Chapter 129
With the establishment of the Liaodong Management Committee, Cheng Shijie did not hold any position in the management committee. However, he has the power to appoint members, vice-chairmen and chairman of the management committee.
The current business model in Liaonan is probably the coexistence of planned economy and market economy. In a short period of time, business in Liaonan will not be taxed.
But things are different now. Zhenhai City, which is just a pilot city, has 143 privately operated restaurants and wine shops, and 52 inns and inns of various sizes and levels have been established at the same time.
As Chen Zilong and other agricultural experts arrived in Liaonan, they actually did not completely trust Cheng Shijie. In fact, most of the first batch of farmer experts who arrived in Liaonan were not experts, but assistants or apprentices of various experts. At most, they were Disciples who entered the house to explore the way for their teacher.
But when they arrived in Zhenhai City, they discovered that Cheng Shijie not only provided more than two million acres of land, but also had good dry fields, good paddy fields, hills, pastures, and even a large amount of virgin forest. . And five thousand military households from the field were transferred to accept their command.
What you want to plant, how to take care of it, and how to operate it, you don’t need these experts to do it, the military households in the field will do it brilliantly.
They enjoyed treatment that they could not enjoy in Jiangnan. They had cars when they went out and a group of disciples to wait on them when they entered. You know, although since ancient times, all dynasties have said that they are based on agriculture, but in fact, farmers are only the servants of the imperial courts of all dynasties. The urinal is held to the mouth of the peasants when it is used, and when it is not used, it is a nuisance to the peasants.
Although there are hundreds of farmers, their talents have long since withered. With the establishment of Zhenhai City, these agricultural experts have flocked to southern Liaoning with their servants, relatives and friends.
Their arrival has greatly prospered the economy of Zhenhai City, because although these people are not great big shots in Jiangnan where rich people are everywhere, in Liaonan, they are super rich with super strong purchasing power.
In addition to the two distinctive brothels in the Ning Haijun Barracks, Fang Yizhi was in southern Liaoning, and Chen Zhenhui, a member of the Fushe, also had a conflict with his wife Tang, so they came to hide away. Therefore, Li Zhenli, Chen Zhenhui's confidante, also followed Chen Zhenhui to Zhenhai City.
Li Zhenli came, and Li Xiangjun, who was only nine years old and became one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai just a few years later, also came to Zhenhai City.
It is these noble young masters from the south of the Yangtze River who come here one after another, some for study tours, some because they admire the reputation of the four young masters of Fushe, and some because of Li Zhenli's reputation. Whatever the reason, it is difficult to find a high-class guest room in Zhenhai City. .
Li Zhenli took a look and found that Zhenhai City was not like other places in the south of the Yangtze River. If you wanted to open a brothel, you had to have someone from both the black and white circles. But the problem was that Zhenhai City was different. There were no gangsters here, not even beggars. You could do any business. , just take the initiative to pay taxes to the Ninghai Naval Military Affairs Bureau.
Li Zhenli figured out these problems and immediately took action. On the one hand, she asked the girls under her to pack up from Jiangnan and hurried to Liaonan.
Although she makes a lot of money in Jiangnan, the problem is that 40% of the money she earns goes to Nanjing Wei Guogong's mansion, 30% goes to Nanjing Jinyiwei, and 10% needs to support the turtle master, helpers, handymen and girls under her. She herself The money in hand is only 10%.
By the time the Liaodong Management Committee was established, there were already eleven brothels of various sizes in Zhenhai City, and only three of them actively paid taxes...
After the establishment of the Liaodong General Taxation Administration, the first thing Cheng Shijie did was to formulate personal income tax, which was also the first tax in Liaodong.
In fact, the current income gap in Liaodong is already very huge. Not counting Yang Yuniang, who has the highest income, Zhou Yandong, who has the next lowest income, has a legal income of more than 3,600 taels of silver, while the lowest-income textile worker The annual salary of female workers is only 7 taels of silver, and the difference is 500 times. Even compared to ordinary Ning navy soldiers, the benefits plus military pay, of course not counting the military merits of beheading, are only eighteen taels of silver, which is still two hundred times.
This is mainly due to the fact that when Ning Haijun was founded, a part-time job was an income. Although the salary for each job was not outrageous, a big butler like Zhou Yandong was in charge of too many things at the same time. When added up, his income It's quite amazing.
Cheng Shijie stipulated that the starting point for personal income tax in Liaodong is thirty-six taels of silver. As a result, there are not many individuals who need to pay taxes in Liaodong. All Ning Navy soldiers do not need to pay taxes. Only officers above the level of 100 commanders need to pay taxes. Only factory managers above the foreman level need to pay personal income tax. If you are a hawker, you basically do not need to pay taxes and you can earn 30 A shop with more than six taels of silver has a certain scale.
However, commercial tax and personal income tax are different. In any case, Zhou Yandong, the great butler, needs to pay tax, and it is the top 55%. It is 3,600 taels of silver a year, and he needs to hand over 1,980 taels of silver.
Although this personal income tax seems to be a lot, it is actually not much. There are many places where the Liaodong Management Committee needs to spend money. This is also the main means to adjust the gap between the rich and the poor.
Of course, Zhou Yandong is not actually the person who pays the most taxes. The person who pays the most taxes is actually Cheng Shijie, and his tax payment is in the millions, followed by Yang Yunniang, whose tax payment is more than 6,000 taels. The third person with the most people is Jin Qiaoer, and the fourth person with the most people is Zhou Yandong.
Originally, Zhou Yandong had a lot of opinions. Before it was his turn to have an attack, he heard that Cheng Shijie was going to pay taxes, and the amount of taxes to be paid was very huge. This made him feel balanced.
At the same time, he also understood Cheng Shijie's intention. Cheng Shijie took the lead, what else could he do? Not to mention paying too much in taxes, but in fact, when he was the official of the Hundred Households in Dengzhou Guard, even if Zhou Yandong drained his Hundred Households, he could not squeeze out a thousand taels of silver.
Although there are no real poor people in southern Liaoning at this time, even ordinary military households with almost no cash, the problem is that any military household has more than 100 acres of land in this year's reclamation, which means that, After autumn, they will have money.
Even if Cheng Shijie lowers the price of food to five taels of silver per stone, their per capita household income will easily exceed fifty taels of silver. This is not Cheng Shijie's bragging. As long as he has hands and feet, food and clothing will not be a problem at all.
Of course, if you want to increase your income, there are many channels. There are more channels for getting rich or rising in southern Liaoning than anywhere else in the Ming Dynasty. The lowest-paid workers in the factory must be the new workers who have not passed the probation period. After three months of passing the probation period, , you can get equal pay for the same position. If you want to earn more, there are two ways, one is to work overtime, and the other is to study skills hard. Craftsmen with different skills have different incomes. The wage gap between the lowest apprentice worker and the highest-level senior technician is as much as 42 times.
If you don’t want to work hard and don’t think much about technology, then don’t complain about the unfair distribution mechanism.
The death penalty has basically been abolished in southern Liaoning.
The reform through labor in Liaonan is very humane, because the higher the sentence, the more serious the crime. If someone is reformed through labor for twenty or fifteen years, he will definitely be sent to the most painful and tiring quarry or coal mine. Those with five to ten years' service will be sent to iron ore mines or lime mines, those with three to five years' service will be sent to cement plants or salt fields, and those with less than three years' service will be sent to road construction or ditch digging.
Those with more than one year and less than three years will be sent to the steel factory to serve as apprentices. If they perform well, their prison terms can be shortened. If they are less than one year, they will go to other factories and have the opportunity to serve as apprentices. When their apprenticeship is over, they can get Formal salary, or becoming an ordinary military household in the garrison. Own one's private property and freedom.
There are also three to five days or half a month of reform through labor, which is mainly for crimes such as poor hygiene, open defecation, or fighting. They are usually sent to clean public toilets or streets.
However, after the establishment of the Liaodong General Administration of Taxation, the first director of the General Administration of Taxation was Yang Yunniang, who was in charge of the banking system. Of course, Yang Yuniang's main job was tax accounting and tax rate calculations. The real tax collectors were Chen Guodong and his Military Supervision Bureau. With the Military Supervision Bureau as their team, they established the Liaodong General Taxation Administration. This also shows that Cheng Shijie knows people well and makes good use of them.
As Cheng Shijie's power increases, the power of the Supervisory Military Road Administration also increases, and there is a tendency to become a Jinyiwei in Liaodong. Let the people in charge of the internal supervision system handle tax collection. It will be very difficult to evade taxes in Liaodong in the future.
Unless you have the ability to corrupt Cheng Shijie's Military Supervision Department, this job, unless Cheng Shijie replaces someone to manage the Military Supervision Department, with the current personnel of the Ning Navy, who dares to betray Cheng Shijie, even without going out to the military law team, ordinary soldiers will kill them They were tied up and sent to Cheng Shijie.
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While Cheng Shijie was busy establishing the Liaodong Management Committee, Fu Zonglong returned to the capital. Fu Zonglong went to Liaonan as the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the young emperor.
On the day Fu Zonglong returned to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't wait to summon Fu Zonglong.
In fact, Fu Zonglong did not need to meet the Holy Spirit. The results of his trip to Jinzhou had already been handed in a written report, not only by him, but also by more than a hundred officials who accompanied him.
Most of these officials in the capital were poor, but Cheng Shijie gave them a lot of money. Although there was no real money or silver, there were many good things, such as worthless crystal bracelets, crystal necklaces, crystal jewelry, including transparent glass cups. They were all given away as favors, and in addition, there were also specialties from southern Liaoning.
As the saying goes, take advantage of others' weak hands and take advantage of others' weak hands. These capital cities finally get the opportunity to go out on business, so they will naturally not break the rules. It is important to know that other officials or themselves may leave Beijing again. Officials from other places give them gifts in the hope that they will say good things.
If you don’t say nice things after receiving gifts, then who will give them gifts in the future?
In this case, these work reports, no matter whether they can win the young emperor or not, are all good words without exception.
"Old minister, I pay my respects to Your Majesty!"
"Fu Qing is exempt from the courtesy!"
The young emperor said impatiently: "Come, please sit down and serve tea!"
As soon as Fu Zonglong saw this posture, he knew Emperor Chongzhen's intention. He wanted to hear the detailed situation. Fu Zonglong first entered Jinzhou and told Emperor Chongzhen what he had seen.
Gao Qiqian, who had just received a generous gift from Cheng Shijie, also came over. He was worried that old man Fu Zonglong would spoil his good deeds and say bad things about Cheng Shijie.
He didn't want Cheng Shijie to fall. When Cheng Shijie killed three scholars and was impeached by the officials, Gao Qiqian was very worried and secretly cursed Cheng Shijie for not knowing how to do things. With Cheng Shijie's identity and Cheng Shijie's power, if he wanted to clean up Three talented people, isn’t that simple?
Considering that Cheng Shijie was promoted too quickly, Gao Qiqian thought that Cheng Shijie had no experience in being an official, so he personally wrote a long letter to Cheng Shijie. In the letter, Gao Qiqian told Cheng Shijie.
As an official of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to punish someone, you can use two methods. Find out the opponent's ability problem. The ability problem is very simple. Find the fault within the other party's jurisdiction, prove that the other party's ability is not good, and directly tell the other party to get out. .
Nothing wrong? Just kidding, it's not easy to manage a place well, but it's too easy to mess up a place. Just spend a small amount of money and send a few people over to instigate trouble.
The second routine is to target the other party's style. The problem is relatively damaging. In later generations, it would be to expose the other party, Bao Xiaosan, for having an affair. In ancient times, you couldn't do this. In ancient times, three wives and four concubines were the norm. Isn't Bao Xiaosan normal?
Gao Qiqian is an eunuch, and his intention is to seize the other person's moral character. For example, if the emperor dies, and during the national mourning period, officials are not allowed to drink, have fun, or get married for a hundred days. It's too easy to drink and have fun. Pick the other party's relatives and friends. Regardless of whether they are involved or not, impeach them first.
Every official has elders who have not graduated from the fifth service. After becoming an official, they will definitely ignore these elders. If they are on the line, this is unfilial.
In later generations, it was just a matter of reason, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was a matter of moral character. If an official had bad conduct, he would be looked down upon by everyone, and his future would be basically ruined.
However, the funny thing is that the conduct of most officials in the late Ming Dynasty was not very good, and those with good conduct had less beef than beef noodles.
Therefore, Gao Qiqian told Cheng Shijie in his letter that the key point is to grasp the character problems of these opponents, such as unjustness to friends, unfilial piety to elders, unfaithfulness to the country, and unkindness to subordinates. These issues must be grasped accurately.
In fact, Gao Qiqian confided in Cheng Shijie. This was like a joke in later generations. In the eyes of prostitutes, any woman can be sold, but the price is different. In the eyes of the eunuch, a corrupt official, none of the officials in the Ming Dynasty had a clean butt, and this trick was always tried and true against anyone.
Fortunately, Fu Zonglong didn't say anything bad about Cheng Shijie, he basically said good things.
Emperor Chongzhen said in surprise: "You mean, Cheng Qing is actually planting grass?"
Hearing this, Gao Qiqian's face turned gloomy, and he thought to himself: "If you dare to speak ill of Cheng Shijie, you will hit our family's purse, and our family will get rid of you!"
What does it mean that the emperor is not in a hurry but the eunuch is? This is.
"Exactly!"
"Why does he want to plant grass?"
Fu Zonglong explained: "Because Cheng Jinglue seized thousands of war horses from Jiannu. These war horses need to eat thirty kilograms of fodder every day. Thousands of horses will eat tens of thousands of kilograms of fodder. By the way, Your Majesty doesn't know something. Cheng Jinglue still has There are more than 8,000 cattle, and these 10,000 animals need to eat nearly 100,000 kilograms of fodder every day!"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "One hundred thousand kilograms of fodder, how big a piece of pasture does this require?"
"If we follow the way the Jian slaves and Mongolians herded cattle, we would need at least several million acres of pasture!"
Fu Zonglong smiled and said: "But Cheng Jinglue adopted artificial planting methods. One acre of land can grow several thousand kilograms of grass, and one hundred thousand kilograms of grass is only a few dozen acres of land! Cheng Jinglue's planting of grass is actually a helpless move. Those lands, They are all dry land far away from the ditches. There is no way to grow food on such land, you can only grow grass!"
"I have heard of many generals who organize sergeants to garrison and grow grain. But in the world, Cheng Qing is the only general who grows grass!"
Emperor Chongzhen asked: "Is there anything else fun?"
"have!"
Fu Zonglong thought for a while and said: "Jinzhou City is very clean, even cleaner than Beijing City, but not as good as the Forbidden City!"
The total area of the Forbidden City is less than 1,400 acres. Just for this 1,400 acres, more than 3,000 eunuchs and concubines were employed to clean the area.
Emperor Chongzhen said in surprise: "How did he do it?"
When he was not the emperor, he was the King of Xin. He followed the eunuchs out of the palace and walked around the inner city of Beijing a few times. Chongzhen stepped on smelly dog shit, human shit, and even urine. Pitfall, he still has this bad experience fresh in his mind.
"How did Cheng Qing do this?"
Fu Zonglong laughed and said: "Cheng Jinglue fined people who were caught urinating everywhere and asked them to clean up the filth! He also fined bullock carts or horse-drawn carriages on the streets."
When Emperor Chongzhen heard that he could be fined, his eyes glowed green: "How much is the fine at one time?"
"One point and two centimeters!"
Emperor Chongzhen said excitedly: "If Cheng Qing can do this, I seem to be able to do it too!"
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wang Zhixin, the eunuch and eunuch of Dongchang beside him, and said, "Wang Banban!"
"The slave is here!"
"You also heard that this matter will be left to your Dong Factory!"
Emperor Chongzhen said: "From now on, all people in the capital who defecate anywhere will be fined one cent or two cents of silver!"
One cent and two cents is twelve copper coins. If you can buy seasonal vegetables with these twelve copper coins, you can buy three cucumbers, almost four, leeks, four taels per catty, and four eggplants.
For ordinary people, it is not a particularly heavy burden.
Cheng Shijie's regulations are flexible. If the people have no money and make the mistake of throwing garbage or urinating everywhere due to ignorance, they can clean up the garbage and just work for a day.
But the problem is, layer upon layer, the code is added.
Wang Zhixin, the admiral of Dongchang, left the Forbidden City and came to the Dongchang Anti-Smuggling Yamen at Donghua Gate.
"Meet the factory director!"
A total of more than 200 people, including those in charge of a thousand households and those in charge of a hundred households, the boss, the foreman, the housekeeper, the servant chief (also known as the stall head), and the fan servant (also known as the fanzi) came to see the ceremony one after another.
"Everyone, come to life!"
Wang Zhixin immediately announced: "According to the imperial edict, from now on, littering, open defecation, and all carriages and horses are prohibited in Beijing. Violators will be fined!"
The Zhongdong factory staff suddenly smiled brightly. The fine was good, and they could enrich their own pockets.
Wang Zhixin sighed: "Cheng Jinglue is a good man. He can actually come up with such a way to make money. He deserves to be promoted and rich!"
After announcing the order, everyone in the East Factory began to mobilize collectively.
At dawn, Feng Yigui, the shopkeeper of the tailor shop near Dongzhimen, as usual, the first thing he did when he got up was to open the door and pour the chamber pot he had used at night into the gutter at the door.
Just as half the pot of urine was finished, a Dongchang fan and two helpers emerged from the alley.
Fanzi yelled: "Open defecation, you will be fined!"
Feng Yigui was able to run a tailor shop in Dongzhimen, but he was also a well-heeled person. He said it was a fine, but he didn't take it seriously. These gangsters must have come to blackmail him because they had no money.
Feng Yigui said: "I am related to Bo Chenling, the head of Daxing County. I don't want to look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face. I don't want my brothers to make this trip in vain. Take it out for tea!"
Feng Yigui carried the broken silver with him just to cope with this situation. He carried out Chen Ling's treasure because Dongzhimen belonged to Daxing County and Xizhimen directly belonged to Wanping County.
Dongchang Fanzi let Feng Yigui go when he saw that Feng Yigui took out a little more than one penny of silver, which was far more than what they asked for. Moreover, Feng Yigui had someone.
Not far away, a man who looked like a porter untied his belt, faced the corner, and began to release water.
Fanzi walked over: "Fine!"
"What's the fine?"
"You defecate anywhere, you will be fined!"
Ordinary porters at the emperor's feet are not afraid of troubles. After all, the formal establishment of Dongchang is not as good as that of Jinyiwei. Not counting the more than 3,000 Jinyiwei generals and honor guards, there are 14 Jinyiwei Qianhu Stations. The Jinyiwei personnel establishment is almost three entire units. The strength of the guards exceeds 20,000.
The Dongchang has only over 200 employees, most of whom are recruited from Jinyiwei. When encountering major and important cases hand-picked by the Dongchang, they usually recruit people from the street on a temporary basis.
The porter reported his background, but the problem was that Dongchang's eyes were red. How could he let it go when he finally encountered an opportunity to make money honestly.
"Snapped!"
Fanzi slapped him: "Stop talking nonsense and get the money!"
In this way, all the gangsters in Dongchang were dispatched, and in just one morning, they harvested a lot. They did not dare to extort the rich and powerful gentry, and ordinary people and businessmen from other places suffered.
Just like He Lishun, a wealthy landowner from Baoding Prefecture, North Zhili, who came to the capital to visit his relatives. He was blackmailed and bankrupted by Dongchang because of a poop on his carriage. He lost all his belongings, 252 taels of silver, and had not a penny left. .
People like He Lishun are not the only ones.
The people in the capital shouted: "There is no more royal law, and you will be fined for peeing and pooping!"
But the problem is that the capital has adopted the model of Jinzhou. Although there are complaints and curses, the sanitary environment in the capital is getting better day by day.
PS: Unexpectedly, there is still a third chapter. It’s 18,000 today, but it may be later tomorrow morning!
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