Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 384
Chapter 387

Ran Min's words attracted the approval of all the ministers. After all, in ancient times, rewarding meritorious officials was nothing more than adding officials to rank.But being an official is also very learned, not everyone can be an official.

Some people are very knowledgeable, and if you ask him to do cultural research, he is definitely a master, but when he is an official, God knows what he will do.

Besides, at this time, being an official was the exclusive right of the gentry, so they were naturally unwilling to let peasants with mud legs, merchants who smelled of copper, and craftsmen, like them, be in the imperial court.

"Your Majesty is right!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Ran Min went on to say: "So I plan to set up a political supervisor in Menxia province, and the head officer of the political supervisor will be the servant of the sect with a rank of two thousand shi."

Menxia province was actually established in the Western Jin Dynasty. Menxia province was originally the emperor's attendant organization, and even the position of servant was originally held by eunuchs.Later, it gradually became a position with the same functions as the prime minister.Xie An was a servant of the province under his sect, nominally on the same level as Shang Shuling of Shang Shu Sheng, but Shang Shu Sheng was the head of the six ministries of the three provinces after all.

Ran Min's words caused the ministers to discuss softly.

The provincial servant Xie An has been in Wei State for more than two months, it is like Xu Shu entering Cao Ying without offering a plan.

Except that Wei Guo had an extra servant, it didn't actually affect anything.

As long as they don't fight for their power and don't share meat from their mouths, the emperor can change whatever he wants.

In the absence of any objection, Wei Guo's CPPCC was established calmly, regardless of the political supervisor.

Not surprisingly, Liu Yuan's father, Liu Yuan, served as the first Zuo Shilang under the supervisor's door, Chen Ying as the right servant, and Zhang Xun became Yuanwailang.Wang Cheng and other people also became officials in the matter, or admonishing doctors.

Originally, he only had a name in the Wei state, and he had no real power or official status.

When Zhang Xun, Wang Cheng and others received their appointment documents, their excitement was beyond words.

They offered their thanks to Ran Ming one after another.

Ran Ming accepted it frankly.Because he also knew that if they did not accept Xie Yi from these people, they would not feel at ease.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when everyone came, Ran Ming said: "This CPPCC is our own internal name, and it is also our positioning. CPPCC, political consultation, of course, how should this political consultation be coordinated?"

Zhang Xun said: "Your Highness, please advise me!"

"Hehe, I dare not take advice!" Ran Ming said: "First of all, our first priority is to improve the commercial tax law, how to collect this commercial tax, how to collect it, and how much to collect. This not only involves the interests of everyone present, but also concerns the country. Your interests are guaranteed. With less taxation, your interests are guaranteed, but what about the country? Those scholar-bureaucrats originally opposed the promotion of commerce, but proposed to emphasize agriculture and promote agriculture. Why? In the final analysis, it is still a tax issue. The agricultural tax is More than [-]% of the country's fiscal revenue, the salaries of officials, the food and salaries of soldiers, and the construction of cities, roads, and water conservancy are all based on agricultural taxes."

Ran Ming got up and turned around in the crowd. Seeing the somewhat unnatural expressions of the crowd, he smiled slightly and said, "In the tens of thousands of miles to the west of our Great Wei Dynasty, there is a country called England, and all the farmers in this country don't use it. Paying agricultural taxes, all taxes are basically paid by merchants. In this way, merchants not only replaced the traditional scholar-bureaucrats in status, but the status of merchants in the English country was the highest, and all national policies were formulated by merchants. Because their merchants have really achieved the same interests as the country, the country is the merchant, and the merchant is the country! The prosperity of the business makes the country prosperous, and the decline of the business makes the country weak!"

In fact, Ran Ming also understands that China's gentry patriarchal system is the fundamental factor restricting the country's development.

The interests of the gentry are only limited to the few lands in the Central Plains, and there is no broad field of vision at all. The good thing is that the layout is too small, and the bad thing is that the eyes are like mice.

The policies of the United States are basically in the hands of the big chaebols. They have the greed of businessmen and the madness of gamblers, so they will use all means to plunder the resources of the world.

In addition, the only flawed system is the succession system of the eldest son. You must know that the elders are not talented, and the dragon has nine sons, and the sons are different.This is the fundamental reason why China's wealth does not last for three generations.No matter how good a company is in the hands of pigs, it will lose quickly.No matter how good the national foundation is, it will perish quickly.

There is only a benign competition mechanism, appointing people on their merits, not cronyism.

However, in order to fundamentally change this traditional thinking, Ran Ming still needs to do a lot.However, Ran Ming has successfully aroused the desire of the merchants.

Ran Ming's words caused a storm in the hearts of all the merchants.

Then Ran Ming continued: "The titles of England are the same as those of our Great Wei, with five levels of Duke, Marquis, Bo, Zi, and Male. However, their big merchants basically all have titles, and some of them even rank as dukes. Merchants Daughter, no less noble than royal daughters."

At this time, Ran Ming asked someone to deliver a booklet, which is also a printed matter, and the imitation Song typeface looks very beautiful.There are quite a few in the booklet, and on the cover are printed eight big characters in official script, "Inside information, strictly prohibited to be circulated outside".Ran Ming said: "I don't talk too much nonsense, Gu's preliminary opinions are here, everyone can take a look first! Then, express your own opinions!"

Zhang Xun was the first to take over a volume of internal materials, the first part of which was about the importance of commercial taxation and the tax system.It clearly states that merchants have the responsibility to pay taxes and enjoy the benefits of state asylum.It also said that the caravans of the Great Wei, leaving the border of the Great Wei, represent the dignity of the Great Wei, and must be based on integrity and conduct business with integrity.Of course, as a caravan, it is the mobile territory of Wei State and cannot be violated.Suppressing the Great Wei caravan by means of unfair and vicious competition, or any attack on the Great Wei caravan, will be regarded as a provocation to the Great Wei, and the Great Wei has the right to pursue it.

Seeing this, Zhang Xun was very satisfied. His real purpose of joining the Huaxia Business Alliance at first was to find a backer.We must know that in ancient merchants, although the taxes collected by the imperial court were low, the exploitation of various government offices and checkpoints and various tyranny taxes were never less, and some dignitaries even used bandits and robbers to use The officers and soldiers disguised themselves as bandits to rob.Especially in this troubled world, their loss is even more astonishing.

Now there is no one in Wei State who dares to take the idea of ​​a caravan, but outside Wei State, there are still many people who are jealous of money.They need to pay a large "protection fee" every time.With this policy, there is no need to worry about government exploitation or fear in the future.

The current military strength of Wei State is the strongest in the world, no matter Yan, Dai, Liang, Jin, etc. dare to blatantly offend Wei State.The benefits they bring will increase substantially.

This protection policy made the merchants very excited, and the excitement was very obvious.Wang Cheng rushed to Zhang Xun and said: "It's all right now, let's see who dares to envy my caravan, mother, now I don't need to pay more pensions!"

Taking Wang Cheng as an example, his caravan robs dozens to hundreds of times every year, and more than a thousand people are killed or injured.The loss of goods is even more astonishing.Zhang Xun was even worse. His business focus was on leather goods and horses. Because he needed to enter the Yan Kingdom, Dai Kingdom and Hu District, he suffered much more serious losses than Wang Cheng.

At the beginning, they contributed money to form an anti-rebel army for Ran Ming, in order to protect their caravan.The establishment of the rebel army is 6000 people, not to mention that they support [-] soldiers and horses. If they can avoid the threat of robbery and life and property, and let them feed [-] troops, they are also willing.

Zhang Xun said: "This policy is beneficial and harmless to us and merchants, and we absolutely support it!"

Wu Chuan, who started out as a shipbuilder in Qingzhou, was very excited. With this policy, the business is predictable and will definitely flourish. The land business has already been occupied by major merchants. It is not easy to squeeze in, but the ocean trade is in this era. , Just now there is a sign that joining the ocean trade will definitely pay back in the fastest and easiest way.

This booklet is not like a book copied with a brush. The amount of information on it is simply amazing.In particular, taxation, from mulberry, iron ore, coal mines, timber, vegetables, seafood, etc., will be regulated as raw material data, and the amount of taxation is [-]% of the mining volume multiplied by the price.Then, [-]% of the tax is collected from semi-finished products such as bare cloth, iron, steel, oil, salt, dyes, copper, etc. according to the output quantity.However, gold, silver, pearls, rough jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and other luxury goods were levied at half the market price.

Everyone began to wonder why these things were taxed so heavily?
Ran Ming looked at the merchants with different expressions below and said: "Now if you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them. Now if you have any questions, you can come one by one!"

As soon as Ran Ming's voice fell, Zhang Xun said: "Your Highness, this tax system is very good. The business tax is collected from the business and used for the people. The business enriches the country with tax, the country benefits the people with tax, and the people prosper business with abundance. It is a virtuous circle. However, there is a question in the inquiry, how should the business tax be paid, and who should it be handed over to? Should it be delivered to the local government? If it is paid to the government, the problem will arise. Those officials basically do not have clean hands. After passing through their hands, how much of this tax can be left?"

Zhang Xun's question was very sharp and direct, pointing out the core of the problem.

That is the problem of corruption, selfishness is human nature.Regardless of the poor family or the noble family, their purpose of being an official is to serve themselves first, and then serve the country.

Zhang Zai has a famous saying, establish a heart for the heaven and earth, establish a life for the living and the people, inherit the knowledge of the past saints, and create peace for all generations.This sentence can be said to be the common ideal of Confucian scholars.Such a lofty goal may not be easy to achieve.In fact, this sentence is the same as the Confucian benevolence, righteousness and morality, and it is a chamber pot.They use it when they need it, and throw it away when they don't need it.

Throughout the ages, those politicians who are in high positions and hold great power have two sets of codes of conduct.To ask others is to wish that others would become saints, but to ask oneself is selectively ignored.

(End of this chapter)