Chapter 1070 Gao Taotao cried

After saying that, he held his hands and said: "The Queen Mother is still smart. In this way, workshops in various places will be more active in production; merchants will also be able to simplify procedures and reduce their burdens; and for most of the royal properties, the tax will only increase by one-thirtieth. Likewise,

It is to treat everyone equally."

He stood up and saluted with sincerity: "It was Su You who got into trouble. Fortunately, the Queen Mother gave me some advice and I finally realized it. This plan is indeed more appropriate than the previous one."

After speaking, he looked like he had found a treasure: "The two pots of flowers given to me today are really worth it..."

"You monkey!" Gao Taotao couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Is this a business that has brought trouble to the Ai family?!"

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At the end of May in the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the imperial court issued an edict: in the capital, Hedong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shuzhong, Jinghu, Liangzhejiang, and Nanhai, there were two taxes for people traveling and sitting.

The sitting tax remains unchanged at thirty to one. After the merchants receive the goods from the sitting merchants, they need to issue an "invoice" from the local state government before they can ship the goods on the road.

The invoice is clearly filled with the date of issue, goods, value, tax, tax officer's signature, and official seal.

After the merchant gets the invoice, he can organize the transportation, and no more private cards are allowed in the states and counties along the way.

After traveling merchants arrive at their destination, they need to pay the traveling tax at the local city office and exchange the invoice for a tax-paid "flower ticket" before they can sell it.

The three departments collect tax stamp issuance and recovery records from various places every quarter to monitor tax evasion by merchants.

In order to appease local governments, appropriate concessions have been made to the distribution ratio of agricultural taxes to local governments, and local state governments can withhold part of the agricultural taxes.

Commercial taxes were centralized to the imperial court, but when the books were written off every quarter, local governments also received a certain proportion of profits.

In fact, even if Su You didn't travel through time, the last two were already played by the Song Dynasty, but now they are played more efficiently and rigorously.

Now that there is a more complete supervision system, salaries have been increased for officials, and systems have been established, the next step is to kill the fish caught in the net.

The most rigid aspect of this policy is that all businesses are treated equally, even the properties belonging to the royal family are no exception. Properties that were previously tax-free will be included in the scope of taxation. Officials who tried to use this as a reason to attack this policy were disappointed.

Li Suzhi, the Third Secretary, was very happy about this and saw the importance of this measure at a glance.

This was one of the most capable ministers of the Song Dynasty and the nephew of Li Di, the famous prime minister of the Song Dynasty. Sima Guang and Su You were ordered to inspect the Yellow River to supervise disaster relief. As a result, all the places were in a panic, but it was the Yingzhou area that was hardest hit.

By that time, not only had the disaster relief been completed, production had even begun to resume, and even the city walls had been renovated!

Su You was amazed at the old man's ability at that time.

After spending his whole life on the road, defending against enemies, suppressing bandits, regulating rivers, providing disaster relief, developing people's livelihood, and doing some prison work, there was no job that he could not do outstandingly.

The biggest resistance to this tax reform is not the court, but the outside world and the royal family.

Even Wang Gui and Cai Que were happy to see the results. They strengthened the central government's control over the local areas. Apart from Zhao Xu, they were the ones who benefited the most.

The external road is actually easy to handle, and the newly appointed prosecutors are eagerly preparing to fulfill their new responsibilities.

The key is to collect taxes as a whole, which harms the interests of the royal family.

In the end, I don't know how Su You persuaded the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother actually agreed. This made the courtiers astonished at Su You's ability.

In fact, the courtiers thought too much. It was not Su You who moved the Queen Mother, but an account book.

The account books show that the prices of goods shipped from Nanhai and Liangzhe Road to Bianjing City from Liangzhe Road have more than doubled on average.

The reason why the price has more than doubled is because Sitong was cheated by the state capitals along the way, and Sitong passed it on to the leaders of Bianjing City.

Those profits that are supposed to be the royal family's, even if the royal family's shares in Sitong are only 50%, they are worth tens of millions!

Seeing this account book, Gao Taotao's heart was bleeding.

How many clan children’s tuition fees and how many clan daughters’ dowries are this?!

In this way, he was swallowed up by the officials along the way!

Gao Taotao was very angry. When he saw Zhao Xu, he threw the account book over. Look at the officials under you! You don't care if the Tian family is being bullied!

Then settle the accounts with Zhao Xu. The royal family's property now has tens of millions of dollars every year. Well, the prime ministers and ministers said that we should pay taxes, so we should pay. The property in Beijing is taxed, and the tax is 300 yuan, right? Four to five million

Just consistent.

We also pay business taxes, one out of ten taxes, right? I asked Sitong Company to recognize it, it’s only two million dollars.

But now I want to ask, why has the price of goods on Liangzhe Road more than doubled in Bianjing City? This is 20 million yuan! It contains half of our Tianjia!

When Emperor Renzong built the mausoleum, he only spent 700,000 yuan, which had already spent all the savings of the court and the palace! When you came to your father's place, everything was even simpler. In the end, even the rewards for the ministers were reduced by most, and the Tian family lost face.

All done.

Speaking of Yingzong, Gao Taotao finally burst into tears. Now that our own property is embezzled by tens of millions every year, is there any reason left in the world?!

Even if it was cheaper than those dog officials in the past, who told me that Tianjia is exempt from tax and was held short by others?

But from today on, whoever dares to steal my Tian family's money again will not blame me for killing him!

Zhao Xu was really frightened. He asked Su You to come over and ask his mother to agree. He didn't expect Gao Taotao to have such an attitude. He quickly comforted his mother who was so angry that she was sobbing, and then summoned the two systems - Hahaha, the queen mother is angry, this matter

, let’s discuss it, shall we?

There is nothing to argue about. Thirty-one tax was a legal requirement in the past, but the law never said that you could collect it along the way.

Now that more than twice the amount goes to the central government, the fiscal revenue will immediately be abundant, at least tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue.

Even when it comes to agricultural and commercial taxes, some concessions and compromises have to be made to local governments. But the problem is that in the past, you were begging others to pay taxes, but now others are begging you for rewards. The master-slave relationship between the central and local governments is no longer the same.

Is this how it should be?

Wang Gui is still a little worried. What if the habits accumulated along the way are difficult to change?

Zhao Xu sneered. The Queen of Heaven and Earth meant the most. She had no choice but to refuse to listen to her repeated orders. Sun Wu had no choice but to kill people.

Su Mingrun said that such people cannot be regarded as scholar-bureaucrats at all.

I gave them a salary increase and made huge concessions on taxes, but they still needed to be corrupted, even to the extent that the Tian family was involved - no matter how gentle the Song Dynasty royal family was, they would not condone them to this extent.

reason.

Cai Que quickly agreed. Mr. Wang just couldn't figure it out. Whose suggestion was he? He finally had an opportunity to expand the power of the prime minister. How could he let it go?

Besides, the royal decrees are often unreliable, but in this matter, the royal family is rarely on the right side.

Taking a step back, with this order, the price of goods in Beijing will definitely drop. Living in the capital is not easy. If you can reduce your monthly expenses, won't it be delicious?

If there is anyone who objects next, hahaha, then just check and find out why he objects. Is there a checkpoint? It doesn't matter if the checkpoint is set up. The key is where the tax money goes. There are so many people in the District Prosecutor's Office who need performance appraisals. This

Officials on the waterway, why don't you check them one by one?

Therefore, this edict became the common will of the Queen Mother, the Emperor, Zhongshu, and the comrades of Yushitai were responsible for careful supervision and had the local and state governments strictly implement it.

Corrupt officials naturally cry for their parents, but they can only cry behind their backs. Your Majesty has already said that you will be given an increase in commissions on agricultural taxes and subsidies on commercial taxes. If you are not satisfied with this...

May I ask how much you have been greedy before?

However, a few honest and self-reliant officials saw hope. The court gave the local government a lot of money and food for no reason, and many things could be done.

However, the matter was not over yet. Immediately afterwards, the second edict from the imperial court came down: Inspect various places in Changping, transship, transfer to general warehousing, adopt new transportation methods, mix public and private, Caoding stopped the ship and did not disembark, start the transportation, and transport grain to Bianjing.

The grain currently stored in Bianjing is sent to Xingluocang along the Luobian Canal.

This year's grain shipments from the north and south of Jinghu Road will be sent directly to Huangzhou, from Huangzhou through Ezhou, Xiangyang, to Hanjiang River, Danshui, and then to Shangzhou for storage.

This move was so cruel that officials from Caocang and Caocang along the Bianqu River rushed to the capital one after another to inquire about news and activities. The formerly well-vaccinated departments became turbulent and full of troops.
Chapter completed!