"Sell Newspaper~Sell Newspaper~"

"The imperial court implemented the tax reform and proposed that the tax should be taken from the people and used by the people~"

"Paying taxes is glorious, tax evasion is shameful~"

The streets and alleys of the capital, with the beginning of a new day, in the cold winter, the voice of the newsboy is still very loud.

As newspapers have gradually become a must-see for old and young masters in Beijing and Tianjin to drink morning tea and eat breakfast, the sales of newspapers are also increasing.

In the beginning, the first issue of the Ming Morning Post only printed 10,000 copies, Tianjin and Beijing sold 5,000 copies each, and now, the daily sales of newspapers in the Beijing-Tianjin area alone have exceeded 500,000 copies.

Half a million copies, which is an extremely frightening rate.

This is only the Beijing-Tianjin area, in fact, now the Ming Morning Post has begun to be sold to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, although there is a time difference, but it still doesn't matter, there are still more and more people like to read the Ming Morning Post.

The Ming Morning Post has also begun to set up a Nanjing branch in Nanjing, and every day there are fast horses to send the edited content from the capital to Nanjing, and then Nanjing will step up printing and sell to Nanjing and the Jiangnan area.

The sales of 500,000 newspapers a day also feed many children in the Beijing and Tianjin areas.

These newsboys can have an income from selling a newspaper, and sometimes when they meet a generous master, they will reward a few more copper plates, and selling dozens of newspapers a day is enough to easily support themselves.

Therefore, for selling newspapers, these newsboys are full of enthusiasm, rain or shine, and the voice of the newsboys will inevitably sound in the streets and alleys of the Beijing-Tianjin area.

"What?"

"Imperial tax reform?"

With the sound of the newsboy's voice, the old and young masters in the capital were suddenly startled, and then hurriedly began to buy newspapers.

Tax reform is a big matter, and it has a bearing on everyone's vital interests.

"The imperial court tax reform, damn it, those officials are full of brains, do you still want to knock out the bones of us ordinary people to be willing?"

Everyone's first reaction was to boycott, they didn't want to pay taxes, and everyone was like that.

After all, taxes involve one's own wealth, and no one wants to obediently hand over their wealth, this is nature, and they are unwilling to hand over the wealth they have worked hard to create.

So since ancient times, taxes have been mandatory.

The Ming Morning Post published the new tax system in detail, and also explained in detail the amount of taxes that all walks of life need to pay, and also emphasized the role of taxation.

This tax is not for the blessing of the official master, let alone for the emperor, the Son of Heaven has his own property, and there is a lot of money, and he must have money from the treasury, and he does not need the common people to support him.

The money and grain in the treasury are used to do things for the common people.

Building bridges and paving roads, building rivers, building reservoirs, spending on national defense, opening more schools, maintaining national stability, and so on, on the contrary, instills in everyone the idea that this tax is taken from the people and used by the people.

It is honorable for everyone to pay taxes, but it is shameful not to pay taxes, evade taxes, and evade taxes.

Brainwashing, Liu Jin knows very well that it is not only to brainwash officials and officials, but also to brainwash the people, and the most important point is that it is taken from the people and used by the people.

"Bang~"

"It's over, the imperial court has changed the tax system, and I don't know how much tax I will have to pay in the future."

"It's only been a few days since I lived, and now I'm going back to the way I was."

"Isn't it, although it was said that thirty taxes were one in the past, basically you don't have to pay taxes, so you can barely survive, how can this business be so easy to do."

"Okay now, let's see, these various taxes, what factory tax, workshop tax, business tax, etc., there are dozens of various taxes."

"Everyone will be crushed to death by these taxes in the future."

There is no doubt that as soon as the news came out, the entire Beijing-Tianjin area was full of mourning, and countless people felt that a catastrophe was coming, and they felt that they would not be able to survive it soon.

I am used to the good days of not paying taxes, and now that I hear that the tax system is going to be reformed, I suddenly feel that this day is not easy.

"What the newspaper said is also very reasonable~"

"The court has no silver, many things can't be done, I was always bullied by the grassland people before, and a very important point is that there is no silver, and the border generals are trapped and their combat effectiveness is low."

"In recent years, the military system has been reformed, the military household system has been changed to a compulsory military service system, and the army's expenses have also been taken out of the emperor's internal funds, and there is enough money and food to ensure the needs of the army."

"So the combat effectiveness of my Ming army has gradually improved, not only won the grassland people, but now the grassland has been included in my Ming territory, and it has also taught the Japanese country a hard lesson, and since then there have been no Japanese in the southeast coast."

"This so-called money is easy to do, and the same is true for the court and the country."

"There is also the cement road between Beijing and Tianjin, which greatly facilitates the travel between Beijing and Tianjin, and the imperial court is also preparing to build such cement roads in various parts of the Ming Dynasty to facilitate the traffic in various regions."

"All this requires silver, and in this respect it makes sense that the tax should be taken from the people and used by the people."

Of course, there are still some people who feel that what the newspaper says still makes some sense after reading the newspaper.

If the imperial court has no money, there is no way to feed the elite army, and without the protection of a strong army, the Ming Dynasty will be bullied, the former grassland people, the Jurchens in the eastern Liaodong region, and the Japanese in the southeast coast.

That's the best way to illustrate it.

Now that the court is rich and the army is strong, the Ming Dynasty has swept away these disasters one by one, and the people of the Ming Dynasty have a clear sky, giving everyone a stable and safe life.

That's a good example of that.

However, there are only a few who are sensible, and it has always been in everyone's impression that this tax is not a good thing, and the best state is that the court does not need to collect taxes, and everyone does not have to pay taxes.

What's more, since ancient times, whenever the country is in turmoil and the dynasty changes, the literati always like to blame all this on the emperor's mediocrity and the tyranny of the imperial court.

In everyone's impression, the prosperity of the country is because of the light tax, and the change of dynasties is because the court levies too many taxes, which leads to the people's lack of livelihood and the common people can no longer live, so they have risen up one after another to overthrow the corrupt court for the reason.

The nearest Yuan dynasty is the best example of this.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes had been levied for decades, and the common people could not survive, so they rose up one after another and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

Comrade Lao Zhu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was not forced to embark on the road of rebellion, he was the one who best understood the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, after seeing this news, many people shouted that if the imperial court was so reckless, it would inevitably embark on the road of no return to the Yuan Dynasty, and I am afraid it would lead to social turmoil.

Even some unreasonable scholars gathered together, shouted slogans, and ran outside the palace, wanting to make a statement to Emperor Hongzhi, believing that the imperial court did not need to reform the tax system.

Once the imperial court reformed the tax system, it would inevitably lead to turmoil in the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and the people would not be able to make a living, and so on.

In addition, there are also merchants, factory owners, commercial houses, etc., who also have great opinions and have expressed their dissatisfaction.

In the past, they didn't have to pay taxes, but now all of a sudden, they say that they want to reform the tax system and make everyone ready to pay taxes, and everyone is naturally reluctant to do it.

It's not easy to make money in this business, it's also very hard, and you have to pay taxes?

They didn't even know they had to pay taxes.

However, although factory owners, workshop owners, and trading houses have opinions, they are all quite stable, because these industries are indeed very profitable.

Especially the major commercial houses in Tianjin, this casually takes a ship to the South Seas, to North Korea, to the Japanese Kingdom, which is exchanged for real money, and the major commercial houses all make a lot of money, and they are very rich.

And those factory owners, workshop owners, cement factories, textile factories, shipyards, etc., are very profitable, and the things produced are not sold at all, and as soon as the factory starts, the silver flows into the pockets.

Although they oppose the payment of taxes, they do not dare to make trouble, if they really make trouble, if they open the knife on the side of the court, then their own will be finished.

More importantly, everyone knows that it is Liu Jin who leads the tax reform this time.

Liu Jin, who is he, he is one of the biggest capitalists in Daming, and the industry under his command is the leader of the industry if he takes out one casually.

This tax reform, if you really have to pay taxes, the industry under Liu Jin is naturally indispensable, everyone is also looking at Liu Jin, if you Liu Jin doesn't pay it himself, everyone will naturally not pay.

If you pay Liu Jin, then everyone will also follow, anyway, people in the Beijing-Tianjin area know that it will not be wrong to follow Liu Jin, without Liu Jin taking the lead, naturally there will be no prosperity in the Beijing-Tianjin region now.

In addition to these, ordinary people in the capital are watching the show, because in the new tax reform, there is no mention of taxing ordinary people at all.

Even some ordinary people who have land are still the same as before, and they can pay how they should pay grain, and there is no change.

This time the tax reform focuses on commercial tax.

On the day the news came out, the owner of a gambling house said that if anyone dared to go to the gambling house to collect taxes, he would break his hands and feet.

Naturally, the gambling houses are all local snakes, mixed with the rivers and lakes, all of them are very ruthless, and when they heard that the imperial court was going to impose heavy taxes on the gambling houses, the owners of the gambling houses in the Beijing-Tianjin area were angry one by one.

As for the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, it was even more of a statement, if Liu Jin really dared to send someone to their Qinglou Chu Pavilion to collect taxes, they would let their sisters go to Liu Jin's house every day to make trouble, and let people make up all kinds of romantic and elegant things about Liu Jin, women are not easy to bully!