My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1740: Knowledge (rolling around asking for monthly tickets)

After entering the Ministry of Revenue compound, the Ninth Prince's steps became heavier.

Since he came here to study government affairs, he originally planned to be a good student.

Especially since there is the Fourth Prince, a worrying brother above him.

He had thought clearly before that he would not compete for power with the Fourth Prince.

In today's incident, I bypassed the Fourth Prince and became the first one to speak out. I don't know if he will mind it.

When he reached the duty room door, he slowed down his pace and tiptoed in.

The door to the east room was not closed. The Fourth Prince was sitting behind a desk, writing something with his head down.

The Ninth Prince breathed a sigh of relief and quietly went into the west room.

When he arrived at the west room, he breathed a sigh of relief and lay down directly on the kang.

I had stood in front of the Qianqing Palace for more than half an hour and my body was stiff.

Seeing this, He Yuzhu opened the cabinet next to him and took out a pair of small hammers. They were bamboo hammers with cloth wrapped at both ends.

"Master, let me give you a massage?" He Yuzhu said in a low voice.

He followed behind the Ninth Prince and naturally could see that his master was feeling guilty and was afraid of the master in the east room.

He Yuzhu was also afraid.

That old man who doesn't look like a brother but more like his master.

However, He Yuzhu knew what was right and what was wrong. He knew that person meant well, and his master was happy to accept it.

The Ninth Prince turned over and lay down, saying, "Go ahead and hit me!"

He Yuzhu pulled a stool, sat next to the kang, and massaged the ninth prince's waist.

In addition to the felt, the kang also has a kang cover made of coarse cloth.

Ninth Prince narrowed his eyes and told He Yuzhu, "It's getting cold, we need to change to thicker blankets. Remember to tell Cao Shun to change the blankets in this room."

He Yuzhu took note and said, "Master, is it time to use the fumigation cage?"

It is now the beginning of September, and there is still nearly a month before the heating is turned on. However, the house is still quite cool in the mornings and evenings, especially in the ear room, which is low and has a wing room in front to block the light.

Before the Ninth Prince could reply, there was a noise at the door, saying, "In spring, cover yourself up and in autumn, keep yourself cool. Now we use a fumigation cage. In winter, you can't stand the cold and are more likely to catch a cold."

The Fourth Prince is here.

Seeing this, the Ninth Prince quickly turned over and said with a wry smile, "Are you done with your work?"

Normally, the Fourth Prince would have to wait until early noon before he could take a break, but it was only noon now.

The Fourth Prince sat down on the kang and looked at the Ninth Prince and said, "I haven't seen you in the room since morning. How come you are so tired?"

The Ninth Prince coughed lightly and said, "This...hasn't this been standing in front of the Qianqing Palace for a long time..."

He did not hide anything and handed the discount booklet to the Fourth Prince, saying, "I wanted to take advantage of this and picked two properties first, but when I saw this, I got so angry that I went to the palace..."

The Fourth Prince took it and looked at it, his brows knitted immediately, and he said, "Did someone pass the message to the Eight Banners Division?"

The first person he suspected was the prince's uncle Chang Tai.

Although Chang Tai's title of Duke Cheng'en was suspended, he was still the prince's uncle.

Even when Soetu was alive, this person of the Hesheli family was also a core figure.

After Soetu passed away, the Hesheli family began to rely on him as their leader.

The price for selling to officials is set very low, and then officials buy them back, saving a lot of money.

The Ninth Prince had never thought of this, and was surprised: "Does this need to be passed on? Isn't it common practice for the Eight Banners Division to estimate the price like this?"

The Fourth Prince frowned even more and asked, "What is the usual practice?"

"According to the depreciation of the red deed..." said the Ninth Prince.

The Fourth Prince was furious and said, "In order to save on stamp duty, the red deed has always been lower than the actual transaction price. How can it be used as a valuation certificate?"

"what?"

The Ninth Prince only then knew about this saying and said, "Is it always like this? I saw the red deed in our Fu Jin's hand before, and it was marked with the original price? This one can be marked at a lower price, so how much is the deed tax, is it worth the trouble?"

The Ninth Prince has always been smart, but he has never purchased any property himself. He has only purchased property once under his name, and it was all done by the manager of the Guo Luoluo family. He doesn't know all the intricacies involved.

The Fourth Prince looked at him.

The Ninth Prince is a down-to-earth prince. He is not ignorant of the ways of the world, but his experience is limited.

"Red deeds to land and houses with the seal of the government are subject to a tax of three percent..." said the Fourth Prince.

The Ninth Prince calculated in his mind and nodded, "Then the tax is not small. No wonder the deed says so little. I thought it was because it was so old that the price on the red deed was so different from the current market price."

The Fourth Prince was still sitting there sulking.

He had heard that the Ministry of Revenue was lucrative, but he also thought it was just "ice tribute" and "charcoal tribute". After all, when governors and governors from other places came to Beijing, the two government offices they had to take care of were the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel.

He didn't expect that there was such a big loophole in the Eight Banners Division.

None of these people who are involved are clean.

Otherwise, if a transaction price is suspicious, it can be intercepted and not stamped into the file.

The Ninth Prince saw that he had gone off topic and brought the subject back.

"I saw that the valuation was too low and was afraid that the silver I could collect would be too little, so I rushed into the palace. However, Khan Ama happened to be meeting an official, and I waited for more than half an hour. With the breeze blowing, I knew that this matter was a bit careless. Li Zhenyu had just been impeached, and I mentioned this directly, as if targeting him, so I changed my words and mentioned the bidding. When I exchanged the annual tickets with the Imperial Merchants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs before, I thought of the bidding..."

The Fourth Prince listened carefully, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, you have thought it through."

Li Zhenyu, a Han Dynasty Shangshu who was a Jinshi, had nothing to be afraid of.

He is very old and is approaching his seventies. It is estimated that he will retire as the Minister of Revenue.

However, he was close to Soetu in his early years and was considered a "princeling".

If the Ninth Prince confronts him directly, whether intentionally or unintentionally, he will be suspected of taking advantage of the situation, and the Crown Prince will also remember it.

The Ninth Prince was immediately very proud of being praised, and said, "Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, this bidding is really a good idea, much better than valuation. Not only can the land and property sold by the government be handled in this way, but also the old materials, medicinal materials and pigments that are regularly replaced by the three major warehouses can be handled in this way. It is better than directly depreciating and reporting losses!"

The Ministry of Revenue warehouse is divided into three major warehouses.

In addition to the silver storehouse, there are also satin and cloth storehouses and pigment storehouses.

However, in addition to these items, various precious medicinal materials, spices, leather materials, etc. are also stored.

These things have both inflow and outflow. In addition to normal expenditure, some of them are reported as damaged and cleared.

The Fourth Prince looked at the Ninth Prince and said, "You are idle, so why do you want to find something to do? The government has changed the system of selling this, and it has a legitimate reason. The loss of the warehouse is only a few silver coins, why do you get involved?"

Who doesn’t know that there is profit?

But even if the loss is reported, the proportion is very small. The money will be shared by all the people in the yamen, so there is no need to get involved.

The Ninth Prince immediately became depressed, puffing his cheeks and saying, "Isn't this just disgusting? I'm paid to work for you, and I didn't work for free, so why are you thinking of trying to get more money?"

The Fourth Prince rubbed his forehead and said, "In the Ministry of Revenue, apart from the two Shangshu and four Shilang, most of the others are of the fifth rank or below. There is also a clerk of the ninth rank. Half of their annual salary of several dozen taels of silver is spent on raising horses, and the rest is barely enough to support their families. Where does the money for the 'three festivals and two birthdays' come from?"

Except for the first and second rank officials in the capital, all other officials rode horses, so raising horses was a necessity.

The Manchu officials are not so bad, most of them have houses in the inner city and have properties at home.

When it comes to the Han officials, they only need to rent a house in the south city and raise a horse, and most of their salary can be spent.

The Ninth Prince was the head of the family and he knew that living in the capital was not easy. After hearing what the Fourth Prince said, he did not argue.

He said, "As far as I'm concerned, the salary is too low. A first-rank official only gets 215 taels. If you don't receive some 'annual tribute' and 'village tribute', you can't make a living at all."

Seeing the Ninth Prince like this, the Fourth Prince felt a little scared.

The Ninth Prince is too troublesome.

No wonder during the three and a half years in the Imperial Household Department, he sorted out most of the government offices.

Could it be possible that the Ninth Prince was wrong?
The Ninth Prince is completely selfless and wholeheartedly works for the public, which is something he should be commended for.

Besides, the Ninth Prince also made it clear that he worked so hard for the future of his second son.

The eldest son and the second son born on the same day are different from ordinary eldest sons and second sons, and they really need to be carefully arranged.

This is a sign of growing up, thinking long-term, and having a heart full of love for one's son.

He did not blame her, but comforted her: "Take your time. Just selling the official position is a credit."

"Uh-huh……"

The Ninth Prince nodded and said, "Xinyu has been punished. It is estimated that his properties and people will be sold by the government in a few days. I will not do anything else these days but think about this carefully."

The Fourth Prince decided that he could not let the Ninth Prince mess around in the Ministry of Revenue like this, and he had to think about whether there was a specific job for the Ninth Prince and find one.

Otherwise, if you keep hitting it with a hammer here and there, you never know when you will hit the iron plate.

The Ninth Prince doesn't know yet that his days of slacking off will not last long.

After lunch, he sat at the desk, but did not rush to write about the bidding. Instead, he thought about Shushu.

After returning to the Prince's Mansion, he looked at Shushu and said, "Do you know that the deed tax for real estate is three cents?"

Shu Shu nodded and said, "Of course I know. Thanks to my master, the properties we acquired before the wedding were all signed with red deeds."

"Then is this tax paid by the buyer or the seller?" asked the Ninth Prince.

Shu Shu said: "According to the rules, each family gets half."

The Ninth Prince was surprised and asked, "Why didn't you write less on the red deed? If you write less on one property, you can save dozens of taels of silver..."

Shu Shu shook his head and said, "It's not necessary. The tax goes into the national treasury and doesn't go out. If everyone is thinking about saving taxes and enriching themselves at the expense of the public, then when natural disasters and man-made disasters occur and the national treasury needs to pay out money, there will be less money."

So in order to get the buyer to agree to pay taxes truthfully, she also paid the other party's one and a half cents of stamp duty.

The Ninth Prince looked at Shushu and said, "My Lord, I just remembered that this 'tax concealment' is also against the law. If it is revealed, both the buyer and the seller will be flogged fifty times. In serious cases, 50% of the price will be recovered from the buyer and paid to the government."

Shu Shu said, "Yes, it is indeed against the law, but the people do not report it and the officials do not investigate it, so tax evasion has become a common practice. However, we cannot cut it off across the board. In these real estate transactions, few are made to the outside world, and most of them are transferred between relatives, so the selling price can be set low."

The Ninth Prince sighed, "It's all knowledge. If it weren't for Fourth Brother's suggestion, I would never have thought that the price of the red deed would be so low..."

　Guys, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)