I want to be emperor

Sun Xu and Ms. Meng took a taxi all the way to the Xicheng District Real Estate Bureau, where they met the real estate agent and the seller.

Sun Xu has met the seller twice before. He is a native of Jiangbei and works in the financial industry in Songjiang City. He bought this single-family house in Dongqin Community a few years ago and planned to improve the living environment, but the job happened not long after. Due to the change, the securities company he worked in moved to Beicheng District.

Although they are all in Songjiang City, Songjiang City is quite big. The distance between Beicheng District and Xicheng District is more than ten kilometers away. During the rush hour, it is difficult to pass for an hour or two.

Under such circumstances, there is naturally no way to continue to settle down in Dongqin Community.

The seller can only repurchase the house in the suburbs of Beicheng District, but the financial pressure is relatively high, so he has always wanted to sell the house in Dongqin Community.

As for renting... this thing is more than 1000 Chuyuan single-family houses, even in the contemporary Songjiang City, it is actually considered a luxury house, and it is not easy to rent out... How should I put it, this kind of house is a well-established suburban family Residential houses are basically used to settle down, and families who can afford to rent such houses and are willing to rent such houses can basically afford to buy them.

Many people would buy a house outright rather than choose to rent this suburban family home.

Even if it is renting a house, most people will rent a cheaper suburban townhouse or simply transition to a certain unit in the apartment first.

So this kind of house is actually very difficult to rent out.

And even if it is rented out, the rent has to be taxed, more than 20.00% of the rent tax.

The people at the bottom do not have much money, and the tax authorities may not pay attention to you. If you use cash transactions, you may steal the rent tax, but the high-income earners in the financial industry are all on the key list of the tax authorities. Tax evasion, it is easy to toss yourself into prison... So in the Great Chu Empire, middle and high-income groups actually pay more attention to tax security, and there are relatively few cases of tax evasion.

On the contrary, the rich and powerful have more channels and abilities to avoid taxes.

As for the people at the bottom... To be honest, the tax authorities generally don't pay much attention to them. There are only a few copper coins, and the tax collected is not as high as the tax cost.

Therefore, in many taxes borne by individuals, such as personal income tax, middle and high-income groups are the main contributors to tax revenue, and these people are also the key targets of tax authorities.

Well, the current Sun Xu basically falls into this category... Before his monthly salary is paid, his personal income tax has been deducted, the personal income tax in the Great Chu Empire, the salary or other personal income from enterprises , all taxes are withheld by the enterprise, which does not give you the possibility of tax evasion at all.

It's just that the current personal income tax threshold is very high, which has nothing to do with ordinary people... Only those with annual salary income of more than 150 Chu Yuan need to pay personal income tax, and the tax rate is not high for the time being.

Generally speaking, the personal income tax in the Great Chu Empire is currently mainly aimed at middle and high-income groups, and is currently limited to regular personal income such as salaries obtained from public accounts such as government and enterprises.

As for private employment, cash employment and the like cannot be taxed for the time being... It's not that the tax bureau doesn't want to collect it, but that the current tax collection methods cannot be collected, or the cost is too high.

At the end of the year, the Taxation Bureau of Xicheng District even sent Sun Xu a tax declaration guidebook. The letter said it was nice to provide a tax declaration manual to guide and assist taxpayers in tax declaration. Is there anything I don’t understand? You can write to consult or go to the tax bureau for consultation.

This letter is actually telling Sun Xu clearly: Boy, don't play tricks when you file your taxes early next year, our tax bureau is watching you!

The original owner of Building No. 172 in Dongqin Community has to bear the annual property tax. If the rental tax is deducted, the rental income is actually not that big... and the house may be depreciated when rented out, and it is not expensive when you buy it. Good sale.

The reason why Sun Xu bought this house so readily was largely because the house was well-decorated and brand new, and no one had ever lived in it.

Because one really wants to buy and the other really wants to sell, and Sun Xu also has the financial strength, the transaction is relatively smooth.

Under the authorization of the real estate agent, the two parties quickly completed the transfer in the real estate bureau, and paid the corresponding taxes and fees generated by the transfer on the spot.

Sun Xu also gave the original owner the check for the last payment. The original owner was more cautious and went to the branch of the financial bank next door to check on the spot. After confirming that there was no problem with the check and the withdrawal was successful, he said goodbye.

At this time, Sun Xu was holding a bunch of documents including the real estate certificate, the real estate sales contract, the tax payment certificate, the invoice, and the original owner's receipt.

Just standing on the side of the road, and Miss Meng held his arm tightly.

This house is basically not only Sun Xu's, but also hers... Ms. Meng also paid for it. She took out the two hundred Chu yuan she had saved in the past few years and gave it to Sun Xu in the name of a loan.

Because Sun Xu has to pay [-]% of the down payment, he also has to pay taxes, real estate taxes, and some other expenses that need to be incurred for settling down, such as making appropriate modifications to the decoration according to his own ideas, buying some new furniture, and Hire maids, coachmen, buy carriages and horses, etc.

This adds up to a lot of money, and Sun Xu still has a little less time to save money, and there are still some gaps in a short period of time. Originally, Sun Xu planned to ask Section Chief Wang to borrow money for the transition, but Ms. I took out my dowry money.

Originally, Sun Xu didn't want Ms. Meng's money, but Ms. Meng was very persistent. She once said that if he didn't take the money, he looked down on her and wanted to give up... In desperation, Sun Xu finally took the money.

After all, Sun Xu didn't have the idea of ​​giving up. He was quite traditional. Now that he and Ms. Meng had reached the point of discussing marriage, he naturally wouldn't have any other ideas.

After all, after the two broke through the last layer of relationship a few months ago, although due to public opinion, the two unmarried men and women did not directly live together.

Also because they are both in Songjiang out of town, neither of them can take the time to go back to their hometown to meet their parents and hold the traditional three-match and six-engagement ceremony.

However, I have already contacted both parents through letters, and obtained the consent of both parents... It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree. The law of the Great Chu Empire stipulates that marriage is free. As long as the parties are voluntary, they can directly bring their household registration certificates to the government. Registration of marriage by the Civil Affairs Bureau does not require parental consent...

Of course, this kind of situation is not very pleasant in the Great Chu Empire where the traditional concept is still relatively strong. The lack of the traditional three media and six employment is always not very pleasant. It feels a bit like elopement, but the impact is only limited to this.

Because the relationship is relatively certain, Sun Xu did not refuse Miss Meng's dowry money in the end. It is also good for the two of them to pay for a house together.

Accompanied by the real estate agent, Sun Xu and the two went to Dongqin Community and found a community service management company to deal with water, coal and other miscellaneous matters. By the way, they had to prepay the real estate service fee for next year and pay the courtyard deposit , noise margin, etc.

Dongqin Community is different from ordinary communities. In order to ensure a safe and comfortable living environment, there are many rules within the community. For example, there should be no too much noise, especially at night, which will affect the neighbors. It is also required that the courtyard must be kept beautiful. , can't let the weeds regenerate, can't make a mess, can't keep large pets and the like.

There are quite a lot of detailed rules, and there are actually no legal standards for the implementation of these detailed rules. They are all residents in the community as shareholders of the service management company, and a series of management systems are formulated through voting at the general meeting of shareholders.

In order to ensure the implementation of these management systems, their community adopts a security deposit system... a certain security deposit is required after moving in, and the security deposit will be deducted if there is any violation.

At the same time, there will be other punishments. For example, the cooperative insurance company will refuse to provide fire insurance for the house because of the overall quality of the owner's reputation.

The private schools jointly run by the community will also refuse the children to attend because of the family's moral problems.

The family resident will no longer be invited to participate in activities in the community, etc.

There are more core things... Once the behavior goes too far and completely angers most of the residents, then other residents, as shareholders of the service management company, will initiate a general meeting of shareholders. In the general meeting of shareholders, as long as there are more than [-]% of the votes, then A mandatory premium can be used to acquire the resident's shares in the service management company.

Once a resident's shares in the management company are acquired by force, the community service management company will not provide the resident with any community services...mainly water and coal.

Although the house is yours, the water pipes and gas pipes in the community are the assets of the community service management company... You are no longer a shareholder, and naturally you will not be provided with the corresponding use rights.

To put it simply, if the water and gas are cut off, you will eventually be forced to sell your property and leave.

This is also the common practice of most community service management companies. This kind of community is generally called a closed community. The advantage is that the environment is good, the public facilities are good, the service is good, and it is safer; Also high.

Correspondingly, there are some open communities without community service management companies. In this kind of communities, the name of the community is actually a pure geographical term, similar to a certain village... The houses are built along public roads, and each family Households are in charge of themselves, but there is no one to provide you with any community services.

At most, the government provides some garbage cleaning services for a fee. The security issue depends on the local housing prices. The housing prices are generally the same as the real estate tax. Therefore, the local finances are limited, and only the basic security energy can be maintained.

If housing prices are high and property taxes are high, then the local finance can hire more patrolmen to ensure law and order.

As for water pipes and gas pipes, you have to go to the water company to apply for paving...

Generally speaking, open communities and closed communities each have their own advantages!
By the way, almost all the manors and mansions of the rich and powerful are not in the so-called closed communities, they are all in the open community... But because of the generosity of the rich, the law and order in this open community does not need the so-called security The security personnel provided by the company are directly in charge of the local patrol...

The rich people donate a large sum of money to the local police station every year, so that the local police station will set up a branch in an open community, and dispatch a group of police officers to carry out frequent patrols...

It's not that the Patrol Bureau takes care of these rich and powerful, but that they give too much money... Just take some of these donations as the cost, send people to garrison and patrol, and the rest can be used for security patrols in ordinary areas.

As for you saying that the rich only bear the cost of the patrolmen they send...the patrol bureau doesn't even bother to talk to you.

If the price is not more than ten or twenty times higher, you still want to set up a sub-bureau in a wealthy residential area, which is beautiful...

So this kind of thing belongs to your love and I wish it. If you have too much money to burn, if you want more policemen to come here to maintain law and order, then you have to pay a corresponding high cost.

The Patrol Bureau uses a small part of the donations to maintain the law and order in the luxury residential area, and the rest is used to maintain the law and order in other ordinary areas.

Patrolmen have to eat too, right?
This is a special situation in the luxury housing area. As for the so-called Kaifeng communities in many ordinary areas, apart from some open communities newly developed by real estate developers, there are quite a few open communities, which are actually the evolution of the original suburban rural gathering places. Come.

It’s just that with the advancement of urbanization, many villages that originally belonged to rural areas gradually changed, and finally evolved into an open community with a better living environment. However, the management agency is generally a local administrative village, and there are no service management companies. .

The specific situation is quite different, in short, there are all kinds of things.

Sun Xu and Ms. Meng chose to live in Dongqin Community mainly because Dongqin Community is a closed community, and its overall environment, facilities, and public security are very good. Much better than ordinary open communities.

After dealing with these matters, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng, accompanied by the real estate agent, went to the newly bought No. 170 building.

After a brief handover, the real estate agent bid farewell and left.

Standing in the living room, Sun Xu grabbed Miss Meng's hand and whispered, "This will be our home from now on!"

"In the afternoon, we will go buy some bedding and other daily necessities, and we will move here tomorrow!"

But Ms. Meng said: "After buying daily necessities in the afternoon, I can actually sleep here at night..."

While speaking, Ms. Meng dragged Sun Xu up to the second floor. Standing in front of the oversized master bedroom on the second floor, Ms. Meng suddenly turned to face Sun Xu, and whispered shyly, "This bed must be very comfortable..."

When Sun Xu heard it, the corners of his mouth curled up: "It must be very comfortable!"

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In the afternoon, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng went to the city to purchase some daily necessities, then went back to the apartment in Dongqixiang to pick up some simple luggage and returned to the villa in Dongqin Community.

The two of them spent the whole night in this big house, to be precise, on the big bed in the master bedroom on the second floor... Sun Xu found that the quality of the bed seemed to be not good enough, and it squeaked most of the night.

I have to wear this bed later!
But when they went out to work the next day, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng found that although the place was nice to live in, it was not very friendly to them who didn't have a private carriage yet.

There are no public carriages at the gate of the community, and you have to walk more than 500 meters on the asphalt road owned by the community to reach the public road. There is a platform for public carriages, but the two of them waited for half an hour before one arrived. Three-horse four-wheel double-decker public carriage!
It's just that after getting into the carriage, people looked at him more.

Because of the clothes of the two of them, and the Dongqin community next door...it obviously doesn't match this public carriage that serves ordinary middle-class residents in the suburbs.

The owners of Dongqin Community don't come to squeeze the public carriage... Only the employees and servants of the service management company working in the community will take the public carriage here.

In fact, there were two maids who boarded the car with Sun Xu...

But Sun Xu and Ms. Meng didn't feel any embarrassment at all. These two people came from ordinary families. Sun Xu's high-income time was only a few months older, not a year.

At this time last year, when Sun Xu first arrived in Songjiang, his net worth was only three yuan, and he was reluctant to take a public carriage often when he was looking for a job.

For a long time, I didn't even take a taxi for my daily work.

That is to say, in recent months, I have been relatively affluent, so I often take a horse-drawn carriage when I go to work, but not every day. After all, Sun Xu is still saving money, and often takes a public horse-drawn carriage to save money. .

So now that the two of them got on the public carriage, they didn't feel any inconvenience... After all, the two of them were not used to being rich, and their consumption hadn't undergone a large-scale upgrade.

But the feeling of the surrounding passengers is different...not fear or envy...but jealousy and disgust!

What the hell, you can tell at a glance that it is the owner of the Dongqin community, who lives in a mansion of one or two thousand Chu Yuan, wears clothes that are more expensive than my salary in a few months, does not travel in a private carriage or a rented carriage, and runs Come and grab a seat in the stagecoach with me, isn't it disgusting!
However, the social atmosphere of the Great Chu Empire, or the law and order is still very good, these people are at most unhappy, at least no one will say anything, let alone provoke others.

So although Sun Xu and Ms. Meng were on the outskirts of the city on a public carriage that didn't quite match, nothing happened.

After arriving all the way to the urban area, he took a taxi to take Ms. Meng to Huidong Department Store to work, and then Sun Xu went to Anhua Textile Company to continue working.

When I was at work, I also asked the people in the carriage department of the factory to help purchase a two-horse four-wheeled carriage and two horses, and entrusted them to recruit a coachman who could take care of the yard and sundries.

Carriages and horses are easy to sell. As long as Sun Xu pays for these things, they will buy them for Sun Xu on the same day, but the coachman is not easy to recruit.

After all, a private coachman, not to mention other things, but his character must first pass the test.

In the end, Sun Xu poached the wall in the carriage department, and found another coachman surnamed Li, who was rated by another colleague as a good character and good driving skills, and asked him if he would resign and drive for him.

The treatment given is average, only three yuan and eight Chu yuan, but the package includes food... After all, Sun Xu's single-family villa has an annexe. The servants can conveniently provide free board and lodging for living and living.

Although the remuneration is not high, actually a little lower than his current salary, but the work is relatively easy, and at the same time, there is no need for other additional expenses including food and lodging.

Uncle Li agreed after thinking about it.

The main reason is that the work is much easier and less tiring than the current work in Carriage Corey...

The horse-drawn carriage department of Anhua Textile Company provides official horse-drawn carriage services to senior employees in the factory. Their main job is to transport goods.

The coachmen drive the factory's own horse-drawn trucks to transport raw materials, equipment, consumables and other goods from the railway station, wharf, and cooperative manufacturers, and then transport the produced cotton yarn to the warehouses of the cooperative manufacturers in the city, or Shipped to the dock, the warehouse in the railway station.

In the words of later generations, he is a factory truck driver and a porter at the same time!

Uncle Li is not young either. Over the years, he has been driving and transporting goods. While making money to support his family, he has also exhausted his body. It is already very difficult to continue to do this kind of work as a trucker and porter.

Even if you don't take the initiative to resign, there is a high probability that you will be fired mercilessly by the factory after the one-year contract ends...

Anhua Textile Company, like most companies these days, is basically merciless towards ordinary employees...Under the legal framework, it can be squeezed as hard as it can be squeezed.

Once there is no squeeze value, dismiss in minutes...

In the original time and space, around the middle of the nineteenth century, in two typical countries, Britain and the United States, workers in factories were treated worse than slaves in the United States at the same time.

American slave owners in the mid-nineteenth century treated slaves as their own property.

Basically, when using property, it will not be overused, food will be provided during use, machines must burn oil, and slaves must also eat... It's all the same reason.

When a slave is sick, if the problem is not serious, he will buy some medicine for simple treatment. The same is true for repairing the equipment if it fails.

After all, slaves are their own property. If they are worn out or killed, all the money lost is the slave owners' money. Therefore, within the cost controllable range, these slave owners will still try their best to ensure the safety of their property.

Even in order to produce small slaves, they will take the initiative to marry slaves...

But at the same time, in the northern factories...the factory boss doesn't care about the life and death of the workers, the wages are as low as they can be. Anyway, it's just the salary, if you like to do it, don't get out.

When workers are sick or exhausted, it is none of the business of the factory boss. They are the bosses, not the parents of the workers.

In North America in the middle of the nineteenth century in the original time and space, the living conditions of quite a few workers in the northern factories were not as good as the slaves in the southern plantations...

Workers in the Great Chu Empire had better conditions, such as minimum wages, maximum working hours, and standard labor contracts to protect the interests of workers.

But that hasn't stopped factories from laying off older workers.

Of course, according to the words of Boss Ma, the largest leather processing company in Xicheng District: We are sending high-quality talents with rich work experience to the society, and it is a good thing to contribute to society... To be honest, you have to give us the government ICBC's entire "Talent Cultivation and Delivery Excellent Enterprise" certificate or something!

Uncle Li has been working for Anhua Textile Company for more than ten years. Now his health is not very good and he is worried about his future career.

It happened that Sun Xu wanted to find a well-know coachman, gardener and handyman, and asked him if he wanted to go.

Uncle Li didn't hesitate too much, and immediately agreed. With Sun Xu's assistance, Uncle Li resigned on the same day and started working for Sun Xu.

In this way, the carriage and the driver can be regarded as working together, and then Ms. Meng came forward and recruited a middle-aged aunt through the channel of Dongqin Community Service Management Company to take care of laundry, cooking and sanitation.

After such arrangements were made, Sun Xu and Ms. Meng finally settled down in Dongqin Community.

But after all, the name is not right and the words are not right... So after discussing with Ms. Meng, I also discussed with the factory, and finally squeezed out 20 days of annual leave.

I plan to go home for the Chinese New Year this year, and go to Jiangxi, Ms. Meng's hometown.

Taking advantage of this period of annual leave, Sun Xu wanted to settle the marriage completely.

After everything was ready, on December 27, Sun Xu, Ms. Meng, and his attendant, Uncle Li, set foot on the train with large and small bags.

This is the second time for Sun Xu to take a train in his life...but it’s different from the first time that he could only transfer to a third-class ticket. This time, Sun Xu directly bought a ticket for a first-class sleeper from Songjiang to Xi’an, and it was a two-person ticket Small box.