I want to be emperor

Chapter 381
The wages of avarice is death.

This sentence can well describe the state of mind of the tax officials of the Great Chu Empire, and it can also explain why they can have such an active and efficient work efficiency.

If you want to say that among the many institutions of the Great Chu Empire, regardless of whether it is civil or military, whether it is local or capital, the tax department will always be the most efficient.

In the words of Lai Yuanliang, Director of the State Taxation Bureau: If you are not active in collecting taxes, you have a problem with your brain!

And this sentence has won the approval of many tax officials and tax patrol officers under it!
Because in the eyes of these grassroots tax officials, this tax collection can basically be equivalent to making money.

They are not active in making money. It is not a fucking brain problem.

Stimulated by getting promoted and getting rich, the staff of the taxation agency of the Great Chu Empire have always been very serious and desperate in their work.

It's just that this will inevitably lead to a lot of corruption, asking for bribes and many other violations of discipline.

Why are the tax officials of the Great Chu Empire impeached by so many people? Apart from the fact that tax collection is already disgusting and cruel, it also has a lot to do with their own dirty hands and feet.

Naturally, some people can't stand this kind of thing, even people with irrelevant interests can't stand it, so there are a lot of memorials to impeach the tax department and related officials every day, and they can fill up several rooms!
In this regard, as the emperor of the Great Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue, who also single-handedly raised the political status of the tax department to an extremely high level and gave the tax department great authority, naturally knew it well.

But his notes on impeachment, unless there is really clear evidence, and the matter is more serious, this serious refers to the embezzlement of taxes, and Luo Zhixue will start to deal with it. As for other matters, generally They all turn a blind eye.

If it is impeachment of tax officials who are too brutal in collecting taxes and ransacking their homes at every turn, Luo Zhixue will write down the names of these impeachers, and don't expect to be promoted if one is counted later.

And those who impeached the tax policy of the empire, said that the tax was too harsh and the tax rate was too high, especially advocating that no business tax should be collected, no unified agricultural tax, and that they should follow the example of the Ming court and continue to play that the gentry did not pay taxes, and those who advocated similar to a whip , When farmers are not allowed to pay taxes with grain in kind, they must be made to pay taxes with money.

Find one and kill one!
What these people did, in Luo Zhixue's view, was at the slightest point of view the court's policy, and at the worst point was to shake the foundation of the empire.

In feudal dynasties, taxes were mostly used to maintain the operation of the administrative system and maintain military expenditures.

But in the Great Chu Empire, taxation was not only used to maintain administrative and military expenditures, but also an important tool for wealth redistribution.

So you will see that the Great Chu Empire paid very little tax to the people at the bottom, or even none, especially the tenants who did not have land at home. The Great Chu Empire would not ask them to collect even a penny of tax.

The tax revenue of the Great Chu Empire is basically concentrated on the middle and upper classes.

And the richer people are, the more taxes are levied.

And these collected taxes, in addition to maintaining administrative and military expenditures, will also be used for infrastructure construction, education, relief and many other expenses in various places.

To some extent, it can be understood that the Great Chu Empire collected some taxes from the middle and upper classes to subsidize the people at the bottom.

In addition, taxation is actually an important means in the financial field to circulate funds and stimulate the economy.

Silver, hidden in the cellar of the landlord's house, is of no use.

Only when money is circulated, is it money, and can drive more employment and give people more income.

As a simple example, the Great Chu Empire is expected to receive about 500 million taels of central fiscal revenue in the existing control area this year.

The 500 million silver includes various regular fiscal revenues such as unified agricultural tax, various commercial taxes, administrative expenses, profits paid by government-run enterprises, profits and taxes paid by salt affairs, and coinage revenue.

The one-time income of confiscation is not included!
With so much money, the Great Chu Empire will spend it again in the end, and then enter the entire economic cycle system.

For example, salaries and subsidies for officials and soldiers, these huge funds will re-enter the market through the hands of officials and soldiers.

There are also funds for purchasing various materials, such as purchasing various military materials, which can bring orders to factories, bring income to workers, and give to private merchants, handicraftsmen, and economic crops that supply raw materials and other services for factories. households bring income.

Through direct and indirect means, huge fiscal revenue can drive a huge increase in the employed population and farmers' income.

Even in such a huge economic system in later generations, stimulating the economy through fiscal expenditures is a common method used by many big countries, and the effect is quite good in many cases.

For example, Germany and the United States before World War II did this, using large-scale infrastructure to forcibly stimulate employment and revitalize the economy.

And the work-for-relief in the Great Chu Empire also belongs to this routine to a certain extent, but the work-for-relief in the Great Chu Empire is more specific, just all kinds of refugees and disaster victims.

At the same time, when modern countries play this kind of stimulus policy, they are empty-handed wolves, directly using credit-based banknotes, which is easy to cause inflation, and may bring the entire country into the abyss of war.

But the Great Chu Empire needs to take out real money, and they can't play with credit notes if they haven't played.

Therefore, it is only the official finance of the empire that is uncomfortable!

But relatively, it will not cause too much inflation.

After all, gold and silver are fixed, and it didn't increase or decrease because of how the Great Chu Empire spent it.

Taxation is very important to Luo Zhixue!

A series of taxation policies currently being implemented, especially the unified agricultural tax and commercial tax, are regarded by Luo Zhixue as basic national policies, which are the basis for the construction of the middle and superstructure of the entire Great Chu Empire.

And if the officials can't see through this point, or if they know it but still oppose it, then don't blame Luo Zhixue for being cruel.

In front of my official, with the salary I paid, enjoying the power I gave you, and forcing me to talk about the basic national policy of trying to shake the Great Chu Empire, I will kill you!

So for these people, in the early days, Luo Zhixue believed that more things are worse than less things, and in the early stage of development, there were not many people available under his command, so he pretended not to see them.

but now!

As the Great Chu Empire continued to recruit all kinds of talents, there was no shortage of officials.

When he was in Chubei, even Luo Zhixue, a scholar, was regarded as a talent, which is a very typical case where there are more officials than people!

But now, even if the Juren and Scholars from the pre-Ming Dynasty came, Luo Zhixue was too lazy to talk to him, and he did what he liked, and if he didn't, get out, because in the current Great Chu Empire, there are more people than officials.

Especially after controlling the entire Jiangnan region and gaining a large number of people who can read and write, Luo Zhixue can already proudly shout: There are a lot of scholars outside waiting in line to become the official of our Chu State.

Since there is no shortage of manpower, Luo Zhixue will naturally not be used to those who hold the jobs of the Great Chu Empire but curse the Great Chu Empire.

On April 28, Luo Zhixue pretended to be furious because of a case of corruption of 5 taels of silver by a county magistrate in Han Tianfu.

At the imperial council meeting, you scolded the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Inspectorate bloody, saying that the administration of officials is so corrupt, it is shocking, but Guo Quanshu, as the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, is duty-bound to fine you on the spot In March, he asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs to immediately rectify the officialdom.

Then he pointed the finger at the Procuratorate, saying that the recent work of the Procuratorate is unsatisfactory, that the government is so corrupt, and corruption is so rampant, it is because of the Procuratorate's inaction.

As the Inspectorate, what is the meaning of existence if it does not investigate corrupt officials?

If the many inspectors in the Inspectorate have nothing to do with the censors, just give me the paperwork and get out.

The Procuratorate is required to immediately start to focus on cracking down on all kinds of violations of officials such as dereliction of duty, corruption and perversion of the law, otherwise they will be severely punished.

After scolding the two ministers, Luo Zhixue began to talk at length again, from the ancient Zhou rituals to the present loyalty and filial piety, there was a lot of clapping, saying that being a courtier should be a duty, and being troubled by his mother every day, being a man The courtiers can't do bad things, and then let me bear the infamy... to make a group of important officials blush and harsh.

He also said that the administration of officials is the foundation of the long-term stability of the empire, and that no one is allowed to destroy it. He also said that the county magistrate in the Hantian Mansion is a bug, greedy and perverting the law, discussing the court's large square array, and trying to shake the national taxation policy...

In this day's Imperial Counselor Meeting, Luo Zhixue was basically the only one who was going crazy. The seven Counselors and eighteen co-organizers were all scolded with their heads down...

And this kind of situation is actually rare in the years since the establishment of the Great Chu Empire.

When being scolded, many ministers had already told them with their intuition that this matter was not simple, and there must be something behind it that offended His Majesty.

Otherwise, His Majesty would not have specifically brought up the issue of the administration of officials in such a formal and serious meeting as the Imperial Counselor Council, and it has even risen to the level of the foundation of the empire.

what is that...

Everyone is smart, and they also know that their majesty is not a fool, let alone some royal boy who doesn't eat minced meat.

Don't think that Luo Zhixue is young, he is only 19 years old this year, but you have to know that Luo Zhixue joined the gangsters when he was in Chongzhen for six years, and he was only fifteen years old at that time, even if it is false, he was only 16 years old That's all.

By the time he was 16, that is, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, he was already the leader of the first army and became the general of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp.

Then lead the rural protection army to fight north and south!
He, who rose from the last minute, dazzled in the starry sky!

And such a young emperor would not talk about a very common corruption case for no reason, there must be a deep meaning behind it!
(End of this chapter)