"Come, brothers, let us drink this cup to the full for a better tomorrow!"

After a glass of wine, Liu Dapao finally walked down from the high platform, and tens of thousands of brothers finally started eating and drinking again, talking loudly about this time's gang reform.

From then on, gangs no longer only focused on loyalty, but also on benevolence and righteousness.

Not to mention this, Liu Dapao found the table of the four major academies in Yangzhou and Suiyang Academy, and expressed in front of everyone that he would set up a foundation funded by Yizimen and donate 100,000 yuan to them every year.

This money is specially used to support those students who want to study and have acceptable grades, but whose families are too poor to complete their studies. At the same time, it is hoped that the four major academies can recruit some children of Yizimen disciples to go to school every year.

If there is a child from several major academies who can get top five in high school, he will also personally donate 3,000 guan as a start-up capital for their business. If someone can get top 3 in high school, he is also willing to take out 10,000 guan and give it to him for free.

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Here is a little bit of historical knowledge that most people don’t understand, which is that the imperial examinations during this period were actually divided into top five. In most cases, only those in the top three were called Jinshi.

The number of candidates in the fourth and fifth grades is far more than the top three, but they cannot become officials, and most of them have become businessmen.

In fact, the tax system of the late Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty was dominated by the Two Tax Law. The proportion of commercial taxes was very heavy, and the various types of taxes were extremely complex. Agricultural taxes were not the bulk of the tax revenue in the two Song Dynasties from beginning to end, such as salt, iron, wine, tea, sweet and sour lacquer silk cotton cloth

Each of the bulk supplies has its own lead.

It can be understood as something like a sales permit. The court controls the pricing power of bulk commodities through various inducements, which is somewhat similar to a value-added tax.

Although it can be regarded as a kind of exploitation, the exploitation based on this kind of taxation is equal to everyone. Most of the taxes paid by the people between buying and selling are included in the price of goods.

Therefore, it is impossible for the dignitaries in other dynasties not to pay taxes, while the common people pay more taxes. On the contrary, the more luxury goods these days, the more severe the taxes, but the taxes on general food and the like are very light.

This is also the reason why during the Song Dynasty, the territory was the smallest in history, but both the country and the people were the richest in history. Other dynasties were exhausted and could not raise a standing army of two million.

However, it is precisely because of this that during the Song Dynasty, the imperial court had very loose control over household registration. The country had the largest number of civil servants in history, and it was not just because of the need to check and balance each other. A large part of them collected various business taxes.

All kinds of messy mediations have led to this.

Strictly speaking, the political and social formats of the Northern Song Dynasty were really the closest to modern society. The number of civil servants in a commercial society was originally much larger than that in an agricultural society.

Of course, there are also disadvantages to this, except that the administration is much more complicated than other feudal dynasties, and grassroots management at the village, township, and even county levels will definitely be relaxed, and elements such as freedom of household registration, Li Dong, etc. will be lost in the country.

In addition to the ability to mobilize the grassroots,

The biggest problem lies in the four words "banditry is rampant".

Liu Dapao and his Yizimen are typical bandits.

This rampant banditry is not necessarily a robbery on the road, although due to the relatively developed business in the Song Dynasty, there were indeed many more people who committed highway robbery in the two Song Dynasties than in other dynasties.

But more problems actually lie in the various introductions of bulk materials. After all, other dynasties generally only introduced salt, and few introduced vinegar and tea. If there is a monopoly, there must be smuggling.

The inevitable result of reselling in all walks of life is that there is smuggling in all walks of life.

It's okay when the control is loose, but if the control is stricter, there won't be much difference between the tea smugglers who smuggle tea and the salt smugglers who smuggle private salt.

To be honest, with the local fighting power of the Song Army, a local gang of dozens of people can beat them like Sun Tzu.

This does not include the various local protection fees collected.

But to be honest, if everyone could be allowed to do serious business, everyone would not go into smuggling and collecting protection fees. In fact, the threshold for doing business in the Song Dynasty was a bit high.

Generally speaking, when doing business in this era, the most important job is not to deal with customers. On the contrary, it is to face various yamen in the public sector, especially in most cases there are more than one yamen that can control themselves.

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Therefore, businessmen who were able to do business in this era were often scholars from Sijia and Wujia. If the business was good, the court would reward them with official positions, but they did not send them.

In other words, they have no real power or salary, but they have rank, and naturally they have a social and even political status that is not weaker than that of officials. This is the main reason why merchants had a higher status during the Song Dynasty.

The roots of the Zhou system were inherited from the two tax laws implemented in the late Tang Dynasty, so the social business format at this time was actually similar to that in the Song Dynasty.

Most of the people who can do big business are well-connected scholars. The other common people can only work in cars, boats, shops, feet, and teeth, which are said to be innocent and deserve to be killed. That is, Liu Dapao and the others are righteous people.

The main business of Zimen.

In other words, it is the service industry. Bulk commodities are not accessible to them. He himself is considered to be the special among the special. Currently, this restriction does not exist for him. He is even a fifth-grade official now.

Private salt and soy sauce are all being made.

However, how many nails can he drive alone even if he is made of iron?

Liu Dapao was naturally unwilling to do so. He believed that it was precisely because of this almost artificial and deliberate way of blocking the social ladder that the vast majority of ordinary people were not qualified to become businessmen or even skilled workers. This led to a large number of landless farmers only

He could be forced to work in a car and boat shop, a job that deserved death even if he wasn't guilty.

This led to the muddy waters of his Yizimen.

It is true that these five industries, car and boat shops, footwear, are relatively easy to get involved in gangs. Even in modern society, most people engaged in logistics are not ordinary people, but aren't they all forced?

Therefore, Liu Dapao's move was also to allow his Yi Zi Sect to produce more scholars, or to make scholars willing to join his Yi Zi Sect and get involved in serious business.

If this is not the case, how can one be cleansed? How can one be found safe?

Even if it is for the sake of one's own conscience, since this righteousness gate is destined to expand, it cannot always be a gangster that expands, right?

The business of car and boat shop, teeth and protection money is limited. The number of boys he can support is now close to the limit. He can't do all this serious business by himself. He must find a way to support so many boys.

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It's a legitimate business! All the hall masters under the Yizi Sect can't all be smugglers, they must be engaged in legitimate business.

All in all, it is necessary for Yizimen to develop and grow, but it is also necessary to break away from the shackles of the car and boat shop, gangsters, and gangster identities.

And the source of getting rid of this shackles is actually reading.
Chapter completed!