Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 91 Profit-oriented trend!Drive away wolves! (seeking subscription)

Fusu was thoughtful.

He probably understood.

Ji Heng is trying to do everything possible to prevent corruption in the middle.

Even if it costs a little more human and financial resources.

It's just that he clearly remembered that Ji Heng was talking about robbing money, and now he was indeed robbing merchants, but the court didn't benefit much from it.

Even the business tax is very likely to be reduced.

He asked: "Mr. Ji, isn't salt and iron just for making money?"

"At present, the imperial court has to set up official offices, strengthen supervision, and hire salt workers. This time, the imperial court has spent too much manpower and financial resources. If this continues, the commercial tax collected by the imperial court on salt and iron may not be sufficient. Up and down."

"That doesn't seem right."

Fusu hesitated for a moment, and expressed his doubts.

Daqin's people's livelihood is difficult at present, and it is necessary to consider strengthening the capital, which requires a lot of money to support it. Now, the measures proposed by Ji Heng not only cannot charge more money, but may even charge less money. From any point of view, it is a bit of a waste of the present the truth.

Ji Heng smiled and drank the fine wine in the bronze jue in one gulp.

smiled and said:
"exactly."

"Daqin manages salt and iron in this way, and the commercial tax in Guanzhong will definitely be reduced."

"But one thing needs to be clarified."

"Why does Daqin collect so much business tax?"

"It is to ensure the operation of the imperial court, and it is also to protect the bottom line of society."

"Currently, the imperial court may have collected less tax, but from another perspective, it also guaranteed the bottom line of society."

"It didn't achieve its purpose."

"Furthermore."

"Daqin's business tax will not be less."

"Why is that?" Fusu was a little puzzled.

Ji Heng chuckled and said, "The commercial tax collected in Guanzhong will indeed decrease, but the commercial tax collected in Guandong will increase."

"The balance of the two will still increase overall."

"The ones who are really missing are merchants!"

Fu Su frowned.

He was getting more and more confused.

Ji Heng sat up straight and shook the jug beside him. There wasn't much wine in it, so he poured all the wine into the Tong Jue, and then put the jug aside.

This flagon will be useful later.

At this time, Ji Heng continued: "There are many irons in Guanzhong, salt in Longxi, and under the eyes of the imperial court, even if merchants want to greedy ink in private, they dare not be too blatant, let alone too presumptuous, but Guandong is different. , It is too easy to do some tricks, and with the greed of merchants, the commercial tax collected by the imperial court is probably only a very small part."

"If this law is implemented, it will be the profit of robbing business."

"In the past, the status of merchants was very low, and most officials and nobles looked down on them, and they would not bend over to make friends."

"In order to obtain the right to manage the mountains, forests and pools, the merchants will inevitably give a lot of profits to the nobles, so even if the nobles sit at home, some merchants will offer money on their own initiative, so the nobles will not look at the merchants directly, they will only regard them as beggars. Lost dog, this concept still exists at the moment.”

"And it's pretty ingrained."

"It's just that the situation has changed to a certain extent as the Great Qin ruled the world."

"When the Great Qin swept across the six kingdoms, a large number of nobles from the six kingdoms chose to hibernate and hide, and they were bound to give up some benefits. Compared with the fields, the mountains, forests and ponds were obviously less valued by the nobles, and these mountains, forests and ponds eventually fell into the land. in the hands of merchants."

"Without the exploitation of nobles, merchants can get too much profit."

"In just a few years after the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, many big merchants with rich families began to appear one after another."

"There's a reason for all of this."

"Right now, there are big merchants all over the country with a lot of wealth and thousands of servants."

"However, whether it's officials or nobles, most of them haven't reacted yet, and they still look at merchants with the humble eyes of the past, but the current merchants are no longer what they used to be. The power they have is not inferior to some nobles in the past. More than that."

"In addition, Daqin encouraged big merchants to participate in the operation, which greatly helped merchants to make money."

"These merchants will become big merchants spanning several counties after a short period of operation."

"Will merchants choose to benefit the country and the people after gaining profits?"

"will not."

"They will only take advantage of the exhaustion of the people to make money even more crazily."

"Even if it will cause the people to live in dire straits!"

"In private, merchants will do everything possible to evade taxes and falsify accounts, because Daqin's commercial tax is too high for merchants, but even if Daqin only charges one dollar for a stone of salt, it will be too high for them. It's still too high."

"What they are after is the ultimate huge profit!"

"If you are interested, you can compare the commercial taxes collected in Guanzhong and Guandong. There will be a huge gap between the two."

"And under the strict supervision of the imperial court, many merchants' cheating and tax evasion can be curbed to a certain extent, which in turn increases a lot of business taxes."

"Just looking at Guanzhong, the business tax is reduced."

"But looking at the whole country, business taxes are only increasing but not decreasing."

"However, don't expect too much from the Kanto business tax."

"Now Daqin's control over Kanto is not so strong. Even if the imperial court implements supervision, it will not be able to collect all the receivables. But as long as this system is implemented and a certain amount of business tax can be increased, for Daqin's current situation, The goal has been achieved.”

Fusu nodded.

He didn't even think about it.

Merchants have become so terrifying after the Great Unification.

Seeing Fusu's solemn expression, Ji Heng couldn't help but chuckled and shook his head.

Merchants are not terrible, but merchants who have a large amount of production materials, and merchants who merge with officials, are the real blood leeches.

And he wants to do it.

It is to let the merchants position themselves.

You can only be a seller of products, not a monopoly, or even control.

immediately.

Fusu had new doubts, and said in a concentrated voice: "Daqin's control over Kanto is not strong now, can this system really be implemented?"

Ji Heng smiled and said, "Yes."

"And it will."

"Why is that?" Fusu was puzzled.

There was a touch of emotion in Ji Heng's eyes, and he said slowly: "The hustle and bustle of the world is all about profit."

"The world used to look down on merchants."

"So to a certain extent, it is considered that merchants have been allowed to grow bigger."

"But as the imperial court issued an administrative order, the meat in the hands of merchants will undoubtedly be watched by local officials and nobles. They used to disdain to rob merchants, but now the imperial court took the initiative to give them a chance, and even thought about it. Do you think they'll get it under control?"

"Businessmen have money."

"But they have no status."

"It is doomed to be slaughtered in the local area."

"In the past, the imperial court did not drop the sword on the merchants, and the merchants had been swallowing their anger on the surface, so not many people noticed, but once the imperial court wanted to take action against the merchants, everyone in the world who had some power in their hands would want to go for it. Bundle."

"The merchants have no way to resist right now!"

"This is why I have been emphasizing that merchants should not be given any chance to gain access to power. Once they are given access to power, it will gradually evolve into a combination of government and business. It will not be so easy to pull down the merchants."

"Officials won't agree either."

"What merchants do is the existence of Erdao dealers."

"It should continue as it is."

"And the status should continue to be so low."

"Only in this way, nobles and officials will continue to belittle merchants, so as to avoid large-scale mergers in the future."

"While merchants enjoy a lot of wealth, they should wear a pair of shackles as a matter of course."

heard.

Fusu figured it out all at once.

Merchants are now children holding jade in the hands of the crowd. They have a lot of wealth, but they have no ability to protect the wealth.

It's just that the merchant hid it well in the past and was not noticed by others. In addition, other people were unwilling to bully a child, which gave the merchant a chance to make a fortune in silence.

But now, under the deliberate guidance of the imperial court, the merchant has been pushed to the most conspicuous place, and the jade in his hand is so brightly exposed in front of the world. A child who holds a jade but has almost no power to resist is clearly It is the fat that is delivered to the mouth.

Even if the Guandong officials are alienated from the imperial court, and the nobles of the six countries hate the Great Qin, they will still choose to compromise in the face of interests.

This is a lure!

As Ji Heng said earlier, Guanzhong officials can't control it, but how can Guandong officials, six kingdoms and nobles control it?

He calculated people's hearts.

It's Yangmou!
He is borrowing the hands of the Guandong officials and the nobles of the six countries to dismember the big merchants from all over the world one by one. Even if the Guandong officials and the six countries' nobles ate most of the meat, as long as the court can take a small bite from it, For Daqin, it was all profitable.

Because of these interests, the imperial court could not touch them before.

Taking a closer look, it seems that except for the damage to the interests of merchants, all parties are happy.

Actually it is not.

Now that the imperial court can take a bite, it means that there is one less bite in Kanto.

Invisibly weakened the Kanto forces.

And this method is to use the hand of Kanto to weaken Kanto.

This is clearly driving away wolves and tigers!
Again.

Daqin seems to have only eaten a small amount of benefits, but it is not the case. Through the government's supervision of salt and iron, the imperial court has suppressed the price of salt and iron a little bit, and invisibly reduced the burden on the people. Therefore, from a national perspective, Daqin It is clearly a huge profit.

Daqin clearly only paid a very small price, but it not only increased the business tax, but also realized the burden reduction for the people. More importantly, it also weakened the merchants and the Kanto invisibly.

It can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Fusu looked at Ji Heng with eyes full of horror.

Now he fully understood why his father refused to pardon Ji Heng.

This man is horrible.

Turning hands is a cloud, covering hands is rain.

If this person is an enemy of Daqin, I'm afraid Daqin is really in danger.

And what Ji Heng is planning is not people.

He calculates people's hearts!
He just told the world so clearly what Daqin was going to do, but no matter whether it was an official or the nobles of the six countries, even if he knew his mind, he would still fall into it one after another. Even if there might be intentional resistance in the early stage, it would still be difficult to break free in the end.

Because the benefits are touching!
The Kanto forces can endure for a while, but can they endure for a lifetime?
They can bear it?
Can other people stand it too?

In the end, they became Ji Heng's pawns to stir up the world one by one!
They even enjoy it.

Thinking of this.

Fusu only felt his scalp go numb, and even his hair stand on end.

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