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Chapter 285 You are not good at being the governor
Sun Chuanting's mind was agitated, fortunately he had not learned anything else during his life in ups and downs, but he was exceptionally proficient in nourishing Qi. At this time, Sun Chuanting was silent and looked at the 40-year-old man in front of him with a youthful spirit and an upright attitude. master book.

The two looked at each other, Mr. Liu was not afraid at all, he looked at Sun Chuanting at the same level, there was unyielding in his eyes, and contempt for being in a high position.

"Master Liu."

When Sun Chuanting opened his mouth, Master Liu cupped his hands and said, "Your Excellency, Governor."

The two called each other, and they looked at each other with a sense of tit for tat. It would be funny if this was put in another place. A fourth-rank Shaanxi governor who holds great power and can independently recruit soldiers, and a ninth-rank petty official in a small Lantian county. , At this time, they actually confronted each other head-on.

You must know that in other places, people like Master Liu do not have the right to get close to the governor, and they are not even worthy of the governor to look at you.

But in Lantian, what about the governor, what about the fourth grade, my little master still doesn't care about you, here only the county lord is worthy of my Liu Degui's loyalty and allegiance, before I Liu Degui had no choice, now I want to be upright, no A good official for the powerful.

Thinking of Liu Degui's righteousness becoming stronger here, Sun Chuanting looked at Liu Degui and said, "Would you like me to sit in the county government office?"

At this moment Liu Degui turned around and made a please gesture.

Sun Chuanting turned around and came to the county government office, followed by walking up the steps, the governors of all places can sit on the main seat in that county government office, this is the right of the imperial power and wealth.

Not to mention the seat of Lantian county magistrate, even in Xi'an Prefecture, Sun Wangzu wanted to give up his seat to Sun Chuanting, but just as Sun Chuanting was about to sit in the seat of Lantian county magistrate, Liu Degui shouted: "Wait a minute."

Sun Chuanting looked puzzled at this moment, at this time Liu Degui stepped up quickly, picked up the chair that Li Chaosheng was sitting on, and then greeted people: "Bring a chair to the governor."

After hearing this, the yamen servant immediately moved a chair and put it behind the county magistrate's desk. This chair looked more luxurious than Li Chaosheng's. It was made of mahogany, while Li Chaosheng's was just an ordinary chair. A pear wood chair, but Liu Degui just didn't allow Sun Chuanting to sit on this pear wood chair.

No one can touch the things of his own county magistrate. This chair is the first chair. Li Chaosheng has never done it a few times. In fact, Li Chaosheng has never done it a few times before the county government tried the case.

And every time he comes, Li Chaosheng likes to sit on a chair and talk to everyone with his feet on the case. In the eyes of others, he just looks like standing or sitting, but in the eyes of Liu Degui, Li Chaosheng is Those with built-in filters are called informal.

And this filter is the happy life of Lantian people. Liu Degui never dreamed of such a life before. Not only can ordinary farmers eat enough, they can even eat meat several times a month. My God, this is not a fairy Is it a normal day?

Liu Degui didn't dare to think about it before, but Li Chaosheng did it, which made Liu Degui admire Li Chaosheng from the bottom of his heart. When Sun Chuanting wanted to get rid of Li Chaosheng, in Liu Degui's eyes, Sun Chuanting was a stupid official and a jerk.

Even if Sun Chuanting's official reputation is good, so what if the official reputation is good. It doesn't mean that you don't do bad things if you have a good reputation. Poor, to put it bluntly, it is not difficult to see the appearance of eating.

And people like you, how can we compare with our county ancestors? There is no way to compare, so we can't let your ass dirty the stool of our county ancestors.

Sun Chuanting frowned. He felt that Mr. Liu was targeting him, but he didn't attack him. At this moment, Sun Chuanting looked at Mr. Liu and said, "Where's your county lord?"

Master Liu said, "Not here."

"I know he's not here, what about others?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Mr. Liu and asked, Mr. Liu heard the words and said: "My lord led a thousand riders to the north and killed the Tartars."

"Go north, kill the Tartars?"

Sun Chuanting raised his brows, Master Liu said disdainfully: "My county lord is not good at playing tricks above the officialdom, and I don't want to bother with it. I won't show my face if I win, and it's meaningless to lose, so my county lord took thousands of horses to the grassland. Now, I’m going to compete with the Tartars for the racecourse, and as for Daming’s dirty work, leave it to me.”

Sun Chuanting clenched his fist when he heard the words, feeling a little annoyed in his heart, what do you mean by Daming's dirty things, is this old man so unbearable?
"Hmph, a county venerable doesn't sit in the center of the town and runs around. Is he qualified as a county venerable? He hangs his seal and leaves. Does he think he is the head of Guan Yun of the Three Kingdoms?"

Master Liu laughed and said, "This is the skill of my family's county lord. People are not in Lantian, but Lantian is well-organized and the weather is smooth. Your Excellency Governor has walked all the way. How do you think my Lantian is compared to other counties in Daming?"

Sun Chuanting clenched his fists when he heard the words, but said nothing, Master Liu said: "The governor is used to catching people with small braids. The duty of my county lord is to manage the side well. As long as the weather in Lantian is smooth and the people live and work in peace and contentment, where is our county lord? What's the difference."

"There is no difference? Since he can be the magistrate anywhere, the governor will give him a promotion now. I will write a letter to His Majesty when I get back, and I will promote Li Chaosheng to the fifth rank of the general judge of Shuntian Mansion. You tell him that he will take office immediately. How about changing the governor of Lantian to be the county governor?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Mr. Liu and said, Mr. Liu sneered when he heard this: "Our county lord is sick, so we can't go to Shuntian Mansion."

"Hehehe... Didn't you just say that there will be no chaos in Lantian where your county magistrate is? If that's the case, why don't you dare to let Xinzhi County take office?"

Sun Chuanting stared at Director Liu, you are aggressive, don't blame me for trying to trick you, even if it doesn't work, you still need to be disgusted, otherwise you really think that the governor is easy to bully.

Master Liu glanced at Sun Chuanting after hearing this, and said, "Governor, when Xinzhi County arrived, we in Lantian County raised our hands to welcome it. You can see that the magistrate's seal is hung there, but I and all my colleagues have waited for a long time. I didn’t see the new county magistrate coming, but there were a few more ordinary farmers in the prison who beat people to death. The governor is not that I, Lantian, don’t accept the new county magistrate, but that the county magistrate doesn’t come for some reason.”

"you!"

Sun Chuanting was short-tempered, Master Liu continued: "Sir, don't argue with me anymore. I used to be concerned about your status. You are the governor, so you must say what you said, but now you want to embarrass the entire Lantian people. I'm sorry, the old man no matter what. I want to talk to you too."

Sun Chuanting looked at Master Liu's desperate attitude, sat down with a sigh and said, "I want to check the Lantian household registration book and the Lantian tax book."

Master Liu said: "Wait a moment."

Immediately after Mr. Liu asked someone to bring over the tax booklet, as well as the population booklet, Sun Chuanting looked it up, looked up and said, "Why are there only tax booklets from Lantian County, Chang'an County, and many nearby counties?"

Mr. Liu said: "Your Excellency, the Governor, wanted to check the population tax of Lantian County just now, and His Excellency already said at the banquet that Lantian County only includes Lantian, and those places in Chang'an are not within the scope of Lantian County. Your Excellency wants to check it. Unless Chang'anli is recognized, it also belongs to Lantian County."

Sun Chuanting paused, he couldn't admit this, although he couldn't change whether he admitted it or not, all these places belonged to Lantian, but he admitted that Lantian was right in the law, this is not a change to recognize the legality of Lantian ?This is not acceptable. "

Sun Chuanting frowned and said, "What if I insist on looking at the population tax of Chang'an County?"

Mr. Liu said: "Your Excellency Governor will take a look at it, but you should go to Chang'an County to ask for it from Chang'an County Magistrate, and go to our Lantian County. What do you want?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu looked at Sun Chuanting and said with a smile, "Is there anything else, sir?"

Sun Chuanting didn't say much after hearing the words, and started to check. After checking, Sun Chuanting found that the population of Lantian County was more than twice that of other counties, and the area of ​​land cultivated was also large. There are not many, which is not commensurate with the bustling scene outside Lantian County. "

"Why do you pay so little tax in Lantian?"

Master Liu said: "Where there is less, the land utilization rate of Lantian is very high, and the tax revenue of all counties is the highest among all counties in Shaanxi."

Sun Chuanting pointed to the street outside: "Lantian is so prosperous with businesses and factories, what about their tax burden?"

"How can they have a tax burden? Governor, you are confused, Ming Dynasty does not collect business taxes!"

Sun Chuanting, who was stunned by Master Liu, was speechless and could not utter a word.

Daming does not collect commercial tax. This is the first important thing that the literati and bureaucrats have to do after defeating Wei Zhongxian. Therefore, there is no commercial tax in Daming, and there is only layer-by-layer exploitation of the poor peasants.

Then it led to the fact that Daming’s finances have no money, and the people of Daming are miserable. The princes of Daming are sitting in the temple, crying for poverty.

Behind the princes of Gungun, there are also major merchants from the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, salt merchants in Huaiyang, thin horses in Yangzhou, and drunken gold fans. A painting boat oiran can dig tens of thousands of taels of gold in one night, while a soldier in Liaodong is only worth two taels of silver pension. , and it is not necessarily issued.

Is human life valuable?He is worthless, and he is not worthy of the backyard flowers of those noble people.

There are bones frozen to death on the streets of rich wine and meat. This is the portrayal of Daming. Is there any reason for Daming not to perish?

Lantian does not charge commercial tax. In fact, except for some special military and personnel training, most of Lantian is done according to the law of Ming Dynasty. Daming does not charge commercial tax, and neither does Lantian. However, Lantian collects commercial protection tax and land tax. Personal income tax, etc., anyway, the businessman can get [-]% of the total, and Lantian can get [-]% of the net profit.

Even so, businessmen are very willing to do business with Lantian. Lantian only has taxes, but no filial piety. There is a quota for how much tax you pay for this trip in Lantian. Do the math before you come. Lantian will definitely make you a profit. There is no motivation to make money.

But I can't let you take it all away, you have to develop Lantian for taxation, and there is no taxation in other places, but there are officials and bandits, and the officials will take at least [-]% of the money, and you may even ask for [-]% or even [-]%. What's left, after such a calculation, Lantian, which has taxes, is still lovable.

Moreover, after the businessman pays the tax, he can run amok in Lantian. When someone interrogates him, he will just say that I have paid the tax. Why do you dare to eat and ask for a card? OK, I will report you.

As soon as a report is made here, the person who wants to eat and get cards will be arrested immediately. At least, he will be beaten with a board and sent to a large reservoir to work as a coolie.

So Lantian does not charge commercial tax, understand?
Sun Chuanting does not believe that Lantian does not collect commercial tax. Sun Chuanting knows how stupid it is to not collect commercial tax. For one thing, he still supports it.

Their Sun family is clean and self-sufficient, and their poems and books are handed down to the family. Although they are also officials in the court, their family only has a hundred acres of land, and they have never colluded with businessmen, but he knows many of his colleagues back then. In less than a year, they bought a house in the most prosperous area of ​​BJ. With their salary, they could not afford to buy that house for 100 years, but he lived in it. Can Sun Chuanting not understand the key?
Sun Chuanting knows it all too well, but he is powerless to return to the heavens. All the princes of the imperial court, from the chief assistant to the county magistrate, are not corrupt. There is such a huge interest group behind this, and Sun Chuanting is an iron man. , It’s not enough for these people to dismantle it, so he, Sun Chuanting, dared not write a letter to start the business tax, because as long as he said this.

The princes of the imperial court must have taken off their hats of eunuchs, and then our suspicious and conceited His Majesty, who listens to the wind and rain, will send himself to the prison very kindly, and then my dear colleagues will make a move, maybe it is It's not bad to move your head, maybe you can get a gift package full of copying and chopping, that would be exciting.

Therefore, it has become a national policy for Ming Dynasty not to collect commercial tax. Sun Chuanting can’t say anything. As for the specific economic strength he wants to see in Lantian, that’s impossible. Commercial related taxes are all in the hands of the Ministry of Commerce. This is Lantian. The core secret, Sun Chuanting will show you when you come, why is your face so big?
As for the agricultural taxation of Lantian, it is possible, but it is only as big as Lantian, and it cannot be said outside, so Sun Chuanting can only take a peek at the leopard, and cannot get specific data.

Sun Chuanting looked at the ledger, Master Liu stood beside him, Zhang Xiaowei and Yang Lidong stood at the door, Zhang Xiaowei looked at Yang Lidong and said, "Hey, did your county officials really go north to kill the Tartars?"

Hearing this, Yang Lidong said: "That's not true. Our county lord said that the Ming people should guard the land of the Ming Dynasty, but the Tartars repeatedly detained them, and they came and went without indecent assault. So our county lord wanted to go north early in the morning to kill the Tartars. child."

"The Tartars are very ferocious. I stayed in Liaodong, and the Tartars went crazy and dared not fear death. They are so fierce."

Zhang Xiaowei said with lingering fear.

Hearing this, Yang Lidong looked at Xiaowei Zhang and said, "Hehe, their Tartars are not afraid of death. Could it be that our Lantian Haoerlang is afraid of death? The county lord just didn't take me, take me, I will let the Tartars Let me see how powerful I am."

(End of this chapter)