Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1852 New Tax System ([-])

The river is wide and the clouds are low, and the birds and gulls are flying.

More than a hundred tax police officers on the east coast crouched in the thickets of thistles and reeds, staring at the rocky beach ahead.There, a group of merchants from the east bank struggled to paddle small boats to transport all kinds of goods ashore, and behind them on the La Plata River, a small tonnage brig was looming.

It was evident that a group of smugglers were taking delivery of their goods with their contacts, as a group of men apparently dressed in Spanish dress was also turning out from various hiding places on the rocky beach.They brought a large number of mules and horses, and they also carried a lot of goods with them. These leather, tallow, beef tendon and other things can offset part of the payment for the goods.

The company commander of the tax police who led the team gestured to a subordinate, who nodded, and then blew the copper whistle in his mouth suddenly, only to hear a burst of gunshots like popping beans, a total of 240 East Bank soldiers The tax police surrounded from the east, south, and west, and squeezed towards the group of businessmen who were smuggling.

A total of more than 60 smugglers from Spain and the East Coast were caught off guard, and four or five people fell down in an instant, and they were suddenly a little dazed.After discovering that there were tax policemen in khaki military uniforms surrounding them from the left, right and rear, their fear reached its peak. Fleeing around like flies, more people ran to the muddy beach with mournful faces, especially those smugglers from the east bank, pushing the boat desperately, wading directly into the deep water without any cargo , obviously wanting to escape back to the ship.

"It's done!" Huang Hanhua clapped his fists excitedly, and said, "It's a pity that we can't do our best. Some scum from our country may flee back. We should contact the navy in advance and transfer a 'star' class light ship." The cruiser came over, so that all these scumbags can be caught and tried."

"Time is running out, sir." Cai Dao, the son of Cai Huaze, who has been in charge of the Patagonia region for many years, explained softly to Huang Hanhua: "It is always very difficult to contact the people in the navy. Although those 'star' level The light cruisers themselves also have anti-smuggling missions, but they belong to the First Fleet after all, not a full-time anti-smuggling fleet, and they are very difficult to mobilize, and often require high-level coordination like you, Chief Huang, which will delay things."

Huang Hanhua also fell silent when he heard this.That's right, those light cruisers are not full-time anti-smuggling ships after all, how could they be able to do it like a finger?If we really want to be able to be on call, we still need the fleet maintained by the tax office itself, but how is this possible!You know, in today's East Coast Republic, even the General Administration of Customs, which has just become independent from the Ministry of Trade, has not yet been equipped with an anti-smuggling fleet. How can their General Administration of Taxation give priority to deploying ships?It is already a great fortune to be able to set up a full-time tax police camp to stabilize the violent taxation machine, so let's be content!

Thinking of this, Huang Hanhua also secretly laughed that he was not satisfied, and then said to Cai Dao: "Commander Cai is right, this kind of anti-smuggling operation usually doesn't have much time to prepare after receiving the informant, and it is already a fluke to catch them on the spot." Fortunately, let alone other things. In fact, this is not bad, at least it has deterred these smugglers. In the past, our country was too tolerant of these people, and a lot of tax money was lost in vain."

"That's right, Mr. Huang." Cai Dao lit a cigarette for Huang Hanhua, and then said with a smile: "In the past, when our country was first established, various systems were careless, and there were many things that were not well thought out. In addition, in order to develop the economy and encourage exports, Therefore, we turn a blind eye to some smuggling activities. It can be said that in the past few decades, more than half of our country’s foreign trade was actually smuggling that bypassed state supervision. But there is nothing we can do. Now that our country has been established for more than [-] years, it is naturally impossible to indulge in this, so we need to clean up this group of people and let them know that the world has changed, and they must pay taxes according to the rules in the future."

In fact, Cai Dao's brothers Cai Hao and Cai Jue once did smuggling business.At that time, not long after the country had just developed the Hejian area, the two brothers, together with Fa Xiao Xu Zhongwu, resold various commodities between Hejian and the prairie on the east bank.It is really hard to say whether these commodities have been paid import and export duties at the customs branches of the East Bank government on both sides of the Wujiang River.Cai Dao reckoned that some of them may have paid taxes, while others had not. In short, they were suspected of tax evasion.But most people in that era were like this, and the government tax collectors were pitifully small, and the supervision was not in place. It was impossible for businessmen to feel that it was impossible. Even business tax, consumption tax and so on could only be negotiated with these people for a fixed amount. to levy.For import and export tariffs that are more difficult to collect, it is simply laissez-faire, and the customs responsible for collecting tariffs can only focus on the large and let go of the small, that is, concentrate on collecting taxes on the goods carried by the ships of major trading companies at various ports. The others are, to be honest, somewhat underwhelming.

Of course, the Cai brothers don’t do this anymore. They leased a large area of ​​hillside in the north of Hejian, set up a plantation of tung trees imported from the Far East, and then bought some yerba mate tea, animal husbandry products, wood, and medicinal herbs produced nearby. And other special products, packaged and transported to the wharf on the bank of Wujiang River, and sold to merchants from the prairie on the east bank.These businesses are basically "clean". Although there are unavoidable tax evasion and tax evasion projects, to be honest, there are very few of them. It can be said that they are model taxpayers.

In fact, there are many people like the Cai brothers, and there are more and more people. The main reason is the gradual improvement of various rules and regulations, as well as the increasing number of tax collectors. The risk of tax evasion has been greatly increased compared to the past. Times, companies that can make a lot of profits through legitimate channels, there is really no need to take a lot of risks and put themselves in an unnecessary bad situation.You must know that the penalties for tax evasion are becoming more and more serious nowadays. If the amount is small, you may be fined (but the amount of fines is often very painful), and if the amount is large, the participants are likely to die. To be sentenced to exile overseas as cannon fodder for pioneering wasteland, that would be a narrow escape!

"Cai Lianchang's words are very good, but there are still many people who have not kept up with their ideas and lack of awe of the government. They always feel that the tax system in Ming Dynasty is so-and-so, and the taxation in Europe is so-and-so, but that was once. Is something wrong?" Huang Hanhua took a deep puff of a cigarette, looked at the "battlefield" in front of him, and said: "Now the tax police camps have been established, and the tax police offices in various townships have gradually been improved. The number of cadres and section members of the Taxation Bureau has also doubled, and we definitely can't make these young people happy anymore!"

While the two were talking like this, the battle ahead—well, it might be an exaggeration to say that the battle was a bit exaggerated, because the whole process only lasted 10 to [-] minutes—was over very quickly, except for the few who were knocked down at the beginning. Except for the two smugglers, most of the others gave up their resistance and were captured on the spot. Only a few people were shot and killed in the ensuing gun battle with the tax police.Of course, less than ten people fled back to the deep water area in small boats. The tax police couldn’t catch up, so they could only let them go after firing a random gun. It was left on the beach, and they will probably die of heartache when they go back.

Huang Hanhua quickly stubbed out the cigarette, and strode towards the shivering smugglers.These people will be surrounded by gun-toting tax police, all of them are downcast, obviously foreseeing their own fate.However, there are still a few people who seem unwilling to be exiled to the miasma, loudly defending something, which makes people very upset.

"Sir, these are Spaniards, that is, the buyers of this batch of goods. They argue that they do not know that the goods they bought are smuggled goods, and they are subjects of the Kingdom of Spain. We cannot arrest and judge them. "Cai Dao stopped his subordinates from greeting these people with gun butts, and translated to Huang Hanhua.

"Hehe, it's time to talk smartly. Don't worry about it, take them all back, even if the Spaniards come to make trouble, it can be a big deal!" Huang Hanhua sneered after hearing this, and said: "Smuggling with illegal businessmen in our country Is the deal still reasonable? Take them all away, I want to see if the Spaniards have taken the guts of a bear or something, dare to go to our tax police camp to pick up people, let's go, close the team!"

"Of order, Officer Huang." Company Commander Cai nodded upon hearing the words, and then waved his hand to let the army start to collect mules and horses, carry goods, and escort prisoners. After a lot of work, a group of more than 200 people happily set foot on the return road distance.

During the period, some Spanish riders were watching from a distance.Regarding the identities of these people, Huang Hanhua had some vague guesses, probably the Spanish cavalry attracted by the gunshots just now.However, it is hard to say whether they are members of a smuggling gang, because in terms of Spain's financial situation, the soldiers of the Colonial Legion are mostly in arrears of military pay, and their treatment is very poor. It is difficult to maintain without engaging in smuggling or other things.Therefore, it is possible that these cavalry are from the Buenos Aires garrison, because the smuggling caravan under their protection was attacked, so they came to take a look.It's just that they probably didn't expect that this time they would be planted in the hands of the tax police on the east bank, and it seems that the people from the east bank dispatched people in their early [-]s, so there was nothing they could do. Let them go.

But it can also be seen from this incident how cowardly the Spaniards are today, and how their Buenos Aires prosecutorial court district has been infiltrated by people from the East Coast: these are from La Pla The pagans on the other side of the Ta River not only built roads, houses, and markets in the outer suburbs of Buenos Aires in a grand manner, but also did not pay a penny for rent or land purchase fees. The establishment of the barracks of the armed forces (tax police battalion) in the Nancun Port of Nancun really does not give the Spaniards any face. Openly enforcing the law on the territory of China, and even beating and killing, this is to throw the Spaniards' face into the gutter. It is estimated that some big shots in Buenos Aires will have hot faces on their faces, but I don't know what to do, and it's sad to say it.

After returning to the barracks in Nancungang with the prisoners and belongings, Huang Hanhua also took time to sit down and write a report.Behind him, Cai Dao, the chief officer of the camp (there are two companies of tax police stationed in this barracks) began to screen and interrogate these people.According to the usual practice, these captured smugglers, regardless of whether they are from the east bank or foreign countries, will be sent to the other side of the La Plata River in a unified way, and they will be tried by the People's Court of Shangcheng County-if nothing happens, the fate of these people will be different. It is an exile overseas colony, such as New China, Australia, Heishui and other places where the environment is relatively harsh and urgently needs manpower to develop, so it can be regarded as using their surplus value.As for whether there will be any trouble if the Spanish people are tried, hehe, that is really too much to worry about. If the Spaniards have the courage, just come to the door to argue. Anyway, with their consistent performance, they should be persuaded to the end. The people on the east coast are almost trampling on their faces.

On March 1682, 3, after inquiring about some other affairs of the tax police camp in Nancun Port, and approving some reports, Huang Hanhua finished his part of the work, and then took the state-run The liner of the inland water transport company returned to the mall port.

The Shangcheng Port is an important port for the East Coast Republic to trade with Spain. The place where businessmen from the two countries gather is naturally also an important place for taxation.So he stayed here for a few days by the way, to check the work-he has the right to do so, as the director and inspector of the General Administration of Taxation, in principle, he has the right to check the taxation of any tax collection agency except the customs. Work—and then took a train and returned to the capital, Dongfang Port, via the Southwest Railway.

And when he just returned to the capital and was still breathing, his immediate superior, Wang Yan, a member of the executive committee in charge of finance, finance and taxation, gave him a special task: to give the Dongchao who came to visit the Eastern Kingdom Use Zhao Chuyan and his entourage to introduce the current taxation system and collection situation in the East Bank, and if possible, arrange some training courses on this aspect for a few people in the North Korean mission, so that they can understand the modern taxation system I have a preliminary understanding - the Kingdom of Korea has been serving as the cash machine of the Far East San Francisco for so long, so naturally it wants to give some benefits. People on the east coast have never been stingy in this regard. They even Students from North American Indian tribes are all accepted, let alone Koreans in the Far East?

(End of this chapter)