Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 956: Summer Tax
Among the four tasks assigned by the Executive Committee, the recruitment of labor can be regarded as barely coping with it-although he was given a discount; land intensification, relying on the Agricultural Committee and the Tiandihui, can be regarded as a decent job Answer sheet: Disaster relief and replanting, this is the strength of the Transit regime, and there are special personnel in charge, so it will not be uncertain.

But the most important issue of food is still not clear up to now.

With the approval of the Planning Institute, the shortage of disaster relief grain and seed grain was temporarily supplemented from the Qiongshan Grain Depot of the Planning Institute, but sooner or later, Wu De will settle the grain account with him.If I didn't give a satisfactory answer to the Government Administration Council and the Planning Institute on the food issue, my report card in Qiongshan for more than half a year would not be very good.

Local officials are really hard to do.Liu Xiang sighed sincerely—in the past, he only thought that the magistrate was simply the emperor of the land, the real "Hai Lihou", but this good feeling has now been shattered.

"I'm also trying to figure out a way for this." Liu Xiang responded vaguely, "I can't get food, what can you do?"

Chang Shide smiled subtly: "No wonder Du Wen said that since you arrived in Qiongshan, you have started to have a petit-bourgeois tenderness. Food is of course available, it depends on your means."

Liu Xiang knows that "Red Flag" has often taken him as a target recently.Although not many people saw it, it also added some small troubles to him.

"You think so too? I'm worried that our initial decision on Qiongshan will cause people's hearts to be unstable, so we shouldn't make it too violent..." Liu Xiang always thought that Chang Shide was a "moderate guy", but he didn't expect him to be very aggressive sometimes.He nodded and said, "I'll think about it again!"

When Liu Xiang returned to the county office, he had no one to discuss this matter. Chang Shide had already made his attitude clear—but he was not a local cadre after all, and lacked direct interests. It's irrelevant.He felt lonely, and there was hardly anyone to consult with on major decisions.

It is of course very convenient to use coercive means.It doesn't even need the General Political Security Bureau and the county office to make all kinds of black materials, as long as a few of the big households who don't listen to greetings on weekdays are detained in the county, and a meeting will be held the next day to apportion the distribution, each family will have to be obedient Pay all the food.

But he doesn't really want to use this kind of coercive means in his heart, he always feels that it seems that he has no "capability"--Liu Xiang has been struggling with this matter recently.

"How come I don't have the ability of the protagonist in the time-traveling novel?" He muttered behind his desk, flipping open the newly delivered document from the Chief Financial Officer's Department on the desktop.

After flipping through a few pages casually, he saw a document about the collection of summer taxes—a serious matter.He quickly looked carefully.

The document is very long, and everything is described in detail.Because the independent tax department has just been established, the tax system is not perfect, and the manpower is not enough.It is temporarily impossible to form local tax bureaus with vertical leadership.Therefore, the collection of taxes in each county is currently carried out by the State Administration of Taxation to formulate specific policies and tax rates, and the county offices organize the collection of grain by themselves.For the professionals of the Grain Collection Bureau, a number of personnel will be sent by the Finance Director Department to guide and preside over the work by means of short-term business trips.

According to the notice from the Chief Financial Officer’s Department: This year, except for Lingao, which began to try out the new taxation system, the summer and autumn taxes of all counties will continue to be collected according to the Ming government’s per-mu system; The number of acres in the register is levied; for areas that have not completed the clearing of the acres, continue to be levied according to the fish scales kept in each county; the collection of Liao pay added to the grain tax is stopped; various miscellaneous taxes are levied and abolished by counties according to their local conditions.

The grain collection figures for each county shall not exceed 180% of the old collection quota.The minimum is not less than 100%, but the document clearly stipulates that it is necessary to ensure that the past "floating income" and "additional distribution" situations will no longer occur, and that every grain and every penny collected is clear and accountable. check.Absolutely put an end to the matter of collecting royal grain and national taxes, but fattening a large number of handlers.

As for the method of tax payment, except for Lingao, all counties tried to implement the system of circulating coupons and grain simultaneously, and silver taels and copper coins were no longer the objects of collection.Taxes must be paid in accordance with the price of grains converted into grain circulation coupons.

Liu Xiang looked at it very carefully—maybe he can make a decision on the summer tax?He suddenly came to his senses: apportionment is certainly unpleasant, but taxation is a reasonable and legal thing.

Of course, this tax cannot be levied by ordinary people, but must be paid from large accounts.

"Hmph, let's see where you can go!" Liu Xiang suddenly smiled when he thought of this group of big gentry, "This is the system established by Zhu Baba..."

He continued to flip through the documents, and at the end of the document was a thick copy of "Old Tax Accounts for Counties in Qiongzhou Prefecture.Qiongshan County Sub-volume", with a red "confidential" stamp on it.This is a reference material compiled by the Finance Director's Department based on historical classics, county archives, and household book offices, and is specially distributed to the county offices for use.

Liu Xiang didn't know anything about the tax system, and of course he wasn't going to do it for him, but he was very interested in how much tax he could collect, so he opened it and looked it up.At first glance, I was very disappointed, because the summer tax in Qiongshan County is only a mere eight stones and six buckets.Not even a fraction of Qiu Fu.

Looking down, I saw various names and colors such as "business tax", "fishing class", "variety", "local tribute", "miscellaneous needs", "corvet" and so on, and I couldn't help but shine all over my eyes—— The doorway is here!

Regardless of the small amount of each name and color, there are many types, from fish gelatin, feathers, medicinal materials, silk and cotton, suede to paper and ink used in yamen office work, official salaries, staff food, and finally to the shrine, Almost everything in the sacrifices of the Confucian Temple was collected from the people: some were money, some were food, some were various groceries, and some were forced labor.Except for a part of the wealth obtained from these expropriations to be turned over to the national treasury, most of them are kept for local use.If the grain tax is a national tax, then most of these miscellaneous taxes are local taxes.The prefectures and counties of Daming basically rely on these incomes to operate.

For Liu Xiang, the biggest benefit is corvée.The entire Qiongzhou government has a total of 2587 official corvee burdens. After Wanli adopted a whip method, these corvees have basically adopted the model of accepting silver as a substitute service. The Qiongzhou government only has 13450 taels of corvee silver—of course, According to the usual practice of this time and space, the document pointed out that the actual collection amount of this corvee silver was between 25000 and 30000 taels.

Qiongshan County is the head county of the whole prefecture, and the prefecture and county levels occupy almost 600 servitudes. That is to say, even if there is no floating income, Liu Xiang can get at least 3000 taels of silver.Adding other miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous schools, it is not a problem for Qiongshan County to complete 5000 taels in the summer tax.

Naturally, Liu Xiang would never be satisfied with only 5000 taels, so he immediately asked Ma Benyuan, the retainer in the county government, to find him.

Ma Benyuan was originally the "relationship" of the Gou family in Qiongshan. After the Gou family was destroyed, Lin Baiguang used black materials to coerce him into the Qiongshan intelligence network. After the Spring Awakening campaign, he became the Qiongshan detective of the Political Security Bureau The "hidden cadre" personnel controlled by the Internet.On the surface, they are still retained personnel of the Qiongzhou Government Yamen.

Ma Benyuan is smart and capable, and he is very knowledgeable about current affairs.If it was said that serving Lin Baiguang was a last resort in the past, after the Battle of Chengmai, as soon as the flag of Ming Dynasty fell, he served the "Kun Thief" without any psychological barriers.

He is an old land in Qiongzhou Prefecture, and he has a clear understanding of the local situation.Although there is no formal appointment, he is actually a secret advisor to the Qiongshan County Office.

After listening to Liu Xiang's thoughts, he thought for a moment, then stared at his small eyes and asked: "Chief, you want to get this money from the big families and gentry, have you ever asked the executive committee what is its attitude?" Nothing can be done without great determination.”

Ma Benyuan is very careful about the political system of the "chiefs".

"No problem." Liu Xiang nodded.

"It's not difficult, but it's too embarrassing for the gentry. Please pay attention to the chief."

Liu Xiang was puzzled: "What kind of face-sweeping?"

"Boss, you are going to be an official and gentry payer..." Ma Benyuan couldn't help lowering his voice when he said this, as if he had said something outrageous.

Liu Xiang has seen this saying in novels, but he doesn't quite understand it.Ma Benyuan saw that the chief was ignorant, and quickly explained that according to the system of this dynasty, people with fame can be exempted from corvee according to their grades as usual. The meaning of Zi and Jishen is included.

According to Liu Xiang's calculation, the 600 dong of corvee silver is going to be apportioned to the big gentry accounts in this county-it is not realistic to ask ordinary people to pay corvee silver after the typhoon.

"Silver is still a trivial matter. You old man announced that the gentry should pay corvee silver. Why don't they die?" Ma Benyuan continued in a low voice, "Maybe it doesn't conform to the above-mentioned policy of 'stable situation'?"

Liu Xiang suddenly realized: No wonder Ma Benyuan spoke so mysteriously.It turned out to be a G-spot.After pressing it, the scholars in Qiongshan County will definitely climax.He thought of the various plots in the novels and film and television dramas he had read, and nodded.

In essence, he was not interested in the attitude of these people. Under the rule of the Senate, there was no status for gentry and scholars.

He didn't have any special trust in Ma Benyuan, and he didn't show his true attitude. He just nodded and said, "I understand. You go back first." Then he added, "The conversation between me and you must be kept secret."

"Yes, little... I know." Ma Benyuan looked at Liu Xiang, hesitated to speak, and retreated cautiously.

(End of this chapter)