Ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the people who got the invitations have gathered in Hangzhou!

Time was in a hurry, and after receiving the invitation, some people came by boat overnight, and they did not dare to delay at all.

Fortunately, the transportation here in Zhejiang is much more convenient, otherwise it would never be possible to gather together in such a short time.

Although Wang Chuan is from Hangzhou, he has already stayed at the inn near Ruyifang as early as last night, and he is afraid that he will delay the time and not arrive in time.

Early in the morning, Wang Chuan arrived at Ruyi Fang, Ruyi Fang is still a cloud of guests today, many people have heard about the CPPCC, they all want to have fun, Ruyi Fang's business has improved a lot compared to before. It was only when he arrived near the Dong'an Hall that guards began to appear here, and it was strictly forbidden for people to enter and leave at will, Wang Chuan took the invitation card and came out, and the other party let him in.

This feeling makes Wang Chuan enjoy it very much, since he got the invitation, Wang Chuan suddenly felt that he was superior to others, and he used to do business as well, but doing business and doing business are different.

There were quite a few people who came in, gathering in twos and threes, chatting together.

There are also people who recognize each other and greet each other.

The Dong'an Hall in front of it occupies a huge area and is not small in scale, but now it has been renovated, and the plaque has been changed on the top to call the CPPCC to listen to the government.

The main purpose of listening to politics is not to commit taboos, and if it is said to discuss politics, it will inevitably make people have conjectures, so they simply change to listen to politics.

Wang Chuan entered the hall with the flow of people, and the original appearance had been completely changed.

The entire hall has been repaired, for example, the doors and windows, everything that can be sealed is sealed as much as possible, and the main entrance in and out, the entire huge hall has become a sealed matchbox.

The tables and chairs inside are also cleverly designed, designed in a hollow shape, with a round table as the center, and all the tables and chairs are arranged around the round table in a circle.

In the center, the podium is clearly the podium, and the 300 seats have five circles, and the rear seats are getting higher and higher, forming a pattern similar to a Colosseum.

When it was first designed, the main reason was that more than 300 people participated in the meeting, if it was like the previous dynasty, the emperor sat on the top, and the others were lined up on the left and right, even if your voice was good, your voice might not be able to be heard by everyone.

After all, there are no microphones in this era, so we can only try to do so.

Each table and chair has a name, everyone must find their own name to sit down, and it is naturally a bit troublesome to find more than 300 positions, but each batch of tables and chairs will be demarcated in an area, such as which district the merchant will be, which district the scholar will be, and within this range, everyone will find their own table and chair.

Wang Chuan found the table and chair, in the third row of the east row, not good or bad, he sat on the table and chair excitedly, the position here is relatively high, and he can see any dead ends.

In addition, in the closed room, a horse lamp hangs on the wall, which makes the inside extraordinarily bright.

On each table, there is a booklet, which writes the content of today's meeting, discussing business taxes in the morning, eating and resting at noon, and discussing business taxes in the afternoon.

In the morning, the discussion of commercial taxation is mainly by the person presiding over the meeting, that is to say, everyone has no opportunity to speak, just listen obediently, but in the afternoon, although the same discussion is about commercial taxation, you can let everyone express their opinions, have opinions, but you can put it forward, feel any dissatisfaction, you can speak freely.

Everyone sat down one after another, and after half an hour, all the positions were empty, and even when the governor came in with a group of officials, when everyone greeted him, he just nodded and sat in his place.

This kind of thing, the first feeling is that it is rare, because it is an unprecedented thing, everyone seems a little nervous, and the venue is silent.

Finally, Xu Qian's figure appeared.

Everyone stood up one after another and wanted to salute Xu Qian.

Xu Qian smiled, pressed his hand, and said, "This is not an official mansion, so there is no need to be polite." ”

Immediately, he walked directly onto the platform in the middle, holding a document in his hand, and began: "Time is limited, so the official will not gossip, today is discussing commercial tax, what is commercial tax?" Since ancient times, collecting taxes to support the country, the country to raise soldiers, and raising soldiers is to protect the people. This official has read through the annals of history, and has never heard of the imperial court that does not levy taxes, nor has he heard of the merchants who do not pay taxes. ”

"It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court did not pay taxes to the merchants, but you think about it but you know that although you don't pay, you actually pay more, although the imperial court doesn't pay, but the local government, the exploitation of various checkpoints and various names of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have never been less, but what is the benefit of doing this? The imperial court could not collect money and grain, but all your silver fattened the local officials, and there were countless people who filled their private pockets. ”

"In this case, instead of this, it is better for the imperial court to collect taxes uniformly, so that the money and grain of the imperial court can be used for relief and military support, why bother to fatten others? Therefore, the official thinks that the commercial tax must be levied and must be levied, but how to collect the law, the official will simply say some simple opinions. ”

"The purpose of taxation is not to force everyone to go bankrupt, so this tax system must be within the acceptable range of everyone, but it must not be too low, and the imperial court has no money to use and no food to adjust. In addition, it is not easy to collect taxes, if you tax the workshops, there will be two problems, one is to conceal the report, I think you are not fuel-efficient lamps, those merchants who set up workshops if you let you cover the annual surplus, the court will tax on this, want to come to you, there are many false reports. ”

Speaking of this, everyone couldn't help laughing embarrassedly, even Wang Chuan laughed along, everyone is a person who does business, no one is a fool, if their workshop has an annual profit of 10,000 taels of silver, it will definitely report a thousand, this is determined by their attributes, they are businessmen, businessmen are here to make money, production is to make money, concealing taxes, naturally also making money. This money, why not earn.

Qian continued: "After all, it is difficult to count, the problem of concealment is very strict, and the second problem is also very strict, that is, the profit is difficult to estimate, and if the government is very happy, you will make a profit of 10,000, but the government will report 100,000 to the court, and the tax of 100,000 will be levied from you, and you are afraid that it will be difficult to maintain." ”

This is a very important consideration, and many people are worried about this, because profits are difficult to count, and it is easy to say that you hide them, but the government has to say that your profits are high, after all, the right to collect taxes is in the hands of others, if people have to report high, and their arms can't twist their thighs, what can you do?

Wang Chuan couldn't help nodding, feeling that what Master Xu said was very reasonable.

Xu Qian said: "Therefore, the imperial court collects taxes, you might as well use the new deal's money and grain bureau model to collect cotton mulberry, iron ore, coal mines, wood, and road fees, such as when cotton mulberry, the tax of cotton mulberry is very good to count, and the difference in output will not be large. The same is true for minerals, iron ore, coal mines, timber, clay, tea and other raw materials that want to be sold on the market, they must obtain a license, and the license must be taxed, so that the imperial court can receive taxes as long as there are a fixed number of people who supervise them. And your workshop, but as long as you want to produce, you have to buy raw materials, the tax on raw materials has risen, the gentry and merchants who produce raw materials will inevitably have to raise the price to peddle, you buy raw materials at a high price and put them into production, in fact, the original intention, is also to levy a heavy tax burden, in the end, these taxes, or by everyone to bear together. ”

In fact, this mode of taxation existed when the New Deal was implemented, but it was not standardized and universal enough, and everyone could accept it.

For example, the gentry who planted cotton, they originally planted 100 catties of cotton, and the price was 100 taels, and the government levied a tax on them 100 taels of silver, then, the merchants who bought cotton must raise the price to buy, and it was the gentry who sold cotton, and sold 180 taels to merchants who collected cotton, and after the merchants received 180 taels of cotton, they had to process it, such as making cotton cloth into cotton cloth, if they were originally made of cotton cloth of 100 taels of silver, they could sell it for 150 taels of silver, but because the purchase price was high, Therefore, they had to sell the cotton cloth for two hundred and ten taels of silver, and the garment workshop that bought the cotton cloth had to bear the cost of purchasing the cotton cloth after the price of the cotton cloth rose for two hundred and ten taels of silver, and at least twenty or thirty taels of silver would be less profitable, and in addition to this, they had to transfer the burden of this tax to the dyeing and beading workshops.

In the end, the one hundred taels of silver were finally borne by the cotton planters, the weavers twenty or thirty taels, and the garment and dyeing mills and bead merchants were given another twenty or thirty taels of silver.

Of course, in fact, it is impossible to levy a tax of one hundred taels of cotton for one hundred taels of silver, at most, that is, thirty or forty taels of silver, after sharing the taxes layer by layer, in fact, the output of one hundred taels of silver, and finally to the link of ready-to-wear may have reached the final price of three hundred taels of silver, and the tax that everyone bears, that is, thirty or forty taels, this tax rate, everyone can accept, and it is easy to put it away.

The first chapter is delivered, pleading for a monthly pass.