Chapter 518: High taxes can't be tolerated
Li An wants to personally lead the main force to occupy the city, let the uninteresting monarch of the Huan Kingdom see the power of the Tang Dynasty, and let them understand that the tiger whiskers of the Tang Dynasty cannot be touched. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although there is a suspicion of bullying people in this way, what the Kingdom of Huan does is also not authentic, charging 100% tariffs, this is simply robbery, open robbery! In addition, in addition to these, they will also collect all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes for other reasons, which is completely the lamb that my merchants in the Tang Dynasty slaughtered at will.
The pirates frightened the maritime merchants and avoided them, and these local snakes with legal identities made the maritime merchants unavoidable, so they could only stand still and be slaughtered.
The people of the world have seen the sea merchants making a lot of money, and their hearts are full of envy, jealousy and hatred, but they cannot see the hardships experienced by the sea merchants, among all the merchants who have worked in the sea merchants, only a few people can be envied in the end, and most of the sea merchants have gone bankrupt and disappeared from the sight of the world forever.
Being a maritime merchant has high profits and the opportunity to make a fortune, but the success rate is really not high, only a few people can make a fortune in this way, and most people can only suffer the fate of failure.
There are many people who hate the rich, thinking that the rich have too easy to get money, and they can only get very little income for their hard work.
But they didn't think that other people's super high incomes are either outstanding or have paid great risks, there is no pie in the sky, and the poor are not willing to take risks, of course, they can only be poor.
In ancient times, there were poor people, and there were poor people in later generations, and there were poor people in all eras, and the poor were either timid or incompetent, and they were also very cynical, thinking that their great talent was buried by the times.
In later generations, the wages of ordinary wage earners were very low, but the poor people could have an income of more than a thousand times that of them, so that many wage earners were quite dissatisfied, thinking that these people's wages were too high and unreasonable, but they did not know how huge the number of poor people was, and only a very small number of successful poor people could obtain extremely high incomes, and those ordinary poor people with a large number of incomes were only a fraction of that of ordinary wage earners, and they were poorer than ordinary poor people.
But these poor people who are poorer than the poor have been working hard, they are not afraid of risks, they are not afraid of ridicule, they believe that one day they will become the people who stand at the top, and their income will be thousands of times higher than ordinary people, and they are willing to endure ultra-low wages for the ultimate great goal.
They are not afraid of failure, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of ridicule, although only a very small number of people can really succeed in the end, but as long as they work hard, they will not regret it.
To do big things, the probability of success is always very low, especially Datang maritime businessmen, the elimination rate is more than ninety percent, ten people choose to be maritime businessmen, nine of them have to quit this industry, and only one can barely gain a firm foothold.
What Ang Lee needs to do now is to eliminate all kinds of unreasonable threats to the maritime trade routes, make it easier for merchants to succeed, reduce the elimination rate of maritime merchants, and allow more people to engage in industries like maritime merchants, so as to use commerce to maintain the prosperity of Datang.
Everyone in the world knows that wealth is created by working people, and it is the hard-working people who create all kinds of materials in the world, but few people know that the real driving force for the growth of wealth is commercial exchange.
Without the continuous development of commerce, it is difficult to grow wealth, that is, only continuous business exchange can stimulate the continuous growth of wealth.
If no one wants to buy the goods created by the working people, they will rot in the ground, so that the next time they will reduce the output, and in this way the wealth created by the laborer will be reduced.
And if the products he created are in short supply and there are many people urging them to buy them, he will definitely expand the scale and increase the production, so that the wealth he has created will naturally increase.
To give a better example, there are three relatively separate villages with 100 inhabitants each, all of whom live in isolation.
The people of the first village learned to grow mulberry and silkworms and weave cloth to make clothes, the second village has a large amount of pasture for large-scale breeding of goats, and the third village has a natural soil that is most suitable for the growth of tea trees.
Because of the isolated environment, the people in the first village would only breed a moderate amount of silkworms, and the clothes they knitted were enough for them to wear, and they had to throw away the more.
The second village will only breed a small number of goats, enough for them to eat themselves, and as for the third village, it is enough to pick enough tea leaves for them to soak in water and drink, and the excess tea leaves will just rot in the ground.
It can be seen from here that the living standards of the three villages are not high, the people in two villages cannot wear good clothes, the people in two villages cannot eat delicious mutton, and the people in two villages cannot drink tea.
This is the result of the closed environment, at this time, if a merchant appears and opens up three isolated villages, and sells the goods produced by one village to the other two villages, then the needs of the village itself are not enough, so that the production needs to be increased to meet their own needs, and wealth can be increased.
For example, the cloth from the first village is sold to the second and third villages, the mutton from the second village is sold to the first and third villages, and the tea from the third village is sold to the first and second villages.
Under the stimulation of trade, the output of the three villages will be doubled, in order to meet the purpose of exchanging the special products of other villages, so that it will not be long before the people of the three villages have cloth, mutton and tea, and the quality of life can be greatly improved.
It can also be seen from here that commercial exchange can well stimulate the enthusiasm and necessity of production of the common people, and the development of commerce is the driving force that can really stimulate the growth of wealth.
The Tang Empire has a huge territory, and the trade in various regions within it can also promote the prosperity of the Tang Empire, but if more external trade can be added, it will inevitably make the Tang Empire more prosperous, so overseas trade is indispensable and must be paid attention to.
In order to vigorously develop the commerce of the Tang Empire, Li An built a railway stretching for thousands of miles in the west of the Tang Dynasty, which greatly promoted the scale of trade on the Silk Road, made the commercial exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions more convenient and efficient, and greatly promoted the continuous prosperity of the Tang Dynasty's commerce.
At this moment, Li An was ordered to go south to open up the Maritime Silk Road, and if this road of commercial prosperity was built well, it would inevitably surpass the land trade route and provide more sources of wealth for the Tang Empire.
Li An knows very well that the future is the era of navigation, in the rapid development of science and technology in the Tang Dynasty today, the age of exploration has quietly come, in this case, we must pay attention to maritime commercial activities, completely open up and maintain the maritime Silk Road, which is very important to the Tang Empire, so no matter how huge the price is, the Tang Empire can not give up this road to make money.
Now, for the sake of its own financial interests, the Ring Kingdom blatantly charges 100% of the commercial heavy taxes to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and from time to time levies various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the grounds of pirate infestation, which seriously damages the legitimate interests of the merchants of the Tang Empire, and at the same time, it also makes it difficult for many people in the Ring Kingdom to afford the goods of the Tang Dynasty, resulting in poor sales of goods and further restricting the scale of domestic production.
In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, Li An asked his subordinates to negotiate and proposed that the Huan Kingdom should not be allowed to levy such a high tax, but the Huan Kingdom actually cried poor and refused Li An's reasonable request to go, so how could Li An tolerate it.
Although Zhancheng is the territory of the Huan Kingdom, and how high the taxes he wants to collect is his own business, but now the Tang Empire wants to establish a maritime Silk Road and unify all tariffs on this trade route, and the Huan Kingdom must cooperate with the Tang Empire to complete this historic task, otherwise it will not give the Tang Empire face, and this is also challenging the authority of the Tang Empire.
As the minister of the Tang Empire, Li An will never tolerate the Ring Kingdom doing this, if even the small Ring Kingdom can't be governed, how can the Maritime Silk Road be opened, if most of the wealth falls into the hands of the Guo governments along the way, what if the Tang Empire wants to fart?
The military occupation of the Huan Kingdom was a breeze for the Tang Empire, but Li An was unwilling to do so, he personally led the main army to Zhancheng, just to demonstrate, to let the Huan Kingdom know the great strength of the Tang Empire, so that he had to submit and be an obedient vassal state.
"Big brother, this is my battle plan, please take a look."
After dinner, Li Feiyu quickly formulated a battle plan for storming and capturing the city, and after revising it many times, he dedicated it to Li An.
Li An took a look at it and said happily: "Yes, this combat report is really good, which shows that you are really attentive, but to deal with such a small country, there is no need to spend so much time, and there is no need to use force, just show force, by the way, let them pay the viewing fee." ”
"Big brother, you have to play the soldier who surrenders without a fight!"
Li Feiyu felt that he was at a loss, and he was busy for most of the day, but the result was completely useless, although Li An praised him a few words, but it was useless, and praise could not be converted into credit, and no matter how much praise he had, he could not be promoted to an official.
"That's right, the eldest brother's favorite thing to play is to surrender without a fight, and now the Tang Dynasty has become extremely powerful, and people can surrender without fighting, and the eldest brother believes that the king of the ring kingdom will definitely voluntarily sign the alliance under the city."
Li An said confidently.
In Li An's view, the small country has no capital to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty at all, and this small country is still a vassal state of the Tang Empire, so it has no capital to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty.
As a vassal country, it is really unforgivable to dare to squeeze the merchants of the Tang Empire, and after being persuaded by the Tang officials, they actually ignore it.
But Li An also knew that as long as he drove the main force of the south, the king of the Huan Kingdom would choose to give in, and the interests of the Tang merchants would definitely be protected.
Of course, Li An will also ask for more benefits according to the situation, such as indemnities and garrisons, and ask for as many benefits as he can, so as to expand the interests of the Tang Empire as much as possible.
The preliminary idea was already there, and Li An was in a good mood and went to bed with a smile.
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"Ah Lang, the soft shop has been paved."
Yuna and the beauty were wearing close-fitting clothes and looked at Ang Lee with affection.
"Yo, are you dressed pretty?"
Ang Lee raised her eyes and saw that Yun'er was wearing a pink profane dress, while the beauty was wearing a lilac profane dress, with a full chest and a straight top of the profane clothes.
"Ah Lang, the slave and maid are waiting for you to go to bed."
Yuna came over first, and together with the beautiful woman who came forward later, she peeled off Ang Lee's clothes one by one until she was naked.
"How is Arambi geoduck?"
"Giggle......
Both Pretty and Yoona couldn't help but laugh.
"Ah Lang is not ashamed, giggle......"
"Oh, dare to make fun of me, come here, Ah Lang will let you see who is amazing."
Ang Lee took the second daughter into his arms and hugged her on the bed.
"Ah Lang, tap, ...... pain"
The second daughter begged for mercy.
Li An said rudely: "Who made fun of Ah Lang just now, he should be punished, he should be punished." ”
Ang Lee's punishment is only twenty seconds at most, and Ang Lee has always been very pitiful to women, where is he willing to continue to be rude.
"Ah Lang, what are you looking at? What a shame! ”
Yuna and the beautiful woman lay on the couch shyly, allowing Ang Lee to admire.
Li An frowned and said with sincere appreciation.
"Ah Lang, turn off the lights!"
"Haha! Okay, let's turn off the lights. ”
Ang Lee laughed and turned off the headlights, but the small pink lights were still on, so it was emotional.
As for the source of electricity, it is naturally the mobile generator carried by the ship, after many improvements, the size of the mobile generator has become smaller and smaller, and only a few people can get it, which is very convenient to carry.
With Yun'er and the beautiful woman as companions, this night is naturally a very pleasant and happy night, and Li Anshuang doesn't want it.