The waves rising in Jiangning Mansion became calm in an instant with the involvement of Lu Gongshu.

Just when the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion thought that everything was over.

Lu Gongshu suddenly proposed to sell the commercial tax rights of Jiangning Prefecture in the next three years.

After the news spread, Jiangning Mansion made waves again.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion sent people to Jiangning Mansion one after another to participate in the sale.

It's just that this sale is very different from the past.

It is not only the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion who participate in the sale.

There are also some dragons that cross the river.

The leader is the Lu family.

The ancestral home of the Lu family is Shouzhou, Huainan, and the family has two major businesses, one is grain, and the other is dry goods.

Therefore, after the opening of the sale of tax rights, the steward of the Lu family raised the grain and dry goods business all the way to an extremely high price.

In previous years, the grain tax rights of Jiangning Prefecture were sold at a price of about 100,000 yuan.

This year, at the sale meeting presided over by Lu Gongzhu, the right to tax grain suddenly rose to about 300,000 yuan, far more than three times that of previous years.

Spending 300,000 yuan to win the right to tax grain in Jiangning Mansion can be said to be unprofitable.

Because Jiangning Prefecture is a prefecture, the annual grain transaction volume is limited, and the tax burden that can be collected is only about 230,000 yuan at most.

The Lu family raised the price of the grain tax right to 300,000 yuan, not only did they not make any money, but they also had to paste tens of thousands of yuan.

However, even if the Lu family had raised the grain tax right to the point where it was unprofitable and had to discount the money, the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion did not dare to give up the grain tax right.

Why?

Because they have become accustomed to taking the right to tax into their own hands.

They also have some unwritten rules with each other.

Everyone is in charge of a commercial tax tax, and they are not embarrassed by each other and make a fortune together.

However, the sudden appearance of the river dragon and the snatching of the grain tax right from them at a high price will instantly destroy the rules they have established with great difficulty.

What's more, the power to tax is in someone else's hands.

They will not be able to use the power of taxation to seek more private gains.

You have to be controlled by others everywhere.

It is precisely because of this that even if the people of the Lu family raise the price of the grain tax right to an extremely high position, they are not willing to give it up.

Accompany is to accompany a little.

It's better than being controlled by others and being manipulated by others.

So, the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion discussed it privately and raised the price to 350,000 yuan.

The people of the Lu family almost did not hesitate, and decisively raised the grain tax right to 400,000 yuan.

Seeing this price, the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion could only regretfully give up the right to tax grain.

Because the price has risen to 400,000 yuan, not only did it not make any money, but it also had to be pasted upside down for tens of thousands of yuan.

For some of them, it's enough for a year's worth of income.

There's no way they're going to throw all their earnings into it.

When the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion gave up the right to tax grain and were about to seek other tax rights, they found that other tax rights were also raised to an extremely high price.

Almost all of them exceed the profits of taxes.

As long as someone makes a bid, someone immediately raises the price.

Like cloth and local wine, almost all of them exceeded the profit of more than 100,000 yuan.

Far from what they can afford.

Almost all of them have given up the power to compete for taxes.

They also realized that Lu Gong's move was aimed at them.

So they are ready to repeat their old tricks and deal with Lu Gongshu.

They opted for another strike.

However, on the day of their strike, the right to tax taxes on grain was sold.

Also on the same day, the Lu family, who had sold the right to tax grain on grain, transported a large amount of old grain to Jiangning Prefecture through Cao Yun, and sold it at a price twice the market price.

Lu Gongzhu's posture was very simple.

You are disobedient, you are not cooperative, you are not willing to do business.

Then my Lu family replaced you and took over the grain business of Jiangning Mansion.

In one go, Duke Lu dispatched thousands of people from his clan to sell grain to every corner of Jiangning Mansion.

The Lu family is in charge of the right to tax grain, so their family's grain can be sold as much as they want.

If others want to follow the example of the Lu family and sell at a low price, they have to follow the rules of the Lu family and pay high taxes.

In order to deal with such a means written by Lu Gong.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion discussed privately and sent people to secretly buy the Lu family's grain.

Anyway, the Lu family's grain is less than twice the market price, as long as they sell the Lu family's grain short, they have the final say on what the price of the grain is in the market.

The high taxes set by the Lu family can be added to the price of grain and let the poor people bear it.

So they took out a lot of money to buy the Lu family's grain.

The Lu family's grain will be emptied almost as soon as it gets off the ship.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion are buying the low-priced grain of the Lu family, and at the same time waiting for the Lu family to run out of grain, so that they can regain control of the grain price.

But they are inferior to the Lu family, and they are also inferior to the energy of Lu Yijian, the head of the Lu family.

Lu Yijian is surrounded by a large group of officials with wealthy families behind him.

They work together.

The food produced is far from being digested by Jiangning Mansion.

In addition, the rice sold by Jiaozhi to the Great Song Dynasty was also continuously transported to Jiangning Province.

The rice of Cochin is three crops a year.

Nowadays, the land of Jiaozhi is vast and sparsely populated, and the local people do not have much rice for themselves, and the rice is planted by a part of the diligent people who migrated from the Great Song Dynasty.

Grain is almost constantly pouring into the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Lu Gongzhu borrowed a part of it temporarily, as long as the people in the household department did not pick thorns, there would hardly be any problems.

More than half of the people in the household department are of the same mind as Lu Yijian, how could they stumble on Lu Gong when they are qualified?

Therefore, Lu Gongzhu mobilized a huge amount of grain, completely washed down the grain price in Jiangning Mansion, and collected most of the money in the hands of the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion refused to admit defeat, and thought of gathering more people to form a gluttonous feast, so as to wantonly store grain.

Lu Gongzhu threw out the wine again.

After the liquor was thrown, the person who obtained the liquor immediately contacted the government to go door-to-door and seal other liquor shops.

Liquor is the qualification that allows sake to be made.

Since food has been in short supply in ancient times, various dynasties in ancient times used wine to control the amount of folk wine.

Any workshop that uses grain to make wine must obtain wine from the imperial court in order to be eligible to make wine.

Otherwise, you can only make some liquor such as peach blossom wine, apricot blossom wine, and plum wine.

Lu Gongzhu threw out the liquor and asked people to seal the local wine-making workshop, which can be regarded as breaking the plan of the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion to use old grain to make wine.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion bought a large amount of grain in their hands.

If you can't sell it for a long time, it's going to get moldy.

Lu Gong didn't let them make wine, and they could only watch the grain rot in the end.

The wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion have bought a lot of grain.

If all the food is rotten, they will lose everything.

Many people break their bones.

Therefore, after the closure of liquor stores in various parts of Jiangning Mansion, there was turmoil among the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion.

Someone was ready to give in to Lu Gong.

There are also people who are ready to fight to the end with Lu Gong.

Just when he was about to fight with Lu Gong to the end, the imperial court passed a message to everyone in the world through a word Jiaozi shop.

Hexi and Liaodi had a huge amount of grain to enter the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty.

Whether it is Hexi or Liaodi, they are all in the stage of vast land and sparsely populated.

Fortunately in Hexi, almost all of the captives in Liaodi are growing grain.

In the spring, the imperial court moved a large number of people over and led nearly 10 million captives to reclaim the wasteland.

In the autumn, a lot of grain is harvested.

Although many of the fields in Liaodi were cultivated in the first year, the grain production was not large.

But the base is large.

In addition, the people of Liaodi only need to provide a ration to the captives, and do not need to provide anything else, so the cost is extremely low.

In the first year, there was a surplus sold to the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, which was normal.

You must know that in Liaodi, the average household has 1,000 acres of land.

That was still assigned by the imperial court.

In addition to planting the land allocated by the imperial court, they can also go to other places to reclaim the ownerless wasteland for planting.

Before the court distributed the borderlands to the others, the food produced above them was theirs.

So their harvest every year is amazing.

After all, in addition to the farming tools that Koji had given them, they also had many cattle and horses to help them farm.

In Liaodi, the most important thing is horses.

There are people, horses, and fields, and it is strange that they do not produce food.

The news released by the imperial court was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Immediately, there were wealthy families who secretly broke away from the alliance formed by the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion, rushed to the store, gave up almost all the profits, and sold the right to tax the cloth.

In one place, the alliance composed of wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion collapsed in an instant.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion rushed to the store to sell other commercial tax rights.

However, Lu Gongzhu sent someone to inform them that ninety percent of the other commercial tax and tax rights had been sold.

If the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion want it, then come out to negotiate the conditions.

Among the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion, there are already people who admit it.

There was no way for them to get together to deal with Lu Gongzhu again.

Because they all have to guard against each other, they are afraid that the other party will run over and kneel and lick Lu Gong when they and Lu Gong are stumbling.

Therefore, they could only hang their heads one by one and let Lu Gong slaughter.

Lu Gongshu was not polite to them.

Lü Gongzhu not only asked them to resell grain to the outside of the imperial court at twice the market price, but also promised them to help the imperial court raise the number of troops allocated by the imperial court to Jiangning Prefecture.

In addition, they are required to buy back all the commercial tax rights at the price that has already been sold.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion couldn't fight Lu Gongzhu, so they could only pinch their noses and recognize Lu Gongzhu's conditions.

Some people who are not interested, or those who brushed their sleeves away after Lu Gongshu put forward the conditions.

Lu Gongzhu resolutely sent people to investigate the affairs of their families committing adultery and criminals, and instantly confiscated their family property and distributed them to their families.

To deal with this small number of people, Lu Gongshu does not need to use any means at all.

Check them directly, just copy the house and distribute them.

Lu Gongshu is also from a wealthy family, and he knows that in every wealthy family, there are more or less people who have done something that violates the law.

So grab one and get the other right.

In the end, Lu Gongshu stuffed the Changping positions in Jiangning Mansion and other places, distributed a large amount of money to the various governments that helped him do things, and left Jiangning Mansion with a swagger with the huge amount of tax proceeds from the auction, the list of soldiers collected by Jiangning Mansion, and the grain sold to the Great Song Dynasty by Jiaozhi.

The wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion made a big fuss in order to resist the recruitment of troops by the imperial court.

In the end, not only did he fail to do so, but he was also scraped by Lu Gongzhu, and he had to work for the court for three years.

"Gong Lu did a good job on this errand......"

In his spare time, Zhao Zhen slipped to the bamboo courtyard, sat on a warm kang in the bamboo courtyard with Kou Ji, stretched his waist lazily, and said with a smile.

Kou Ji sat cross-legged on the kang, looking at the documents brought by Zhao Zhen, and said with a smile: "If you hadn't asked Yizizipu to help Lu Gongzhu at a critical time, Lu Gongzhu would probably have to spend until next year to make those wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion soften." ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "I also read that Lu Gong's means are good, so I helped out." ”

Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "It's just a general method...... It took a lot of power from the court to barely make the wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion soften.

If I use so much power, I will definitely make Jiangning Mansion have no wealthy families.

Among all the things that Lu Gongshu did, the only thing that was desirable was to lower the price of grain, so that the local people benefited.

strangled those wealthy families and took the opportunity of the people to make trouble. ”

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "Fourth brother, you can't ask everyone to be the same as you." If you can have half of you, or even a third, that's a capable minister. ”

Kou Ji ignored Zhao Zhen's praise, he casually put down the paperwork in his hand, stared at Zhao Zhen and said with a smile: "I know why you helped Lu Gongzhu."

Do you think that Lu Yijian's pawn is easy to use, so you are ready to let Lu Yijian hold on for a while and help us do more things. ”

Zhao Zhen glanced at Kou Ji and said, "I also saw the fourth brother make a move, so I followed suit." If it weren't for your nod, the food from Jiaozhi wouldn't have been sent to Jiangning Mansion. ”

Kou Ji smiled and said: "The minister has never been to the south, and most of the things in the south can't be affected by the minister." ”

Zhao Zhen rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't nod, the king of Jiaozhi County can hand over the grain to Lu Gongzhu?" Although the grain trading in the Great Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi is in charge of the household department.

But the king of Jiaozhi only recognizes you and me.

You and I don't nod, he will only wait until the beginning of spring next year and hand over the grain to the officials sent by the household department.

Only if you and I nod his head, he will hand over the grain in advance.

In addition, it is now the Zhennan Army that patrols the waters near Jiangning Province.

You and I don't nod, Lu Gongzhu can't transport grain to Jiangning Mansion through Cao Yun. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he asked with a smile, "Is the official family blaming me for commanding the Zhennan Army?" ”

Zhao Zhen shook his head and sighed: "Others are afraid that you will be in charge again, but I am not afraid." Although I have received your military power, your handwriting is still useful in the Privy Council and the Ministry of War.

It's just that he doesn't have the title of privy councillor.

I just felt that you were the first to make the move, but I didn't agree to push the name on my head. ”

Kou Ji nodded with a smile and said, "Actually, the minister also thinks that Lu Yijian is easy to use. So I helped out, wanting Lu Yijian to hold on for a while. ”

The two looked at each other and laughed out loud.

Someone helped them suffer, and the feeling was indescribably refreshing, and the heart was extraordinarily happy.

The two of them laughed for a long time, which made Chen Lin, who was guarding the door, very embarrassed.

Zhao Run stood in front of Chen Lin and looked strangely at the room, not understanding why his father and his husband were smiling so happily.

It felt like two people who had done something bad and succeeded, laughing uncontrollably.

Chen Lin coughed dryly and reminded Zhao Run: "His Royal Highness King Shou, the official family and Kou Ji have important matters to discuss, why don't you find a place to rest first, and then come back later?" ”

"What are you discussing?"

Zhao Run raised his eyebrows and asked.

Chen Lin said dryly: "It is naturally important for the official family to discuss with Kou Ji. ”

Zhao Run said with a look of disbelief: "Really? ”

Seeing this, Chen Lin said faintly: "Why don't we help you go in and spread the word?" ”

Zhao Run shook his head decisively, "No...... No need...... After my father and Mr. have finished discussing important matters, you can remember to tell my husband and say that I have a master to talk to him. ”

When Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were laughing happily, they went in to disturb, and it would be strange not to be beaten.

After Zhao Run finished speaking, he left the door of the room without looking back.

Seeing this, Chen Lin shook his head and smiled.

He watched Zhao Zhen grow up, and now he has watched Zhao Zhen's son grow up, and he is very pleased.

He promised his whole life to the royal family, and all the good things about the royal family were what he wanted to see the most.

Zhao Run, this little guy, is not as disciplined as Zhao Zhen when he was a child, nor as old-fashioned as Zhao Zhen when he was a child.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Run is actually much happier than Zhao Zhen when he was a child.

Chen Lin felt that the son of the official family should be like this.

"Hey...... It's a pity...... Several nobles in the palace are not worried. ”

Chen Lin sighed.

Queen Cao is bent on putting her eldest son on the throne, and the little lady Zhang has the heart to let her son snatch it, He Jieyu has a bad heart, and now she is pregnant again.

The biological mothers of several other princes and daughters are not fuel-efficient lamps.

If Zhao Zhen can't handle the issue of succession to the throne well, when the princes grow up in the future, there will be a fight.

At that time, no matter how Zhao Zhen handles it, it will be heartbroken.

"I hope everything in front of me can last longer, even if our family dies, we will be blinded......"

Chen Lin muttered in a low voice.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen in the room also laughed enough.

Zhao Zhen learned from Kou Ji's appearance, sat up, sat cross-legged at the table, and said, "Fourth brother, in the literary system we want to innovate, there is commercial law.

Lu Gongshu gave us a good start, and you said that we should take advantage of this to plan one or two. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he groaned and said: "Is the official family planning to take advantage of the limelight of Lu Gong's book to sell merchant tax rights in Jiangning Mansion, and sell merchant tax rights in various parts of my Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "The commercial tax of our dynasty is chaotic, and almost ninety percent of the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are added by the wealthy families in various places after they sold the commercial tax rights of the imperial court.

Therefore, the tax laws of the Korean commercial tax and the method of collecting taxes must be reformed.

If the imperial court directly controls the local commercial taxes, most of the people's excesses and miscellaneous taxes will be reduced.

Previously, we thought about using the word Jiaozi shop to slowly figure it out.

Now that there is Lu Gong's beginning, we can take advantage of this wind to soar. ”

Kou Ji pondered and said: "Duke Lu used the methods of businessmen to force the wealthy families of Jiangning Mansion to succumb. Officials from other places who go to recruit troops will inevitably follow suit.

The commercial taxes in Jiangnan and Hedong will inevitably have great turmoil.

Turbulence together, it will inevitably impress the entire Great Song Dynasty.

If we take this opportunity to sell commercial taxes in Beidi, Hebei, and Jiangbei, it should not cause much disgust.

Other officials don't have as much energy as Lu Gongshu.

Therefore, if they fight with the wealthy families in Jiangnan and Hedong, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

We can just take advantage of it.

This is possible. ”

Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and asked, "How does the fourth brother think it should be deployed?" ”

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "In this situation, it is not appropriate to directly borrow the words of the word Jiaozipu. We can send one or two henchmen to the local government to sell the tax rights of the merchants.

Then I used the businessmen left by my Kou family, Cao family, Zhu family, Gao family, and seed family to sell those commercial tax rights back.

Then there are people who secretly set up at the local level to manage and collect commercial taxes.

When the local government gets accustomed to our management and tax collection methods, the local tax collectors will be able to turn from darkness to light.

At that time, a tax department can be set up and all local taxes can be handed over to them.

The tax department can be attached to the local yamen when it turns back. ”

After listening to Kou Ji's words, Zhao Zhen said with some pain: "In this way, I have to take out a lot of money." ”

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji want to hide from everyone and get back the right to tax business.

Then when it comes to selling, it naturally costs a lot of money.

The money will eventually be charged into the state treasury in the name of taxes, not Zhao Zhen's private treasury.

So Zhao Zhen had to come up with a lot of money to deal with this matter.

Kou Ji said with a smile: "I have already instructed the merchants of the former Kou Mansion to do an investigation in secret, and when the time comes, we should be able to formulate a relatively complete tax law."

Once it is promoted, it will only make money, not lose money. ”

Although the commercial tax of the Great Song Dynasty was not high.

However, there are huge loopholes in the commercial tax law.

Therefore, the private sector has not sold the right to collect taxes, and the businessmen who are not qualified to sell the right to collect taxes have been paying high commercial taxes.

But very few fell into the pockets of the imperial court.

Most of it has fallen into the pockets of the wealthy who have the right to collect taxes.

The Great Song Dynasty is a big country, and the annual transaction volume of commercial transactions is probably more than 10,000.

According to the standard of the Great Song Dynasty commercial tax and 20 taxes and 1 tax, the annual commercial tax collected may exceed tens of millions.

But except for some accidents in the official camp every year, the business tax income of other businesses is only about 6 million yuan.

The difference is extraordinary.

The Great Song Dynasty would give birth to tens of millions of commercial taxes every year, but the imperial court could only get six million yuan.

The rest was almost swallowed by the wealthy families.

Either they have the right to collect taxes in their hands and reduce all taxes for all their businesses.

In this way, the rich and wealthy families are full of brains, but they suffer the court.

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(PS: It takes two days to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Shaanxi Internet Writers Association, today and tomorrow, so there may be fewer updates, brothers and sisters, don't blame it, after the meeting is over, the straw will be made up immediately...... Hope understand, thank you! ）