Just like the Shu Wangfu in the past, isn't it to sell lanterns with the mark of the Shu Wangfu to those merchants who go down the river in Shu to facilitate their tax evasion. The Shu Wangfu and those merchants will benefit both, but for the imperial court, the loss is huge, this is not a typical loss of public fat and private, what else can it be? What's more, it's not just the Shu Wangfu that does this kind of thing.

Fan Jian's family is the largest businessman in Jiangbei, but according to his words, there is no one to collect a penny of tax on the gold and silver sea that flows into the Fan family every year. But although this tax does not have to be paid, it does not mean that those businessmen can really save money on taxes. The Fan family alone has to take out 30% of the income every year to deal with officials at all levels from top to bottom in the DPRK and China.

Don't look at every time the prefect of Xiangyang takes office, he has to visit Fan's house first, and his posture is very low. But the money and materials that the Fan family should provide every year are not a penny. Although the Fan family is not afraid of a four-grade prefect, if that guy does something in private, it will still be a troublesome matter at that time. Besides, who knows who is standing behind the four-grade officials?

If you don't find it, who knows if the people behind those officials will make trouble for the Fan family? Those officials are very black, and there are many ways to rectify people. Besides, who can guarantee that the people of the Fan family who are working outside will not be found out at all? Having money can make the ghost grind, and if you do a good job, you will also find less trouble for yourself.

And the money and belongings that the Fan family uses to settle officials every year, even according to the commercial tax standards customized by the former Tang Dynasty, are much more than the taxes that the Fan family should pay every year. In other words, it is not that the merchants do not collect taxes, and it is not true that they cannot collect taxes at all. It's just that the money, which should have gone into the treasury, ended up in private pockets.

There is also the Guilin County Palace, in addition to the annual profits from overseas trade, which are handed over to the imperial court, the other industries under his name do not have to pay a penny of tax. Whether it is the land all over the two Guangzhou, the tea plantations in Fujian, Jiangnan East and West Road, Huguang, or a few large porcelain kilns, or the weaving mills all over the south of the Yangtze River, they do not have to pay a penny of tax.

Even under the banner of their Guilin County Palace, the checkpoints along the transportation of goods do not even dare to collect the norms. As for the thirty percent of the profits, the imperial court has never checked the accounts, let alone how much it should collect. As much people say and pay every year, the court collects as much as they want.

Therefore, this so-called thirty percent of the profit really accounts for the Guilin County Palace, and how much overseas trade is imported every year, I am afraid that in addition to the Guilin County Palace, only God knows. But one thing Huang Qiong is sure of is that this money is definitely more than the Guilin County Palace's payment to the imperial court. Because of this amount, it has not changed for more than 100 years since the founding of the country.

But the Guilin County Palace, this more than 100-year-old industry is not a private, and the court does not know about the industry. On the surface alone, it has more than doubled. It is unlikely that the annual trade volume with Fanshang has not increased for more than 100 years. Therefore, Huang Qiong didn't believe the thirty percent of the profits handed over by the Guilin County Mansion every year or not at all.

And as far as Huang Qiong knows, not only the Guilin County Palace, but also a large number of officials in the current court, the family they come from is a big businessman or a big landlord family. When these people come out to be officials, it means that all the land in their names, no matter how many hectares of land, even if they are spread over several prefectures, are exempt from money and grain.

As long as they live for a day, even if they do, no one will accept the usual practice of the shops under their names, which is an unspoken rule that the Manchu Dynasty knows. The king of Shu is an empty shell prince on the surface, and a string of lanterns can make the merchant fleet in Shuzhong down the river unimpeded without paying a penny at various checkpoints along the way. What's more, an official who is still in office?

If all the checkpoints in the world can enforce the law impartially, I am afraid there will be no such thing as officials protecting each other. No one is stupid, and collecting money from the property in the name of the incumbent official is not only an errand that does not offend ordinary people. What's more, you collect other people's taxes. People won't collect the same taxes from the property in your name?

Others are the best, and you fall into the well. But in officialdom, everyone will have the day of success sooner or later. No one wants the same thing they do to others to end up happening to them. In particular, the higher the official position, the more industries are generally under the name. So everyone knows that no one will touch this taboo. As a result, it is difficult to collect the only bit of commercial tax.

For example, the current Xiangye, who is under the central door, is a famous silk merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. The family is not only in Jiaxing, Pingjiang and Zhenjiang, but also has more than 300,000 acres of mulberry gardens, tea gardens, and excellent paddy fields, and is known as the largest landlord on Jiangnan East Road. And not counting the land, there are only silk looms in the house, which are enough for tens of thousands.

Although their family's silk did not dare to compete with the Guilin County Palace, it had a large market in Jiangbei. At least more than 30% of the ships that trafficked silk in Yu Mingyuan's merchant fleet on the Yellow River were in his family's name. And those merchant fleets in his name were the Tiger Prison Guan Tongzhi who was born in the family, and he didn't dare to come forward to collect the usual practice that should have been collected.

This kind of person can't really open the pot even if it's the imperial court, and it is estimated that he will not go to the book to collect business taxes. Not to mention that the imperial court levied commercial taxes, that is, the imperial court wanted to collect money and grain from their excess land. These officials from big merchants and big landlords will be the first to jump out and oppose it. The lack of money in the court is a matter for the court, and it has nothing to do with them, anyway, none of them expect to live in peace.

But if someone wants to touch his family's purse, do you think they will jump out and oppose it? At present, the imperial court's revenue is tight, and it is necessary to save resources and open up the flow. But this opening stream has to be divided into how to open the stream. If the imperial court wants to increase the tax, it can only increase the taxes of ordinary people. It is impossible to tax families like them.

Caused by the disaster relief after the snow, Huang Qiong thought a lot. This is just a small disaster in the capital, and Jingzhao Mansion can't come up with money and food to relieve the disaster. In addition to the inaction of some officials, I am afraid that Jingzhao Mansion really can't come up with too much money and food. Take a glimpse and see the whole picture, as the best place in the world, Jingzhao Mansion, which has accumulated almost half of the world's wealth, is like this.

What about the other states below? It's still a small snow disaster, just wait for the snow to melt. Moreover, although this snow is undoubtedly a disaster for the poor families in the city. But for the vast number of farmers, it is still a good thing. As the saying goes, in winter, the wheat covers the three-layer quilt, and the next year sleeps with the pillow of the cooking cake. But a snow disaster is powerless, what if there is a catastrophe?

There is no need to go far, even if the drought on Longyou and Shaanxi Second Road this year lasts for another year, what should happen if it lasts for another year next year? Huang Qiong knows that drought is different from floods, and that droughts can easily be sustained. It can be as little as two years, or as much as three years. Moreover, after the drought, locust plagues are extremely susceptible. This year's drought in Longyou is the first year, and in fact, it is also the best year.

Because at least in the hands of the people, there is more or less some of the grain that was hoarded last year. The food shortage in the disaster areas may not really be that big. But once the drought continues, the next two years will actually be the hardest to endure. If the imperial court does not provide disaster relief in time, it will be truly catastrophic. But this year, in the face of a small shortage of money and food, it is so difficult to raise funds.

even forced to the point where the emperor went to the clan to fight the autumn wind. This is if it comes to next year, if the disaster continues. In the face of an even greater food shortage, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to raise funds at that time. Don't look at this year's autumn tax has entered Beijing, Jiangnan, Hebei, and Shandong Zhulu are the year of the big harvest, but more of those grains are in the hands of the clans, big households, and gentry.

In fact, the amount of money and grain that the imperial court can collect every year is a number. With the increasingly drastic land annexation, the annual income that fell into the imperial court was less and less. Excluding the military salaries that need to be guaranteed, the river wages of the Huang and Huai Rivers, and the salaries of civil and military officials, how much surplus can be used for disaster relief?

Even if there is a big drought in Longyou in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, next year's peach blossom flood may not be so big. But who would dare to save on this? Save money on river work, if nothing happens, if something happens, it will really lose your head. What's more, if you don't pay enough for the river workers, how will the officials who manage the river workers give up?

This is about to come to the New Year, the reward of the border army and the four major battalions and the Xijing battalion, the part of the official salary that has not been opened this year will be reissued, and the official salary at the beginning of the next year will be distributed. Military salaries, in particular, must not be in arrears. The emperor does not send hungry soldiers, this has been the rule for thousands of years.

On the one hand, the imperial court could not make ends meet, on the other hand, it occupied a large amount of land, and the clans, officials, and gentry who were still doing business were all very rich, and this almost became a vicious circle. Thinking of this, Huang Qiong pinched the bridge of her nose with a headache. Thinking of going to the palace to study government affairs after the year, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

With the character of his own emperor Lao Tzu, thinking of robbing others from the Guilin County Palace, he should have been forced to have a helpless choice. It's just that the king of Guilin is really so obedient? For the sake of a false name that you can see through, give away the solitary food that you have eaten for more than 100 years? And if you take 10,000 steps back, even if you hand it over honestly.

At present, the three provinces and six departments of the imperial court, plus the large and small departments in this capital, thousands of officials, and how many people who really have that ability can carry this job forward? The Ming Arithmetic Department in the imperial examination has been stopped for 20 years because no one has applied for the examination. At present, there are probably very few officials in the DPRK and China who are proficient in financial management.

Most of the officials, except for Zhi Zhi Ye, or Zi Yue Shiyun, it is estimated that they will not be able to use an abacus to give him. With such a talent reserve, it can take over a city division. In fact, there is no need for others to answer, for these two questions, Huang Qiong herself has the answer. It is impossible and unwilling for the king of Guilin to surrender the right to trade for the sake of a queen's false name.

Even if you hand it over on the surface, I'm afraid you will do something in private. Presumably, with the Guilin County Palace's more than 100 years, it has accumulated talents in those merchants and this aspect. It is simply not too easy to do something in this regard, so that the court cannot see anything. When the time comes, his own emperor Lao Tzu will not be able to beat chickens and eggs.

And even if it is handed over, I am afraid that no one in the DPRK and China will be able to take over. There is no doubt that the market is lacking. When the time comes, Mao Sui recommends himself, or bends the door to find a relationship, and the officials who want to take over may not be in the minority. But there are probably no officials who are really capable of going next and ensuring that the imperial court collects the taxes that the imperial court wants.

Thinking of this, Huang Qiong could only smile bitterly. The old man is too wishful thinking to do this. Now, if you want to fundamentally solve the difficult things of the imperial court, there are actually many ways. It's just that the resistance is even greater. If you want to snatch food from those with vested interests, this difficulty is not ordinary, and it can even be called a tiger's mouth.