stjorthotic Chapter 181: Debate About Businessmen, Businessmen Are Beneficial To The Country And The People [Ple
Chapter 181: Debate About Businessmen, Businessmen Are Beneficial To The Country And The People [Ple
Zhu Yuanzhang was not a fool. He naturally understood the meaning of Yan Changqing's words and couldn't help frowning:
"Are you saying that the business tax rate we set is too low?!!"
Yan Changqing said without any hesitation:
"It is indeed low, or even too low!!!"
"But commercial tax, or taxation, is a very complicated issue. We'll talk about it later."
"Going back to the question I just mentioned, first of all, businessmen have to pay taxes as far as the country is concerned!!!"
"As long as he pays taxes, then he has made his own contribution to the country, which is beneficial to the country!!!"
"As for merchants not being of great benefit to the country, it's just that the business tax set by your Majesty is too low."
"For example, if the commercial tax is one out of ten, then of the 8,870,000 taels I sell, I need to pay 887,000 taels as commercial tax.
"And it's just the business tax paid by me as a businessman. What if other businessmen are included?!!"
"Farmers can only collect taxes twice a year, but merchants have to pay commercial taxes. A merchant will have more than two transactions a day.
"Every time a businessman makes a transaction, he must pay the corresponding "940" business tax."
"If we pay attention to commercial taxes, it is not impossible to surpass farmers' taxes, let alone to compare with farmers' taxes."
“In the Northern Song Dynasty, the two taxes still accounted for 56%, but by the Southern Song Dynasty, they had dropped to 20.4% and 15.3%.”
"At the same time, commercial taxes increased rapidly, forming the main source of the imperial government's finances, and non-agricultural taxes, including commercial taxes, accounted for most of the fiscal revenue."
"During the reign of Emperor You Zhiping of the Northern Song Dynasty, the proportion of commercial taxes was only about 4,000 percent."
“At the turn of Shaoxing and Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty, tea and salt sales alone accounted for 49%. Together with economic and total money production, etc., non-farmer household taxes accounted for 79%.
"By the time of Chunxi and Shaoxi, the proportion of tea, salt and wine, etc. had reached 56%. Adding in the economic system money, general system money, monthly stake money, and non-farmer household taxes were even more Reaching 84.7 percent!!!”
"In the past, when the Song Dynasty was at its peak, the total annual income was as much as 116.13 million yuan a year, most of which came from commercial taxes."
"If we only rely on farmers' taxes, or His Majesty's commercial tax policy of thirty to one tax, then it is impossible to achieve this annual income no matter what."
"Although the commercial tax formulation of the Song Dynasty was often unreasonable, it is still unreasonable to be unreasonable."
"At least from the commercial tax revenue of the Song Dynasty, we can see the huge potential in commercial taxation!"
"Your Majesty, if you want the Ming Dynasty to become as wealthy as the Song Dynasty, then business taxes must be paid attention to."
After hearing what Yan Changqing said, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, their faces became serious.
For example, when it was the first time that Yan Changqing talked about Empress Ma of the Song Dynasty, she covered her mouth with her hands in astonishment and exclaimed in a low voice.
Although the Song Dynasty is a coward, but even a coward is a coward. If you have money, you are really rich!!!
At the peak of the Song Dynasty, the total annual income was as much as 116.13 million yuan a year, which was enough to crush any ancient dynasty.
Even though there may be a lot of water in it, there is still a total annual income of at least a guaranteed value of 100 million.
Such a terrifying total annual income is still enough to crush other ancient dynasties.
Moreover, the total annual income of the Song Dynasty remained between 80 million and 100 million all year round!
Compared with other dynasties that have a total annual income of only 40, 50, 60, or 70 million all year round, even at their peak, this is still no less than ten dimensionality reduction blows!!!
The only one that could surpass the Song Dynasty in terms of annual income was the Qing Dynasty.
But the actual annual income of The Supreme Pure One was very average in the early and mid-term.
From the Qianlong Dynasty to the Daoguang Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty generally maintained a total annual income level of about 40 million taels.
Before Daoguang, the land tax (agricultural tax) accounted for more than 70% of the total annual income, and the proportion of customs duties and salt taxes was less than 30%.
In other words, the performance of industry and commerce in the middle and early Qing Dynasty, which was touted as the so-called "prosperity of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong", was actually not outstanding.
It was not until after the Self-Strengthening Movement that industry and commerce gradually emerged. At this time, in terms of finance and taxation, the proportion of industrial and commercial taxes gradually expanded.
By 1885 in the Guangxu era, the proportion of land tax finally dropped to 48%, tariff revenue rose to 22%, salt tax was 11%, and the lijin rule established in the late Qing Dynasty Contributed 19% of annual income.
In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), the total annual income of the Qing Dynasty began to exceed 200 million taels of silver, which had just begun to surpass the record of the Song Dynasty.
But there is a big problem in the middle, that is, in the late Qing Dynasty, modern industry and commerce had begun.
Especially the late Qing Dynasty, which started the process of modern mechanized industry [Is this considered a feudal dynasty?!!
Some people argue from a political perspective that the Qing Dynasty was not completely destroyed during the late Qing Dynasty, so it was naturally regarded as a feudal dynasty.
However, some people argue from the perspective of productivity that in the late Qing Dynasty, the process of modern mechanical industrialization had begun, and science and technology such as electricity, sound and light, steam locomotives, etc. had begun to be used.
From an agricultural country to an industrial country, this is not a feudal dynasty!
In this regard, Yan Changqing does not express any opinions.
Yan Changqing also suppressed the smile on his face [looking at Zhu Guanghuan seriously and said:
"Furthermore, Your Majesty said that businessmen are not engaged in production, have no work, and are not good at any skill. I do not agree with this statement."
"I will take the merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty as an example. If these merchants want to sell a certain kind of goods."
"Then first, they have to investigate the prices of various products, or commodities, in various places, and analyze the risks and income of selling such commodities."
"Then we spend a lot of money to purchase large quantities of goods, and then transport them thousands of miles to the destination for sale."
"During this period, the mental and physical energy spent by businessmen is itself a type of production and labor!"
"It's just that this kind of production and labor is not like a farmer tilling acres of land, which can be seen by the public."
“However, just as His Majesty attends court and governs the country every day……
"The public cannot see His Majesty running the country in court every day, but how can the public say that His Majesty is not running the country in court?!"
"That's the same thing!!!"
"And if a businessman accidentally misses time on the road, or encounters a bandit, or encounters other unexpected events.
"As a result, the goods are completely lost, and then all the money will be lost!!!"
"So if you are not really good at business, but you go into business hastily, you may not only fail to make money, but you will also lose all your capital!!!"
"So, how can we say that businessmen are not involved in production, have no work, and are not good at a certain skill?!!"
"In addition, His Majesty said that businessmen are like blood-sucking worms to the common people. I cannot fully agree with this statement."
"Admittedly, I also admit that there are many unscrupulous and unscrupulous businessmen among businessmen who deliberately lower the selling prices for people and increase the buying prices for people."
"But you can't just kill a boatload of people with one shot. Just because you see the deception and deception of those black-hearted and unscrupulous businessmen, you can ignore the role of other normal businessmen in the circulation of money and commodities through normal transactions."
"For example, His Highness the King of Qi's place produces pears, but too many pears hurt farmers; while His Highness the King of Chu's place produces oranges, too many oranges hurt farmers."
"But with the existence of merchants, we can buy a large part of the pears from His Highness the King of Qi and the oranges from His Highness the King of Chu."
"In this way, both pear tree growers and orange tree growers can benefit, without causing pear tree growers and orange tree growers to lose money."
"As for the oranges sold to His Highness King Qi and the pears sold to His Highness King Chu, the prices of both have increased a lot, which is what it should be.
"Because as I just said, merchants also need to bear various risks and various costs when doing business."
"A merchant cannot lose money when doing business. If he loses money, then the merchant will no longer do business."
"So 3.9 merchants will superimpose the risks they bear and the various costs they have spent on the purchased goods."
"Although the prices of oranges sold to His Highness King Qi and pears sold to His Highness King Chu are much higher than those in the place of origin.
"But the growers who had just sold the oranges and pears they grew to merchants at a price higher than their own planting costs just had the money to buy these oranges and pears that could not be purchased locally."
"Businessmen and people all profit from the business, the court also collects corresponding business taxes, and in the end the court also profits from it!!"
“In the end, money and commodities will continue to circulate, creating more value and wealth.
"Therefore, in my opinion, businessmen are also engaged in production, labor, and are good at certain skills. They are of great benefit to the country and the people!!!"
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