How much tax did we pay?

Shi Yiwen's rhetoric made Zhu Yijun surprised.

"How much did you earn? How much did you pay?"

"So far, iron factories, banks, restaurants, and bookstores, of course, the biggest leader is the yarn mill. We have earned no less than 1.5 million taels, but we have only paid less than 5,000 taels of tax!"

Less than 5,000 taels!

In the past, I only knew that the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were low, but to such a low level, Shi Yiwen couldn't help but be surprised. Even Zhu Yijun was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. He was stunned for a while before saying.

"I earned one million and a half million taels, only I only received less than 5,000 taels of tax... How is this possible?"

"That's the case, and, just like that, I still pay taxes according to the rules. If I'm not wrong, the tax we pay is about 20% of the miscellaneous taxes in Beijing!"

There was never a separate commercial tax in this era, but was mixed with miscellaneous taxes such as Jiumen Tax, Guanshi and others.

"Actually, if I don't want to pay, just express it a little, I only need to pay a tax of two or three thousand taels a year, or even not payable."

Looking at Zhu Yijun, Shi Yiwen said.

"Let me put it this way, the most profitable one is the yarn mill. According to the tax rules, each yarn machine only needs to pay three cents of silver. Our yarn mill only has 30 yarn machines in total... Well, 30 yarn machines, one month, only need to pay less than ten taels of silver."

What!

Opening his eyes wide, Zhu Yijun asked back.

"Why do we pay such a little tax? It's less than ten taels..."

"Yes, but the problem is, I still pay it according to the law."

Shi Yiwen himself finds it a bit ridiculous.

"Our yarn machine is different from other people's, one set tops a thousand machines!"

"Our spinning machine has 1,000 spindles, and in terms of efficiency, it is 2,000 old-style spinning wheels."

“…”

Zhu Yijun opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

"So, I'm going to use another hundred textile machines. After all, I pay less taxes."

"Zhiyuan, what do you want to say?"

Zhu Yijun looked at Shi Yiwen and asked back.

"I want to say that the national government taxes are light, so the national expenses are insufficient. Just like our yarn mills are taxed by machines, we only have thirty pieces of machines, so we naturally only need to pay more than ten taels of silver. As for what is the big head of this ten thousand taels? It is the bank we set up in the city, which pays taxes according to the money house, pays 200 taels a month. We open five banks in the city and Zhangjiawan. Due to different levels, we pay more than 600 taels a month. As for the carriages, it is not worth mentioning. There is also a big head of iron factory, which pays one-thirty of the iron course every month..."

After giving out the tax that needs to be paid one by one, Shi Yiwen looked at Zhu Yijun and said.

"We earned 1.5 million taels, but we only paid less than one percent of the tax in total. Do you think such a tax is reasonable?"

"Of course it's unreasonable! It's indeed..."

Zhu Yijun, who originally wanted to say the unscrupulous businessman, said to himself.

"It seems to have nothing to do with the prodigal businessman. After all, you just pay this point according to the rules."

"The problem is that, everyone still has to evade taxes. When the founding of the country, Emperor Gaozu adopted a low-tax policy for business in order to rebuild the social and economic order. The official store money was reduced from the initial ten taxes to twenty-one taxes and one taxes and one tax, but even so, how much is paid according to the amount?"

Looking at Zhu Yijun, Shi Yiwen continued.

"Not to mention anything else, just talk about the banknotes established by the imperial court on the canal and on the water and land. How much is the shipment bill a year? It's only a hundred thousand taels, but Mingzhi, all the goods in the world are transported through the water and land docks. Is it because the goods in the world only have four or five million taels?"

Shi Yiwen's rhetoric made Zhu Yijun shocked.

"What about those taxes?"

"One is that officials in cash are greedy. Whenever merchants pass the customs, they often bribe them. If they should pay a hundred taels, they only need to pay ten taels, five taels to become officials, five taels to fill their personal pockets. The second is that officials are exempt from the boat seats of the royal family..."

Almost as soon as Shi Yiwen finished speaking, Zhu Yijun cursed.

"A group of borers that should be killed! He dares to fill his pockets so much. They are the ones who make me so poor!"

Zhu Yijun's scolding made Shi Yiwen stunned and said in surprise.

"Where do you start with this?"

"Zhiyuan didn't know that most of the ship banknotes collected by the banknotes have been sent to the inner treasury for consumption needs in the palace. After all, the inner treasury and the Ministry of Revenue are irrelevant to each other, and all the expenses in the palace depend on the inner treasury. Even if I want to spend money, I can only pay the money from the Ministry of Revenue. Even if I want to borrow money, they may not necessarily give it. Just like a while ago, I wanted to borrow 100,000 taels of silver from Taipu Temple to provide for the expenses in the palace, and all of them were rejected..."

When talking about the old thing that he could not get it by borrowing money, Zhu Yijun was so angry that he even said annoyedly.

"What is the world? Is it the king's land? That's all. Even Guanglu Temple has overspent for cooking for the palace. I want to borrow 100,000 yuan from the Ministry of Revenue to overcome the difficulties, but they don't borrow it. People in the court all day long want to pay the silver from the inner warehouse, and even Mr. Zhang, the same is true for this. In the past two years, I don't know how much taxes in the inner warehouse in the corner have been moved to the Ministry of Revenue. Could it be that the palace doesn't spend money?"

The reason why Zhu Yijun was so annoyed was because of the special financial system of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor spent two types of money. One was to spend money on state affairs. For example, to spend military pay in wars, and to carry out large projects, the money was collected and paid by the Ministry of Revenue, which was in charge of national money. However, the emperor had to spend money on the inner treasury. The financial expenses in the royal family mainly included the daily expenses of the royal family members such as the emperor, empress, concubine, Bin, crown prince, prince, prince, and princess who served them, as well as the daily expenses of the emperor and empress’s food and clothing expenses, and rewards and honors.

All kinds of extravagant expenses, such as fees for celebrations and tours, and a large number of rewards, in a broad sense, also include the opening of the vassal kings and their descendants who were enfeoffed in various places. Therefore, the expenses are very huge and require huge income to maintain.

While angry, Zhu Yijun said again.

"Even a while ago, some people were trying to touch the gold and silver, saying that gold and silver were the grain and silver, and they should hand it over to the Ministry of Revenue. They took away the gold and silver, and asked me to give the salary to the military generals and ministers in the capital?"

After a suffocation, Zhu Yijun said in a depressed mood again.

"Just like the Chaoguan you just mentioned, since the time of Emperor Chengzu, the royal family has been competing with the court. It was not until Emperor Shizong that he finally decided the system and took turns to conclude the dispute. Basically, it was just five or five. Sometimes, after a long time of fighting, he could also win more concessions. But after a long time of work, he didn't expect that the big court did not get it, and the royal family did not get it, so he actually let a group of corrupt officials lose it!"

Looking at Zhu Yijun's annoyed look, Shi Yiwen's heart moved and looked at him and said.
Chapter completed!