Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Chang Lin opened the documents and memorials sent by Li Ke, then unfolded Li Ke's memorials, and read them directly.

"Father, seeing words is like meeting you."

This opening made the corner of Wei Zheng's mouth twitch. Is this a memorial?

Li Shimin and the other ministers didn't respond, nothing but hands... I'm used to you.

"Father, not long ago, after my son and Zhenwa negotiated related trade matters, my son received a news that a group of pirates wiped out a supply port on the important route to Persia, the country of Dandan."

"Dandan Kingdom is located in the important strait channel between the South China Sea of ​​Datang and the waters near Persia. This place is the only way for all merchant ships to and from it. All merchant ships need to be resupplied here. If it is occupied by pirates, the consequences will be disastrous."

"For the safety of my Datang's foreign trade, I led the Datang Navy Fleet to the Dandan Country, and drove out all the pirates who occupied the Dandan Country. For the safety of Tang’s maritime trade, the island is included in the territory of our Tang Dynasty, and the minister named it: Lizhi Island. The port is Lizhi Port, and the strait next to it is Lizhi Strait.”

Good guy, the ministers here are speechless. Are you sure it wasn't planned for a long time?The two little eunuchs had already hung up the map and put it on a shelf on the side, so that all the ministers could see it by raising their eyes or turning their heads.

There was a map of Nanyang islands before the Tang Dynasty, but it was not complete, and now His Royal Highness King Qin has completed a considerable part of it. Looking at the ocean separated by two peninsulas and the Lizhi Strait in the middle, the map of this place The strategic location is clear to all.

Your Highness, didn't you say that you have already set your sights on this place?

As His Highness said, as long as the ocean trade between Datang and the Western Regions does not stop, then the important trade channel in this place will not be cancelled, and its importance is beyond doubt.

It's just... Li Ke said that it was occupied by pirates, that may be true, and they can't refute anything, but this pirate... is too strong.

"However, the port needs personnel and funds to operate. Gu Erchen called all the powerful families and businessmen in Lingnan Road, and temporarily reformed and experimented with Lingnan Road, turning Lingnan Road into the Datang Special Economic Zone, and temporarily restricting all business activities in Lingnan Road. Collect commercial tax. The specific rules for collecting commercial tax are attached with relevant documents, and the emperor can watch them."

"After collecting relevant taxes, Erchen gave the ownership of Lizhi Port to these aristocratic families and businessmen in Datang Lingnan Road for free, and established a joint-stock port. Datang Trust owns 40.00% of the port shares. 50.00% one. They need to build a port, allocate the staff of the port, provide monthly money, and provide Datang with food and other supplies for the port garrison at the cost price."

"Similarly, the income of the port also needs to be taxed according to the commercial bank, and the port can charge management fees, supplies and other supplementary fees for all ships entering the port. Of course, it also needs to provide security protection for the ships in the port."

"In addition, the port has also become a distribution center for related materials. For example, some merchants can unload their goods here and sell them to the nearest South Sea countries such as Luo Luo."

Hearing this, all the ministers present were silent, and many of them had imitated His Royal Highness King Qin's catchphrase and cursed in their hearts.

Damn, His Royal Highness King Qin said before that he would sell the land of some other countries to powerful families and so on. They were very moved and they all supported it.But I never expected that the first batch of supporters didn't get benefits, but let these small families in Lingnan Road get benefits?

You don't need to think about Lizhigang to know it, it is definitely a sweet pastry, and the future will be an extremely coveted industry.

"Besides, the son general, Xianglinyi County, has also been partially restructured. For the time being, Changle is responsible for handling all affairs, and Wu Sui is assisting."

Li Shimin: "..."

You don't really take it seriously, do you?Do you really want Chang Le to be the empress? !Everyone in Li Shimin was stupid, he thought Li Ke was just talking, good guy, you just started training directly.

It's just that he can only hold his breath in his heart, and he hasn't communicated with other ministers about some words.

The other ministers kept silent and didn't say much. In the early Tang Dynasty, these ministers were relatively cheerful. The main reason was that Princess Pingyangzhao was there to set an example. Most of these ministers knew each other well. Nothing too much of a problem.

Another reason is that His Royal Highness Qin Wang has already asked Li Yan to handle the affairs of Xizhou, what is this?When His Highness supervised the country before, Li Yan helped to deal with many things, but he didn't point it out.

At this time, everyone naturally didn't want to object. I didn't see that there was already a pilot work over there, so Datang may also have large-scale land sales in other places in the future. Of course, this is a good thing.

"In addition, Dad, you asked Shangshu Province and the Sixth Ministry to prepare for the nationwide popularization of commercial tax. Although Lingnan Road is a pilot project, if Lingnan Road is implemented smoothly this year or even next year, then the nationwide commercial tax popularization will be Expand."

"The work of Shangshu Province includes recruiting enough tax registration personnel to register these tax merchants, and secondly, the ministers will print some special tax receipts. All large trades must have relevant tax receipts to the tax bureau for tax declaration. , otherwise these trades will become illegal trade, and if there are too many illegal trades by large commercial firms, they will lose the important domestic infrastructure construction, undertake the construction of large ports in the future, and develop the new territory of Datang. "

"If tax evasion reaches a certain level, all shareholders of the commercial firm will be sentenced to a light sentence, or even beheaded."

When Li Ke formulated this, he actually thought very clearly that the sales tax and tax deduction amount of later generations are assisted by some modern computers.

It seems impossible in this era, but it is not impossible, because in this era, business tax and tax deduction are all for large commercial firms, and ordinary small shops have no chance to use them, so the amount of work will not be very large .

The second biggest difference from modern times is that modern tax evasion is nothing more than fines, but in ancient times, one would be beheaded!This deterrent is much greater!What's more, once it is discovered to evade taxes, it will lose certain rules for developing new territories.

In this way, Li Ke can take advantage of the mutual constraints of these aristocratic families and big commercial firms to ensure that it will be difficult for them to evade taxes in the first 100 years.