Chapter 17 Tax Reduction Program
The Tatar bandit group cleanly sold the Shanxi Road to the Great Song government completely, with no strings attached, except for the high asking price.
This is the exact inside information that the owner of the island Zhang got.
Things have changed.
The Tatar bandit groups had planned and organized a retreat from the south of the Yellow River to the north of the Yellow River, and they were going to throw off what they thought was a burden, and they began to gather their forces and go into battle lightly.
According to the news from Dadu, Kublai Khan, the great leader, held a meeting with the Tatar nobles, and neither the Semu people from the financial management faction nor the Hanchen from the Hanfa faction joined in.
There is no way for the owner of the island to know what they talked about, but there are some changes that seem to reveal some inside stories.
Kublai Khan, the great leader, once said to his ministers:
"We are originally a horseback people, begging for a living under the steel knife------ how can we learn from the Han dogs to farm and build cities?"
Subsequently, he ordered all the Tatars who had been scattered in the state capitals to return to the capital and restore their old habits------ as for the taxation of the state capitals, it was completely left to the local officials.
The great leader Kublai Khan also said: "Today's defeat is entirely caused by us forgetting our own beginnings and learning from other people's methods------"
He blamed the current situation on blindly following the path of others, forgetting his own beginnings.
This means obviously, they are robbers in the first place, and they want to learn business and management, no wonder they will fail, and they can't even beat the small Liuqiu Island!
He also strictly ordered the children of Tatar nobles to learn to write Chinese characters, and even Han festivals were not allowed!
One by one, he kicked out of the Hanchen for various reasons, reusing the children of the Tatar nobility, while the Semu people reluctantly retained them because they were still useful.
Island Master Zhang sneered, hehe, the road of civilization can't go on, they have returned to barbarism, and they are beginning to restore the primitive tribal alliance!
For a while, the war horses around the capital were galloping, and the Tatars seemed to have begun to regain their self-confidence.
After decisively selling the east and west roads of Shandong, they obtained a large number of supplies, and it is said that a group of men and horses were recruited from the prairie.
The lord of Zhang Island didn't care about the Tatar bandit group, and after the failure of the 10th rebellion to suppress the Goryeo Kingdom, they could no longer find a way out to continue their development!
They thought that going back to the past and trying to relive the era of the invincible iron riders could only be their dream of being a bandit, and the times were different!!
They are running on their way to death------
It's just that now is not the time for the final blow, and the owner of Zhang believes that he can't borrow the power of the Great Song Dynasty now, but it may drag down the economic development of Liuqiu Island.
Every 10 days, the owner of Zhang Island had to carefully read a table showing the basic prices of living and the income levels of ordinary residents in Lin'an, Yangzhou, Thornton, and Canton, as well as in several cities on Liuqiu Island.
In recent times, prices have continued to rise in several major cities in the Great Song Dynasty, including Liuqiu Island.
However, the income level of residents has not increased much.
Of course, the owner of Zhang Island knows where the root cause is------ the Great Song Dynasty dispatched 100,000 laborers to rebuild Bianjing City at once, this scale, this courage, makes Zhang Island Lord ashamed!
Coupled with the reconstruction of other small and medium-sized cities on Bianjing Road, the materials invested are simply astronomical!
The Great Song government's loans to the Liuqian Bank and the additional taxes levied on the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the most important thing is the proceeds from their auction of the ownerless land in Bianjing Road, which can barely support one breath------ but coupled with the reconstruction of Shanxi Road, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty government is obviously overwhelmed.
Money can be printed at any time, but in the end, it must be reflected in the materials for various purposes.
The prices in the Great Song market did not skyrocket, and it completely relied on the continuous harvest in agriculture!
At this time, the high-yield grain seeds, high-yield cotton seeds, and large livestock brought by the owner of Zhang Island, especially to improve the ability to develop the sea, these may be more important than large bolt guns and artillery!
However, no matter how many materials there are, they are limited, and the production capacity is still not enough.
Zhang Island Lord said worriedly to Wang Defa's family: "Jia Laogou and those old people are greedy for cheap, short-sighted, and only think about their own merits in vain, they want to lead the Great Song Dynasty to a dead end!" ”
Mr. Wang's family had also seen those forms, but he was more optimistic.
"Jia Pingzhang, they are not stupid, you see they have been asking us to sell their sailing ships quickly, no matter what, they are going to ------ they don't want to use the Yellow River to defend the Tatars?
Don't worry that they will fall to the north, I estimate that if you give Jia Pingzhang ten more sweet dates to eat, they won't be fooled, hehe.
The official family of the Great Song Dynasty is now a child, and Mrs. Xie is also a kind old lady, and she can really only rely on them to manage it------ and she is not afraid of high prices, inflation or austerity, and the Great Song Dynasty society is not happening once or twice, and their affordability is not as small as we imagined! ”
"But sooner or later, the inflation of the Great Song Dynasty will be transmitted to our heads------"
"Well, this is a problem------ we really can't reduce taxes, stimulate private investment in the production and processing industries, and we can not tax private enterprises."
"Hehe, the Great Song Dynasty government has raised taxes, and we have lowered taxes, just right."
"It's not to fight against them, we're afraid that all the money will go to stock up------ and our paddy fields will continue to be developed, and strive to lead the money to the enterprise and lock it in the land."
"Lower the import tariff and let those maritime merchants also help us to ship supplies back!"
"Good way! That's it. ”
Zhang Daozhu called Commissioner Guo Ziren and Governor Gu Jianshan and asked them to come up with a tax reduction plan.
The two guys were a little panicked and said, "Then our income can be greatly reduced------ doesn't it mean that a group of team members will be discharged from the army in the near future?" Where will that large settlement fee come from? ”
Zhang Island Master smiled and said: "If the income is small, you can borrow money from our citizens first, and I will tell you how to issue treasury bonds------
After patiently listening to Zhang Islander's explanation, the two guys smiled and said:
"Using the industry and agriculture on our island as collateral, even the most suspicious people will boldly buy and sell, and it is only a three-year period, with an annual interest rate of half percent------ this is not borrowing money, but doing good deeds."
A few days later, the Liuqiu Times published a large article on the island's tax cuts and the issuance of industrial and agricultural bonds, which immediately caused a financial turmoil.
The owner of Zhang Island finally really saw the wealth of the people of the Great Song Dynasty.
Needless to mention the situation on the island, the Liuqiu money banks in the major cities of the Great Song Dynasty issued industrial and agricultural bonds of a consistent face value, but it did not take three days to lose 30 million yuan in one fell swoop.
Tons and tons of minted copper coins flock to the market, then exchange for money and return to the bank.
In this process, the minted copper coins with green rust seem to be everywhere, and where is there any shortage of money, it is clearly money hair!
Jia Laogou finally replied to Zhang Island's letter, but most of the content accused Zhang Island of acting rashly, how could he reduce taxes at will?!
Island Master Zhang didn't care about him at all this time, but he thought in his heart that the matter of the establishment of the Liuqiu Island would start to be considered.
Ps: Thank you for the different rewards inside and outside the wall.