Fu Qin starts with a plan

Chapter 463 All kinds of things under the new Qin system
"Are you doing this for their own good?"

After reading the list made by Zhao Kun, Fusu threw it on the table.

Zhao Kun smiled awkwardly.

After discussing the experimental field with the Chen brothers, he immediately wrote a plan and clearly listed the needs of the experimental field.

Although Fusu is tolerant and benevolent, he doesn't want to give others this kind of opportunity to become famous.

After all, this is a society where imperial power is supreme.

The people have and can only worship one saint, and that is the emperor.Letting farmers become new saints is not at all in line with maximizing the interests of the Great Qin Empire.

But Zhao Kun explained disapprovingly: "Brother, let's take a longer view!"

"No matter how long-term it is, it is impossible to give fame to others lightly."

"Yes. Brother is right."

Zhao Kun nodded and bowed.

Fu Su frowned: "Brother Kun, can you give the eldest brother a clear picture? Otherwise, you can give this list to the emperor yourself, and I will not interfere."

"Farewell, brother, you are the king of Qin, the supervisor of the Great Qin, you have to intervene in this matter."

"Then tell me, what do you think?"

"This……"

Zhao Kun hesitated for a moment, and said, "The so-called saint does not exist in my opinion!"

"What do you mean?" Fu Su narrowed his eyes.

Zhao Kun said seriously: "Brother, didn't you find out? The development of Daqin has moved to a new path. With the popularity of newspapers, public opinion is gradually in our hands."

"That is to say, there is official interference in fame and fortune."

"We will properly promote the reports that are beneficial to the imperial court, and there are almost no reports that are unfavorable to the imperial court."

"Even if the common people always remember the farmers who brought them food and clothing and regard them as saints, but they are all under the supervision of the imperial court, brother is still afraid that they will rebel?"

"That's true."

Fusu nodded, and then picked up the list written by Zhao Kun: "You push them out just because they are professional?"

"if not?"

Zhao Kun spread his hands: "The current officials of Zhili Neishi's Office are not as professional as them."

"Then... the experimental field in Shu County, don't you need people from Li Neishi's Mansion to watch over it?"

"It's still needed. After all, some of the farmers who are in charge of farming are misplaced, and they are still needed."

Hearing this, Fusu thought for a while and said, "Since the final hybrid seeds belong to the imperial court, they can gain some fame and fortune."

"Then, I will leave this matter to you." Zhao Kun nodded with a smile, and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Fusu suddenly stopped him: "Brother Kun, wait a minute, there is something else I want to talk to you about."

"What's the matter?" Zhao Kun turned to look at Fusu.

Fusu murmured, "Do you still remember the envoys from Xianbei and Wuhuan? They sent people to discuss the distribution of the grassland."

"Distribute the grassland?"

Zhao Kun was taken aback for a moment, but didn't seem to react.

"When Li Xin wiped out the tribe of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu, they helped a lot. Now that there is a large grassland in Liaodong, we can't use it up, so they want to share a piece of it."

"Hehe, I think a lot, but we don't need to entangle with them now. The wider world is overseas. Even if they get that grassland, they won't be able to threaten us in a short time."

"You mean, let it go?"

Zhao Kun thought for a while, and said: "Send someone to talk first, it's best to be tougher, and when they give in, then offer kindness and give more, just say that my wedding is coming, send them off."

"Is this okay?" Fusu was surprised.

Zhao Kun smiled noncommittally: "The more you get now, the more you will have in the future. Anyway, we won't suffer."

"A matter of the imperial examination."

"Chen Ping and the others have already told me, brother, do what you want."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Kun waved his hand and went straight out of the palace.

He doesn't want to worry about more things.

Because the changes in Daqin are different every day, paying attention to everything is different from being the emperor yourself.

Ever since the Great Qin unified the six kingdoms, the problems of public opinion in the old places of the six kingdoms have become chronic problems.

On the one hand, the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms were not reconciled to their own loss of power, so they accumulated strength locally and secretly waited for an opportunity to overthrow Daqin.

On the other hand, years of war have left Qin State burdened with blood debts.

Among the common people, there are very few people who did not die in the war.

With the addition of many factors, even though they are already citizens of Daqin, it is impossible for them to really have much sense of identity with Daqin.

In this regard, even Qin Shihuang had no good way.

He can only insist on ruling the country by law and use the strict Qin law to control the world.

But this approach is a double-edged sword.

If it goes well, the people will gradually obey under the strict control, and then they can be slowly educated.

It is only a matter of time before all people return to their hearts.

But if it doesn't go well, it can be counterproductive.

In fact, it was precisely because of this way of governing the country that Daqin had to embark on the road of destruction and reconstruction.

Now that the Great Qin has been rebuilt, all kinds of resistance have been minimized.

Coupled with the introduction of the imperial examination system, it directly resolved the biggest contradiction within Daqin.

Daqin Chaotang, with an extremely broad mind, opened the way to become an official.

Moreover, in the notice, it is very clear.

The first imperial examination, regardless of region, admission is based on merit.

After the subsequent improvement of the imperial examination system, the number of places in the Beijing examination will be divided according to the comprehensive evaluation of the population of each county and county and the achievements of previous dynasties.

This shows that the old Qin people in Guanzhong did not have the slightest preferential treatment in the imperial examinations, but treated them equally with students from other counties.

From this point of view alone, it is enough to make the students from other counties grateful.

For a time, all the teahouses and restaurants in the streets and alleys of Xianyang City were full of students who talked about the imperial examination.

They spoke with various accents from other places, and they were beaming and spitting.

Many students from other places have devalued Guanzhong students as worthless.

Speaking of fighting, we admit that you old Qin people are very powerful.

But with knowledge of Wenhua, you old Qin people are not even considered younger brothers.

It's all babies.

In a few days, there were not many students from other counties who were kicked out because of their rude words.

All the old Qin people were filled with righteous indignation.

If His Majesty had not given you a way, you would still be eating ashes in your hometown.

How dare you push your nose on your face.

Angry is angry, but the imperial examination is not better than someone with a louder voice and thicker fists.

Looking back, the old Qin people vented their depressed emotions on their own family members.

For families with people who have studied since childhood, the threshold of the family is almost broken.

Neighbors and folks will deliver everything to eat and drink.

Before leaving, he would say some strange things.

"Now that the family is well-off, your child can concentrate on studying, and don't care about other things."

"When I pass the imperial examination, I will betroth the daughter of the old Liu family to him."

"You are a good kid. You will be promising when you are young. Study hard. When the time comes, you will be an official and come back to honor your ancestors."

Regardless of how my family used to laugh at other people's poverty, but also raised a mouth to eat out of thin air, just want to ask for a wife, is it because I am stupid in reading.

Even among ordinary rural villagers, a strange trend has arisen.

Hit the doll behind closed doors.

Anyone who sees that their child is not studying hard and running around in the street during the day will be beaten at home when they are taken home.

Our grandparents were illiterate, but thanks to His Majesty, I can finally read a few words, at least I can write my own name.

As the son of Lao Tzu, if you can't write your name by the age of six, you are already very unfilial, and you have the nerve to play around?
I am illiterate now, how will I take the imperial examination to become an official in the future.

Our family's ancestors never dared to think that one day they would have such a blessing.

You kid is not studying for yourself, but for our family's eighteen generations of ancestors!

When the city of Xianyang was buzzing, the new issue of the newspaper was published as scheduled.

In addition to explaining the two decrees on economic development, this issue of the newspaper also announced an extremely important matter.

Commercial law enacted.

The newspaper published the entire business law article written by Meng Yi and proofread by Xiao He with more than three times the length of the previous one.

The introduction of the new law this time has a huge difference from the past, and that is the addition of a ten-year publicity period.

During the publicity period, all interested groups can raise objections to the prime minister's office on points in the law that they don't understand or think are infeasible.

As soon as the newspaper came out, the major chambers of commerce in Xianyang took notice and organized frequent meetings.

The top floor of the Lion Tower is the meeting place for major chambers of commerce in Xianyang.

"We all agree with the establishment of the new law. However, Prime Minister Meng doesn't understand business affairs, and some things are just nonsense," a business executive said angrily.

"I have no objection to the listing of salt and iron liquor as under the control of the state, but it is simply unreasonable that even minerals, inland waterway transportation, and grain trading should be managed by government-run firms."

In the commercial law, it is clearly stipulated that the state has exclusive rights to certain industries.

In other industries, ordinary people are not allowed to intervene, and these commercial firms have no idea.

But such as coal, inland waterway shipping, are emerging industries.

Nowadays, coal has been widely used in people's livelihood. In areas where there are coal mines, many people mine privately and indiscriminately for profit.

Because it can promote economic development, the local government often turns a blind eye, and some even provide support secretly.

However, with the promulgation of the Commercial Law, this kind of behavior will inevitably be strictly controlled by the court.

In the future, all minerals will be collected by the state.

Business firms with such needs can only purchase materials from the state.

Just this one, I don't know how much production cost will be increased.

Let's talk about inland waterway shipping, which is an industry that has gradually emerged after opening the sea.

Daqin's domestic economy is increasingly developed, and the demand for goods circulation is increasing.

Although the traffic road network is constantly improving, there are still various restrictions on the way of land transportation.

Daqin's shipbuilding industry is already very developed, and the military factory has added some black technology, so that in most cases, the river transportation can be unimpeded without the need for trackers to pull fibers.

Many smart people built their own wharves along the river bank in bustling cities to do river transport business.

It is said that this mode of transportation has developed extremely fast in the south, and many large shipping companies have emerged.

If this industry is monopolized by the state, those commercial banks will immediately lose their money.

The people in the Xianyang Chamber of Commerce don't care if those commercial firms are alive or not.

However, river transportation is different from other industries, and their business firms must deal with it.

As for business matters, if the government is involved, it will definitely be troublesome.

The freight alone does not know how much it will rise.

Based on their understanding of the Great Qin Dynasty Hall, there are not many people in the entire court who know how to do business.

At that time, set a price at random, and if it is too high, it will increase the cost of other businesses.

Even if it is low, these commercial firms are still trembling with fear, for fear that one day the boss who slapped his forehead and set the price randomly will wake up and ask them to settle the score.

Commercial firms that have tasted the sweetness of the market's self-regulated prices are naturally resistant to state power intervening in commercial activities.

Those who complained were all young business managers.

The older ones are all watching with cold eyes.

At the same time, these old stewards were secretly mocking in their hearts.

Today's young people simply do not know their blessings.

According to the laws of the country and the court, it is said that it is a public announcement to solicit opinions, but it is also to give the businessmen some face, and they don't want to make things too ugly.

According to the past, when laws are enacted, who cares what others think.

At the beginning, when Shang Jun stood up and won the trust, the majesty of the law was deeply imprinted in the minds of Qin people.

In particular, later Shang Jun died under the laws he made.

Moreover, the body was divided into five horses, which made the people of Qin understand what the law represented.

In the eyes of these old people, the commercial law compiled by Prime Minister Meng, although it has some flaws, is also more lenient than the previous strict regulations.

These young people have only made money for a few days, and they are already so ignorant.

Especially what they are saying now is a way of death.

An old steward couldn't help saying: "Since Prime Minister Meng thinks that these industries need to be controlled, we naturally shouldn't raise objections."

"In this way, the cost may have increased, but the exchange process has been standardized a lot."

"Based on the balance of pros and cons, it is not completely useless to us. On the contrary, the old man thinks that some business tax formulations are not very reasonable."

Because of the slump in business before, Daqin's business taxation has always been extremely chaotic.

Businessmen make a lot of money, but in many cases, after paying taxes, they are not as good as hard-working farmers.

In the commercial law, there are clear regulations on various taxes.

For example, bulky goods such as food, clothing, housing and transportation have a fixed tax amount from production to sale, generally one tax per ten.

For various customs clearance tariffs, the domestic cross-regional tax rate is one tax per ten, and the cross-border tariff rate is two tax rates per ten.

In addition, the income of migrant workers in factories is also compulsory to be taxed, and the tax rate is also ten and two.

The business houses all accepted these contents, and even rejoiced.

Even if the commercial law clearly stipulates that after the release of the new tax, the tax payable after the start of the first five-year plan needs to be paid, the businessmen are all smiling.

There is no way, the various laws of the previous Great Qin were too unfriendly to ordinary people.

In many cases, things will be committed inexplicably and punished.

But businessmen's biggest qualm with the new tax system is the rate it outlines, called a "luxury tax".

This kind of tax rate has reached the terrifying ten tax eight.

What does it mean?
That is to say, if the silk sold is priced at ten coins, the tax rate of eight coins will be paid.

Throwing out labor and transportation costs, is it necessary to pay for business in the end?
No one is that stupid, and certainly not businessmen.

The proposal of the luxury tax means that the products listed as luxury items will usher in a substantial price increase.

The proportion of price increases generally more than doubled.

Glass and porcelain businesses bear the brunt of the crisis.

Among the commercial firms present here, many commercial firms are mainly engaged in these two industries.

At this moment, all the stewards were frowning.

In these people's minds, the commercial law's exaggerated taxation of its own products is obviously to cut off its own livelihood.

No matter how good their products are, if they double the price rashly, those old customers are not fools, who would buy them?
I heard that the king of Qin set a tax rate of [-]% before, and these commercial firms felt that it was low.

However, their psychological expectations are only about [-]%.

Who would have imagined that Meng Yi's thoughts would be so vicious that he would directly increase the tax rate to [-]% of the selling price of the goods.

Even if it is a luxury item that does not need to pay the previous tax amount, it is killing them.

Someone raised the issue of commercial tax, and the commercial firms related to the luxury tax naturally suffered a lot.

"King Qin asked us to comment, so we might as well start from here."

Soon, this meeting will have results.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce took a look at the Xianyang Chamber of Commerce's proposal on commercial law just written, and then nodded with satisfaction.

"Don't panic, ten taxes and eight things are ridiculous in the world."

"Such an obvious loophole, presumably the king of Qin intentionally left it out. A few days later, the king of Qin must follow the good advice and order Prime Minister Meng to revise it."

It has to be said that businessmen are all human beings.

Why did the King of Qin come up with a public announcement period?
To put it bluntly, isn't it just to establish the image of Xinqin as good and good?
He can do this, but other people can't be indifferent, really don't care about 21, and raise their dissatisfaction.

The luxury tax, so exaggerated, must be a loophole left by the prince to let them raise their opinions.

Once the submission is submitted, the new tax law will certainly be changed.

At that time, everyone in the world will understand that the announcement period is not nonsense.

It's just a matter of tacit understanding.

Just when everyone in the Xianyang Chamber of Commerce swears, they feel that they have guessed what Fusu is thinking, and hand in their opinions.

When Zhao Kun got the news, he immediately gave them a blow.

The luxury tax will not be reduced.

All of a sudden, all the commercial firms engaged in related industries were hit by a bolt from the blue.

(End of this chapter)