Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 616, all parties react

"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper~"

"The imperial court implemented tax reform, proposing that taxes should be collected from the people and used for the people~"

"Paying taxes is glorious, tax evasion is shameful~"

In the streets and alleys of the capital, with the beginning of a new day, the voice of the newsboy is still very loud in the cold winter.

As newspapers have gradually become a must-read thing for young and old in the Beijing-Tianjin area to drink morning tea and eat breakfast, the sales of newspapers are also increasing.

In the beginning, only [-] copies of the first issue of the Ming Morning Post were printed, and [-] copies were sold in Tianjin and Beijing respectively. Now, the daily sales of newspapers in the Beijing-Tianjin area alone have exceeded [-] copies.

Half a million copies, this is an extremely frightening speed.

This is only in the Beijing-Tianjin area. In fact, Daming Morning Post has begun to be sold to all parts of Daming. Although there is a time difference, it still doesn't matter. More and more people still like to read Daming Morning Post.

Daming Morning Post has also started to set up a Nanjing branch in Nanjing. Every day, fast horses will send the edited content from the capital to Nanjing, and then the Nanjing side will step up printing and sell it to Nanjing and the Jiangnan area.

The daily sales of [-] newspapers also feed many children in the Beijing-Tianjin area.

These newsboys can earn a copper coin for selling a newspaper. Sometimes they will reward a few copper coins when they meet a generous master. Selling dozens of newspapers a day is enough to support themselves easily.

So for selling newspapers, these newsboys are full of enthusiasm, rain or shine, and the voice of the newsboys must be heard in the streets and alleys of the Beijing-Tianjin area.

"what?"

"Is the imperial court's tax reform?"

With the sound of the newsboy's voice, all the young and old in the capital were startled, and then hurriedly started buying newspapers.

Tax reform, this is a big matter, related to everyone's vital interests.

"The tax reform of the court, damn it, those officials are all full of fat, don't they want to beat us ordinary people to the bone to be reconciled?"

Everyone's first reaction is to boycott, they don't want to pay taxes, everyone does.

After all, taxation involves one's own wealth. No one is willing to hand over one's wealth obediently. This is nature. The wealth created by one's own hard work is not willing to be handed over to others.

Therefore, taxes have been mandatory since ancient times.

The Ming Morning Post published the new tax system in detail, and also explained in detail the amount of tax that all walks of life need to pay. At the same time, it also emphasized the role of taxation.

This tax is not for the enjoyment of the officials and lords, let alone the emperor. The emperor has his own property and has a lot of money. He must use the money from the treasury and does not need the common people to support him.

The money and food in the treasury are used to serve the common people.

Building bridges and paving roads, building river lifts, building reservoirs, spending on national defense, opening more schools, maintaining national stability, etc., is to instill in everyone the idea that this tax is collected from the people and used for the people.

It is an honor for everyone to pay taxes, and it is shameful not to pay taxes, evade taxes, or evade taxes.

Brainwashing, Liu Jin is very clear, not only to brainwash officials and bureaucrats, but also to brainwash ordinary people. The most important point is that this is taken from the people and used for the people.

"Bang~"

"It's over, the court changed the tax system, and I don't know how much tax I have to pay in the future."

"It's been hard to live a good life for a few days, and now I'm going back to the past again."

"Isn't it? Although it used to be said that the tax is one for thirty, but basically you don't have to pay tax, so that everyone can barely survive. How can this business be so easy to do."

"Okay now, let's take a look, there are dozens of various taxes, such as factory tax, workshop tax, business tax, etc."

"Everyone will be crushed to death by these taxes in the future."

Undoubtedly, as soon as the news came out, the entire Beijing-Tianjin area was in mourning. Countless people felt that a catastrophe was imminent, and felt that they would soon be unable to survive.

I am used to the good life of not paying taxes, but now I hear that the tax system will be reformed, and I suddenly feel that this life is not easy.

"What the newspaper said is also very reasonable~"

"The imperial court has no money, so many things can't be done. In the past, they were always bullied by grassland people. The most important point is that without money, the border generals are struggling and their combat power is low."

"In recent years, the reform of the military system has been carried out, and the military household system has been changed to a compulsory military service system. The expenditure of the army has also been paid from the emperor's internal funds, and there is enough money and food to meet the needs of the army."

"So the combat effectiveness of our Ming army has gradually improved. Not only have we defeated the grassland people, but now we have included the grasslands in our Ming territory, and we have also taught the Japanese nation a lesson. From then on, there will be no more Japanese pirates along the southeast coast."

"The so-called money is easy to do things, and it is the same for the court and the country."

"There is also the cement road between Beijing and Tianjin, which greatly facilitates the travel between Beijing and Tianjin. The imperial court is also planning to build such cement roads in various parts of Daming to facilitate transportation between various regions."

"All of this requires money. From this perspective, it makes sense for the tax to be collected from the people and used for the people."

Of course, there are still some people who read the newspaper and feel that what the newspaper says is reasonable.

Without the protection of a powerful army, the Ming Dynasty would be bullied by others, such as the grassland people in the past, the Jurchens in the Liaodong area, and the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast.

This is the best description.

Now that the imperial court is rich and the army is strong, Daming has wiped out all these scourges one by one, and returned a clear sky to the people of Daming, giving everyone a stable and safe life.

This is a good example of this.

However, there are only a few people who are sensible, and in everyone's impression, this tax is not a good thing. The best state is that the court does not collect taxes, and everyone does not need to pay taxes.

What's more, since ancient times, whenever the country was in turmoil and dynasties changed, literati always liked to attribute all this to the emperor's incompetence and the court's excessive taxation.

In everyone's impression, the prosperity of the country is due to light corvee and poor taxation, and the change of dynasties is due to the excessive taxation of the imperial court, which leads to the people's livelihood, and the common people can't live, so they rise up one after another and overthrow the original corrupt court.

The closest Yuan Dynasty is the best example.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes had been levied for decades, and the common people could no longer live, so they rose up one after another and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

Comrade Zhu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was forced to embark on the road of rebellion. He was the one who knew the Yuan Dynasty's excessive expropriation best.

Therefore, after seeing the news, many people shouted that if the imperial court imposes such tyranny, it will inevitably embark on the road of no return of the Yuan Dynasty, which may lead to turmoil in the society.

Even some unreasonable Guozijian scholars gathered together, shouted slogans, and ran outside the palace, wanting to speak to Emperor Hongzhi, thinking that the court did not need to reform the tax system.

Once the court reforms the tax system, it will inevitably lead to turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, the people will be in dire straits, and so on.

In addition, there are merchants, factory owners, commercial firms, etc., who also have great opinions and express their dissatisfaction.

In the past, there was no need to pay taxes, but now it is suddenly said that the tax system will be reformed so that everyone is ready to pay taxes. Naturally, everyone is unwilling to do it.

It is not easy to make money in this business, and it is also very hard, and you have to pay taxes?
They didn't even know about paying taxes before.

However, although factory owners, workshop owners, and commercial firms have opinions, they are all relatively stable, because these industries are indeed very profitable.

Especially the major commercial firms in Tianjin, who casually take a ship to Nanyang, North Korea, or Japan, and what they get back is real gold and silver. The major commercial firms are all making a lot of money. very.

There are also those factory owners, workshop owners, cement factories, textile factories, shipyards, etc., who are very profitable. The things they produce are not worried about selling.

Even though they opposed paying taxes, they didn't dare to make trouble. If they really started to make trouble, if the court side attacked them, they would be finished.

More importantly, everyone knows that it is Liu Jin who is leading the reform of the tax system this time.

Who is Liu Jin? He is one of the biggest capitalists in Ming Dynasty, and any industry under his command is the leader in the industry.

This tax reform, if you really have to pay taxes, the industries under Liu Jin's command will naturally be indispensable, and everyone will look at Liu Jin. If you, Liu Jin, don't pay taxes, everyone will naturally not pay.

If you pay Liu Jin, then everyone will follow. Anyway, everyone in the Beijing-Tianjin area knows that following Liu Jin can't be wrong. Without Liu Jin taking the lead, naturally there would be no prosperity in the Beijing-Tianjin area.

Apart from these, ordinary people in the capital are watching the show, because in the new tax system reform, there is no mention of taxing ordinary people at all.

Even some ordinary people in the fields are still the same as before, paying the grain as they should, and there is no change.

The focus of this tax reform is still commercial taxation.

The biggest real reaction in the Beijing-Tianjin area is the two industries of gambling houses and brothels and Chuguan. The foot was broken.

Those who run gambling shops are of course local snakes, and they are all ruthless. When they heard that the imperial court was going to impose heavy taxes on gambling shops, the bosses of gambling shops in the Beijing and Tianjin areas were all furious.

As for the Qinglou Chuguan side, it is even more wordy, if Liu Jin really dares to send someone to their brothel Chuguan to collect taxes, they will let their sisters go to Liu Jin's house every day to make trouble, and even Let people make up all kinds of romantic and elegant things about Liu Jin, women are not easy to bully!

　The tax of the Ming Dynasty is basically equal to no, especially the business tax~
　　
　
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