As soon as he said that he wanted to improve the officials' salaries, the ministers who had a little bit in their hearts just now began to despise their careful thinking just now. There are officials like Li Sancai who are very wealthy, but most of the family conditions are not very good, even Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Zhao Nanxing, Gong Nai, Huang Zunsu, etc. in the Donglin Party are only well-off. Everyone knelt down together again, and shouted in unison: "Shengming has no emperor in the sky." Some Beijing officials who are poor because they are honest are even more excited with a slight wetness in their eyes.

Zhu Youxiao continued: "Regarding the detailed rules for the collection method of commercial tax, Xu Shangshu is in charge, and the Ministry of Officials, Rites, Rites, Criminal Department, and Ministry of Industry will also send people to participate. As for the matter of increasing the number of salaries, it will be led by Lord Shoufu, and the six departments will send people to assist, and they will also work out a way, and they will all report to me. ”

Xu Guangqi and Fang Congzhe made a list of orders, and after retiring from the court, the ministers withdrew, and they began to discuss today's two topics along the way, which was also quite lively.

Soon, Xu Guangqi wrote down the tax collection method on the excerpt, Zhu Youxiao took a closer look, and the preliminary tax rate was half percent, the merchant collected twice a year, and the merchant paid once for a goods, and after paying the tax, the tax stamps should be issued, and the tax stamps of the merchants were circulated throughout the country, and the goods should not be repeatedly taxed.

The Ministry of Household has set up a tax office in each county, a tax department in each prefecture, a tax bureau in each province, a tax office in each province (political department), and a general tax office in the household department. Zhu Youxiao ordered Bi Ziyan, the governor of Tianjin, to be promoted to the left servant of the household department, and concurrently served as the director of the General Administration of Taxation, and the tax system was directly managed, and there was no subordinate relationship with the local government, and the local army could be mobilized to deal with merchants who maliciously resisted taxes.

In this issue of "Daming Weekly", there was an article signed by Mr. Xiao Qi in the political section "Why do we need to collect commercial taxes", this article is all in the vernacular, starting from the responsibilities of the state, thinking that the state should guarantee the rights of every subject, so how to ensure it? It needs the army, the government yamen, schools, nursing homes, Huimin pharmacies, drain Zeyuan and other institutions, and the normal operation of these institutions needs to be supported by money, where does the money come from, of course, it can only come from taxes, which is the so-called "take from the people, use it for the people".

At this stage, the tax revenue of the imperial court is mainly agricultural tax, and the imperial court has increased the salary in order to deal with Jiannu. Most of the ordinary peasant families are poor, many families are overwhelmed, and the commercial tax is almost not collected, many big businessmen have become rich and rival the country, such as the former river transport governor Li, the family property exceeds the annual income of the imperial court for a year, such a situation is the result of not collecting commercial tax, it should be the country's money, that is, everyone's money, but the result is gathered in the hands of a few people, for them to spend all day and wine, and the state and ordinary people have no money at all.

Then he proposed that taxation should conform to the way of heaven, and that it should be more than what is lost and what is lacking, so commercial taxes should be collected, and heavy taxes should be levied, and tax evaders should be severely punished. I believe that people with a large amount of property cannot have all their money clean, and as long as it is found that it is found that it violates the law of the country, they should be beheaded, raided and exterminated.

In the end, he believed that businessmen could do business in a peaceful environment, there were no robbers and robberies in the process of business, and there were no ruffians and hooligans in the business, which was originally the result of good management by the imperial court, and the court was short of money, which finally led to poor management, thieves swarmed, hooligans were rampant, and in the end it was the businessmen who suffered losses, and the businessmen should understand this, paying taxes was actually to protect themselves and to their own interests.

At the end, he put forward a slogan: pay taxes honorably, tax evasion is shameful, and tax resistance should be killed.

Of course, there is an editor's note below: this article only represents the author's own views. The emperor's grace is vast, and he has not levied heavy taxes on commerce, and will decree that the tax rate will be set at half percent, but I also hope that all businessmen can be anxious about the urgency of the court, recite the holy will, and contribute their own strength to the financial health of the Ming Dynasty, and the court will not forget the support of the righteous businessmen.

This murderous article and the following editor's note, which is mainly reassuring, have attracted a large number of readers' letters. Wang Chengen reported that most of them supported Mr. Xiaoqi's point of view, some people said that the Han people in Liaodong were broken by Jiannu, and how much money they had was useless in the end, and if the imperial court had enough money to recruit troops and buy horses, Liaodong would have been pacified long ago; There are also people who believe that it is necessary to call on everyone not to do business with tax evaders and actively report tax evaders; Some people also raised the need to prevent corruption in the process of tax collection, and asked the imperial court to strengthen supervision.

Zhu Youxiao nodded again and again when he heard this, the readers of the weekly newspaper are basically people with surplus wealth, since most of them support the imperial court to collect commercial taxes, of course, it shows that most businessmen are not resistant to commercial taxes, because they understand the meaning of paying taxes, and understand that they can do business safely because the imperial court is behind them. The problem is that some businessmen with backgrounds, they have actually paid taxes, even higher than the tax rate of the imperial court, but they are handed over to the powerful at all levels, and now the imperial court wants to collect commercial taxes, of course they will not be willing. However, whether they are willing or not, Zhu Youxiao is ready to use strong means to implement this commercial tax, even if there is a situation in "The Tombstone of Five", I must collect the commercial tax.

He ordered Wang Chengen to put a little polish on the better written ones and put them in the column of readers' letters, and added an editor's note that the emperor was very grateful for the support of his subjects, and would definitely let the household department formulate an appropriate tax collection system and supervision measures.

How to prevent tax corruption is indeed a big problem. Zhu Youxiao first found Wei Zhongxian and told him that the East Factory should send personnel to the tax departments at all levels to supervise the power.

Wei Zhongxian naturally listened to the emperor in everything, and he patted his chest and assured Zhu Youxiao: "As long as there are tax collectors who dare to embezzle, the slave will definitely make him regret coming to this world." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded again and again, and praised it: "I don't have to worry about you doing things." Wei Zhongxian was moved to tears again, and after kowtowing again and again, he retreated in high spirits.

Zhu Youxiao was still immersed in this famous sentence, but after Wei Zhongxian left, he suddenly remembered that the "you" in this sentence in history did not reassure "me" in the end, if Dongchang and the tax department colluded, then what should I do?

can't hand over everything to Wei Zhongxian, so that he may not do it well in the end, and it will hurt him. I still want to build another supervision agency, remembering what I heard in the restaurant last time, so I summoned Zhang Cheng.