Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Su Guansheng said: "My business tax in Ming Dynasty is mainly divided into overtax and residential tax.

Among them, taxation refers to the establishment of checkpoints at key waterways to levy taxes on past commodities and the tools they carry.

There are mainly banknote tariffs, levying tax, gate tax, Huai'an dam crossing tax, etc. Among them, banknote tariffs are the main ones, especially after the Wanli year. Salt lesson.

As for the residence tax, it refers to the taxes levied on commodities or merchants in the process of commodity trade, mainly including various transaction taxes, business taxes, and landing taxes.

Residential tax is generally managed by the local government, with many and miscellaneous names, such as wine and vinegar tax, tooth tax, collapsed house tax, deed tax, market stall tax, butcher tax, official shop money, fishery tax, and so on.

In addition, there are three city ship divisions in Ningbo, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, which will also collect taxes in kind on the vassal ships that come to pay tribute.

Among them, Yuegang in Quanzhou has imposed taxes on merchant ships going out to sea since it opened to sea. "

Speaking of this, Su Guansheng paused, and said with emotion: "In terms of tax system, our Ming Dynasty is more complete than previous dynasties, and it is not like the Song Dynasty, which was dominated by the official sales system, and the tax system was deformed and oppressed the poor.

It's a pity that first the officials were corrupted, and then the vassals occupied part of the local tax revenue.Later, when the world was in chaos, it was difficult for the imperial court to collect much business tax. "

Hearing Su Guansheng's words, some of the top cabinet ministers in the front row who knew about the commercial and taxation system and the fiscal and taxation issues of the Ming Dynasty couldn't help nodding, and even turned their heads to look at Su Guansheng, showing approval.

Since Auntie Zhu decided to discuss the topic of finance and taxation today, she had already studied this aspect with Hao Guangming, and she also nodded slightly.

She knew this Su Guansheng, and he was one of the few mid-level officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs who had not been implicated in the corruption case before.

He was only selected as a scholar when he was 30 years old, and he was appointed as the magistrate of Wuji County in the ninth year of Chongzhen as a supervisor of the Imperial College, but he was framed and dismissed because he offended the superior in the case of rehabilitating an injustice.

When he was framed and threatened by Shangguan, he said, "I don't want an official, I don't want money, I don't want my life, what can I do!" Therefore, he was called the "Three Don't Masters" by the local people. When he was dismissed from office, the local people erected a monument to commemorate him.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, he was rehabilitated again, and successively served as military supervisor and counselor, Yongping Tongzhi, Huangzhou prefect, and Shandong Denglai military preparation.

The city of Beijing was broken, he fled to Nanjing, and was hired by the Hongguang Dynasty as a doctor of the household department... In the history of later generations, this person was also the main minister in the Longwu and Shaowu period who resisted the Qing Dynasty, and was defeated and died for the country.

Although Zhu Wei knew that Su Guansheng was loyal, upright and upright against the Qing Dynasty, she did not expect that she knew so much about the business tax of the Ming Dynasty.

But thinking about it, I don't think it's strange.

Su Guansheng started as a prefect and county magistrate with a humble status as a supervisor, collected money and food for the army, and worked as a doctor of the Ministry of Household Cleaning for nearly a year. It is reasonable to know this.

Aunt Zhu said: "Su Qing said very well, basically explained my business tax system in Ming Dynasty clearly, let's sit down."

"Thank you, Jian Guo."

After Su Guansheng sat down, Zhu Wei said again: "In addition to commercial taxes, my Ming Dynasty also has many problems in terms of land tax and salt tax.

As far as I know, the puppet emperor was in power before, and he was in many places south of the Huanghuai River.

Ladies and gentlemen, this includes items such as land tax, salt tax, commercial tax, and three rates.

Even though Nanjing lost control of many places at that time, it shouldn't only charge 900 million taels a year.

Therefore, in Ben Gong's opinion, it is not an exaggeration to say that the fiscal and taxation system of my Daming has collapsed!
That being the case, why should we be afraid of rebuilding?It should be noted that if there is no destruction, there may be many obstacles in doing this in peacetime, but it is much easier now.

If such a good opportunity is missed, even if we drive the Qing prisoners back to the outside of the pass and wipe out the Puppet Shun, how long can Daming be stable?Need to know, don't miss this opportunity, time will never come again! "

After hearing Aimee Zhu's words, the Hall of Martial Ying was silent for a while.

The cabinet ministers and the officials of the two ministries were all in deep thought.

Zhu Yu said again: "Field tax and salt tax are important tax items. Even though there are many problems, it is not good to rectify them hastily now, so this palace focuses on commercial taxation.

The main responsibility of the Ministry of Finance for a period of time to come is to sort out the business tax issue and strive to collect the business taxes that should be collected from various places as soon as possible.

The duties of the Ministry of Finance are all written in the booklet. If you have any opinions, you can raise them now. "

After finishing speaking, Auntie Zhu picked up a cup of fragrant tea from the royal case to moisten her throat.

Lu Zhenfei turned to a certain page of the brochure, and saw that the Ministry of Finance currently has nine jurisdictions: Finance Department, Tax Rate Department, Customs Department, Municipal Tax Department, Customs Department, Accounting Department, Budget Department, Treasury Department, and State Assets Management Department. duty.

In the past, the Ministry of Household Affairs carried out single-line management on the collection of finance and tax for each chief secretary.

Today's Ministry of Finance is divided into multiple lines based on different responsibilities, and then conducts multi-line fiscal and tax management for each chief secretary, which is obviously more refined.

Among them, the Finance Department is responsible for the overall planning of the Ministry of Finance, and the Tax Rate Department is responsible for formulating and adjusting the tax rates of various major commodities.

Customs duties, city taxes, and customs are responsible for the collection of three major types of commercial taxes.

As for the latter four, this is the task of assisting the Ministry of Finance in managing finances and taxes.

It is worth mentioning that the treasury department is mainly responsible for transshipment and storage of tax silver—not only the tax silver collected by the Ministry of Finance, but also the land tax silver collected by the Ministry of Households.

Seeing this, Lu Zhenfei turned to another page of another booklet to compare the new tasks of the household department.

They are in order: Household Administration Department, Land Tax Department, Grain Storage Department, Field Statistics Department, Population Statistics Department, Land Management Department, Urban Construction Coordination Department, and Food and Agriculture Security Department, a total of eight major functions.

This made Lu Zhenfei frown, revealing a dignified expression.

Just now, although Auntie Zhu said that the land tax and salt tax are important tax items, it is not suitable to move lightly in a hurry, but looking at the title of the Ministry of Households, it is obvious that in the future, she has made up her mind to re-measure the acres of land in the world.

And this, like commercial taxation, will undoubtedly touch the interests of a large number of people.

If at the same time, the chief departments under the Ming Dynasty promoted the new policies of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Finance, which suddenly touched the two important interests of local gentry, landlords and merchants, even if the prison country was really a fairy, it would not end well, right?
It really caused chaos all over the place, and it needs to be suppressed by the army. Even if it can be calmed down, it will probably hurt Daming's vitality.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhenfei immediately stood up and said: "Jianguo, the Ministry of Finance will clarify the business tax issue, which may affect the interests of many people. Please follow the law agreed yesterday and try it out in Nanzhili first."

Aimee Zhu didn't have the idea of ​​spreading it to all regions at once—they didn't have so many people in hand.

So he said with a smile: "Lu Qing's words are indeed good words. I originally decided that the Ministry of Finance will try out the new business tax policy before Nanzhili and Chongqing."

After hearing this, all the ministers couldn't help but suddenly realized.

Because it was only then that they remembered that Chongqing was separated from Sichuan by Auntie Zhu and listed as a chief secretary.