Chapter 85: Isn't It Beautiful to Get What You Need
Although it was quite inappropriate for Shen Shuren to casually say this truth at the family dinner table. However, Shen Tingyang was obviously used to his son's foresight.
In the past year and a half, my son has often come up with strange ideas and refreshed his knowledge again and again. No matter what happens now, it will not be enough to surprise him.
"Then let's start from the easy to the difficult. First, let's talk about how to convince the local people who pay the money to stop causing trouble." Shen Tingyang asked shamelessly without any psychological pressure.
Shen Shuren: “To solve big problems, we cannot talk about qualitative analysis in general. As long as we dismantle, quantify and divide them into a bunch of small problems, there will be nothing difficult to solve.
Your Majesty's reform of taxation is essentially aimed at reforming the commercial tax collection methods in the southeastern region. Let's first sort out which provinces are involved, and then break them down one by one.
Theoretically, after the implementation of Lijin, the nine southern provinces and Zhili were affected. However, in fact, the Miao rebellion in Yunnan and Guizhou has not been quelled in recent years. Guangdong and Guangxi are remote and borderland, with little inland waterway communication with other provinces. They are isolated by the Wuling Mountains and the sea. It is difficult to set up cards and tax on trade, so these four provinces do not need to be considered.
That leaves Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian. Sichuan is relatively the most difficult to control, and it must have been affected by Tusi and Miao rebellions, etc., and Zhang Xianzhong is now entrenched in Xiongshan (the ancient name of Shennongjia), so the commercial tax rate in the hinterland of Sichuan , in the next few years, it is estimated that the old system will only be temporarily maintained.
However, Sichuan business travelers who had to leave Sichuan by water could guarantee the collection of Lijin, because they could only enter Huguang through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. After the imperial court implemented Lijin, they could set up checkpoints in Zigui or Yiling to coordinate the collection of taxes.
In this way, Sichuan small businessmen who have no intention of long distances and do not engage in inter-provincial trade will not be exploited by the new law. Those who can be exploited are at least those who have big ships and can go out of the Three Gorges. The attitude of Sichuan people is not so important, and most people are not. There is no need to object to Lijin.
People are selfish. If a method cannot exploit oneself, but can only exploit an opponent who is much richer than oneself, then most people will be wise to protect themselves."
Apparently, Shen Shuren took advantage of the boring ten days on the boat to carefully refine these ideas on his way back to Suzhou. He dismantled them in an understatement, and first eliminated a few provinces that did not need to be considered. It seemed that there were problems It suddenly became much easier.
Later, he extended the idea and analyzed that the idea of dealing with Sichuan can also be applied to Jiangxi and Fujian——
Jiangxi is currently a neighboring province in the south where the Shen family can penetrate and have relatively weak influence, and there are few political allies there. However, when Shen Shuren came to Huangzhou to take office, he offended some of the local tycoons who were particularly ugly. Sitting in Jiujiang and infiltrating the Jiangxi families from Huguang to the south, it is impossible to expect to find forces in Jiangxi that are willing to cooperate.
However, the terrain of Jiangxi is almost as closed as that of Sichuan, and most trade goes through the mouth of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang and then along the Yangtze River.
As long as we tighten the pockets of Huguang and South Zhili in the east and west to ensure that "Jiangxi people will not be taxed for short-distance trade within the province, and as long as you leave Poyang Lake from Jiujiang, you can go against the current to Huguang or go east and south." If you are from Zhili, you will be charged a fee."
Then, more than 80% of the local small businessmen and gentry in Jiangxi will not actively resist for the time being.
As for Fujian, it is true that there are no inland waterways leading to other provinces, but the Shen family wants to take over the Zheng Zhilong family so that Zheng Zhilong can also support the Lijin Reform, which is equivalent to taking over the entire Fujian by the way.
Zheng Zhilong can collect more than 10 million taels of silver in flag money a year, so Fujian is the Fujian of the Zheng family.
"...So, if you want to collect lijin, the imperial court can completely adopt a few pilot provinces and set up one in each, including Huguang, Nanzhili, and Fujian. The remaining Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang are sandwiched in between. As long as If you use rivers and waterways to leave the province, you will be taxed.
In this way, the problem is simplified in half. And the reason is very good: Huguang and Nanzhili are provinces affected by bandits, so they have adopted special wartime commercial tax management. There are no bandits entering Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang for the time being. , so it is not implemented in theory." Shen Shuren concluded.
"There is still chaos in South Zhili now?" Shen Tingyang didn't react for a moment. He subconsciously felt that South Zhili was already peaceful.
However, Shen Shuren pointed out very sensitively: "How come, the area under the jurisdiction of Anlu Governor Shi Kefa is not considered Southern Zhili? There are bandits in the mountainous area near Yinghuo Mountain in Luzhou Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, which is equivalent to Southern Zhili If there is a bandit, the imperial court will take full advantage of it."
Shen Tingyang was stunned and quickly said that he had said the wrong thing.
The most northwest corner of South Zhili is bounded by the Dabie Mountains, so if there are bandits in the Dabie Mountains, it can be said that South Zhili is a war zone.
Although it's a bit fussy, there's nothing wrong with it legally.
Shen Tingyang continued to analyze how to solve the problem of Lijin support rates in those three key provinces.
"For Fujian, again, we have to give some benefits and pull Zheng Zhilong further into our war ship. Last year, our relationship with the Zheng family was relatively normal, but also relatively cold.
That's because we helped Mr. Yang Ge to deceive Zheng Chenggong into Nanjing Imperial College before. Zheng Zhilong thought about it afterwards, and he would definitely feel a little confused. So in the past year, we basically did not ease the relationship with the Zheng family. At most, we only made friends with Zheng Chenggong himself. .
Now that the limelight has passed, we can use Zheng Chenggong's career prospects as an entry point to bypass Zheng Chenggong and rely on Zheng Hongkui to directly trade with Zheng Zhilong. For example, let Zheng Chenggong directly donate his official position as a civil servant as a supervisor.
Now that I am the fifth-grade prefect, I can definitely find a way to greet Mr. Yangge and arrange some subordinate officials myself. When my father returns to Nanjing in the future, I can also find a way at the Nanjing Household Department. In short, I promise Zheng Zhilong.
I know that Zheng Zhilong still hopes that his son will wash away the bad reputation of the "family of pirates" and become a civil servant. As long as he is from a decent background and is not afraid of being looked down upon by scholars, Zheng Zhilong is willing to pay a small price.
The Zheng family has the Chamber of Commerce of the "Shan Hai Wu Road". Hai Wu Road is responsible for sea trade with foreigners. We can't receive lijin in the vast sea. However, Shan Wu Road is responsible for purchasing goods. Therefore, as long as the Zheng family purchases goods at various ports in the Yangtze River, I collected a few cents from various merchants and we were done.
We can also promise that all the money collected from the Zheng family will be spent in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and will never be spent in Huguang. In this way, the money will be collected locally for local use, and the Zheng family will be involved in the allocation of money. Give them a certain right to speak, and they will definitely be willing to speak out."
Chen Shuren’s words are also combined with hundreds of years of experience in dealing with wealthy people: If you directly ask the super-rich to levy inheritance tax, you will definitely encounter severe opposition when the law is first enacted.
But if you say, "You can make a tax-deductible donation, and your son can also intervene in how the money donated to the trust fund is spent in the future," then the resistance will be much smaller, which is a coincidence of "no representation, no taxation." Capital Attention Thoughts.
After taking care of Fujian, Shen Shuren continued his analysis:
"In the remaining Huguang and Nanzhili, the key to implementing Lijin in Huguang is the strong push of Mr. Yang Ge and Governor Fang. The rebellion there has spread very widely, and the atmosphere of military and political priority is strong. As long as the leading generals and supervisors are Support, businessmen and gentry cannot make any trouble.
With Mr. Yang Ge, I will naturally use my previous relationship to clarify my interests with him. Lijin is conducive to suppressing thieves and is beneficial to Mr. Yang Ge. As for Governor Fang, when I return to my post after the year, I will also follow your previous instructions. I asked you to pay your respects and give me some benefits in a reasonable way.
On the Southern Zhili side, our Shen family is the largest household in the future. If we are willing to take the lead, we can suppress the opposition of Suzhou Prefecture. There is no need to deal with it in Songjiang. We have cooperated very well with Xuge's hometown in the past two years. Yes, by selling new looms together, everyone made at least hundreds of thousands more taels.
The rest are several prefectures around Nanjing, where tax-resistant gentry gather, and there are many nobles with hundreds of years of experience. They all enjoyed tax-free treatment in the past, and some of them can even reduce the normal tax on banknotes.
For the resistance from several prefectures in Jiangbei around Nanjing, I will go to Anlu Governor Shi Kefa to establish friendship. The military is now the priority there. In the Jiangnan area around Nanjing, I need to win over the ministers and ministers of Nanjing's Ministry of Household Affairs, as well as some powerful people. So noble.
This is also the key problem we need to solve when we go to Nanjing after the Lantern Festival. If we break this hard nut, no one in the area will be able to resist."
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Shen Shuren peeled off the cocoons and quickly reduced the problem to the last piece: as long as the opponents of the reform in Nanjing were eliminated, other regions already had countermeasures.
That posture is quite a bit like Zhuge Liang's strategizing, "anjupingwulu" scolding Fang Qiu.
Shen Tingyang was dazzled by what he heard. He was no less excited than Liu Chan when he listened to Zhuge's explanation of countermeasures. For a moment, the father and son were smarter than each other, and there was a reversal. The son was like Zhuge, and the father was like Liu Chan. It had to be said that he was very happy.
After being stunned for a while, Shen Tingyang remembered a question: "Who should we win over when we go to Nanjing after that year? Have you ever thought about it?"
Of course Chen Shuren had thought about it. He was just idle on the boat these days, so he did not hesitate to throw out a name:
"Hai'er has already gotten to know the current officials of various ministries in Nanjing, and he feels that Zhang Guowei, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, can be won over. After the Lantern Festival, the father can hold a banquet with the child to entertain Zhang Guowei and clarify the interests.
Zhang Shilang is also considered a person who is loyal to the country, and he once patrolled the ten prefectures in Nanzhili and supervised the Sanwu Water Conservancy in Guangdong. My father must have read the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book" that he wrote after leaving office the year before last, right?
Zhang Shilang has deep roots in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works in Nanjing. When he was in charge of the construction of water conservancy projects in Sanwu, he often shared the work with the noble gentry. He had the most experience and credibility to "get the wealthy gentry of Sanwu to donate money to the local people."
Only with his intervention can the wealthy gentry believe that the extra money they pay is guaranteed to benefit the local people. In fact, in the most severe years of the tax resistance of the Sanwu gentry, it was not that they really did not want to do good things in the local area. The main thing they resisted was Jiangnan. The money was used to support Beijing.
Since my father plans to leave and go south in the future, he can tell him that the bad reputation of proposing the reform will be borne by you, father, and the benefits of effectively implementing the reform will be borne by Zhang Shilang.
In the end, things went well and Mr. Zhang was allowed to go to Beijing to be the Minister of Household Affairs. Father, you expressed your willingness to be demoted to the south and returned to Nanjing to take over Mr. Zhang's errand. We all got what we needed. Wouldn't it be nice?"
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