Yunshan Annex, the main hall of Li Mansion.

After listening to Li Zexuan's words, He Xianling couldn't help but be startled, the ratio of agricultural tax and commercial tax was reversed, this matter has been unimagined since ancient times!

Of course, this suppression does not refer to the levy of more commercial taxes, but to make many restrictions on the status of merchants, and the class hierarchy of scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants is directly nailed to the bottom of society!

However, although the Tang Dynasty followed the previous generation, stipulating that merchants or ancestors who had been merchants could not be officials, and restrictions were given on the color of clothes, in real life, merchants could enter and leave the court, interact with high-ranking officials and nobles, and a very small number of people could also pass the reading examination to become officials, and the social status of merchants was gradually improving compared with the previous dynasties.

Although the laws of the Tang Dynasty forbade the aristocracy and bureaucracy to compete with the people for profit, they could not withstand the temptation of huge wealth, and the nobles and bureaucrats entered the business world one after another to engage in commercial operations.

It is precisely based on this that the proportion of commercial tax collection in the Tang Dynasty will be so low, because the vested aristocracy and bureaucracy will oppose the rulers to "compete with the people for profit"! Moreover, the aristocracy and bureaucrats want to avoid taxes, which is not too easy, which directly leads to the fact that the annual commercial tax income of the imperial court is even less than one-tenth of the agricultural tax, and over time, the rulers pay less and less attention to commercial taxes!

This problem was not only in the Tang Dynasty, but also in many dynasties before and even after the Tang Dynasty!

That's why He County was so surprised after listening to it!

"Master Hou! If you rashly change the commercial tax ratio, I am afraid that all the shops in Lantian County will be moved, and the gentry in the city may oppose it together, and I am afraid that we will receive less commercial tax at that time! ”

He Xianling has been an official for so many years, and his administrative experience is much richer than Li Zexuan's, and he almost instantly thought of the consequences of increasing the commercial tax.

Li Zexuan smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Don't mention this matter first, in the future, Benhou will naturally have a way to make the merchants in the county voluntarily pay more taxes!" Ben Hou still has to wait until he is familiar with the specific situation of Lantian County before talking about anything else, otherwise it will really be on paper! ”

When He County Ling heard this, he couldn't help but have a good impression of Li Zexuan, in fact, before he came, he was worried that Li Zexuan would follow his own wishes in the future and implement the decree indiscriminately, if that was the case, he couldn't help it, after all, Lantian County had completely become Li Zexuan's fief, as long as Li Zexuan didn't rebel, then no one could control it!

Now it seems that although Li Zexuan has the meaning of "reform", he did not arbitrarily and directly force "reform", which made him feel a little at ease!

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, what a department is most afraid of is that a leader who is "airborne" over, who doesn't understand anything, and likes to command blindly!

"Master Hou, you are too humble! In recent days, the lower officials and the county officials in the Yazhong will sort out the situation of the Zhuangzi in Lantian County into a book in every detail, and send it to the Hou Ye when the time comes! ”

He Xianling arched his hand.

"That's a lot of work!"

Thinking that he had become the "king" of Lantian County and could call the shots, Li Zexuan's heart couldn't help but be faintly excited. Skylines", I think it's a cool thing to be a mayor, plan a city, and let your citizens live a good life, and now, he has directly become the "king" of a piece of land, controlling the life and death of tens of thousands of people, and the excitement in his heart is not comparable to the game.

Of course, after the excitement, what he felt was a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and he wanted to make all the people of his fiefdom live a good life! He wants to make Lantian County the richest county in the entire Tang Dynasty and even in the whole world!

He Xianling hurriedly waved his hand, indicating that he was not polite, and then he seemed to think of something again, and said:

"That's right! Master Hou! Your mansion in the county seat has been planned for location, and the county government is about to recruit craftsmen to help you repair your mansion. ”

Although Li Zexuan has mansions in Chang'an and Yunshan, now that he has been awarded the entire Lantian County, he must also buy a set of mansions in the county seat, one is to declare the identity of the owner of Lantian County, and the other is to facilitate the officials of the ordinary county government to report to Li Zexuan on official business!

Li Zexuan thought for a while and said: "There is no need for the county government to send people and money, Benhou will send someone to build it himself in a while, so he won't bother with the county order!" ”

He Xianling hurriedly said: "How can this be made?" Since Hou Ye was awarded Lantian, repairing the mansion for Hou Ye was originally a matter within the Yamen's responsibility, how could Hou Ye break the bank? ”

Li Zexuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Come on!" Ben Hou is not short of that money, if He County Ling really doesn't want to go, this month he will take the money originally given to Ben Hou to repair the mansion, and give double the monthly salary to the officials and brothers in the ya! The right should be a little bit of Ben Hou's heart! ”

Others are three fires when the new official takes office, but Li Zexuan is the first person to be given a candy by the new official, but his "sugar" is not so delicious, if he finds that there are people in the county government who are not doing things in the future, then he will unceremoniously double it.

He Xianling thought of Li Zexuan's current net worth, and it was not easy to continue to persuade him, so he could only give up his hand and say: "Then the lower official will replace everyone in the ya, thank you Lord Hou!" ”

After explaining the matter and making a preliminary handover of some affairs in Lantian County, He County Ling submitted his resignation.

He was very satisfied with the results of this negotiation, Li Zexuan did not make things difficult for him, and for the time being, he would not criticize the "personnel structure" and government decrees of the county government, and Lantian County would not be completely chaotic because of the "airborne" of a master!

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Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month - the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year's Month, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival!

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the rejuvenation of the earth, which is celebrated by people and the continuation of the celebration of the new year. Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar" and listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it has been even more prosperous.

"The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened. The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one. The rangers are all plums, and the songs are all plums. Jin Wu can't help the night, and the jade leak is not urging. ”

From the song "The Fifteenth Night of the First Lunar Month" by Tang Ren Su Wei, we can probably get a glimpse of the grand occasion of the Tang people celebrating the Lantern Festival.

In fact, from the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Chang'an City has released the curfew, the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, three consecutive nights, the people in the city can go out of the fang to enjoy the lanterns, called "night".

Therefore, in this rare three nights, from the princes and nobles to the peddlers and pawns, everyone went out to enjoy the lanterns. So much so that the traffic and horses in Chang'an City are jammed, and the crowds are surging and lively.

And Li Zexuan, because he was trapped in Yunshan, naturally couldn't feel the excitement in Chang'an City last night, but early this morning, a person hurried from Chang'an City to Yunshan.

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