These landowners in the south of the Yangtze River are still crying for the little interest, but they don't know that they are actually very lucky, at least much happier than the powerful people in the capital.

Due to time constraints and the deployment of the Public Security Bureau, it is impossible to implement the warehouse tax in Huainan this year.

There is no way around this.

However, the imperial court still announced the news that the warehouse tax will be fully implemented next year.

However, the new tax law will be implemented this year. The elites of the Taxation Department have already been in place. They are all hungry and thirsty. If the new tax law is not implemented, the Taxation Department will scold them. They have been hungry for a long time.

However, the landowners of the Huainan generation are completely unaware of the seriousness of this matter and are still scolding them. What kind of bullshit laws and warehouse taxes are they? We have to report them to the government. This is simply nonsense.

The tax department was very happy. They liked such unruly rich people and wished they could remain so.

All the prize money depends on them.

In comparison, Jingdong East Road was relatively calm. They had already learned about this news from Di Bao earlier, and later the government officially announced that the warehouse tax would be implemented next year.

Then the food supply in the grain store increased day by day.

Qizhou Imperial Court.

"Zizhan, have you heard that the price of food has dropped to twenty-seven cents."

Wang Anguo asked Su Shi.

Su Shi smiled and said: "No need to hear that the food from the grain store will soon be put on the street."

Wang Anguo said with a smile: "This is really unexpected. The matter is not yet clear. The landowners just released the grain directly, and no one even came to complain."

Su Shi chuckled: "The Wu Tian case last time made them frightened. They don't dare to take any chances anymore. Moreover, there are all the Royal Police outside now. In the past three months, our Procuratorate has only contacted

The last criminal case, the rest are all civil lawsuits."

Jingdong East Road has completely lost its ability to resist, because the last time the bandits were suppressed too hard, it directly frightened the local landlords and gentry. The key point is that the number of the Royal Police is still increasing, because the commander of the Palace Front Division came here in person

, all the forbidden troops here were transferred to the royal police, and Jingdong East Road has become a large police district, with more police officers than in the northwest.

Qizhou has also changed from a state capital with the worst security to one with the best security.

Therefore, as soon as the news of the warehouse tax came out, even though it would not be implemented until next year, the landowners did not hesitate to release the grain directly. If it were released again next year, the price of grain would definitely be lower.

Wang Anguo added: "It's really strange to say that these people can't even do anything to robbers in the military camp. When they go to the Royal Police, they feel like a different person. They are not afraid of the more powerful grass bandits. They beat those

The grass bandits are running away in confusion."

Su Shi smiled and said: "Does the president know who is currently supporting the Qingzhou Business College?"

Wang Anguo asked: "Who?"

"These are the Royal Police."

Su Shi said: "The military camp has always been very corrupt. These soldiers never get full salaries. They often go to the commander's house to do odd jobs, just like servants.

But it's different when you go to the police station. As long as you work hard and make progress, the money and bonuses will not be less. Therefore, their children are most suitable to study in the professional college. At the same time, they still have the word "royal" on their heads, and

They are deeply loved by the people, and have a lot of status, honor, and money. How can they not work hard?

I know that at the beginning of the year, someone spent two hundred dollars to bribe a royal policeman, but they failed because they were afraid of losing their police uniform."

Wang Anguo nodded.

Su Shi added: "But it's just the beginning, so we can't explain anything yet. At the beginning of the founding of the country, our army's combat effectiveness was not bad, but then it slowly decayed. We still have to supervise the Royal Police at all times."

Just as he was talking, the civil servants came to report that Zhang Dun, the transfer envoy to Qizhou, and Zeng Bu, the prefect of Qizhou, arrived.

Wang Anguo immediately asked someone to invite them in.

When the two entered the house, they immediately apologized to Wang Anguo and Su Shi, saying that they were late.

It turns out that Su Shi came to the imperial court today because Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu said he had something to discuss with them.

After sitting down, Wang Anguo asked: "I wonder if you two have anything to discuss with us?"

Zhang Dun said: "I wonder if you two know that there are many barter phenomena in Qizhou."

After hearing this, Su Shi immediately said: "Don't you two want to issue salt banknotes?"

Zhang Dun was stunned immediately. Zeng Bu laughed and said, "Zizhan is really smart."

Su Shi didn't appreciate it at all and shook his head directly: "I don't agree."

This Su Zizhan is really annoying! Zeng Bu's expression changed slightly, and he said in a cold tone: "Why?"

Su Shi said: "Because if the government can solve financial problems with a piece of paper, it will definitely be indiscriminate and the people will be miserable."

Zhang Dun immediately said: "But this is all caused by your Public Security Bureau. Everywhere the Public Security Bureau goes, local business will prosper, which leads to a shortage of coins. Not long after the Public Security Bureau went to Hezhong Prefecture, a large number of salt banknotes and salt bonds were issued. Now Gyeonggi Province

The land also issues tax coins, which shows that this is the only way to go."

Su Shi said: "There have always been salt banknotes in Hezhong Prefecture. The tax coins issued in Gyeonggi Province are for disaster relief. This has nothing to do with the Public Security Bureau."

Zeng Bu rolled his eyes and said hehe: "I heard that the reason why the people of Hezhong Prefecture trust salt banknotes is because Su Ziyou has extraordinary ability and always supervises the issuance of salt banknotes and salt bonds..."

Before he could finish speaking, Su Shi said: "Prefect Zeng never wanted to use my brother to provoke me. Ziyu Zeng wrote to me and told me that he did not agree with Yan Chao. It was just because Zhang San was better than him in means, so he had no choice but to

I can accept it. But I have no reason to accept it.”

The implication is that both of you are not as good as Zhang San.

Zeng Bu couldn't hear the sarcasm, and the corner of his mouth twitched, and he said to himself, "God has eyes for this guy when he was beaten, but it's a pity that he was beaten in the eyes, not in the mouth."

Zhang Dunwu said calmly: "We are not here to quarrel with you two, we are here to solve the problem. Nowadays, the business development on Jingdong East Road is rapid, but it is stagnant due to lack of coins. As long as there are enough coins, it will be inevitable

We will make further progress. To this end, we recruited businessmen in advance to develop salt in Binzhou. Now the salt production there has increased a lot, and we have enough ability to issue salt banknotes."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "What is missing is coins, not salt banknotes." Su Shi said.

Zeng sermon: "May I ask Prosecutor General Su if he has a magic trick?"

Don't just talk without practicing, come up with a solution.

Su Shi said: "Since the capital can regulate grain through a warehouse tax, why can't we solve the currency problem through a copper storage tax.

Nowadays, the value of coins is already increasing. If we impose taxes on copper and at the same time give merchants the power to mint coins, the number of coins will inevitably increase."

Zeng preached: "If merchants are allowed to mint coins, good and bad coins will be mixed, and the consequences will be more serious."

Su Shi said: "We can formulate a coinage law to ensure this, and the Public Security Bureau also has the ability to do this."

Zeng Bu and Zhang Dun were stunned because they couldn't defeat Su Shi, so they couldn't help but look at Wang Anguo angrily.

Wang Anguo said: "I also agree with what Prosecutor General Su said. The risk of issuing salt banknotes is too great, so we should try to avoid it."

Zhang Dun said: "But copper is limited, and if business continues to prosper, salt banknotes will still have to be issued."

Su Shi said: "Let's talk about it then."

Seeing that he was unable to make money, Zhang Dun said: "Issuing coins is the power of our government."

Su Shi said: "But without the support of the public security organs, the people will not believe it."

"You...take your leave."

Because this was not the first time they had quarreled, they moved very smoothly, but everyone was used to it, and they had to sit down and continue discussing after they were arguing.

In fact, Zhang Dun also knows that Su Shi's method is also feasible. At present, the price of coins is indeed rising. As long as private minting is liberalized, the currency will be alleviated.

But they wanted to keep the currency in the hands of the government.

Unfortunately, they met Su Shi, a super liberal. Su Shi's idea was that the government should collect taxes seriously and give businessmen more freedom. He had no objection to warehouse tax and liquor tax, and was very much in favor of it.

However, Zhang Dun is right in what he said. Everywhere the police, procuratorate and law go, there will inevitably be a shortage of money. The reason is that the public security, procuratorate and law will promote business prosperity, the frequency of transactions will increase, and the currency will remain unchanged, then there will be a money shortage.

The phenomenon.

Therefore, Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu were also very anxious. As long as they issued currency, business would become better, but without the support of the public security organs and law, they would not be able to issue it because the people would not believe it.

Zeng Bu even thought that if a natural disaster covered Jingdong East Road, they would be able to issue banknotes smoothly.

God does not fulfill people’s wishes!

Qingzhou was no exception. Wang Juqing, the transshipment envoy, was also competing with Qian Yi and Fan Chunren. Neither Qian Yi nor Fan Chunren agreed to issue salt banknotes.

It can also be seen that innovative and conservative political ideas continue to conflict in local areas.

On the contrary, the party struggle in the capital has somewhat died down, because the imperial power is being asserted and everyone is competing around their interests, leaving the dispute over political ideas aside.

What's even more terrible is that an anti-corruption storm swept across the entire Gyeonggi area and suddenly erupted. During this period, no one reacted.

In just half a month, procuratorates and police stations in various places arrested more than 60 officials.

The ruling and opposition parties were shocked.

Because such large-scale corruption cases rarely occurred in the Song Dynasty, but when some of the details came out, everyone was confused again.

It turned out that this was not a major corruption case, but that some low-level officials were using the disaster relief to run out of food, or colluding with merchants to purchase goods needed for disaster relief at high prices.

There are dozens of strings, or hundreds of strings.

It was only then that everyone slowly came to their senses, mainly because this was the first time the imperial court had provided work-for-relief on such a large scale, and at the same time it had issued millions of tax coins.

The imperial court had gone through some restructuring before. The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works were in a hurry in terms of implementation. They were messing around in the early stage. The key point is that the executive offices at the bottom have not changed, and there is no vertical integration. There is a lack of supervision from above to below.

This creates a breeding ground for corruption.
To be continued...