parentshiftbook Chapter 176: In-Kind Tax Collection System Without Middlemen To Make Profit Margins [Please Subscrib
Chapter 176: In-Kind Tax Collection System Without Middlemen To Make Profit Margins [Please Subscrib
Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang in deep thought, Yan Changqing sighed softly, turned around and wrote on the wooden rice paper behind him, and said:
"In addition to the issues just mentioned, in terms of finance, the primary tool for the state to manage statistical fiscal revenue and expenditure is a unified currency and unified calculation of revenue and expenditure using currency."
"And this point, compared to the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was also a big financial setback."
“Since the Tang Dynasty promulgated the ‘Two Taxes Law’, the country’s finances have begun to develop in the direction of monetization and unified digitization.
"After the Song Dynasty, there was already a financial management system calculated in copper coins every year."
"But after His Majesty's Ming Dynasty, they gave up the practice of managing national finances with copper coins and fell back to the grain standard and used cloth as the unit of calculation for national finances."
Bottom, when Yan Changqing said this, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was deep in thought, immediately became energetic. Yan Changqing had previously asked him about various "five, two, three" problems in the Ming Dynasty's financial system, but he could not refute.
But he really thought carefully about the fact that the state collects taxes in kind, and then decided to implement the method of collecting taxes in kind.
"Mr. Yan, I don't agree with your opinion on this point."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and interrupted Yan Changqing.
Yan Changqing on the podium was stunned for a moment, then turned around, looking at Zhu Yuanzhang with a slightly surprised look on his face and said:
"Appreciate further details."
Zhu Yuanzhang coughed twice, and then said:
“If the monetary tax collection method is implemented, then during the tax season, people will gather together to sell grain, and grain prices will then drop significantly.
"The sharp drop in food prices means that people need to sell more food to collect enough money to pay taxes."
"As a result, wouldn't the people have to pay more money and taxes in disguise?"
"But if the in-kind tax collection method is implemented, then there is no need to worry about the impact of food price fluctuations."
"The state levies one stone of grain from the people, so whether the price of this stone of grain remains the same, or drops to 500 cash, or even 300 cash, it has nothing to do with the people."
"As long as the people pay a normal tax in kind for one stone of grain, that's fine."
"And even if the imperial court collects a large amount of money from the people through currency collection, the tax money collected will always have to be spent again to purchase various grain and cloth materials."
"The common people sell grain to pay taxes, and the imperial court spends money to buy real goods. Isn't this an unnecessary one?!!"
"In this back-and-forth transaction, the people hurt farmers because of low food prices, and the court spent money because of low food and cloth prices. In the end, only the merchants benefited!!!"
"Furthermore, the method of collecting taxes in currency can easily lead to corruption and fraud by officials."
"But if we implement the method of collecting taxes in kind and collect grain and cloth directly from the people, we can avoid businessmen from getting huge benefits, and at the same time, we can also avoid corruption and fraud in tax collection management to the greatest extent."
"After all, how many stones of grain are collected is how many stones of grain are collected."
"As long as it is weighed and tested, we can know the amount of grain in it and whether it is true or false."
"If the weighing quantity is insufficient, then it must be due to corruption and fraud by the officials below!!!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang said these words, Empress Ma, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all nodded their heads.
That's right, if the monetary tax collection method is implemented, then every time it is time to collect taxes, the people will sell grain to the outside world, which will inevitably lead to a sharp drop in grain prices.
The sharp drop in food prices means that people need to sell more food to collect enough taxes.
As a result, the court did not collect more taxes because of the drop in food prices, and the people lost more food because of the drop in food prices.
In the end, neither the court nor the people benefited, and only those speculators who bought low and sold high gained huge benefits in the process.
However, if the physical tax collection method is implemented, then the middle speculators can be cut off from buying low and selling high.
What does it mean to make a difference without a middleman?!!
This is called no middlemen making the difference!!!
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to accept Yan Changqing's remarks about him and other aspects of Ming's financial system.
But only when it came to the collection of taxes in kind, Zhu Yuanzhang could not accept it.
In his opinion, this is obviously a good thing that benefits the country and the people!!!
A flash of surprise flashed in Yan Changqing's eyes. He did not expect that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the in-kind tax collection method was to prevent middlemen from making the difference.
How should I put this idea?
Or I can only say that if you look at it from the perspective of Zhu Yuanzhang's personal early life experience, then it is probably correct.
After all, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, all those businessmen were just speculators, buying low and selling high, and they did not farm, so they had no output.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, such businessmen were simply blood-sucking insects lying on the Ming court and the people!!!
If there was no real need to use merchants, and merchants were constantly being killed and banned, Zhu Yuanzhang would have completely banned merchants as a group.
However, even if the group of merchants was not banned, Zhu Yuanzhang was also a scholar, peasant, industrialist, and merchant. He ranked merchants among the lowest ranks, and severely suppressed merchants, focusing on agriculture and suppressing business.
But from the perspective of a country's economic operation, Zhu Yuanzhang's idea is completely wrong.
"Do your highnesses think so too?!!"
Yan Changqing glanced at Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, wanting to see if one or two of them were a little more sensitive to the country's economic operations.
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, you looked at me, I looked at you, and after making eye contact with each other for a long time, they replied one after another:
“My father’s method of collecting taxes in kind should be a policy that benefits the country and the people.
"Well, in-kind tax collection can indeed ensure that the people will not be hurt by low grain prices due to falling grain prices.
"It can also prevent those businessmen from buying low and selling high and making profits."
"This should be a good tax collection method for the national court and the people of Ming Dynasty."
"Yes, that's what I think."
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes [all expressed their approval and recognition of this kind of tax collection method adopted by their father, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang3.2.
It's just that the person who questioned the method of collecting taxes in kind was Yan Changqing, so the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were more or less divided when they expressed their agreement and approval. Lack of confidence.
Because in their view, since Yan Changqing has questioned the method of collecting taxes in kind, he must have his own opinions and ideas.
In other words, the method of collecting taxes in kind must have some larger flaws that they are not aware of.
And this kind of ignorance leads to their lack of confidence when expressing their approval and recognition of opinions.
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