When Lu Fang and Ning'er returned to the government office, it was almost dark.
On the way, he received a series of hate messages from He Zhengci and He Chengcai, but Lu Fang didn't take them too seriously.
I think it was just that He Chengcai sobered up and told He Zhengci about the poetry meeting.
With this father and son, sooner or later the bayonet will see red. Lu Fang is not in a hurry. Reconciling with the Wang family is just a process of boiling a frog in warm water.
As long as the wealthy gentry group in Ningyuan County is attracted to Luliang's side and He Zhengci is sorted out, it will be a matter of time for He Chengcai and his son.
After entering the government office, Lu Fang went straight to the courtyard where Lu Liang lived with some pride.
At that time, Lu Liang was washing up.
Seeing Lu Fang entering the door, he smiled and asked, "How was the poetry party?"
"I'll do the work, don't worry."
Lu Fang patted his chest and said, "The king has also shown his kindness to me and asked me to go to their home more and get closer to him in the future."
Lu Liang's face showed some joy, "Seriously?"
He also knew that Lu Fang was different now from before, but he still didn't feel how reliable Lu Fang was.
Lu Fang took out the banknotes given by Wang Ye from his purse and said, "Here, this is Wang Ye's apology to me."
A total of twenty banknotes, all worth one hundred taels.
Lu Fang had never seen so much money in his life, and he couldn't help feeling that the Wang family was really wealthy.
Twenty thousand taels.
How many years does it take for an average family in Ningyuan County to earn this income?
Wang Ye gave it to him without blinking an eye.
"Oh!"
Lu Liang was not too surprised, he just chuckled and said: "You are still young, and you were sent away by him for such a small amount of money. That is a grudge that will cost your life."
Lu Fang was stunned and said: "This money is not enough? This is two thousand taels!"
Lu Liang shook his head, "You, the structure is too small. For you, of course it is a lot, but for the Wang family, it is just a drop in the bucket. Do you know how many properties the Wang family has in our Ningyuan County? And do you know that these properties every year
How much profit can it create for them?”
Lu Fang said: "How much?"
"One percent!"
Lu Liang raised a finger and said: "Nearly 10% of the tax revenue in Ningyuan County belongs to the Wang family. The tax revenue alone is no less than what he gave you."
Lu Fang was a little confused, "Then what proportion does our tax revenue account for?"
The previous unlucky guy was not interested in these at all, so he didn't know what the tax system was like in the Chongqing Dynasty.
Lu Liang said: "It's less than ten percent of their Wang family's profits."
The taxation of the Great Chongqing Dynasty was not heavy.
Lu Fang couldn't help but take a breath.
Doesn’t this mean that the Wang family’s annual profit is more than 20,000 taels?
Then he hurriedly asked: "Are you talking about the taxes of the entire Wang family? Or just Wang Ye and his family?"
Lu Liang said: "Of course they are from Wang Ye's family. The entire Wang family has more."
Lu Fang was silent.
It seemed that my two thousand taels were really just a number that made the king feel pain. At that time, I should have been more assertive and negotiated the price.
God knows how much wealth the Wang family has accumulated over the years?
And the richest man in a county is like this. How much wealth must the wealthy businessmen and wealthy nobles in the county, even the capital, have?
After a while, Lu Fangcai asked again: "How does our Chongqing Dynasty collect taxes?"
Lu Liang was slightly surprised, "Why are you suddenly interested in this?"
Lu Fangdao: "I plan to start a small business."
Lu Liang was even more surprised, and then a strong look of relief appeared in his eyes, and he said: "Erlang, you have really grown up."
However, he did not explain the taxes of the Chongqing Dynasty to Lu Fang. He just took out a book from the drawer, handed it to Lu Fang and said, "Take this book back to your room and read it!"
Lu Fang took it and titled it "On the Tax System of the Two Dynasties".
The author's signature is Fang Rui.
Lu Fang had never heard of this person.
He took the book back to the room and looked at it, but his face gradually became serious.
He realized that he had underestimated this era.
Not to mention the previous dynasties, it can be said that the tax system of the Great Yu Dynasty has become more and more perfect.
According to the book, the tax revenue of the Chongqing Dynasty mainly came from three types: land tax, population tax and commercial tax.
Land tax is divided into two types: official land and private land, which are further divided into good land and thin land. The tax on official land is less than half that of private land, and the tax on thin land is not as good as that of good land.
In the previous dynasty, official land was even tax-free.
This became a big tax problem in the previous dynasty. Officials occupied people's land, resulting in official fields everywhere. The court could not collect taxes, so it could only squeeze the people with various additional taxes.
In the end, there was really no other way. The last emperor of the previous dynasty could only resort to the powerful gentry and nobles to cut down the feudal vassals and exempt official lands from tax-free privileges.
As a result, the current emperor of Dayu and his nobles easily took over the world.
The founding emperor of the Dayu Dynasty had great ambitions, and he naturally understood the root cause of the collapse of the previous dynasty.
Not long after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he planned to take action against nobles. The first thing he did was to reform the tax system and include official land within the scope of taxation.
It's just that even though the imperial court was at its peak at that time, it didn't dare to exploit the interests of these nobles too much. It only dared to collect half of the taxes on civilian land.
This almost triggered a mutiny at that time. The nobles who occupied most of the civil and military positions in the DPRK and China almost rebelled again.
If it had not been for the strong support of King Rong at that time, including the execution of several close and beloved generals, and the resignation of the founding prime minister and others who proposed the tax reform system, it is unclear whether the Emperor of Dayu would be sitting safely on the throne now.
To this day, this problem is still a serious illness in the Chongqing Dynasty.
Most of the wealth is controlled by the wealthy gentry and nobles, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge.
The court is not rich, the people are not rich, but the wealthy gentry and nobles everywhere are as rich as the country.
They have all the power and money.
Thanks to the superb checks and balances of the Dayu Emperor, the Dayu Dynasty managed to survive despite this cancer and could barely develop steadily.
However, in a short period of time, probably no one will be able to solve this problem.
Let’s talk about the capitation tax.
This is also a privilege enjoyed by the noble class.
According to Dayu regulations, anyone over ten years old must pay a capitation tax of twenty dollars every year.
Those with official status, title, and fame can be exempted from the tax on the members of the three tribes.
As for commercial tax, as the name suggests, it is aimed at businessmen.
They were as rich as the nobles, but the biggest difference was that they had no power, so they were blatantly "exploited" by the Emperor of Chongqing.
Commercial taxes are divided into two types: sitting tax and street stall tax.
The shop tax was imposed on those with fixed shops. The court collected 10% of the profit from the shop's monthly output minus its input as a tax.
The street stall tax is a benefit given by the imperial court to government and county governments at all levels. It aims to collect high or low shares from those small stall vendors who work on the move, and the income goes to the government government.
Lu Fang was worried about sitting in the shop and paying taxes.
Although he is Lu Liang's younger brother, he does not have to pay the head tax, and he does not have fertile land to his name, but this commercial tax is unavoidable.
The Emperor of Dayu hated the collusion between officials and businessmen, so he couldn't cheat Lu Liang for this tax, right?
But to pay taxes, there must be inputs and outputs.
The output items are easy to say, but how to solve the input items?
How do you explain where BESTORE’s goods come from?
He suddenly realized that the problem he had ignored was extremely serious.
Even if you pay taxes on a pro-rata basis and have no input, you are still a black businessman.
What should I do?
And if this continues, Lu Liang and others will also doubt how they made these things, and how can they explain it?
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