The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

As the news spread, more and more businessmen outside the capital knew the news that the government was going to hold a business meeting and investment promotion meeting, and Mr. Li Liuyuan was still in charge of this matter.Now in the entire Dacheng Kingdom, as long as they are not people who stay behind closed doors, they have heard of Li Liuyuan's name. As far as Li Liuyuan has brought down so many corrupt officials, the ordinary people below have talked a lot about it.

Also, starting from last month, caravan escorts transporting goods into the capital no longer need to pay checkpoints, and many miscellaneous taxes have been exempted in Beijing. The officials below are not allowed to charge indiscriminately. This has greatly reduced the burden on their merchants .It's a pity that this new tax law is currently only implemented in the capital, and has not yet been implemented in other provinces and regions. It is unknown when it will be implemented in other places.

The businessmen from other places all hope that the imperial court will give them more relief and exemption from miscellaneous taxes.

If the imperial court had more good officials like Mr. Li, they would not have to face the exploitation of those corrupt officials all day long.

This business meeting was the first time that the government organized a meeting for their businessmen, inviting them to the capital to discuss business development plans.The subsequent investment promotion conference also gave them many preferential policies for these merchants, so after hearing the news, merchants from all over the world wrote to their acquaintances in Beijing to buy tickets and reserve places, or sent domestic slaves to the capital ahead of time handle it.

It's just that it's hard to buy a ticket in the capital now, and there are a lot of people queuing up to buy tickets at several ticket offices every day. It's not easy to buy a ticket9

After receiving the news, merchants far away from the capital are all preparing to go to Beijing.

Seeing so many people queuing up to send money to the newly established Ministry of Industry and Commerce, this inevitably made the rest of the officials in the capital jealous.

In the past, these officials were just watching the fun, but now they are eager to get involved, but the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is responsible for this matter, and it is not so easy for them, officials from other departments, to get involved.

However, some self-proclaimed high-spirited and stubborn old ministers thought that the officials were holding their chests with anger: you, a court official, dare to participate in business affairs so blatantly, this is simply ruining the atmosphere of the court and ruining the reputation of their officials...

Li Q: It seems that the atmosphere in the court is very good, and the reputation of the officials is very good, he almost believed it!

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Since last month, the capital city has exempted the lijin tax for entering the city. For some individual hawkers, they only charge a fixed booth fee. Those who bring mules, cattle and horses into the city need to charge an additional cleaning management fee, but if they don’t bring livestock into the city, they will be charged a fee. There is no need to give this money.All other miscellaneous fees will be waived.

Therefore, in a short period of time, the number of small vendors selling things in the capital has increased a lot.

Most of these people are people living in villages near the capital making small handicrafts, or carrying surplus agricultural products from their homes to the city to sell.

Looking at the account books and reports of last month, the reports are the statistics that Li Wen asked the people below to do according to his requirements, and the numbers are clear at a glance, "Well, not bad. According to this trend, the numbers of these small vendors will only increase a lot Reduce the peddler’s business tax, it will only be more, not less.” Don’t underestimate the small amount of money each of these small peddlers pay, as long as there are many people, the collection will be a large sum.

For example, there are more than one billion people in the later generations of China. If each person spends one dollar, it will be more than one billion. Will this be less?

In the past, it was the officials and tyrants in the city who forced these small traders to dare not do business in the city. Now there are clear regulations that officials are not allowed to collect money in private.Every time the officials patrolling the city distribute a sign to the small traders in the city, they can get a profit from it. The more signs they distribute, the more money they can get. Dozens of signs have been issued.

According to this calculation, the dividends they can get in a month are more than their original monthly money!

In the past, these officials collected extra money. Firstly, no one cared about it. This has already become an unwritten rule; secondly, their original monthly money was less. The money is not enough for the expenses of the family.Therefore, when the monthly money is not enough to support their families, they can only find ways to earn some other money in private.

But it's different now. As long as they work hard, on the basis of the previous monthly money, plus the extra interest they can share, the money will be far more than their monthly money.

How many people would be willing to take crooked ways if there was a way to be honest and upright?

Now that they are going to distribute the signs, there are small vendors who take the initiative to ask for the signs with money, and their attitude towards these officials has changed 120 times. It's a completely different feeling to take the initiative to say hello to these officials.

As for some bullies and ruffians in the city, the officials in the city suppressed them.

I dare not run out to collect the so-called protection fee.

After such a rectification, now there is no day for several groups of people to collect protection fees, which gives small traders a way to survive.The government only pays a fixed fee for a few stalls, and once you get the sign, you can set up a stall in the city to sell things for a day. These small vendors are naturally very cooperative, and basically no one dares to evade taxes.Because once tax evasion is caught, not only the goods sold will be confiscated, but also fined.

This is also the reason why more and more small traders in the city are selling things, but no one is evading taxes.

"My lord, the way you came up with is more effective." Du Ruoheng patted their lord's horse, really convinced. The longer he stayed with their lord, the more he admired their lord's brain.He has stayed in the household department before, so he naturally knows the tax situation collected by the household department every year. These miscellaneous taxes in the local area come from the top to the household department. "Where did the money go to the household department in the past? The local officials have all been sorted out, and there are very few left when it comes to the household department.”

"That's because it's here in the capital, and we're here. If it's implemented locally, I don't know if it will have this effect." Li Wen had expected this possibility a long time ago, and the number of vendors in the city increased every day. The increase was within his expectation, but seeing the amount of vendor tax collected last month still surprised him greatly.

The big one is the commercial tax from the merchants, which is more than he expected.

As for the local situation, it is much more complicated than here in the capital. The water in the local area is not as shallow as that in the capital. If we want to implement it on the ground at that time, this will involve the direct interests of local officials. I am afraid that many officials below They are all obedience and violation, and the policy may not be so easy to implement.

Here in the capital, he is here with a "killing name", and he helped the emperor kill two gangs of corrupt officials. With the emperor's favor and support, and behind the scenes the support of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Zhao Xiangyi, ordinary people would want to touch him. It's not that easy.What's more, he has no grounds to be caught here, but other officials are different. If you have a lot of grounds, if you want to die, just hit him with the muzzle of the gun, he will definitely not show mercy!

But this time, there is mainly help from Wang Xiaojiang. As long as the officials in the city cooperate, the implementation of this policy will be half successful.As for the court, he has the golden thigh of the emperor, and no one wants to make trouble for the time being.

"Let's go, take the people and pack the boxes, let's go to the household department." Li Wen patted the stunned Director Du with the account book in his hand, and asked Du Ruoheng to call for someone to come and move things.Different from the money for selling tickets, the collected taxes and fees, together with the accounts, must be transferred to the Ministry of Accounts, and these will all go into the national treasury.

"Oh, little one, let's go now." Du Ruoheng went and called for someone to come over and carry things.

Carrying the box to the household department like this is too eye-catching, so Li Wen asked someone to load the box into a carriage and transport it to the household department.

A group of them came to the household department, and it happened that His Highness the Crown Prince was here, and Li Wen handed over the accounts and silver to His Highness the Crown Prince.Yang Shaomu was also taken aback when he saw the ledger, he didn't expect there to be so many.

"Your Highness, this is last month's account, and we will hand it over to the Ministry of Accounts. If you have read it without any problems, Your Highness, please sign and stamp it here." Li Wen put the list in His Highness's desk In front of you, it means that if you take the money, please stamp your seal to represent that the money has been handed over.

Yang Shaomu believed in Li Wen, and he didn't ask anyone to come to check it on the spot. He waved someone to move down, "It's hard to see you, why don't you stay and drink tea with Gu?" The prince asked someone to serve tea.Li Wen couldn't refuse, but he also had something to say to His Royal Highness, so he sat down on a chair beside him.

"You've been very busy recently, and I can't even see anyone if I want to see you." His Royal Highness laughed.

"Where is there. Your Highness, if you want to see the official, send someone over to notify you. The official will come to see you." Li Wen stretched out his hand and touched his nose. Recently, he often runs outside. If His Royal Highness can't find him There's really nothing weird about him.

However, he came and went to so many places, and His Royal Highness would not be able to find him if he really looked for him.

The two of them said a few off-topic words before they got down to business.

Yang Shaomu did not expect to collect so much commercial tax this month, Li Wen said, "This is just the beginning, and there will definitely be more in the future. Also, this is only limited to the capital city, and other places have not yet done so. Implementation. At present, I don’t recommend promoting it to the local area so quickly. At least it needs to be implemented in the capital for more than half a year before it can be implemented in the local area. And now there is a problem, our manpower is not enough..."

The manpower he mentioned refers to the staff within the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The Ministry of Commerce is responsible for commercial taxation. Naturally, the local government needs to set up another department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, so relevant personnel are required to be responsible and handle it.

In addition, the localities do not have the conditions to implement the new tax law, and there are some problems with officials, and so on.

"It seems that it is not easy to implement it locally." Yang Shaomu thought deeply, knowing that this matter is still too urgent, and the results achieved here in the capital have surprised him.

After staying in the household department for a while, Li Wen bid farewell to His Royal Highness, and took his people back first.