Chapter 542 Scolding Songjiang is work, going to Songjiang is life!
"That's weird. All the data are pretty normal. Although more than 24 million silver dollars have been printed in new coins since the second half of last year, only nine million taels of old coins have been collected for more than four years and need to be destroyed. But in fact
An additional five million taels of silver were put into the treasury, and the tax revenue increased by more than six million taels. If we add up these items, it means that more than 4 million taels of silver dollars were issued. Counting the outflow of banknotes, the number of additional banknotes issued every year
The impact on the currency in circulation throughout the Ming Dynasty was still limited, and it did not reach the level of serious over-issuance of coins."
The total commercial tax amount was a bit too large, so Zhu Youjian quickly called Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbin and Ma Shiying. After the troika in charge of the economy of the Ming Dynasty arrived, they checked several important data and found that the problem seemed not to be as expected.
It is so serious, and there is no serious inflation. So what is the reason for too many commercial taxes?
"Your Majesty, the total amount of commercial tax is only more than two million silver dollars. Why do you think it is a bit too much? You must know that the total amount of the tobacco and alcohol monopoly tax next year is also more than four million taels. The light palace property
The industrial tax is twice as much as the commercial tax. Among the major types of taxes, commercial tax is almost the lowest, so why is it too much?" Ma Shiying listened to the emperor sigh for a long time, but he was confused. The amount was obvious.
It’s not a big tax, what are you struggling with here?
"The problem is not the amount, but the ratio. The tax on tobacco and alcohol is 20%, and other agricultural and industrial taxes are basically 10%! But the industrial and commercial tax is 10% of 30, and more importantly
There are still some small transactions that cannot be taxed. In other words, other taxes, as high as 100,000 taels of silver dollars, are worth an output value of almost one million taels. And the output value behind the commercial tax is four to five million taels.
In my opinion, the total commercial tax amount is about 1.2 to 1.5 million taels."
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"Your Majesty, are you worried that the grassroots officials are exploiting small private businesses too much? I think there is no need to worry too much about this matter for the time being. Judging from the commercial tax payment statistics compiled by the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is mainly due to the larger contribution of several big cities to commercial tax.
, the total amount of other prefectures and counties is only 400,000 taels, which shows that the grassroots yamen did not exploit small businessmen and people in order to collect more taxes." Isn't it just that there are more than 500,000 more commercial taxes? Ma Shiying thinks this is the case
It’s easy to explain the situation. It sounds like the commercial tax is a national tax. In fact, the real data shows that this thing is a big city tax. Many small prefectures and counties do not contribute much commercial tax revenue.
"A few major cities? Which cities are they?"
"The highest commercial tax revenue in Beijing is nearly 500,000 taels, followed by Tianjin, Songjiang, Baoding, Miyun and Tangshan. The least of these cities has a commercial tax revenue of more than 100,000 taels."
"What is the commercial tax collected by the two cities of Songjiang and Baoding?" It is understandable that Tianjin, Miyun and Tangshan have higher commercial taxes. Songjiang and Baoding seem to be places that started relatively late. Their commercial tax situation is very poor.
Youjian is more curious.
"Baoding is a little less, less than 200,000 taels. Songjiang is also strange. The total commercial tax they collected is nearly 400,000 taels, which is more than Tianjin. Your Majesty asked the navy to take the lead in regaining Songjiang. It is really a clever move.
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"Songjiang has nearly 400,000 taels of business tax revenue? What's going on! Their other tax situation doesn't seem to be that good." Although Songjiang will be the great Shanghai of later generations, it is not yet qualified to be as close as Beijing.
It is a super city with the same size as the city. You must know that the capital is a metropolis with a population of about three million, and the population of Songjiang Prefecture is less than 500,000. Therefore, the commercial tax of 400,000 taels is indeed a bit exaggerated.
"I don't know the specific situation, but generally speaking, it should be that people from Suzhou, Nanjing and other places buy more goods in Songjiang, so the taxes collected by Songjiang Prefecture are relatively higher."
"That's right! No wonder I feel that the commercial tax amount is a bit too much. It should be because I have omitted part of the income from purchases from outside the jurisdiction to within the jurisdiction, so the data does not add up. There should be at least three levels of commercial tax in Songjiang Prefecture.
The one hundred thousand taels were contributed by people who came to Songjiang Prefecture for small purchases. These people bought almost tens of millions of taels, so their spending power is not low. I guess there is also some control over outbound shopping in Baoding, plus other
As for the local supplement, an extra five to six hundred thousand taels of silver dollars will not be a problem."
After doing the math, it turns out that the consumption data of wealthy businessmen’s shopping groups were not included! Because of this, people spent a lot of time investigating the reason! Speaking of which, more than ten million taels of silver dollars are consumed in Jiangnan outside Songjiang every year.
Driven by people, this quota is a bit large! If each person consumes an average of 10 taels of silver dollars, there must be millions of people entering Songjiang. Do people from Jiangnan love to go to Songjiang to spend money?
On the banks of the Huangpu River and on the streets of Songjiang Fuya, people are coming and going, and it is very bustling. A few people with big heads and square jins are walking on the streets with their servants. Whenever they see a store with fresh goods, they will go in and shop for flowers.
A sum of money goes out.
"Brother Liu, Songjiang Prefecture is now much easier to visit than Suzhou and Nanjing. Not to mention so many new things, just go to the theater to watch a sketch in the evening, which is incomparable to us."
"Yes, when it comes to shopping, the best place to watch is Songjiang Prefecture. As for the theater, except for some stomach-churning plays from time to time, the other small plays are still enjoyable to watch."
"After that, we still have to take the time to watch some stomach-churning dramas. After we return, we can organize a cultural meeting to criticize the evil gangs in the Northern Dynasty for their sabotage and conspiracy against our Shilin."
"Yes, those people in the Northern Dynasty used fallacies to confuse the people. Let's learn more about their activities."
These scholars who are talking about it are wealthy people who come to Songjiang Prefecture from other places in the south of the Yangtze River to spend money. Theoretically speaking, it is not easy to connect Songjiang Prefecture with other places in the south of the Yangtze River. This is not because the Songjiang Prefecture intentionally blocks it. It is Nanjing.
They were afraid that a large number of people would flee to Songjiang, and that Songjiang would intentionally penetrate into the south of the Yangtze River, so they not only sent a large number of troops to defend the border between the two sides, but also built a defensive wall to isolate Songjiang.
But these measures seem to only target civilians. The rich and powerful are not blocked. They can enter and exit the checkpoints with great arrogance, and the separation wall is useless to them. For ordinary people, if they want to visit Songjiang, they can only
I found a way to sneak over the wall.
Rich and powerful people love to come to Songjiang. Even though they cursed the situation in Songjiang after returning to Jiangnan, and even denounced it as a place of evil spirits and monsters. But every few days, they would still bring a lot of money with them.
Spending money in Songjiang Prefecture. Maybe scolding Songjiang is their job, but going to Songjiang to spend money is their life.