Chapter 118: New Law of the City

The law is the public instrument of the world, and the axiom of the world is changed, and the change is also changed.

The husband decrees the law, and the law is abolished privately, and the decree is abolished privately.

The law is established, and if there is a crime, it will be punished; The order is out, but it is not returned.

Quanzhou City Ship Division is in charge of the trade of the goods and seas, from the far people, through the far things of the yamen. Of course, there is a system of ship management, and the name of the system of ship management in Quanzhou City is called "Quanzhou City Ship Law".

In the past few months, Li Sanjian, the governor of Quanzhou, has studied the "Quanzhou City Maritime Law" and concluded that there are many drawbacks in this law, so he revised some provisions and intends to implement them immediately.

It is said that the "Quanzhou City Maritime Law" promulgated by the imperial court is not allowed to make substantial revisions to it without permission, but Li Sanjian has the right to make a judgment on the spot according to the specific situation in Quanzhou, and only needs to show the imperial court afterwards.

However, even so, Li Sanjian did not dare to drastically revise the "City Shipping Law," but only made appropriate amendments to some of its provisions.

As in the old law, Quanzhou City Bo Si Bo buying, the problem of solving too high a number.

Bo buy and extract is the main means of collecting taxes for the city.

Taking the most common incense medicine among overseas goods as an example, the number of incense medicine extraction is three or four points out of ten, that is to say, overseas merchants sell ten catties of incense medicine to Quanzhou, and Quanzhou City Bosi will intercept its three or four catties, which can not be said to be ruthless, so it seriously affects the profits of overseas traders and seriously affects the enthusiasm of traders.

You must know that the sea is vast, the sea route is long, and the pirates attack and disturb, the road to doing business at sea can be described as full of dangers, and every time you go to sea, it is almost equivalent to fighting for your life.

Therefore, in order to improve the enthusiasm of maritime merchants and attract more maritime merchants to come to Quanzhou, Li Sanjian set the number of incense extractions at 20%, and they could be used to offset the goods with money.

Of course, in addition to the incense, other 100 goods, such as betel nut, green feather, yellow wax, suma, beji, etc., have also reduced the number of extractions, and the reduction range is different according to the different goods, and some foreign goods have been reduced to one out of ten.

Bomai, as the name suggests, is a tax system in which the government forcibly buys foreign goods in order to obtain profits.

Song Zhibomai has a lot to do with the ban.

In the second year of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, in order to crack down on the bureaucracy's style of doing business, a complete ban was implemented, that is, all foreign goods shipped from overseas were bought by the city shipping department, and the government monopolized the sale.

The total ban did deal a blow to the bureaucracy's style of doing business, and the imperial court also absolutely controlled overseas trade, but it also caused many evil consequences, some of which were fatal.

The most affected by the total ban is the ordinary maritime merchants, the reason is that the government forced the price to buy too low, the evil result of this is that the large-scale smuggling of maritime merchants is prevalent, and at the same time seriously hinders the development of maritime trade, and seriously hinders the circulation of goods, on the one hand, the Tokyo Kaifeng Prefecture is overflowing with goods, on the other hand, it is the Beijing division or the people of the state capital to eat less medicine.

and so on, it can be said that there are many disadvantages.

The imperial court saw that it was really difficult to implement a comprehensive ban, so it hurriedly implemented a partial ban in the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom.

The imperial court order was changed overnight, which was quite complaining.

And some of the forbidden systems also have great drawbacks, that is, the price of the forbidden goods bought by the market is also extremely low, and the maritime merchants are not profitable, of course, they do not sell them

Forbidden goods are sold, and a large number of non-forbidden goods are sold.

The income of the imperial court decreased, and the system of purchase was born.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, he bought a fair transaction between the two parties, mostly traded with cash, and now it has become Bomai, which is a compulsory purchase of non-prohibited goods by the government, and then sold them to win the difference.

The drawbacks are obvious, almost the same as plunder.

Taking rhino horn and pearl as an example, the number of rhinoceros horn extraction is three points out of ten, Bomai four points, real pearl extraction two points, Bomai six points, and seven or eight tenths of the profits of maritime merchants go into the pockets of the government... , Fan merchants, Hu merchants and other maritime merchants have long been overwhelmed.

At this time, there are three major drawbacks of the old law in Quanzhou, which can also be called the "three major **".

One is extrajudicial extraction, the second is to buy and sell, the third is the disadvantages of steel, the external extraction is to forcibly extract the goods of the maritime merchants outside the express text of the government, the maritime merchants dare to be angry and dare not speak, forced to buy and sell as the name suggests is to forcibly buy the goods of the maritime merchants at a price far lower than the market price, or forcibly sell their own private goods to the maritime merchants, the maritime merchants are miserable, the disadvantages of the steel is that the officials of the city and the bureau of the city exchange the extracted things that should be handed over to the imperial court for other goods, etc., and their exchange, theft, and credit are all about doing everything. It's staggering...

The difference between the strong buying and selling price and the market price is as much as 60 or 70 times, generally between 30 and 70 times, of course, depending on whether it is fine or coarse.

Li Sanjian has taken some targeted measures in response to these obvious drawbacks, such as clarifying the rule of officials, in order to avoid the occurrence of **.

At the same time, Li Sanjian abolished the ban on shipping goods in Quanzhou, saying that no one wants to sell banned goods, so it is still a fart?

The relaxation of the ban on foreign goods is Li Sanjian's second measure.

The third measure taken by Li Sanjian was to drastically reduce the number of Bo Si Bo bought in Quanzhou City and try to buy them at the market price.

Although the household department of the Song Dynasty has regulations on the number of extractions and purchases, it is not immutable, and there will be some changes according to various circumstances, and the city ships in various places will also make some adjustments or changes according to different circumstances, such as the Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty during the Tianxi period, and the number of some ships in some cities is one out of ten.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Sanjian dared to revise the "Quanzhou City Shipping Law".

Thin taxation, light servitude, water conservancy, elimination of malpractices, lenient punishments, and promotion of commerce are the purposes of Li Sanjian's administration in Quanzhou.

As soon as the new law of Quanzhou City was promulgated, it attracted a large number of maritime merchants to come to Quanzhou to do business, and it was more than a year for more than a year, and after a few years, the number of maritime merchants in Quanzhou was more than ten times that of the first year of Chongning.

Of course, this is a later story.,Don't show it for the time being.。。。

"Li Zhizhou, although the new law is feasible, it will definitely attract a large number of maritime merchants to come to do business, but this year's annual income will be greatly reduced..."

In the Quanzhou Prefecture Office, Cui Yongzi, the general judge of Quanzhou, said worriedly.

The number of extractions has almost doubled, and that's not all

"Not necessarily." Li Sanjian replied with a smile when he heard this: "Although Li is not a businessman, he also knows a truth, that is, 'small profits but quick turnover', or... Or cardinality, cardinality is extremely important, and a large base will offset the effect of reducing the number of extractions. ”

"Cardinality? Does it refer to the number of maritime merchants? Cui Yongzi asked when he heard this.

"Exactly!" Li Sanjian pointed

The head said: "It refers to the number of taxpayers, or the tax base." To put it simply, one person extracts three points, two people each extract two points, or three people each extract one point and five, which one of the three is more? ”

"Of course, the three of them each took more than one and a half points, no matter how stupid Cui is, this account is still clear." Cui Yongzi said: "But if the three of them each draw two or three points, wouldn't it be more." ”

"Cui Gong!" Li Sanjian sighed when he heard this: "The matter of drying up and fishing is absolutely impossible. ”

"What Li Zhizhou said is very true, but Cui Mou lost his words." Hearing this, Cui Yongzi hurriedly said: "Extraction is available... What is the base number to resolve, but how to resolve the loss of Bomai? ”

Li Sanjian almost canceled Bomai, so how to make up for this part of the loss? Cui Yongzi was puzzled, so he asked.

"Good question!" Li Sanjian nodded and said, "Li Mou thought about it, and there was only one way to make up for it. ”

"What's the solution?" Cui Yongzi asked when he heard this.

"Add a tax!" Li Sanjian replied after a moment of silence.

"Increasing taxes? Li Zhizhou, what do you mean... Cui Yongzi was even more puzzled when he heard this.

Didn't you, Li Sanjian, want to reduce the burden on the people, and didn't you want to pay taxes lightly? At this time, there is another kind of tax to be added, so what's the matter? Isn't this just playing the maritime merchants and the people like monkeys? Cui Yongzi was extremely puzzled in his heart.

"Han Zhi is the system, does Cui Gong have an impression?" Li Sanjian replied with a slight smile.

"Han Zhixuan? Li Zhizhou plans to implement the Han Dynasty? Cui Yongzi was taken aback when he heard this, his face changed color, and he asked in surprise.

They are all people who are full of history books, and they are all people who are Jinshi and first, so Li Sanjian is thorough at all.

How did Cui Yongzi not know the system of Han Zhi's calculation?

Han Zhisuan is a tax system implemented by Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, which is a kind of tax levied on merchants, handicraftsmen, usurers, vehicles and ships, or in other words, it is to calculate the property of each household of the common people, and then collect one percent of it to the government. Every year, the common people are asked to take out 10% of their family property and hand it over to the government, which can also be understood as a property tax, which is a kind of harsh tax and miscellaneous taxes.

Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty implemented the system of calculation, which caused everyone to complain, and almost caused a situation where the smoke was everywhere and the rod was revealed, so it was soon unable to be implemented.

At this time, Li Sanjian suddenly proposed Han Zhi's calculation, how could he not scare Cui Yongzi into a disillusionment and his face was like earth?

If Quanzhou causes a catastrophe because of this calculation, Li Sanjian, Cui Yongzi and others will not be able to escape, and they may all lose their heads...

"Haha!" Li Sanjian couldn't help but smile when he saw Cui Yongzi's soul flying away, and said: "Cui Tongju, don't be surprised, don't worry, what Li said is different from the Han Dynasty." ”

"What's the difference?" Cui Yongjun asked in a muffled voice.

The catastrophe is coming, and he can still laugh because of it... Cui Yongji thought depressedly.

"What Li said is only about profits, and the more profits you make, the more taxes you will pay." Li Sanjian replied.

"Oh, Cui is stupid, I want to hear about it." Cui Yongzi said when he heard this.

In this way, Li Sanjian's calculation only collects taxes on the rich, so it is not too much, and Cui Yongzi is also a smart person, so he quickly thought of the key to this matter.

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