Seeing Yuan Fang's shocked expression, He Mulan on the side snickered and turned her head, she had been bypassed by this majesty's ability countless times. m. Lewen Mobile Network

Gu Bi probably has a strong heart, and every time he is frightened, he can come back again, and at this time, while glaring at Tuobatao, he asked for him:

"According to Your Excellency, what does it mean to spend money first?"

Yuan Fang also seemed to be annoyed that he was so simple about "admitting defeat", and when he heard Gu Bi's question, he said a little embarrassedly: "I am in charge of business in the Yuan family, and naturally what I know best is business." After the battle of the Song and Wei dynasties, the Yuan family was once dilapidated, the land was deserted and taken away, and the shaded households also fled one after another. ”

"The problem of Wei today is that the people are too poor, and the country is even poorer. The population was not enough to cultivate, the goods were poor everywhere, and the trade routes were cut off, and even if everyone was given the land, it was not as good as the rich land in the south, and they could only rely on war to obtain wealth. ”

Yuan Fang saw that everyone showed disapproving expressions, knowing that they looked down on businessmen, this is also normal, the world is light on business and heavy on profit, and he himself is in business because he is the second son, and the secret passage in the family cannot be known to others, otherwise no one will let the disciple run the business.

"That's why I've been thinking about 'dividing the field'. After the people have all the land, they will naturally not suffer from having no food to pay taxes. Tuoba Tao answered.

"Dividing the land is just an expedient measure, there are so many people, and I don't know how many private fields are owned by the wealthy families in various places, and the government wants to compete with these forces for 'people', but the results are still too slow." Yuan Fang looked at Gu Bi obliquely, "Therefore, it is best not to shake the fundamental method of various localities, but to establish 'official merchants' to govern all kinds of industries, deal in salt and iron, trade with various places, and provide funds and money for the government and officials." Officials and businessmen who do business in various places can pay 'commercial tax' subsidies, so that agricultural taxes can be reduced and reduced, and the burden on the people is less. ”

"You mean, a city tax?" Gu Bi immediately shook his head after hearing this: "My country's livelihood is withering, in order to encourage the people to barter, there is never a market tax." You just said that you are exempting taxes, and now you have to collect municipal taxes, what is the difference? ”

"It is possible to determine whether to levy market tax according to the number of transactions and profits, and if it is only a private barter, there is naturally no need to collect taxes. But what if it's a hundred, a thousand? And no taxes? In my opinion, the merchants in the Wei State were the most lively merchants in the world, and in the Song Kingdom, there was no such rule that no market tax was charged! ”

"But ......"

"Pen, let him continue!" Tuoba Tao interrupted Gu Bi's words, "In front of me, you can say anything. But whether I will adopt it or not is my question. ”

Gu Bi stopped talking when he heard this, and Helian Ding began to think with a thoughtful expression.

Yuan Fang was encouraged and continued: "In fact, the location of Wei is excellent, Chang'an and Luoyang were once the most desired places for businessmen, and now they are all owned by my Great Wei. The Wei State is located in the middle, but because of the perennial conquest and the abandonment of the trade route, now the goods from the southeast and northwest can be gathered here. Merchants can exchange what they have, and they can stabilize the prices of commodities in various places, so that the cost of survival will be greatly reduced, and the people will have a surplus in their hands, so they will not have to worry about having no taxes to pay, and naturally they will not have to go to 'fake loans'. ”

"However, businessmen can indeed disrupt the country, and this law has one of the biggest risks......"

Hermulan interjected suddenly, drawing everyone's eyes to her.

He Mulan rarely cares about political affairs, so when everyone sees that she also opens her mouth, they are more cautious.

"What risk?" Yuan Fang asked her a little unconvinced.

He Mulan smiled quietly and spat out four words.

"Collusion between officials and business."

"Huh?"

"Officials doing business, in my Great Wei has a long history, because our country does not have a fortune, most of them will be resigned, the Han people from the officials, because of the attention to the voice of the family, will never be wanton exploitation, but once the Hanmen or Xianbei officials hold the position, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no collusion between officials and businessmen, and common profits. Once officials seek profits, they can seek personal gain and treachery, and eventually intensify contradictions. In addition, everyone can do business, the land will be wasted, and if other countries are unwilling to sell their grain, there will be famine. ”

He Mulan knew that this era was not yet developed in the modern economy, and any foreign trade and export was nonsense, and grain belonged to the national war reserve resources, and no country would be willing to sell it.

Moreover, the "collusion between officials and businessmen" is in danger of being corrupted, has she seen less?

Tuoba Tao thought about it and knew what He Mulan was worried about, and immediately nodded when he heard this: "That's true." But this is also simple, I can issue an edict, except for officials and businessmen, officials are not allowed to do business, otherwise they will be punished severely. The most important thing now is to solve the problem of people not being able to survive. ”

If this matter is left in the Han regime, I am afraid it is not a difficult matter, because the integrity of the Han doctors includes "not competing with the people", so it is a very shameful thing for literati to do business. Many people would rather starve to death than go into business for profit.

For those Han people who can be officials, most of them are from big clans, and even if the concubines have family support once they become officials, they don't have to be so tyrannical, they pay attention to reputation higher than these vulgar things.

But now that the Xianbei people are in power, many of the officials in various places are Hu people, and some are new scholars who have fallen into ruin and resurged, and have forgotten to insist on it.

At this point, the "ethics" of the Han officials in the officialdom of the Wei State did not know how many streets to throw off the Xianbei people. At least they are at most "greedy/dirty/accepting/bribes", and there are few people who openly and openly condemn others to seize family property like Wang Jin.

He Mullan wanted to say, "If you are an official, you can't do business, but if your family can't do business?", but she thought about it, judging from the current situation of business decline, if you want society to be rich enough to consider this kind of problem, you don't know what year it will be, so she keeps silent.

Since Tuoba Tao was willing to establish laws to restrict officials from doing business, according to the rigid rules of the ancients, at least for the sake of their lives, not many people would take risks.

Yuan Fang saw that He Mulan was not a martial artist who only knew how to fight, and he was also very surprised in his heart, and it was only at this time that his proud expression was retracted, and he said seriously.

"The role of a businessman is more than that. When it comes to wartime, merchants are the best sources of information. Wherever there is a famine and where grain and grass are suddenly collected in large quantities, it is a unique skill of merchants to distinguish the movement of the country through these clues. My Yuan family hoarded grain and grass several times before the army set out for the war, and sold it at a high price during the war, that is, through the analysis of the amount of grain, our country was about to fight, and made a fortune. ”

"If the army went out to fight Rouran, my Yuan family sold a lot of cattle, sheep and horses before the expedition, and sure enough, the army returned victoriously in the northern expedition and brought back a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.

Tuoba Tao has learned everything, but he knows very little about business, and it sounds even more interesting at this time. As soon as he heard that there was money to be made, both eyes lit up.

"Then, according to what you see, what can be sold at a high price in our country, and can quickly accumulate wealth, so that the treasury can be filled, and the people will be reduced?"

Tuoba Tao was asking a question, but at this time, the foreign minister hurriedly entered the hall and whispered to remind Tuoba Tao that it was time for the last dynasty.

Unlike the usual daily pilgrimage meeting, the Great Pilgrimage is only once a month, and it is on the first day of the month. The grand court meeting summed up all the political affairs that happened last month, so that as long as the relevant officials will all participate, some of the local officials who have been released will also take advantage of the grand court meeting to come to report on their work.

It was for this reason that He Mulan saw the black group of people at the gate of the palace.

Now that it's time for the dynasty, there are a bunch of civil and military officials waiting outside the hall, but Tuoba Tao didn't appear, and Gu Bi, who was a waiter, didn't appear, of course, there would be ministers urging.

Unexpectedly, Tuoba Tao was on the rise, but he waved his hand willfully, and said to the foreign minister: "Tell them to go and wash their ears first!" ”

The poor foreign minister thought that he had heard something, and patted his ear first, and then showed an innocent expression and said "uh".

"It's not that my ears are blocked, why can't I hear the voices of the people below all day long? I just have to think that no one has ever told me about 'fake loans' for so many years, and I have always dreamed that the local officials are competent so that the taxes will be completed every year! Let them wash their ears, and then the great dynasty after washing, this is the imperial decree! ”

The foreign minister was stunned by Tuoba Tao's indisputable look, so he could only lower his head and hurriedly retreat. Seeing this, Gu Bi grabbed the hand of the foreign minister, glared at him and shouted, "Your Majesty, you are like this again!" You say it's a royal order, they will really wash it, and if it spreads, it will become a laughing stock! ”

Tuoba Tao waved his hand noncommittally.

The foreign minister looked at Gu Bi, then at Tuoba Tao, and showed an expression of "you are my father" to Gu Bi, looking at him with blank eyes.

"You go out first, just say that Your Majesty has something important to deal with, let them wait outside the palace, the old courtiers invite them to the palace to rest, and you don't care about the others."

Gu Bi felt that since he assisted Tuobatao, his hair was going to be caught bald by himself, but he couldn't ignore this "problem child", so he could only make a decision first.

Tuoba Tao saw that the foreign minister looked at him again, nodded casually, and the man immediately said "Thank you, Your Majesty" and ran away, apparently for fear that someone would chase him back and say something like "Ah, don't wash your ears, let's take a bath outside" or something like that.

After a small sneer, Yuan Fang's words of reply made Helian Ding's sneer suddenly turn into laughter.

"Although I really want to say with a clear conscience that I am rich in resources and resources, I have to sue my majesty xià ......"

Yuan Fang showed uncompromising courage, his expression looked like he was asking, "Ah, why are you so stupid", although He Mulan felt that Yuan Fang's expression was more of a revenge for Tuoba Tao's previous words to force him to show his little angry side.

All in all, Yuan Fang showed a very cute smile and shook his head.

"But the kind of goods you want, Wei State doesn't have."

"Hahahaha, hahahaha!"

Helian Ding couldn't hold back any longer, clutching his stomach and laughing.

It was probably the first time that Tuoba Tao had been so humiliated, because no one had dared to laugh like that before, and he stood up for the first time and slapped Helian Ding on the shoulder beside him, causing him to fall backwards.

However, Helian leaned against the lamppost behind him and continued to smirk.

"What is there in the Wei State? Silk? There is no delicacy of the Song Kingdom. What's more, China's people can only produce cotton cloth and some fine silk, such as silk, Luo, brocade, embroidery are all official, and no one is willing to plant mulberry fields. ”

Yuan Fang began to ask and answer himself.

"Fine wine? Oh, I forgot that the wine in my country is running out of flavor. ”

"Pottery? I heard that there is already a special kind of pottery in the Song Kingdom in the south, the glaze is pale green, and it has become 'glazed pottery'. ”

"Gold and silver, jade, lacquerware...... I'm sorry, but these Chinese crafts are really crude and unelegant. ”

Tuoba Tao began to open his mouth wide, probably because he couldn't stand the fact that he was so cruel, and he couldn't accept that the "big country" under his rule would be disliked by a businessman to such an extent.

"In my opinion, the only things that our country can use for business are the war horses captured in large quantities from Rouran, and the iron tools forged by the high-chariot people. There are also a lot of copper mines in my country, but unfortunately Shamen controls them, and they are all used to build Buddha statues and Buddha utensils. ”

Tuoba Tao nodded approvingly.

He also often sent horses to the Song State in order to show friendship, but the war horses he sent were all instigated, and he could not leave any descendants. Of course, geldings can also be sold in large quantities, but with Tuoba Tao's long-term combat policy of cavalry, it is impossible to flow too many war horses outside.

It is because the horses in the Wei State are ordinary, and even the trailers are pack horses, but there are almost no good horses that are really sold abroad, and they are all in the government-run pastures.

"Then all the things you said before are in vain. Since you want to make money, you must sell it, not buy other people's things, otherwise the wealth will not flow out of the country and make money for others! ”

Li Shun scoffed.

"No, because Hu Xia was destroyed, there was a new thing to sell in our country. In addition, if His Majesty can destroy Beiyan, there will only be more things to sell. ”

Tuobatao: "What! ”

Gu Bi: "Presumptuous! ”

Li Shun: "When it comes to war, where can you put your beak!" ”

Hearing Beiyan, He Mulan and Di Yefei suddenly thought of what Cui Hao had said before, and suddenly looked at Yuan Fang with shock in their eyes.

Yuan Fang raised his head slightly, neither humble nor arrogant:

"The most profitable business in the world is salt and iron."

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Tuoba Tao began to open his mouth wide, probably because he couldn't stand the fact that he was so cruel, and he couldn't accept that the "big country" under his rule would be disliked by a businessman to such an extent.

Tuoba Tao: Although Lao Tzu is poor, he is not poor enough......

Gu Bi: (squinting) Your Majesty, you're really so poor.

Rouran (crying): We are poorer than you! You've all got it!