Everyone knows what kind of virtue King Lu is, and what is even more ridiculous is that in fact, King Lu is quite decent among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, not too bad, which shows how bastard the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty is.

Moreover, all knowledgeable ministers know how harmful this vassal system is, it is a stubborn disease, and many ministers demand that it be reformed, but this involves an issue of imperial power, because Zhu Di established this system, isn't he afraid of being seized by his brother, after all, he is on the throne.

Once it comes to imperial power, this one is more troublesome.

Everyone takes a roundabout approach, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Nowadays, Luwangfu is no longer as grand as before, it is all dismantled into workshops, hanging signboards, and people come and go, more like a super luxury market.

But those who know how to do it can still see at a glance that this mansion is dripping with the blood and sweat of the people.

Wang Jiaping and the others looked at their eyes, but their expressions didn't move too much, which showed that they were all used to seeing it.

Until they came to ...... textile workshop.

Including Zhang Cheng, they were all dumbfounded.

Those things just made them feel new and confused, but now everything in front of them made them feel shocked.

They are accustomed to home-based production, and when they suddenly see the large workshop with a large crowd of people, it really seems that they have come to another world.

After a long time, Wang Jiaping said in a trembling voice: "This... Is this a workshop? ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Yes, this is a textile workshop." ”

Who doesn't know about this textile workshop, but the problem is, your textile workshop is a little too big.

Fang Fengshi asked, "How many people are in this textile workshop?" ”

Guo Dan replied truthfully: "At present, there are more than 5,000 people. ”

"Sizzle---!"

Everyone gasped.

All they saw were hundreds of people, but even so, they were already very shocked, and when they heard more than 5,000 people, they really wanted their own lives.

"It's... Why did you build such a large workshop? ”

Xu Guodu, who is full of wealth, is a little unsure of how to describe it.

Because in his mind, this thing does not exist, and it is incompatible with this society.

Guo Dan sighed: "There is no way, the people of Weihui Mansion had nothing to do at that time, I could only try to find something to do for them, so every workshop in this Weihui Mansion is very large." ”

Wang Jiaping said: "But with so many people and so many goods, who do you sell to?" ”

"Mongols."

Guo Dan said: "Don't hide it, I didn't know what to do at first, I just wanted to settle people down first, and then find a way, fortunately, some Jin merchants came, they specialized in trading with the Mongols, and these goods were going to be sold to the Mongols in the future." ”

Xu Guo was a little worried: "But Mongolia ..... with me. ”

This Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty have always been fighting and making peace, and it has not stopped, although since Longqing, this trade has not been broken, but such a large workshop serves the Mongols, and I can't help but be worried.

If you don't help, forget it, but don't hold me back! Guo Dan hurriedly said: "My lord, there is a demand to supply, the Mongolians have to buy a large number of goods from our Daming every year, but in the past, Jin merchants went everywhere to buy, but now they are all bought by us, and the quantity has not changed." ”

Xu Guo just nodded, but still looked at the workshop with some doubt.

This workshop is a little too big, and if it colludes with the Mongols, it may cause serious consequences, which has to be guarded against!

Guo Dan saw it in his eyes, and thought to himself, if you want to prevent it, you should also prevent Jin Shang, what are you doing to prevent me, we are just some tool people, and we only know production.

Fang Fengshi suddenly asked: "This person has come to the workshop to do things, what about the farmland?" ”

Guo Dan said: "In terms of farmland, it is now all carried out by big landlords or businessmen, who all hire people to farm, and at the same time are equipped with the best agricultural tools, the best water conservancy projects, and livestock, so that there is no need for too many people." ”

Fang Fengshi was surprised: "All equipped with water conservancy projects and livestock? ”

Guo Dan nodded and said: "Yes, because of the current situation, it is not cost-effective to hire people, not to mention the wages, you have to help them pay taxes, and those big families have cattle, and they have money to build water conservancy and irrigation." ”

For example, there are several families in Jingshi who have a cow and own the cattle alone, which is all at the level of small landlords.

But in today's Weihui Mansion, it is not cost-effective to do this, because the cost of manpower is higher than animal power, which is caused by commerce, a person spends every day weaving, and the profits generated by him must be higher than his farming, and Weihui Mansion is a large area of land, and every farmer has the capital to build a water conservancy irrigation, as well as a large use of animal power.

In fact, this is also a rational allocation of resources.

Otherwise, the landlord's cattle have nothing to do, and the people have cattle and want to die of exhaustion.

"Didn't you say that all taxes were exempted?"

"The agricultural tax is exempt, but if you hire someone, you have to pay the tax for him."

.....

Fang Fengshi blinked, seemed to understand something, and looked at Wang Jiaping again, and Wang Jiaping also happened to look at him.

"The old man understands."

Wang Jiaping suddenly stroked his beard and smiled, and said: "You are not exempting agricultural taxes, customs duties, and berthing taxes, but you are distributing these taxes equally to everyone, and transferring these taxes to the merchants, and recruiting women into the workshop, and everyone pays more than one tael of taxes every year, which is enough to reach 300,000 taels according to the population of Weihui Mansion." ”

Jiang Yinglan and the others suddenly realized.

In fact, this reason is very simple, since ancient times, including Zhang Juzheng, mainly to collect taxes on land, people, mainly labor, but women do not have to serve, and Guo Dan just does not collect taxes by land, but by people, and then liberate women, then the tax collected is only a lot more.

Zhang Cheng said happily: "This is a good idea, and other state capitals can do the same." ”

Wang Jiaping and the others were all silent.

Fang Fengshi suddenly asked, "Guo Dan, what if those businessmen conceal taxes?" ”

This is the reason why they are silent, whether it is to pay taxes by land, or to pay taxes by people, in fact, the essence is the same, as long as the planning is appropriate, they are almost the same, the key is to get the other party to pay taxes, those landlords just don't pay taxes, you have no way to take them.

Guo smiled lightly: "I told them this, if they have the ability to conceal it, I will make up this tax, but don't check it for me, once I find out, then pay a fine of dozens of times." ”

Fang Fengshi smiled and asked, "Won't they go up and down?" ”

Landlords do not pay taxes, either because they have a high status or because they bribe officials.

Zhang Cheng reacted and kept silent, he didn't dare to offend all the landlords!

Guo Dan said: "If you go back to the adults, there is no up or down here, they can't come to bribe me, let me help them pay taxes." ”

"That's just as well." Fang Fengshi nodded slightly.

The system is one thing, to ensure that everyone is equal, there is no distinction between high and low, you don't know who to bribe, you can do this well. The main thing is that the courts and litigation courts are completely independent, and individuals can file complaints.

And people are also one aspect, all taxes are contracted by Guo Dan, who wants to evade taxes, Guo Dan can't help his uncle, he has to pay for this money, and Guo Dan's ability to settle accounts, everyone knows that you are playing this trick with him, it is really a trick for Chenchen, give Chenchen ten guts, Chenchen does not dare to collude with businessmen and conceal their taxes, Guo Dan has collected enough information to calculate the annual tax, and he can see it if it is less.

Guo Dan also told them clearly, I don't object to your tax evasion, as long as you have this ability, this money should be earned by you, I have no complaints, if you are caught, you have to admit it, you don't recognize it, your property is here.

Therefore, it is completely unfeasible to move this set to another place, even if Guo Dan goes, because the situation of Weihui Mansion was very special at that time, if Guo Dan was allowed to go to Nanjing to do this, there would be absolutely no corpse, and those big landlords were not paper paste.

They looked around again and found that it was really as Guo Dan said, each workshop was very big, it was ridiculously big!

"Tax office?"

Wang Jiaping suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the inconspicuous house on the left.

Guo Dan hurriedly said: "This is a place to pay taxes." ”

"Pay taxes?"

Wang Jiaping said: "Pay your own taxes? ”

The imperial court does not say "paying taxes", but "collecting taxes", the difference between one word is really a world of difference.

"Yes, pay it all yourself." Guo Dan nodded and said, "It costs money to invite someone, the cost is too high, and I will let you pay it yourself." ”

Jiang Yinglan wondered, "Do they want to hand it over?" ”

Guo said lightly: "Didn't I just say it, don't let me catch it." ”

“......！”

A few people just came out of it.

Jiang Yinglan was speechless!

Are we in charge of the same people?

For Mao You's so honest, we're all in charge of a bunch of people.

But he didn't want to think about it, people pay this tax, it's a dime, and those people pay taxes, they all pay half their lives.

Wang Jiaping said: "Do you start paying taxes now?" ”

Guo Dan said: "They pay the deed tax, if you want to sign a contract with others, you need to pay a tax of one thousandth of the amount on the contract, this is because maintaining the contract, it takes a cost, and I also have to pay those gentry, but I am also a businessman, not an official, and I don't have their money, why should I serve them, if I don't pay this deed tax, I will not be protected by the court." ”

Without the protection of the law, the contract is meaningless.

In other words, this tax has to be paid.

It turns out that there is still a tax hidden here, and the personal income tax over there can almost pay the tax of Weihui Mansion in a year, so this tax ..... Oh, dare to love this guy and still make money.

But if they can earn it, they can't do it, Guo Dan's tax amount is set, and the more is his.

Profiteer!

Profiteers at heart!

Wang Jiaping said: "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Zhang Cheng said: "Oops! Let's go back and see it later, our family is dying of hunger, let's find a place to eat first. ”

Wang Jiaping nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Zhang Cheng said to Guo Dan: "Guo Dan, you don't arrange it quickly." ”

"Uh..." Guo Dan looked very hesitant.

"What? Didn't you even have a meal when you came here? ”

"No... No, it's just ....... ”

Guo Dan said: "When I contracted Weihui Mansion, I said in advance that Weihui Mansion would not pay to entertain any officials, and I even abolished the post station." Of course, I won't be stingy with this money, but I can't set this precedent, otherwise, those officials will come to me to eat and drink, and I will have to pay for it, and I can't afford it! ”

At that time, he made it very clear that the annual cost of the post station was too high, and if he chartered the post station, he would not do it, and he would go out to other state capitals at his own expense, so why should you come to me at public expense.

It's just that no one cared about it at the time, it was too insignificant, and now they finally experienced it.

Sorry, there is no service.

Zhang Cheng said: "What do you mean by this? ”

Guo Dan said: "I can take you adults there, but you adults have to pay for themselves, you can't help eating, everything has to be at your own expense." ”