strictlysupreme Chapter 683 The law is made by man
Chapter 683 The law is made by man
The news about the folks in Daqin has already reached Ying Yu's ears.
After this matter was reported to Ying Yuzhong, other ministers also learned about it one after another.
They thought that with Ying Yu's character, they would definitely take all-out measures to deal with this group of businessmen.
But at the court meeting, Ying Yu's decision still surprised them.
At the court meeting, Ying Yu directly spoke about this matter. Now that the trouble had reached the point where the emperor knew about it, the impact on the people was needless to say, and Ying Yu naturally knew it well.
As for how to deal with it, he also knew it well.
It's just that he also wants to hear the opinions of the ministers, maybe they can have high opinions in their mouths.
So at the court meeting, Ying Yu directly threw the matter out for the ministers present to discuss.
Sure enough, a knowledgeable minister came out to speak after getting Ying Yu's permission.
"Your Majesty, I think this matter is easy to handle, but let people check their various certificates and whether the business is regulated. In this day and age, anyone who can become rich and powerful in business is bound to have misbehavior. As long as you catch the handle Everything will be fine."
Ying Yu nodded, and he signaled the minister to step back for now.
What he said was not unreasonable.
In today's world, it is not uncommon for merchants to do business, and because of official encouragement in the early years, merchants did business very smoothly.
And the threshold for being a businessman is very low, as long as you have an idea and a certain amount of funds, you can become a businessman.
As fewer and fewer common people farm, more and more people want to join the ranks of merchants.
The ranks of businessmen are slowly not making as much money as they did in the beginning. At this time, people with ideas will want to find a solution from it.
In the final analysis, in the end, what these businessmen unanimously decided cannot be a legitimate means.
These include tax evasion, suppression costs, shoddy goods and so on.
No matter what kind of behavior, in short, you can't use legitimate means, otherwise, your interests will be greatly compromised.
So what the minister said is not completely unreasonable. As long as the local government investigates these businessmen, they can always find some problems.
It's just that these actions of theirs are not considered big crimes, they didn't harm the interests of the country, and they didn't seek wealth or murder.
To do this kind of thing, in addition to the taxes that should be paid, they also need to provide many convenient things for the government.
So all along, the government has turned a blind eye to their actions.
But what is the situation now, His Majesty the Emperor will personally handle this matter.
Since you are restless and want to provoke His Majesty the Emperor, none of you will be able to escape the consequences that you should bear.
So the minister's suggestion is actually very useful.
It is only necessary to send people to investigate these businessmen fiercely, and they will definitely be able to grasp their handles. If they are threatened with this, what they have done will be self-defeating.
The reason why Ying Yu didn't adopt this suggestion at the first time was because Ying Yu also considered the inconvenience of such a form.
If only a few or very few businessmen are like this, then there is no need for others, as long as this strategy can be dealt with.
But the current situation is obviously not so simple. More than half of the merchants in Daqin have united to do such a thing.
If you really use the method suggested by the minister to investigate these merchants, it will take a long time to do so, and once you start to act, the merchants who have not been investigated will definitely be aware of it.
They can take measures to deal with it early, and the result of this is that the people who first check will be affected, but the people who check later will not be affected at all.
In this case, there is no way to directly solve this matter fundamentally.
Seeing that Ying Yu didn't accept his opinion, the minister who had just proposed had no choice but to retreat.
Later, another minister came out to speak out.
"Your Majesty, why don't you secretly investigate which merchants are doing these things, leave a list of them, and send people to liquidate them."
Ying Yu nodded, noncommittal, but asked the minister to step down first.
Ying Yu had already voted against this suggestion in his heart.
It is not difficult for the court to secretly send people to check the list.
With Jin Yiwei's ability, even if he conducts a secret investigation, he will definitely not startle the snake.
Compared with the previous minister's proposal, it is more practical.
But it is not feasible at this moment, because you need a reason to liquidate this group of businessmen. If you investigate secretly, the reason cannot be clearly stated.
Don't forget, Daqin is a society ruled by law, and everything is based on the law. Even if the emperor Ying Yu wants to punish others, he needs to have a suitable reason.
Although it is necessary to impose these unwarranted charges, it is not impossible.
But if you really do this, it will hurt the hearts of the people of Great Qin all over the world.
In this case, for Ying Yu, it is not worth the loss, so if it is not critical, it must not be done.
The fact that this group of businessmen have such courage means that they can do more courageous things.
Once they are really pushed to the extreme, and they expose these things completely, then it will be a situation where both sides will suffer, and this is not what Ying Yu wants to see.
Today's Ying Yu is the emperor of Daqin, and what he has to consider, always and forever, always puts the future of Daqin as the first.
So these methods can solve the problem simply, but they can't really cure the problem.
The problem lies with the merchants. The group of officials who had been opposed to improving the status of the merchants finally seized the opportunity, even though they knew that the current form of Daqin was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed at all.
But after having a mouthful, in theory it’s okay to ask for a little bit of cheap.
So some people started to make a fuss about the businessman. They said that it was Ying Yu who tried to improve the status of the businessman.
It's good now, when it's time to really do things, instead, I am subject to the businessman again.
At this moment, their thinking was very simple, they simply wanted to embarrass Ying Yu.
Naturally, Ying Yu didn't care about this.
After waiting for another half an hour, no one stood up to speak in the hall.
At this moment, Ying Yu put forward his opinion again.
Ying Yu told the ministers present that this matter was the result of merchants uniting to resist Ying Yu's policy.
If you want to solve this matter, you must solve it fundamentally.
It's just people, this group of businessmen.
What they rely on is that Daqin now governs the country according to the law. This is the fundamental premise, and they are deliberately looking for loopholes in the law.
The reason is that when the incident happened, even the Daqin officials would have nothing to do with them.
It is true that such a situation has appeared now, but it is not a difficult situation for Ying Yu.
After all, the law is also made by man, if you really want to deal with these businessmen, just change the law.