After thinking for a moment, King Xian asked Bailiyan again:

"Does Yongxing Hou have a good plan for this?"

"Back to the king, what the tall man discussed is indeed worth discussing, but it is not without a solution, the key is the horseshoe."

After the horse was tamed by humans, the frequent running of the horse's hooves greatly accelerated the probability of aging and injury in the horse, and the cuticle on the horse was injured by the wear and tear of the ground, thus the horseshoe appeared.

After the appearance of ironware, due to the thickness of the horseshoe, the bronze or pure copper horseshoe was too brittle or too soft, and the durability was not as good as leather, so the effect of copper products was not as good as leather.

However, there is also a problem with leather wrapping horseshoe, although it is easy to replace the material, but leather is prone to cause fungal diseases of horseshoe in wet areas and long-term marching, so before the appearance of iron horseshoe, the life of horseshoe is not long.

At present, due to the fact that iron tools have not yet been popularized, the penetration rate of iron horse iron in the vassal states is average, and the Xianjun army benefited from Yongxing's special products, and all iron horse iron was realized ten years ago. In view of the fact that the resistance of iron horse iron is much higher than that of leather and copper products, Xianguo iron horse iron is not sold to the outside world.

In recent years, the export of iron materials in Xianguo has also promoted the popularization of iron horse iron, but the quantity is still not large. In addition, horse iron is a consumable, and the lack of iron production has led countries to complete the conversion of horse rail.

After all, the loss of horseshoes is commonplace, and it is only necessary to knock on the extension and upper surface of the horse iron that does not participate in the wear, and knock on the side of the horse's hooves with the number and steel seal, and the annual tax only needs to look at the steel seal to know whether the horse has a tax this year.

Four shoes are stamped at the same time, and even if one is damaged and replaced, only the other three horses need to be re-stamped. In this way, the horse iron is replaced in turn, and the sequence of the steel seal will never change.

In order to prevent malicious replacement of farriers, tax evasion or stealing beams and changing columns, or hiding horses, and unloading four pieces of horse iron at the same time, the steel seal horse iron has since implemented a franchise system, and the replacement of steel seal horse iron can only go to the designated iron shop, and at the same time does not prohibit private iron shops to replace the ordinary horse iron without printing, even if you can't go to the franchise iron shop to replace the damaged horse iron, you can't always lose the four horse iron before you want to go to the designated iron shop to replace the horse iron.

The "horse iron knocking" method is simple and easy to operate, and the key point is that only Yongxing City has a qualified steel seal with standardized production standards, and it is extremely difficult for outsiders to imitate it. Lu Gao and Zhao Xun deeply agreed with this, and Gao Xun could not object.

"Since this law is feasible, the widow will see that the state political supervisor will take out a charter and report it to the widow within a month, and the matter of Ma Tie will be implemented as soon as possible after the Yongxing Hou and Sima Mansion discuss it."

"Your Ministers obey."

Everyone spoke in unison, and the prince did not object, but inadvertently looked at Bailiyan when he bowed his head.

The incident of the king's family has not yet been decided, and King Xian used this as an excuse to quietly start a new round of power reduction with lightning speed.

In the evening of the same day, the news of the introduction of the horse tax spread, and the reactions of all parties were mixed. Xihuan was happy first, happy because he finally had Fu Lingjun, who carried the black cauldron for the dead ghost. Later, there was another anger, Bailiyan levied a horse tax, and the cavalry that Xihuan had supported for many years would become a hot potato in the blink of an eye.

Qing Xijun Mi Yuan couldn't be even more happy, not to mention that the limelight has not passed now, the two thousand high-grade war horses under his command must be taxed, and the horses harbored in other names must also be taxed, which is obviously Baili Yan's sinister intention to exclude dissidents.

However, the damage to Qing Xijun Miyuan is nominally the loss of the prince, but in fact it is Xihuan, but the prince has tried his best in this matter.

Horses, especially military horses, are expensive animals that need not only forage, but also food. The fundamental reason why all countries attach importance to the construction of their cavalry is that the territory is too vast, and most of the cavalry is not an army dedicated to cavalry combat, but a means of transportation for infantry troops to transfer from place to place.

Of course, there are many cases where infantry fights on horseback and part-time cavalry, but the results are often not ideal.

Thanks to the huge territory of the Central Plains and tens of millions of square kilometers of grasslands in the south, the Central Plains is rich in horses, subject to the previous low agricultural production capacity, high costs, all countries have taken into account horse breeding, horse breeding in addition to tools, but also as a source of meat.

In the past 20 years of agricultural innovation, Xianguo has changed the existing agricultural pattern, increasing the grain output of the Central Plains by more than 50 percent to more than 1 time on average, increasing the yield per mu of Xianguo by 2.5 times, and making it possible to raise a large number of horses. The powerful do not care about the high cost of raising horses, but keep a large number of horses privately.

When luxury goods became the price of cabbage, the rules of the market and the existing laws could not restrain them, and the introduction of the horse tax undoubtedly re-regulated the development of new things, set new standards, and under the will of the monarch, made policy a guiding tool to weaken the classes that wanted to be weakened.

The next day, the news of the introduction of the horse tax caused an uproar, and the reasonable or unreasonable forces instigated the spokesmen of the interests of foreign dynasties to speak out one after another to boycott the horse tax.

Since Bai Liyan controlled the three departments of Sinong, Zhisu Internal History and Tax Division, and Zhao Xun and Lu Gao were at the helm of Sima Mansion, the two forces accounted for more than two-thirds of the outer dynasties.

The horse tax has little impact on the three marquis, Bailiyan himself does not raise a large number of cavalry, although Xuanting and Luhou have private soldiers, but there are not many cavalry, and the three marquis are more to buy cargo ships and pack horses to transport goods, and the impact is not great, and the horse tax is not only taxed on the division of grades and quantities, but also on the division of knights. The higher the title, the greater the privileges, the more horses you can raise, and the higher the rank.

Of course, there are no absolutes, and the biggest "victim" is actually not the likes of Qing Xijun, but the cavalry of the Guangxin Mansion. After the disarmament of Guangxin, he still retained a cavalry of 4,000 people, even if it was a duke, no matter how much Bailiyan bent the law for personal gain, he could not keep a thousand people, so some people thought that they had got his handle and attacked him wantonly.

However, according to the spirit of King Xian, it is necessary to both discipline and encouragement, so as long as you have the money to pay taxes, you can raise horses outside the quota, and you can raise horses well.

Since the horse tax itself has a serious tendency to reduce power, this article is both a big truth and an empty talk of extrajudicial benevolence.

First of all, the tax law that was revised in the early years encouraged meritorious service and loyalty to the nobility, while maintaining the privileges of all nobles from resistance to reform.

The proportion of taxes that the secretary needs to pay is not high, followed by the marquis, then the prince, the secretary, and finally the doctor, in general, the tax paid by the prince is still much higher than that of the marquis. No matter how Kuangxin reduces horse breeding, it is still much more than Fengjun.

In the end, the new tax law is actually quite tricky, Bailiyan in order to ensure fairness and crack down on the powerful, the common people implement a normal tax rate, no matter how much they earn, the tax rate is basically not floating without special circumstances, businessmen and private small and micro workshops implement small, medium fixed tax rates and large regulatory tax rates, when the transaction scale reaches a level and upper line, a specific tax rate is implemented, and the powerful implement a ladder tax and year-end tribute, or even a floating tax rate.

The more the powerful earn, the more taxes they pay on the ladder, and at the end of the year, they have to deduct a tribute, and they will also peel off a layer of skin for a year. The more fatal tax repayment law has a clear tendency, the higher the rank of knighthood, the lower the tax rate of the tiered tax.

The reason is very simple, Xianguo only has one duke and three marquis, and a few Shangqing, and the others are feudal monarchs and scholars, and the scale of scholars' assets is not large, so the ladder tax is tailored for the feudal monarch class. He Bailiyan can't kill himself and frame himself to death, not to mention that he is the bulk of the contribution to the national treasury, education, industry, and scientific research are all hanging on his money bag, and there must be a place to go.

Even though Guangxin inevitably withdrew the cavalry, it was the feudal monarch who suffered in the end.

Three days after the incident, under the repeated urging of King Xian, Jiao Muhua personally escorted Fu Lingjun back to Mianjun in Chenling.

At this time, the serious shortcomings of the current feudal bureaucratic system are highlighted, in ancient China, there were Tingwei in the Han Dynasty, Dali Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and Zongren Mansion in the Qing Dynasty.

Fu Lingjun is a feudal nobleman, but he is not a relative of the emperor, and according to the rule, King Xian should be tried and convicted in person, and it is not the turn of the priest's mansion to ask.

The reason is that the powerful have judicial privileges, and the power of life and death is in the hands of the monarch, and the current judiciary is more oriented to the common people, so it is not feasible to let the commoners govern the aristocracy, and no one wants to set this precedent.

For the elite, judicial trials are like putting knives around their necks, which is harmful to others and not to themselves. There are disadvantages and advantages to promoting judicial privilege, but on the whole the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. The only advantage is that Bailiyan can do extraordinary things illegally, take advantage of the limitations of the world's cognition in the context of the times, and accelerate the process of the times.

Fu Lingjun's case was too bizarre and sensational, and King Xian couldn't make up his mind, so he ordered the crown prince and the cabinet to join the Imperial Doctor and the Sidian Mansion, and select ten civil and military personnel from other dynasties to be tried by the State Political Supervision Commission.

The trial of Fu Lingjun itself is a simple case that cannot be simpler, because the rich businessman Tong Wei of Zhiguo has died and his subordinates have fled, and Fu Lingjun is talking to himself from beginning to end, and the trial process is also smooth.

It took less than an hour to clear up the matter, but then it took three days to get the ins and outs of the matter, during which Qiu Ruipu, Huang Che, Xuanting Hou and others were summoned into the palace to inquire about the details, and finally the source of the problem was Bailiyan's wanton search for horse thieves, and the matter returned to the starting point.

Seeing this result, King Xian was silent for a long time and then said angrily:

"These profiteers should be killed!"

"The king is angry, everything is the negligence of the ministers who did not understand the people's feelings, and the merchants took advantage of the opportunity, and the ministers were willing to accept the guilt."

Bai Liyan pleaded guilty, and King Xian shook his head and waved his hand:

"What is wrong with Aiqing, if it weren't for this riot, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty would still be played by a ** businessman in applause, which is simply a big joke in the world."

At this time, Xuanting Hou Qiao Lian stepped forward and said:

"My lord, although this matter happened to the king's family, in the final analysis, it has become a private rule among businessmen, and it is useless to rely on the court to suppress it. After this riot, the merchants will continue to trade according to the established practice, and the ministers think that it is better to restrain them, and perhaps they can make up for the losses. ”

King Xian was angry, and immediately glared at Qiao Lian, and said angrily:

"How to restrain it, do you want the widow to allow the profiteers to hoard and maliciously raise the price outside the capital, so that the world will laugh at the widow."

"The minister thinks it......" Gao Xun stepped forward and said: "What the Marquis of Xuanting said is reasonable, the 'deed' and 'pregnancy' have become a law, and it is difficult to abolish it by the laws of the imperial court. Now it is profitable, if it is preemptively controlled by other countries, the loss is still the national strength of the Xian country, and the king is invited to see it. ”

"Since Gao Qing thinks it is reasonable, how should he control it?" King Xian asked, his tone still stern.

"This matter involves a lot of things, and we should brainstorm and think about it in the long run, but we must not ban harming the national body."

Gao Xun said this, which means that he didn't say it, and King Xian was very angry:

"Thinking about it in the long run, thinking about it in the long run, the widow is tired of hearing it. So many nobles are involved in the 'deed' to make huge profits, so how to think about the long-term situation. ”

"There is a law that may have immediate results."

Baili Yan made a sound, and King Xian hurriedly asked:

"Aiqing said quickly, is there any good way to solve this difficulty."

"The minister suggested opening futures and public offices, collecting deed tax and stamp duty, and putting pregnancy and interest under the supervision of the government."

"What is the futures public office, and what is stamp duty?"

King Xian asked, and Bai Liyan said in detail.