New Year's Day is the later Spring Festival.

This name is also easy to understand, the beginning of the year.

The arrival of New Year's Day also means that most officials will usher in the happiest long holiday of the year, starting from New Year's Eve until the end of Lantern Festival. However, some senior officials will have three days exceptions.

The first day is New Year's Eve, and the emperor will summon senior officials to the palace to wait for the New Year, just to eat and drink. When midnight comes, everyone will go back. Not every year, but it will be like this in ten years.

There is also the Lantern Festival on the day of the Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, some important officials will climb the Xuande Gate Tower with the emperor to watch the lanterns.

Another day, when the envoys of the Liao Kingdom entered the Song Dynasty in the twelfth lunar month, they came to the capital around New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty. On the sixth and seventh day of the first lunar month, the Song Dynasty would entertain the Liao envoys in the Daqing Hall. On this day, many important officials would enter the hall to accompany them.

It cannot be considered as a shame. This is true for the Song Dynasty, and the Liao Kingdom is the same. The envoys of the Liao Kingdom come to the capital, and the envoys of the Song Dynasty go to the Liao Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom will also be kind to entertain the king and ministers. The difference is that the Song Dynasty is in the Daqing Hall in the capital, and the Liao Kingdom is mostly in the place of the Nabo in the spring of Changchun.

The farce happened this day.

This year there is some surprise...

Many ministers looked at the five vacant seats in front, except for those dogmatic ones, and the remaining ministers had more or less joy on their faces.

Because in addition to the two Liao envoys, there are three respected guests.

How to say it?

In fact, the exchanges between the two envoys from both countries are indeed conducive to peace between the two countries. However, as the Liao Kingdom, they may have a better mentality, but as the Song Dynasty, they have a somewhat different mentality.

Wang Ju looked at everyone's expressions, sneered in his heart, and bowed to greet some familiar ministers.

After sitting down one by one, Wang Ju said to Zhang Qi, who was in charge of the leader: "Mr. Zhang, I have been wandering down there for many years. Last year, I was trusted by His Majesty and recalled me back to the capital. Finally, I can see the prosperity of the new year in the capital again."

"That is, in terms of prosperity, few cities can match it."

"Mr. Zhang, I suddenly thought of something. How much money did I earn for my court this New Year?"

He is now the deputy minister of the East Prefecture and is already a top minister. There are only a few people ahead of him, namely Sun Gu, the political enemy of Zhao Xu's teacher Wang Ju. He is only on par with him.

After hearing this sentence, Sun Gu said sarcastically, "I'm vulgar!"

But others were curious, what money can the court make this New Year? When did the court establish the New Year tax?

"Zi'an, what's the solution?"

"When the New Year comes, every household celebrates the New Year, buys new clothes, and buys wine and meat. When cooking, salt must be used. The more salt is used, will the court get more benefits for salt?"

The Song Dynasty was not short of salt, but the salt-debate policy caused the salt price to be too expensive and the people could not afford it, which often led to the inability to sell various salt fields, resulting in a large backlog.

Therefore, Wang Ju once promoted the method of drying salt. After seeing this situation, he was very excited and had no motivation.

However, Wang Ju's words stunned some smart ministers.

Wang Ju continued: "The same is true for wine. The more wine is sold, will I make more profits in my court? Even other commercial goods. The same is true for this. Although my court has not made direct profits, the more commercial goods are traded, will I get more commercial taxes in my court?"

"Um?"

Zhang Shangying, who was walking down from a short distance, stood up and asked: "Prince, do you mean that if the people are richer, the more invisible income we will have?"

There were two ministers in the Song Dynasty that were quite interesting, one was Zhang Qixian and the other was Zhang Shangying. They were not only famous officials of the generation. They also had the style of a chivalrous man.

However, Zhang Shangying had just arrived at Zhongshu.

"Zhang Jianzheng, the master of the Communist Party of China, was said before that the people did not increase their taxes and the country was self-sufficient. It is actually not impossible. Just like the previous year, the income of our dynasty reached 200 million yuan. For a time, countless ministers wrote letters saying that since ancient times, the name and heavy amount of wealth accumulation have not reached the amount of our dynasty. But if you think about it seriously, is the happiness of the people in our dynasty really not as good as the Han and Tang Dynasties? If you really make too much money, how could the peddlers and pawns wear silk socks (socks made of silk appeared very early, but ordinary people could only wear linen socks. As for the wool socks and silk socks, they could only afford to be worn by the powerful. This also shows that the lives of the people in the Song Dynasty have improved in reality).

Mr. Fu has not found a real method. This method is not to transfer wealth, but to make all the people richer. The court has formulated a fair tax system, and through various taxes, the court can get more wealth. Therefore, the ancestors' family law has repeatedly said that the people of Qi have been talking about. But on the other hand, our dynasty is now moving like another direction, with wealth concentrated to the powerful, and they do not pay taxes... and hide the fields. Because of the merger of the powerful, the lives of ordinary people will become more difficult. If the court directly levies various taxes or disguised various taxes, the lives of these people will be even more difficult."

Actually, it's really difficult.

I know what kind of benefits the growth of the middle class has to a country. However, even the later American imperialists did not find a good solution, let alone the Song Dynasty.

"How to make all people live a richer life?"

"Zhang Jianzheng, let all people live a richer life? This is impossible. Just like the ancestors' family rules, can all people be truly unified? Just like merchants, all powerful people trade taxes, but it is not a unified tax? It is not a unified tax, is it a unified tax? Because the powerful people have more resources, such as the capital of businessmen, knowing in advance the changes in national policies, information on the price of various places, connections, etc., can they be consistent? Therefore, in any era, it is impossible to make all people rich. Only say how the country makes more people rich, is it 60% or 70%, rather than the current one that may only be only 10% of the people rich. Only by doing this, the country has more reasonable tax standards, so the people will not increase taxes and the country will be self-sufficient."

Wang Ju said it vaguely.

Some ministers frowned in disgust, and it turns out that this kid is coming in full force.

This is also inevitable.

But many ministers are also thinking deeply.

It doesn't work, but it's mainly done.

Wang Ju did it, whether in Qingzhou, Quanzhou, or Guangdong and Guangxi.

That's what he did, and he killed some people despite the controversy of the court.

But this is how it is done, several places have quickly become richer and the income of local governments has increased violently.

This is the best proof, but Wang Ju only did it before and didn’t say it now.

Wang Ju bowed his hand again and said, "Of course, it is really difficult, but if done properly, it can achieve what I said. Some people may think that I hate the powerful. That is also wrong. If the environment I mentioned is realized and the income of local people has surged, then in this environment, the profits of various powerful people are not suppressed, but are also increasing. Zhang Jianzheng. Do you understand what I mean? The best example is the dispute between Wang Shao and Ma Yun. Judge Ma proposed that Yu Xihe collect two taxes. The ability to collect taxes is a symbol of a country's governance, and the court also agreed. However, Wang Shao opposed it, believing that the Xihe area was recently recovered and not only the foreigners, but also the nomadic people."

"This is very important. Why can I execute the relevant taxes on Yunnan Road? In fact, the difference is that between nomadic peoples and farming peoples, these two forms of civilization are almost completely different. Therefore, Wang Shao did not support the establishment of two taxes immediately, and through the means of market change, the income far exceeded the income of the two taxes. The court did not adopt Wang Shao's opinion and finally set up two taxes. As Wang Shao said, the income did not increase but decreased, which led to the unstable people in the Xihe area. Even the promotion of horse raising in Yuxihe that I proposed was unable to be implemented because of the two taxes."

"But why did the prince ban the Shiyi again?" asked Zhou Qing, the rear official of Zhongshu Hall.

"Have you seen the "Yao Bian" written by my mentor Zhang Gong? People must wear clothes to cover up shame. This is the fundamental point. What is the fundamental point of our dynasty? Pay attention to people's livelihood! It cannot be changed. But on some fundamental basis, we must adjust moderately, wear thick clothes in winter and thin clothes in summer. The implementation of the new salt administration and the two tax laws in the Tang Dynasty caused great controversy, but our dynasty was the fundamental point of establishing a country. The situation is different, the means are different, and the regions are different, and the specific strategies must be different. The court asked me to conquer Jiaozhi, but I did not use many imperial guards from the court. Instead, it established a new government. That is, to train local soldiers. Why did the northern soldiers go south and are not adapted to the local hot climate, not only cause a large number of casualties, but also cannot exert their combat effectiveness. By the way, Pan Mei also fought in the south of the South Han Dynasty, and also mainly used local soldiers who had been training on Jinghu South Road for a long time. This is why Wang Shao was able to successfully implement the Municipal Yi Law in Qinzhou, but failed to promote the Municipal Yi Law nationwide. Therefore, I banned the Municipal Yi Law. Therefore, the real idea of ​​the Yao Change is to adapt to the times and local conditions. Jiangnan East Road can promote Jiangdongwei, but can Jiangdongwei promote Jiangdongwei in Hebei?"

Although Wang Ju deliberately used the prosperity of the New Year's Day in the capital, which led to a lot of topics, the key points were deliberately vague, and the intention was even more profound. But at least Wang Ju said that.

Why fight is precisely because we know the truth, but not the reason.

“Is it still a change?”

"Why did the Zhou Houguan change the law? It was because the country's fiscal deficit was severe at that time, so Mr. Jiefu had to do it. But now that the problem of deficit has been solved, there can no longer be such radical means. However, there are also various adjustments behind it. The ban on the market and resetting the Southern Twelve Road Delivery Department is also an adjustment. The difference is that it is a relatively large adjustment. However, everyone is happy and don't discuss these heavy topics more."

Mr. Lu was depressed. Since he knew, why did you raise this topic?

Could this kid be doing something big?

But before he could think about it, five noble guests were brought in.

Harevana III.

Duan brothers.

The envoy of the Liao Kingdom, Xiao Wei, the governor of the Changning Army, Taichang Shaoqing, and Gan Wen Pavilion was waiting for the stone master to return.

Seeing Wang Ju, He Li San shivered and quickly bent down and said, "I have seen Shao Bao."

"You and I are both ministers of the Song Dynasty, and you are above me, so don't be too polite." Wang Ju quickly helped him up.

If it is in the south, it will be fine, it is in Daqing Hall.

Heli III was a prince of the Song Dynasty. How could he receive the great gift from Heli III?

Hearing Wang Ju say that he was a minister of the Song Dynasty, He Li Sanshi felt a little mixed with feelings.

Wang Ju immediately saw it and said, "Prince Heli, please remember my words. As long as you don't learn from Jiaozhi in Cham, then our Song Dynasty will live and die with Cham, and it is also the strongest backing for you Cham."

Just one sentence made Heli III happy.

But Wang Ju thought to himself that this old guy speaks Chinese quite fluently now.

What should I do? The Song Dynasty has taken over Jiaozhi. If I want to survive and deal with ministers from the southern Song Dynasty, how can I not learn Chinese?

But deep in Wang Ju's heart, he was very repulsive of this group of Malay people in Southeast Asia.

This is a group of people who are stupid, lazy, and have no gratitude and forgetfulness. They are covered with countless Chinese blood on their hands!

Of course, this life is not a previous life, and all the previous life can be used as reference, especially the thirty years of reform and opening up. It is the best reference for Wang Ju now. However, the grievances of the previous life cannot be completely substituted into this life.

The eunuch led him and asked the five to sit down.

But the two envoys of Liao Kingdom were only sitting behind, and this was not something Zhao Xu intended to make. One was the king of Chameng, and the other was the nominal prince and duke of Yunnan Road. It was impossible to sit under the envoys of Liao Kingdom.

Because Wang Ju's rank is extremely powerful, he is not far from them.

He Li III said again: "I also want to congratulate Shaobao on taking Yunnan Road for the Song Dynasty."

"I won't say that," Wang Ju whined at the Duan brothers. The Duan brothers also have self-esteem. Can you be happy after hearing this?

Hahaha, God III.

Dali was annexed by Wang Ju, and it was not a shame that he was just surrendering.

The Duan brothers were even more unhappy.

Wang Ju thought to himself that it seemed that he would write a memorial to Zhao Xu, indicating that Zhao Xu would appease the Duan brothers.

There are two different ways to manage Yunnan with the Duan brothers and without Duan brothers.

Just as he was thinking, Zhao Xu walked out.

Meet the ministers.

Zhao Xu asked everyone to sit down and then said a few words to the five people.

Moreover, Zhao Xu, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, was even happier when he saw the three people sitting in front.

However, this made Xiao Wei and Shi Zong unhappy, so Xiao Wei suddenly said: "Your Majesty, my lord has long heard of the talent and reputation of your king, Prince An, so I ask me to bring a word to Your Majesty. Can you let Prince An go to our country to be sent to our Lord so that our lord can see you?"

The old king said in surprise: "Prince An is a political affairs officer. How can he go to your country as an envoy?"

The envoys from the two countries who exchanged each other were also carefully selected, mostly middle-level officials, below top officials and above middle-level officials. For example, Xiao Wei and Shi Zonghui are now, like Bao Zheng when he served as the censor.
To be continued...