The exemption from agricultural taxes is indeed somewhat impractical at present, because it will cheapen the landlord class, which owns the most land at the moment.

However, this provided a direction for Li Shimin's next step in his administration, and after Li Chengqian's statement on the benefits of exempting agricultural taxes, Li Shimin recognized its feasibility even more.

In the end, Li Shimin approved Wei Zheng's request, and revised the obligations that should be fulfilled by both bank and borrower parties into a law, which was first temporarily enforced, and when the next code amendment was promulgated, the money law extended from the money management system was specially added to it, and then he invited Li Chengqian, Xiao Yu, Wen Yanbo, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Du Zhenglun, Gao Shilian and others to the imperial study.

Moreover, he also deliberately asked Du Zhenglun to get the tax structure documents of the imperial court to the imperial study.

Du Zhenglun is also one of Sun Xiangfu's fanatical fans, he single-handedly built up the Ministry of Commerce, and now, more than a dozen state-owned enterprise industries bring millions of dollars to the imperial court every year, this credit, let him obtain the official title of Jin Ziguanglu Doctor, and also served as a more powerful official position such as the Ministry of Household Shangshu, which can be described as fame and fortune.

And Li Shimin asked him to read these things, he immediately thought of what Li Shimin wanted to know, and after unfolding the various documents on the bookcase, he took the lead in speaking, "Your Majesty, the acres of land registered in my Tang Dynasty to pay taxes, except for Kaijuntun, are about 160 million mu, of which, due to the large number of fields in the middle and lower fields to be returned to farmland, among the existing fields, the upper fields that produce more output account for about 90 million mu, the middle fields, which account for about 50 million mu, and the lower fields only account for 20 million mu, and most of them are in the four barbarians, or the mountainous areas where ethnic minorities gather.

Based on the average output of these fields last year, the average yield per mu of Shangtian in one season is about four stone of grain, and the tax grain per mu is about 16 catties, which is a total of 12 million stone of grain. Converted to the price of rice and wheat in various places, the market value is about 960,000 yuan. ”

Rice and wheat, before they were husked into rice and flour, even in Chang'an, the market price was about 80 wen and 1 stone, and in other places it was even lower, Du Zhenglun said 960,000 yuan, in fact, he said it was Gaoli.

Of course, in terms of yield per mu, he is also calculating, this is because Guanzhong, Dingxiang Road, Lingnan Road, Shannan Road, several gradually realized the high yield of intensive cultivation places, and the output of other places has been raised.

"Zhongtian produces about three stones per mu, about 12 catties of tax grain per mu, a total of about 5 million stones, and a market value of about 400,000 yuan."

"Xiatian produces about two stones per mu, and each mu pays about eight catties of grain, with a total of about 1.3 million stones of grain, and a market value of about 110,000 yuan."

"According to the implementation of two seasons a year in most areas and three seasons a year in a small number of areas, the total amount of agricultural taxes in the country is about 3 million yuan, accounting for about 10% of all the tax revenue of the imperial court last year."

"Ichisei?"

"It's only a percentage?"

"This ······, how can it be a success."

After Du Zhenglun finished reporting these data, everyone said in disbelief.

Du Zhenglun pointed to the data on the document and said, "That's the case!" Last year, the income from commercial tax accounted for 50 percent of the total tax revenue of the whole country, and the operating income of state-owned enterprises and the income tax of individuals each accounted for 20 percent of the total income of the imperial court, and the remaining fraction of 10 percent was on the agricultural tax side. ”

The agricultural tax of 3 million guan, if calculated according to the tax of the first year of Zhenguan, has already covered the total balance of the country's fiscal and tax for a year, but now, including Li Shimin, no one takes it seriously, and the imperial court casually opened a river and spent more than 3 million guan to build a road.

"It seems that in Zhengming's heart, he has always had an accurate prediction of the future form of our Datang." Li Shimin finally said this, and the ministers also nodded again and again.

Fang Xuanling seized an opportunity at this time and said, "In this case, please also ask Your Majesty to return to the dynasty as soon as possible, with him in the court, the direction of our governance will definitely be clearer." ”

Punishing Sun Xiangfu is an attitude that Li Shimin has done to show the people of the world, and now, those representatives of Fanbang have returned to China, and the point of public opinion is not in this aspect, Fang Xuanling feels that it is about the same.

However, Li Shimin didn't think much about Fang Xuanling's words, so he shook his head and said, "Resisting and disobeying the order is a big crime, even if it is a show, it can't be done easily, he has stayed in Jingzhou honestly in the past few years!" If you Aiqing have something to say, you can ask him in a private message. ”

For Li Shimin's attitude, the ministers were actually a little surprised in their hearts, although Li Shimin said this reason, everyone agreed, but it was really dealt with like this, but it was not like his previous open-minded style, not to mention resisting the decree, before his banquets were held frequently, and the reward for the useless courtiers was too generous, Wei Zheng scolded him in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and he didn't see what he did to Wei Zheng! Why is Sun Xiangfu so stubborn!

They can't understand this, because they didn't see the booklet left by Wang Hao, the pimple in Li Shimin's heart now is the problem of 'the disadvantages of the feudal monarchy', he has a feeling that the Tang Dynasty will continue on this road, and his sense of existence as a monarch will probably be lower and lower.

For example, Li Chengqian mentioned earlier that if you use the system to manage people, all things are managed by the system, what is he, the emperor, in charge of?

When all the management systems are sound, can he, the emperor, still be able to follow his words and decide the world's major events?

I'm afraid that when the time comes, he wants to spend a little money in the treasury to build something he loves, and it is not up to him to have the final say.

Moreover, when the people do not need to rely on the emperor to protect them, but only rely on the system to protect them, they will support the system, not the emperor.

This feeling is becoming more and more obvious in his heart, although Sun Xiangfu did not say that there is a system better than the feudal monarchy, but everything he has done has the potential to affect the foundation of the feudal monarchy, he is worried that he will not be able to control him one day, or rather, he is confident that he will live in Sun Xiangfu, but he feels that his descendants will definitely not be able to control the situation when the problems caused by these new political models erupt, resulting in the Li Tang Jiangshan he has laid, like the former Han Dynasty, There are cases where the regime changes hands in the midst of strength.

As a monarch, his perspective on the problem is already a little different from that of the ministers, so even if he knows that Sun Xiangfu is in the court, much more important to the country than he is in the opposition, he also chooses to leave him out for the time being, and when he is not sure that the problem he is worried about will be solved, he will not consider reviving Sun Xiangfu.

"So, this exemption from agricultural taxes?" Du Zhenglun saw that Li Shimin had set the tone for Sun Xiangfu again, so he turned the topic to the immediate road.

Li Shimin thought for a while and replied, "The household department can make a plan, I think that it can be gradually reduced first, and then exempted, and it will be carried out in several years." ”

At this time, Xiao Yu suggested, "In this case, the minister suggests that starting next year, the agricultural tax in the border areas and the mountainous areas inhabited by ethnic minorities will be reduced or exempted from those places where grain and crops are not abundant."

This year, we have exempted the poll tax and the apportionment of the government soldiers, reducing it a little every year, divided into three to five years, gradually allocating the land structure more reasonably, and then exempting all agricultural taxes, which will make everyone feel that our Datang is getting better every year, and the life of the peasants and the people also has a hope. ”

The so-called 'more reasonable allocation of land structure', which means that the high-quality land in the hands of the family is allocated to the people who really farm, in this regard, it is not too difficult to make a plan, because Datang has such resource conditions, for example, the fields developed in Shannan Province, the west, the east, and the Juntun fields developed are all fields, which can gradually transform these fields into the hands of the people who are still cultivating the middle fields and the fields, and the barren land in their hands will be returned to farmland.

After listening to Xiao Yu, Li Shimin nodded in agreement and said, "Xiao Xiang's words are reasonable, and the household department will draw up a charter according to this law, and announce next year's tax reduction policy before the Spring Festival." ”

"Obey." Du Zhenglun took the order.

The matter has been talked about here, today's meeting, in fact, should be over, just as the ministers were about to leave the palace, Wang Deyong came in with another letter and said, "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Ningchuan Dao." ”

"Urgent? Read. ”

Ningchuan Road is now a militarily sensitive area, because it has thousands of miles of land and the border with Tibet, so far, Tubo has not negotiated with the Tang Dynasty about Lu Dongzan's group of captives, in a sense, the two countries are actually in a state of hostility now, even a state of war, in the cold winter when the moon is coming, there is an urgent report, it is very likely that the war is going to start again.

However, when Wang had to read the report, everyone realized that it was not like that.

Songtsen Gampo sent Garzan Siruo, that is, the eldest son of Lu Dongzan, as an envoy, drove 3,000 yaks and 5,000 war horses, came to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, and, as a state, helped Songtsen Gampo to ask for the Tang princess as his wife, in order to show the goodwill of the two countries.

For such a courtship, Li Shimin in history refused at first.

However, he was forced by Tubo, a rogue country that could not be beaten and could not be defeated, and was not easy to defend and had no choice, so he finally agreed to make peace, which led to the incident of Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet.

However, the situation is different now, the main force of Tubo fought in Yanpingmen and was disabled, the national strength and military strength of the Tang Dynasty are several times stronger than in history, and Lu Dongzan, who originally came to ask for relatives at about this time, was directly imprisoned in the prison of Chang'an City, Songtsan Gampo has no one to send, and actually sent Lu Dongzan's eldest son, a hairy boy who is not yet twenty years old, Li Shimin looks at him strangely, just this little thing they sent, is not enough for Yi Nan to give a meeting gift every time he sees Li Shimin!

Now it is said that Li Shimin does not have a suitable daughter to marry Songtsan Gampo, even if there is, it is impossible to marry him, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty, screaming for war, are in the west for winter training! He didn't mind sending them to the Tibetan Plateau to show off their muscles.

"What do you think?" Although Li Shimin was very unhappy in his heart, he was still relatively rational and ready to listen to the opinions of the ministers.

However, before the ministers could speak, they heard that Songtsen Gampo was going to spoil his underage sisters, Li Chengqian stopped doing it first, and said, "Father, the sons think it's inappropriate, I am towering in the Tang Dynasty, how can I be reconciled with a defeated small country of Fanbang, not only can I not be friendly with it, but also I can't be reconciled with any Fanbang after that, Sun Shi once taught my sons, a dynasty, must have, no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in the integrity of the society, otherwise, Fanbang Zhuyi, will think that my Datang is a weak and bullying country, and will disrespect my Datang more and more. ”

"No harmony, no reparations, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies and the society ······"

Looking at Li Chengqian's angry momentum, Li Shimin and many ministers silently recited what he had just said, and suddenly felt that there was a blood rising in their chests.

After a long time, Li Shimin said with a relieved face, "In this way, the affairs of the Tibetan envoys will be handed over to the prince to deal with with them all." ”()

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