Torr?

Of course, Zhang Yue was ready for a long time.

When the ministers were all in high spirits, the grandson of the Shoushao Mansion went out and said: "Dare to ask the prince of the service, how many people do you need to lead Huai into Bian, Luo into Bian?" How long is the construction period? Have you calculated? ”

When Zhang Yue heard this, he immediately replied: "Xiaguan has calculated that to lead the Huai River into the Bian, it is necessary to dig a river channel of about 700 miles to introduce the water of the Huai River into the Bianhe River......

"In addition, in order to facilitate the diversion of water, a stone gate needs to be built every 50 miles of the 700-mile river to store and release water, and adjust the hydraulic ......."

"To lead Luo into Bian, it is necessary to dig more than 400 miles of land from Luoyang to Xingyang, so that Luoshui can enter Bian, and it is also necessary to build stone gates and sluices along the way......"

"To sum up, it may take more than 300,000 people to introduce Huai into Bian, and the construction period will be about two to three years......"

"To bring Luo into Bian, it will also take about 200,000 people, and the construction period will be about two years!"

As soon as these words came out, the courtiers immediately turned their heads and ears.

And as a trust, Gongsun Yi immediately said: "So that the servant knows that the Shaofu Inner Treasury can't come up with so much money to support ...... now."

The courtiers immediately quit.

Especially Shang Qiucheng, who is the leader of the officials of the Three Rivers, his face collapsed.

He immediately said: "Shao Fuqing! Hugh is going to use these things as an excuse! ”

"Shaofu Inner Treasury, now there are hundreds of thousands of forbidden money! Gold is counted in 100,000 gold, why is there no money? ”

This year, Shaofu's copying hands are soft!

Just from the mansion of Gongsun He's father and son, he copied out gold, treasures and other property worth more than 100,000 yuan.

Not to mention, he killed the sub-money merchants in Huai City and the noble family that he copied not long ago.

These properties, combined, the total number is probably breaking through the sky!

And the Shaofu itself has calculated income and more income, and can also get the income of Shanglin Yuan and the income of minting money escorted by the Yamen of Shuiheng Duwei, and the annual income is twice as much as the national treasury!

In other matters, Shaofu cried poor, and Shang Qiucheng regarded it as inaudible.

But in this project related to the well-being of his hometown, Shaofu will cry poor again?

Is it really when he is too Changqing?

Gongsun Yi was not in a hurry, and replied: "Tai Changqing doesn't know, although the income of the Shaofu is large, but the expenditure is also more!" ”

"Military expenses, mausoleums, palaces and Guanzhong's 'purchase restrictions' will cost most of them, and the rest will have to support craftsmen, officials, slaves and maids, there is really no money left......"

Gongsun Yi looked like the landlord's family had no money to spare, and spread his hands and said: "If it is only tens of millions, Shaofu can probably take it out, but if it is tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, please forgive Shaofu for not being able to do anything!" ”

The directors of the Shaofu Yousi are even more scoundrels who 'don't want money, they want to die', and they are ready to splash and roll at any time!

"Tens of millions?" Shang Qiucheng and the courtiers from Sanhe listened to it, and they couldn't wait to chop up Gongsun with a knife!

With such a little money, Shaofu is called Hanako!

However, there is no way, Shaofu has always been independent of the government, except for the Son of Heaven, no one can force them to take out the money!

Therefore, the focus and pressure came to Dasi Nong Sang Hongyang.

As soon as Sang Hongyang saw this situation, he immediately said: "The situation in the treasury must be known to all of you......

"Last year, the land tax was only 150,000 yuan, and most of it was ...... in kind."

"As for the income from the loss of salt and iron...... Sang Hongyang frowned, and said, "It has been fully allocated to the treasury and distributed as military salaries and official salaries......

"Unless the public authority allows Dasi Nong to levy additional land tax or commercial tax, Dasi Nong can squeeze out up to 50 million yuan a year old......"

Additional land tax?

Who has the guts to do this?!

The field tax is thirty taxes and one tax, which is the political achievement of Emperor Taizong, the first emperor and the three generations of today's sons.

It is the good governance of the country to benefit the people, and it is the archway of the Han family.

The courtiers who dared to propose an increase in the field tax were not yet born!

As for business taxes?

Well, as far as the current Dasi Nong salt and iron are all lost, there are already people shouting every day to 'please cook Hong sheep'.

Plus business tax?

I'm afraid it's not public opinion that is going to fry!

I'm afraid that as soon as the news comes out, tomorrow downstairs in Beique City, there will be a good show of writing on the bus, please punish the traitor.

Besides, how much tax can be collected by relying on commercial taxes?

It's just a drop in the bucket, and it doesn't help at all.

However......

This chasm 2.0, the courtiers of Sanhe and the officials of Xuzhou have already made up their minds that they must be repaired, and they can't be repaired!

For the people of Xuzhou, it is a matter of life and death.

And for the courtiers and nobles of Henan, Hanoi, and Hedong, it is about fame and image!

No one wants to be accused by their own township party, and no one wants their own township party to think that they are 'useless people' and 'ruthless people'.

After all, who doesn't have to go home to retire?

And even if you don't think about yourself, you should always think about your parents, grandchildren, and offspring, right?

But no one wants their clan to be poked in the backbone in their hometown!

But if you don't have money, you can't fix it, and you can't fix it!

Zhang Yue was on the side, quietly watching all this.

He knew the time was ripe.

It's time to pitch your plan to the courtiers.

In fact, when Zhang Yue began to conceive this pre-AD engineering plan, a primary problem was highlighted - how to make the landlords, scholars, doctors, and powerful and powerful people cut their meat!

You must know that the water conservancy project of the Han family is generally a feast for the powerful and noble!

Take the Baiqu project a few years ago, for example, the Baiqu mobilized tens of thousands of people and took three years to complete.

After the completion of the canal, thousands of hectares of land along the canal were irrigated, benefiting the people of several counties.

However, it is the magnates of Chang'an who benefit the most.

There are even people who rely on Baiqu and earn several times their net worth at one time!

So how did they make money from Baiqu?

The answer is slaves!

In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was the duty of every Shifu subject to serve in conscription.

Generally speaking, those with a rank of five doctors or less and an official rank of less than six hundred stone are required to serve the state for one month every year without compensation.

But the problem is that the gap between rich and poor in society is different.

Some are rich, some are poor.

Just like some merchants, they have hundreds of thousands of families and more than a dozen slaves.

When it was his turn to serve, he wouldn't do it.

What to do?

Hire someone to serve in his place!

Therefore, the Qin and Han dynasties developed a special ecological chain.

Serving others has become the last way for many poor and bankrupt people.

Because, this thing can make money!

According to the provisions of the Qin law, the practice tax is 300 yuan a month. (Please note that the Qin Dynasty issued half a tael coin, and the value of the currency far exceeded the five baht coins of the Han Dynasty!) Theoretically speaking, one and a half taels should be equivalent to 3-4 five-baht coins, plus inflation or something, the value of Qin's three hundred coins in Han should be no less than one thousand yuan).

And in the Han Dynasty, the price of hiring people to serve is even greater!

The highest added value is military service!

In the unearthed Juyan Han Jian, it is recorded that a man named Chen Geng in Hongnong County served a year of military service on behalf of a man named Zhao Xun in his fellow villager, at the cost of the latter paying 29,000 yuan to the former.

Of course, military service is different from conscription.

The requirements of the Han army are quite strict, and ordinary people really can't do this job.

In fact, those who can serve for others are veterans.

This is also the largest income of the elites of the Han Army in addition to military salaries!

Conscription, on the other hand, has various criteria for classification because of its type and distance.

Generally speaking, the cost of service for water conservancy projects such as river control is about 1,200 yuan a month.

Therefore, in the early Han Dynasty, serving others formed a complete ecological chain.

It has become a method for many bankrupt people to make a comeback.

At the beginning, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, waved his hand and paid for the forced labor of the people in his country with his salt and iron income.

attracted people from all over the world to join one after another, dragging their families to Wu to earn extra money.

But alas, history has proven that the ruling class will not leave the people too much freedom and a chance to turn around.

Aristocratic landlords and merchants only need to do a simple math problem to know what they should do.

Today, the price of slaves and maids in the Han family is about 20,000 yuan for men in the prime of life.

Even if the master is particularly kind and sympathetic to his slave and maid, he is reluctant to let him starve, let him eat and dress warmly.

Take yeoman farmers as an example,

A full-grown man's monthly ration is two stones, and he needs twenty-four stone of corn a year, worth two thousand four hundred to three thousand yuan.

He is given a new set of clothes every season, and each set is worth two hundred yuan, which is eight hundred yuan.

In addition, according to the provisions of the Han law, slaves and maids are counted with five counts.

In other words, a slave and maid need to pay a poll tax of 600 yuan per year.

Therefore, after a slave or maid is bought, the theoretical maximum expenditure in a year is 4,400 yuan.

And the surplus value it can create, I am afraid that it can scare people to death.

Even if you just let these slaves and maids cultivate, with the minimum efficiency, a person can only cultivate fifty acres, and the yield per mu is two stones, which is a hundred stones of corn, worth more than 10,000 yuan!

A surplus of five thousand four hundred dollars!

However, how can the landlords and powerful only let the slaves and maids plough the land?

In addition to the busy farming, it is also certain that they will engage in side production.

And the biggest side hustle is to serve others.

At first, this was a privilege reserved only for some of the powerful.

But soon, things got out of hand.

Because, when the old politician Huang came to the curtain in the political arena, the Legalists and Confucian officials who came to power were not so warm.

Legalists like to be one-size-fits-all, while Confucians don't like to focus on trivial matters.

As a result, it led to a terrible result - during the period of Taizong and Emperor Xian, the magnates took their slaves and maids to serve to make money, only on the premise that someone was willing to pay someone to serve.

And now, Legalism and Confucianism have come together in a one-size-fits-all approach – all people need to pay more taxes – whether they go to serve or not.

The only difference is that in the northern counties, the officials take money to eliminate disasters, while in the southeast, the officials are corrupt, and the officials who have no discipline have to go to the service, whether you pay taxes or not.

For Legalists and Confucianists, this approach is understandable.

Legalists want the people they rule to be obedient and obedient.

And although Confucianism shouts 'benevolent government, good governance', if they want to be like the politicians of the Huang Lao School, in order to maintain their rule, play countless procedures, and do a lot of things, they will definitely not do it.

Besides, no matter how many isms there are, it's not as big as business.

As a result, a terrible thing happened - the landlords, the powerful and powerful, competed to keep slaves.

What do you do with slaves?

Make money!

In particular, projects with high value and high requirements such as water conservancy projects have become a feast for the powerful.

A profit of 1,200 dollars a month for a slave maid!

In case of repeated state subsidies, additional rewards will be given to serving civilians.

That's more to earn.

It is also because of this that the wind of slavery in the Han family has intensified.

As long as there is an opportunity, almost no one will give up the possibility of buying a slave and a maid to go home!

This is also the reason why all kinds of water conservancy projects of the Han dynasty can be supported by almost all classes.

For the landlord Haoqiang, building water conservancy can not only make his land produce more, but also make an extra profit.

For ordinary Shengdou small people, building water conservancy can also be beneficial to their own production, besides, even if they don't repair it, they have to pay money, it's better to repair it!

And now, Zhang Yue wants to launch the tunnel camp plan.

The first thing to face is the sniping of the landlords!

If they all work with the labor of the tunnel camp, what are their slaves and maids doing?

This lost profit is not a star.

It's the equivalent of digging up the flesh of these people!

How difficult is it to make vested interests willingly spit out the meat in their mouths? Zhang Yue naturally knew.

That's almost like ascending to the sky!

Fortunately, as a traverser, Zhang Yue has seen countless successes, failures or failures in ancient and modern China and foreign reforms.

It belongs to standing on the shoulders of giants, so it knows how to convince powerful vested interests to be willing to cut their flesh and give them profits: give them a greater benefit and benefit!

In ancient and modern times, in China and abroad, almost all successful reforms and reforms have been built on this foundation.

Failure to do so will result in failure.

Wang Anshi is like this, Zhang Ju is like that!

And the chasm 2. 0 project, for the aristocratic landlords in the Sanhe area and the scholars and doctors in Xuzhou, its allure is enough for Zhang Yue to make them give in.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yue chose this project as a breakthrough.

Of course, that's not enough!

The stubbornness and cripples of vested interests are even more difficult than imagined!

Therefore, they must first despair.

When they find out that they may lose everything if they don't make concessions, they will have to agree to concessions.

Therefore, Zhang Yue watched coldly and did not say a word.

This is a hurry for Shang Qiucheng, Liu Quyu and others.

Shang Qiucheng, in particular, was almost scratching his head and fidgeting.

At this moment, he saw Zhang Yue standing in front of the sand table with a smile on his face, so he stepped forward and asked: "Shizhonggong, Your Excellency has always been resourceful, and has made many strange strategies to solve the dilemma of the government and the opposition. ”

"May the service teach how to solve the current dilemma!"

Saying that, Shangqiu made a deep bow.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of courtiers and officials bowed in unison: "May the servants teach me!" ”

They can't help it!

This chasm 2.0 project is like a carrot hanging from their mouths, which is extremely tempting!

For this reason, they were willing to pull down their faces and ask Zhang Yue for advice.

Even Liu Quyu, for the sake of political achievements, also gave up his hands and said: "If you have a plan in the service, you might as well say it and discuss it with the ministers!" ”

In fact, Shang Qiucheng and Liu Quyu also guessed Zhang Yue's solution.

It is the so-called 'tunnel camp' plan proposed during the pre-meeting consultations today.

Before this chasm 2.0, Shang Qiucheng and Liu Quyu would not support this plan.

Because this plan is hated!

But he will not object, if he opposes it, he may be held against the Son of Heaven and Zhang Yue.

It's not fun!

But now, one for the sake of political achievements and the other for the township party, there is no need to care so much!