Zhao Hao could only encourage him, "You can think about it." You both are foreign expatriates. They once sold ginseng, you started your business by being a stingy... Oh no, everyone is a good match for the people who started their business by selling goods in the south.

He once built a little Jin man who could occupy the villages of the Song Dynasty and built hundreds of miles in a radius, with a large population, more than 10,000 troops and horses, and set up five large villages. No one dared to mess with Zengtou City. Isn’t it more glorious than a prefect?

If you have this young master as your backing, why can't you take root in a foreign country, become bigger and stronger, and become a local bully? Let the pastoral envoy obey you and become a great hero in the recovery of Danluo?

Fatty Tang agreed only then.

In fact, he was just acting cute with Zhao Hao and wanted to be on camera more. Tang Youde knew very well that Zhao Gongzizhi was not in the court but overseas.

Zhao Hao's unification of Jiangnan was just to make efforts overseas. As for the operation in the capital, it was actually to reduce constraints, and it also meant to raise the banner and be a tiger's skin.

From the perspective of doing business, he can also understand Mr. Zhao. What is business? It means buying low and selling high. Selling cheap things in Place A to high-priced Land B to earn the difference. This is doing business.

This is the case when he sells southern goods; this is the case when he trades at sea; the young master pulls the imperial court's tiger skin and operates overseas - the sign of the Celestial Kingdom is not valuable at home, but is very valuable overseas. The young master wants to buy this sign from China at a low price and then cash it out at a high price overseas!

This is a big business that has been monetized by the golden sign that has accumulated for two thousand years in the Heavenly Kingdom! He is unwilling to be absent if he beats Tang Youde to death!

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So Tang Youde accepted Zhao Hao's appointment and served as the first mayor of Xingang City.

According to the provisions of the "Xinggang City Management Regulations (Interim)" formulated by Mr. Zhao himself, the mayor is the administrative chief of Xingang City. His term of office is five years and he can be re-elected once. His responsibilities are to lead the overall work of the city hall, reward and punish the appointment and removal of staff from other municipal halls.

The responsibility of the City Hall is to ensure a stable, free and open environment in Xingang City and promote the prosperity of Xingang.

Specifically, the number one task of the city hall is to collect taxes - tariffs, commercial taxes and resident taxes.

The tariffs are targeted at import and export commodities, but they are exempt from import and export goods from the Royal Marine Transport Corporation of the Ming Dynasty. To put it bluntly, they are taxes collected from the Li Chao merchant group. The tax rate is ten taxes and one.

The target of commercial tax is shops and merchants who carry out business activities in Xingang City, with a tax rate of 20 taxes per.

As for the resident tax, it is levied on residents who settle in Xingang City, with a quota of one or two taels per household each year.

Taxation is a good thing. Who can do urban construction if you don’t collect taxes?

Oh no, it should be said that, how can you carry out urban construction without taxes?

Moreover, according to Mr. Zhao, obtaining income through taxation is only one aspect, and it can also establish a bond with citizens. After all, no one will cherish what is easily obtained. Only when residents and shops pay the cost can they truly protect this city!

Well, it’s too disgusting to say that. However, it is indeed possible to make citizens obey management through taxation, maintain population stability, and accurately grasp the economic conditions of the city.

Look, there are so many benefits to collecting taxes. Even if Mr. Zhao doesn’t want to make money, he has to collect taxes well.

Of course, no one will pay taxes on their own initiative, so the city hall has a tax office, and the tax officials lead a tax audit team to be responsible for compulsory tax collection.

And although Xingang City welcomes anyone to work and live, you must hold a continuous tax payment certificate if you want to do business and buy a property here.

In order to make the city of Xingang prosperous as soon as possible, the first year of opening a port is tax-free, and there is no need for a tax-payment certificate for buying a house or buying a property.

A year later, those who dare to resist taxes will be thrown into prison and will be tried by the arbitral tribunal. Those with minor fines will be expelled, and those with serious labor reform will be carried out.

Prisons are an indispensable violent institution, and there is no order without prisons.

The arbitral tribunal is an indispensable adjudication institution for cities, otherwise various disputes cannot be handled. Because the city is limited in size and the institution is as simple as possible, the arbitral tribunal also has judicial functions, and its full name is the "Arbitration and Adjudication Tribunal". It not only needs to handle civil disputes, but also criminal cases, which is very important.

When deciding cases, the arbitral tribunal generally refers to the "House Law" and "Criminal Law" parts in the Ming Dynasty's legal system. As for "The Law of Officials" and "The Law of Li", a small Xingang City is neither necessary nor necessary to abide by it.

Mr. Zhao and his elder brother and Zheng Ruo have repeatedly discussed and drafted a "Xinggang City Civil Affairs Management Regulations" in accordance with the "House Law" and related collections and explanations, which legislate the contents of social and economic and personal relations such as population and household registration, land and house tax, commercial and foreign trade, market order, etc.

The difference between his "Civil Affairs Management Regulations" and the "Ming Dynasty House Law" is quite big. First of all, he strictly restricted the amount of private land and land ownership, and used punitive tax rates to crack down on the annexation of land by rich and big merchants.

The Ming Dynasty or any dynasty was destroyed by land annexation, and land annexation was the enemy of the industry and commerce he developed. Zhao Hao hated this but was powerless, and could only strangle this human cancer from the source where he had the final say.

In the Civil Affairs Ordinance, he clearly stated that because the land in Xingang City was leased by Jiangnan Group, those who want to own land in Xingang City can only lease it for a long time and cannot purchase it forever.

Moreover, he stipulated that arable land is one unit of ten acres and non-acrificial land is one unit of half acre. Citizens only need to pay a certain rent symbolically every year to rent one unit of arable land and one unit of non-acrificial land for a long time. The rent varies according to the location, but they are only one-tenth of the normal level, and the lease period can be as long as 50 years.

This kind of approach that only uses the right and does not have ownership will of course greatly suppress the impulse of rich people to merge.

In addition, Zhao Hao also stipulates that for each household to rent an additional unit, they will have to pay twice the land tax every year.

That is to say, if you own one unit of land, you have to pay a land tax of 2 taels every year. If you use two units, you have 4 taels. If you use three units, you have 8 taels. If you use four units, you have 16 taels. If you have five units, you have to pay a land tax of 32 taels every year. Rich people can afford it.

But if you want to build a six-acre garden to live in, you have to pay a land tax of 2,048 taels per year, and a seven-acre one is 8,192 taels. Who can bear this?

The same is true for arable land, which not only takes care of the rich people's demand for land, but also curbs excessive annexation.

The most important point is that everyone has to pay taxes together. No matter whether it is a gentry, wealthy businessman or a senior official of the Jiangnan Group, there is no one who can enjoy tax exemption. Even if Mr. Zhao buys property on the island, he also needs to pay taxes. This makes tax evasion methods such as illegal investment and offer useless.

In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations also stipulate that those who evade tax by means of evasion by means of evasion of taxes shall be immediately confiscated and deported once investigated and punished. The whistleblower can obtain one-tenth of his property.

In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations clearly stipulate that Xingang City only collects land tax and no agricultural tax. In other words, if the people plant within ten acres of land in Xingang City, almost all their income can belong to them except for a small amount of rent.

What? The Li Dynasty government came to collect taxes? Ask their officers if they dare to come? Don’t interrupt their dog legs!

This alone is enough to absorb enough basic population to support Xingang City.

In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations also stipulate that Xingang City is not allowed to acquire slaves or sign a contract for sale. The contract for sale signed outside the city is not protected by the city. Employers must sign an employment contract. The contract for a single contract shall not exceed five years, but can be renewed unlimitedly.

What, what should those Japanese workers do? They were found guilty by the arbitral tribunal and needed to undergo forced labor reform. Of course, this is the scope of the Criminal Ordinance.

In terms of criminality, Zhao Hao abolished all ** sentences. Except for the murder, robbery, rape and other serious crimes, all the crimes are atonement by labor reform. For example, petty theft, the first offender was sent to labor reform for 3 months, and the second offender was labor reform for 2 years. The recurring offender had life labor reform for life, which ensured that the prisoners were sublimated in sweating profusely.

In addition to worrying about these violent institutions, Fatty Tang will also be responsible for some sunny causes. For example, establishing and maintaining local schools, popularizing Chinese education, and vigorously promoting Confucianism. Mr. Zhao asked him to hire the most traditional old masters, preferably the kind of corrupt scholars who can smell the sour smell from three streets. Let them use the education of saints to influence the indigenous people, strengthen their compliance with the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanence, obey the Celestial Kingdom, and gratitude to the Jiangnan Group.

By the way, the Chinese schools in Xingang City do not have science classes. Apart from the Four Books and Five Classics, they only teach some applied mathematics such as accounting and abacus. The locals need more words from saints, which is the kingly way. The boring left-handed way of science should be kept torture the people of the Ming Dynasty.

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As for the city's security work, the Kabo Island Water Police Department Xingang Police Station is responsible for it.

However, the police station is under dual leadership from the Water Police Department and the City Hall, so Tang Youde can still mobilize them within the city of Xingang.

The most important trade with Japan is the responsibility of the Danlu Chamber of Commerce. Although the Danlu Chamber of Commerce is nominally an independent organization, it still needs to register with the city hall and accept business guidance from the mayor.

There are many big and small things, all of which are all in one go. In short, all the affairs of the entire city are under the responsibility of the city hall, and Fatty Tang can be found in the end.

With so many things, Fatty Tang is of course too busy alone, and taking over power alone will not do anything to him or her group.

Therefore, Zhao Hao set up a municipal committee with several consultants to assist the mayor in managing the city. Consultants are directly appointed by the group. The mayor has no right to directly appoint or remove consultants, but has the right to make suggestions.

In addition, more than two-thirds of the consultants can recommend that the group remove the mayor. In addition, a supervision committee will be established outside the city hall to avoid the mayor from covering up the sky and operating the entire city into an independent kingdom.

Of course, this is not to guard against Fatty Tang. Mr. Zhao still has absolute trust in his original business partner.
Chapter completed!