Peach Fortune Ring

Someone suggested: "General, why don't we go and check a few?"

"Stupid, if this general really does this, then Su Bingwen will definitely be the first to join me!" Xu Xing said angrily.

"Why, they can do the thing of ransacking the house and destroying the house if they preside over the yamen, why can't we do it?"

The general said unconvinced.

Xu Xing sneered and said: "Because they are officials, we are soldiers! Although I have the same official position as Su Bingwen, I still have to be restrained by him. Unless the prefect orders, this general can mobilize the army. Otherwise, this general If you transfer the army, Su Bingwen dares to join me!"

"Then we can only watch the prefect's yamen eat meat, and we can't even drink soup?"

There are generals who are not reconciled.

Xu Xing said: "Whoever said they can eat meat, we don't even have to drink soup, you immediately send someone to spread the news quietly, saying that the prefect's yamen intends to copy all the fortresses, then Song Yan will probably be able to copy Yuanjiabao He caught the Yuan family by surprise! As long as those guys are on guard, it is impossible for him to copy other families like he copied the Yuan family. Let's, then our chance will come!"

Under Xu Xing's deliberate promotion, in less than a day, the news that Song Yan planned to copy all the families in Liangzhou Prefecture spread rapidly. It was pulled out and the guard was strengthened.

But in the next few days, Song Yan didn't do anything extra.

Instead, Su Bingwen personally interrogated the Yuan family and charged the Yuan family with treason.

this day.

Song Yan once again summoned the officials in the government office.

Directly dispatch tasks and ask them to collect taxes from families that owe tax money and food to the government.

The search of Yuan's family not only solved the current predicament of the magistrate's office, but also increased the prestige of Song Yan, the magistrate. Unlike the first time, when they heard that taxes were to be collected, they all found various reasons to shirk.

But this time, they are more positive than one.

An official goes to a family, and then is equipped with three catchers or yamen servants.

Song Yan asked not only to hand over the taxes they owed, but also to take [-]% as interest. The food and silver owed by the court are not in vain, and they owe it for so many years.

That night, the officials sent out to collect taxes all returned to Fucheng with money and food, and those who escorted the food carts were all the people of those families.

They originally thought that Song Yan would deal with them like the Yuan family, but they didn't expect that Song Yan only charged them the tax they should pay. Although they also charged [-]% interest, it was still acceptable.

Therefore, in just one day, those big tax owers paid the taxes, money, taxes and food they owed.

Xu Xing broke a teacup when he heard the news, because his plan to make a fortune failed, so Song Yan didn't follow the routine at all.

Solved the taxation of large households.

Song Yan began to sort out the taxes of ordinary people.

However, he did not rashly send people to collect taxes, but personally took people to the countryside to check.

To achieve the golden core, he has spiritual thoughts in his body, and he only needs to go to a certain village to know whether they are rich or poor.

After three days of visits, Zhou Qing visited nearly a hundred villages, but found that their lives were difficult, and it was difficult for their families to survive the winter with food, let alone pay taxes.

Next, he did not conduct any further visits.

Instead, he came up with the idea of ​​shops in the city. As far as he knew, there were hundreds of shops of various sizes in Liangzhou City, but the business tax they received each year was only more than 2000 taels of silver.

Moreover, it is difficult to collect more than 2000 taels of silver.

Calling the officials who specialize in commercial taxation to ask, Zhou Qing finally knew the reason. ,

It turns out that the hottest businesses in Liangzhou City are all owned by Xu Xing. Even if it wasn't his, he would change his ways to become his. Therefore, among the hundreds of shops, the shops under Xu Xing alone have reached the One hundred and nine.

And Xu Xing is a general who controls five thousand troops, who dares to collect his taxes?

There are also some sneaky people who have taken the relationship with Xu Xing's brother-in-law Liang Yu, and they only need to hang a flag of the military town to avoid paying taxes.

Song Yan looked at the account book, and this year's business tax was only collected more than 200 taels.

Let’s talk about the composition and expenses of the magistrate’s office first.

In the entire Liangzhou Prefecture, there are more than 260 officials, big and small, including yamen servants and arresters, the number is about [-].

In addition, there are three hundred city guards.

The city guards were under the control of the magistrate's yamen, so the salary was also distributed by the magistrate's yamen.

The salaries of the 400 city guards plus food cost about 400 taels per month. As for the salary of more than a hundred officials in the yamen, the salary is about 12 taels. The salary of Su Bingwen, the magistrate, is [-] taels a month. Twelve taels, of course, and food.

There are also catchers and yamen servants, and the salary is almost 500 taels.

Therefore, the monthly expenses of the magistrate’s yamen have reached about 500 taels, and there is also the military town, which needs to give them 5000 taels a year, and 250 taels a month, and finally it is handed over to the court. It needs 2000 taels and [-] catties of grain every year.

Calculated in this way, the monthly expenses of the prefect's yamen will reach 3000 taels.

Because Liangzhou is located on the border and is often harassed by barbarians, it is not bad to receive [-]% of the annual agricultural tax.

Except for the part that was paid to the court, he couldn't even maintain his own expenses.

It's no wonder that when Song Yan came, Su Bingwen threw all the big and small things to him, because there was really nothing he could do about it in his shabby yamen.

Don't look at the confiscation of so much food and money from Yuan's family this time, and the collection of tax money, tax and food from other big households, but this kind of thing can only be done one by one, and it is still accumulated over the years.

It would be nice to receive one hundred thousand catties of grain and several thousand taels of silver from these big households next year, which would not be enough to maintain the operation of the magistrate's office.

Therefore, commercial tax must be collected.

Weiguo doesn't pay much attention to commercial taxation, and divides shops into three levels: upper, middle and lower.

Inferior shops only have two taels of silver a year.

Five taels of silver a year for medium-sized shops.

First-class shops pay ten taels of silver a year.

In Liangzhou City, there are 220 five inferior shops, and if all the commercial taxes are collected, there will be 450 taels.

There are 400 medium-sized shops, and the business tax is [-] taels.

There are 120 high-end shops, among these 120, if all can be collected, there will be 200 taels.

The total business tax should be more than 200 taels.

Seeing that the end of the year is approaching and business taxes have to be collected as soon as possible, Song Yan decided to send someone to re-count the shops tomorrow. After all, the shops recorded by the yamen were all booked five years ago.

After five years, these shops have collapsed again, and some have grown bigger.

Therefore, what is recorded above cannot be counted.