Chapter 435: Taxes?
Regarding some people's opposition to the scientific examination, Li Chen originally had an attitude of watching the show. What about the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info? I just don't care. He has never been an emperor, but he is quite familiar with this routine, and history does not mean that an emperor has done this.
As for the two factions that oppose and favor reform, Li Chen is also happy to see that they have their own newspapers, and even he thinks that this reaction is not too slow. This newspaper has been running for so long, and almost all of Datang has opened it.
Almost every state, whether poor or rich, has a newspaper office. In wealthier places, even county seats are available. It can be said that the influence of Shuntian Daily in Datang has spread far and wide. However, only now that there are followers, or because of other factors, which makes Li Chen shake his head. Forget it, it's good to do it.
However, the problem is that now the two sides are arguing, and the attack is becoming more and more bottomless, and it is just a matter of exposing the other party's dog skin and breaking things, and later, no matter what, they will rush out and attack. Like satirizing the other party, deliberately fabricating the other party's defilement, all kinds of actions are numerous. This made Li Chen very angry.
Not only in the newspapers, but also in the court, it became more and more intense, and Li Chen watched coldly and found that there seemed to be signs of the resumption of party strife. This made Li Chen very angry.
Do you think these people are too idle? Li Chen tore off a stack of stacked pieces, then folded them into paper airplanes, and threw him out, seeing that his second son in his arms clapped his hands and laughed.
'When you eat all day long, do you fight for the party?' These movements are becoming more and more bottomless, and they dare to talk nonsense. No bottom? You still have a son with you, so there is no limit. Some ministers complained in their hearts.
Xiaohu and they have already set off for Shudi. When they had just returned to Beijing, Li Chen held a combat meeting. During the meeting, a series of plans were drawn up for the recovery of Victoria.
Li Chen did not participate in many of the details involved, so he asked Li Deyu to take the lead and draw up a method with the military department and two veterans. Before they left Beijing, the plan was drawn up. Xiaohu, they also started to record.
Then after resting for two days, Li Chen gathered a group of courtiers and had another meeting. Everyone thinks that Li Chen wants to come up with a way to get the chaos now. Several prime ministers who attended the meeting had already prepared their drafts in their minds before they came, and the emperor asked him what to do and how he would answer.
But who would have thought that when he arrived at the Ayaki Palace, it would be such a scene. Li Chen was playing with his second son. Seeing this view, everyone was stunned and didn't know how to criticize.
Fortunately, Wei Mo in the imperial history did not come to be on duty. Wei Fu, the squire of the military department, has no ancestral demeanor at all, if Tang Taizong is like this today, it is strange that Wei Zheng does not spray his face full of saliva. But Wei Fuquan didn't see it.
In his words, 'I am a squire of the military department, not an imperial history, and it is not good to act as a substitute. However, I probably know that Wei Mo will not come, and Li Chen is so bold.
'The sage Mingjian, Weichen is involved, and it is inconvenient to say more. Regarding Li Chen's words, Li Deyu did not answer or objected to the party struggle, he is also one of the parties involved, and he has to avoid suspicion, let alone others. Although they are not involved, they are more or less implicated.
'Hehe, I have nothing to do all day, I have time to fight for the party, and I should not be too busy to deal with it. Li Chen smiled at Mimide, he didn't care about the appearance at all, he didn't even feel anything about the second son in his arms, and he was still playing with Li Chen's origami airplane. But everyone seemed to feel Li Chen's anger.
'Without mentioning that, let's talk about taxes today. Li Chen changed the topic and said, "What's going on with this tax this year." ', taxes? Isn't that good? Several people looked at each other, hasn't the tax revenue increased a lot this year? At least this year, the emperor doesn't have to fill in with Neku.
However, it is difficult to say, because the war against Tibet is about to start again, and once the fight in Victoria starts, how long it will end, everyone has no bottom in their hearts. In general, not counting the war, the month of July, which has just passed, can be regarded as a good harvest year.
Every year in July, the court gets busy. Even if it's not a big deal, in July, it will definitely be busy, because the tax will be transported to Beijing. It's time to count and spend money again.
It's a busy but happy time. Busy because the tax revenue is collected and the statistics have to be counted, which is a very heavy task. Happiness is, spending money is happy. Although the statistics are busy, it is a very happy thing to have money to spend.
This year and last year are different. The first is fiscal reform, which has increased tax revenues a bit. This year's summer tax revenue is 20% more than in previous years.
These two percent are not simple summer taxes in the past, but cumulative. There will be this because of the increase in commercial tax revenue, which is related to the wine tax, which is like a tax, which is calculated every two months. By June, there were already more than a million.
This made the household department Shangshu greatly relieved, this year can have a good year, it will not be like in previous years, live a tight life, and I can't wait for a money to be cut in half. However, Li Chen was very dissatisfied with this. It's only one percent?!
'Sage, this year's tax revenue is already much higher than in previous years, and it is estimated that there will be more income at the end of the year, so it should not be overspending. Cui Yuanshi, the head of the household department, said, Li Chen raised his hand, asked him to wait first, and then pulled a rope. Soon a healthy woman came in, a healthy woman in Li Chen's palace
The appearance of this healthy woman is really flattering. It's not too ugly, but too strong, one person can be worth two people, two men are so strong, their appearance is average, but they are so strong, everyone sympathizes with her husband.
The healthy woman used a gentleness that was not commensurate with her appearance, took the child in Li Chen's hand, and took the child out. Everyone's eyes, as the healthy woman went away, there was only admiration in their hearts, there was really an emperor who did this.
As mentioned earlier, Li Chen used eunuchs less and less, and began to use a large number of these healthy women. The hands and feet are nimble, and the strength is also handsome. Choose some more strict mouths, and they will gradually become the main force in the palace.
All the ministers, I admire in my heart, in order to prevent eunuchs from interfering in politics, the emperor specially found such a woman who doesn't look very eye-catching, this is really, all dynasties and dynasties have not been like this, all day long, let such an unpleasant looking healthy woman, dangling in front of his eyes... In short, they will never use such a person in their family.
That's a lot. As soon as the child was sent away, the atmosphere finally became more serious, and Li Chen said, "I don't need to fill the gap this year, because I have made a lot of money from coinage, and I also have the right to auction wine, can I still expect this next year?" ’
This year's tax has only been collected so far. Li Chen nodded the table vigorously, "Regardless of the income from minting money, the business tax is two million yuan." It is estimated that the annual output can reach more than 2.3 million. ’
'That's a million more than in previous years, and by the end of the year there's another million, so much, ha. Li Chen raised his voice slightly, but this was definitely not a happy tone, "But how much is the liquor tax here?" Million. A lot? Of course, there are more than last year, but don't forget, this year there is the right to sell liquor, and next year there will be so much less of this piece? In other words, the tax system has been changed in vain. The liquor tax has not increased at all, but there is more commercial tax. ’
There are more commercial taxes, and I can't even be happy. Li Chen stood up, looked out the window and said, "These knots make ... They have all been restructured, and they still hold on to the right to collect taxes, are they really treating the court as an ornament? ’
Not only did they control the right to collect taxes, but the court collected one piece, and those festivals made them dare to collect five dollars. When I don't know any of this? Last year, the tax system was reformed, and as a result, the autumn tax was collected in November, and there was no increase. It can be said that the place is not yet adaptable.
But now, the situation is clear, those jiedu envoys do not want to delegate power at all, and the right to collect taxes is still in their hands, at most they receive taxes and let the tax department transfer them. Almost all regions have to do this silently. Regardless of whether it is an area that Datang can still control.
The fifteen roads of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court can still control them, and the eight roads that can also collect taxes, each of the festival envoys are complaining, saying that there are such difficulties. The other ones are not ignored at all. To put it simply, this tax reform has not achieved much success, but has become an opportunity for local governments to collect wealth.
The saint was angry. In fact, there is no way to do these things locally. Li Deyu spoke, "A lot of tax rights are controlled by the local government, and if they don't cooperate, even if they are temperate, they can't do anything, so they can only maintain it." ’
'Hmph, that's not all, moonshine is rampant in the place, and several merchants who have marked it for liquor have said that they will not renew their bids in the future. That's not much to say.
Do you say you want to be caught? In fact, there is no definite evidence, and these festival envoys are all instructing cronies to do it. If you really want to catch them, you can't get them on their heads.
"I'm not angry about this matter, anyway, there are more commercial taxes, and it will be good to improve next year, it's just that I'm angry, these people'", Li Chen pointed to those chapters, "Don't do business, make trouble all day long." Do you feel like you have to work too easily and have a lot of time? ’
After talking for a long time, Li Chen revealed his real purpose, which was still for this turmoil. However, this time, no one dared to speak up and persuade again.
Li Xiang stayed, and the others dispersed. Seeing that the crowd did not speak, let them go, anyway, he had achieved his purpose of beating them. Several prime ministers, although they are not jealous of Li Deyu's favor, are still relieved and have slipped away one by one, leaving only Li Deyu.
Wait. Li Chen suddenly stopped, and the prime minister who was about to leave turned his head to look at Li Chen, Li Chen pointed to the pile of pieces and said, "Carry that pile out for me and burn it." ', burned? All burned?
I'll have someone sort it out for you, carry it out of the palace gate, and burn it in front of people.' ''No. Burning the chapter is Li Chen's attitude, he doesn't like to see party struggle.
Later, with the assistance of several healthy women, the stack was carried out and burned. At the same time, the news also spread among the officials. (To be continued.) )