"Commercial taxes and industrial and mining taxes are easier to take money out of the pockets of the rich than agricultural taxes. Because these two taxes are not scraping the land, people have options. Therefore, gradually increase the proportion of commercial taxes and industrial and mining taxes.
It will be the focus of national policy in the future. How to increase industrial and commercial taxes? We should focus on expansion. There is another good thing about industry and commerce. It is not only making money from the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also taking money from outside the territory."
"Your Majesty, can the strategy of establishing factory districts be adopted nationwide?"
"It can be used throughout the country, but the factory districts in various places have to be unified and different. If they are all the same, there is a risk of unsales. Let's not talk about other places for the time being. The current tax rate will be reduced to 30% in about three years.
Below 10%, there is also the industrial and commercial tax generated by private industries, which must be at least equivalent to that of palace-run industries."
The Beizhili area currently controlled by the imperial court has special circumstances. It is entirely possible to reduce the proportion of agricultural taxes to less than 10%. Moreover, this is currently the most suitable place for the development of private industry and commerce. Zhu Youjian has almost eliminated all barriers.
Now that it's solved, it would be strange if it doesn't burst out with vitality.
Let Beizhili move forward first. Frankly speaking, Zhu Youjian really has no confidence in making the whole country prosperous in his lifetime. It is already a great achievement to build Beizhili into a model province.
"Your Majesty, in addition to promoting construction and business, is there any other way to increase national taxes!" Zhou Yanru felt that the emperor should have other things to do when he stayed today. He couldn't make such a bunch of nonsense and then return to the current situation.
No matter how nonsense these policies are.
"I am going to abolish the salt tax and introduce a monopoly tax on tobacco and alcohol. Tobacco and alcohol will be heavily taxed in the future. The industrial tax for tobacco factories and wineries will be 20% of the ex-factory price, and the commercial tax will be 30%. At the same time, cigarettes will be produced and sold.
Liquor factories and shops need special approval. Unapproved places are strictly prohibited from selling these two items. Home-made wine is not allowed to be sold in shops. Small vendors can sell it but the total amount in a year cannot exceed one hundred kilograms. Small people grow their own tobacco.
A maximum of twenty kilograms can be sold privately a year, and the rest must be sold to specialized cigarette factories, otherwise they will be severely punished! The labor taxes collected from these two items are completely used as military expenses."
"Long live, is the 20% labor tax too heavy? It will lead to rising prices."
"Tobacco and alcohol are completely unnecessary for the poor people. It is what I call the most appropriate tax on the rich. In addition, the wine made by the palace factory using the method of brewing potatoes has greatly reduced the price of wine. Even if it is raised
The price of more than 10% is not too high. In fact, imposing heavy taxes on these two goods is also a disguised increase in agricultural taxes. However, it will have little impact on most farmers. This is what I told the Grand Master before.
The expression of the words is reflected in the actual collection of national taxes. The policy of governing the country requires both general principles and general skills. The lack of either may lead to bad governance."
Imposing heavy taxes on tobacco and alcohol is the way Zhu Youjian finally came up with to increase military spending. Without a stable tax source, we cannot always rely on palace-run enterprises to support the army. Now that the government's tax revenue has just entered a positive cycle, it still has to bear the burden
We cannot afford huge military expenditures unless we reduce the number of officials in the court. Reducing the number of officials will reduce the government's management capabilities and is definitely not the best option.
The tobacco and alcohol tax is a kind of luxury tax that is easy to popularize. If implemented, it can generate a lot of revenue. It is roughly estimated that Beizhili alone will collect nearly two million silver dollars in taxes next year. If implemented,
Nationwide, it is very possible to generate a tax revenue of 20 to 30 million a year.
With a stable income of 20 to 30 million, the pressure of raising an army of one million people will not be great.
Gu Xing is good. Under Zhu Youjian's special attention, cigarettes have become popular. Various supply and marketing cooperatives have counters dedicated to selling this stuff. Many literati are also interested in this. What about cigars?
There are cigarettes with filter tips, which are very popular among the wealthy people in the capital. The filter tips are naturally not the chemical cotton of later generations, but are replaced by a loose wood material.
The bulk of military spending in later generations was tobacco tax. Zhu Youjian felt that this idea could be learned from. This was a typical borrowing doctrine.
The edict to impose heavy taxes on tobacco and alcohol was not announced in public, but the edict to abolish the salt tax was posted in the streets and alleys of the capital a few days later.
As soon as it was released, people in the capital praised it and talked about it on various occasions. Many party members praised it countless times, saying that this was a great good government that the court was considerate of the people. It was an unprecedented move. People
Your life will definitely be improved as a result.
In fact, these arguments exaggerate the impact of abolishing the salt tax. The salt tax of the Ming Dynasty has long been in vain, and was played badly by the court itself. The only impact is to create a bunch of extremely wealthy salt merchants! And these people are here
Yangzhou, now that these disasters are out of control, is a good opportunity to abolish this thing and rebuild the salt industry ecology.
The evil of the salt policy is not a phenomenon unique to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty took this thing to the worst. The source is naturally the trap designed by Lao Zhu to make up for the pot made by Wei.
To put it simply, the guard system means that the taxes collected by other local governments are to support the court and the royal family. The guard system is self-supporting and does not have to bear the responsibility of raising idle people, but you have to bear the daily military expenses. In theory, it can be regarded as
The division of labor was clear, but when we arrived in northern Shaanxi and Datong, it was no longer enough! Because there wasn’t much food grown in this place, but the combat tasks were very heavy.
How to solve this contradiction? Of course, the central government must provide financial subsidies to maintain the normal operation of the system. Logically speaking, the simplest and most direct way is to allocate money and then let the local health station buy grain from merchants, or directly transport the grain.
In the past, the gap was filled. However, in order not to directly pay for food and money, Lao Zhu chose the most deceptive system. He directly wholesaled a bunch of salt to the officials of the Border Guard Station and asked them to exchange the salt for food. Frankly speaking
When it came to designing this system, Lao Zhu didn't have any good intentions. It was definitely a stingy landowner who made such a mistake. If he would honestly issue salt quotas based on actual conditions, he would never do it.
Come up with a procedure where you take off your pants, fart and go through the formalities.
Those who designed the system are being cunning, but the underground people will play games with you? In the end, the salt leakage from the border troops will bring down the entire Ming Dynasty salt policy. A bunch of profiteers from Qin went to Yangzhou to work as slaves.
With the removal of the boss of the salt industry, the entire social atmosphere has deteriorated.
Zhu Youjian has been thinking about all the policies designed by Lao Zhu for a long time recently. The more he pondered, the more he felt that Lao Zhu was preparing to make his descendants the stupid sons of the local landlords. All the systems were designed so that they could circulate within the system.
, the structure of shouldering the tasks by oneself. Then Lao Zhu’s family can enjoy the blessings themselves without having to worry too much. To be honest, for this purpose, Lao Zhu is also a genius. His system has been running for nearly three hundred years and is still functioning
The main effect is that some of the subsequent reforms were just patches on this system. If the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had not appeared as an external uncontrollable factor to break the balance, his system could even continue to operate. Without the Manchu and Qing Dynasties
Due to the constraints, even the former Zhu Youjian had a high chance of annihilating the domestic bandits. The Ming Dynasty was destined to have two major events at the same time. Among all the dynasties in ancient China that existed for more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty was the only one that survived until the end of the country.
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