"Lin'an, Shaoxing, Mingzhou, Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Wuchang, Xiangyang, and Chongqing are all big cities with about 200,000 households, and they are officials."

"This is the population of our city in the Great Song. Even if it is counted as three people in a household, there are 600,000 people in each city. Li Gang pushed the plate in front of the official family and put grain after grain of rice.

At this time, Zhao Huan saw that Li Gang was actually holding a handful of rice in his hand.

This grain of rice is a city, scattered on a plate.

"The emergence of the night market largely represents the prosperity of the city, so the official family, our Great Song Dynasty is very rich. Dotted with great cities. Li Gang poured out all the rice on the entire plate.

Li Gang put the wine bottle and wine glass on the plate and continued: "In the last years of the Dao, the positive tax was about 20 million guan, the levy was about 11 million guan, and the commercial tax was about 4 million guan. This wine bottle with a high Yue Tie is my Song Zhengfu, and this wine glass about an inch high is the business tax of my Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Huan nodded, the total is about 35 million guan, and the positive tax is an agricultural tax, and the levy and commercial tax are non-agricultural taxes. The proportion of agricultural taxes accounts for about 60 percent.

"In the last years of Tianxi, the agricultural tax was about 30 million yuan, and the non-agricultural tax was about 40 million yuan. At this time, this wine bottle is a commercial tax, and this wine glass is an agricultural tax. Agricultural taxes account for only 40 percent. ”

"Today, the agricultural tax is still 30 million yuan, but the non-agricultural tax has been as high as 60 million yuan. The commercial tax accounts for eighty percent. Official, this is the tax structure of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Huan nodded, he understood what Li Gang meant.

Li Gang is showing off his wealth, and Li Gang told him that he has nearly 100 million yuan of financial income every year.

"But for various reasons, the commercial taxes of the Great Song Dynasty are all contracted by outsiders and gangs in the city."

"Taxes on wine, vinegar, pitang, bazaars, ferries, etc., are all collected by the gangs outside the staff and in the city."

"The amount to be levied is calculated by the provincial government, and after the contractor is contracted, the contractor, that is, the person who buys it, pays taxes to the government according to the fixed amount, and then returns the excess to the staff and gangs."

"This is how the commercial tax of the Great Song Dynasty was collected." After Li Gang finished speaking, he looked at the new emperor with a bright eye.

He said so much, hoping that the officials could understand some of the commercial tax operation system of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Huan frowned and looked at Li Gang. Tentatively asked: "These outsiders and gangs are secretly colluding and will wantonly increase taxes on the people?" ”

Li Gang nodded and said, "What's more! ”

"What these members of the gang have done outside the staff has reached the point where people and gods are angry, there are only two kinds of commercial taxes in the Great Song Dynasty, and the tax is worth two out of one hundred per level, which is for the merchants, and the residential tax is worth three out of a hundred, and it is for sitting in Jia. In other words, the commercial tax of the Great Song Dynasty was very low. ”

"The minister recently learned about Bianjing City at the foot of the Son of Heaven, passing taxes, merchants draw one out of ten, live tax, sit on Jia, three out of ten!"

"In other words, the outsiders and gang members have about ten times more taxes than the Great Song Dynasty?" Zhao Huan was stunned for a moment, stunned by this number. This is directly multiplied tenfold!

"Wu Min, Li Zheng, Li Bangyan, these court officials, when the official family raided their house, don't they think they are more rich than the Kaifeng Mansion Yin and His Royal Highness King Yun at that time?" Li Gang said in one word.

The collusion of these officials and gangs continues to gnaw away at the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty!

"It's all the moths of the country! The big tree of the Great Song Dynasty was gnawed away by such a little bit! Zhao Huan finally knew why he was able to copy so much money.

They still have more than 10,000 yuan of money in their current pockets, and their feelings are usually owed to the court!

"Official, commercial tax reform is imperative, and this kind of buying system is no longer suitable for the current Great Song Dynasty. Now they have set up clever names and constantly set up taxes and levies, but what they handed over to the court is a fixed amount. ”

"The profits from the buying will be used for the construction of the so-called gangs, and the more powerful the gangs in the city are, the more greedy they will become, and the taxes will continue to increase, I am afraid that it will not take ten years, which will directly lead to the collapse of the commercial tax in the Great Song Dynasty. Official, the time has come to reform the commercial tax. ”

Zhao Kai finally knew what Li Gang said when he heard this. It's just that he was a little puzzled and asked, "Li Dazai, why did my Great Song Dynasty use this group of ruffians to collect taxes?" Don't we have anyone in the province? ”

Zhao Huan was very puzzled.

"There are officials but no officials in the Great Song Dynasty. Official. Li Gang replied.

"Officials are appointed by the imperial court, issued salaries, regularly evaluated, promoted and deposed, and those who have grades and can make decisions are called officials. The official of the imperial court is an official. And the officials, the disciples of the Fu Shi Xu, can be regarded as the officials of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"The front of the ya, the special deputy, the treasury digger, the cane, the prison, and the soldier level are all responsible for specific affairs, but these public officials are all selected when the officials arrive at the place, how to choose them, can the officials guess it?" Li Gang asked.

Zhao Huan's face became more and more ugly, and he said: "The squire, the landlord, the outsider, and the gang are entangled, and the local forces are too strong, and the officials can only compromise. So, these public officials are actually the dogs of this group of people? ”

Li Gang took out the big plate again, and said abruptly: "Official, look at this wine bottle, it is more than a piercing, and this wine glass is about an inch high. This wine bottle is these squires, landlords, outsiders, gangs. And this wine glass is actually the court official of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Huan's face was cold, he slapped the table violently, and said angrily: "Then whose big Song is this big song!" This world is my world! Or is it their world?! ”

Zhao Huan always thought that what was the Great Song Dynasty? It is highly centralized, and every time it talks about the Great Song Dynasty, it is the pinnacle of centralization and so on.

Until Li Gang put this plate in front of him and gave him a clear explanation.

Zhao Huan knew how aggrieved the Great Song Emperor was.

Whose world is this world?

"Naturally, it is the world of the official family." Li Gang hurriedly shook his hand and said.

Li Gang pointed to the hand holding the plate and said, "The official family is this hand." Turn your hands into clouds, and turn your hands into rain. Otherwise, the official family can speak of the emperor? ”

"If you can't see the bottle, you drop it. If you can't see it, throw it away. The Great Song Dynasty has people, and the Great Song Dynasty also has talents. There are also people who are dedicated to serving the country. ”

Li Gang suddenly raised his hand and smashed all the wine bottles and wine glasses, and then said: "The official family is in the court, let the ministers know who the enemy is." ”

"The minister told the official family that the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, in the eyes of the minister, the Jin people are the enemy, but this wine bottle and this wine glass, they are also enemies!"

"If the official family wants to drink, they have to rely on this wine bottle and wine glass."

"If the official family drops this wine bottle, this plate will still be this plate. Without bottles and glasses, there is no way to drink for a while. ”

Li Gang looked at the official family with a smile, he was in the court, he would definitely give Zhao Huan face, since the national policy of recuperation and recuperation he wanted had already been obtained, it was natural that whatever the official family said.

But in private, I still have to tell the official family that the enemies of the Great Song Dynasty are not only barbarians, but also these people.

Zhao Huan suddenly threw the plate in his hand on the ground, and the plate clattered to the ground. said with a smile: "I think you Li Dazai want to say this, if I don't do it well, this Da Song will be gone if it is gone." ”

Li Gang's face turned pale, and he looked at Zhao Huan with some horror. He did have this meaning in it, but the officials who were obviously a little drunk really saw it.

Shangfu Sheji is the prime minister's accusation.