Therefore, the money earned monthly by those around the Hengshan Sect was handed over to the Yihua Palace, bypassing the proper channels.
Otherwise, top-tier forces like Wudang and Shaolin with tens of thousands of disciples would be...
Without substantial financial support, how can it be sustained?
Are they all trying to steal business from the Beggars' Sect?
In Chu Qinghe's view, the court's move was indeed clever.
The world would probably be overrun by martial artists long ago.
A knight-errant uses his martial arts to break the law. Once you have power, who would be willing to accept their fate and behave themselves?
Of course, being well-fed is another matter entirely.
This also speaks to the wisdom of the imperial court.
Thirty percent of taxes is not a small amount for a country; it can even be a large sum of money.
The question is, how much of that 30% tax revenue actually ends up in the national treasury?
After all, corruption has been a persistent problem since ancient times.
However, simply throwing them into the martial arts world would not only eliminate the worry that these martial artists would rebel due to a lack of money, but would also allow all martial artists to compete for the 30% tax revenue and play around with it, thus having a calming effect.
Secondly, it can also allow these underworld forces to play a supervisory role in a roundabout way.
It's not like we can say that 70% of Yushui City's tax revenue this year went into the national treasury for 100,000 taels, but the remaining 30% that was distributed to the martial arts world was 1 million taels, right?
This way, everyone will know about the problem.
That's killing two birds with one stone.
Because taxes in different regions are also linked to their own profits, in the martial arts world, from top-tier forces to third-rate forces, no one can ignore anything that happens in their jurisdiction.
Furthermore, this world is far larger than the world Chu Qinghe lived in the previous life.
With its vast territory and abundant resources, coupled with a relatively stable environment, and under the joint management of the imperial court and the martial arts world, public security was actually quite good.
In addition, the taxes were not strictly increased, so ordinary people could manage to get by as long as they didn't rashly provoke martial artists.
Normally, there wouldn't be many instances of underworld forces bullying ordinary people or merchants for no reason.
Otherwise, if the Hengshan Sect finds out in the long run, the Green Snake Gang will not fare well either.
If this attracts the attention of the Ming Dynasty's imperial agencies such as the Six Doors and the Eastern Depot, the Hengshan Sect will likely face a major headache.
After that, how could things possibly be any better for the Green Snake Gang?
Therefore, Chu Qinghe was also curious as to why these disciples of the Green Snake Gang dared to so blatantly engage in what was almost a robbery.
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