Chapter Seventy-Four: New Currency Circulation (Seeking Collection)
"The third thing is that I have decided to impose additional taxes on all shops in Beizhi, and I will collect taxes according to the size of the shops and the types of businesses they operate, ranging from ten taels to one hundred taels a year, and I will soon introduce detailed tax collection regulations."
"You must remember that I will never allow anyone to strike the market again, the first time I boycott the new currency in tandem, I am already lenient, if I find that there are people in tandem for the second time, I will definitely destroy your three clans, whether men, women or children within the three clans, I will let you leave you without a single grass, and I will definitely do what I say. Unless you leave Daming and flee overseas. If you have any comments, you can put them up now. Zhu Youxiao said viciously, and his words carried a murderous aura.
Zhu Youxiao's murderous aura made these businessmen shudder, and even if they had opinions, they didn't dare to mention it again.
Seeing that these businessmen did not speak, Zhu Youxiao continued: "Why do you need to increase taxes? For example, now that the Health Bureau has been established to be responsible for the health of Beijing, the current Beijing Division is much cleaner than before, which is obvious to all, but this is also smashed with money. I am poor, and the treasury has no money, but these things must still be done, and only by collecting taxes can we really solve the problem, which is called taking from the people and using it for the people. You may not understand, but it doesn't matter, I'll do it first, and everyone will understand slowly. ”
"Fourthly, we will be exempt from tax for three years for all shops who are willing to accept Singapore dollars, and after three years, the business tax will be halved for those who are willing to accept Singapore dollars. Shops that don't want to accept new dollars, if they pay taxes in new dollars, I won't charge for fire, but if they pay taxes in silver, then the fire consumption is indispensable, and you know, new dollars are exempt from fire consumption from the first day they come out. ”
These businessmen finally understood that although Zhu Youxiao did not force everyone to accept new currency, he indirectly forced everyone to accept new currency through tax means.
"The fifth thing, as the saying goes, no farming is not stable, no work is not rich, no business is not living, the imperial court did ignore you businessmen in the past, and did not pay enough attention to you, but I will not make such a mistake in the future, so today I specially brought all the palace cooks, please have a meal here. In the future, I promise that as long as I am willing to cooperate with me, and follow me wholeheartedly, I will definitely ensure that they make money. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The emperor's banquet is a thing to be proud of, and it is something that can make everyone here boast for a lifetime. If they had a camera at this time, they wouldn't mind taking a group photo and then hanging up their homes, shops, and any other place where outsiders could see them.
And Zhu Youxiao's words are very rough, but the meaning is very simple, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die. After a paragraph, both the stick and the radish are given, and the effect can only be seen later.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a commercial tax, at the beginning of the thirty tax one, to Wanli ten years, "will be paved under the three tax exemption deeds, the purchase price is less than forty taels and the price, all are exempt from tax, the purchase price to forty taels or more, every two tax stop silver cents." "By this time, the commercial tax had fallen to 1.5 percent, which led to a sharp drop in the country's fiscal revenue.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, big businessmen were really rich through the collusion of officials and businessmen, and tax evasion was common, while small businessmen and ordinary people were responsible for state taxes, and the polarization was serious. Of course, there are still many restrictions on businessmen, and they are still not the same as the status of scholars and officials.
This passage of Zhu Youxiao greatly improved the status of the businessman. It is human nature that people who have money want to improve their status, from ancient times to the present, from the middle to the outside, and the new businessmen want to improve their status, which is also an incentive for the germination of capitalism that cannot be ignored.
Zhu Youxiao's words have indeed greatly encouraged these businessmen, and also made the businessmen recognize Zhu Youxiao in some aspects.
After Zhu Youxiao's coercion and temptation, Jingshi finally began to accept new coins. Jingshi, which was supposed to be locked down for three days, lifted the blockade in only two days, and everything in Jingshi quickly returned to normal. Under the propaganda of the "Ming Imperial Daily", the ordinary people of Beizhi also began to accept the new currency.
Now all the people of Beizhi know that the use of Singapore currency to pay taxes is no longer levied on fire consumption, which can directly save a lot of expenses. Moreover, the use of new coins avoids the trouble caused by the problem of fineness and authenticity. As the new coins are in circulation, so does the acceptance of the new coins.
The new coin is beautifully made, which contains a lot of anti-counterfeiting technology, even if the silver content is indeed only eighty percent, but counting the cost of labor, issuance, etc., the value of the new coin is actually not less than one or two silver, which also makes the new coin more and more popular.
However, the production speed of new coins began to be unable to catch up with the exchange speed, and the price of one tael of silver dollars gradually changed from one tael of silver to one tael of one, and even the exchange ratio reached 1:1.15 at the highest time.
However, at the beginning, the circulation of new coins was like being controlled by an invisible hand in Beizhi, and in other provinces, new coins could not be circulated at all, and new coins that could circulate across provinces were only circulated among merchants.
Although the silver dollar did not circulate within the empire, it was circulated in neighboring countries, especially in countries such as Korea and Vietnam, and new coins were very popular, and even new coins began to appear in Japan. However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect the most was that the country that accepted the new currency the fastest was actually Houjin, and under the influence of Houjin, now the entire Liaodong has also begun to circulate new currency.
This is also the main reason for the increase in the exchange rate of the Singapore currency.
Zhu Youxiao finally understood that the new currency was not unpopular, but that it harmed the interests of the existing official class, and even some merchants who specialized in exchanging silver for the common people, and that these old bureaucratic class were the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the new policy.
Although Zhu Youxiao can't solve such a problem now, he will definitely gradually implement the new currency across the country in a year's time. Of course, this is all an afterthought, and now Zhu Youxiao is most concerned about his plan to strengthen his body. No matter what, he always puts his life first.
Because being an emperor is really a thing that makes him feel very happy!
Wang Liqian and Li Yongzhen really found a master from the people. It's just that this master talked at length, and Zhu Youxiao also heard it in a fog, and in the end Zhu Youxiao had to ask for everything to be simple, and he was sent away by him to learn a set of physical fitness techniques from this master. He didn't know how useful it was.
On the contrary, this time Zhu Youxiao reminded him of some food and medicine supplements in later generations, as well as the methods he saw on the Internet to strengthen his body. In Zhu Youxiao's position, as long as you want to eat, there is nothing you can't eat.