Chapter 79 The prototype of the New Deal?
Seeing that the emperor couldn't help but speak, my husbands looked at him with scrutiny.
"First, although I defeated the Jin thieves and recaptured the sixteen states of Yanyun, my Song Dynasty soldiers died in the country for 300,000! Therefore, I proposed the strategy of enriching the country and strengthening the army. This is an urgent matter. How to do it specifically, all the officials will perform their duties."
"Secondly, people are promoted and people are strictly prohibited from drowning babies. Those who violate the order must be executed. All prefectures and prefectures must set up orphanages, and the imperial court will fund the abandoned babies."
"Third, based on the size of the business, the tax commission will be readjusted, with the lowest amount of the current ones being three, and the highest amount of ten to ten; the agricultural tax reduction is one hundred and one hundred!"
Regardless of the changes in color from the husbands, Zhao Huan continued to say willfully: "Fourth, establish the Royal Trading Bank of the Song Dynasty, and the officials claim the president of the trading bank, which is under the salt bank, iron bank, road bank, bank and other banks. The banks are only responsible for planning, and the specific implementation is to recruit merchants from the private sector, and select the best in the form of competition. Major banks pay the salary according to the standards. These business teams are not included in the official staffing. Except for the officials who can do business according to the strategies formulated by the court, it is strictly prohibited from doing business in the future and compete with the people for profit!"
"Fifth, open the sea and set up the Maritime Department alone, set up the Navy Department, and set up two envoys to serve as the Minister of the Navy, and be responsible for maritime trade and overseas expansion!"
"Sixth, establish the Royal Academy of Sciences to recruit fortification talents."
"Seventh, set up the Heroic Spirit Hall to enjoy the incense for civil officials and spread it to later generations. Anyone who enters the Heroic Spirit Hall is a pillar of my Song Dynasty."
At the turn of seven o'clock, the husbands were silent. Except for the first point and the seventh point, they understood and accepted it immediately, there was great controversy in the other five points.
Zhao Huan naturally knew that they had doubts in their hearts why they were like this? So they said that the commercial tax was not high in the Song Dynasty, and there were many incentive policies for business, which made the commerce developed. Sixty-seven out of the imperial court's tax revenue come from business.
Now that the emperor wants to increase the commercial tax, it will inevitably reduce the income of merchants. Merchants will inevitably raise prices in commodities, causing soaring prices. This is related to people's livelihood issues. You can't do it casually like this!
Zhou Chao quickly expressed his concerns, saying that once this policy was released, it would inevitably lead to price increases.
Of course, Zhao Huan also thought of this problem, which was to plan to abolish corvee by tough means. After the corvee service was abolished, the people would have more time to create value for themselves, make money for themselves, and if they make money for themselves, they would have to pay taxes and pay taxes, and the country would have income.
Moreover, when the people have money themselves, they will consume, which further promotes the development of business. When merchants make money, they have to pay taxes to the country. The more they earn, the higher the commission ratio. The tax and profits for small business owners must remain unchanged before this.
When setting prices, merchants naturally need to consider all aspects. Increased tax revenue is one of them, and the increase in consumption is also one of the factors that consider, and the increase in business structure is also a very important factor.
For example, a certain businessman could only open a restaurant in Tokyo, but now the court planned to mine in Hebei and needed a large amount of labor. The court paid wages and corvee labor was abolished. Officials of the government were not allowed to organize people to take on this task privately. At this time, people with a little business acumen would organize people to do this, and the court's money flowed from the top to the hands of merchants and migrant workers who started mining. At this time, the merchant was unwilling to raise the prices of restaurants in the capital. Once the prices were raised, sales would be affected.
As soon as the emperor said this, the husbands almost looked at the emperor with idiot-like eyes.
Chapter completed!