Jingwen knew that his commercial tax mortgage was actually the beginning of improving the status of businessmen. Although it seems that the merchant has to pay more taxes, so that the merchant has less profit. However, the important political significance here is different, because it represents the status of a country's businessman.

In ancient times, the reason why agriculture was valued over commerce was that in addition to ensuring that agriculture was an important source of food for the people, there was actually another extremely important reason. In ancient times, agricultural taxes accounted for an absolute advantage of state revenues, and even forced commercial taxes to the point that they could almost be ignored. In this case, the officials of the state should first of all pay attention to agriculture, because agriculture is related to the income of the state. As for business, the taxes they pay are so low that their share is simply negligible. And paying taxes, in fact, if you look at it from the perspective of a citizen country, it also represents a contribution to the country. The greater the contribution to the state, the more important and high the status of the common people of this class will theoretically be.

Merchants pay a very small percentage of the state's revenue, and this makes the state look down on them, because businessmen are "dispensable" in the eyes of officials. But if one day, when the commercial tax becomes an increasing share of the country, will the officials still despise merchants and commerce? At that time, in order for the country to become richer, the officials will definitely support business and change the old mentality of valuing agriculture over business. In fact, this is also the reason for the so-called contribution to the country.

Moreover, if the state is willing to support commerce, the more loyal the businessman will be to the state. And the higher the loyalty, the greater the willingness to pay taxes. Of course, this is the idea of the vast majority of businessmen, and only a small number of businessmen deliberately avoid taxes. This is also a question of belonging, the country values you, and you will recognize the country. If the businessman has been discriminated against, then the businessman's sense of belonging to the country is not high enough, and then when the country is in danger. Nor will they offer to help. In ancient times, there was no system for merchants to return to their hearts, because the proportion of commercial taxes in the country's revenue was too low, so officials did not pay attention to it. Failure to pay attention to it will lead officials to marginalize businessmen, who will then become less loyal to the government. Businessmen are not very loyal to the government, and the government will reject businessmen, and finally a vicious circle is formed.

Therefore, to solve this problem, we must start with a reasonable business tax. If the commercial tax is still so unreasonable, then the tax paid by the merchants is still a very low part of the state finance. As for the future, the country will not pay attention to businessmen either. There was no idea of improving the status of businessmen. This is actually a deformed system, which has caused the status of businessmen to be low. As long as the commercial tax accounted for the vast majority of the country's revenue, at that time the government would never dare to discriminate against businessmen, and at that time it was too late to pay attention to businessmen, and the importance of business was regarded as the first priority by officials.

"The minister has seen the emperor!" Jingwen said.

"Since you and Changle are already engaged, you don't have to be so polite." Li Shimin said.

And Jingwen immediately said: "Thank you, father-in-law!" ”

And Jingwen took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, today the county order of Mengjin County, Luoyang, has sent a piece of Chen, I hope the emperor can review it." ”

And Li Shimin took a look at the article from Mengjin County, and then asked, "You made this out, right?" ”

"Yes. The county commander of Mengjin County is an old subordinate of our Snow Shame Army! Jingwen said.

Li Shimin saw that this Mengjin County wanted to use commercial taxes as a guarantee, and then borrowed 200,000 yuan to repair the river embankment. This is indeed a bit huge, because where is the embankment of the Yangtze River that a county-level administrative unit can repair by itself? The Yangtze River is one of the largest rivers in the world, and this kind of river is the embankment of this kind of river. That's a lot of money. Therefore, this kind of Yangtze River embankment must be a matter of state-level finance, but now a county-level administrative unit wants to do this, isn't this self-inflicted?

"Courage is commendable. But it's just a bit unrealistic. Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin still appreciates Ma Zhou's courage, but for Ma Zhou's desire to repair the river embankment, this is simply mad. Even Li Shimin knows it. Not to mention the construction of river embankments, even ordinary repairs are not something that a county-level administrative unit can do. At present, the embankments of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are actually built by the joint efforts of all dynasties in the past hundreds of years, not by a single dynasty. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built a Grand Canal, it should have been a good country to toss and die, so this kind of project is costly, where can a dynasty do it! Ma Zhou actually wants to repair it, with the ability of a county to repair, isn't this a big death?

"Your Majesty, in fact, it's not completely impossible. Your Majesty, you should not pay attention to the construction of the river embankment, but should first pay attention to the commercial tax guarantee loan. You say, can this be done? Jingwen asked.

And Li Shimin took a look at it, and finally roughly understood what it was to use commercial tax as a mortgage guarantee. That is, the business tax will be used to repay the loan in the future, and the government will not be able to collect the business tax. And Li Shimin probably knows how little commercial tax is in a county, and the proportion of commercial tax in the whole country is very low. If such a small commercial tax is used as collateral, maybe even Li Shimin is willing to do it. After all, the commercial tax is just that little, if the mortgage can be exchanged for a huge loan, then I am afraid that Li Shimin will also be willing.

"However, it is too ...... for your bank to supervise the collection of commercial tax and be able to participate in the formulation of the commercial tax plan" Li Shimin hesitated.

Because according to Jingwen's provisions, this is actually a method of income that banks can set for commercial tax. This means that banks can raise the government's business taxes until the repayment is completed. Of course, Li Shimin can't accept it, because this is to let businessmen interfere in the government's affairs, which is obviously unacceptable. If Jing Wen hadn't come over in person, I'm afraid Li Shimin would have kicked out the guy who proposed the plan. After all, allowing businessmen to interfere in government decision-making was a great rebellion in ancient times.

There were a few emperors who were able to tolerate businessmen interfering in the government's decision-making, I'm afraid there were none. Therefore, Li Shimin is very skeptical, and it is obviously not able to approve of this plan. This plan is simply a great damage to the majesty of the national government! (To be continued......)