When Chen Lifu worked in the Inspection Office, he knew very well that the tax department wanted to judge whether a person had evaded taxes. The core method was not to check whether the tax payment process was legal or not, but to directly look at him.
The ratio of income to tax paid.
When a person earns 100,000 taels of silver from doing business, but only pays a few thousand taels of tax in taxes, no matter whether his tax payment process is legal or how perfect his account books are, the tax department will consider him a
Tax evasion, and then various audits.
As long as the tax department notices it and carefully checks its accounts, it will basically be accurate.
During the gold mining crisis, the tax department arrested the group of fraudsters from the Luzon Gold Mining Company in this way.
Although Chen Lifu no longer works in the tax department, many things are essentially the same.
He does not need to know how those institutions use insider information or other means to deliberately raise or suppress stocks, thereby reaping the profits of ordinary investors. He only needs to know that the stock market is abnormal.
Since it is not normal, it needs to be rectified!
Chen Lifu took action, which was naturally not simple. With one official document, he suspended the trading qualifications of more than ten large domestic securities companies, and at the same time asked the Securities Department to immediately send a working group to Shanghai and Guangzhou to directly enter the exchange for in-depth investigation.
investigation.
The object of the investigation is naturally not any criminal behavior, because even if there are illegal operations and shady use, it has to be said that these behaviors are not considered under the current financial-related legal framework of the empire.
For illegal behavior, the most you can say is that someone is cruel and oppressive and does things unethically, but it is not illegal.
Those securities firms are actually taking advantage of loopholes in the law and taking advantage of loopholes.
But the fact that the law cannot punish him does not mean that Chen Lifu cannot do it.
Many times, to deal with these businessmen, no legal means are needed at all, simple administrative means are enough.
They don't say that you broke the law, they just say that you manipulated the financial market and caused financial instability. In order to stabilize the market, you administratively suspended the company's trading qualification.
However, this simple administrative method can only be a temporary restriction. Chen Lifu does not expect to limit the trading qualifications of these companies all the time, because that is impossible, and these financial companies cannot be left to their own devices.
These weaklings are all large financial institutions that control large sums of money.
Sometimes money still has a great influence.
Therefore, what Chen Lifu can do is only a temporary restriction, but in the end they will definitely restore their trading qualifications.
But Chen Lifu's purpose was not this. The purpose of sending a working group was actually to find out some aspects of the securities industry, and then promote the formulation of formal laws and regulations to directly prohibit it from a legal level.
To put it simply, what Chen Lifu wants to do is actually to improve some laws and regulations in the financial market, so as to formulate more complete trading rules.
This is actually similar to what he did in the tax department back then. He had handled so many tax cases before, and then he discovered many loopholes in tax evasion and evasion, and then reported them, and it didn't take long for the tax department to contact the law.
The Ministry of Finance has formulated relevant new tax laws to further improve Datang's tax laws.
In fact, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation are experts in tax evasion, because only by understanding how to evade tax can we formulate targeted laws!
There is also a saying among the people that the most profitable way is written in the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Smuggling, corruption, tax evasion, especially criminal activities in some economic fields are the most common.
As long as you dare to start a profitable business, you can make a fortune in minutes, but whether you have the time to spend it is a question.
Generally speaking, the most profitable business is to start with executions, and confiscation of homes and genocide is not a problem!
For a less profitable business, you will be sentenced to decades.
However, although official agencies spend all day thinking about how to study crime and then plug these loopholes, the world is so big and there are so many smart people that there will always be some people who find ways to circumvent the law.
Today's securities field, in Chen Lifu's view, is full of speculators who take advantage of loopholes.
They all deserve to be killed!
Chen Lifu sent a working group, and then led officials from the Securities Department to read the files all day long, trying to thoroughly understand the domestic securities market and find out the existing problems.
Chen Lifu immersed himself in handling securities affairs, taking this opportunity to avoid the turmoil in the Financial Department.
Although today's Financial Department seems to be calm on the surface, in fact it is still turbulent. However, this turmoil is limited to internal affairs and has not spread to the outside world to cause any big disturbance.
And the root of all this is because of the newly appointed Director of the Department of Finance, Xie Yiwei.
I don’t know how the Ministry of Personnel selected this person. He is obviously not from the same family as Qian Zuili and Song Ruangao, because this person was a local official.
He does not have the label of the Ministry of Taxation, has nothing to do with Qian Zili, is not from the domestic financial system, and has no connection with Song Ruan Gao.
He was a serious Jinshi in the former Ming Dynasty. Before he joined the Tang Dynasty, he was a provincial magistrate in Shandong. When the Tang Dynasty king invaded Shandong, he, like some local officials, chose to surrender and then stayed in office.
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In the following years, he continued to serve in Shandong, and finally worked all the way to the prefecture, and then was transferred to Zhejiang to serve as the prefect of Hangzhou, and was later promoted to the post of inspector of Zhejiang.
The provincial inspectors of the Tang Dynasty were different from the inspectors of the previous dynasties who were mainly responsible for the administration of justice. The provincial inspectors of the Tang Dynasty were actually the deputy to the governor, with a rank of Cong III.
The provincial government structure of the Tang Dynasty was relatively complicated!
Each province has four major yamen, namely the governor's yamen, the provincial supervisory office, the provincial court, and the provincial taxation department. As for the provincial garrison headquarters, this does not belong to the civilian political system, but to the military system.
Needless to say, there are three Provincial Supervisory Offices, Provincial Courts and Provincial Taxation Departments. One is in charge of inspections, public prosecutions and other powers, one is in charge of trials, and the other is in charge of taxation. Their top leaders are all Zhengsanpin.
As for the governor's office, it is much larger. The second-rank governor controls the power of a province. Under the governor, there are third-rank administrative envoys and third-rank inspectors.
Under the three bosses, there are various departments in the province. The director of the department is the fourth grade. There are various departments under the department, and the director is the fifth grade.
The political structure at the provincial level has also been greatly extended to the Dao, prefecture, prefecture, and counties. For example, the four Zhili Dao areas are actually the same as the political structure of the provinces, but the overall level is one level lower. Dao
Members are only of the third grade.
As for prefecture-level yamen, there are prefect yamen, prefecture inspectorate, prefecture court, and prefecture tax bureau. The overall structure is very similar to provincial yamen, but the grade is lower.
The prefect is of the fourth rank, and the top leaders of the other three major yamen are of the fourth rank.
In the magistrate's yamen, there are subordinate officials such as prefect Tongzhi, as well as various departments and departments.
Before Xie Yiwei was transferred to the post of Director-General of the Department of Finance, he was the Inspector-General of Zhejiang Province. He was a serious third-rank official and the third-in-command in a province!
There must be a deep meaning behind such a person being transferred to Gyeonggi and serving as the director of the Department of Finance!
Because the positions of third-grade and above are usually appointed by His Majesty, the Ministry of Personnel can only give a suggestion at most. It is impossible for the Ministry of Personnel to directly decide for a fourth-grade or fifth-grade official like Chen Lifu.
His Majesty personally decided to transfer this person to the Finance Department, so naturally it was His Majesty’s intention!
The purpose of this is not difficult to guess, but it is simply that Qian Zili and Song Ruangao were fighting so hard that they simply brought in people from outside to contain them.
And can Xie Yiwei be restrained?
necessary!
Although he was promoted from the local government, he is not a new faction official in the tax department or financial system. He is a traditional civil servant!
What is a traditional civil servant?
That is to pass the imperial examination step by step, and then weave a huge network of people in the process: fellow villagers, the same year, teachers and friends, colleagues...
Although the Tang Dynasty was a brand new dynasty, it inevitably accepted a large number of traditional officials from the pre-Ming Dynasty. Even if they were not directly accepted officials, in fact, many students who passed the Imperial Examination of the Tang Dynasty and became officials were still considered part of the traditional officials.
, they will also have mentors and friends.
In addition to personal connections, this Xie Yiwei can climb all the way to the third rank even though he knows nothing about the development of industry, commerce, economy and people's livelihood as a traditional official. This shows how rich this person's political struggle methods are!
When it comes to intrigues, people like Qian Zili and Song Ruangao are actually far from rivals of traditional civil servants like Xie Yiwei!
After Xie Yiwei takes office, he will directly eliminate dissidents like Song Ruangao.
Xie Yiwei simply adjusted the work of several departments in a very low-key manner. In a few moments, he dismissed a few old subordinates from Qian Zuoli, and then dismissed several people who had been brought in by Song Ruangao.
Although Xie Yiwei has been in office for so many days and has not even figured out what the Financial Department does, it does not affect him in reorganizing the organizational structure of the Financial Department and taking real power into his hands.
In this process, it was like boiling a frog in warm water. Xie Yiwei did not use any radical methods at all, let alone let the Inspectorate get involved and make people panic.
It was just a simple adjustment work, and the Finance Department was caught in the hands of the Finance Department in a few seconds. However, other people could not find any problems. Even the few directors who were left out could only grit their teeth.
Bear it down.
Chen Lifu felt inferior to this person's methods, so he had been doing things honestly and with his tail between his legs in the recent period, and did not get involved in the internal struggles of the Financial Department at all.
Anyway, he is the right deputy director of the Department of Finance, and he also expressed his attitude through an impeachment memorial. He is not from Qian Zuili, nor is he from Song Ruangao. If Xie Yiwei wants to cause trouble, don't mess with me!
Of course, what's more important is that he has no intention of competing with Xie Yiwei for power, which makes no sense at all.
Therefore, recently he has not paid attention to other affairs of the Financial Department, only focused on making achievements in the securities affairs, and then jumped out of the center of the whirlpool of the Financial Department.
Damn it, this Financial Department is much more chaotic than the Inspection Office. No one in the entire Financial Department is doing anything serious, and they are having a lot of fun fighting for power and profit!
He doesn't want to stay in such a poor place for too long!
He also wants to jump out and finally be able to serve in a local area. This lack of experience as a local leader is always a major shortcoming of his and must be made up for!
But Chen Lifu wanted to hide, but others didn't want to see him stay out of it!
He, Chen Lifu, is the right deputy director of the Department of Finance and the third-in-command of the Department of Finance. How can he hide?