"Ahem!" Gou Shaoqun coughed and motioned for everyone to look at him.
"Do you understand?" Tang Ping was also a little curious. He had never heard that Young Master Gou had such an ability.
"Brother Ping, are you looking down on others?" Gou Shaoqun said proudly: "You also know that our hometown is in Yunnan, and our Gou family started to get rich when my grandfather's generation opened a cigarette factory. "
"So this cigarette factory is the foundation of our Gou family's fortune. Do you think I don't understand?"
Tang Ping knew that although Gou Shaoqun was usually out of tune, he still wouldn't joke about things like this.
Yunnan alone accounts for 40% of the country's tobacco production, and the best tobacco is basically produced in Yunnan.
Yunnan used to be full of large and small cigarette factories. Since Gou Shaoqun said he knew, he should really know.
"Then the procurement of seeds is all left to you? And the training of them is all left to you?"
"No problem!" Gou Shaoqun agreed, patting his chest: "Then I have become a technical investor, right? So what will our company be called in the future?"
Tang Ping said jokingly: "How about I go to my second uncle's place to apply and register a small and micro enterprise called Datang Tobacco?"
"Reliable!" Gou Shaoqun gave Tang Ping a thumbs up: "In this case, do we have to go on a business trip to Yunnan?"
Tang Ping looked at Yangjinlam, who smiled and said: "If Duke Ping and Master Gou are willing to go, our daughter's country will definitely welcome them."
Tang Ping thought about it, anyway, the Tang Dynasty Festival is over now, and there is nothing to do for the time being.
And after this matter is over, maybe someone from Li Shimin's family will come to find something to do for him, so he might as well hide in Yunnan!
So he nodded and agreed: "Then let's go together."
It's just that Tang Ping doesn't want to cause trouble, but trouble always comes to him.
The next day he was summoned to the Xiande Hall.
After entering, Li Shimin smiled and said to him: "This ceremony was quite well done. I wonder what you want?"
Tang Ping then told Li Shimin what he had told Gou Shaoqun last night.
Li Shimin still knew something about cigarettes, because they were sold in Tang Ping's convenience store.
He tried it and didn't like the taste very much, but his subordinates Yu Chigong and Niu Jinda became old smokers after trying a few packs.
A lot of his monthly salary is used to buy cigarettes at Tang Ping's convenience store.
He had no objection to Tang Ping's idea of opening a cigarette factory. After all, Tang Ping was the person who paid the most taxes in the entire Tang Dynasty. The more he earned, the more taxes he paid.
Who knew that Tang Ping then said: "But the tax on cigarettes cannot be the same as ordinary commercial tax."
Li Shimin said with a smile: "You can also bargain with my second uncle? OK, OK, OK, this is also an emerging industry, can I give you the lowest tax rate?"
Tang Ping knew that Li Shimin had misunderstood, and he also said with a smile: "Second uncle, they all say that you have no jokes, how about youListen to the tax rate I said first. What’s the decision?”
"Okay, tell me, what percentage should the tax be set at?"
"For now, let's set it at 60% for now." Tang Ping made an estimate and said.
As far as he knows, the tax rate on Class A cigarettes in modern China is 56%, and there is a 17% value-added tax. There is also a fixed tax of a few cents per cigarette in the production and wholesale links.
So in fact, the cigarette tax in modern China is as high as more than 70% or even 80%.
The establishment of such a high tax rate is partly due to financial needs, and partly to prevent young people who don’t have much money from buying cigarettes.
"How much did you say?" Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard Tang Ping say 60%. Did he drink two more drinks after the ceremony last night and he is still drunk?
Otherwise, how could I have heard Tang Ping say that he had to pay 60% tax.
What is the concept of 60% tax? If an emperor dared to set such a high tax rate, then the title of excessive taxation would definitely be welded to death.
Even in the Tang Dynasty, taxes on various luxury goods such as perfume did not exceed 30%.
My second uncle heard it right, it’s 60%. Tang Ping looked at Li Shimin and asked, "Second uncle, does he know how much tax revenue we get from cigarettes in a year?"
After Tang Ping asked this, Li Shimin knew that it was definitely not simple, and asked tentatively: "Could it be more than 10 billion a year?"
"Ten billion?" Tang Ping shook his head: "The situation is too small, second uncle!"
"Fifty billion?" Li Shimin guessed again.
"It's still too small!" Tang Ping shook his head again.
"You brat, are you trying to make a difference for me?" Li Shimin became angry: "Hurry up and tell the truth."
"Our currency there is one trillion in tax revenue. If converted into Tang Dynasty coins, it would be more than 140 billion!"
"What?" Li Shimin almost rushed over and grabbed Tang Ping's collar.
Datang's tax revenue is more than 140 billion yuan. Datang's current annual tax revenue is not that much. No, Datang's annual tax revenue is now equivalent to more than 6 billion Datang yuan.
The 140 billion tax revenue Tang Ping mentioned is equal to the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty for more than 20 years.
"Don't be excited, don't be excited!" Tang Ping advised: "Isn't this also related to our purchasing power and population? I'm just telling you, this thing West’s potential.”
Li Shimin turned the globe to the European area: "If you plan to sell it here, how many people are there in this area now?"
"Now there should be only 20 to 30 million." There is no accurate figure for the population of Europe during this period, only a rough estimate.
"It's just because of various reasons such as wars between their countries. If we can unify this place and have policies to encourage childbirth, the population can double in 20 to 30 years."
A stable social environment will inevitably lead to rapid population growth, especially in this era when population is also an important resource.
According to statistics from the Tang Dynasty officials, in the years after Tang Ping came, there was sufficient food and there were no wars in the country.
The new population of the Tang Dynasty has already increased by 30 million, and without him, based on the previous growth rate, it would only have increased by 10 million at most.
Therefore, it can be said that because of Tang Ping's arrival, the Tang Dynasty in this time and space has increased its population by 20 million in a few years, and this number will become faster and faster.
"Then let the Ministry of War make a plan as soon as possible!" Li Shimin touched the globe and said.
Although Datang was developing rapidly, gray hair began to appear on his temples, and he felt that time was running out.
Then he looked at Tang Ping and said, "You happen to be going to the Daughter's Kingdom. Can you help me with something on the way?"
Tang Ping felt something was wrong and asked, "Can I say no?"
"No! Duke Pingguo accepts the order!"
