Chapter 627 The so-called hiding wealth from the people
The big housekeeper has been in office for a long time, although he has become more and more picky, but his vision is indeed getting higher and higher. Begin to think outside the box and anticipate the development trend of the next five to ten years from big data.
Even if it is advocated to be safe, but as long as the probability reaches more than 70%, then there is a certainty of a bet.
Of course, Xun Yu's seventy percent certainty, on the side of many people, is estimated to be ten out of ten certainty. After all, when people make plans or goals, they will inevitably have some self-confidence, leading to errors in judgment.
10% probability, where the fault tolerance rate is about 1% to 30%. That's why it's often said that after a plan is made, a remedial plan should be developed.
The railway plan, in Xun Yu's eyes, already has an eighty percent profit rate, and it can digest the excess labor.
In these years, the proportion of agricultural population is relatively large, which means that when the farming is not working, there are often two or three months a year, and a large number of people will come out to work a small job to earn some money and subsidize the family.
As the head of the household, I see that so many laborers cannot be well deployed every year, and I feel that I have lost hundreds of millions.
This is also in the New Han Dynasty, before the change, this time period was to be sent to conscription, how can you have time to earn extra money? Not only did they have to serve as conscripts, but they also had to bring their own dry food.
If it is a farther and larger project, it is possible to die of exhaustion in the midst of forced labor. When they returned from servitude, they had to start harvesting crops, and if they were tenant farmers, they had to pay rent and taxes......
At present, the court of the Han Dynasty stipulates that local conscription must be paid from the fiscal revenue, and at the same time, food must be managed, and officials who embezzle conscription for personal use must be punished. But if there is a place to repair, but it is not repaired well, then the officials will also be punished.
So naturally, there are some small county magistrates who begin to complain that it is becoming more and more difficult to be officials of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, these are not what Xun Yu needs to worry about, if he doesn't want to be an official, he will change a group of people to be officials, there is nothing to talk nonsense about.
The only dissatisfaction is that the cost of iron smelting is too high, and if a large number of railways are laid, the cost is not a small amount.
"Take your time, we have plenty of time." Liu Tao said casually, it should be said that it is too abundant, and there are a lot of messes in the entire Central Plains that need to be managed.
Not to mention that the funds in the past two years have actually focused on water conservancy construction, mainly for Yanzhou and Yuzhou.
There is plenty of time, but not enough technology and money, and even population. Liu Tao does not intend to do anything reckless, the standard of governing the country is based on big data, and for this purpose the statistics department has been established, although there have been similar departments like this before.
After "Xun Shangshu ......" left the side hall, Su Shuang found Xun Yu, "In fact, many people, including the lower officials, don't quite understand, why don't they directly recruit and requisition ...... as before."
"This......" Xun Yu heard this, and there were not too many surprises, in fact, many officials complained, they wanted money everywhere, as if there would never be money in the treasury, "Indeed, the biggest problem of the ministries now is how to spend every penny." ”
After all, the treasury doesn't have much money, so every penny must be spent. Jin Yiwei and Tobu are both keeping an eye on each other, so spending money, the most pleasant thing, suddenly becomes painful.
"Your Majesty, this is hiding wealth from the people, and compared with the situation in Shanxi Province, you will find that the people's consumption there has increased. In order to change the future, some young people have been buying books to learn. Xun Yu explained simply.
In the end, if you have spare money in your hand, do you save it to marry a wife, or use it to change the future. The old man doesn't matter, the young who wants to plow the land for the rest of their lives? In particular, many people have become officials in the imperial examination, why do they still need to cultivate the land?
With role models, it is natural that many people go to study and study, and no matter how bad they are, they must exercise their physique and then join the army.
And the state, the latter said that the current Shanxi Province, but Liu Tao's Longxing land, the people here have become accustomed to either from literature or from martial arts. Anyway, no matter what, with the current situation of Dahan, he can have a good future.
From the literature to the study, the cultural industry is developing rapidly; If you want to join the army, you need to be physical, so the breeding industry and the grain industry have developed greatly. In the end, he became an official and participated in some cultural meetings or something, so the entertainment industry also began to develop.
When these industries have money, they will naturally expand their industries, so all kinds of expenses will increase, and eventually they will be turned into taxes to give back to the imperial court. What Xun Yu is doing now is to tell Su Shuang about the financial expenditure in the past five years, taking Jinyang as an example.
"Judging from the current results, Jinyang's finances are constantly improving every year, and they are far from reaching the peak. The local government used the new tax revenue to recruit people to work in the slack time, which not only improved the efficiency compared to before, but also made the people earn money. Xun Yu explained.
As a result, business has been further improved, and at the same time, fiscal revenue has also been further improved.
In the past, I served as a conscription, not to mention voluntary work, and I had to prepare dry food by myself, and the people had little strength to work, and they were killing time every day and not working seriously. If the beating and scolding is too strong, it will also produce hatred for the government and be easily used by villains.
To put it simply, this arrangement not only makes the people's hearts more stable, but also has a stronger sense of belonging to the imperial court. The quality of life of the local people is indeed improving, and at the same time, the places to be built can be completed on time and with quality. The most important thing is that the local government is actually improving, deducting the cost of employment, and the surplus is increasing. Xun Yu concluded.
In the past, hundreds of officials have always advocated 'hiding wealth from the people', but this 'people' is obviously only an excuse, in fact, it is to let the local wealthy families and families monopolize this interest; in the end, the people will not get the benefits, and the court will have to take the blame.
Now Liu Tao's series of policies is the real wealth hidden from the people, the court gets taxes, the people get benefits, and the wealthy families have no losses. If there is anything to lose, it is the loss of the power to monopolize prices.
After all, there is a big business here, as long as the profit is okay, they don't sell it, and other places will also transport grain over, not to mention the usual warehouse.
It really forced Liu Tao to be dissatisfied, and directly ordered that all the grain produced by the people should be purchased by Cangping first. At that time, those gentry who want to guard one acre and three points of land and cultivate heirlooms will probably start thinking about how to make money.
Don't say anything about cultivating and reading heirlooms, those who said such things in history are not cultivating themselves.
There are a lot of tenants in the family, and they help them farm, and the grain they grow must be purchased at a low price, otherwise they will not be able to sell at all. Now the grain production is low, so it is good to say, after the exchange, you will have to pay money and land rent, how can you pay if you don't sell the grain?
For Liu Tao, grain production must first be increased to the point that everyone can't finish eating. Then it is either taken for export or reprocessed. Otherwise, the grain fields will be changed into vegetable fields and tea fields.
It's nothing if you don't farm, and most of them are tenants anyway. Only when there are more proletariats can they develop industry, otherwise they will do odd jobs in the slack time, which is simply not enough! Without enough workers, industrial technology can't be brought at all!
This is what Liu Tao desperately wants to change.