After the potato feast, the imperial court began to make a big move.

First of all, the pits and mines were rectified, and this rectification lasted until April next year, when almost 60 percent of the state-owned pits and mines in the country were taken out and contracted to private operators, and more than 90 percent of the pits and mines that had problems in their operations were cleared at once, and nearly 40,000 artisan households and pavilion households of all kinds were released.

Moreover, the imperial court also formulated mining regulations, if the prefectures and counties inspected the output of the pit mines and the officials who managed the exaltation, they would extort the owners of the mines, and the light ones would be flogged with canes and the heavy ones would be distributed.

However, if the mine owners make false statements, they will avoid being punished by the imperial court and punished for tax evasion.

What is the crime of tax evasion, that is, the law of the new commercial tax.

This time, the imperial court really implemented the Qi merchant tax. Whoever engaged in business had to pay the commercial tax according to the imperial court system, and the tax evasion was not more than 50 yuan, and if the tax was less than 100 yuan, the cane, and the one who was 100 to 500 yuan should have all his goods confiscated, and those who were 500 to 1,000 yuan should be fined the price of his goods in addition to the confiscation of his goods. For those who are 1,000 to 5,000 guan, in addition to the above punishments, their stewards or masters will be punished with the punishment of mismatching, and those who are from 5,000 to 10,000 guan will be mismatched, and those who exceed 10,000 will die!

If a servant shields a merchant because of his noble status, or if he embezzles a merchant to evade taxes, he will receive the same punishment as the merchant (i.e., the cane and death penalty in addition to the fine).

At the same time, other people or businessmen are encouraged to report, and once verified, the government will keep the whistleblower confidential, and take half of the confiscated goods and fines as a reward. Use this to make a national oversight.

But it is not over, if any of the shops accept commercial goods without Zhu banknotes (tax collection vouchers issued by the field affairs), or if the share of Zhu banknotes is obviously insufficient. It is equivalent to the punishment of tax evasion. That is, in addition to the punishment. Fines in rem are also imposed.

If a relative or a scholar has a family member doing business, he must write down the certificate and affix his seal, and each office shall keep his own certificate with a seal, and the tax shall be reduced by half in addition to purple money.

For example, when the steward of Wen Yanbo's family buys or sells a batch of goods, Wen Yanbo himself must write down the certificate and affix Wen Yanbo's seal, and then the tax can be halved.

That's kind enough. But will Wen Yanbo have to write this proof at that time?

It's hard, it's hard...... Lao Wen will definitely have a headache. In fact, this is a meme ......!

At the same time, as long as half of the merchants' goods are used in each city, why is there this supplement, in fact, the Song Dynasty's incense system is domineering leakage, spices should be specialized, jade and pearls should also be specialized, and even wall clocks should be specialized, so it led to a contradiction with the other side.

However, this is the other side, in fact, it is impossible for various maritime merchants to hand over these spices and jade to the city and the ship, and often more than eighty percent of them are smuggled into the people.

Anyway, in the past, the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty was a big black hole.

can face this kind of the strictest commercial tax system in history. It is equivalent to cutting off the smuggling channels from all sources on land. Therefore, it is necessary to calm the emotions of the seafarers, so there is this system. Half of it belongs to the city, which is actually to the inner treasury, and half is sold by the maritime merchants.

Tens of thousands of copies of this system were printed, distributed, and posted in various venues, prefectures, counties, and streets.

As for whether it can achieve real business taxes, or how many disputes it will cause, it is not known now.

However, Wang Ju is now "crazy", and no one dares to protest. Then implement it, or post it, whether it is implemented or not has nothing to do with the official, it is the responsibility of the officials......

Each has its own ideas.

However, Wang Ju's second edict came down.

From then on, the imperial court exempted all the surplus money, and at the same time, because the houses and large livestock were not counted in the household, many households declined, and the exemption money was also reduced by 1,310,000 yuan. In fact, the surplus money has also been reduced a lot, but it is all exempted, so there is no need to say it again.

Therefore, since then, the imperial court has spent 3 million yuan a year to fill up this reduced exemption money, and the rest is used to increase the salaries of various officials. In this way, each long-term service can basically increase the income of four yuan a year, and the short-term service can increase by 20 to 30 wen per day.

Although it cannot ensure the food and clothing of the family, it will definitely improve the original poor life.

At the same time, 1 million yuan was allocated to help poor states and counties or some special states and counties.

For example, Shaanzhou, which was originally a mountainous and plain area, coupled with a three-door Cao Yun, made the people miserable, so the poorer they were, the poorer they were, the poorer they were. The situation has not changed since the implementation of the exemption law.

Because of poverty, there is not much money for exemption, and the amount of exemption money is small, and the number of officers is huge, so the salary apportioned to the officers is pitiful. Zhang Fangping opposed the exemption law, and used some situations in Xichuan as proof, which is also true, but the main reason is the lack of currency, and the second is that these areas are extremely poor, and the people have increased the pressure because of the apportionment of the exemption money, but the service money received by the errand is pitiful, and everyone continues to live in a sea of misery.

So this million dollars is used to improve these states and counties.

This edict alarmed a big man.

Zhang Fangping, who was in his hometown of Yingtianfu after paying tribute, saw it and immediately came to the capital.

After seeing Wang Ju, Zhang Fangping immediately asked: "Wang Zi'an, how much profit might the banking department get in a year in the future?" ”

"Why did Zhang Gong say this?"

"Wang Zi'an, you have sprinkled a lot of money."

At this time, there are only two ministers who really understand the economy, one is Zhang Fangping and the other is Xue Xiang. However, Xue Xiang died, Zhang Fangping became radical because of his rivalry with Wang Anshi, Wang Ju knew that he was in Yingtianfu, very close to the capital, but he also had an attitude of respecting ghosts and gods.

But this approximate account is too simple for Zhang Fangping.

Just like the second edict, of course, it solved the pain of Xichuan's exemption from military service that he had said before, but this was solved with money. The imperial court took out four million new guan, which is equivalent to more than five million old guan. Originally, the imperial court had nearly 5 million yuan of surplus money every year, and once it entered and one went out, the imperial court lost 10 million old guan.

What's more, the seedling loan is gone, and it is a loss of nearly 4 million yuan.

There is no house tax, although this is less, only a few hundred thousand. However, it is not actually hundreds of thousands. The imperial court was exempted. The officials have to find a way to reach out from other aspects, or directly cause an overdraft in the official accounts, plus the income from a lease of government housing and cattle in the future, if these two things are not done well, it will cause a loss of three or four million yuan.

At the same time, the decline in household income will also have an impact on the two taxes, which will cause a loss of at least five million or more.

Well, simply calculate, more than 20 million is gone.

Undoubtedly. The people will be relieved by this.

However, if the state needs to spend, if it is released here, it will be tightened there. If the income of the banking department can't keep up, then it has to seriously implement the Qishang tax, if it really seriously implements the Qishang tax, wait for trouble.

"Gong Zhang, please use tea," Wang Ju handed the tea that Qiong Niang had made to Zhang Fangping.

Zhang Fangping took a sip of tea and said, "Zi'an, Qi business tax is okay." But don't take it too seriously. ”

Wang Ju used an attitude of avoiding Zhang Fangping as much as possible, but Wang Ju also thought wrongly. That is, Zhang Fangping and Sima Guangfubi did not have a very good relationship, especially during the Qingli New Deal, Zhang Fangping was also a lone ranger.

Therefore, Fu Bi's death and Fu Bi's letter made such a big fuss this time, Zhang Fangping stayed in Ying Tianfu and didn't say a word.

Wang Ju said: "Zhang Gong, do you think I have the ability to be too serious?" ”

"Please elaborate."

"Let me start by saying that some time ago, those squires, in my opinion, it is best to kill half of them to punish the world's usury businessmen, but in the end, if it weren't for Liang Tao using the letter from the rich man to force me to the extreme, and even these people I plan not to kill any of them, so that Huang Zhongcheng has an opinion on me."

"Are you saying that when the time comes, you will be deterred and try to pay as much as possible? However, it is not appropriate, it is only a deterrent, but it still does not levy commercial taxes. If it's serious......" Zhang Fangping didn't say any more, Wang Ju understood.

If you want to rely on deterrence, it doesn't work, but implement it seriously and wait to make trouble.

This also shows that Zhang Fangping came prepared, maybe he has been thinking about it for a long time at home.

"Yes, so it seems difficult, including Jiefu Gong, he dares to enforce the Fangtian Average Tax Law, and he doesn't dare to touch the commercial tax."

"If you know, it's good."

"But it doesn't hurt."

"Oh, let's hear it." Zhang Fangping was curious.

He didn't believe that Wang Ju could solve this problem.

"Zhang Gong, why do I write purple money in the edict? I will screen the objects of business, the small and medium-sized businessmen in various states and counties, they are the main objects of commercial taxation today, the big businessmen in various states and counties, these businessmen in their own states and counties, no one dares to levy, but they go to other states and other roads, it is a bit difficult to say, the real powerful relatives and scholars, that is in the whole country, no field affairs dare to tax them. Small and medium-sized businessmen are not a big problem, and the big businessmen in various states and counties do not need to be afraid, why do they dare to evade taxes in a high-sounding manner, mainly because there are many people who evade taxes. Therefore, the most important thing is the powerful relatives and doctors! ”

"Wang Zi'an, this is also the most troublesome."

"Well, Gong Zhang, let me tell you one thing, you are a Jinshi admitted in the first year of Jingyou, how do the prices at that time compare with the current prices? How did the economic population of the Song Dynasty compare to what it is now? But why has commercial taxes been stagnant? If it is slightly aggravated, the small traders will immediately complain? The actual reason is simple, that is, there are more and more people evading taxes, although the number of commercial transactions is increasing, and even tripled compared with the Gyeongwoo period, but a slight increase in commercial taxes can only increase the number of small and medium-sized traders. Is this trend good? ”

Zhang Fangping was speechless.

As long as Wang Ju does not accumulate wealth indiscriminately and can tell a truth, he will not blind his conscience and say that it is inappropriate.

"But this foreign relatives and magnates (not necessarily the two families of Gao Cao, including the maiden families of the concubines and concubines in the palace, as well as some meritorious descendants) and the scholars are the biggest trouble, so I instructed the purple money to reduce the tax by half. Compared with scholars, they don't care about reputation, anyway, our court has stricter restrictions on foreign relatives, and it is impossible to be a high-ranking official, besides, the same piece of porcelain, if it is a common person, the officials can be priced at a consistent price, but if it is a powerful relative, maybe it can only be priced at six or seven hundred yuan. But even if it's half or only one-third of the tax, they don't necessarily want to pay. But it doesn't matter, what if I secretly let people spread the news and ask other merchants to pay some money and put it in their names? ”

Zhang Fangping's eyes lit up.

He understood what Wang Ju meant, and if someone put money in their name, then they would still be exempt from taxes, or only pay a small amount of taxes, and they would definitely not be too opposed.

As for the commercial tax of the imperial court, there is no loss, and those who can come together with these nobles, if it was in the past, that field business dared to levy taxes?

As for whether these people will have resentment in their hearts, they don't care too much, and now they are given an equally light tax path. Then as long as it is paid, even if it is half or one-third, it is better than not leviing anything before.

The difficulty of this section of relatives and magnates has passed.

"Another example is the scholar doctor, on the surface, the scholar has a good reputation, he does not touch the word profit, and he will not leave this handle to the imperial court, so he must oppose it, but in fact it is not. I also use an analogy, just like the rich man, he has six brothers, three cohabitants, three sons of the rich man, three sons of the rich man, three sons of the rich man, and three sons of the rich man, most of whom are officials with Enyin. Key cultivators can not touch this fishy smell, but non-key cultivators, even if they stamp their own seals on the certificate, what's the matter? ”

In fact, the rich family in history was the most prosperous when Fu Bi was alive, but as soon as Fu Bi died, and Fu Bi almost consumed the family's money in order to repair that luxurious manor, so the whole family began to decline. So much so that Fu Bi's wife Yan saw that there were people in distress in the family and immediately gave everything she could, and later the New Party came to power, and the rich family went downhill more and more. Therefore, Fu Shaorong, the son of Fu Ding, is familiar with the new law and implements it, and Fu Shaoting, the second son of Fu Shaoting, the grandson of Fu Bi, clings to the Xin Daozong brothers to advance, and is ridiculed by others and people in the family as the two are not like their fathers. However, among the descendants of the rich family, these two are the most promising. In fact, there is no way, if you don't "cling" to the new party, under the suppression of the new party, lose your power, and the rich family will be completely finished. And the official reputation of these two people is really good, especially Fu Zhirou, even Qin Hui dares to contradict it.

Anyway, this reason, this black and white, has been reversed in the past few decades.

But he didn't know about Wang Ju, and he didn't say what the future of the rich family would be, just a hypothetical example.

Zhang Fangping heard it and gasped: "Two peaches kill three soldiers? ”

Like the official world of the Wen family, the rich family, and the Wang family, it is easy to solve, and there are many children anyway.

But what about the families of the ladies with few children?

At that time, it may turn into a quarrel within them, and Wang Ju will be able to move the bench to watch a good show.

"I can't say that, are these people really inseparable from this little business tax? However, as long as they pay and the state is financially well-funded, they can allocate more money to help the poor. Then the Great Song Dynasty will gradually become prosperous and powerful. ”

Zhang Fangping was pondering.

"Gong Zhang, and I informed the official family, even the official family will instruct a reliable person in the Imperial City Division to secretly spread this news (referring to asking other merchants to hang their goods under the door of their relatives and magnates, or the official family will send an agent as a victim to reduce taxes and taxes)."

"Official?"

"What should I do, who made the scholars more and more hypocritical now, and now the emperor has come forward openly to let them use the rules reasonably to avoid taxes, if they still oppose this, it is really the Song Dynasty that owes them?"

It's not a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy.

What is a conspiracy is a conspiracy that can be spoken out openly.

The more Zhang Fangping thought about it, the more strange his expression became.

"Zhang Gong, I see that your old man is old and strong, are you interested in going out of the mountain again?" Wang Ju suddenly stretched out an olive branch, if Zhang Fangping is willing to go out of the mountain and assist him in governing the country, with Zhang Fangping's prestige, then the opposition will be reduced by half!

PS: If you stand in the dark angle, these dozens of chapters should be written relatively successfully, at least there is depth, but there is too little water. But the results are on this, and I don't plan to end it in a hurry in order to end it. But the book may be coming to an end after the first month. Because of the poor grades, I want to end it quickly, and the middle is as dry as salt, dry, astringent and bitter, but there are still some readers who are subscribing, and I am really grateful. (To be continued.) )