.Chapter 46: The slightest and most important

If you don’t convince your parents and these prime ministers, gold and silver cannot become one of the quasi-currencies, so you can only read them in various cabinets. Originally, you have obtained a lot of gold and silver from the South China Sea of ​​Japan, and the impact on the price has been greatly impacted. Coupled with the impact of this big order, the price of gold and silver can flood and even cause disasters. You will still make a profit, but it is very small. Many people oppose it at a small time, so this is easy to have to have a miscarriage.

So this simple balance is prepared, which has an intuitive persuasive power.

The balance was placed on the table and the weights were taken out. Pointing to both ends of the balance, he said, "The east direction is beneficial to my dynasty, and the west direction is not beneficial to my dynasty. Please first look at what the pros and cons will be if I do this. First look at the impact on remote areas. The more remote the area is, the less it cannot complete the tribute taxes well. For example, Nanzhao and other places, it is considered to be surrendering. But our dynasty has a lot of property, and the area and population are surrendering. But the court not only did not seek benefits, but instead paid. It only paid without returns, so it had to manage it laxly and maintain superficial surrender. But have the people in these areas been good? No. The central government is in custody, the advanced model has not been brought over, and the production method is backward, because there is no tax collection and no direct management. Like the desert, the head manages the tribe and the chief leader.

The local power becomes stronger and stronger. When it is strong to a certain extent, ambitions will arise. The central dynasty has to send large troops to collect. Even if it continues for a long time, serious barriers will arise. When the central dynasty is strong, there will be no problem, but it will not be strong forever. Once it declines slightly, not only Nanzhao, Jiāozhi and other places will rebel one after another, but in turn, it will continue to decline the central dynasty. Implementing the gold and silver system can levy some taxes at a limited time. With profits, the court will have related returns. The disadvantage is that some local chiefs are dissatisfied with the officials and the officials have reduced their greed. However, after rewards, it will benefit the people, and the court will be more cohesive to the people. Because with profits, the court will not be despised, and the governance of these areas will be strengthened, including the education and etiquette system, which will be easier to assimilate. The dissatisfaction of the temporary leader can be exchanged for a long-term integration, which is no different from the Central Plains in the end."

There are many reasons, but what Li Wei said is also one of the reasons.

As he said that, put the weight on the trays on both sides, and the bar of the balance began to tilt in a beneficial direction.

"Looking at remote areas again, the imperial court has always imposed taxes on this. Due to inconvenient transportation, the taxes must not be reduced. For example, Lingnan and Jiannan central and southern regions, and Jiangnan Road southwest region. The people still feel that life is difficult. After the implementation of the gold and silver system, transportation is light and the people are burdened with light, and the court's income is increasing. The restricted areas can be ignored first, but for these areas, it will immediately bring great benefits to the court and local people." However, this is not easy, and it is necessary to distribute the various places.

The labor force of silk and grain was converted into gold, silver and uranium to calculate, and then money was used instead of renting and man-made modulation. In fact, this was the prototype of the one-whip method, which Li Wei did not expect. He only thought about the benefits and disadvantages, whether it was convenient, nor was it all the one-whip method. For areas with convenient water transportation, it was still renting and man-made modulation. The north and Guanzhong were short of food, and there was no grain supply in the south, and there would be a larger hunluàn in the north. Therefore, this was the one-whip method in some areas, not the entire Tang Dynasty.

There is also the interests of the owners of each cabinet just mentioned, and there is no need to talk about it. He said: "Since the founding of the dynasty, the renting system has been implemented, which is a strategy to adapt to local conditions. The main body of the taxpayer is farmers, and the farmers' output is farming and sericulture. The external environment is short of cash, including copper coins, and only a few copper coins, and the market is not circulated enough, and taxes are levied. But the result is that the grain is preserved for a short time, only a few years, and the cloth has only taken up a few decades, and it has a lot of transportation, which is very serious. In order to reduce losses, some decrees have to be issued to make the money return to the two capitals.

First, it has harmed the interests of the common people. The interests of the people are the fundamentals of the country, and the people are safe and the country are safe. I don’t need to explain it too much. There is another important reason. Guanzhong and other places are mostly dry land, and the grain output is not enough, so the supply of the people in the south of the Yangtze River and the Jishui region in eastern Henan must be compensated. As various geographical locations, Hebei, Hedong, Longyou, Jiannan and central and western Henan are responsible for the main sources of national soldiers, including the two standards, Jishui and Jiangnan, and Shannan, and the military service burden in Shannan is not heavy, so it can also be compensated. But is this the truth?"

This is another sharp problem, which cannot be solved by gold and silver as a quasi-currency, and may improve. Continue: "No. In order to balance, the people in Jiangnan have a lot of taxes, and let the big families take on ships and freight fees to reduce the exploitation of the common people. The intention is good. Otherwise, the cost of these ship movements and manpower will be an amazing sky-high price from Jiangnan to Guanzhong. But the big families are really willing to evade taxes. First, put these burdens on the common people and reduce taxes. Second, everyone should know what I said. Jiangnan should be very clear.

The people in the region seem to have less military service, but the burden is very heavy. Looking at the Guanzhong and the border areas, the people in Jiangnan are supported by the people, but the country's tax income is not enough and has not decreased. The land is small and the land is weak, and the country has been in peace for a long time. People's lives are worse than one year, and they have to bear heavy military service. The implementation of the gold and silver tribute tax system in remote areas undoubtedly increases the country's income. Increased national income, which reduces the exploitation of the people. Moreover, gold and silver are easy to preserve and transport, and there is little loss. But there is another premise, there must be a large amount of gold and silver, and a stable calculation mechanism. The amount of gold and silver has been solved."

As he said that, he took out a big order and said, "But it must be circulated. It cannot be circulated from the people, which will cause serious hunluàn. Therefore, the court was taken back from taxes and then flowed back from salary. A process of rebate is a process of recognition, sorting out from top to bottom, so that the people can gradually recognize and recognize it. First-line circulation can set the exchange price down. It will definitely fall down, and it will promote circulation. This is a good cyclical development process."

But everyone didn't say anything, staring at the paper one by one.

This big order surprised Li Wei, and these people, first of all, their hearts were dark. For example, under the improvement of the fire, the cost of a ten-pound fire weighing yào dropped to more than 100 mins, but on top it was a tael of silver and a pack of fire.

But I have to send it to Japan.

That's it, the profit is also amazing. Due to the decline of the gold and silver system, Luoyang can only exchange for 1,000 cents. However, once the edict is issued and circulated, the price must rise, so Li Wei adjusted it to 1,200 cents, which is a reasonable price.

The result was that the Japanese saw its power but did not know its actual cost. Second, they also used the decline in gold and silver prices to suppress it many times, and the result was that it was sold at a sky-high price.

Secondly, Li Wei also neglected the Japanese gold and silver production and storage volume. In addition, the imperial power was strengthened, his desire for advanced weapons, his yearning for the mainland, and his ambitions from the sea people, which resulted in the huge quantity of this order. All purchased with gold and silver as calculation units. The Japanese abacus was well made. Once the gold and silver were more than gold and silver, the price would inevitably fall. Besides, what else could Japan have to do other than gold and silver? So the total amount of this order reached 4.6 million taels of silver. This was the first order at the beginning, and it might be the heaviest order, but once the war began, the Tang Dynasty secretly engaged in the balance technique and the scale of the war increased, and new orders would inevitably come.

In addition to the low profits of ships, it is possible that the imperial court alone could earn more than two million yuan in this change. Even once as Li Wei said, gold and silver became quasi-currencies, profits may increase by one million.

After seeing this order, everyone understood why Li Wei said something that was just now, saying that gold and silver were enough. A few years ago, there were already a lot of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, these millions of taels of silver could not maintain the national currency needs, but at least it could maintain the upper level of circulation.

And it was achieved through the help of Liang Jinzhu. It was not afraid of impeachment by others, nor was it afraid of the Japanese saying that the Tang Dynasty went back on its word afterwards.

Looking at the greedy eyes of everyone, including Wu Zetian, he lost his god and asked the Tang Dynasty to take out so much money from the treasury. Even now, he could do it, but he didn't expect that Japan had so much wealth. (This idea was wrong again. The Tang Dynasty did not use gold and silver as currency, and the Japanese gold and silver were not circulated very much. It was accumulated, unlike the Tang Dynasty's wealth that flowed among the people) Without saying a word for a long time. Li Wei knew it.

The current background has increased the cost of this interview. After all, the war begins and requires a lot of financial support. Regardless of whether it is a victory or a defeat after the war, a lot of rewards and pensions are needed. It is impossible not to be moved by the income of two or three million yuan.

And the amount of large orders is another capital.

Still worried, he said, "Look at this scale. I made this proposal, but for the sake of the country and the people, I hope everyone will let go of prejudice. If that happens, the Turks will not conquer them. Because we don't know the importance of the matter, we only care about fighting in the nest, and it is meaningless to conquer... Also, the benefits of this order are not something you and I can imagine."

Not only the profit of the order itself, but such a large order, including 500 ships, each ship needs, and how many employment opportunities can be brought to the people. How many industries can these materials drive, and how many benefits can the people get from it. When the people's income is high, how much consumption can they drive. Therefore, in the later commercial era, many countries provided subsidies to encourage enterprises to export, and exported without making money. This is precisely because of this reason.

I explained it roughly again.

But this time not many people could understand it, and it was a little confused.

After saying that, he looked at Pei Yan and said, "Pei Qing, what do you think?"

After beating so many times, he also met some of Pei Yan's shortcomings. When talking to him, he had to be at least a big hat of national justice. With this big hat, this person had one of the biggest shortcomings, which was that he was very righteous and had good face. When he wanted to do something, he would hesitate in his heart.

First of all, I force Pei Yan.

Cui Zhiwen has a good impression of him, at least a centrist. Wei Xuantong, Guo Zhengyi, and Cen Changqian are the same. Guo Daiju turned to Pei Yan, but he can't be considered a very disgusting person. Xue Yuanchao is a dog-tail grass, and the wind blows there and pours it over there. However, Pei Yan doesn't eat it softly and hard, and is a scattered handicraft.

But Pei Yan is a weak point in the economy. Seeing Li Wei ask himself, he had to look at Wu Zetian.

Li Wei put away the weights and pressed the pallet on the east side of the balance with great force.

Wu Zetian looked at his son's actions, smiled and said, "Honger, don't be cautious. Your father and I will not be so stingy."

Just now, I was listening and thinking.

Wu Zetian and Li Zhi were both very disgusted with Silla, and Wu Zetian was puzzled. So a small country with a big egg dared to be in the mouth of the Tang Dynasty, either by the mouth, but reached into the mouth to grab food. Li Jinxing beat Silla and beat Silla miserably. As a result, after the fight, it turned out that the Tang Dynasty still occupied most of the Baekje territory, and after the fight, it was gone. Liu Rengui and Li Jinxing fought again, but the Han River was gone, and Pyongyang Sheng created a barrier on the border.

What is this situation?

But Wu Zetian has no bad impression of Japan. At most, a foolish emperor makes her uncomfortable.

I am not even interested in the territory of these two countries. Silla is remote, bitter and cold. It is better to capture Linyi than to occupy Silla. Japan seems to be mountainous, and some areas are warm and humid, but they are separated by the sea. No surrounding countries are peaceful. What is the role of that overseas country?

But this gain made her very moved.

In recent years, many new things have continued to appear, most of which are from their sons, bringing a lot of income. However, the taxes in a year will never exceed 20 million yuan. It is just a matter of ease, and the income may be one-sixth of the annual tax revenue of the entire Tang Dynasty.

The war begins, and the national treasury is tight. If this income is added and the Danshui Canal is reduced, it can save a lot of money. The family may move next year and let the court release the list of sea passengers. Maybe the son will change again, and the consumption of a war will be transformed.

This is what Wu Zetian values.

She will continue to fight for the struggle, but it is a struggle for power, not a matter. The stability of the country will also help her.

But she was very wise and immediately said: "It's just that I am worried about something. People use food and hemp to pay tribute, so where can they convert gold and silver? If they sell it to merchants, it will probably produce more wind."

"Yes, the Empress Dowager is right, and I am very worried," said Xue Yuanchao.

The situation has changed now. I used to not dare to publicly support the Empress Dowager, but now supporting the Empress Dowager is equivalent to supporting the Supreme Emperor. Therefore, in many matters, Xue Yuanchao has changed from shyness to publicly supporting Wu Zetian's opinions.

This is what Li Wei disliked the most. The common people had only a little income, but the tax in the Tang Dynasty was exploited by these people. But what could these people peel out? It was very good to say that each quit rented two stones of millet, and according to the rice price in Luoyang, it was about 20 cents. The cloth was 25 feet and the hemp was added to three kilograms. It was for the adjustment, which was about 300 cents. It was a tax for 20 days, or six kilograms of silk was replaced, and less than 600 cents of money was used. One quit was a tax of quit.

Is it enough? So the household tax and charity warehouse tax were added. In fact, the tax per tax exceeded two to three coins. That's it, and then the public government money appeared. But Li Wei didn't know that there were also house taxes, tea taxes, salt taxes (not the thin taxes like Li Wei's salt drying, but heavy taxes of three to four hundred cents per kilogram of salt), wine taxes and other taxes. That's it, the taxes at the highest time in the Tang Dynasty did not exceed 30 million coins.

It was because of the neglect of a group, wealthy families and wealthy people that the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty had not increased. Later, the economy of the Ming Dynasty was more developed than that of the Tang Dynasty, but it also became a disease of the Tang Dynasty and the tax revenue was not increased. Therefore, the people eventually had to rebel and uprising.

There were no miscellaneous taxes from later generations, and the tax of more than two yuan per household was quite high for farmers. Li Wei compared it and exchanged a penny for RMB, it also depends on the renminbi in the later generations. When he read the newspaper and said that the land had increased, the income had not increased much in the past few years, but the prices had risen by three, four, and five times, especially the housing prices had risen by more than ten times. At that time, none did not understand, but now he finally understood the words of Soong Mei-ling, the taste of power. One of the fine traditions of the Chinese people.

I still remember it freshly. Therefore, a penny in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to three to five in 2000, five to eight in 2005, and one to one to five in 2010. With the current income of the people, the tax that costs more than two coins will have an impact on civilian families.

But Li Wei didn't dare to move the largest piece of cake. He had to try different ways to grab pieces of food from the tiger's mouth.

This measure still did not make any major family members think about this, and said: "My ministers have thought about this and have also thought of a plan to let local governments and the people decide."

"What's the solution?" Li Zhi asked curiously.

"You can issue an edict to allow some areas to be kept, but the five roads in Guanzhong, Longyou, Henan must be retained, not for other purposes. These places have a very shortage of food, and they rely on state subsidies. If they are liberalized, the prices of grain will rise immediately. In addition, the Jishui region, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the two-paragraph areas are all major grain-producing areas in the country. The north also mainly relies on the grain adjustment of these areas, and cannot be released. Other areas do not matter."

"Here," Cui Zhiwen said.

The emperor was very careful in doing things, such as the famous family, Xingyang and his party. He didn't know the details, but he could analyze it from various trends. The emperor used certain means to win over these top families, allowing these top families to put down their bodies and cooperate actively, rather than forcibly suppress them. In this way, the remnants driven by each change will be infinitely reduced.

"There is another edict, so that these areas can partially replace taxation with gold, silver and copper coins. As for the price of grain and silk, it is divided into three equal parts according to the distance and the difficulty of the road, and the currency is 80% of the grain and silk price in the capital, 60% and 40% of the price."

This is also a very reasonable statement. No matter how the local price moves, the ultimate goal is to transport these silk and grain to the capital, and the court's income is ultimately realized at the price of the capital. However, even in Jiannan and Qinling, and in areas close to Guanzhong, it is very difficult to transport these areas. Therefore, it cannot be calculated based on the original price and given some discounts respectively. In fact, the court originally lost more than the consumption of these discounts due to roads. In this way, the court benefits and the local governments also benefit.

But there is one thing that Li Wei didn't say.

As long as this edict is issued, the people will actively increase their ease because of simplicity and cost-effectiveness, which will have huge benefits to business prosperity. He did not say that, but for a while, including Wu Zetian, he did not see it. All he saw was the size of the interests and how many pros and cons it would have to the court.

Continuing: "But the court does not need to force the levy of gold, silver and copper coins from local officials, and local officials should not force the people to impose the levy on gold, silver and grain and hemp. The people are willing to continue to pay rent and taxes as they used to do. Officials cannot stop them. If they pay gold, silver, they cannot stop them. In this way, no matter how the merchants are, the people have two choices. In terms of court discounts, merchants can make profits from the people in currency. For example, Yongzhou lacks grain, and other river basins in Xiangshui can be adjusted by merchants, instead of spending thousands of miles to transport

When you arrive in the capital, you must at least ensure that the price of grain and silk will not be lower than the discounted price of the court. Otherwise, the farmers will pay taxes to the court in the original way. The people are convenient and merchants are beneficial, and the court is convenient and feasible. They will even increase tax revenue, so that people will not bother the people from all over the country to transport and escort. And those who can collect grain locally will not dare to relax. Perhaps they will continue to use big and small fish to rogue the people, but they will not dare to use fake gold and silver to paste their surnames. If they are not passers-by, they can escape, and they will not know where to go, and they cannot find them."

After all, it's just freight.

Saving this freight can achieve win-win results in the interests of all parties.

But it is not that no one has seen it before. To achieve it, it must be carried out with sufficient monetary guarantee.

So a large amount of gold and silver pouring in was just an opportunity.

Li Zhisi paid for a moment and said, "In your opinion, Pei Qing, you are like the specific situation of each state, so I will give you a response to the surname of the surname."

Yan couldn't express his objection either.

Overall, the policy is very moderate. If you oppose it, you can continue to pay tribute according to the original tribute tax system. If you want to oppose it, you can't find a reason.

But it also depends on what is the wind that will cause forcibly setting the price of gold and silver higher than the current price of gold and silver. If the price cannot be raised and the salaries are paid to the officials, the officials will inevitably be dissatisfied and will cause another storm. Pei Yan has no idea.

However, the imperial treasury was too short of money, and Pei Yan could not refuse this large order.

Li Wei said the second thing again, saying: "In September, I sent an envoy to the Uighurs and asked Bisu to send important officials to the capital to discuss with me. Because of the violence in the south of the desert, this vocation will be very slow. About the next day, his ministers will come to the capital. The goal of this vocation is that I plan to support the Uighurs and make them grow stronger, and to restrain the Turks in the north. What is the intention of the father?"

Li Zhisi paid for a moment and said, "Accurate."

If you don’t understand, you will attack from afar and close. The Uighurs often suffered oppression from the Turks and were incompatible with the Turks. From their grandfather to his father to himself, they were forced to support the Tang Dynasty. They had a deep relationship with the Tang Dynasty and supported some weapons, which was reasonable.

"Then the father, the mother, the son, have surrendered."

After exiting Shangyang Palace, Li Wei couldn't help but wave his hand.

This matter is a great deal of an edict, but it has fulfilled many of his ideas, including some changes in taxation, changes in external ideas, and even military arrangements. But it also depends on the changes in the gold and silver prices in Luoyang after the edict is issued, so that this strategy can exist for a long time.
Chapter completed!