Although the businessmen of the five major families have obtained a huge share of the tea trade from the Beihai Town regime in the past two years, bringing in an income of up to one million rubles, they will never be of the same mind as Beihai Town. The main contradiction is that their economic and political interests have been "violated." As for the issue of ethnicity and belief, it is nothing more than a tool that can be used at any time.
Two years ago, in view of the poor handicraft and agricultural conditions in Irkutsk, Zhao Xin ordered the cancellation of the head tax and all taxes unrelated to the transaction of industrial and commercial products. As a result, the subject of taxation naturally shifted from farmers and small citizens to businessmen - especially big businessmen.
However, at that time, the mutual trade between Kyaktu and Nerchinsk had been interrupted for several years, and the market was extremely sluggish. The five major families and other small and medium-sized merchants were already hungry for tea and rhubarb. Everyone is paying attention to the large amount of tea and rhubarb provided by Zhao Xin. We will talk about whether there is tax or not later.
In these days, whether in the East or the West, it is natural for government and businessmen to collude to pay less taxes. Although the five families no longer have the privilege to intervene in city management, they feel that with their money offensive, they can return to the new city council. However, half a year later, with the arrival of a large amount of tea and the newly promulgated tax regulations, the entire business group suddenly exploded.
To put it simply, the tax system of Beihai Town is based on the "Industrial and Commercial Unified Tax Regulations" and implementation details promulgated in the 1950s in another time and space, and levies taxes on 126 types of industrial project products, commercial retail, service industry and construction and processing projects. Among them, the highest tax rate is for externally imported tobacco, which is as high as 66%; the lowest tax rate is stamp duty, which is 0.1% of the contract amount.
Since Beihai Town is a "public" economy dominated by Zhao Xin's personal capital, and all industrial projects and most commercial projects in Beihai Town belong to Zhao Xin's personal investment, tax collection is actually a left-hand thing for Beihai Town. thing.
In order to encourage farmers under the rule to actively sell grain, Beihai Town currently sets the tax rate for grain commodity transactions at only 1.5%, and the tax rate for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery products is only 3%.
But for Irkutsk businessmen, the 5% commodity transaction tax imposed by Beihai Town not only touches the cheese on their plates, but also cuts it severely.
Since Peter I carried out tax reform in order to solve financial problems, the head tax has replaced the household tax. At the same time, since the rural population has always accounted for more than 95% of the total national population, the head tax paid by the "state peasants", "landlord peasants" and the citizen class became the most important source of fiscal revenue for the Tsarist Empire.
The merchant class was also included in the "citizen" class in the first half of the eighteenth century. They paid the same poll tax as ordinary residents, but after accounting for trade and handicrafts in the village community, they had to pay much more than ordinary citizens. Taxes make up for the shortfall in taxes for those who are poor.
During the period of Catherine II, the queen carried out reforms in order to develop industry and commerce. The new tax system implemented from 1775 to 1785 divided urban residents into privileged first-, second-, and third-class merchants and non-privileged citizen classes. First-, second-, and third-class merchants were exempt from poll tax and military service.
Merchants paid taxes directly related to the amount of their capital, that is, they paid direct taxes as a percentage of their capital. Members of the first estate have the right to conduct foreign trade with a capital of not less than 10,000 rubles; merchants of the second estate have the right to trade throughout the country with a capital of not less than 5,000 rubles; merchants of the third estate can trade wherever they are. To carry out trading activities within the county and city limits, the capital amount is not less than 1,000 rubles. As for those citizens whose capital is less than 1,000 rubles, sorry, please continue to pay the poll tax!
Here comes the most interesting part, how did the Tsarist Empire determine the amount of merchant capital and the amount of taxes they should pay? Hehe, they are doing self-declaration. Everything is witnessed by God, and everyone is a good and law-abiding citizen under the Queen's rule.
When it comes to paying less taxes, there has never been any distinction between ancient and modern times, China and foreign countries, and it is useless even if all the gods in heaven and on earth open their eyes.
All first-class businessmen, no matter how much their property is, declare a number between 10,000 and 10,500; so their annual tax amount is 100-105 rubles, the second-class is 10 rubles, and the third-class is 10 rubles. The level is 5 rubles.
Notice! This tax is not only levied on the merchant himself, but also on his family, including his parents, wife, children, brothers, and all relatives who have not separated the family; of course, their servants are also included.
However, after the new regulations of Beihai Town were promulgated, the five major families headed by Sibyakov and other third-level businessmen were stunned as if they had received a heavy hammer on the forehead. Beihai Town doesn't care how much capital you have, it will charge taxes based on the amount of commodity transactions.
In the past, they only paid a total of 105 rubles no matter how many goods they bought and sold every year; now, for tea alone, they had to pay tens of thousands of rubles every year; not to mention the large-scale fur trade and the large-scale fur trade in Nerchinsk. Silver mining project.
The various properties under Sibyakov's name alone were levied taxes of more than 100,000 rubles last year. Moreover, Beihai Town does not accept Her Majesty’s dirty street banknotes, only silver or gold coins. The silver content of a silver ruble is 7.8 grams, and one hundred thousand rubles is at least 780 kilograms of silver ingots.
How the hell can this not make people hate you? His silver mine in Nerchinsk could not refine so much silver in a year.
In addition, Beihai Town also deprived merchants and priests of their privileges to participate in urban management, suspended the city council, and prohibited merchants from participating in profit sharing in all newly established public facilities. At the same time, the new tax regulations also include that churches must pay taxes based on the area of land they own.
Since then, excluding new immigrants, Beihai Town has gained only a small amount of support among the original lower-class farmers and small townsfolk, while the first-, second-, and third-class merchants and the large landowning class of priests have all come to oppose it. For them, if the rule of the Tsarist Empire cannot be restored, their interests will suffer greater "losses."
The problem is, Zhao Xin doesn’t care about this!
It is imperative for Beihai Town to uproot all Russian rule in Eastern Siberia. Those unruly businessmen will have to get out sooner or later. If you want to stay in this land and make money, you have to follow the rules of Beihai Town. The land, mountains, forests, lakes, and oceans must all belong to the public.
Some people say, I am gold, I want to shine.
Zhao Xin said, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, you can dazzle it how you want!
On August 29, 1790, after 12 days of arduous trek, the Fourth Regiment of the North Navy led by Pan Xiucheng, led by a reconnaissance team, arrived at the settlement on the west bank of the Oka River along the virgin forest at the northern foot of the Sayan Mountains. It is located three kilometers south of Zima Village.
According to the reconnaissance team's preliminary reconnaissance and previously obtained intelligence, there is a small village called Mordino two kilometers north of Zima Village, and there seems to be a mine nearby. The Russian army stationed here has only one squadron of Chasseurs, responsible for guarding the bridges and ferries on the Oka River. At the same time, part of the supplies shipped from Nizhny Uginsk are also stored here.
After connecting to the radio station, Pan Xiucheng followed Liu Sheng's order, and after a short rest of half a day, he sent out his two battalions, making sure not to let anyone go.
Two infantry battalions with more than a thousand people launched an attack at one o'clock in the afternoon, and it took only twenty minutes to annihilate more than a hundred Russian troops near the river bank. Then quickly moved north, and an hour later, the village of Mordino was also captured. From the villagers to the miners, no one escaped.
Afterwards, Pan Xiucheng ordered his men to bring all the mine workers and dozens of villagers from Mordino village back to Zima and keep them under centralized custody to prevent anyone from escaping and reporting to Xiuchinsk.
Zima is not far from Irkutsk, only more than 200 kilometers. The settlers here have long heard of the name of the Northern Navy, and some have even gone to Ussolye many times to buy salt and tea. After learning that they would not be harmed as long as they did not run away, the hundreds of terrified villagers had no choice but to calm down.
Pan Xiucheng then sent troops to cross the Oka River, destroying several ferries on the other side and seizing all the ships, but did not destroy the ferry bridge.
Liu Sheng made it very clear to Pan Xiucheng in the telegram that if you break the bridge, the Russian army will definitely not leave here. Along the hundreds of kilometers of Oka River, a regiment of more than 2,000 people will not be able to leave anyway. Can't hold on. But if you keep the bridge, the enemy will feel that there is hope, and they will rush over with all their strength.
After studying the terrain, Pan Xiucheng decided to deploy most of his troops on the north and south wings of the crossing bridge, hoping to form a crossfire on the enemy across the river. At this moment, he just asked the Russian army to escape slower, so as to give him time to build fortifications.
At noon on August 29, the Russian troops inside and outside the Zaimka Fortress finally tasted the ruthless blow of the North Navy's long-range artillery fire. The multi-faceted star-shaped fortress that had taken countless people's efforts to build was destroyed one by one by 152 high-explosive bombs, and turned into a masonry ruin two hours later. The Russian infantry and cavalry responsible for launching field battles outside the castle also suffered devastating blows from the 3rd and 6th Northern Navy Regiments, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion and the Ainu Battalion.
The nearly 10,000 Russian troops who fled in panic from Zaimka were divided into two groups. One group fled north to the Brat Castle at the confluence of the Angara River and the Oka River, and the other group retreated west to the Cheremhovo, 17 kilometers away, reunited with the large Russian troops staying here to rest and recuperate.
Rumyantsev, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, has retreated to the village of Kutulik, 29 kilometers away from Cheremhovo. After a hasty lunch, he took his staff to plan the next retreat. As the commander-in-chief, he not only has to lead the soldiers to attack, but also organizes the troops to withdraw from the battle and bring them home when the battle situation is unfavorable.
Rumyantsev had received information from his scouts, information that could plunge his army into an even more desperate situation. Scout report: Thousands of Tatar "armies" have arrived in the village of Mikhailovka, accompanied by more than twenty big green box monsters. The things are traveling faster than horses, every hour. Being able to run dozens of miles is really impressive. In addition, the enemy also dispatched hundreds of cavalry.
If we go by what the scouts said, the enemy may want to cut off his lines of communication and surround his exhausted 40,000 troops. If such an idea had come up before yesterday, Rumyantsev would have found it ridiculous. Thousands of troops want to surround tens of thousands of people, and no one will believe it. But today's battle made him understand that there are really people in this world who dare and can use thousands of elite infantry to fight a battle of annihilation of tens of thousands of people.
Rumyantsev thought about it for a long time and decided to use a layer-by-layer blocking approach and first withdraw his troops across the Oka River.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, on the road from Cheremhovo to the village of Kutulik, the exhausted 40,000 Russian troops began to retreat. An endless stream of chaotic queues, artillery, horse-drawn carriages, and various baggage vehicles formed a long queue. The vehicles behind chased the vehicles in front, forming three or four rows, blocking the not-so-wide road. As far as the ear can reach, there is a chaos of the rattling of wheels, the rumble of gun mounts, the sound of horse hooves, the crackle of riding whips, the shouts of urging horses, and the curses of soldiers, orderlies and officers.
Hundreds of wounded were crowded into artillery carts and baggage carts. They screamed helplessly, or looked at the road below them with dull eyes; the blood stained by the soil dripped into the bandages. He got out of the carriage of the carriage and then fell into the soil under the carriage along the gap between the wooden boards.
Skinned dead horses could be seen from time to time on both sides of the road. Broken carriages were pushed by the roadside. Some skirmishers were sitting on the roadside, waiting for something. On the uphill and downhill slopes, the crowd became more dense, and people kept shouting and neighing. The soldiers were carrying the heavy cannon body or pushing the wheels of the cannon truck hard. The whips were whipping, the noose was about to break, and everyone was yelling at the top of their lungs. The officers in charge were running forward and backward in the convoy. Their voices could be vaguely heard in the noise of the crowd. They had completely lost control of the chaos.
After dark, when the Russian rear troops retreated from the village of Cheremhovo, plumes of thick smoke rose from the village. Soon, all the houses in the village were engulfed in flames. After being simply dismantled, the previously abandoned carriage frames and countless felled tree trunks were piled on the road. The wood sprinkled with whale oil quickly caught fire. When the fire was picked up by the wind, it quickly spread. When it opened, the flying hay and branches were blown into the air by the northwest wind, and then ignited the weeds in the wilderness and swept toward the southeast.
At this moment, in the village of Mikhailovka, more than 20 kilometers away, two infantry regiments, two artillery regiments and a cavalry battalion of the Northern Navy have all arrived.
Zhao Xin's previous plan was to rest all night and start the pursuit again at dawn the next day. However, when he heard the scout report that the Russian army had set off a fire to block the road, he hurriedly walked out of the house, licked his tongue and tested it with his fingers in the air, and his expression suddenly changed.
"Order everyone to immediately clear a 100-meter-wide circular fire belt around the camp! Also prepare a large amount of water, and be sure to hurry!"
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