parentshiftbook Chapter 479: Additional Commercial Taxes And Highway Tolls [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 479: Additional Commercial Taxes And Highway Tolls [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were thinking about the advantages of cement roads and how to lay cement roads, etc.
King Zhu Bo of Qi, who was thinking, suddenly saw a bright spot in his eyes. He found a blind spot and couldn't help raising his hand to look at Yan Changqing and asked curiously:
“Mr. Yan, didn’t cement just appear two years ago?!!”
"How did you come up with the service life of concrete cement roads, which is twenty to forty years?!!"
As soon as these words came out, they immediately interrupted Zhu Yuanzhang who was thinking, as well as the other princes including Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but focus on Yan Changqing.
After all, what King Zhu Bo of Qi said makes sense. After all, cement has only been around for about two years. How did you get the answer that the service life of concrete cement roads is between 20 and 40 years?!!
Logically speaking, it should not be after the emergence of cement.
After twenty to forty years, it was discovered that the cement road could no longer be used, and then the answer was reached that the service life of the concrete cement road was twenty to forty years?!!
Yan Changqing's eyes narrowed slightly, and his calm and unruffled gaze made Qi King Zhu Shu faintly panic, and then he slowly replied:
“Although concrete cement roads have good durability, strong resistance to wear and erosion, it does not mean that concrete cement roads will not suffer from wear and tear at all.
"Any road will undergo a certain amount of wear and tear after years of exposure to the sun, rain, and rolling."
"At most, it is the wear and tear of the concrete cement road, which is usually difficult to detect."
"With a two-year period, we conducted observations on the concrete road between Tianfu and [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [8.90 Wanmin Medical College].
"Compare it with the condition of the concrete cement road that was just built two years ago, and then you can get the degree of wear and tear of the concrete cement road in two years."
"Finally, take the thickness of that concrete cement road and divide it by the degree of wear and tear in two years."
"In the end, we can roughly conclude that it will take at least twenty years for the concrete road to wear out to the point where it is difficult for carriages to operate normally; it will probably take at least thirty years for it to wear out to the point where it is difficult for pedestrians to walk normally. ”
"Finally, it was concluded that the service life of concrete cement roads is between 20 and 40 years."
"His Royal Highness King Qi, do you have any more questions?!!"
The King of Qi, Zhu Shu, below, immediately shook his head violently. The look in Yan Changqing's eyes just now really made him feel a little panicked.
After listening to Yan Changqing's explanation, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes on the side no longer had any doubts.
Through the wear and tear of the concrete cement road in the past two years, we can finally calculate the service life of the concrete cement road. Although they cannot do this, they can accept and understand it.
After all, Yan Changqing's mathematical ability in front of them has always been at the level of dimensionality reduction.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes did not have any doubts, Yan Changqing breathed a sigh of relief.
[Fortunately, the explanation/fudge passed!!!]
When he just introduced the advantages of concrete cement roads, he just said it smoothly, "Habitually mentioned the service life of concrete cement roads in later generations.
After all, how long the service life of concrete cement roads is, later generations have already had a large amount of verification and observation data to prove it.
However, there is no such verification observation data in this era, and he has never made such verification observation.
After all, later generations have already made verification observations. If it is not very necessary, he will not waste time repeating such verification observations.
But what I didn't expect was that Qi King Zhu Shu would actually notice this blind spot.
Fortunately, he gave a reasonable reason and the picture passed.
After a while, Jin Wang Zhu Fan suddenly raised his hand and looked at Yan Changqing and asked:
"Mr. Yan, although peanut oil, sea salt, and salted fish have created huge value and profits for the court."
"However, the prerequisite investment for the court to obtain these valuable profits is not a lot."
"Whether it's planting peanuts, building oil mills, building salt drying plants, glaze factories, or building ships to go out to sea for fishing, etc., these expenses are very high."
"Under these prerequisite expenditures, if the imperial court still uses the method of 'work-for-labor' to hire people from all over the world to build concrete roads, will the imperial court be able to recover the capital?!!"
"After all, the cost of building concrete roads needs to be borne by the court."
"And this is not about building one or two concrete roads, but building concrete roads that touch every part of the world!!!"
"The cost of building these concrete roads alone is enough to drain the imperial court, right?!!"
Jin Wang Zhu Fan stared at Yan Changqing with bright eyes.
He just made a rough calculation and found out how much profit he could create each month with peanut oil, sea salt, and salted fish.
If the "work-for-service" method were to be used to hire people from all over the world to build roads, the imperial court would support it.
But if you add the cost of building concrete roads all over the world, it will be difficult for the court to support it.
After all, there are too many concrete roads to be built all over the world, and the costs incurred are huge.
Maybe before the construction of concrete roads all over the world is completed, the imperial court's fiscal revenue will be dragged down!!!
Therefore, King Zhu Fan of Jin felt that Yan Changqing should have other ways to increase fiscal revenue for the court!!!
Yan Changqing glanced at Jin King Zhu Fan approvingly, and then (bhai) answered:
“Before the concrete road from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] was built, the time it took from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] was one and a half hours! !!”
"After the concrete road from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] is repaired, the time required to go from Yingtianfu to [Wanmin Agricultural College] and [Wanmin Medical College] is only half an hour. !!!"
"The time has been shortened by two-thirds. Does His Highness King Jin know what it means?!!"
Before Jin Wang Zhu Fan could answer, Yan Changqing had already asked and answered:
"It means that at the same time, you could only make one transaction at the same time, but now you can make three transactions!!!"
"And three transactions means that more than three times the business tax will be generated!!!"
"This additional increase in commercial taxes is the source of another part of the imperial court's revenue!!!"
“In addition to the increased commercial tax revenue, the court can also collect concrete road tolls, or expressway tolls.
"Of course, this highway toll is only for those brands that use horse-drawn carriages to pull bulk goods."
"Ordinary pedestrians and small traders carrying one or two loads of goods are not included in the collection."
"After all, as I just said, walking on concrete roads is three times faster than walking on ordinary dirt roads.
"The speed has increased threefold, which means that the efficiency and profits of merchants who use horse-drawn carriages to pull bulk goods can also increase threefold!!!"
"The concrete roads funded by the imperial court gave such great convenience to merchants who buy and sell bulk goods."
"Then it is natural for the imperial court to recover a certain amount of highway tolls from those merchants, right?"
"Of course, if those merchants feel that the highway toll collected by the court is unreasonable."
"Then they can not take the concrete road built by the court and continue to take the previous dirt road."
"It's just that sometimes merchants compete for speed."
"The same goods were sold out first by other merchants on the concrete road. Even after the first trip, they were all sold out on the second trip."
"Those merchants who took the dirt road have just arrived belatedly. It is not certain whether their goods can still be sold at this time.'
"After all, the market will be saturated."
"Are you trying to save so much money on highway tolls, so that you may not be able to buy your goods and lose money completely?!!"
"Or pay the highway toll of more than ten cents and earn two or three times more profit than before?!!"
"Come to think of it, most smart businessmen know how to calculate this account, which is the most cost-effective!!!"
"And the highway tolls collected are also an additional source of financial revenue for King Fu!!!"
"There are additional business taxes generated and fiscal revenue subsidies from highway tolls collected."
"If the imperial court slows down the construction of concrete roads a little bit and builds them bit by bit, there should be no problem.'
"In addition, whether it is additional commercial taxes or highway tolls, these two sources of fiscal revenue are long-term sources of income for the court."
"As long as the Ming Dynasty does not collapse, it can last for ten years, a hundred years, or hundreds of years, and it will continue to be conquered!!!"
“Practically speaking, the highway tolls can be fully recovered in as little as 20 to 30 years, or as much as 50 years.
"In twenty, thirty, or fifty years, the highway tolls collected by the court will be pure profits."
"From another perspective, the value of profits created by road construction is no less than peanut oil, sea salt and salted fish meat!!!"
"In fact, the value profits worth tens of billions of dollars that I mentioned before also include the huge value profits created by building roads!!!"
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