Chapter 176: Business is important
When Ying Zheng and the other two heard this, their hearts trembled, it seemed to make sense.
Meng Yi asked tentatively: "Sir, do you mean to let the country collect land taxes from merchants?"
"It's not just merchants' taxes. Highlanders have to pay taxes on everything they earn per month." Qin An said.
"Outside, as long as it exceeds 5,000 yuan a month, you will be taxed. If it is less than 5,000 yuan, it is tax-free. Now that agricultural taxes have been cancelled, farmers not only own the land they grow every year and can dispose of it as they wish, but the government will also provide farmers with subsidies.
The purpose is to enable farmers to live a good life.
Of course, ancient times cannot be compared with modern times. Farming in ancient times required manpower, but now we only need machines.
With only ten people and ten harvesters on the village land, the harvest can be completed in one day, and even the stalk removal and bagging can be completed directly. "
Ying Zheng and others were shocked. Ten people completed tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. What a speed it must have been.
Meng Yi immediately questioned: "Sir, don't be joking. There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land here. Ten people are equivalent to one person completing a thousand acres. No matter how fast you are, one acres per hour, twelve hours a day , if you work day and night, it will take at least two months."
Qin Antan said in a tone: "The power of technology is beyond your imagination. Forget it, if I don't say this, you will know that what I said is true when I go out.
Let's continue the topic we just talked about. Since ancient times, of course not for modern times.
From the Xia Dynasty until the Qing Dynasty, taxes collected by the treasury came from the hands of the people, and grain was generally used to supplement the needs of the treasury. "
Ying Zheng said: "There are so many people in the world. If we don't collect taxes from them, how will the national treasury be filled?"
Qin An smiled and said: "Of course it's business tax. When we focus on agriculture, we must also focus on business and industry. Workers are an important class that makes tools.
If the things made by craftsmen are of great use to the people, the state should reward them and protect the patent.
For example, this movable type printing was reused by the imperial court at that time. If Bi Sheng could live a good life and still have money to study this movable type printing, maybe we could use better printing technology hundreds of years earlier.
To use another analogy, the person who invented the plow has been researching plows, so the curved shaft plow and even better plows have already appeared.
But in every dynasty and every generation, no one paid attention to this.
Next, let’s talk about businessmen, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. People of every dynasty and every generation ranked businessmen at the bottom, and their status was not as good as that of a farmer.
What is even more outrageous is that the descendants of businessmen were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, which cut off their future as officials.
In fact, this is very unreasonable. The businessman is very rich, and most of his descendants are well-educated, so their talents are better than ordinary scholars, and even better than those in the court.
However, due to identity issues, they did not have a bright future, and the world even regarded him as a businessman and looked down upon him. "
"Sir, you are complaining about businessmen." Li Si said, "As we all know, businessmen can hurt people.
If everyone goes into business, who will go into farming? If no one goes to farm, won’t the country have no food to eat? "
"Old Li, can anyone be a businessman?" Qin An said, "Ordinary people don't know a single Chinese character, how can they do business?
Besides, there are profits and losses in doing business. Do you think ordinary people can afford to lose?
Even if one of them does succeed in becoming a businessman and making money, there is no need to worry that there is no race.
There are many refugees in all dynasties and generations. They have no place to live or land to grow food. As for merchants, the court can request that they are not allowed to own fields, or they can only be allowed to have enough land to support themselves, and the rest belongs to the state.
To tell you the truth, outside, land has become nationalized. The state will give everyone a piece of land, and everyone will definitely not have a lot of land.
It is simply impossible for one person to own hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land like in the feudal dynasty.
If you want to own so many fields, you can only contract them from the state, and the number of years of the contract is also stipulated by time.
It is impossible for you to own it for a lifetime. At the same time, only those grain merchants will contract such land.
Do you know that a powerful businessman can help a city or even a country become wealthy?
Sir, maybe I didn't make it clear enough, but if you want the village to be in immediate contact with the outside world, trade is the best choice. "
Ying Zheng was silent for a moment and said: "Sir, if it was the Qin Dynasty, could the trade policy be implemented?"
"Why not? As I said, the so-called business is actually the expression of productivity. With enough productivity, the things produced are commodities. The commodities are sold to people in need through shops, and commerce is formed.
However, if Da Qin wants to trade, it must at least have a detailed business law.
The village does not need to consider commercial laws. We can just follow the country's lead. "
Li Si asked: "Sir, what are the laws of the country?"
“I don’t know the specifics, but I heard that the maximum is 45% and the minimum is 3%. Of course, if the requirements are not met, there is no need to pay tax.
I took a look and found that no one in our village has met the tax requirements. As for the newly built workshops, they have just started and are still making money, so they don’t have to pay taxes. Qin An replied.
"Actually, you can understand it as, those who make more money will be given more, and those who make less will be given less. But for Da Qin.
I think if we can collect taxes from those nobles, we can probably fill the national treasury. "
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Sir, do you mean to let the court collect taxes from the nobles?"
Li Si and Meng Yi's expressions changed. Once the nobles were taxed, it would alienate the entire nobles and the court.
Qin An smiled and said: "Village Chief, it's hard to say or do this. I haven't experienced it either. The most important thing is that it's been two thousand years, so there's no need to talk about it."
"Sir," Ying Zheng said, "it's just because it happened two thousand years ago that we want to hear your opinion, sir."
"Simple, just do the same thing as before, divide them, win over a group, beat a group. Just kill a few more people and shock them.
Just like how Zhao Gao killed people, they were so frightened that they did not dare to oppose Zhao Gao, even if they could admit such absurd things as calling a deer a horse. "Qin An said very casually.
In fact, when Li Shimin became emperor in the Tang Dynasty, he killed his uncle's family, which shocked all the aristocratic families. From then on, the aristocratic families no longer dared to point fingers at the emperor in the court.
Ying Zheng thought for a while, nodded and said, "Sir's method is indeed a good one."
Li Si and Meng Yi looked very ugly. If Qin An hadn't been at the scene, they would have objected to this matter long ago.
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