Su Wen didn't expect that Ji Yuchen was really ruthless.
Waiting at this door, forcibly waiting all night, the next morning, still at the door.
Only at this time, the old guy's face was already pale.
crumbling.
Su Wen came out of the house, turned to look at Zhao Jin, and asked, "Did you defecate here last night?"
Zhao Jin came up and said in a low voice: "No, I brought the chamber pot myself, and the servant poured it far away."
Su Wen showed a smile at the old guy, and gave a thumbs up: "The quality is good! Keep it up!"
Ji Yuchen hurried forward and said tremblingly, "Su...Master Su, I am wrong! You are wrong! Don't be angry, as long as you answer the questions in the old man's mind, the old man will come to your door to plead guilty!"
Seeing Ji Yuchen trembling in front of him, Su Wen sighed.
"Get in the car!"
How should I put it, Su Wen still can't see such a person who is dedicated to the people.
It was this kind of person that he admired the most in his previous life.
Perhaps some of Ji Yuchen's actions made him very unhappy, but at the end of the day, Su Wen still couldn't bear it.
He knew that this kind of person represented the noble existence of human nature.
He may never be such a person in his life.
The two got into the carriage, Su Wen looked at Ji Yuchen, shook his head and sighed, "Why bother?"
"For the sake of the people of Great Zhou, I will die without regret!" Ji Yuchen sighed, "The people... are too miserable!"
He looked at Su Wen and said: "The people of Dazhou are too miserable. They eat their food from the sky and dig food from the ground. Many families can't eat a bite of meat all year round!"
Su Wen knew that he was telling the truth. The gap between the rich and the poor in Da Zhou was already unparalleled.
He said in a deep voice: "I have thought about it before, how can I lead the people to live a good life?"
"Tax reduction and exemption, equal distribution of acres, but no matter how hard this old man works, a natural disaster is enough to change everything!"
"It is common for people to be displaced. In order to survive, they sell their fields, houses, sons and daughters, and even sell themselves into slavery. People can't fight against the sky!"
Ji Yuchen said.
"But after listening to Mr. Su's words that day, I realized that the problem is not that the people are too poor, but that the powerful are too rich! Their wealth allows them to annex land at will, control prices, and control the life and death of the people!"
Su Wen looked out of the car window and saw the busy merchants and pawns in the imperial capital early in the morning. He agreed and said, "Aristocratic families, martial arts sects, court officials, wealthy merchants and gentry, these people live by absorbing the common people! The power and status are completely crushed. The common people can easily use their own privileges to exploit these poor people. Only by distributing their wealth to the common people in a way, so that the common people have a stronger ability to resist catastrophe, can the common people truly become rich, and This is exactly what the court should do.”
Hearing Su Wen's words, Ji Yuchen's eyes lit up: "That's right! Master Su, what you said that day was extremely subtle, and the tax system is graded. In the eyes of the old man, this is an absolutely feasible national policy. It's just that the old man can't figure it out in many places, such as This supervision, how can the supervision be consistent? If there is no charter, many people must find ways to evade taxes!"
"have no idea!"
Su Wen gave the answer directly. In fact, even in the highly developed modern society of the previous life, this has not been completely eliminated.
Not to mention Da Zhou.
Su Wen said: "But it's not important. The current taxation system in Dazhou itself is already very mature under the current system. What we need to do is to clean up the bureaucracy and strictly prevent the collusion between officials and businessmen and the corruption of taxation departments." .”
What Su Wen said is correct, Dazhou has its own set of supervision methods for both commercial tax and agricultural tax.
As a simple example, commercial tax can be compensated by tariffs.
Because regardless of the city or road, there are checkpoints set up by the Great Zhou to collect taxes on the past goods.
This is how the thirty tax one of the commercial tax came about.
Ji Yuchen frowned and said, "But in this way, the taxes of many merchants still cannot be fully accounted for!"
Su Wen said with a smile: "So what, why do we have to make a clear inventory? As long as we can do as much as possible, it's better than the previous 30 taxes! What's more, we There are other ways to do it!"
"Other means?" Ji Yuchen murmured.
"Like... property tax! property tax! inheritance tax! land tax! mine tax!"
Su Wen also listed these tax systems.
One by one explained: "Property tax is an inventory of property. Anyone whose property reaches a certain level can be levied property tax, real estate tax and land tax, and the real estate and land under his name can be registered in the register. Taxes are levied on the transfer of real estate and fields , on the basis of one set of real estate per person and 20 mu of land, those who exceed it will be taxed more heavily. All unowned land will be nationalized. People harvest all the state-owned assets of our Great Zhou. As for the inheritance tax, after the death of the original owner, the children inherit the inheritance. If the inheritance exceeds a certain amount, the tax will also be levied! The money feeds back the common people and benefits the common people, and in the long run, it may reduce the gap between the rich and the poor."
Of course, Su Wen is also very clear that even if this is done, it will not be able to completely change the fact that wealth is gathered in the hands of a few people. It can only be said to ease it a little and make the people richer!
But Su Wen's words made Ji Yuchen dumbfounded.
What kind of tiger and wolf words are these? These tax systems of various names are simply killing the powerful and wealthy businessmen!
Ji Yuchen couldn't believe how much turmoil these tax systems would cause once they were promulgated.
"This... is this too much?"
Even he hesitated.
Su Wen said with a smile: "It's too much to promulgate at once, but these tax systems can be slowly implemented over ten, twenty, or thirty years! Starting with a certain tax system, cut it down one by one! As long as they don't burn everything Determination, you can only compromise in the end, believe me, most of them don't have this kind of determination!"
Ji Yuchen looked at Su Wen with admiration.
This guy is nothing short of a genius!
Is it because of following Su Changqing that he learned the ability to search for money
All kinds of ingenious projects aimed at the taxation of wealthy merchants opened a new door for Ji Yuchen.
He couldn't help asking: "Master Su has such a great talent, why doesn't he concentrate on government affairs and do such a wasteful act of spending a lot of money?" The last sentence was asked with all the courage.
Su Wen cast a glance at him, and said: "If I don't lose my family, wouldn't it be a pity for my father's talent? He has made so much property and can't spend it all. If I don't help him, the old man will get angry. I won’t help you spend money because of your son, or how can you distribute the money to those people?”