Zhang Ke held a stack of files in his hand, flipped through them hastily, and pushed them in front of Mao Yilu.

"Mao Zhongcheng, the business tax of my dynasty is outrageously low, and the court can only get hundreds of thousands of taels every year, and there is almost no tax, but businessmen, especially small businessmen, how are they doing?"

Mao Yilu is not a fool, if he has a good life, no one will make trouble.

"Grandpa Guo, the local government is stripped and deducted, and the officials are up and down, as long as they have a little power, they can dig a piece of meat from the common people. Coupled with the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the burden is not light at all. ”

"That's right!" Zhang Ke said with a calm face: "A grocery store sells three hundred taels a year, and it can make a profit of fifty taels of silver, which is enough for a family of three to live comfortably, and even support the children to study is no problem." However, from the county officials, the wardens, to the three classes and six rooms, as well as the chief inspection department, they have to be dotted at all levels, sent to the dry stocks, and honored the silver. Seventy percent of the annual profits fall into the hands of these people, and as for the merchants, they can only earn fifteen taels of silver! ”

Fifteen taels in the north may still be able to maintain the livelihood of the family, but in the south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that in the middle of the year, there will be more than half a year of thin drinking, and if someone in the family is sick, I can only borrow money to live.

"Mao Zhongcheng, the officials are excessively exploited, and they have taken away all the taxes that should belong to the imperial court, and they are damned when they see the people's power withering and the court in distress!"

Mao Yilu was silent, he was worried that Zhang Ke would directly rob and use violence to force taxes, so that Jiangnan: it would be completely chaotic.

But after the real expedition, Mao Yilu was dumbfounded, if he wanted to take it, he had to give it first, Zhang Ke actually started with the government, cleaned up all the dry shares and money owned by the officials, and returned them to small and medium-sized merchants. For some business difficulties, Zhang Ke also specially allowed only to file taxes and not collect them, with a grace period of three years, so that everyone could recuperate and breathe a sigh of relief from the oppression of the officials.

This hand is just too powerful. Roughly calculated, except for those illegal shops, ordinary people have not only increased their burden, but also lightened it.

It sounds like a strange news in the world, but it was done in Zhang Ke's hands!

However, Mao Yilu was not happy at all, his face seemed to have eaten bitter gourd for a lifetime, how ugly and ugly it was!

"Grandpa Guo, the lower officials think, I think, you better stop it!"

"Absolutely!" Zhang Ke sneered: "The people benefit. The imperial court opened up financial resources, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, why should it be stopped, is it unreasonable? ”

"Alas, Grandpa Guo, don't pretend to be confused with your humble position, your method is good, but you offend all the officials. They are greedy, coarse. The lack of virtue is smoking, but don't forget, they still have to do the official affairs of the yamen. These days, a large group of people have found the Xiaguan Mansion, and they all say that they will continue like this. So he said goodbye and went home. The lower officials are about to become the governor of the light pole! ”

Mao Yilu cried and complained: "The lower official said a few words that were not good, and the rules set by the grandfather at the beginning of the country were lightly punished, and there were only county orders in a county. The county seat, the main book of the three serious officials, but a huge county. It's not three people who can manage it, so there are three classes and six rooms, and in addition to the three classes and six rooms, there are a large number of master assistants, these people always have to eat and drink, and the court doesn't give them money, so they can only let them figure out their own way. Buying a stake in the store and making some extra money is also a thing that there is no way to do. If I cut off my money, what will you let me feed these people? ”

Listening to Mao Yilu's babbling, Zhang Ke smiled contemptuously: "Mao Zhongcheng, you are holding a golden rice bowl and asking for rice, after the business tax is levied, you have more money in your hands, isn't it enough to be rich?" ”

Wake up the person in the dream with a word, Mao Yilu's eyes suddenly widened, yes, such a simple thing, why didn't you think of it!

In fact, it's not that Mao Yilu can't think of it, but he doesn't dare to think about it!

As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang can be called a diligent government and loves the people, but it's a pity that he was born in poverty, and he hates reading people.

He had enough of the suffering of displacement, so he prescribed various household registrations so that the people could continue from generation to generation; He hated the officials, so he stipulated the grain chief system, so that the large households could collect the grain and hand it over to the two capitals; He felt that collecting taxes and sending them again would be a fart off his pants, so he allowed the provinces to keep their own and then hand them over to the national treasury, causing a joke that the huge empire earns millions of taels a year......

In the final analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang just doesn't understand the truth of macroeconomic regulation and control, and the taxes collected are not only wealth, but also a kind of power! In terms of personnel, the same is true, the little officials are just sesame mung beans in the eyes of the above, but in the eyes of the people, that is the sky!

They hold power in their hands, but the court's fortune is very small, and the vicious dogs that can't eat enough will definitely bite people. The trouble for the owner will only be greater.

In a word, Zhu Yuanzhang made the mistake of covering his ears and stealing the bell, he gave up some government functions, and these functions will not disappear, and can only fall on the people at a more disorderly and higher price, and in the end, the people will pay more......

Originally, it was basic common sense, but in the era when the ancestral system was greater than the sky, the Confucian civil bureaucracy did not allow any changes at all, and could only let things worsen.

Zhang Ke chose to make a move at this time, precisely because he saw Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party fighting each other, and he had no time to care about anything else. Just take advantage of this time to smash open the rotten cage with force and rebuild a new order!

As the saying goes, striking iron also needs to be hard, and his first knife seemed to cut at the businessman, but in fact it cut the official, and saw the peripheral nerves of the bureaucratic system.

"Grandpa Guo, in fact, the work of the little officials is not easy to do, some must be able to write and calculate, and some have to be born and die, and deal with the head snake of the ground. Even if you have money in your hand, you can't find it for a while. ”

"Don't worry!" Zhang Ke said with a smile: "Talent is in front of you, catch people and take people, patrol public security, I will transfer people for you from the army, they all crawled out of the battlefield, and they are 10,000 times stronger than the soft-footed shrimp in the yamen!" As for writing and arithmetic, it is even easier, there are so many scholars in the county schools, and there are old children in the local area. Many of them have studied for half their lives, and they have worked hard, but they can't get famous. If I heard that I could go to the yamen to work and become a small official, I think there will be a lot of people vying for it. ”

"That's what happened!"

Mao Yilu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Grandpa Guo, the lower officials can see it, you have calculated the matter, you are worthy of being the first general of my Ming Dynasty, in the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, although Sun Wu Zhuge is not ......."

"That's it!" Zhang Ke interrupted Mao Yilu's meaty compliment and asked, "Mao Zhongcheng, do you think there are any loopholes in this plan?" ”

Mao Yilu hurriedly pondered and said: "Grandpa Guo, there is really one, that is, the newly recruited people are not familiar with the situation, and I am afraid that it will affect major events." ”

"Hehehe, what's so hard about this! In fact, as long as the news is released, the original officials will surrender obediently. In any case, it is always decent to do things in the government. It's just that they cut some ways to make money, they still have a way to get rich, how can they give up! ”

Coming out of Zhang Ke's military camp, Mao Yilu only felt that the bones in his body were lighter!

No wonder Pingliao Gong always won battles on the battlefield and beat Jiannu to the point of urine, this ability is clever.

Zhang Ke didn't know that he had one more die-hard fan, and a month passed in a flash, and the tax collection operation was an unprecedented success in Taicang.

From the initial incomprehension, to the gradual acceptance, in the end, there are even businesses that take the initiative to come to pay taxes. As long as you pay the tax in full, you can get a tax payment certificate. As long as this thing is hung in front of the door, the officials will not dare to make trouble, and the excesses and miscellaneous taxes will be gone. The officials patrolling the streets also took special care of the large taxpayers, and when they encountered hooligans and ruffians, they would come to help.

They are all shrewd characters in business, and they used to be up and down, and even the gangs couldn't be bad. If you do the math, it turns out that the cost is much more than the normal tax payment.

Who is not a natural lowly species, naturally happy to pay taxes to the imperial court, and Zhang Ke made a decisive move, canceled a large number of tax cards, as long as the tax is paid once, other troubles will be cleaned up. Not only does it reduce costs, but it also improves efficiency, and merchants applaud.

It's just that there is another worry, that is, I don't know if the Yizhou soldiers will continue to stay, and if they leave, will the gang of people from the original government come back......

After the taxation of Taicang ended, Mao Yilu requisitioned the Zhizhou Yamen, and borrowed 20 accounting gentlemen from Bao Shiqing, and then found a few scholars who knew how to calculate the accounts in the state school, and everyone calculated the accounts together.

The abacus crackled and rang non-stop, and everyone's hearts were in their throats.

The plan looks good, but no one knows what will happen to the actual implementation. Especially Mao Yilu, messed up, Zhang Ke patted his ass and returned to Liaodong, and he was still the grandfather of the country. I'm in trouble, I'm afraid that the black gauze hat will be lost.

"Lord Zhongcheng, the result is out."

"How much?"

Bao Shiqing flipped through the list and said with a smile: "Congratulations, my lord, the tax receivable is 53,200 taels, and the actual income after deducting the reduction and exemption is 18,000 taels." The monthly tax for manual phone calls is about 1,300 taels. In other words, the small Taicang Prefecture contributed more than 16,000 taels! ”

"Oh my God!"

Mao Yilu grabbed it and looked at it carefully, don't look at the actual amount of money collected, but after three years, all the reductions and reductions were collected, which is more than 50,000 taels, which is more than a government in the Central Plains!

"Zhongcheng, some of these are collected according to the quarter, if converted into years, Taicang's annual tax silver is more than 100,000 taels!"

"How much!"

Mao Yilu is completely crazy, there are so many in Taicang Prefecture alone, as well as Changshu, Kunshan, Jiading, Chongming, and the fatter Suzhou, and by extension, how many Suzhou Mansions are there in the entire Nanzhili! Commercial tax can easily exceed one million taels!

The emperor and Gonggong Wei had red eyes in order to get silver. If you can really do this, just wait for the ascension.

"Lord Zhongcheng, I'll do the math." Bao Shiqing said with a smile: "Taicang is just a small fight, silk workshops are everywhere in Suzhou and other places, and a workshop with a thousand looms is worthy of a Taicang Prefecture!" ”

"So what are you waiting for!" Mao Yilu's voice changed, and he yelled urgently: "Go, follow this official to Suzhou to rob, no, it's a tax!" (To be continued......) R1292