"Labor tax credits?" Chen Feng asked in surprise, although he had such an idea at first, and he had told His Majesty, but he never thought that His Majesty would really be able to persuade the Manchu Dynasty to issue a decree.

"Yes, although the water conservancy cities that have been built this year have been spared disasters, but there are still six cities that have not yet had time to build water conservancy, and the floods have caused the people to have no harvest in their fields, and if they continue to collect taxes, they are afraid that the people will be miserable, so Your Majesty ordered labor to offset the taxes." In this regard, although Zhao Liang is Xu Yuanxuan's shopkeeper, what he can hear and guess can only reach this level.

Chen Feng thought of a completely different idea, what he thought of was the reaction of the imperial court to this decree. Today's emperor is not a one-person emperor, nor is he the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, but also the emperor of the people of the world, but many times, he can't be the lord of the people of the world, nor can he be the master of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and sometimes he can't even be his own lord.

Every time the emperor issues an edict, it is not something that can be promoted by one person, the most important thing is to need the support of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and this, this time, the most needed is the support of the household department.

The household department is the granary of the Tang Dynasty, is the money bag of the Tang Dynasty, and the government decree allows the people to replace taxes with labor, which may be beneficial to the people of the world, but the household department is absolutely unwilling to see such a decision, because it means that the household department may not only not be able to collect the people's taxes throughout the year this year, but also pay a large part of the remuneration for the people's labor.

The remuneration of one or two people may not be much, ten cents a day, but this project can not be completed in one or two days, and the manpower required is not one or two people, but thousands, or even tens of thousands.

If you don't have income, you have to keep taking money out of your money bag, and the household secretary is not a fool, how can he easily agree to this?

Chen Feng's puzzlement did not tell Zhao Liang, and the water conservancy did have an effect, so he let Zhao Liang retreat, and before leaving, he also told Zhao Liang that he must send the letter to Chang'an City as soon as possible.

Zhao Liang saw that he was in a hurry to explain this matter, so he naturally rushed to explain, so he left Chen Feng and Du Li in the room.

"Is there something wrong?" Du Li saw that Chen Feng didn't speak for a long time, and there was a tangled look on his face, so he asked.

"It's just a little strange how His Majesty persuaded Dai Xuan to agree to such an order." Chen Feng was entangled for a while, and then answered truthfully.

"It's not hard to figure it out." Du Li thought for a moment and then replied.

"How?" Chen Feng rubbed the paperweight in his hand.

"This decree was issued after the water conservancy projects in several states were implemented and achieved results, and Lord Dai naturally saw the results, other state capitals that suffered floods could not pay taxes, but the state capitals that avoided floods could still pay normally, and state capitals that did not suffer floods could also pay taxes, so the treasury would not be so empty that it was as dangerous as you thought."

"And Master Dai is not a fool, he naturally knows that the sooner this water conservancy project is completed, the sooner it can be used, and the sooner it can save the drought and flood disasters, it is equivalent to increasing the income of the fields, natural taxes, and it will follow in the future, but it has been suffering for so many years or three years, and in the long run, the absolute benefits outweigh the disadvantages."

Hearing Du Li's explanation, Chen Feng thought it through a little clearly, but he still had a little doubt, "The Ministry of War has no objection to this?" "The secretary of the military department is Du Ruhui, so when Chen Feng said this in front of Du Li, he was still a little embarrassed.

"Why are there objections?" Hearing Chen Feng say this, Du Li also felt novel, but he didn't think clearly why the military department had objections to this matter.

"If the household department can't collect taxes, the treasury will inevitably be empty to a certain extent, even if it can't reach the level of letting the adults in the household tighten their belts to live, but it is definitely not much better, so can the military salary of the military department still be paid on time? Now that it is a war, the soldiers are fighting outside, whether the food and grass supply at home can keep up, these should be considered by Lord Du. ”

Hearing Chen Feng say this, Du Lifang thought of the joints. Yes, the Turks still have nearly 400,000 troops fighting abroad, and if the food supply is insufficient, I am afraid that it will have an impact on the war!

"I see!" Just when Chen Feng was still thinking sadly, Du Li was suddenly pleasantly surprised.

"Huh?" Chen Feng only issued a tone word with a hint of question.

"It's still yours." Du Li said categorically.

"On me?" Chen Feng hesitated, although he now has the name of the third-grade master, the monthly salary of the country's more than a dozen taels of silver, but he really only went to the Taiji Palace once, that is, the time when he was awarded an official position, since then, he has never been to the early dynasty, nor has he participated in political discussions, and now he says that the key is on him, how can he guess.

"Maybe it's not on you, but on Datang Qianzhuang." Du Li said meaningfully.

After coming down like this, Chen Feng instantly understood that it was the idea of Datang Qianzhuang that they were fighting. Yes, Datang Qianzhuang has made a loan, so naturally it is impossible to only do the business of the people, if the imperial court wants to borrow silver from Datang Qianzhuang, this Qianzhuang opened by the emperor's order really can't refuse, and can't refuse.

Even if there is not so much silver taels in the Datang Money Village, no matter what considerations are made, they will do everything possible to complete this matter, even if it is drawn from Xu Yuanxuan.

"What a ruthless scheme!" Thinking of this, Chen Feng couldn't help but take a breath, he didn't expect that he would be calculated to this extent by others when he was not at home for a few months.

It seems that the dirtiness of the country's political apparatus is really not something that he can guard against completely if he wants to. Although all this is just his speculation, but this speculation is too reasonable, saying that the court is up to the current saint, down to the Manchu civil and military, if it weren't for this idea, now Chen Feng doesn't believe it, and if it weren't for this reason, Chen Feng would not have found a reason for Li Shimin to persuade the Manchu civil and military to issue such an edict.

"It's a bit vicious!" Du Li also groaned, "But you have to think in a good direction." ”

"Where is the best direction?" The corners of Chen Feng's mouth twitched, and at this time, he had to think in a good direction, whether the current saint would treat him as a fool or Du Li would treat him as a fool, he was calculated to the door, and he still thought of people's kindness, he was also hehe!