Chapter 435: Worrying about the country and the people

There is another item that has to be mentioned in Sang Hongyang's economic policy, that is, to lose evenly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In order to make up for the huge military expenditures and restrict the profit-making activities of wealthy businessmen and magnates in the purchase and transportation trade, Sang Hongyang creatively proposed to put forward the idea of losing evenly.

That is, the tributes due to the counties and states, together with the freight rates to the central government, were converted into local products that merchants had always trafficked out of the country at the local market price, and handed over to the importing officials on the spot.

Then the equalizer will transport some of them to Beijing for official needs or pay for sale, and the rest of the materials purchased separately with the equalizer will be transported to the high-priced areas for sale, and sometimes the proceeds of the sale will be sold in the land to purchase local products, sell them in different places, and turn to trafficking transactions.

In this way, in addition to meeting the needs of Chang'an City, it can also obtain huge profits from trafficking trade, and it also saves unnecessary costs in the transportation of tribute.

At the same time, it also strengthened the exchange of goods between different places and restricted the activities of the extremely wealthy merchants.

With this order, the people will not benefit and the world will spare it.

Of course, no matter how good the starting point of a policy is and how perfect the idea is, when it comes to actual operation, there will be many phenomena that go against the original intention.

For example, forcing the people to sell cheaply, deceiving the gains, and colluding with officials and businessmen to make profits.

But it doesn't matter, Gillian only needs to write down these possible drawbacks, and Liu Che can naturally think of a way.

Under the cold winter sun, Gillian frowned slightly and wrote and drew on the silk book.

I don't know how long it took, but she finally finished writing, and shook her stiff and sore hands to rest.

Now just wait for the ink to dry, Liu Che said that it took so long to write a handwritten book.

By the way, there is also the construction of people's livelihood that cannot be ignored.

Such as water conservancy construction, but she doesn't have to worry about this.

Since his accession to the throne, Liu Che has attached great importance to water conservancy construction, and has built water conservancy projects in Shuofang, Jiuquan, Runan, Jiujiang, and Taishan, and diverted river water to irrigate farmland.

Guanzhong also excavated canals such as Longshou, Lingyi, and Chengguo to irrigate the fields, and the large ones can irrigate more than 10,000 hectares of fields, and other small water conservancy projects are even more innumerable.

It's something that's very important to agricultural production, and yes, it seems that there is another person who has made great achievements in agriculture.

Liu Che once said that with him alone, the agricultural industry has been refined for a hundred years.

The evaluation is not high, but because Liu Che was promoted in his later years, Gillian had been dead for a long time at that time, and she was full of only thinking about escaping Liu Che's confinement, and she really couldn't remember the name of this agricultural official for a while.

If we can find him now and let him carry out agricultural reforms, we will surely make the world rich and greatly ease the pressure on the state's finances.

But what's the name?

Gillian couldn't think of it after thinking about it, and vaguely remembered that this was a famous family, but she refused to read poetry and books as an official, and she loved the business of agriculture and mulberry.

Such deviant people should be easy to find.

The left and right are not at a moment, and when she returns to the palace, she will ask Guantao to find it for her.

Gillian rubbed her shoulders and got up slowly, and accidentally tripped over the copper stove under her feet and stumbled forward, but fortunately she didn't sleep honestly because she held on to the bookcase.

She clutched her pounding heart, thinking about the danger, and straightened up.

I smiled behind me: "You, it's really not as good as Yuanxuan, you can wrestle if you stand well." ”

Gillian was shocked and turned to look.

Liu Che didn't know when he stood behind her quietly, and when he saw her turn around, he came over with a smile and picked her up.

He laughed in her ear and said, "Are you sitting numb?" ”

Gillian nodded in his arms, and asked him again: "The handwritten letter for collecting taxes has been sent away?" ”

Liu Che snorted, and Gillian pointed to the silk book spread out on the bookcase and said: "Collecting business taxes is just a drop in the bucket, we need more channels of income to ensure military spending, this is what I wrote, you can take a look——"

Well, these are Sang Hongyang's methods, and she asked her to take them out in advance, so she still blushed a little.

But if you wait for Sang Hongyang to be forced by Liu Che to come up with these methods, what is the state of the world's finances?

At that time, if it is implemented again, it can only be ruthless, and it will inevitably intensify more contradictions and leave many hidden dangers.

Implementing it now can leave a buffer zone for both sides.

She can only be sorry for Sang Hongyang, but thinking that with Sang Hongyang's financial management ability and economic acumen, Liu Che will still hand it over to him to handle all this.

It should be that the glory and power he gained from Sang Hongyang will not be less, and there will be less of his later exhaustion.

In his previous life, Liu Che's subordinates suffered the most was Sang Hongyang, and I heard that in order to find money for Liu Che, he couldn't sleep for two hours every day.

Liu Che sighed with interest, put Gillian on the couch, and told her to move her ankles.

Then he got up and went to the desk to pick up the white jade paperweight, picked up the silk book and looked at it carefully.

Gillian saw that his face was becoming more and more serious and serious.

Even if you feel that there is no problem in your heart, is it not feasible to be a little uneasy by him?

Liu Che watched for two quarters of an hour before finally putting down the silk book.

Gillian stared at him expectantly and said, "Is it available?" ”

His calm face immediately brightened, laughed and came up to hug Gillian, and the strength was so great that Gillian hurt.

"It's not just available! It's a big deal! His laughter seemed to come from the depths of his chest, full of endless joy.

"Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao—" Liu Che laughed and finally let go of her, looking at her with appreciation. "You are truly wise. It's just too lazy to plan. You see, now that you think about it, the boulder that has been pressing on my heart for a long time is gone. ”

Gillian put her mind at ease, let out a sigh of relief, and smiled slightly. "It's good to be able to use it, I just don't have a burden in front of you, it's okay to say and do wrong, and I'll show you whatever I think."

Liu Che smiled and said sincerely: "Jiaojiao, you are really a genius." ”

He got up and picked up the silk book and commented on it one by one. "The collection of wine, iron and salt for official use can not only bring huge revenue to the national treasury, but also allow the central government to implement parity.

Salt is the lifeblood of all the people in the world.

Iron is the foundation of the people of the world's peasants.

If these two things are in the hands of businessmen, it is inevitable that there will be a chaotic situation of market manipulation and the impermanence of salt and iron prices, which can kill many people.

If it is returned to the government, its price can be maintained at a stable level.

Jiaojiao, this is a great goodness! ”

He slapped Gillian hard, his tone full of relief.

This slap hurt Gillian, but she grinned.

What it was like to worry about the country and the people, she didn't know before, but today she saw it in Liu Che's eyes.

Later generations will always say that emperors only have their own authority in their hearts, and they will not care about the life or death of ordinary people.

But Gillian wants to tell them that it is precisely because the world is the private property of the emperor that they care more about the livelihood of the people than anyone else.

If he didn't care, Liu Che wouldn't have forced Sang Hongyang to do everything he could to make up for the military spending, but he should have levied heavy taxes to make the people of the world miserable.