Wentang

Chapter 380 The Mall
Just design one, and then slowly adjust it as needed?Of course not, it's too troublesome and delays things.

This is building a city, not a house.Besides, ordinary people spend dozens or even hundreds of years building a house, so they won't make big moves easily.

What's more, it is a city, which has been built for hundreds of years, and it must be designed in advance.

Besides, there will definitely be more and more trading cities in Datang in the future. This city is a benchmark and must be established well.

Without anything to learn from, Yue Shan had no choice but to lead others to eat bit by bit.Put forward the requirements first, and then design different functional areas according to the requirements.

A port with a large area is required for docking ships to handle goods.What is the design of the port, how long and wide it is, and what functions it has.

Roads should also be repaired spacious and bright to facilitate travel.

For example, a warehouse that needs to store goods.The warehouse can be built out of the way, but the terrain must be high, and it cannot be flooded when it rains casually.Also make sure it's safe, don't be stolen.

There also needs to be a place to exhibit merchandise.Why can't everyone peddle along the street?They were all big merchants, it was too embarrassing, so a market was built.

Everyone put the samples of the goods in the market, and went to the warehouse to pick up the goods after they found a good deal.

Everyone is a dignified person, not short of money, good food, clothing, housing and transportation, and restaurants and inns should be built in conspicuous places.

They are all people with status, what if some people don't like eating in public?The restaurant builds more boxes to ensure privacy.

There is also a dormitory area designed for ordinary migrant workers. It can't be that people travel dozens of miles to work every day. It's not tiring enough.

There are also various offices of the yamen, those who maintain law and order, those who provide guarantee certificates, those who collect taxes, and so on.

According to different needs and different functions to plan and design, the standard is convenient and practical.After more than half a month of hard work, an unprecedented city design was presented in front of everyone.

This blueprint basically does not show the appearance of the previous city, and even the design of many places is contrary to the ordinary city.Yue Shan didn't know how effective it was, but crossing the river by feeling the stones was like that, someone had to take the first step.

He gritted his teeth and started building.

So the renovation of the old city began.

The workload of rebuilding the old city is naturally not as good as building a new city, at least there is no need to build a city wall, which saves a lot of time, but the workload is not small.

Most of the dilapidated houses have to be demolished, the low-lying places have to be raised, and the city gates have changed from the original two to four, and even the original two have to be expanded.

Naturally, the renovation fee does not need to be paid by the Dizhou government, nor does it need a loan. The local land snakes and the clan that Li Daoyan brought over together pay the money.Yue Shan estimated that there would be a lot of surplus after the renovation was completed.

In order to put it into use as soon as possible and make money as soon as possible, these people are not stingy with money at all, and hired several times as many workers to work.The original construction period of more than two months was abruptly shortened to 20 days.

The name of the new city is very simple, it is called the mall.

At this time, the first batch of salt released during the New Year happened to be put into storage, and 63 commercial firms also knew Yueshan's idea of ​​building a trading city. In order to support him, they sent hundreds of ships to pick up the salt.

These ships did not come empty, but filled with various goods.The originally empty warehouse was quickly filled to a corner.

At this time, Yue Shan finally took out his trump card, exempting tolls, exempting all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and only collecting one kind of commercial tax, one in twenty.

Some people want to say, didn't Chutang not collect commercial taxes?Why are you collecting business tax instead? Who dares to come?
In the early Tang Dynasty, there was no business tax, but there were many miscellaneous taxes.There are tolls for crossing the road, and there is also a city tax, that is, no matter whether your goods can be sold or not, you have to pay as long as you bring the goods into the market.

The sum of these exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes is much higher than the twenty taxes.

Yueshan abolished all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and collected a commercial tax of one in twenty, so merchants paid even less money.And there is only one tax to pay, which is also convenient to calculate.

Sometimes businessmen don't mind paying more taxes. As long as they can make money, they will pay more taxes. What they fear most is exorbitant taxes.I don't even know how many taxes I have to pay, which is both troublesome and dangerous.

If they fail, they will be arrested as tax resisters, and those who confiscated the goods will be fined.

In addition, the tax threshold is also stipulated.Not all transactions are subject to tax, and the transaction amount is too low to be tax-free.

For example, it is a bit exaggerated to pay taxes when you go out to buy steamed buns.Of course, the man who sells steamed buns should pay taxes on a monthly basis.

There are also some goods that are tax-free, such as grain transactions, which are all tax-free.Needless to say how great the benefits of this are.

Dizhou is full of saline-alkali land that is not suitable for farming, and there is a shortage of food all year round.A food tax exemption can perfectly solve these problems, and it will also provide convenience for the future northern front.

In order to attract more businessmen, Xin Qi also issued some tasks from time to time, and the completed ones were given to Yan Yin.This trick really worked, and many businessmen who were not interested in this place changed their minds for the benefit of salt.

There is also an incentive policy, the merchants with the highest monthly transaction volume, the largest number of traded goods, and the most taxpayers will be rewarded with the qualification to purchase a certain amount of salt.

In short, with the stimulation of his series of methods, the reputation of Dizhou Mall quickly spread throughout the country, and countless big businessmen regarded it as a channel for goods transfer.

In just a few months, the mall has become the most prosperous commercial city in Datang, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a commercial capital.Even the surrounding Goguryeo, Silla Baekje, Khitan, Shiwei and other forces came here to do business.

Businesses prosper and more jobs are created.People in Dizhou can come to the mall to find work even if they don't work for the saltworks.

With the minimum wage set, the money earned is enough to support the family.As long as you have the strength and are willing to contribute, you can live a good life.

People's lives are better, and people are willing to spend if they have money in their wallets, which in turn promotes the commercial prosperity of Dizhou.

When the shopping mall is revitalized, the yamen collects more taxes.Yue Shan has calculated an account, even if there is no salt profit, he is sure to pay off the money owed to the merchant within a few years based on the commercial tax alone.

Those who first invested in the mall also made a lot of money.

Yue Shan's status in the clan is getting higher day by day, according to the letter from Changsun Wugou, all clan gatherings must have the name of Yue Shan, her ears are numb.

Although she used a mocking tone, Yue Shan could still tell from the lines that she was satisfied.

In addition to being afraid of Yue Shan, those local snakes in Dizhou have more admiration and gratitude for Yue Shan. They truly admire him from the bottom of their hearts and become his staunch supporters.

And the benefits after they are convinced are even more obvious, all Yue Shan's decisions can be implemented thoroughly.

For example, Yueshan said that he wanted to build orphanages to support orphans, widows and orphans. These people built orphanages in every county without saying a word, and each family donated money and materials regularly every month.

Just when everything was increasing day by day, a shocking news came.

"Dugu Yanyun, Duke of Liyang County, was wounded by Liu Shi, and the sage urgently summoned Qing Shui to wait in Beijing."

(End of this chapter)