Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

After all, Yu Xin is now in his early 50s, and if he does it for another five years, he will be 60 years old.

In this era, 50 years old is enough to be called an old age. If he can really complete the five-year term, Yu Xin will definitely be satisfied.

Looking at Yu Xin's appearance, Zhao Dan also had a smile on his face.

No matter from any point of view, Yu Xin is the best choice to inherit Zhao Shengxiangbang's position.

After all, Yu Xin has enough prestige firstly, and secondly, he has been at the top of Zhao State for more than ten years, and his qualifications are not a problem, and Yu Xin, who has always been a Sikou, is the second most important official besides Zhao Sheng, so he was chosen. Being Xiangbang in command of hundreds of officials is a choice that can convince most Zhao officials.

As for the other officials who also wanted to try the position of Xiangbang, or had some intentions in their hearts, such as Zheng Zhu, Li Bo and even Li Si, etc., they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed on their faces.

But after all, all the people present had experienced big storms, so they quickly cheered up again, and they all expressed their joy towards Yu Dao.

After all, Yu Xin himself is the number one candidate, and Zhao Dan also said just now that there is Pingyuan Lord Zhao Sheng's deathbed recommendation, the combined weight of the two really makes it impossible for others to compete.

In fact, they didn't know about Zhao Sheng's final recommendation, otherwise the atmosphere in the hall today would not be so subtle.

Zhao Dan coughed and said: "Since entering Zhao, Yu Qing has worked hard for many years and made great contributions to the widow and Zhao Guoli. The widow thinks that being a king is not enough to commend his merits! I don't know what you think?"

Yu Xin is still Shangqing now, but after becoming Xiangbang, he has to lead a bunch of lords under his command. It feels a little strange, so Zhao Dan is also going to give this matching treatment a go.

In fact, in the Warring States Period, Xiangbang was basically a prince, which is already the practice of most countries.

After all, official titles, official titles, this official position has reached its peak, if the title does not keep up, it will not be justified.

Compared with when the appointment was just announced, the response time for Zhao Dan's proposal was much faster this time.

"Your Majesty, the old minister feels that Yu Qing should indeed be crowned king!" Lian Po was the first to stand up and said in a loud voice.

Then Li Mu, Pang Nuan, Zheng Zhu, etc., all Zhao Guozhong ministers agreed with this in a very short period of time.

Now that Yu Xin's rise to power is unstoppable, naturally there is no need for these important ministers of the State of Zhao to take the risk of offending Yu Xin to oppose this matter.

Isn't it just a Fengjun? There are too many Fengjuns present, and there is no shortage of Yuxin.

After getting everyone's approval, Zhao Dan didn't talk nonsense, and directly announced his decision.

"Since this is the case, the widow will take Yu Xin as the king of An, and choose a day to hold the ceremony of conferring the king!"

Yu Xin's mood is so excited.

This kind of feeling is like a lonely and helpless bachelor walking on the road, suddenly dropped a carriage of gold, silver and jewelry, and then popped out a charming and beautiful woman to be his wife.

Too cool!

Yu Xin respectfully paid homage to Zhao Dan again: "My lord, thank you for your kindness!"

Now that the candidate for Xiangbang has been decided, the meeting will naturally come to an end.

After the meeting, Zhao Dan left the newly elected Prime Minister Bang Yuxin and Lu Buwei behind.

"The two Qing family, do you know what the widow's reason for keeping you here?" Zhao Dan sat very calmly on the upper seat in the side hall of the Dragon Terrace, talking and sizing up the two important ministers in front of him.

Yu Xin, who was still blushing with excitement on his face, hurriedly replied: "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."

Zhao Dan didn't speak, and took out one of the books from the pile of books on his desk, and threw it in front of Yu Xin: "Yu Qing, let's see for yourself."

Yu Xin was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously picked up the booklet and started flipping through it.

Looking at it, Yu Xin's face began to become more and more flushed, and sweat slowly dripped from his forehead.

Zhao Dan looked at Yu Xin and said with a smile, "If Mr. An has finished reading, you might as well show Mr. Xin."

Yu Xin took a deep breath, and handed the booklet in his hand to Lu Buwei who was beside him. His face was uncertain, as if he was thinking about something.

Lu Buwei glanced at Yu Xin with some doubts, then took the booklet from Yu Xin's hand, and also flipped through it.

After a while, Lu Buwei's forehead also began to sweat slowly.

The content of this booklet is actually quite simple, it just records some rough operating income and expenditures, as well as some things like costs, profits, etc. Generally speaking, it is a relatively simple annual financial report.

But the problem is that the object of the financial report recorded in this pamphlet does not come from Zhao Dan, the young mansion under the rule of the monarch, but from the property of Zhao's important ministers!

Whether it is Zhao Sheng who has passed away or Lu Buwei who has just joined the Longtai important ministers, either because of their own status or because of their outstanding business acumen, each of them has a huge industry in Zhao Guozhong, and they all belong to that state. An out-and-out capital predator.

Such as textile factories, lacquer gardens, lumber mills, manure factories, coal factories, animal husbandry, and even slave hunting groups, etc. Almost every industry in Zhao State has the shadow of these Zhao Guozhong ministers' families. in.

And the report that Zhao Dan just showed them is just a general financial report of these important ministers of Zhao Guo and their family's industries!

This is actually a very scary thing.

Because you must know that financial reports like this are usually top secret, and only the important ministers who are the head of the family and a few core members of the family know about it, but now they appear on Zhao Dan's desk!

Of course, in fact, this matter is not the most critical, the most critical issue is

Zhao Dan narrowed his eyes with a smile, and said to the two sweaty Zhao Guozhong ministers in front of him: "If the widow's arithmetic is not a big problem, judging from the above figures, the two Qing families seem to be more or less At least there are some tax evasion behaviors."

When Zhao Dan said this, a cold light flashed in the corner of his eyes.

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Such things as taxes were not uncommon in the Warring States Period.

The reason for this is, of course, that the threat of war to the treasury of each country forces the monarchs of each country to find ways to increase revenue.

In 594 B.C., the State of Lu began to implement the first tax per mu, which was the first time in the history of China to recognize the privatization of fields, and use this as a basis to levy taxes on the people who owned the fields.

As the war continues, the number of armies of various countries is also constantly expanding, and the subsequent financial pressure will naturally increase. Therefore, business is naturally included in the scope of taxation.

Today, there are mainly three types of commercial taxes in Zhao State. The first is housing base tax, the second is business tax for opening shops in the market, and the third is customs duty after various customs.

In order to collect taxes, the State of Zhao set up Tianbu, Shibu, Guanbu and other departments to be responsible for the usual management and specific taxation.

Zhao Kuo's father, Zhao She, used to be a small official in Tianbu, and he became famous for his steadfast and selfless daring to fight against the tax collection with Yuanjun Zhao Sheng, and won the trust of the then king Zhao Huiwang.

Among these three kinds of taxes, business tax and customs duty are the most important. However, due to the annihilation of various countries by Zhao State in recent years, the number of caravans passing through Zhao State's border has been greatly reduced, but business tax has been reduced due to the expansion of the territory And it keeps rising, becoming Zhao's largest source of commercial tax revenue.

Zhao Guo’s business tax has changed many times, until Zhao Dan just came to the throne, after Zhao Dan’s mother Zhao Weihou discussed with Zhao Guo’s important officials, it was set at [-] taxes.

The so-called one-fifteenth tax means that major businesses need to hand over one-fifteenth of their turnover to Zhao Guo, which is a tax of 6.66.

If combined with the foundation tax and customs duties, basically speaking, the sum of the three taxes should be an average of one ten taxes, which is about 10.

There is only one department exception, and that is Zhao Guo Shaofu.As the private property of the monarch, the Shaofu and all its assets, factories, etc. do not need to pay any taxes.

These tax laws have been implemented smoothly for more than ten years, and on the surface, it does not seem to have caused any problems.

But the problem is that there will always be people in this world who are unwilling to pay these taxes in full to the country.