"Quick! Hurry up! ”

As the Fu ship slowly sailed away from the port, the Ming Dynasty was about to start going to the north to show off its muscles and beat the Mengren, but this time the side in charge of the main attack of the contestants had already crackled the abacus.

As the prince of the prison country, if the father doesn't come, he has to come.

After the send-off, Zhu Gaochi's face did not have too much excitement, but looked at Wang Siqi on the side with a bitter face and said: "Now, this palace has become a poor egg again!" This year, I was thinking that I could reduce some agricultural taxes, but now it seems that it is far away! ”

"Lord Wang, why do you say the court has always been so poor?"

Hearing such a question, Wang Siqi's human form was stunned.

The dignified prince of Ming thinks about money all day long, and if he says it, I'm afraid he will be shocked by someone's jaw, but Wang Siqi doesn't think there is anything ridiculous, and he doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are not at home.

The prince is easy to be, but the prince is not easy to be the supervising prince.

It is especially difficult for the court to have no money!

If you don't have money, you have to find a way to open up sources and reduce expenditure, but now more than 70% of the taxes in the Ming Dynasty come from farmland, and some taxes collected from other tea taxes and salt taxes and bamboo and wood from the Ministry of Industry can only account for about 30% of the total taxes of the imperial court.

In other words, in the fiscal and taxation system of the Ming Dynasty, the main source of income was land.

Listening to Zhu Gaochi's question, Wang Siqi pondered for a while before saying: "If you don't open commercial taxes, the imperial court will not have a rich day after all." ”

"Do we have to compete with the people? You must know that once the commercial tax is levied, the imperial court will be under great pressure from public opinion, and at that time, once the father and emperor are angry. It's not so casual and can be quelled, someone needs to come out and take responsibility! ”

"It's not that Bengong hasn't thought about it, but who is going to do it? Who can do it, who dares to do it, and who is willing to do it? The talented ministers in the court are like carps crossing the river, and they don't know how many..."

"But how many of them can not be mixed with the people and do business without reaching out..."

Zhu Gaochi's words, Wang Siqi himself is also a clear door in his heart... No one in this world is willing to cut off their own hands and feet, which is the main reason why every reform of feudal society in later generations is often incomplete.

Revolution is to break the old things and build new rules.

Leaving this matter to those who already have vested interests in the rules and systems of the past will undoubtedly lead to failure.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right." Wang Siqi didn't think there was anything wrong with what Zhu Gaochi said, and it was the truth between the lines.

Zhu Gaochi looked a little sneering.

"Isn't there a way to crack it?"

"Yes."

"Speak quickly!"

"This palace knows you have a way!" Zhu Gaochi's eyes instantly widened, as if he was going to eat Wang Siqi at any time.

"Grab the big and let go of the small! For different goods, different goods are naturally taxed differently... Grain, firewood, linen and other things are half of the taxes collected on the lives of ordinary people, and such items as precious tea, rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, silk brocades, and high-priced porcelain, the higher the price, the better the quality, and the more taxes the imperial court will charge! ”

"This tax! According to different quality, years, etc., the minimum is 20%, the maximum is 50%! If it is feasible, it can be jointly levied by the local government and the imperial court, and the collected taxes can go to the internal treasury, the national treasury, and the local yamen, so that the tax collection can be effective in a short period of time..."

"Of course. . . As for some rural farmers who go into the city to sell some eggs laid by their hens, grain that they didn't eat last year, and cloth shoes made by their daughters-in-law, they are all tax-free! ”

If you want to make money, you have to be precise!

To think about what kind of people are rich, and what kind of goods these rich people will consume on weekdays, the only way to make the tax collection of the imperial court accurate to the head of the goods, so that in the continuous circulation of goods, until finally into the hands of the people.

Taxes, layer upon layer.

Due to cost pressures, it will also make it extremely uncomfortable for some businesses that were originally hoarding in it and constantly making huge profits.

"What if someone cheats and doesn't pay taxes? After all... According to this palace, the Shangshang tax that you want to collect is not a simple matter, right? I have to say that Wang Siqi's words are very contagious, and he is exempt from taxes for ordinary people, and it is even more said to the bottom of Zhu Gaochi's heart who treats the people like children.

As long as it is beneficial to the people, Zhu Gaochi wants to do it.

Standing on Zhu Gaochi's side, Wang Siqi smiled slightly and said: "This is another matter, it involves tax evasion!" For example, if you mix cheap firewood with precious rosewood, the amount of tax you need to pay is very low! ”

"That's true, but as long as we control the most critical one, we can be invincible!" Wang Siqi's eyes flickered, and he already had a countermeasure in his mind.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but be curious.

It sounds like an unsolvable problem, how come it is that nothing is a problem when it comes to Wang Siqi?

"How?"

"Tax Clearance Certificate.. Anyone who buys a large number of precious commodities must provide a tax payment certificate from the shopkeeper, and this certificate must be issued by the local taxation yamen to the firm, and the merchant buys it for silver and sells it with the goods..."

"Who can afford to buy luxury things without eating court meals?" Wang Siqi's eyes revealed a cold light.

made Zhu Gaochi on the side silent instantly.

Wang Siqi is right... In the Ming Dynasty, any wealthy merchant, landlord, or squire was nominally a local tycoon, and even if he had a lot of money, he couldn't spend a lot of money.

But in the end, everything belongs to the imperial court.

The richer the wealthier the relationship with the imperial court and the local yamen, the closer the connection becomes, and for the local yamen, the imperial court has countless opportunities to send messengers to find ways to check the accounts!

But the local yamen only has one chance to make a mistake, once it is investigated!

Masturbate from the beginning to the end!

At the beginning of the new tax, you must use the heavy code!

This is the method proposed by Wang Siqi, and after this short conversation, it has become an iron-like idea in Zhu Gaochi's heart.

"This thing... It is up to the emperor to decide, but according to the palace... There is no reason for my father to refuse such a resolution, and the court is too poor now." Zhu Gaochi had a bitter face, with a lot of helplessness in his expression, after all, since he became the prince, he had not lived a day when he could spend money happily.

Even the use of the East Palace on weekdays is still the crown princess who uses her own gold and silver jewelry and the silver brought by her mother's family to constantly make up for it, otherwise even Zhu Gaochi will not be able to open the pot and cannot afford to eat.

Wang Siqi smiled when he heard this: "In this world... At the end of the day, there's nothing that can't be solved, and in the end, you can't limit yourself to the existing rules! ”

"To be strong, you must change; No change, how to be strong! ”

"There is still a saying among the people that if you are poor, you will think about change, why can't the imperial court have it?"