Fu Qi looked at the northwest corner of the dock and said:

"Nine masters, I have noticed these days, the general situation on the wharf is quite calm, that is, the county tax department, and the people from the tax factory in Taierzhuang are going to set up a field in the northwest corner of the wharf.

I've been wandering around these days, and the place they enclose is the only way for merchants to enter the town, and it is estimated that they will start collecting money before the Chinese New Year.

Also, five days ago, I arrived at three cargo ships, and I asked the boss of the ship, all of them set sail from Huai'an.

At night, more than a dozen boxes were moved down and carried to the warehouse of the tax factory in the dark, I guess where the tax money is stored here! ”

Zhao Xiong nodded, the taxes and silver in other places that are going to be transported to the capital are in charge of my bird affairs!

What he mainly cares about is that Gonggong Zhang actually drove the tax factory to his territory and didn't greet him, this is a slap in the face!

In fact, before Zhao Xiong became an official, the tax department of the sixth room of Yixian County had already collected all kinds of taxes at Fuzi Wharf and Hanzhuang Town, which caused the common people and businessmen to complain.

In the past three years, it was Li Hai who was in charge of the docks, and he didn't know what agreement had been reached with the county, so he was safe.

However, last year, the commercial tax of the whole country should be increased by He Shen, the secretary of the household department, otherwise there will be rats in the silver warehouse of the household department.

So the emperor Wu Jian issued an order to change the amount of commercial tax that had not been touched for more than 100 years, 20 taxes and 1, to 10 taxes and 1.

Even raising the commercial tax from 5% to 10% is very dangerous in modern society, and it is estimated that a large number of enterprises will leave or close their doors.

But in ancient times, Shinong businessmen, businessmen, and merchants have always been the lowliest people from ancient times to the present.

Like Lü Buwei in the Qin State and Shen Wansan in the Ming Dynasty, the current rulers are only wary of businessmen gaining power.

So ordinary businessmen still have to do business hard.

There is a trick to collecting taxes, and they often give the emperor a tael of silver, and there are policies and countermeasures.

Five to ten taels of silver will be collected below, only more and no less.

Both sides of the canal are lush land, how many people are blushing at this "commercial tax"?

At present, the tax money of the tax department on the wharf is collected, "door stall silver".

Door stall silver is a formal tax that should be paid by shops, and it is a commodity in circulation that is collected by the county government and intercepted.

By the way, the tax department also put other miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous taxes, such as landing tax and residence tax....... which all belong to the category of commercial tax.

There are many kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and nothing is not taxed, and no one is not taxed.

Lehi and the county tax collector divided half of each on the wharf, and collected his own oil and water more than he collected, and the ship docked with more silver.

Zhao Xiong flipped through the tax documents left by Lao Zhaotong in the study, and Zhao Xiong knew that the commercial tax collected by the Dakang Dynasty was so low, but it was a constant of low.

Three years ago, Hanzhuang Town only had a commercial tax of 122 coins and 8 cents of silver, and it is estimated that there is not much formal commercial tax in the entire Yi County.

A town handed over to the emperor for only 12 taels of silver, which is not ridiculous.

In fact, the gentry crisscrossed the countryside, and the actual taxes paid by officials and businessmen were low, or even not paid.

However, the general merchants of the Dakang Dynasty accounted for more than 90% of the taxes, and the legal level of taxation was not high, but it was a pity that the actual height of a piece of waste paper was still very high.

In the past, that Li Hai only gave the constant in the county, that is, eleven or two taels of silver, anyway, Hanzhuang Town had the final say.

The lock official office on the Grand Canal is under the jurisdiction of the Caoyun Yamen, just like the central ministry is now under the jurisdiction of the central ministry, and it is not the turn of the place to stretch out its hand.

It's always okay for the county magistrate to hide and avoid seeing the gate official, who let the gate official not belong to the county.

Since the opening of the commercial tax, Li Hai did not dare to say that it was okay to make money every day, and it was still possible to earn ten taels or dozens of taels a day.

This has made many people's eyes red, but Lehi has someone to cover, and he has been safe and sound for the past three years.

If Zhao Xiongyi heard that the emperor had said that the commercial tax was twenty taxes and one was changed to ten taxes and one tax, as a small government at the bottom, there was a set of small businessmen and ordinary people's money.

Now in Zhao Xiong's eyes, Hanzhuang Town is his private territory.

If you want to scrape the ground in the town, it is not like this, don't cut leeks at one time, you must do a unified plan, chickens lay eggs and chickens, and the plate is bigger to be interesting.

But now Zhao Xiong is thinking quickly, whether he should catch all the taxes of this Fuzi Wharf in his own hands and become the real overlord of Hanzhuang Town.

Zhao Xiong shook his head again in his heart, the matter of killing chickens and taking eggs was still put aside, and the matter of the eunuch on the sand boat just now was the most important thing now.

As for the Yixian Household Housing Tax Division, together with Taierzhuang Zhang Gonggong's banknote tariff factory, we don't know whether it is a real factory or a fake factory.

Zhao Xiong has read some books and newspapers in Zhao Zhuang in the past two years.

Only then did I know that the tariffs in the Dakang Dynasty mainly included the domestic city tariff, Tianjin tariff, banknote tariff, industrial tariff and gate tax, dam tax and ship tax.

The prosperity of shipping on the Grand Canal brought huge tax benefits to the Dakang Imperial Court, and the taxes collected along the canal accounted for more than 30% of the national tax revenue.

Seven of the country's eight major banknote customs are located along the canal.

From north to south, they are: Chongwenmen (Beijing), Hexiwu (moved to Tianjin in the Qing Dynasty), Linqing, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Hushu (north of Suzhou), and Beixin (Hangzhou).

Taierzhuang's banknote tariff factory branch belongs to the Linqing banknote customs, Linqing banknotes pass south of Huaiguan, north of Tianjin pass, Ju Canal Chongyao, by the household department directly control and supervise the tariff.

Taierzhuang, which is located in the north and south of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, has been quite prosperous, but with the rise of maritime trade, the tax revenue of the Grand Canal has decreased rapidly.

Zhao Xiong thought about it carefully, there were 5 customs and 16 large and small ports in Linqing Banknote Customs, but there were more than a dozen large and small ports, and he had never heard of the Hanzhuang Banknote Customs, so this was clearly a fake made by someone.

Just like the car bandits and road rage in the 21st century, blocking the road to collect money, I don't know who is so bold, this is going to lose his head!

Fu Qi looked at the Ninth Master cautiously, and Zhao Xiong thought silently for a while.

Taierzhuang's Grand Canal is more than 100 miles long, and there are more than a dozen large and small wharves, and he actually picked his Hanzhuang Town, which is really unbearable for uncles and aunts!

In Zhao Xiong's memory, the fat guys in the banknote tariff factory were not good things.

It's just that the banknote tariff factory on the Grand Canal is under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, and the local government has no right to intervene, and the people sent by the imperial court to inspect and supervise also turn a blind eye.

Anyway, when the year's rites are up, they are better to have more than one thing, and they are safe!

At this time, Zhao Xiong was extraordinarily calm, so wow, he actually ran to my land to collect taxes, and after thinking about it, he would definitely take a look.

If it is really a group of guys from the county tax department and the people from the tax factory, it will be difficult for the two sides to merge, and it seems that they have to think about it in the long run!

Zhao Xiong also understood at this time, the small Hanzhuang Town is, the temple is a small demon, and there are many Chiqian Wangba!