Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 126 Implementing the New Tax Law
Ruizong even mentioned that Qinglang Kingdom and Xiaoyan Kingdom owed the Jin Mansion food payments, and asked Jin Yan to list detailed accounts as soon as possible. These should be taxed under the new tax law.He also mentions binoculars and quicksand paintings, and doesn't know where he got the news from.Quicksand paintings are taxed according to the new tax law. As for the binoculars, they are not allowed to sell to foreign countries privately from next month onwards. The countries of the whole country subsidized their binoculars, and each gave 20 taels of silver.

Feeling an unprecedented blow, the two returned to the Jin Mansion dejectedly.Although they didn't react much when they were fined a huge sum of money, it was because they didn't listen to Ruizong's warning, and it was their fault first, but this time it was Ruizong who was targeting a big business like them.

The imperial court later ranked the country's largest merchants among the top 20, and Jinfu ranked No. 1.The rest of Sihaida, Juxin Guangshang and Hongtai Bank are among the top 1. They all rank higher than Jinfu, and they should collect more taxes than Jinfu. The No.1 major industry, for example, clothing and hats involves fabric processing, which is a large category. For No.2, the tax is 1000 yuan a year, which can be paid quarterly or monthly. No.[-] is [-], No.[-] is [-], and so on, the last one is [-] taels.

The Imperial Tax Department designated Jinfu as a super-large industry, that is, food processing in the courtyard of Jinfu, clothing processing and the surrounding areas of Jinfu are a major item, including docks and vineyards.The remaining Liangshan port wharf, salt fields, glass production, and overseas shops have to be counted separately, and even the newly developed real estate in the east has to be counted separately.

The ranking of the 20 is not based on the size of the [-] merchants, but the ranking of tens of thousands of merchants. There are five merchants that rank first, and three that rank No. [-] with Jinfu. There are as many as ten.The further back they are arranged, the more they are juxtaposed together.If it comes to the last place, there will be tens of thousands.

Later, I learned that Mr. Xu was ranked 86, Mr. Jia was ranked 83, and the second uncle was ranked 89.Starting from the third quarter of June, Jinfu will collect this amount of tax every month.

Jin Zhe used the algorithm of arithmetic progression to preliminarily estimate the tax collection results of the imperial court. If one plus two, three and four were added to one hundred, the number would be more than 5000.If there are 1000 merchants, the merchants ranked last pay 5000 taels of tax in January, and the tax amount paid by these 5000 merchants is more than [-] million taels per month.There are five companies ranked first, and one or two thousand companies ranked last.The tax receivable by the imperial court should be many times of [-] million taels per month. This monthly subsidy of hundreds of millions of taels of silver to officials is an unheard of large amount...

"Tao'er, I think the imperial court is deliberately suppressing major businesses, not just us..."

"That's right, the imperial court took back more than [-] gold and silver mines by force this time. I heard what Ruizong said. In the future, all profitable industries will have to be nationalized. Our Yazui Port and Yantian may not be spared." , that is the most profitable industry in our Jin Mansion."

"We can't sit still and wait for death. We should come up with countermeasures to deal with the court in advance. If we start late, we will lose in a mess."

Liu Tao gritted her teeth and said, "That's right, Brother Jinzhang, he even wanted a share of the grain money owed on credit by Daxie Country and Xiaoyan Country. The telescoping tubes of each telescope cost fourteen or five taels of silver alone, but he gave 20 taels, is it strictly forbidden for us to sell food to foreign countries without permission?"

"Well, didn't Zhang Sheng's letter mention the cooperation with the glass manufacturers in Heishan Port? We moved the glass factory and craftsmen in Yazui Port to Heishan Port. The glass-making base is located in Heishan Port overseas. The Governor and Accord will take care of it, give each of them half a share, and expand the production of glass. If the secrecy measures are done well, it will be the most profitable industry in a few decades... "

Liu Tao grabbed Jin Yan's hand and said firmly, "Brother Jin Yan, let's transfer the most profitable property out quietly, even the salt fields can be moved out slowly?"

"Oh, that's the only way to do it. First transfer the glass in Yazui Port, and then transfer other industries. Give them a ruin..."

"We have to recover the debts owed by Qinglang Country and Xiaoyan Country. However, we can reduce or exempt those that can be reduced. I think Xiaoyan Country can only collect some tokens. Anyway, the money is not a lot?"

"They still have more than 3000 grain arrears that have not been returned, so let's just charge him a fraction..."

"Hey, brother Jin Yang, I suddenly remembered that our Liangshan Port collects additional taxes. It would be great if the imperial court's message hadn't reached Liangshan Port. We should use pigeons to tell Cousin Lu Run and let him stay overnight To transfer our ships, it is best to go to Yawei Port and register under the name of Xiaoyan Kingdom, and only keep a few ships in the port. In this case, the imperial court will not be too big to collect taxes. lost..."

They have been discussing how to deal with the imperial court for several days. As Lao Jin and Ji Yanchen recovered from their injuries, they initially formed a private army of 40 people in the Jin family, and built a building on the east side of the Jin family wharf in Liangshan Port. A courtyard dedicated to accommodation and training.These people are all martial arts masters, but they are all afraid of seasickness and long journeys to sea.Some came from other places because they saw that the Jin family gave them a lot of monthly silver.They continue to train intensively every day, not only training themselves, but also training their ability to cooperate in combat.

Lao Jin was seriously injured. Before he fully recovered, they went to Shark Island twice under the leadership of Ji Yanchen and demolished four large houses, three for accommodation and one for the kitchen.There are still 30 private soldiers in the port, and ten of them have been sent to Yazui Island to strengthen the security work there.

On this day, Jin Yan took Liu Yunfa's newly trained four pigeons to Liangshan Port for inspection again, and was the first to see these newly recruited team members.Most of them are guys in their 20s, and few of them reach 40.Among them, Jin Yang also saw five comrades-in-arms, who had fought side by side in Shuangzi Mountain. They were very excited when they saw the former military adviser, and some of them even hugged Jin Hao and cried.

In their eyes, Jin Li is a resourceful and unassuming Shangguan. Many people don't know that the property of Jinfu Wharf belongs to Jin Li.Now it seems that the smart and benevolent Shangguan has become their boss. In the future, they will follow the former Shangguan, and the future will be bright.

"Ji Yanchen, is your injury healed?"

"Let the Shaodong family worry, I'm fully recovered!" Ji Yanchen patted his chest and said loudly to Jin Hao.

Lao Jin also came over and saluted Jin Yang, "Hi, Young Master."

Jin Li saw that he was not completely recovered from his actions, so he comforted him: "Heal your injuries well, nothing is more important than your body, some things will be dealt with by Ji Yanchen first."

"Young master, Ji Yanchen said the same thing, but I can't stay idle?"

After a joke, they went on to practice.Seeing their rock-climbing training, it was a little dangerous. Jin Yang thought of giving them some safety protection measures, and then thought of downhill equipment.People can use downhill equipment to quickly descend from cliffs and tall buildings to the ground without obstacles. There are mainly static ropes, safety belts, main locks, figure-of-eight ring speed-regulating descenders, and matching safety helmets and gloves.However, they are their own private army, and they don't need to carry out special operations. This idea just flashed in their minds and then they were forgotten.

That time, Lu Run received a reminder from the golden disaster carrier pigeon, and evacuated several cargo ships to Yazui Port overnight. In the early morning of the next day, people from the port tax department really came to check the ships.Fortunately, they came a step late, and there were only two pregnant cargo ships and a fast ship left in the port.

In the future, this will be the main base of the private army, and they will be dispatched there wherever they are needed, so as not to let the crew have two jobs.These days, they went to Shark Island five more times, the first time the gold disaster knew.The second time I came back the day before yesterday, not only eliminated a ship of pirates, but also captured a pirate's cook.

According to the cook: "The pirates of Xianglu Island have lost one-third of their ships and personnel these days, and they were all sent to Shark Island without any news. If they can't go back this time, most of the pirates of Xianglu Island will die Sent out to Shark Island to see what happened."

Their guns and crossbows were obviously not enough, so Jin Li asked Fan Tong to mobilize [-] guns and crossbows from the crew in the port the next day, and they took two boats together to go to Shark Island for the finale.Lao Jin insisted on following, and Jin Yan told him: "Go if you want, but you are not allowed to participate in the battle, just stay on the boat..."

This time, their two clippers went to Shark Island to wrap up, and stayed in Yazui Harbor for a day, preparing to go to Shark Island at midnight the next day.Here, Tian Zhuang and Yuman are managed in an orderly manner, and their relationship with those foreign masters is also very good.The arrival of Jin Lian solved several small technical problems for them, which made them admire again and again.

The dark sentry posts and bunkers in Yazui Harbor have been built, and Jin Yan inspected them and was very satisfied.The production of glass has also increased, and table tops of glass bricks have been manufactured, and the quality is also remarkable.

The wooden shields used to fight pirates last time were very practical, and Jin Yan asked them to prepare them again this time.In the middle of the night, the two boats sailed quietly, and arrived at the outskirts of Shark Island just before dawn.

This is the fishtail side of Shark Island. The seabed is sandy and suitable for docking. The other side facing here is the pier of Shark Island. They are just waiting to park their boats on the beach and go to the island.It was bright day, and the two boats had dragged the shallow sandy land beside the island.Ji Yanchen wanted to take another look at the shore through the binoculars, and if there was nothing unusual on the shore, he ordered the private army to disembark, wading to the beach and going back to the house.

"Stop the boat." Ji Yanchen growled, and whispered to Jin Yan, "Young master, there are people behind the rocks on the island, it seems that pirates are ambushing."

Although the pirates couldn't see the people on the two dark ships clearly, Jin Yan and the others could vaguely see through the binoculars that there were many people lying on their stomachs concealed on the island, and some people were running back and forth.If there is no telescope, they will plunge into the ambush circle of a large number of pirates, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

(End of this chapter)