Chapter 1948 There are two things that people in the Tang Dynasty cannot avoid
As for domestic coastal routes, many only have three or four thousand tons, and few exceed five thousand tons.
Fung Shipping Company operates more than 800,000 tons of ships worldwide.
However, the vast majority of these 800,000 tons are actually inland river and offshore vessels. Among them are various types, especially inland river freighters dominated by tugboats, with a total tonnage of 200,000 tons.
The total tonnage of inland river and offshore vessels has reached 400,000 tons, directly accounting for 50% of Feng Shipping Company's shipping capacity.
As for ocean-going ships, most of them are bulk cargo ships and cheap passenger ships. For example, there are more than 50 cheap passenger ships with a total tonnage of more than 1,000 tons to 2,000 tons that specialize in providing immigration services to indigenous peoples of various countries.
Nearly 90,000 tons.
Most of the bulk cargo ships and passenger ships for the people of the empire are two to three thousand tons.
Not to mention ships of 10,000 tons, in fact, even ships exceeding 5,000 tons are relatively small.
Feng's Shipping Company is like this, and other shipping companies are actually similar.
But people can't see these. People usually talk about major shipping companies or their flagship ship types.
New Star, Mediterranean series, Tiangong series are the focus of discussion and attention.
There is no doubt that the influence brought by the New Star is huge, enough to further increase the brand operation of Fung Shipping Company.
Even in order to improve the operating power of the brand, Fung Shipping Company began to spin off its low-cost passenger transportation business and classify it into subsidiaries to operate under a new brand. In the future, the head office will only directly operate the mid-to-high-end passenger transportation business.
The development of Feng's Shipping Company represents a microcosm of the domestic shipping industry, and the development of the shipping industry can also directly reflect the development of the empire's industry and commerce.
Not to mention other things, just with such a large tonnage of ships, if there are not enough passengers and cargo, it is unimaginable. What about the tonnage of ships with millions of tons, minus the military’s hundreds of thousands of tons of warships?
, the rest are all civilian ships.
If there is not enough market to support so many ships, those shipping companies and even shipyards, steel plants and the like would have gone bankrupt long ago.
The industry and commerce of the Tang Empire were already on the right track, and most of the time they were able to run very well on their own without any intervention from Li Xuan himself.
In the national defense and people's livelihood industries, companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Royal Assets Division are leading the way and guiding the market.
In other industries, private capital is actively participating, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Royal Assets Division will also enter appropriately.
The development of various industries is already on the right track.
Now the only thing left for Li Xuan to pay attention to is the issue of industrial treatment.
At the beginning of this year, Chen Lifu once again made a plea to ensure workers' treatment.
Since Chen Lifu came up with the agricultural tax reform, limited working hours, and minimum wage standards, Chen Lifu came up with other things. For example, factory owners must sign labor contracts with workers. Once the contract is signed, the factory owners are not allowed to do so during the contract period.
Fire workers at will.
When Chen Lifu originally proposed this point, he received strong support from the Ministry of Taxation!
The Ministry of Taxation even clearly supported Chen Lifu's proposal at the imperial cabinet meeting, requiring employers to sign employment contracts with workers.
Everyone knows what the tax department wants, which is to further control the flow of funds between companies and employees and combat tax evasion by companies.
At that time, many people knew that the purpose of the tax department's actions was not to target the enterprises themselves, but to prepare for the future expansion of the collection of personal income tax.
In the Tang Dynasty, there are two things that cannot be avoided!
Taxes and death!
The most efficient government agency in Datang was the Department of Taxation!
The tax inspection team is the strongest and strictest in law enforcement. After years of continuous reform, the tax inspection team has long been divided into two parts. One part is the tax investigators, who mainly investigate various tax cases. The other part
The tax action team is the tax inspection team in the traditional sense. These are purely armed forces responsible for tax patrols, combating smuggling and other businesses.
Occasionally, I also do some business such as suppressing armed tax resistance and rebellion.
For example, the Maritime Inspection Team under the Tax Inspection Team is equipped with offshore patrol gunboats. Its flagship is a patrol ship of more than 2,000 tons, a steel steam warship equipped with a 120mm breech-mounted rifled gun.
These alone cannot reflect the awesomeness of the tax department.
The Minister of Taxation, the Minister of Taxation, has been in the Imperial Study Room for a long time.
The previous Ministers of the Ministry of Taxation were all ministers on duty in the imperial study room. Only the current Minister of Taxation, Weng Guo Qiong, is not the minister on duty but a walking minister.
The reason for this situation is that the authority of the Ministry of Taxation is too huge. Other ministers in the cabinet are against the Ministry of Taxation to continue to be the minister on duty. In addition, the Holy Emperor also feels that the Ministry of Taxation is too pushy and needs to be suppressed.
Only then did Qin Xunke, Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance, be selected as the new minister on duty in the Royal Study Room, responsible for taxation, finance and other affairs.
This move also gave the tax department a sense of crisis, so they have been wanting to change it for the past two years.
How to change, of course, does not mean changing the political structure or the like, they want to achieve better results as soon as possible, and let the Holy Emperor know that their tax department is the mainstay of the empire.
Other institutions are just freeloaders, and their tax department is the core institution that maintains the operation of the empire.
However, based on current statistics and tax cost issues, it is now difficult for the tax department to carry out innovative reforms on many existing tax types, and then collect more taxes.
Even if it can barely increase, the increased tax cost will be even greater, and the gain will outweigh the loss.
For example, the taxation of individual merchants, which has always been a headache for the tax department, cannot be effectively monitored because they all use cash transactions.
For cash transactions, it is difficult to collect taxes based on turnover or profit data.
For this reason, the tax department had to implement a fixed tax method, such as a small shop on the street. Because the shop owner and customers use cash transactions, the tax department has no control over their turnover and wants to keep them honest.
It is impossible to submit the accounts and then pay taxes based on the turnover.
There are so many small vendors in the country, many of which do not even have fixed business locations. If we want to regulate them all, the tax cost will exceed the tax revenue collected.