In the early morning, there is still a trace of mist in Shanghai, and the sun on the sea has only revealed a baldness, but on the streets of Shanghai, it is already full of pedestrians, workers and businessmen who talk about business are constantly coming, and the food stalls on the side are shouting hard, trying to seize this golden time to attract a few more customers.

"Give me all honesty, and if you dare to resist, cut it!"

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the street, and the pedestrians on the road hid on both sides, and then a team of guards from Wu Wangfu came from the street, and behind these guards, there was a row of men with blue noses and swollen faces, most of these people had fierce faces, even if they were arrested, they were full of dissatisfaction, and they knew at a glance that they were usually some arrogant people.

Seeing these arrested men, the pedestrians on both sides of the road all showed excitement, and even many people applauded loudly, shouting that His Royal Highness King Wu was wise and so on.

The reason why the pedestrians have such a big reaction is mainly that the people who were arrested are all scoundrels in Shanghai, these people bully men and women on weekdays, and they are engaged in a miasma of smoke and smoke in Shanghai, and even many businessmen can not bear their oppression and have to leave Shanghai in pain.

It can be said that these ruffians have become the biggest social problem in Shanghai, and if they continue to be left unchecked, it is likely to have a huge impact on the development of Shanghai. Before Li Ke was concentrating on the construction of various projects in Shanghai, he didn't pay attention to this social problem at all, and it was not until he and Li Su happened to meet the Sun couple that the tip of the iceberg was revealed.

At that time, facing the Shanghai people in the restaurant, Li Ke made a promise, that is, to return Shanghai to a clear and clear sky. There will never be another thing to extort good people. But it's easier said than done, but it's time to do it. But it's very troublesome, after all, it's useless to just catch some splashes. The most important thing is to have a complete set of rules and regulations, otherwise if you catch the male master today, you may have another dog tomorrow.

Although Li Su has the name of Yingguo, if he really talks about the experience of the ruling party, it is really not good, for example, as the assassin of Suzhou, he has been staying in Chang'an, and all the things in Suzhou are handed over to other drivers to do, and he has never taken care of things at all. Compared with. Although Li Su was lazy, he at least governed Dengzhou in an orderly manner, and even developed an inconspicuous Dengzhou into a big city second only to Chang'an and Luoyang, and it was precisely because of this that Li Ke asked Li Su for help.

Shanghai is a key part of Li Ke's plan, so whether Li Ke asks him for help or not, he has to take care of the affairs here, so after returning to Li Ke's Wu Wangfu, the two immediately gathered the strategists of Wu Wangfu together. It was not long before a complete reform program was come up with.

Shanghai City is a new city, and the administrative institutions in the city are all improvised, and this is the territory of Huating County, Li Ke also has a little impression of the Xie County Commander of Huating County. So he asked Xie County Commander to move the county government to Shanghai and be in charge of the civil affairs of one party, but although this Xie County Commander is a talent. However, he was also urged by Li Ke to manage the construction of the project, and he was inseparable from the civil affairs. Therefore, this led to the situation of rampant skin in Shanghai, and even the public servants in the yamen occasionally had illegal things.

Although there are extenuating circumstances. However, after all, public security is the responsibility of Xie County, so he can't get out of this matter, and as a result, he was reprimanded by Li Ke, and then asked Xie County's order to fully implement the reform plan brought by Li Su. And Xie Xianling also had the intention of making meritorious contributions, so he was very cooperative from the beginning.

The first thing of the reform is to first make a movement in the city, and this movement is to mobilize people to find out the scoundrels everywhere in Shanghai, and then go out to the palace guards to wipe out these people, no matter what kind of background these scoundrels have behind them, even if it is related to Wu Wangfu, so the situation this morning appeared.

For Li Ke's move, the people in the city were extremely supportive, and almost everyone was chanting for King Wu's wisdom, which solved a major scourge for the city. In this way, Li Ke's prestige in the city immediately rose like a rocket, but Li Ke was a little dissatisfied with this, obviously he also had a share in this matter, but unfortunately except for a few people such as the Sun family and his wife, other people did not know, and as a result, all the benefits were given to Li Ke.

With the help of the huge prestige that skyrocketed in a short period of time, Li Su immediately launched this reform plan in the name of Li Ke, first of all, all the officials in the city were reorganized and assessed by the imperial court, including ability, morality, physical strength and other aspects, and those who failed to pass the assessment were all dismissed, and even if there were traitors and criminals in the past, they would be punished according to law. As a result, there were many fewer officials in the city, but the atmosphere was greatly improved.

Next, the palace of Wu once again came forward, recruited thousands of good people as government officials, these officials merged with the original government officials, after a simple training, immediately began to patrol the city, and at the same time, Li Ke and Li Su also gathered all the merchants in the city together, after several days of negotiations, finally finalized the plan to collect the 'security fee'.

Speaking of taxation in the Tang Dynasty, this is a big problem, in the early Tang Dynasty, it was mainly rent, with monogamy as a unit, and each ding was sold to the state 2 stone per year, which was rent; 2 zhang of silk, 3 taels of cotton (or 2 zhang 4 feet of cloth, 3 catties of hemp), for the tune; After serving for 20 days, it is called regular service, and those who do not serve receive 3 feet of silk (or 3.6 feet of cloth) per day, which is mediocre.

This kind of tax can be seen by any individual, because this kind of tax does not care about your annual income or occupation, all according to this standard, and for the imperial court, unless the country's population increases significantly, the annual income will not fluctuate too much.

Of course, this tax system also has a good side, for example, in the early Tang Dynasty, when there were few people and more land, the rent adjustment was undoubtedly a light tax, which made the people's burden very light, and also increased the people's enthusiasm for reclaiming wasteland. Originally, if there was no variable of Li Su, this kind of collection system could still be used for more than 100 years, until the population increased in the Middle and Tang dynasties, and many people could not get land, which led to the collapse of the rent adjustment and the rise of the two-tax system.

However, with the arrival of Li Su, the business of Datang was extremely prosperous, and the wealth of the people grew extremely fast. However, as the so-called situation changes, there are many variants of commercial taxes in many places, such as goods passing through the checkpoint when passing through the checkpoint, you have to pay a certain fee, merchants want to avoid trouble in their own shops, and they will also give local officials a certain amount of money, in addition to being privately divided by these officials, they will also hand over a part of it to the national treasury, which is also a disguised tax, and even has become an unspoken rule throughout the country. It's a pity that this disguised tax collection is very informal, and the amount of money paid by merchants depends on the minds of local officials.

As long as it is a merchant in Shanghai, they need to pay three percent of their income every month, which is the public security fee, and the merchants who have paid the governance fee do not have to pay any fees to anyone, and there will be county officials patrolling the streets every day, no matter what kind of thing can be asked to them for help, if these officials dare not care, then the merchants can directly complain to the complaint department added by the palace, as long as it is verified, Then the official in question will be miserable, and he will be punished at best, and he may be imprisoned at worst.

For this new security fee, the merchants in Shanghai also had some doubts at first, not that they were afraid of collecting more money, and the income of three percent was not much at all compared to the money that was extorted every month before, not even half, so this public security fee was not much, but the merchants were a little worried, afraid that the yamen would take the money away, but they would not do practical things, and then they would have to pay how to pay the money.

Fortunately, the palace guards arrested scoundrels everywhere before, so that Li Su had a huge reputation in Shanghai, so although these merchants were suspicious, they still had some confidence in His Royal Highness King Wu, and Li Su had also come forward with his huge reputation in the business world, which finally dispelled many people's doubts, so that the plan to collect public security fees was finally passed.

After all, the county government has issued a rule, as long as it is found that those who dare to extort money from merchants will be arrested and made to do coolies for a year, and if they are found to be repeated, it will not be a coolie, but they will be exiled directly to a plantation in Taiwan. First of all, I will do three years of hard labor with those slaves, and I will not be able to come back after I finish it, and I will have to stay in Taiwan for the rest of my life.

Public security fees should be regarded as a kind of tax, mainly for fixed merchants to collect taxes, as for the other kind of tax, Li Su and Li Ke also made some reforms, Shanghai is a port city, tax is mainly on the port, in fact, this kind of tax has been very perfect, there are fixed taxes on all kinds of different ships, so the two have not changed much.

In addition, with the development of Shanghai, goods from all over the land periphery have converged to Shanghai, so the land tax has become more and more important, and Li Su and the others mainly reformed this tax collection. In fact, it is also very simple, mainly according to the different varieties of goods, charge different tax rates, such as silk and grain tax rates are completely different, although this way of tax collection is very simple in Li Su's view, but in ancient China it is undoubtedly a huge reform, because for a long time, the tax is even according to the volume of goods to collect taxes.

After carrying out this series of reforms in Shanghai, Li Ke finally dared to take Empress Xiao and Concubine Yang to Shanghai, after all, in this city, he has put too much effort into it, and as a junior, he naturally wants to show off to the elders if he makes some achievements. (To be continued.) )