Chapter 256: Land Circle

Li Jingxuan said with some displeasure: "It is not for the two channels discussed by Your Highness. I will never let it pass such a discussion."

Some ministers take the word "fame" indifferently, such as Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, or they do not value the reputation that Li Jingxuan thought, but only want to be a low-key person, such as Dai Zhide and Yan Liben, and some ministers are also "fast for success and profit", such as Wei Hongji. However, some ministers "love their own wings", such as Li Jingxuan.

If you spread the money from the court to the people, you will agree immediately and use it for the people. But the treasury only has so much income, so you have to save money. For example, cut royal expenses, save expenses that the court does not need, etc. Most of these officials are mostly clear-cut officials, and they are also the mainstream in the court. However, if they are to "make money" for the court, they will retreat one by one because it is "competing for profit with the people". This ideological conflict was the most intense when Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty reformed. But Wang Anshi was also wrong. His various actions were not open source, but just converting wealth. At first, they transferred money from the rich to the treasury, but later even the people did not let go. Conservative ministers lacked the temperament and rejected them in a whole. Therefore, it became a party struggle.

Li Wei paid repeated attention to this point, taking advantage of it and giving it benefits is a win-win situation. Of course, after any resolution, some people will benefit, and some people's interests will be harmed. For example, if you open a foreign market and a mutual market, some merchants with power to smuggle and some corrupt officials will have their interests damaged. It can only be said that taking care of the interests of most people will not be harmed. Also, for "social elites" such as wealthy families, big merchants, and big landlords, try not to move or less their cheese.

This is a benefit, so Li Wei did not explain or mention it, but asked a question: "Why didn't Sun Zhi do not exempt Emperor Xiaoming of Wei from the Yanchi tax?"

This is a famous history. In the early days of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was a tax-free policy for salt tax, which was similar to the Tang Dynasty. The people did not benefit, but the local powerful and wealthy households were allowed to control the salt pond, and even deliberately reduced the salt production in order to raise the price of salt. Therefore, the Northern Wei Dynasty transferred the Yanduwei to manage salt and impose taxes. However, the power of salt merchants and wealthy people in the court was very strong. In the name of the ancient system, this strategy was abolished again. However, the previous malpractice was resurrected, and the salt supervision officer was set up again. Repeatedly, the country was injured and the people were injured. In the first year of Datong, there was another Ge again

During the Rong Rebellion, the governor of Yongzhou, Xiao Baoyin, rebelled in the prefecture, Xue Fengxian raised an army in Zhengping, and Xue Xiuyi stationed troops in Hedong, guarded the Yanchi and attacked Puban. Emperor Xiaoming was afraid that the salt people would change, so he issued an edict to exempt the salt tax. Changsun Zhi disobeyed his orders and refused to obey, and submitted a memorial, indicating that the tax exemption policy was not appropriate, but it only treated the huge merchants with preferential treatment. It seemed that the court gave benefits to the people, but in fact it was difficult for the people to share equally. Moreover, because of the insufficient national use, it may increase the burden on the majority of people. This memorial is very famous and many historical books are included.

In a sense, it has many resonance with Li Wei's ideas. A good policy not only benefits the court and a few people, but also benefits most of the people. Otherwise, if you want to make money, just move out the housing reform policy of your previous life and sell the land.

Li Jingxuan cannot answer when talking about this history.

Li Wei did not say in depth that most of these big guys came from famous families and prominent families, and said it was not good to be deeper. He also said: "The autumn harvest is coming. Since we have already discussed a new warehouse, we need to implement it immediately. Also, in order to prevent the greed and blackmail from being blackmailed after taxes, we sent the Youjian to immediately accept such cases. Each checkpoint can only check and verify the amount of taxes for goods and do not extort again."

The salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty seemed to be generous, but they were far from keeping up with the Song Dynasty. The only ones were generous. Even so, some prime ministers were expensive in the capital because of their integrity, and even lived in temples and inns. This was the prime minister, let alone the lower officials below, especially the lowest level, Xiangli Zheng and Fangzheng were only exempted from various classes. The soldiers guarding the checkpoints were difficult to obtain. Since it was a gray area of ​​the court, greed and blackmailed could not be avoided.

Trial cases and reduce extortion incidents. Checking and verifying the number of checkpoints prevents foreign municipal officials from greeding when collecting taxes and reducing national tax revenue. It is still a policy of blocking and preventing accumulation. There are still many greeds and extortions, such as deliberately stranding goods, or other things. In short, it is unlikely to completely eliminate them. It can only be said that one should be prevented, which is better than not.

Then when I arrived at Xinqu and raised funds, Li Wei said what he said to his father yesterday again.

Li Jingxuan immediately said, "Your Highness, no."

Not only did Li Jingxuan object, but many court officials disagreed with it. They had different ideas. Li Zhi also thought that the Li family dynasty had been around for thousands of years, but these ministers valued their reputation more and could not let the prince drag it down.

Li Wei sighed and said, "Not only are the funds raised for Xinqu, but the number of officials and land gradually decreased, and even the heroes of the later advance could not be enfeoffed. However, the number of people is increasing, and the landlords invaded more and more, so the court is in distress and the people are poor. There is no way to solve it. In fact, the idea of ​​loneliness will still make the rich richer, but it can just lead the disaster to the east."

When it comes to this matter, the ministers present cannot speak.

Li Wei took out the map of the world and did not dare to draw circles. Therefore, the Atlantic Ocean was not on the map, and it was even more unstandard. Then he pointed to Oceania and said, "The weather here is hot, and the climate is just the opposite of our dynasty. In summer, hot in winter, and in other places, there are many areas suitable for grazing and farming. There are some people on it, but they are ignorant and backward, and they are not as good as the various professionals in Nanzhao. The place is extremely vast, even no less than the area of ​​our Tang Dynasty. If you have the ability, why should you exploit your neighbors in your hometown?"

Liu Shenli said: "Your Highness, have you ever thought that once the sea is opened and the sea is surging, many people and merchants will die?"

"How can I not know? However, if I don't open the sea route, the water conservancy expenses cannot be raised. I think Liu Shangshu is clear about how many people died because of the canal transportation in a year. Besides, Gu's proposal is just a trial. You can discuss expansion after success, and you can recover it immediately if you fail. Otherwise, it won't take many years, or even a hundred or two hundred years, because of the small land and the large population, and the people cannot survive, everyone can see our descendants, massacre for Ge Rong, Zhang Jiao and others."

Speaking of this, Li Wei paused and said, "If you agree, Lu Ma and Liang Jinzhu can immediately give out 20,000 yuan of money as a donation."

Lu Liang and the Crown Prince had some vague relationship, and everyone knew a little bit, and of course they didn't know that the so-called Lu Liang's property was actually Li Wei's.

One by one, they were speechless again, and many people were even shocked. Not only did these two people donate 10,000 yuan in movable type, but some ministers even knew that the queen took out 10,000 yuan in 10,000 yuan when she grew cotton. As for the rest, no one knew how much money she had donated under her heart.

The good deeds in the past may not count, but they may have made so much profit, and they all came from business. It cannot be said that the two of them were profiteers. It should be said that the two of them did a good job. Many ministers even asked themselves that if they were themselves, they might not be able to do their feats. It also shows that business makes money quickly.

If you don’t talk about the big truth, it’s enough to keep 20,000 yuan here and not seek official titles.

However, Wei Hongji looked at Li Wei suspiciously, and didn't know anything else. This method of making money was just now that the prince had just come up with him. He didn't see the two merchants sending people to contact the prince. Where did the 20,000 yuan money come from? Of course, I didn't understand, and I dare not ask, let alone say it.

After a while, I finally agreed and started to discuss. In the evening, orders were issued to the prefectures and counties.

First, the granary was issued to Jiuzhou by a clear edict. Then there were Fancheng and Haicheng. This was discussed for a long time, so it was issued very quickly. The main thing was the grain transportation and the opening of canals. I agreed with the suggestions of the prince and Wei Hongji, and immediately looked for a place to change ships in Sanmen, and the rivers and rivers were turned and unloaded. I also asked the generals to make drawings to improve the current inland canal transportation technology and allocate various docks.

There are many controversies in the next two edicts.

The first is to start construction of Guangtong Canal. The court paid 200,000 yuan in advance, which was definitely not enough. However, we cannot wait for Li Wei's method of changing money. Autumn gradually approaches, and the water situation is getting smaller and smaller, so we can manage it first. But it is not that easy. Although there are old canals, some rivers must be carried out, which must have an impact on the irrigation of relevant farmlands. Some canals pass through the city, and even for expansion, they must demolish people's houses. Although they are vulnerable groups and have no say in this era, they still need to negotiate to make less controversy.

What is really controversial is Li Wei’s fundraising strategy.

The Ming Dynasty ordered the court to prohibit the people from going abroad, but the people in the sea repeatedly banned the people and kept it unchanged. It would be better to be distracted than to block it. Therefore, the court selected some good merchants to go out to sea. The word "trade" was not mentioned, but since you went out to sea, it was impossible to go fishing. You can also bring some weapons and manpower. The number of these manpowers has been controversial for a long time. It also said that the sea was stormy and the distance was far away and needed to provide them. However, there were many uncivilized indigenous people on each island. These maritime merchants were allowed to "generalize the king". As a reward, merchants were divided into three levels, and there were restrictions on ships and personnel that could go out to sea. Class A allowed for 40 ships to sea, totaling thirty places. Class B allowed thirty ships to sea, totaling thirty places. Class B allowed thirty ships to sea, totaling thirty places. Class D also had twenty ships, totaling thirty places.

There are a total of 100 places, which are popularized with the new farming methods. The same nature as Fancheng City, and there are very few places, which is considered a pilot project.

But Li Wei's idea is not like this, things are rare and expensive. If there are too many places, it may be impossible to raise funds. However, once Suzhou Port opens, it will directly connect to the two capitals of the Central Plains. Seeing more benefits, don't persuade yourself at that time. It is possible that some big landlords and wealthy families will take the initiative to lobby the court. Water conservancy is not a one-year effort, as long as the funds are enough, there is no need to exploit too many merchants at once. The limit also has one advantage, and the quantity is limited, forcing merchants to develop shipbuilding technology and increase their ship tonnage.

The edict also stated that not only gave these merchants the right to "generalize the king" and let them operate the ownerless island independently. It was only fifty years later, but one-tenth of the territory was allowed to be retained as a fiefdom and inherited forever by their descendants. Unless they committed ten evil crimes, the court would not take it back. But what is a land without a man? Even if these merchants regarded the countries of Poli and Shui Zhenla as a land without a master, the court would not interfere. Before the return, they were all run by the merchants themselves. After the return, the fief had the right to operate, but had no political and military power. There was also a title of island owner without rank. Of course, it was divided into three levels, and the area of ​​the islands occupied by each level was different. Anyway, it was not the territory overseas, so the area was very huge, not counted by the number of islands, but by the area. After all, the area of ​​each island varies greatly.

But another order was issued, which must be a land without a border. When the court was moved, there should be no hostile forces. This was also afraid that some merchants would seduce other troops to secretly resist the future management personnel sent by the court in order to embezzle them all.

This is also very far away. No one can predict what it will look like in fifty years. I kept this move to prevent it.

In fact, there is another ambush in the middle. If the fiefdom is not retained, merchants or some wealthy families will not be moved. If they are retained, they will only become subordinate forces if they last for a long time. Therefore, one-tenth of them is retained as a driving force. If the islands occupied by merchants exceed the limit of the number, the court will naturally not interfere. However, without decades of operation, it will not become mature land. The larger the area it takes, the more difficult it will be. It will be a pity to return it to the court in the future. Therefore, most merchants will not occupy an area that exceeds the limit.

This is the result of a compromise. As for Li Wei's idea, as long as he has the ability, the more he takes up, the better. The officials of the court were afraid that these merchants would have a larger area and increased their power, making it difficult to control them.

But the direction has not changed. I heard that Quanzhou began to build sea ships by itself, which further provided the possibility of realization for Li Wei's idea. In order to be afraid that many merchants would compete for an island, or sit close to it, or sit for it to produce, let the merchants draw it by themselves, and the first person to go to the court to get it. However, they could not sit at home to draw, and they had to draw the auspicious terrain of the encircled land and produce the local indigenous people. In other words, people must be sent to the island to inspect it in order to compete for the initiative.

Then another secret edict was issued.

What is good businessmen and bad businessmen, there is no way to distinguish. Therefore, we can only distinguish from the help of the imperial court to build water conservancy this time to solve the suffering of the canal transportation. The outline of the word, the more money donated, the more "good" it will be. It will eventually cause more controversy, and it is hard to say, so we used the form of a secret edict. If any merchant is interested, the governors from all over the country can use this to answer. In order to seduce their interests, Li Wei carefully drew a navigation chart and marked out the knowledge in his memory, including the terrain, currents, monsoons, and also gave him a compass. If he was selected, each person would "one map and one needle". All quotas were decided at the end of the year. In order to increase the speed, the states could even use fast horses to inform the capital.
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