Hope for luck

Chapter 534
Gao Pan's proposal to increase the commercial tax was thrown on the court ceremony by Emperor Tianfeng, which aroused criticism from many ministers.

These ministers believed that increasing commercial taxes was undoubtedly competing with the people for profit, which violated the will of Taizu and would also make the court unpopular.

As for the opposition of these ministers, Gao Pan felt that it was expected. After all, who doesn't have a store business yet?
Previously, the New Deal only charged them a little poll tax and land tax. This increase in business tax hit their vital point.

If the New Deal only allows them to take money out of their pockets, then the increase in business taxes will allow them, the gentry, to give up most of their profits.

However, the examples given by Gao Pan were very helpful to Emperor Tianfeng. After all, the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River often have millions of fortunes, and some are even richer, even tens of millions of fortunes. This made Emperor Tianfeng very dissatisfied .

Gao Pan said in the memorial that these wealthy merchants don't think about doing good things when they have money, but they collude with officials and oppress the people at the bottom.

Usury and land mergers are the most common. The most intolerable thing is that they use their huge wealth to pile up a Yingtian Mansion Jieyuan.

The imperial examination is the foundation of the court officials, and they can manipulate it. If things go on like this, won't all the officials in the court be theirs?

In this way, Gao Pan felt that these wealthy merchants would not only fail to bring benefits to the court, but would slowly erode the interests of everyone, and eventually the entire court would become a place for them to speak.

Gao Pan's words made Emperor Tianfeng feel terrified, after all, Gao Pan was not talking empty words.

In the Jiangnan collapse plan this time, someone in the court was involved, not to mention the Jiangnan inspectors, Yingtian Zhifu and other high-ranking officials in the Jiangnan officialdom were all part of their group.

In this way, Emperor Tianfeng knew that Gao Pan was not an alarmist. As an emperor, he was naturally very vigilant and would not tolerate such an existence that threatened the imperial power.

In the end, although many ministers strongly opposed it, Emperor Tianfeng still adopted Gao Pan's suggestion and directly increased the original commercial tax of [-]% to [-] times, and changed it to [-]% of the goods and [-]% of the tax.

And this policy, unlike the New Deal, still needs to be tested, and it is directly implemented to the whole world.

This made many people hate Gao Pan so much, but they couldn't do anything other than hate.

……

On a certain day in late May, Gao Pan welcomed Shen Jieli on the pier outside Guangling City.

This time Shen Jieli came to the south with a lot of money, one is to open a bank branch in Guangling Mansion, and the other is to take over some business at Gao Pan's request.

Shen Family Bank, because of its advanced business philosophy, quickly opened up the situation in the capital, and it also faintly challenged the status of Datong Bank.

At the same time, under Gao Pan's instruction, the Shen family bank was renamed the People's Bank, with the idea of ​​keeping property for the people of the world.

When Gao Pan saw Shen Jieli walking out calmly and grandly in a embroidered round cap and a long blue gown, he couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction.

After going through many things, Shen Jieli has grown rapidly in the past two years. The most important thing is that after a failed marriage, Shen Jieli became more stable.

"Haha, brother-in-law, long time no see, I really miss you!"

However, when he came in front of Gao Pan, Shen Jieli's calm demeanor disappeared instantly, and he greeted Gao Pan very happily.

And Gao Pan responded with a smile:

"Haha, it's been a long time, how is big brother?"

After speaking, Gao Pan signaled Shen Jieli to get into the carriage first, Shen Jieli also understood very well, and after ordering the people behind him, he followed Gao Pan into the carriage.

In the carriage, after Gao Pan exchanged a few words with Shen Jieli, Gao Pan began to instruct Shen Jieli on what he was going to do next.

For example, he obtained some salt from the Salt Transportation Department, bought some mulberry fields and textile factories, and at the same time Gao Pan gave Shen Jieli a blueprint.

It is a textile machine that crosses the ages. Gao Pan is releasing it now because he knows that the productivity in Jiangnan has been completely liberated, and it is time for some transformative changes.

"This...this thing can really increase the benefits several times? Doesn't that mean..."

After Shen Jieli got the blueprint, he was very shocked. He naturally knew what the increased production capacity meant.

Gao Pan shook his head and said:

"It's just a blueprint for the time being, and it will take some time before it is actually made. However, during this time, you can buy some fields and buy some sea ships to prepare!"

Gao Pan naturally didn't realize that his approach was actually not fundamentally different from the previous collusion between Jiangnan officials and businessmen.

If there is a difference, Gao Pan is a promising official with "conscience" and "ambition". He knows where the bottom line is as an upper-level figure, so that he will not let the bottom-level people do nothing for nothing, or even ruin their families.

After finishing the business, Shen Jieli told Gao Pan what Shen Jinhua had brought, saying it was a box of daily necessities, and asked Gao Pan when he was going to leave for the capital.

When Shen Jieli asked this, Gao Pan was startled, and then he remembered that, counting the time, the day when Shen Jinhua gave birth was getting closer and closer, and it was only two or three months away.

After thinking about it, Gao Pan said that he would leave for Beijing at the latest in early July. After Shen Jieli heard this, he was very pleased and happy for Shen Jinhua.

……

Then, with the arrival of Shen Jieli, Gao Pan's business empire began to emerge.

As the magistrate, Gao Pan bought and sold land, but it was just a matter of waving hands. As for Yanyin, Gao Pan did not spend much effort, and he took a lot of Yanyin for Shen Jieli, which was only a lot more than the Yanyin controlled by the Lou family before. .

In the following time, Gao Pan basically acted as the hands-off shopkeeper, and all the affairs of the government office were handed over to Xie Yujun, a colleague.

As for things in the shopping mall, after Shen Jieli got started slowly, Gao Pan didn't need to worry about it.

At the beginning of June, the people in Guangling City suddenly discovered that there was an extra bank named 'People's Bank Guangling Branch' in the city.

Although the low-key opening, the business that can be carried out has caught the eyes of many people. Saving money with interest, and there are loans with extremely low interest, which has also attracted the attention of many businessmen.

After all, there are many wealthy businessmen involved in the collapse plan, and many businesses are currently vacant and no one will take over. The original small businessmen wanted to take over, but they didn't have enough money to support them.

And the extremely low interest offered by the common people's bank gave them hope, and they came to inquire one after another.

After hearing the teller inside that it was indeed the case, many merchants borrowed a lot of money here one after another.

In this way, the people's bank quickly became popular among the people, but this made the people in Datong bank jealous and caused a new disturbance.

(End of this chapter)