"Bastards, they are all bastards. Where are you thinking? Where is a sachet worth 50 stone grain? I''m going to ask Tang Hao, a bastard, what''s the reason for this kind of plundering people''s money?"
Li Zhi smiled and pressed her mother''s hand. "I think it''s right to set the price higher. Those who can afford these bags are not poor people. At least they need to have enough food and clothing. This thing can fundamentally divide a woman of rich and poor people into two classes. Twelve silver coins, not much. Qian Sheng, what does Tang Hao say?"
Qian Sheng said reluctantly, "Weichen asked the Tang family at the beginning. They said they didn''t sell any leather bags. Their family only sells noble life. This leather bag is just a sign that the owner''s family is in a rich life."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "I remember. Tang Hao has invited him to levy a luxury tax before."
"Of course, I don''t think so. Now it seems that Tang Hao is a wake-up call for me. Anyway, it''s too much to earn by buying a leather bag with 50 stone grain. You only ask the book province to draw up a list of luxury goods and increase their tax rate by three times."
After reading the will, Li Zhixuan asked the female officials to get up and was not ready to scold them. I can inadvertently find a loophole and quickly fill it. I can''t help saying that this is a victory.
The news that the emperor was going to levy a luxury tax suddenly made the old shopkeeper of the Tang family''s old shop fall to the ground. He had no foundation to make money. Now, the imperial court began to levy heavy taxes, which is a good thing.
The Tang family always put safety first in doing business. It must be reasonable, reasonable and legal. The introduction of luxury tax made early worries disappear.
"Fushou, tell me, did your Majesty''s will say what the tax rate of luxury tax is?" Lao Zhou put down his tea bowl and asked the man who had just reported the news.
"Shopkeeper, your majesty has set the luxury tax three times more than the current tax." the man replied quickly.
"What? Old Monday jumped out of his chair and took all the tea bowls down with his sleeves. Hurry to tell the general, three times? How can it be three times? If it passes through the three provinces, our family will have to be scolded to death."
Before the issuance of the decree of the Tang Dynasty, there was a set of very strict procedures. If a decree wants to be produced, it must go through three checkpoints in the three provinces of Zhongshu, menxia and Shangshu.
Zhongshu province draws up instructions. After the emperor approves the red, he goes to the next province for review. Finally, he has to go through the deliberation of the Royal historian''s platform. If the leaders of the imperial censor''s platform are dissatisfied with the emperor''s decree, they will call back and redraft it, and will not issue it to the Shangshu province for implementation until they are satisfied. There was a position of shangshuling before.
After Li Zhi''s father ascended the throne, the position of shangshuling disappeared. This is the most powerful department among the six provinces of the central government. Li Zhi consciously or unconsciously held this right in his own hands.
Since the emperor defeated the strong enemies on the grassland, his authority has increased day by day, and many decrees have been issued to Zhongshu province without consultation. Fang Xuanling would generally advise, but when he saw that the emperor was determined to act, he would draft a decree and send it to the next province.
Changsun Wuji has opposed to being named the governor of Zhaozhou since the last time. I don''t know how I was cleaned up by the emperor. Anyway, since then, the province under the door has always followed the emperor''s orders. Wei Zheng has been driven around like a dog by the emperor in the past two years.
Who dares to touch the emperor''s dragon beard when there are those soft eggs left in the imperial censor''s platform? Naturally, it will be passed by a unanimous vote. Then it will be carried out by the Shangshu Province, the Department personally controlled by the emperor.
No matter how smart a person is, there are still some things missing. How can Li Zhi be an exception? Is it a lot to turn three somersaults on the existing basis? This is not the necessities such as food and cloth. If you turn three somersaults, the common people will not be able to live. This is a luxury. If profits don''t turn a hundred somersaults, what do you mean by luxury?
Yuezhou''s current tax rate is 10 taxes and 1 tax, or according to the original food tax. The tax on Tang''s bags is actually the tax on crocodile skin.
As for crocodile skin, you split it into several layers, and no one cares about you. The government just gave you half an inch thick crocodile skin for the last tax. The tax in the restaurant is also the raw material tax. The Tang restaurant earns a lot of money every day. The business tax in January is only ten silver coins.
Old Zhou was anxious, like a grinding donkey, and said to Tang Hao, "general, we can''t make money like this. We''re not sure about ourselves."
Indeed, in Lao Zhou''s opinion, the tax rate has turned three somersaults. What''s the difference between not increasing it?
"The old slave thinks that it''s almost the same to levy ten taxes on the final material object. You have to tell your majesty that if we go on like this, we won''t dare to sell our bags. Everyone is jealous. At that time, the whole world will be enemies, and the gains outweigh the losses."
Changle stood behind Tang Hao and helped him rub his temples. Tang Hao began to have a headache when he heard the news reported by his buddy. The farming society quickly entered the commercial society. Li Zhi was not ready. He thought that the triple tax rate was already very high.
But it''s embarrassing. Once it becomes a law and is determined, if the Tang family doesn''t practice the law for ten years, how much will it be if they make another ten years? In fact, everyone is looking forward to the birth of luxury tax.