Taxation is the root of the state.

If the tax is too light, the treasury will be empty, the army will have no combat power, and internal and external troubles will follow; If it is too heavy, the people will not be able to make a living, and there will be many complaints, and internal and external difficulties will come one after another. How to find an appropriate degree between the light and the heavy, which can not only fill the national treasury but also prosper the people, is the most difficult standard for politicians to achieve.

At the moment, Datang's tax rate is not reasonable.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the provinces of the anti-king provinces caught and killed, and the people were disrupted by the great disruption of the people's livelihood, and now is the time to recuperate and accumulate people's strength, so the people's taxes are too light. This led to the emptiness of the treasury, and His Majesty Li Er's desire to go east was once overwhelmed by military spending, but it was only under Fang Jun's repeated "accumulation of wealth" that it was alleviated.

However, relying on a single person or a certain initiative to open up a source of wealth is not a stable source, and it can only solve the urgent needs of the moment, but it cannot consolidate the foundation of the country for thousands of years.

On the one hand, it is necessary to recuperate and recuperate, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the army and strengthen the country, which are contradictory.

This is the current state of taxation in Datang......

From Wei Yuantong's psychology, he is willing to see Fang Jun increase the taxes of the eastern and western cities, this is not how patriotic he is and how willing Jingzhao Mansion is to fill the treasury, but once the commercial tax is added, it will inevitably lead to all the businessmen in the world opposing it.

Many of the maritime trade goods operated by the Municipal Shipping Division have already circulated to the mainland, and there is no need to pay taxes to the local checkpoints and customs gates wherever they go, resulting in a sharp drop in the income of various prefectures and counties, and there is a lot of complaint.

If Fang Jun also plays such a game in Chang'an, it will be turmoil in Guanzhong!

At that time, even the emperor will not be able to protect him!

But would Fang Jun be so stupid and do such a stupid thing?

Wei Yuantong felt that it was unlikely.

But he really couldn't see Fang Jun's scheme, could it be that kid just idle and tossing these officials of Jingzhao Mansion?

The more he couldn't figure it out, the more he had to think about it.

Inevitably, I feel irritable and depressed......

"Father, the child has failed your high expectations." Wei Dawu was a little ashamed.

Although today's Wei family is well-known in Guanzhong, it is far from reaching the peak momentum of "Weidu in the south of the city, go to Tianshawu" later. In order to seek the position of Shaoyin of Jingzhao Mansion, the Wei family made a lot of compromises within the Guanlong Group and paid a lot of price.

As a result, not only did he not form the slightest restraint on Fang Jun, but he was even frightened when he faced Fang Jun, lest he be cleaned up by Fang Jun with strong means, which was really a bit embarrassing......

Wei Yuantong can see this.

smiled and comforted: "Why are you so arrogant? That Fang Jun can be praised by His Majesty for 'Zaifu's talent', should you be in vain? The rumors from the outside world cannot be believed, although Fang Jun is arrogant, it is not a means of self-protection, in fact, this person is meticulous and exquisite, and he is born to be a good material for mixing officialdom. Moreover, his poetry is gifted, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a 'genius who does not come out of the world'. What is the discouragement of being suppressed by such a person? If you can restrain Fang Jun in a very short period of time, then the father will have to worry. ”

It should be suppressed by Fang Jun, who made the family a "talent of Zaifu"?

On the other hand, it is not normal to suppress Fang Juncai, it can't be that Fang Jun dug a hole for you, and you have jumped into it unprepared, that is the real sadness......

Wei Dawu breathed a sigh of relief.

As a pawn launched by Guanlong Group against Fang Jun, he is under great pressure.

"After the Chinese New Year, there is the spring exam, how is the second brother preparing for the exam?" Wei Dawu turned the conversation to the imperial examinations that would be held in the coming year.

Among the brothers of Webster's branch, only two of them are outstanding.

Wei Dawu embarked on the road of officialdom paved by his family early, while Wei Dawen chose another relatively difficult path - the imperial examination. In the short term, it is easier for Wei Dawu to become a higher rank, with the power of the Wei family, the support of the Guanlong Group, and the strong support of strong resources, it is not surprising that he will definitely become a new star in Chang'an officialdom.

But in the long run, Wei Dawen's ceiling is obviously much higher.

The emperor's suppression of the family gate valve is definitely not impulsive or unpleasant, but because the strength of the imperial power and the expansion of the gate valve have caused an irreconcilable conflict between the two. Obviously, the suppression of the family will occupy an important position in the ruling program of several emperors for a long time to come.

Can the Maison Gate Valve fight against the imperial power?

The answer is yes.

The Great Sui was able to unify the world with the support of the family gate valve, but also led to the destruction of the country in the division of the family gate valve; Datang was able to build a country with the full support of the Guanlong Group, and His Majesty Li Er even usurped the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme in one fell swoop under the loyalty of the Guanlong Group, which shows how powerful the power of the family gate valve is......

But this affirmation is not absolute, because with the growing strength of the army and the increasing abundance of the treasury, the imperial power has reached an unprecedented level, and if this situation continues to develop, the day when the imperial power will completely crush the family will not be far off.

Therefore, the Guan Long Group gritted its teeth and wanted to wrestle with His Majesty Li Er to fight for more rights and status for themselves......

In this case, the appointment of officials in the future, the "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System" inherited since the Wei and Jin dynasties will obviously be gradually abandoned by the emperor, and the officials who "enter the imperial examination" will definitely be reused, which is the right way.

The "Nine Products Zhongzheng System" does not fall, and Wei Dawu has a promising future;

"Imperial examination" has become the mainstream, and Wei Dawen has a bright future.

No matter how the situation develops, the Wei family is invincible, and the emperor will never abandon the two brothers of the Wei family because of their surname Wei, right? It was not a struggle, it was a fighting spirit, and the result was a panicked counterattack by the Guanlong group......

It's a step that no one wants to take.

Thinking of these in his heart, Wei Yuantong was very proud, and the haze in his heart caused by Fang Jun's inexplicable measures also dissipated a little.

It is foreseeable that no matter whether the future situation is the victory of the imperial power, or the strength of the family's gate lords, the Wei family will benefit. Among them, if the imperial power can completely suppress the family gatekeeper, the Wei family has a greater chance!

Wei Dawen had the name of "prodigy" when he was a child, he knew the four books and five classics in his chest, and his views on the scriptures and righteousness were admired and appreciated by many Confucians. When the other families were not prepared, the Wei family had quietly taken the lead......

The Wei family will rise in their own hands!

Wei Yuantong was full of pride, at this moment, he felt that even if Fang Jun really engaged in some conspiracy, what could he do? As long as the Wei family does not fall now, it will become the most prominent family in the world in the near future!

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is as ambitious as Wei Yuantong, as well as Guo Xiaoke.

Before the dawn of winter, the Western Regions dripped into ice, and the cold wind blew on his face like a sharp knife cutting the pain, but it couldn't lower the temperature of the boiling blood in Guo Xiaoke's heart!

Two thousand light horsemen took advantage of the darkness before dawn to raid Yizhou, which was occupied by the Turkic iron cavalry, and won a complete victory!

Looking at the Turkic soldiers in front of him who were unprepared and cut off their heads in their sleep, and then looking at the allied forces of various tribes gathered by his generals behind him, Guo Xiaoke felt full of ambition, and the Western Regions were all under control!

What is the use of the so-called "sheep shearing" conspiracy that Fang Jun's little boy came up with?

Should the Western Regions rebel or rebel, and in the end, don't they have to rely on the iron-blooded elite soldiers to drive the war horse to solve the problem with the horizontal knife in their hands?

Only with great martial arts can deter the group and deter the crumbs!

"Report!"

A probe horse galloped in the distance, and when it got close, the scout on the horse threw off the stirrup and jumped up on the horseback, and a clean roll on the spot unloaded the forward momentum, knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "Tell the marshal, yesterday the Yanqi Wang Long Tuqi rebelled against the Western Turks and detained the Tang envoys and hundreds of Tang merchants!" And Qiuzi followed closely behind and rebelled against the Western Turks! ”

Guo Xiaoke was slightly stunned.

The generals of all the tribes gathered behind him all exclaimed in unison, and then whispered.

This is absolutely bad news!

Yanqi and Qiuzi are powerful among the thirty countries in the Western Regions, and they have always existed with Wusun, Loulan and other countries as the leaders of the countries of the Western Regions, and their influence is very great. The defection of Yanqi and Qiuzi to the Western Turks will inevitably lead to an increasingly severe situation in the already turbulent Western Regions, and I don't know how many tribes with evil intentions secretly want to take refuge in the past.

But when he heard the news, Guo Xiaoke's eyes were bright, and his face was red with excitement!