Chapter five hundred and forty-six Cen staff counselor good strategy
Due to the liquidity of commerce, its taxation has always been a big problem for the autocratic feudal dynasties, and it also caused the rulers to resent merchants. Most dynasties implemented monopolization of high-profit industries such as salt, iron, silk, and tea.
This government-run management method will stifle the vitality of the commodity economy. Only the palace and the so-called imperial merchants can make substantial profits. The middle and lower-class suppliers and craftsmen are deeply exploited and cannot expand in scale, and can only be reduced to small handicrafts.
Just lingering for breath.
However, without the implementation of product monopoly, commercial taxes cannot be collected fairly and comprehensively, and tax loopholes cannot be avoided even in modern governments. What's more, in ancient times with low productivity levels, commercial taxes are purely based on character and fate. Wise gentlemen, watch
The big businessmen who are extremely wealthy are greedy, and their own magnanimity makes them unwilling to do things like ransacking homes and killing chickens to obtain eggs.
In ancient times, the way to collect commercial taxes was nothing more than passing through city gates or collecting taxes in markets. Both of these methods can be easily avoided in the past. For example, to collect taxes through city gates, you only need to bribe the city gate officials and declare the valuables as cheap goods.
Such as market taxation, big merchants can use their influence to conduct transactions outside the market, even secretly.
Beiting is located on the northern line of the Silk Road. Businessmen from Dashi, Zhaowu, Geluolu and Uighur in the east all passed through here. There is no complete post station system here like Anxi, or even in cities such as Tingzhou and Gaochang.
There is no such complete trading place as West Market.
Therefore, Cen Shen suggested to Li Siye: "Zhongcheng, it is better to start with the pass documents. All business travelers entering from outside the country must have a pass issued by the Beiting Protectorate in order to be able to pass smoothly. When these business travelers arrive at the Protectorate
The tax is levied in advance when the government issues an invoice, and the amount of the tax is levied based on the number of people and livestock in the caravan, as well as the quantity of goods, so as to ensure a certain degree of fairness."
Li Siye asked hesitantly: "What if these business travelers do not travel through our Beiting territory to avoid taxation, but instead take a long way to the Anxi Protectorate's Pass?"
"For this, we can only ask the Anxi Protectorate to also use the ultimatum to carry out pre-collection."
Isn’t this nonsense? How could he, the governor of Beiting, order the Anxi Protectorate to change the government order? Cen Shen also felt that this proposal was inappropriate and quickly added: "Zhongcheng can lower the tax rate, presumably for business travelers."
We won’t take long detours just to save this little money.”
Cen Shen crossed his hands again and said: "I will submit another suggestion to Zhongcheng, that is, merchants with household registration in Tingzhou and Xizhou can have their tax rates appropriately reduced when they go to the Duhu Mansion with their household registration notation to issue a residence permit."
Of course Li Siye understood that this was a policy adjustment to retain the floating population in the local area.
Cen Shen added: "Gaochang is rich in grape wine. There are dozens of wineries in the city. Many businessmen and travelers from the Central Plains come to Gaochang to purchase goods. This tax revenue is also a considerable income."
Li Siye thought for a while and asked Cen Shen: "Can we tax the winery's output in advance? The winery will naturally increase the price of grape wine."
"It's possible, but this requires Zhongcheng to send someone to the wine shop to discuss it in detail."
After talking about taxation, Li Siye asked Cen Shen about encouraging people to cultivate fields. Cen Shen suggested: "In order to attract people to plant more fields and attract outsiders to come to Tingzhou to farm, I suggest that Zhongcheng issue a notice in advance. Starting from this year,
Those who take the initiative to reclaim wasteland can go to Puchang, Jinman, Luntai and other counties to report the number of acres, and then the county magistrate will go there in person to register and register. At the same time, the existing land in Xizhou, Tingzhou, will be registered and the land will be registered.
A distinction is made between existing land and reclaimed wasteland. The Protectorate issued a preferential decree, providing a small amount of financial subsidy for each additional acre of wasteland cultivated by the people, and the output of the reclaimed wasteland in the first year will not be taxed or adjusted."
Li Siye couldn't help but clapped his hands and said in approval: "This is good. Using discounts to attract people to increase their farmland can increase our annual grain output in Beiting."
He then asked: "So how to increase the population of Tingzhou and Xizhou?"
Cen Shen rubbed his brows and smacked his tongue: "There is no good way to do this. We can only encourage people to issue notices to encourage births. Whoever has the most children will receive monetary and physical rewards from the Protectorate."
Li Siye nodded and said: "This can be considered a method, but it will take ten or twenty years before the results are achieved. I can't wait that long."
Cen Shen glanced at Li Siye secretly with a strange expression. Zhongcheng had just been established this year. He was in the prime of life. Why couldn't he wait for so long? Did he know his deadline?
"Then there is no good solution for Cen Shen. Although Tingzhou is not as barren as Anxi, it is not a good place. It is not as good as the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, nor as good as the Hetao in the south of the Yangtze River, nor as rich as Longyou in the world.
, outsiders are generally unwilling to move here.”
Cen Shen is right. The Central Plains and Jiangnan are very prosperous. Who would want to come to Beiting to settle down, except those convicted of exile.
However, when the imperial court sent people into exile, they were all sent to Lingnan and other miasma-ridden southern areas. Although the conditions in Beiting and Anxi were a little worse, the environment was still not as bad as Lingnan. He thought that he should tentatively send a memorial to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would
Some prisoners with lighter crimes can be assigned to Beiting, which can also increase part of the population.
He agreed with most of Cen Shen's decisions and prepared to implement them in the Beiting Protectorate. Cen Shen was temporarily responsible for the issuance of the ultimatums passed by the Protectorate, and other matters would be discussed later.
Because Cen Shen often visited Li Siye's residence, he attracted Pang Yue's attention and also aroused his dissatisfaction. He had just arrived in Beiting not long ago, and he was also Li Siye's staff. At the same time, he was also a secret agent sent by the Right Prime Minister.
, why are you so highly regarded by Li Siye, and I have to sit on the bench here.
A few days before Pang Yue arrived, Li Siye often called him to express his closeness, but when it came time to actually do things, he put him aside as a judge. Judge Pang thought to himself: How can this be allowed? I still want to get close to you to spy on the news, so
Being excluded, the Year of the Ox and the Moon of the Horse can fulfill the entrustment of the Right Prime Minister.
He must find a way to attract Li Siye's attention and gain his favor.
Those who play Infernal Affairs need to be talented. But Pang Yue has a lot of experience in playing leaf games and gambling, and his level of cockfighting is not low, but other aspects are not satisfactory. Perhaps after several conversations with him, Li Siye also learned that
It turns out that he really has neither great nor crooked talents.
Since the other party looked down on his talent, he could only find a way to make contributions, but what achievements could be made now? He thought about it for two whole afternoons before finally coming up with a rather strange idea - to go to Li Siye
A lawsuit against Cen Shen in front of him.
Isn't it just because Cen Shen gained so much attention in front of Zhong Cheng that no one listened to his words and no one looked at his face. If he wanted to get close to Li Siye, he had to defeat his rival Cen Shen.