You and I say something, in short, it means hurting each other and increasing commercial taxes at the same time.

Han Yi waited until they said enough, and then slowly said, "You are right. If you calculate the tax amount, the stamp duty paid by merchants may not be as good as that of landlords. I admit it, and I cannot deny it. But you have ignored one thing, that is status and privileges. The court gave landlords and gentry so many preferential treatments and privileges. What is given to merchants? There is no problem with the court to increase the tax amount of both to the same level, but the status of merchants must also be raised to the same as that of landlords. Since you all say that you should be fair, then all aspects must be fair."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the officials remained silent.

Han Yi always only lets them take the least rights of the two evils. This is also a trick used by frauds. If you give you a worse person, you will feel that the world is beautiful.

Why do these landlords always suppress merchants? It is not because they are smart enough, but because they are a privileged class. They are the same class as the emperor, and the emperor is the largest landlord in the world.

And the businessman just happened to be restricted, which is actually unfair.

However, national policies cannot be fair, and can only be said to maintain the overall situation.

Although the money is a little less, it is obviously not cost-effective to take advantage of the social status of tax merchants who have gained this extra.

"Why don't you talk anymore? Don't you want to be fair? This is very fair. Everyone pays taxes, hoping that the country will be good and that they can be better. I pay the most taxes, but the restrictions are also the most. Will this merchant willingly pay taxes? Moreover, this time the court has done this, many merchants lose their money, and no one says a fair word for the merchant?"

Han Yi sighed again and said, "You must be kind. The country is composed of different classes. Each class is indispensable. You cannot just care about yourself. Moreover, merchants actually pay a lot of taxes. Merchants have to rely on contracts for everything, and contracts have to pay stamp duty. This money is considerable. Moreover, merchants have to pay taxes when buying land. In addition, the court will not cancel the city tax and mountain tax, but they will only revise it."

Changsun Yan suddenly said: "No matter how much the tax is, there is a disadvantage to this stamp duty, that is, the court cannot control the officials to embezzle and accept bribes from it. The landlord's land is easy to calculate, but how can the court know how many stamps the local government sells? If it is to be counted, it requires a lot of manpower and powerlessness, and the stamp duty is originally intended to be simplified."

Li Zhi couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this and said, "The Minister Changsun is right! In this crisis, corruption and abuse of power are really shocking. The court must prevent such things from happening again."

Han Yi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, according to my estimates, in the early days, Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Muzhou and other places were large taxpayers. In other areas with underdeveloped commercial taxes, there were not many commercial taxes that could be paid. Weichen suggested that the stamp duty be used as a subsidy to local prefectures and counties to restore them. As for later, when the merchants' stamp duty increased, the court would come to control it."

Changsun Yan said curiously: "How to control this?"

"Rely on invention and creation!" Han Yi said: "At the beginning, the printing was stamped by the government government, but afterwards, the pigment of the seal could be controlled, and even the decals could be restricted. This decal is to paste a piece of paper. As long as the court controls the secret recipe for the sticker and keeps it strictly confidential, and then sends it to the government governments in various places, the accounts should be calculated according to the decals. This is very simple. Moreover, I believe this is not difficult to do."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes! This method is quite wonderful."

This is similar to vouchers. As long as you ensure that the decal cannot be produced, that's fine. The central government only needs to figure out how much I send out and how much I have left, and just calculate the amount of the decal. Your officials can ask your brother-in-law to sell it, but you can't think of how much you sell it, you can't think of it for a penny.

Han Yi said: "Your Majesty, this is wonderful, but there is a very important premise for stamp duty."

"What premise?"

"It is the sacred gentleman's contract."

Han Yi said: "There is a factor that cannot be ignored in this crisis, which is the violation of the contract, whether it is the court or merchant, everyone is violating the contract, and everyone is doing things in a mess, which leads to the situation getting out of control. Stamp duty is completely based on the contract. If the court does not pay attention to the contract, the stamp duty will collapse soon, which is very terrible."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Then what advice do you have on this?"

Han Yi said to Li Zhi again: "Weichen suggested establishing a tax bureau, which is specifically used to investigate tax revenue, especially the wealthy businessmen and landlords. In fact, they have been trying to evade taxes for a long time. Tenants are the ones who want to evade taxes. But this time the court must be honest with them. If they really have the ability to evade taxes and prevent the court from evading taxes, the court has nothing to say, but as long as they are caught, they must be punished to lose all their money and must not tolerate them, in order to deter them, because on the basis of stamp duty, evading taxes is a violation of the contract. Not only that, anyway, household registration is very messy now, and the court must count the household registration again.

The Weichen suggested adding a creditworthiness to the household registration. If anyone violates the contract, the court should not only give him a sign of distrust in his household registration, but also publish it locally, so that he cannot stand in this world. In addition, any affairs involving the court, those who are distrustful are not qualified to participate, including the imperial examination. A person who does not even speak of integrity should not be summoned to the court to harm others and himself. The sages have said that if the people do not have faith, they will not be established, and the country is composed of people, and if the country does not have faith, they will perish. The court can even separate the words of integrity said by the sage and revise a book to educate everyone about the importance of integrity."

This time, no one said anything. Although this was obviously unfavorable to the landlords, they were all people who read the books of sages. They also knew that integrity is the foundation of being a human being, and they could not say that keeping trust was wrong.

Cui Jieren suddenly shook his head and said, "This is inappropriate."

Han Yi asked, "Why is it inappropriate?"

Cui Jie said: "Because the court often does not keep its promises. If you cannot be strict with yourself, how can you ask the people to keep their promises?"

Han Yi said in surprise: "You - you are talking nonsense. When will the court not keep its promise? The court has taken on such a large debt in the northwest. This is a manifestation of keeping trust."

Cui Jieren smiled and said, "Just talking about the issue of taxation, if a war occurs suddenly in the court, it can only be taxed. However, if the court does not have the power to collect excess taxes based on stamp duty. There are so many examples like this."

Han Yi looked at Li Zhi.

Before Li Zhi could speak, Li Ji said: "He said it well, but sometimes the court had to do it. If a war broke out, would the court ignore it?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "This is a love that is not necessary, but often the beginning of the destruction of the country starts with love that is not necessary. Take this crisis as an example. Li Yifu imposes taxes in advance, which leads to the people having no money to pay taxes, and the people have to flee, and the world becomes chaotic. Fortunately, there is no war outside in the past two years. If there is any gain, it will be even worse! Forced taxation is to kill chickens and get eggs. It cannot be used easily until the last moment. Even if the prefectures and counties encounter disasters, it is better to let the government close than to force taxes to fill the bad debts, because the imperial court still collects taxes when the people have no food, which is even worse. At that time, more money will be spent to make up for it. This crisis is caused by this."

Li Ji said: "But if there is no tax, how can the court have money to fight?"

Han Yi said: "The court has to prepare for the future. Save some money first to deal with emergencies. The closing method is a very good method."

Cui Jiebian said: "That is to say, the stamp duty will remain unchanged for thousands of years, just like the equal-field system?"

Han Yi said: "Of course not, but it cannot be changed easily. You have to follow the rules. For example, the tax rate will be re-confirmed every five years, or even ten years. According to the development of the country, the court can promulgate the law first and then adjust the taxes. The court has reason to follow, and this can also prevent local governments from secretly levying taxes. Since the court wants everyone to abide by the contract, the government is not qualified to collect one cent more tax."

Changsun Yan suddenly said: "In fact, this is not very difficult. The court only needs to take some special circumstances into consideration first, and then formulate regulations to stipulate in plain text. The court always holds the initiative."

Cui Jiebing said: "But if this happens, will my Tang Dynasty laws become very complicated?"

Changsun Yan said: "It will definitely become very cumbersome, but if officials and the people can do everything according to the rules, it will reduce a lot of trouble."

Li Zhi knew that doing this would definitely be beneficial to the stability of the country. Everyone followed the rules, but he had no say in front of him because he had to weigh the interests of the emperor and could not check and balance the power of the emperor. However, Changsun Yan's words made him a little relieved. The laws were all formulated by the court and formulated by the court, so he must decide whether he could clearly stipulate his rights and interests. He still had absolute initiative and could restrain many people. So he said: "This matter is of great importance. You must first list the laws before you can make the final decision. Let this matter be left to Han Yi, Di Renjie, Ren Zhigu, Changsun Yan, and Lu Shigua five people."

"I obey the order."

The five people said at the same time.

Li Zhi said to Li Hong again: "Crown Prince, please learn more."

Li Hong said, "Father, my son wants to learn how to revise books on integrity."

He likes reading very much, and he is very happy to go to the book about integrity. As for how to calculate the tax, he is not very interested.

Li Zhi also forced him because every prince did this, and this revision of books requires talents. Many princes often used revision of books to win over talents and build their own team. They nodded and smiled: "Okay."

Ren Zhigu suddenly said: "There is another problem. With so many more things and a tax bureau is set up, so there may not be enough manpower!"
Chapter completed!