Zhao Hao could only encourage him and say, you can think about it. Both of you are considered foreign nationals, and you have been made to sell ginseng, so you started as a cheaper...... Oh no, the people who started selling southern goods, everyone can be said to be on a par.

People once made a small golden man, who was able to occupy the village of the Song Dynasty, built a radius of hundreds of miles, a large population, more than 10,000 military horses, and set down five big villages, and no one dared to provoke Zengtou City. Isn't it more beautiful than a prefect?

You still have the backing of my son, why can't you also take root in a foreign country, become bigger and stronger, and become a local tyrant? Let the shepherds obey your orders and become the heroes of the recovery of Tamna?

Tang Fatzi agreed.

In fact, he is just coquettish with Zhao Hao and wants to be more photogenic. Tang Youde knew very well in his heart that Zhao Gongzizhi was not in the court but overseas.

Zhao Hao's unification of Jiangnan is just to better exert his strength overseas. As for the operation in the capital, in fact, in order to reduce constraints, it also has the meaning of pulling the banner and making a tiger skin.

From the perspective of doing business, he can also understand Zhao Gongzi. What is doing business? It's about buying low and selling high. Selling things that are cheap in place A to place B where the price is high and earning the difference in price is doing business.

This is how he sells southern goods; This is true of maritime trade; Gongzi pulls the tiger skin of the imperial court, and the same is true for operating overseas - the signboard of the Celestial Empire is worthless at home, but it is super valuable overseas. Childe wants to buy this signboard from China at a low price, and then realize it at a high price overseas!

This is a big business that has been accumulated by the Heavenly Empire for 2,000 years! He didn't want to be absent even if he killed Tang Youde!

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So Tang Youde accepted Zhao Hao's appointment and served as the first mayor of Xingang City.

According to the "Xingang City Management Regulations (Provisional)" formulated by Zhao Gongzi himself, the mayor is the chief executive of Xingang City. The term of office is five years and may be renewed once. Its responsibilities are to lead the overall work of the city hall, and to reward and punish the appointment and dismissal of the staff of the city hall other than the counselor.

The responsibility of the city hall is to ensure a stable, free and open environment in Xingang City and promote the prosperity of Xingang.

Specifically, the number one task of the town hall is to collect taxes – customs duties, commercial taxes and resident taxes.

The tariffs are for import and export goods, but the import and export goods of the Daming Royal Shipping Corporation are exempt from duty. To put it bluntly, it is to collect taxes from the Li Dynasty merchant group. The tax rate is 10 taxes and 1.

The commercial tax is levied on shops and merchants who carry out business activities in Xingang City, and the tax rate is 20 tax 1.

As for the resident tax, it is levied on households settled in Xingang City, with a fixed amount of one tael per household per year.

Taxation is a good thing, who will engage in urban construction without taxation?

Oh no, it should be said that it is, how can you do urban construction without taxes?

Moreover, according to Zhao Gongzi, obtaining income through taxation is only one aspect, and it can also establish bonds with citizens. After all, no one will cherish what is easy to get, and only when the residents and shops pay the cost will they really protect the city!

Well, that's disgusting to say. However, it is possible to keep citizens subject to management, maintain population stability, and accurately grasp the economic situation of the city through taxation.

Look, there are so many benefits of collecting taxes, even if Zhao Gongzi doesn't want to make money, he has to collect taxes well.

Of course, no one will take the initiative to pay taxes, so the city hall has set up a tax office, and the tax inspector is responsible for compulsory taxation.

And although anyone is welcome to work and live in Newport, if you want to do business or buy a property here, you must have a continuous tax payment certificate.

In order to make Xingang City prosperous as soon as possible, the first year of opening the port is tax-free, and no tax payment certificate is required to buy a house.

After a year, those who dare to resist the tax will be thrown into prison, tried by an arbitration tribunal, fined and expelled at the worst, and reformed through labor.

Prisons are indispensable institutions of violence, and there can be no order without prisons.

The arbitral tribunal is an indispensable adjudication body for the city, otherwise all kinds of disputes cannot be handled. Because of the limited size of the city and the minimization of its institutions, the arbitral tribunal also has a judicial function, the full name of which is the 'arbitration and adjudication tribunal', which is very important to deal with not only civil disputes, but also criminal cases.

When adjudicating cases, the arbitral tribunal generally refers to the "Household Law" and "Criminal Law" in the Ming legal system.

Zhao Gongzi, the old man and Zheng Ruo had repeatedly discussed, and in accordance with the "Household Law" and related collection of names, he drafted a "Xingang Civil Administration Regulations" to legislate on the content of Xingang City's population registration, land and house taxation, commerce and foreign trade, market order, and other relevant socio-economic and personal relations.

The difference between his "Civil Administration Regulations" and "Daming Household Law" is quite big. First of all, he severely limited the amount of private land and dwellings, and used punitive tax rates to crack down on the annexation of land by big rich and big businessmen.

The Ming Dynasty or any dynasty was destroyed in land annexation, and land annexation was the great enemy of his development of industry and commerce, Zhao Hao hated it but could not do anything about it, so he could only strangle this human cancer from the source where he had the final say.

He made it clear in the "Civil Affairs Regulations" that because the land in Xingang City was leased by Jiangnan Group. Therefore, those who want to own land in Xingang City can only lease it for a long time and cannot buy it permanently.

Moreover, he stipulated that cultivated land should be 10 mu per unit, and non-cultivated land should be 1 half mu per unit. Citizens only need to pay a symbolic rent every year to lease one unit of cultivated land and one unit of non-cultivated land for a long time. Rents vary by location, but are only one-tenth of the normal level, and can be leased for up to 50 years.

This kind of practice, which only has the right to use and no ownership, will of course greatly inhibit the impulse of the rich to merge.

Moreover, Zhao Hao also stipulates that each household must pay twice the land tax every year for every additional unit rented.

That is to say, if you own one more unit of land, you have to pay 2 taels of land tax every year. Two more units is 4 taels. Three units are 8 taels, four units are 16 taels, and five units are 32 taels...... Such a large house covering an area of three acres only needs to pay 32 taels of land tax every year, and the rich can afford it.

But if you want to build a six-acre garden to live in, you have to pay a land tax of 2,048 taels every year, and seven acres is 8,192 taels. Who can stand this?

The same is true for arable land, which not only takes care of the needs of the wealthy, but also discourages excessive annexation.

And most importantly, everyone pays their taxes as one. Whether it is a wealthy gentry or a high-ranking official of the Jiangnan Group, no one can enjoy tax exemption, even Zhao Gongzi buys a house on the island, and he also needs to pay taxes. This makes tax evasion methods such as fraudulent consignments useless.

Moreover, the "Civil Affairs Regulations" also stipulate that those who evade taxes by means such as flying and sprinkling scheming shall immediately confiscate all property in Xingang City and be expelled once they are investigated and dealt with. Whistleblowers receive one-tenth of their property.

In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations clearly stipulate that Xingang City only collects land tax and no agricultural tax. In other words, people in Xingang City can own almost all of their income if they plant less than 10 acres of land in Xingang City, except for a negligible rent.

What the? The Li Dynasty government came to collect taxes? Do their officers dare to come? Don't break their doglegs!

This alone is enough to absorb enough basic population to support Xingang City.

In addition, the "Civil Affairs Regulations" also stipulate that Xingang City is not allowed to keep slaves and sign deeds of sale. The deed of sale signed outside the city is not protected by the city. Employers are required to sign an employment contract for a single contract of up to five years, but it can be renewed indefinitely.

What, what about those Japanese laborers? They were convicted by the tribunal and subjected to forced re-education. Of course, this is within the scope of the Criminal Ordinance.

In terms of criminals, Zhao Hao abolished all corporal punishments, except for serious crimes such as homicide, robbery, and rape, which were punishable by death, and the rest of the crimes were atonement through labor reform. For example, petty theft, the first offender is sent to labor camp for 3 months, and the second offender is sent to labor camp for 2 years, and the repeat offender is guaranteed to sublimate his soul in sweat and rain.

In addition to worrying about these violent institutions, Tang Fatzi will also be responsible for some sunshine causes. For example, the establishment and maintenance of local schools, the popularization of Chinese language education, and the vigorous promotion of Confucianism—Zhao Gongzi asked him to hire the most traditional old masters, preferably the kind of rotten Confucians who could smell sour three streets away. Let them use the sage education to influence the natives, strengthen their observance of the Three Principles and Five Constants, their obedience to the Celestial Empire, and their gratitude to the Jiangnan Group.

By the way, the Chinese school in Xingang City does not have science classes, except for the Four Books and Five Classics, and only teaches some applied mathematics such as bookkeeping and planning. The locals want more words from the sages, this is the royal road, and the boring left road of science should be left to torture the people of the Ming Dynasty.

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As for the security work in the city, the new port police station of the Gabo Island Marine Police Station is in charge.

However, the police station is under the dual leadership of the Marine Police Department and the City Hall, so Tang Youde can still mobilize them within the Xingang City.

The most important trade with Japan is the responsibility of the Tamna Chamber of Commerce. Although nominally an independent organization, the Tamna Chamber of Commerce is still registered with the city hall and receives business guidance from the mayor.

There are many big and small things, to name a few, in short, everything in the entire city is under the responsibility of the city hall, and Tang Fatzi can be found in the end.

With so many things, of course Tang Fatzi can't be busy alone, and monopolizing power is not good for him to the group.

Therefore, Zhao Hao set up a municipal committee, with several counselors to assist the mayor in managing the city. Counselors are appointed directly by the group, and the mayor does not have the right to directly appoint and dismiss counselors, but has the right to make recommendations.

In addition, more than two-thirds of the counsellors can sign a petition to recommend that the group remove the mayor. In addition to the city hall, a committee of inspection and supervision will also be set up to prevent the mayor from covering the sky and turning the entire city into an independent kingdom.

Of course, this is not to prevent Tang Fatzi, Zhao Gongzi still has absolute trust in himself, the original business partner.

But only a good mechanism can make everyone's friendship last forever.