They even spend more money on top of their consumption, which is called consumption on top of consumption.
Water transport is called water foot, land transport is called donkey foot. The sailors on the official ships, transporters, escorting soldiers, etc., the food they eat are all included in the transportation consumption. The most outrageous thing is the warehouse consumption. The wood and reed mats spent on hoarding grain are also included in the transportation consumption.
To be included in the warehouse consumption, the cost of transporting grain to Beijing is from 2 to 5 to 4 buckets of rice for every stone of southern rice, which increases the cost by as much as 40%.
Even the Ministry of Husbandry has to pay off the remaining money. For every thousand taels of silver escorted to the Ministry of Husbandry, they have to charge an additional twenty-five taels.
The collection of silver coins will also increase the consumption of fire.
These various expenses often even exceed the official tax.
Qian Sule said, "I also know that the people have been suffering from consumption for a long time, so this time only the fire consumption is left, which is levied at 10%, and the rest are all abolished. There will no longer be any consumption, and no more consumption is allowed."
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"So, now the land silver in Ningbo Prefecture is two dou per standard mu, and the dingyin is two liters per standard mu, and then each plus 10% of the public fire consumption, the total is two dou, four liters and two hens per mu.
Does he pay?"
"There really is nothing else."
Five hundred and twenty-eight thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven shi and six buckets, this is the annual land tax of Ningbo Prefecture, including fire consumption.
Originally, the official tax of a Ningbo government was 170,000 shi of grain, plus more than 20,000 taels of silver, and then there were various additional levies, expenses, etc. However, the imperial court only paid part of the official tax, and it only accounted for part of it.
Insufficient payment.
Now, after re-cleaning, it can actually reach more than 520,000 taels. If you discount one tael of silver per stone, it will be more than 500,000 taels of silver. If you discount it at 2 taels of silver at the market price, it will be over one million taels of silver.
Of course, 10% of the more than 520,000 stone land will go to Zhu Yihai's inner government, 50% will go to the national treasury, and the remaining 40% will be reserved for local finance.
The 50% of the national treasury has exceeded the previous total, and the amount retained by local governments is also astonishing.
In fact, according to what Qian Sule and others said, it seems to have increased a lot, but in fact, the actual money paid by the people is less than in the past. In addition to the regular taxes collected in the past, additional payments cost too much, and it was mainly ordinary people.
However, those that fell into the hands of the imperial court and local officials, most of them fell into the hands of officials.
This is to enrich the officials in charge and harm the public family.
Now we have simplified tax collection and increased local retention. The local government will use the retained money to increase the salaries of officials, and even set up the Integrity Bank and the Minister's Bank.
To put it bluntly, it means that the original private behavior should be unified and standardized. Officials are not allowed to reach out and take it privately. The unified regulations should be collected by the government and then distributed to them.
The advantage of doing this is that it is regulated. In the past, there was no rule about how much to levy and how much to take. It was up to the conscience of the officials to take more or less.
Now, everything has laws and reasons to follow, so as to avoid unlimited preying on the common people.
Of course, the people who benefited the most were the landless people, who were liberated from heavy corvee or forced labor. For the landlords, it seemed that taxes had increased, but after Zhu Yihai was exempted from three wages and other additional tasks, the landlords
In fact, the burden has been reduced.
Some things are so magical. It turns out that the imperial court cannot collect taxes, but the localities suffer from excessive taxes. In fact, the biggest harm is the additional taxes and expenses, which are all corrupted by local officials. And the landlords are often persuaded to donate and forced to donate.
I tried my best to avoid paying taxes.
"Are you planning to exchange silver or collect grain?"
"We plan to set up warehouses in every township, county, and prefecture in Ningbo. If the land grain is less than one stone, you can exchange it for silver or pay the original grain. The silver conversion is based on this year's market price, which is an average of 2 taels per stone. And the land grain is at 2 taels per stone.
For those who want more than one stone, they must first ensure half of the original color grain of Didingna, and the remaining half can be chosen by themselves whether it is the original color or the original color."
"Regardless of the nature of the situation, large households are no longer assigned to serve as grain chiefs or cashiers to collect and transport grains. Instead, the government distributes grain bills, and in summer and autumn, the people themselves deliver money and grain to the countryside."
"Two buckets and four liters of combined grain per mu includes land tax, shareholding and fire consumption. Apart from this, no additional money or grain is allowed to be levied. All costs of collecting grain, etc., are borne by the prefecture and county."
Zhu Yihai gave a thumbs up when he heard this, "Smart people will simplify complex things, while some stupid people or people with bad intentions will deliberately complicate simple things to fish in troubled waters.
Your Ningbo Prefecture is at the forefront of the whole province of Zhejiang. It has done a good job in tax reform and implemented it very quickly, without just talking about it."
"Actually, it's not difficult. It just depends on whether you really want to do it." Qian Sule put it clearly. In the past, who of the local officials had the authority or the intention to do these things?
Moreover, the resistance is indeed great.
But now is a special period. In the past, there were supervisors who killed three people in Ningbo and confiscated Xie's family. Later, there were supervisors who massacred everyone in Yanzhou. Under this situation, Qian Sulelin was also very interested in this kind of people.
Senior officials such as the Censor and the Minister of War are sitting in charge, and they still have the reorganized soldiers of the Zhejiang Battalion in their hands. Who dares to object?
Many local powerful people have been submissive during the purges and rectifications in the past few months.
It's easier to do something if you really want to do it.
Anyway, Qian Sule fully understood the will of the Jianguo, and the organization was very popular in Ningbo. Even the palace of the Lujianguo was included in the inventory and sorting, and the grain was collected according to the mu and distributed in the same way.
For other government, military, and military settlements, regardless of the nature of your government, land, and civilian land, you should first have one book of tax collection, and then how to collect the rent. The rent is rent, and the tax is tax. There are two accounts, and there will be no confusion as before.
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Pay first and rent later, clearly.
"Forty percent of the local reserve is reserved, and there are about 200,000 shi of grain, which is enough for local expenses and can even make a savings." Qian Sule did not expect that he would actually accomplish such a big thing.
"Diding silver can only be regarded as a basic tax. If you really want to solve the financial problem, you have to rely on industrial and commercial taxes. I am here this time to raise revenue. How are the various tax bureaus doing?"
"Currently, the Ningbo Lijin Bureau has branches in every county in the province. According to the regulations issued by the imperial court, it allocates tax officials and tax collectors, and transfers many personnel from the original Ningbo Recovery Camp and other rebels to form a Ningbo Tax Police Camp.
, under the jurisdiction of two battalions, with a total of one thousand tax policemen."
"Our lijin is mainly divided into three types of levies. The first is output lijin. Except for the land tax for growing grain, which will no longer levy additional output lijin, the rest, such as growing tea, growing fruits, raising fish, planting trees, etc., are based on output.
When selling, a levy will be levied, and the tax rate is 1 per cent.
The second is the customs clearance fee. We set up customs checkpoints at the Guanjin Road crossing to tax merchants who sell goods in the past, and the tax rate is also 100%."
"The third method is to levy a 100% fee on businessmen. For business transactions, a 100% levy will be charged."
Zhu Yihai nodded, "Has there been a threshold for tax collection? Small amounts should be exempted from tax, and customs clearance should also exempt ordinary people and vendors below a certain amount from tax."
Qian Sule said that these have also been taken into consideration. At present, Ningbo Lijin Bureau has initially completed the structure and started operations, and the results are not bad.
"We estimate that Ningbo Prefecture will collect more than 160,000 taels of gold per year."
"That's quite a lot."
A government's industrial and commercial tax of 160,000 taels is actually not much. But it is not all industrial and commercial tax. After all, the Ming Dynasty also had serious industrial and commercial tax, but the tax rate is ridiculously low, about the same as this cent, and there are very few gentry businessmen.
There are those who pay taxes.
For example, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone is 10,000 to 20,000 taels a year, which is too much.
"In fact, many people believe that in addition to the income tax, the tax on excess income and residence can be increased to 5%, and the income tax can also be increased to 2%."
Zhu Yihai waved his hand, "Step by step, don't rush, let's implement this step first."
Ningbo Prefecture can get 160,000 taels a year, while Zhejiang Province can get at least more than 1 million taels a year, which is no less than Diding Yin, so Zhu Yihai is quite content.
"Salt, tea, wine, and mines should be monopolized and tax rates should be increased, especially for table salt. The Ming Salt Law has long-standing shortcomings. In addition to fattening a group of big salt merchants and feeding countless corrupt officials, there are a lot of problems and the price of salt is too high.
It was high, and the people suffered greatly, but the court actually didn't get much money from it. There were too many intermediate links, which completely enriched those people.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the maximum amount of salt lessons in a year was only two million taels, and it may not be possible to collect it.
The imperial court levied a tax of two and a half cents per kilogram of salt, and the official retail price of salt reached three or four cents of silver per kilogram. In the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and the price of Susong salt was five cents per kilogram. This was still a salt-producing area.
In Shaanxi and Gansu, the price of salt reaches nine cents of silver per catty.
The price of salt for people in the Ming Dynasty was six times that of the Northern Song Dynasty. The salt tax in the Northern Song Dynasty was tens of millions of guan a year. In the Qing Dynasty, a pound of salt was only about 20 guan, but the salt tax revenue was more than 1,000 guan.
Two million taels.
The price of salt for the people of the Ming Dynasty was five or six times that of other dynasties. As a result, the salt tax collected by the court was only one-fifth or sixth of that of other dynasties, with a difference of dozens of times between inside and outside.
This problem is ridiculously big.
Zhejiang is also a salt-producing area, so Zhu Yihai started to deal with salt as early as when he was in Jiaxing. After taking direct control of the salt field, he no longer divided salt merchant qualifications into salt areas. He only had to pay the salt tax when he came to the salt field to buy salt.
, then anyone can buy it and anyone can sell it.
Zhu Yihai even took the initiative to lower the price of salt, selling only one cent of silver per kilogram of salt. This cent of silver also included half of the salt cost, and only half of the silver salt tax was levied.
But there are also benefits to lowering salt prices and salt taxes, that is, it can reduce smuggling of salt. After all, if the profit of smuggling salt is not large and the risk of being caught is high, it is really not worth it. It is better to buy salt at the salt farm and sell it after paying taxes.
Therefore, reducing salt prices and salt taxes can increase official salt sales and ensure salt tax collection. According to official data, Zhejiang Province has a population of 14 million.
In the Song Dynasty, the annual official salt output was 2 to 3 million jins, which was roughly more than 300 million kilograms of salt, with an average consumption of five kilograms of salt per person. In the Ming Dynasty, the annual salt production was more than 600 million kilograms, even if calculated based on an average of five kilograms of salt per person, Zhejiang Province
At least 70 million kilograms of salt are consumed a year.
One pound of salt is half the salt tax, which is 70 million pounds, which is at least 350,000 taels of silver.
If compared with before, this has actually increased the income several times.
