Since Li Hongfei took office, three fires in succession have burned very strongly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first fire burned the group of officials in the former Suzhou officialdom, and they were a lot more well-behaved, at least they didn't sing a duet with Li Hongfei on the surface, and a group of subordinate officials who had no soldiers and no power couldn't sing any duets, as for secretly handing over excerpts to Nanjing, Li Hongfei didn't bother to pay attention to those, so naturally there was Zhu Youzhen, the big guy, to clean up these guys who made small reports.

In terms of hugging his thighs, Li Hongfei is open.

And the second fire burned to the merchants of the entire Suzhou, not only the white wolf with empty gloves, but also the most of the leading enterprises in Suzhou into government-run enterprises, but also took advantage of the fact that the holy decree was not officially issued, and the tax revenue of these merchants for three years was pitted.

Coupled with the dividends paid in advance by government-run enterprises and the donations raised by the owners of major merchants, 1.2 million taels of silver were added to the treasury of the Suzhou prefect.

You must know that the commercial tax paid by the entire Ming Dynasty last year was only 3.7 million taels, but only one Suzhou City, the tax and silver paid in three years reached 400,000 taels (the excess 800,000 yuan is fundraising and dividends from government-run enterprises), which is already equivalent to one-tenth of the national commercial tax.

After Li Hongfei learned the specific amount, he secretly scolded himself for being stupid, why didn't he slaughter more in the first place, at least how good it would be to pay back taxes for five years..........

This third fire burned to the heads of today's craftsmen, which not only gave today's craftsmen a chance to get ahead, but also invisibly made the profession of craftsmen become compact.

Many scholars who think that the imperial examination is hopeless are already thinking about whether to learn from a teacher, take the road of a craftsman, and become a section member or section chief.

And the even more bizarre thing is that when those craftsmen were admitted and understood the rules for the promotion of craftsmen, one by one the craftsmen who were over half a hundred years old actually began to find someone to learn to read and write..........

Just kidding, how can an illiterate craftsman be a big official?

Even if such a craftsman is capable, he will reach the top when he mixes into a section chief, and if he wants to continue to be promoted, not to mention the five cars of learning, at least the basic letters must be able to write, and the content of the notice does not need to be interpreted by others.

Some craftsmen have already gone to private schools to learn Chinese characters, and some craftsmen are poor and cannot afford to play with these lofty things, but in order to be promoted and rich, and glorify their ancestors, they have no choice but to recruit scholars as apprentices, and teach their own unpassed skills to these scholars, in exchange for the opportunity to learn Chinese characters from these scholars.

In Li Hongfei's words, it is to learn from each other and make progress with each other.

The craftsmanship of ancient craftsmen is still very good, but due to the view of the portal, their skills are not valued, and can only be taught to their children, so if there is something wrong in the family, it is easy to break the inheritance.

Nowadays, craftsmen can be officials, not only so that these craftsmen have obtained real benefits, but also so that the ancient art skills can be transmitted, coupled with the general trend that craftsmen must master cultural knowledge, the craftsman industry, after absorbing more cultural knowledge, not only retains the original technology, development and innovation is just around the corner.

But these are all afterthoughts, so I won't show them for the time being..........

Today is the fourth day of Li Hongfei's appointment as the prefect of Suzhou, and Zhu Youzhen's holy decree has finally arrived in Suzhou.

It was none other than Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the East Detective Factory, who came to announce the decree.

Due to the main content of this decree, in addition to the issue of commercial taxation, there are also reform measures for the whole of Suzhou, so the location of this decree was chosen in the north of the city, because the venue is large enough.

In order to facilitate rapid dissemination, in addition to Qi Hongying, the chief soldier of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all the officials of the prefect and yamen, and the top leaders of the prefectures and counties in various places, Li Hongfei also made an exception to allow some ordinary people to enter the martial arts arena to listen to the order.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said........" Wang Chengen took the holy decree and read it out loud.

He was miserable by Li Hongfei now, the entire martial arts arena is so big, the officials who came and the common people, not to mention more than 10,000 people, the Ming Dynasty without a megaphone, if you want these people to hear the holy decree, can't you shout hard?

The most important thing is that this time Suzhou's holy decree is to announce two things, Zhu Youzhen knows that Li Hongfei is an "immortal", and those who don't understand it are also the same, in order to show his cordiality to Li Hongfei, he specially ordered the civil officials to make a set of stinky and long vernacular texts, which can be said to be the most word-counting holy decree in history.

Fortunately, a volume of holy decrees is such a large area, even if there are many words, it will not make Wang Chengen lose his breath, at most, the audience will soar a high note, and it will be good to cultivate his voice for a few days.

“....... Chin this! ”

With Wang Chengen's last crying words, the holy decree was finally finished.

Li Hongfei also understood the general content, one of which is that the nation's commercial tax will be adjusted to 20 percent from this year onwards, and it will be levied once every six months, and every time the tax is levied, officials will be sent to the provinces for spot checks; once tax evasion is discovered, the officials in charge of money and grain in the region will be dismissed from their posts and investigated, and even the top officials will be jointly and severally responsible, and their promotion will be hindered at least and directly demoted at worst.

Zhu Youzhen is more ruthless than Li Hongfei, not to mention raising the tax rate by six times at once, and he also played a game.

Don't think about it, the officials in charge of spot checks must be the fans of Dongchang, these fans are hidden in various places, and most of them use business as a cover, and they are the best at checking account books.

In this way, even if those local officials are given great courage, they do not dare to falsely report the accounts, and as for the merchants below playing tricks, if they can hide it from the local officials who are serious, they will naturally be able to hide it from the eyes and ears of Dongchang.

But if it is accidentally discovered by those local officials.......... It is estimated that there is absolutely no good end, and the so-called county officials are not as good as the current management, so the local officials don't want to be dragged back by these businessmen.

Anyway, the emperor just said that tax evasion is not allowed, and did not say that the relatives of officials cannot do business, and it is not a loss to get rid of a disobedient businessman and support his relatives to do business.

Although in this way, there will be less filial piety money and oil and water in the future, but the adults above have already said hello, and now is the time to unanimously confront foreign enemies, and you must not drag the saint back, otherwise under the wrath of Tianwei, no one will dare to guarantee who wants to kill.

A small account book can take the sore feet of the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to come forward, and the matter of taxation has already been sorted out by the families and clans in various places before the holy decree is issued.