Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 989

[Chapter 989]

“According to rough statistics, the trade deficit between Dasong and Korea is about 3 billion yuan, and the trade deficit with Japan is about 4.8 billion yuan.

” Xu said.

After a pause, he said: “This is just a trade transaction on the books, there are many omissions among the people.”

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

According to the exchange ratio of silver and song yuan, this is equivalent to six million taels of silver and more than nine million taels of silver.

If you compare the yuan with contemporary currencies, the purchasing power of one yuan is similar to that of one yuan, only slightly higher.

For this surplus, Zhao Xu felt it was reasonable.

After all, Dasong basically controlled Korea and Japan from top to bottom, and exported industrial products to them without any obstacles.

And because Korea and Japan have no industrial foundation, Dasong’s industrial products have no rivals in the two countries, so it is only natural that they have so much surplus.

“As for the business tax, you have to pay close attention to it. Merchants who do business must obtain business incentives before they can do business. Every transaction must be recorded, and business tax should be paid according to the surplus.” Thinking of what Yang He said, “there are many private Omission,’ he cautioned.

At present, Dasong maintains a very low farm tax, so the tax must be supplemented by business.

He led Dasong’s soldiers to work outside, laying down one market after another for merchants.

They can’t just enjoy the dividends without taking a little responsibility.

It is their responsibility to pay taxes according to the Dasong Law.

Of course, he is well aware of the true nature of merchants. Their nature is to continuously expand their interests, and they will not take responsibility if they can.

This will also be the main contradiction between the imperial court and private merchants in the future.

It is also the result of Dasong’s transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country and the development of commerce and trade.

For this point, he must remain vigilant, not only to maintain the development of Dasong’s business, but also not to allow troubles.

This is why he let the government-run commercial firms dominate and lead the development of commerce and trade.

No one can guarantee whether there will be an ambitious man who was instigated by the Western natives’ thinking and grew up in Dasong in the future.

He did not want to bury the country that he had worked so hard with the blood and tears of his soldiers.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Yang He replied yes.

Zhao Xu nodded, and looked at Liu Fu again, “In order to cooperate with the development of Dasong’s business, Dasong should also establish a nationality system. Those who are not Dasong’s nationality are not allowed to enter without authorization. For Korea, Dongying wants to naturalize Dasong. It is also necessary to customize relevant policies and set up conditions.”

After a pause, he continued: “Only those who have the nationality of Dasong can enjoy all the benefits of Dasong, including policy benefits in business and trade. This king will also ask Korea, Dongying, And Luzon also established a nationality system to avoid the two-way behavior of some big businessmen who transfer assets to the above countries in order to evade taxes and want to enjoy dividends.”

His idea is simple, and responsibilities and obligations are equal.

Otherwise, everyone just thinks about gaining profits and evading obligations, how can Da Song develop?

The purpose of this policy is to restrain some merchants who think they are smart.

The establishment of nationality systems in various countries leaves no loopholes for them to take advantage of, and they must choose one of the two.

Either as a Dasong merchant, do business honestly and pay taxes, or give up Dasong’s nationality and no longer enjoy the dividends of Dasong’s development.

Secondly, he will also establish a unified tax system in the East, including all the countries in the East.

Merchants have to pay the same tax no matter where they go, so they don’t want these crooked ways.

Having said this, Zhao Xu announced the disbandment of the court.

As the end of the new year was approaching, he asked Liu Fu to issue a decree, allowing prefectures, counties and counties to purchase a batch of New Year’s goods and distribute them to families whose children were soldiers.

This is naturally to unite people’s hearts, but also to create an atmosphere of praising “martial arts”.

Secondly, this is also to support some workshops with poor returns and make special purchases from them.

The third is to promote the trading of grain, so that the common people can exchange surplus grain for money, because the main benefit for soldiers is grain.

Having dealt with all the scraps from years ago, Zhao Xu finally settled down to celebrate the New Year.

New Year’s Eve is the New Year’s Eve gathering in the eastern and western cities of Yancheng.

In order to join in the fun, but also to understand the people’s sentiments.

He, Yang Susu, Feng’er, and Luan’er, with the help of the members of the Fourth Academy, made it easy, changed into casual clothes, and left the palace under the protection of Xu Lie and other guards.

Of course, Xu Lie and the others also put on simple makeup.

A group of people is like a wealthy businessman with his wives and concubines as guards.

After leaving the palace, as soon as he turned into the main street of Yanzhou, Zhao Xu was immediately startled by the rush of people in front of him.

I saw the whole main street shoulder to shoulder, people next to each other, heel to heel, very noisy and crowded.

In this flow of people, there are people carrying chickens, ducks and fishes. They just bought new year’s goods in Dongshi and are about to go home. At this moment, there are smiles on their faces.

There are also hawkers carrying candied haws to sell. The candied haws that are full of trees are almost sold, only two or three, and they are also happy.

There are also urchins wearing brand-new new clothes, holding colorful candies in their hands, and their mouths are full of saliva.

These candies are made with sucrose instead of traditional maltose.

While praising the development of heavy industries such as iron and steel, smelting, machinery, and electric power, he did not forget light industry.

After all, light industry mainly produces daily necessities.

The main technology of light industry is in the patent department.

When the technical conditions for each light industry are met, the Patent Department will list the patents and remind merchants to purchase them.

Therefore, Dasong currently has a workshop specializing in the production of sucrose candies.

As merchants have learned about candy technology, they are also innovating themselves, such as adding natural food coloring to make candy more beautiful.

“Your Highness, Luan’er and I are going to buy it too.” Seeing the candy in the child’s hand, Feng’er was also greedy.

Dasong is changing with each passing day, and new events are constantly emerging, which is dazzling.

Sometimes there are some small things that she has never seen before.

“You guys go.” Zhao Xu smiled and followed behind the two of them slowly.

The two crossed the road and stopped at a grocery store diagonally opposite.

There are a lot of products in the grocery store, most of which are industrial products made by Dasong Workshop.

Needless to say, old items such as liquor, perfume, soap, glass bottles, and pocket watches, there are also new candies, rubber bands, and rubber-soled shoes.

After buying candy, a group of people continued to go to the East and West cities, but the more they went in, the more crowded they were.

Yang Susu couldn’t help sighing that Yancheng is even more noisy than Jinling today.

Zhao Xu’s main concern is the sentiment of the people.

Along the way, he saw that the poorest of the people were wearing cotton clothes instead of linen clothes, and he was very relieved.

Seeing that the market is prosperous and the people have more or less money to buy new year’s goods, they feel more at ease.

It’s just that he knows that this is Yancheng, at the foot of the emperor, it is naturally prosperous, but it cannot represent the whole Dasong.

His goal is to make the entire Dasong people rich.

And not only to be rich, but also to exceed Xitu’s living standard ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.

(end of this chapter)