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, "When I was in Hangzhou, I saw many shortcomings. 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, the private weaving bureau had to pay money to the imperial court.
Open it. Then every year, you will pay taxes 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 there is no tax."
"Goods transported on the road only need a customs clearance certificate. The government will not check carefully, and the merchants will report false information, causing the tax revenue to be wasted!"
"I made a rough calculation and found that the amount is 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 feed the people. It would be easy to build water conservancy projects and cultivate farmland.
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"Taking it from business and using it for the people is in line with the laws of nature!"
"Commercial taxes are actually good for 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 can't guarantee that collusion between officials and merchants will be eliminated, but at least with the commercial tax, there will be fewer officials
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"Moreover, commercial taxes are inexhaustible and can be used inexhaustibly. I dare to say that it is His Majesty's virtue to not be exempted from commercial taxes. But in the long run, the country will suffer losses. Furthermore, the weaving industry has a long history. The court cannot be afraid of
If the people are being exploited, it will be forbidden, otherwise it will be even more detrimental to the country and the people."
"Two powers harm each other, whichever is the lesser. 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, "You 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.
"Is 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, "To be honest with the emperor, it was my grandson's idea, but it's not necessarily his idea."
Then he smiled and said, "As Zhang Shan said, the imperial 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 we continue
There is a natural disaster, and it will be 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 200 yuan.
Wan Liang."
"The silver in the Song Dynasty was more valuable than that in the Ming Dynasty! It was several million a year, and tens of millions in ten years. If the emperor started collecting it when he succeeded to the throne, it would really be hundreds of millions."
"If the taxes in Jiangnan are not collected, the country's fiscal revenue will fall into an endless cycle! The businessmen are extremely rich and 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 family law to make trouble. Once the country has setbacks, we can't collect business taxes and can only pay it back to the people.
receive."
"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 also mentioned the tax collection before, and he and Hu Weiyong were instigating the collection of commercial taxes. But 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 at the beginning." As he said this, the old man sighed, "The word money is ultimately the word politics.
To conquer the world, you have to be ruthless, but to conquer the world, you have to be gentle, how difficult it is!"
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. The officials with real power can be regarded as the underachievers of the Huaixi faction. The scholars in eastern Zhejiang are all powerless nobles.
At most, it’s just talking and stirring up trouble.”
"What about the local area?" the old man asked with a smile, "Now is not the time when the war was chaotic, and we could rob anyone we wanted with a knife? We could rob as much as we wanted? Now we are the Ming Dynasty. Even the emperor does not fight with people at will.
The reason for asking for money!”
"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, my grandson is not saying that anyone who doesn't pay taxes will be burned. In that case, why not let the Jin Yiwei go?" Zhu Yunxi continued to laugh, "My grandson wants to choose some cold-faced officials and set up tax departments in various places.
The law collects taxes, just like postal bills, and the money collected goes to the state treasury.”
"In 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 snarled, "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 and let you experience it. It's fine if you don't appreciate it. You're still looking for trouble for me!"
After saying that, the old man kicked Zhu Yunxi affectionately, "You bastard!"
"My grandson will take care of these things!" Zhu Yunxi took advantage of the opportunity to kneel in front of the old man and gently beat his legs and said, "My grandson is also old. The Emperor of Taiping is not just sitting back and enjoying the success, let alone being deaf to what is happening outside the window. The Emperor of Taiping is even more important.
If you know how to govern a country, if you are afraid of difficulties, you can still be the emperor of peace!"
"Grandpa, let your grandson be free and bold, and you will always sit back." After saying that, Zhu Yunxi smiled again, "You want to give your grandson a century-old prosperity, and your grandson also wants to give his children and grandchildren a prosperous Ming Dynasty."
, we, the two of you, can’t take any time off!”
"Ha!" The old man laughed, "Your son is still in his mother's womb, and that's all he thinks about now!"
Then he sighed again, "I can't let you do this!"
Zhu Yunxi was puzzled and stopped holding his hands.
"Let's do it!" The old man patted Zhu Yunxi on the head, "I'm afraid if I offend others, I'll be infamy all over the world. Your grandpa is a piece of meat that even the King of Hell doesn't dare to accept. Anyone who dares to scold us will be killed.
he!"
"We are tyrants to begin with, and we are afraid of being kicked! You can't do that. You will be a virtuous saint in the future, and a benevolent king praised by history books. We cannot let you bear the infamy!"
"We can't let your reputation be tarnished!" The old man continued with a smile, "We are old, so while we still have the strength, we will do all these difficult things for you!"
"We won't let you do it while we are alive."
Zhu Yunxi felt warm in his heart and said with emotion, "Grandpa Huang, 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 Jiangnan 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 said with a smile.
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.
It’s inevitable that the wind will blow in your ears.”
"I'm afraid that when the time comes, Jiangnan's Shi Zi will also regard you as his backbone and ask you to persuade us. The two of us will no longer be able to sing double recitals!"
"Hmm..." After thinking for a while, the old man added, "When the imperial edict is revealed, 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, my grandson goes to the front line!"
"Get out!" The old man raised his leg and kicked him. "If you say you are fat, you will gasp!"
This chapter has been completed!