Jinan......

Sun Chuanting placed a large number of "loyal ministers" under house arrest, including the prefect of Jinan, brought a group of disloyal ministers under his command, and transported a large number of materials from Gaojia Village, and began to carry out the large-scale development of Shandong under the operation of Liu Maopao.

The whole of Shandong immediately began to glow with vitality.

Although the Xiaoice period continued, once industry began, the people's fear of natural disasters became lighter. In the past, you had to farm to eat, but now you can have food as long as you work in a factory in Gaojia Village.

What is there to fear from natural disasters?

Now the only unhappy person is the Jinan prefect who is under house arrest.

His work as a prefect was robbed by Liu Maopao, a traitor who came out of nowhere, who swaggered to sit in his official office, calling a group of administrators he did not know.

It's madness!

But Sun Chuanting led the army to support him, and no one dared to disagree.

The prefect of Jinan had to pray every day: "God bless, let the news here reach the capital as soon as possible, after the emperor knows that Sun Chuanting is a traitor, he will definitely send troops to clean him up, and when the time comes, the court will recapture Jinan, and the official will be able to reinstate the official, we must have confidence in the court, we will not lose." ”

It was in his pious prayer......

Sun Chuanting took the head of King Chuang and returned to the dynasty with the class teacher!

The prefect of Jinan is overjoyed: Opportunity, opportunity is here, after this traitor is gone, there is no army to suppress it, and those who are loyal to the emperor will definitely ......

It's your sister!

The prefect of Jinan was immediately disappointed, and at the same time as Sun Chuanting left, Jinan's new militia was also established, which was basically selected from the 100,000 people who rebelled with King Chuang and surrendered after being persuaded by Li Yan, and they had no loyalty to the imperial court, but they were extremely admired for Daoxuan Tianzun, who gave them a "new future".

This group of people took the military salary and weapons given by Gaojia Village, trained every day, and defended the control of the "rebels" over Jinan City, the Jinan prefect had no choice, and he couldn't even leave his mansion-

In Beijing, the Suncheon fertilizer plant was finally completed and began to put into operation.

The construction speed of this fertilizer plant is very fast, and the blue hat from Gaojia Village has long had a complete set of mature factory construction plans, and has undergone repeated operations in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan and other places.

Now that I have come to the capital to do it, there is Liang Shixian, the Shuntian Mansion, the first assistant He Fengsheng, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen three people to do it as the backstage, how can this factory be unhappy to build?

Almost in the blink of an eye, its first phase was completed and its supply began.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the bags of fertilizer in front of him, and his heart was happy.

"Liang Aiqing, the bag of fertilizer you offered last time was used for a field for two months, and now that it has been produced so much at once, isn't it enough to supply my entire Shuntian Emperor Village?"

Liang Shixian arched his hand: "Your Majesty, these fertilizers will definitely not be a problem to deal with Huangzhuang's fertilization this year." However, your every move is watched by the officials below, in recent days, the emperor often runs to Huangzhuang, many officials in the court know about it, they also came to Huangzhuang to see, and then also eyed our fertilizer, many people came to Weichen to express their willingness to pay for it...... In this way...... That's certainly not enough. It is also necessary to increase production, and a few more factories will be added. ”

Zhu Youzhen: "Huh? ”

He was slightly stunned, but immediately figured out that the fertilizer could not be produced exclusively for Huangzhuang, and it must be sold to officials at all levels and ordinary people.

This is also good for the country!

In particular, those ordinary people who have to pay taxes have to give them fertilizer and double the harvest of their farmland, so that the country's tax revenue can be collected, and the state treasury will not be so empty in the future.

Zhu Youzhen: "Cheng, then sell it." ”

Liang Shixian suddenly smiled: "Your Majesty, we have to be careful when selling this fertilizer." ”

Zhu Youzhen: "Oh? How to play the trick? ”

Liang Shixian: "Our country is short of money. ”

His opening sentence made Zhu Youzhen almost cry, and he couldn't help but tidy up his dragon robe, because the moon-white middle coat under the dragon robe was patched, and if it was seen by the courtiers, he, the emperor, would lose face.

Liang Shixian: "But where does the money come from? Of course, there are taxes, but for example, most of the farmland today is in the hands of the princes and officials, and they do not pay taxes. It is very difficult to move these people, and I am afraid that it will attract unanimous opposition from the court. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youzhen almost shed tears again, isn't it clear to him as an emperor about this? But I can't move! If he really wants to collect taxes from the prince and officials, he may not be able to sit firmly on the throne.

Liang Shixian said in a low voice: "So Weichen estimates that if you want to collect taxes, you still have to start with commercial taxes." ”

Zhu Youzhen lowered his voice: "Commercial taxes are not easy to collect, there are many officials and businessmen, and as soon as they say that they want to collect commercial taxes, it will be the same as collecting their field taxes, and they will also make trouble." ”

Liang Shixian: "That's why Weichen said, we have to play tricks." ”

He said in a low voice: "Let's set up a tax item called 'value-added tax', which does not directly levy taxes on merchants, but increases this tax to the selling price of fertilizer, and the person who buys the fertilizer bears the ......"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen heard it, he immediately understood.

This is a typical transfer contradiction!

The big officials are doing business and are unwilling to pay business taxes, so let's say to the big officials, I don't charge your taxes, but you are allowed to sell the goods a little more expensive, and the little bit of the expensive price is, of course, borne by the buyer, and this part will be used as taxes and handed over to the court.

Since it is the buyer who bears it, the merchant is easy to accept and will not resist so easily.

Zhu Youjian said: "There is a problem with this tax, in this way, the fertilizer becomes expensive, and the people buy this fertilizer to take it to farming, if the fertilizer is expensive, it is equivalent to the income from farming will be reduced, isn't it...... Pit people? ”

"No, no, no!" Liang Shixian smiled: "Fertilizer is not as expensive as you want to sell, its selling price must not exceed the benefits it can create, otherwise the people will feel that it is better not to use fertilizer as soon as they settle the accounts, so they will not buy it." Therefore, no matter how the price of fertilizer rises, it will have a tipping point, and it will never exceed this position. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded as if he didn't understand.

Liang Shixian continued: "The businessmen are very good, even if there is no VAT, they will still sell the price of fertilizer to the price that ordinary people can just afford. But after adding VAT, they can only just sell at this price, that is to say, the increase in VAT by the imperial court will not affect the common people, but only the merchants. ”

Zhu Youzhen finally understood this time: "I see! ”

He suddenly thought of something: "Huh? You built this fertilizer factory, didn't you come up with the idea to cheat yourself? ”