I want to be emperor

Chapter 262 The Tax Department Who Thinks About Money Crazy

Although Cheng Wende was disappointed that the Hanyang Textile Factory could not be directly run by them in Hanyang, he did not object or even obstruct it.

On the contrary, he welcomed and even supported the Ministry of Industry's investment in the construction of Hanyang Textile Factory.

As long as the factory can be set up, it can solve the employment problem of a large number of refugees, and can also get tax revenue to stimulate the development of the local economy. Regardless of this, it is a good thing!

According to the latest tax law, even the arsenal run by the Ministry of Industry has to pay taxes now...

Not to mention the factories, the people in the tax department are so insane that they don't even spare the salaries of officials and middle and senior management and technical personnel in government-run factories...

An outrageous personal income tax was created.

It is said that after personal income exceeds a certain amount, personal income tax must be paid.

This is nonsense, this tax was unheard of millions of years ago...

It can be seen that the people in the tax department are really crazy about money, and they actually thought of such a tax, which directly takes money from people's pockets...

If it weren’t for the implementation of the tax law, there was no large-scale personal taxation on ordinary people in the outside world. The threshold is very high, and the monthly income is more than 50 taels. The scale is a mere three points.

And the highest is only five points!

Such a high threshold basically has nothing to do with ordinary people. At the same time, voluntary declarations are still adopted for the outside world.

For the time being, this individual tax is only levied on middle and senior officials with relatively high incomes and senior employees of government-run enterprises, and you can’t afford it if you don’t pay it. The local finance will deduct it from you before paying your salary...

However, before the Great Chu Empire levied individual taxes, it first raised the salaries of officials who reached the personal threshold and the salaries of middle and senior employees of government-run enterprises.

This salary increase is very interesting. The increased salary can just offset any personal income tax.

To put it simply, although there is such a tax policy, the salaries of middle and senior officials and official employees are not low.

As for low-level officials and employees of government-run enterprises, they are not even eligible to pay individual taxes!
At the same time, there is no large-scale compulsory collection among the people.

To put it bluntly, the Great Chu Empire did not receive a single dime in terms of personal tax, and instead had a little more work.

In the eyes of many people, it is just unnecessary to take off your pants and fart.

Luo Zhixue laughed at this, now he is taking off his pants and farting, you will see it in a few years...

After all, the threshold will be lowered...

And the scope of collection can also be expanded...

Now, let's set up a title here, let people accept the concept of individual tax first, and wait until later when we actually collect individual tax.

The individual tax is still a small matter, the real big thing is that the government-run factories and commercial firms also have to pay taxes.

There is also a gradual process for government-run factories to collect taxes. After the establishment of the Great Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue further separated the military from the government.

In particular, the implementation of a clear separation of military spending, the military and the arsenal were cut.

In the past, the military took weapons from the arsenal for free, and took as much as the arsenal produced, without paying a dime.

At the same time, the arsenal has no operating pressure. The raw materials are purchased and shipped by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. The arsenal is only responsible for production, and even the workers' salaries are paid directly by the Finance Department.

However, after the establishment of the Great Chu Empire, a policy of property independence was implemented for all government-run factories. Each factory purchased raw materials, produced them by itself, and then sold them to the military.

As a result, the military also needs military expenses to purchase various military supplies.

And each factory produces and sells military supplies, so there is a turnover. Now that there is a turnover, the tax department will collect taxes...

It is worth mentioning that during this reform process, the authority of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade was greatly reduced, and only part of the affairs of trade with the outside world and intelligence collection were retained. Handled by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade.

Therefore, the current Ministry of Commerce and Trade has evolved into a purely foreign agency, engaged in foreign trade, intelligence collection, diplomacy, vassal affairs and other affairs.

Among them, diplomacy and feudal affairs are in name only, and what is really important is foreign transactions and intelligence collection based on foreign exchanges.

But the intelligence agencies of the Great Chu Empire are not limited to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. There are as many as five intelligence agencies of the Great Chu Empire!
In addition to the Investigation Division of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, there are also the Intelligence Division of the General Staff, the Intelligence Division of the Ministry of the Navy, the Internal Affairs Division of the Imperial Academy, and the Investigation Bureau of the Procuratorate.

The Intelligence Department of the General Staff Department and the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade are both foreign intelligence agencies, but the Intelligence Department is more focused on the collection of military intelligence.

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade paid more attention to the collection of information such as official news of the Ming court and local people's sentiments.

The Investigation Bureau of the Inspectorate is responsible for the monitoring and investigation of civil servants within the empire. Its main function is to fight corruption. It is more like an intelligence department than an anti-corruption agency.

The most special one is the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy. Even though this institution only has the name of a department, it has a lot of personnel. Now there are thousands of internal affairs investigators, and it is still expanding rapidly.

Their business scope is also internal, but the internal scope is still very wide. They monitor civil and military officials, and they also monitor some local gentry and dignitaries and local public opinion.

At the same time, this department also has a very special function. They are responsible for reviewing the residence newspaper of the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire also has a mansion report, which is mainly used to deliver the official internal news of the Great Chu Empire to officials above a certain level, such as promotion and transfer of officials, policies and the like.

Naturally, these news cannot be published casually, and each issue of the Di Bao needs to be reviewed by the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy before it can be published.

The function of the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy is actually very simple, that is to detect and stop all internal turmoil factors, with the core goal of protecting Luo Zhixue's personal rights.

But it is precisely because of the seemingly simple functions that this leads to the particularity of the institution.

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In a seemingly ordinary house in Wuchang City, a group of people wearing black uniforms similar to patrolmen, wearing grade badges, holding waist knives and even muskets ushered in.

This group of people quickly broke away and broke into the house, and there were screams and curses from time to time.

Not long after, a middle-aged obese man wearing a black uniform and a five-rank badge stepped into the farm under the support of a group of subordinates.

Seeing that the front has been tied up, and they are all strong men dressed in short robes, the fat middle-aged man showed a sneer: "It's hiding quite deep, let me, Mr. Zhao, find it easily!"

"Tell me, who sent you here? Yang Sichang or Hong Chengchou, or is it simply Dongchang? Jinyiwei? Tell me early and you won't have to suffer."

The men in short robes did not say a word, and one of them even spat: "You rebels, you will die sooner or later!"

Zhao Chisong, however, chuckled: "Okay, it looks like he has a lot of backbone. This officer appreciates such a person!"

"Follow me from the Internal Affairs Section, I will personally entertain you!"

"Don't worry, I don't dare to say anything else, but I still have some skills in entertaining people."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and asked his subordinates to take these Ming court spies away: "Take good care of them, don't hurt them, let alone let them commit suicide, I will interrogate them myself later!"

After Zhao Chisong asked his subordinates to take the people away, he himself got into a four-wheeled carriage. As the carriage swayed forward, Zhao Chisong was thinking about how to pry open the mouths of these people and how to get them out. The uplines behind these spies were dug out to completely attack the arrogance of the Ming court's spies, so that they would not dare to come to Wuchang City again.

This is already the seventh batch of Ming army spies he has caught in the last half month. The previous batches included Jinyiwei and Dongchang. Even Yang Sichang sent a few spies over.

The reason why these spies from the Ming court gathered together in Wuchang City was naturally because Wuchang was now the capital of the Great Chu Empire, and many institutions of the Great Chu Empire gathered here.

Your Majesty is here, as are all ministers and ministers.

If the Ming court wanted to learn more about the situation of the Great Chu Empire, inquire about higher-level military intelligence, or even instigate some unsteady people, coming to Wuchang was naturally the best choice.

Ming court spies continued to flock to Wuchang, and the people in the internal affairs department were not blind... they could find some traces and find out these spies.

After all, the turnover of people these years is not big, let alone Wuchang Mansion, which strictly speaking belongs to the front line.

There are Ming troops on both sides of the east and west, and Wuchang Mansion is also an important place where the rural protection army is stationed.

The Rural Protection Army has always implemented a very strict entry and exit access system for Wuchang City. Even if local villagers outside the city want to pick up fruits and vegetables to sell in the city, they need to go through investigation and obtain permission to enter the city.

It is quite difficult for outsiders to sneak into Wuchang City to spy on information.

Even if they were lucky enough to sneak in, they might expose their flaws during the spying process, and the internal affairs department would catch the clues and follow the clues to find them out.

After all, the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy is professional in anti-espionage!

The Internal Affairs Division of the Imperial Academy had been established during the Xiangyang City period, but at that time it was still called the Internal Affairs Investigation Division of the General’s Mansion, and later it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Academy in name, but in fact it was only under the name of the Imperial Academy.

The Internal Affairs Division has always been independent, even the yamen is independent, and it is not under the management of the Imperial Academy, but is managed by His Majesty Luo Zhixue himself.

The personnel composition of the internal affairs department is also very interesting. In fact, more than half of the core backbones are the Jinyiwei of the Ming court, the East Factory staff...

Many are still eunuchs...

During the process of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, the Township Protection Army will inevitably capture or accept some Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi.

After these people surrendered, they worked for the Great Chu Empire. After there were too many people, Luo Zhixue simply set up the Internal Affairs Department, and transferred many people from other intelligence agencies to enrich the Internal Affairs Department.

Finally, a special intelligence agency such as the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy was formed.

And Zhao Chisong is a defector from Dongchang!

Still an eunuch!
Of course, there is no such thing as a eunuch in the Great Chu Empire, and there are no so-called eunuchs in the imperial palace, and all the staff at all levels in the harem are selected maids.

Although Zhao Chisong was disabled, he was a serious official in the Great Chu Empire. He was the director of the third division of the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy, and he was in charge of Han Tianfu, which was the counter-espionage affairs in Gyeonggi.

(End of this chapter)