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Chapter 336
10 taels of silver per month, even Cheng Jinzhou, who trades in the Star Alliance every day, earns no more than that. From this, one can imagine the huge temptation of this money.

After a year of development, the number of commodities circulated and distributed in De'an has reached almost one-third of that of Daxia, and even exceeds the commodity trading volume of the entire Northern Han Dynasty. Gentlemen who want to get a share of the pie are doing it for Cheng Jinzhou's sake. On the way, he hid far away from Jinchuan Province and set up a card.It was replaced by other businessmen, either donating their property to the country, or waiting for the country to issue the average wealth card to their hands.

In fact, the most unbearable ones should be the princes of Daxia Zhengshitang.To them, a million taels of grain per year is not too much food, but if it is all silver and cash such as money making, it will be different.Because silver is one of the forms of currency, and the government needs silver and brass to issue currency.Even with a simple economic concept, it can be imagined that if a county can increase the currency of one million taels of silver every year-and it is still increasing-it will have a huge impact on the national currency system.The several exchange methods that the gentlemen of Zhengshitang are most worried about, whether money is expensive and silver is cheap, silver is expensive and food is cheap, or grain is expensive and money is cheap, will cause social instability. Entering the market, with the level of economic development in Daxia, it will definitely cause a fatal impact.

Of course, the gentlemen of Zhengshitang would not come to De'an to ask for money stupidly, but they have other ways.Surrounding the four provincial highways in Jinzhou Province, card tolls are set up on the main avenues, and they are nicknamed: Lijin.

In fact, the monthly income of likin is much more than 10 taels.Because De'an collects commercial tax, as long as the goods are not traded in Jinchuan Province, there is no need to pay tax, and tax evasion is easy.The tariff called lijin is not the case. All goods passing through will be charged.It's just that most of them are pocketed by officials.Even so, the total amount they handed over to the court exceeded 10 taels of silver.

This move is not only to make money, but also to test Cheng Jinzhou's bottom line.

He had requested a long time ago that all roads in Jinchuan Prefecture should not be charged customs duties and other exorbitant taxes.

Just like the orders of all rulers, in the face of vital interests, few people perfectly abide by the regulations.Killing people can only be done by nodding their heads, and the scars as big as a bowl can be covered with gold. Most of the ink officials have the same values, let alone have the support of Shangguan.

Xu Guinian is an old man, and he knew it was not good just by Shi Mo's face.While arching his hands, he clung to him with a smile on his face and said, "Little brother Si Mo, you dare not miss me, brother, what's going on..."

Shi Mo's name is Shutong, but he is actually a secretary. He has his own judgment on what to say and what not to say.At this moment, he nodded and said, "Do you know about the Lijin matter?"

"Oh, I know, I'm waiting for your lord to arrive." Xu Guinian said and thanked: "My brother appreciates your kindness. I will have a banquet at the Lin'an Hotel another day. I will send someone to get some information first."

Shi Mo clasped his fists back and said polite words.He guessed that his master also wanted to understand the situation, rather than punish Xu Guinian, so preparing the information would save time for both parties.

Xu Guinian hurried to the residence of the astrologists on the north side of Jianhe River. After renovations, the area has been expanded by more than ten times than before, but it still cannot meet the requirements of the visiting astrologists.

No matter in Daxia or anywhere else, astrologers can find the local astrologer association or astrologer's tower to live in without paying for the room, and they should have the same accommodation conditions as other people. One of the rules of the warlock world, the same free terms also include food, transportation and so on.In other words, as long as you become an astromancer, you can theoretically travel around the world without doing anything, and the Association and the Holy Church also encourage the flow of astromancers.

This kind of treatment, on the other hand, has promoted the rhythm of astrology from a corner of the far west to the whole world. Naturally, there are holy religions along with the footsteps of astrologists.

When Xu Guinian arrived, Cheng Jinzhou was listening to a report from a church priest.During the time when he left for the Northern Han Dynasty, the Holy Church was finally affected by him and started a large-scale missionary activity. Although it was constantly restricted by Liu Kuang and other association star warlocks, it was completely different from the previous retreat.

The integration of the church is much closer than that of the Star Warlock Association. From the priest's mouth, you can hear terms such as "Fulin" and "Plough" from the extreme western countries from time to time.The Holy Church in other countries has great power, and in theory, they can dispatch direct armies.

Cheng Jinzhou also asked a few questions from time to time. He quickly thought of something and asked, pointing to the map, "Ligan is not far from Beihan, right? Where is the city in the middle?"

"Free City Assyria. The territory of the cruel king Jacob." The white-clothed priest curled his lips and said disdainfully: "It was a country founded by a few fourth-level star warlocks. They were all guys who gave up studying mathematics. In our words, It is said that it is just fish and meat for the common people to enjoy themselves."

"No one cares?"

"No." The pastor chuckled twice.For several fourth-level star warlocks, if they pay a little attention to the establishment of relationships, it will be difficult for them to suffer a strong blow.

Cheng Jinzhou naturally had no position to evaluate the other party. He only asked: "Can Ligan use the Assyrian route to attack the Northern Han Dynasty?"

"Jacob? He won't agree, and there are a lot of criminals in Liberty City, and there are also a small number of star warlocks. It is too dangerous to pass through them." The priest himself is a liaison priest, and his duty is Between different countries, the relationship between coordinating organizers is also quite familiar with each country, which can be explained clearly in a few words.

"In short, there must be support troops. This is the request of the favored ones of the gods." Cheng Jinzhou said quite comfortably.He stayed on the grassland for a month and saved a lot of material costs for the church. It seems reasonable to make new requests now.

The Holy Church's support for Cheng Jinzhou has always been strong, and the title of "God's Blessed One" is even more resounding.For them, if they can completely support the Holy Church in Daxia, it will be considered a little expense, and it will be worth it.

Cheng Jinzhou doesn't care about the Holy Church, nor does he care about the Astrology Association, so he has a positive attitude, that is, he chooses valuable investments, and the cooperation between the two parties is more pleasant.

Xu Guinian waited until the pastor in white had left before speaking cautiously.I couldn't help but rejoice at my good luck.The county magistrate is a low-level status, even if he is not ranked high in Jinchuan Province, he has never heard of the wonderful world that the pastor said, and now he has the opportunity to work under Cheng Jinzhou, which can be said to be the best.

"Let's talk about Lijin." Cheng Jinzhou was a little tired, not because he had done too many things, but because he had been idle for too long, and now he started doing things again, which made him uncomfortable.

"Yes." Xu Guinian had been prepared a long time ago, and he said it in detail.

In fact, the content is also very simple, that is, the four provinces around Jinchuan Province in Daxia began to collect lijin at the same tax rate—some places call it donated lijin.Since all the traffic arteries are blocked, and Jinchuan Province itself has very little consumption and production, it means that most of the commodities have been scraped off a layer of skin.

Cheng Jinzhou listened, and he paid attention to the numbers and asked: "The tax rate is 7%? Why is it this number?"

"Everything is collected by the army. When the army collects money locally, it has to give a [-]% discount." Xu Guinian was very familiar with this. He said in a low voice: "What you ordered is not to collect customs duties. But collecting taxes in the military is not counted in the government.”

"What countermeasures do you have?" Cheng Jinzhou leaned back on the chair, he didn't care whether the government collected the money or the army, it affected his plan and the army.

What he hopes to see is the vigorous development of foreign trade in De'an, and then obtain more overseas raw materials. If one day, Daxia can have a colony, as a nobleman, he will definitely be able to enjoy it.

Xu Guinian is in his 50s, his mind is slow, and Ai Ai can't say anything.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't force him, and thought about it: "How about this, how much money do we have in the treasury?"

"35 taels of silver. It's all stored in De'an." Xu Guinian remembered this number clearly.If De'an didn't have such a star warlock, it wouldn't be surprising that these Kuyin were robbed.

"If the court collects taxes a month, how much can it collect?"

"Four provinces? Receive at least 100 million taels of silver every month." Xu Guinian's certain guess.

"Have they charged it for two months?"

Xu Guinian said shyly, "Yes."

Xiao Cheng didn't expect Xu Guinian to show the demeanor of the world's most capable official, so he silently calculated: "If you do this, go and make a notice first, saying that three months ago, the businessman who paid Lijin, You can come to me, and get the money back with the note that you paid the money at that time."

Xu Guinian thought for a while before he suddenly woke up and said, "My lord, those profiteers have already put the lijin they paid into things, and they didn't lose money."

"Don't let businessmen become profiteers in the future. In order for them not to pay in the future, it's okay to let them have some benefits now."

"For three months, you need to prepare at least 10 taels of silver." Xu Guinian estimated a figure, and then surprised himself.

In the past 10 years, a total of 10 taels of silver have been put into De'an's warehouse, and he is a little suspicious.

"After the notice is finished, you send another message to the four provinces, saying that I have the lijin note and I am going to go to them to exchange the money."

His idea is very simple. How much money has been collected by the governments in various places, he will get the money back with the note.Of course, the money received by the government must be less than the money on the note, but how can he care so much? In the secular empire, there are really few people who dare to keep probing like Da Xia. Come.

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(End of this chapter)