Chapter Eighteen: There's Nothing I Can Do (1)
Li Shimin made that very modern move again, knocking on the table with his fingers.
After a long time, Li Shimin spoke: "It seems... you really know the reason."
Yin Qingfeng silently bowed.
Li Shimin smiled with satisfaction and leaned his body against the chair, "In front of him, Old Man Pei was plotting to seize your Xianjufang, and behind him, you advised someone to farm and metropolitan areas.
You are destined to be from a certain Qin Wang Mansion.
Now you think it's enough if you don't want to enter the mansion?"
Yin Qingfeng stood up and bowed to Li Shimin, "Whether to enter or not, the loyalty to His Highness remains unchanged, this is just a form.
If Your Highness cherishes his love for the boy, he should not have any worries about his life.”
Li Shimin laughed, "If you don't care about loving you, will you be unfaithful to someone?"
"Your Highness knows that this is not the boy's intention."
Li Shimin laughed again.
After holding the smile for a long time, Li Shimin said, "Do you know, how did others comment on you after they came back last time?"
Yin Qingfeng thought to himself, I know a ghost, "I don't know."
"If you had thirty years, all your words would be understandable that day.
But... you are only fifteen years old."
Of course Yin Qingfeng knew that Li Shimin was right. He pretended to be confused, "You also knew that your boy's sharpness showed his character. Just as the ancestors said, he was not suitable for being in the temple."
Li Shimin shook his head, "No! I'm talking about your talent!"
He stood up and walked around in front of Yin Qingfeng, "Duke of Ju, Changsun Wuji, Fang Qiao, and Du Ruhui are all from aristocratic families. In terms of talent and knowledge, they are the most outstanding people in the world.
However, no matter your farming skills or your advice of two kinds a year, they all think they are inferior.
Do you have an explanation?”
Yin Qingfeng had long thought of the question of Li Shimin, "Since ancient times, the sages have proposed to be based on agriculture. However, in the eyes of the world, scholars are the first.
There are very few people who are obsessed with farming and sericulture like Jia Sijie. And those farmers who are involved in the fields all day cannot summarize their experiences.
If a boy is determined to serve His Highness, he must learn the talents that His Highness values.
Wu, boys cannot pick up their horses with guns and Wen, and his nobles gathered in all the heroes.
The boy can only find another way.
Farmers and merchants are the ways that boys are seeking hard.”
"Agriculture and commerce?"
Li Shimin did not comment on the lies Yin Qingfeng said before, but was attracted by the last few words Yin Qingfeng.
Yin Qingfeng thought to himself, it’s time for me to master the rhythm.
"As time is in a hurry, the boy still has many unverified ideas, so he naturally dare not report to His Highness to know about it.
In the eyes of boys, the business of merchants can replace agricultural taxes in the future and become the main source of taxation in the Tang Dynasty."
"What did you say?" Li Shimin suddenly turned around and asked loudly, "Current tax instead of agricultural tax? Can it become the main source of tax revenue for the Tang Dynasty?"
"Can Your Highness know how much income you earn every day in Ziweilou and Xianjufang?"
What Li Shimin hated Yin Qingfeng the most was that Yin Qingfeng never answered positively and always looked for an example as an introduction. It seemed that without this introduction, his words would be unconvincing.
"you say!"
"Abstract all expenses, the daily net amount is 10,000 yuan." Yin Qingfeng falsely reported a number.
"Every day... I am pure... ten thousand... guan..." Li Shimin was a little dumbfounded, "It's only three million, sixty-five thousand coins in a year?"
"Do you know how much tax is paid in the Tang Dynasty in a year?" Li Shimin felt that his blood vessels were about to burst, and his bloody mouth was pressed against Yin Qingfeng's nose. "Last year's tax is paid in, which was only 28 million chunks of money!
And you dare to say that every day, you will get one, ten thousand, ten thousand!”
Yin Qingfeng did not retreat this time, but he wanted to say: You have bad breath!
"Because...the monthly municipal tax...only...forty cents..."
"What did you say?" Li Shimin was stunned again, "You mean, you are 10,000 jin a day, and you pay taxes... how much?"
"The average daily tax on two shops is 300 yuan." Yin Qingfeng gently made up the knife.
"Huh~~~" Li Shimin almost spit out an old blood.
Not to mention Li Shimin, even Yin Qingfeng cried when he heard that he only paid such a little tax.
It's real tears.
Until the Republic of China period, the Guanjin tax, Lijin... and other countless reasons for collecting taxes, the commercial tax in the early Tang Dynasty could really be ignored.
During this period, you only need to pay the municipal tax.
What is city tax?
It is equivalent to market management fees, plus sanitation cleaning fees.
In other words, municipal tax is more like a fee than a tax.
And what is the basis for collecting taxes?
It doesn’t look at the business volume of the shop or what products the shop operates, it only looks at the size of the shop.
Commercial tax was implemented one year after the implementation of the "Two Tax Law", with a tax rate of 10 taxes. During Li Yuan's ten taxes, he only collected rent, mediocre, and mixed household taxes.
Household tax is asset tax. It is paid according to the different amount of multiple funds paid by each household below the prince.
Therefore, Li Shimin stared at Yin Qingfeng, a happy businessman, and couldn't tell what it felt.
If Yin Qingfeng hadn't told him, he would have never thought that merchants could really be rich and comparable to countries; he would have really thought that in addition to agricultural tax, commercial tax could also be collected, and there could be a lot of them.
Facing Yin Qingfeng's calm look at each other, Li Shimin really felt powerless.
What can he say?
Yin Qingfeng's words just now were considered to have taken the initiative to pay the money.
But he can't take this money.
Not only does the world have a lot of things, but it’s like two things a year, and even if it’s not a good deal of things in front of Aye and his ministers.
Once this matter is exposed, there is only one consequence: life and death are immediately seen!
There is no second way!
But is it really necessary to do this?
Before leaving, Ah Niang held her hand and told her to be in harmony with her brother and Yuanji.
But....
Li Shimin sat back in depressedly.
Yin Qingfeng also sat back.
He didn't know what Li Shimin was thinking about at this moment, so he had to sort out the words he had thought of in advance.
The light in the study was already very dark, and Li Shimin was still sitting there, lowering his head.
"Dang, dang, dang."
The rhythmic knock on the door woke up the two people who were thinking.
In the hazy state, Li Shimin raised his head and said, "Don't disturb!"
His voice was hoarse.
In the darkness, Li Shimin's voice came again, "Since you are studying businessmen hard, what advice do you have this time?"
Li Shimin couldn't tell whether he was happy or hatred for Yin Qingfeng.
It was Yin Qingfeng who let him see the magnificent future. It was because he could not realize it now. Even if he realized the future, he would have made a lot of effort.
In the darkness, Yin Qingfeng corrected his posture, "First, encourage merchants; second, when the time is ripe, agree on a reasonable commercial tax ratio.
Third, and most importantly, carry out coin reform.”
As if a heavy hammer hit him, Li Shimin was a little suffocated. He repeatedly recalled the four words "coin reform" in his mind.
If one year two and commercial tax would tear apart the tulle between him and his brother. Then, the reform of coins would challenge his Aye's prestige.
Two years ago, the Wuzhu coins were just changed to Kaiyuan Tongbao. The praises of the virtues of the Danbao still often sound.
Now, a young boy told him that he wanted currency reform.
This is not a suggestion to him, it is to put him on the fire, it is to force him to the dead end!
At this moment, he really felt that this young man was sent by his brother to torture him.
Chapter completed!