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- Zhao Hao could only encourage him and said, you can think about Zeng. You two are both foreigners. I was once a ginseng seller, but you started out as a humble person Oh no, you are a person who started out as a ginseng seller. We are all equally matched.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Out of the Song Dynasty's villages, they built Zengtou City, a city with a radius of hundreds of miles, a large population, more than 10,000 troops, and five strongholds that no one dared to mess with. Not more prestigious than a prefect?
¡°You still have my son as your backing, why can¡¯t you also take root in a foreign country, become bigger and stronger, and become a local hegemon? Let the pastoral envoys obey your orders and become a major contributor to the recovery of Tamluo?
Only then did Fatty Tang agree.
¡°Actually, he was just acting coquettishly with Zhao Hao and wanted to be on camera more. Tang Youde knew very well that Mr. Zhao's ambition was not in the court but overseas.
Zhao Hao unified Jiangnan just to be able to better exert his efforts overseas. As for operations in the capital, in fact, in order to reduce constraints, it also means to pull the banner and play with the skin of a tiger.
From a business perspective, he can also understand Mr. Zhao. What is doing business? Just buy low and sell high. Sell ??something cheap in place A to place B where the price is high and earn the price difference. This is doing business.
¡°This is how he sells southern goods; this is how he trades by sea; this is how the young master pulls the tiger skin of the imperial court and operates overseas - the signboard of the Celestial Kingdom is worthless at home, but extremely valuable overseas. The young master just wants to buy this sign from China at a low price, and then cash it in at a high price overseas!
This is a big business to cash in the golden brand name that the Celestial Kingdom has accumulated for two thousand years! Even if Tang Youde was beaten to death, he would not be absent!
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So Tang Youde reluctantly accepted Zhao Hao's appointment and became the first mayor of Xingang City.
According to the provisions of the "Xingang City Management Regulations (Interim)" formulated by Mr. Zhao himself, the mayor is the administrative head of Xingang City. The term of office is five years, renewable once. Its responsibilities are to lead the overall work of the city hall, reward and punish city hall employees except counselors.
The responsibility of the City Hall is to ensure a stable, free and open environment in Xingang City and promote the prosperity of Xingang.
??Specifically, the number one task of the city hall is to collect taxes ¨C collecting customs duties, commercial taxes and resident taxes.
The tariffs are targeted at imported and exported goods, but the imported and exported goods of Daming Royal Shipping Corporation are exempt from tax. To put it bluntly, it is to collect taxes from the Li Dynasty business group. The tax rate is one out of ten.
The object of commercial tax is shops and merchants carrying out business activities in Xingang City, and the tax rate is 1 tax per 20 tax.
As for the resident tax, it is levied on residents who have settled in Xingang City, with a fixed amount of one tael per household per year.
Taxation is a good thing. If we don¡¯t collect taxes, who will do urban construction?
Oh no, I should say yes, how can we carry out urban construction without collecting taxes?
¡°And according to Mr. Zhao, obtaining income through taxation is only one aspect. It can also build bonds with citizens. After all, no one will cherish what they get easily. Only when residents and shops pay the cost will they truly protect the city!
????????????????????????? Well, that¡¯s disgusting to say. However, it is indeed possible to use taxes to make citizens obey management, maintain population stability, and accurately grasp the city's economic status.
¡°Look, there are so many benefits to collecting taxes. Even if Mr. Zhao doesn¡¯t want to make money, he still has to collect taxes well.
Of course, no one will take the initiative to pay taxes, so a tax office is set up under the city hall, and a tax inspection team led by a tax officer is responsible for compulsory tax collection.
And although Xingang City welcomes anyone to work and live, if you want to do business or buy property here, you must hold continuous tax payment certificates.
In order to make Xingang City prosper as soon as possible, it will be tax-free in the first year of its opening, and no tax payment certificate will be required for home purchases.
After one year, anyone who dares to resist the tax will be thrown into prison and tried by an arbitration tribunal. The lighter case may include fines and deportation, and the more serious case may be reform through labor.
Prisons are indispensable institutions of violence. Without prisons, there would be no order.
The arbitral tribunal is an indispensable adjudication institution in the city, otherwise various disputes cannot be handled. Because the scale of the city is limited and the organization is as streamlined as possible, the arbitral tribunal also has judicial functions. The full name is the "Arbitration and Adjudication Tribunal". It not only handles civil disputes, but also handles criminal cases, which is very important.
When deciding cases, the arbitral tribunal generally refers to the "Household Code" and "Criminal Code" in the Ming Dynasty's legal system. As for the "Public Code" and "Etiquette Code", the small Xingang City has neither need nor Must be followed.
Mr. Zhao, the old man and Zheng Ruo once had repeated discussions and drafted a "Xingang Civil Administration Regulations" in accordance with the "Household Code" and related regulations. , market order and other legislation related to social economy and personal relationships.The difference between his "Civil Administration Regulations" and the "Da Ming Household Code" is quite big. First, he strictly limited the ownership of private land and houses, and used punitive tax rates to crack down on land acquisitions by wealthy businessmen.
The Ming Dynasty or any dynasty was destroyed by land annexation, and land annexation was the enemy of the industry and commerce he developed. Zhao Hao hated it deeply but was powerless. He could only strangle this kind of thing from the source where he had the final say. Cancer of humanity.
He made it clear in the Civil Affairs Regulations that the land in Xingang City was leased by Jiangnan Group. Therefore, those who want to own land in Xingang City can only rent it for a long time and cannot buy it permanently.
And he stipulated that the unit of cultivated land should be ten acres, and the unit of non-cultivated land should be half an acre. Citizens only need to pay a certain nominal rent every year to lease one unit of cultivated land and one unit of non-cultivated land on a long-term basis. The rent varies according to location, but is only one-tenth of the normal level, and the lease term can be as long as 50 years.
This approach, which only has usage rights but no ownership, will of course greatly inhibit the impulse of wealthy people to merge.
¡°Moreover, Zhao Hao also stipulated that for every additional unit rented by each household, the land tax will be doubled every year.
That is to say, if you own one more unit of land, you will have to pay 2 taels of land tax every year. Use two more units to get 4 taels. Three units are 8 taels, four units are 16 taels, five units are 32 taels Such a big house covering an area of ??three acres only pays 32 taels of land tax every year, which can be afforded by rich people.
But if you want to live in a six-acre garden, you have to pay a land tax of 2,048 taels every year. For a seven-acre garden, it is 8,192 taels. Who can bear this?
The same is true for cultivated land, which not only takes care of the needs of wealthy people for land, but also restrains excessive mergers.
And the most important thing is that everyone must pay taxes as one. No matter whether it is a wealthy gentry or a high-ranking official of the Jiangnan Group, no one can enjoy tax exemption. Even Mr. Zhao needs to pay taxes when he buys property on the island. This makes tax evasion methods such as trickery and submission useless.
¡° Moreover, the ¡°Civil Affairs Regulations¡± also stipulates that those who evade taxes through means such as flying and sending false mail will immediately have all their property in Xingang City confiscated and deported upon investigation. Whistleblowers can receive one-tenth of their property.
In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations clearly stipulate that Xingang City only collects land tax and does not collect agricultural tax. In other words, when people farm within ten acres of land in Xingang City, except for a negligible amount of rent, almost all the income they receive can be owned by themselves.
What? Li Chao's government came to collect taxes? Ask their servants if they dare to come? Don't break their dog legs!
This alone is enough to absorb enough basic population to support Xingang City.
In addition, the Civil Affairs Regulations also stipulate that no slaves are allowed in Xingang City, and no deeds of sale are allowed. Deeds of sale signed outside the city are not protected by this city. Employers must sign an employment contract when using workers. A single contract cannot exceed five years, but it can be renewed indefinitely.
What, what about those Japanese workers? They were found guilty by the arbitration tribunal and required to undergo forced labor reform. Of course, this is within the scope of the Criminal Ordinance.
On the criminal side, Zhao Hao canceled all physical punishment. Except for serious crimes such as murder, robbery, and rape, which were punishable by death, all other crimes were atonement through labor reform. For example, for petty theft, first-time offenders would be sent to hard labor for 3 months, second offenders would be sent to hard labor for 2 years, and repeat offenders would be sent to hard labor for life. It was guaranteed that the prisoners' souls would be sublimated through sweat.
¡°In addition to having to worry about these violent institutions, Fatty Tang will also be responsible for some sunny undertakings. For example, establishing and maintaining schools for local people, popularizing Chinese education, and vigorously promoting Confucianism - Mr. Zhao asked him to hire the most traditional old masters, preferably the kind of rotten Confucians who can smell the sour smell from three streets away. Let them use the teachings of saints to influence the indigenous people, strengthen their observance of the Three Cardinal Guidelines and the Five Constant Rules, their obedience to the Heavenly Kingdom, and their gratitude to the Jiangnan Group.
By the way, the Chinese school in Xingang City does not offer science courses. Apart from the Four Books and Five Classics, it only teaches some applied mathematics such as accounting and abacus. The local people should have more words from the saints, this is the kingly way, and boring leftism like science should be reserved to torture the people of the Ming Dynasty.
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As for the security work in the city, the Xingang Police Station of the Gapado Marine Police Station is responsible.
However, the police station is under the dual leadership of the Marine Police Department and the City Hall, so Tang Youde can still mobilize them within the scope of Xingang City.
The most important trade with Japan is the responsibility of the Tamna Chamber of Commerce. Although the Tamna Chamber of Commerce is an independent organization in name, it still needs to register with the city hall and accept business guidance from the mayor.
There are many big and small matters, to name a few. In short, everything in the city is the responsibility of the city hall, and Fatty Tang can be found in the end.
With so many things to do, Fatty Tang certainly can¡¯t handle them all by himself, and having the power alone will not do him or the group any good.
So Zhao Hao set up a municipal committee with several counselors to assist the mayor in managing the city. Counselors are appointed directly by the group. The mayor does not have the power to directly appoint and dismiss counselors, but he has the right to make suggestions.
In addition, if more than two-thirds of the counselors sign, they can recommend that the group remove the mayor. Moreover, an inspection and supervision committee will also be established outside the city hall to prevent the mayor from covering the sky with one hand and running the entire city into an independent kingdom.
This is of course not to guard against Fatty Tang. Mr. Zhao still has absolute trust in himself, his first business partner.
But only a good mechanism can make everyone¡¯s friendship last forever. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)So Zhao Hao set up a municipal committee with several counselors to assist the mayor in managing the city. Counselors are appointed directly by the group. The mayor does not have the power to directly appoint and dismiss counselors, but he has the right to make suggestions.
In addition, if more than two-thirds of the counselors sign, they can recommend that the group remove the mayor. Moreover, an inspection and supervision committee will also be established outside the city hall to prevent the mayor from covering the sky with one hand and running the entire city into an independent kingdom.
This is of course not to guard against Fatty Tang. Mr. Zhao still has absolute trust in himself, his first business partner.
But only a good mechanism can make everyone¡¯s friendship last forever. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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