The feast has dispersed.

Zheng Lang has not left yet, so he has to arrange it one by one.

But he also wants to go south to Chuzhou, one for the new canal and the other for the Huaihe River. This time is urgent, and construction will start this year. Unlike other projects, there is still time to slowly investigate and slowly correct the plan. Zheng Lang must be on the front line.

Just as he left, a news came out that Ouyang Xiu fell ill and could not go south.

Without mentioning Zhao Zhen, Zheng Lang deliberately told a long legendary story about this, so he came to Zhihesi to ask.

Zheng Lang smiled.

As expected, after Liutahe, Ouyang Xiu saw that he did not agree with his words. Even Zheng Lang came to Beijing in person, only to prepare for the aftermath, but did not dare to stop him, so he became deformed.

One thing can be seen, tea.

The tea law changed a lot in the Song Dynasty. The trade law was first introduced by Lu Yijian and Li Zi, and then to Zheng Lang, but not in the whole country, but in Hangzhou, and then in Guangdong and Guangxi. After the implementation, although the two regions did not make any profit, they increased the tea tax of more than 200,000 yuan in disguise. This further promoted the loosening of tea monopoly.

The main reason is that the profit is too small. The country only gets hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, which requires officials to operate, which has also caused resistance from many small and medium-sized tea households, which is not worth the loss. Therefore, last year, Han Jiang, Chen Shengzhi and Lu Jingchu wrote letters many times, asking the court to abolish the tea franchise and change the trade law of Lu Yijian, Chen Shi and Li Zi. This year, Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang began to implement the trade law. The main idea is the same as Zheng Lang's. It is not the kind of loans to tea households and then specializing in it. It only collects rent money from tea households, that is, a tax of tea planting tax, and also imposes commercial tax on merchants and tea vendors, allowing them to enter directly to the tea mountain, trade with the tea households and sell them by themselves. It is called the trade law.

As a result of the implementation, the court will inevitably suffer some deficits. Although taxes are imposed, taxes are so easy to collect.

But if you lose more, what can you lose?

However, it has great significance. Although the court no longer gives tea books, it will not give "false estimates" to wealthy merchants for nothing, which will facilitate the production and circulation of tea. In other words, Zheng Lang said, it will create a large number of small and medium-sized classes for the country and produce more second-, third- and fourth-class tea merchants and tea merchants.

After the implementation, tea merchants and small and medium-sized tea merchants all thought it was convenient, but it caused dissatisfaction with many vested interests, especially those rich and wealthy merchants. They had no right to speak, but some ministers in the court could serve as their pronoun.

When many scholars and officials heard the voices of the people, such as Wang Anshi.

However, there are strong oppositions. The first is Liu Chang. The first reason for opposition was that he used to pay money to the people, but now he was receiving money from the government. Every time he went out, the quality was different (as for the price of tea farmers was enough to make up for this in and out, instead of handing over the price difference to the big merchants, Liu Chang automatically ignored it). The second article is that all the taxes are now paid to the people, and the taxes are not paid in time, and the punishment is also as good people who violated the tea ban in the past (why did the taxes not be paid? The government made mistakes, whether the government made heavy harshness, or ignored the disaster situation? Although both violated the criminal law, the quality of the handling was completely different, and Liu Chang automatically ignored it). The third article was that the big merchants moved to the national trade and the prefectures and counties for the sake of the national trade. Now the big merchants did not do it, the annual amount was not paid, and there was no national use (it was said that the state's commercial taxes were obtained from big merchants).

In the book, of course, he would not revenge his unreasonable acts.

Then we arrived at another unexpected entry, Ouyang Xiu.

You should know that Liu Chang's family is from a good family and is a wealthy family. It is normal for him to write this book. If he does not work for himself, he will be killed and destroyed.

What is Ouyang Xiu's origin and a true poor family.

The letter to commend the trade law also objectively stated that since the new tea law was implemented, the crime of selfless trafficking among the people has been greatly reduced every year.

It seems very good, so his article is very good. Look at the impeachment of Di Qing and Bao Zheng, every word is Zhuji, and you can't see blood even if you enter. After a while, the topic changed. Although there is one advantage, there are five harms. The people pay the tea tax, and now it is changed to rent money, and one harm. At least small vendors are not allowed to pass (it is not accessible, and more middle-class people are created, and the difference between the rich and the poor in the country is less obvious, so the contradiction will not intensify, regardless of it), and the second harm. If the tea tax is not uploaded, it will lose all the country's use (the country is worth 300,000 or 400,000 yuan less money, forcing many tea households to join the middle.

Small tea merchants are destroyed?), three harms. Nowadays, people must use real tea. There are not many real teas, and the price is expensive. Four harms (didn't it be expensive before good tea, or every household can afford the best Jianzhou tea cake). Hebei and bribes really need to see money. Not only is the business trip difficult to transfer money, but also the money from the capital is charred in Hebei every year. The reason is that the five harms are also impossible (the kind of food and grass provided to soldiers by the big merchants is not mentioned). One profit is not enough to make up for the five harms. Please eliminate the previous order, Xu Zuxian said, and make detailed decisions, so as not to lose the ancestral system.

Still making trouble unreasonable and not reporting.

However, the wealthy and huge merchants were always unwilling to die of tea, so Cai Jing's re-official law was established. However, this time the official system was more strict. Like Cai Jing's salt law, except for a few powerful wealthy families, other large merchants entered the middle merchants and small merchants, all of which were wiped out. The official business was once again, but it attracted a more ruthless and hungry tiger.

The new tea law has not been launched yet, and it is still being discussed and has not been implemented, but it will be implemented soon. For this reason, Fu Bi also asked Zheng Lang. Once it was implemented, it would cause opposition from the wealthy and giants, Ouyang Xiu would stand up and wave the flag for them. It's almost done.

This is the change in Ouyang Xiu's mentality. It is not obvious. Only after a few years can Ouyang Xiu see his true face in his later years.

If you preside over the Grand Canal, you will not only offend many major owners and wealthy families, but once Bi Jing builds into Hebei and Jingdong Road, there will gradually increase the number of wealthy families, and it is inevitable that you will offend them.

There is another reason. Bao Zheng controls the economic cashier. Because of the second entry, even if Ouyang Xiu wants to make a lot of extra compensation, he will never pass.

Combining the two, Ouyang Xiu could only choose to escape this path.

Zhao Zhen asked: "Is this the truth behind beauty?"

Zheng Lang smiled and said nothing.

Zhao Zhen said: "Why?"
Chapter completed!