In front of the South City Gate.

"Xiao Ma, don't embarrass your brother when you go out."

Cao Dongdong patted Ma Xiaoyi on the shoulder and gave him instructions in a condescending tone.

Zhang Fei appointed Ma Xiaoyi to lead the royal police to enter the remaining counties.

This mission is actually very resolute. Looking at what the Royal Police are doing now, it is obvious which county magistrate would like it.

Ma Xiaoyi said confidently: "Don't worry, brother. I have never embarrassed you."

"Don't listen to him."

Zhang Fei glared at Cao Dongdong, then said to Ma Xiaoyi: "Xiao Ma, you only need to complete one task this time, which is to settle the Royal Police at various garrisons according to our plan. It's that simple. It doesn't matter whether they come to report or not. Remember one thing, don't conflict with others."

Cao Dongdong asked: "What if they come to bully us?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Then go to the government or the imperial court to appeal."

...

...

Ma Xiaoyi said depressedly: "Third brother, after hearing what you said, I don't want to go anymore."

Zhang Fei comforted him, "Don't worry. If I let you go, I will definitely not let you suffer this humiliation. Just bear with it for a month. After a month, I will give you a chance to deal with them."

Ma Xiaoyi's eyes turned, "How about half a month?"

Zhang Fei said: "If you mess up this time, I will never assign you a task again in the future."

“Okay, okay, okay!”

Ma Xiaoyi said: "I know, I won't cause any trouble."

Zhang Fei sighed, "Who told you not to cause trouble? I told you to just endure it. Even if they do, you have to hand it over to the imperial court or the government to handle it. Don't get into conflict with them."

Ma Xiaoyi said depressedly: "I know."

Cao Dongdong couldn't help but feel a little sad and said, "Fortunately, you didn't ask me to go."

Ma Xiaoyi scratched his head and said, "Third brother, brother, then I...I will leave first."

"Be careful on the road."

.......

After several days of hard work, the financial situation in the city of Bianjing was finally figured out.

At this point, the city's tax commissioner's mission has basically been completed.

In any case, the power to set taxes will always be an administrative order and has nothing to do with the Commissioner of Taxation.

The Regulations Office of the Two Prefectures did not have this power, and the statistical data was sent directly to the Sinong Temple.

When Han Jiang and Wang Anshi saw this, they were very disappointed. There were really so many poor people!

This was even more terrifying than they had expected.

Comparing with previous data, the number of middle and lower-class households has doubled.

Before, all the pots, pans, and utensils were counted and then converted into money. During the conversion process, the amount was increased by 30 to 40 percent, which is very normal. Of course, there are more middle-class households and fewer lower-class households.

There has been no change in the upper-class households. No matter how you look at it, they are still upper-class households, with their houses, carriages, and fields all there.

However, today’s algorithm calculates income purely and only records three major items of household property. So of course the number of middle and lower class households will increase!

This put Wang Anshi at a bottleneck.

His advanced financial ideas were somewhat beyond his ability to cope with.

In fact, according to the conscription law, the budget is made first and then the taxes are collected, so no matter how it is counted, it will be evenly distributed when the time comes.

However, if we calculate based on this statistical table, the burden is basically borne by the upper-class households, and the official households have become the main force. If this is reported to others, it would be a matter of life and death!

Wang Anshi didn't dare to do so.

Collecting taxes from government households is already a huge risk, and collecting so much is not something we can justify!

There was no other way but to find Zhang Fei, but Wang Anshi and his colleagues did not dare to discuss the matter with Zhang Fei in the office, fearing that there might be eavesdroppers, so they called Zhang Fei to their home.

"You decide! You decide!"

Seeing Zhang Fei, Han Jiang was so angry that he almost threw the statistics table in Zhang Fei's face, "You hired this person, and you calculated the money, so why don't you be a good person and calculate the tax for me."

Zhang Fei hurriedly explained: "It's Han Temple's business. I was hired......!"

"Then should I call Deputy Superintendent Cao now?" Han Jiang said immediately.

“No, no, no!”

Zhang Fei looked aggrieved. "If I call Deputy Superintendent Cao, he will scold me for cheating him out of his money."

Wang Anshi couldn't stand it any longer. He said, "Why are you pretending? I don't know you yet." He said, "That's enough! Tell me what you think."

"Let me take a look first."

Zhang Fei took a careful look and found that, including female households, monks and Taoists, there were just over 100,000 households. Military households were not included here because they had to bear a lot of corvee labor. Now, most of the people building the river were military households.

Do you think the imperial court has so many imperial guards so that they can sit in the parade grounds and drink and chat every day?

If we count them in again, it will definitely be inappropriate.

If the post-tax finances are calculated, the middle and lower class households directly account for 70%, the third class households with annual income below 100 guan account for 30%, and the first and second class households with annual income between 100 and 300 guan account for only 10%.

After reading it, Zhang Fei glanced at Wang Anshi and Han Jiang and said, "If I remember correctly, according to the conscription law, the labor fee should be calculated first, and then the cost should be shared equally. Based on this law, it is actually very easy to calculate. No matter how much it is, just share it equally."

Wang Anshi and Han Jiang both stared at him without saying a word.

Do I need you to teach me this? As a result, all the money is concentrated in the top accounts.

You go and collect it.

Zhang Fei could only smile awkwardly and continued, "You two are considerate of the people and will not share the burden so roughly, but the situation is not necessarily the same for the local prefectures and counties. According to this calculation, even if the labor service fee is doubled, it can still be shared equally. So why not add a little more?"

Wang Anshi was a little unhappy.

Of course he knew this, but the person he served was the emperor, and his goal was the national finances. This algorithm could ensure that the conversion of corvée labor into hired labor would not increase the financial burden in any way and would definitely be profitable.

Han Jiang also knew this, but he had some complaints about it. He first glanced at Wang Anshi secretly, and then yelled at Zhang Fei: "You know you also suggested that the police station recruit 10,000 royal police officers."

The reason why he opposed Zhang Fei's doing this was because of this algorithm: no matter how much your police station spends, it will be borne by the people. The more you spend, the heavier the burden on the people.

But he couldn't say it clearly.

Zhang Fei said: "I suggest that the exemption tax be levied according to the food and clothing line I mentioned before, that is, deduct the tax, and then levy taxes based on different incomes. In this way, we can ensure that the people will not suffer from insufficient food and clothing due to the exemption tax. In that case, the people will not have complaints."

Wang Anshi immediately said, "Okay! Whatever you say, you must first make up the financial support for the 10,000 imperial policemen."

Zhang Fei pretended to think for a while and said, "I suggest that after the tax is deducted, all those below 15 strings of cash will be exempted from the exemption tax."

Wang Anshi nodded slightly, but then frowned again.

If it is reduced to fifteen strings of coins, then the algorithm is actually not that different from the previous one. Although the calculation was higher before, the collection point was also relatively high, almost above thirty strings of coins.

But if you think about it, before all the family assets were taken into account, but here only the net income is counted, so the gap is still quite large.

Zhang Fei continued, "For those with an annual income of 15 to 30 guan, we will collect 1% of the tax."

Wang Anshi immediately picked up the statistical table on the table and started looking at it, frowning slightly.

Zhang Fei continued, "For amounts from thirty to fifty strings of cash, the calculation is 2 percent."

Wang Anshi's brows were almost frowned into a shape of a "川" (river).

Zhang Fei said: "For amounts between 50 and 100 guan, the rate is 4%, for amounts between 100 and 300 guan, the rate is 6%, and for amounts above 300 guan, the rate is 10%.

Female households, monks, and Taoists are all calculated at 3%. As for official households, my suggestion is that the income within the salary should be calculated at 3%. Here, only the salary is counted, but the income outside the salary should be calculated according to the method I just mentioned. If the amount is 15 to 30 strings of cash, it will be calculated at 1%, and if the amount is 30 to 50 strings of cash, it will be calculated at 2%, and so on. But all the subsidies of officials are included here.”

Han Jiang nodded thoughtfully, "Good boy, you are really good at calculating!" ..

The official's wealth besides his salary is very considerable.

Wang Anshi, who had been staring at the statistics table, suddenly looked up and asked, "Based on your tax calculation method, do you know how much tax can be collected in Bianjing City?"

Zhang Fei asked: "How much?"

Wang Anshi said, "Even if we take the full amount, it's only 50,000 strings of cash. If Bianjing City only collected this much, the entire Kaifeng Prefecture would probably not even be able to cover the police department's finances, not to mention that you would have to pay merchants to transport and store the goods."

As soon as he heard the tax rate, he felt something was very wrong. It was so low, almost like begging.

But he didn't think about the fact that this was an additional tax, not the main tax.

Moreover, Zhang Fei calculated the total income of a family, which is actually not low.

When Han Jiang heard this number, he was also overwhelmed. This was totally not enough!

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "If it is this algorithm, it will definitely be enough."

Wang Anshi said excitedly: "This is impossible."

Zhang Fei said: "If it's not enough, I'll make up for it."

"......?"

"You...you're the one who will cushion it?"

Wang Anshi looked at Zhang Fei in disbelief.

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Since the police department hired me to help, I should be responsible for the algorithm I came up with. You two just need to see if this algorithm is feasible?"

Wang Anshi glanced at the statistical report again and said, "Unless there is something wrong with this report."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "I dare not speak without any evidence."

Wang Anshi and Han Jiang looked at each other.

Wang Anshi said, "You go back first, we need to discuss this further."

"yes."

Zhang Fei stood up and bowed: "I'll take my leave."

After Zhang Fei left, Wang Anshi first asked Han Jiang: "What do you think?"

Han Jiang nodded and said, "If this tax law can support the finances of the police station and at the same time be able to hire merchants to transport and store goods, I think it's okay. This is much better than I thought."

This conscription law was to collect taxes from those households that were exempt from conscription, the most sensitive of which were officials. Three percent of their income was collected, which Han Jiang thought was not much.

As for the amount of income other than salary to calculate the tax, Han Jiang thought it was a good idea. Many officials had extra income, but many officials were not very wealthy, and the extra income was not much, just barely enough. If all income other than salary was uniformly taxed at 10%, it would obviously be unreasonable.

It is definitely more worthwhile to offend more people, but this range is still acceptable.

Wang Anshi seemed a little hesitant.

Han Jiang added: "Since that guy has promised to cover it, what else can we say?"

Wang Anshi nodded slightly.

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