I was the heir in ancient times

It is not without reason that Gu Baozhen proposed to standardize commercial taxation.

In the 11 years since the establishment of Shu Kingdom, the most successful business he has built is his cake shop, which is called "a fruit shop". At first, it was just for fun. He asked the waiter in the store to share all the recipes for free.

However, because ancient sugar and other seasonings were used by the nobles themselves, they are scarce goods, so ordinary people have no conditions to know these production methods, and his shop bears his name, so the daily business is booming, even in the capital. The tax bureau, that is, the adults who are in charge of taxation in the capital under the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, also take good care of his shop, and the tax is exempted if it can be exempted.

Since most of the tax revenue is also from the fourth brother, Gu Baozhen thought that maybe these officials took care of him not to please him, but because the fourth brother had greeted him, probably because he wanted him to earn more pocket money. Brother didn't know that all the proceeds from his store were handed over to Brother Six for scientific research and experiments. After all, this part of the money was like running water. There was no government appropriation, and it was purely burning money by himself.

"Master Wen, Minister of the Household Department, is in charge of taxation. Why don't you talk about the details of the business tax in our court? Although I understand it, but I'm afraid I can't explain it well, so I ask Master Wen for help." Gu Baozhen stood facing each other. The thin adult behind him smiled.

The thin and tall Mr. Wen was a man of character at first glance, with a gray goatee and firm eyes. Hearing the prince's words, he quickly bowed slightly and looked at the emperor.

Emperor Gu Shiyong took the time to calm down: "Okay, since the crown prince said you spoke well, Wen Zhuo, you can talk about it."

"Yes." Master Wen's back gradually straightened, and he spoke clearly and crisply, "Since the dawn of the Shu Kingdom, the tax system of the previous dynasty has been used, and the commercial tax is thirty one. This commercial tax is not heavy, but the treasury's silver is not mainly from Commercial tax comes, salt tax and agricultural tax are the main sources of tax revenue, and tax is collected in kind and land tax.”

Gu Baozhen nodded, and asked again: "Then what is the proportion of agricultural tax and commercial tax in the total tax?"

Master Wen said without hesitation: "It just so happened that the agricultural tax and land tax were the highest. If there is a tax of 100 taels, then 98 taels will come from the agricultural tax and salt tax, and the rest will come from the commercial tax."

"Then I would like to ask Mr. Wen again, how much did I pay for the agricultural tax last year?"

Master Wen replied: "The tax is 70 million Dan."

"Excuse me, Mr. Wen, how much land is suitable for farming in my dynasty?"

Master Wen suddenly got stuck, aware of the danger of the prince's question, but only hesitated for a second, and then continued to answer: "If you return to Your Highness, the land is 740 hectares."

"Huh? It's a little strange. There are more than 700 million hectares of land, and the tax is only more than 3000 million dan. In other words, one hectare of land is only taxed with ten dan?" In other words, one hectare of land is equal to one hundred mu. It can produce more than 700 kilograms of grain, but in ancient times, one mu was about 300 kilograms, and one load was equal to one hundred catties. That is to say, one hectare of land produced [-] kilograms of grain, but the tax was only one thousand catty?

This is obviously scary to listen to!The field tax is implemented in Shu State with two tax systems, one in August and one in November. The local farmers are not heavily taxed, and most of them are collected from 5.00% to 20.00% of the total amount. Jiangnan is an exception. Because of the good fields in Jiangnan, The yield per mu is high, and the tax is as high as [-]%.

One mu of land is expropriated according to the minimum 5.00%, and calculated according to the minimum mass production, it should also be expropriated [-] kilograms, which is quite different from one thousand catties!So who in the middle is withholding taxes? !Bullying?

"If what Master Wen said is true, where did the missing 6000 million dans of grain go? Master Wen, did you eat it?" The prince smiled.

Mr. Wen knelt down on the spot, sweating coldly. Although it was not his fault, the crown prince took the pot over like this. Of course, his first reaction was to kneel down: "The crown prince is wronged. There are some details that have not been explained here. There are indeed 740 hectares of fertile land in Shuguo, but only more than 200 million hectares of which can be collected for land tax.”

"Why? Is the fertile land in this world the king's land, who has the heart of a leopard and dare not pay taxes? The greedy ones actually have more food in the treasury. Are they preparing to rebel?" , I asked knowingly.

Although the crown prince asked the question knowingly, Mr. Wen is now on the cusp of the storm, and he is deeply taken care of by the fourth prince. The fourth prince has a good relationship with the prince, so he is not afraid of offending anyone. No, the crown prince is seriously wronged, more than half of the land is the land of the family, and the official also has a certain amount of tax-free land under his command, so the accumulation of less is more."

The prince suddenly realized, turned around embarrassedly and bowed to his little nephew Zhitong, apologizing, and said: "So that's the case, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm stupid and ignorant, I really don't know, and you dare to slander Zhitong and your uncles for rebellion. Don't blame me, I don't know."

Master Liu Liu Xiao was so angry that he almost vomited blood, you don't know what a fart!

Zhitong returned the gift respectfully, with a naive look who didn't know that the prince was mocking the aristocratic family behind him, and said politely: "Your Highness speaks seriously."

Liu Xiao was about to stand up and say something, but he heard the emperor say displeasedly: "The prince is ridiculous, if you listen carefully to Mr. Dong's lectures with such common sense, you will definitely not make such a joke in my morning court! Go back and apologize to your Mr. Dong, and then learn from Mr. Dong, understand?"

"My son knows." The prince pretended to admit his mistake with his head bowed.

"Okay, now that you know it, forget it. I don't think you will be able to come up with any commercial and tax regulations for a while. Go back and write a note and submit it to me. After I read it, I will decide whether to show it to you. Aiqing discusses it, so as not to lose my people." Gu Shiyong blew his beard and stared, and waved his sleeves to end the early court, in fact, he was looking for a step down for the prince.

The emperor defended the prince, and even if someone in the courtiers was going to discuss with the prince from [-], [-], or [-] o'clock, they could only quiet down and shut up.

Now that the morning court was down, the ministers sneaked away in groups of three or four, and many people sensed the upward direction. Although the crown prince had always enjoyed confronting Liu Gong all day long, after Liu Gong left, there was nothing wrong with him. However, everyone couldn't connect the emperor's desire to suppress the aristocratic family with the grievances between the prince and Duke Liu.

In addition, Zhi Tong, the representative of the aristocratic family, was entrusted with important tasks, almost replacing the eldest prince and occupying many resources of the literati group, and no one guessed whether the aristocratic family was doing well.

However, today is different from the past, the emperor and the prince are obviously singing double reeds!Are you acting for them? !Terrible!

What rebellion, what audacity, what is more than the treasury, these words are added to the aristocratic family layer by layer, it is really not enough to punish the nine clans!

The smart family is ready to go back to hold a family meeting to discuss the countermeasures, whether to donate money or donate the land; the dead pig family is still not afraid of boiling water, it is expected that these gossips are really just the prince who doesn’t understand, don’t worry, not to mention that the emperor ran all over the family some time ago After leaving the Zhu family, it should be to rectify those emerging nobles. At this time, my family has a high reputation among the scholars, and the emperor still needs their support; Anyway, don't worry.

Gu Baozhen threw a bomb in the courtiers, and it was actually quite funny to see everyone looking like they were facing an enemy. He was about to go back to his Nansan residence, thinking that he should be able to see Sixth Brother when he went back now, but he saw him first. Mr. Dong came to his side.

"Teacher." Gu Baozhen bowed deeply.

Dong Futu smiled and quickly gave him a hand: "Prince please stand up, there is no need to be polite."

"It's still necessary. Just now, my father said that I have no knowledge and skills. If I lose respect for my teacher, wouldn't there be nothing to please my father?" Gu Baozhen and Mr. Dong walked together. say.

After hearing what the prince said, Mr. Dong shook his head happily, and said, "Your Highness is still so humorous. In fact, His Highness just walked in to attend the morning court, and His Majesty liked it so much that he wanted to sing a song. How could there be no such thing?"

When Gu Baozhen heard this, he knew that Mr. Dong also knew that he was the crown prince that his father really wanted, so Mr. Dong... should be his thin face.

Gu Baozhen once read some unpopular ancient knowledge, saying that the former emperor would sometimes imprison a large number of officials before his death. The previous emperor was in a complicated mood. He wanted to serve the country loyally, but was imprisoned here. Those who couldn’t hold on broke down and committed suicide within a few years, while those who persisted in waiting would be released by the new king himself when he came to the throne. Let the new king rehabilitate, and let the new king comfort the wounded hearts of these talented courtiers, so that these courtiers will work for the new king and be loyal until death.

He suddenly remembered this little episode, and thought that he had accidentally become Mr. Bo's savior 11 years ago, and suddenly had a feeling that fate had arranged everything from the beginning.

He walked along the paths given to him by fate, each of which led to the same place.He has no way to refuse, he can only choose to let himself be happier on this road, so that his life will not leave regrets and the process will be happy.

"Mr. Dong is absurd." Gu Baozhen invited and said, "By the way, my father asked me to come back and study with Mr. Dong again. Why don't we go to the South Third Institute together now? I want to give my father a booklet about business taxes. , Most of them are my ideas, maybe some places are not suitable, Mr. Dong, please give me your advice.”

"Good." In front of Dong Futu's eyes is the prince who has lost a lot of weight but his eyes are still astonishingly bright. The prince himself has a beautiful appearance. When he was young, he was especially fond of coquettishness. The child, who has transformed to this point in only two months now, has the feeling that as long as he is willing to follow the prince, he will be able to eat meat, and his eyes are no longer confused and timid, only strong and calm.

Calmness is the most important quality of being a monarch.

The prince of Shu Kingdom has grown up.

This teacher finally saw the right thing, and was about to collude, ah bah, to discuss a big plan, but when he stepped out of the outer gate of Qianqing Palace, Gu Baozhen was slightly stopped by a wheat-skinned hand.

Gu Baozhen raised his head and saw that it was none other than the unpopular Xiongnu Shanyu Yelvban.

This Yelvban was stared deeply into the prince's bright black eyes, couldn't help but smiled outside, and said: "His Royal Highness, this king has been waiting for you for a long time, get on the horse, let's go."

Gu Baoyu was disgusted: "Where are you going?"

Yelv Danyu reminded, "Huh? Didn't His Royal Highness promise Ben Shanyu to visit the king's sister?"

The prince smirked: "Really? When did I agree? Why didn't I know?"

"Your Highness forgets things a lot, I'll help you remember the same thing, let's go." After finishing speaking, Yelu Shanyu took Gu Baozhen's forearm with his hand, and pulled Gu Baozhen to the side door where a horse had already been prepared. .

Yes, just a horse.

Yelu Shanyu got on the horse first, then bent down and stretched out his hands to pull Gu Baojin to sit in front of him.

Gu Baozhen's uncontrollable spit broke out: "Shan Yu is really generous, he gave Bengong half of his ass to sit on." Does Bengong seem to be a person who can share a horse with others?

Yeluban laughed loudly: "The prince's words are really interesting, people look cold, but his words are hot."

Hot?What the hell?Lao Tzu is sharp, poisonous, sarcastic, what kind of strange description is hot?This kid talked flirtatiously, and didn't do anything serious at all, but seemed to want to pick him up.

It's a pity that he has a family. If he can be included in the genealogy, everyone will have to call him Mrs. Bo.

But now...

The young master of the Bo family didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't bother to ask him to explain Guixi's matter, he didn't apologize or anything, and he didn't discuss it with him, so he decided to go to the border.Even though Gu Baozhen was worried about Bo Yanliang's hands, he didn't want to go to the other party first, so Yelv Ban in front of him came just in time, so it would be okay to have a fight with Yelu Banxu and the snake.

Presumably based on his understanding of Bo Yanliang, he should be angry within a long time and come to warn him to stay away from the wild man.

Oh, and by the way, I can also find out what this incomprehensible Shan Yu wants to do, which kills two birds with one stone.

——If there is a talent show for Prince 101, Ben Gong must debut at the C position, tsk, it is so good.

The author has something to say: Let’s start, His Royal Highness’s thousand-layer routine~

Victim No. [-]: Yelu Shanyu.

It is said that the land tax tax percentage here refers to the Ming Dynasty percentage.