Chang Lin opened the documents and recitals sent by Li Ke, then unfolded Li Ke's recitals and read them directly.

"Dad, it's like meeting words."

This beginning made the corners of Wei Zheng's mouth twitch below, is this a concerto?

Li Shimin and the other ministers did not react at all, without him, only with their hands...... Habitual.

"Dad, not long ago, after Erchen negotiated with Zhenwax about the relevant trade matters, Erchen received news that a group of pirates had eliminated a supply port on the important Tongyi route to Persia, the Dandan Kingdom."

"Dandan is located in the important strait passage between the South China Sea of the Tang Dynasty and the waters near Persia, this place is the only way for all merchant ships to and from the country, all merchant ships need to be supplied here, if occupied by pirates, the consequences are unimaginable."

"For the sake of the safety of my Datang's foreign trade, I led the Datang Navy fleet to Dandan to expel the pirates who occupied Dandan. Because the kings and nobles of Dandan have been slaughtered, in order to ensure the safety of our Tang maritime trade, the island's sons are included in the territory of our Tang Dynasty, and the sons are named: Lizhi Island. The port is the Port of Rez, and the strait next to it is the Port of Reoqua. ”

Good fellow, the ministers here are speechless, are you sure it wasn't planned for a long time? The map had been hung up by the two little eunuchs and placed on a shelf on the side, and all the ministers could see it when they looked up or when they looked back.

The map of the islands in the South Seas was available in the Tang Dynasty before, but it was not complete, and now His Royal Highness the King of Qin has completed a considerable part of it, looking at the ocean separated by two peninsulas, and the Lizhi Strait in the middle, the strategic location of this place is clear to everyone.

Your Highness, didn't you say that you had already taken a fancy to this place?

Just like His Highness said, as long as the maritime trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions is not stopped, then the important trade route in this place will not be canceled, and its importance is beyond doubt.

It's just that...... Li Ke said that it was occupied by pirates, which may be true, and they can't refute anything, it's this pirate...... It's too strong.

However, the port needs personnel and funds to operate, so Erchen convened all the gate valve families and merchants in Lingnan Road, temporarily reformed and piloted Lingnan Road, turned Lingnan Road into a Datang Special Economic Zone, and temporarily collected commercial tax on all commercial activities in Lingnan Road. The specific rules for the collection of commercial taxes were attached to the relevant documents, which the father could see. ”

After collecting the relevant taxes, Erchen gave the ownership of Lizhi Port to these gate valve families and merchants in Datang Lingnan Road for free, and established a joint-stock port, with 49 percent owned by Datang Trust and 51 percent held by these gate valve families and merchants. They need to build the port, distribute the port staff, provide monthly money, and provide food and other supplies for the Datang garrison at cost price. ”

"Similarly, the revenue of the port also needs to be taxed according to the comptoir, and the port can charge all ships entering the port management fees, supplies and other supplementary fees, and of course, it also needs to provide security protection for the ships in the port."

"In addition, the port has also become a distribution center for related materials, for example, some merchants can unload goods here and sell them to the nearest Rollo country and other South Seas countries."

Hearing this, all the ministers present were silent, and many of them had already learned the mantra of His Royal Highness King Qin and scolded in their hearts.

My grass, before His Royal Highness King Qin said that he would sell the land of some other countries to the gate valve family or something, they should be very moved, and they all supported it. But I never expected that the first batch of their support did not eat the welfare, but let these small families in Lingnan Province eat the welfare?

You don't need to think about it, it is definitely a fragrant and sweet food, and the future is an extremely eye-catching industry.

"In addition, Erchen has also partially restructured Xianglinyi County, and Changle is responsible for handling all affairs for the time being, with Wu Yu assisting."

Li Shimin: "......"

You don't really take it seriously, do you? Do you really want Changle to be the empress?! Li Shimin was stupid, he thought that Li Ke was just talking, good guy, you have directly started to cultivate.

It's just that he can only hold this breath in his heart, and there are some things he hasn't communicated with other ministers yet.

The other ministers were silent and didn't say much, these ministers in the early Tang Dynasty were still relatively cheerful, mainly because there was Princess Pingyang Zhao there as an example before, most of these ministers knew each other, and there was no big problem for women to deal with things.

Another reason is that His Royal Highness King Qin has already asked Li Yan to deal with the affairs of Xizhou, what is this? When His Royal Highness was in charge of the country before, many things were handled by Li Yan, but they were not specified.

At this time, everyone naturally didn't want to object, I didn't see that there was already a pilot work over there, so there may be large-scale land sales in other places in the future, which is of course a good thing.

"In addition, Dad, you let Shangshu Province and the six ministries prepare for the national popularization of commercial tax, although Lingnan Road is a pilot, but with this year or even next year, if the implementation of Lingnan Road goes smoothly, then the popularization of commercial tax nationwide will be launched."

"The work of Shangshu Province includes recruiting enough tax registration personnel to register these commercial taxes, and secondly, the ministers will print some special tax bills, and all bulk trade must have relevant tax bills to the tax bureau for tax declaration, otherwise these trades will become illegal trade, and if the illegal trade of large commercial houses is too much, it will lose the important infrastructure construction in the country, undertake the construction of large-scale ports in the future, and develop the construction of new territories in Datang."

"If tax evasion reaches a certain level, all shareholders of the firm will be sentenced to prison or beheaded."

When Li Ke formulated this, he actually thought very clearly, and the business tax and tax deduction in later generations were helped by some modern computers.

It may seem impossible in this era, but it is not impossible, because in this era, the business tax and tax deduction are for large commercial houses, and ordinary small shops have no chance to use these at all, so the amount of work will not be very large.

The second biggest difference from modern times is that modern tax evasion is just a penalty, but in ancient times, it was necessary to cut off the head! That's a lot more deterrent! What's more, once tax evasion is discovered, some rules for developing new territories will be lost.

In this way, Li Ke can take advantage of the constraints between these gate valve families and big commercial houses to ensure that it is very difficult for them to evade taxes in the early 100 years.