Wearing a cyan Taoist robe, he wandered around Daqi, observing the world of Daqi, and it seemed that he was really just an ordinary Taoist.

It's just that no one can tell his age exactly.

It looks like he is in his twenties, and he looks like he is in his forties and fifties, mainly because he has experienced too much, and the kind of temperament that he brings to him surrounds him, so that no matter how young he looks, he will not think that he is really young!

At this time, Yin Shengzhi followed a group of people and was about to cross a ferry.

"I heard that the government is already preparing to build a bridge near here, so we don't have to take a ferry at that time, but just cross the bridge!"

"Hey, you guys want to be beautiful. When did the government get rich? I heard that the government still asked those big families to pay for the construction of bridges!"

"No matter who pays for it, as long as the bridge is repaired so that we can get around!" said someone who didn't care.

However, a young man asked puzzledly: "Dad, doesn't the book say that the government governs the people?" The people's taxes are all paid to the government, so why does the government have no money? Instead, they ask big families to pay for bridges and pave roads?"

The father and son are both dressed as scholars, and the father is obviously not an ordinary mediocre, with smart eyes and wisdom.

At this moment, when I heard my son ask, I couldn't help but smile and said, "Let me ask you, how much can you earn from farming in a year?"

"My family has 100 acres of fertile land, and my annual income is only tens of thousands of dollars. The young man replied without thinking.

There is not enough silver in this world, so it is still dominated by bronze banknotes.

"Then your uncle's family is in business, how much is it a year?"

"I don't know, but there should be millions of dollars, right?"

"So you understand now?"

"I seem to understand something. Those big families do have money when they do business...... But why doesn't the government tax the merchants?" the young man asked curiously.

Before his father could speak, a person next to him had already laughed and said, "The little boy doesn't know, why doesn't the government want to tax the merchants?

You can see at a glance how much land the people have, whether they are barren or rich, how they grow every year, and how much taxes they should pay.

Who knows how much the business will make in a year?

The government can only collect taxes, and the collection is heavy, and all industries are withered. If the harvest is light, then the merchant will naturally be fat......"

When these words came out, the young man said, "I see, thank you for your advice!"

What he said just now was just an ordinary person, and he was called Mr. at this time, and he didn't dare to be a man.

Yin Shengzhi heard such a conversation on the side and nodded slightly.

This man is just an ordinary pawn of a peddler, but he really has some insight and speaks of a stubborn disease in classical society.

That is, with the administrative power of the classical dynasty, it was simply impossible to accurately estimate the profit of a merchant.

Moreover, business taxation is too complicated!

Therefore, since ancient times, the government and court, which have paid attention to quiet and inaction, are actually lazy, often simply hate merchants and suppress commerce.

Nailing the bulk of the tax to the acres of land!

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there are more complex reasons among them.

And now, after decades of adaptation, coupled with the promotion of Yin Shengzhi's back, the Dadian court has gradually begun to have the ability to calculate and collect commercial taxes.

This is also the reason why the Dadian Dynasty has been able to maintain its strength today.

Of course, the collusion between officials and businessmen, and the business of officials' relatives and relatives, are even more serious, and they are also a very important reason why business taxes cannot come up and the government has no money.

Yin Shengzhi smiled at this time: "In fact, the more important reason is the relationship between the tax law of the imperial court, the imperial court will take away the majority of the taxes, and only thirty percent of the place is left, how can it be enough for the local government to use?"

"Ah, why did the court take away so much money. Wouldn't it be better to stay in the place, build bridges and pave roads, and provide for the poor?" his son was puzzled.

"But it's a weak move. The local government has too much financial power, so it has the power to bargain with the central court. It even caused a great increase in local power and threatened the authority of the imperial court.

In such a big country, if every place has the power to rebel against the center, wouldn't the whole world fall apart?" Yin Shengzhi said with a faint smile.

The scholar trembled when he heard this, there are many people who know about this, but there are not many people who dare to talk about it in broad daylight.

What is this man? How dare he reveal this here?

When the young man heard this, he became embarrassed and asked, "Ah, is there no solution to this matter?

This kind of thing, not to mention that it can't be solved in the classical era, even in the previous life in a dream, in the era of advanced science and technology, it still can't be solved.

"There is no way to solve this matter before, maybe you will stay and wait for you to grow up and solve it in the future!"

Yin Shengzhi smiled kindly and said to the little boy next to him.

didn't know that this casual word of encouragement suddenly made the young man study hard in the future, take the Jinshi examination, and become an official in the court, and swore to solve the matter......

Of course, that's all for later!

But he said that at this moment, the ferry had already reached the center of the river, and suddenly the river was turbulent, and the ferry was spinning.

The passengers of the entire ship panicked, not knowing what was going on.

"Could it be that there are monsters in the river?"

Now that the country is prosperous and densely populated, how many monsters still have a place to live?

Not to mention the very crowded ferry.

If there are really monsters, not to mention that there are already cultivators who jump out to subdue demons and eliminate demons without saying a word, even the government will not let it go, or mobilize soldiers and horses, or directly invite cultivators.

In short, there is no good end for youkai!

Therefore, few people really wonder if it is a monster or not.

The boat is running on the river, and if it goes on like this, the people on the boat are afraid that they will feed the fish and turtles in the river.

However, at this time, Yin Shengzhi finally made a move, but he was silent and stomped lightly.

There was a huge force that shattered the whirlpool in the river and freed the ferry from the crisis.

However, at this moment, a purple-black light flew out of the river in the distance, heading towards the southwest through the sky.

Immediately after that, a clear sword light flashed, and it actually chased after it.

The two chased and fled, like two meteors crossing the sky, and they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But just now, there were actually two cultivators fighting in the river, which affected the ferry.

"What a bold man, he dared to almost injure an innocent ...... in broad daylight"

The scholar just now trembled, and shouted in his mouth: "These cultivators are too presumptuous, the imperial court shouldn't indulge them like this!"