The prince Zhan Shi and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge Li Gang were dissatisfied with the emperor's complacentness, believing that the emperor was depriving and extorting merchants in disguise, believing that this trend cannot be opened, and even more so.

"How could this be a blackmail? Merchants compete for the qualification of sponsors. Although they do use money to exchange for the name of sponsors, their efforts are not in vain. Their gains are very significant. Merchants speak for profit, but they cannot get up early without profit. Which of these can become sponsors is not a famous big business group or big business company? They will do business losses and still compete to do it? The court did not force them to become sponsors. They paid for sponsors and the benefits they got were very high."

Li Gang said that the emperor should not speak profitably and should not be like a businessman.

Luo Cheng smiled and looked at Cui Junsu.

"Cui Xiang, tell Grand Secretary Li for me, can the court not talk about profit or money?"

"A saint, an ordinary family, has seven things to do when opening the door. It is impossible to do without money. As for the money used by the court, there are more money. Last year, the court's two tax revenues were more than 25 million stones of grain, more than 25 million stones of cloth and cotton, and more than 4 million coins of money."

"There are also industrial and commercial taxes, monopoly taxes, customs duties on the market, and the court's tribute trade income from tribute to the vassal states, totaling about 50 million jin."

Cui Junsu was the steward of the court, so the numbers he said were naturally not wrong. Of course, these numbers were actually public. The memorials submitted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the court were not kept confidential.

"Is this money enough to spend?" the emperor asked.

Judging from these figures, the court's income was very high. As the income from the two taxes for the regular tax, the physical rent of corn, silk cloth was not high. If it was based on the rent in the Sui Dynasty, one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one minus one

In fact, although there are no students and no students, the difference is huge. This is why there were so many grains in the Sui Dynasty. The land was divided into small amounts, but the rent was a unified annual rent of two stones per 100 acres.

Of course, there was no business tax, market tax, etc. in the Sui Dynasty, and they would not trade with buying and trading.

The Qin court attached great importance to industry and commerce and established a good tax system for this tax. The tax revenue was very high. The previous year, the salt tax was nearly 30 million guan. Now, although the court has voluntarily reduced the salt tax by more than half, there is still more than 10 million guan a year. In addition, the increased taxes for tea, wine and mines have enabled the imperial court to reach nearly 30 million guan a year.

With more than 10 million yuan in industrial and commercial taxes and maritime tariffs, and then the court-led and the buying, trade, etc., the annual income of this money is about 50 million yuan.

It's amazing.

"The sage, the court has a lot of income, but the expenses are also large. The grain in the two taxes are more than 25 million stones, and three million is folded into silk cloth, and added to the Sixth Jing warehouse. Three million is replenished into rice and beans, and is supplied to the Shang food and the official kitchens of various departments, and is incorporated into the Beijing warehouse. Four million is replenished into rice and transferred to the Beijing warehouse, and is replenished into the Beijing warehouse. Five million is replenished into the Dangzhou official tax and delivered grain. Ten million is garrisoned in the military and stored in the Dangzhou warehouse."

"And more than 27 million pieces of cloth, silk and cotton were used to enter Luoyang, and five million were used to enter the remaining five capitals. The remaining 12 million soldiers were given gifts to the peace and bribes, and the border counties were charged with official materials, postage and postage fees."

"More than 55 million guan, of which 12 million guan was used to repay national bonds, 2 million guan was used to ministerial materials and post horses in various counties, and 6 million were used to supplement the military rations of various counties."

"The other 30 million guan is used for military expenditures of the three yamen."

Li Gang said, "Will the court still have five million surpluses a year?"

"Five million guans seem to be a lot, and there are also many places for money available. This is the spare money reserved by the court. Once there is a war, flood and drought, etc., there are many places that need money. In addition, road construction, embankment construction, city construction, etc. are lined up for the court to approve the money."

According to Cui Junsu, let alone 50 million guan, even if there is more money, it is not enough. Now the court is stuck and spending within its means.

Based on the fiscal revenue of the previous year, then formulate the fiscal budget for the next year and reserve some money for spare. Therefore, how to make this budget and where to go is also the focus of disputes between the government and the court every year.

No matter how much the dispute is, it will not be able to satisfy all parties in the end, so it can only be roughly balanced, and all aspects will reduce some budgets and reject some project requests.

Li Gang was a little confused. Why did he only collect rents and mediocre physical goods during the Sui Dynasty, and did not have huge income from industrial and commercial market trade, but he was still stable. He even had the prosperous era of Kaihuang. Now that the court has so much income, he is still struggling everywhere.

"In the Sui Dynasty, everyone had to serve for 20 days for free. Before they could finish the service, they had to fold silk three feet per day to serve as Yong. In the Sui Dynasty, the rent was collected by Ding. No matter how many fields there were or how many fields there were, as long as they were trainees, it would be the same rent, one minus two stones of millet or two feet of silk three feet a year."

"As for our dynasty, since the two tax laws were revised, households were divided into nine levels, and the rich and the poor paid household tax according to the differences, and the land tax was collected according to the mu. Various miscellaneous donations and even labor was distributed into the mu. Land tax was collected according to the mu. In this way, more land would be collected, less land would be collected, and no land would be collected. We also incorporated the original Yichuang Grain Society grain warehouses into the land tax acres. In fact, the rented grain per mu was sold is much less than in the past."

Of course, the biggest difference between two taxes and rent-in-one moderation is that this tax rate is relatively flexible and reasonable. The poor pay less taxes and the rich pay more taxes. The biggest feature of the tax in the Sui Dynasty is actually a disguised tax on population taxes. Taxes are collected based on taxes. Rich people pay taxes like poor people.

Therefore, the population census and household registration control during the Sui Dynasty were the most strict. After the Sui Dynasty unified the world, the population of the country almost tripled in a short period of time, which was actually searching out all the hidden households in the world.

Although this method of taxing taxes by NTDs is simple, it can be as much tax as you have, but it is actually very unreasonable. Poor people pay the same tax as those billionaires, and even a large number of officials become unsuccessful households, but instead do not pay any tax.

Why did the Sui Dynasty perish?

One of the big reasons is that according to the tax system of the Sui Dynasty, if it is peaceful and people can barely live after paying the rent and adjustment. However, once they encounter disasters or major labor, ordinary people who are already in trouble may go bankrupt. Once such a situation occurs in the tax system of the Sui Dynasty, it is often a large-scale general bankruptcy of the people, and a large number of people are desperate, so they will naturally have to rebel.
Chapter completed!