Xiao Ding helped Song Yinzi come up with several good strategies for accumulating money: first, levy business taxes, and slowly increase them by boiling frogs in warm water. The second is to levy additional land tax, mainly for commercial land and urban residential land. Third, it is necessary to strictly investigate corrupt officials and enrich the state treasury by confiscating the family wealth of these officials. Fourth, Song Yinzi was urged to set up trade checkpoints, collect customs duties, and at the same time try to monopolize trade between countries and receive profits into the state treasury. The fifth is to set up a sailor division to fight the pirates, to rob the pirates of their property, and at the same time not to catch all the pirates, keep them, and continue to rob their property in the future.

In Song Yinzi's view, although these bad ideas can bring practical benefits, he always feels that they are a little dark.

But Xiao Ding didn't care.

The reason why he was able to come up with these ideas was actually because he had studied history before traveling and was inspired by them. Xiao Ding knew that in the Middle Ages, Vikings were rampant and could be seen everywhere. For example, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and other countries. Later, the Nordic countries saw the tangible benefits of piracy, so they began to gradually acquiesce to their own fleets to go out to carry out robbery. It was the Age of Discovery, when there was a lot of trade between the world and merchant ships. As long as you succeed in robbing a merchant ship, it is a valuable ship. As a result, many countries have acquiesced in the act of piracy by their national fleets.

At that time, there were many famous navigators, in fact, they were all officially defaulted pirates, such as the pioneer Vasco da Gama, who sailed from Europe around the Cape of Good Hope to India, and the famous navigator Columbus, who discovered the American continent.

In Xiao Ding's opinion, since European countries can openly go out to pirate and rob property, then there is nothing wrong with us robbing some pirates' property? If he encouraged Song Yinzi to rob merchant ships directly, Song Yinzi would definitely not agree, so he instead suggested that Song Yinzi set up a sailor to rob the pirates' property, and then keep the pirates without killing them, and let the pirates continue to rob the merchant ships, so that it is equivalent to using the hands of pirates to rob the property of merchant ships.

Therefore, although Song Yinzi felt that something seemed wrong, he did not turn the corner for a while, and felt that it was understandable to rob some property from the pirates, so he agreed.

Another case that inspired Xiao Ding was Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period in history. At the beginning, Cao Cao went to war because of lack of military salaries, and then organized the army to go out to rob tombs publicly. Therefore, many of the treasures in the ancient tombs were stolen by Cao Cao at that time. Cao Cao thus became the biggest tomb robber in history.

Although Xiao Ding did not encourage Song Yinzi to learn from Cao Cao to organize the army to rob the tomb, he learned a truth from Cao Cao's tomb robbery: to achieve the goal, it is not necessary to use normal means. Those high-sounding methods, if they work, if they just sound good, but the results have little practical effect, then it is better to come up with some immoral tricks.

Therefore, he proposed to increase the commercial tax and use the method of boiling frogs in warm water, in fact, the purpose was to pick money from the hands of the merchants. The purpose of increasing the land tax and strictly investigating corrupt officials is to steal money from the hands of officials. In the same way, monopolizing international trade still preempts the interests of wealthy merchants.

If these things are known by these people whose interests are damaged by Xiao Ding's idea, it is estimated that they will all have the heart to kill Xiao Ding.

In Xiao Ding's view, since the treasury is empty, it must be necessary to find a way to pick money from the rich. Isn't it the same as asking for money from ordinary toiling people, who are already struggling by birth, the same as asking them for money?

Therefore, every idea that Xiao Ding came up with was aimed at those powerful and wealthy businessmen.

Although Song Yinzi didn't understand Xiao Ding's true intentions, he could know that these methods would definitely increase the revenue of the treasury. So he finalized several of Xiao Ding's ideas on the spot.

However, some specific details still need to be further discussed, a plan should be worked out, and officials should be arranged to implement it.

Xiao Ding originally planned to give Song Yinzi an idea and finish the matter, but he didn't expect Song Yinzi to discuss the specific implementation plan with him, so Xiao Ding couldn't, it was worth continuing to stay and continue to discuss the detailed plan with Song Yinzi.

Therefore, he also stayed in the imperial study to eat with Song Yinzi at lunchtime.

Song Yinzi has had no appetite for several days in a row, and today with Xiao Ding to help him solve the problem, his appetite has suddenly returned.

The eunuch who was waiting, seeing that Song Yinzi had eaten with Xiao Ding today, and saw Xiao Ding sitting at the same table with the emperor, the emperor was also very polite to Xiao Ding, he weighed it in his heart, this Marquis Tian should be a celebrity around the emperor, and he must not be offended in the future.

After the meal, Xiao Ding and Song Yinzi then discussed the implementation plan.

For the additional commercial tax and commercial land tax, this is simple, the imperial court issued a decree, and let the officials at all levels below to implement it. As for the investigation and punishment of corrupt officials and illegal officials, it can be handed over to the Imperial Historical Observatory. The emperor only needs to give an order to the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the Imperial Historical Observatory will naturally arrange for people to carry it out.

The more complicated ones are the establishment of trade checkpoints, the increase of tariffs, and the development of trade with other countries. This is a troublesome and time-consuming matter.

At present, the officials of the Great Song Kingdom have not officially conducted trade with other countries. Usually it was the wealthy merchants of the private sector, and the private fleet was engaged in international trade.

Even if it is private, it is not with all the countries surrounding the Great Song Kingdom.

At present, according to the information that Song Yinzi has learned, the countries that have had trade contacts with the Great Song Dynasty are basically concentrated in the coastal areas of the southeast. The fleets of wealthy private merchants were limited to the Great Fusang Kingdom, the Great Southern Barbarian Kingdom, and the Dali Kingdom, and there were also a small number of merchant ships that traded with the Great Goryeo Kingdom.

In addition, other countries, even the people, have hardly had any dealings with the Great Song Kingdom, especially the northern countries, they will come to the border of the Great Song Kingdom almost every year to fight the autumn wind, and the people in the frontier hate these countries so much, where can they trade with these countries?

However, Xiao Ding told Song Yinzi that he should send envoys to the countries surrounding the Great Song Kingdom to negotiate as much as possible, demanding the opening of trade between countries, the establishment of border markets in the border areas, and the formulation of relevant legal provisions to restrict the rules of border market transactions. Let the officials and private organizations of the two countries conduct safe and equal transactions in the border markets.

In this way, first, the revenue of the national treasury can be increased by collecting customs duties, and second, the huge profits brought by the trade between officials, such as official salt and official iron, which are monopolized by the state, will be transferred to the national treasury.

At the same time, trade and trade can not only make money, but also strengthen exchanges between the two countries. By the way, you can also take advantage of the opportunity of trade to send more scouts to other countries, collect detailed information about other countries, and draw detailed maps.

The mountains and rivers, the geographical routes, where there are mountains, and where there is water are all very important. If these maps are well detailed, it will be very helpful if the two countries go to war in the future.

One of the reasons why the battle of pacifying the king of Jiaozhou was able to be fought so smoothly was that the battlefield was within the territory of the Great Song Kingdom. The imperial court of the Great Song Kingdom has a detailed map of Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou, so Xiao Ding will be so handy in sending troops.

In addition, trade with other countries will also make the rich merchants and nobles of other countries rich, and these people of the upper class, after living a good life and enjoying a luxurious life, will also begin to corrupt, and gradually degenerate, and do not want to continue to fight, because they will also begin to fear that they will lose everything they have because of the war.

What's more, the northern countries come to the vicinity of the Great Song Kingdom every year to fight the autumn wind, and the purpose is nothing more than to come and loot some property, grain and grass, if they are already living a prosperous life, there is no need to risk their lives to come to fight the autumn wind.

After listening to Xiao Ding's analysis and narration, Song Yinzi suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, it turned out that this opening of commercial and trade exchanges between countries, in addition to increasing the revenue of the treasury, actually had so many side benefits, and even the problem of the invasion of the northern countries that had plagued the Great Song Kingdom for many years was solved by the way. That's amazing, isn't it?

However, he immediately thought of a serious problem and said: "Brother Tian, although there are many benefits to opening up border markets for trade, what if other countries are not willing to trade with us?" ”

This is a very serious problem, and if people do not agree to trade with you, all your thoughts will come to naught.

However, Xiao Ding said calmly: "This is also normal, especially those countries in the north that are often at war with my Great Song Kingdom, they should not agree the first time." However, it doesn't matter, in addition to them, there are many countries around our Great Song Kingdom, we can negotiate with other countries first, as long as there are a few countries that have established commercial and trade relations with us, those countries that have not traded with our Great Song Kingdom, after seeing that those countries that trade with us have obtained tangible benefits, they will slowly take the initiative to find us. Therefore, we must have good relations with other countries, so that these countries will gradually become dependent on the trade and trade transactions with our Great Song Kingdom. In this way, if there is a war in the future, these countries may go to help our Great Song Kingdom to deal with those countries that invade our country. ”

After Song Yinzi heard this, he immediately smiled and was in a good mood, and immediately clapped his hands and said, "Then it's decided!" Brother Tian is really far-sighted and superior, and he can actually come up with this kind of strategy of trade to control the enemy, which simply makes the five bodies I admire throw themselves to the ground! ”

Xiao Ding said in his heart, where is this going, you must know that the international trade wars in the later generations are much more clever than the current era of the Great Song Kingdom.