When Chen Lifu came to Shanghai, in the past, whether he was the director of the Inspection Division of the Ministry of Taxation or the right deputy director of the Finance Department, he would have caused certain waves in Shanghai.
Ordinary people will naturally not pay attention to it, but the top social classes, especially officials, landlords and gentry, must be paying close attention to Chen Lifu's every move.
But now, Chen Lifu's arrival has not attracted much attention.
Because Chen Lifu’s identity is different now!
In the past, Chen Lifu was the director of the Inspection Division. This position was meant to look for trouble and arrest people. Let alone the director of the Inspection Division, even an ordinary tax inspector would know how to do it when he went to a certain place.
What caused great panic was that there was no way, because most people these days don’t have very clean butts.
Although the laws of the empire are very strict and the penalties for tax evasion are very serious, as long as there is enough profit promotion, ordinary fines and imprisonment are not big threats. Even the death penalty will be difficult to make these people retreat.
, What's more, although the tax department is powerful, the technology these days is still the first. If the tax evaders do not expose obvious information and the tax department does not directly and deliberately investigate, in fact, many tax evasion behaviors will not be exposed.
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Apart from anything else, cash transactions alone are enough to evade taxes to a great extent, because the tax department can check bank accounts and company accounts, but there is no way to monitor cash transactions without written records. In this case
There are still many people who evade taxes.
At present, the Datang Taxation Department does not monitor all aspects of tax evasion. The focus of monitoring is mainly on enterprises. In addition, it is agricultural taxes. As for other informal enterprises and commercial transactions between individuals, most of them are actually uncollectible.
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In fact, this situation, let alone the current Tang Empire, is still a huge problem even in the 21st century. Let me ask, even in modern society, how many self-employed people and small factories have you seen?
Does your boss pay taxes according to formal procedures?
As for the tax evasion problem caused by cash transactions, even the United States, which has an extremely perfect tax system in later generations, cannot eliminate it.
Therefore, in today's Datang Empire, although tax supervision is very strict, this strictness is only limited to enterprises and agricultural taxes, two industries that are relatively easy to supervise. For other transactions, it is actually difficult to carry out
Monitoring, therefore, the problem of tax evasion still exists and is quite common.
But then again, if the tax department thinks that someone is suspected of tax evasion, and this person really has tax problems, and concentrates its efforts on investigating, then most of them can be investigated.
This is why many people are afraid of tax officials!
Because these people who evade taxes most of the time have a sense of luck and think that the tax department will not notice them, but once they are noticed by the tax department, it is very likely that they will not be found out.
As for those who pay taxes honestly, they will naturally not be afraid of tax officials. After all, tax officials will not be idle and mess around. Even if they want to, they don't have the power to do so.
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It is normal for people, especially tax evaders, to be afraid of tax officials and tax inspections from the inspection office.
As for the words of the right deputy director of the Department of Finance, ordinary people naturally don't care, but the financial sector will, and the financial sector directly affects the industrial and commercial community, and it will inevitably affect local officials.
Therefore, if Chen Lifu is still the deputy director of the Department of Finance, coming to Shanghai will definitely attract the attention of local officials, finance, and business people, who are afraid that Chen Lifu will cause some trouble.
But now, these people don't have much fear of Chen Lifu!
The reason why they were afraid of Chen Lifu before was not because of Chen Lifu himself, but because of his position and the influence behind this position.
If Chen Lifu no longer had such a position, they would naturally not give Chen Lifu a second glance.
Today, Chen Lifu has become a fellow magistrate of Songjiang Mansion. Although this position is already the second or third person in Songjiang Mansion, the deterrent effect is not great, at least Chen Lifu's
Above them, there is a yet-to-be-appointed prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, and there is also a magistrate of a special Shanghai county who has greater actual power and influence than the Chen Lifu Society.
Although they don't know who these two people are yet, they are the ones they pay the most attention to.
In comparison, Chen Lifu just seems dispensable.
And this is why Chen Lifu felt that this position was embarrassing after he learned that he had become a fellow magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture.
He seems to be the second in command in Songjiang Prefecture, but in fact his power has been taken away by the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the magistrate of the special county in Shanghai. In the end, although he will be in charge of some affairs, his influence will definitely be limited.
But Chen Lifu was unwilling to give in!
He came to Songjiang Mansion as a fellow magistrate. Although it was beyond his own expectations, the appointments were made. Naturally, he had to find a way to achieve results and get rid of the current embarrassing situation.
He is an ambitious man.
While the superiors have not yet determined the candidate for the governor of Songjiang Prefecture, and while he will still have relatively free authority in the next half month or so, he needs to quickly grasp the situation and control the power, so that he can control the situation in Songjiang Prefecture in the future.
After taking office, the prefecture magistrate and the magistrate of the ad hoc county in Shanghai occupied a politically active position.
And for the first time, he chose the Shanghai Terminal Company!
Although Shanghai, or the entire Songjiang Prefecture, is a land of plenty and agriculture, like other places in the south of the Yangtze River, is quite developed, agriculture is not the current economic pillar of Songjiang Prefecture.
The economic pillar of Shanghai and even Songjiang Prefecture is undoubtedly industry and commerce!
A Shanghai Industrial Zone and a Shanghai Trade Zone constitute the economic backbone of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and in this economic system, Shanghai Terminal Company plays a decisive role.
Although the company's assets are nothing except dock facilities and land and buildings near the dock, apart from these, its economic size is not even as large as a medium-sized textile factory.
But even so, its economic impact on Shanghai is quite significant. Among other things, if the company increases or decreases the fees related to terminal services, it will directly affect the entire Shanghai economic circle. An increase will mean
As transportation and even overall operating costs increase, the price of the product will increase.
Reduced costs mean transportation and operating costs are reduced, and the cost of the final product will also be lower.
This company does not produce anything on the surface, but it provides the most basic and irreplaceable basic services. Therefore, it can actually affect the development of the Shanghai economic circle. Its role is no more than those that provide financial support.
Banks and securities companies are small.
If a company like this has problems, it naturally needs to be solved. Chen Lifu is not willing to see such a company suffer a devastating impact because of the Zhou Lide case. The suspended construction of the third phase of the terminal must also start as soon as possible.
Otherwise, it will affect the economic development of Shanghai as a whole.
But before taking action against the Shanghai Terminal Company, he had to meet someone first. This person is now the highest-ranking official in Songjiang Prefecture, and even the entire Jiangnan Province, and the only big boss in the entire Jiangnan Province!!
Jiangnan Taoist Taoist Huo Shouqi.
This Huo Shouqi is not just an ordinary local official, he can be said to be the most special one among the many feudal ministers in the Tang Empire!
First of all, the Tang Dynasty currently has a total of sixteen provinces, four provinces, three military administrative areas, and four overseas directly administered territories. However, the overseas directly administered territories are only at the state capital level. The military administrative areas are also quite special, and their administrative units are also at the state capital level.
, although it is actually under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, it still belongs to neighboring provinces in name.
Therefore, in the real sense, there are twenty ministers in total, that is, governors of sixteen provinces and Taoist priests of the four Dao.
And Huo Shouqi should be a special one among the twenty feudal ministers.
To say he is special is naturally not because of his age, appearance and other messy things, but because of his political status!
First of all, as a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Province, his rank is not very high, only the third grade, which is one level lower than the second grade of the provincial governors. However, as a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Province, his political voice is huge.
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Because the agricultural and industrial and commercial output value of Jiangnan Province ranks among the best in the entire empire, and accounts for a huge proportion, the entire Jiangnan Province is expected to have a fiscal revenue of more than 18 million in the ten years of Xuanping, and the entire Tang Empire is in
In the ten years of Xuanping, the estimated fiscal revenue is only 80 million taels of silver!
From these two data, we can basically see the importance of Jiangnan Road, and the importance of Jiangnan Road can directly reflect the particularity of Huo Shouqi.
Another very important point is that before Huo Shouqi served as a Taoist priest in Jiangnan Province, he was the chief envoy of Guangdong. However, during the two years he served as the chief envoy of Guangdong, the governor of Guangdong was vacant for the last six months.
As the chief envoy of Guangdong, he acted as an agent for the governor of Guangdong. This time span lasted for half a year!
Anyone who knows even a little bit about the unspoken rules of the imperial officialdom knows that such a situation is basically impossible to occur if it is not deliberately arranged. It is impossible for such an important position as governor of a province to remain vacant for more than half a year, and even most of the officials
Under the circumstances, there will be no vacancy for a month.
When the upper echelons of the empire needed to transfer the governor of a province, they often prepared the new governor of the province in advance to ensure a smooth transition of work.
But Huo Shouqi acted as the governor of Guangdong for half a year!
And the reason why he ended his term as acting governor of Guangdong was not because a new governor was sent from above, but because he was transferred to Jiangnan to serve as a Taoist priest in Jiangnan Province!
In other words, if he is not transferred, he is likely to continue to serve as acting governor of Guangdong, and then be promoted to the second rank as a matter of course.
From this position change, we can basically see the specialness of Huo Shouqi. Although his rank is low, his actual power is greater than that of ordinary second-rank governors, and even the ministers of ordinary departments cannot compare with him.
With him like this, all fools know that he is in the heart of the emperor, and his rank is not a problem to him. Sooner or later, he will be transferred back to the capital, and even become a minister or even a minister on duty.
Facing such a person, Chen Lifu would not show any contempt!