Chapter 428: This Cabinet Is Not the Other Cabinet
In later generations, China's tax system implemented a tax-sharing system, that is, all types of taxes were divided into three categories: central, local, or both and shared.
But that's a modern society. And what kind of society is it now? Naturally, you can't just do it.
Just like the stamp duty, property tax, personal income tax, etc., which are well known to the world in later generations, it is still a little too far to mention them, and these taxes must wait for the development of industry and commerce to a certain stage before they can be opened up as a source of taxation.
At present, the most important age of the Great Song Dynasty is still the field tax, or the summer tax and the autumn tax. Of course, the poll tax, wine tax, and tea tax cannot be underestimated. But the problem is that the summer harvest will be in a few days.
"What? The king wants to move the liquor tax? Zhao Bu tried to lose his voice.
After many days of disputes, the court and the local officials still did not discuss an exact number.
The central government wants 60%, which is a much weaker figure than before. But everyone has to make inches, and when the local government saw that Zhao Gou really wanted to change the previous policy, they naturally shook their spirits, and they also wanted 60%.
Zhao Gou thinks that this matter is really unscored, no one knows whether this division is enough for both sides after it is set, and whether the number set is appropriate, but whether this is set is even more of a problem, and the summer harvest is coming soon.
So he thought of a trick and thought of the liquor tax. He wants to continue to expand the cake for both sides.
Use the liquor tax to make a big "cake", don't laugh. This is definitely a fact.
In the Zhao and Song dynasties, the young people of later generations may have seen the customs tariffs of the Song Dynasty from history, and they disagreed with the liquor tax.
That's a big joke.
From the beginning of the founding of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the wine of the Song Dynasty was a mainstay of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and it has always occupied a high proportion of fiscal revenue.
In the last year of Tianxi (1021), it exceeded 10 million guan. It's all cash.
In ancient society, the annual liquor tax was as high as 10 million yuan, don't you think it's very mysterious? But it's true. Because of the high tax on alcohol, the previous dynasties in China (the Sui Dynasty had no wine tax), the wine tax was around 50%.
The Song Dynasty implemented the liquor monopoly system, opened a large number of government-run breweries, from production to sales, one-stop service, and the income was extremely lucrative.
To control the production of koji from the source, that is, private sake makers have to find the official to buy koji, and at the same time impose heavy taxes. In addition, based on the amount of koji purchased, it can be inferred that the amount of sake produced and the taxation is also "targeted", and it is basically impossible for sake brewers to evade or evade taxes.
Strictly divide the sales area of alcohol, and alcohol can only be sold locally, and it is strictly private out of the state capital. In fact, it is the government's performance of monopolizing liquor profits by monopolizing prices, which not only excludes the dispute between moonshine and official liquor, but also excludes the dispute between official liquor and official liquor, and achieves a monopoly in a certain sense. Resulting in the situation of "there is no other branch, only this one", then "although the official wine is evil, it is not allowed to be bought, and even the people are extorted from buying official wine." "It's the third.
Bound by such three inhumane and unfree regulations, it is no wonder that Zhao Song was able to scrape so much oil and water from the wine in a year.
But to the magistrates, they earn so much wine tax every year, but they never leave a cent of this wine tax to them. Because the liquor tax is all money, it is one of the important sources of military spending to directly replenish military spending and support border military spending.
If Zhao Gou incorporated it into the tax sharing, it would definitely make the central government breathe a sigh of relief.
That's six or seven million yuan a year. Song Huizong tossed the world miserably, but drinking became a common practice in Zhao and Song, and there were still six or seven million yuan a year.
With the innovation of the world, after Zhao Gou's policies are promoted, they can be expected to be good, and this wine tax will inevitably have further gains.
Zhao Buqian is now a bachelor of Hanlin, this official is not small, responsible for drafting the imperial court's edicts, pardons, national letters and documents used in the court, and also serving the emperor on patrol and serving as an adviser. In fact, it was the emperor's secretariat and staff officer.
Zhao Gou also had plans to use the Hanlin Academy as a secretariat and chamber for attendants.
"Obey." happily drafted an edict, which was for Zong Ze. He was still in Hedong before, but now he was recruited by Zhao Gou into Bianliang City and became the first assistant minister of the cabinet.
Because he is not the emperor yet, Zhao Gouming secretly does not use titles such as prime minister and Pingzhang political affairs, but it is also just an opportunity to give him a chance to reform the official system.
However, this cabinet is still different from the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty in history, because this recital was sent to the emperor first, and then slowly sent to the cabinet. By the time they arrived, the emperor would have sent the notes to the ministers of the cabinet first, so as to prevent the cabinet from threatening the imperial power.
Why was the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty able to overthrow the emperor? That is, because they not only participate in decision-making, but also actually control the information channels, and the risk of the emperor being manipulated naturally increases greatly. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the ticket was abolished and the red approval system, after decades of exploration, the title book was changed, the recital was directly sent to the emperor, and the emperor personally opened and read it with a red pen to instruct, and then handed it over to the person or sent back to the original performer through the post station, telling him to comply, and there was no need to go through any institution or individual in the middle, and the dictatorship of the imperial power was unprecedentedly concentrated, reaching the peak of history, which is not unreasonable.
Zhao Gou is learning from the Tartar now. It is required that all state affairs should be sent directly to him in the form of a song, and then the song will be slowly and leisurely through the formal channels to enter the Yintai Division.
Then check both sides once a month to see if anyone dares to conceal the twists and turns and block the way of speech.
In this way, the emperor's information channel can be kept open to a certain extent, and in a sense, this can maintain the imperial power to a large extent and prevent the powerful ministers from sitting on the throne.
Therefore, this cabinet is not the other cabinet, it is a military aircraft department in the name of the cabinet.
Therefore, after the current Zong Ze received this edict, it was only when his head was bigger that he was more right.
The wealth of millions of yuan a year is a large part of the military spending. After being cut off with one cut, it can definitely make Zong Ze and some people in the military feel painful, and at the same time, they will make three rounds of their heads.
Can the boss's hole be made up?
King Yan took the Central Plains, Huainan and Qilu, and soon the Guanxi Sixth Road will also be in the bag, so why do you have to add two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses? That's 500,000 people in total.
Don't think about their military equipment and military expenses, don't think about their military achievements, and don't think about the difference between the main force and the garrison, just think about their salaries, according to the current treatment of the Yan Wang Army, it is about one million per month.
When the world is unified, at that time, the army under King Yan will not be much worse than a million, right? In other words, if more of the main horse army replaces the garrison infantry army, the monthly military salary can be as high as 2 million guan, or 24 million guan in a year.
Counting the cost of eating horses and military supplies, as well as foreign fighting, 35 million guan a year, no, 40 million guan will not be less, right?
Compared with the consumption of raising troops in the Great Song Dynasty earlier, this money is naturally for children. To a certain extent, the military merit field really reduced a lot of financial pressure for the imperial court. But what about official consumption? If it is reformed according to King Yan's calculations, the disadvantages of redundant officials and redundant expenses will really be far worse than before.
I don't know if those individuals in the cabinet are trembling in their hearts?
In this cabinet created by King Yan, several ministers in it are afraid that they have already been disturbed by these worries and worries, and they can't sleep at night, and they are like sitting on pins and needles during the day.
"Besides, it's May, and the summer harvest is coming soon, and they can't afford to argue anymore. You tell them, and you give them another five days. ”
If he can't make a charter within five days, he will have to wait for the deadline and make his own decision first.
"Obey."