After a while, Pei Yancheng asked again: "At present, the Liao merchants are really rich, and they use the method of smuggling salt and iron to make a lot of money from the Han people in my Song Dynasty, and they have been repeatedly banned. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and my northern government is losing a lot of salt and iron taxes, how can this point be broken? ”

What Lao Pei said is indeed a strange circle and tumor in the Great Song Dynasty. One of the malpractices of Cai Jing, a traitor, is: heavy taxes on salt, iron, and charcoal.

This is because Lao Cai can't manage his subordinates well, and his rights are obtained by indulging his subordinates. However, serious corruption caused an extremely tight financial situation in the country, coupled with the stubborn disease of the Great Song Dynasty -- redundant officials and redundant soldiers. Zhao Ji didn't know the folk situation, he was fooled by a group of people to enjoy, and was fooled by Taoist priests to build Shenxiao Wanshou Palace in the world. As a result, the finances of the Great Song Dynasty were facing collapse.

Then Cai Jing can't throttle under his administration, because as soon as he tightens his policy to fight corruption, the first person who opposes him is the Cai Party's henchmen, so Lao Cai only has open source. In terms of open source, he did not have the level, did not have many methods, and did not have enough ability, so he could only levy heavy taxes on the daily necessities that the common people could not avoid, salt, iron, charcoal, to maintain the financial use of the dynasty.

As a result, the burden on the people of the world is too heavy. This is one of the factors that contribute to the formation of escapes.

If you don't care about heavy taxes, you can really collect all of them and use them for finance, which can be regarded as having some effect.

However, one of the biggest drawbacks of the heavy tax on salt and iron is that while the people are suffering, the biggest beneficiary group is the smuggling of Liao merchants!

Yes, there is no shortage of salt, iron and charcoal. The Song Dynasty imposed heavy taxes on this, resulting in the extremely high prices of these things, and the Liao State and the Song State were allies, and the Liao people's military strength made the imperial court fearful, so basically the Liao people were "foreign adults" in the Song Dynasty. Then when the government in the north is cowardly and inactive, and fights to close its eyes, there are compradors like the Chai family and Lu Junyi who should pull the strings and provide armed protection. As a result, the Liao merchants were able to smuggle salt, iron and charcoal into the north like no man's land, and sell salt and iron to the common people of Hanwa at a price significantly lower than that of the Song Dynasty government.

On the whole, the common people were still sucked blood, but the government pulled hatred but did not get enough benefits, and the largest source of wealth was earned by the hostile Liao merchants from the Song people.

These are the overall situation in the north at present. It is also the root cause of Cai Jing's policy that led to the collapse of finances and the extremely grim situation in the north. It is also a factor that Gao Fangping has always had a deep grudge against Lu Junyi and others.

A few days ago, Gao Fangping confronted Lu Junyi for the first time in Bei 1 Beijing, and used the "black blacksmith" incident as a breakthrough to make a decisive battle with Lu Junyi, which frightened Lu Junyi so much that he retracted his claws, for which he also washed Liaoren Street in blood and executed a large number of smuggling Liao merchants who had a private relationship with him, causing a political embarrassing situation between Song and Liao.

However, after that time, the situation was initially stabilized. So at that time, it lasted for a long time, and the tax revenue in the north was greatly red. Uncle Zhang, who supervised the household department, was really smiling at that time.

However, according to the feedback from the Ministry of Households, the red only lasted until the middle of this year, and the taxes related to salt and iron fell again. After nearly a year of separation, Lu Junyi and the group of smuggling merchants who cared about profits began to contact and cooperate again.

Therefore, Gao Fangping, who was in power in Yuncheng at that time, according to Fu'an's report, immediately caught the resurgence of salt and iron smuggling from Liaodi into the north, so Gao Fangping simply used the "escape" incident to lift the tax on salt, iron and charcoal in one fell swoop.

Yes, at that time, Xiao Gao was evaluated as having an impulsive personality and a pit in his brain, and he actually sent the Yongle Army to protect Wang Qinfei with the reputation of the government, and they went to sell illegal salt and charcoal. The officials of the salt and iron field affairs approached and were driven away by the Yongle army. For this reason, in the imperial court, Xiao Gao was also impeached several times, but fortunately, Uncle Zhang was obscene at night, and helped Xiao Gao to get through under the pretext of "Gao Fangping's total tax burden has increased".

Gao Fangping's actions were simple and crude. Others would rather give to outsiders than to domestic slaves. However, Gao Fangfang reversed himself, and would rather smuggle money for gentry like Wang Qinfei to make this profit, rather than make money for the smuggled Liao merchants. Damn, the imperial court can't make it anyway, Wang Qinfei and they only make two layers of profits, and after they make it, they still exist in Gao Fangping's money bank, but those smuggling merchants and Lu Junyi earn at least five layers, and they are finally brought abroad, causing the outflow of copper coins from the Great Song Dynasty, and the financial order once almost collapsed.

However, Gao Fangping's policy is not absolutely effective, and once a policy has so many loopholes and enters a vicious circle, it proves that the policy has failed and that there should be no such policy.

That means that it cannot be strictly controlled, and it should be left to be legalized.

Yes, Gao Fangping knew that the more the government acted at this point, the stricter the salt and iron taxes were, the greater the interests of the Liao merchants and the more wealth flowed out of the country. So damn it, Gao Fangping directly sent the Yongle Army to participate in smuggling at that time to compete with those smuggled goods that came in from Liaodi.

Gao Fangping didn't know what was going on in other places, but the Liao merchant capital in Jeju was bloodbathed by Xiao Gao's support for Wang Qinfei and other sharks. The goods they got from thousands of miles through layers of government offices and checkpoints were cheaper than cabbage in Jeju.

Want to evacuate Jeju? It's not that simple.

Shi Wenbin could order Gao Fangping not to touch the Liao merchants, but the group of thieves in Shuibo who were eager to use money did not dare to rob others, but at that time, the Liao merchants in Jeju were very devoured by Chao Gai's group of bandits. The Yongle Army did not send troops to suppress the bandits, waiting for them to eat dogs. The reason was that the Yongle army did not receive taxes and fees from the Liao, so they refused to send troops to protect the "non-taxers".

These are the sources of policy and the root causes of confusion. It's all from Cai Jing's incompetence!

To a certain extent, it is speculated that Lu Junyi once again united with the Liao people to make money, so Lu Junyi decided that his mortal enemy Gao Fangping would also bite people, so I am afraid that it was under this kind of thinking that Lu Junyi's mind of striking first was born, and it is very likely that the background of the incident in Gaotang is like this.

Is it specific, how can Gao Fangping care, as a conspiracy theorist, Xiao Gao has to reason like this, and it is right to calculate this account on Lu Junyi's head.

However, the embarrassment is that Lu Junyi's pigtails have never been caught, and Bei 1 Jing is not under Xiao Gao's rule, so he can't hang Lu Junyi's compradors without evidence so rudely. If it is in Yuncheng, it will be simple, and you can clean up Lao Lu by forcing Chao Gai and the others away.

Lao Pei's suggestion triggered Gao Fangping's gushing associations, and he was YY for a while.

"What's the matter? Is there a good solution to the question of salt and iron tax? Pei Yancheng pushed him.

Gao Fangping replied: "When such a situation occurs in a policy, the best solution is 'legalization'. Abolishing these taxes would win the hearts and minds of the people, and at the same time, kill the smuggling profits of these compradors. ”

Pei Yancheng was stunned and said: "The salt and iron tax is the law of the country, have you drunk too much, and you have legalized it without collecting taxes?" ”

"Isn't it a mallet?" Gao Fangping's sinister appearance smiled: "Referring to my method in Yuncheng at the time, the government does not track down the salt and iron tax, and even you can support a local tycoon and connive at him to sell illegal salt and charcoal, so that you can wash the blood of those Liao merchants who smuggled in." Don't be led by their noses, don't track down the smuggling of Liao merchants, because you can't find out at all, and those who find you can't beat the Liao soldiers. So go the opposite way, connive at the rise of a Lu Junyi's opponent, and acquiesce to his reasonable profits, and he will be ten times more efficient than you to tear up the smuggling merchants, all of which are money. At least this policy is quite effective in Yuncheng. The salt and iron tax lost by the national dynasty will be made up for in other ways, believe me, as long as the overall tax amount is not reduced, Uncle Zhang will not bite you. Lao Pei, cherish the period when Uncle Zhang was in power, the situation is changing rapidly, and no one knows what will happen in the future. Uncle Zhang's coming to power at night is an opportunity for me Xiao Gao to recuperate for Da Song, although Cai Jing's comeback makes this beginning not perfect, but it is already a silver start. Make good use of this period to reserve strength, because winter is coming. ”

Pei Yancheng's eyes lit up, and after hesitating for a while, he said: "Do you think, who has the strength to compete with Lu Junyi in North 1 Beijing?" ”

"I think it's going to be Li Cheng!" Gao Fangping said: "Yes, it is the control of the Beijing Garrison Division. He is a big corrupt official, and he has no integrity. Usually, it's just because it's too miserable to be suppressed by civilian officials, so it's low-key. But with his greed for money, as long as you support him, he will definitely not let go of this profit, his own martial arts are strong, greedy enough, and the 20,000 forbidden troops under his command are strength. At the same time, he is also my father's hardcore subordinate, which is more convenient to control. ”

Pei Yancheng touched his chin and said, "Dog 1st, I heard that why is this like you want to take revenge on Lu Junyi?" ”

"No, no, I don't have a good idea of this person. However, my personal vendetta with him has an egg effect, and you don't want to be stable if you don't masturbate this comprador north. Believe me, you must be ruthless, you must dare to eat ugly, dare to act. After Gao Fangping bewitched Pei Yancheng with nonsense, he patted him on the shoulder and slipped away

After having left the Youth Academy and ambushed nearby to hear the whole conversation between them, Liang Xiwen almost fainted. She felt that Gao Fangping, a bad boy, was completely hopeless. What he thinks about all day long is not a storm, nor is he hooking up with beautiful women, but that his brains are all "conspiracy to violate national law and harm local tyrants". This kind of behavior is a treacherous tyrant, not a famous and merciful man.

Liang Xiwen thinks that Gao Fangping may be a successful official in the future, but he is not a good gentleman, and he really failed to do a good job in the profession of a gentleman. In Liang Xiwen's daughter's mind, what she wants most at the moment is to go boating on the West Lake with this good-looking bad boy, drinking and playing the piano, and listening to his two romantic songs...... (To be continued.) )