Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 298 Zhu Youxiao's big shock, 600 million taels of silver!
Taiyuan Prefecture

Zhang Haogu was slowly looking at the statement and list in his hand.

Fan Hongtang and his group still knelt obediently in front of Zhang Haogu. Zhang Haogu didn't speak, and they would never dare to stand up.

Actually, it's for this sake.

They are more or less worried.

What if, what if the bastard Zhang Haogu gave them a way to kill the donkey?
It's not impossible.

After all, they really have no use value now.

Zhang Haogu looked at it very seriously.

Every sum of money must be carefully checked, and every confession needs to be carefully verified.

These are all confessions recorded by different people.

And based on the confessions of different people, a comparison must be made.

The eight major Shanxi merchants have accumulated wealth for hundreds of years, so it is naturally impossible to gather all of them in one place, and the location of each hidden treasure must be carefully verified.

Now the new army has also begun to take action, that is, to dig out the treasure location.

Cross-interrogation, and then encourage reporting, so that after comparing them one by one, it can be determined who missed what, which places, and who did not explain.

After such a comparison, it can be ensured that all the properties of the eight imperial merchants have been spit out.

After Zhang Haogu did some calculations, he couldn't help but sigh, these Shanxi merchants are really not ordinary rich, if the dog emperor knows about this, he probably really knows what it means to be rich and invincible.

Everyone was very serious about their work, and after the comparison, they verified the excavated treasures.

After carefully reading the list in his hand, Zhang Haogu quickly wrote a memorial again, briefly explained the situation, and then directly arranged for the soldiers to send the memorial to the capital quickly.

Presumably, in the capital, this dog emperor can't wait, is he looking forward to it?
"Fan Hongtang, you have done a good job. You have checked the properties of the eight Shanxi merchants clearly and clearly. Yes, this is very good!"

Only then did Zhang Haogu look up at the group of Fan Hongtang in front of him: "Get up!"

It is only then that everyone has received amnesty.

Looking at this posture, Zhang Haogu probably wouldn't let go of the grind and kill the donkey. As long as Zhang Haogu made a move, wouldn't it be a matter of minutes to save their lives?
"Now, although the eight imperial merchants have been eradicated, the profit of this smuggling is still too high after all. In the future, I'm afraid there will still be illegal traders smuggling!"

Zhang Haogu said slowly: "I am going to go to the imperial court and set up a special Datong Bazaar in Datong!"

"Datong market?" Everyone couldn't help being slightly taken aback, and then Fan Hongtang said cautiously: "Master Xiang, but you want to trade with the Mongolians!"

"Correct!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "If you want to put an end to smuggling, the best way is to do business honestly and safely. Otherwise, the profits of smuggling will be too great, and there will always be many risks!"

"Master Xiang is brilliant!" Fan Hongtang said quickly.

Zhang Haogu's thinking is the most correct, mutual market.

Don't engage in any blockade, the more the blockade is, the easier it is to fight. After the Tumu Fort change, the tribute trade between Daming and Mongolia was interrupted, and Mongolia attacked Datong many times, causing Ming to be exhausted. The immoral things Yingzong did ruined Ming's martial spirit.

However, from another point of view, Mongolia also needs tea from Daming, iron pots and grain from Daming. If you don’t sell them, the only way is to grab them.

During the period of Altan Khan, Monan Mongolia rose, and he invaded Datong 45 times. In 1550, Alta Khan attacked Datong, and Qiu Luan, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Datong, chose to bribe Altan Khan with a lot of money. The content of the bribe was not to make Alta Khan retreat, but to let him attack other areas.

So soon, Alda Khan went directly to attack the capital, which triggered the famous "Gengxu Change".Facing the Mongolian attack, the forbidden army in the capital was too timid to fight.What's even more ridiculous is that the commander-in-chief of the Forbidden Army in the capital pretended to be a Mongolian army and went to the countryside to rob.

In the end, the two sides entered into a period of peace for a long time. During the most peaceful period, Qi Jiguang was the commander-in-chief, guarding Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhai and other places. During this period, Qi Jiguang's military exploits were far inferior to Li Chengliang.

However, as the so-called good fighters have no great achievements, on the one hand, Qi Jiguang has a strong army and powerful horses, and on the other hand, the reason is the mutual market, which gave the people of the prairie a way to survive.

It's just that now the Alda tribe has begun to weaken rapidly, Lin Danhan's tribe is also half dead, the Jurchens have begun to rise, and this mutual market has begun to close again.

Smuggling is only necessary after it is closed, because of huge profits.

The profits in this are enough for them to take the risk of beheading.

The best way to eliminate smuggling is to do business well.

"It's not impossible to trade, it's just!" Zhang Haogu said lightly: "This requires paying taxes. You completed the transaction under the protection of Daming. You are in the light of Daming. Your profits are not honest. Is it unreasonable to pay taxes honestly?"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Zhang Haogu's intentions, he didn't plan to target them anymore, and even let them continue to trade and do business.

Who else knows how to do business better than them?
While drinking tea, Zhang Haogu said casually: "You are all Shanxi merchants, and you are all smart people among smart people. You should make a total calculation together. How should the imperial court supervise you to prevent you from evading taxes? Here, how much tax is more appropriate for you!"

"Let's add up?" A group of people were stunned.

"Master Xiang!" Fan Hongtang said cautiously, "Do you really want us to count?"

"Come together, you are businessmen, how to avoid the supervision of the court, how to evade taxes, you are the most clear, how to avoid, you also have to think about it, secondly, how much tax is appropriate for you, you should think about it yourself, First, the imperial court cannot accept too little, and second, you must make profits yourself!"

When Zhang Haogu said this, he put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile: "As a person, what I like most is order. In short, if the court wants money, you also need to make money!"

"Master Xiang is brilliant!" Fan Hongtang said respectfully.

But Zhang Haogu continued to speak: "You can think about it slowly, think about it slowly, and come and tell me after you think about it!"

"Also!" Zhang Haogu said slowly: "The imperial court also needs Mongolian wool to make sweaters. If possible, it is best to let the Mongolians grow cotton. We can also purchase a large amount of cotton!"

"Cotton, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult!" Fan Hongtang said cautiously, "I've never heard that cotton can be grown in Mongolia!"

"Not in Mongolia?"

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and said: "Erut, Junggar, it should be possible, right? Let them plant, tell them, as much as they plant, I will collect as much as Daming, and let them transport it by themselves!"

Fan Hongtang did not know what Zhang Haogu was thinking.

Xinjiang cotton, thanks to the great beauty of the country for letting itself know this information.

However, transportation cost is also a problem in this era, but it doesn’t matter, let the Mongols consider this problem first, and do this business as soon as it can be done, and if it can’t be done, it will be slowly done when Ming’s territory expands to these areas in the future.

Anyway, there is cement now, and the road can be repaired directly in the future. The best thing is to let Zhu Youxiao quickly research the steam engine.

A group of people got together and pondered for a long time how to satisfy Zhang Haogu.

Now, people just make it clear that they will give you a way to survive, and they will let you continue to do business as a side effect, but you have to be in their plans.

Naturally, a group of people did not dare to make excessive demands.

But you have to rack your brains to figure out how to let the court prevent you from evading taxes. Secondly, how much tax is appropriate for the court to collect. Zhang Haogu's principle is simple, progressive system, the more you earn, the more arrogant you pay. The more you earn, the less you pay in taxes.

In short, Zhang Haogu gave them certain authority and asked them to think about it carefully. Then, everyone sat down and negotiated together.

It's a great honor for a high-ranking prime minister to discuss with you.

In the end, a group of people discussed something.

First, basically everyone has to trade in the bazaar, and the mutual market under the supervision of the government, that is, a number of mutual market supervisors are set up at designated points on the border, so that merchants from both sides can conduct mutual market by barter under their supervision, and Chinese and foreign merchants are prohibited Other forms of trade, offenders shall be punished.

Second, when the two sides of the trade trade, they must make written records to clarify the content of the transaction and the amount of the transaction, and then the court collects taxes based on this.

Third, if both parties do not handle the content of the transaction, then both the buyer and the seller can report each other, and the person who is reported will be punished. However, false accusations are prohibited, and if one party makes a false accusation, it will also be severely punished by the Ming law.

When he saw this, Zhang Haogu couldn't help but slap his thigh wildly. Isn't this a fucking invoice?

Enterprises should be encouraged to file tax returns voluntarily.

It's not just the trade between Daming and foreign races, even your own people can do it. However, first of all, you need to reduce administrative costs. This strategy of making both sides report each other and punish them is quite interesting. If you don't make invoices, you can directly mess with you .

As long as the punishment is severe enough, at least they will not dare to mess around with large transactions.

Fourth, is commodity tax.

These merchants produce it and prepare to sell it at a price, but they actually sell it at another price, and the difference in the price is tax.

Commodity taxes are indirect taxes.Due to the existence of tax burden shifting, the taxpayer of commodity tax is often separated from the taxpayer.Therefore, the bearers of the tax burden often do not directly feel that they are the actual payers of the tax, and the taxpayer is only the intermediary of the entire taxation activity.

Therefore, it is difficult for taxpayers to feel that they are being taxed.

Of course, these four items are definitely not the only ones that have been discussed at present. This is just a general direction. Businessmen hope to obtain a stable business environment, and the imperial court also hopes to have a relatively stable source of tax revenue.

Many details still need to be discussed.

Fan Hongtang was more or less apprehensive, for fear that Zhang Haogu would turn his back on him.

Why do I feel like I'm asking too much.

However, soon, they were relieved, because Zhang Haogu and Cui Chengxiu were seriously discussing the feasibility of this tax strategy with them.

In particular, Zhang Haogu really didn't plan to do this only in Shanxi, but planned to do it all over the country.

The agricultural tax is obviously not enough, he needs commercial tax, and needs more tax in order for Daming to have enough strength and capital to enter industrialization.

Finally, Zhang Haogu sorted out a thick stack of materials, and then he was ready to go back to the capital to have a good chat with the dog emperor Zhu Youxiao.

It is very easy to destroy order.

It is extremely difficult to establish a new order. Even if Zhang Haogu intends to promote it throughout the country, he still needs to have statistical offices and taxation offices all over the country. This is also extremely demanding for the administration. of.

However, there are some things that Zhang Haogu likes most is to try.

Let’s not talk about success and failure, let’s try it first. You can’t just do nothing because of difficulties, right?

Jingshi
Zhang Haogu still didn't come back, but Zhu Youxiao was already hopeless.

I don't know how much money these Shanxi merchants have.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, report from Shanxi!"

In the Hall of Qinzheng, Wei Zhongxian came to Zhu Youxiao in a hurry, and quickly said, "Your Majesty, Shanxi is here to report!"

"Master is back?" Zhu Youxiao stood up and looked at Wei Zhongxian excitedly.

"Not yet!" Wei Zhongxian coughed, and then quickly said: "Your Majesty, Master Zhang said that it will take some time to come back. He said that he wants to establish a new tea-horse market here in Shanxi. What a new order, so that the court can collect taxes in the future, yes, all taxes in Shanxi are collected, what is this called, sustainable development”

"How much did you charge?" Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up.

Wei Zhongxian immediately said: "I have copied everything that should be copied, land property, cash silver, calligraphy and painting, antiques, folded silver... folded silver..."

"Speak quickly!"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt that Eunuch Wei was very annoying, so annoying that he was so annoying that he held the case with both hands, and his tone began to be not very kind.

Then Eunuch Wei quickly said, "I got 600 million taels of silver..."

"One, one billion?"

Zhu Youxiao's breathing began to become heavy, and he even felt his head buzzing. He looked at Eunuch Wei in disbelief: "Say it again, how much money?"

"600 million taels!" Eunuch Wei repeated quickly.

To be honest, even Zhang Haogu was shocked by this number.

This number is a bit scary.

Shanxi Shanxi merchants have accumulated more than [-] million in funds accumulated for a hundred years?

Among Daming's income, 1000 million taels is a huge number, and this is because of Zhang Juzheng's examination method to force officials from all over the country to implement the taxation brought by the new policy.

In the past few years, although Zhang Haogu has also obtained a tax of 5000 million taels of silver a year, on the whole, this tax is an increase of the regular tax on the one hand, and on the other hand, most of it is copied from the house.

As for this group of Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, their income was a little more than double the tax revenue of the imperial court last year.

One billion!

You must know that in the early years, in order to maintain Liaodong, the imperial court provided several million taels of Liao's salary every year. Naturally, various tax increases needless to say, even so, they still owed the frontier army's salary.

At this moment, happiness came a little too fast, so that now Zhu Youxiao was sluggish.

A word "草" almost popped out of his mouth.

Good guy, it's directly hundreds of millions.

Zhang Ruitu and the others were also dumbfounded and froze on the spot.

Although the imperial court's taxation has improved a lot in recent years, they also know that most of them are copied from the house, not the real money.

But now, everyone came up with an idea at the same time.

Copying the house is really quick money!
Zhu Youxiao was also silent. At first he felt that Eunuch Wei was fooling himself, but he felt it was impossible.

It was like being struck by lightning.

"600 million taels of silver!?"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly laughed, and the whole person burst into laughter. The excitement deep in his heart simply cannot be described in words.

Smiling and laughing, I felt tears could not help but flow out.

When I first came to the throne, the imperial court was so poor. For two whole years, there were natural disasters and man-made disasters, money but no money, food but no food.

But now, since having Zhang Haogu, Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized that he didn't seem to need to worry about money anymore.

The revenue of the national treasury is higher than that of the year. In addition, a stable tax system has been established.

Really, if he continues to follow Zhang Haogu's strategy, how rich will Daming be?
Only when you have money can you distribute money to the soldiers on the front line. Only when you have money can the imperial court engage in many major projects. Only when you have money can the imperial court expand its territory.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help it anymore, he stood up hastily: "Where's the money, where's the silver?"

Eunuch Wei coughed a few times and said, "Now the new army is in charge of transporting the silver, but it will take some time to transport it to the capital. My lord, why don't you wait a little longer!"

"Yes, yes, wait, wait!" Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "No hurry, I can wait, I can wait!"

Zhu Youxiao calmed down, and Eunuch Wei couldn't help but sigh, Zhang Haogu's methods are so powerful, he can get more than 1 million taels of silver, which is more than 1 million.

"Wei Banban, is there really 600 million taels of silver?" Just when Eunuch Wei thought Zhu Youxiao had stopped, he heard Zhu Youxiao's voice again.

"Yes, yes, my lord, a total of 600 million taels of silver!" Eunuch Wei replied.

Zhu Youxiao was silent again.

after awhile.

"Wei Banban, is there really 600 million taels of silver?"

Wei Zhongxian: "..."

If you weren't the fucking emperor, I'd really like to beat you up.

(End of this chapter)