After thinking for a moment, Li Zhang directly agreed. He held up his hands and said: "Your Highness Renyi, if you are willing to give me this opportunity, then I will ask someone to transfer 300,000 yuan to join, but the 40% that Your Highness said before What does nine’s share mean?”
"This is one of the reasons why my father will definitely agree to what I told you. Share, I call it shares. If you pay 500,000 yuan in Dunhuang House, you can get 49% of the shares. And part of the remaining 51% belongs to my father, and part to me. If the business gets bigger in the future, if your Li family is willing to introduce other shareholders, there will be no problem."
"Major decisions of the commercial bank must be made by shareholders with more than 51% of the shares. Of course, most of the time, my father's voting rights will be held by people like you. After all, expert matters must be left to Experts will do it, but the profits must be handed over reasonably." Li Ke said with a smile. The furniture business may seem small, but in fact it is spread all over the country and is exclusively operated, so it is definitely not a small business.
For half of the shares of 500,000 yuan, they will definitely agree.
Li Zhang didn't care about Li Shimin taking money. For such a big business, if you don't send money to His Majesty, do you still want to borrow His Majesty's reputation? That is to say, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is here, otherwise, he would not dare to borrow his courage. What he hesitated about was the matter that the 51% shareholder had the final say. Then he thought about it, Your Majesty really wants something from you. Still using this thing? The imperial decree has come down, do you agree or not?
"I agree." Li Zhang agreed directly.
"Very good. Welcome to become the first member of the Datang Chamber of Commerce." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Your Highness is very polite. I wonder if there are any other requirements besides 500,000 yuan?" Li Zhang asked tentatively, "And this Datang Chamber of Commerce?"
"We'll talk about the Chamber of Commerce later. The Chamber of Commerce will issue a charter. Now let's talk about another thing, that is, if I propose to collect taxes on businessmen in the future, I wonder if the Li family will agree?" Li Ke asked another question. , said with a smile.
Yes, this is the shamelessness of a wealthy family. They look down on merchants and reduce them to the lowest level, but they have no business brainwashing the emperor and saying that they cannot compete with the people for profit! The point is, don’t let the country collect taxes on business activities!
That's right! There is no business tax in Datang, which means that there is no fucking tax on all commercial activities in Datang! Can you now understand why aristocratic families are rich?
The only two types of commercial taxes in the Tang Dynasty are not strictly called commercial taxes. For example, the customs tax means that you have to pay taxes when entering the East and West Markets to buy and sell things. Isn't this... a market management fee? This is the city tax of Datang.
Tariffs are for merchants coming and going. There are checkpoints in various places and fees are charged. They are tariffs. However, the fees charged for these two are extremely low, almost equivalent to nothing.
As the name suggests, foreigners who came to Datang to do business had to pay foreigners' tax. It was a bit like the protective tariff of later generations, but it was not the same as that. During this period, the Hu people were still Datang merchants running the Silk Road. Regardless, they all deal in luxury goods, and their profits are very high, and the foreign business tax is only a small amount.
Apart from this, there is no business tax.
Tax businessmen? Li Zhang was shocked. Is the tax imposed on businessmen? No, it's aimed at wealthy families, because businessmen have no say, and their opinions don't count. But the powerful family has the final say.
"May I ask, Your Highness, how much is the tax?" Li Zhang asked.
"Under the premise that taxes are not allowed to be transferred to the people, one out of every ten taxes is based on turnover." Li Ke said calmly.
Li Zhang took a deep breath, this tax... is not low! But what he didn't know was that Li Ke originally thought of five taxes and one tax, which was 20%. Later, he thought that transportation and other aspects of this era were too fucked up, and if he took too big a step, it would be easy to lose his temper. Given a one-in-ten tax quota, it seems that small businessmen will be partially exempted from tax, or the small tax amount will be fixed.
Of course, when you pass by the court, you can first collect five taxes and one tax.
But the time has not come yet.
"Clan Chief Li, don't worry. I'd like to ask you, the annual profits of several major Li family houses in Dunhuang are now about 400,000 to 500,000 guan. If you pay 100,000 guan per ten, your profits will eventually be reduced to about 100,000 guan." , If His Highness allows you to make annual profits close to one million yuan, do you still need to think about paying taxes?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
The reason why net profit has dropped so much is because the tax rate is calculated based on the business volume, and the profit ratio of many industries in this era is not that high.
Li Zhang was sweating behind his back, not because of anything else, but because Li Ke actually accurately told the net profit of their Dunhuang house's one-year business operation... This is a family secret!
What Li Ke said next made Li Zhang a little surprised. The increase in profit to one million yuan was just a matter of paying taxes, right? No need to ask, I got a lot of money.
In fact, this is similar to financing in later generations. Before financing, the company holder may own 100% of the shares, but the company is worth 100 million. After financing, if the company holder’s shares are reduced to 50%, the company’s market value will be reduced by the financing company. Give it a billion.
But Li Zhang knew that once the tax payment was opened, all the other wealthy families would be offended.
"Don't worry, now is not the time, and you won't be the only one who agrees then." Li Ke glanced at him.
"Your Highness, I agree. As long as I can follow Your Highness, all the merchants in my Dunhuang house will pay taxes according to regulations!" Li Zhang gritted his teeth and said decisively.
"Very good. Don't worry, the Datang Weekly will be in the hands of His Highness soon. When I develop the relevant technology, I will work hard to have the Datang Weekly published simultaneously in all the countries in the world." Li Ke said calmly.
In fact, there is nothing that cannot be released simultaneously. It is very simple. Chang'an City will publish this issue first. After it is released, the content of this issue will be quickly transported to other roads, and these places will also publish it soon after.
The information carried by these weekly reports spreads like ripples on the surface of a lake. Although there is a time delay, in ancient times, this efficiency was already very high! What else do you want?
Does Li Ke focus on information transmission? No, what he valued was the newspaper's propaganda ability.
How to kill the Zheng family? If anyone doesn't want to pay taxes then, just do it again, don't make it too simple.
Li Zhang's body trembled involuntarily. They had all seen the power of Datang Weekly. Now that Datang Weekly is back in the hands of His Highness, King of Shu, no one can take it away, unless...unless His Majesty... ...the immortal passed away and the prince succeeded to the throne.
But His Majesty is in his prime, and there are still at least a few decades left, so His Highness the King of Shu has already achieved his goal.
Who would dare to object to the public opinion it arouses when the entire Tang Dynasty is released? ! Just the city of Chang'an made the Zheng family of Xingyang so embarrassed. If the entire Tang Dynasty were released...
"Your Highness is wise. I believe that businessmen should take on the responsibility of contributing to the country just like farmers. Therefore, business taxation is indeed a good thing for the country and the people." Li Zhang said seriously.
Li Ke smiled happily. Look, isn't this easy to talk to? Who said it's difficult for aristocratic families to communicate.
