Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

In fact, the reason why Wei Wu did not mention the money issue was mainly because it involved too many things and it would be difficult to implement.

But since Zhu Yuanzhang asked, he had nothing to hide, so he just told it directly.

"Uncle Zhu, don't you think the commercial tax rate in the Ming Dynasty is too low? A tax rate of 30% is practically confiscation."

"You must know that commercial taxes are the cornerstone of the country's tax revenue, and the vigorous development of commerce is an important source of stable national income."

In the past, when Wei Wu spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang listened more and spoke less, and rarely refuted.

But this time, after listening to Wei Wu's words, he refuted him on the spot.

"Xiao Wu, we also know that businessmen have money. Everyone in the world knows that businessmen make money. That is why we suppress the development of commerce."

"After all, merchants are a disaster for the country! If everyone goes into business just to make money, who will cultivate the fertile land in the world?"

Hearing this, Wei Wu couldn't help but shake his head and sighed.

"Uncle Zhu, do you remember what I said before about how we couldn't collect taxes in the late Ming Dynasty?"

"Good farmland has been annexed, and the population has become invisible. The fields in this world need people to cultivate them, but the people who need them have no land to cultivate!"

"The common people have no land, and taxes on the gentry are hard to collect. Jiangnan is extremely wealthy, and a middle-class family in Jiangnan can easily come up with a million taels of silver."

Having said that, Wei Wu looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with intent eyes.

"You say merchants are a disaster for the country, but the biggest merchants in the world are the gentry in Jiangnan. They are the ones who are most happy about the low commercial taxes."

"They keep saying that raising taxes on businesses is competing with the people, and collecting taxes from the gentry is levying more taxes on the people, but can they really be considered the people?"

"By developing commerce, at least when the people have no land to farm, they can still have a way to support themselves, right?"

"If the treasury had been supported by commercial taxes during the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen wouldn't have been so poor that he couldn't even pay the military salaries."

"In the final analysis, our Ming Dynasty was destroyed by finances and died of poverty!"

After listening to Wei Wu's remarks, Zhu Yuanzhang did not refute him this time, but lowered his head and remained silent.

At this time Wei Wu spoke again:

"Uncle Zhu, when the sea ban is lifted in the future, customs duties and commercial taxes will all be important revenues. Now we are just making preparations."

"And when we defeat the Japanese pirates and bring back those gold mines and silver mountains, we'll also need commercial development."

"If there's too much money, it needs to be circulated. Otherwise, it won't only be of no benefit, but will also cause the economy to collapse. The cost will outweigh the gain!"

In fact, what Wei Wu wanted to talk about was inflation, but he didn't quite understand it.

And now the primary goal is to solve the problem of commercial taxes.

As for the issue of inflation, we can wait until we have the opportunity to put forward the basic theory and let the officials of the Ministry of Revenue study it.

After listening to Wei Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang understood the importance of commercial taxes, but he was just being too picky for a moment.

At this moment, Wei Wu dealt him a fatal blow.

"Although the Zhao Song dynasty was weak, it was the richest dynasty in history. The reason for this was that the Song dynasty valued commerce."

"Uncle Zhu, what we are doing now is to lay a solid foundation for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and build the Ming Dynasty into the most powerful country in history."

"I believe that with Big Brother's talent, he will be able to dominate both the military and the economy in the future, and both hands will be strong!"

Wei Wu's words can be said to have directly hit Zhu Yuanzhang's G-spot.

All the stubborn issues were unimportant at this moment, he just turned and looked at Zhu Biao.

"Biao'er, I'll leave the business taxes and the land tax to you. Consider this a test from me!"

Zhu Biao did not expect that Old Zhu would change so quickly.

However, he had already studied the issue of distributing the tax based on the amount of land he owned and had a method of doing it in mind.

As for commercial taxes, it is even simpler. There are examples from all dynasties to learn from.

The most crucial difficulty is that both of these things affect the interests of the gentry, and they will definitely not be happy.