Selling weapons?

I?

Are you trying to make me happy?

Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Fei speechlessly.

This idea is far more frightening than surprising!

Zhang Fei immediately informed Zhao Xu of the Dengzhou Qiangnu lawsuit.

"So that's what happened."

Zhao Xu's tone was slightly disappointed. He thought about how much benefit this could bring. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "These maritime merchants brought a lot of tax revenue and overseas treasures to the country last year. It is appropriate to support them."

, how to ensure that they will not resell weapons to enemy countries?"

In fact, the Song Dynasty also took some measures to ban the sea at the beginning, mainly banning private people because they were afraid that merchants would have illicit affairs with the Liao Kingdom.

However, after Zhao Guangyi, it became more relaxed. It was not until the provisional law was compiled that he decided to completely abolish the maritime ban regulations. Once the old judicial system could turn a blind eye, the public security organs could not do it. There was this regulation, but it was relatively loose.

, this is impossible to operate.

Secondly, the new tax law system has enabled maritime trade to bring profits to the country.

Thirdly, it is also a sign of confidence.

Zhang Fei said: "We only sell weapons to those large merchants and sign contracts with them to ensure that the weapons are used by themselves. I also believe that they will not take the risk of committing a crime and resell the weapons for the benefit of these weapons.

Give it to the enemy country."

"That's doable."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly, but his interest was not high.

The idea didn't appeal to him at all.

Zhang Fei also saw it, so he added: "At the beginning, I suggested that your majesty include some inconspicuous business taxes into the internal treasury. Now it seems that your majesty thinks it is successful?"

When this matter was mentioned, Zhao Xu became even more depressed: "Didn't I just say it? It was so successful that I was targeted by Duke Wen and others."

Zhang Fei said: "Now we can repeat our old tricks."

"Repeat the same old tricks?"

Zhao Xu asked curiously.

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty should know that I asked the Charity Foundation to build the port in Dengzhou, with the purpose of bringing wealth to Jingdong East Road."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

Zhang Fei added: "According to my estimation, the main fiscal growth in the future may come from port tariffs."

"Yeah?"

Zhao Xu said in surprise.

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Definitely. Although the risk of shipping is relatively high, the cargo capacity is large. Overseas, there is a huge demand for our tea, porcelain, silk, and even paper, and they are all huge profits. This year's

The increase in port tariffs is already a sign.

Within three years, if nothing unexpected happens, port tariffs will increase exponentially, and your Majesty should deploy the ports as soon as possible."

Another doubling of growth?

This immediately attracted Zhao Xu's attention.

Zhang Fei added: "If His Majesty decides to make the accounts of the inner treasury public, or in other words, transfer some tax revenue to the national treasury, then you can use this to exchange the port tax with the outer court. In other words, in the future,

All port taxes will be paid to His Majesty, and the outer court will definitely agree. They don’t look down on these port taxes now."

Zhao Xu was a little moved and said, "Are you serious about what you said?"

Zhang Fei said confidently: "I would not advise your Majesty if I were not sure. Moreover, your Majesty even used port taxes to better collect the taxes from Fuguang area. Fuguang area is too far away from Bianliang, and their goods

It is difficult to transport them to the Central Plains. Maritime merchants will ship their goods overseas for sale, and the profits earned by them can be directly collected by His Majesty in the form of coins in the inner treasury."

Zhao Xu nodded, "What you say makes sense, what you say makes sense."

Zhang Fei struck again while the iron was hot: "If shipping develops, then the weapons specially supplied to maritime merchants will definitely sell well. Here is another sum of money. Moreover, the production of weapons is controlled by Your Majesty, and he also controls it to a certain extent.

Those maritime merchants, we can even use the maritime merchants' money and experience to develop firearms in the future. The weapons supervisor's evaluation of that kind of artillery has written that it is beneficial to water warfare. But it is still under development. If it can be obtained

If you use the money of maritime merchants to research and develop, it will kill two birds with one stone."

Although Zhao Xu was a little moved, he still said cautiously: "I have to think about this again."

Zhang Fei didn't force it, he just asked: "What about the Dengzhou forced crossbow case?"

Zhao Xu said: "Just judge according to what you say."

"yes."

"By the way, what do you think about the territorial law proposed by Duke Wen?" Zhao Xu said.

Zhang Fei said: "To be honest with Your Majesty, I have actually been considering this issue before. This is not to prevent Your Majesty from doing anything, but because I want to use the territorial law to abolish the prison system and popularize the public security law. At the same time, within the legal territory, the tax department also has

Collect taxes based on this.”

After Zhao Xu heard this, he thought it made sense. With the advent of the police, procuratorate, and law, he also became disgusted with the prison system. He couldn't receive money, but sometimes he still had to pay. He asked: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Zhang Fei said: "Because I think the timing is not right yet. After all, we have some vague boundaries in the north and south. I am worried that this will affect diplomatic matters, so I didn't mention it."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly and said, "Then we will discuss this matter later?"

Zhang Fei said: "That's not necessary. I don't know what Duke Wen is thinking, but since it is legislation, people must be sent to measure it clearly. This is also a very long project. Even if His Majesty passes this policy, it will not affect it.

What."

Zhao Xu just nodded, but did not express his position.

On a matter-of-fact basis, Zhao Xu was absolutely unwilling to use the internal treasury in exchange for port tax, even if the port tax could earn a lot of money.

Zhang Fei also knew that this would not impress Zhao Xu, so he just emphasized that if you decide to pay, or pay part of it, you can use the port tax as a bargaining chip to avoid losing too much.

To be honest, "money" is really secondary. What Zhao Xu really cares about is financial power. This is the key.

If he could, he would definitely not hand it over.

But why does it cause him such a headache? It's because the new tax law has raised the taxes of the powerful, and a considerable part of it goes into the internal treasury. If he doesn't hand over the internal treasury, then the powerful will think that you are like this

It is to put our money into your pocket in a different way.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Feudal society emphasized class, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together. If you, the emperor, get one hundred guan, then we will get 80 guan.

This is reasonable, but you cannot say that if you, the emperor, take one hundred and sixty guan, we will take 20 guan. This is too wicked of you. Then why should we be loyal to you?

As the saying goes, if you don't worry about scarcity, you will worry about inequality.

This is why the emperor must take care of the ruling class, because he is the biggest rat.

You don't need to think about it to know that if Zhao Xu refuses, this matter will definitely cause a big fuss and there will be problems in the tax administration.

Under normal circumstances, Zhao Xu would probably compromise and pay part of the tax, because he himself thought it was too much, so he felt a little uneasy, but now is a critical moment, and he needs to unite everyone and deal with the outside world in unison.

Then he should lead by example!

But once the accounts of the internal treasury are made public, it will be equivalent to handing over part of the financial power to the state.

Very confused.

This is a battle between reason and humanity!

It is also the most brutal struggle.

...

After coming out of the palace, Zhang Fei showed a hint of relief on his face and thought to himself, "These old masters have not disappointed me!"

...

Fufu.

"Kuanfu, are you a little anxious?"

Fu Bi said slightly worried.

Wen Yanbo glanced at Fu Bi, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If even finance cannot be supervised by the law, then there is no other way to talk about it."

Fu Bi nodded and said: "Of course I know this, but the public security law has not yet been fully popularized. If the officials are alerted, they may fail!"

"But this opportunity is rare. If the government does not hand over the internal treasure treasury, will the powerful people in the court still pay taxes obediently?"

Wen Yanbo said: "But please don't worry, Mr. Fu. I have also taken into account Mr. Fu's worries, so I chose to mix this matter with the strategy of guarding Liao. The officials will definitely think that I am doing this for defense."

He would never think so much about doing business with Liao in private."

Fu Bi asked: "Then are you?"

Wen Yanbo said truthfully: "It is precisely because of the connivance in the past few times that the Khitan came to take advantage of us every time we had conflicts with Dangxiang. As a result, we always focused on one thing at the expense of the other. In the end, we lost both our wives and our troops. This was not just once or twice.

We cannot make the same mistakes again.

Moreover, being strong against the Liao State can not only stop the Liao State's mentality of taking advantage of the situation, but also make the officials more cautious, so that they will not be deceived by Wang Jiefu and recklessly go to conquer Xixia."
To be continued...