Zhou Lang is a pragmatist, the idealistic plot may not be enough, not enough blood, but he is more practical, he knows what is going on in people's hearts, people are monkeys, how can there be no cheap. The policies and guidelines of those in power, if not based on human nature, but on illusory morals and ideals, will only slap themselves in the face.

Now Zhou Lang saw that everyone was actively benefiting from business, and he did not sigh like a high-ranking person, but he was overjoyed, because it made him see that a vested interest group was forming. This is the case at home, where new vested interests are taking shape and a new business culture is emerging.

However, various business models and business systems are far ahead, and some systems that should have been spawned by these business classes and cultures have been created in advance, which in turn promotes the growth of business class and culture.

These visible business institutions, including taxation and financial markets, are ahead of business culture.

The taxation system has been continuously renewed, and the most recent reform was three years ago, when the system of taxation based on actual turnover was completely completed.

It is not easy to complete this step, and the government finance department needs to build a systematic social management system, otherwise it will not be possible to eliminate tax evasion.

Nowadays, a company must pay taxes according to its actual turnover, whether it is a factory or a shop. However, the account books of each shop are recorded by themselves, who dares to guarantee the authenticity? Fake accounts for tax evasion have existed throughout the ages. But if there is a systematic monitoring system, it will make it exponentially more difficult to make false accounts.

In a business system that is beginning to develop, it is difficult to settle the false accounts of individuals. Because he always has an upstream and downstream industrial chain, how many goods a store buys and how many goods are sold, he can make false accounts, but it is easy to find out, unless he can control the entire industrial chain and let every relevant unit do fake accounts with him.

After completing the structure of all industrial chains, Zhou Lang completed the turnover tax system, not without reason. That is, he can do the basic supervision of big data, and then control tax evasion through comparative analysis. The earliest area of implementation was in the field of agriculture, and the national tax was concentrated in the household department for comparative analysis, and it was clear at a glance that the county had made false accounts.

Later, it was extended to the commercial field, and at the beginning there were many cases of false accounts being investigated, but the government introduced strict and standardized punishment measures, starting with the direct confiscation of business licenses and heavy fines of confiscating all property. Over the years, there were not 100,000 but 80,000 merchants who had their homes raided because of this. Even hundreds of commercial companies have had their licenses confiscated in the past two years.

In the case of such heavy penalties and no leniency, the phenomenon of tax evasion and tax evasion by making false accounts quickly disappeared. Then one by one, shameless businessmen preached their honest qualities in a high-profile manner. This is the true meaning of an honest society, not the high quality of people, but the strict management. In later generations, many multinational companies have abided by the law in their own countries, and when they go to countries with many regulatory loopholes, there are countless examples of reckless behavior. For example, there is no shortage of bribes for Chinese officials in multinational companies in China, but in their own countries, they do not do so. There are also financial conglomerates, whose managers wear decent formal attire in their home countries and attend various charity occasions all year round, but in Africa, they kill people and set fires, subvert regimes, plunder minerals, and do all kinds of evil.

This is human nature, seeking profit, not goodness!

After the completion of the tax reform, China's tax has been indisputably the world's first, three times that of the United Kingdom, as high as 35 million taels of gold, equivalent to 180 million pounds sterling.

However, the population of the United Kingdom is only a little more than 30 million, and the Chinese population is already as high as 400 million, so the per capita tax is actually only one-third of that of the United Kingdom, on the one hand, the United Kingdom has stronger tax collection power, and on the other hand, China's administrative costs are lower. A small Britain would have to pay so much to maintain a worldwide network of naval bases. For this reason, the United Kingdom has begun to levy a large number of direct taxes, and the proportion of direct taxes in the total tax rate has been as high as more than 3%, while China is still mainly based on indirect taxes, such as inheritance tax, income tax, and real estate tax, which have not been implemented.

However, the British often have a fiscal income of 60 million pounds a year, and the government's debt is growing slowly, but China's fiscal revenue of 180 million pounds can be surplus. One is that China's administrative expenditure is indeed relatively small, and the tradition of imperial power not going to the countryside makes China's government institutions only set up at the county level, and the managers who go deep into the countryside are those squires and clans who do not take salaries, and establish a set of armor protection system through the system of ten brands, Zhou Lang not only did not destroy this set of armor protection system, but continued to strengthen it. The per capita proportion of officials in China is only about a quarter of that of the United Kingdom.

China's navy is twice the size of Britain, but its fiscal revenue is three times that of Britain, and it is clear who has greater pressure on military spending.

There is a more important reason, that is, the price level of gold and silver in China and the West, the purchasing power of gold and silver in China in the early days is more than five times that of Western countries, so China's handmade products appear to be very cheap, the continuous inflow of gold and silver in recent years, coupled with large-scale gold mining, China's currency has actually been slowly inflationary, and now the purchasing power has dropped significantly, but it is still twice that of the United Kingdom, and this advantage has been stable for several years, after all, China is a large producer, most of the goods can be self-produced, Therefore, the cost is lower, and it should be lower than in the United Kingdom, which is reflected in the higher purchasing power of the currency.

So three times the UK's revenues, but six times the UK's purchasing power. Under this gap, Zhou Lang did not understand why the British dared to declare war on China. He didn't want to bother to figure out the minds of the British, and with this degree of superiority, Zhou Lang did not have the slightest doubt about the outcome of this war.

It's just that such a war, Zhou Lang thinks there is no need to fight, and he no longer has any ambitions for Britain. The most valuable asset in the hands of Britain should be India, but Zhou Lang did not have this idea of taking India away from the British. China's African companies have always ruled the Indus Valley, adopting the Chinese model of lightly leviing and allocating the land gentry class, and there is little interest here. However, India, which was ruled by the British, could provide China with large quantities of raw materials such as cotton, indigo and jute.

To be honest, British rule over India brings more benefits to China than it does for itself. Because China's rule has never been an exploitative rule. The results of the rule were also evident: the population of the Indus Valley, ruled by African corporations, had tripled to 40 million; Under British rule, India's population hovered around 180 million. China's rule, although the total amount of wealth does not necessarily increase, is relatively evenly distributed, so it is easier for the people at the bottom to support their families; Under British rule, there was a high degree of uneven distribution, and the British had to take a large piece, which led to almost abject poverty at the bottom, let alone supporting their families, and there were famines at every turn, and there were as many as 30 million or 40 million in just a few famines.

A considerable part of the profits extracted by the British became the original capital of the Chinese merchant class through trade. Therefore, from the perspective of interests, it is possible to take India from the British, and it is better to let the British rule here.

Through the last war, Britain's power has been compressed in West Africa, Canada and India, this is no longer a world empire, that is to say, Britain at this time, can not afford the title of the sun never sets, such a Britain, Zhou Lang has lost the mind to weaken, but the other party has never given up, has not been willing to see the existence of a stronger country than it, must fight to the strongest, this competitiveness is worth encouraging, but it is inevitably a little self-sufficient.

Zhou Lang saw it thoroughly, and it was impossible for the British not to understand that the reason why this empire was successful was because they understood the world more deeply than other countries, and it was impossible for them not to see the gap in overall power. So Britain will definitely look for foreign aid, the United States is just a thug for Britain, and they will definitely look for more and stronger thugs.

After Britain declared war, Zhou Lang held a military meeting to discuss countermeasures. Military officials generally believed that the British were simply inflicting humiliation on themselves. But they did not have a clear idea of the scale of the war.

This kind of passive acceptance of challenges seems to be the consistent character of the Chinese, from ancient times to the present day have rarely taken the initiative to attack the ideological behavior, except for the Warring States period, each country has a clear long-term strategy, later dynasties in the interaction with the surrounding nomadic forces, often only seek peace, not interested in the other side, just hope that the other side does not come to attack. Unless the opposing party's power has already posed a strong threat to itself, it will launch a long-term attack on the surrounding area in the era of individual kings, and usually reactively respond to changes in diplomacy. There is also a principle in philosophical thought that the same should be changed, and it is believed by many people.

It is really difficult to change people's minds, Zhou Lang sighed, he still has to continue to preside, he immediately asked people to assess the European countries that may be involved in this war, as well as the recent developments of each country, and compile a report.

The focus is still on the attitude of the European powers, Zhou Lang is very sure that once the war starts, it will not be possible for China to confront Britain, the United States and the West, and there will definitely be other powers to join, and it is impossible for the British to declare war on China without strong foreign aid.

It will be the Crimean War, in which another great power participates, even on a larger scale than the Crimean War, but a world war!

Sure enough, after the rise of Britain's declaration of war, European countries took action one after another, first of all, Russia, Prussia and Austria, and they once again united to carve up Poland!

Poland can survive for so many years, not by its own strength, but by the balance between the great powers, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland, obviously they can ensure that the other powers remain neutral, which France must oppose, Prussia and Austria are either strong, is a threat to France, Poland is a piece of fat, enough to make Prussia and Austria swell a circle.

However, France's own strength cannot pose a threat to Russia, Prussia and Austria, but France is absolutely capable of threatening Prussia, and even Prussia and Austria may not be France's opponent. The three countries dared to carve up Poland, and they could only say that they were convinced that France was not a threat, and either persuaded France, or that they were supported by a country as strong as France, or even stronger than France, which could not have anyone but England.

In other words, by betraying Poland, the British bought the three countries of Russia, Prussia and Austria, and all three countries may be on the side of Britain in the next world war.

Russia, in particular, is weak, but it has a large population and a large army, and if it has sufficient financial support, Russia can exert a stronger force than any country in Europe, not even France.

Try to stabilize Russia!

This is Zhou Lang's request to the diplomatic department, one less enemy, one less strength for Britain, this is a relationship between one plus one equals two. Russia's economic ties with China are the closest among European countries, and Zhou Lang hopes to win over Russia.

Drag Austria!

This week's demand for Austria, under the auspices of Metternich, has always been slippery, and there is hope that Austria will wait and see in the early stages of the war. It's like Italy in the early stages of World War I and World War II.

Fight for an alliance with France!

This is a requirement for France, the interests of the French are more in conflict with Britain than cooperation, Britain is the biggest competitor of French goods in Europe, Britain is the biggest enemy in the Mediterranean region that hinders French expansion, it is difficult to find any aspect, it is that France cannot do without Britain, and it needs to maintain friendly relations with Britain. So it is possible for France to form an alliance with China.

As for the Kingdom of Prussia, one of the four strongest countries in Europe, it has no close economic ties with this country, nor does it have any conflict of interest, and it is completely impossible to influence what the other party will choose.

The diplomatic deployment coincided with the launch of military operations.

The battle was fought first in the Americas and India!