Although the businessmen of the five major families have obtained a huge share of the tea trade from the Beihai Town regime in the past two years, bringing in an income of up to one million rubles, they have never been of the same mind as Beihai Town. The main contradiction among them is that they
Their economic and political interests have been "infringed". As for the issue of ethnicity and belief, it is nothing more than a tool that can be used at any time.
Two years ago, in view of the poor handicraft and agricultural conditions in Irkutsk, Zhao Xin ordered the cancellation of the head tax, as well as all taxes unrelated to industrial and commercial product transactions. As a result, the subjects of taxation naturally shifted from farmers and
The small citizens were transferred to the businessmen-especially the big businessmen.
At that time, the mutual trade between Kyaktu and Nerchinsk had been suspended for several years, and the market was extremely sluggish. The Five Great Masters and other small and medium-sized businessmen were already hungry for tea and rhubarb. Everyone was paying attention to what Zhao Xin provided.
There is a huge amount of tea and rhubarb, and we will talk about whether it is taxed or not later.
In these days, whether in the East or the West, it is natural for the government and businessmen to collude to pay less taxes. Although the five major families have temporarily lost the privilege of intervening in city management, they feel that with their money offensive, they can return to the new city.
Parliament. However, six months later, with the arrival of a large amount of tea and the newly promulgated tax regulations, the entire business group suddenly exploded.
To put it simply, the tax system of Beihai Town refers to the "Industrial and Commercial Unified Tax Regulations" and implementation details promulgated in the 1950s in another time and space, and levies taxes on 126 types of industrial project products, commercial retail, service industry and construction and processing projects. Among them, the tax rate
The highest tax rate is for externally imported tobacco, which is as high as 66%; the lowest tax rate is stamp duty, which is one thousandth of the contract amount.
Since Beihai Town is a "public" economy dominated by Zhao Xin's personal capital, and all industrial projects and most commercial projects in Beihai Town belong to Zhao Xin's personal investment, tax collection is actually a left-hand thing for Beihai Town.
thing.
In order to encourage farmers under the rule to actively sell grain, Beihai Town currently sets the tax rate for grain commodity transactions at only 1.5%, and the tax rate for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery products is only 3%.
But for Irkutsk businessmen, the 5% commodity transaction tax imposed by Beihai Town not only removes the cheese on their plates, but also cuts it severely.
Since Peter I carried out tax reform in the early 18th century in order to solve financial problems, the head tax has replaced the household tax. At the same time, since the rural population has always accounted for more than 95% of the total national population, the “national farmers” and “landlords”
The poll tax paid by the peasants and citizens became the most important source of fiscal revenue for the Tsarist Russian Empire.
The merchant class was also included in the "citizen" class in the first half of the eighteenth century. They paid the same head tax as ordinary residents, and the trade and handicrafts they engaged in also had to pay much more taxes than ordinary citizens to make up for the
Tax shortfalls for the poor.
During the period of Catherine II, the Queen carried out reforms in order to develop industry and commerce. The new tax system implemented from 1775 to 1785 divided city residents into privileged first-, second-, and third-class merchants and unprivileged citizens.
, first-class, second-class and third-class merchants are exempt from poll tax and military service.
The taxes paid by merchants are directly related to the amount of their capital, that is, direct taxes are paid as a percentage of the capital. Members of the first estate are entitled to foreign trade with a capital of not less than 10,000 rubles; merchants of the second estate are entitled to
To conduct trade throughout the country, the capital amount is not less than 5,000 rubles; third-level merchants can conduct trade activities within the county and city where they are located, with a capital amount of not less than 1,000 rubles. As for those citizens whose capital is less than 1,000 rubles
, I'm sorry, please continue to pay the poll tax!
Now comes the most interesting part. How did the Tsarist Empire determine the amount of merchant capital and the amount of tax they should pay? Hey, they did self-declaration. Everything is witnessed by God, and everyone is a good and law-abiding citizen under the Queen's rule.
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When it comes to paying less taxes, there has never been any distinction between ancient and modern times, China and foreign countries. It is useless even if all the gods in heaven and earth open their eyes.
All first-class businessmen, no matter how much their property is, declare the number between 10,000 and 10,500; therefore, their annual tax amount is 100-105 rubles, the second-class is 10 rubles, and the third-class is 10 rubles.
The level is 5 rubles.
Note! This tax is not only levied on the merchant himself, but also on his family, including his parents, wife, children, brothers, and all relatives who have not separated the family; of course, their servants are also included.
Therefore, each of the Five Families, which almost monopolizes all commercial trade in Eastern Siberia, only needs to pay 105 rubles per year. Is this not poaching?
However, after the new regulations of Beihai Town were promulgated, the five major families headed by Sibyakov and other third-level businessmen were stunned as if they had received a heavy hammer on the forehead. Beihai Town does not care how much capital you have.
Taxes are always collected based on the transaction value of the goods.
In the past, they only paid a total of 105 rubles no matter how many goods they bought and sold every year; now, for tea alone, they had to pay tens of thousands of rubles every year; not to mention the large-scale fur trade and the large-scale fur trade in Nerchinsk.
Silver mining project.
The various properties under Sibyakov's name alone were levied taxes of more than 100,000 rubles last year. Moreover, Beihai Town does not accept Her Majesty the Queen's dirty street banknotes, only silver coins or gold coins.
The silver content of a silver ruble is 7.8 grams, and one hundred thousand rubles is at least 780 kilograms of silver ingots.
How can this not be hated? His silver mine in Nerchinsk couldn't refine so much silver in a year.
In addition, Beihai Town also deprived merchants and priests of their privileges to participate in city management, suspended the city council, and did not allow merchants to participate in profit sharing of all newly established public facilities. At the same time, the new tax regulations also included that churches must follow the rules
Taxes are paid on the land area owned.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Since then, not counting new immigrants, Beihai Town has gained a small amount of support among the original bottom farmers and small citizens, first-, second-, and third-level businessmen and
The large landowning class of clergy all stood on the opposite side. For them, if the rule of the Tsarist Russian Empire could not be restored, their interests would suffer greater "losses".
The problem is, Zhao Xin doesn’t care about this!
It is imperative for Beihai Town to eradicate all Tsarist Russian rule in Eastern Siberia. Those unruly businessmen will have to get out sooner or later. If you want to stay in this land and make money, you must follow the rules of Beihai Town. The land,
Mountains, forests, lakes, and oceans must all be owned by the public.
Some people say, I am gold, I want to shine.
Zhao Xin said, the silver is mine and the gold is mine, you can dazzle it how you want!
On August 29, 1790, after 12 days of arduous trek, the Fourth Regiment of the North Navy led by Pan Xiucheng, led by a reconnaissance team, arrived at the settlement on the west bank of the Oka River along the virgin forest at the northern foot of the Sayan Mountains.
It is located three kilometers south of Zima Village.
According to the preliminary reconnaissance of the reconnaissance team and previously obtained intelligence, there is a small village called Mordino two kilometers north of Zima Village. There seems to be a mine nearby. The Russian army stationed here only has a squadron of Chasseurs responsible for guarding it.
There are bridges and ferries on the Oka River, and part of the supplies shipped from Nizhny Udinsk are also stored here.
After connecting to the radio station, Pan Xiucheng followed Liu Sheng's order, and after a short rest of half a day, he sent out his two battalions, making sure not to let anyone go.
Two infantry battalions with more than a thousand people launched an attack at 1 p.m., and it took only twenty minutes to annihilate more than a hundred Russian troops near the river bank. Then they quickly moved north. An hour later, the village of Mordino also
After being conquered, no one from the villagers to the miners escaped.
After that, Pan Xiucheng ordered his men to bring all the mine workers and dozens of villagers from Mordino village back to Zima and keep them under centralized custody to prevent anyone from escaping and reporting to Uginsk.
Zima is not far from Irkutsk, only more than 200 kilometers away. The settlers here have long heard of the name of the Northern Navy, and some have even gone to Usolye many times to buy salt and tea.
After learning that they would not be harmed as long as they did not run away, the hundreds of terrified villagers had no choice but to calm down.
Pan Xiucheng then sent troops to cross the Oka River, destroying several ferries on the other side and seizing all the ships, but did not destroy the ferry bridge.
Liu Sheng made it very clear to Pan Xiucheng in the telegram that if you break the bridge, the Russian army will definitely not leave here. Along the hundreds of kilometers of Oka River, a regiment of more than 2,000 people will not be able to leave anyway.
You can't hold it. But if you keep the bridge, the enemy will feel that there is hope and they will rush over with all their strength.
After studying the terrain, Pan Xiucheng decided to deploy most of his troops on the north and south wings of the bridge in order to form a crossfire on the enemy across the river. At this moment, he just wanted the Russian army to escape slower to give him time.
Build fortifications.
At noon on August 29, the Russian troops inside and outside the Zaimka Fortress finally tasted the ruthless blow of the North Navy's long-range artillery fire. The multi-faceted star-shaped fortress that had been built with the painstaking efforts of countless people was bombarded by 152 high-explosive bombs one after another.
It was destroyed and turned into a masonry ruins in two hours. The Russian infantry and cavalry responsible for launching field battles outside the castle were also destroyed by the 3rd and 6th regiments of the Northern Navy, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion and the Ainu Battalion.
Sexual assault.
The nearly 10,000 Russian troops who fled in panic from Zaimka were divided into two groups. One group fled north to the Brat Castle at the confluence of the Angara River and the Oka River, and the other group retreated west to the
Cheremhovo, 17 kilometers away, met up with the large Russian troops staying here to rest and recuperate.
Rumyantsev, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, has retreated to the village of Kutulik, 29 kilometers away from Cheremhovo. After a hasty lunch, he took his staff to plan the next retreat. As the commander-in-chief,
He not only has to lead the soldiers to attack, but also organizes troops to withdraw from the battle and bring them home when the battle situation is unfavorable.
Rumyantsev has received news from his scouts, which may plunge the army he led into an even more desperate situation. The scouts report: Thousands of Tatar "armies" have arrived in Mikhailo
Fka Village was accompanied by more than 20 big green box monsters. The things moved faster than horses and could run dozens of miles per hour. They were really infiltrating people. In addition, the enemy troops also dispatched
Hundreds of cavalrymen.
If according to what the scout said, the enemy might be cutting off his lines of communication and surrounding his exhausted 40,000 troops. If such an idea had come up before yesterday, Rumyantsev would have found it ridiculous. Thousands
The troops wanted to surround tens of thousands of people, but no one would believe it. But today's battle made him understand that there are really people in this world who dare and can do it with thousands of elite infantry against tens of thousands of people.
War of annihilation.
Rumyantsev thought about it for a long time and decided to use a layer-by-layer approach to block the attack and first withdraw his troops across the Oka River.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, on the road from Cheremhovo to the village of Kutulik, the exhausted 40,000 Russian troops began to retreat. An endless stream of chaotic queues, artillery, horse-drawn carriages, and various baggage vehicles formed a long queue.
The cars behind were chasing the cars in front, forming three or four rows, blocking the not-so-wide road. As far as the ear could hear, there was the rattling of wheels, the rumble of gun mounts, the clatter of horses' hooves, and the clatter of horsewhips.
There was a chaos of noises, shouts of urging horses, curses from soldiers, orderlies and officers.
Hundreds of wounded were crowded into artillery carts and baggage carts. They screamed helplessly, or looked at the road below them with dull eyes; the blood stained by the soil dripped into the bandages.
He jumped out of the carriage of the carriage and then fell into the soil under the carriage along the gap between the wooden boards.
Skinned dead horses can be seen from time to time on both sides of the road, broken carriages are pushed by the roadside, and some skirmishers are sitting on the roadside waiting for something. On the uphill and downhill slopes, the crowds are even denser.
I kept hearing shouts of horses neighing. Soldiers were carrying heavy cannon bodies, or pushing the wheels of artillery carts hard. Horse whips were whipping, and the noose was about to break. Everyone was yelling at the top of their lungs. "Responsibility"
The commanding officers were running forward and sometimes backward in the convoy. Their voices could be vaguely heard amidst the noise of the crowd. They had completely lost control of the chaotic situation.
After dark, when the Russian rear troops retreated from the village of Cheremhovo, plumes of thick smoke rose from the village. Soon, all the houses in the village were engulfed by flames. And those that had been abandoned before
After the carriage frame was simply dismantled, and countless felled tree trunks were piled on the road, the wood sprinkled with whale oil quickly caught fire. When the fire was picked up by the wind, it quickly spread and flew.
The dry grass and branches and leaves were blown into the air by the northwest wind, which then ignited the weeds in the wilderness and swept away toward the southeast.
At this moment, in the village of Mikhailovka, more than 20 kilometers away, two infantry regiments, two artillery regiments and a cavalry battalion of the Northern Navy have all arrived.
Zhao Xin's previous plan was to rest all night and start the pursuit again at dawn the next day. However, when he heard the scout report that the Russian army had set off a fire to block the road, he hurriedly walked out of the house, licked his tongue with his fingers and tried it in the air.
His expression suddenly changed.
"Order everyone to immediately clear a 100-meter-wide circular fire belt around the camp! Also prepare a large amount of water, and be sure to hurry!"