Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 395 Past and Future

After Changsun Wuji finishes talking about this set of data, everyone will understand what Sun Xiangfu said next.

"Maybe in the eyes of some ministers, the [-]% increase in the tax balance in Guanzhong is mainly due to the agricultural reform, which is caused by planting more cash crops in the fields. This cannot be regarded as the result of the reform of the official salary system. The benefits should be counted as the benefits brought about by the reform of agricultural technology.

But in fact, it is not the case. Although the agricultural technology reform has brought a certain increase in the tax revenue of Guanzhong, it may not be that big. Your Majesty, I would like to ask the eldest grandson Shangshu to talk about the tax structure of Guanzhong this year. "

"can."

With Li Shimin's consent, Changsun Wuji once again organized the language and said, "The tax revenue in Guanzhong mainly comes from agricultural tax and commercial tax. In the past, the agricultural tax was almost just enough to cover the salaries of officials and the expenses of the palace. The balance was roughly from commercial tax. Tax.

Due to the reform of the official salary system this year, the salaries given by the imperial court to officials, local officials, miscellaneous servants, and the supply of the royal family have increased by more than [-]% on the basis of the past, and all of them have been converted into cash. The ministers also know this well .

Due to the construction of the Weinan New City, the imperial court recruited hundreds of thousands of people from relatively barren areas to work, which led to the retreat of more than 300 million mu of farmland in Guanzhong this year.This has led to a decrease of about [-]% in the total number of acres of land collected for the Guanzhong agricultural tax this year.

Therefore, although most of the fields have created a lot of tax revenue due to the use of new planting techniques and crops with more economic value, the total amount of agricultural tax has not increased significantly compared to previous good years. Growth, therefore, is simply not enough to support the sudden increase of more than [-]% in all aspects of expenditure.

However, the imperial court did not reduce the salaries of officials. According to the established increase standard, all of them were paid out in full.

After the distribution, the reason why there will be a balance is actually because the income of Guanzhong in terms of commercial tax has increased significantly this year. So far, the imperial court has almost 100 million expenditures, all of which are spent from this year's commercial tax. "

If you use 100 million guan to help cover expenses, you can still have a balance of 100 million guan. Doesn’t this mean that the commercial tax in the Guanzhong area has exceeded 200 million guan this year, which is about three times higher than before?
Most non-household officials are a little confused when they hear this data. They don’t know that when all the daily needs of the rich in this area need to be obtained through transaction purchases, they will not understand this data. How much business in the area plays a role in promoting.

The rich may only spend a few million guan, but these millions of guan will continue to change hands in the market, creating transaction volume, and each round will create at least tens of thousands of guan in taxes for the court. For Chang'an City, there is a tax balance of more than 70 guan, plus all other areas in Guanzhong, 200 million guan, which is actually not much.

Because the Weinan New City, which just started construction this year, has already created hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue for the imperial court. The various industries in Xingfu Village, including the funds invested by wealthy families in various places in Weinan New City, are as high as tens of millions of dollars. , It is because a large part of the funds have not been put in place, and the project has not yet started construction, otherwise, just [-]% of the tax on those building materials will be able to draw out more than one million yuan.

Almost no need for Sun Xiangfu to explain anything, the facts have already told everyone, the benefits brought by the reform of the official salary system, he came out again, "The government implemented the reform of the official salary system, which greatly stimulated the trading volume in the market, and made the commercial tax revenue violent. This increase is inevitable. The increase in this income is enough to supplement the expenditure brought about by the increase in official salaries, and it can also increase the tax balance by [-]%.

It can be seen that it is necessary to implement the reform of the official salary system throughout the country and stimulate the national trading market. At least it will bring about a certain increase in the total tax balance of the imperial court.

Of course, even if the tax surpluses of all parts of the country increase by [-] to [-] percent, the sum is only a few hundred thousand guan, which is nothing, and it is not the focus of the question that Zhang Shilang just mentioned. A few other reasons he said.

First of all, after two or three years, the taxation of the imperial court will be sufficient to support the newly increased expenditure of about 500 million official salaries per year.

Although there will still be more than 50 million acres of farmland returned to farmland next year, however, more than 10,000 households will be added to pay taxes for the court. In Beidi alone, new household registrations have been obtained for several county-level cities in the Anbei Daduhufu. of people, there will be [-]+ households more.

There are also 10,000+ households who moved from Goguryeo in the northeast to Guanzhong, and the four newly surrendered tribes in the northeast, totaling about [-] households.

Of course, there are also people of various ethnic minorities who originally lived in poor mountains and bad waters and basically did not pay taxes to the court. After they are moved out next year, they will be able to cultivate the relatively high-yielding fields in the Tang Dynasty and start creating taxes for the court.

Calculated according to the proportion of the total population of the Tang Dynasty, these 50 households, even if some tax incentives are given in the early stage, will definitely increase the total tax revenue by more than [-] to [-]%.

However, this is still a small amount of hundreds of thousands of pennies, not worth mentioning.

The real big head, in the following three aspects.

The first is that Lingnan Yue Guogong has reported this year and started to implement the establishment of households, so that the people in Lingnan and the people in the Central Plains will pay taxes to the court. At the beginning of next year, it will basically be fully implemented in the twelve prefectures in Lingnan.

Based on Lingnan's population, field output, and commercial output, once it provides taxes to the imperial court like the Central Plains, it will start at least a million guan a year. "

In the past, the tax revenue of the entire Tang Dynasty was only about 300 million guan, but now Sun Xiangfu said that the tax revenue of the remote Lingnan alone would be more than 100 million guan. However, no one came out to object because it was true.

During the severe drought in Guanzhong last year, Lingnan gave the imperial court several million stones of grain for nothing. Based on the market price at that time, it was at least several million grains. Now, the grain output is no longer counted as their income. It's a big deal, because they still have sugar, refined sea salt, canned fruit that will be mass-produced, maritime trade, etc., together, they can create a tax of 100 million, which is an easy thing.

Therefore, when the ministers who knew the benefits of salt and sugar heard what Sun Xiangfu said, they all nodded and continued to focus on him, waiting for his next words.

"Secondly, Weinan New City. Next year, the construction of the new city will be even stronger than this year. Moreover, some industries will be shipped in large quantities. Do you know how much this means that the court's tax revenue will increase? ?”

Many courtiers shook their heads subconsciously. Li Shimin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, couldn't restrain himself from moving his feet and clenching his casserole-sized fists. Obviously, he was extremely excited in his heart. Just try to be as restrained as possible.

"I still use more specific data to speak, so that everyone's senses are more direct, lest others say that I made it up.

Take the smelter that will start shipping in a few years as an example. So far, it has received more than 1000 million military equipment orders from the imperial court. This military purchase order from the factory will create more than three 10,000+ guan taxes for the court, and the smelter, is there only this one order? "

No one answered Sun Xiangfu's question, so he shook his head and said, "There must be more."

"Next year, the four commercial plazas invested and constructed by the Changsun family will purchase more than 200 million steel bars from the smelter.

The various factories and car factories invested by Xingfu Village will also purchase a large number of steel products, and the smelter itself will forge and sell civilian steel products. In other words, just a smelter can generate more than one million yuan in taxes for the court.

There are also a series of commodities such as cement, wood, bricks and tiles, colored glaze, furniture decoration products, etc., all of which will be purchased in large quantities. These transactions will also generate taxes for the court. The most conservative estimate is that these commodities will also Create more than 300 million yuan in taxes for the court.

Moreover, there is another major tax revenue, which is the personal income tax levied on labor after the implementation of the new tax law.

My lords, don’t think that the tax revenue of tens of hundreds of texts per person per month is nothing. If the number of laborers in Guanzhong exceeds 200 million, then it will generate at least hundreds of thousands of tax revenues for the court every month. After a year, it is also several million. "

When Sun Xiangfu said this, the only sound left in the court was the gasps of the ministers. The taxes he mentioned were all newly added!In other words, it will be left over from the future court.

Once the country begins to industrialize, then the output value will be at two levels compared with the previous agricultural society. Everything he said has something to say, and it can indeed bring tax revenue to the court. No one can refute.

Moreover, everyone knows that the most important words are usually said at the end, so there is a third aspect that Sun Xiangfu did not say!

"Millions of laborers have created not only Weinan's taxes, but with the opening of Weinan's factories, a large number of commodities produced in the market will stimulate the transactions in the entire Datang market, as various commercial squares The opening of Datang will make the entire business transaction environment of Datang more convenient, which will greatly increase the market transaction volume, and more money will be rolled over in the market. How much, you can think for yourself! Anyway, I can’t give a specific figure.”

The effect of the big projects together is like a big economic stimulus plan, which has a very long-term impact on the country. Sun Xiangfu used his own farming technology to gradually make up for the shortcomings of Datang's original output. So, now, let's make up for the shortcomings of industry and commerce, then, which shortcoming is still missing in the end?
Scholars, the short board of the management class.

Without enough management talents, the scenarios he described would not be so easy to realize. Therefore, wise men who are accustomed to politics like Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, and Changsun Wuji can understand the key points after a little thought.

Once the stall is spread out, there must be manpower to manage the stall. If the process of arranging manpower can also break down the control of the local officials by the family lineage, it will be even more perfect.

Just like Shanyang, although Sun Xiangfu appointed a large number of Wang's children as officials, the Wang family could not dictate Sun Xiangfu's management, because Sun Xiangfu borrowed some power separation systems and management systems from later generations to make officials even Even if you want to do evil, you can't do great evil.

"Your Majesty, I believe that Dudu Sun's words are reasonable. The more comprehensive the official system, the more meticulous the management. Only in this way can we better deal with the increasingly complicated situation in the future.

And the taxation in the past can only represent the past, not the future. Like this year, isn't the government's tax balance more than doubled compared to last year?Anzhi can't continue to increase next year?
Moreover, if the imperial court cannot afford to support so many officials, it is possible to delay the time for these interns to become regulars and spend more time learning and practicing, which will always be beneficial for them to govern a place in the future. "

As the prime minister, Fang Xuanling came out to set the tone, and immediately there was a large group of supporters in the court hall who supported him, while some ministers were annoyed that their family did not get on the express train of the Tang Dynasty. Commercial Plaza, they did not put the most money into shares.

At this moment, Zhang Yue, whose face was as deep as water, had already lowered his head and dared not let others see his face. The counterattacks of those aristocratic families were really powerless, causing him to rush out and jump into the pit.

As the head of the Ministry of Officials, Wen Yanbo, who also felt disgraced, snorted coldly, glared at his deputy Zhang Shuo, who didn't quite listen to him, and went out to play, "Your Majesty, since the reform of the official service system has been proved It plays an important role in Datang's fiscal and taxation development, so the old minister suggests that it be rolled out nationwide."

(End of this chapter)