Yang Yiqing brushed his sleeves away.

This time he really lost a bit of face, a dignified minister, who had no prestige at all, and even let an official beat an official in front of another, which was okay, since he couldn't stop it.

On the one hand, it is Xu Qian who occupies the moral high ground, and on the other hand, it is Xu Qian's arrogant attitude, the kind of posture that wants to fight with you regardless of a qiē, and anyone will have palpitations.

As for Zhang Chun, he has become an outcast, naturally, he no longer has the value of use, he was beaten by Xu Qian in public, and then he was sent to Dali Temple.

And the spectators and the scholars who expressed their feelings naturally left satisfied.

Xu Qian put his hands behind his back and ordered: "Gather all the officials, this official has something to explain." ”

This sentence seemed to have a magic power, and all of a sudden, everyone gathered in the public court, waiting for Xu Qian to sit in the first place, Xu Qian looked around with tiger eyes, and said lightly: "From now on, the responsibility of this Zhang Chun will be handed over to Lord Wu." ”

Wu Qian is the right waiter, and now that the left waiter is gone, he has rightfully become the second leader of the household, but at this time, he did not rejoice, nor was he happy, but his expression was solemn, and he glanced at Xu Qian cautiously, and said, "Yes, my lord." ”

Xu Qian said slowly: "The matter of the tax system is also drafted by you, the household department has no silver now, what is it called, and the relief has to rely on the allocation of money and grain from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, what is this like?" Therefore, the reform of the tax system is urgent, and Lord Wu has been in the household department for a long time, and I want to know the root of this, and the official is waiting to see your charter. ”

Wu Qian smiled bitterly in his heart, if he had the right to draft the tax reform in normal times, he didn't know how happy he would be, but now, he was more careful, and said: "How can Xia Guan He De ......" Seeing Xu Qian's face pulled down, he didn't dare to refuse, so he said: "It's just that Xia Guan took the liberty to ask, what do you think, how to change it?" ”

Xu Qian said lightly: "The commercial tax is naturally collected, but since the tax is collected, the so-called tax is taken from the people and the people, in other words, it is taken from the business, except for some of the usual use of the imperial court, the rest, always have to build bridges and pave roads, to provide them with convenience, in addition to the problem of the patrol department, these are actually secondary, not only to collect commercial taxes, naturally you can't let the magistrates do it, you can't let them pass it, otherwise like them, like the general taxation of grain, God knows what it will become in the end, the household department, You have to set up your own tax bureau, otherwise sooner or later there will be chaos. ”

"Of course, to collect business tax, in fact, there is not a small trouble, how much money people make, how much profit, can you know? They produce, after all, different from farming, at least grain can be seen on the ground, and how many acres of land can roughly calculate how much grain is produced each year, but there are various workshops, some produce silk, some produce ironware, and the profits are also different, how to collect, but there are some difficulties. ”

"But ......" Xu Qian said lightly: "This official has some ideas, this tax will be levied from the source, the imperial court does not levy the tax of the workshop, but the tax of industrial and mining and cotton mulberry." These things, after all, are visible, and the tax is simpler, such as cotton mulberry, how much is levied per mu, forming a custom, such as ten draws two, ten draws three, this can be, and the imperial court levied their taxes, in fact, indirectly, on those silk spinning taxes, because the imperial court levied taxes on cotton mulberry, then the cotton mulberry on the market must rise in price, silk spinning to collect cotton, the price paid is high, and the cloth spun out of silk is sold to garment workshops, the price will also increase, this layer by layer, although it is levied cotton mulberry, but silk spinning, The garment shop is equivalent to paying commercial taxes to the imperial court. ”

"Another example is industrial and mining, such as coal and iron, the imperial court levies taxes on them, and the tax can be heavier, and almost all workshops must use coal and iron, and finally, it is equivalent to the commercial tax drawn up by the imperial court, which is also borne by each workshop, Lord Wu, what do you think?"

In this era, tax collection is an old and difficult problem, with the organizational ability of the Ming Dynasty, even the collection of grain tax is stumbling, and it can barely cope with it, to talk about efficiency, it is nonsense.

As for the commercial tax, it is even more complicated, the complex surname of the commercial tax is more than ten times more complicated than the agricultural tax, after all, each workshop is different in scale, the production efficiency is different, and the profit is also different. That being the case, a one-size-fits-all approach, which is to levy commercial taxes directly where it can be seen and touched, is primitive but the most practical way in this era. After all, the efficiency of the government is too low, and the commercial tax is too complicated, so the salt and iron that everyone needs can be controlled, which can ensure that everyone can't escape the tax, otherwise let the local government under the head to collect the commercial tax, the biggest possibility is to exhaust the fish, the tax may not be able to collect much, most of the merchants will go bankrupt, and the only one who is full of food is the local officials.

Later generations had computers and a pervasive banking system, but tax evasion could not be stopped, let alone in this era.

When Wu Qian heard this, he roughly understood what Xu Qian meant, he was not stupid, now he understands, there is only one adult in the household department at the moment, that is Xu Qian, as for the cabinet, I am afraid that he can't count on it, if he wants not to repeat the mistakes of Zhang Chun, he has to obediently serve Xu Qian well, and obediently figure out his mind, so what Xu Qian says, his charter is drafted.

As for the other Langzhong, to the matter and the principals, naturally they did not dare to raise any objections, on the one hand, they may not know more about business and taxation than Xu Qian, and more importantly, Xu Qian's fist is bigger.

Any society, no matter how it is packaged and what kind of civilization it wears, but to put it bluntly, it is still reasonable to have a big fist, if you are not convinced, then you will be killed, and then everyone will be convinced.

Don't look at this is a household department, it seems to be sacred, in fact, it follows such the simplest truth.

But......

Xu Qian's words made people interested, they understood that the central idea of Xu Butang is that the household department collects taxes, the household department presides, and the household department is one-stop, and it is necessary to establish a system of reading power and ensure the collection of commercial taxes, such as the tax bureau, for example, not to let the magistrate interfere, does this mean that the household department will be greatly expanded in the future?

Think about how many prefectures and counties there are in the world, so many places, whether or not to appoint tax collectors, without the scale of thousands or even tens of thousands, the household department will not be able to handle such a big thing.

In addition, the household department relied on these tens of thousands of tax collectors to collect the silver, pinched the silver in their hands, how to use it, it seems that the household department also has a plan, for example, the patrol department, doesn't it say that the provinces should also be prepared? They are going to build, and where will the money come from? Not a household yet?

In these years, who has money is the uncle, and besides, do you want money for various projects? How to use this silver, according to Xu Butang's meaning, it seems that he doesn't want the local officials to interfere, and everything is covered by the household department, so how many people will be recruited?

And with so many people recruited, do you want someone to supervise it? The Metropolitan Procuratorate can't monitor your tax collectors, people's eyes see the sky, but they are not interested in supervising this. So should the household department prepare for the establishment of a supervision bureau, and how many people will be recruited?

This is to build the household into a swelling yamen, so calculated, there are not tens of thousands of people, and they seem to be embarrassed to greet people.

In this way, isn't this household department going to become the first ministry in the world, and the Ministry of Rites will stand aside, and even the Ministry of Officials will be out of reach.

But I ...... How many rights and benefits can be gained from it?

And will the cabinet approve this tax system?

With a lot of questions, many people are no longer panicked, and they can't help but have a little hope in their hearts, it seems that Xu Butang's thinking seems to be quite beneficial to himself, the greater the power of the ministry, the higher the tide will naturally rise, and the most money in the ministry is in charge, which also means that the greater their power, this is a symbiotic relationship.

For example, an ordinary Langzhong, on the surface, seems to be a great official, but to put it bluntly, it is just a big account room, the money and grain of a certain province are all converted by you, and the right is a little, but there are only dozens of officials who can be called, and the ice and charity of the province are also indispensable to your share, but after all, most of the time you are still shrinking in the ministry and counting the money and food every day.

But if the household department really wants to swell, this benefit will be great, dozens of officials are nothing, maybe there are hundreds or thousands, and when the time comes, the cities will build bridges and pave roads, and they must also be under the name of the Qing Officials, and the right to scatter wealth is enough to make people red-eyed.

Xu Qian naturally noticed the abnormality of these people's appearances, and couldn't help but smile slightly, in later generations, all those who manage the economy, finance and taxation are commonly known as small cabinets, with great involvement and lofty status, what he is doing now is just to follow the trend of the times, and the household department ...... From now on, he will also become a small cabinet, and on the one-third of an acre of land in this small cabinet, Xu Qian naturally wants to become the first assistant of this small cabinet, and he will be full of words.

Now that the grand plan has been drawn, Wu Qian pondered it, and felt that it was quite beneficial to himself as a squire, after all, who would think that he had great power and that he had a lot of money in his hands, if he said that he was just going to draw up this charter, it was just to please Xu Qian and prevent himself from ending up like Zhang Chun, but now, a lot of inspiration immediately flashed through his mind, and he actually felt that it was actually not bad to follow this Shangshu master.

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