"Du Envoy, please speak!"

Du You groaned and said: "One thing is that there is too much new money in the treasury of our government, there are as many as 500,000 yuan, and there is also a lot of new money in the hands of the people. And if the new money in the hands of the people is not properly handled, it will be a huge hidden danger in the future! ”

The problem reflected by Du You is indeed a big problem, the new money refers to the Great Qin Tongbao cast by Zhu Zhu, which has a low copper content, only fifty percent, and the small money in each feudal town is basically iron money.

Now except for Guanzhong, all the other territories of Guo Song have abolished the new money, also because they are less affected by the new money, and it is not difficult to abolish it, but Guanzhong is different, Zhu Jun has been operating here for nearly five years and issued a large amount of new money, at least half of which is precipitated in Guanzhong.

Guo Song had already thought of this problem before, and he gave Zhang Lei and Li An the 350,000 yuan confiscated by Guannei Province and Hedong Province to Zhang Lei and Li An, so that they could use it to buy official mansions.

At the same time, Li An and Zhang Lei exchanged their Kaiyuan money for 300,000 yuan of new money in Chang'an, which was also used to buy official houses, a total of 650,000 yuan of new money, which was transported by Zhu Jun to Luoyang to build the palace.

This is a way of asset transfer, Chang'an people have a lot of new money has been transferred to Luoyang in this way, they got the old money, but even so, Chang'an and Guanzhong people still have a huge amount of new money precipitation.

Guo Song paced a few laps with his hands in his hand, and said to Du You: "These new money still have to be used in Zhu Zhu's Great Qin, and the merchants will take them to the Central Plains to buy land, official houses or other materials, and we can set up a secret official office to deal with this matter, but this matter is not in a hurry, and after everyone comes over in March, we will sit down and discuss it well." ”

"So now the new money can still be circulated?"

Guo Song nodded and said: "For the time being, it can still be circulated in Guanzhong, but I want to say a principle, the circulation of new money is only in and out, and it is slowly recovered!" ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Du You said again: "Then the second thing is about taxes, I'm afraid Your Highness can't imagine that the current tax situation in Guanzhong is extremely chaotic." ”

"What's the mess?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"Let's put it this way! The Du family has never paid a penny of land tax in the past five years. ”

Guo Song laughed, "This is the preferential treatment that Zhu Jun gave to the Du family?" ”

Du You shook his head, "It has nothing to do with Zhu Jun, in fact, not only the Du family, but almost all the big families in Guanzhong have not paid taxes, on the contrary, many ordinary people are forced to pay two to three times the field tax." Even if there are two stones of grain per acre of land, they will be forced to pay one stone, but not every ordinary family pays taxes, and many civilians do not have to pay taxes if they have a relationship. ”

"Why is there such a mess?" Guo Song asked a little puzzled.

The main reason is that Zhu Jun is not short of grain, when he occupied Guanzhong, there were 8 million stone grain in Guangtong Warehouse, and in order to win over the people at the bottom, he exempted Guanzhong from five years of field endowment.

But his order was used by his subordinates, and the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong still levied land endowments, but they were not handed over to Zhu Zhu, but used as county expenses, or to fill their own pockets.

It is precisely because this kind of taxation is an unauthorized act of the local government, so they levy taxes very arbitrarily, some people levy it, some people do not collect it, and the county officials have a relationship, and if they have a favor, the field will be exempted, if they have offended the county officials, then they will collect heavy taxes, and almost all counties are like this. ”

"What about the household tax?" Guo Song asked again.

"The problem is here, Zhu Jun is not short of food, but he is short of money, so he levied the household tax of the city residents very strictly, not only the household tax to be levied, but also the commercial tax and the salt tax, which are the three major taxes that must be levied in the city, but many counties are full of tricks, tea and wine tax, intershelf tax, car tax, most of these taxes fall into the pockets of local officials, and then the local officials are filial piety to Yuanxiu, Yao Lingyan and others, which leads to the boiling of resentment in the city, but the rural people are more supportive of Zhu Zhu."

Guo Song took a few steps and asked, "What about the current situation?" ”

"Since His Highness entered the Guanzhong, he is currently in a tax suspension period, and all taxes have not been collected, waiting for His Highness to decide."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The tax should not be high, nor should it be low, the field tax is still in accordance with the rules set by the emperor, in fact, it is also the regulations of Hedong, the upper field is five per mu, the middle field is three per mu, and the lower field is two per mu, the military is exempt from tax, and the officials are halved, but the discount per household cannot exceed 100 mu."

The household tax is calculated according to the capitation, 100 wen per person per year, under the age of 14 and over 60 years old are exempt from tax, and the commercial tax is divided into two parts, one is the excise tax, which is exempt from tax for five years like the rest of us, and the shop tax is levied at 3 percent, as for the salt tax is levied from the source, plus 100 wen per bucket, and other tea and wine taxes, intershelf taxes, and car taxes are all abolished. ”

Du You cautiously asked, "Your Highness, the salt tax ......?"

Guo Song immediately knew that he had misunderstood, thinking that the salt came from the seaside, Guo Song smiled and said: "Our salt is from the river, there are several large salt lakes over there, there are dozens of salt merchants drying salt over there, the price of salt is ten wen per bucket, and then the salt and iron department adds one hundred wen per bucket, which is directly sold by the government, basically every county has a government-run salt and iron store, and the salt price is uniform one hundred and ten wen per bucket, this is my request, there is only a ration of five liters of salt per person per month, which is a benefit I give to the people." ”

Guo Song said that the price of salt is the welfare of the people is not a lie, the salt of the Tang Dynasty is not today's refined salt, but coarse salt, relatively light, the people are mainly manual work, every household consumes a lot of salt, some people have a large population, and they have to consume a few buckets of salt every month.

But the price of salt is not low, the wholesale price of the government is 110 Wen, and then the salt merchants traffic long-distance, plus all kinds of dots along the way, the salt merchants make their own profits, and then distribute them layer by layer, increase the price layer by layer, and finally when it reaches the hands of the people, the price of each bucket of salt is at least five or six hundred Wen, or even higher, so salt has always been the largest expense of each family, and it is about the same as grain.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the salt tax became the first major tax of the imperial court, Yangzhou is the distribution center of salt in the world, and the salt fields are mainly concentrated in Yangzhou and the coastal areas of Chuzhou, and seventy percent of the salt tax of the imperial court comes from Yangzhou, so Yangzhou was captured by Zhu Zhu, which was a huge blow to the Southern Tang Dynasty's finances.

Fortunately, Bashu itself also produces well salt, which can make up for it to a certain extent.

Du You got up and said: "I understand the lowly position, so let's sort it out and write a plan for His Highness to decide." ”

Guo Song smiled and nodded, "You can discuss it with Wen Senjun, I also told him some of my ideas before, as well as the tax law in Hedong, his information is more detailed, Du Sima can refer to it." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Du You got up and said goodbye........

Guo Song saw that it was still early, so he brought a few personal soldiers, and called Jingzhao Yin Du Wenxing, and everyone rode to Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty to inspect.

Han Chang'an City is located ten miles northwest of Chang'an City, and the people of Chang'an call it a ghost city.

There are 110 squares in Chang'an City, basically all the squares are full of residents, Chang'an has a permanent population of millions, but the actual population is far more than that, Guo Song wants to build thousands of new single courtyards, at least impossible in Chang'an City.

Fortunately, Li An reminded that Guo Song had the idea of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, and he thought about it all night, preparing to build the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty into an official settlement area, and then move Taixue, Guozixue, Gongyuan, Confucian Temple, Post House, Jinjuanyuan and other institutions to the past, and Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty can be reused.

"What is the situation in Han Chang'an City now?" Guo Song asked.

Du Wenxing scratched his head and said: "I went there once last year, and I haven't been there for more than half a year. ”

"Let's talk about last year."

"The population of Chang'an City in Han Dynasty is about 100,000, the houses are old, the streets are dilapidated, the sunny day is gray, the rainy day is muddy, the sewer channel is completely blocked, the sewage in the city is overflowing, the winter is a little better, in the summer, mosquitoes and flies breed, that stinks! People don't want to go a second time. ”

"Who are the people living in it?" Guo Song asked with a frown.

"In fact, it is the people we usually see every day, the bartenders in restaurants, the guys in shops, stalls, artists, beggars, and some Taoist temples and monasteries, they are active in Chang'an City during the day, and they go back to the old city to live at night, and the government doesn't care, it has been like this for generations, almost a hundred years."

This made Guo Songtou bigger, he wanted Han Chang'an City to come over, what should I do with these hundreds of thousands of people?

Go out from Guanghua Gate, soon arrive at Han Chang'an City, Han Chang'an City is equivalent to one-third of the size of Chang'an City, there is no sub-square area in it, but the Weiyang Palace and the Forbidden Garden in the southwest are still the royal family to the palace, ordinary people are not allowed to enter, Tang Zhongzong often goes to Weiyang Palace to drink and feast, but now it has not been repaired for sixty or seventy years, and it seems to be relatively dilapidated.

The city wall of Chang'an City in Han Dynasty is still relatively complete, surrounded by clear water, quite imposing, Guo Song entered Chang'an City of Han Dynasty from Xi'an Gate, this is the first time he came to this ancient city.

Han Chang'an City's first impression to him is that there are many trees, there are towering ancient trees everywhere, the houses are dilapidated, and occasionally there are a few well-built houses, but they are only relatively good, and they can only be regarded as middle and lower in Chang'an City, most of the houses are very dilapidated, and the ground is potholed muddy land, and it is indeed sewage everywhere.

It is no wonder that Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty was a place where the low-level people lived, and the slightly more decent families did not want to live here, even the merchants of lower status did not want to live here.

However, the social status of merchants has been reversed, the status of merchants in the major feudal towns of Hebei is relatively high, Guo Song and Zhu Jun are kind to businessmen, all restrictions have been lifted, and normal civilians are the same, this is also because merchants can bring wealth, can bring military spending, everyone has become very pragmatic, at present, only the Southern Tang scholars gathered, and the status of merchants has not improved.

Guo Song shook his head, at this time he had a preliminary idea in his heart, only Weiyang Palace was left, and everything else was demolished and bulldozed for reconstruction.