First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 69

　　The anger surged from the bottom of my heart, rushed straight to the forehead, pressed it down, and got up again...Zhu Yuanzhang simply flicked his sleeves and left.

　　 He also wanted to show the courtesy corporal, but I'm sorry, he couldn't see the faces of these merchants, we are such a guy!

　　 Lao Zhu turned around and strode towards the camp in full view. Zhang Ximeng grinned bitterly at Li Shanchang helplessly, and he followed away.

　　 It turned out that Li Shanchang was away from a few businessmen, looking at each other, what is going on?

　　 "Lord Li, do you see?"

Li Shanchang's face was also red, and he snorted, "The superior can take a look at you, even if he gives you a face, he doesn't do anything, and he points to the superior to welcome him? Give me to the tent next to him. Stay here!"

　　 Li Shanchang asked them to take them away. He was taken aback and showed a sad expression. It was really not easy to serve Zhu Yuanzhang, the owner.

　　 He did not go to Zhu Yuanzhang either, but came to see Zhang Ximeng.

　　 At this moment, Zhang Ximeng is changing the dressing of the wound in his leg, not to mention it is just a scratch, but it is really uncomfortable to slap the big piece on each side.

　　 It took about a quarter of an hour before it came out.

　　 Li Shanchang sitting there, drinking cold tea, his heart couldn't warm up.

　　 "Mr. Zhang, I just figured it out. This commercial tax is not easy to collect, and there are so many difficulties. I'm afraid I told the superior, he is angry again. Let's go to the details first?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled and said: "Just right, I also want to tell Mr. Li about this. The lord can't see these people, but if he can collect taxes and see the money, the lord will not really do anything to them. You say yes. No?"

Li Shanchang nodded, but he was helpless, "That's it, a business store, how many things they can manage and how much money they can sell, this outsider doesn't know! Even if they are asked to hand over the accounts, they must have been modified. Let's talk about it. We don't have so many staff now, and it's too difficult to figure out the tax amount. Mr. Zhang, can you take a moment to slow it down, or let you find a way?"

Zhang Ximeng still smiled, beckoning people to give someone a pot of hot water, and then said to Li Shan Chang: "The last time my husband talked about Tiantian, he opened his eyes to the late students and learned a lot. Now, my husband's high-level talk reminds me not only of this. Last time...Is it really impossible to expropriate?"

　　 Zhang Ximeng seemed to be smiling but not smiling, he was calculated by Lao Li last time, and now he is proposed again, which is equivalent to breaking Li Shanchang's mind, which makes this a little embarrassing.

　　 Zhang Ximeng simply said: "Mr. Li, I proposed a progressive tax rate, and you agree with it in front of the lord. Now it is inconvenient to implement... Then I might as well talk about my own ideas. Is it really that difficult?"

"Mr. Li, how big is the place and how many people are together? The small family, naturally, don't need this. The remaining big ones who can collect business tax are just a few. Salt, tea, copper, etc. Iron, porcelain, cotton yarn, silk, grain, wood, bricks and tiles... these things, how much are shipped in from the outside, how much the shops sell, there is always an approximate number? I don't say that every single point is not bad. It is not difficult to make statistics. Moreover, we can collect taxes and cultivate talents at the same time. We don't make preparations right now, and we will cross the river in the future to seize the celebration. It is a major town in the south of the Yangtze River with a population of one million. How should we deal with it? Isn't it just relying on land tax to maintain expenses?"

Zhang Ximeng paused, and continued: "Mr. surrendered to the lord, using the emperor of Han to try his best to lord the lord, and the lord relied on Xiao He to send it to him. Naturally, I hope that Mr. can plan the strategy and manage the lord's finances for the lord. Mr. Juntian can make it so clear, two Song's commercial tax is naturally clear. We are just laying the foundation for the future. If we don't prepare now, and wait for the Lord to open the mansion and even ascend the throne to become the emperor, who is responsible for collecting commercial tax? Is it necessary to give up this tax?"

　　 Zhang Ximeng said again: "Mr. Li has been working in the yamen for a long time, then I would like to ask one thing, how to calculate the expenses of the yamen? Is it to live within our means?"

　　 Li Shan's mouth twitched slightly, "This... doesn't seem to be."

　　 "Yes, Yamen always collect the money first, and then think about how to spend it... By the way, this is what Mrs. Jia told me."

　　 Li Shanchang is even more embarrassed, and can only say: "Since the old man said it, naturally he can't be wrong."

　　 Zhang Ximeng followed Jia Lu for a period of time to make up for the lesson. Indeed, his skill has improved very quickly. Not only people who are roughly ahead of this era, but also practical experience.

　　 The fiscal budget is not about calculating how much to spend and then collecting taxes... In fact, the officials in charge of tax collection are doing everything possible to collect more. The more money you have, the more wealth you have at your disposal and the greater your power.

　　 As for how to spend money, it is not easy!

　　 Organize some celebrations, give some welfare to the officials, and then reward the three armies... Anyway, you can always find a famous flower, so don't worry at all.

　　 What I really need to worry about is that I won't be able to receive it.

Even in the future of Ming Dynasty, due to the lack of commercial taxation, land mergers, and unreasonable division of local and central finances, leaving the household department with only a few million taels of silver, crying and grabbing land, in addition to being able to make some salaries, Paying the soldiers, repairing the palace, maintaining the river...I can't do anything else, and I fall into a deficit at every turn.

　　 Even Zhang Juzheng's reforms only dared to move a knife on Tian Fu.

　　 "Mr. Li, I have a few words in my mind when I was born late. If I want to talk to Mr. Li, I'm afraid that I will talk shallowly, Mr. Li blames..."

　　 Li Shanchang hurriedly said: "Don't say that, Mr. Zhang is a confidant of the upper class, and he comes from a famous school. Knowledge and knowledge are far better than Shanchang. Just ask Mr. Zhang for advice!"

　　 Zhang Ximeng sighed slightly, "Does Mr. Li know about the lord's experience?"

Li Shanchang nodded, "Knowing that the lord experienced misfortune in his early years, it is really embarrassing... As the saying goes, the sky will come down to the people. You must first suffer from your will, work your muscles, and hungry your skin... !"

Zhang Ximeng nodded and said: "It is true, but Mr. Li should also know that, because of this, our lord is jealous of hatred, sympathizes with the weak, cherishes the people, hates corrupt officials, gangsters and profiteers. Mr. Li has a very good family background and has done more than a dozen more. The book official of Nian, because of this status, the lord inevitably beats from time to time, does the gentleman think so?"

　　 Li Shanchang's face changed, he was startled for a long time, and finally he let out a long sigh, showing helplessness. He chose the right lord, but he is not the right person. Could it be that God is playing tricks on him, Li Shanchang?

　　 Zhang Ximeng looked at his words and thoughts and smiled and said, "Does Mr. Li understand "Yi"?"

　　 "I don't quite understand." Li Shanchang said modestly.

"I don't understand... But there is a Ge hexagram in the Book of Changes. There is fire in the river, and the water is dry and the grass is withered. It is the meaning of great changes! The Ge Gua pays attention to the transformation of adults, the transformation of villains, and the transformation of gentlemen and leopards! Mr. Li, do you think so?"

　　 Li Shanchang was horrified, and couldn't help but say: "The gentleman leopard has changed, the gentleman leopard has changed!"

"That's right! Mr. Li, although your birth experience makes the lord unhappy, but if your husband can become a gentleman and work hard to conquer the world for the lord and achieve the emperor's career, wouldn't it be the case? Isn't it possible to be famous for future generations?" Zhang Ximeng Said: "Chuzhou merchants, of course, have an old relationship with his husband, but with a little affection, how can he forget the important thing? Besides, even if they meet to slander Mr., how can the lord listen to these people's words? They scold him. The more ruthless, the more stable the position of your husband!"

　　 Li Shanchang was completely stunned, what a revolution, what a gentleman and leopard change!

　　 When the world is in the world, it should be like a leopard, changing quickly and following the time. Since I chose Zhu Yuanzhang, I must put my heart on the Lord's great cause.

　　 Actually, Li Shanchang was a little unwilling to divide the fields in front of him or the current business tax. After all, the knife was on his own body.

　　 Hearing what Zhang Ximeng said, Li Shanchang was shaken.

　　 He is now in his prime, what else can't be seen clearly?

　　 is nothing more than not having the heart to start!

　　 If it is an ordinary time, it would be better to say ~www.mtlnovel.com~ But at the time of the world's revolution, how can you look forward to the future, procrastinate, only promise!

　　 The gentleman and leopard change!

　　 Li Shanchang stood up suddenly and bowed deeply at Zhang Ximeng.

　　 "Mr. Zhang, thank you for your kind advice! If your good deeds can assist your superiors in the future and accomplish your great cause, it depends on Mr. Zhang!"

　　 Zhang Ximeng also stood up and smiled: "Mr. Li, this truth is also what Elder Jia meant. He knows that you are a talent, and that you have been working in places for a long time, which restricts your vision!"

　　 Li Shanchang nodded vigorously, this is too right!

"Mr. Zhang, let's also talk about the business tax... there is nothing bad to collect. Let's take care of every intersection, and the city gate will also arrange people. We have a rough idea of ​​how much goods we buy and which one we want to send to. Then check regularly to determine the amount of the transaction, and then collect the commercial tax. In fact, the progressive tax rate is nothing more than the last step to be calculated carefully. It is not as simple as one in 30 or one in 60. I will teach it myself and I can learn it."

"It's easy to see how many big merchants and big business there are in Chuzhou. Register them, and the remaining street vendors only need to collect a tax of 10 to 20 yuan per person." Li Shan's face flushed red and talked freely. . This time, he has no reservations.

　　 "Wait a minute!" Zhang Ximeng said in deep thought, "Mr. Li, big households can expropriate them, but if the people go to the city to sell some vegetables, fruits and vegetables, or the woodcutter sells firewood and charcoal, they have to collect money? I'm afraid the lord will not agree!"

"Hahaha!"

　　 Li Shanchang couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Zhang, I will also teach you a trick...Let's pass the strategy up, this is for the superiors to show kindness! We can't exempt the small merchants and hawkers from taxes for the superiors, right?"

　　 Zhang Ximeng was speechless for a moment, and could only stretch out his thumb: "See you, sir!"

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