In the elegant courtyard, Zhao Pu has been under house arrest for a few days, and a new member has been added here.

It was a big food merchant, he was stuffed in the room every day and didn't know what to do, one day the weather was sunny and sunny, and a servant opened the windows of several rooms in the small courtyard, Zhao Pu was startled when he saw the big cannibal, the big food merchant, sitting in front of the table, the ground was full of straw paper, the big food merchant's hair was scattered, like a madman, he kept grabbing his hair and muttering to himself.

And on this day, when Zhao Pu was worried about his own affairs, the Donghai Duke of the Southern Kingdom came to his room.

"The letter hasn't been written yet?!" Lu Ning looked at Zhao Pu with a smile.

Zhao Pu's heart trembled slightly, and then he sighed and said: "After a long time, I lost here again, and I really don't know how to write." ”

Lu Ning nodded and said, "However, I'm afraid that after a long time, the news that you are the prime minister of the East China Sea Country will reach the Northern Kingdom, and your family will be implicated, and you will regret it." ”

Zhao Pu's heart sank, if this Donghai Duke spread such news to the north, his wife and children would definitely be unlucky.

Lu Ning said again: "So, this letter, whether it is written in you or not, I came to find you an errand, I am going to implement the three-tax system in the East China Sea, a one-stop law, you help me ponder, the specific terms." ”

Zhao Pu didn't quite understand, "What is the system of three taxes?" One, one dragon? Law? ”

Lu Ning took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Pu, saying, "You read it slowly." ”

Zhao Pu raised his eyes and was slightly stunned, on the paper, the new deal was dense, but it was the East China Sea Gong who wanted to implement the new tax law in the East China Sea, except for the special taxes such as salt and tea that would not be changed, the East China Sea Gong was ready to divide the East China Sea tax into three parts: "agriculture, commerce, and craftsmen".

Among them, peasant households, the law of abolishing the two taxes, all taxes, based on land, how many acres of land, how much tax, those who have more land pay more, those who have less land pay less, and those who have no land do not pay.

Spread into acres, and the land is one.

There are three types of land: upper field, middle field, and lower field, and the taxes are different, and basically the tax is charged according to one-fifth of the yield per mu.

This kind of tax ratio seems not to be light, after all, in the past troubled times there were only ten taxes and one, and in the peaceful world, even thirty taxes and one tax, but in fact, the poll tax is the big head, and it is evenly shared, I am afraid that it will be higher than the five taxes and one, not to mention, the poll tax is simply a torment for the farmers who have no land or less land, and now the tax is paid according to the field, which is three taxes and one of the people, and the people can afford it, but the big landlords have to bleed greatly.

Look down.

As for how to convert beans, rice, vegetables, etc. into millet rice, it seems that Donghai Gong has not yet reached a conclusion, and the people below need to carefully discuss it.

Seeing this, Zhao Pu was secretly surprised, doing this, those landlords who owned a lot of land didn't make a fuss? However, in this East China Sea, the East China Sea Gong is the largest landowner, as if he wants to get along with himself.

However, such a tax system, obviously, will greatly alleviate the situation of the population concealing and becoming displaced in order to avoid paying taxes.

Look down again.

A merchant, according to the definition of Tokai Gong, is a proprietor who sells goods without producing products and the men he employs.

Among them, the proprietor of the merchant pays tax at 10% of the transaction amount, and the man, he pays 5% of the monthly income.

Artisan households, that is, coal mining, salt making, iron, spinning, porcelain kilns, brick kilns and other handicrafts, except for salt tea farmers, the rest of the proprietors and associates, are taxed according to 5% of income, now these industries, most of the proprietors are partners, there are hired partners, can also be ignored.

On the contrary, the porcelain kilns and artisan shops that are being built by the most hired workers are all the properties of the East China Sea Gong.

Obviously, whether this reform of the taxation law can be implemented smoothly or not, many of them can be experimented and improved in the Tokai public industry, and this point is also mentioned in the tax law drafted by the Tokai Gong.

In addition, under the three-tax system, there are also liquor shops, tea shops and other trades, which are called the fourth industry, and the tax is set separately.

Even, this dense charter is not only a law of change, but also a method of setting up various prisons and institutes to carry out verification in order to check and avoid tax evasion.

"Look slowly, the matter of the letter is not in a hurry!" Lu Ning got up with a smile and walked out.

Zhao Pu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shouted: "Please stay ...... next" and delay it any longer, looking at the meaning of Donghai Gong, I am afraid that there will really be rumors that he has descended to the Tang Dynasty on the northern side!

I screamed in my heart, this Donghai Gong is really a little terrible.

But what can people do under the roof?

……

So more than ten days later, Lu Ning stood on the street of Songzhou, with a secret letter written by Zhao Pu to his wife in his arms.

From the East China Sea to Songzhou, the traffic is very convenient, sail to Chuzhou to enter the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, all the way north, into Bianshui, you can go straight to Songzhou.

In fact, not only Songzhou, Bianshui can go all the way to Bianliang and even Luoyang.

However, more than 200 years later, during the Song and Jin wars, the Song State dug up the Yellow River embankment to block the Jin soldiers, resulting in the Yellow River seizing the road into the Huai, the once rich Henan and Huaibei and other places, became the Yellow Flood Area, the river was disordered, floods were frequent, the fertile land became a sand field, and the Bianshui River became the ancient Bianshui River, and the prosperity of the past gradually disappeared, which also made the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the flooding of the Yellow River has always become a big hidden danger, and the governance of the Yellow River has become a great problem for the rulers.

Nowadays, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal enters the Bianshui, and there are ships on the river, full of goods, flowing like a shuttle, circulating from north to south, mainly relying on water transportation.

Lu Ning followed a silk merchant from the north, and that businessman didn't know Lu Ning's identity, just a random recruit.

And Lu Ning pulled down his eyelids and pasted a thin pigskin, and the whole person's face changed when he stood up, his face, hands and body were covered with plaster, and he didn't wash it, he looked like an authentic peddler's pawn.

After entering Songzhou, Lu Ning left the brigade, he learned the local accent very quickly, and no one could hear that he was a foreigner in less than half a day.

So, he walked around Songcheng Street.

Songzhou City is the ancient city of Shangqiu in later generations, Lu Ning also visited this ancient city, and now he sees the original appearance of this ancient city thousands of years ago, and he can't help but feel a little dislocated in time and space, and his heart is strange.

It became one of the four capitals of Nanjing after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was in this Nanjing that the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Tianfu, which also shows the special status of Songzhou.

Shops stand in a forest, pedestrians are bustling, there are more teams of patrol officers and soldiers with distinct armor to come and go, the current Songzhou City, although slightly lonely after the Anshi Rebellion, but the military town stationed here belongs to the German army, but it is the strength of the Zhou State second only to the forbidden army, here to the south, clamp the Southern Tang Dynasty, and close to the Beijing Division Kaifeng, the importance can be imagined.

Looking for a small tea shop, Lu Ning casually lost two pennies when he entered, and wanted to listen to the gossip in the tea shop casually, after all, he didn't just come here to pick up Zhao Pu's wife and children.

But after coming in, Lu Ning was stunned, seeing the people in the tea shop dressed up, obviously even if he was not a rich person, he was also a scholar and a scholar, and he had some status, and there was no peddler and pawn.

Lu Ning came in, and Dr. Tea and the few two or three tea customers in the tea shop all looked at him blankly.

Lu Ning saved this time, and tea drinking was popularized to the lower class of poor people, as if it was in the Song Dynasty.

However, the East China Sea is relatively wealthy, and there is good guidance recently, there are many merchants and employees who come to the business, and there are many floating populations, and these poor haha have a few spare money, so naturally there are businessmen who target them, and there are gradually low-cost tea shops, so the tea shops in the East China Sea, the pawns of the peddlers have been very common.

Rolling his eyes, Lu Ning said, "Let's have a pot of hot water!" ”

The shopkeeper stared at the two copper plates thrown by Lu Ning on the counter and hesitated, obviously doing a fierce ideological struggle, two pennies and a pot of hot water must be earned, but should you bend your waist for two pennies and turn your tea shop into a low place, and let the people who don't know how to taste tea come in and out?

Finally, looking at the three or two sparrows in the store, the desire to survive overpowered, and the shopkeeper glanced at Dr. Cha, "Give him a pot of boiling water!" ”