The Northern Expedition led by Yang Lie had arrived at Chenqiaoyi on the other side of the Yellow River, and after Li Zhongyi received the news, he found all the ministers in the cabinet into the inner study.

Let's discuss together, how to hold a military parade into the city that attracts worldwide attention?

Although Li Qiong has fought a big defeat, he is a veteran after all, and he is the prime minister of the current cabinet, so everyone naturally looks at him.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the entire royal street should be blocked and the army should enter the city through the south gate." Li Qiong's opinion did not disturb the people, but also took into account the sense of glory of the army entering the city, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Li Zhongyi squinted twice, thought about it carefully, and felt that there were still some problems, so he asked Li Qiong: "The army entered the city from the Vermilion Bird Gate, where did it enter the camp?" ”

Li Qiong was prepared, so he smiled and said: "After the emperor has inspected the three armies in front of the palace, the army can go out of the city from Wangchun Gate, and then go around Anyuan Gate to enter the camp." ”

Li Zhongyi thought about it for a while, and felt that something was wrong, entering the city from the southernmost Vermilion Bird Gate, and going out of the city halfway, and then entering the city and camping, it was really too much of a toss.

Seeing that Li Zhongyi looked at him, Ruan bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "In the opinion of the old minister, it is better to enter the city from the west gate, and then go north through Sangjia Wazi and turn north to enter the camp." ”

Li Zhongyi thought about it for a while, and felt that following Ruan's opinion was closer to his thoughts. However, even if Li Zhongyi has agreed with Ruan's opinion in his heart, he still won't say it directly in person.

After all, Li Qiong is the prime minister, and there is a basis for brainstorming, Li Zhongyi did not want to destroy the superficial harmony of the cabinet, so he did not express his position directly.

Kong Kun and Liu Jinshan have never led soldiers, but this does not prevent the two of them from being interested in talking about soldiers on paper.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, it is better to set up the formation of the three armies on the bank of the Yellow River, and after you finish the review, the army will enter the city along the old Fengqiu Gate." This is Kong Kun's opinion.

Liu Jinshan clenched his fists and said: "The minister thinks that it should be reviewed in front of Daqing Gate." Those who celebrate the great celebration of the country's great politics are also celebrated! ”

Li Zhongyi's eyes lit up, Liu Jinshan deserved to be his intimate courtier, and the opinions put forward by Counselor Liu were bright and bright, which was a good suggestion.

Zhi Congruan and Li Qiong both know that in the future cabinet, it must be the world of Liu Jinshan and Kong Kun, the two of them are old, but they are just transitional ministers.

Kong Kun knew in his heart that Liu Jinshan's opinion had indeed scratched Li Zhongyi's itch, and it was impossible for Li Zhongyi not to like it!

Chai's country, falling into the hands of the Li family, is not only the will of heaven, but also the ultimate embodiment of strength!

Showing military prestige and national prestige in front of Daqing Gate is tantamount to telling all the people in the world that the Li family represents the Chai family, which has indisputable legitimacy and legitimacy!

"Your Majesty, the ministers think that you should summon the generals in front of the Xuanyou Gate and reward the ministers." Kong Kun added the code in time, and threw out a good reason to ask Li Zhongyi for money.

Today's imperial court finances are at a tight juncture, but Li Zhongyi has too much money in the treasury to spend it all!

As soon as Kong Kun's words came out, the ministers of the cabinet followed up one after another, and everyone hoped to deflat Li Zhongyi's private treasury!

The prime ministers are in charge of the world's affairs, and the treasury under the jurisdiction of the three envoys is much poorer than the emperor's private treasury, what does this look like?

How could Li Zhongyi not understand the thoughts of the ministers? The cabinet is in charge of the public funds of the imperial court, who would dislike the lack of money?

However, there is an essential difference between the private money stored in Li Zhongyi's private treasury and the sealing money privately collected by the emperor of the Zhao family to buy the sixteen states of Youyun.

Although the government of the imperial court was under the cabinet, however, the forbidden army of the imperial court was owned by Li Zhongyi personally.

Li Zhongyi's income to feed the army mainly came from the following aspects: robbery in the war, copying the homes of powerful and local tyrants and inferior gentry, commercial taxes collected by the imperial court, and the retention of previous divisions.

Before Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, the tax rate of commercial tax was as low as 5% of the heart, which simply encouraged everyone to do business.

After Li Zhongyi seized the world of the Chai family, he immediately began to reform the commercial tax, which was raised by another five percent to twenty percent.

Don't look at the fact that the tax rate of commercial tax has increased several times, but Li Zhongyi has abolished all miscellaneous taxes related to business, such as the entry tax, and the caravan can travel all over the world with a tax bill.

In the past, regardless of the low tax rate of commercial tax, every time you passed through a city, you had to pay a tax. In the end, the actual commercial tax is ridiculously high.

"Hehe, the salt tax and the land tax are all yours, isn't it enough to spend?" Li Zhongyi glared at Kong Kun angrily.

Kong Kun was not afraid of him, but as if he didn't see it, he lowered his head and drank tea in a muffled voice.

Under normal circumstances, Li Zhongyi gives face to the cabinet ministers very much, and it is easy not to say half a heavy word. After all, Li Zhongyi didn't want to make the ministers of the cabinet into followers who were only good at kowtowing.

If you really do that, you will probably mislead the country, and the wise will not take it!

"Your Majesty, since the beginning of this year, there have been floods in several places in Hebei, and the grain harvest is almost out of order, and the imperial court has exempted the money and grain from those states, and the burden is very heavy." Liu Jinshan also wanted to get more money from Li Zhongyi's private house, so he actually helped Kong Kun speak.

"Your Majesty, since the land restriction order and the general tax order were spread all over the world, the squires everywhere are no longer willing to be grain gentry."

As the prime minister, Li Qiong naturally wanted the cabinet to have more jurisdiction, so he also helped.

The so-called grain gentry is actually a rural gentry who replaces the county government and collects money and grain from the local people.

After all, the time for Li Zhongyi to enter Kaifeng City is not long, and there is still a big gap between the pavilions and villages in various places.

On this side, the originally profitable rural grain gentry quit their work one after another, obviously wanting to see the jokes of the imperial court.

Li Zhongyi naturally understood this stalk in his heart, and he said with a smile: "The money and grain that can't be collected this year will all be recorded in the account, and after the distribution of Tingzheng and Cunzheng is in place, they will be paid at one time." ”

The core of the land restriction order and the broad tax order is actually the apportionment of the mu led by Emperor Yongzheng, that is, the payment of taxes according to the number of acres of land, and the bad rule of collecting taxes according to capitation has been abandoned.

To tell the truth when I got home, as long as the fields are still there, and after the arrangements between Tingzheng and the village are in place, Li Zhongyi is still worried that he can't collect taxes?

However, the decrease in the grain gentry did have a great negative impact on the income of the imperial court.

Therefore, the unanimous opinion of the cabinet ministers is actually to ask Li Zhongyi to borrow money to spend.

Li Zhongyi knew too well in his heart, saying that he was borrowing money to spend, but in fact, Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, and he borrowed but did not pay it back!

In this era when there is no concept of budget, even the financial masters of the cabinet must be good at tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, otherwise, the ministers are likely to be in arrears.

After some bargaining, the ministers of the cabinet finally borrowed 3 million yuan from Li Zhongyi's pocket.

The IOU is collectively signed by the four ministers of the Cabinet, and the interest is set at one cent per year, and the term of the loan is three years.

If you don't have a home, who knows the troubles of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea?

Since the cabinet is crying poor, the money for the big military parade in the city can only be taken out by Li Zhongyi's inner treasury.

After the cabinet got the money, the hearts of the four ministers were very comfortable, hehe, the emperor's money is not borrowed for nothing, and if it is borrowed, it is borrowed for nothing!

Although Li Zhongyi paid the money, he was satisfied. After all, the cabinet has neither the right to appoint and dismiss personnel nor the means to restrict money and finance, which means that the civilian ministers are completely unable to interfere in the affairs of the military.

The military is only responsible for Li Zhongyi, which fundamentally solves the big problem of who the gun is called!

After talking about the military parade, Kong Kun, the escort, began to report on various matters concerning his official accession to the throne.

Generally speaking, when a new king ascends the throne, he should be exempted from the world's money and food, as well as amnesty for the world.

However, Li Zhongyi did not want to exempt the world's money and grain, which meant that the imperial court's financial revenue was seriously reduced, and the income of the squires in various places increased.

After the imperial court exempted money and grain, the people who ultimately benefited were probably not the peasants at the bottom of the society.

In fact, the logic is very clear, under the land restriction order and the broad tax order, large families in various places have to pay a lot more taxes.

The exemption of land taxes from large households does not mean that large households will reduce the land rents of tenants.

No matter how the cabinet ministers put forward rationalization proposals, Li Zhongyi refused to agree to the universal exemption of the world's money and grain.

In the end, everyone broke up unhappily, and even the crowd with the amnesty was delayed.

According to the meaning of the cabinet, an amnesty for the whole world means that all minor offenders are pardoned and return to their hometowns.

Li Zhongyi's idea is that he can pardon the misdemeanor, but instead of directly pardoning him to return to his hometown, he needs to spend a year of public welfare work.

After all, after Li Zhongyi came to power, he had already strictly ordered all localities not to use conscription lightly.

Li Zhongyi started in the middle and low levels of society, and often went to the grassroots level, and he knew the hardships of the peasants at the bottom very well, and he was by no means Emperor Jin Hui who did not eat minced meat!

In many cases, the peasants were not afraid of excessive land endowments, but they were afraid of endless forced labor.

Unscrupulous magistrates often like to toss the middle-class family into a debt-ridden family in the name of forced labor.

Therefore, after Li Zhongyi came to power, he issued a decree that strictly limited the type, scope, and duration of conscription.

However, it is the norm in officialdom that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Li Zhongyi set his sights on the group of petty criminals and set the targets of cross-border forced labor on their heads.

There is an essential difference between a targeted amnesty and an amnesty that does not take into account the nature of the crime.

After all, within the unified country, the official roads of the transportation hub must be extended to the counties, and even to the pavilions.

If you want to get rich, build roads first. Hidden behind this sentence is another ruling logic: where the official road is cultivated, the imperial power can radiate to wherever it goes!

In view of the huge difference between the opinions of Li Zhongyi and the cabinet ministers, after arguing for a morning, Li Zhongyi simply took care of the meal, and after lunch, he continued to quarrel again in the afternoon.

Li Zhongyi's lunch is just four dishes and one soup, and staying for the ministers to eat is just copying the four dishes and one soup a few times.

Zhi Congruan had only heard that Li Zhongyi's life was extremely frugal before, but it was just heard, but now he witnessed it with his own eyes.

What's more, Li Zhongyi's enthronement ceremony neither added any palace nor expanded the palace!

No wonder the Li family can replace the Chai family!

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