Lu Chengqi nodded with satisfaction and said, "What Shoufu said is right, this matter really shouldn't be rushed, it's a mistake to worry." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" He said this, just to give Xu Chongguang a face. The cabinet was just created, and the prestige had not yet been established, and Lu Chengqi had high hopes for the cabinet he founded, so he naturally wanted to give some face, so he went down the steps.

Lu Chengqi continued: "Tax reform is a national priority and must be carefully considered. I have an idea, right in the middle of the capital, how about setting up a special zone? ”

Lin Zhenzhong was the new head of the household department, and hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what kind of thing is the Special Economic Zone?" ”

"The Special Zone, as the name suggests, is what makes it different from other places. I want to be the first to promote tax reform in the capital, which is limited to Chang'an City and Jingzhao Mansion, what do you think? ”

Xu Chongguang said: "This move is feasible. He said so, and naturally no one objected anymore. Lu Chengqi was actually still very worried, after all, what he did was for the feudal landlord class. Tax reform was only the first step, and the next step was to dismantle the landlord class and the small peasant economy and free up the land. He didn't dare to say that, after all, this dynasty was still a feudal society, a small peasant economy based on land. The power of this class is so great that Lu Chengqi doesn't dare to reveal his inner thoughts a little, so he can only slowly and step by step eat away at its foundation, and finally completely overthrow it.

Lu Chengqi said: "If business is developed, there will naturally be more taxes. And those farmers who don't have land can come to Jingzhao Mansion to find a living. In the past, this kind of thing was looked down upon by the world. If the imperial court had guided it, it would have made a big difference. In this way, it is possible to absorb a large number of redundant manpower and reduce the possibility of rebellion. I believe that there are many benefits to the development of commercial taxation, and the cabinet needs to come up with a plan, which I will see tomorrow, and the household department must do its best to help and not slack off. ”

Xu Chongguang and the other twelve ministers all responded, and Lin Zhenzhong had just taken office, so he naturally wanted to light the three fires, and he also responded. If there were other ministers, they might have tried their best to oppose it. They also have shops in their house, and if they pay taxes, won't they be dead? But this cabinet minister was promoted by Lu Chengqi from the local government, and he didn't have any family business, so he held back his strength to live up to the emperor's trust. After a while, Lu Chengqi did not dare to guarantee that they would still be so pure and flawless, so he couldn't wait to announce the plan for tax reform. Secondly, Lu Chengqi has not only the special economic zone plan in mind, but also the next step, which is the reform of education.

Ten years of trees, 100 years of people. Whether a country is strong or not depends on tens of millions of talents. A country without innovation and talent will inevitably disappear into the long river of history. If Lu Chengqi wants to inject innovative genes into the Chinese nation, he naturally has to start with the most basic education.

After the educational reform, it was the military reform. Lu Chengqi did not think of a good reform plan for the time being, but it is an indisputable fact that the armament is lax, and there is by no means less corruption in the military than in the ranks. It's just that after Lu Chengqi's rectification, he has relented. No matter how powerful the Supervision Department is, it will not dare to touch the army easily, and if it causes a mutiny, it will be counterproductive.

And all this is based on the premise of having money, and all ideas without money are utopian. What can be done with the treasury of 5 million yuan? Even to build a dam, it takes two years of financial revenue, which makes Lu Chengqi very powerless, so he is so concerned about tax reform.

To tell the truth, the agricultural tax of the Great Shun Dynasty was too heavy, and as much as 30% of the ten percent was withdrawn, and this did not include the rent handed over to the landlords by some tenants. Lu Chengqi has seen the secret performance of the Supervision Department, the tenants in the Songjiang Mansion area, a year's harvest, need to hand over as much as sixty percent, and only forty percent in their hands. The grain in one acre of land is only 200 catties, and if you hand over 120 catties at once, the remaining 80 catties can only feed a family of three for four months, which is still an extremely economical situation. As for chicken, duck and fish, that's the food that only comes in dreams.

Lu Chengqi was very angry, but also helpless. The Chinese nation is the most industrious nation in the world, and if there is a little hope for life, it will live a good life, rest at sunset, and work at sunrise. For three meals a day, hard work.

It is not that the Chinese nation lacks creativity, but that the times have imprisoned their ability to innovate. A person who can't even eat enough to eat will think about inventing and creating? Definitely not. If Lu Chengqi wants to unleash the creativity of the nation, he must let them first achieve food and clothing, and then create a soil for innovation for them, so that more great inventions can come out of nowhere.

Gunpowder, papermaking, printing, and the compass, these four major inventions, Lu Chengqi will definitely not let go, and at the same time, he is looking forward to more great inventions......

For a while, Lu Chengqi's thoughts drifted far away, far away......

The next day, Lu Chengqi got the special economic zone plan jointly formulated by the cabinet and the household department, and immediately announced it to the world, and when he landed, it was like a small drop of water sprinkled in boiling oil, and the entire territory of Dashun was boiling, from officials to ordinary people, everyone was talking about special economic zones.

The holy decree clearly stated that Jingzhao Mansion immediately began to levy commercial taxes, with a ratio of one out of thirty. And the green building, the restaurant, the tea house. High-income places such as Goolan tile shops are one out of twenty.

At the same time, Jingzhao Prefecture established a new department composed of household officials and government officials, called the Ministry of Commerce. It is specially responsible for the collection of commercial taxes, and if anyone dares to evade taxes, they will be revoked from their business qualifications or exiled at worst. Those unscrupulous businessmen still wanted to take advantage of loopholes, but they found any loopholes that Lu Chengqi blocked. However, Chang'an City is the rich area of the Dashun Dynasty, the most economically prosperous place, and it can't give up, so it has to acquiesce to this fact and dare not resist a little.

Lu Chengqi didn't think it was enough, so he directly wrote this provision into the Dashun Law, and then sat back and waited to collect the money. The commercial tax is collected once a month, which is much faster than the agricultural tax. After all, there are many commercial taxes, and if they are collected once a year, they may give some people a loophole.

Jingzhao Prefecture introduced a commercial tax, and at the same time promoted the status of merchants. Lu Chengqi clearly said in the holy decree: "If you pay taxes on time for three years, you can obtain the qualification for scientific examination." Just this sentence made the world's businessmen crazy. There are merchants who are rich but have no status. In front of some officials, they didn't even dare to breathe. Now that you can finally raise your eyebrows, how can you not be crazy?

You know, what a businessman lacks is not money, but status. If they have status, they will recognize the Dashun Dynasty, this is something that Lu Chengqi knows, but the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government do not know why, and even Xu Chongguang is against it, but these objections are suppressed by Lu Chengqi.

And the benefit of this move is that all the businessmen from all over the world gather in Jingzhao Mansion, and Lu Chengqi has a hunch that Chang'an City, which is not in vain compared to Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty and Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, will once again reappear prosperous! This is not the self-deceptive prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, but the real prosperity of China!