The bright moonlight shone into the room through the glass window, and Qian Biao was half-lying on the bed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. He simply got out of bed and pushed open the window.

Although the dark color is dark, as far as the eye can see, there are still many places that are brightly lit, including a place not far from the Fuyuan Inn, which is under construction day and night.

It was a big plan being pursued by the Imperial Department of Commerce.

In Chang'an City, the market that has lasted for hundreds of years will be completely changed, each market will no longer be an independent unit, but all of them will be opened, the original walls of the square, will all be transformed into the façade of the street, it is conceivable that once completed, Chang'an City, the most lively future will be the Fang City, but these originally some quiet and wide streets.

Of course, this is also a plan of the imperial court to collect money. One can imagine how much benefit it will bring to the imperial court when these renovations are completed.

Datang Weekly repeatedly hyped up the business prospects of these storefronts, and the Department of Commerce began the bidding and auction with great fanfare, which made many people red-eyed.

This huge plan is not only in Chang'an, but also in Luoyang, which was launched almost simultaneously. What amazed Qian Biao was that the implementation of such a large-scale plan required a long period of careful planning and strict secrecy, otherwise, the imperial court would inevitably have to pay more costs.

The fact now is that the imperial court has acquired the ownership of these walls and the adjacent walls at a very low price, and once this plan is launched, these originally low-cost places are instantly worth a hundred times more.

Countless merchants buzzed over like flies that smelled the stench.

Wang Mingyi, who is in charge of business in the household department, is not good at stubble, the policy of half selling and half renting has made the prices of those façade houses that have been sold soar again, and the other half of the court has become a golden rooster that can lay golden eggs for a long time to accumulate wealth for the imperial court.

It is said that Li Xiang is a money string, and the means of making money are endless, and Qian Biao can be regarded as having really seen Li Ze's wrists.

If it weren't for Li Ze's ability to make money, Datang would not have been able to arm such a powerful army that could sweep through the wilderness.

Previously, Yelu Fengze made a means to meet with him, and Qian Biao was still a little unhappy in his heart, but the conversation with this person and Yang Zhong in the middle of the night made Qian Biao feel that it was worth it. Especially Yelu Fengze, this person has been in the upper echelons of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and his thorough understanding of the policies of the central court is far beyond Qian Biao's ability.

And Qian Biao finally understood why the merchants of the Tang Dynasty were so flamboyant and not afraid of the imperial court to sweep away the leaves with an autumn wind against them.

On the whole, Li Ze was desperately trying to curry favor with the peasants under his rule.

At the beginning, Li Ze divided the land for the peasants, built houses, bought livestock, repaired water conservancy, reduced taxes, and used various means to stabilize the peasants, happily stay on their own land and carefully serve their own land.

No farming, no stability.

The Tang Dynasty is still a predominantly agricultural society, and when this class is stable and wealthy, the court under Li Ze will also be stable.

In the past, the taxes of the Tang Dynasty mainly came from the peasants, and almost all kinds of taxes were pressed on the heads of the peasants. In the past days, the contribution of commercial taxes to the imperial court was almost negligible. Because those who do business are basically the elite and wealthy families. Collecting heavy taxes from them is tantamount to pulling teeth out of the jaw.

And Li Ze is pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth.

In the Northlands, he defeated all the clans and magnates, swept away the old elites, and completely destroyed the old ruling system.

Then, he vigorously developed commerce, opened up trade routes for merchants, looked for business opportunities, and improved their political status. At the same time, however, heavy taxes were imposed on merchants.

The burden of the peasants in the past was perfectly passed on to the merchants.

Amazingly, the merchants did not complain about it, but enjoyed it. Because under the new policy, businessmen have more channels to make money, and making money is more secure. In the past, businessmen, once they made a fortune, not only did they have no sense of security, but they were anxious, for fear that their fat meat would be targeted by the powerful and become the food of others, but now, they can show their strength without scruples.

As long as you pay the taxes due to the imperial court, you are the guest of honor of the officials. If you can build bridges and roads for the township while paying the taxes, then you are a great local benevolent person, and the officials will beat gongs and drums to give you plaques.

The tax rules clearly state the taxes that merchants should pay, and there are no additional fees hidden underground in the past, and no officials dare to extort money from them.

It seems that the tax is extremely heavy, but in fact, when you calculate it, the expenditure is much smaller than in the past.

Li Ze's idea of developing business, to put it bluntly, is to make this big pie bigger and bigger, and at the same time clean up the source and clarify the rule of officials.

What makes the officials dare not make a mistake is that many businessmen are now members of the Yixing Society, and some are even important members, once the local officials dare to do anything illegal, through the internal channels of the Yixing Society, they will soon be able to reach the heavens.

The identity of a member of the Yee Hing Society can make a businessman worth a hundred times.

At the beginning of the development of Yixing Society, it was extremely easy to join, but now, it is becoming more and more difficult. A person of Qian Biao's status joined Yixing Club thanks to the recommendation of his daughter-in-law Zheng Wenjun. And this kind of referral is not without a price, once a member of the Yixing Society commits an accident, the person who recommended him will be jointly and severally liable.

Li Ze's thinking on governance is completely different from that of any other ruling person in the past.

He doesn't care how much money is in the treasury of the imperial court, most of the time, the imperial court is in debt, and he has to borrow money to live at every turn, but the most wonderful thing is that once the imperial court opens its mouth to borrow money, whether it is a money village or those wealthy businessmen, they can't wait to borrow as much as possible.

It's a credit issue.

There is borrowing and repaying, and it is not difficult to borrow again. What's more, every loan has a rich return, although the interest rate is much lower than that of private loans, but there is no possibility of bad debts, it is a stable income.

The imperial court earns a lot of wealth every year, but every year it spends it cleanly.

Where does the money go? Money has become roads extending in all directions, large reservoirs, ditches connecting the four towns, and has become strong ships and cannons, and swords, guns, and halberds.

At the same time, the money also flowed to schools, workshops, hospitals, and nursing homes.

Convenient transportation communication between the north and the south, accelerated the circulation of goods, so that the price of goods, falling again and again, although the price is falling, but the sales volume has soared, under the small profits and quick turnover, the profits have increased significantly.

Huge reservoirs and ditches have made the peasants no longer worry about drought and flood, and they have stored water and replenished water during drought.

Now the army of the Tang Dynasty has completely taken the Western Regions and is marching to the west of the Green Ridge, and wherever the army goes, the merchants will follow. In addition to these land reconquests and protections, overseas, Datang is making higher profits, and these profits are obtained with knives and guns. The merchants who went to sea hired a large number of retired Datang soldiers, expanded overseas, plundered wealth, and then transported this wealth back to China to deliver nutrients to the Tang Dynasty.

The school is developing people's wisdom, school-age children must go to the school to study, learn art, and there is extra money in the workshop to study how to improve the quality of products, how to develop more new products, and the large increase in medical centers has changed the face of small illnesses and major illnesses in the past.

The court is so poor that it clangs, but on the other hand, the court is extremely rich, because the court at this time, in the hearts of the people, has become a real dependent.

Li Ze really raised his arms and shouted, and the responders gathered.

If you want to be stable, you must stabilize the farmers.

If we want to get rich, we must vigorously develop industry and commerce.

Of course, there must be a strong army.

However, the last one is not what Qian Biao needs to consider now, he has been fully transformed into a civil official, and the next thing he has to do is how to make the people under his rule really rich.

On the same side of Dongting Lake, it is a plastered place, and Yelu Fengze and Yang Zhong opened another window for Qian Biao, Qian Biao suddenly felt that his eyes were suddenly bright, and he was still a little ignorant, but he suddenly became clear, and what to do in the future also had some general context.

How can those people in the south resist such a court?

Qian Biao suddenly understood why Li Ze was not in a hurry to attack the Southern Alliance. Because in Li Ze's view, this is no longer the point. As time goes on, the gap between the two sides in the South will widen, and eventually it will even reach the point of surrendering without a fight.

He turned his head to look at the Datang Weekly newspaper spread out on the table, which printed a great victory just now by the Datang Sailors.

The shelling of the port of Guangzhou made the enemy fearful.

The city of Guangzhou, which was the ruling center of the Southern Alliance, is now in a precarious situation. I don't know how many smart people will have some other thoughts because of this shelling.

As a former character who cut off the drama, Qian Biao couldn't imagine that Xiang Xun could have any way to reverse the situation, except for continuing to use military force and continue to strengthen armaments to prevent the north, could there be any other tricks?

But this is a chronic poison, and the longer the time, the deeper the poisoning, and the more hopeless it becomes.