Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 221 Taxation
Zhu Youjian has been thinking about a question recently: how to send personnel to collect business tax, and in what way to collect it.

The business tax must be fully collected. This is to raise funds for the future establishment of the navy. The navy can no longer be dominated by the Zheng family. We must find a way to eliminate this unstable factor.

The navy burns too much money. The navy ships to be established in the future must first be purchased from the West. The Western-style gunboats are very expensive and must be taxed separately.As for self-built ships, it can only be carried out after the introduction of a large number of talents.

It used to be that the biggest source of Ming tax revenue came from agricultural tax, which accounted for more than [-]% of the entire imperial court’s tax revenue, while salt tax and commercial tax each accounted for only [-]%; this abnormal tax policy led to poorer farmers paying taxes to the imperial court. The more, the richer the social responsibility borne by the people, the less social responsibilities. As a result, the people are desperation, and in desperation they gang up and rebel with hoes and rakes.

It has been three years since I have traveled through time. After all kinds of efforts, through reducing or exempting land tax, abolishing gold flower and silver, and thoroughly reforming the salt industry, I have maximized the income of internal funds and the Taicang Bank, and greatly reduced the burden of poverty. Most of the peasant households were heavily burdened, and almost all of the peasant households in Ming Dynasty gained huge benefits from it. It can be said that the occurrence of large-scale rebellion has basically been eliminated.

As long as ordinary people have a bite to eat, they will never rise up against the imperial court.Especially now, life is improving day by day, large-scale tax reductions and exemptions have given all farmers hope for the future, under such circumstances, even if the MLM giants of later generations pass through Li Zicheng, they will not be able to entice more people to rebel and die with him.

But since this is the case, it should be the other.

The foundation of political stability is already solid, so vested interest groups should shed some blood.

In Daming, everything can be moved, but the interests of the scholar-bureaucrat class cannot be affected, not at all.Anyone who moves, from top to bottom, will be labeled as a faint king, a treacherous minister, and a villain according to their ranks.As for the eunuchs, needless to say, if you hang out with the emperor, the emperor will be more peaceful, listen to the scholar-bureaucrats, and the reputation of the emperor's eunuchs will be better.If the emperor has some ideas, especially if the ideas affect the interests of the scholar-official class, then I'm sorry, the emperor and the eunuchs are the generation of faint kings and treacherous sycophants.

In Daming, the country in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats existed to protect their interests, and any other stratum served their interests.If they are asked to spend a little bit for the country, is this kind of Daming still the Daming of scholar-bureaucrats?Is such a great Ming still necessary for the scholar-bureaucrats who control the resources of the entire country?
Where does taxation start first?

The first thing Zhu Youjian thought of was the banknote pass on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. If he wanted to increase taxation, he had to start from here.

Daming's banknotes are not asking anyone for money. They don't accept three things: official ships don't accept them, eunuchs' boats don't accept them, and Jinshi and Juren's boats don't accept them.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty passed the banknote pass and evaded fees in different ways. Some made a pair of fake signs and erected them on the bow. Some civilian trucks in later generations have military vehicle license plates; some invite Jinshi or people to sit on the boat as amulets. .Times have changed, but the techniques are still retro.

It is too risky to pretend to be an official ship, but asking Jinshi or recruiting people to make amulets is a test. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Jinshi and Juren can be said to be versatile. They not only promoted the prosperity and development of the cultural and educational industries, but also showed their talents in the field of private shipping. .The owner of the ship also rewarded them generously. A scholar escorted two civilian ships at the same time, and finally got a consulting fee of five taels of silver. Jinshi and Juren have more status than scholars. The pay is naturally higher.

If you want to change this situation, you must treat all ships equally, cancel the free passage system, and except official ships, all ships must pay fees.

Regardless of whether you are a first-rank official or a new scholar, as long as you are not traveling on an official ship, it proves that your travel is not a business trip. Since you are not traveling on business, why should you be exempted from tax?As for those juren and scholars, there is no need to say more. Every bank will send censors and Jinyiwei. In their eyes, the cabinet bosses are nothing to worry about, let alone you, a small juren.

Well, that's it, start with the Chaoguan, increase the amount of collection, [-] tax one, and after the Chaoguan issues a voucher, no further collection will be made by any yamen along the way, and those who violate it will be dismissed on the spot.

This decree will definitely meet with fierce opposition, it doesn't matter, Zhu Youjian just wants to see who is standing up against him.

Now that the situation is stable and there is a strong army in hand, Jiannu will not be a threat for a while, and those with vested interests will not be afraid of turning the sky upside down.

As long as someone dares to stand up and object, Zhu Youjian has already tailored a good place for him.

Then there is the mining tax.

Emperor Wanli had done this before, but the methods and techniques were too crude, and he failed in the end.

Emperor Wanli sent eunuchs to collect taxes from domestic funds, which had nothing to do with the Taicang treasury, and the methods of these eunuchs were too bad: the mine supervisor took a fancy to that shop or real estate, and said that there was a vein of mine under your house to dig, you either The industry was completely destroyed, or they could only spend money to bribe the mine supervisor to "pay the tax". Therefore, it is obvious that many of these taxes have not been recorded and have been embezzled by the handlers.In the end, the Emperor Wanli confiscated how much money he had, but was scolded for being bloody. This practice of harming others and benefiting himself was too mentally retarded. In the end, it was the group of eunuchs who were cheap.

However, it seems unrealistic to copy the method of setting up a special tax collection department in later generations. It would require a large number of professionals.

Since it is not easy to expropriate, then collect them all, and the Four Seas Trading Company will be responsible for the mining, and the imperial court will share the profits.

In order to cope with the shortage of talents caused by the prosperity of manufacturing and commerce in the future, Sihai Commercial Bank has set up training courses in Huangzhuang, hiring experienced shopkeepers from shops in the capital to teach students how to make accounts and check accounts.Every time the officials rest and take a bath, the commercial bank will also spend a lot of money to hire officials related to the household department to give lectures. These people are more professional than the shopkeepers of the commercial bank.

Because everyone knew the background of Sihai Commercial Firm, they didn't encounter any resistance when they invited people to teach. Instead, many people rushed to go, hoping to hug Daming's thickest thigh.

The subjects of the lectures are of course the orphans that Jin Yiwei has recruited to Huangzhuang for several years, of course not all of them, only those who are over 14 years old and have a flexible mind can be selected.

At the same time, under the instruction of Zhu Youjian, the Taiyuan Hospital also opened training courses in the school built in Huangzhuang. Will find time to be invited to give lectures.

The content of the lecture is mainly about the battlefield rescue measures discussed by Zhu Youjian and Wu Youxing, including disinfection, hemostasis, bandaging, nursing, etc. Zhu Youjian is also ignorant of how to implement these measures, but he put his ideas After speaking, Wu Youxing waited for these experts to perfect it before implementing it.

Tai Hospital has a wide range of objects for teaching, as long as the age is above 50 and below [-] years old, regardless of gender, can participate.Although some imperial doctors and doctors were very reluctant to teach women and those vulgar farmers, they could only hold their noses under all kinds of coercion and lure, because Jin Yiwei participated in it as the leader.

The reason why this kind of training is carried out on a large scale is to prepare for the battle of Liaodong next year.

Raising food, giving soldiers a holiday to recuperate, forming a medical rescue team, Beijing battalion, brave guard battalion equipped with a vehicle battalion, and changing tactics are all preparations for war.

Any large-scale war is not easy to fight. Without sufficient logistical support and preparations, rushing into battle will only lead to defeat, just like the Battle of Songshan in history.

Zhu Youjian has decided that Chongzhen launched a large-scale attack on Jianzhou in 11 years, causing a devastating blow to it, killing its vital forces, and making it no longer able to fight against Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)