Daming One Piece

Chapter 121 Taking the initiative to pay for money (second update, please subscribe, please collect)
Why do you have to rely on him?
Zheng Honghai's words surprised Zheng Hongshan.

"If you don't rely on him, who else can we rely on?"

"Rely on the head of the family, rely on Mr. Shi, this place is Mr. Shi's place, if we don't rely on him, who do we rely on?"

Zheng Honghai said.

"Yes, but we are not his people, why should he protect us?"

"What's wrong with people who are not his? These Liaodong people were not his people in the past,"

"That's different!"

Zheng Hongshan shook his head and said.

"The Liaodong people were brought here by him, they are his people, and we are people brought by an official."

"Then we'll pay him the money."

After thinking about it, Zheng Honghai said.

"Just like when we were doing business in our hometown, like handing over money to the government, handing over the money to Mr. Shi, I still don't believe it, and he will not accept the money we handed over..."

After a pause, as if thinking of something, Zheng Honghai continued.

"Let's hand over the money to him first, and test it out. If he accepts it, he will definitely protect us!"

"Try?"

After thinking about it, Zheng Hongshan said.

"That's a way, but how much money do we have to pay?"

"Well, it won't work if it's too much, it won't work if it's too little, I think, just, let's pay 500 taels first, but brother, when you send money, you must explain that this is tax money! Yes, it is tax money. Silver is the tax money we pay! I haven’t paid this silver in the past, and it’s a bit awkward to talk about it now!”

Sometimes, some things will always have unexpected changes.

The next morning, very early in the morning, Sun Mingli, who was a clerk in the mansion, had just finished his work when Zheng Hongshan walked in. As soon as he entered the room, he put a bag of silver on the table, and said in blunt official language.

"Sun, clerk Sun, this money was handed over to the family!"

"What? What silver?"

Sun Mingli said in surprise.

He even looked left and right involuntarily. Is this for his own benefit?So much money?How big a deal is this going to be?

"This is the tax money handed over to the government!"

"Tax bank?"

Sun Mingli opened his mouth wide in surprise, and looked at Zheng Hongshan puzzled.

"What tax money?"

"Give it to the government's tax bank!"

Zheng Hongshan said directly.

"Imperial food and national taxes are justified, and there are those who do business without paying money, Manager Sun, please quickly issue us a receipt..."

Say what?

What is the royal grain and national tax as a matter of course, how many people who do business in Daming pay money?Even if there is money to be paid, it is not given to Daming, but to those officials and gentlemen.

Pay taxes?

Don't say it sounds new.

"Wait, I have to report to the eldest lady first!"

No one thought that the first payment of tax money in Beigang would be handed over by the least popular business, so that when Yan Ruyu received the money, she instinctively asked someone to throw the money out, so as not to waste money. Dirty her hands.

"Need not!"

Shi Yiwen blocked it directly.

"Keep this money. By the way, Manager Sun, go and engrave a seal, and then print some tax stamps. The tax stamps should be printed in quadruple."

After thinking about it, Shi Yiwen still decided to draw a quadruple tax invoice in the form of future invoices. This type of tax invoice has passed the test of time and can be implemented into the 21st century. It must have its advantages. What is the biggest advantage?It is easy to check the accounts, and even the company's bookkeeping method, he directly used the bookkeeping method of later generations. As for the account books... there are hundreds of empty books in the accounting office of the supermarket, just print them according to the appearance.In fact, these are not difficult for Shi Yiwen. After all, he has also considered the accounting qualification certificate. Although he did not pass the exam, the accounting system and accounting knowledge he has mastered are definitely ahead of the times.

As for printing... Among the people who came from Liaodong, there are all kinds of craftsmen. There are many craftsmen who are good at carving and printing books, and there are also paper-making craftsmen, and a paper-making workshop has also been built here.

Perhaps as many as 700 million Liaodong people were displaced by the war, but to a certain extent, it also gave Shi Yiwen the opportunity to "find the leak". If it weren't for the massacre of Liaodong people by the Manchu Qing, how could these Liao people leave their hometowns? Arriving here has brought earth-shaking changes to Beigang.

A lot of workshops and factories such as winemaking workshops, papermaking workshops, book printing houses, etc. have been opened recently. In a year or two, Beigang may become a small town with developed commerce and trade.

Just like Guanshi Sun in front of me, Sun Mingli, he used to be a student in Shenyang, but what about now?They are refugees who have lost their homes, oh yes, they are still in charge here.

"Brother Shi, yes, but this silver, this silver is really too dirty."

Yan Ruyu said with some dissatisfaction.

"Imperial grain and national tax are justified. What is tax money? It is the people's recognition of the government, which shows that in their eyes, we are the government here..."

Official!

Looking at this Juyi Hall, Shi Yiwen felt a bit of a murmur in his heart.

Is there a government office called Juyitang?
No, the name has to be changed.

What is it called?

"Government?"

Yan Ruyu retorted.

"He was treating us like an official, and he clearly wanted us to protect him. Zheng Hongshan is Zheng Yiguan's cousin!"

"so what?"

Shi Yiwen laughed.

"What is the government's responsibility? Isn't it to protect law-abiding citizens? Yes, this is the government's responsibility, service and protection. The business he does, Zheng Hongshan, is not popular, but it is also a legal business. He was the first to stand up and pay taxes. Yes, he paid the tax in exchange for our protection, we collected the tax, of course we have to protect him, in the future..."

Looking outside the stockade, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"This tax money still has to be collected. Not only must it be collected, even our place can no longer follow the rules of the village."

"No rules, what are you using?"

"Use the law!"

Shi Yiwen casually took out a book from the table.

"It's the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", just like the government in the mainland governs the region, what is it based on? Isn't it still the law? Isn't it the "Law of the Ming Dynasty"?"

How to distinguish a pirate stronghold from a city?

The most fundamental difference is the law!
The order of a city depends on the law, but what does the pirate stronghold rely on?It is the so-called "prestige", that is, relying on the leader himself, but this will bring another problem, just like after Yan Siqi's death, someone tried to seize power immediately.

What is the law?
It is the foundation of a social order, without legal sanctions, everything is randomized by the will of the leader, it is just a gang, a group that may be subverted at any time.

As he said this, Shi Yiwen naturally thought of Hoi An. One of the most fundamental reasons for the struggles between different factions and Chinese in different regions in Hoi An was that there was nothing to follow.

This is probably why those "Chinese companies" like Hoi An and Southeast Asia tend to disappear due to internal strife and are annexed by Western colonists. They are just a group of gangs. The lack of law makes them face their own problems When people conflict and compete, the first consideration is force, not law.

Finally?

They fought with their own people.Fighting to the death for a little profit.

However, none of them took advantage of it in the end.It's all cheap for foreigners, but in the end it's nothing for me to fetch water from a bamboo basket.

(End of this chapter)