"By the way, those old and young people of the Bohai Kingdom are still honest, right?" Qin Forget asked again.

"Fortunately, there is still resistance, especially those old ministers who have served the Bohai royal family all their lives, and the resistance is the most fierce. However, everything is under control, we have killed a few times, plus a lot of grain has been transported, and now the Bohai Kingdom has stabilized. ”

"The people of the Bohai Kingdom are not doing well now, right?"

"Well, it's just terrible, even worse than the original Fire Dragon Island, which is why we subdued the whole country with only a little food."

Wang Yu retreated, and there were naturally King Kong and others in the back hall to pick up the wind and wash the dust for him.

"Our caravan is still too slow." Only Qin Forget and Gu Feng were left in the hall, Qin Forget frowned and said.

"This is also a matter of no choice, in order to keep it secret, our merchants are all disguised as ordinary merchants from various countries to come by land, and the speed is naturally not as fast as that of the waterway. I estimate that it will be difficult for them to get to Akagi in less than a month. This is mainly because the merchants under our command are not strong enough, and the ability to transport by water is almost zero. The merchants who were in the smuggling business with us were a surprise, they were very willing to cooperate with us, and many of them had already taken their fleets to Changxing Island to transport salt. In this way, we have another big income channel in Akagi. Since ancient times, salt merchants have always been rich and rival countries, as long as we firmly control the private salt market in the world, then general, Akagi prosperity can be waiting. Gu Feng said.

Gu Feng was ordered by Qin Forget to go to Yunzhou in person more than a month ago to investigate the embezzlement of the imperial court's disaster relief money and grain in the Golden Mountain over the years, and he has returned. It's also strange that the Golden Mountain was too blatant, and it didn't take much effort to find a lot of evidence by Gu Feng, and almost all of it was ironclad evidence. There are a lot of evidence, witnesses, and testimony, Qin Wang gave all the evidence to Li Mingzhi overnight, and waited to see how Li Chengan would fix the Golden Mountain.

"Well, then when will our goods arrive, and when will they be released. On Jin Cheng and Chen Wan'er's side, I will also urge them to speed up. By the way, as soon as the large and small ships enter the Chaobai River, they have to need a large number of slender men, and countless people will come to Chicheng to work and do business. ”

"Where business is thriving, it naturally attracts people from all walks of life to make a living. The advice of his subordinates is not to manage these people in particular, just let it be. But there is one thing, as long as you come to my Akagi ground to beg for a living, you must enter my Akagi household registration. Gu Feng thought about it for a moment and gave a countermeasure.

"This plan is very clever, the snow disaster in the north of Dayan for many years, the population has dropped sharply. This is how I can gather the population as quickly as possible in Akagi. It's much faster than we go down the wrong paths. Speaking of this, Qin Forget and Gu Feng couldn't help but laugh.

"Therefore, from now on, the people who move to my Akagi will be treated well, and those who work as coolies, do small businesses, craftsmen, etc., do not have to pay any taxes. How to do it, you go back and draft it well, and come up with the charter as soon as possible. ”

"This method is good, and there is no tax at all for those small traders and hawkers, which will make these people rich quickly. Don't underestimate these small traders and vendors, although what they do is a little bit of a needle and thread, it seems

Not at all significant, but they are a very important part of the business market. They are related to the daily oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea of the common people. Jin Cheng walked in, clapping his hands in agreement.

"But the owner, these people can't be left alone, don't underestimate their inconspicuous livelihood, and make money tightly. It's like selling early, if it's in a good location and the flow of people is large enough, they can earn three or four taels of silver in the morning, and the cost of less than one or two taels of silver is removed. Jin Cheng continued.

"So much?" Qin Forget was surprised, he didn't expect that a small business could have such a profit, "Then you can make a charter and draw a few thresholds, such as how much tax you earn a hundred taels a month, how much tax you collect if you earn two hundred taels, just like this graded tax collection." ”

Qin Wang's casual idea happened to be almost the same as the progressive tax collection method of individual income tax in later generations, which can be said to be of epoch-making significance.

"Tiered taxation?" It was the first time Jin Cheng had heard this term, and he couldn't help but ponder.

"Throughout the ages, the way of collecting taxes on merchants has been the same, everyone pays the same, and the generals have to collect taxes in different levels, which means that those who earn more have to pay more taxes, can they agree?" Gu Feng frowned and asked.

"Why not? The more they earn, the more resources they occupy, a simple example, can one wagon for goods be the same as ten wagons for the ground? In that case, does the man who owns the ten carriages have to pay a little more money for the maintenance of the road? Although it was an idea that suddenly came to mind, the more Qin Wu thought about it, the more he felt that his method was very reasonable.

Gu Feng was speechless by Qin Wang, obviously thinking that Qin Wang's idea was a fallacy, but he just couldn't think of anything against him.

"The general is talented, and he can even think of this method." Jin Cheng, who had been pondering alone for a long time next to him, suddenly slapped his face excitedly. "There are many advantages to this kind of graded fees, the first of which is to increase the national fiscal revenue. Regardless of whether those big businessmen want to or not, they have to pay more if they make more money, and the general is right, their business is big, and they occupy more resources, so why not pay more taxes? In this way, our tax revenue in Akagi will increase exponentially. The second is to regulate income distribution, which helps to achieve social equity. With the development of business, problems such as the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society will gradually emerge, which may become a negative factor affecting social stability. The taxation of commercial enterprises by level can reduce the degree of unfair social distribution and alleviate social contradictions. More importantly, the general's move slashed at the lifeblood of those wealthy families, as long as this system can be implemented smoothly, the more wealthy families earn, the more taxes they have to pay, but ordinary businessmen have to pay very few taxes. The strength of the wealthy families will be weakened little by little, while the strength of those ordinary merchants will be strengthened little by little. Under the trade-off, maybe in a few decades, there will be no more wealthy families in the world. ”

Gu Feng gasped a few times, "So ruthless? ”

Qin Forget also looked at Jin Cheng in surprise, he really didn't expect that one of his casual ideas would have such a big impact, "Brother Jin, is this true?" ”

"It's true! The general is really a rare talent in the world, and no one has come up with this idea for thousands of years, but the general thought of it casually. "Kim

Cheng said with emotion.

Qin Wu touched his nose in embarrassment and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I didn't expect this matter to have such a big impact. The impact of this matter is too great, if we really do this, it will offend all the wealthy families in the world, at least the wealthy families of Dayan will not be able to spare us. ”

"Then it won't be implemented for the time being?" Gu Feng said tentatively.

"I think it should be implemented immediately, this is a huge innovation in business, General, you have created an era!" Jin Cheng strongly agreed, this is a thing that may go down in history, and he is still a participant, how can he not be excited?

Qin Forget stood up, kept walking back and forth, kept weighing the pros and cons, and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

To be honest, Akagi now has enough resources to vigorously develop, and when the tea and horse market opens, there is no need to worry, there is no need to make such a risky move. If it is implemented, it will really offend all the wealthy families in the world, and no matter how strong the strength is, there is a worry of destruction. In this world, the only thing that can compete with the world's wealthy is the country, and it may not be able to succeed.

Although Qin Forget is not afraid of those wealthy lords, there is no need for trouble, and Qin Forget does not want to provoke easily.

Country? Court?

Qin Wang's eyes suddenly lit up, "Let's use this system!" Qin Wangfu clapped his hands and said, "But it can't be announced by us, and we don't have such a big face." Let's let the imperial court issue an edict and officially implement this system. ”

"The Imperial Court?" Jin Cheng asked both suspiciously.

"Think about it, who is most lacking in money? Who values this tea and horse market the most? Who hates those families the most? Qin Forget asked one after another, "The imperial court, it's the imperial court." This system, the emperor will not fail to see its benefits, such a good opportunity, it is impossible for him to refuse. What's more, this matter is not something we can say, we can only manage our own businessmen in Akagi. As soon as the tea and horse market opened, we couldn't control those big businessmen anyway, but I was really unwilling to let those people go. ”

"That's right!" Gu Feng slapped him hard, "By borrowing the hands of the imperial court to implement this system, we can still profit from it, good idea!" And we presented this good idea to the imperial court, and the emperor still doesn't thank us for dying? ”

Jincheng also couldn't help but agree.

"Then I'll go to Chen Liang now, seven thousand war horses, several pieces of horse breeding land, and such an epoch-making good idea, if the emperor treats us badly, he can't say it."

"But don't forget, General, we also have a lot of merchants under us. Once this system is implemented, it will inevitably harm the interests of those businessmen, and I am afraid that they will have some dirty problems with our Akagi. Gu Feng was as careful as a hair, and immediately thought of another question.

"I might as well cite it, those big and small merchants are very weak compared to the five major families, and this system is still beneficial to them so far." Jin Cheng said.

"Gu Feng, don't be too scruptuous. Remember, we are not cooperating with them, but they are attached to us. If they are willing, they will get rich with us, and if they are not, they will stay as cool as they want. Qin Forget said domineeringly.

Hearing Qin Forget say this, Gu Feng didn't say anything anymore, he knew that once Qin Forget made up his mind, no one could change it.