Lost and Spy

Chapter 2198 Your Excellency Feicun
For being able to meet a member of the royal family with his own eyes, Kawahisa promises that it is a great honor!
As for paying back?

Kawakubo really didn't think about it at all.

How could the royal family come to pay back the money?

Besides, I really paid it back, and I didn't dare to ask for it.

Kawakubo's only regret is that he was not able to take a photo with Himura-dono.

In life, there is always a little regret left.

However, what Kawakubo really didn't expect in his dreams, as soon as the Sakura Pavilion opened today, he got a piece of news that surprised him:

Your Majesty The Village has arrived!

Kawajiu promised to greet him in person with a limp on one leg in a panic.

Seeing Himura Kenshin, he immediately bowed:
"Your Excellency, it is the greatest honor for me and Sakura Pavilion to see you again."

"You are too kind."

No matter what time it is, Fei Cun Jianxin always maintains his calm and elegant: "Yesterday, I was very rude, thanks to your generosity, so that I will not leave in embarrassment. Today, I am here to pay back the money."

"No, Your Excellency." Kawakubo said hastily: "It is already a blessing for us that you can come. How can we ask you to pay for it?"

"No, sir, I insist."

Himura Kenshin, however, handed a check to Kawakubo without any explanation.

Kawakubo hesitated for a moment, and could only accept the check, but looked at the number on it: "Your Excellency, this is too much."

"Stay here." Fei Cun Jianxin said lightly: "I am a forgetful person. If I forget to bring money next time I come again, then there is no need to mortgage anything."

Kawakubo smiled knowingly immediately: "Please allow me to entertain Your Excellency today."

"I should have paid for it."

"No, I will insist this time."

"Then, excuse me."

Kawakubo really felt that he was the luckiest person today to be able to entertain a member of the royal family.

Without hesitation, he took out the best wine and called out the best geisha.

Himura Kenshin, what a nice name.

Fei Cun Kenshin is noble, elegant, and kind, but always maintains a slight intimacy with others in his attitude, and will never be too intimate with you.

Kawakubo didn't care at all.

This is what true royalty should look like.

It's not easy to invite him, do you still expect him to be your brother?
While drinking, Himura Kenshin also introduced himself roughly.

The Himun family is a branch of the royal family.

His great-great-grandfather had the honor of marrying the cousin of the husband of His Majesty's cousin's niece's husband.

Well, it sounds a bit messy, and the seniority seems a bit messy too.

In any case, the Feicun family has also suddenly become a member of the royal family.

Even the Feicun family was personally received by His Majesty the Emperor twice!
Not only that, but the Feicun family also has military exploits, so although they are distant relatives of the emperor, they also belong to the privileged aristocratic class in Japan who do not pay taxes.

When Kawakubo tentatively asked His Excellency Feicun how he came to Shanghai, His Excellency told him that, as the youngest of the eight children in the generation of the Feicun family, he was the least promising, so he was often taught by his father.

He wanted to be a soldier and fight for the empire, but his mother loved him very much and firmly refused him to go to the battlefield.

Therefore, he can only go to Shanghai to see if there is anything he can do for the empire and the Feicun family.

Even so, Kawakubo really didn't dare to neglect at all.

Himura Kenshin also asked about the situation of the Sakura House.

Sakura will have a Japanese Army military background.

In name, it does not have to pay taxes, but in practice, it has to pay triple taxes instead.

Forty percent of the profits were handed over to the army and the military, and the other three were handed over to the Japanese Shanghai Gendarmerie Command.

[-]% is called "special contribution", which is deposited into the designated account.

Therefore, only [-]% of them belonged to the Cherry Blossom Pavilion.

Even if it is [-]%, there is still a lot of expenses to deal with.

But even so, life is much better than that of Japanese domestic companies.

With the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan's finances became increasingly tight and stretched, so the taxation of individuals and companies in Japan became more and more severe.

Before the war broke out, Japan had only two taxes.

One is personal income tax.

There is also a corporate tax, such as a profit dividend tax, a special tax on the interest of government bonds and corporate bonds, and a special tax on goods.

However, with the expansion of the war, these two taxes have been unable to meet the needs of the war.

Beginning in 1938, Japan successively imposed tobacco and alcohol tax, corporate capital tax, sugar consumption tax, and exchange tax.

The per capita salary in Tokyo is 100 yen, but the minimum monthly household expenditure is 110 yen.

How miserable is life in Japan?
In 1938, the Japanese could no longer support their families, and their lives were even worse than during the Great Kanto Earthquake.

This is not finished.

At the beginning of this year, the Japanese cabinet again comprehensively revised the taxation, and continued to raise the tax rate centered on direct taxes. Various miscellaneous taxes were distributed to the Japanese people, and ordinary Japanese people were overwhelmed.

Coupled with the national rationing system, the Japanese government even directly took their doors, windows, furniture and jewelry to offset taxes because the people could not pay the taxes.

Ordinary people are like this, and companies are even more sad.

Enterprises generally bear tax of more than 90.00% of profits.

Coupled with all kinds of inexplicable exorbitant taxes, after a year, the enterprise not only fails to make money, but also owes the government taxes.

However, some companies enjoy tax-exempt privileges.

One is a business company run by aristocrats, and there is no need to pay a penny of taxes.

One is military enterprises, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

After listening to Kawakubo's introduction, Himura Kenshin was very sympathetic: "So, the Sakura House seems to be in good business, but it doesn't actually make much money?"

"Yes, Your Excellency." Kawakubo sighed, "Sometimes, you even lose money."

"Oh, why do you say that?"

"When the empire was just in charge of the security of the concession, funds were tight, so when we found us, we had to pay a special security fee." Kawakubo really talked about his hardships: "In addition, intelligence agencies will often come to ask us for money. We Liquidity is really tight.”

Fei Cun Jianxin suddenly realized: "I understand, but I heard that there are many Chinese people here, and they take a lot of money from here every day?"

"Yes, those are the people from No. 76. They are in charge of the Outer Sakura Pavilion." Kawakubo immediately replied, "Some things we completely entrust to them."

"So, how is the profit distributed?"

"They took [-]% and handed over [-]% to us."

"This, I'm afraid it's not reasonable?"

Himura Kenshin frowned: "We can do these things by ourselves, why do we have to entrust them to No. 76?"

"Li Shiqun, he has a lot of energy." Kawakubo smiled bitterly: "In Shanghai, he is called the new King of Shanghai. He has a hand in all these things, and I can't help it!"

"Li Shiqun? Ah, I've heard of it."

(End of this chapter)