dream of red mansion

Chapter 211

Jia Qing said calmly: "So, this is the purpose of what I call 're-business'.

Everyone in the world knows that merchants are very rich, except for the two items of salt and iron that the imperial court specializes in, all the profit-grabbing businesses in the world are in the hands of merchants.

However, it is extremely unreasonable that they earn so much wealth, but only pay a very small amount of taxes in a few places!
The disciples believed that since most of the world's wealth is in the hands of merchants, the imperial court should not hold such wrong attitudes as "merchants are cheap" or "merchants don't do production, but only rely on speculation for profit".Instead, we should vigorously support them, recognize their status, and then impose fixed heavy taxes on them.

The disciples believe that as long as the imperial court increases taxes by half of all businesses in the world, it will be enough to reduce the agricultural tax to one thirty, and the imperial silver will not be reduced at all, and even have a surplus. "

This is Jia Qing's conservative estimate.

Needless to say, the wealth of a businessman.

Like the famous salt merchants, cloth merchants and other big merchants in the world, each has millions of dollars!
Even the Xue family, the in-laws of Jia's family, don't think there are only orphans and widows left now, but Xue's father has been an imperial merchant for more than ten years, and he has left no less than a million dollars for their orphans and widows!
This is a very scary thing.

It should be known that the great Chu Dynasty was peaceful all over the world.All the salt and iron taxes, agricultural taxes, and commercial taxes in the world add up to only about 3000 million taels!

In other words, a dozen or so slightly larger businessmen can gather all the tax revenues of the entire Dachu for a year.

However, there are so many businessmen in the world!

After all, Fang Shou was very experienced, and said bluntly: "Although the imperial court does not collect much business tax, all the dignitaries and governments in the world have exploited merchants. In this way, it is actually not easy for merchants to survive!

Especially for those small businessmen, the family business is difficult, and if one is not careful, the family will even go bankrupt, and all the money will change hands in an instant.

It's just that their money did not fall into the hands of the court, but into private hands, which is a pity.

Now if the imperial court imposes heavy taxes again, it will make it even more difficult for them, and this will definitely cause the people to live in poverty.This is a big deal, don't take it lightly! "

Jia Qing said with a smile: "Of course, this is another more important political issue, the issue of official management, which is not within the scope of the disciple's current consideration."

How could Jia Qing not know this.He even knew that only businessmen with someone in the court could be free from exploitation, such as the Xue family.

In fact, the Xue family is nothing. The real big merchants are those big merchants and wealthy families who rely on the clan, descendants, nobles, high-ranking officials, and local wealthy families. Not only are they constantly exploited, but they can exploit smaller merchants, common people.

If you want to collect taxes, you have to collect this group of people. Otherwise, it can only be an absurd government that accelerates the corruption of the country!

After exchanging his policy questions and answers with Jia Qing, Fang Shou was silent for a long time, and then said solemnly: "You may be in danger this time around!"

Jia Qing didn't show any disappointment either, acting calmly.

If the people of this era cannot accept this theory, he will not force it.

Originally, he only wrote this set of theories on the answer sheet because he saw the topic of the policy question and expressed his feelings. It was not because he thought it would attract attention.

For him at present, being selected as a candidate is just icing on the cake, so even if he fails the list this time, there is nothing to regret.

Fang Shou didn't know what Jia Qing was thinking, he just thought that Jia Qing was still young, and it might not be a bad thing to fail this time, so he didn't want to say much about it, so he changed the subject and said, "I heard that your elder brother Is Qiuhou going to ask about beheading?"

Jia Qing was startled, Fang Shou should be very clear about this matter, why ask him?

"Yes."

"As a member of a big family, some things are unavoidable, so don't worry too much about it!

When a man is alive, he should have a heart for the world, a life for the people, a sage for the past, and peace for all generations to come! 'Determination.

Don't ruin your aggressive beliefs for some private things. "

Only then did Jia Qing realize that Fang Shou wanted to use this to enlighten him.

"Thank you, Master, for your teaching. Disciples must keep it in mind and never dare to forget it!"

Nodding his head, Fang Shou was very satisfied with this little apprentice's response. Perhaps, he can be trained as his successor...

Naturally, Jia Qing didn't know what Fang Shou was thinking. If he knew, he would have to say sorry in his heart. He was destined to never follow Fang Shou's path!

Because, if you want to follow the path of Fang Shou, you have to spend a lot of time, relying on your qualifications, knowledge, and prestige, and finally in your seventies and eighties, you can be an extremely personable minister and rule the world.

Obviously, this is not his ideal path, he must take a shortcut!
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Gongyuan, Zhili Xuezheng Yamen.

In a large house, there was an endless stream of documents and servants coming and going, and the orderly desks were filled with countless test paper scrolls, which were the answer sheets of the candidates who took the Zhili Township Examination.

The township examination papers will not read the original manuscripts, but all are transcribed by the documents, and after the comparison is correct, they will be reviewed by the same examiners.

In the same examination room, eighteen fellow examiners were in full swing to start marking papers.

Marking papers is a very arduous task. There are thousands of examinees taking part in the provincial examination in Zhili. Even if [-] examiners work together to mark papers, it is each person's workload of hundreds of copies.

The test paper at this time is not like the test paper of later generations, which only has a small piece of paper.Each examinee's answer sheet, which took nine days to complete, can be as big as a bed when spread out. This is undoubtedly a major part of the grading work.

The list will be released in three days, so everyone dare not neglect.

There are only two examiners in the main examiner's room next to the same examination room, who are the main examiner and deputy examiner of the rural examination.Their work is relatively easy. They only need to review the "recommendation papers" selected by fellow examiners, and then rank them according to their merits.

"This man's writing style is fresh and refined, and his words are sharp. The language is concise and natural, and the problem solving is also very clever.

Thoughts are vigorous, but slightly radical, it can be expected that the candidate should not be very old.Master Hu only gave a second-class rating, which is low. "

The two should be acquainted with each other. Hearing the evaluation from the person next to him, the examiner in the main seat said casually: "Oh, this person can get so many compliments from Mr. Wang. I think his articles are very favorable to Mr. Wang." gone?"

The deputy chief examiner was Wang Xianjue, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites of the capital, and also a civil servant who was closer to Jia's mansion.

He smiled slightly and continued to read the test papers at the back.Just as Fang Shou thought, he didn't even look at the second test paper, and turned directly to the third test paper.

"Oh, what a pity."

After a few breaths, Wang Xianjue sighed.

The chief examiner in the seat, a dignified cabinet minister, a veteran of the two dynasties, Li Zhen, the current chief examiner of the Zhili Township Examination appointed by the imperial court, with a nickname of Mohai, heard Wang Xianjue make two completely different voices to the same person's answer sheet, giving birth to curious.

"What kind of thing makes Mr. Wang sigh like this again? Can you take a look with me?"

Wang Xianjue said repeatedly: "It's time to ask Mr. Li Ge to make a decision. This person must be extremely talented, with outstanding literary talent!

However, he is an arrogant and unrealistic person. In this policy question and answer sheet, he actually tried to stir up the foundation of the country in the past dynasties, and attempted to reduce taxes and stabilize the people by vigorously promoting the status of businessmen, so as to enrich the country and the people.

The idea is very good, but it is too naive! "

Li Zhen, who was over [-] years old, took the scroll that Wang Xianjue brought over. As usual, she checked the first scripture article and felt that there was no problem.The comments made by the same and deputy colleagues were all reasonable, so it turned to the third scene.

Wang Xianjue originally thought that Li Zhen would express the same opinion as him in a short time, but after seven or eight breaths, Li Zhen was still quietly watching the answer sheet, and Wang Xianjue was also surprised.

For people like them, it only takes a few breaths to read a Juren article. Why does it take so long to read it?
Looking up, she saw that Li Zhen had turned over the answer sheet and started reading it from the beginning.

This……

"Old Li Ge, what is the meaning of this article, which is worthy of your appreciation?"

After a while, Wang Xianjue couldn't help but interrupted.

(End of this chapter)