The 1483rd section is the theory of political achievements (2)
Can Xu Jiu understand what Wu was told?
Especially when he learned that Anton actually received very little from land taxes, he had to think about how to make money.
Money is something that no one can live without.
Especially for him, the newly appointed Governor of the Protectorate, how to find a way to get a large amount of money was already on his mind from the moment he learned that he would be the Governor of the Anton Protectorate.
Because he needs money to improve his political performance.
Building roads requires money, digging channels requires money, even settling the people and organizing land reclamation also requires money.
Not to mention, when a new official takes office, he must provide benefits to the people below him.
Zhang Tang, the governor of Nanyang County, why was he able to establish himself in Nanyang?
He punched the local tyrants and kicked the bureaucrats, almost turning Nanyang into the headquarters and lair of the Legalists?
In addition to the fact that he has the emperor standing behind him and has the power to control the whole county, the most important thing is that he can provide various benefits to the people below.
Today's Nanyang officials enjoy government medical care when they are sick; when they take a break, they enjoy state-funded vacations and recuperation; they can even apply for a month-long family leave once a year!
Even the education of the children was taken care of by the county magistrate's office.
All children of officials can attend private schools opened by the county governor's office for free and receive education.
Moreover, all private schools are taught by Legalist scholars.
As long as the children of officials perform slightly better, they may be recommended to study in various Legalist universities.
It is precisely because of so many benefits and preferential treatment that Nanyang officials can endure Zhang Tang's various high-pressure policies and strict performance indicators.
Otherwise, without benefits or preferential treatment, who would work for Zhang Tang?
Zhang Tang's ability to receive so many benefits is due to the fact that Nanyang's fiscal and tax revenue is the highest in the world.
In the past five years, Nanyang County's fiscal and tax revenue has continued to soar.
Last year, Nanyang County reported to the court that its annual income from salt and iron alone was as high as 20 million!
Zhang Tang’s experience, with hard facts, tells the world that officials want to be promoted and make money. If you don’t have money, you should stop dreaming about being promoted!
Countless people all over the world have learned from the Nanyang model.
Yuan Hui, the governor of Hedong County, was the first to follow suit. When Yuan Hui was the governor of Hedong County, he vigorously developed peat and iron smelting in Hanoi County.
Even with the dignity of a county governor, he personally encouraged and advocated "good officials and good gentry to work in the peat industry" many times.
As expected, it was a great success. Starting from the fourth year of Yuande, Hedong County experienced a boom in peat mining and iron smelting.
Up and down Hedong, everyone's mouths were full of oil.
For three consecutive years, Yuan Hui was promoted to the palace through performance evaluation, and he was almost appointed to be the governor of Henan County in the next level. He might even be transferred to Chang'an to serve as the chief officer of a certain department.
Although, Xu Jiu vaguely heard that Hedong County was being treated like this by Yuan Hui, and the finances and taxes were raised.
However, thousands of people are killed in mines every year.
Thousands of families were separated as a result.
But who cares?
Hedong County rose up, and officials from top to bottom got what they wanted, political achievements and awards.
Even the princes made money from the peat resources and iron smelting industry in the feudal country.
The shouts and criticisms of a few mud-legged people were naturally drowned in the sound of praise and praise.
Even the most conservative Confucianists had to praise Yuan Hui's political achievements, saying that he was a 'capable minister in governing the world'.
On the contrary, the minister ordered the prime minister Yan Yi to be transferred to the governor of Kuaiji County.
After taking office, this great Confucian scholar faced complex problems in Kuaiji County.
He is neither willing to wield a butcher's knife to cut off all problems, nor dare to carry out drastic innovations to find sources of wealth.
But Chang'an was pressing hard.
The prime minister and the imperial censor's office even directly set task targets for Kuaiji County, stipulating how many obscene rituals should be destroyed in a year, how many magic stick witches should be captured, how many oleander plants should be planted, and how many acres of paddy fields should be cleared.
Yan Yi had no choice but to pass the pressure downwards.
But the problem is that Kuaiji County’s fiscal and tax revenue is pitiful.
Without money, it would be difficult for him to carry out even basic orders to plant oleanders, let alone bribe officials to buy his life.
After all, you don't even want to give benefits to the people below, but you want them to risk their lives and do all kinds of things. Is this possible?
Before Xu Jiu left Beijing, he had already heard rumors that Yan Yi might be transferred out of Kuaiji.
His successor will be a rising star of Legalism or simply a vigorous and resolute general.
Yan Yi's future is originally bright.
But now, it has been cast into a thick layer of haze.
Even Confucians no longer dare to praise Yan Yi's wisdom and morality.
The Gongyang faction even directly began to build momentum and publicity for Gongsun Hong.
There was a huge difference in status between Yuan Hui and Yan Yi at first. One was just a son of a gentry born in Henan, Yuan Hui's grandfather, and he only reached Luoyang Wei.
Yan Yi, on the other hand, was the son of an aristocratic family who was born with a golden key.
His ancestor was Yan Hui, one of the great sages among the seventy-two disciples of Confucius.
He had read poetry and books since he was a child. As he got older, he became quite famous in the Qilu area. At the age of eighteen, he had already become the right-hand man of the prince.
At the age of twenty, he was appointed as Shangshu Lingcheng, and at the age of twenty-two, he became the county magistrate.
However, today, Yuan Hui relies on his political achievements to counterattack and rise to power, while Yan Yi may encounter the biggest setback in his life.
Seeing this ending, Xu Jiu couldn't help but sigh.
Besides being sad, it is also a warning.
In this era when political performance is king, he must improve his political performance.
No matter what method you use!
Even if it's like Yuan Hui, whose political achievements are stained with blood, he still has to brush them off!
And to achieve political success, you must have money.
Lots and lots of money!
Without money, it is impossible to carry out large-scale construction. Without money, it is even less possible to provide benefits to the people below and let them follow him. Without money, he may not even be able to command the governor's office.
But how to make money?
Xu Jiu is unknown.
Before he became the Governor of the Protectorate, he had never had any grassroots experience.
He doesn't even know how the entire system of the Protectorate works!
He had no choice but to turn to Wu Bei for help, hoping that Wu Bei could give him an answer.
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Wu Bei came here to present Xu Jiu with his political achievements.
If we don't pave the way for him, how can the Za family continue to dominate Anton?
You know, since last year, Legalists, Confucians and even Mohists have all started planning to find a hilltop and a signboard in Anton.
Zhang Hui, a tycoon of the Legalist school, and Shen Gong, a tycoon of the Chu poetry school, even intended to send their most popular students to run in Anton.
Wu Bei smiled and said: "Brother, you can go talk to the princes and nephews from various places in Anton about the taxes on this plantation..."
Today in Anton, apart from the whaling and fishing industries and the gold mining industry, the biggest industry is the plantation industry of the feudal lords.
These sons of princes owned a large amount of land and planted large quantities of cotton and soybeans.
In particular, the soybeans produced in Andong are widely praised for their high quality and high oil yield.
The leftover bean dregs from oil extraction can even be used as feed.
Even war horses can eat this high-quality feed.
But in the past, they basically did not pay taxes to the Protectorate.
This is obviously unreasonable.
Xu Jiu also considered taxing these people.
But……
"Brother Xian, do you think they will agree?" Xu Jiu sighed helplessly: "It is impossible for them to agree to this..."
Do you want the princes to take money out of their own pockets?
This difficulty is even more difficult than when the emperor imposed commercial taxes!
Let alone Xu Jiu, even the former governor Bo Shi probably wouldn't be able to get these people to agree to pay taxes.
Xu Jiu even felt that as long as he dared to propose it, the princes' disciples would dare to demolish his governor's office!
joke!
The princes of the Han Dynasty are all iron roosters!
Especially the old princes!
Even the money they donated to the ancestral temple had to be adulterated in every possible way.
Land taxes from local feudal states were also intercepted by all possible means.
People who want money rather than their lives are caught in large numbers.
How did the Marquis of Heyang die in the first place?
Just to waste someone else's 100,000 yuan!
Xu Jiu dared to bet that as long as he dared to set his sights on the feudal states and plantations of the princes, he was guaranteed to jump up and beat him to death!
Wu Bei smiled mysteriously and said: "Of course the princes and nephews will not agree..."
This is for sure.
The nobles would rather use their money to buy fierce dogs, raise goshawks, or even buy women than give money to the government for no reason.
The reason is simple. As long as you are taxed once by the government, it will become a routine practice in the future.
They have to pay every year, and their wool is cut every year.
What's even more troublesome is that everyone knows that the government will take advantage of the situation.
If I can collect 10 million this year, I will definitely want to collect 20 million or 30 million next year!
Isn't that what a Lord Commander is like?
In the fifth year of Yuande, the Lord Commander collected more than 10 million in business taxes in Chang'an, and then he became addicted.
Last year, we collected 30 million in one breath...
This year, Gongsun Hong has already announced that the Lord Commander’s Yamen will collect 10 million in commercial tax and vehicle and vessel tax throughout the year, of which the Guanzhong area will not be less than 50 million...
Therefore, there is almost no need to think with their heads. The princes will definitely resist the taxation in Anton, and will even find ways to obstruct and sabotage it. For this reason, they may even take the lawsuit directly to Chang'an and press Xu Jiu on the head.
Countless crimes.
Even if Chang'an finally supports Xu Jiu, they can use all means to delay and divert.
However, Wu learned that sometimes in Anton, taxes do not necessarily need to be targeted at specific groups of people.
He smiled and told Xu Jiu: "Brother, you can start with the dispatch workers..."
"There are dispatched workers in Anton, and the number of recommended workers is hundreds of thousands. After each additional levy is calculated, it amounts to tens of millions of assets..."
Over the past few years, the development of various places in Andong has depended on the cheap, durable and hard-working Yi and Di people.
Especially the Xianbei, Wuheng, Xiongnu and Fuyu tribes who can endure hardships and are not afraid of the cold.
The price of a dispatched worker in Chonghua and Shunde is only 5,000 yuan.
They could work hard for their masters for five years, and then work for the government for several more years, until the last trace of their use value was squeezed out of them.
Only a few lucky ones can be naturalized and obtain a Han household registration book.
The remaining people will be exhausted and die in the long work.
In the past, because the dispatch model was adopted, these people did not even pay their taxes.
The Duhufu Yamen can only collect some hard-earned money and errand money from them.
Nowadays, we only need to levy normal taxes on a per capita basis, which is one hundred and twenty yuan per year for one person, and tens of millions for hundreds of thousands of people.
In addition, other miscellaneous taxes may be levied.
For example, you can charge money for management, supervision, and training.
Plantation owners everywhere dare not to pay this money?
Then revoke their qualification to hire dispatch workers!
When Xu Jiu heard this, he immediately understood what Wu Quian meant.
This is indeed a way to make money!
But the problem is, tens of millions a year is actually just a drop in the bucket.
Especially when Xu Jiu wants to do something big, these tens of millions of money may only be enough for him to bribe officials and provide benefits to the people below.
As for money-eating monsters like road construction and water conservancy, don’t even think about it!
However, something is better than nothing!
Xu Jiu nodded and said to Wu Ban: "What my dear brother said really made me enlightened... However, considering the tax as a gift, I am afraid that only 30% of it will fall into the hands of the Protectorate..."
The tax system of the Han Dynasty has always been separate.
Taxes are given to the country to maintain the operation of the political power, while taxes go directly into the inner treasury of the Shaofu and are controlled by the emperor.
It is used for military expenses, imperial mausoleums, palaces and as national construction funds.
The fortune is usually taken directly by the young master. Being able to leave 30% to the local area is already very conscientious.
"Brother, you can ask your Majesty first. In the next three years, the income from the tax calculation of the Duhu Mansion will be placed at the control of the Duhu Mansion..." Wu Bei was already prepared. He said with a smile: "Three years of tax calculation, at least
Ten million...With this money, my brother can build a railway carriage line from Xinhua to Incheon Port..."
"Then we will use this route to tax merchants..."
In the past few years, the bulk of the income of the Andong Protectorate has come from various "road maintenance taxes" in addition to taxes from the whaling and fishing industries.
Businessmen had to pay taxes if they wanted to enter Anton.
Taxes are based on vehicle size and quantity of cargo.
In a year, you can get more than 10 million in most cases, and several million in less cases.
It is precisely because of this income that the Governor's Office is not in such embarrassment that it cannot even release official salaries in a timely manner.
"Railway carriage?" Xu Jiu became energetic after hearing this.
If it were someone else, he might not know, but he clearly knows how much profit a track carriage brings.
The Shi family is now just lying on the track in Guanzhong, enjoying everything.
Shishi can make tens of millions of profits from rail transportation and operation every year. Including their own sales, the net income is more than 20 to 30 million a year.
It's almost like lying around with money open, waiting for pie to fall from the sky.
And there is no track carriage in Anton so far. If it is built, it will definitely make countless profits.
The Duhufu Yamen even only needs to operate this track well, and it can obtain an income every year that is no less than the land tax!
Even better, you can also rely on rails to collect taxes.
Do you want your product to be on track? Then pay the tax first, pay the commercial tax, and then pay the shipping fee before it can be shipped.
In this way, you will gain more!
And Xu Jiu knew that as long as he could achieve this track, his political achievements would be real.
The princes of Chang'an can't find fault with him no matter what! 8
