Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1138: The most special frontier minister

Chen Lifu came to Shanghai. If it was in the past, no matter when he was the director of the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation, or when he was the deputy director of the Finance Department, he would have caused some waves in Shanghai.

Ordinary people naturally wouldn't pay attention, but the top class in society, especially officials, landlords and gentry, must be paying close attention to Chen Lifu's every move.

But now, Chen Lifu's arrival has not attracted much attention.

Because, Chen Lifu's identity is different now!

In the past, Chen Lifu was the director of the inspection department. This position was originally to look for trouble everywhere and then arrest people, not to mention the director of the inspection department. It caused great panic, no way, who made most people's butts not very clean these days.

Although the laws of the empire are very strict and the punishment for tax evasion is very serious, as long as there are enough benefits, ordinary fines and imprisonment are not a big threat. Even the death penalty, it is difficult for these people to retreat. What's more, although the tax department is powerful, its technology is still the first. In fact, many tax evasion behaviors will not be exposed if the tax evaders do not reveal obvious information and the tax department does not directly and deliberately investigate. of.

If nothing else, cash transactions alone are enough to evade tax to a large extent, because the tax department can check bank accounts and check the accounts of companies, but there is no way to monitor cash transactions without written records. There are still many people who evade tax.

At present, the Datang Tax Department does not monitor all aspects of tax evasion and tax evasion. The focus of monitoring is mainly on enterprises, in addition to agricultural taxes. As for other informal enterprises, commercial transactions between individuals are actually mostly uncollectible. taxed.

This situation, let alone the current Tang Empire, is a huge problem even in the 21st century. Just ask, even in modern society, how many self-employed people and small factories have you seen? Is your boss paying taxes in accordance with formal procedures?

As for the problem of tax evasion arising from cash transactions, even in the United States, which has an extremely perfect tax system in later generations, it cannot be eliminated.

Therefore, in today's Datang Empire, although tax supervision is very strict, this strictness is only limited to the two industries that are relatively easy to supervise, such as enterprise and agricultural tax. For other transactions, it is actually difficult to carry out Surveillance, and therefore, tax evasion and evasion is still a problem, and it's fairly common.

But then again, if the tax department thinks that a certain person is suspected of tax evasion and tax evasion, and the person really has tax problems, and if they focus their efforts on investigating, most of them can be investigated.

This is why many people are afraid of tax officials!

Because these tax evaders mostly have a fluke mentality, thinking that the tax department will not notice them, but once they are noticed by the tax department, it is very likely that they will not be found out.

As for those who pay taxes honestly, naturally they will not be afraid of the officials of the tax department. After all, the officials of the tax department will not be idle and mess around. Even if they want to mess, they have no right to mess what.

It's normal for people, especially tax evaders, to be afraid of being tax officials, of tax inspectors at the inspection office.

As for the words of the Deputy Director of the Finance Department, ordinary people naturally don't care, but the financial community will care, and the financial community directly affects the business community, and at the same time, it will inevitably affect local officials.

Therefore, if Chen Lifu is still the deputy director of the Finance Department, coming to Shanghai will definitely attract the attention of local officials, financial and business people, for fear that Chen Lifu will cause some trouble.

But now, these people don't have much fear of Chen Lifu!

The reason why they feared Chen Lifu before was not because of Chen Lifu himself, but because of his position and the influence behind this position.

If Chen Lifu didn't have such a position, they naturally wouldn't give Chen Lifu a second glance.

Today's Chen Lifu has become a cognate of Songjiang Prefecture. Although this position is already the No. 2 or No. 3 figure in Songjiang Prefecture, the deterrent force is not great, at least Chen Lifu's Above, there is a prefect of Songjiang Prefecture who has not yet been appointed, and there is also a magistrate of a special county in Shanghai whose actual power and influence is greater than that of the Chen Lifu Association.

These two people, although they don't know who they are, are the ones they are most concerned about.

In contrast, Chen Lifu seemed dispensable.

And this is also the reason why Chen Lifu felt awkward about this position after learning that he had become a cognate of Songjiang Prefecture.

It seems that he is the second child of Songjiang Prefecture, but in fact the power is taken away by the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the county magistrate of the special county in Shanghai. In the end, although he will be in charge of some affairs, his influence is definitely limited.

But Chen Lifu is not reconciled!

He came to Songjiang Mansion to serve as Tongzhi, although it was beyond his own expectations, but the appointment was down. He naturally wanted to find a way to make achievements and get rid of the current embarrassing situation.

He is an ambitious man.

Taking advantage of the fact that the candidate for the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture has not yet been determined, and that he has relatively free authority in the next half a month or so, he needs to quickly grasp the situation and control the power, so that he can be in the future Songjiang. After the prefect of the prefecture and the magistrates of the special counties in Shanghai took office, they occupied a politically active position.

And the first fire, he chose to be the Shanghai Terminal Company!

Shanghai or the entire Songjiang Prefecture, although it is a land of fish and rice, agriculture is quite developed like other places in the south of the Yangtze River, but agriculture is not the current economic pillar of Songjiang Prefecture.

Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, its economic pillar is undoubtedly industry and commerce!

A Shanghai industrial zone and a Shanghai commercial and trade zone constitute the economic pillar of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture. In this economic system, the Shanghai Terminal Company plays an important role.

Although the company's assets are nothing but the terminal facilities and the land and buildings near the terminal, its economic size is not even that of a medium-sized textile factory.

But even so, its economic impact on Shanghai is quite significant. Not to mention, if the company increases or decreases the related costs of terminal services, it can directly affect the entire Shanghai economic circle. The price of the product will increase as the cost of transportation and even the entire operation increases.

The cost is reduced, which means that the transportation and operating costs are reduced, and the cost of the final product will be lower.

This company does not produce anything on the surface, but it provides the most basic and irreplaceable basic services, so it can actually affect the development of Shanghai's economic circle, and its role is no better than those that provide financial support. Banks and securities companies are small.

There is a problem with such a company, which naturally needs to be solved. Chen Lifu does not want to see such a company suffer a devastating impact because of the impact of the Zhou Lide case. The suspended third phase of the wharf construction must also start as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will affect the economic development of the entire Shanghai.

But before taking action against the Shanghai Wharf Company, he had to meet someone first. This person is the most senior official in Songjiang Prefecture, and even in the entire Jiangnan Province, and the only big guy in the entire Jiangnan Province! !

Jiangnan Taoist Taoist Huo Shouqi.

This Huo Shouqi is not just an ordinary local official, he can be said to be the most special one among the many frontier ministers in the Tang Empire!

First of all, Datang currently has a total of 16 provinces, four provinces, three military districts, and four overseas direct jurisdictions. However, overseas direct jurisdictions are only at the level of state capitals. Military districts are also special, and their administrative units are also at the state capital level. , although in fact directly under the central government, but nominally still belongs to the neighboring provinces.

Therefore, the real ministers of the frontier, that is, the governors of the sixteen provinces, and the Taoists of the four ways, a total of twenty.

And Huo Shouqi should be a special one among the twenty frontier ministers.

Saying that he is special is not because of his age, appearance, etc., but because of his political status!

First of all, as a Taoist in Jiangnan Province, his rank is not very high, he is only of the third rank, which is one rank lower than that of the provincial governors, but as a Taoist in Jiangnan Province, he has a great political discourse power. of.

Because the agricultural, industrial and commercial output value of Jiangnan Road ranks among the best in the entire empire, and occupies a large proportion, the entire Jiangnan Road is expected to have more than 18 million financial income in the ten years of Xuanping, and the entire Datang Empire is in In the ten years of Xuanping, the estimated fiscal revenue is only 80 million taels of silver!

From these two data, we can basically see the importance of Jiangnan Road, and the importance of Jiangnan Road can directly reflect the particularity of Huo Shouqi.

And another key point is that before Huo Shouqi served as a Taoist priest in Jiangnan, he was the governor of Guangdong, but during the two years he served as the governor of Guangdong, in the last half year, the governor of Guangdong was vacant. As the governor of Guangdong, he represented the work of the governor of Guangdong. This time span was as long as half a year!

Even those who know a little about the unspoken rules of imperial officialdom know that if such a situation is not deliberately arranged, it is basically impossible to have such an important position as governor of a province. It is impossible to be vacant for more than half a year. In this case, there will be no vacancies for a month.

When the upper echelons of the empire need to mobilize the governor of a province, they often prepare the new governor of the province in advance to ensure a smooth transition of work.

But Huo Shouqi was acting as the representative of the Guangdong governor for half a year!

And the reason why he stopped acting as the governor of Guangdong~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was not because a new governor was dispatched from above, but because he was transferred to Jiangnan as a Taoist priest of Jiangnan!

In other words, if he is not transferred, it is very likely that he will continue to act as the governor of Guangdong, and then be promoted to the second grade.

From this position change, it is basically possible to see the particularity of Huo Shouqi. Although his rank is low, his actual power is greater than that of ordinary second-rank governors, and even the servants of ordinary departments are not comparable to him.

If he is like this, all fools know that he is simple in the heart of the emperor, and his grade is not a problem for him. Sooner or later, he will be transferred back to Gyeonggi, and even become a minister of minister or even the minister on duty.

In the face of such a person, Chen Lifu will not have any contempt!

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