2. Jingshi money pays taxes

The Book of Rites. "Hiring" says: "Guizhang Teda, Deye." ”

If the husband has no moral character, no matter how rich he is, he is still a busy person.

At the end of the letter, Liu Yuxi also deliberately mentioned one thing in a slightly disdainful tone.

After he wrote "Huashan Song", he also gave it to Quan Deyu to look at, but when Quan saw the sentence "The mountains are infinite, so Fang is Yue", he actually said to him in horror that these two sentences have committed the name of Wei Guogong, and they can be covered or replaced by homophones.

At this point, Liu Yuxi looked down on the right and moral opinion who was a sycophant everywhere, so he said to Liu privately in the letter: "Although there is a divine horse in this world, it is too much to get to the point where ten thousand horses are together." ”

Liu Zongyuan smiled bitterly, he knew that this sentence was aimed at Gao Yue, the Duke of Weiguo, and he didn't know how to reply to his friend, so he had to fold it.

He only remembered what Gao Yue said: "If you want to succeed, you can't let yourself fail." If you lose, everything will be gone, and you won't be able to talk about ambitions and ambitions. ”

At the beginning of autumn, Cui Yunshao, Yunhe, and Zhihui, who came to Yangzhou, went to visit Heguan Changjie together.

In front of the transshipment yard in Yangzi Town, merchants from all over the country gathered and boiled endlessly, and the whole river was full of boats ready to be transported along the Bianshui River.

"This, this ......" Wang Haichao stood in the courtyard hall after Yangzi stayed, stammering.

Sitting opposite was Gao Yue.

Wang Haichao was shocked and puzzled: the size of the ship outside the transfer courtyard was not loaded with money.

Even if the two taxes this time, Gao Yue said that he only needed to pay 30% in cash, but he said that he would not understand all the money and send it to the treasury of the Jingshi Branch Division.

In addition, Gao Yue really abolished the false assessment method, and when the people used rice and cloth to pay taxes, he also deliberately issued a document, stipulating that the people's cloth and silk were fixed according to the consistent 200 Wen per horse, and each stone of rice was fixed according to 700 Wen, so that even if the people paid taxes in kind, it was much less than in previous years, so that the people of Huainan were all happy, and even some states and counties had begun to worship Gao Yue's ancestral shrine!

And the salt merchants hated Gao Yue and hated him to death.

"Duke Wei, if you don't need to send this thirty percent of the cash to Jingshi by boat, just send cloth and some Hu dou rice, judge Xiao Pei's side and dare not speak, but the Holy Lord He!" Wang Haichao can only say this.

"After the king stayed, not only did he not give the cash of the two taxes, but also did not give the two million yuan he received from the salt distribution." Gao Yue's next request made Wang Haichao want to kneel down and kowtow to this grandfather, to the extent that he opened his skull and broke his neck.

Could it be that this Gao Yue wants to occupy Huainan Kyushu to rebel?

If you die, you will die, why bother me.

But Gao Yue said: "The queen must have scolded me for being rebellious in my heart, knowing that the Holy Lord now needs to pay taxes in the Jianghuai Eight Roads the most, but he actually dares to withhold the two taxes and salt and iron. ”

"How dare you dare, it's just that Duke Wei should at least use the money to convert it into light goods and send it to Jingshi."

"I don't have to send Huainan's money to Jingshi, and I don't convert it into false standard light goods, but I won't be short of any money hidden on the left and right."

“?” Wang Haichao raised his head and looked at Gao Yue in wonder, to see if he had a playful expression.

However, Gao Yue was serious, "I used the money of the Jingshi as two taxes and hid it on the left and right. ”

“??” Wang Haichao's expression was like this.

"And the money collected in Huainan can stay in Huainan."

“???”

At this time, Gao Yue high-fived, and from the crowd outside the hall, a column of people wearing silk and satin came over.

"This is Prince Fu, a tea merchant in Xuanzhou." Gao Yue introduced to Wang Haichao.

Wang Zifu followed by a number of people, holding tea cakes with excellent texture, and Gao Yue introduced in turn: "Tianzhu tea in Shuzhou, Huoshan yellow buds in Shouzhou, and Shugang tea produced in our Yangzhou tea garden, as long as these teas can be trafficked to Biansong and Zoulu, the price can be tripled; If it can be trafficked to the eastern capital, the price can be increased fivefold; When you arrive in Chang'an, it can be increased sevenfold; If it is sold all the way to Chiling and sold to Xifan, the price can be increased by twelve or three times. ”

Wang Haichao listened to it, to be honest, don't talk about Tianzhu tea and yellow buds, even the local Shugang tea in Yangzhou, he lacks understanding.

Then another businessman stepped forward, holding a small medicine bag in his hand.

"The herbs inside, most of them are transported to Yangzhou along the river road in Xingyuan and Xichuan, as the saying goes, 'Jiangnan medicine is less Huainan', in fact, Huainan does not produce medicine, but because of the developed water and land transportation and has become a distribution center, this pharmacist named Feng Jun specializes in trafficking drugs to Jiangnan and Zhejiang, and profits several times."

The next one, Gao Yue, introduced that his name was Wang Zhongyuan, and he was a carpentry merchant.

"My Tang capital is Chang'an City, how many palaces, Jiadi, temples, and mansions are more than 10 million? Wood and woodware were not used, but in the early years there were no trees in the whole of Gyeonggi that could be used as houses and furniture, and Huazhou and Shaanzhou could still be produced by the valleys, but most of them had to be transported from Lanzhou in Hedong or Longshan in Qinzhou. But my Huainan timber is still lush, if the Yangtze River is completely swept away in the future, it can also be transported from Eyue and Jiangxi to make wood. ”

Wang Haichao saw that Wang Zhongyuan was holding a very delicate bed model in his hand.

"This kind of bed is ingenious, and it can be transported to Jingshi along the Cao River, and it can make a profit of 20,000 yuan, not to mention other wooden objects."

Later, there were several Hu merchants wearing silk robes, black curled hair, rich beards, high noses and deep eyes, and fair complexions.

What Hu Daoji was holding in his hand was jewelry made of gold and jewelry.

"Yangzhou has gold, silver and copper, and there are Hu merchants and Hu shops, which specialize in processing gold, silver and jewelry for profit. Just transporting raw gold from here to Jingshi, and selling it when the price of gold rises slightly, can make a profit of 8,000 yuan per tael, and if it is sold as jewelry made of jewelry, the profit can reach 15,000 yuan per tael. ”

Gradually, Wang Haichao seemed to understand what Gao Yue meant by using Jingshi money to pay two taxes to the treasury.

Sure enough, Gao Yue said below: "Not to mention, my Yangzhou can also transport yarn, wine, rattan paper, porcelain and other goods from the two Zhejiang regions in the south of the Yangtze River, and sell them to both sides, and the profits can be doubled." ”

Immediately, Gao Yue invited two businessmen, a man and a woman, and then introduced the man as Uncle Wang, and the woman as Aunt Yu.

"These two have a large number of ships, called dealers (wholesalers), the Quartet merchants have to rely on them, the so-called hidden goods, people are not visible, so the following things are very simple, Uncle Wang, Yu Damiang's ship, and Yangzhou left behind the ship, and our military government new shipbuilding, come together, no longer transport tax money, no longer transport light goods, but will be our good goods in Yangzhou, along the Cao transport until the east capital, the west of the sale, the profits obtained are all cash, and finally all converged to my Huainan in the Beijing Division's Jinjuan Academy, Let the Jinsoin directly treat this money as two taxes and send it to the treasury, isn't this using the money of the Jingshi to pay the taxes? In this way, Huainan's money can stay in Huainan for local circulation, the money shortage will no longer exist, and the imperial court will no longer have to bear the burden of foot money, and there will be a strange situation of 'spending money and transporting money'. ”

"But after the merchant arrived in Jingshi, all the money from the sale of goods was sent to the Jinjuin and then entered the treasury, so how should the merchant benefit?"

Facing Wang Haichao's question, Gao Yue took out a piece of colored paper from his sleeve, "As long as Shang Jia takes money and exchanges this thing from the Jinjuan Academy, and when he returns to Yangzhou, he can use it to get the same amount of money, and there is absolutely no debt." Fupin Chinese