"Your Majesty, Seris is dying because of poverty!" Ye Kai replied loudly.

"Poverty?" George III frowned in confusion.

"Sir, since Seris owned a large city like London two thousand years ago, and had a powerful navy that could sail the oceans four hundred years ago, is it a bit illogical for you to say that he is dead and poor?"

An old man with a long face and a high nose asked slowly, this old man is amazing, he is the Adam who wrote the Wealth of Nations. Smith.

Of course, Ye Kai didn't know who he was now, so he just nodded lightly, "Sir, this poverty does not mean that Seris is poor, in fact, even if Seris has been ruled by the Qing Dynasty established by the Tatars for more than a hundred years, Seris is still one of the richest countries in the world, and the poverty I am talking about is only the poverty of the Seris government, and the nobles and officials of Seris are not poor."

In the last dynasty of Seris, the Ming Dynasty, the cultural level of Seris at that time was greatly developed, and in order to encourage the continued development and prosperity of culture, the Seris Dynasty formulated a rather generous reward policy for Confucian scholars who passed the imperial examination, a national examination to select officials through the examination.

As long as the scholars who pass the first selection and obtain the title of Xiucai can obtain the right not to pay taxes, not to spend any money or even manual labor for public construction, and to pass the second selection is called Juren, they can bring the right to not pay taxes for their whole family and even the whole clan.

As for after passing the third selection and becoming Jinshi, at this time, they have already entered the top of the kingdom and become high-ranking officials, and they and their families do not have to pay taxes!

They would even make an agreement with the peasants and merchants to transfer their land, shops, and companies to his name, and he would receive a commission less than the government taxes, so that his privileges would benefit him even more. ”

"Wow... Ahem! Ye Kai had just finished asking, and a guy who was a little Mediterranean almost cheered, but fortunately he quickly held back!

George III's brow furrowed even more, collecting taxes was not only an annoying thing in the East, but also in Europe and in Britain!

Why was Charles I beheaded? Don't you just want to collect more taxes from the nobles and other people!

Even now, the aristocracy and profiteers under George III evaded taxes at a frightening rate, and even the rebels in North America, who claimed to be free and independent, were under the guise of not paying stamp duty.

"Personally, I think this policy is really good! It is reasonable for erudites with great knowledge and nobles of noble blood to pay less taxes than ordinary people! ”

A voice sounded in the crowd, and George IV, who had been idle, looked back, but there were so many people that he did not see the person who spoke.

"For individuals, it's good, but for the country, it's a disaster, because a large number of nobles and officials don't pay taxes at all, so these taxes are overwhelmed by ordinary people.

As a huge country ruling over hundreds of millions of people, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was only a pitiful hundreds of thousands of pounds, so the final result was that the country fell with the uprising of the people at the bottom and the attack of the Tatar rebels in the intensifying internal and external difficulties! ”

Ye Kai calmly looked at George III who was shining with light in his eyes, and the members of the Royal Society who were talking to each other, he didn't say these words to show himself, but he didn't hold back a good fart!

For England at this time, the biggest problem and contradiction was not to lose the thirteen states of North America, not to compete for hegemony with France and other countries, or to maintain the balance of power on the European continent.

It was how to collect more taxes and how to pay as little taxes as possible, and it was the new aristocracy and bourgeoisie who wanted to pay more taxes to the government represented by the royal family and the prime minister at the time.

Do you think the leader of the Whigs, James. The key question why Fergus described George III as a tyrannical king, and why he often insulted the king in private, was that the king wanted to collect taxes, while the bourgeoisie wanted to pay less, or even not a penny.

This struggle would not settle until the Victorian era, a few decades later, when the bourgeoisie was already closely integrated with the British royal family!

As for now, it's not far off, and even the fiercest political struggle over taxes will happen soon.

In the second half of this year, George III will lose control of the situation because of a brain problem, and the Whigs will unite with Crown Prince George IV to seize power, and even once planned to let George III abdicate early and let George IV succeed to the throne.

And the Prime Minister William Jr., who was loyal to George III. Pete and others will resolutely fight back, and the two sides even dispatched assassins to assassinate each other, which shows the fierceness of the struggle.

"So, I think, the most important thing for a strong country is not the level of culture, nor how many troops it has, but taxes.

For example, France on the other side of the Channel will have a big problem because of how to collect taxes, how much tax should the king and the government collect so that they will not fall into greed, and how much tax should the nobles, officials and citizens pay so that the country will not have no money to use, this is a question that all powerful countries need to think about. ”

After speaking, Ye Kai signaled that his speech was finished, although he was ostensibly reminding the king and the bourgeoisie that they had to agree on taxes.

But he knew that few people could listen to it, and George III must have only heard the importance of taxes to his rule, and he wanted to avoid the tragedy of the Kingdom of Seris being destroyed because of the lack of taxes.

It is the nature of the capitalists and even all of us that the new aristocracy and the bourgeoisie must have heard only the phrase of overtaxing and falling into greed and paying as little as possible.

A thousand people watching Dream of Red Mansions will definitely see a thousand different places, and these Englishmen can't avoid it, not to mention that they are about to have a meeting and fight, Ye Kai believes that both sides of the infighting will definitely find something beneficial to them from his speech.

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