After a period of preparation, Rui Fu Xiang Jewelry Store opened. The store is located right next to the Happy Inn. The jewelry industry plans to take the high-end route, and the customer base is also aimed at those wealthy and powerful. Therefore, the decoration is also very stylish, all the display tables are made of rosewood, and the outside is illuminated with bright glass. The entire store is divided into two floors, the lower floor is open to all customers, and the upper floor is only open to VIPs. There is also a customer lounge area, comfortable sofas, a beautiful coffee table, a beautiful picture book at hand, and exquisite refreshments for customers to use when choosing jewelry or taking a nap.

The whole store has an aristocratic atmosphere. Xiaofan, Xiaoqi, these two beautiful and shrewd girls have also become a scenery in the store. The guys in the store are both men and women, and they are carefully selected and trained by the two of them to target both male and female customers.

All kinds of exquisite jewelry, humanized service, and well-organized management soon allowed Ruifuxiang to gain a firm foothold in the capital. Under the leadership of Xiaofan and Xiaoqi, the business of the store is becoming more and more prosperous.

Xu Qinhai and Luo Qindong also quickly entered the role and began to travel around to purchase raw materials.

At the same time, Captain Martin's business scope has also expanded to include gold, jewelry, and other fields.

Shuyun and Martin have always worked together happily, and most of the spices and foreign goods that Shuyun's original Happy Inn's store handled are now provided by Captain Martin. With a stable supply of goods, after several years of operation, not only the scale of the head office has expanded a lot, but also opened three branches in the capital, and there are also branches in prosperous areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou. These are all taken care of by Chen Ce, Qian Afu and Ding Shuigen. Shuyun only asked in the general direction. With the expansion of the Happy Lodge, Martin went from being a bare-rod captain with only one boat. He became the leader of a fleet with four large armed merchant ships and hundreds of men under his command.

In fact, the jewellery shop also sells fine ivory and rhino horn products. The raw materials are also imported from Africa and carefully carved by the chefs in the shop.

Sook-woon is not an avid wildlife conservationist though. But as a reborn person who has the soul of a modern man. Shuyun is still very resistant to the cruel practice of hunting these "elves" who are free to gallop in the wilderness, just to take a certain part of their bodies in blood.

But you can't help but face the reality, you don't want these things, there are countless people who will line up to get them. In the end, you can only damage your own business. If Shuyun stood up and talked about wildlife protection, in such an era, not only would no one listen, but everyone would think that Shuyun was sick. Manchurian is the world on horseback. Hunting is a daily routine and a tradition for them. Although there is no longer a war, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, this tradition has been further carried forward. Fortunately, they know that they want to protect the source of beasts, and they generally do not hunt female beasts and young beasts with cubs easily.

Kangxi was very puzzled by Shuyun's love of doing business so much.

In fact, Shuyun doesn't like business very much, but Shuyun knows the importance of money, and she knows the importance of money for a helpless and ideal woman. Royal College of Physicians, Institute of Artisans. Schools, and so on, don't need money. Although Kangxi sometimes allocates or rewards some funds, it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the expenses that are really needed. It's not worth mentioning at all.

Incentives for production, rewards for invention, various research funds, etc., Shuyun also has to plan for the future of the buns. None of these are for money.

Of course. Shuyun won't say these words to Kangxi.

Facing Lao Kang's question, Shuyun just smiled and said, "There is no woman who doesn't like silver." Especially people like me who have been poor. When I was a child, I learned what it means to walk without money. ”

Whenever Shuyun mentioned her childhood experience, Kangxi felt distressed. After hugging Shuyun and soothing it. I still couldn't help but say: "If you want money, I can give it to you, why do you want to do such a shady thing as doing business." ”

"Your money is to build the country, every cent has to be spent on the blade, how can you just give it to me because I like money, and besides, I like to make money myself, so that I have a sense of accomplishment. Also, I don't think business is an inferior thing, every type of person in this world has the value of his existence. We must admit that it is necessary for businessmen to promote the circulation of goods and prosper the country's economy and market. And through doing business, I found that the taxes of our Daqing Dynasty are also unreasonable. "To be able to buy it in front of Kangxi without spending a penny, such a cost-effective deal, Shuyun has always spared no effort.

"Oh, how is it unreasonable?" Kangxi is still very pleased with Shuyun's deep understanding of righteousness, but he is more curious about the tax issue that Shuyun said.

Shuyun organized her language for a moment before saying, "Of course, it is still very reasonable compared to Qianming. The main difference between the financial structure of the former Ming Dynasty and our Qing Dynasty is that our Great Qing Dynasty converted part of the field endowment and forced labor into silver to pay.

Of course, this is mainly because of the large loss of silver in the Yuan Dynasty, which led to the Ming Dynasty, when there was no silver available in the society, and it could only be replaced by some physical objects such as grain. It was only in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty that a large amount of silver was earned from overseas trade, which made the situation better. Zhang Juzheng was able to carry out the reform of the "one whip law". However, this reform harmed the interests of those in power at that time, so this good policy could not be implemented to the end, until we won the world, and all kinds of conditions were met, and it was natural to come into being.

Qianming also had a huge and heavy burden, that is, the clan. They lack the ability to govern and are prone to forming cliques, which has done great harm to the country. The practice of the pre-Ming was to grant them a noble social status and privileges such as tax exemptions, and to give them sufficient financial support, but not to allow them to intervene in the imperial examinations, nor to allow them to enter the imperial court. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the number of imperial relatives was not large, and the state treasury was more than enough to support them, and by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this group of people had developed into a staggering number of hundreds of thousands. Such a group of aristocrats, not allowed to make a difference in politics, turned their attention to wealth, and they relied on their privileges to occupy the cultivated land with impunity, and multiplied at a frantic pace. The powerful, the powerful, and the corrupt officials consume a lot of national wealth together. ”

Like the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of bannermen and a large number of vassals were also groups that the Qing government took special care of. The Qing government has done a relatively wise job in this regard, the first is that the promises made when the founding of the country have always been true to their word, and they will give certain treatment to their subordinates. The second is that except for the eight iron hat kings who are hereditary, the titles of other personnel are gradually decreasing from generation to generation, and the number of privileged groups is always controlled within a limited range. In general, the lessons of the Ming Dynasty still gave the Qing Dynasty a lot of changes. But on the whole, because of special care, most of the bannermen quickly degenerated into useless parasites. It is also a big burden on the financial side. So when Shuyun mentioned this problem, Kangxi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After a while, when Kangxi had almost digested it, Shuyun continued: "Compared with the former Ming Dynasty, our Qing Dynasty has improved in many aspects. It was mainly manifested in the drastic reduction of imperial expenditures, the abolition of the completely useless tuntian system in the late Ming Dynasty, and the encouragement of production and stable taxation. Another point is that our Qing Dynasty is much better than the previous Ming Dynasty, our Qing Dynasty's financial savings are mainly invested, road construction, disaster relief and water control, the imperial court has invested a lot, the disaster relief is institutionalized, everything is in order, and it has indeed saved many people. Moreover, the investment in flood control and disaster relief is by no means without returns, and disaster relief ensures social stability, and also ensures the ability of the labor force to continue to pay taxes, creating the necessary conditions for our Qing Dynasty to stabilize tax revenue. ”

"Well, that's right, I just want to implement benevolent government and benefit the people of the world." As soon as he said this, Kangxi couldn't help but be proud.

Lao Kang will be complacent when he hears someone praise him, and Shuyun annoys him the most. I rolled my eyes secretly in my heart.

When he was drunk, Shuyun said: "Of course, the Qing Dynasty also has many shortcomings, such as: it still relies heavily on the income generated by the land and the population, does not try to open up other sources of wealth, does not encourage commerce and foreign trade, and has not been able to effectively solve the huge cost of transportation. The consumption of soldiers' military expenses has also remained high. There is a lack of more money to invest in improving transportation, improving welfare, investing in scientific research, improving the quality of the people, and health care.

Of course, these financial characteristics were not unique to the Qing Dynasty, but were common to all dynasties. The purpose of the imperial court was never to accumulate wealth to the greatest extent, and the imperial court only needed the basic expenses necessary to maintain the stability of the country. In addition to military salaries, the imperial court also budgeted for royal expenses, official expenses, administrative expenses, and part of the reserve funds to meet emergencies, which constituted the whole of state expenditures and indirectly determined the amount of state taxes. The courtiers always seemed to think that it was tyranny to levy more taxes on the people under other names.

In fact, such a fiscal policy is conservative and passive, and it also lacks vitality. The reasons are, of course, manifold. Take the commercial tax as an example, no matter what kind of goods are handled, it is now levied at the rate of 30 tax and 1. This is unreasonable, each industry sells different goods, and the profits are also different. How can those who open mines, and those who sell high-end jewelry like me, be taxed in the same proportion as those who sell tea eggs and rock sugar gourds? Of course, from a business point of view, I am very willing to pay less taxes, but as your woman, I don't want to see the country suffer.

Moreover, the merchant always earned more than the peasants and craftsmen of the same rank, but now he pays less tax than the peasants. This is grossly unfair.

Have you noticed a very fast phenomenon, looking at the dynasties and dynasties, the fall of each dynasty is the financial bankruptcy first and then the country's demise. Therefore, fair and reasonable fiscal and taxation policies are the prerequisites for ensuring the long-term peace and stability of the country. ”

Shuyun just wants to give Kangxi a wake-up call today, and it depends on his own decision as to how to do it. For example, the gentry paid grain in one piece, spread the land into the mu, and the fire consumption returned to the public. These three major virtues, Shuyun doesn't want to mention, and it is not suitable for Shuyun to put it forward, if Kangxi can't think of it, he can only leave it to the original proposer, Long Dan Xiaopenyou.

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