Chapter 105: Catch the big ones and let go the small ones
However, although it is growing barbarically, the main thing is not barbarism, but growth.
In this rapid and rapid growth, people can see some hope, such as the Xia family.
The place where the Xia family originally lived was within the designated area of Beijing city, and although most of the entire Beijing city was the land of the guards, not all of it was. During the land acquisition, all of Xiajiazhuang was requisitioned, and a total of more than one thousand taels was given to the land acquisition. It seemed like a lot, but it was not much. After all, there were hundreds of people, and it was only two or three taels per person.
Some of these people followed the court's arrangements and moved to other places.
Some of them stayed here in Beijing.
At the beginning, the Xia family opened a shop alone and cooked for the migrant workers on the construction site. In the end, it got out of control, and finally monopolized the meal delivery business in almost all construction sites, and was known as the Xia Family Gang.
Of course, some bloody content is inevitable here, such as fighting with foreign competitors and competing for business on a certain construction site.
The reason why the Xia family won was actually because they were smart and adapted to development. They actually registered a company in the Planning Department, the Xia Family Gang, and paid taxes to the court. Yes, pay taxes.
The business of delivering meals at construction sites looks small individually, but when gathered together, it is actually not that small. The Xia Family Gang's monthly turnover was over ten thousand taels. Of course, He Xi glanced at the Xia Jun Gang's account book and knew it was a fake account.
It was done too carelessly.
He Xi has done so many audits that he is almost an expert in auditing accounts. Moreover, the Xia family has just removed the mud legs from the fields for these common people. It would be great if they can make the account books round. Who knows how to do more advanced fake accounts?
But the problem is, it doesn’t matter whether the accounts are fake or not. What matters is paying taxes.
Even based on the tax rate of thirty to one, the Xia family would bring about five thousand taels of tax to the court in one year.
At this time, who is the court's preference? It goes without saying.
Although, in He Xi's opinion, many of the operations of the Xia Family Gang are very immature, at least they understand the pulse of the times better than their competitors. They do not understand that the world is not about fighting and killing, but about the world. There is even a group of people from Cangzhou who are very good at fighting. After all, Cangzhou is the hometown of martial arts. It can even be said that whoever can beat all the invincible opponents in Cangzhou will probably be at the forefront of the ranking of the world's masters.
As for ranking in the world, it is impossible to have one, because with the economic conditions in ancient times, no one was bored enough to travel thousands of miles to have a fight.
At most, they compete in their hometown. Therefore, in most history books, it is said that someone is the best in his hometown, and he can only be the best in his hometown, just like Yue Fei.
These fights are powerful, but no matter how powerful they are, they can't match the court's tendency. This group of Cangzhou people had no choice but to find another way out. In the end, I chose to show the construction site. After all, the murders mentioned before are only high-profile cases. As for non-high-profile cases, there are all kinds of messy things.
Being able to fight is also a skill.
But He Xi felt that these people were ignorant. They could actually set up an escort agency, make it bigger and stronger, and most importantly, pay taxes.
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In fact, the gathering of so many people has brought about a lot of commercial prosperity and various businesses. Even the Xiajiabang only has a monopoly on delivering meals at the construction site. They cannot control other things. People who run small businesses, large and small.
He Xi actually didn't care much.
Because most of these people are itinerant vendors, it must be said here that the small iron carts produced in Zunhua, although they have no tires, have become the most important tool for setting up stalls. Is it too difficult to manage these mobile vendors?
After weighing the cost of taxation, He Xi simply gave up.
After the city of Beijing is built and these mobile vendors become fixed merchants, they can collect shop tax. This tax was originally included in the Ming Dynasty Law. He Xi is going to revise it and fix a local tax based on the size of the shop. After all, auditing also costs money.
There is no need to pay too much attention to small and micro businesses. When they become big and strong, they will set up companies. The court will focus on it. If you don’t want to set up a company but want to become big and strong, please refer to the fate of the Cangzhou people earlier.
The merchants in the entire Ming Dynasty were divided into three levels by He Xi. The lowest level was the common people. If they set up stalls in the streets and alleys to sell things, they would not be taxed at all. Fixed merchants had a fixed tax. Of course, for some merchants, Whether it's heavy or light, you weigh it yourself.
For those that have multiple business locations, or have a bank with a certain level of liquidity, or those that undertake government projects, or deal with government-run factories, they must be companies.
Once a company was established, the bank's flow was controlled by the court.
There is a word in later generations called enterprises above designated size. He Xi didn't understand it at the time, but he seems to understand it now. In terms of taxation, we should focus on the large and let go of the small. If we can do so, it will probably be above the designated size. The government also has management costs.
It is impossible not to pay the taxes that should be paid.
Of course, the purpose of this day is to cultivate the habit of paying taxes among the people below, and there is no way to check taxes. But even so, Beijing and the government-run factories near Beijing also gave He Xilai a big surprise.
In the 23rd and 24th years of Hongwu's reign, He Xi invested more than 20 million taels in banknotes in the Beijing city project, but this year alone he recovered 3 million taels in taxes. Part of it is commercial tax. After all, a family like the Xia Family has paid more than 5,000 taels this year. The biggest tax burden is the Puzhou Society, which has a full 50,000 taels. There are more than 500 companies registered in Beijing. Of course, there are still very few leather goods companies today.
In addition, the revenue of the government-run factories near Beijing has a profit of more than one million taels. After all, they directly supply raw materials to Beijing. This is not to mention the expenses required for the expansion of factories near Beijing, as well as the revenue of some factories in Liaodong.
As a city in Beijing, the tax collection exceeds that of many places and provinces. There is even a tendency to exceed salt tax and customs tax.
This makes many people unable to believe it.
However, He Xi also understood that the price paid was that there were too many banknotes on the market.
Even if grain prices were suppressed by He Xi, who forced the price of grain in Beijing to be the same as that in Nanjing, and at the same time exempted and exempted grain tariffs at various northern ports, there would be no price subsidy.
It's not that He Xi doesn't want subsidies, but the problem is that many people can't accept this move.
Even people in He Xi's inner circle did not accept this move. The reason is very simple. Many people in Nanjing cannot understand why He Xi has so much money? Everyone in He Xi’s circle understands He Xi’s monetary theory, and precisely because they understand it, they better understand the dangers of excessive currency issuance.
And what is the over-issuance of currency? How about not?
Don't say they don't know, even He Xi doesn't know.
He Xi does not study economics, and economics is different from other subjects. To a certain extent, economics is not a science at all, it can only be said to be a summary of certain economic phenomena. Many economics of later generations are a summary of the economic phenomena of later generations. If the economic results of later generations are taken over, the possibility of adapting to the local conditions is greater.
They naturally asked He Xi to be cautious.
He Xi himself had no idea, and the food subsidy would be a large amount, at least a few million taels.
Now the entire Beijing city infrastructure project is almost completed. City walls, streets, sewers, especially in Beijing city, have been completed and leveled. As for tap water, He Xi is also in the process of building it, and has even reserved a place. The pipeline has been reserved, but overall, He Xi still thinks that he will decide what to do after the construction is completed. After all, providing tap water to the whole city is a big project. Even if there were steam engines to lift water, many water towers would need to be built in the city.
In any case, there are only some residential buildings in the entire city of Beijing, the imperial palace and government offices near the palace, and the land surrounding the prime areas near the palace and government offices are all blank.
But in He Xi's opinion, it was time to take action.
In He Xi's opinion, for many years to come, the land here will be a prime location, rising but not falling, and even having a price but no market. He Xi needs to use these lands to raise funds. At the same time, for many people, it may not be a good business to make money.
