The back door of my house can last until the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 203
People, you can't gain power.

It's easy to drift when you get the momentum, and sometimes you can't see the world clearly.

These Qin merchants in Shaanxi have a deep relationship with Sun Jie.

But this does not mean that they will definitely abide by the rules set by Sun Jie.

Throughout the dynasties, when the country was first founded, the most difficult people to manage were not those civil servants, nor those gentry.

On the contrary, these civil servants and gentry are often the easiest to control.

The most difficult to manage are those nobles, those who think they have made great contributions.

No matter when, there is no way to get rid of this matter.

The same is true for Qin Shang this time.

When Sun Jie heard what Yang Lin said, his face completely darkened.

"What's going on? Go to the study and explain in detail!"

Sun Jie rubbed his waist and strode towards the study.

Not long after, Sun Jie sat in the study.

He looked at Yang Lin standing in front of him, and said, "Tell me the cause and effect of the matter in detail!"

Yang Lin took out a memorial book from his pocket and placed it on the table in front of him.

Sun Jie picked up the memorial and opened it to read.

Yang Lin explained on the side, and he said: "My lord, you set up the mint before. When all the equipment is in place, our mint will start working normally.

The number of coins minted each time will be recorded and archived.These coins will also be sent to the bank, and then through various means, they will appear on the market.

The coins minted by the mint are exquisite, and each coin is almost the same size and thickness, and there is almost no difference when put together.

But after the adults set off, there were suddenly more rough coins on the market.These coins are not only of rough quality, but also contain far less silver than coins minted by the mint.

Besides, there are some merchants in the city, under the banner of imperial merchants, annexing land outside the city, and doing things that are expressly prohibited by adults..."

Listening to Yang Lin's voice, Sun Jie looked at the memorabilia in his hand, his face turned ashen.

Sun Jie had expected this kind of thing before.

It's just that I didn't expect that it would come so soon and so early.

There is no need to think about it, those rough silver coins that appear on the market must have been minted by some people with certain power.

Ordinary people don't have that ability, nor do they have that courage.

There is also the matter of annexing land outside the city, which touched Sun Jie's bottom line even more.

Yang Lin took out two silver coins from his pocket and placed them on the desk.

These two silver coins are almost the same size, and the discrepancy is very large after being thin.

The silver coin on the left is thin and exquisite, with lifelike patterns on it.

The silver coin on the right is thick and rough, as if it has been used for many years, and the pattern on it is very light.

Sun Jie picked up the two silver coins and quickly saw the difference between them.

"This fake silver coin was minted, and the patterns I designed are very fine, unless stamping is used, otherwise, it is impossible to clearly print the pattern on the silver coin.

The counterfeiters definitely don't have this technology, so they can only use casting.It is estimated that their molds should also be made by transferring the patterns on the silver coins with mud! "

Sun Jie saw at a glance how the fake silver coins were made.

This is what I learned in college, and there is almost no difficulty, for Sun Jie.

Putting down the silver coin in his hand, he looked at Yang Lin, "Can you find out who made this silver coin?"

Yang Lin shook his head helplessly, "My lord, the time is short and we haven't found out yet. This batch of silver coins appeared after your lord led the army. When your lord returns triumphantly, there will be no new fake silver coins on the market. Up and down, the officials have checked, but there is no movement!"

This kind of thing is very secretive, and it is difficult to find out in a short while.

The matter of making counterfeit coins has been repeatedly banned from ancient times to the present.

Sun Jie's silver coins are exquisite. In the market, silver coins of the same weight are even worth more than silver coins of the same weight.

There is a very large profit in it. If the profit is so large, there will naturally be unscrupulous traders.

But they knew Sun Jie's temper well, so they didn't dare to go too far.

But how long has Sun Jie been out?

If it goes out longer, I'm afraid there will be more fake silver coins.

Once bad money drives out good money, the monetary system that Sun Jie has worked so hard to establish will disappear completely.

In it, I don't know how many giants to feed.

A trace of cruelty flashed across Sun Jie's face, he must uproot the mice in these wall holes.

There are also those merchants who have merged land, and they must also be dealt with.

They can't be allowed to act recklessly by relying on their relationship with Sun Jie.

"Does Taishan know about these things?" Sun Jie asked.

Sun Chuwen is in charge of the mint and the bank, and if such a big incident happened, could it be related to him?

"The lower officials have already checked, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Sun. The mint has been operating according to the rules set by the adults, and the soldiers around are strictly patrolling. There can be no problems there.

Since Mr. Sun became the steward of the mint and bank, he has gradually lost contact with Qin Shang. Mr. Sun probably doesn't know about this.

As for the matter of land annexation, it has nothing to do with Mr. Sun. "Yang Lin replied.

Sun Chuwen has been in the business world for a long time, and he is a fine man.

Sun Jie's status is getting higher and higher, and he is about to become the emperor. With such a son-in-law, how can he use his son-in-law?

He also understands that he is a foreign relative.

A qualified foreign relative must cut off all possibilities of becoming bigger.

Therefore, in recent years, he has gradually faded out of Qin Shang and began to break away from Qin Shang.

Although he is still at the helm of Qin Shang in name, he no longer cares about many things.

So, he really doesn't necessarily know what's happening now.

"If that's the case, then go down first." Sun Jie looked at Yang Lin.

Yang Lin resigned and walked out of the study.

Seeing Yang Lin walking out, Sun Jie fell into deep thought.

He is not afraid of these reckless businessmen, the whole northern part of the Ming Dynasty has been taken down, so is he still afraid of some money-obsessed businessmen?
For Sun Jie, finding out the personnel involved in this is almost a matter of pitching, and it will not take much trouble.

But Sun Jie wants to do more than that. He wants to break the inherent laws of this era and use modern rules to run business.

The merchants of this era are not merchants in the pure sense, and have a lot to do with the gentry class.

Even Qin Shang, who was attached to Sun Jie, was the same.

From the very beginning, people in Qin and Shang were not pure businessmen.

Most of them have gentry backgrounds.

This is the characteristic of this era. If there is no gentry background, I am afraid that ordinary businessmen would have been wiped out long ago.

If you want to make business more developed, you must separate "official" and "business".

Only in this way can business play a greater role.

And business tax.

Although Sun Jie had made a detailed plan before, but there was a lot of work to do before, so it was too late to start the reform.

The rules followed are still the old traditions before.

And the taxation of this era is really terrible.

Before Sun Jie led the army to set off, the agricultural tax standard of [-] taxes was set.

In the late Ming Dynasty when productivity was underdeveloped, this standard was indeed somewhat low.

In a purely agricultural society, it is really difficult for this kind of tax to feed the whole world.

But Sun Jie is not talking nonsense, nor is he governing indiscriminately.

The reason for doing this is because Sun Jie focused on commercial tax, personal income tax, and customs tax.

Ordinary people in this era have a tenacious temperament.

As long as there are no major problems, the rule of thirty taxes and one tax will allow them to live well and have a lot of savings throughout the year.

Coupled with Sun Jie's school system, it is absolutely possible for the children of these common people to enter the school to study.

The commercial taxation of the Ming Dynasty was chaotic. In the early days, although Zhu Yuanzhang set the rule of one tax per thirty, the actual tax paid by the merchants was far more than that.

If you want to enter the city to sell, you must pay the entry tax, such as city tax, water tariff, tax card tax, etc. There are so many and complicated.

However, the political environment in the early Ming Dynasty was clear and bright. Although these taxes were many, they were actually not much in total, and ordinary businessmen could afford it.

However, in the mid-term, the court's finances began to have problems, and these taxes were biased to the extreme.

In the Jiajing year, the financial gap of the imperial court widened day by day, and various taxes sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and kept rising.

Under this harsh taxation, handicraft practitioners and small businessmen were forced to die one after another.

Only those businessmen with huge net worth and official background are left.

How could these businessmen hand over the money in their hands?So they huddled together to keep warm.

Focusing on localities, one after another business gangs were formed to fight against the imperial court.

During the Jiajing period, the imperial court was still able to suppress these merchant gangs, and they could barely collect taxes.

After the Jiajing period, the court completely lost its grip on business and taxation.

During the Wanli period, the business tax system completely collapsed.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, commercial taxes could not be collected. Some merchants valued wealth rather than righteousness, and some had chaotic court tax systems.

The business tax system of the Ming Dynasty had fundamental problems.

This problem has been rooted since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is hard to get back after the area, serious illness, and it is difficult to change it.

Even Zhang Juzheng didn't do much in business and taxation, he could only focus on the land.

What happened this time may be used as an entry point to fully implement the new business tax system.

At the same time, let the Ministry of Commerce cheer up and completely become a real power department.

Sun Jie made a plan a long time ago, but he didn't implement it for a while.

This time, after ascending the throne, it can be implemented.

Sun Jie's taxation system refers to modern times, and has made some improvements in response to this era.

In Sun Jie's plan, in terms of commercial taxation, all previous rules and regulations will be cancelled, and the taxation system of the Ming Dynasty will be completely abolished.

The main taxes are: goods tax, business tax, income tax, salt tax, sugar tax, salary income tax, personal income tax, deposit interest income tax, stamp duty, inheritance tax, transaction tax, slaughter tax, real estate tax, real estate tax, special consumption Behavior tax and other taxes.

Many of the taxes here will always be hidden in the dark, using the method of collecting taxes but not paying taxes.

Such as deposit interest income tax, transaction tax, stamp duty, business tax, stamp duty and other taxes.

These taxes will be included in the price of the goods and only collected from merchants.

People buy things that have been taxed, unless they have been asking the bottom line, otherwise, they will not know these things.

There are also some taxes that have nothing to do with ordinary people.

For example, salt tax and sugar tax, these two kinds of goods, Sun Jie plans to use the official monopoly method.

The salt purchased by ordinary people has been taxed, and it has nothing to do with ordinary people.

The only things that are closely related to the people are personal income tax, real estate tax, salary income tax, real estate tax and inheritance tax.

But the collection of these taxes is conditional.

If the threshold is not reached, it will not be collected from ordinary people.

The main target group of these taxes is businessmen or gentry with a certain social status.

It is mainly a tool used by Sun Jie to regulate the balance between the rich and the poor.

At the same time, it is stipulated that where someone in the family is an official, relatives are prohibited from engaging in business.

Once discovered, all property will be confiscated, and the official status will be removed at the same time, and they will never be hired.

Strictly crack down on the collusion between officials and businessmen, or the use of officials to seek business, and the use of officials to suppress business.

Encourage handicraft practitioners and individual merchants, and at the same time encourage entrepreneurship and enjoy low-interest loans.

Confiscate some fundamental businesses, redo government-run businesses, and set up government-run factories locally.

In particular, industries closely related to people's livelihood and military, such as salt and iron, must be controlled by the central court.

All of these are not too different from modern ones.

……

As the sun gradually set on the western mountain, Sun Jie brought Chen Hu over.

He was entrusted with the investigation of the businessman's disturbance.

It's actually not difficult to investigate this kind of thing, and Sun Jie wasn't too worried.

Chen Hu took the order, recruited enough manpower, and began to investigate in the city.

In the middle of the night, in the northeast corner of the city, in a courtyard not far from the palace, more than a dozen people crowded into the study room.

There were a few brand new typhoons on the table, and these dozen or so people had big bellies and big ears.

The leader was a middle-aged scholar, somewhat similar to Sun Chuwen.

This is Sun Chuwen's younger brother, called Sun Chuhe, who was originally a steward in the Qin and Shang Dynasties.

Later, Sun Chuwen gradually downplayed his status. Because of his special status, his status among Qin merchants rose.

At this time, he had a smile on his face.

Holding a steaming teacup in his hand, the desk lamp next to him reflected his oily face.

Taking a sip of tea carefully, he let out a slow breath.

"After your lord ascends the throne, you will definitely lead the army to march south, and then it will be time for us to show off our ambitions!
And the land outside the city, those little bastards from all over the capital, why should we grow our Shaanxi land?
This time, drive them all away! "

Sun Chuhe looked excited.

For him, wealth is always the top priority.

"However, the things we did were all prohibited by adults. What should we do if we are found out?"

A middle-aged man sitting not far from him looked worried.

"What are you afraid of? We didn't do these things ourselves, so there's nothing to be afraid of!"

(End of this chapter)