In Songjiang Mansion, in an elegant teahouse, several gentry were talking loudly, and the things and people they were talking about were Chen Lifu, a tax inspector who had just arrived in Shanghai, and some recent changes in the tax authorities.

"I heard that when Chen Lifu inspected Ningguo's mansion, he killed no less than twenty people before and after, and even the Song family of Ningguo was persecuted, and now that he has come to our Songjiang, I don't know how much bloody rain he will set off!"

"Yes, our family and the Song family of Ningguo still had a lot of business dealings before, I don't know about the other people of the Song family, but I know the young master of the Song family, he is a decent person, and he is quite famous, but this time he was also persecuted, I heard that he was sentenced to be beheaded, and he didn't even give outsiders the opportunity to rescue, and he was sentenced to death that day, which is really appalling!"

"Alas, it's an eventful time now, and the life of the gentry is getting harder and harder!"

"Isn't it, the imperial court began to use troops against Jiangbei this autumn, mobilized no less than 100,000 troops, requisitioned more than 100,000 people, I heard that the war expenses in the first month alone reached millions of taels, this is all the people's fat and people's ointment, the imperial court spent a lot of money on the war, and it was not us who suffered in the end!"

"Yes, Xing, the people are suffering, the people are suffering, the world is difficult!"

"If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court would spend so much money on the war, how could the tax eagle dogs stare at us every day, last month, a steward under me was only slightly negligent, and missed the business tax of hundreds of taels of silver, and within a few days, those tax eagle dogs came to the door, saying that we were evading taxes, and let us make up for the missing taxes, but also issued a fine of 10,000 taels to our firm, which is really too deceptive!"

"That is, when the autumn tax was levied, our family obviously only had less than 100 acres of land, but they also counted the land donated by those fellow clans and fellow villagers, and finally collected our family's agricultural tax of 3,000 acres, so angry that our old man couldn't eat for three days!"

"Now this tax policy is too harsh!"

When these gentry were discussing loudly, in the table separated by a screen, a young man was using charcoal to write down the remarks of these people on paper, especially some of the industries they discussed, the number of acres of land, and so on, and these are all evidence that the subsequent tax bureau is taxing them.

The young man remembered it and scoffed at their words: "Just missed hundreds of taels of silver in business tax? It was obviously an undercount of 2,000 taels, and it was deliberately made a false account, when the tax officer came to the door, he denied it in every possible way, and finally it was the people from the tax inspection team who came to the door, and they obediently admitted it, but when the tax inspection team came to the door, then it was not just as simple as making up for tax evasion.

The tax inspection team has never had the habit of returning empty-handed, which is only the most basic to make up the tax, and a fine can not run, and now the tax department has a considerable penalty for tax evasion.

If the tax officer comes to the door to urge the payment and pays, then there is nothing, but if the matter is serious enough to dispatch the tax inspection team, then it is basically this process, and a good attitude is only a fine, of course, the fine is quite a lot, five times, ten times the fine is very common, if the attitude is not good, or even refuse to admit it, violent resistance to taxes, arrest, sentence, raid, exile and so on are possible.

Depending on the seriousness of the situation, there will be different judgment options.

But even so, the problem of tax evasion in various places is still quite serious, and many people are holding a fluke mentality, and if they can evade taxes, they will evade taxes and evade taxes, and if they are discovered, they will make up for it.

Because they will make up the tax afterwards, and the tax department is not good at forcing people too much, directly raiding the family and exterminating the clan or something, and even not arresting people in general, otherwise the impact will be too great, but it is not feasible to let this situation go.

The Ministry of Taxation has already begun to prepare relevant measures on this issue, and at the same time, it is also preparing to work with the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce and other cabinet agencies to curb tax evasion.

Merchants who have had tax evasion and tax evasion have been directly included in the list of dishonest and published directly in the Tang Dynasty newspaper.

At the same time, there will be other restrictions on such merchants, such as the Royal Bank will terminate the loan business to them and collect the money that has been released in advance.

Finally, the Ministry of Taxation is still discussing with the Ministry of Justice, preparing to formulate a more detailed punishment regulations specifically for tax evasion, tax resistance and other criminal acts, to refine, and then strengthen control, for example, tax evasion, not only to make up the payment, not only to fine, but also to go to jail, in short, the cost of crime can not be too low.

Of course, if it's just ordinary tax evasion, don't just raid your family and exterminate your family like in the past.

In the past, the Tang Dynasty exterminated the family at every turn, that was because of the rise stage, the need to forcibly promote the tax system, there were too many people who opposed it, and the armed resistance to taxes was endless, and it was necessary to implement it by strong means at that time.

But now, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, even those gentry are scolding, but they still honestly accept the tax policy of the Tang Dynasty, but they just like to evade taxes, so in this period, there is less violent tax resistance, but more tax evasion in small fights.

At this time, a more comprehensive, but also slightly gentle, and deterrent punishment is needed to replace the previous extermination of the family.

Of course, this situation is only applicable to ordinary tax evasion, if the circumstances are particularly bad, such as huge amounts, violent tax resistance, etc., it is still indispensable to raid the family and exterminate the family.

And most of the people Chen Lifu killed in Ningguo Mansion, Dezhou, and Chizhou Mansion before were these two.

After Chen Lifu arrived in Songjiang Mansion, he found that Songjiang Mansion is a tax heavy, and there are also many problems, although the overall proportion of tax evasion is not too high, but because Songjiang Mansion opened the port, its tax amount is huge, even if the proportion of tax evasion is smaller, but the total amount is extremely huge.

The Ministry of Taxation estimates that in the five years of Xuanping, Songjiang Prefecture will evade taxes by at least one million taels, especially in the newly established business zone, and the problem of tax evasion is particularly serious.

The main body of the business area of Songjiang Prefecture is naturally many of the gentry in the original Jiangnan area, after all, only the gentry have the funds to engage in industry and commerce, and the local gentry have geographical advantages.

However, the gentry in the Jiangnan region did not pay taxes or only paid very few taxes during the Ming Dynasty, and now they have changed to the Tang Dynasty, which is naturally unacceptable to them.

The gentry in the Jiangnan area are different from other regions, and in other areas, at the beginning, there will often be a period of frequent armed resistance to taxes, and those landlords and gentry will engage in violent confrontation with their families and tenants, and even kill countless tax officials, and there are even examples of rebellions of hundreds or even thousands of people.

Then the local tax inspection team will often cooperate with the local army and militia organizations to carry out forcible suppression.

And after killing it once, it is often honest!

However, in the Jiangnan area, there are very few armed tax resistances, and the scale is generally small, so far, the local garrisons have not suppressed large-scale armed tax rebellions, because this kind of thing has never happened, and occasionally a few small-scale, often the local tax inspection team itself has been calmed down.

But, here's the problem!

They dare not resist armed resistance, but they always try to evade taxes!

Tax evasion, these four words seem to be deep in their bones!

This way makes the tax department extremely unaccustomed!

The officials of the Ministry of Taxation are already accustomed to the rhythm of violent tax resistance, strong suppression, and honest tax payment, and the gentry in Jiangnan suddenly broke their rhythm.

The sneaky way of the Jiangnan gentry made the officials of the Ministry of Taxation very helpless!

Otherwise, the Ministry of Taxation would not have sent tax inspectors to almost every state capital, and Chen Lifu, who was able to inspect taxes, was continuously promoted, and then sent to many places, to put it bluntly, the tax situation in Jiangnan has exceeded the expectations of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, and it is a little helpless.

However, the appearance of Chen Lifu made the senior officials of the Ministry of Taxation see the hope of rectifying the taxation in Jiangnan one by one, and now they have great expectations for sending him to Songjiang.

If Chen Lifu can do a good job in the tax work of Songjiang Mansion, then the future will definitely be ambitious, and it will not take long to be promoted to the deputy director of the inspection department.

And this, however, is the position of Zheng Wupin, and when he is sent to the locality, he is often the core official who inspects the taxation of a province.

Among the many positions of the Tang Dynasty, there are not many that can be compared with the deputy director of the inspection department of the grain collection department of the Ministry of Taxation, who inspects the taxation of various provinces.

The weight of his authority is that even the governor of a province is unwilling to offend easily.

Because this kind of central special official is almost always synonymous with low power, this kind of official is generally not too high-grade, but the real power is very great.

But then again, the real power of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation is great, and Chen Lifu's immediate boss, the director of the Inspection Department, is just from the position of the fourth grade, and he is the prefect of a low-level government at the local level, but in the central government, he is inspecting the national taxation.

In the Grain Collection Department, although this institution is only a division-level organization, and its chief official is only a subordinate three products, it is the core institution of the Tang Dynasty, which is in charge of the country's tax inspection team and tax inspection work.

Its power is even greater than that of the Department of Agricultural Taxation, the Department of Customs, the Department of Monopoly and the Department of Industry and Commerce, which are in charge of taxation of special commodities such as salt and tea.

Chen Lifu, who works in the inspection department under the grain collection department, is also valued by his boss because of his excellent work, and even the waiter and master Shangshu have heard of his name, so he must have a great future!