Chapter 491: Luoyang Commercial Tax

When Zhang Yunwen returned to Luoyang, there were still six days before the beginning of autumn.

Although the rent of the Tang Dynasty stipulates the amount of grain to be paid by each male in a year, and does not stipulate the specific time to pay, due to the autumn harvest every year, the rent in the rent adjustment is generally paid in the autumn.

Again, this business tax is levied in the fall.

However, the rent of the Yong Adjustment was controlled by Cao Shenjun, the household of the state and county, and the commercial tax was collected by the Cangcao Shen Military.

"My lord, when will I start checking the accounts of a business?" On the first day of Zhang Yunwen's return, Wang Fangyi asked.

Zhang Yunwen listened to Wang Fangyi's words, but he pondered for a moment and said: "Today, you will convene a meeting of all the families in the guild to announce this matter, and if anyone disagrees, they will be removed from the guild!" After the meeting was dismissed, people were immediately dispatched to follow the shopkeepers to the shops and caravans to check the accounts! ”

"But my lord, if a shopkeeper follows a clerk and catches quickly, I'm afraid there won't be enough manpower! And my lord, since the accounts have been checked this year, these caravan families will be on guard next year, and they will definitely make fake accounts in advance to confuse the public, if so, what should they do? Zhang Cambodia was keenly aware of the loopholes and said to Zhang Yunwen.

Zhang Yunwen said with a smile: "The operation of the guild this year has not yet been perfected, and after the autumn, I will go to find two bookkeepers to come over, join the guild, and then record the transactions of those large caravans and family shops, and then you will be able to roughly estimate their annual transaction volume, if they make false accounts, you can see it at a glance!" This year, this method is just a stopgap measure! ”

Zhang Cambodia nodded suddenly, hugged his fists and said: "My lord is far-sighted, and it's too late!" ”

Zhang Yunwen said again: "As for this manpower problem, if you don't have enough manpower, you can go to Luoyang Mansion to transfer people over!" ”

"Whoa!" Wang Fangyi, Zhang Cambodia and the other three shook at the same time, and began to act according to what they thought they had ordered.

Wang Fangyi and Luoyang Cangcao Shen jointly issued an announcement in the guild, asking those middle-sized and above caravan directors and shopkeepers to gather in the largest restaurant in Luoyang tomorrow for a meeting.

Seeing this announcement, those shopkeepers and directors were a little at a loss, could it be that something big had happened?

At this time, there were hundreds of members in the guild, and it was impossible for every treasurer and chief executive to come here. Only those merchants whose assets have reached a certain level of caravan store size will be allowed to participate in the conference.

When Wang Fangyi announced at the meeting that he would check the accounts of the merchants, three or four large caravans on the spot objected to this, saying that the guild did not have the authority to check its own accounts.

Wang Fangyi pointed out unceremoniously: "Although the guild has no power? At the beginning, it was written on the contract to join the guild that the guild would have the power to check the accounts of each merchant! Do you still want to deny it? As he spoke, he took out a blank contract as proof.

These blank contracts were printed on engravings. It is written in black and white, and those merchants can't deny it even if they want to.

The shopkeepers of some merchants rolled their eyes and said that they would go back to prepare first, and then invite the people of the guild to come and inspect them.

Wang Fangyi said: "It's just a few accounts, what is there to prepare!" After the meeting was dispersed later, the official sent a clerk and a clerk to follow the shopkeepers back to check, why bother! ”

When the merchants heard this, their faces couldn't help but change. Although he was a little reluctant, he still followed Wang Fangyi's wishes.

After the meeting was adjourned, the operation of clearing the accounts of merchants in Luoyang officially began.

The clerks of those merchants were a little stunned when they saw their shopkeepers coming back, and were about to say hello, but they saw the clerk behind them. And the shopkeeper's next move surprised them even more, only to see the shopkeeper handed over the account book recorded in the account room to the clerk, and the clerk after a careful look for a while, he talked to the bookkeeper and continued to check. Finally, take out a pen and paper and record it.

Such a situation is staged from time to time in the Luoyang shop caravan. Although most of the merchants were unwilling to do so, there were still some merchants who refused to inspect their accounts because of their family power. Faced with such a merchant, after persuasion failed, the clerk recorded his name and turned to leave.

What awaits these merchants will be the punishment of the Divorce Club.

In just one day, after sending a large number of people, the accounts of various merchants in Luoyang City were quickly investigated.

On the second day, it was the merchants in the surrounding area of Luoyang.

In this way, before the beginning of the autumn season, Zhang Yunwen completed the inventory of the accounts of merchants in Luoyang.

The next step is to levy the commercial tax after the beginning of autumn.

Thick documents were piled up in front of Zhang Yunwen, and these things were recently about the accounts of merchants in Luoyang. This includes not only those merchants who disobey orders and await punishment, but also the accounts of various large shops and caravans. These have to be dealt with by Zhang Yunwen.

Zhang Yunwen hastily flipped through a few books, and then said to Wang Fangyi and the others: "Don't be lazy when you wait, you can handle documents like these punishments, why send them to me!" ”

The three of them had no choice but to look at each other, so they had to pick up some documents to deal with.

After Zhang Yunwen reviewed these documents, the amount of commercial tax that each merchant had to pay was calculated by the account office, and it was collected at that time.

After a few days of hard work, the final result finally came out, and the entire Luoyang, this year's commercial tax has totaled more than 600,000 yuan, compared with more than 200,000 yuan last year, a threefold increase.

Seeing this number, Zhang Yunwen finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and he could finally explain to Li Shimin.

After the beginning of autumn, when the city order and the people of the Eastern Capital Pastoral Mansion and the guild collected the commercial tax one by one, the merchants couldn't help but be surprised when they saw the amount of commercial tax that needed to be paid, and hurriedly asked the city order and others with great momentum.

The people of the city order and the people of the guild were the people who looked at the Eastern Governor's Mansion at the same time. However, the latter calmly took out a document, saying how much the merchant made this year, and how much tax should be paid according to the law of Zhenguan. These words are well-founded, but they make it impossible for merchants to find any flaws. After the merchant pays the tax, the person who ordered the warehouse will issue a slip stamped with the seals of the warehouse order, the Eastern Capital Pastoral Mansion and the three people present to prove that the merchant has paid the tax.

The person who was waiting to collect the tax in the merchant shopkeeper went over, and when he recalled what the Eastern Capital Pastoral Mansion had done in Luoyang, he became a line, and then he realized, oh, it turned out that the business licenses, commercial guilds, and account checks that the Eastern Capital Pastoral Mansion had engaged in were all for this tax matter.

The collection of taxes lasted for a month, and it was not until mid-August that the collection of commercial taxes in Chang'an was completed.

Truckloads of copper coins were taken into the warehouse for safekeeping after being checked. And Zhang Yunwen also sent an official document to Li Shimin, describing his achievements in Luoyang.

After Li Shimin looked at the document handed by Zhang Yunwen, he couldn't help patting his thigh and said yes in a loud voice. Especially when he saw the total amount of tax revenue at the end, he couldn't help but say to the ministers proudly: "Look, Yunwen has been in Luoyang for less than a year, and he has tripled the commercial tax in Luoyang. ”

The ministers who already knew Zhang Yunwen's specific implementation methods were silent. That Fang Xuanling said: "Lord Zhang's case is special, if the rest of the places do the same, I'm afraid it won't work!" First, His Majesty trusted Lord Zhang, and even handed over his sword to him, so that he could control Henan. Second, General Zhang is famous and powerful, and the family does not dare to wipe his edge easily. Third, it's the Chamber of Commerce. If the guild is under the control of the government, it is a sharp blade, and it can be effective to control the communication merchants. If the rest of the places follow suit and run guilds, I am afraid that they will be in the hands of local families. ”

After listening to Fang Xuanling's words, Li Shimin sighed, but did not mention the matter again. just issued an edict to recall Zhang Yunwen back to Chang'an.

At this time, Zhang Yunwen was in Luoyang, and he didn't know that he had been transferred back to Chang'an by Li Shimin. At the moment, he was worried about something.

It turned out that after Zhang Yunwen recognized his relatives, the news that Zhang Yunwen was a child of the Zhang family in Qinghe soon spread throughout Guanzhong Henan. It also naturally spread to the Zhang family in Qinghe.

The first reaction of the head of the Zhang family who heard the news was "impossible". However, after an analysis, the people of the Zhang family finally determined the identity of Zhang Yunwen's children of the Zhang family.

Knowing that there was a national prince in his family, the Zhang family was overjoyed. After being happy, what they thought of was to let Zhang Yunwen recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. However, remembering that they had ignored Zhang Zhaoyuan over the years, the people of the Zhang family were afraid that Zhang Yunwen would be dissatisfied, so they decided to send their elders to contact Zhang Yunwen first, see what Zhang Yunwen meant, and ask him when he would recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

And the person sent by the Zhang family was Zhang Zhaoyang, who gave a dowry to the Taiyuan royal family for Zhang Wenjun, Zhang Yunwen's cousin.

Hearing the news that the Zhang family was going to send someone to come, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but have a headache, how should he deal with his relationship with the Zhang family?