In the north of the palace, in the bamboo forest hall in Hualin Garden, the melodious sound of piano echoes in the bamboo forest. Li Li, who passed by next to him, stopped and listened to the familiar melody.

Memories deep in my heart are awakened: I am ready to go to class.

The classic piano piece "Blue Love" is used as a class ringtone by many schools. When the music sounds, it means that class is about to begin. Once the music stops, people who have not yet entered the classroom are considered late.

Today he entered the palace, and his wife also brought her daughter Li Ping'an into the palace to speak with the Queen Mother.

Now, it should be Li Ping'an playing the piano in Zhulin Hall, because there was no rumor before this piano piece.

The eunuch who led the way saw Li Li listening and said with a smile: "Mr. Pengcheng, the Queen Mother likes to listen to this song "Blue Sky" that she loves to play. She said that her piano skills are really outstanding."

"Hi, the little girl's piano skills are ordinary, it's the Queen Mother who praised it."

Everyone would say the scene, but Li Li would not take it to heart and follow the eunuchs to continue moving forward.

His eldest daughter, Li Ping'an, recently often entered the palace with her mother and chatted with the queen mother. Now she started playing the piano for the queen mother. It is said that the queen mother likes to listen to it very much.

I don’t know whether I really like this or whether I can find an excuse to let his daughter enter the palace with her mother.

Li Li believed that the eldest daughter's piano skills were OK because she was often practiced in the mansion, but there was another person who played better, that was his eldest daughter, Li Anning.

Li Anning looks good, and he can calculate the numbers when reading and writing. He is also close to the age of marriage.

However, because he was born in a vassal, he did not have the treatment of Li Ping'an and failed to enter the palace. He showed his face in front of the empress dowager and showed his piano skills.

It’s not that Huang Yan had never considered taking her concubine’s daughter to the palace, but it seemed that her legitimate mother was not too partial.

But he was not good-looking: Li Li asked his wife to bring all the eldest daughters of the legitimate and illegitimate daughters into the palace and showed her face in front of the empress dowager. Is this a hurry to marry a daughter as the queen?

Or is it like the story of Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede in the Han Dynasty?

The one with the surname Li is indeed shameless!

Based on reality, unless the empress dowager speaks, Li Anning will not follow her legitimate mother to enter the palace.

So Li Li saw that his daughter was a little depressed these days, and knew that her daughter had truly experienced the difference between legitimate and illegitimate, and she felt bad.

This is a helpless reality, and one person's strength cannot be reversed.

But Li Li made up his mind that no matter what, he would let his daughters marry a good family in the future, regardless of the legitimate and illegitimate family.

As long as he is in a high position, his daughters will not have to worry about marrying. It is nothing more than whether he can save face and have both inner strength.

After walking around the corridor for a few turns, I came to a two-story pavilion. The upper floor of this pavilion is called "Chongyun Hall" and the lower floor is called "Xingguang Hall".

There are two tall buildings in front of the pavilion, with the "Sun Tower" on the east and the "Sun Tower" on the west.

At this time, a voice came from the second floor of the pavilion. It was the minister who was giving a lecture to the emperor and was "Laozi".

That is to say, the metaphysics of the so-called "Wish and Jin dynasties".

The king of a country does not learn the art of governing the country or learning metaphysics. Li Li feels that the future of this country is really bleak.

However, the mainstream trend of the Southern Dynasty was to talk about Xuan. The elites of the gentry talked about Xuan all day long. If the emperor did not understand metaphysics, how could he talk about it with the elites of the gentry?

In the words of later generations, it is: If not, how to improve your personality?

What the emperor wanted to learn had nothing to do with Li Li, and he was not qualified to make suggestions. When he came to the pavilion, the eunuchs entered. After a moment, King Xiao Yi of Xiangdong came out.

The two turned aside and started talking in a low voice.

Today, several civil officials gave lectures to the emperor, and King Xiao Yi of Xiangdong attended the meeting, but because he had to listen to Li Li's report, he also held a "small meeting" with Li Li.

After more than two months, the first phase of the new tax system was successfully implemented, namely, the tax was imposed (custody and Tianjin tax).

Now, the second step is about to be implemented, and the housing tax (business tax).

King Xiangdong was worried that those whose interests were damaged would continue to stumbling on the taxation work that was about to begin in the first stage after the small actions of taxation in the first stage were invalid, resulting in the loss of control of prices in Jiankang City.

Although Li Li had made a detailed explanation and promised to the auxiliary ministers, including the King of Xiangdong, that "everything is in control", the matter is of great importance and the King of Xiangdong is still worried.

Because the opposition to the new tax system inside and outside the government has not decreased, it can be said that the regent ministers blocked a lot of storms for Li Li and were under considerable risks.

Li Li strictly enforced the collection of customs and Tianjin taxes, and had already cut a large piece of meat on many people. Although these people struggled, they still held back for various reasons.

Now, Li Li is going to cut another large piece of meat from these people. Will the other party be willing to endure it?

However, the other party may not dare to resist taxes head-on, so there will be no one who can come to the wrong place.

For tax elimination, there are not many effective ways to evade taxes, because the government only needs to keep a few customs and strictly implement the tax system to collect taxes.

The other party can't fly with his wings on his back and fly into the city with his goods over the tax customs.

However, if you have to collect taxes, there are many more ways to evade taxes. It is many times more difficult for tax collectors to collect taxes.

During this period, people are prone to being trapped, conflicts break out, and the tax collector may not be able to take advantage of it.

"My king, please rest assured that as long as the price of grain and cloth prices do not rise, prices in Jiankang City will not be chaotic."

Li Li is still full of confidence, "The new tax system has been implemented in Raozhou and Xuzhou before, and has been continuously improved, rather than suddenly thinking about it."

"This system has been practiced and has many experiences and lessons learned. Many problems encountered during the implementation process and possible flaws have been corrected one by one."

"Even if they have many tricks, they can only use those tricks and cannot cause big waves."

Speaking of this, Li Li smiled: "They can't resist the first stage, which means that after the second price segment begins, their struggle is meaningless."

"Tax customs has now managed the materials and passages entering and leaving Jiankang, just like installing doors in the yard on the door."

"Now, we close the door and let the dog go. No matter how much they yell, scold, kick, they are still locked up in the large yard of Jiankang and cannot make a fuss."

Xiao Yi asked again: "Then, is it really not feasible to abolish the case? Many people think thisbolish the case is good."

"King, the abolition of the case is to drink poison to quench thirst. When it was first implemented, it did have significant results. However, over time, the disadvantages will become more and more obvious. At that time, both businessmen and businessmen will suffer greatly."

Li Li still adheres to his own point of view. When establishing a new system, he must consider it in the long run and cannot seek temporary benefits but harm his descendants.

"The officials thought that if this abolishment case was implemented, the most disadvantaged person would be the ordinary people in the end."

The collection of housing tax (business tax) has been a problem since ancient times, and even in modern times is no exception.

To collect taxes, you must first verify the other party's turnover. The method is to check the account. The problem lies in this: the store must have a yin and yang account book and must make false accounts.

How can tax institutions try to grasp the real turnover of the store?

If the taxation cost is too high, it will not be implemented at all.

It is also necessary to ensure the fairness and selflessness of tax collectors and solve the problem of difficulty in checking accounts by businesses with backers.

In this regard, Li Li adopted a strategy of two steps:

First, control the tax and customs around the city to ensure that the goods that pass the customs are under the supervision of the tax authorities, and their valuation, taxation and taxation are levied.

Second, on the basis of controlling tax customs, a trading market is established under the government supervision, and a businessman in the city is organized into the trading market, and directly traded with merchants who carry goods to pass the customs.

That is, forcibly pass the customs businessmen and businessmen in the city trade in the trading market to realize the distribution and distribution of goods.

In this way, the government has mastered relatively accurate transaction volume with a lower administrative cost, thereby levied taxes on "first-level distributors".

Instead of scattering tax collectors and finding lower-level distributors (subject to business) to collect taxes.

As for how the city's resident merchants sold goods after purchasing goods in the trading market, they passed a few moves, but the tax agency ignored it because they had already collected business tax once.

If taxes are still required, it means that business tax is repeatedly imposed, which has many disadvantages and will affect the circulation of goods. Li Li believes that it is not necessary at present.

After all, it is too difficult to implement the "business tax reform" (business tax reform to value-added tax) in later generations in an era when the commodity economy is underdeveloped and the tax system is extremely backward (relatively speaking).

The so-called "abortion case" refers to the use of a deed (i.e., a broker, a middleman) designated by the government to match transactions and transactions between businessmen and businessmen.

The transaction volume reached by the buyer and seller will be left in the Caifu, and the government will impose tax on the buyer based on the records submitted by the Caifu.

This system of buying and selling by middlemen is similar to a system that has appeared in history - the dental system.

Li Li heard people talk about the "tat man" and "tat move" system that appeared in the Tang and Song dynasties was increasingly perfect during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was not gradually abolished until the 20th century.

But the role of middleman has always existed.

The dental carriage system has both pros and cons, but one fact that can be confirmed is that as a middleman, you can eat both ends.

Because merchants cannot sell goods directly to businessmen, they must rely on the dentist to make up transactions, and the goods must be there, which will result in being pinched by the dentist and being able to be exploited by the other party.

But the merchants cannot directly find merchants to purchase goods because the source of goods is in the hands of Yashang. He has no bargaining power and can only be exploited by Yashang.

The middleman of Yashang, who eats at both ends and relies on monopolizing trade channels, can easily make a lot of money. Once the tail is too big, it will be a disaster.

At the beginning, the government levies were levied to facilitate the collection of accommodation tax (business tax), and to raise guard dogs to monitor people (goods).

But as time goes by, the watchdog that controls the door will become a vicious wolf. No matter who passes by, he will have to bite a few bites and tear off a large piece of meat.

The other party was bitten and blood was dripping from the other party, and the bones could be seen.

Li Li would not give such monopoly intermediaries any opportunity, reason, and the court cannot implement a tax-holder system to collect taxes: this is drinking poison to quench thirst.

Jiankang is a place where powerful people gather. If the "abolition case" is implemented (using the gangs identified by the government as intermediaries, controlling the transaction volume between merchants and businessmen), these gangs will definitely become accomplices of the powerful people, and they will become increasingly cruel to exploit merchants and businessmen.

The consequence is that prices rise and costs are transferred layer by layer, and the cost of living increases.

Someone urged the prime ministers to replace the proposed new tax system (trading market system) with the "official tyrant" system, with ulterior motives.

Trying to "change soup but not change medicine" and sell some commercial tax (business tax) in exchange for another way to continue sucking blood.

Li Li briefly analyzed and explained the disadvantages of the "abolition case" very clearly. Xiao Yi nodded: "Since Pengcheng Public is sure, then I will wait and see."
Chapter completed!