All the wealthy people were stunned for a moment, this ...... It seems to be very reasonable, and what His Highness said is very reasonable. Unlike the army that fights in a normal war, it takes a long time to train to become qualified sailors, and ordinary soldiers cannot serve all the time according to the conscription system.

The point is that if what His Highness said is true, then it means that they can be protected by the Tang fleet in various parts of the ocean! This time is the key! The things that could be shipped to Persia and other places for trade were valuables, and if they were stolen by pirates, they could collapse for some small families.

The most important thing is that once robbed by pirates, it is possible to rob not only the goods, but most importantly, the ships!

If the ships are snatched, it is equivalent to taking away the rice bowl and the whole set of furniture for their cooking, not just their food, which is something that shakes the fundamentals.

"In addition, you may not know that your business tax is actually for you to cultivate your own future." Li Ke smiled again.

"What does Your Highness say about this?" Feng Yu asked with some curiosity, Feng Yu is Feng An's younger brother, because Feng Ang is now in charge of building the port of Luzon, so Feng Yu came to this meeting on his behalf, his task is very simple, just make a suitable compliment.

"Because of the physical strength of the navy and the environment, the recruitment age of the Datang Navy starts at the age of 16, and then the retirement age is set at 40 years old, that is, the age of 40 will be retired."

"But you should all know very well that whether it is a farmer's field, a forty-year-old man in the prime of life is actually still in the stage of strong labor, so these outstanding sailors of the Navy after retirement, are they excellent sailors for those of you who do business? They are excellent sailors who have been trained by the Tang Navy for at least ten or twenty years! Needless to say, how experienced it is? ”

"As long as you give them a higher salary, a ship with a dozen and then lead the other sailors to be levied from the people, do I need to say more about the rest?" Li Ke said lightly.

Now all the merchants' eyes lit up!

Although forty years old in Datang can be called an old man, but it is not really old at the age of forty, forty years old in Datang is also a strong laborer, and the military system of the Tang Dynasty must know that even if you are close to sixty years old, you have to join the army!

Therefore, although he retired at the age of forty, in fact, such talents are the most valuable wealth, and there are no people who can do business, just like Li Ke said, you let such people be managed by sailors, a dozen people on a ship are enough, and the rest are recruited by the people, which is a proper old sailor.

"You see, the business tax you pay is actually for you to cultivate talents for yourself, so is it reasonable to pay business tax? Reasonable. Li Ke saw that their eyes had changed, and spread his hands and said.

"Your Highness, I don't know how to collect this business tax?" One immediately asked.

"I have formulated a complete set of commercial tax collection system, rest assured, it will not be too excessive." Li Ke smiled and said, his warehouse has a complete book on taxation, and whether it is modern taxation or the tax system in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

On the whole, at present, Li Ke is divided into two types, one is business tax and the other is enterprise income tax. The business tax is based on the turnover, which is about 2%. The corporate income tax is tentatively set at 10%.

The income tax also has a corresponding deduction-free part, such as the expenditure on R & D expenses, which is allowed to be deducted, as well as the part that improves employee benefits and employees' monthly money, which is also allowed to be deducted, and the part of donations, which is also allowed to be deducted within 15% of the total annual profit.

In addition, it is a small and micro enterprise, and after the commercial prosperity of Datang in the later period, the peddlers do not charge commercial tax, that is, small merchants and hawkers do not charge commercial tax, but they will charge a certain amount of health management fees and booth management fees, but the amount charged is very small.

In the future, many people may hate this thing and think that it is an indiscriminate charge, but it is not. Without these small expenses, the future costs of sanitation and management alone would have led to a direct collapse of finances.

Don't expect these vendors to be highly ethical people, and it's people who cause these indiscriminate charges. There is no perfect system in the world, but there are some things that exist rationally.

After putting aside the temporary peddlers and pawns, there are some small shops and fixed stalls, such as small noodle restaurants in Chang'an City, and other small businessmen, with reference to the small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in later generations, adopt a fixed tax amount, and formulate it according to a certain standard a month, such as a few yuan, dozens of yuan and other standards.

Of course, for this era, the problem of starting from scratch is solved first, but in fact, even so, it will greatly increase Datang's financial revenue.

Of course, the increase in commercial taxes will inevitably increase the number of relevant tax personnel, which is also unavoidable, but Li Ke has already thought about it, you can do anything anyway, but you can't evade taxes!

Tax evasion must be strictly investigated! Strike hard! It's a big deal to set up a special army for the tax bureau at that time, which is also exclusive to the royal family and other aspects.

Anyway, there is no personal income tax in this era for the time being, and it can't be collected on the heads of ordinary people, so let them check the taxes when the time comes.

Another reason for restricting commercial tax collection is that the currency is insufficient, take the Great Song Dynasty as an example, the currency of the Song Dynasty is already enough, and the commerce of the Song Dynasty is developed enough, but even so, because the Song Dynasty is too developed, the currency of the Great Song Dynasty is still insufficient, and the tax payment is due to insufficient cash, so you can only pay goods to offset the tax, which is more likely to breed corruption.

For example, if the local officials levy taxes, 100 worth of silk is levied according to the value of 10 pieces of silk, and when the time comes, they will collect it back and replace it directly, and it will all belong to themselves.

So having enough cash is the key, and printing banknotes is the key.

The denominations of banknotes have been formulated, which are 1 guan, 2 guan, 5 guan, 10 guan, 20 guan, 50 guan, 100 guan, and 1000 guan.

The number of uses of 1 guan in this is definitely the largest, and Li Ke is not worried about whether the currency paper in his hand is enough or not, it must be enough.

According to his and Li Shimin's calculations, the copper coins of the entire Tang Dynasty are assumed to be 100 million guan, even if they are all printed as 1 guan, that is, 100 million pieces, a one-yuan banknote is about 1g, and 100 million pieces are only 100 tons of paper.