If the merchant tax is paid according to the principle of three classes and nine rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Hongwu, if some shops in the countryside are added, a township can collect more than 100 taels of silver. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In addition, there are many more that sell chickens, ducks, fish, and various agricultural crops, and everyone comes to the market with the goods on their backs, and after they are opened, they wait for the buyer to come, and after some negotiations, the transaction is completed.

As soon as the transaction was completed, a few men with open clothes came over and demanded to pay the tax, and everyone cried and paid the tax.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulates that this commercial levy is between 3% and 5%, but there is no such levy according to this, it is completely based on personal preference, strangers, and more is levied honestly.

Basically, they all rushed to the market with their backs, and everyone first sold the goods in exchange for silver and two copper coins, and then bought back the things they needed to go home.

Even if half of the people sell goods, there are probably thousands of people, the least 2 copper plates, the most nearly 100 copper plates (selling pigs, buying cattle and other bulk goods for trading), a simple look at the tax basket, it is estimated that there are nearly 10,000 copper coins (one or two lines of silver are worth more than 1,300 copper plates, so there are as many as 8 taels)

Now for the Chinese New Year, there are many rushes, and the average of a year will not be less than 5 taels of silver, according to the calculation of 120 days, so it is more than 600 taels of silver, plus the number of shops, so more than 700 taels of silver.

It is said that Daming Shen Wansan has a cornucopia, the Chinese population is large, the real cornucopia is the tax collected, now the national population of more than 120 million (60 million on the household registration, has not changed for hundreds of years, it is generally believed that more than 120 million, some are estimated to exceed 200 million), each person has a copper plate, the whole country has 100,000 taels of silver.

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This is just an iron Buddha pond, there are more than ten markets in Yilong County, plus one in the county seat, and the merchant endowment alone should exceed 8,000 taels of silver a year.

Even if the hundreds of health offices are not counted, but the 1,427 counties of the Ming Dynasty, even if only these counties are counted, the annual commercial tax can collect as much as 11 million taels.

But just as Yilong County only pays more than 100 taels of silver every year, the national business endowment is also pitiful, only 200,000 taels of silver.

Therefore, some historians believe that the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty were mainly due to the fact that the imperial court did not collect taxes at all, or that the bureaucratic group embezzled these taxes collected from the people.

After walking back and forth two or three times, I entered a restaurant and asked for a side room, where everyone sat and drank tea and chatted, while watching a person outside the restaurant playing acrobatics.

Suddenly, I heard a commotion outside, turned my head to look, and saw a few men with open clothes breaking into the juggling hall next to the hotel, staring at the performers and shouting: "Where are you, why do you go to the local performing arts instead of worshipping the pier?" ”

Hearing the shouting, the surrounding crowd snorted around, and everyone looked at a man in his thirties with an open padded jacket and asked, "Second Master Yu, this, what's wrong?" Someone who doesn't pay taxes again? ”

Glaring at the person next to him, this Second Master Yu said viciously: "Yes, otherwise Lao Tzu would have made such a big fire?" These handymen from other places not only did not come to worship the pier, but also did not even pay taxes, if they were like this, would Lao Tzu still be alive? ”

Tax, Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, and shook his head, in addition to collecting land endowments, ding endowments, business endowments, and mining endowments, the government does not charge taxes for performing arts, what is this fee?

When others heard this, they also coaxed, and some even bluntly said how to do this, if this is the case, isn't Yu Erye having no way to live?

Seeing this, the middle-aged man who was performing his art nodded and bowed and hugged his fists and said: "Uncle, the little ones have suffered a disaster in their families, and they don't rely on this skill to come out to live, I hope the uncle will be more considerate and considerate." ”

Yu Erye frowned when he heard this, raised his palm and slapped it, and then scolded: "You, you show that you want Lao Tzu to be considerate, how much face do you think you have."

You have been singing for so long from the beginning to the end of the field, and you can't do it for one or two pieces of silver, not even one less. ”

In a normal year, one tael of silver is worth two loads of grain, but today I juggled for a day, and I didn't earn a few dollars of silver.

Touching his cheeks, the old man begged with a sad face: "Uncle, look, in the next family of four for half a day, there is not a tael of silver a day?"

Uncle, you should pay taxes according to the normal requirements. ”

Glaring at these performers viciously, Yu Erye shook his head and said, "Still bargaining with Lao Tzu, one or two pieces of silver can't be missing?" ”

The performer said with a sad face: "Second Master Yu, Master Hong stipulates that the maximum business endowment is only 5 percent, and the small family only earns 8 yuan of silver today, and the maximum is only 40 copper coins, is this 1 tael of silver too much?" ”

Second Master Yu shook his head and said, "My Second Master Yu has managed this field for more than ten years, and he is the most fair, but you dare to slander Lao Tzu's reputation and say that Lao Tzu is unfair."

The tax of 40 copper coins is not fake, but you have to worship the dock to honor Lao Tzu when you come to sing in the local area, which is impossible to lose 5 yuan of silver anyway, plus these brothers around Lao Tzu ate and drank Lazar at noon today, let's talk about it, is this 1 tael of silver too much? ”

When everyone heard this, they all agreed loudly, and some bluntly said that Yu Erye could not eat or drink less than 5 yuan of silver.

The feeling of performing is too bad, kneeling on the ground and not giving the silver, Yu Erye shouted for the brothers next to him to rob the money.

The two sides went back and forth, fighting in the bazaar, and in the end, more and more people gathered, and it seemed that it would turn into a group fight.

After inquiring with the people next to him, the identity of the second master Yu quickly became clear, he was not born as a serious servant, but just a white man in the official mansion.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent officials from committing evil, Zhu Yuanzhang built a luxurious yamen in each county.

In general, there are no more than 100 people in prefectures and counties, which is seriously insufficient, and in order to control the localities, generally speaking, a formal official official often has three or four "white servants" under his command.

This white servant is like the original chengguan, there is no formal civil servant, and he does not receive the imperial court, but he has the right to enforce the law, and he is also the most ferocious to the people.

In the local area, the white service is levied and levied like the land public, and at the end of each year, the official service of the yamen, the secretary office, the county officer, and the county magistrate are filial piety.

As long as the goods entered the market to buy and sell, they had to take 3 or 5 copper plates as a tax, so they became a well-known local man, and many shop owners were afraid of it.

After working for a long time, I finally figured it out, it turned out that the white servants were like this, like the chengguan in the previous life.

Leaving Yang Fuquan to inquire about Yu Erye's background in Tiefotang, Yang Xuan and Niu Dayong hurried to Yilong County, entered the county hall, and after verifying the seal, they were promoted to the director of the hall.