The Ming Dynasty’s commercial taxes were just the ears and decorations of the deaf.
The old man adheres to the policy of non-interference in the private economy. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has never been a systematic and complete tax collection plan.
Once the affairs of the Celestial Empire become routine, it will be difficult to undo.
With Zhu Yunxi's guidance, Zhang Shan's thoughts became much smoother, and he said, "I saw many shortcomings in Hangzhou. Merchants made a fortune through business, but they did not benefit the country at all."
Hangzhou alone has nearly 10,000 looms and countless other weaving workshops. To open a weaving workshop, all it takes is a piece of paper from the government. During the Song Dynasty, private weaving bureaus had to pay money to the court before they could open a weaving workshop.
.Then every year, taxes will be paid according to the size!
The same goes for the tax on shops. There are more than ten thousand shops in Jiangnan, and they make a lot of money every day, but they don't pay a penny in taxes.
Goods transported on the road only require a customs clearance document. The government will not check carefully, and merchants report false reports, resulting in the loss of taxes!
I made a rough calculation and found that the amount was astonishing, several times the number of acres.
The country's foreign military use only relied on the Lianghuai salt tax worth tens of millions a year. If there was a commercial tax, why would it be in straits every year? With commercial taxes, the court would be rich and could support its people. It would be easy to build water conservancy projects and cultivate farmland.
Taking it from business and using it for the people is in line with the laws of nature!
In fact, levying commercial taxes is also beneficial to merchants. The Ming Dynasty has laws. Merchants can use tax stamps to enter and exit the city, buy and sell goods, and no longer have to collude with officials. I cannot guarantee that collusion between officials and merchants will be eliminated, but at least with the commercial tax, there will be fewer officials
Reasons to reach out casually.
Moreover, commercial taxes are inexhaustible and can be used inexhaustibly. I boldly say that not collecting commercial taxes is a virtuous policy of your majesty. But if things go on like this, the country will suffer losses. Furthermore, the weaving industry has a long history. The court cannot be afraid of the people.
It is forbidden to be exploited, otherwise it will be even more detrimental to the country and the people.
Choose the lesser of two evils. Only by collecting business taxes and benefiting the court can we better provide for the people!
Zhang Shan said a lot in one breath, and the old man fell into deep thought.
Economics is a dialectical question, not a multiple-choice question. Even if it is a multiple-choice question, it is a multiple-choice question that never has a correct answer.
Capital is bloody, and the development of productivity is never easy or smooth.
After a long time, the old man said calmly, "Go out first!"
Huh? Zhang Shan didn't seem to understand. He was confused for a moment, but he quickly saluted and slowly stepped back.
In the palace, only the grandfather and grandson were left.
Was it your idea again? The old man leaned on the dragon chair, crossed his hands on his lower abdomen, and asked with a smile.
Zhu Yunxi stood up and saluted with a smile. He did not hide from the emperor that it was his grandson's idea, but it was not necessarily his idea.
As he spoke, he smiled and said, just like Zhang Shan said, the court cannot sit back and ignore such a large input as commercial taxes. There are countless acres of land in the world, and there will be so many no matter how much land is cultivated. We cannot control the annexation of land. If there is another
It is a natural disaster. It is difficult to maintain such a large family business just by relying on agricultural taxes!
Commercial taxes are inexhaustible. In addition to inland commercial taxes, taxes can also be collected at the customs. Sun'er read the archives of the Ministry of Household Affairs and found that when the situation was precarious in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the annual customs tax revenue was as high as more than 2 million yuan.
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The money in the Song Dynasty was more valuable than that in the Ming Dynasty! Several million a year, tens of millions in ten years. If the emperor started collecting money when he ascended the throne, it would really be hundreds of millions.
If the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River are not collected, the country's fiscal revenue will fall into an endless cycle! The businessmen are so rich that they collude with the officials. The country is getting poorer and poorer. If things go on like this, it will lead to disaster.
Taxation is a century-old plan to enrich the country and strengthen its army. If we don’t collect it now, it will become the norm in the future. I’m afraid someone will use the ancestral law to make an issue. Once the country has setbacks, we can’t collect it from business taxes, so we can only collect it from the people.
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My grandson said something disrespectful. If it comes to that, the people will fight tooth and nail!
It's not that Zhu Yunxi was deliberately shocking, but that was the historical trend of time and space. Some people always say that the natural disaster of the Little Glacier in the late Ming Dynasty led to the country's demise.
In fact, the fall of the Ming Dynasty was due to lack of money. The country could not collect taxes in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River. The huge military expenditure every year had to be passed on to the people. How could the people have money? They had been exploited by the country for decades, and they had long since run out of money.
.Even so, the money collected by force was not even enough for Liao Town’s military pay.
The army has no fighting power, the people have no food left, and internal and external troubles are the only way to die.
The old man put his hands behind his head, changed his posture, and sighed, "We are very happy that you can see this. Your father has also mentioned the tax collection before, and he and Hu Weiyong encouraged the collection of commercial taxes. But in the middle of the court,
Liu Bowen and other Jiangnan officials opposed it desperately, and the matter was slowly shelved!
It’s not that we don’t know the benefits of taxation, but there are some things that we can’t do just by thinking about it. Light taxation was just a temporary measure. As he said that, the old man sighed. The word money is, in the final analysis, politics. To conquer the world, you need to be ruthless.
, How difficult it is to be gentle in order to sit in the world!
Politics is an extension of the economy. There are two major factions in the Ming Dynasty, one is the Huai people and the other is the eastern Zhejiang bureaucracy. At first, the two sides fought fiercely for power. The Zhejiang people know the benefits of money and power. The Huai people regard the Zhejiang people as their confidants.
In serious trouble, there will be suppression everywhere.
If we implement it now, there will be no more resistance! Zhu Yunxi said, Grandpa, they are almost dead. Officials from the six ministries with real power can be regarded as the underachievers of the Huaixi faction. The scholars from eastern Zhejiang are all powerless nobles, and at most they are powerful.
Talkative and gossiping.
What about the local area? The old man asked with a smile, now is not the time when the war was chaotic, and you could rob whoever you want with a knife? You can rob as much as you want? Now we are the Ming Dynasty. Even the emperor does not ask for money from anyone at will.
reason!
Choose cool officials, like Chen Ning and others! Zhu Yunxi said coldly.
Chen Ning, an associate of Hu Weiyong. In his early years in the south of the Yangtze River, he was known as Chen Biaotie. At that time, the world was uncertain, and the old man wanted to fight not only the Yuan army but also Chen Youliang. When the military expenditure was insufficient, he asked Chen Ning to collect taxes.
They collect taxes simply and roughly, and anyone who refuses to pay will be directly arrested and served with a big five-flowered iron tied to them. The rich bureaucrats, businessmen and other people in Zhejiang hate it to the bone.
Of course, the grandson is not saying that anyone who does not pay taxes will be burned. In that case, it is better to let the Jin Yiwei go. Zhu Yunxi continued to laugh and said, the grandson thought, select some cold-faced officials, set up tax departments in various places, and collect taxes according to the law.
, like postal bills, the money collected goes to the treasury.
Within a few years, the national treasury will be sufficient.
After listening to Zhu Yunxi's words, the old man looked up at the caisson of the main hall and said, "You have a good idea. Even if we don't agree, you will do it when I close my eyes!"
My grandson doesn’t dare! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
Then, the old man sat up and said with a smile, "You, there is nothing in the world that you dare not do!" Then he put his hands on his knees and said, "Look at how many things you have done recently!"
First it’s about monks and temple property, and then it’s about fields and business taxes! Your grandpa wanted to have a few days of free time to give you some experience. It’s fine if you don’t appreciate it, just make trouble for me!
After saying that, the old man kicked Zhu Yunxi affectionately, you brat!
It's up to the grandson to handle these things! Zhu Yunxi took advantage of the opportunity to kneel in front of the old man, gently beat his legs and said, "The grandson is also old. The Taiping Emperor is not just sitting back and enjoying the success, let alone being ignorant of what is happening outside the window. The Taiping Emperor also needs to know how to govern."
If a country is afraid of difficulties, it will not fail to be the emperor of peace!
Grandpa, let your grandson do what he does boldly, and you will always sit back. As he said that, Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, you want to give your grandson a century of prosperity, and your grandson also wants to give his children and grandchildren a prosperous Ming Dynasty.
You two can't take any time off!
Ha! The old man laughed out loud, your son is still in his mother's womb, and that's all he thinks about now!
As he said that, he sighed again, I can't let you do this!
Zhu Yunxi was puzzled and stopped holding his hand.
Let's do it! The old man patted Zhu Yunxi on the head. If he offends others, he will be infamy all over the world. Your grandpa is a piece of meat that even the King of Hell would not dare to accept. Whoever dares to scold us, I will kill him!
We are tyrants to begin with, so we are afraid of a ball! You can’t do that, you will be a virtuous saint in the future, a benevolent king praised by history books, and we cannot let you bear the infamy!
What's more, I can't let your reputation be damaged! The old man continued to smile and said, we are old, and while we still have the strength, we will do all these difficult things for you!
We will not allow you to do this while you are alive.
Zhu Yunxi felt warm in his heart and said with emotion, Grandpa Emperor, you don't have to be like this!
He knew what kind of pressure he would face and what kind of public opinion he would face once tax collection began. Among other things, the bachelors in his East Palace who were born in the south of the Yangtze River would fight to the death to submit letters.
He was ready to face everything, and he believed he was capable of handling it all. However, the old man still didn't want him to face these pressures. Instead, he used his old shoulders to bear it directly.
Silly boy, when you get to our age, you will be like this too! The old man smiled slightly.
But then, the old man's smile slowly cooled, and he said, "I'm afraid it won't be possible without killing a few people. The courtiers around you have good ethics and good morals, but sometimes they can't understand it clearly."
The wind will blow in your ears.
I'm afraid that by then the scholars in Jiangnan will regard you as their backbone and ask you to persuade us. We won't be able to sing the double act!
Hmm... After thinking about it for a while, the old man said again, when the imperial edict is issued, you hide out!
The old man is sending him away, where can he go? Go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors?
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi had an idea. Grandpa and grandson went to the front line!
Get out! The old man just lifts his leg and kicks it. If he says you are fat, you will gasp!