Chapter 129: Got to Pay Taxes?

Today, we're going to have a history lesson. In the main hall, Li Chen gathered all the children today for a big class. This class has not been taught before, but for the first time today, Li Chen gathered all the children together to teach it.

'What is history?' To put it simply, history is what happened in the past of human beings, and what happened in the past that was recorded by the trajectory of our ancestors' activities. ’

'Why do you want us to study history today?' Because history is the memory of our nation. Mr. today asks you, do you remember what you are going to do today? Ah Mao, you say. ’

'Today... Classes are held in the morning and in the afternoon. Mao grabbed his hair and pondered, "In the morning, I have classes in Chinese language and history, and in the afternoon, I have math and physical education. ’

'Why are you taking classes?' ''Uncle... The gentleman said we have to go to class. 'Ah Mao is very strange, isn't this what you want us to go on? 'Will you listen to whatever the gentleman says?' ''Of course, Mr. gave us food and gave us a place to live, and today he has to teach us something, of course you have to listen to Mr.'' question', Ah Mao replied quickly.

You've played with other children, and many of them don't really talk to their parents, and they have to be fed and clothed and given a place to live, so why don't they listen to their parents? ’

'Probably... Ah Mao thought for a moment and said, "Probably they haven't suffered, if they were orphans like us, and often have a meal without a meal, it wouldn't be like this." ’

'Okay, sit down. Li Chen motioned for Ah Mao to sit down, "Today Mr. doesn't want you to think about Mr. is good, why should you listen to Mr. ’

'Ah Mao's past is his history. The history that Mr. Sir teaches you today is the memory of our nation's past. If you don't even have a memory of the past today, then you don't even know what you're going to do now, and you just live in a daze. ’

In the early years of the dynasty, Taizong once said that using copper as a mirror can be a crown, history as a mirror can be a succession, and people as a mirror can be a clear gain and loss. Those who do not understand history are destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. ’

History is also a person's relationship with time. Only by understanding the history of the past, knowing our position in time and even the world, and knowing where our position is, can we move from this position to the future. Speaking of this, Li Chen saw that the children in the audience looked confused, and then he thought that he had said too much for a while, and he laughed dumbly.

It took him a lot of effort to sort out the part of Chinese history up to the Tang Dynasty, and through the fragments he recalled by chance, he constantly supplemented and improved them, so that he could teach them today, and then he felt very deeply for a while, and said too much.

"Well, as long as you know, after learning history, you are a Tang person, and among the countries around the Tang Dynasty, only the Tang Dynasty has a history. The Goryeo, Baekje, Wa, Turkic, Xiongnu, or Bohae kingdoms, they have little history to tell their descendants. ’

First of all, let's start with the lesson, the origin of the Chinese, the history of the Chinese can be traced back to 500,000 years ago. Well? I don't understand what it means 500,000 years ago, if you take a year as a penny, then 500,000 years is 500,000 yuan, 500 yuan. Looking at it this way, since the founding of the Chinese dynasty, it is about 200 texts. ’

'Oh. This metaphor is very vivid, and there is a little bit of money concept for children, and they understand at once how long it was 500,000 years ago.

Then, Chinese history has been passed down to the present day, and there are two and four hundred texts, which can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty 2,400 years ago. Shang was founded for 650 years and was replaced by Zhou, who was founded for more than 800 years. The Qin and Han dynasties together have been more than 400 years, and the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty have been almost 400 years. This is just a rough idea, for history, Li Chen is not very old, and always feels that it is useless, just to cope with the exam.

'Today I will first tell you about the origin of our Chinese.... Soon, the morning time passed, it was recess time, the children were playing happily, and Li Chen returned to his room, worrying about something.

Li Chen looked at the piece of paper in front of him, grabbed his hair in annoyance, and then stood up, he opened the window and looked outside.

Generally speaking, as the master bedroom, there will be some garden outside, which was originally designed as such, but later made of nitrate ice, and had to be placed in the inner room for secrecy. As for distilled spirits, Li Chen has long designed the process, divided the process into several steps, and the employees are selected more honestly in a few steps, plus the division of labor is confidential, everyone only knows what it is, but does not know why it is. Don't worry about leaks, it's already been placed outside in a special sake brewery, not here.

Now that the weather is hot, open the window, and the hot air blows in, and under the wall of the inner house, several children are giggling and throwing saltpeter into the water, and then moving the water out, and when it freezes, someone will naturally carry the ice away, making people think that the ice cellar is in the inner house.

Looking at this scene, Li Chen's brows furrowed, and there were many thoughts in his heart, and after thinking about it for a while, he took out the paper in his hand and looked at it. It is written that Paradise should pay business tax this year.

Li Chen scolded in his stomach, what kind of business tax is this, this is exploitation at all. Look at what taxes are there, the wine tax, okay, there is nothing to say, many dynasties have alcohol taxes. There was no liquor tax in the Song Dynasty, but winemaking had to buy koji from the government-run liquor factory.

Ice tax, Paradise just launched ice a few days ago, and it also has to pay taxes, and the price is not low, and it actually has to pay 200 Wen, but the profit of Drunk Hongchen is not consistent, and now it goes to 20%. Grandma got a bear, didn't she say that the taxes in the Tang Dynasty were low, one in the thirties? How do I get to this twenty percent. Fortunately, this ice making doesn't cost much money, it's nothing more than water and saltpeter, and saltpeter can also be reused. Otherwise, this tax revenue alone will be enough to increase the price of ice by a few percent.

Also, in addition to wine and ice, there are also a bunch of miscellaneous taxes such as donkeys, carts, racks, and heads. There is a tax to buy a few donkeys, and then a few two-wheeled carts also have to pay taxes, and the shelf tax is the house tax.

If you have seen the ancient houses, you should have the impression that the ancient houses are relatively high, and several pillars support the beams, which is called the interspersal frame. The more shelves there are, the bigger the house, which is a house tax.

There is also a poll tax, and each businessman also has to pay a poll tax, which is equivalent to personal income tax. The ninth-grade poll tax, the rank of the merchant is not low. Each person has to pay taxes several times a year, and every theater manager has to pay these taxes.

These taxes are all over the place, although Li Chen is not unaffordable, but such a large amount of money always makes him very unhappy to pay. That's hundreds a year. Where can the average businessman afford it.

Li Chen was very unhappy, he thought that he had invited the county lieutenant who was in charge of commercial taxes before, but it was in vain. Or does the other party think that the money is not enough?

Li Chen was very troubled about this matter and didn't know who to talk to. He is very unaccustomed to this era, before he crossed over, there was a basis for paying taxes and government collection, which is like now, people don't know how much money they make, and it is completely up to people to order.

This alone made him angry, Li Chen didn't know that some taxes were not at all vain, and they were levied by the local government itself, like the interstitial tax, which was implemented decades ago and was abolished.

'Boss, boss, there's trouble again. At this time, lest the world be chaotic, and some employees came to report the funeral.

'Isn't there a way for Goku to deal with it?' What about other monks. Li Chen frowned and could kill a mosquito, the raid a few days ago had a good effect, he caught an old dog and came back, giving people a lesson, the troublemaker disappeared the next day, and he actually came again today?

They're not easy to deal with. It's all rangers, and it's tricky. They don't have any respect for the Sangha. The employee had a lingering fear and said, "Those rangers with knives and swords, they are not respectful, they still make threats, and some people even have to do it." Monk Wukong doesn't seem to be their match. ’

It's actually a ranger, Li Chen has a headache, he says it's a ranger, to put it bluntly, he will run around and be a gangster, and his character is not necessarily much higher than those who are gangsters and splashes on the ground. These are all unstable elements in society, and they are the ones who say that chivalry violates the ban by force. Moreover, in any case, their force value was not low, and even worse was that the degree of their contempt for the law was directly proportional to the force they received.

Li Chen is sure that this grandmother must be Wang Tong's handiwork, what does Wang Tong do, he is not handsome, he leads a group of rangers who have committed crimes, let them serve the country, and they will be worth the credit. If the last group of gangsters was not instructed by Wang Tong, it was just the old dog's personal doing. That group of rangers has nothing to do with Wang Tong, Li Chen is willing to go around three times on the ground and learn to bark.

'You still have to tie the bell to unlock the bell, you still have to find Lao Immortal and Wang Tong. If you have any questions, you can't decide to find Yang Er, the head of the family is good at dancing, and he didn't come to Pengcheng long before him, and he is familiar with all aspects of interpersonal relationships.

'Do you have to find someone else for tax matters?' Li Chen humbly asked, "I'm afraid it is." Yang Er sighed, "This county lieutenant is an official product, and he has a great future, and no one will get his hands on it." It's just a name, and the actual affairs still depend on the people below. ’

Wang Tong is a local, with a wide range of people and familiar people, those little officials would rather offend the county lieutenant than offend the local clan, after all, no one can say about the county lieutenant, he can still be a few years, and the clan has been here for dozens or hundreds of years. ’

Meow, how could Li Chen not understand this truth, he didn't learn history very well, but this kind of human affection is sophisticated, and it will be common to future generations, he doesn't understand, but he didn't expect this layer.

"Don't worry, if you want to take root locally, you will inevitably collide with the local clan, you have handled this matter correctly, but there is always a degree in between, I will help you deal with it." Looking at Li Chen, who was so troubled, Yang Er was a little worried inexplicably, and comforted him, "I still have this face." ’