Chapter 169 of the main text of my life in Dakang, I was filled with anger and people coming and going on the dock, and there were a lot of cargo and vehicles.

Liu Mingqi went to pick up a list and saw what goods were bought and sold by merchants.

The three giants that export the most are always porcelain, silk and tea.

In order to increase the income of Dakang Dynasty... Well, it is to add some small treasury to the emperor. Liu Mingqi once saw Dakang taxes over the years in the palace.

Dakang's taxes are divided into two categories.

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Taxation

It is easy to understand that the land tax is food, whether it is rice or wheat.

The harvest in summer and autumn is averaged 80 million stones.

Taxes are various taxes, including salt tax, commercial tax, canal transportation tariff, maritime trade tax, porcelain tax, silk tax, tea tax... and so on.

The total tax per year is 96 million taels.

It involves tea, porcelain, seven million taels, three million taels of silk, three million taels of tung oil, and three million taels of raw silk.

Of course, this is the entire trade volume. Excluding the small part of the inland, the tax on goods sent overseas is about 15 million taels in total.

Dakang's commercial tax is usually ten taxes and one tax.

The nobles vary according to their grades, and they are taxed from twenty to thirty to one.

The children of the royal family vary according to their level, and taxes of one to one thirty to fifty.

With such a low tax rate, you can receive a tax of 15 million taels of silver a year, so the trade volume in at least one year is as high as 200 million taels of silver.

What a horrible number this is?

It also shows how developed Dakang's maritime trade is!

This does not include the annual maritime trade tax, that is, the fees that the ships of foreign maritime merchants and their own merchants should pay after they return to the port.

Generally speaking, except for all expenses, it is already very impressive to pay 15 million taels of pure taxes to the Ministry of Revenue in a year.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the average annual tax was not more than 5 million taels, and the lowest one was only more than 3 million taels.

With such a finance, how do you think it can support the cost of the entire country?

It is precisely because of money that Dakang can manage the country so well and hold on in such a few years that is similar to crazy natural disasters.

Back in front of you.

It is not only Dakang's merchant ships, but also many overseas merchant ships.

Liu Mingqi noticed that they usually do not have one or two ships, but at least three or five ships together.

"What should I do if these ships encounter pirates?" Liu Mingqi asked.

Dai Feiying replied, "If they come once, they will bring hundreds of strong and powerful guards, and several ships together, at least one or two thousand people have the force value, which can directly crush small and medium-sized pirates.

Those pirates don’t want to fight with them either, so every time they encounter them, they can buy a way of five hundred to one thousand taels of silver, and then they can pass.

But they are not good people. Many times they encounter single cargo ships, they will turn into pirates and rob. It is really not a waste of both doing business and being a pirate."

Liu Mingqi asked again, "Where is our fleet?"

"Our fleet is more united. For the long-distance defense line, every line is a fixed time. Everyone goes out together." Dai Feiying said, "Because of the huge momentum, I have not encountered any pirates.

But in the nearshore areas, such as Japan, Baekje, and Shiwei, they often encounter pirates, but most of them do not like to kill them all, but they just need to collect money from passing."

"The Northern Navy didn't go to wipe them out?"

"I have been there many times, but I have only caught some shrimp soldiers and generals. For example, the three largest pirates, Ghost Head, Tiangou, and Kunyu, all avoid conflicts with the Northern Navy." Dai Feiying said: "These three pirates are really powerful. These fleets from the South, East and West have been attacked by them many times, and for a while they suffered a lot of losses. Later, they were smart enough to pay every time, and then they went back and forth, and over time they were not so miserable."

"To put it bluntly, isn't it still the Northern Navy inaction?" Gong Yuan said with his white eyes, "Many people on my side have long complained about them. They are lazy, stupid and stupid. They only know how to defend their own acre of three-point land and dare not go out to wipe out large-scale pirates."

"As long as there is a sea trade, there will be pirates!" Liu Mingqi disagreed with his view, "Even if thousands of years later, our ships can carry tens of thousands of people on one ship and sail thousands of miles. There are weapons like thunder on the ships, which can hit ships ten miles away, and pirates will inevitably appear. Do you know why?"

Gong Yuan thought for a while and said, "Poor?"

"By the way!"

Liu Mingqi said first, "So it makes no sense to complain that the Northern Navy is not serious, because no matter how hard they work, they encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters abroad, and naturally pirates will appear.

Yes! They can keep eliminating pirates, but who will pay for this trip? The further you go, the more you spend. Will you give it to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for a trip?"

Gong Yuan was not outdone: "Didn't we pay taxes? Shouldn't the court come out? The court shouldn't protect its own people and protect our caravans? Even if it's from Japan, overseas caravans will benefit from it. Isn't that good? It can also increase the number of times they come to trade, and sell more things to make money, thereby greatly increasing taxes. Isn't that good?"

"You are right, but the main responsibility of the court is to protect the current prosperous situation." Liu Mingqi said: "Have you seen the map? Our Dakang coastline is more than a thousand miles long, but we only have two navy troops, with a total number of only about 50,000 people.

It would be difficult for such a few people to protect such a large area. If we spill the navy out again and there were pirates leading them around, then other pirates took the opportunity to attack our Jiangnan, Shandong, Guangdong and Guangxi. Let me tell me, who is the responsibility?"

After all, Gong Yuan had no actual combat experience. After thinking about it, he fell silent.

Dai Feiying also nodded: "Your Majesty, you are right. It is the most important thing to protect our territory."

What a joke!

If pirates do this every year, as long as they hold the navy back and let them not come back for ten days and half a month, then a small group of pirates can launch attacks from many ports and coastal mudflats.

Can Dakang still send people to all the coastal places?

I'm afraid that one million troops are not enough.

If the navy came back a little later, the enemy might be able to directly reach the hinterland of Jiangnan.

"It has always been easy to destroy and build." Liu Mingqi said: "If it were me, I would not go to Jiangnan and the coastal areas to rob, but first kill the water camps and ports of the navy, kill all the logistics personnel inside, and kidnap all the ship workers, and set a fire. Tell me, just use this trick. How long does it take for the Dakang Navy to dare to go out to patrol the sea?

Then, let alone they have entered the level of destruction of Dakang's destruction, in a few months or even a year, the sea will become a state of uninspected and protected. Do their pirates do whatever they want?

If our businessmen and foreign merchants were all killed and robbed, everyone was afraid of going out to sea sweaters, Dakang's sea trade would inevitably enter a severe winter! Who can afford such serious consequences?"

"hiss……"

Gong Yuan, who was a little dissatisfied just now, took a breath after hearing this, and then bowed to the end: "Your Majesty, it was the young actor who was abrupt and reckless before! You are the one who is looking forward to the future, and think about the overall situation!"

“That’s natural.”

Liu Mingqi said unfairly: "Changfeng, it is right for you to think more! But if you don't have a practical investigation and don't put yourself in your shoes and think more, this kind of reckless suggestion will ruin things!

You must have no malice, but if someone uses this to arouse people's dissatisfaction with the court, or even confrontation, it will cause big problems! After all, too many ignorant people are easily incited!

Don’t think that this incitement is useless. If it takes a long time, Jiangnan will be disloyal to Dakang. When it reaches an extreme, someone shouts loudly and will naturally rise up..."

"Prince!?"

People like Gong Yuan would not be afraid, but Dai Feiying was so scared that she stopped him: "You can't say this nonsense! How could Jiangnan do this?"

Liu Mingqi also said she was addicted at this time and shook her hand and said, "I am not afraid of a prince of the empire. What are you afraid of? Didn't Taizu say it? His words are innocent! This kind of thing has to be spread out and explained thoroughly, so that I can find a solution! I will not only tell you, but when I arrive in Hangzhou for a few days, I will also talk to Liu Renhuai!"

Gong Yuan slapped his hands and said directly: "Your Majesty, you know that there are dissatisfaction and depression among the people in Jiangnan!?"

Dai Feiying glanced at this guy and thought to himself that you are so brave. What if King De was just polite?

It doesn’t matter if they are polite, but it doesn’t matter if they say that the country and country are the princes. It is said that they are still the future Zongzheng, so who can do anything to him?

Could it be that Prince De wants to rebel against their Liu family’s own throne?

Liu Mingqi smiled and said, "Who doesn't know? Jiangnan has been constantly exporting over the years, and has been using his own money to support and help half of the empires, which has made their taxes very high, various prices high, and people's quality of life not high. In this case, it would be strange if there is no complaint!

Liu Renhuai is much smarter than me. Don’t he know? Of course he knows! But in his position, he has no way to do more things. He can only treat Jiangnan people badly to help people from other provinces.

But the people need more relief instead of blindly coaxing and suppressing them. Otherwise, even if the Jiangnan people are as weak as chickens, it will be more troublesome to make trouble! If they cause a great cleaning, the diaphragm between the two sides will be deep!"

Now even Gong Yuan couldn't answer Liu Mingqi's words.

Because he said it too straightforwardly and too sharply.

It clearly explains the thoughts of the entire Jiangnan people and Liu Renhuai.

There was no veil of warmth left.

On the contrary, Dai Feiying interrupted now: "Then Prince, how do you think we should solve this problem?"

He could clearly remember that Liu Mingqi had the name of "saint".

Since Liu Mingqi can see so clearly, there must be more and more detailed thoughts, which may give you a lot of inspiration.

Liu Mingqi said without thinking: "It's very simple. To develop the economies of other provinces, so that their respective specialties can be produced better and sold more. When they become rich, they will naturally rely less on Jiangnan.

Jiangnan has less output to the outside world. He keeps more tax expenses in Jiangnan, builds roads for everyone, opens more workshops and workshops to increase the chances of work, so that everyone can make money, and buy cheap food from other provinces to lower the price of grain. This is a happy thing!”

Dai Feiying smiled: "You said this easily, but it is difficult to implement it. I don't know how many years it will happen."

"It won't take long..."

Liu Mingqi said something, but did not mention it any more.

Although Jiangnan is the richest, there are still many poor people here.

The poor people paid a lot of taxes in Dakang here.

It’s just that because they have many opportunities to make money here, they can barely live a decent life.

There are also those big landlords and big businessmen who are usually kind to their fellow villagers in their hometowns.

For example, building bridges and roads, doing water conservancy construction, reducing rents and other things, they often sit down.
To be continued...