Of course, you also need to pay taxes.

But shopping malls are like battlefields.

Fierce confrontations in shopping malls are not necessarily weaker than battlefields.

"Developing business can increase taxes and improve the country's finances. In the future, Great Qin will need a lot of money to support my father's ambition to dominate the Nine Continents!"

Now that he has emerged, Zhao Hao no longer hides his clumsiness. He wants to help the First Emperor build a prosperous Qin Empire.

But if ambition is constrained by finances, it will never be realized.

No matter what era, wars are fought for money and food.

Zhao Hao doesn't have to worry about food, because he has a 'sacred weapon'.

But what about money?

The most common way for ancient dynasties to make money was to increase taxes.

To put it bluntly, it is reaching out to the people to ask for money.

Isn’t it easy to just open your mouth and add a tax item?

There are endless exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in history. Not to mention later dynasties, let’s just say that the drinking water tax of King Li and Jihu of Zhou Dynasty can be called the weirdest among the weird.

In addition to bragging about not paying taxes, the single tax, shoe tax, barefoot tax, and sun tax in later generations simply wrote shamelessness into history.

That is to say, the base of the common people in ancient times was quite large. If each person squeezed one or two money, an empire could make tens of millions of revenue per year and provide food and drink for one or two years.

How many so-called wise kings, sage kings, and lords of resurgence can be produced in a dynasty?

Most of them are foolish and mediocre kings.

To expect them to care about the life and death of the people is better than burning incense sticks, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha.

In history, although the First Emperor was praised as the only emperor of all time, he also had personal preferences. For example, the First Emperor did not like merchants, so the Qin Dynasty's business could not develop effectively, so the commercial tax was minimal or even negligible.

In Zhao Hao's opinion, this was actually a big failure.

"You think opening a business can increase the revenue of the treasury. Then my father asks you, how much can it increase?"

Seeing that Zhao Hao was silent, Ying Zheng asked again in a deep voice.

"Father, look at this."

Zhao Hao walked to the food box, picked it up and handed it to Ying Zheng: "How much does your father think it is worth?"

“How much is a food box worth?”

Ying Zheng muttered disapprovingly, then took the food box and looked at it carefully.

Suddenly, he suddenly realized that this food box was somewhat different from the food boxes he was familiar with.

I saw that the outside was woven with fine bamboo, and the workmanship was exquisite. The inside was wrapped with a layer of brocade cloth. It seemed that there was stuffing inside the brocade cloth for thermal insulation.

"This food box should be worth fifty and a half taels!" Ying Zheng said uncertainly.

Zhao Hao smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Okay, let's price the food box at fifty. Then how much tax should we charge for each food box sold?"

"According to Da Qin's commercial tax ratio, it is one tax per twelve dollars. From the fifty and a half taels, we will charge the remaining four and a half taels!"

"Fifty and a half taels, we only get the remaining four and a half taels, and they take the bulk. If this business is opened, it will not be of any benefit to us, but what if the business tax is raised to five to one, three to one?

"

"Three taxes and one tax?"

Ying Zheng stood up in surprise and said: "How can this be achieved? Not to mention whether commercial tax can increase the revenue of the treasury, so squeezing businessmen is not like drinking a dove to quench their thirst?"

"Father, compared with the agricultural tax of one for five and one for ten, are we, Da Qin, squeezing merchants or farmers?"

Zhao Hao asked sternly.

According to the statistics of Li Kui of Wei State in the early years of the Warring States Period.

At that time, one acre of land could produce 1.5 liters of grain.

However, in Li Kui's calculation, there are 100 steps per mu.

But after Shang Yang's reform, the Qin Dynasty expanded to 240 steps per mu.

Coupled with the use of iron plows and oxen, the output will inevitably increase greatly.

From this point of view, the agricultural tax of the Qin Dynasty was roughly between five taxes and one to ten taxes and one.

Even though agriculture in the Qin Dynasty was relatively developed, it was definitely heavily taxed at that time.

Moreover, the Qin Dynasty not only had taxes but also had servitude.

The Qin Dynasty implemented a "universal compulsory military service system".

That is to say, adult men will be "Fu Ji".

Whenever the country had any major projects, they would be dragged into corvee service one after another according to the list on the "Fu Ji".

This is called "practice update".

According to records in the "Book of Han·Shihuo Zhi", a man in the Qin Dynasty served in the military for one year, in reserve service or farming for one year, and then on duty for one month each year.

Calculated in this way, assuming a fifty-year-old man, the length of his current corvee service should be four and a half years.

This is already quite heavy labor.

What's more, the Qin Dynasty often carried out large-scale construction projects, and various major projects were carried out at the same time, so there might be temporary requisitions at any time.

Moreover, the place of work may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.

It can be seen from this that the burden on the people of the Qin Dynasty was really heavy.

Being scolded as a ‘violent Qin’ is not groundless.

"Even if you are right, this business cannot be opened to the public. My father will appropriately reduce taxes and prevent the people from doing so."

"Father, it's useless."

Zhao Hao interrupted Ying Zheng's words and said with a wry smile: "Our Daqin is already poor. If we reduce taxes, how will the country operate? This is simply unrealistic."

The wise kings in ancient times often did light taxes and light taxes, but they also had to be divided into time periods.

After all, not every wise man has read Das Kapital.

The development of society is dynamic, not solid. There are many things that even a wise king does not understand about the principle that running water does not rot and door hinges do not have beetles.

What they thought was the correct method for thousands of years was actually a joke in the face of the laws of history.

"Okay, let me think about the business tax matter again. You can go back first!"

After being interrupted by Zhao Hao, Ying Zheng no longer wanted to discuss business taxes with him.

After all, in his heart, Zhao Hao is still a child. No matter how smart a child is, it is impossible for him to know everything.

However, he was somewhat interested in the treatment method proposed by Zhao Hao, so before Zhao Hao left, he added: "My father will inform the imperial doctor and give you full authority to assist you."

"That medical clinic"

"Just do what you want and let Zhang Cang assist you!"

"Okay Father!"

Zhao Hao felt happy and quickly saluted Ying Zheng respectfully.

Although he could not persuade Ying Zheng to open a business for the time being, with the precedent of the medical clinic, he would definitely find another way to persuade Ying Zheng.

After all, if there is one, there are two, and if there are two, there are three.

The three give birth to all things.

There is one more chapter, which may come later.
Chapter completed!