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Of course, what Wang Qinian said was right, but this was not what he wanted to hear, expanding the territory, especially the territory directly under the royal family, of course, could increase income, otherwise the countries would not be so enthusiastic to respond to the conquest of the Church of Light, and the nobles of the countries would not be actively willing to form an expeditionary force under the banner of the king.

But that is also quite dangerous, the Terran country itself explores the plane to guide the plane conquest is relatively better, the plane conquest in the holy war is likely to face the purgatory creatures, in the previous holy wars, the king and the legendary hero have fallen I don't know how much.

Regina was a little expectant to Wang Qinian because he had heard the inhabitants of the Free City reciting Franklin's wisdom and had also heard about the changes that the "Amazing Solomon" had brought to the Free City, hoping to hear from him about the other than territorial expansion.

Wang Qinian could see that Regina was cold to him, and thought that he and Agatha still had to hang out in St. Quentine, he was Edward's confidant, and he couldn't be worthless in his eyes, so he had to show off.

"In addition to that, there is another way to open up new taxes. Wang Qinian said.

"Tax?" The coldness in Regina's eyes disappeared, and he replaced it with a wry smile, Wang Qinian said in the right direction, but it was very difficult to implement.

However, unlike the territorial expansion of Jianyì, Reginer, since he received a hint that he would take over as Chancellor of the Exchequer before coming to Free City, he did intend to open up a source of tax revenue, but he had no clue.

It is very difficult to collect new taxes from the nobles, perhaps they can take the opportunity of the conquest of the plane, the nobles want to take this boat and put pressure on one or two, but this can often only form a temporary tax, once the holy war is over, the nobles will resist in every possible way, on the pretext that the war is over, the king no longer needs so much money and refuses to pay, can not form a fixed tax item in the real sense.

"Raising taxes is not an easy task. Regina sighed, "For example, the poll tax, how many people in the territory are, if you don't get the assistance of the local lord, it will be strictly affected." ”

"Therefore, His Majesty Edward should consider setting up a special agency for the collection of taxes, which is directly responsible to the royal family and the king, and is fully involved in the statistics of tax sources and the collection of taxes. Wang Qinian said categorically, "Only in this way can the collection of the original tax be ensured, and if the new tax item is approved by the noble council and there is a direct collection count of the institutions directly under the royal family, the implementation of the new tax item will be much less difficult." ”

Regina's face twitched, obviously moved by Wang Qinian's words, but more shocking words were yet to come.

Wang Qinian said: "Even I personally think that this institution should have a certain amount of direct military access, or have the power to direct the army to punish the taxpayers, only in this way can it be more guaranteed." ”

Hearing Wang Qinian's words, even Claude on the side changed color, according to Wang Qinian's concept, this tax collection agency that doesn't know what to call it has a lot of power that is now close to the Privy Council around Edward, but the direction of power is relatively simple.

"It's impossible, this will conflict with the nobility. Claude immediately warned.

"It's impossible to increase the royal family's income without a little effort, hasn't the general forgotten Duke Aldrich's roadcard on the way here?" Wang Qinian glanced at Claude, "And the risk of conflict is far less high than General Claude thought, because the levy agency should be facing individual nobles, not the entire aristocracy, and the problem lies with the king." ”

Regina nodded slightly, he understood what Wang Qinian meant.

For this institution, it must be to collect taxes and taxes that have been increased with the consent of the noble council, otherwise it is still in the game between the royal family and the nobles, and there will be no pressure.

If the parliament can agree to raise taxes, the nobles will naturally not openly oppose it, but will only play tricks secretly, so that it will be slightly easier and can be dealt with separately.

The biggest problem faced by taxation is to first find out the counting basis of this tax, for example, in terms of poll tax or property tax in other countries, the poll tax is based on the number of people in the territory, and the more people in the territory, the more they will pay, and the property tax is to know the approximate property status of everyone in the territory, and then the person who is limited to the amount of property must pay a certain tax, for example, Titania did not widely levy a poll tax, but stipulated that those who had domestic property in 200 gold coins or an annual income of 20 gold coins must pay one-tenth, which is called tithe, and it is this tax that has caused tension between the church and the royal familyBecause the church is also asking people who believe in the Church of Light to pay tithes, if they pay at the same time, it is difficult for the freemen to accept, and if only one party is paid, it is a question of who to pay it to.

Regina understands the benefits of Wang Qinian's establishment of a direct tax collection agency, but it also means that the royal family has to establish a person with a lot of people to deal with it, which is also a cost.

The two most common ways of taxation are the tax system and the tax package system, the tax system is to rely on the nobles or guilds in various places, relying on them to count the tax base and collect it, after the collection, the royal family only sends a small number of tax collectors and troops to escort them, and the tax collectors will review the tax payment records provided by the other party, and check whether the situation in the area is consistent with the records.

On the surface, this seems to be a no-brainer, but it is based on the assistance of nobles and lords, and only they know the amount of taxes, and if they deliberately conceal them, the taxes collected will be much less than they actually are.

Regina knew that under such a system, there was hardly anyone who did not hide a lie.

It is precisely because of this that the countries will adopt another system, the tax system, and the free city and the royal family have reached a tax system this time.

That is, the tax items agreed to be paid by the parliament are contracted to a certain person by region or industry, and the other party pays a sum of money to the royal family first, and then collects the tax according to the agreement, and the income from the collection belongs to himself.

The advantage of the package tax system is that the collection cost is lower than that of the cooperative tax system, but the income is relatively fixed, and the other party can even send the tax paid in advance directly to the national treasury or the king's private treasury.

But the disadvantages are also not small, the direct disadvantage is that the counting of tax sources is still in the hands of the other party, and there are only a few people like the Mithril Mine in Liberty City who send people to monitor from time to time, and the royal family does not have so many people to replicate this behavior.

On the surface, the royal family seems to receive a satisfactory income, but in reality it may still be much less than the tax payable, and this part becomes the profit of the tax collectors.

The more long-term disadvantage is that the tax system affects the development of royal power, and after paying a sum of money to the royal family, the tax collectors are eager to pinch the stones out of the water during the collection, and they do everything in order to squeeze the tax revenue, and sometimes even cause violent resistance from the lower classes.

At the beginning, the royal families of various countries chose tax merchants to avoid tax packages to the big nobles, and tried to choose small nobles or merchants, or even free people with a little strength, but after the emergence of violent tax resistance, it was difficult for ordinary tax merchants to suppress the resistance, and if they ignored the taxes, they would not be able to collect them, and no one would continue to collect taxes, so the royal family could only break the tax packages for the big nobles in the end.

Therefore, not only did the royal family bear half of the notoriety left by the tax collectors, but after breaking the restrictions on the big nobles in the tax package, they had to rely on them strictly in terms of taxation.

What Wang Qinian proposed was the complete opposite of the current path, which was to ask the royal family to bear a large amount of expropriation costs, set up a strong organization, recruit a wide range of personnel, and even have the power to use the army or set up a special army under the command of the expropriation agency.

This was an idea that was so bold that Regina was completely unexpected, and almost made Regina directly refuse, but calm down and think about it, and only in this way can the blind spots in the tax be cleared.

"I will seriously consider whether or not to convey it to His Majesty. Solomon, next month I will hold a small salon at my mansion, to which Philip and his daughter are invited, and I hope you will be able to attend then. ”

Wang Qinian nodded and agreed, this salon gathering may not be as simple as it seems, it should be Reginer who wants to find the governing ideas and people who can help him after becoming the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

What he just said to Regina was very correct, if the royal family could not control the tax into their own hands, the royal power would only be constantly weakened.

But looking at Reginer's case, it is estimated that it is difficult to adopt it immediately.

However, even if it is adopted, it is impossible to achieve it immediately, and the vertically managed taxation system can only replace the tax system and the tax package system step by step, such as the free city of the area that has adopted the tax package system, or other areas that are strictly influenced by the big aristocracy, it will not be so easy to be willing.

And there is also the biggest problem, how can the royal family break the practice of "the king is self-reliant" in the aristocratic parliament, and increase the tax item reasonably, if it can't be increased, the bigger the institution, the more it will fail, because there are many people, but it will face the point where there is nothing to do.

However, this is not something that Wang Qinian needs to worry about, everything he said is a conspiracy, and let Regina understand the benefits of direct taxation, in order to win a good impression in front of him.

Anyway, even if he didn't say it, it would be impossible for Asturias not to see this without a man of intelligence, the difficulty was just how determined and persistent Edward was, and how to carry it out.

Although this affected the Free City somewhat, it was not the only Free City that included taxes, and the royal family had to remove many large rocks before it was Franklin's turn. And before Wang Qinian came out, he was not already persuading Franklin to start withdrawing from direct trade and trying to establish a tax system.

Once the royal family is really determined to collect it directly, then it is a question of how to divide the tax.

Of course, Wang Qinian could come up with more ideas than this, but he had not yet arrived at San Quentin and knew too little about it, so he decided to talk about this kind of Cheng dù, and let Regina have a certain impression of himself.

If you need to go further in St. Quentine, or simply bet heavily on the royal side, then perhaps next month's Salon party in Regina House will be a good opportunity.