Hangzhou Mansion, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, was one of the richest mansions in the Ming Dynasty. Ducks

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this place was known as the "granary of the world", although the title of Tianfu was banned by Huguang not long after, but Hangzhou people relied on silk weaving, cotton weaving, printing, papermaking, shipbuilding, winemaking, tea making and other handicrafts to promote the prosperity of Hangzhou's commerce, and the prosperity of commerce fed the prosperity of handicrafts, and the handicraft industry continued to feed back...... Under the virtuous circle, the wealth of Hangzhou Mansion has become a bright pearl in the Ming Dynasty.

Interests and power are not separated, behind the prosperity, the prefect of Hangzhou Prefecture Sun Yuchun also made a lot of money, he recently built two new cellars, but the cellar was soon filled with gold and silver, as a last resort, Sun Futai could only be forced to build two more cellars.

Sun Futai is less than 40 years old this year, and the future is smooth, but after Sun Futai has tasted the sweetness of Hangzhou, he is unwilling to rise further.

When he first came to Hangzhou as a prefect, he thought that he would make a lot of money, but what he didn't expect was to earn so much. Now Sun Futai is reluctant to go, and as the prefect of Hangzhou Mansion, he is unwilling to change the political envoy Nabu and exchange him for him.

At this time, Sun Futai was lying in the cellar, lying on this bed paved with silver bricks, and the surrounding walls were all made of silver bricks, enjoying the beauty brought by gold and silver.

With such a huge silver cellar, he still has more than a dozen, adding up to the total number of ......

Sun Futai can't remember anymore. Ducks

The silver he earned in Hangzhou Mansion could not be spent by the eighteen generations of his grandparents, and Sun Futai didn't know what the use of making so much silver he made, but he just liked the taste of silver, and he didn't bother to make it.

Sun Futai is not an official fan, he walked to the position of the prefect, he has no desire to climb up, he just wants to continue to make money in Hangzhou Mansion, with a tough backstage, Sun Daren was able to sit in the position of Hangzhou prefect for ten years, others looked at it with their eyes, but they couldn't wait for Sun Futai to rise.

"Jingle Bell......

The crisp sound of silver colliding echoed in the cellar, which was particularly bright, and Sun Futai thought that the people below were transporting silver to and from the cellar again, and said lazily: "I told you, the silver in this cellar can no longer be stuffed, and the silver transported to the new cellar is sent to the new cellar, do you have calluses in your ears?"

However, no one answered him.

Sun Futai was shocked, and hurriedly jumped up from the silver brick bed, only to find that it was a group of black-robed sergeants with sabers who were gesturing against his silver brick wall, as if they were counting.

"Who are you, and how did you get in?" Ducks

Sun Futai's mind was blank at the moment.

The person who looked like an official shouted, "Count them all for me, it's not a joke to count one less piece, and the crime will be added to ten degrees, and the brothers will have to lose their heads!"

The official walked to the edge of Sun Futai, holding a small notebook in his hand, holding a charcoal pen in one hand, and waved his hand to Sun Futai: "Lord Futai, you go to sleep in another place, we are busy here, don't delay our work."

Sun Futai was a little confused about the way of these people in front of him, and said that these people were Jinyiwei...... If it was Jin Yiwei, his Sun Futai's head should have been hung on the head of Hangzhou Mansion by now. But if you say that these people are ordinary officials, these people look a little like ordinary officials.

….

"Dare to ask who your Excellency is?" Sun Futai asked tentatively.

The official counted the silver bricks carefully and replied casually, "The tax inspector is from the fourth inspector, Li Wenyu. Don't worry, Lord Futai, we are not here to ask you for the trouble of corruption, we are here to collect taxes, as long as you don't delay us in collecting taxes, we will not do anything to you."

"Close...... Collect taxes?" Ducks

Sun Futai was stunned, "I'm a Jinshi, the prefect of Hangzhou, you asked me to collect taxes, you found the wrong person!"

"Lord Futai was stunned by the silver at first glance, isn't it, the law has changed!"

The inspector of the Tax Supervision Department kindly reminded, "The new law of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulates that everyone must pay taxes, whether it is the royal family, the relatives or the literati from the imperial examination, they must pay taxes in a unified manner

The negative black tax is large, and this tax rate has been raised to 90%."

"Brute, what the fuck are you talking about, the tax rate of 90% is 90%, do people say?"

When Sun Futai heard the tax rate of ninety percent nine, he didn't even have time to care about the nonsense that everyone had to pay taxes.

What could be more than a 90% tax rate?

I earn a hundred taels together, and I have to hand over ninety-nine taels to the court, and I can leave one or two taels of silver? Ducks

He felt that all these people in front of him were crazy!

I am greedy for money with my ability, why do you want me to pay taxes!

The inspector of the Tax Supervision Department stopped what he was doing, touched his chin and said, "To be precise, the tax rate of ninety percent is an additional tax, with the weight of your corruption, you have to pay another two percent of the fixed tax to the imperial court every month, it's okay, it's not much, it's only twelve percent nine, I'll roughly calculate it...... I copied your sixteen cellars before, and the black tax that was found out, plus the fixed tax, is a total of ......."

"Hmm...... I have figured it out, Lord Futai, I now officially announce to you that in addition to confiscating all your personal property and paying taxes, you still owe about 170,000 taels of taxes that you have not paid.

"If you can't pay it, it's not a big problem, we allow you to use Yulu as collateral, you are a Zheng Sipin official, and the monthly Yulu is equivalent to one hundred and forty-four taels, hey, congratulations to Lord Futai, you only need to work for the imperial court for another ninety-eight years without pay, and you can pay off your debt to the imperial court!"

Sun Futai felt that he couldn't breathe, and fainted on the spot.

Crazy, all crazy! Ducks

What bullshit is this Tax Division!

What are they talking about?

After paying taxes to the imperial court with all my assets, I still owe the imperial court 170,000 taels of taxes, and I need to work for 98 years without compensation to pay off?

……

On the carriage sent to Shuntianfu, Yao Guangxiao flipped through the chapters sent by the provinces, and sighed: "This time there is a lot of turmoil than the previous redivision of the feudal lands of the clan, you are too anxious, and now the officials of the southern provinces are opposing your reform of the tax law."

"Wouldn't it be nice to see what it looks like?"

Zhu Gaoxian took out a document and handed it to Yao Guangxiao, "This is the total tax payment table of the southern half month presented by Lu Chaoyang, and the tax collected in this half month is almost catching up with the income of the Ming Dynasty treasury for ten years, what kind of concept is this?" Ducks

….

The Ming Dynasty is not short of money now, which does not mean that there will be no shortage of money in the future.

The revenue of the state treasury is one for land and the other for commercial taxes. The land is not collected, and it is subject to all kinds of tax evasion and tax evasion, and the commercial tax does not come up, and only the taxes of some small businessmen are collected, and the big businessmen have ways to evade taxes.

This also led to a problem, except for the southern Zhili in the Ming Dynasty, the taxes of other southern provinces could not be collected at all. It is clear that the south is richer, but the tax revenue of the north is several times that of the south!

What is the concept that taxes are higher in the North than in the South?

The development direction of the north is mainly concentrated in the military, even if the military cantonment system can barely allow the military towns to provide for themselves, but it can not feed much, and the millions of sergeants on the nine sides have no time to develop commerce. With the nine sides of the north as a barrier, the south can develop its economy freely, but the annual tax revenue in the south is surprisingly low.

This is not because the south is poor, but because the intertwined interests are deep-rooted, and the really rich people have no one to pay taxes at all, and the people who pay taxes are some poor people.

The poorer the country, the more ruthless the taxes are collected, the rich still do not pay taxes, while the poor are getting poorer and poorer, and when the poor can no longer live, it will inevitably be the opposite, and the rise and fall of the country will depend on this. Ducks

Yao Guangxiao said quietly: "The empire is like a temple built on the top of a mountain, and how high the temple can be depends on how high the mountain is. What is this mountain, it is nothing more than the local gentry and nobles, if the mountain collapses, how can the temple survive?"

Zhu Gaoxian asked in no hurry, "Do you think that I am short-sighted and can't see the long-term national fortunes, but only the immediate interests?"

Yao Guangxiao sighed, "The reform of the tax law has touched the roots of the country

It touches the interests of the local government, and it can indeed bring huge benefits to the country in the short term, but have you ever thought that the reason why the literati imperial examination is entered is because the scholars are exempt from taxes, but now you have to let everyone pay taxes, won't you cut off the foundation of the lifeblood of the dynasty?"

This old monk is not a man with a mouse's eye, and if he had a mouse's eye, he would not be able to go today.

He was not blinded by the benefits brought by the tax reform to the Ming Dynasty, on the contrary, he suffered from gains and losses, and thought far-sightedly. It's not about looking ahead, it's about thinking long-term.

"I transferred the border army from the north to the south as the tax inspector army in order to prevent the tax inspectorate and the tax inspectors of the southern provinces from being co-opted by local forces, but this is not enough, the impact of the tax supervision is too great, and the rebuke will change."

Zhu Gaoxian tapped the paperwork with his fingers and said in a surging voice, "So, I asked Lu Chaoyang to come to the Governor's Tax Supervision Institute because he was in charge of Jinyiwei's Beizhen Fusi and Nanzhen Fusi, the Beizhen Fusi was in charge of foreign affairs searches, and the Nanzhen Fusi was in charge of internal cleanup, and Lu Chaoyang knew how to deal with the corruption problem of the Tax Supervision Institute itself. The establishment of the Department of Internal Taxation, the investigation of the officials of the Governor's Office of Taxation in Beijing, down to the tax officials of the provincial Inspectorate of Taxation, and the addition of ten degrees to the crimes of the tax inspectors will not deter the greed of the people's hearts, and in the face of great interests, people's greed will be infinitely magnified, and only by threatening them with the sword at all times can they keep their sanity." Ducks

"This is an internal strategy, and what you are talking about now is external influence, so I will tell you about external policy."

Zhu Gaoxian asked, "In the tax rate of the new policy, there are black tax officials, and the tax rate ranges, there are 90% tax rates, 120% tax rates, and even 15% tax rates, is this tax rate high?" high, because the taxes levied by the state have exceeded the wealth they have individually.

"But have you ever wondered why the tax rate is so high? Because the more black taxes, the higher the tax rate, the most taxes levied by ordinary officials and the imperial court will not exceed 20%, and the tax of 20% is still too much?"

"I have a way to deal with the problem you just mentioned."

Yao Guangxiao asked, "What means?"

Zhu Gaoxian said lightly: "Raise incorruptible silver."

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