Elementary version of Keynes.

The emperor realized his grand plan, the common people got real money, solved the problem of the Yellow River for future generations, promoted private industry and commerce, gave birth to the Ming version of capitalists, and the Ming Dynasty prospered and entered a new era.

Of course, there are also those who are simply giving.

The Japanese people are paying, after all they have to mine for the Ming Emperor.

A world where only Japanese people are injured.

In fact, they also got it. After all, they got the protection of the Ming Emperor. Although they lost their gold and silver, they got the grace of heaven! They must be content and grateful. In short, it is their honor to be able to mine for the Ming Emperor.

They can work hard in the silver mines, and then feel their glory under the protection of the Ming Emperor, and imagine the rapid changes of the Ming Dynasty. They should be proud of being under the protection of such a great emperor.

So they also got what they deserved.

Yang Feng's explanation made Zhu Yunxi suddenly enlightened...

It can still be like this!

"Your Highness, money must flow to create value. Although His Majesty's focus on agriculture can indeed be said to be a long-term vision, it can only be said to be a last resort for recuperation and recuperation in troubled times. Although he may think that this is

his ideal society.

But he was wrong.

The future belongs to industry and commerce.

It is true that the foundation cannot be shaken, but what we need is for the tree to grow upward, spread its branches and leaves, even bloom, and become a cluster of flowers, instead of always being a very strong trunk. You need to reform those things that are not suitable for the times.

Encourage commercial circulation, encourage industry, lift restrictions on household registration, and liberalize the flow of people, no longer limiting status to occupation.

These are all necessary.

Of course, you have to establish a better tax system.

Especially industrial and commercial taxes.

In this way, while spending money, you can continue to get your money back, and then my bank will accept deposits and lend you loans. The taxes and loans combined are enough to maintain your financial balance. In fact, the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were really too low.

, but agricultural taxes must not be increased, because the food produced by farmers is the basis for sustaining everything we do, so we must support agriculture. Encourage land reclamation, encourage new agricultural technologies, and encourage the introduction of improved varieties, so in the future we will have to go to the Americas.

New seeds, but except for sweet potatoes, which can quickly realize value, these new crops require a long time to improve.

This cannot be done immediately.

In short, agricultural taxes cannot be increased, and farmers must be rewarded for growing grain.

Then the main source of tax revenue will be shifted to industry and commerce.

You have to know how to collect taxes."

Yang Feng said.

"Exorbitant taxes?"

Zhang Xianzong was speechless.

As a Fujianese, of course we support industry and commerce, but while supporting industry and commerce, we add all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes to industry and commerce. This is hard to like.

"What kind of extortionate taxes do we have? Have you ever heard of a window tax? In later generations, Britain, the most powerful country in Europe and the West, once levied a window tax. It levied as many taxes as there were windows, which caused many people in the country to block windows. Until our time,

There are still many such old buildings left in their country. Have you heard of the beard tax? Four hundred years later, Russia's most powerful monarch, Peter, whom they called the Great, collected a beard tax. Men who wanted to grow long beards had to pay the tax. Women had to pay the tax.

Have you ever heard of the tax on covering your breasts? A later monarch in southern India forbade women of lowly caste to wear clothes on their upper bodies. The climate there was similar to that of Southeast Asia, and it was not cold. In fact, they would not freeze to death if they did not wear clothes.

But if you want to cover your chest, you have to pay tax separately.

Exorbitant taxes?

Have you never seen what exorbitant taxes are?

Have you ever heard of pre-collection? It means collecting taxes in advance. In later generations, there was a period of warlord fighting. In order to make money, some local warlords even collected taxes eighty years later.

It has never been said that there is a tax on shit, but now there is only no tax on shit.

This is exorbitant taxes.

The Ming Dynasty did not need to collect excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes. It could collect all the commercial taxes in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and obtain huge income in one year.

What's more, in the future, there will be tariffs when opening up overseas trade. A broken porcelain plate will cost astronomically if it is sold to anywhere in the world. Even if the price is a hundred times higher, then it is reasonable for us to charge twice the export tax? Imported spices are everywhere in the mountains and plains in their place of origin.

Wild trees, picked casually, are as cheap as sand. But they are still so expensive in our country in Ming Dynasty. Is it reasonable for us to charge some tariffs?

All have to be taxed!

It is said that there is not even a decent tax agency now. At that time, even the township had a special tax office.

The most powerful law enforcement department in the most powerful country at that time was the tax department. Even robbers had to pay taxes. It was clearly stipulated that taxes must be paid on the proceeds from theft and robbery, so the first thing the robbers did when they found out that they might be caught was to rush

Paying taxes, because the penalty for being caught by the government is not as severe as tax evasion.

On the contrary, if you don’t pay taxes, the tax department will send troops with cannons to your door.”

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Xianzong looked at each other.

At this time, there was a series of scoldings outside, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves and the shouts of women.

Zhang Xianzong opened the door.

"Ambassador Yang, Miss Zhang is here!"

he said.

Yang Feng went over unexpectedly and looked at Zhang Ying outside.

The latter was being stopped by the guards.

"Yang Feng, the princess asked you to go back quickly. Yingtian Mansion raided your factory and arrested many workers. They said they were deceiving the public with their lies. In addition, your night school was closed down and your adopted daughters were not allowed to go down the mountain.

They are immoral."

Zhang Ying shouted hurriedly when she saw him.

"Damn it, this is a blatant provocation. Do you think my extraterritoriality is just a decoration?"

Yang Feng said angrily.
Chapter completed!