During the entire Great Yan Dynasty, taxation was primarily based on agricultural taxes.
In the mid-to-late period, due to land annexation and sharp reduction in taxes, the national treasury gradually ran short of funds, so the Court began to levy business taxes.
However, this action severely harmed the interests of the Huang Family and the entire Jiangnan business group.
The officials in the Court, on the other hand, had intricate connections with these groups.
Thus, they began using every possible means to vehemently urge the Emperor to abolish business taxes, arguing that "the state should not compete with the people for profits, and should enrich the populace."
Yet, the common people who supported the officials did not know that the "people" here referred not to them, but to the bureaucratic scholars represented by the Huang Family and other aristocratic clans.
A few years later, someone petitioned to open mines to levy mineral taxes.
