"Pay taxes? Lao San, if my Baojingfang pays taxes, wouldn't it be equivalent to handing over the left hand to the right hand? It's not necessary, right?"

Hearing that his Royal Mirror Workshop, which was only on paper at the moment, had to pay taxes, the little fat man couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

"Have you forgotten, Your Majesty, that this royal trading house also pays business tax every year?"

Seeing the pained expression on the little fat man's face, how could Wang Bing not know that this was another sign of his 'money-greedy' temperament?

"How can it be the same? Although I, the Empress Dowager, and the Queen's share capital are included in the Royal Commercial Bank, other members of the honorable family account for the majority. But the Baojingfang belongs to me and Yongning, and it is a royal property.

What tax do I have to pay?”

Well, unfortunately Wang Bing thought that the reason he asked the little fat man to agree to the Royal Commercial Bank's payment of taxes was because he had considered the overall situation first, but he didn't expect that he just wanted to prevent his relatives from taking advantage of him.

"Your Majesty, Yongning will be my daughter-in-law in a few months. She can be regarded as a married daughter who has been thrown out..."

"Shit, even if Yongning gets married, she will still be my sister, and she will still be a member of the royal family!"

Before Wang Bing could finish his words, he was interrupted by the little fat man's words full of brother-sister affection.

Of course, if there is no premise that the little fat guy doesn't want to pay taxes, this sentence is still very touching.

"Brother Zhu, do you think it is more important to have money in the national treasury or in the internal treasury?"

Seeing that the little fat man had made up his mind not to pay taxes for Baojingfang, Wang Bing immediately changed his name and started asking.

"Well, this... in comparison, of course it is more important that the treasury has money."

Although he really wanted to say that having money in his inner treasury was more important, but facing Wang Bing's relaxed and serious attitude, it seemed that he had returned to the little fat man when Wang Bing instructed him to supplement the 'One Whip Technique', but he couldn't help it.

Not telling the more important truth about the treasury.

"Brother Zhu, to put it bluntly, no matter how poor the internal treasury is, can the royal family have no food to eat? And as long as the national treasury is full, the internal treasury can still allocate money from the national treasury. But if the internal treasury cannot collect the money, the internal treasury will not be able to collect the money."

No matter how much money there is in the treasury, how long can it last to replenish the treasury?"

"And if the day comes that the national treasury cannot collect any money, haha, then this country will not be far away from collapse. The so-called skin is gone, how can the general Mao be attached? By then, even if the emperor has money,

,hehe……"

In the face of the little fat man's extremely reluctant eyes, Wang Bing bluntly said the explicit words, "If the skin is gone, the hair will be gone", which is considered extremely bold.

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"Third brother, having said that, what does this have to do with whether I pay taxes or not? Since ancient times, have you ever seen any emperor pay taxes? The world belongs to me, do you want me to pay taxes on my own?"

Although the little fat man is very clear about the importance of the national treasury, the innate 'original sin' of greed makes him still 'struggle'.

What's more, in this era of "I am the country", what the little fat man said is actually not wrong.

"Brother Zhu, do you know why in the former Song Dynasty, even if land annexation was not suppressed, the imperial government's finances could still be supported by various redundant policies? Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, only half of the country was supported by the government, but it still had the financial resources to resist

The Mongolian cavalry has been at its peak for decades?"

Without answering the little fat man's question directly, Wang Bing still used his own way to guide the little fat man to follow his own ideas as before.

"this?"

I'm used to a fat guy like Wang who doesn't play by the rules, so I didn't blame him for asking.

But regarding this issue, although the little fat man had some vague ideas in his mind, he couldn't explain it for a while.

"Actually, it's very simple to say, it's commercial tax! Unlike our dynasty, commercial tax in the former Song Dynasty accounted for the proportion of national tax revenue..."

Wang Bing didn't let the little fat man wait long before he spoke directly and gave the answer.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, where the finances were basically supported by agricultural taxes, during the Song Dynasty, the country's finances were basically supported by commercial taxes. The proportion of commercial taxes in the country's total tax revenue had basically reached about 40% during the Emperor Huangyou of the Northern Song Dynasty.

By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, the proportion of commercial tax in national tax revenue had reached almost 90%, which was exactly the opposite of the fiscal and taxation situation of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that the Ming Dynasty's business was not as good as the Song Dynasty. On the contrary, regardless of the fact that the Ming Dynasty's commercial tax revenue could not rise, the Ming Dynasty's business development far exceeded that of the Song Dynasty.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty could not collect commercial taxes was also very simple. In addition to the ultra-low commercial tax of thirty to one tax established by Ming Taizu in order to restore the business that had been predatoryly destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, the biggest reason was because of the tax exemption

'There are too many people.

"Lao San, do you want me to take the lead and really collect the business tax?"

Although the little fat man is 'greedy for money', as a king who has been taught by Zhang Juzheng since childhood, he will definitely not be a fool. Therefore, after being guided by Wang Bing's analysis, he immediately understood what Wang Bing meant.

"That's right! Mr. Zhang's new policy reforms, to put it bluntly, only target the agricultural tax. Only by raising the commercial tax can the imperial court and the agricultural tax form the two legs of our Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, we can only rely on the agricultural tax.

Although the Ming Dynasty can still persist for a while, its foundation will be unstable and it will eventually be overwhelmed!"

"Lao San, your idea is good. However, the New Deal has just been fully rolled out. If commercial taxes are levied at this time, it may have an impact on the New Deal!"

Although the little fat man was very moved by Wang Bing's proposal to impose commercial taxes, considering that the foundation of the new policy was still unstable, the little fat man could only shake his head helplessly.

There is no way, Zhang Juzheng's New Deal reforms have touched the interests of a large number of people. If another cake of these people is touched at this time, the result will be...

"I didn't say that we would start levying commercial taxes right away. I just asked Brother Zhu to make a sample first and pave the way! Think about it, the emperor has already taken the lead in paying taxes. No matter how special other people are, they can be more special than you, the emperor."

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"When the time comes, we will publicize it well in newspapers, and there will always be smart people who will follow suit and pay taxes. As long as we form a habit, and the court will explicitly collect taxes, it will be a matter of course!"

Seeing the helpless look on the little fat man's face, Wang Bing revealed with a wicked smile the reason why he asked the little fat man to take the lead in paying taxes.

"Third brother, you don't understand, how many people are willing to spit out the things they swallow? This cannot be solved by me, the emperor, taking the lead and setting an example!"

Obviously, the little fat man has a deep understanding of the pain of taking money out of his pocket.
Chapter completed!