As expected, as Yun Chao expected, once the special industries were softened, other industries followed suit, and almost all shops paid taxes obediently.
In the past, few shops in Qingyang County had officially paid taxes.
Either the officials themselves opened it, or their relatives and friends opened it, or the local tyrants and evil gentry in the surrounding areas opened it.
In short, few are bought and sold by ordinary people.
For example, the former fat shopkeeper of the Lion House was a typical local tyrant and evil gentry.
There are also Dingjia Liang Store, Fengle Building, etc. The owners of any of the shops are not good.
Compared with them, Zhao Runchun of West Street Pharmacy is already considered a breath of fresh air in Qingyang County.
Of course, this is also related to the industry he is engaged in. Not everyone can be a doctor. Even if his pharmacy is taken away, he will not be able to do it without certain medical skills.
It is probably too much to ask those powerful shop owners to pay taxes.
Even if it is paid, it is only a token payment and will not have any effect on a county's fiscal revenue.
Therefore, Qingyang County’s fiscal revenue mainly comes from agricultural taxes.
Of course it is the farmers who pay agricultural taxes.
Businessmen who make more pay almost no taxes.
The farmers who pay taxes do not include large landowners.
Therefore, the burden of taxation falls on ordinary farmers. It is no wonder that ordinary people can live well.
Therefore, after Yunchao settled in Qingyang County, the first thing he needed to reform was taxation.
Fortunately, there was no rule in the Dawu Dynasty that merchants did not pay taxes, otherwise Yun Chao would not dare to do this even for a small inspection.
If you want to collect taxes outside the legal framework of the Dawu Dynasty, not to mention that Yun Chao is just an inspection, the county magistrate, and even the prime minister may be overthrown by powerful vested interest groups!
The tax rate of the Dawu Dynasty is one in ten taxes, which means you have to pay a tax of 10% of your gross income.
This is already considered a relatively heavy tax rate standard.
However, the Dawu Dynasty's finances have been unable to make ends meet year after year.
There are many reasons for this phenomenon. Let’s not talk about other things. Let’s just talk about taxes. The main reason is that the taxes that should be collected are not raised.
Even if it is collected, it will not go into the national treasury, but will enrich the pockets of some people.
Yun Chao didn't care about that. He used the power of quelling the chaos to temporarily frighten the businessmen of Qingyang County and made them pay taxes obediently by killing chickens and scaring monkeys.
According to the size of the shops, based on past situations, and after detailed evaluation, taxes are set for each shop in the county roughly in the ratio of one out of ten, and the tax is collected for one year.
Yes, you read that right.
Yunchao is so dark, taxes are collected on an annual basis.
There was no way, firstly, Yun Chao could not guarantee how long he could stay in Qingyang County, and secondly, he was short of money.
The third reason is that these shops in the county are not poor, and they all have backgrounds. Let alone pay taxes for a year at a time, even if they pay for two or three years, they will not be idle.
Not asking the businessmen to make up for previous years' taxes was already Yunchao's biggest concession.
He is not here to do good things. If there is no benefit, why offend so many people?
Unfortunately, because the business scale in Qingyang County is relatively small, even if Yun Chao collected business tax for a year, it would only be a few thousand taels.
Of course, fines don't count.
"County Magistrate, taxes have been collected. Can my Qingyang camp be rebuilt this time?"
Magistrate Sun was still lying on the hospital bed.
He had to lie down, and even if he recovered, he would not get up.
What are you doing up here, cleaning up the mess for Yun Er?
Yun Chao has turned the county into such a mess, and Magistrate Sun doesn't want to wipe his ass for him.
Magistrate Sun knew that if he left him alone, Yun Er would probably leave immediately.
When Yun Eryi leaves, what will happen if those monsters and demons jump out again?
Qingyang County now doesn't even have the Qingyang Camp, and almost no defense force. If there is any civil unrest or bandit rebellion, will it rely on those rubbish government officials in the government office?
Through the previous civil unrest, County Magistrate Sun could see that those government officials were simply unreliable.
Yun Chao didn't hide anything. He had already told him that some... no, most of the government officials disguised themselves as rioters and participated in vandalism, smashing and looting.
It's not Yun Chao's fault, but mainly because he wants Magistrate Sun to recognize the reality and stop doing stupid things like killing people...
Well, it seems inappropriate to compare myself to a donkey.
However, this is the truth. Yun Chao doesn't want to spend a long time and offend a group of people, but in the end get nothing and make a mess!
Magistrate Sun was so angry at Yun Chao that he knew that letting this guy become the acting commander of the Qingyang Camp would be bad.
Sure enough, after all this kid's troubles, he finally decided to attack Qingyang Camp!
"Yun Er, we are a small Qingyang County. Why do you need so many soldiers? If the superiors appoint a new Qingyang Battalion commander, wouldn't your efforts be in vain?"
Yun Chao smiled slightly: "Magistrate Sun, just make the appointment. Qingyang Camp does not belong to me, Yun Chao. Do you still think that I will turn Qingyang Camp into my Yun Chao's private army?"
Magistrate Sun was a little confused.
"Yun Er, since you can think so clearly, why are you even bothering with it? Why don't you do something else with the taxes you just collected?"
Yun Chao shook his head: "No, county magistrate, think about it, what if civil unrest breaks out again, what if bandits come to attack our Qingyang County, can we just rely on the brave men under me? Qingyang Camp is powerful Now, I can sleep with peace of mind, do you think that’s the truth?”
Magistrate Sun looked at Yun Chao hard with his big swollen eyes. He always felt that this boy had some ulterior conspiracy. He didn't believe it. How could Yun Er have such a good heart?
Despite serious suspicions that Yun Chao had other agendas, Magistrate Sun agreed to his request to rebuild Qingyang Camp.
There was nothing he could do if he didn't agree. First, the collected tax money was in Yun Chao's hands. Second, Qingyang camp really needed to be built quickly.
What Yun Er said is not unreasonable. The security of Qingyang County cannot be maintained by him, a local soldier archer from the Inspection Department.
As for Yun Er, after having Qingyang Camp in his hands, will he rebel?
Magistrate Sun didn't think about it at all.
Just kidding, the Dawu Dynasty had millions of troops, and with the 500 new recruits from Qingyang Camp, if a guy like Yun Er could rebel, the Dawu Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago.
After getting the official documents from County Magistrate Sun, Yun Chao immediately set out with his men, targeting Dongping Mansion.
There is no way, even if he has money, Yun Chao can't rebuild Qingyang Camp now.
If you want to rebuild an army, in addition to the need for soldiers, the most important thing is to have equipment.
What kind of army is a group of unarmed recruits, worse than bandits?
Qingyang County is now so poor that the government's ordnance warehouse is empty enough to hold sports games. Not to mention the army's armor, there are only a few long guns.
As for the weapons that were seized before, they were Yun Chao's own and had something to do with Qingyang Camp!
