Anyi City has experienced earth-shaking changes in the past day.
The sudden downfall of the county governor Zhou Yangyou made the people of Anyi feel uncomfortable for a while.
But compared with Zhou Yangyou's fall, the two news that one of the Nine Cauldrons was in Anyi City and that the emperor's royal chariot was about to arrive in Hedong were undoubtedly more exciting.
Businessmen are always the first to smell opportunities.
Almost coincidentally, merchants all over the city began to purchase goods at the same time.
They buy everything.
Grain, cloth, copperware, enamel, lacquerware.
Any fool knows that after the Emperor's arrival, Anyi will inevitably enter a period of unprecedented prosperity.
Hedong, Hexi, Henei and even Taiyuan, the Chehous of Yan and Zhao, and other princes will inevitably come to Hedong to meet the emperor.
Of course, these Chehou nobles will not come alone. The accompanying family members, soldiers, and slaves will certainly not be a small number in total.
What is the total amount of these people’s consumption of food, drink, food, clothing, housing and transportation?
So the price of food rose first, and the price of one stone of corn instantly rose from 50 yen to 55 yen.
Liu De was wearing regular clothes, holding Yi Nu's little hand, walking leisurely in the East Market of Anyi, looking at the people coming and going and the prosperous market, his eyes flickered with an unknown look.
"Yi Zong..." Liu De stood in front of a grain store with good business and dense crowds. He waved and called Yi Zong, who had been following him, to come to him and asked: "Tell me, what if we restart the business?"
What should I do so that businessmen and powerful men will comply with it?"
"Suan Wei?" Yi Zong asked with a puzzled face: "What is that?"
The so-called fortune telling was certainly not invented by Liu Che.
In fact, the person who invented fortune telling may surprise many people - Liu De's imperial ancestor, Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty Liu Bang!
Back then, Liu Bang came up with three baht coins and messed up the world's finance. The country's finances were in extreme financial difficulties, and there were even rats in the treasury.
In order to make money, this old gangster has used any means.
Fortune-telling was just one of Liu Bang's methods to make money.
However, this policy was only implemented for a total of three years, and then Liu Bang knelt down. Empress Lu abandoned this policy after she came to power.
Later, Liu Che promoted the fortune-telling. In fact, it was just a restoration of Liu Bang's policy. Only the fortune-telling was invented by Liu Che...
So it's normal for Yi Zong not to know.
After all, almost fifty years have passed since Liu Bang, and the people and the officialdom have probably long forgotten that the policy of calculating the fortune-telling still exists.
Liu De then explained: "It is to tax according to property, more than 100,000 yuan. A tax of one calculation is levied on each property..."
Liu De felt that it was obviously nonsense to impose taxes regardless of the size of the family property, as Liu Che did.
But the rate of expansion of the wealth of large industrial and commercial owners and large landowners must be curbed.
Therefore, Liu Desi thought about it and felt that 100,000 yuan as the starting point should be appropriate.
The family property of less than 100,000 yuan is exempted from the calculation tax, and only the part with more than 100,000 yuan is required to pay tax.
The key to the problem now is how to make businessmen and powerful landowners willing to pay this money.
Obviously, if these guys could really abide by the laws and regulations, Liu Che later would not have used unscrupulous means like suing Wei to collect taxes.
Unless absolutely necessary, Liu De is unwilling to make the same mistake as Liu Che.
After all, suing Wei together would be a huge blow.
Although Liu De in his previous life did not live to the time when Liu Che implemented the suing system, Liu De knew through historical records that the suing policy directly led to the death of hundreds of thousands of families in the world, affecting millions of people.
Among them, the real landlords, wealthy and powerful businessmen may not even get 10%.
The rest are all middle class people who were shot innocently.
"One stick counts?" Yi Zong shook his head after hearing this and said, "Young Master, this is impossible..."
One pigeon is worth one thousand yuan, so if you calculate one hundred and twenty yuan, this is a tax rate of almost 12%!
Yi Zong felt that if this policy were to appear, powerful businessmen and landowners would definitely not be happy with it.
Who is willing to give their property to the country?
Not even if it’s only 10%!
What's more, you have to pay 10% every year!
Yi Zong feels that if Liu De implements this policy, if he does not cooperate with strong measures, use the army, and go door to door to collect taxes, those people will probably not pay a cent.
Even if the army is used to demand payment, merchants and landowners are powerful, and some of them use various methods to hide their property and conceal their income.
I'm afraid the collected money will not be enough to reward the army by then!
Ning Cheng stepped forward, volunteered, patted his chest and reported in a low voice: "Your Highness, I think there is a way to do it..."
He looked at the shops in the market eagerly, his cheeks twitched, his expression seemed to be a smile but not a smile, and he said: "As long as the imperial court orders it, if you dare to hide it and refuse to report it, if you are found out, your property will be confiscated and you will be sent to the frontier fortress!"
Liu De glanced at him and shook his head. Ning Cheng's method was really the same as his strategy, simple, crude and unreasonable.
This method is similar to Liu Che’s solution.
However, Liu De wouldn't want to do this if he didn't really have no choice.
Because once this method is formed into a law, it will definitely lead to countless unjust, false and erroneous cases.
What's even more frightening is that Liu De feels that there will definitely be local officials issuing targets and tasks at all levels in order to improve their political performance.
Then, in order to complete tasks and achieve targets, grassroots officials deliberately framed people.
For example, if a person's property is only 150,000 yuan, and the tax on his extra 50,000 yuan has been paid, but the local magistrate has not completed the quota assigned by his superiors, he will arrest the person and randomly find a value in his house.
They claimed that he had not paid taxes, confiscated his property, and arrested his entire family and sent them to the border.
Liu De felt that such a situation would definitely happen.
And once such a situation occurs, all of Liu De's economic policies may collapse overnight...
"I don't want to have to punish myself pitifully in my old age..." Liu De thought in his heart.
The fundamental reason why Liu Che issued the imperial edict to blame himself was the failure of economic policies. The imperial edict brought the originally prosperous industry and commerce and a large number of middle class people in the world to the point where their families were ruined, their wives and children were separated, and the national finances continued to deteriorate. Therefore, he had no choice but to punish himself.
The imperial edict completely overturned most policies including the imperial edict.
As for stopping at Luntai for farming, that was just an add-on. Liu De remembered clearly that during the Zhaoxuan period, the Han family did not get too excited about Luntai. Emperor Xuan even used Luntai as a base to complete the work.
In order to cut off the connection between the Xiongnu and the Western Regions, and to cut off the Xiongnu's arm, he finally made the Xiongnu surrender, and called Han Xie Shanyu to go to Chang'an.
When Liu De was about to shake his head, Ning Cheng knew that he was being reckless, so he quickly lowered his head and stepped aside.
"We'd better actually go to these shops and ask the owners, and we'll discuss it later!" Liu De ordered: "Ning Cheng, go to the street over there!"
"Yizong, take people to this street!"
"As for me? Let's go here... We will meet here in half an hour!" After Liu De said this, he led Yi Nu towards the shop in front of him. Without investigation, he has no right to speak.
Only by understanding the profit and management methods of businessmen at this time can we take advantage of the situation.
Standing there talking and talking, it is obvious that the answer to the question cannot be found in the brain. (To be continued...)
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