Below, with the help of this chart, Wu Ning began to thoroughly analyze every financial income for Wu Zetian.

Needless to say, agricultural tax in Datang is really not high, accounting for nearly 50% of fiscal revenue.

However, the following land taxes, service money, official land, and rents and loans are all inseparable from agriculture and should also be counted in agricultural revenue, which accounts for 80 percent of the fiscal revenue.

In addition, if it is not conspicuous to close positions, Gouzheng, and Tugong, then this proportion is even more.

Wu Ning used real data to tell Mrs. Wu that Datang is an agricultural country, and nearly 90% of its fiscal revenue comes from farmers.

This ratio is already frighteningly high.

There is no need for Wu Ning to persuade here, Wu Zetian herself knows that if she wants to increase her financial income, she must not start from the farmers anymore.

But the question arises again, how can we increase agricultural income without starting with the peasant households?

Wu Zetian immediately thought of it - running away.

This is the consistent thinking of the court, starting from Taizong, the Tang Dynasty spared no effort to dig up the fugitives, wanting to attribute the fugitives from all over the world to the people. So someone will have to pay taxes.

But how easy is this problem to solve?

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, there are less than 7 million good people in Datang at present, and the population is about 50 million.

However, you must know that runaways, slaves, and soldiers are not counted as good registrations, and the actual population of Datang should be much more than this.

The Ministry of Household estimates that there are no less than 30 million people in the entire Datang alone.

Including Wu Zetian, all the Tang emperors had a dream, that is, to naturalize all the fugitives from the world into beloved.

With 30 million more people paying taxes, how much fiscal and tax revenue does it have to be?

But this is a vicious disease, wise and martial like Taizong, decisive and good governance like a martial queen, and there is no way to take the escape.

To put it bluntly, after a long time, Datang no longer has any extra land to settle the escapees.

And when the fugitives flee from their hometowns, they do not abandon their land, but the land is annexed by the rich and there is no land to plant.

Datang implements a poll tax, and if there is no land, you have to pay the tax according to the capitation.

In such a situation, what are you waiting for if you don't run?

Therefore, for so many years, the problem of fugitives, let alone solving, even if it is contained, the imperial court cannot do it.

It was an endless cycle, with more and more people fleeing and land concentrated in the wealthy households, turning more peasants into proletarian tenant farmers. There is no choice but to take the initiative to sell himself to the rich, or to flee.

As a result, fewer and fewer people are paying taxes.

Old lady Wu was eager, could it. Does this Wu Ning have a strange formula that can solve the problem of running away?

Suddenly looked up, "Anything else?" ”

The few pieces of paper in her hand had already been read, and even the old eunuch didn't know how many times he had handed it to her.

At this time, on the side of Mrs. Wu's dragon couch, Wu Ning's recital book was laid out, and half a day had passed.

"Holy Queen!" Shangguan Wan'er reminded on the side, "It's time to eat." ”

"Let's wait."

Seeing the key point, how could Mrs. Wu stop? He simply said, "Bring the box to me, and you all go down!" ”

The crowd couldn't, so they had to obey their fate.

And as soon as the box of notebooks arrived at the old lady's side, Wu Zetian couldn't wait to pick up the top few and look at them.

As a result, the old lady was disappointed and surprised.

Disappointingly, Wu Ning did not give a solution to the problem of escaping, this kid and Wu Zetian thought differently.

And to his surprise, on the next piece of paper, Wu Ning gave a sensory contrast that Wu Zetian had never seen before-a column comparison chart.

Wu Ning used a five-year period to classify and arrange the taxes on rent, households, land, grass, and salt in the Tang Dynasty over the past 60 years.

I saw that when the dynasty opened, it was only a short section of ink columns, and then it increased year by year, and it reached the point where it represented the current ink pillar, which was already much higher than the early Tang Dynasty.

However, the length of the four ink columns, representing the last two decades, has hardly changed.

It seems like...... Agricultural taxes, which began 20 years ago, have been sluggish.

The household tax is not as strong as the agricultural tax, and although it has also increased, it is only a little more than twice that of the early Tang Dynasty.

Since then, the tax items related to agriculture have increased rapidly over the years.

It's just that things like salt classes, copper and iron, and government-run projects are not long at all, and some are even inferior to the early Tang Dynasty.

When Wu Zetian saw this, his heart trembled, and he realized that something seemed to be wrong, but he couldn't grasp the crux of it.

However, one thing is certain, that is, the growth of Datang's finances basically comes from agricultural taxes.

Under the chart, there is a passage from Wu Ning:

"The saint is talented, and there is no need to say more. According to this diagram, what are the advantages and disadvantages, the holy queen has her own plans. ”

"It is not difficult to see that in addition to agricultural taxes, the work used by the imperial court in salt and iron, road posts, warehouse kilns, and official camps is really small."

"If the Holy Queen wants to increase her taxes, what is the way forward? The Holy Queen must have a plan. ”

Wu Zetian frowned and groaned.

What Wu Ning said is very reasonable, so far, the Tang Dynasty has been at its peak, the population is several times that of the early Tang Dynasty, and the agricultural tax has also increased a lot.

However, it stands to reason that the abundance of people should not only bring prosperity in agriculture, such as salt and iron, road posts, and government-run porcelain kilns, but also paper mills should also prosper together, but why is the income not high?

This is indeed food for thought.

Further down, it is Wu Ning's detailed explanation.

"Take the warehouse kiln as an example, and the heavy official kiln porcelain is also."

"Its essence is for the royal family; Secondly, it is sold to the people at a low price, which is collected by the warehouse. ”

"However, the holy queen does not know, the second time of the official kiln is also higher than the private kiln, and the people are not allowed to use it."

"Where are you going? All of them have passed through Fanbang maritime business, and they have traveled thousands of miles. ”

"Geometry on the ground? The official kiln is a thousand times and thousands of times! ”

"Who is it for? Not the Holy Queen, not the Tang Min, but the maritime merchants of the vassal country! ”

"Besides, silk tea is also tens of millions of times more profitable, and it also belongs to the maritime merchants of the feudal country!"

Hiss!!!

Wu Zetian gasped.

Porcelain and silk are extremely expensive overseas, which Wu Zetian knows.

The old lady even heard that in those places thousands of miles away, they actually hoarded silk and porcelain from the Tang Dynasty as wealth preservation.

When rewarding foreign envoys, the old lady was also willing to do what she liked, sending some porcelain or something.

However, now that I have read Wu Ning's table, I will listen to his analysis......

There are tens of millions of times the profit? The old lady is not calm.

If that's the case, how much does this Datang have to lose?

Looking at the columnar table, the single warehouse kiln is one, and the annual income of the imperial court is only a pitiful 410,000 yuan.

But if that thousandfold ......

Well, it doesn't have to be a thousand times, a hundred times it's okay!

If a hundredfold profit is given to Datang, it will be 41 million! It is higher than the fiscal revenue of the whole year.

"It's a loss!!"

Fortunately, there was no one in the inner palace at this time, otherwise the old lady Wu patted her head and looked like she was screaming in pain, and she would not have been scared to death.

"Someone!! Come!! ”

"Quickly pass on the local officials and winter officials to meet you."

(Mrs. Wu is a romantic ruler, what three provinces: Shangshu, Zhongshu, Menxia, six departments: officials, households, rites, punishment, soldiers, workers, people don't like it, Shangshu, Zhongshu changed to Fengge Luantai, and the six departments were changed to heaven and earth spring, summer, autumn and winter.) ）

(The local official is the household minister, and the winter official is the Ministry of Industry.) ）

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