Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 424 Commercial Port Rents and Import Duties

Yu Yifeng is indeed a man of practical work. He did not drink alcohol at the reception dinner for Liao Kechang and others that night. He spent the night fighting to draw out dozens of items from the financial outline brought by Liao Kechang. The next morning, he didn't even sleep much. So they summoned Liao Kechang and a group of finance ministers from various ministries in Nanjing, officials from the central bank, and shopkeepers of state-owned official firms who came with him on this trip.

The content of the meeting was to discuss how to make Liaozhou repay Zhongzhou's [-] million taels of debt as soon as possible.

"According to the Central Bank's plan of Zhongzhou Financial Division, Liaozhou will build six commercial ports in coastal areas such as Jeju Prefecture and Gwangju Prefecture for the trade between China and Liaozhou.

These six commercial ports are lent to Zhongzhou for use, and the ownership is still in the hands of Liaozhou, right? "

Liao Kechang nodded: "That's natural."

"Since it is a loan, why is there no rent?" Yu Yifeng said eloquently: "To build a commercial port would cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels. North Korea and other countries are also flourishing and expanding, and they can be used directly after a hasty repair, but you can’t just stop paying in Liaozhou because we don’t spend money in Liaozhou.”

"Don't talk about referring to the large commercial ports in Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Songjiang and other places, just talk about Yangzhou Water Transport Port. Lianghuai salt merchants rent a salt transport port from the imperial court for 10 taels of silver plus 5 taels of salt to attract money every year. .

The commercial port provided by Liaozhou, no matter how small it is, is still much larger than any port in Yangzhou Water Transport, and there is no need for more capital and supplementary services. It is very reasonable for a commercial port to rent 50 taels a year. "

Liao Kechang blurted out in astonishment: "50 taels? It's absolutely impossible!"

A commercial port is 50 taels a year, and six a year is 300 million taels. Daming can only make a few dollars a year from Liaozhou, so there is no reason for such generosity.

"How is it impossible?" Yu Yifeng asked rhetorically, "The annual rent collected by Guangzhou Shipping Department from Guangzhou commercial port is as high as 170 million taels, and this commercial port in Benfu only costs 50 taels. What's wrong?"

"Can Guangzhou Port be compared?"

Liao Kechang said bluntly: "If Mr. Yu Ge can guarantee that the commercial port opened in Liaozhou will have 100 commercial ships entering and leaving every month, then the official is also willing to lease a commercial port at a price of [-] million taels per year."

"I can't guarantee it." Yu Yifeng shook his head directly and said unambiguously: "It's because Benfu knows that my commercial port in Liaozhou can't compare with Guangzhou Port, so Benfu didn't ask for a sky-high price, only 50 taels. Very reasonable price."

Liao Kechang still shook his head firmly and said: "It's unreasonable, the lower officials can make the decision, the maximum is 15 taels."

"40 million taels."

"18 million taels."

"35 million taels."

"20 million taels."

The two of them, a chief assistant minister of Liaozhou, and a deputy director of the economic department of the central bank of Zhongzhou Daming, are at the moment in the Yasiming hall, rolling up their arms and sleeves, bargaining, like a lady who buys and sells vegetables in a vegetable market, arguing It's a joy.

In the end, the rent price of the commercial port was set at 26 taels.

The rent of the six commercial ports is 1506 million taels a year.

A smile appeared on Yu Yifeng's face. Now, he won an annual financial income of more than 100 million taels for Liaozhou.

After talking about the rent of the commercial port, Yu Yifeng diverted the topic to other aspects.

"The state-owned companies and private companies in Zhongzhou want to come to Liaozhou to set up. Of course, this assistant is very welcome, but the welcome is welcome. The tax that should be levied must also be levied."

"That's natural." Liao Kechang replied without even the slightest hesitation: "How can a country support a country without taxes? Long before Liaozhou was established, King Yu said that the central government would not interfere in Liaozhou's internal affairs. and tax laws.

Included in this draft outline, Yan Xingxing and Xia Butang have given tax law opinions for the reference of Mr. Yu Ge. Liaozhou is waiting to be rejuvenated, and it is time to recuperate. The tax law should not be too high. The ratio of [-] taxes to [-] and business tax to [-] taxes to [-] is appropriate. "

Land tax [-] tax [-], business tax [-] tax [-], this tax ratio was often used by the Central Plains Dynasty when it was emerging, the purpose is to hide wealth among the people, so that the people can get rich quickly, so that they can multiply quickly, and the population The ancient dynastic period, which flaunted its national strength in numbers, was the best national policy.

For example, the governance of Wenjing, the governance of Zhenguan, the governance of Hongwu, and the governance of Renxuan, which are well-known in history, the national tax laws basically fluctuate around this tax ratio.

Yu Yifeng also nodded to show his approval, but he added a sentence later: "I feel that the commercial tax of the [-]th tax is still a bit high. In order to stimulate the circulation of goods and commercial prosperity in Liaozhou, we should use the commercial tax revenue to repay the national debt as soon as possible." , Benfu intends to reduce the business tax to [-] tax [-], even if it is a stepped tax system, the cap will not exceed [-] tax [-]."

The one-twenty tax increases to one ten-tax, and this tax rate is much lower than that of Zhongzhou.

Liao Kechang frowned slightly.

If Liaozhou plays like this, isn't it afraid that businessmen from Ming Dynasty will swarm into Liaozhou and rob Liaozhou of its wealth?

After all, no matter what kind of commodity is produced, the production level and quantity of Liaozhou are far behind Zhongzhou.

To put it simply, in the next 30 to [-] years, Liaozhou's import expenditure will definitely exceed its export revenue, resulting in a trade deficit.

And Liaozhou's commercial tax is lower than that of Zhongzhou. Under the trade deficit, Liaozhou's private wealth will be quickly plundered by Zhongzhou businessmen.

Is Yu Yifeng confused?

Just as he was in a daze, he heard Yu Yifeng say again.

"However, for the goods shipped by Zhongzhou merchants to Liaozhou for sale, there is an additional tax to be levied. The tax rate is [-]% to [-]% of the negotiated price of the goods themselves."

Import duties on finished goods!
Just like the Guangzhou and Quanzhou Shipping Departments.

Liao Kechang immediately understood Yu Yifeng's intentions in doing so.

Reduce the ratio of domestic commercial tax and raise the ratio of import tariffs. In this way, merchants from Zhongzhou go to Liaozhou to sell goods, and the price will inevitably increase passively due to the increase in tariffs. In this way, the competitiveness of Zhongzhou products in the Liaozhou market It is not as good as the products of local merchants in Liaozhou.

Coupled with the low proportion of local business tax in Liaozhou, a large number of Zhongzhou businessmen will probably choose to immigrate to Liaozhou to do business, and the local people in Liaozhou will also actively do business, rapidly prospering the local business field in Liaozhou.

Yu Yifeng is smart.

In addition, with the increase of import tariffs, it is far less cost-effective to export Zhongzhou's finished products to Liaozhou than to directly open the production factory to Liaozhou, or to use local manufacturers in Liaozhou for OEM production.

For example, silk cloth, porcelain, wood furniture, wine, etc., Zhongzhou merchants will send raw materials to Liaozhou, and then reprocessed by manufacturers in Liaozhou, and then sell them in the market after production, which saves a lot of import taxes.

As a result, Liaozhou will set up a large number of manufacturing industries, provide a large number of jobs for the people of Liaozhou, and play a role in enriching the people.

Liao Kechang looked down at Cao Gang, then looked up at Yu Yifeng, smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Old Yu Ge, the subordinate officials can't make decisions on this matter."

"You don't need to be the master." Yu Yifeng asked curiously: "My Liaozhou's tariff collection is a matter for the Benfu and the Liaozhou cabinet. Does Director Liao need to worry about it?"

Liao Kechang was speechless for a moment.

There's nothing wrong with that!

(End of this chapter)