I want to be emperor

Cardiff is a small coastal town located in the southern part of the Kingdom of Wales in the British Isles.

Before the arrival of the Chu people, this place was nothing special. It was just a very remote coastal town. The wharf was simple and could only accommodate a few small wooden boats. The permanent population in the city was only a few hundred people. It was owned by a local noble. territory.

However, when the Chu army invaded the British area, the nobles who owned this place did not understand the situation clearly and chose to resist with other nobles. Therefore, when the Chu army came here, they wiped out the noble family and the whole area The territory was also under the direct jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Wales, which was supported by the Chu people.

But not long after, An Tongxuan, a businessman from Chu State, came over with his people and spent a small amount of money to buy the place, including a medieval-style castle.

After years of continuous construction, Cardiff has changed a lot... The original small port of the fishing village can now berth large ships with thousands of degrees, and has installed steam engine hoisting equipment, and there is also a railway running directly from the pier to the port dozens of kilometers away. coal mine.

Even the castle was renovated by An Tongxuan and made appropriate modern modifications to facilitate life... Before the renovation, the castle looked pretty good from the outside, but the internal environment was really worrying. Because medieval castles in Europe focused more on military defense functions, the living conditions were really poor.

There is really no way to live in this place without renovation.

Of course, the main reason why An Tongxuan chose to repair and renovate the castle was because the local indigenous labor costs were very low...

In this place, just a few potatoes every day can recruit local indigenous young people to work, from morning to night...

Potatoes are very cheap. An Tongxuan buys them directly from big grain merchants in thousands of tons, and the overall cost is very low.

This is also the reason why many Chu businessmen are willing to open plantations and mines in the territories of vassal states... The labor cost is low enough.

This is still the kind of people who hire locals to work.

Many Chu businessmen will also choose the dispatched worker model... to cooperate directly with local rulers and sign labor entrustment agreements, which can also reduce labor costs.

An Tongxuan initially recruited workers by himself, but due to cost considerations, he also successively signed labor dispatch agreements with several local nobles in the Kingdom of Wales.

According to these labor agreements, these Welsh nobles have currently dispatched a total of more than 7000 people to work in his coal mines and iron mines... In fact, the number of people does not mean much, because these labor dispatch agreements do not set the contract amount based on the number of people. , but the contract amount is calculated based on the mined coal and iron ore.

An Tongxuan just settled with the local nobles based on the amount of mined minerals... As for who these nobles arranged to come, and how to supervise the hard work of these workers, An Tongxuan didn't care.

According to this model, the labor cost of Antonxuan's coal mine has dropped by about 30.00%.

Of course, An Tongxuan's company will still recruit some local employees on its own, but the employees it recruits and trains on its own are technical workers, not workers who can only do manual labor.

There is no way to recruit local people to do some technical jobs... After all, it is impossible for An Tongxuan to recruit a large number of Chu people to work for him, even for technical positions or even low-level management positions!

There are not many Chu people in Europe. It is estimated that not counting Eastern Europe, the total number of Chu people in other European and North African regions is only about 10. They are mainly composed of soldiers and colonial officials. Businessmen, middle and senior business managers and technical personnel and their families.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers, farmers and other ordinary Chu people, most of these ordinary people are concentrated in the directly-controlled territories such as Cadiz and the Isle of Man. They are big landowners per capita. I can find a very good job in the direct-administered territories like Tis, but I won’t come to work in your black-hearted coal mine!
For An Tongxuan, the company's middle and senior management and engineers need to spend a lot of money to hire people.

But for some low-level technical positions and low-level management positions, he was reluctant to spend a lot of money to hire Chu people. In this poor place in Europe, hiring an ordinary skilled worker would cost much more than hiring a skilled worker in the hinterland of East Asia. many!

An Tongxuan felt that it could be replaced by recruiting and training local indigenous people at a low cost... A skilled worker from the Chu country easily cost more than ten Chu Yuan in monthly salary, while training a strong indigenous young man from the Kingdom of Wales to become a skilled worker would cost a monthly salary of more than ten Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan doesn't need it...the difference between the two is more than ten times.

Therefore, in today's Anwei Mining Company of An Tongxuan, there are actually not many real Chu people. There are only more than 100 company management, technical backbones and security backbones.

The remaining hundreds of low-level skilled workers are all indigenous people recruited locally and trained by themselves!

And besides these hundreds of people, there are thousands of people who are not counted as employees of his company... They are employees of the labor service company owned by the local nobles, and have nothing to do with him, An Tongxuan.

An Tongxuan did not stay in Cardiff for long, and soon took the company's small train all the way north to the mining area.

For Anwei Mining Company, Cardiff is actually just a port for exporting coal and iron ore. It is not the headquarters of their company.

For a mining company, the most important thing is always the minerals it holds.

Anwei Mining Company owns mineral exploration and mining rights for a large area in the southern part of the Kingdom of Wales. In addition, it also acquired a local exploration and mining right in the southern part of the Kingdom of Scotland in the north, and began to develop a local coal mine on a small scale. .

Nowadays, the demand for coal throughout Europe continues to increase. This is mainly due to the Dachu Empire Coal Industry Agreement, which vigorously promotes briquettes in Europe.

The demand for cooking and heating for this population of more than 1 million is very huge, especially the population in urban areas that consumes huge amounts of coal.

As for you saying you don't have enough firewood...then you have to have firewood for you to burn.

In the feudal agricultural era, there was basically only grassland near the towns. As for the few trees... they had been cut down long ago.

It is difficult to find patches of woods around some very large cities or even within twenty or thirty kilometers.

The need for cooking and heating will lead people to cut down all the trees around the city...Why did the Watt steam engine appear in the first industrial revolution?

There are too many people in cities and towns, and there is not enough wood for cooking and heating, so coal begins to be used in large quantities...and the high demand for coal will cause coal miners to constantly find ways to increase coal production capacity, so that they will have the motivation to use it and improve steam engines. .

The same thing is happening in Europe now... and it's changing faster.

After the Chu people arrived in Europe, they began to promote briquettes on a large scale, which greatly increased the demand for coal in the market.

This makes coal merchants like An Tongxuan very profitable.

On the contrary, after the explosion in the first two years, the market demand for iron ore, which is often associated with coal, has begun to stabilize, with no signs of large-scale growth!

This is because the demand for steel in Europe is also limited. Civilian steel demand is for agricultural tools and daily necessities, which are not large... After entering the industrial era, the main demand for steel is not ordinary agricultural tools and kitchen utensils, but railways. There are four major categories: shipbuilding, machinery and construction.

But there is no shipbuilding industry in Europe. Currently, there is only one Don River shipyard in Eastern Europe, and there is also a small shipyard in Cadiz, but they only build some small-tonnage offshore and inland river ships, and secondly provide repairs for the ships. Maintenance services.

Local shipbuilding cannot stimulate the huge demand for steel.

Railways... Railways, of course, are big steel users, but railway companies have strategic cooperation with several large domestic steel companies and purchase their low-price, high-quality rails for a long time.

By the way, high-quality rails are not so easy to produce. Many small and medium-sized steel companies in Chu State are unable to produce them.

Although the cost of shipping finished steel products from the mainland is not low, the cost of steel itself is actually a high-value commodity, and the freight is nothing. Therefore, the railways being built in Europe today basically use rails. Those shipped by sea from the mainland are not purchased from a few small local steel plants in Europe.

Machinery... there are even fewer such things in Europe. There are only a few small-scale machinery factories in a few directly-administered territories, which cannot form a large scale.

The last building... refers to the steel required for modern reinforced concrete buildings. The construction industry has become the main consuming industry of steel in local areas, but it is only limited to local areas.

After all, the overall cost of reinforced concrete buildings is still relatively high, so only those in the mainland with deep pockets have begun to build large-scale reinforced concrete city clusters, while overseas...there are very few such reinforced concrete buildings, usually only government buildings. This thing is only used in military buildings and a small number of corporate buildings.As for Europe, only a few vassal states and nobles use it sparingly. As for ordinary local indigenous civilian buildings, don't expect to use any reinforced concrete... It would be nice to have a thatched house.

Looking at it this way, there are no four major demands for steel in Europe...only farm tools, cooking utensils, and small hardware tools are left.

Insufficient market demand has also caused the steel plants invested by the Chu people in some European territories to be unable to continue to expand in scale. For example, the small steel plant on the Isle of Man, although it is quite prosperous now, did not expand after it was completed. Pass……

Affected by this, the iron ore dug by the mining businessmen was not very easy to sell. Therefore, An Tongxuan was actively mining iron ore two years ago. However, now, in addition to the existing two small iron ore mines, production continues. In addition, the development of new iron ore mines has been suspended.

An Tongxuan's Anwei Mining Company now focuses its business on coal mines.

The demand for this thing continues to increase, and the coal on the market can be said to be in short supply.

In order to expand coal mine production capacity and make more money, Antonxuan is already preparing to mine new coal mines... Wales and even the entire British region have huge coal reserves, and most of the coal is easy to mine, and many are even open-pit coal mines.

More importantly, the coal mines produced are of good quality, including anthracite.

The British region has abundant coal reserves, and after several years of development by the Chu people, a large coal exploration, mining, and transportation industry chain has been formed in the area. This has also made the British region the main coal source in the entire Europe. supply base.

Today, there are basically only two industries left in England: mining and sheep farming!
Let’s not talk about mining for now, let’s talk about raising sheep... The people of Chu found that this place is more suitable for raising sheep than Spain. The geography and climate are very suitable, the quality of the wool produced is very good, and there is a long-term local industry in England. The history of wool spinning, sheep farming and the wool spinning industry itself are good.

After the Chu people arrived here, they used various means, including but not limited to military strikes, to vigorously promote sheep farming in the area in order to harvest the wool and finally transport it back to the mainland.

This resulted in the rapid expansion of sheep farming throughout the British region, producing more high-quality wool than in the rest of Europe combined.

These two pillar industries supported the operation of several large kingdoms in the British region after the war and prevented countless people from starving to death.

But it is limited to a state of starvation... It is impossible to make a fortune relying on these two high-quality industries.

Because these two major industries, from production to transportation and sales, are all in the hands of the Chu people.

Especially in the coal industry, it is impossible for the local indigenous government to collect any tax revenue from the mining companies run by Chu people... because the contracts signed are basically one-time buyout models or tax-package models.

For example, when Anwei Mining Company, a subsidiary of Antongxuan, first came to the Kingdom of Wales to survey and mine coal, the first agreement it signed was to invest thousands of dollars at a time and obtain mineral exploration of dozens of square kilometers in Cardiff and the north. As well as mining rights, you only need to pay a few hundred yuan in land rent every year.

Pay taxes to the natives?
nonexistent!

Anwei Mining Company is not even registered in the Kingdom of Wales...

Of course, Anwei Mining Company actually paid a lot of taxes...but it was not given to the Kingdom of Wales, but to the Dachu Empire!
There is no way, the tax laws of the Da Chu Empire are too lenient. Even if your company operates in the territory of a vassal state, you still have to pay taxes.

But there is no such thing as a Chu state enterprise that goes to the indigenous areas to do business and earns millions of Chu Yuan, which can be put into its own pocket. This money will also have to pay taxes to the Chu Empire taxation agency.

Anwei Mining Company is registered in Cadiz and contributes a lot of tax revenue to the tax authorities in Cadiz every year.

Of course, this company is opened in an indigenous-controlled area of ​​​​the Kingdom of Wales. There is no local tax authority for the Chu people, so tax evasion and tax evasion will be avoided... The tax authorities of the Chu people are powerful, but businessmen are chasing profits. Innately, ten out of ten of these Chu enterprises established overseas have tax evasion, it’s just a few.

In fact, the tax agency is also well aware of this... As long as you keep good accounting books and don't go too far in tax evasion, then you can basically turn a blind eye. After all, it is difficult for the tax agency to send people to the indigenous people. Look for your tax evasion evidence in the control area...

Tax men are also very busy!
Therefore, tax evasion is common among Chu enterprises operating in indigenous-controlled areas.

But... tax evasion does not mean that you can safely transfer the money back to China for spending.

In An Tongxuan's castle in Cardiff and the headquarters of the mining company, there are a total of gold and silver worth almost [-] Chu yuan and a lot of Chu yuan banknotes...

But as long as he dares to take the money to the Bank of Chu and deposit it, the tax investigators will come to your door and ask you where the money came from... If you don't do it well, the company's overseas tax evasion will be exposed.

Even if the company's overseas tax evasion has not been exposed, and you have found many excuses and produced a bunch of fake evidence to explain the source of funds without tax records, you will still have to pay relevant taxes.

You said you picked it up on the road?Then you have to pay "accidental income tax"... You have to pay tax even if you pick up money. This is something that even a three-year-old child in Chu country knows!
After all, there is a children's song like this: "I picked up a penny on the side of the road and handed it to the uncle, the tax policeman. After the uncle deducted the tax, he nodded to me, and I was happy."

You mean ancestral?Learn about inheritance tax...

You said it was a gift from someone else. Let’s find out more about the gift tax...

In short, as long as you want to deposit the money in the bank legally, no matter how you operate it, you will end up being scratched by the tax agency. It’s just a matter of how much.

The tax agencies don't care where your money comes from, they only care whether it's taxed...

You said you can just use the money after paying taxes, so you're wasting your time in vain. If you pay taxes early, it will be over.

You said you don't deposit it in the bank and just do cash transactions. It's okay to do it on a small scale, but you can't spend much money...

For large transactions, registered checks, registered cashier's checks and other instruments are generally used. You directly throw out several tons of gold as payment... all the customers avoid you.

All fools know that there is something wrong with your funds. It is most likely illegal funds for tax evasion. They may be implicated... After all, after they get the gold, they have to pay taxes and explain the source of the funds, otherwise they will become I evaded taxes myself.

This will expose you!
Faced with such a large cash transaction, tax investigators will come to your door in minutes and give you a tax audit package!
In the Dachu Empire, tax evasion is actually not difficult, for example, a cash transaction...

But if you want to bypass the tax agency and turn a large amount of untaxed income into legal taxed income... it is still not easy.

People from other tax agencies keep an eye on the movements of major banks all day long. As soon as they discover any abnormality in large sums of money, they immediately pounce on it like a dog that smells shit.

Especially the bank accounts related to high-income groups like An Tongxuan are basically the key targets of the tax authorities, and they are the ones that keep attention all year round...

The tax investigators in the empire also conduct tax inspections separately, and most tax investigators are the kind of snobs who look down on others... If you don't have money, no one will take you seriously!
Because the ordinary people themselves have little money, the taxes collected from them are very small, which is not enough to pay the salaries of the people in the tax agency.

But it's different for companies and high-income groups. They have money and pay a lot of taxes. They just have to live and feed themselves.

Parents must pay close attention to food and clothing all year round. Otherwise, if these rich people are allowed to evade taxes, it will be a huge loss.

You want to say, if that's the case, then I might as well just pay taxes on this money... Well, it's not in vain. After all, you don't have to launder the black money earned from doing illegal business. Your purpose is Tax evasion...

If you pay taxes, can you still be called tax evasion?
In addition, large personal taxes such as personal income tax on large amounts of money are much higher than corporate taxes... You may not pay more taxes due to this hassle!
What do you think you are trying to do?