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Seoul today.

The outer city is more than 20 miles in radius, the moat is more than 20 zhang wide, the inside and outside of Hao are planted with willows, and the pink wall Zhu Hu prohibits people from coming and going.

The city gates are all urns, and the three layers of the city are bent to open the door, and it is daunting.

When they entered the city, they set up a war tent and placed a command guard and a secret outpost, and they were amazed.

In the city, all kinds of trees and willows become yin.

The traffic inside and outside the city is very convenient, and the rivers inside and outside the city are staggered, and the water transportation is busy.

The streets are prosperous, the traffic is busy, there are countless shops in the streets and thousands of alleys, brothels, tea houses, incense shops, hooks, pharmacies, boot shops, horse shops, wine shops, tile markets, it can be said that there is everything, the business is prosperous, the business is prosperous, the service is considerate, and there are many public facilities that are not available in this era, such as the large-scale school and large-scale medical management that Li Yan specially explained to build, which is refreshing.

The Andong Protectorate is even more extraordinary, with brilliant gold, pavilions, flying dragon painting style, golden nails and red doors, and strict guards.

All the yamen official offices are nearby, and the warehouses are also gathered together, which is very convenient.

Along the way, not only Liang Hongyu was dazzled, but even Li Yan sighed with joy - the changes in Seoul are too great!

In front of the Dadu Protectorate, since Wen Huanzhang and below, hundreds of civil and military officials came to greet Li Yan, looking at his posture, if it wasn't for Li Yan's explanation in advance, they might have welcomed Li Yan to Incheon Port to pick up Li Yan!

Liang Hongyu behind Li Yan was the first time to come to Seoul, and it was also the first time to see the civil and military officials under Li Yan, so she couldn't help but be a little curious, and then secretly looked at these people.

After looking at it for a while, Liang Hongyu was surprised to find that the eyes of these people were all respect—respect from the heart.

And the object of their respect is obviously Li Yan.

"Why are officials so respected by them?" Liang Hongyu was puzzled!

It wasn't until a few days later that Liu Huiniang took the initiative to come to Liang Hongyu to talk about family life, and Liang Hongyu didn't know the reason.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Andong Protectorate, Li Yan abolished all taxes in the Northern Song Dynasty, including the two taxes.

At this time, the two largest taxes were changed by Li Yan to be paid only once a year - starting from getting the land (including those divided by the government and also including those cultivated by themselves), in the first year, only the area of land owned by him multiplied by 10% of the average grain production, the second year to pay the area of land owned by him multiplied by 20% of the average grain production, and from the third year onwards, the land area owned by him was multiplied by 30% of the average grain production.

At the same time, Li Yan proposed 19 kinds of taxes, including value-added tax, consumption tax, business tax, enterprise income tax, individual income tax, resource tax, urban land use tax, real estate tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, cultivated land occupation tax, land value-added tax, vehicle purchase tax, vehicle and vessel tax, stamp duty, deed tax, tobacco tax, customs duties, ship tonnage tax, and fixed asset investment direction adjustment tax, and made a detailed explanation of these 19 tax systems.

The tax system formulated by Li Yan is extremely flexible and ingenious in terms of taxation of circulation, taxation of income, taxation of resources, taxation of property, and taxation of behavior.

Not to mention, the tax system that Li Yan came up with, while greatly reducing the burden on the peasants and the poor, has also doubled the amount of tax revenue compared with before, and this is only received at the initial stage of development at present, and in the foreseeable future, it will definitely be even more.

The main subject of taxation (wealthy businessmen) does not find it difficult to accept, and they are also actively maintaining this tax system.

Why?

Because Li Yan was different from previous rulers, he vigorously encouraged trade and lifted the heavy shackles that had been imposed on merchants for thousands of years.

Previously, the status of merchants was very low.

There are four classes in society, namely, scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants.

Scholars, officials, scholars, and scholars had the highest status, followed by peasants and landlords, then craftsmen, craftsmen, and finally merchants.

Businessmen are discriminated against.

To what extent is discrimination severe?

Qin Shi Huang "went to the peasants to eliminate the end, and the head of Guizhou was rich", which means "advocating agriculture, deposing industry and commerce, and the people will be rich", and then "migrating to the world to 120,000 rich households in Xianyang" to monitor and supervise the rich.

When it came to Qin II, it was even more absurd: he sent nine categories of people with the lowest political status to Lingnan, four of which were closely related to merchants, namely: he was a merchant, he was a merchant, his grandparents were merchants, and his parents were merchants. In other words, once a former businessman, all three generations of children and grandchildren will be exiled.

After the Han Dynasty and before the Song Dynasty, the attitudes and routines of the rulers towards merchants were mostly the same number, and they always could not escape a few words: suppression, attack, smear, and humiliation. There are a variety of methods, some of which are really incredible. For example, in the Jin Dynasty, the law stipulated that those who do business should wrap their foreheads in a white towel and write their names on the white towel, and the shoes on their feet must wear white shoes on one foot and black shoes on the other. The former Qin Fujian ordered merchants not to wear gold and silver brocade, and violators were beheaded. According to the laws of the Northern Wei Dynasty, merchants were never allowed to be officials. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was also stipulated that merchants or sons of merchants were not allowed to participate in scientific expeditions.

(In the Han Dynasty, there was a saying of "donating officials", but in fact it was "buying officials".) But most of the people who can buy officials are scholars and those who are cultivators, and there is no business of merchants. ）

The Song Dynasty was slightly better, and merchants were much less discriminated against than before, but it was not to say that there was no discrimination at all.

In short, businessmen were discriminated against before, and there was no protection, and once the country was short of money, they began to use various reasons to copy a wave of homes.

In Li Yan's case, not only did he introduce many policies to encourage trade, but he also abolished all discrimination against merchants - as long as merchants paid the taxes prescribed by the government, they enjoyed the rights of ordinary citizens.

Li Yan's strong support for commerce directly led to the unprecedented prosperity of Seoul, and the prosperity is rapidly developing to other areas of Li Yan.

In addition, Li Yan is preparing to introduce currency reform and money banks to further promote business development.

In addition to reforming himself, Li Yan also allowed others to reform.

Li Yan is not like the previous people in power, for the reform, either resolutely opposed, feared like a tiger, or resolutely supported, regardless of the consequences, or today to support tomorrow does not support the change of the day, let alone mud, but very creative put forward the "experimental field system" - that is, no matter what reform, first divide a reform area for experiment, if the experiment is successful, vigorously carry it out, if the experiment fails, first summarize the reasons for the failure, and then work together to find remedial measures. Once it is determined that this reform cannot be carried out or that there is a huge loophole that cannot be filled, it will be resolutely abandoned.

The "experimental field system" proposed by Li Yan proposed the most feasible and safest system for reform, so that those reformers had the opportunity to exert their enthusiasm, and also allowed the conservatives to control these reforms, so that the regime of Shuibo Liangshan would not have the same dispute between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang as the change-guarding dispute, and the problems that the Song Dynasty had not been able to solve for decades were easily solved by Li Yan.

All in all, although Li Yan made few shots, every time he made a move, people could see Li Yan's cleverness and unparalleled wisdom.

But although Li Yan is full of genius, he does not seize power, grasps what should be grasped, and does not drag the mud and water where he should let go, and he is extremely daring to use people, so that the vast majority of civil and military officials can realize the value of their lives.

Let's ask, how can such a Li Yan not be respected and loved by them?

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