Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 81 He seems to be short-sighted

In Duanwen Hall, Zhao Kuangyin did not comment, waved his hand to let the prime ministers go down, and said nothing about the business of the trading house.

One move affects the whole body. Today's trading houses have gradually become a climate, which involves the interests of countless soldiers and retired veterans. Changing the trading houses is essentially changing the army. Now that the Song Dynasty has just been established, any matters related to the forbidden army will be treated. When it comes to reform, one cannot be too cautious.

Only faintly, but still a little regretful for delegating too much power to Zhao Guangmei.

"I stole the taxes from the Salt and Iron Department and made my own money. But the problem is that our family only accounts for [-]% of the business. Alas, this business is not cost-effective." "

The Song Dynasty was really too poor.

At this time, the Song Dynasty only had a territory in the Central Plains. Hebei and Hedong were both the front lines against the Liao Dynasty. It would have been a blessing if the imperial court did not require blood transfusions. It was impossible to contribute any fiscal revenue. The Guanzhong generation was not considered peaceful. Meng Chang's Hou Shu had previously The occupied Qinfeng and Feng counties have not yet been recovered, and Wang Zhaoyuan has been clamoring for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The situation is also extremely tense. If it were not for the annual tributes from Wuyue and the Southern Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty's finances would have to make ends meet.

'How about... restoring Ma Zheng and Pi Zheng?Although Chai Rong is cruel in doing this, it actually makes sense. The country is really too poor. '

On the other side, Xue Juzheng returned to the Third Division, and was about to reprimand the subordinate officials to convey the pressure Zhao Kuangyin put on him, but was surprised to find that most of the subordinate officials in the Duzhi Division were not there.

"Where are the people? Where are the people from Duzhisi?"

"Back to my husband, they... they all went to His Highness the King of Qin. They said they were checking the taxes and accounts of the business."

"Nonsense! Are the accounts of the trading company more important than this year's autumn tax? The officials have called for it eight times in three days, and they are still waiting to see. I...I will go find His Highness to explain."

After saying that, Xue Juzheng went to find Zhao Guangmei angrily.

After all, he is the Third Secretary Envoy. Although he has always been supportive of Zhao Guangmei's business in the past year, when he settled the accounts, he found that Zhao Guangmei had stolen at least several million from his Third Secretary. He blamed me, and naturally he felt a little bit more dissatisfied.

It is of course a good thing for commercial banks to make money to house veterans, but taxes cannot be evaded like this. If this continues, the three divisions will turn into Qingshui Yamen.

"Your Highness!"

As soon as he entered the door, Xue Juzheng shouted loudly, which startled Zhao Guangmei.

"Lao Xue? Come on, come on, you're here just in time. We don't have enough manpower just relying on the branch office. Hurry up and go to the accounts department to call me some people. Otherwise, the accounts won't be settled tomorrow."

"........."

"Go quickly, why are you still hanging around?"

Xue Juzheng took a deep breath, forced down the dissatisfaction in his heart, and said: "Your Highness, it is the time for the autumn tax, and everyone in the three departments is extremely busy. The officials are still waiting for this year's discounts. It's very... Urgent, at this juncture, if you ask so many officials from the Du branch to help your business settle accounts, won't it delay state affairs? The truth is that this time, I will refute you."

Zhao Guangmei was stunned for a moment, then said with a funny face: "You are refuting this, the branch office is in charge of verifying the tax amount. My business is paying taxes, don't you want to check? Is it true that my business is here to pay taxes?" Tax, but not tax? Isn’t it agreed that one-third of the profits of the trading company must be turned over to the Privy Council, but after all, it still has to go through the branch office. "

Xue Juzheng was stunned again: "Is your firm also doing inventory at this time?"

"Actually, it shouldn't be at this time. It would be more appropriate to put it around the Chinese New Year. But I know you are taking stock, so I will take stock of it by the way. This way, it will be convenient for the branch office to prepare the budget for next year. More importantly, What’s more, I know that your tax situation this year will definitely not be ideal, and if you get it together, it will look better.”

"How much tax do you pay?"

"Isn't this a formal check? Well, these are all account books."

"so much?"

Xue Juzheng looked confused. He felt that the account books piled up as high as a hill in this room were almost catching up with the National Salt and Iron Company in the Salt and Iron Department.

"Do you have a general ledger?"

"Well, here it is."

Xue Juzheng took it and opened it, and then he jumped up with a loud sound: "So many? Are these, are these profits or, or, taxes?"

"Of course it's taxes. Why should I send you the profits?"

"Can it be guaranteed to be accurate?"

"Isn't this a formal inspection?"

"Come on, follow me to see the official."

"I'm not going. I'm doing the tax calculation. Besides, I have to report to him in such a formal way. In the evening, the veterans invited him to have a drink together. We can just discuss the matter at the wine table."

"Absurd! How can such an important matter of the country be so casual? No matter, I am the envoy of the Third Division, you must follow me."

Then, Xue Juzheng dragged Zhao Guangmei into the palace.

"The official family, the official family, are very happy, very happy, the taxes have come out."

Zhao Kuangyin didn't leave Duanwen Hall at all. He was just thinking about this year's taxes and was worried about this year's taxes. When he saw Xue Juzheng coming over, he couldn't help but look happy on his face.

"What, this year's income has been calculated?"

"No, it's His Highness the King of Qin. The accounts of the trading company have come out."

While he was talking, Zhao Kuangyin saw Zhao Guangmei walking in slowly as if walking in a garden, muttering: "I don't want to come to Duanwen Hall, so be depressed. If you have anything to do, we can discuss it over the wine table."

"Humph!"

Zhao Kuangyin snorted at him dissatisfied.

"How many?"

"Guan family, this is the general ledger. The total is 520 million yuan."

"so much?"

Zhao Kuangyin was shocked: "In this case, if you hand over one-third, it will be..."

"The official family is turning over 520 yuan!" "... turned over more than 500 million yuan. In other words, the actual profit is more than 500 million yuan? The profit is close to twice the national annual income? Isn't this a joke? ?”

Then Zhao Kuangyin stared directly at Zhao Guangmei.

Zhao Guangmei, who was familiar with it, took an apple from Zhao Kuangyin's table and said while nibbling: "My brother-in-law and father-in-law and their group of veterans said they would invite Fan Lou to have a drink tonight, and they also said they would treat you. Are you going? The merchant bank paid for it. I told them that since I invited you, it would be better to just go to the palace. But they had to go to Fanlou. They said it was not fun to drink in the palace. This is because they have two money. What a waste, are you going? Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t go. Drinking with you would definitely not be pleasant. I guess they meant it by asking me to invite you. Brother, if you know better, don’t go. , please settle the bill, these apples are quite sweet, are they a tribute from the Southern Tang Dynasty?"

Zhao Kuangyin pointed at the account book and said nothing: "Where did this money come from? Where did you get so much money?"

"It's earned."

"Why so much? Why do you earn so much? How is this possible for a mere business? Twice the annual income this year? You shouldn't earn so much even if you kill the God of Wealth and bleed him. Do we, our Zhao family still have something? [-]% of the shares? That means..."

"Of the more than 500 million yuan in profits, 200 yuan will be given to the Privy Council and 200 yuan will be given to the soldiers of the Forbidden Army. We can only divide the remaining 100 yuan into 50%, which is a little more than 50 million yuan. But brother, there are [-]% of the more than [-] million yuan. The remaining [-] is mine, and the remaining [-] belongs to my second brother. The one I will give you is fifty, and this fifty is also given to Zhaoer. Now Zhaoer is taken care of by her mother, so if you want this [-], you can I have to ask my mother for it, and besides, this year’s profits may not be fully divided, and they may be invested in reproduction.”

Zhao Kuangyin ignored Zhao Guangmei's objection and kept muttering to himself: "How can you make so much? How come you can make so much."

Then he quickly pulled Zhao Guangmei over, and regardless of the etiquette, he directly pressed him on his dragon chair and sat shoulder to shoulder with him, and then said eagerly: "Why do you earn so much? It’s unreasonable, it’s so unreasonable.”

Zhao Guangmei looked as usual and said: "There is nothing unreasonable. The scale of the trading company is shown here. The initial investment alone is more than 1000 million yuan, especially the merger of various military fields. To put it bluntly, each military field is If my assets were really converted into money for takeout, I'm afraid it would be more than 2000 million yuan. Large-scale production itself will reduce costs. As for me, I made some small inventions and creations to increase production efficiency, and also made some small soaps and the like. Funny, in one year, the property return rate is actually equivalent to more than 30.00%. To be honest, it is not very high. The most important thing is that I did not pay taxes. This alone is enough to make profits. "

"Ah... it's different... it's so much different?"

While he was talking, he saw Ban Zhi outside the door reporting: "The official family, Zhang Yushi wants to see you."

"Which Zhang Yushi? Ah, Zhang Ai? What is this old guy doing here? See you or not, we are busy."

"Here."

"Wait a moment."

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but hesitate again.

"Let him in."

After a while, Zhang Ai came in arrogantly with two leaky front teeth. When he saw Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Kuangyin sitting shoulder to shoulder on the dragon chair, he couldn't help but frown.

'The officials are still too casual and tolerant towards their family members. '

"Zhang Aiqing, what's the matter with you?"

"I want to impeach His Highness the King of Qin and the Royal Commercial Bank."

Zhao Guangmei was originally holding a big apple and watching the fun. This Zhang Ai now really thought of herself as Wei Zheng of the Song Dynasty. She opened her mouth to sneer at people. He also wanted to see who Lehe wanted to sneer at him, but unexpectedly he rushed at him. Come on your own.

How dare you come at yourself?Aren't you afraid that those soldiers will knock down the door in the middle of the night?
Zhao Guangmei didn't feel angry at all. Instead, she just felt curious and amused. She was actually looking forward to seeing if this guy could squirt out some flowers.

Zhao Kuangyin also smiled and said: "Why, are you saying that the trading company is competing for profits with the people again, and you want to close the trading company?"

Zhang Ai said: "What I want to say is not about competing with the people for profit. I have a booklet here, which records in detail at least more than 100 private businesses. I think this is really shocking. I heard that this year’s annual income is much lower than expected. I boldly assert that the shortfall in this year’s income is all due to the trading company! The trading company is not doing business. Paying taxes is actually the great evil of the country, and the great thief of Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Guangmei had a strange look on her face. She placed the half-eaten apple in her hand on the table, then took out another one, took a bite, and said with a smile: "This big hat is really good. It makes me a national thief."

Zhao Kuangyin frowned and said, "Bring the zhezi up."

Then I opened it and looked at the densely written evidence of tax evasion and tax evasion by the business, but my heart became more and more weird.

Then he couldn't help but turned around and asked Zhao Guangmei: "Is this all true or false?"

"How do I know if it's true or not? As a general manager like me, I control all strategic directions. Can I personally intervene in such a small matter? How much tax has been evaded?"

Zhang Ai snorted angrily and said confidently: "With this roster in my hands, at least these bastards have evaded more than 40 yuan in taxes."

"Only 40?" Zhao Guangmei curled her lips disdainfully and said, "I thought you were holding back a lot of shit after you wasted so much effort. It took a long time to get more than 40."

Zhao Kuangyin frowned and said, "Do you know how much profit-sharing tax the commercial bank has paid this year?"

"I don't know."

"It's more than 500 million yuan. With this amount of money, even the national funds are already much higher than last year. This is strange. You said that this business evaded taxes, but even if the income this year is The entire shortfall was placed on the bank, and he only underpaid more than 300 million yuan, but he paid more than 200 million yuan. Why is this?"

"What? This, this is impossible."

"Also, the issue of shortfall in annual income was just discussed when Prime Minister Duanwen Palace was discussing the matter. You are not the Prime Minister. How come you already knew about what we just discussed, and you also came up with such a detailed explanation? Where’s the evidence?”

"Ah, this..."

Zhao Guangmei kept lowering his head and looking at the list handed over by Zhang Ai, and then said half angrily and half amused: "Brother, Zhang Ai, a mere censor, can actually collect this evidence so completely, even if He must have been deliberately planning this, and it’s really surprising. Even if this list is true, even I don’t know about it, but he knows that no one in the business firm has made statistics on this matter.”

"And you see, most of the so-called tax evasion businessmen are from the seventeen counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture. Your evidence was collected by Kaifeng Prefecture for you. Could it be my second brother? Big brother, second brother This is a waste of money. I strongly suggest that this year’s dividends should not be given to him. Otherwise, let’s divide his [-]% of the shares, and Zhao’er and I will each get half a percent more.”

Hearing this, Zhang Ai's face turned pale.

However, he still said stubbornly: "Officials, Your Highness, I am not saying that what the trading houses do is not good. I think that the trading houses have indeed promoted the prosperity of industry and commerce. However, tax evasion and tax evasion by the trading houses, as well as those who are dependent on the trading houses, It is also an indisputable fact that many merchants evade taxes. The profits of the merchants this year are so huge, which just shows that His Highness the King of Qin is a genius in the world. It may be able to solve the most urgent financial crisis of our Song Dynasty. However, if His Highness can build on this basis, If we pay taxes normally, wouldn’t the state use it more abundantly?”

Zhao Guangmei curled her lips: "Why, the more than 500 million I pay now doesn't count as tax, right?"

"Why would your Highness ask knowingly? The transaction tax alone is only one-quarter. If His Highness pays the tax in full instead of going his own way, wouldn't it be more sufficient for the country? If the money is not in the hands of businessmen, but is flowing out. As for the common people, wouldn’t the extra taxes that the imperial court can collect from the people be several times this?”

Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought.

Theoretically, what Zhang Ai said seems to make sense, but how come it is several times that? Last year's annual income was just over 1000 million yuan. Why do you feel that this theory is completely inconsistent with past practical experience?

Zhao Guangmei couldn't help but burst out laughing and said, "Brother, he seems to be short-sighted."

(End of this chapter)