Capital Datang

In the early morning, there is still a hint of mist in the city of Shanghai, and the sun on the sea is only showing a bald head. However, the streets of Shanghai city are already full of pedestrians, workers going to work and businessmen talking about business. The food stalls on the side shouted even harder, trying to seize this golden time to win over a few more customers.

"Be honest with me, anyone who dares to resist will be killed!"

Suddenly there was a commotion on the street, pedestrians on the road hid to both sides, and then a group of guards from Wu Wangfu came from the street, and behind these guards was a row of men with blue noses and swollen faces. Most of them have ferocious faces, even if they are caught, they are full of dissatisfaction, and they are usually domineering at a glance.

Seeing these arrested men, all the passers-by on both sides of the road showed excitement, and many people even shouted, "His Royal Highness King Wu is wise and so on."

The reason why pedestrians reacted so strongly was that the people who were arrested were all rogues in Shanghai. These people usually bully men and women and do all sorts of crimes. Shanghai was made a mess by them, and even many businessmen couldn't bear them. Due to the oppression, he had to reluctantly leave Shanghai.Capital Datang 342

It can be said that these hooligans have become the biggest social problem in Shanghai. If left unchecked, it is likely to have a huge impact on the development of Shanghai City.In the past, Li Ke devoted himself to the construction of various projects in Shanghai, and did not pay attention to this social problem at all. It was only when he met the Sun couple with Li Yin that he revealed the tip of the iceberg.

Facing the Shanghai people in the restaurant at that time, Li Ke made a promise.That is to restore Shanghai to a bright and clear sky, and there will be no more incidents of poppy blackmailing good people.But it's easier said than done.But when it comes time to do it, it is very troublesome. After all, it is useless to catch some rogues. The most important thing is to have a complete set of rules and regulations. Otherwise, if you catch Lord Xiong today, you may show up again tomorrow. A dog master is coming.

Although Li Yin has the name of Yingguo, if he really talks about the experience of the ruling party, he is really not very good.For example, as the governor of Suzhou, he stayed in Chang'an all the time. All the affairs in Suzhou were left to Bie Jia, and he never took care of them.In contrast, although Li Yin was lazy, at least he managed Dengzhou in an orderly manner, and even developed an inconspicuous Dengzhou into a big city second only to Chang'an and Luoyang.It is precisely because of this that Li Ke asked Li Yin for help.

Shanghai is a key link in Li Yin's plan, so whether Li Ke asks him for help or not, he will take care of the affairs here, so after returning to Li Ke's Wu Palace, the two immediately summoned the counselors of Wu Palace. Together.Soon come up with a complete reform plan.

Shanghai City is a new city, and the administrative agencies in the city are all temporarily built. In addition, this is within the territory of Huating County. Li Ke also has a certain impression of the county magistrate Xie in Huating County, so he asked the magistrate Xie to take over the county. Ya moved to Shanghai.In charge of one side's civil affairs, it's just that although the county magistrate Xie is a talent.However, he was also urged by Li Ke to manage engineering and construction matters, and he was inseparable from civil affairs, so this led to the situation in Shanghai where hooligans were rampant, and even the officials in the yamen occasionally committed crimes.

Although the circumstances are justifiable, after all, law and order is the job of the county magistrate Xie, so he can't get away with this matter. In the end, he was reprimanded by Li Ke, and then let the magistrate Xie try his best to push Li Min to do it. reform plan.And magistrate Xie also had plans to commit crimes and make meritorious service, so he was very cooperative from the beginning.

The first thing to do in the reform is to create a movement in the city, and this movement is to mobilize people to find out the rogues everywhere in Shanghai, and then go out to the royal guards to wipe out these people, regardless of who is behind these rogues. What kind of background does it have, even if it is related to Wu Wangfu, that's why this morning's situation happened.

For Li Ke's move, the people in the city were extremely supportive, and almost everyone was shouting for Wu Wang to be wise, and solved a major disaster for the city.As a result, Li Ke's prestige in the city immediately rose like a rocket, but Li Yin was a little dissatisfied with this. He obviously had a part in this matter, but unfortunately, except for a few people such as the Sun family and his wife, no one else knew about it. , As a result, Li Ke got all the benefits.

With the help of the huge prestige that has skyrocketed in a short period of time, Li Yin immediately launched this reform plan in the name of Li Ke. First, all the yamen servants in the city were reorganized and assessed by the court. The assessment included abilities, morals, and physical strength. On the one hand, all those who fail the assessment will be dismissed. Even in the past, if there were "rapists" who committed crimes, they would be punished according to law.As a result, although the number of yamen servants in the city has decreased a lot, the atmosphere has greatly improved.

Next, Prince Wu's Mansion came forward again and recruited thousands of good people as yamen servants. These yamen servants were merged with the original yamen servants. After simple training, they immediately began to patrol around the city. At the same time, Li Ke and Li Yin also called together all the merchants in the city, and after several days of negotiations, he finally finalized the plan of charging a 'security fee'.

Speaking of taxation in the Tang Dynasty, this was a big problem. In the early Tang Dynasty, the main thing was rent mediocrity. Monogamy was the unit, and 2 stones of millet were sent to the country every Ding every year as rent; 2 feet of silk and 3 taels of cotton were sent. (or 2 feet 4 feet of cloth, 3 catties of hemp) is called adjustment; serving for 20 days is called active duty, and those who are not in service take 3 feet of silk (or 3.6 feet of cloth) every day, which is called mediocrity.

Anyone who is an individual can see the problem with this kind of tax, because this kind of tax doesn't care about your annual income or occupation, it's all based on this standard, and for the imperial court, unless the country's population increases a lot , otherwise the annual income will not fluctuate too much.

Of course, this kind of taxation system also has a good side. For example, in the early Tang Dynasty when there were few people and a lot of land, the tax adjustment was undoubtedly a light tax, which made the burden on the people very light and increased the people's desire to reclaim wasteland. enthusiasm.If there is no such variable as Li Yin, this collection system can still be used for more than 100 years. It was not until the population increased in the mid-Tang Dynasty that many people could not be allocated land.

However, with the arrival of Li Yin, Datang's business was extremely prosperous, and the wealth of the people grew extremely fast. If taxes were only collected in accordance with the rent adjustment method, then the government's finances would not increase at all.However, as the so-called change with the situation, many variants of commercial taxes have appeared in many places. For example, when goods pass through the customs, they have to pay a certain fee. Merchants who want to save their shops from trouble will also give local officials a certain amount. Money, in addition to being divided privately by these officials, part of the money will also be turned over to the national treasury. This is also a form of taxation in disguise, and it has even become an unspoken rule throughout the country.It's a pity that this kind of disguised tax collection is very informal, and how much the merchants pay depends on the thoughts of the local officials.

And the public security fee that Li Ke and Li Yin set up in Shanghai is actually to make the previous informal business tax regular. As long as they are merchants in Shanghai, they need to pay [-]% of their income every month. It is the public security fee, and the merchants who have paid the management fee do not have to pay any fees to anyone. Every day, there will be officials from the county government patrolling the streets, and they can ask them for help no matter what. No matter, then merchants can directly complain to the Complaints Division newly established by the Palace. Once it is verified, the government servants involved will be miserable. At least they will be punished, and at worst they may even go to jail.

For this new security fee, the merchants in Shanghai also had some doubts at the beginning. It is less than half, so the security fee is not much, but the merchants are a little worried, afraid that the government will take the money away, but they will not do practical things, and they will have to pay what they should pay next.

Fortunately, before the guards of the palace arrested rogues everywhere, Li Yin had a huge reputation in Shanghai, so although these merchants had doubts, they still had some confidence in His Highness King Wu, and Li Yin had already come forward to rely on His great reputation in the business world finally dispelled many people's doubts, and the plan to collect security fees was finally passed.

And after the massive arrests of rogues, coupled with the newly recruited yamen guards patrolling around, there are fixed yamen guards in charge of each area, which makes the security atmosphere in Shanghai clear, and the few leaked rogues are not. Dare to blackmail merchants again, after all, the county government has issued regulations, as long as anyone who dares to extort money from merchants is found, he will be arrested and do coolies, at least one year. Instead, they were directly exiled to the plantations in Taiwan, and they had to do three years of hard labor with those slaves first, and then they could not come back after finishing the work, and had to stay in Taiwan for the rest of their lives.

The security fee should be regarded as a kind of tax, which is mainly collected from fixed merchants. As for the other kind of tax, Li Yin and Li Ke have also made some reforms. Shanghai is a port city, and the tax is mainly collected by the port. In fact, this kind of tax is already very perfect, and there are fixed taxes for various ships, so the two have not changed much.Capital Datang 342

In addition, with the development of Shanghai, goods from all over the land are converging to Shanghai, so land taxation has become more and more important. Li Yin and his wife mainly reformed this kind of taxation.In fact, it is also very simple. The main reason is that different tax rates are charged according to different types of goods. For example, the tax rates for silk and grain are completely different. This is a huge reform, because for a long time, the tax in China was even taxed according to the volume of the goods.

After implementing this series of reforms in Shanghai, Li Ke finally dared to bring Empress Xiao and Concubine Yang to Shanghai. After all, in this city, he has devoted too much effort. It is natural to want to show off to the elders with some achievements.