When Chen Wenhui returned to Qingchun City, it was already the twentieth day of the lunar month. Chen Yuanheng and other people from the capital were already on the way. Chen Wenhui first dealt with some of the things that had accumulated in Qingchun City during her absence, and then held a meeting with senior officials.

In fact, Chen Wenhui is in Tianshui City, and the government affairs of Qingchun City have not been delayed at all. This is all due to Chen Wenhui's very clear division of the powers of each official in his official office, everyone performs their own responsibilities, and the management is in an orderly manner, as for the decision-making matters, Chen Wenhui generally makes decisions, and there are some urgent or small things, most of which are handled by Wan Shuhui, so although Chen Wenhui has been in Tianshui City for so long, Qingchun City is still developing in an orderly manner.

Nowadays, Qingchun City is a city that merchants from Dachu and Yizhou Island like to come to. Because there is significantly more production here than in the other three cities. Precious embroidery, fashionable clothes, elaborate high, medium and low-end furniture, rich fruit derivatives. For example, preserved fruits, fruit juices, and nectar, etc. There are also some high-tech things, such as spices, flavors, snowflake candy, ironware, copperware, pewterware, etc. These things are very popular with the people of Yizhou Island and Da Chu, so merchants are willing to come here to do business, buy the products of Qingchun City, and sell some items of Da Chu by the way. It is worth mentioning that the people of Qingchun City are generally richer than the people of Dachu, so they need more things and have stronger purchasing power, which is also one of the reasons why Dachu merchants like it here. After all, buying and selling, the profit is still much stronger than unilateral trade.

Chen Wenhui's pace of development has not stopped for a moment. Because he has advanced ideas, he is not short of money in his hands. Dachu keeps people coming to Qingchun City, so the population has increased considerably, and Qingchun City is developing rapidly as if it is full of energy.

Chen Wenhui returned to Qingchun City to think about it, there are really a lot of things to do at the moment, for example, the development of Qingchun City has been very fast, according to the officials, the first batch of land tax for land reclamation can be collected this year. In this era, land tax is the bulk of the country's tax revenue. The tithes are levied in Europe. Ten percent of the harvest per acre of land must be taxed. I have to say. This one is very demanding. The Central Plains has always paid more attention to reducing the burden on peasants, so although the eleventh tax has also appeared, it is a minority after all. Most of the time. It's all twenty taxes one. Even met the good emperor. There is still a time when thirty taxes are one. Chen Wenhui remembered that in his previous life, when he studied history and the rule of Wenjing, it was thirty taxes and one day. It has been praised by later generations for a long time. Of course, this era is an era that has changed history, and many things that originally appeared in later generations have already appeared, such as simplified characters, such as glass, and so on. These are all thanks to the Fusu Emperor. Although there is no Han Dynasty in this era, there is one more Great Chu Dynasty. In the Great Chu Dynasty, there were also several wise emperors, and when they were in office, they also had thirty taxes and one tax, and naturally they were praised for a long time.

Chen Wenhui has also been thinking about how much land tax to collect. On this day, it was already a small year, Wan Shuhui came to Chen Wenhui's courtyard and discussed with Chen Wenhui about the government affairs of Qingchun City.

Wan Shuhui said: "In fact, three months ago, our first batch of wasteland could be taxed. We also called the report to you, why didn't you approve it? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "When we told the people that we wanted them to come to open up the wasteland, we said that they would be exempt from taxes for three years. According to Da Chu's algorithm, two years are counted according to two ends, so it is now three years. In reality, however, this is only the third year. I mean, we don't follow Da Chu's algorithm, we follow our algorithm, since we have promised the people three years of tax exemption, it is naturally a full three years, and not a day is missing. So, I'm going to do it again this time next year. ”

Wan Shuhui had expected it: "You didn't agree, I guess your idea may be like this." In fact, most of the people in Qingchun City came from Da Chu, so they are all used to Da Chu's algorithm, and now they can take over by paying taxes. Moreover, the two years of duty-free time have given them a great harvest. Besides, we want to give preferential treatment to ordinary people, but most of the wasteland we have opened up at the time is on the edge of the city. Now it has basically been bought by those merchants, so even if it is taxed now, it is a tax on those wealthy merchants, and it does not affect the interests of ordinary people. ”

Chen Wenhui thought about it, just like Gui Yuxia's land, the hundreds of acres of land reclaimed by her family had been sold early, and now it has changed hands a few times, where to give Gui Yuxia and them a discount. Now it's tax, and they still don't have to pay taxes, because the big manor that their family later opened up is not yet time.

Chen Wenhui thought for a moment and said, "Having said that, this also involves an issue of the integrity of our yamen. We are now taxing a batch of land, and it has not hurt the interests of ordinary people, but then, is it not successively taxing the second and third batches of land? Will that hurt the interests of ordinary people? So, I thought, we can prepare first and then start taxing next year. In this way, we have really achieved integrity, at least more honest than our Dachu court. Second, we took care of these businessmen who bought the first batch of land, and they were naturally grateful, and they naturally promoted our Qingchun City positively, which would attract more businessmen to invest. Isn't that a benefit? That's it, Zhang Bang announced, our land tax will be gradually collected from next year. ”

Wan Shuhui thought about it, so she nodded and said, "Okay, listen to the city lord." Anyway, we're not short of money right now. Although our agricultural tax is less, in the future when more businessmen come, the tax on doing business will be raised, which is more considerable than the agricultural tax. However, you are also right, you need to prepare in advance. I just want to discuss with you, in the future, we will start collecting taxes, how much will we collect? This should also be announced to the people in advance, so as to stabilize people's hearts. After all, unlike the Central Plains, the land here is very productive, and it can produce two or even three seasons a year, so how can this be taxed? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "We need to create a good place with light labor and taxation, so as to be conducive to the development of our city." In order to attract more people to Qingchun City. How is the land tax collected in Da Chu now? ”

Wan Shuhui said: "The land tax of our court in Dachu is 20 taxes and 1, the land in the north is taxed once a year, and the land in the south is twice a year, because many places in the south can grow two crops a year, but two crops and one crop are staple foods, such as wheat and rice. Not a stubble, that stubble used to be vegetables and the like, but now there are many kinds of cotton, corn, and sweet potatoes. In this way, the imperial court collected thirty taxes and one for this stubble. The literati all praised our court of Dachu for being very holy now, and the people were able to recuperate, even if they fought against the northwest for many years, they did not increase the taxes of the people, which was really a rare prosperous era. The emperor was also praised for this. ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said: "The war in the northwest did not levy so many taxes, that is because the income of the sea trade is high enough to fully support this protracted war, where is the emperor distressed by the people." However, we don't care about them, we need to work out a tax system that is lighter than the current tax of Dachu, so that we can be competitive. ”

Wan Shuhui smiled and said, "You have made up your mind to snatch people from Da Chu." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "I was also forced, do you think I want to?" I don't want to rob people. However, where can we give birth to so many people in a short period of time, even if they are born, this person will not grow up in a day. But, you see, how much terra nullius is there? How rich the property is, this is equivalent to entering the treasure mountain, but you can't finish it, I can't wait to grow two more hands? ”

Wan Shuhui said: "Well, your analogy is very appropriate, this South Sea is a big treasure house, not to mention this huge Luzon Island, as well as this Mindanao Island, and countless lands and islands farther away, although there are natives here, but those natives are very backward, most of them have not established a country, and it is still the era of tribes, where can we compare with our strong forces." It's easy for us to take down these lands, but why do we do it? Where do we have so many people to cultivate and protect the land? Speaking of which, it really has to attract more people from the landless world to come over. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "By the way, this is the situation. I think that if our tax is set in this way, we will set a tax of thirty and one, and no matter how many crops you grow a year, we will only collect one crop. What do you think? How to levy it, what stubble to collect, and, when collecting, it is necessary to divide the flat land, and the mountainous land, because the mountain is different from the planting things, but also has a different tax law, anyway, you follow this idea, draw up a collection method, give it to me, we will discuss it, what do you think? ”

Wan Shuhui was a little surprised and said, "Although I know that your tax must be very light, it is still unexpectedly so light. Although the current tax system of the imperial court is like this, this is the tax of the imperial court, and there are taxes given by local governments in each locality, so the actual taxes of the people farming are heavier. We are completely in accordance with Da Chu, and we are also considered light. What's more, so light now? It's just a harvest, which is really unexpected. How much money are we going to lose? ”

"We have to take a long-term view, but in fact, I don't plan to put agricultural taxes in the first place. The purpose of such a light tax is to attract more people. As long as there are more people, our business will be developed, and the tax revenue of commerce is not stronger than the agricultural tax? (To be continued......)