to us."

"Now we have to think of a way to find a loophole so that this land tax system will be ineffective for us."

With just a few words, Bao Guanjiao drew everyone's attention back, and everyone started to discuss enthusiastically after listening.

However, the saying that three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang was not reflected in this situation.

Everyone discussed it for a long time but could not come up with an effective solution, and eventually the discussion became quieter and quieter.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on them. It is mainly because of the current timing that many of their methods cannot be used.

If the land-based tax system has not yet been implemented, they can disrupt it both from the official and grassroots levels.

For example, the imperial court competed with the people for profits, the new law had defects that would lead to public resentment, and so on, preventing the imperial court from implementing it.

But the problem is that the imperial court now uses Shandong as a pilot province, and it has been a great success, receiving high praise from the people.

This made it impossible for them to use many of the means they could have used, and they had no place to vent their evil intentions.

But just when everyone felt helpless, Bao Guanjiao suddenly said something.

"Everyone, since we can't stop the new law from being implemented, we can only find a way to minimize the losses."

Hearing Bao Guanjiao's sudden words, everyone's eyes were focused on him again.

Then I heard Bao Guanjiao continue to say:

"Everyone knows that Shandong has already successfully implemented it. No matter how hard we try, we can't stop it."

"Since that's the case, let's settle for the next best thing and cooperate with the court to implement this policy in a way that minimizes losses."

"This is also a way to give face to the Duke of Zhenguo, so that he can return and report to his superiors, and we won't be forced to go that far."

Everyone present understood that Bao Guanjiao was telling the truth, and no one spoke up to refute him.

But some impatient people couldn't help but ask a question.