Business Tax? Tariff? What's going on?

Zheng Zhilong looked confused, looked at Zhu Cihong, and found that this kid looked at him with a wicked smile, no matter how he looked at it, he was holding back his strength to dig money out of his pocket! Look at Emperor Chongzhen again, why is there a little schadenfreude? Your son is going to be a tyrannical and tyrannical dumb king, and you don't care?

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen won't care, and the business tax will be levied! How much trouble did Emperor Wanli's collection of commercial taxes and mining taxes provoke? Now the rebels dare to fight this idea before they usurp the throne, wait, wait for everyone to shout and fight! At that time, I will be able to come back and take back all the power......

Of course, Zhu Cihong knows that commercial taxes are a hornet's nest!

Didn't the Ming scholars make a fortune by tax evasion? They can use it as a shield for tax evasion if they have a talent and a reputation, not only to evade land taxes, but also to evade business taxes. I don't know when the banknotes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty began, and they pursued the principle that officials do not collect, eunuchs do not collect, people do not collect, and show talents are less collected. And these guys not only want to evade taxes themselves, but also help other businessmen evade taxes!

The talents, lifters, and jinshi masters of the Ming Dynasty almost all lend their brands to businessmen, so that they can evade taxes in a grand manner. The principle of operation is similar to that of trickery and sprinkling. There are so many talents, lifters, and jinshi masters in the Ming Dynasty, everyone works together to evade taxes, can the court not die poor?

And Zheng Zhilong, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, has not known that there are such things as commercial taxes and customs duties in the Ming Dynasty since he started doing business...... Isn't this tax only payable to peasants who live a few days of hard work? He is rich, he is still the chief military officer of Fujian, and he is still the Duke of Quanguo and the master of the country, so he needs to pay taxes?

Moreover, he has promised to give the prince an annual "annual tribute" of 1 million taels, and he has also promised to give 1 million mu of land, why do you still have to pay taxes?

"Chitose Lord," Zheng Zhilong frowned, "The minister has already promised to pay an annual tribute of one million taels a year......

"That's the annual tribute of the Quanzhou Mansion and the Nanyang Minister Yamen," Zhu Cihong smiled, "If the two are combined, it's not much to give 1 million taels, right?" ”

Not much? Zheng Zhi Longxin said: It's a lot! In addition to one million taels a year, there are also one million acres of land! The annual rent alone is around one million taels......

If it weren't for the recent favor of the Zheng family, the son became the prince's "senior brother", and the daughter would immediately be the prince's chosen servant, so the Zheng family's bribes could not be sent, so he would not have taken out such a large amount of extra silver - businessmen can be at ease and not pay taxes, but they dare not not pay bribes!

So Zheng Chagu and the one million acres of land were bribes given by Zheng Zhilong to Zhu Cihong!

"Emperor Zheng, old Taishan," Zhu Cihong looked at Zheng Zhilong and said affectionately, "We are our own people, this palace has always taken care of our own people, how can we not let you and Senior Brother suffer!" If this commercial tax and customs duties are collected, it will actually be of great benefit to the Zheng family. ”

Zheng Zhi Longxin said: Good son-in-law, I don't want to do this benefit? I'm not greedy at all!

Zhu Cihong smiled: "First, this money was collected, and it was not sent to the household treasury to become moldy. ”

So where to send it?

Emperor Chongzhen stared at his son with beads in his eyes, and said in his heart: Do you want to put the money into the inner treasury like the emperor's grandfather?

"After the commercial tax and customs tax come up, they are all deposited in the maritime bank." Zhu Cihong asked, "Old Taishan, did the senior brother tell you about the Maritime Bank?" ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "I said, it's the same as the Salt Merchant Bank, doing flying money and lending business." ”

In fact, the Zheng family has always had a business of lending and foreign exchange, but this business is not very big, and it is only carried out among Quanminhai merchants.

"And minting coins!" Zhu Cihong said, "When you mint a silver coin like the Franc machine Kabo, you can also mint money...... As long as the commercial tax, customs duty, and salt tax can be collected smoothly, the household department will delegate the power to mint silver coins and copper coins to the Maritime Bank and the Salt Merchants Bank! Moreover, the household department will no longer set up a treasury, and all the treasury silver will be deposited in two banks, and only a lot less interest will be charged!

Old Taishan, this is all a big benefit! If you know the internal affairs of Western countries, you must know how profitable their banks are, right? ”

"This ......" Zheng Zhilong was a little moved. It's not because the bank makes more money, but because of the power to manage money and mint money for the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, he didn't know that Zhu Cihong was an "investment banker" by profession, and he knew a lot about the banking business of later generations. Once the two banks are established, there will be Zhu Cihong's open shares and dark shares, and then the head office will be set up in Nanjing, or it will not be long before Zhu Cihong will be firmly controlled......

"Money is not only for saving, but also for spending!" Zhu Cihong then flickered, "If the money is stored in the Haishang Bank and the Yanshang Bank, it will ensure that it will not be spent indiscriminately, and it will not be corrupted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials." And then it's how to spend it...... In the past, the imperial court not only did not collect money, but also did not spend money. The money can't be spent, and in the process of spending money, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are exploited layer by layer.

Such things will not be allowed in the future, because the palace is ready to implement the imperial merchant system, except for the distribution of money, military salaries, disaster relief, and rewards, these things cannot be faked merchants. Other expenses, such as large work, procurement, building armored warships, horse administration, etc., will be implemented through bidding and awarding contracts to the imperial merchants. And the Anping Zheng family is undoubtedly the head of the Ming Emperor's businessmen! Isn't the commercial tax collected by the state to be spent through an imperial merchant like the Zheng family? ”

There are more and more imperial merchants in the Ming Dynasty now, and at the beginning, they were the soy sauce yellow and Su Laomi who came out of Beijing City. When he was in Tianjin, he added Shen Tingyang's sand boat gang, and after arriving in Yangzhou, he added the four major salt merchants of the Hui gang such as Jiang, Shen, Wang, and Hu, and the Shanxi salt merchant who took the lead in taking refuge in Zhu Cihong's account room Yunshang Qianyunsan, and now he has added the giant of the Zheng family in Anping.

In addition, Cao Huachun's Cao family, Wang Zhixin's Wang family, because they have always been officials, businessmen and eunuchs, were also issued an imperial business license by Zhu Cihong.

That is to say, now Zhu Cihong's imperial merchant system already has two Shen families: Huang, Su, Jiang, Wang, Hu, Cao, Wang, and Zheng He, a total of ten imperial merchants, one more than the nine imperial merchants in the Qing Dynasty.

And in terms of strength, Zhu Cihong can completely blow up the nine imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty by bringing out Shen Tingyang, if Zheng Zhilong is allowed to come out, he will definitely be able to throw off the entire Qing Dynasty a few streets in terms of financial resources!

As long as he and Shen Tingyang can fully support Zhu Cihong, then the southeast half of Prince Zhu can be firmly controlled. Imperial businessmen like Zheng Zhilong and Shen Tingyang are not Zhu Cihong's minions, but Zhu Cihong's partners!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong had to come up with a "win-win" method, so that imperial businessmen like Zheng Zhilong and Shen Tingyang could profit from the management and expenditure of taxes and silver after the introduction of commercial taxes and tariffs. At the same time, it was also necessary to allow the Ming court to profit from the competitive bidding between the emperor and the merchants.

However, while the imperial court and the imperial merchants win, there will definitely be people who lose! The imposition of commercial taxes and customs duties eats up the interests of the bureaucracy and gentry, and the use of imperial and merchant bidding to manage expenditures also seriously damages the interests of officials, especially civil officials!

"Chitose Lord," Zheng Zhilong frowned, having already thought through the stakes clearly, "The imperial court wants to levy commercial taxes and customs duties, as long as the tax rate is reasonable, the minister will not object." But the question is...... During the Wanli period, the southeast was in turmoil because of the commercial tax and mining tax, and the final tax was confiscated, but it made people's hearts fluctuate, and the gains outweighed the losses! ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "As long as Old Taishan's heart does not fluctuate, this palace has a way to cure the hearts of those who are floating!" Old Taishan, does your heart float? ”

"The minister is naturally the ...... who supports the introduction of commercial taxes and customs duties by the Chitose Lord."

"That's good!" Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "Go back and prepare a certificate for the introduction of commercial tax and customs duties, and hand it over after the Ministry of Rites examine."

And let not the things that are discussed today be disseminated...... It's about to be tested by the Ministry of Rites, so don't spoil the mood of the lifters.

By the way, how is the senior brother preparing? I'm going to have to take the test this time! ”

Do you take the test? What to test?

Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a moment and looked back at his son. Zheng Sen smiled: "My lord, the child is now a lifter, and he also has to take the Ministry of Rites exam, if he can go to high school, then he will be glorious!" ”

Lift people? Zheng Zhilong blinked his eyes and thought: You kid, you are good, you have actually been admitted to the lifting of people...... No, it's been 15 years since Chongzhen took the last hometown exam, and you didn't take the exam, why did you win?