Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 880 Da Song never lacks capable people
"He Xianggong's letter, you must have read it, how to solve the problem of money at Tangkou?" Zhao Huan signaled the courtiers to be quiet, and raised a new topic.

In fact, Zhao Huan only temporarily handed over the Tangkou Sea Grain Department to the Ministry of Commerce. In the end, the Sea Grain Department had to be returned to the Ministry of Households. Food is the foundation of the country.

It's just that Zhao Huan wanted to use this matter to speed up the speed of the Ministry of Households' clarification of the land and acres in the world.

how long it takes?ten years.

How long did it take Zhu Yuanzhang to clarify the land and acres in the world?ten years.

Zhu Yuanzhang was going to build the yellow book. The basic unit of the yellow book was a picture, one hundred households was a picture, and every ten households were compiled into a family, and one family head was selected from them, and one hundred households had ten head heads.Then set up a village chief to be in charge of the ten chiefs and report directly to the county-level yamen.

This is the family system and the fundamental tax system of the Ming Dynasty. This is a good policy, but it is only good if it is universal.

It was tried out in Huzhou in the third year of Hongwu, and then gradually began to be tried in the three southeastern provinces, and then spread to the whole world, and finally completed the feat of the imperial book in the 14th year of Hongwu.

Exactly ten years.

Zhao Huan's request is not high, and he hopes that the Ministry of Household Affairs can complete the restructuring of the world's land property and household registration system within ten years.

But in terms of the current implementation of the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is a fool's dream to complete the whole world's yellow book within ten years!
That's why he used the whip to whip the Ministry of Accounts and hurry up to complete it. This is the newly established Department of Maritime Grain, and it's just a lesson.

If the supervision by the Ministry of Officials is still ineffective, the Academy of Painting and technical bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty will be used to do this.

When Zhao Huan saw the question he posed and no one answered, he tentatively asked, "Tax increase? Buy?"

"I think it's understandable to increase taxes on items such as corals and gemstones. First-class to third-class merchants in the mansion shop increase taxes, but merchants below third-class merchants are less appropriate. I don't know what the officials think?" Li Gang went out and said in a low voice. .

The tax grading system is a major project of the business tax reform that Li Gang has been promoting recently. After rectifying and reforming the taxation system of the Song Dynasty, he is going to start robbing the rich and helping the poor in the tax system.

"Chen Shaoqing, what do you think?" Zhao Huan turned his head to look at Chen Zimei. He was originally a merchant, and he was a first-class merchant in Didian. He seemed to listen to Chen Zimei's thoughts.

Chen Zimei said without thinking: "Good."

Li Gang mentioned this issue in Changchao, so naturally he had already communicated with Li Gang in private. The two studied for a long time, and Chen Zimei agreed with Li Gang's views very much, and agreed to the advancement of this system.

The system of hierarchical tax collection, from the lowest level of [-]%, [-]%, [-]%, [-]%, and [-]% of merchant revenue tax, has changed the past one-size-fits-all commercial taxation, and realized "killing the rich and helping the poor" in a broad sense.

"Does any of you object?" Zhao Huan asked tentatively.No one came out to respond.

After all, the Song Dynasty was still a world of literati, and they treated merchants differently. Even though Chen Zimei was a serious Jinshi, the literati and bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty still thought that Chen Zimei was incompatible with them.

So this policy, for them, has nothing to object to at all.

"Then Li Dazai will go and handle this matter." Zhao Huan signaled Li Gang to let go and do it, just like before, he would cover for him himself.

The system of hierarchical tax collection also includes the support policy that mansions do not enter businessmen. Of course, the purpose of Li Gang's taxation classification system is not to respond to the official's idea of ​​"the king is for the people and the sky", nor is it to share the grand plan of common prosperity. .

He exists entirely to combat the influence of the first-class wealthy merchants in Didian.

The internal funds of the Chen family in Huainan and the official family competed for profit in Korea, which made Li Gang see the terrifying influence of the first-class wealthy merchants!

Right now, the first-class wealthy merchants can still control it. After all, the largest merchants in the world are the government's internal money industry.Then there is the national treasury industry with the national treasury as the core.

But this still made Li Gang brood.

His purpose is to divide the influence of the first-class wealthy merchants in Didian. If under the suppression of high taxes, the first-class wealthy merchants in Didian can be divided into divisions. It has the same effect.

As a defender of the imperial power, he resolutely resisted all existence that might affect the imperial power, because in his heart, the restrictions on the emperor that the officials had repeatedly mentioned would be firmly denied by Li Gang at the beginning of the discussion.

He did it to maintain order, and Zhao Huan also took advantage of the opportunity to agree with Li Gang's measures to further promote business reform.

Of course, the two hit it off with the tax policy of supporting low-income merchants in the mansion.One holds the great dream of common prosperity, and the other holds the influence of the first-class luxury businessmen in the division to maintain order.

Same way.

As for the first-class luxury businessmen, it is not only the hierarchical tax collection system, but also the anti-monopoly bill. Li Gang is still figuring out the specific provisions, but Cai Jing has already made a huge contribution to the anti-monopoly matter before Li Gang. Step by step, made a huge contribution.

Li Gang stood on the achievements of Cai Jing and further promoted the regulation of the anti-monopoly industry.

Fangla's uprising was caused by the unrest caused by the earth dragon in the south of the Yangtze River and the natural disaster caused by the earthquake. In fact, the fundamental reason was that Zhao Ji directly intervened in the salt administration of the two places in the south of the Yangtze River, which led to the Fangla uprising There is a mass base in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.

In subsequent policy revisions, Cai Jing set out to bring order to Zhao Ji's policy.

Zhao Ji's method is to issue salt banknotes, with salt as the standard system. On the issued salt banknotes, only the price and quantity of salt are marked, and there is no deadline.

As a result, after the salt merchants bought back the salt banknotes, the salt merchants from all over Didian sat together, held the salt banknotes, negotiated prices, hoarded the goods, and controlled the salt price to a certain extent.

This is a financial tool similar to the futures of later generations. In the Song Dynasty, the price of salt soared. From the past 300 renminbi to buy salt for a family of five and a half, it soared directly to more than [-] renminbi.Before Fang La's uprising, the price of salt was still soaring.

However, salt workers and salt farms still produced salt according to the price set by the imperial court, and even because of the sharp drop in salt output, there was a large-scale unemployment of salt workers in salt farms.For Fang La's million-dollar rebel army, the young and middle-aged were enriched.

Four years after Xuanhe, Cai Jing revised the salt policy without telling Zhao Ji, and made a salt introduction.

After Cai Jing's reform, Yanyin was divided into long and short quotations, with long quotations selling external routes and short quotations selling local channels.The most important thing is that the Yanyin introduced by Cai Jing has a time limit.Long quotes for one year, short quotes for a season.Abolished after the expiration date, and strictly limit the quantity and price of transportation and sales.

The market has been re-corrected from the monopoly operation of the first-class luxury merchants in Didian to free trade competition. With the population in the south of the Yangtze River under the condition of ten draws and one slaughter order, the salt price in the Song Dynasty has begun to decline steadily. Now the salt price has returned to During the reign of Chongning, about fifteen Wenyan and half ten days.

So Zhao Huan was very interested in Cai Jing's various policies. Just as he said before leaving, Cai Jing and the officials looked more and more alike.

What the officials are doing and want to do, Cai Jingdu is at the forefront, and under the pressure of Zhao Ji, he is doing quite well.

It's a pity that no matter how talented Cai Jing is, no matter how many policies, since the scholar Chen Dong wrote a letter to bombard Cai Jing as the six thieves of the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing has been nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and he is undoubtedly among the traitors.

Otherwise, Zhao Ji can only be nailed to the pillar of shame, and the limit is changed one by one, which is impossible to operate.Especially after Cai Jing and Cai Youke died in Tanzhou, there was no one in court, so naturally no one could vindicate him.

(End of this chapter)