In June, the first commercial tax revenue after the New Deal came up.

The salt tax, the tax on donations, the tax on mines, the tax on tea, the silver tax (the tax on silver transactions), and the "deed tax" of all walks of life add up to 2.7 million taels.

Because the new tax department basically covered the area north of the Yangtze River at the end of April, it can be regarded as the tax paid by the area north of the Yangtze River in May.

2.7 million taels, which is almost close to the national tax for half a year in previous years.

But this time, it only took a month, and it was only collected in less than half of the country.

In addition, Li Fu, the prime minister of customs, also sent a report, saying that a total of 800,000 taels of tariffs were received in May!

I have to say that letting Li Fu go to the Prime Minister's Customs is the right person.

This guy used to be involved in smuggling himself, so he knows the customs business well.

After he took office, he relied on his own experience to first block all the smuggling routes along the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then opened up 11 customs wharves, stipulating that domestic and foreign goods must be disembarked from these wharves, otherwise once caught, not only the goods will be confiscated, but all the parties involved will be dealt with strictly -- no matter what nationality you are.

This rule made domestic and foreign merchants who had engaged in smuggling not only have no complaints, but also be ecstatic.

Why?

Because this means that the Ming Dynasty is officially open to trade!

But who is serious about being a businessman, who is willing to do business secretly and at the risk of cutting off his head? In the past, they smuggled because of the Ming Dynasty's national sea ban, and they had to risk their lives to do this.

Now as long as you pay a tax worth 100 and 30, you can make a deal with Daming openly, which is too good to be better!

Is it too high to say that the tax worth 100 and 30 draws?

Low, it's bursting low!

The price of tea and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty was at least 20 to 50 times higher than that of the West, and what was the tax worth 30 percent of the hundred?

And to put it mildly, in the past, in order to smuggle, how many joints did they have to open, and the cost paid for this is much higher!

Therefore, as soon as Li Fu's customs opened, countless import and export merchants came to the customs office to report. Li Fuming knew that these merchants basically started by smuggling, but none of them were investigated, and all of them were given "licenses".

So in just three or four months, when the customs along the Jiangsu and Zhejiang coasts were put into operation, the smuggling phenomenon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang basically disappeared - and even if there were, it was those outlaws who were not greedy enough and did not even want to pay a dime in taxes. Unfortunately, Li Fu was originally an expert in the smuggling army, so these smugglers wanted to smuggle under his nose, and they were simply killing themselves.

Because the customs has not yet been officially established in southern Fujian, the 800,000 taels are only along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is conceivable that when the news of the opening of foreign ports in the Ming Dynasty spreads all over the world, as well as the increase in the number of customs, the income from tariffs will inevitably continue to soar in the future.

For all of the above, although Chongzhen was somewhat mentally prepared, he was still greatly shocked.

If it goes on like this, Daming Guofu's annual income will exceed 100 million taels, and there is basically no suspense!

100 million taels, this is the small goal that Qin Shuhuai said!

Originally, Chongzhen discounted this "small goal" in his heart, thinking that it would be earth-shattering enough to reach 50 million taels.

However, he was now extremely sure that 100 million taels was achievable!

The most important thing is that Chongzhen deliberately went out of the palace to take a look, and was surprised to find that the prices on the market have basically not risen much. Needless to say, salt, iron, and cloth are three things related to people's livelihood, because Qin Shuhuai set the "imperial court guide price", and the price did not rise even a penny.

What is even more surprising to him is that even rice, noodles, oil, steamed buns, meat, vegetables and other things that ordinary people need daily have basically not risen.

Some even show a trend of price reduction.

This made him really unable to figure it out.

The imperial court collected more taxes, but the prices of the people went down?

In a steamed bun shop, after Chongzhen bought a few steamed buns, he couldn't help but ask the boss why the price of steamed buns was a penny lower than at the beginning of the year.

The owner of the steamed bun shop said with a smile, "This son, now the grain merchants are desperately selling Chen Mi and Chen Noodles, and the price is falling again and again. What are we made of steamed buns? Isn't it just rice noodles? The price of rice noodles has fallen, so we can't follow the price reduction? We have to be conscientious, right?"

Chongzhen asked again, "Then don't you have to pay the tax?"

"Hehe, pay wow, why don't you pay? But if we sell steamed buns, we only pay a tax worth three hundreds, so what's the matter if we pay it? How much is more, how much is less? I still have 20 acres of thin fields in my hometown, and now I don't have to pay a penny of land endowments, what is the amount of a few dollars of silver that I pay in a month? Tell me, if we don't pay the endowment, who will raise the army of the imperial court? Who will give us a birthday?"

Chongzhen understood.

Because the number of farmers farming this year has increased substantially, and shrewd grain merchants have realized that the country's grain output will increase greatly this year, so in order to prevent the old rice and noodles from being sold at that time, they have taken the initiative to reduce the price and sell them in advance.

At the same time, compared with the reduced price of rice and noodles, the tax on steamed bun shops is simply insignificant.

As a result, won't the price of steamed buns fall?

Brother Qin, Brother Qin, you are really calculating!

As long as the prices of salt, iron, cloth, and grain, which are closely related to the people, do not rise, what if the prices of others increase a little?

At this time, a person who bought a bun next to him interjected, "Well said." I wish it would be free forever. As long as it is exempted for ten years, it will really be another prosperous era. ”

"Hehe, we'll be happy for three years, and ten years for you, why don't you have to eat when you're the emperor?" said another customer.

Everyone was immediately happy.

Chongzhen also smiled, the kind from the bottom of his heart.

couldn't help but say, "If the time is ripe, the emperor may really announce that he will be exempted from taxes forever, so just wait and see." ”

With that, he turned and left.

It's a breeze.

The prosperous era is slowly coming!

In the first half year of the New Deal, the happiest and most grateful to Dade were naturally the peasants, especially the peasants who had no land before. Since the New Deal, a large number of displaced people have returned to their hometowns to farm with peace of mind, and a large number of tenant farmers have turned into free farmers. Many farmers who originally had only a few families with thin fields and poor land bought a lot of fertile land in the form of installment payments, and they were so happy that they could wake up smiling when they slept at night.

There is no agricultural endowment, so that the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain is bursting!

At the same time, there is also their gratitude to the imperial court.

The second rejoicing were the soldiers who had received a salary increase. Now the soldier's salary is twice as high as before, and there is no arrears!

In addition, most of the new junior officials were also happy, because the imperial court gave them three times their previous salaries, so that they all lived a decent life - if their desire for power was not so strong, it was enough to make them happy.

As for the merchants, it depends on which one.

Most of the small merchants and hawkers, because the tax rate collected by the imperial court is very low, according to different industries, it is only between two per hundred and five per hundred, so there is nothing to resist - just like the owner of the bun shop, most of the small merchants and hawkers still farm at home, compared with the previous field endowment, the tax they pay is nothing at all, it is too late to be happy, what else is there to resist?

And those merchants who sell tea and silk are a little unhappy. Because all of these things are subject to a "heavy tax" worth 15 percent, which will make their profits hurt somewhat.

Of course, the most dissatisfied with the New Deal belonged to the big landlord class.

These super-large landowners, including the kings of Fu, Qin, and Jin, as well as the big bureaucrats who were not affected by the fall of the Donglin Party.

These people are not many in number, about 3,000 households, but they account for at least half of the cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty.

So far, only three or four vassal kings, including the king of Shu and the king of Zhou, have announced their acceptance of the new policy and sold the surplus land to the peasants, while the remaining twenty or so vassal kings and most of the big bureaucrats still choose to wait and see.

Even King Fu also released a word that his field was given by the first emperor, and whoever dared to beat his idea of his field was a great disrespect to the first emperor, and he wanted to sue the Zongren Mansion.

King Fu's arrogance and greed are famous in history.

The other vassal kings saw that King Fu was so tough, so they also took him as the leader, hugged together, and resisted the new policy with an uncooperative attitude.

There was no way, Qin Shuhuai had no choice but to prepare to go to Luoyang and meet King Fu in person.

Capture the thief and capture the king first. He believed that as long as King Fu was willing to give in, then the other vassal kings would also follow suit, and those big bureaucrats would naturally not resist anymore.

In addition, there is one more important thing.

It's June now, and the promise of the Demon Sect to send troops to the west within half a year has reached the fulfillment period.

The expedition to Yarkand is imperative!

So, after staying at home for half a year, he is going out again!