Wang Wenbin’s house already had a cook who could prepare these dishes, so even though it was already midnight, he quickly had people prepare them. Wang Wenbin also brought out the good wine from Yejiacun, and Yejiu came out to entertain the guests. It seemed that

Ye Tan was right. Although this King of Qin looked unreasonable on the outside, he was actually a tolerant person in his heart.

He brought Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling to his living room, and then asked people to serve tea. As for Li Shimin's guards, they were all taken down to eat. It was a hard journey.

Hearing that Li Shimin was now staying at the Green Snake Inn, Wang Wenbin kept saying that they were really discerning and that even though that place looked small, it was the best inn in Jiulipu.

"Wang County Magistrate, I have a few questions to ask you. I wonder if you can answer them for me?" Fang Xuanling liked the good tea Wang Wenbin brought out very much. After taking a few sips, he asked, as for Li Shimin,

He doesn't ask questions about everything.

"Who is this gentleman?" Wang Wenbin needs to ask clearly first. He can't say everything to others. Otherwise, something will happen.

"Fang Xuanling." Fang Xuanling looked serious and said.

"It turns out that Mr. Fang Qiaofang, one of the eighteen bachelors, is disrespectful." Wang Wenbin quickly stood up and saluted. In fact, he didn't know him very well, but Ye Tan told him something, and he remembered it. As for what he said,

How did Ye Tan know? He didn't want to delve into it. There were some things that couldn't be delved into, otherwise something would easily happen.

"What a bachelor, he's just a bookkeeper." Fang Xuanling said with a smile.

"Sir, please just say it." Although Wang Wenbin was still sitting on the chair, he was leaning halfway. Now it was a matter of his life, so he couldn't be careful.

"We just saw your county government. It can be said to be one of the best in our Tang Dynasty. I didn't know it would be like this?" Fang Xuanling's first question is the key point. In ancient times, the government offices in many places were broken.

It's shabby, mainly because I'm worried about being impeached, saying you're enjoying happiness.

"Well, actually, it's also to help the people below live." Wang Wenbin's words made Li Shimin dumbfounded, weren't they? Your words are really too false. You built the house to make the lives of the people below better.

Who believes it?

"Isn't Magistrate Wang tricking me?" Fang Xuanling also looked at him in surprise. This man is not thin-skinned.

"I know you don't believe this, but it is true." Wang Wenbin said with a wry smile, "We are relatively poor here. Later, people in Yejia Village began to do small businesses to supplement their family income besides doing farm work. Gradually,

People around the land also started small businesses during the slack time. Although they became merchants, it is also a good thing to have several more ways to make a living."

His words made Fang Xuanling nod. In fact, the Tang Dynasty could not help but discuss matters, but the status was not that high.

"But, these people like to follow the trend too much. Oh, following the trend means imitating. Everything in Yejia Village has a quantity and has been market researched, but the people in these villages just do it randomly.

, I wanted to make as many bricks and stones as I could. Later I found out that the bricks and stones I made could not be sold, so I was dumbfounded. Later, the business market here was good, and the government also collected some taxes. In addition to raising taxes,

In addition to handing over, there was also some leftover. When the official saw it at that time, he thought that all the money should be used to buy things from these people’s homes. But the purchased things could not always be kept there, so the official renovated the county government office.

Suddenly, the former county government used an old earthen temple, which was about to collapse. Later, taxes increased more and more, and those who burned the kilns had nothing to do, so they simply used the money to buy their bricks and stones.

Go build our Jiulipu city wall. Although not much has been built yet, the official must complete it before his term expires. You don’t know that there are quite a lot of wild beasts here. Although there are people from Yejia Village

I organized people to go hunting, but some wild beasts still came to harass the people in the city, so I came up with this plan."

After hearing what he said, Fang Xuanling was dumbfounded. This person was not simple, he simply turned waste into treasure. However, his words mentioned two things that caught his attention: Yejia Village and taxes.

"Wang County Magistrate, you are right to do this. As long as it does not harm the people, it is good." Fang Xuanling's words were absolutely pertinent, and Wang Wenbin nodded, indicating that he could accept it.

"Then how much tax can you collect per year now?"

"I don't know about this, because it hasn't been a year yet, but since the market opened, grain, game, wood, vegetables, furniture, etc. from various families have come here, as well as some cattle and horses from outside the Great Wall.

The sheep will also come, and we collected 300 guan in taxes last month."

"Ah? So many?" Li Shimin was surprised and his face changed drastically. He couldn't help but think that he wouldn't change. A good big city in the Tang Dynasty only had 7,000-8,000 yuan in taxes a year. It was a good place like this.

Well, this is not bragging. When the Tang Dynasty was founded, the annual tax was more than 1 million guan. Sometimes I think about what a dog would do with this little money, and this is just a county. How many counties are there in the country?

It's probably less than 2,000. If you pay 10,000 guan a year, I can't bear to think about it. That's a huge sum of money. Even when Li Yuan started the army, his family wealth was only 60,000 guan.

"Yes, I originally thought there wasn't much, but after collecting it, it turned out to be so much, and we only collect taxes from one side here." Wang Wenbin's words once again surprised Fang Xuanling. Datang's taxes were two-side taxes.

, that is, you have to give money to the buyer, and the seller also has to give it. Of course, it refers to a larger business, but not if it is a small one.

"And we don't have any city entry tax here, only land tax and transaction tax."

I don’t know when the city entry tax started. Anyway, it has always existed, almost for thousands of years. It is one of the main taxes in many cities, but I didn’t expect that there is no tax here.

"What if those Tubo people are not willing to pay?" Fang Xuanling knew that collecting taxes sometimes meant cutting off people's flesh, and this was not that easy to handle.

"If you don't abide by our tax laws here, the local custom will no longer protect you. If you lose something, we will not be responsible. At the same time, if someone wants to trade with you, we will also give a reminder and tell the other party,

We haven't registered you here, so if something goes wrong, we won't be responsible." Wang Wenbin's words seemed very easy-going, but they took it to the extreme that if you don't give me money, I won't protect you.

"This?" Fang Xuanling thought to herself, this is not the mentality that a person who has read books should have, but it is really useful.

"Then how to prevent the people below from touching or touching you?" Fang Xuanling continued to ask. This problem occurs in many places and there is no way to change it.

"We have adopted two methods. One is that all officials have a certain percentage of tax entitlement. The other is that if they are accused of tampering and are found out by lower officials, Juice should not think about it in Jiulipu and Jiulipu in the future.

Songzhou City is messed up. If you spend all the money, that’s fine. We have a lot of work here that needs others to do. You can make it clear when you pay back the money.” Wang Wenbin’s words were like a date, and then

A wooden stick is hanging on your head. Most people are still willing to be officials, because they have some food and drink occasionally and a certain proportion of money. This is much better than eating alone. It is easy to be caught eating alone, but these here are

Don't worry.

"Aren't you afraid that other county governments will tell you to build your own small warehouse?" Fang Xuanling discovered the loophole and asked.

"Don't be afraid. This money is for the overtime pay of the hard-working officials in our county government. If other county governments don't have so many things to do, they won't have this money."

Although he didn't understand what overtime pay was, Fang Xuanling didn't plan to ask any more, because he couldn't come up with a solution to this question. People are rich and willful, so other places may not have such a solution.

"What kind of existence is Yejiacun?"

Li Shimin asked suddenly. Wang Wenbin was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to answer, he heard a knock on the door, "Master, the food and wine are ready, will they be served?"
Chapter completed!