Chapter 1005: New Year's Eve
"A rough statistics show that the deficit between Dasong and Goryeo is about 3 billion sequels, and the trade deficit with Japan is about 4.8 billion sequels."
Yang He was prepared and said to Zhao Xu with a book of accounts.
After pausing, he said, "This is just a trade deal on the books, and there are many omissions among the people."
Zhao Xu nodded slightly.
According to the exchange ratio between silver and chant circles, this is equivalent to six million taels of silver and more than nine million taels of silver.
If compared with the Songyuan and the contemporary currency, the purchasing power of the Songyuan is similar to that of a dollar, but it is just a little higher.
Zhao Xu felt that this surplus was reasonable.
After all, Dasong basically controlled Goryeo and Japan from top to bottom, and exported industrial products to them without any obstacles.
Since Goryeo and Japan have no industrial foundation, Dasong's industrial products have no rivals in both countries, so it is natural that there is so much surplus.
"You must keep a close eye on the commercial tax. Business merchants must obtain commercial attractions before they can do business. Every trade must have records and pay commercial tax according to the surplus." Thinking of what Yang He said, "There are many omissions among the people," he reminded him.
At present, Dasong maintains a very low agricultural tax, so taxes must be supplemented from the perspective of commerce.
He led the soldiers of Dasong to use their lives outside to build one market after another for merchants.
They cannot just enjoy the dividends and not take any responsibility.
It is their responsibility to pay taxes according to the Great Law.
Of course, he knew very well that merchants were in a very clear way. Their nature was to continuously expand their interests and not take responsibility if they could not bear it.
This will also be the main contradiction between the court and private merchants in the future.
It is also the result of Dasong's transition from an agricultural country to an industrial country and developing trade.
He must be vigilant about this, and must not only maintain the development of Dasong commerce, but also not allow trouble.
This is why he lets official business banks take the lead and lead the development of commerce.
No one can guarantee whether the future Dasong will have an ambitious man who grew up instigated by the Western natives' thoughts.
The country he built with hard work and the soldiers was not willing to be ruined by it.
"Yes, Your Highness." Yang He replied yes.
Zhao Xu nodded and looked at Liu Fu again, "In order to cooperate with the development of Dasong's commerce, Dasong should establish a nationality system. Those who do not have Dasong's nationality cannot enter the country without authorization. For those who want to become a Dasong in Korea and Japan, relevant policies and conditions must be customized."
After pausing, he continued: "Only those who have Dasong nationality can enjoy all Dasong benefits, including policy benefits in trade. I will also ask Goryeo, Japan, and Luzon to establish a nationality system to avoid some Dasong merchants who transfer their assets to the above countries in order to evade taxes and want to enjoy dividends."
His idea is very simple, with equal responsibility and obligation.
Otherwise, if one of them just wants to rush to escape obligations, how can Dasong develop?
The purpose of this policy is to restrain some self-righteous merchants.
When nationality systems are established in various countries, they have no loopholes to take advantage of and must choose one of them.
Either as a Dasong businessman, he will do business honestly and pay taxes, or he will give up Dasong's nationality and no longer enjoy the dividends of Dasong's development.
Secondly, he would establish a unified tax system in Dongtu and include all the countries in Dongtu.
Merchants have to pay the same taxes wherever they go, so they don’t want these evil ways.
After saying this, Zhao Xu announced the severance of the dynasty.
As the end of the year approached, he asked Liu Fu to issue a government order, allowing the prefectures, counties and government offices to purchase a batch of New Year goods and distribute them to families whose children are in the army.
This is naturally to unite people's hearts, and also to create an atmosphere of "martial arts" in the hymn.
Secondly, this is also to support some workshops with poor performance and purchase them specifically.
The third is to promote the transaction of food so that the people can exchange surplus grain for money, because the main benefit to the soldiers is food.
After dealing with all the debris affairs before the New Year, Zhao Xu finally settled down and celebrated the New Year.
New Year's Eve is the New Year's Eve in Yancheng East and West Cities.
In order to join in the fun and to understand the people's sentiments.
With the help of the team members of the Fourth Academy, he and Yang Susu, Feng'er and Luan'er simply disguised themselves, changed into casual clothes and left the palace under the protection of Xu Lie and other guards.
Of course, Xu Lie and others also simplified their makeup.
The group was like a wealthy businessman with his wives and concubines to protect him.
After leaving the royal palace and turning into the main street of Yanzhou, Zhao Xu was immediately shocked by the crowd in front of him.
I saw that the entire main street was surrounded by people, with people next to each other, and his heels on his feet, which was very noisy and crowded.
Among the crowd were people carrying chicken, duck, fish and meat. They had just bought New Year's goods in the East City and were about to go home. At this moment, they had a smile on their faces.
There are also hawkers who carry candied haws and sell them. The candied haws on the trees are almost sold, with only two or three, and they are also happy.
There are also naughty boys wearing new clothes, holding colorful candies in their hands, and saliva is all over their mouths.
The ingredients of these candies are sucrose, not traditional maltose.
While Dasong's heavy industries such as steel, smelting, machinery, and electricity were developing, he did not forget the light industry.
After all, light industry mainly produces daily needs.
The main technologies of light industry are in the Patent Office.
Whenever the technical conditions for each light industry are met, the patent department will list the patent and remind merchants to purchase.
All, Dasong has a workshop specializing in the production of cane sugar candy.
As merchants understand candy technology, they are also innovating themselves, such as adding natural food pigments to make candy more beautiful.
"Your Highness, Luan'er and I are going to buy it too." Feng'er was also greedy when she saw the candy on the child's hand.
Dasong is now changing with each passing day, and new affairs are constantly emerging, which is dazzling.
Sometimes she has never seen some small things before.
"You guys go." Zhao Xu smiled and followed the two of them slowly.
The two of them crossed the road and stopped at a grocery store diagonally opposite.
The goods in the grocery store are very satisfying, and most of them are industrial products manufactured by the Dasong Workshop today.
Needless to mention old items such as white wine, perfume, soap, glass bottles, pocket watches, new candies, rubber bands, and rubber sole shoes are also available.
After buying candy, the group continued to go to the east and west markets, but the more they went in, the more they squeezed.
Yang Susu couldn't help but sigh that Yancheng is now even more noisy than Jinling.
Zhao Xu was mainly concerned about the people's sentiment.
Along the way, he felt very relieved when he saw that the worst people were wearing cotton clothes, but no linen clothes were available.
Seeing the market booming again, the people have more or less money to buy New Year’s goods, so they feel more comfortable.
However, he knew that this was Yancheng, and the emperor was naturally prosperous, but it could not represent the entire Great Song.
His goal is to make the entire Dasong people rich.
Chapter completed!