Conquer all worlds starting from the mythical Three Kingdoms

"Emperor, this is the first thing to happen!" Cai Zhaoji handed over a document.

"Spiritual talent?" Mu Yi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Cai Zhaoji had actually given birth to a spiritual talent.

"Thank you to Sister Huang Tianji!" Cai Zhaoji nodded, which is why he can stand in the Government Affairs Office today.

Today's Government Affairs Office deals with major matters, which are related to the future development direction of the entire empire. Spiritual talent is only the threshold for entry, and she seized this opportunity and successfully trained Huang Tianji to become a spiritual talent owner.

The effect of Cai Zhaoji's mental talent is classification, which can sort complex things into categories to clarify things. This is what she has been doing these days. In layman's terms, it is an infinite dichotomy, which has great potential.

"Let me see, the new commercial law?" Mu Yi fell silent after reading the document. No wonder a group of resourceful people couldn't decide. This kind of thing really requires him to make the final decision.

Business is really not a big deal in this era. Business is just that. Mi Zhu, the current Minister of Commerce, also thinks so. In their view, business is just a tool in their hands, not their foundation.

However, the counselors who had experienced the Song Dynasty still chose to pay attention to one or two, but the way to pay attention to one or two was to adjust the business structure.

After all, in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was a completely negative teaching material. It was because it had shaken the country's foundation that it became possible for the Song Dynasty to be rich but suppressed by foreigners.

The reason is that the wanton development of commerce has tainted the atmosphere of merchants in the court, with all words of loyalty and all interests in heart.

So in general, they agree with suppressing business.

But on how to suppress it, a group of people couldn't come up with a conclusion.

"Mi Zhu, tell me what you think!"

Mu Yi ordered Mi Zhu. Business law cannot circumvent merchants. Now Mi Zhu is also a giant businessman spanning two worlds. Although it is more because of his support from the government, the smell of money passing through is enough to grow the Mi family. Another circle.

Mi Zhu was a little embarrassed. He was the only person present who had no spiritual talent. He was standing here solely because he held the position of Minister of Commerce equivalent to Jiu Qing.

Speaking of which, this is also one of the biggest problems under Mu Yi at present. The official position system is very confusing, with a lot of real and imaginary positions. However, these will be completely determined after the sacrifice ceremony. Huang Tianji is already arranging positions according to merit.

At that time, merit and position will be equal, past merits will be written off, and the rest will be purely based on merit.

"Tell the truth, just tell me how you feel, don't think about anything else!" Mu Yi looked at Mi Zhu and said.

"To be honest, I am very satisfied with the current tax laws, and the national treasury is indeed getting richer and richer. The current accounts are also supervised by Mr. Huang Tianji!" Mi Zhu's chest involuntarily puffed up when he said this.

Although he himself has no spiritual talent, he is talented in making money, and his talent is great. Otherwise, he would not have been able to create such a huge family business from scratch.

Later, after the cross-border business, he became even more at home. He borrowed some of the economic policies of the Song Dynasty and almost completely circulated the economy. Moreover, he took the initiative to submit the accounts to Huang Tianji for review, which can be said to be an upright act.

The business tax under Mu Yi is very low. Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes such as city entry tax have been eliminated. What is left is transaction tax. Although there are taxes that are more than ten times the amount such as luxury tax, the tax is generally very suitable for business. bred.

It's not like Mi Zhu didn't notice that there were more and more merchants in the market, and there were obviously more stalls and hawkers. The smooth roads and preferential policies allowed many people to start business activities.

Even with Huang Tianji's supervision, can you still control the small business of exchanging goods among common people? Of course, these can be summarized as nothing in the welfare of the people.

The important thing is tax evasion and tax evasion. Transaction tax must be supervised. Otherwise, the family will simply change hands with each other several times and turn the transaction into an increase, which will easily harm the official interests.

However, there are also corresponding auditing methods, and this thing relies on highways, so even tax evasion is a small trouble. If you find out, just confiscate the house and wipe out the family. The status of businessmen these days, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, is not just talk. , it is natural to use it if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

But this thing worked well before because it could attract businessmen from all over the world. It was equivalent to kidnapping other businessmen under Mu Yi's command, thus strengthening oneself and weakening others in disguise.

But the problem is that the world now belongs to Mu Yi. If you continue to do this, there will be problems, so Zhuge Liang and the others are planning to suppress business and reshape the business law.

Troubled times are the best time for merchants to make money. I have never heard that there will be fewer merchants in troubled times. Only in times of peace can merchants be controlled.

Zhuge Liang's calculations are not unreasonable. If things like business are not properly guided, it will not be a good thing for the country.

Business is too prosperous, allowing many people who do not work in production to live a better life than the working people, which has already shaken the country's foundation.

After all, the foundation of a country has never been the economy, but food.

Moreover, with the example of Song Shijie before them, they all knew the consequences of excessive business prosperity.

So how to suppress it becomes a question. Of course they know the necessity of business, but they are not unable to see clearly because of their inherent concepts.

They know very well that merchants at this stage are buying and selling more surplus materials, transferring the excess things from one area to another area, which are so-called specialties.

"Kong Ming, tell me what you think!" Mu Yi touched his chin. Although he had been exposed to some things due to the explosion of information, he really didn't understand it very well.

"Stabilize prices, increase commercial taxes, and limit merchants' food and clothing expenses. This is just a case of gossip!" Zhuge Liang calmly put forward his opinion.

The standard template of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce almost continued the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce from the pre-Qin, Eastern Han, and Western Han dynasties.

It can be regarded as putting businessmen in a cage. Even rich businessmen cannot enjoy life. It exalts the status of farmers and limits the status of businessmen.

Moreover, this thing called Suanmin Gaomin was the policy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was to collect property taxes from businessmen.

The advantages of suanmin suimin are very obvious, but the shortcomings of land annexation are also very obvious. However, the current policy is state ownership of land, which can avoid the problem of land annexation. In this way, these policies can be put into use .

Mu Yi turned to look at Xun Yu on the other side. Xun Yu obviously disagreed with Zhuge Liang's suggestion.

"Taxes must not be increased. The tax rate must be constant, otherwise exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will eventually revive again!" Xun Yu's words made Mu Yi couldn't help but nod. The harm of many things is not in the immediate moment, but in being able to stop it once it is opened.

It is not important whether Tang Taizong changed his daily life or not, but what is important is that he made a bad start.

It's like the Taishan Fengchan was very powerful, but after a certain emperor came to the throne, it completely lost its gold content.

The official may not add excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but many small places have a lot of village regulations, and excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are just a matter of their upper lip touching their lower lip.