364 Business Tax

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Li Zixiao sent Li Yan away, and at the same time instructed the garrison at the foot of the mountain to be vigilant, without Li Zixiao's warrant, no one is allowed to go up and down the mountain, and those who dare to break in will not be killed.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao rushed to Xuzhou Wei non-stop, even if Li Zixiao was busy making money, he couldn't give up the rectification of his team.

In particular, the rectification of the two guards in Xuzhou and the guards of the two guards, although Li Zixiao did not have high hopes for them, at least he could not let them continue to erode like this.

By the time Li Zixiao arrived in Xuzhouwei, Huo Changzheng was now in the guard, and the fifty Wu Commanders selected by Li Zixiao from the White Dragon Army had all arrived.

Next, these commanders of the White Dragon Army will serve as instructors to conduct rectification and training for the officers and soldiers of these guards.

At the same time, Huo Changzheng also had to lead these officers and soldiers of the guard to reclaim the wasteland, so that he could have a batch of grain allocated to them before Li Zixiao.

Now these military households look like they are still yellow and thin, but fortunately, they are not as lifeless as before, and there is spirit in their eyes.

In Li Zixiao's plan, Xuzhou's troops must have at least one to twenty thousand standing elite soldiers to have the strength to protect themselves in this troubled era and make others fearful.

In the future, the White Dragon Army will be mainly responsible for foreign wars, such as dealing with the Tartars, dealing with the Japanese Invaders, and even dealing with the rebel army, as well as the Ming army, all enemies who threaten him.

The White Dragon Army trains in leisure time and fights in wartime, they will be professional soldiers, and the number of the White Dragon Army is close to 10,000 at this time, and Li Zixiao will not expand for the time being.

After all, the White Dragon Army is the elite of Li Zixiao's subordinates, and it must not be filled indiscriminately, just the excellent armor and hundred steel knives that Li Zixiao created for these soldiers will never be inferior to the Eight Banners Tartars.

And to build this piece of armor, it cost Li Zixiao more than 200,000 taels of silver, plus the White Dragon Army's treatment is much higher than that of the Ming Army.

If the White Dragon Army really expands to tens of thousands, with Li Zixiao's ability at this time, he really can't afford to raise it.

In addition to the White Dragon Army, Li Zixiao plans to reorganize and train the military households of those guards, that is, the so-called miscellaneous army, to maintain law and order in the territory and deal with some bandits and bandits.

After Li Zixiao went to Xuzhou Liangwei to inspect, everything is now going according to his plan.

Because they had food and could eat their stomachs, those military households no longer resisted training, and as for the reclamation of wasteland, they were also happy.

At this time, the spring ploughing has ended, and the two guards have only reclaimed less than 1,000 acres of fertile land, mostly near the water source.

Although the efficiency is very low, Li Zixiao is already very satisfied, and this is just a good start.

In the second half of this year, let the Liangwei Institute build a few canals, dig a well, and irrigate the wasteland, and this tens of thousands of acres of fertile land will be enough to resume cultivation in the coming year.

Compared with the people of Xuzhou, the change of command in Xuzhou is not a big deal.

They are still living their small lives, but there are already attentive people, and since last month, the streets of Xuzhou City have often been patrolled by sergeants.

These heavily armed sergeants, even on a hot day, would be draped all over their bodies, and although they were all sweating hot, they still maintained a straight posture.

And the most important thing is that these sergeants are all fresh faces, and it turns out that the old soldiers in Xuzhou City seem to have disappeared collectively overnight, and they have all disappeared.

A well-informed person broke the news that the original defenders of Xuzhou seemed to have been trained by the new commander.

But even if it is such news, it still has nothing to do with the people of Xuzhou.

It's just that compared with these new officers and soldiers who are strictly disciplined, act according to law, never embarrassed, blackmail the people, and even help the people and crack down on those ruffians and hooligans, the people of Xuzhou really welcome them.

But the stationing of the White Dragon Army was the beginning of a nightmare for others in Xuzhou City.

Since these White Dragon Army sergeants entered Xuzhou, they began to be strict in their investigation of entering the city.

In particular, the inventory of goods entering the city for those merchants is particularly strict.

This is not to say that these White Dragon soldiers will secretly take bribes, but that they are extremely strict in their inventory of those goods.

However, all goods that are concealed privately and are found to be subject to confiscation or heavy fines shall be imposed.

At first, those gentry and wealthy households didn't think about it, thinking that this was just Li Zixiao, the commander of Xuzhou, and the three fires of the new official, and he would stop after burning for a while.

But what they didn't expect was that a month had passed, and the inspection at the city gate had not only not been relaxed, but had become more severe, and it would kill those merchants.

Li Zixiao's move is simply to suck blood from these businessmen again! How could these businessmen be willing to accept it.

If Wei Qianhu was still in office, these businessmen would come up with various ways to fight at this time, such as bribing a court minister and impeaching him casually, which would be enough to make Wei Qianhu give up this kind of behavior.

However, Li Zixiao is not Wei Qianhu, and those businessmen still know what Li Zixiao did before.

This kind of method is useless for Li Zixiao.

Whether it was in that era, private entrapment or tax evasion was the favorite thing for businessmen to do.

But the merchants of the Ming Dynasty took this atmosphere to the extreme.

Previously, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the tax on commerce was one out of thirty, which was already very low.

But those merchants of the Ming Dynasty were not satisfied, and in their eyes, they thought that it was better to abolish the commercial tax altogether.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had not completely abolished the commercial tax, at least on the Xuzhou side.

However, because the commercial tax of thirty out of one is already very low, and all the businessmen are trying to evade taxes, the commercial tax collected by the imperial court every year is pitiful.

You must know that at this time in Yongcheng County, Li Zixiao officially ordered that all businessmen who came in to do business would be charged commercial tax, and it was still one out of twenty.

This is much heavier than the low tax of 30 in the Ming Dynasty, but I still see an endless stream of businessmen pouring into Yongcheng County to do business.

This shows that even if it is a tax of 20 percent, those merchants are still profitable.

After Li Zixiao came to Xuzhou, he did not plan to immediately implement a heavier commercial tax of 20 out of 1 in Xuzhou, but he wanted to carry out the tax of 30 out of 1.

And as long as you can crack down on those businessmen, tax evasion and tax evasion one by one, even if it is a tax of 30 percent, it is enough to collect a lot of silver every year.

One by one, those merchants came up with countless ways to evade taxes, such as bribing the guards of the city gates, concealing and concealing information, or even not reporting it.

Of course, the most common and effective means they used was to bribe the soldiers and gatekeepers who guarded the gates.

After dealing with the city gate officials of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, all the merchants knew that the officers and soldiers here were the easiest to buy.

Even many court officials knew this, and they would send their henchmen to this position, acquiescing in accepting bribes, which was also a source of money for those court officials.

Over the years, the four gates of Xuzhou City, all the gate officials and sergeants, and those merchants who came and went, almost all became their own family members.

Those businessmen carry goods and enter Xuzhou, which is as easy as visiting their own back garden.

But this habit has changed over time.

The officers and soldiers who defended the city with familiar faces in the past have all disappeared, and they have been replaced by a group of fierce and well-disciplined soldiers.

The new city gate officers and soldiers were like hungry wolves, with noses as clever as hounds, and they could find out even a little bit of what they should not have in their cargo.

Now those businessmen have fallen into blood mold.

Those city gate officials fined them according to the system, that is called a cruel!

And these new garrison sergeants don't talk about any affection, they don't care what your background is, there is that backer behind you, as long as they catch you, they will punish you heavily.

These merchants immediately launched an operation, ready to buy these soldiers who defended the city, but when they bought, they were directly arrested by those soldiers and charged with bribery.

The merchants were puzzled to see that their previous invincible Silver Bullet offensive had failed this time.

On the one hand, this is because these soldiers defending the city are all soldiers of the White Dragon Army and are highly disciplined.

Second, because of Li Zixiao's regulations, as long as the city gate officials find out that the merchants are carrying private goods, the fine of the city gate officials and the sergeants who collect the city gates can be divided into 30%.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, and Li Zixiao didn't expect his subordinates, all of them could resist the temptation of silver.

It's better to be sparse, so Li Zixiao simply set this rule, which is just like when the White Dragon Army fights, the captured soldiers of each team can share some of the gains, and then hand over some, which is the same.

It is precisely because of this regulation that these sergeants guarding the door will stare at those merchants like hungry wolves.

In their eyes, these merchants are all bright gold!

Not only does not violate military discipline, but also has the stimulation of silver, how can those city gate officials not search seriously when they see the ancients coming and going?

When those merchants saw the failure of their silver bullet offensive, they began to complain to Qiu Guangming, the prefect of Xuzhou.

But Qiu Guangming didn't bird them, and let them out, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate found out the prohibited entrainment items, which was the duty of the people.

You businessmen are entrapping private treasures, evading taxes, and are you still reasonable?

At this time, Qiu Guangming tried his best to maintain a good relationship with Li Zixiao, he didn't want to become a prefect who was set up in the air, because he knew that if Li Zixiao wanted to do this, it would be difficult for him to resist.

As a result, the merchants had no choice, and they all scattered back.

It's just that in this way, those businessmen's hatred for Li Zixiao is even deeper.

However, Li Zixiao didn't care, because Li Zixiao knew his future policies, and he was destined not to be so indulgent to these businessmen like the Ming Dynasty.

If these businessmen still refuse to correct their mentality and continue to want to attach themselves to the Chinese people to suck blood, Li Zixiao will never agree.

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The time came to July of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and the sun was scattered with scorching sunshine.

Wild dogs on the side of the road, all hiding in the shade, spitting out bright red tongues.

In the inner courtyard of the yamen of the Yangzhou prefect, Lin Yongnian was sitting in a pavilion to escape the summer, holding a report from a subordinate official in his hand, looking at it with a frown.

Sitting beside him were his daughter Lin Wan'er and his concubine Rou Niang, Lin Wan'er's personal maid and another maid, who were standing aside and waiting.

Seeing that Lin Yongnian's face didn't seem to be very good, Rou Niang got up and poured Lin Yongnian a cup of tea, and then asked, "Master, the concubine looks at you frowning, is there anything difficult to solve?" ”

After Lin Yongnian heard Rou Niang's question, he put down the report, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and then said: "This is from the Salt Transport Division, which says that these days, a large amount of refined salt has appeared in Yangzhou City.

Due to the large quantity of these refined salts and the relatively cheap price, many salt merchants in Yangzhou have been dissatisfied.

They collectively signed a joint petition to put pressure on the Salt Transportation Division, demanding that the Salt Transportation Division give them an explanation.

But after the salt transportation department checked and checked, now these refined salts actually circulated from Xuzhou, and most of them were related to the newly appointed commander of Xuzhou, Pingyuan General Li Zixiao.

At this time, Li Zixiao was in the limelight, and the credit for defeating the Tartars made him extremely favored by the saints at this time, otherwise he would not have handed over the defense of the Three Mansions to him.

Don't look at him at this time, he is only in Xuzhou at this time, and he has not yet extended his hand to Huai'an and Yangzhou, but it is only a matter of time or time.

The Salt Transport Division also knew that Li Zixiao was not easy to offend, so he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he reported to the prefect's yamen and asked me to deal with it. ”

If Li Zixiao was here at this time, he would definitely scoff after hearing Lin Yongnian's words.

Phew, Lao Tzu is still deeply favored by the saints, and Chongzhen favors the money that Lao Tzu gave him, not Lao Tzu.

At this time, Rou Niang asked puzzledly: "If you want to talk about it, even if those refined salts are really sold by this General Li, it is not a big deal."

Those salt merchants are too dark, and the price of refined salt they sell is even 150 wen per catty, not to mention the ordinary people, even those with a solid family, and few households can afford to eat.

Now that General Li got these refined salts, isn't it great that the refined salt in Yangzhou City can be cheaper? ”

Lin Yongnian couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, he shook his head and said, "The woman's opinion." ”

Lin Yongnian didn't plan to explain anything to his concubine, he turned his head to Lin Wan'er on the side and said, "Wan'er, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Lin Wan'er said puzzledly: "Dad, salt and iron are not in the sole charge of our prefect's yamen, and I haven't seen them ask you for anything on weekdays."

Now that I see that the other party is not easy to deal with, I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it, so I put this hot potato in your hands, but I don't know if you are willing to be the wronged leader. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Wan'er's face showed a look of disdain, and she continued: "It stands to reason that the imperial court is in charge of salt and iron, and it is illegal to direct the yamen to sell illicit salt without authorization.

But do you also know that how much of the salt tax in these years can be in the hands of the imperial court, and it has not been privately divided by those salt envoys and salt merchants in various places?

Now they are so anxious, it is nothing more than seeing their silver robbed by others, and they are anxious, and they want to come out of their father.

Usually they make a lot of money, and they don't see them come to pay homage to the prefect's yamen, but once something happens, they beg you to make the decision for them.

In my opinion, what Aunt Rou said is right, General Li's move can be said to be for the benefit of the people of Yangzhou, at least his appearance is better than those salt merchants. ”

(End of chapter)

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