Wei Cheng looked headache-inducing at the officials below who were crying out their grievances. Of course, he understood why these officials were behaving this way; he himself was rendered speechless by Ghost Ridge Palace’s actions.
It has only been how many days since Su Jie was granted his royal title? Maybe not even ten days have passed, and yet he has already started behaving wildly, causing such a huge disaster, as if slapping Wei Cheng’s face repeatedly.
How would the entire world view him as an Emperor?
He just granted Su Jie the title of Prince Qing, and Su Jie imdiately started targeting the noble families, engaging in rampant plundering. The world would only ridicule him as a useless Emperor who grants royal titles to anyone.
"Ghost Ridge Palace, despite the court considering its contributions in vanquishing Esoteric Buddhism, specially granting the title of Prince Qing as a favor, in hope that it would defend the country and its landscape, it seems ultimately it was a mistake made by .
Ghost Ridge Palace has no intention of alleviating the worries of the world, disregarding the court’s reliance, privately formulating various onerous taxes across regions. Inhumane, truly detestable."
Wei Cheng appeared quite angry, but rely scolded verbally without actual asures against Ghost Ridge Palace. If he had any solution, he wouldn’t have granted Su Jie a royal title initially.
"A group blinded by greed."
Before the military officer formation, Wei Yushuang stood out prominently.
She cursed inwardly, turning away from the disgraceful behaviors of these civil and military officials.
Customarily, female officials could not attend the court, and even more so, female mbers of the royal family, due to the notorious reputation of interfering in state affairs.
Yet Wei Yushuang was not an ordinary person; aside from being the Eldest Princess, she was also a newly ascended Purple Mansion Cultivator.
In the current setting where the Da Li Royal Family’s stature was increasingly precarious, having Wei Yushuang attend court could significantly stabilize the Royal Family’s position, indicating that the Royal Family still had the strength to govern the world.
"Father Emperor, since we have granted royal titles to Su Jie, granting taxing rights within his jurisdiction, we cannot reproach him over taxation."
Wei Yushuang stepped forward, not because she held any affection for Ghost Ridge Palace, but rather because she could no longer overlook the corruption throughout the court.
In the past, whenever the Da Li Royal Family proposed to levy taxes and increase funding, these civil and military officials would invariably resist desperately.
With claims of ancestral mandates being inviolable, or disputing interests with the people, thousands of hindrances making it utterly unfeasible to implent.
If implented, it would certainly not burden the noble families, but the common people, spreading to the common people’s shoulders.
But how much profit can those commoners produce? Recklessly imposed levies only stirred widespread resentnt and turmoil.
Not to ntion collecting taxes from noble families, even the commoners and rchants who had allied with the noble families found it difficult to pay taxes.
Observing this, other commoners also sought refuge with noble families to avoid court taxes, leading to an increasingly dwindling tax collection for the Da Li Dynasty.
Every ti, the officials would argue that excessive and burdenso taxes led to popular resistance, concealnt, and avoidance of tax, which caused the depleted national treasury, prompting them to urge against arbitrary taxation.
This way, the noble families could only live in comfort, couldn’t they?
Unfortunately, this ti those noble families encountered Ghost Ridge Palace, encountered Su Jie, a fierce individual.
Wei Yushuang reviewed the submitted official reports regarding this matter, and also received secret reports from the royal spies and even so intelligence provided by the Heavenly Patrol Departnt.
Through this intelligence, Wei Yushuang discovered that although Ghost Ridge Palace indeed conducted large-scale killings for tax collection, she uncovered one issue.
Previously, when Da Li Dynasty dispatched tax collecting teams to places like Qingzhou, various evasion occurred. Clearly, fertile lands and even spirit fields beca wastelands in Fish Scale Book records.
But when cultivators from Ghost Ridge Palace arrived, seeing the so-called wastelands, they directly demanded to confiscate the estates and spirit fields, irrespective of whether these lands belonged to noble families, powerful factions, or nobles.
At this point, a large number of lands and owners inconsistent with the Fish Scale Book suddenly erged, actively offering taxes to Ghost Ridge Palace.
Because Ghost Ridge Palace arrived, they were indifferent to dealing with your complex issues, they simply seized everything, and you claid it was wasteland, then it belonged to Ghost Ridge Palace.
Looking at the final reports, Wei Yushuang discovered that solely in Qing Province, the registered land quantity multiplied several tis, and various spirit fields and spiritual mines surged more than tenfold.
The forrly ownerless wastelands, seemingly overnight, all inexplicably transford into fertile lands, and various barren mines converted into treasure mines yielding various spiritual materials.
Such examples are countless, and the actions of Ghost Ridge Palace, Wei Yushuang felt inexplicably relieved and refreshed.
Humph, you noble families, when the Royal Family cannot collect taxes from you, you willingly pay taxes to Ghost Ridge Palace.
You concealed so much tax nonpaynt, not to ntion Ghost Ridge Palace wants to kill people; she herself, upon reading the reports, was incensed enough to wish to decapitate several noble families imdiately.
"Eldest Princess, this statent is incorrect. This world belongs to the Royal Family, Ghost Ridge Palace’s unauthorized tax imposition, competing for benefits with the people, is eroding the Royal Family’s authority, an act not to be tolerated."
An official stepped forward, it was Assistant Minister of Rites Wen Ziheng.
He possessed an even more prominent identity, a mber of Qingzhou Cui Family, one of the Three Sects and Five Families.
The Three Sects and Five Families are the largest force outside the Da Li Dynasty Royal Family, with uninterrupted Purple Mansion Cultivators within the Three Sects, five families passing down for millennia, undeterred by dynasty changes, wielding astonishing influence in Da Li Dynasty.
"You still realize this world belongs to the Royal Family, but during tax collection, you seem to forget this phrase? How can that be."
Wei Yushuang snorted coldly; as a Purple Mansion Cultivator, what was once unspeakable can now be openly discussed.
Wen Ziheng’s face slightly changed, feeling the pressure released by Wei Yushuang as a Purple Mansion Cultivator, making his chest feel as though weighed down by a boulder.
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