Chapter 247 The 248th deal is concluded, the summer tax is astonishing
Chapter 247 The deal is concluded, and the summer tax is astonishing
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Chapter 247 The deal is concluded, and the summer tax is astonishing
It was the third day of July in the first year of Shenghua.
Outside Kyoto, Qin Wei personally went out of the city to see off Wang Yixian.
After the Awakening Spirit Fruit matured, Wang Yixian sent people back to Jianxin Island and obtained a large amount of elixirs and resources. The two of them completed the transaction yesterday.
This time Qin Wei paid fifty Awakening Fruit Trees and received six hundred top-grade mortal elixirs, as well as some of Dali's scarce resources and three spirit stones.
Three spiritual stones, one awakening fruit for one, the price is really not that expensive.
As for those scarce resources in Dali, there are common herbs, precious metals, and some inheritance techniques that Dali does not have.
Generally speaking, Dali should have lost money in this transaction, but Qin Wei felt that the transaction was worth it.
In fact, it doesn't matter what was traded. What's important is that this time Qin Wei has a clearer understanding of the Qiongtian Sea Area. In particular, Wang Yixian and Song Yuanhao revealed a lot of information to him about the western part of the Qiongtian Sea Area.
Looking at the carriage going away, Qin Wei's eyes flashed a little.
There are thousands of thoughts in my mind.
After this incident, his thoughts on entering Qiongtian Sea became clearer.
"Go back!"
Seeing Wang Yixian's carriage disappearing at the end of the road, Qin Wei turned around and got on the carriage.
Half an hour later, Qin Wei returned to the imperial city.
Sitting in the royal study, he took out the three spiritual stones in his hand.
Spirit stones should be the most important and commonly used cultivation resources in Qiongtian Sea Area.
It contains pure spiritual power inside, and cultivators can directly absorb the spiritual power in the spiritual stone to improve their own cultivation.
Moreover, spiritual stones can also be used for refining weapons, refining elixirs, arranging magic circles, providing energy for magic circles, etc.
It can be said that spiritual stones are the most consumed and most practical resource in Qiongtian Sea Area.
The Lingshi mine, which can mine Lingshi, is the resource that the major forces compete most fiercely for.
According to Wang Yixian, most of the spirit stone mines in the western part of the Qiongtian Sea are controlled by the three dynasties, and only a small part is controlled by some powerful forces.
Even if forces such as Jianxin Island and Yuehai Island find the spirit stone mines, they cannot keep the spirit stone mines.
Playing with three finger-sized spiritual stones in his hand, Qin Wei couldn't wait to go mining in the Qiongtian Sea.
This spirit stone is really useful.
The Wanfa Furnace can directly absorb the spiritual power in the spirit stones. If there are enough spirit stones, he can create innate warriors in batches.
Unfortunately, spiritual stones are also a precious resource for Jianxin Island, and Wang Yixian is not willing to give them to him at all. If he had not worked hard to cultivate them, Wang Yixian would not have given him these three spiritual stones.
Just when Qin Wei was thinking about the benefits of the spirit stone, Xiao Shunzi came closer and said, "Your Majesty, Master Di and Master Sun want to see you!"
"Invite them in!"
Qin Weidao.
Lord Di is Di Renjie, Lord Sun is Sun Wenjian, the Minister of Taxation.
When these two people came together, Qin Wei had already guessed what was going on.
After a while, the two came to the study room.
After seeing the ceremony, Sun Wenjian stepped forward and handed a document to Qin Wei, saying: "Your Majesty, this is this year's summer tax account book!"
Qin Wei's eyes lit up and he finally flipped through the booklet.
Naturally, it is impossible to remember all the taxes clearly in a small booklet. It only states the taxes of each state and government.
Qin Wei looked through the booklet, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.
At the end, he was even more shocked.
"One hundred and eighty million taels of silver!"
Qin Wei couldn't help but exclaimed.
"so much!"
Sun Wenjian saw that he was so shocked, he smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, and said: "Your Majesty, with the tax reform, tax revenue has increased six times compared to last year! This is a blessing for the court!"
When Qin Wei heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly and his expression became strange.
This is interesting!
This is a six-fold increase from last year.
What does this mean?
This does not mean that the court's taxation is harsh on the people, because the tax rate customized by the court is not high. It only means that there were too many people in Dali who evaded taxes in the past.
When the land was divided into acres, the head tax became a land tax.
Officials and gentry paid taxes together, shifting the tax payer from ordinary people to wealthy families.
Thinking about the land and population that Dali currently owns, Qin Wei feels that it is very normal to have such a large amount of tax revenue.
On the contrary, it was abnormal in the past for taxes to be only tens of millions.
This proves from the side that the land annexation problem within Dali is very serious. After all, Dali is a dynasty that has been in existence for more than three hundred years, and the civil class has been seriously consolidated.
However, now that the tax reform has achieved initial results, Qin Wei is still very happy.
"Not bad!" Qin Wei nodded approvingly to Sun Wenjian.
Sun Wenjian, the newly appointed Minister of Taxation, is quite good. Although the Taxation Department has only been established for more than two months, Sun Wenjian has already set up the framework of the Taxation Department and completed the collection of summer taxes.
Of course, the collection of summer taxes this time mainly depends on local governments and counties, and the tax department is only responsible for summarizing.
"But the establishment of the tax department must be accelerated!" Qin Wei said.
After the summer tax, there are still autumn taxes. The autumn taxes are mainly on silk and silk from Jiangzhou and Yuezhou. In addition to these, there are also city taxes, commercial taxes, etc. There are many types of taxes in Dali, and these taxes will be controlled by
The tax department is responsible.
The framework of the tax department has just been set up in front of us, and it is still far from being able to control all the tax in Dali.
"I obey my orders!" Sun Wenjian said.
Qin Wei looked at Di Renjie again and said, "Is there anything else?"
Di Renjie took out a memorial and handed it to Qin Wei, saying: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has reorganized the official system. This is the charter!"
Qin Wei took the memorial and glanced at it.
The reorganization of the official position system can also be said to be a reform.
It is consistent with the subsequent imperial examination system and official selection system, which can be regarded as preparation for the reform of the official selection system in advance.
In the past, the official position system in Dali was nine grades and eighteen grades, and officials and government servants were not officials.
Those county and government officials and government officials are no longer part of the official system, but they still control the county government. There is a saying that a county magistrate with flowing water is an iron-clad county magistrate.
This is enough to illustrate the control that civil servants and government officials have over the county government.
After the county magistrate takes office, he still has to rely on these civil servants and government officials to do things. Sometimes the civil servants and government servants do not cooperate, and the magistrate is unable to do things.
There is also a saying that the imperial power does not go to the countryside. How can this be done?
For Qin Wei, it was nonsense that the imperial power did not go to the countryside.
There are too many disadvantages in the Lijia system, and Qin Wei naturally cannot ignore them.
The lower the officials are, the greater their influence on ordinary people.
If Qin Wei wants to change the entire Dali, the underlying Lijia system must also change.
He wants all ordinary people to have the opportunity to rise, so the grassroots management system is very important.
Therefore, a few days ago he mentioned the reform of the official position system to several ministers in the cabinet.
Looking at the memorial, Qin Wei nodded slightly.
In fact, there is less resistance to the reform of the official system. After all, it is good for all officials in the world.
The charter submitted by the cabinet changed the original nine grades and eighteen grades into twelve grades and twenty-four grades, and included all officials, yamen servants, li chiefs, and armor chiefs into the official grades.
In addition, each county will be divided into towns and townships and township offices will be established.
As for the villages, Qin Wei planned to keep them as they were, but the township government would be responsible for managing the villages.
"It's not bad. Let's test it in Shuntian Mansion for the time being. If there are no problems, we can promote it!" Qin Wei said.
Di Renjie said: "Your Majesty, as a result, the number of officials in our dynasty will increase sevenfold, and the annual official salary expenditure will increase fourfold."
He wanted to remind Qin Wei that the reform of the official system was a waste of money. After all, the salary of civil servants, government servants and the like would be the responsibility of the imperial court in the future.
Qin Wei smiled and said: "Didn't the tax increase six times?"
Di Renjie looked stunned.
Although taxes have increased, they cannot be so wasteful!
Once the official system is reformed, the court will spend tens of millions of taels of silver every year. Such a large amount of money can support hundreds of thousands of troops.
Qin Wei naturally knew that Di Renjie thought it was too much money, which was actually normal.
Nowadays, there are only more than 30,000 official officials in Dali, one capital, and thirteen states. If all civil servants, government officials, etc. are included in the official system, the number may reach 200,000 to 300,000.
The salaries of lower-level officials will be lower, but there are many of them.
Coupled with the establishment of township yamen, spending tens of millions of taels of silver a year is really not a lot.
"Not only do we need to reform the official system, I also want to increase the salary for the officials of the imperial court. Not only do I need to increase the salary, I also want to establish a pension system. Anyone who serves the imperial court should receive preferential treatment from the court."
"However, I will also increase the supervision system for officials and increase the punishment for officials' crimes."
"If you have merit, you will be rewarded; if you are guilty, you will be punished."
"I will not mistreat anyone who has contributed to the dynasty, but I will not forgive anyone who is guilty."
"This will be the rule of the court from now on."
Qin Wei said.
Administration is always the top priority of the court. No matter how good the system is, as long as the officials are corrupt, everything will be in vain.
The counterpart of preferential treatment for officials is to severely punish corrupt officials.
Qin Wei didn't believe there were any honest officials in the world.
In fact, the problem of official corruption in Dali is very serious. Before the Zhenwu Division was established, there were many cases of collusion between officials and Jianghu forces.
After the establishment of the Zhenwu Division, the Jianghu sects no longer need to collude with officials, so this aspect has improved a lot, but there are still many problems such as collusion between officials and businessmen, corruption and bribery.
The only good thing is that Dali's officialdom has not been rotten to the core, and many problems have not formed unspoken rules, so Qin Wei has been tolerating it, but he will not tolerate it forever. When various reforms are on the right track, he will still rectify the officialdom.
"I understand~!" Di Renjie said.
He also knew what Qin Wei was thinking, but he just felt that it would cost too much money, but Qin Wei had made up his mind and he did not need any further persuasion.
"Go and get busy!" Qin Wei nodded slightly.
"Wei Chen resigns!"
After the two left, Qin Wei counted the items obtained from the transaction with Wang Yixian and distributed them directly.
Except for the three spirit stones, Qin Wei handed over all the elixirs and items to Li Xun and Yan Zhen.
Yanwu Pavilion has been promoted to all states, prefectures and counties, and Qing Fushan's changes will also begin.
From now on, the innate warriors on Qingfu Mountain can no longer be so idle, Qin Wei has formulated a set of rules for them.
That is, every innate warrior on Qingfu Mountain must recruit two disciples every year, and train the disciples based on their merits.
Every time a ninth-grade warrior is cultivated, he will receive a reward, mainly in the form of elixirs, money, weapons, inheritance of techniques, etc.
If you cultivate innate warriors, the rewards will be even greater.
In short, the better the disciples you train, the more rewards you will receive.
All the elixirs and items obtained from this transaction will be kept in Qingfu Mountain as future rewards.
After this matter was dealt with, the sky darkened.
Qin Wei sat in the study, immersed in the Yitian chessboard.
Yesterday, his Shi Qi reached 150,000, and he could once again transform a powerful person in the Silent Light Realm.