Chapter 137 Taxation in the City of Beijing

Although Zhu Qizhen knew that Yang Shiqi was trying to refuse politely, he had no choice.

Because Zhu Qizhen knew that Yang Shiqi was right.

It is precisely because it is the right reason that there is no way. Although the imperial court has some savings, the magistrates in the world do not want to use the money, which sets a precedent in front of it, but it is not easy to deal with it locally.

So this problem had to be handed over to Yu Qian.

Yu Qian said: "The minister has four strategies to solve this emergency. ”

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed and said, "Sir, please speak." ”

Yu Qian said: "First of all, the house class and deed tax. Then he said the routine and said: "In this way, you can get as little as 10,000 taels a year, and as much as tens of thousands of taels, which is enough to support officials." ”

"Secondly, it is the capital gate tax. In this matter, Chen still got inspiration from Jiao Jing. ”

"The third is the market stall tax."

Yu Qian said: "When Emperor Renzong, the treasure money remained unchanged, and the market stall tax was collected in treasure banknote, and in Beijing a year, the door stall tax was about more than 10,000 taels. ”

"It's just that before, the imperial court didn't have many people, and it was mostly levied by quotas, rather than by actual levies."

"The minister walks all over the streets and alleys of Beijing, there is a lot of this tax, there are many people at the moment, the minister is a small official to levy it, and the plan will be a lot more, as for how much more. The minister still doesn't know. ”

"In addition to the quota of 10,000 taels handed over to the household department, there can probably be thousands of taels of silver."

"Fourth, it's the incense tax."

"Among the Jingshi, there are many temples and Taoist temples, and the incense is prosperous, but there are many nobles who are sheltered, and the incense tax cannot be paid.

Zhu Qizhen listened, hurriedly converted, and said: "In such a Daxing County, there can be at least thirty or fifty thousand taels per year, which is enough to support the expenses of each small official?" ”

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty, this matter is by no means good governance. It can be used in Beijing, and it can never be used in other prefectures and counties. Otherwise, the people of the world will suffer. It is only a stopgap measure. ”

Zhu Qizhen naturally knew.

Daming was a standard agrarian society.

Most of the tax revenue that supported the imperial court's expenses came from agricultural taxes.

This is not the case with later generations.

There are not too many taxes that can be levied in the city. At most, it is only a few kinds of commercial tax, market tax, door tax, deed tax, etc.

Even room classes are not available.

This was created by Yu Qian.

But this is the Kyoshi, the Kyoshi with more than a million personnel.

Many taxes can be collected in Beijing, Nanjing, and Suzhou, but in other places, they are laborious and costly, and even the taxes collected are not enough for tax costs.

It's just that in the early Ming Dynasty, it was like this, but it was not like this in the late Ming Dynasty. The commercial society of the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, and how much silver flowed above commerce, even later generations were not very clear, some people said that seven or eight billion taels. But one thing is certain, that is, the Ming court did not get the slightest benefit from this.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen did not mean to sort out the city's taxes, but Yu Qian had already done it. Naturally, there is a heart to carry forward the vastness.

However, this cannot be said to Qian.

Yu Qian may not think it is significant.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I naturally know, but there should be a surplus of these tens of thousands of taels for raising officials." ”

Yu Qian said: "The remaining taxes are already useful. Yu Qian then explained the use of the money one by one. It is mainly used in the construction of sewers.

It seems that this waterlogging in Beijing has taught Yu Qian a lot of lessons.

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that everyone is afraid that I will spend money indiscriminately." Am I the kind of person who spends money recklessly? ”

Whether it is the Empress Dowager, Yang Shiqi, or even Yu Qian, they all seem to think so.

If it weren't for the Empress Dowager, she felt powerless. The inner treasury of more than 30 million taels of silver will never be handed over to Zhu Qizhen, and the same is true for Yang Shiqi, who is trying his best to compress the unplanned expenses that Zhu Qizhen wants.

It's like an old housekeeper with the words "diligent and thrifty" written on the door of his head.

Even Yu Qian is the same.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Is there anything else you need my help with now?" ”

Yu Qian said: "With Your Majesty's dragon power, everything is going well." ”

The devil knows how many secret battles there are after everything Yu Qian said went well.

If it weren't for the British Gong Zhang Fu taking the lead and handing over his family's room lessons, it would be strange that the nobles below would be honest. This is also Yu Qian's mitigation in the room class. Don't dare to levy more.

This is also a compromise, after all, in the real estate class, properties with an appraisal value of less than 20 taels are exempt, and the standard of deed tax payment is the same.

Not to mention the incense tax.

You must know that the big man behind the temple in Beijing is none other than the eunuch in Beijing.

These eunuchs have no heirs, they all pin their hopes on the afterlife, and most of them are devout to Buddhism, but even if the eunuchs are bigwigs, Wang Zhen does not dare to blow up in front of Zhu Qizhen.

But some people, Zhu Qizhen has no choice.

It's none other than the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother of the harem.

The so-called incense tax is the tax payment of the incense money of each temple. Regarding this matter, the Empress Dowager was well aware of the righteousness and was unmoved.

Empress Dowager Sun felt that what the emperor had done was a little too much.

But Empress Dowager Sun is not the Empress Dowager after all, she just nagged a few words in front of Zhu Qizhen, and as soon as Zhu Qizhen bowed his head and admitted his mistake, the matter passed.

As a mother who dotes on her son, she will probably donate a little more sesame oil money to atone for the Buddha's sins, but she will not slap her son in the face.

Without Zhu Qizhen's support behind this, Yu Qian would have been released a long time ago.

However, Yu Qian hesitated slightly for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, there is just one thing that Your Majesty needs to pay attention to. In this way, Wanping and Daxing counties have greatly increased their power, which is not like ordinary county orders, and they need competent people, and control is. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and nodded.

Of course, he knew that in the midst of all these changes, Yu Qian had set up the two county orders.

However, these two prefectural orders have little power in the first place.

The so-called three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the provincial city of Guo; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng. These two evil magistrates, it will be difficult for Yu Qianshun Tianfu to deal with them.

If there was no such flood, Zhu Qizhen would not have found an excuse to give Yu Qian power, and Yu Qian would have stayed aggrieved in Beijing, let alone two magistrates.

When you turn around on the streets of Beijing, almost all of them are Shangguan. Yu Qian, in addition to the two attached counties in Beijing, there are many counties and prefectures outside that can be managed. But these two magistrates can't reach out to the outside of Beijing.

So these two magistrates, after they took office, just ignored everything, well, there was no Pepsi for them to care. I want to do one thing with all my heart.

That's to get out of here.

Therefore, when Yu Qian was doing things, he simply set these two yamen in the air.

But this is not the norm.

After all, Yu Qian, as the prefect of Shuntian, still has a lot to do, such as the project to control the Lugou River, which is about to begin.

Water control is a serious matter, so Zhu Qizhen explained Yang Shiqi, and Yang Shiqi did not take Zhu Qizhen on this matter.

Agreed to the appropriation of the Ministry of Households, requisitioned the people of Shuntianfu, and even used the army of the guard.

But Zhu Qizhen wants to solve the problem of the Lugou River once and for all, but it is a problem.

The problem is that the problem of the Lugou River is not a day or two, and the imperial court itself does not have a complete solution. It has always been to strengthen the embankment of the Beijing section of the Lugou River, so that the Lugou River wants to burst the embankment, and the downstream embankment will burst, so as not to affect Beijing.

This major event, even though it is presided over by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, but after all, in the realm of Shuntianfu, it is impossible for Yu Qian not to participate in it.

"Okay." Zhu Qizhen said: "Let Liu Dingzhi be transferred to Daxing County." He was meritorious in raising horses in the Northwest. As for Wanping County, let it be given to Yang Shoufu. Yang Shoufu will definitely choose a cadre. ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister understands. ”

Zhu Qizhen sent Liu Dingzhi away, and suddenly thought that a few years ago, Liu Dingzhi went to the northwest and served in front of the army.

Zhu Qizhen let Liu Dingzhi enter the horse prison of Taifu Temple and raise horses in the northwest.

Liu Dingzhi has been raising this for several years. Liu Dingzhi still has the ability, and the evaluation has been excellent for several years. From the pastoral supervisor from the seventh grade, all the way to the Shaanxi Wanma Temple Temple, is the sixth grade. He knows everything about Shaanxi Ma Zheng.

And the Daxing County Order is also a positive six products, but the Daxing County Order is also a Beijing official anyway. It's a promotion.