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Chapter 77: Stirring Up Storms with a Single Hand! Lord Meng Surrenders (Seeking Monthly Pass)

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"Ridiculous, this is just too ridiculous," Prince De Xin, having heard the Old Ancestor Dede trying to drag him into the mess, immediately bristled with anger and erupted, "Dede, you are tarnishing the dignity and honor of the Imperial Household!"

"De Xin, what are you so jumpy about?" Prince Dede, with a sidelong glance at his old rival, let out a cold, mocking laugh and said, "Ever since our forefather, the Emperor Ziwei Xuandu, established Da Qian, the creed has always been the joint governance of the world by the Imperial Household and the Prominent Families. Why can the Prominent Families audit taxes, and we from the Imperial Household cannot? Could it be that your Prince's Mansion of De Xin indeed has been engaging in extremely serious tax evasion?"

In Da Qian, whether it was farmland or any other industry, taxes had to be paid according to regulations.