Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 236
They even have to spend more on consumption, which is called consumption on consumption.

Those transported by water are called water feet, and those transported by land are called donkey feet. The food consumed by the sailors, transporters, escort soldiers, etc. Calculated in the warehouse consumption, the grain transported to Beijing requires two buckets of rice per stone, five liters to four buckets of rice, and the increase in consumption is as high as [-]%.

Even the household department has to collect the bad rules of the balance, and for every 1000 taels of money that the household department escorts, they have to charge an additional 25 taels.

The collection of silver is also an increase in fire consumption.

These various consumptions often even exceed the regular tax.

Qian Sule said, "The ministers also know that the people have been suffering from consumption for a long time, so this time only one item of fire consumption is kept, and [-]% is collected, and the rest is all gone. No more consumption, and no consumption. .”

"So, now the land silver in Ningbo Prefecture is two buckets per standard mu, and the small silver is two liters per standard mu, and then add [-]% to the public fire consumption. The total is two buckets, four liters and two combinations per mu, nothing else. he fee?"

"There's really nothing else."

52 seven stones and six buckets, this is the land and silver tax amount of Ningbo Prefecture for one year, including fire consumption.

Originally, the official tax of Ningbo Yifu was 17 stone grains, plus more than 2 taels of silver, and then there were various levies and expenses, etc., but the imperial court shipped only the regular tax part, which still only accounted for a part, and all places still owed it. Incomplete payment.

Now, after re-clearing, it can reach more than 52 taels. If you discount one or two silver per stone, it will be more than 50 taels of silver. If you discount two taels of silver at the market price, it will be about one million taels of silver.

Of course, of the more than 52 shididing, [-]% will go to Zhu Yihai's inner government, [-]% will go to the state treasury, and the remaining [-]% will be kept in the local finance.

The [-]% of the national treasury has exceeded the previous total, and the number of places left is also amazing.

In fact, according to what Qian Sule and the others said, it seems to have increased a lot, but in fact, the real money and food paid by the people is less than in the past. It was undertaken, but those that did not fall into the hands of the imperial court and local government, mostly fell into the hands of officials.

This is to fatten the officials who dealt with it and damage the public.

Now simplify the collection of taxes and increase the local reserves, and the local governments use the retained money and food to increase the salaries of officials, and even set up honesty and ministerial silver.

To put it bluntly, it is to standardize the original private behavior, and officials are not allowed to reach out for it privately, and the unified regulations are collected by the government, and then distributed to them.

The advantage of doing this is that it has been standardized. In the past, there was no rule on how much to levy and how much to take. You can take whatever you want. How much you take and how little you take depends on the conscience of the officials.

Now, there are laws and reasons to follow, so as to avoid the bottomless fishing people.

Of course, it was the landless people who benefited the most. They were liberated from heavy corvee or silver. For the landlords, it seemed that taxes had increased. In fact, the burden is also reduced.

Some things are so miraculous. It turns out that the imperial court could not collect taxes, but the localities suffered from heavy taxes. In fact, the biggest scourge was increased levies and expenses, all of which were corrupted by local officials. Think of the law to evade the regular tax.

"Are you planning to convert silver or collect grain?"

"We plan to build warehouses in all townships, counties, and prefectural cities in Ningbo. If the land grain is less than one stone, it can be converted into silver or paid in real color. The silver conversion is based on the average market price of this year. Those who have more than one stone must first guarantee half of the original grain of Didina, and the remaining half can be chosen by themselves as the folded color or the original color."

"Regardless of their true nature, large households are no longer assigned to act as grain chiefs or silver cabinets for collection and transportation. Instead, the government distributes grain bills. In summer and autumn, the people themselves send money and grain to the villages."

"Two buckets and four liters of grain per mu, including land taxes, stalls, and fire consumption. In addition, no money-consuming grains shall be collected. All the costs of collecting grains, etc., shall be paid by the prefecture and county."

Zhu Yihai gave a thumbs up, "Smart people will simplify complicated things, but some stupid people or bad-minded people will deliberately complicate simple things to fish in troubled waters.
Your Ningbo government is ahead of the whole province of Zhejiang. The tax reform has been done very well, and it has been implemented very quickly, not just talking about it. "

"Actually, it's not difficult. It just depends on whether you really want to do it." Qian Sule made it clear. In the past, who had the authority or thought to do these things in the local officials?

Moreover, the resistance is indeed great.

But now in a special period, former Jian Guo beheaded Xie Sanbin in Ningbo to confiscate Xie’s family, and then Jian Guo slaughtered all quarters in Yanzhou. Senior officials such as the censor and the minister of the Ministry of War are sitting in the town, and they are still holding the reorganized Zhejiang battalion soldiers in their hands. Who dares to object?

Many local tyrants have become obedient during the purge and rectification in the past few months.

If you really want to do something, it is relatively easy.

Anyway, Qian Sule fully comprehended Jian Guo's will, and it was very popular in Ningbo to sort it out. Even Lu Jian Guo's palace was included in the clearing and reorganization, and grain was still collected on the basis of mu, and it was divided equally.

For other official fields, military settlements, etc., regardless of the nature of your official land and private land, first collect subjects, and then how to collect rent and then how to collect. Rent is rent, tax is tax, and two accounts are used, so it is not as confusing as before. .

Rent first and then rent, clearly.

"Forty percent of the land is reserved, and there are about [-] stone grains, which is enough for the local expenses, and even has a surplus." Qian Sule did not expect that he would really accomplish such a big event.

"Diding Bank can only be regarded as a basic tax. If you really want to solve financial problems, you have to rely on taxes such as industry and commerce. I am here this time, in fact, to open up sources of income. How are the local Lijin Bureaus doing?"

"At present, the Ningbo Lijin Bureau has set up branches in all counties of the prefecture. According to the regulations issued by the imperial court, tax officials and tax collectors have been allocated, and some volunteers such as the original Ningbo recovery battalion have been transferred to form a Ningbo tax police battalion. , under the jurisdiction of two battalions, with a total of [-] tax police."

"Our likin is mainly divided into three categories of collection. One is the output likin. Except for the tax of field planting and grain, there is no additional levy of output lijin. The rest, such as tea, fruit, fish farming, tree planting, etc. When selling, likin is charged, and the tax rate is one per hundred.

The second is customs clearance likin. We set up checkpoints at the Guanjin crossing to levy taxes on past merchants, and the tax rate is also [-] in [-]. "

"The third way is to levy lijin on merchants, and when merchants trade, one levy per hundred."

Zhu Yihai nodded, "Is there a threshold? Small amounts should be exempted, and the gate should also be exempted for ordinary people and hawkers below a certain amount."

Qian Sule said that these things have also been considered. At present, the Ningbo Lijin Bureau has initially completed the structure and started operation, and the effect is not bad.

"We estimate that the lijin collected by the Ningbo government will reach more than 16 taels a year."

"That's a lot."

The industrial and commercial tax of a government, 16 taels is actually not much.But this is not all industrial and commercial tax. After all, there is also a serious industrial and commercial tax in Ming Dynasty, but the tax rate is ridiculously low, about the same as this lijin, and gentry merchants rarely pay taxes.

For example, the tea tax, Zhejiang province only pays 2 taels a year, which is too much.

"In fact, many people think that in addition to the output per cent, the levy and residential per cent can be increased to 5.00%, and the output per cent can also be increased to two per cent."

Zhu Yihai waved his hand, "Step by step, don't rush, let's push this lijin down first."

A Ningbo government can get 16 taels a year, and Zhejiang province can get at least more than 100 million taels a year, which is no less than Diding Yin, so Zhu Yihai is quite content.

"Salt tea and wine mines should implement a monopoly system, and the tax rate should be increased, especially for table salt. The Ming Dynasty's salt law has been corrupted for a long time. In addition to fattening a group of large salt merchants and feeding countless corrupt officials, there are a lot of problems. The price of salt is too high. Gao, the people suffered a lot from it, but the court didn't actually get much money from it. There were too many intermediate links, and those people were all fattened up.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the salt class was no more than two million taels a year, and it might not be possible to collect it.

The imperial court collected as much as two cents and two cents per catty of salt, and the retail price of official salt reached three or four cents per catty. In the 16th year of the Chongzhen flood in the south of the Yangtze River, the price of salt in Susong was five cents per catty. This is still a salt-producing area. Gan, the price of salt reaches nine cents a catty of silver.

The price of salt eaten by people in the Ming Dynasty was six times that of the Northern Song Dynasty. The salt tax in the Northern Song Dynasty was tens of millions of guan a year. In contrast, in the Qing Dynasty, a catty of salt was about 200 yuan, but the salt tax revenue was more than [-] yuan. [-] million taels.

The price of salt eaten by the people of the Ming Dynasty was five or six times that of other dynasties, but the salt tax collected by the imperial court was only one-fifth or six times that of other dynasties, and the difference was dozens of times.

This problem is outrageously big.

Zhejiang is also a salt-producing area, so Zhu Yihai started to deal with salt as early as when he was in Jiaxing. After he directly controlled the salt field, he no longer engaged in the division of salt merchant qualifications and salt areas, as long as he came to the salt field to buy salt. Then anyone can buy and anyone can sell.

Even Zhu Yihai took the initiative to lower the price of salt, selling only one penny per catty of salt, which included half of the cost of salt, and only half of the silver salt tax was levied.

But reducing salt prices and salt taxes is also good, that is, it can reduce salt smuggling. After all, if the profit of smuggling salt is not large and the risk of catching it is high, it is really not worth it. It is better to buy salt at the salt farm and sell it after tax.

Therefore, reducing the salt price and salt tax can increase the sales of official salt and ensure the collection of salt tax. According to official data, the population of Zhejiang Province is 400 million.

The annual production of official salt in the Song Dynasty was 300 million yuan, roughly more than 3 million catties of salt, and an average of five catties of salt was consumed per person.The annual salt output of the Ming Dynasty was more than 6 million catties. Even if it is calculated based on an average of five catties of salt per person, Zhejiang Province would consume at least 7000 million catties of salt a year.

Half a catty of salt is divided into salt tax, 7000 million catties, which is at least 35 taels of silver.

If this is compared with before, it will increase the income several times.

(End of this chapter)