The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Soon, Gao Yi rode on a high horse and went straight out of the city gate.

The outer city government office.

"Lord Hai, I came here uninvited, can I have a good cup of tea?"

Hai Rui looked at Gao Yi: "Master Gao, you are here..."

Gao Yi laughed loudly: "Lord Hai, I am here to give you a message by order of the crown prince."

Hai Rui's face froze immediately: "The prince should have asked me to investigate those corrupt officials, right?"

Gao Yi nodded: "That's exactly what happened, Mr. Hai. Now the prince is going to do something big. It's a great honor for Mr. Hai to be favored by the prince. When the prince is crowned a great treasure in the future, the prince will not treat Hai badly." grown-ups."

Hai Rui shook his head: "You'd better go, I'm busy, so I won't see you off."

Gao Yi hated iron but steel: "Hai Rui, corrupt officials are rampant now, don't you really care?"

Hai Rui put on a dull face: "There are quite a few people who can take care of this matter, why bother to find someone who is not capable enough like me? Please come back, Mr. Gao."

Gao Yi was terribly disappointed: "Where did that hating Hai Rui go? Master Hai, you have disappointed me so much. You are no longer the original Hai Rui. You have changed and become so strange."

Hai Rui sneered: "I don't need you to tell me what has become of me, get out!"

Gao Yi became angry with embarrassment: "Okay, Mr. Hai, don't regret it in the future, how many people want to do things for the prince but have no way..."

Hai Rui said coldly, "I only do things for His Majesty the Emperor. As for the Crown Prince, let's wait until he is crowned the Great Treasure."

"You!" Gao Yi was so angry that he died, "you can't teach a child!"

Angrily, he flicked his sleeves and left.

Watching Gao Yi leave, Hai Rui's cold face thawed out, and he let out a long sigh.

"Prince, prince, do you think I don't know your purpose? If it was me in the past, naturally I wouldn't count on you to plot me, and I would pursue those people because they corrupted the law and fished the common people, but now, Lord Yan's words wake me up. Leave me... I don't want to be a famous minister, I want to be a capable minister for the people... However, after I build this new city, I, Hai Rui, will still be the old 020 Hai Rui, no Fear power! Kill corrupt officials!"

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The fact that the crown prince sent someone to find Hai Rui but failed, quickly reached the ears of all the officials in the capital, and those officials who had ghosts in their hearts breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiajing didn't know anything about this, and he was still practicing Taoism, obviously he had forgotten about the government.

As for Yan Song, he was very dissatisfied with the crown prince's appearance, and decided to find something for him to do so that he would not mess around.Soon, Yan Song picked a plan that was not yet ripe for implementation and would need to be implemented in the next ten years, and gave it to the prince in advance to make him suffer.

This plan is called "Daming Commercial Tax Reform Plan".

Taxation in the Ming Dynasty can be divided into three categories: land tax, salt tax, and miscellaneous income.Among them, the land tax is the biggest one, accounting for about 70.00% of the total income[-], the salt tax is equivalent to [-]% of the land tax income, and the commercial tax is [-] in [-], and those who exceed it will be regarded as violating the order. "

商税原先是30取1，也就是3.3%。后来明朝皇帝与内阁考虑减轻国用以减少百姓负担，万历时降到了1.5%。小生意、小商小贩、年营业额在40两白银以下的免税。

This tax law, in modern times, is quite unreasonable.

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Chapter 191 "Commercial Tax Reform Plan" [3]

The tax structure of the Ming Dynasty was not unreasonable. Due to the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture over commerce since ancient times, scholars thought that agriculture was the highlight of the country, and commerce was just a trivial matter. This idea eventually affected the tax system.

The specific manifestation is that the commercial tax of Ming Dynasty was 3.3%, which was much lower than the agricultural tax of 10%.

However, due to land mergers and the collusion between these big land owners and local officials, agricultural tax began to evade taxes. As a result, the agricultural tax became less and less (farmers cried: I am the only one who dare not evade taxes.)

As for commercial tax, with the development of the economy, business is becoming more and more prosperous, and there should be more and more tax revenue. However, businessmen are good at making money, and they are easy to collude with officials. Look at the Donglin Party, the Jin Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and the Zhejiang Party. These are all a collection of merchants + officials + landlords. They themselves are representatives of merchants. How can they pay taxes honestly?So there is a lot of tax evasion.

In the Ming Dynasty, many scholars also saw that the business tax was too low and unreasonable, and that the tax should be increased, but they were quickly suppressed by those party officials.

Of course, the reasons of these party officials are also very lofty: "The imperial court should not compete with the people for profit, and should relax taxes so that the people can benefit..."

Driven by such lofty reasons, Emperor Wanli, Jiajing's grandson, instituted a policy——

"The commercial tax has been reduced from 3.3% to 1.5%, which has been directly cut in half, and it is also stipulated that small businesses, small businesses and hawkers, and those with an annual turnover of less than 40 taels of silver are exempt from tax."

Representatives of those parties celebrated with each other.

Only Emperor Wanli has been kept in the dark, complacent about the voice of the "sage king", but he doesn't know that he has been ridiculed by those officials.

After Yan Song crossed over, out of his familiarity with history, he understood that the commercial tax of Ming Dynasty must be revised and increased, so as to ensure the strong construction of a state agency, and the country has money to build national infrastructure and make more Good military construction, economic and military.

What is tax?

To put it bluntly, it is a country-wide 【Optimized Resource Allocation】!

Unify and integrate the financial resources of the whole country to do national affairs.

This is the nature of taxes.

For a country to develop, its tax system must be healthy.

Therefore, Yan Song began to contemplate and write a plan for the reform of the commercial tax system several months ago, but Yan Song also knows that the reform of commercial tax is simply killing those businessmen and parties. fierce resistance.

Therefore, Yan Song will not do it now, but will only do it ten or twenty years later, when he has such strength, he will only do it again.

But now, Yan Song is upset when he sees the prince jumping around so happily, dragging Hai Rui into the water and affecting the new city project, you are too busy, right?Then let me do something for you.

However, this method of 'sending' still needs to be considered.

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