Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

At least in the area of ​​taxation, he has definitely been thinking about it for a long time.

It was even estimated that Master Hu had already been thinking about this matter when he was considering whether to agree to the prince's establishment of his own vassal state.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was exposed.

"Hahaha, Weiyong, this matter is indeed a little different."

"Mainly, I think the biggest difference between you two is not your status, but that you invested your own money and worked hard, while the second brother and his brothers used the wealth of our Zhu family to invest in you."

"Although both are considered vassal states, one did not take money from home, while the other did, so there must be some difference!"

"And if this policy is to continue, and if the Ming Dynasty is to continue to be able to support other princes or meritorious officials to go out and expand the territory, then don't you pioneers have to make contributions?"

Master Hu looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with his eyes slanted.

Not only him, but several other princes were also secretly looking at Zhu Yuanzhang, and their expressions were not very good either.

This is what Zhu Yuanzhang said, and this is the truth.

But none of their brothers were able to inherit the throne, and the family property was only divided up a little bit. Even the matter of establishing a country overseas has not yet started.

But in the end, their father actually started to worry about the tax revenue of their vassal state?

This is clearly an attempt to draw blood from the vassal states to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

How could they feel happy about this?

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that not only did Master Hu not speak, but even his sons beside him had bad eyesight. He immediately thought to himself that this was bad.

"Damn it, I shouldn't have called these bastards here."

"I'm afraid these bastards won't give in!"

"Alas, after much thought, I think Weiyong must take the lead!"

"If an outsider like Wei Yong takes the lead, then it will be easy to deal with these little brats!"

After figuring out the whole story, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Master Hu and the smile on his face became even brighter.

"Mediocre!"

"We know that you, of course, have your own ideas about the future of China."

"But let's be honest. Even if we don't talk about tax payment, our two countries can't just stop interacting with each other forever, right?"

Mr. Hu nodded thoughtfully, he admitted this point.

It can even be said that he not only admitted it, but also had planned for it a long time ago.

After all, the current population of the Ming Dynasty is about 60 million.

This was when Zhu Yuanzhang was still in power, and he had the Ministry of Revenue, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and other government offices work together with prefectures, states and counties to conduct statistics at the local level.

So, such a large population might just be a simple source of tax revenue for Zhu Yuanzhang, but for Mr. Hu, it is a natural market.

Once China's products can enter the entire Ming market in the future, it will bring extremely rich returns.

Others may not have this kind of awareness, but doesn’t Mr. Hu have it?

You know, in his previous life, he witnessed with his own eyes how the United States and a number of foreign brands rushed into the domestic market like a tsunami and made a fortune.

It can even be said that if it weren't for the dividends brought by the market of more than one billion people at that time, many of the original foreign brands would have been dying long ago. How could they still be so prosperous?

Therefore, Mr. Hu felt that he could do nothing when facing foreign brands in his previous life.

In this life, it seems that it is not impossible to become a foreign brand yourself.

After all, resist the master, understand the master, become the master...

Isn't this what he should do!

Moreover, since we can even enter the Ming Dynasty market by then, let alone other markets such as Europe and the Middle East.

However, if we really want to achieve this, the question raised by Zhu Yuanzhang now is the core issue.

tariff!

"Chongba, tell me what you think!"

"Are you actually just trying to use this opportunity to finalize the tariffs between our two countries?"

"So do you have a general idea?"

"You can't just do it recklessly, right?"

What Mr. Hu said was not a joke, but he was really afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would mess up.

This gentleman acted impulsively and without thinking. This is not the first time.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang is now the Prime Minister of China. Apart from other things, at least he has learned some knowledge that is completely different from this era during his communication with Mr. Hu.

In other words, it was because Zhu Yuanzhang learned a lot of knowledge from Mr. Hu that he did not know before that he began to think about the issue of tariffs.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

If it were the ancient Zhu Yuanzhang, he would know nothing about tariffs.

He even doesn't care about commercial taxes.

In his opinion, it was an honor to be able to pay taxes to him, Zhu Yuanzhang!

Therefore, only honest farmers are qualified to pay taxes to him.

The merchants, however, were cunning and greedy and were not even qualified to pay taxes to him.

Then, he was despised and scorned by Master Hu.

At least for Mr. Hu, taxation is not only a source of income for the country, but also a means of regulation for the country.

For industries that China hopes to develop, there will be support such as tax exemptions and tax rebates;

China believes that ordinary industries should pay normal taxes.

But if China feels that an industry is making too much money and is not beneficial to the country, then heavy taxes will naturally be imposed.

After understanding this knowledge, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was barely enlightened, plunged headfirst into the tax law.

He has been asking Li Fulu to work overtime a lot during this period.

Li Fulu was almost driven crazy by Zhu Yuanzhang these days.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is no longer an emperor now, but just an emperor emeritus and the prime minister of China.

But who dares to take him lightly?

Especially Li Fulu and others, they came from the Jinyiwei!

What are the Jinyiwei called? The emperor’s lackeys and the emperor’s servants!

What do you think his state would be like when facing Zhu Yuanzhang, his old master of decades?

The key point is that Zhu Yuanzhang is still his immediate superior!

So, Li Fulu has been in a depressed mood these days, looking very dejected.

But to be honest, Zhu Yuanzhang did make a lot of progress by working so hard.

At least according to the ideas left by Mr. Hu, China's tax laws are being formulated in an orderly manner.

Similarly, precisely because the tax law was about to be formulated, Zhu Yuanzhang, who could roughly estimate how staggering China's future tax revenue would be, could no longer hold back.

It would be best if China could pay tribute according to taxes every year!

If not, then work on tariffs!

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to gain some benefits from the Chinese nation!

Otherwise, he would be unhappy!