When Li Xuan received the report from the Fourth Infantry Division, after a little consideration, he issued an order to let the Fourth Infantry Division continue to pursue, but pay attention to the rhythm, and on the premise of avoiding the fierce resistance of the Tusi on the Burmese side, wipe out the remnants of King Mu, well, and occupy some more territory.

The meaning of this is that the Fourth Infantry Division can take advantage of it, but if it can't take advantage of it, it won't be forced.

The war in Yunnan and even further south in the direction of Burma is not the main strategic direction of the Tang Dynasty at present, after all, take your time, don't be in a hurry, and thoroughly digest Yunnan first.

Although it has been ruled by the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, there are still many Tusi in Yunnan, and the degree of sinicization is still not too high, and Li Xuan's plan for the next step is to carry out large-scale sinicization of the region, following the previous policy of changing the land and returning to the flow in Guizhou, and completely incorporating this area into the central rule, a large number of immigrants, and carrying out sinicization.

The things in the direction of Yunnan are not the focus, the focus is still on the Sichuan side!

Li Xuan held several meetings with the army and navy on the matter of entering Sichuan, and listened to the reports of the generals, and as Li Xuan himself expected, the generals were more confident in the matter of entering Sichuan.

After all, there are three armies preparing to enter Sichuan, with a total strength of more than 100,000, and there are many artillery pieces to help, even if the combat effectiveness of the army is strong, it is impossible to rely on only tens of thousands of people to be able to stop the pace of the Tang Army entering Sichuan.

The war in the southwest went smoothly, the north and the Tatars signed an agreement on an armistice and mutual markets, and the two sides on the Liaodong side were only confrontations, and it was impossible for the Ming army of King Hui of Liaodong to enter the Shanhai Pass, as long as the Tang Dynasty freed up, it was a matter of minutes to clean up Liaodong.

All this represents that the Tang Dynasty is on a healthy and rapid expansion path!

Therefore, Li Xuan did not worry too much about external expansion, and still focused on internal affairs.

In mid-May, Li Xuan convened a meeting of the Imperial Cabinet, in which more than a dozen scholars and more than 20 ministers from various ministries participated, and this time the issue discussed was the unresolved issue of the reform of the official field.

At the meeting, there was a fierce conflict between the two sides who supported the reform of Guantian and those who opposed it!

And Li Xuan was still the same, sitting on his dragon chair, watching these courtiers debating, and when neither of the two sides could convince anyone, Li Xuan finally made a ruling.

The reform of Guantian has been put on hold for the time being!

The rent of the official land is still fixed as before, and it is not changed to change with the increase or decrease of grain production.

However, in order to prevent the reduction of production and the bankruptcy of the peasants who rented the official land, Li Xuan also stressed once again that if a natural disaster occurs in some areas, the rent of the official land in the area can be appropriately exempted.

At the same time, he also made another decision, that is, to increase the promotion of rent-for-purchase, because the current number of official lands held by the Tang Dynasty is too much, although some of them have been implemented to rent-for-purchase, but the overall proportion is less than 20%, mainly in the southern provinces where the rule is relatively stable.

Li Xuan didn't care if the land was in the hands of the government or private people, as long as he collected enough taxes from the land here, then it would be fine.

At present, strictly speaking, these official fields do not pay taxes, but they regard the land rent of the official fields as agricultural taxes and pay them directly.

However, although the method of fixed land rent is still implemented, Li Xuan is asking the Ministry of Taxation to prepare to introduce a rent reduction policy.

At the same time, although the financial revenue of the Tang Dynasty is tight, it is actually not small, and the main growth engine of the future fiscal revenue is industry and commerce.

After all, the amount of official land is very large, and after the rent of official land is reduced, the landless peasants will definitely be more inclined to rent official land, and those big landlords who want to recruit tenants to farm also need to reduce part of the land rent accordingly.

Although the overall proportion may not be too large, even a few percentage points of reduction is a good thing.

Regarding Li Xuan's decision, although many people who supported the reform of Guantian were disappointed, they could be regarded as having won some of the things they wanted, and it was always a good thing to reduce the land rent.

And it is also good for those who oppose reform, because in this way, large-scale unrest and all kinds of uncontrollable troubles are avoided.

If it really were to change to levy land rent according to the actual harvest, there would be no way for the government to ensure that this policy was truly implemented, because the government could not really send people to guard the fields of every piece of land, supervise the actual output, and collect the land rent on the spot.

After fooling the matter of the reform of the official land rent, Li Xuan dealt with several major matters in a row in the next few days.

For example, the Customs Department was separated from the Ministry of Taxation, and the General Administration of Customs was established, which was fully responsible for the collection of customs duties and anti-smuggling affairs in various localities.

The customs affairs are independent from the Ministry of Taxation, which is also an important measure for Li Xuan to control the Ministry of Taxation, the current power of the Ministry of Taxation is too great, in the past, there is a lack of talents, and in order to do things conveniently, Li Xuan almost put things related to money in the Ministry of Taxation, taxation, customs, salary, budget, financial monitoring and other affairs are all under the Ministry of Taxation.

And such a tax department is obviously abnormal, and Li Xuan plans to gradually split the tax department.

Splitting the customs is only the first step, and later Li Xuan will split the financial supervision, budget, and salary payment, so that the tax department will return to a pure taxation department.

However, even if many powers are split up at that time, the authority of the Ministry of Taxation will still be the largest among the institutions under the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty, if nothing else, because it is taxed.

After all, Li Xuan has no intention of abolishing the tax inspection team, and he also plans to formalize the tax inspection team and make the tax inspection team a kind of tax police.

When the General Administration of Customs was established, Li Xuan also made some small changes to the current maritime trade policy, which were not too big, mainly to adjust the tariffs on some imported and exported materials.

Import tariffs on various types of raw materials have been significantly reduced.

However, high tariffs were raised on imported industrial products, such as knives and folding fans imported from Fuso, guns imported from foreigners, and even merchants ordered ships from shipyards in Malacca, which were controlled by Nanyang Franco.

In terms of exports, there are two extremes, one is a special and almost exclusive export product of China, such as silk and raw silk and other related products, which have slightly increased export tariffs.

Because these things are exclusive products, raising export tariffs is also quite a way to raise prices, and if you raise the price, you still have to buy it, not to mention, after these things are transported to Europe by sea, the price has increased several times.

The focus of the silk business from Huaxia to Europe is not what the purchase price is, but whether it can be safely shipped back!

For the northern grasslands, tea, salt, iron and other products have also increased export tariffs.

However, some other products have greatly reduced export tariffs, that is, cloth, soap and other light industrial products!

In particular, in order to quickly open up markets in other regions and compete with the local natives' own hand-woven fabrics, it is necessary to have a low price.

Nowadays, all kinds of cheap machine-made cloth from China have begun to widely enter all parts of Southeast Asia, Fuso, and even North Korea is pouring into a large number of machine-made cloth, I don't know how many poor families have lost this additional source of hand-woven cloth, and then caused local economic turmoil.

Mechanism cloth, in Li Xuan's view, is not only a strategic product used by the Tang Dynasty to collect wealth, but also a strategic weapon used to destroy the economy and political situation of external indigenous countries!

When the mechanical cloth in the Tang Dynasty first appeared, many textile workshops in the Jiangnan area also closed down a lot, and the weavers were in turmoil, that is, after the Tang Dynasty occupied the Jiangnan area, a lot of textile factories were built in the local area, and the local weavers were re-employed, otherwise, I don't know how much turmoil it would cause.

However, cloth requires a large amount of cotton as a raw material, and although the number of cotton planted in the Tang Dynasty is growing rapidly at an explosive rate, it is still difficult to meet the huge demand, and a large number of them are purchased by sea.

Nowadays, many Arabs, Indians, and even Francophiles come to trade, and they come with half a shipload of cotton and a small half a ship of silver or gold!

Why don't you bring all cotton? Because they have to set aside the cabin for silver or gold.

No way, although Datang needs a lot of cotton, but cotton is not an expensive material, a whole ship is not worth much, and the goods they need to buy are silk, porcelain, tea or something, these things are not cheap, especially silk, which is a serious luxury.

If they don't bring so much cash and cash, what are they going to buy silk?

And some smart businessmen are transporting some commodities given by the Tang Dynasty with high prices and the same high demand, such as saltpeter and sulfur, these two things, the official of the Tang Dynasty has been buying for a long time, and the price is not low.

At the same time, spices are also an important commodity used to balance the trade deficit, but now the merchants of the Tang Dynasty themselves go to the South Seas to find spices to transport back to China, which will not give too many opportunities to merchants from other countries.

So now, in the trade between the Tang Dynasty and other countries, whether it is with Fusang, the indigenous people of Nanyang, or with the Francos and the Spaniards, there is a surplus, and it is a very large surplus.

Every time there was a trade, a pile of white silver entered the treasury, and the silver in the treasury increased day by day, and the treasury of the Royal Bank was built one after another, one bigger than the other!

But a few years later, in late May of the seventh year of Xuanping, Lord Wang Haomen, director of the Financial Department of the Ministry of Taxation, gave Li Xuan an excerpt, which raised a very interesting question: Why do we want so much silver?

Lord Wang Haomen said in the excerpt that silver cannot be eaten or used, and has almost no practical use value except for jewelry and a small number of industrial applications.

The barbarians kept digging up the silver mines, and then they came to us with the silver to buy all kinds of real products, and we only got piles of silver that we could not eat or use, and we could not spend it if we wanted to, because we had a trade surplus!

In this case, the question arises: why do we need so much silver?

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