In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 139 Shi Miyuan begs me, I won't even be emperor
Zhao Yurui looked at the crowd and thought to himself, there are only a few municipal bureaus in the Song Dynasty. If this municipal bureau is not done well, how will all the municipal bureaus be reformed in the future?

The reason why he wanted to outsource and become a local military and political official was to see how bad the Southern Song Dynasty had become and whether it could be saved?
Dinghai County is his experimental field. If he can't handle the small Dinghai County, how will he handle the entire Southern Song Dynasty in the future?
If he fails in Dinghai County, he might as well prepare for the back road earlier, and go overseas with the beauties with money. What kind of Song emperor should he be?It's not right for Shi Miyuan to ask me to do it.

When he was thinking, everyone looked at him.

After a while, he realized that he quickly cleared his throat: "Cough, this time, this king finally asked His Majesty to reopen the Liangzhe Shipbuilding Department of Qingyuan Mansion. I hope everyone can work together to increase the income of the court. Let us It can be taken from the people, used for the people, and a benefit for the people of Dinghai.”

Lu Song immediately shouted: "The lower officials will follow the lead of the king of Wei, and work together to benefit the common people."

Yu Dafu, Yan Kang and others expressed their loyalty to King Wei.

Although Hu Qi didn't speak, there was no disgust on his expression.

He is relatively familiar with Li Zongmian, and he is quite honest as an official. It is a good thing for him to restart the Shibo Department. He also thinks that it can increase the income of the court. As for whether it will be taken from the people and used for the people, Ha ha, it depends on what Wei Wang did later.

Zhao Yurui then said some more words, probably all of them were big cakes, meaning that we should work hard, and if we make money in the future, everyone's benefits will not be less.

When it came to the end, the tone changed, how do we, the shipping company, make money?

Wei Liaoweng looked up at Yu Dafu, the official in charge, Yu Dafu understood, and immediately said: "Go and call Zhong Shoufen."

The second hand is in charge of the "Qianbo Case", that is, responsible for the income and expenditure of the entire Municipal Shipbuilding Department, which is equivalent to the finance department in the department.

After a while, the hand surnamed Zhong came in.

Zhong Shoufen paid his respects to King Wei first, and then to all the superiors.

Zhong Shoufen's grandfather was the hand of Mingzhou shipping department when he was Zong Xiao.

He is more than 40 years old this year, and he is the oldest among the officials recruited this time.

But I do have some experience, because the elders in the family have done this business, and some things will be passed down from generation to generation.

The reason why it is called Zhong Shou Fen is that among all the officials on site, no one has done this job. Everyone heard it before, so it may be more intuitive to call it Zhong Shou Fen.

The imperial court also distributed related books to everyone, but Zhao and Rui didn't have time to read them, so it would be better to find someone to talk about them.

Among them, Zhao Yurui had seen the functions of the Shipbuilding Department a little bit, and the officials on site had also seen it.

The Department of Shipping has three main functions.

[-]. Issuing port entry permits to foreign ships and issuing permits to domestic ships going overseas.It is called "public certificate" or "public certificate" (big ship issued public certificate, small boat issued public certificate)

[-]. Import and export goods management:

Send troops to guard ships entering the port to prevent leakage and tax evasion. (column)

Inspection on board.That is (read the truth)
Import duties are collected on imported goods.That is (extraction)
Acquisition of imported goods for the imperial court.That is (bo buy)
[-]. Prohibition at sea:
Supervision of embargoed areas (golden, Mongolia, Xixia, etc.)

Supervise the export of contraband goods (such as gold, silver, copper, iron, salt, etc.).

Among them, the one related to income is to have more ships and more ships to and fro.

In the past, when Mingzhou was the city ship department, there were quite a lot of ships.

However, during Zongzong's reign, the Department of Shipping was abolished, and it was only used to communicate and communicate with Gao Tong in Japan, and there were a lot fewer ships to and from.

There are different opinions on how many ships there were in Quanzhou and Guangzhou in the same period.

But in 1271 A.D. (the seventh year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty), the Italian businessman and scholar Jacob De Ancona arrived in Quanzhou, known as "Erythronia", and lamented that there really was a port in the far east that surpassed Alexandria in Egypt. "Here At least 15000 cargo ships are moored, and cargo ships loaded with spices, silk, porcelain and other rare treasures depart from here and ship them all over the world."

At that time, Quanzhou replaced Guangzhou as the largest port in the Southern Song Dynasty with its possession of three bays and twelve ports, but De Ancona said that 15000 ships were parked at the same time is probably a bit exaggerated.

Let's make a discount, let's count 1500 ships, even if D'Ancona added an extra decimal point.

Except for some local ships, there must be tens of thousands of ships entering Quanzhou every year.

The more ships that come in, the more money, of course. Generally speaking, the money comes from four directions: anti-smuggling, tax collection, exclusive buying, and exclusive selling.

Needless to say, anti-smuggling is to catch those boats that want to avoid taxes, and they can be confiscated if caught.

Zhong Shoufen said at this time: "Since Emperor Zongxiao abolished the shipping department of Liangzhe City, the port of Qingyuan Prefecture is no longer a gateway, there is no tax for traffic, and there are countless ships."

"Now that the king of Wei has re-established the Shibo Department, everyone will think about tax avoidance during the first period, and there must be a lot of smuggling."

Qingyuan Mansion Customs has been abolished for decades, and everyone is used to not paying taxes, which is why Dinghai County is so developed and has a large number of migrants.

Now that you have to set up customs to collect taxes, many people must want to smuggle and avoid taxes immediately.

Zhao Yurui nodded and said, "Catch a batch of them well, and they will be honest."

He is not afraid of others smuggling, but he is afraid that others will not come.

So Zhong Shou said: "I'm afraid that the ships will not dare to come over, so go to Songjiang (Shanghai), Pingjiang Mansion (Suzhou), and Rui'an Mansion (Wenzhou)."

It is even possible to go to Shandong, where the Jin and Song Dynasties are competing.

There are still several ports nearby where you can board ships. Songjiang, Pingjiang, and Ruian are the favorite places for maritime merchants. If the two Zhejiang shipping companies start to formally collect taxes, a large number of ships will be diverted to these three places.

"At these places, we will send more naval forces to strictly investigate and suppress smuggling." Hu Qi said at this time.

The Shipbuilding Department has its own anti-smuggling team and manpower, but usually it will ask the navy for help, because some maritime merchants may have large ships and a large number of manpower, and you may not be able to fight them if you encounter them.

This is easy to handle, Zhao Yurui didn't take it to heart, you continue talking.

The largest income of the Shibo Department is taxation.

As mentioned earlier, there is a thing called: inspection on board."read the truth"

After the ship arrives at the port, people from the Shipbuilding Department board the ship to inspect the goods, and collect a [-]% tax based on the price of the goods. During Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to attract foreign businessmen, the tax was reduced to [-]%, but the reform failed. Back to ten percent.

In the Song Dynasty, there were also laws and regulations, and there were incentive policies to reward officials.

What does it mean: If the Song Dynasty ship pays more than [-] guan in tariffs, or induces foreign sea ships to pay more than [-] guan in tariffs, it will be given a black hat to serve as an official.

It means that if you go to attract investment, foreign businessmen or other businessmen from the Song Dynasty will be recruited to this port. If you pay more than [-] guan in customs duties every year, you will be able to become an official, and those who already have officials can also be promoted.

This trick is more advanced than later generations. Later generations talk about attracting investment. If you do the same and recruit foreign capital to serve as officials, the effect will probably be good.

So at that time, Guangzhou and Quanzhou's Shibosi promoted the first and second judges, and spent hundreds of dollars a year to invite foreign businessmen to dinner to attract them to come to do business. The hundreds of dollars spent every year are on public entertainment, not greedy.

The most recorded tax in the Song Dynasty was the Arab businessman Pu Yali. Among the commodities he transported to Guangzhou at one time, there were 290 pieces of large ivory and 35 pieces of large rhinoceros horn. According to the official pricing at that time, the trade volume reached more than [-] yuan. According to the tax rate at that time, the government collected at least [-] guan of tariffs.

But you thought it was gone?
Pricing is just one of them. Maybe the official price is [-], but you sold it for [-]?

Therefore, the Song Dynasty still had taxes and taxes.

Overtax means that you have to pay the official [-] renminbi for every [-] renminbi worth of goods you transport, and [-] renminbi renminbi for every [-] renminbi worth of goods you sell, which is called a tax.

For example, Pu Yali shipped hundreds of ivory and rhinoceros horns. After the officials of the city ship department boarded the ship for inspection, they set a price of [-] guan for you, and then you paid the tax of [-] guan.

Then you said that you first take a [-]-guan item to sell and see if you can sell it.

The tax is one thousand and twenty, and the tax of two hundred is paid first.

Then you sold it at a high price of [-] guan, and then paid a tax of [-] guan, which is [-] guan. (Of course, ivory horns cannot be sold privately. We are using this as an example.)
This is the main source of tax collection by the customs of the Song Dynasty. The key is the inspection and pricing tax, and the subsequent tax and excise tax are relatively low.

That is, this taxation is the most likely to cause corruption. The inspection officials can help you set a price of [-] guan, or you can set a price of [-] guan.

Assuming that Pu Yali's goods are actually worth [-] guan, and the inspector sets the price at [-] guan, as long as he pays [-] guan in taxes, and then privately pays the official [-] guan, everyone will benefit.

When Zhong Shoufen said this, Zhao Yurui interrupted him: "You are in Quanzhou, Guangzhou, who is responsible for the inspection?"

Zhong Shou said that it is usually a special scale.

The small officials weigh the scales and hold the power in their hands, and then they will report to the official affairs, and after the official affairs approve it, it will be implemented.

In other words, as long as you do official work and cooperate with a professional scale, you can determine the price of a shipment of goods.

Zhao Yurui turned to look at Wei Liaoweng, and Wei Liaoweng was also looking at him, both of them were thinking now, how to stop the random pricing and filling their own pockets?

This matter is easy to handle, Zhao Yurui immediately had an idea.

"Go on."

Zhong Shoufen went on to talk about buying and selling exclusively. (Also known as Bobuy)

Zhao Yurui's face changed slightly as he listened. This is another very lucrative business, and it is more suitable for enriching one's own pockets.

Sure enough, only after he personally went to the grassroots level to understand the truth, did he know how much room there was for manipulating. The emperor and Shi Miyuan sat high above the temple, and they didn't even know how many loopholes there were in the small market department that could be exploited.

According to the decrees of the Song Dynasty, pearls, tortoiseshell, ivory, rhinoceros horn, coral, agate, frankincense, sandalwood and other valuables on Chinese and foreign merchant ships cannot be sold freely, and must be purchased by the customs forcibly, and then the most rare treasures are transported to the capital for the royal family Enjoy, and the rest is either sold on the spot, or transferred to the Yiyuan established by the imperial court in the inland city, and the Yiyuan is wholesaled to Chinese merchants, who then sell it to the market.

Take a look, everyone, just by reading this passage, you will know how much room there is for manipulation.

(End of this chapter)