Gao Yue has no worries now, and he confessed to Liu Yan in a loud voice:

"The boy wants to reform the two tax laws, and since then in the southeast of Jianghuai, abolish the tax law of paying money completely, and the people will offset the tax amount with cloth, rice and other goods, and eliminate the gap between the false valuation of cloth and the actual valuation, so that the boy thinks that it can not only alleviate the situation of money shortage and private casting, but also allow the financial resources of the people in the eight provinces of Jianghuai to be nourished."

Liu Yan nodded, and then asked: "Why does Yisong think that it is a good thing not to let the people pay money?" ”

"Master Yan, the kid has been an official in the Northwest, Xingyuan and Huainan successively, and he thinks that he has a good understanding of the situation in this world. From spring to winter, farmers raise silkworms, reel silk, sow seeds, crop crops, animal husbandry, and plant trees. However, in this world, ninety percent are peasants, and they are the foundation on which the court and the country rely on them. However, the peasants planted grain, raised livestock, and woven cotton and silk cloth, but they could not make money, and now the court forced them to use money to pay their taxes, so they could only sell their hard-earned income throughout the year to the merchants, convert it into money, and then pay it, and the court tax them a bucket of rice, they actually had to pay five buckets of rice, and they actually had to pay five pieces of cloth to tax them. Busy year, after paying taxes, Xiao Ran has nothing left, can only go to the market to exchange some salt, sauce, after returning home half of the wheat rice, rice, half of the bran bran, mixed with some salt sauce, is the people in a lifetime, can enjoy the greatest deliciousness. Some peasants, in their lifetime, can't even own a single penny, let alone eat the taste of mutton, pork or fish. When Gao Yue said this, his attitude was obviously a little excited, "The imperial court forced the people to fold money and pay taxes, which is equivalent to forcibly flowing money into the treasury and inner treasury of Chang'an, the capital of Shangdu, among which the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven's Daying Qionglin will habitually seal a considerable part, so that the money in the world is getting less and less, and it is because of the shortage of money." And the people's goods are becoming more and more cheap, so that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, and the cloth is cheap and hurts the workers, and there is nothing to do, so they take risks, and they go into the deep mountains of Jianghuai, or for the mountain sheds, or for the river thieves, or privately set up smelting furnaces, and steal coins, which is the fundamental reason for the repeated prohibitions of the imperial court. ”

"Then Yisong, have you ever thought about why the imperial court uses money to pay taxes?"

"For example, today, in all the copper producing places, the imperial court has set up a field, and the power of forging spring coins is in the hands, and the money can be used directly, which is already a layer of income; On the other hand, through taxation, the money was forcibly collected from the hands of the people again, so that the vast majority of the cash money went to the officials, and the market rarely diverted it. Money is getting more and more expensive, but the grain and silk utensils are getting more and more cheap, and the imperial court uses less money to exchange for the vast majority of grain and silk utensils, like axes and saws, and the merchants and workers and peasants are suffering more and more day by day. It is not difficult to imagine peasants becoming bandits, or giving up their crops to seek food. ”

"Seeking to eat, in addition to abandoning farmers and businessmen, is more often recruited as a soldier by Fang Zhen's Jiedu envoy, and relies on licking blood on the knife edge to get a reward and money, which is also the root of Fang Zhen's difficulty in suppressing it, right?"

"The kid thinks so...... So the kid's idea is that now that Helong has been recovered, and Helong does not produce mulberry hemp, let the two taxes of the people in the southeast of Jianghuai and Huai, eighty percent of them be paid with cloth and rice, and twenty percent of them will be converted into money to pay, and the coins minted by the states and counties with copper pits will no longer be sent to the Beijing Division, giving priority to local use, and then circulating with the goods sellers, which can not only alleviate the money shortage, but also allow the people to avoid exploitation. It's all cheap. ”

Hearing this, Liu Yan said to Gao Yue with a serious expression at this time: "Yisong, you have thought more thoroughly and deeply than you did at that time. Then he sighed and said, "I used to open up the luck, change the normal flat method, and establish the salt method, but now it seems that it is just a time to save the time, far from being called a salvation of the world!" The world's financial resources are all achieved by the people, although I have not increased taxes on the surface, but still through tea, salt, wine, these things that the people could not live without for a day, to take away the sweetness of their taste, to meet the accumulation of the government, the suffering of the people's survival, I Liu Yan is indeed to blame. ”

Gao Yue was also ashamed and sweating when he said this.

In fact, in order to take power, he also came up with many disguised tricks to carve and gather.

But an ideal is always an ideal, and reality is always a reality.

In this era, any feudal dynasty's management of the country, often unable to obtain wealth through "open source", that is, to increase production, for no other reason, the agricultural society is limited by technology, there are so many fields in the world, maybe through the early stage of light taxation, recuperation, to let the people's household registration breed, to open up more wasteland, in order to levy more taxes, forced labor and soldiers, to achieve the so-called prosperity, but all this will always with the limit of the dynasty's territory, and encounter bottlenecks, and finally the number of fields stagnate, In order to extract more wealth for its own expenses, it is necessary to constantly expand the ranks of taxation, that is, the bureaucracy, and the ranks of tax protection, that is, the military group, and then it is necessary to spend blood to maintain these two groups, and the cost still has to be borne on the heads of the people.

This is the crux of redundant officials and soldiers.

In the end, when the cost of taxation and protection is so heavy that it exceeds the limits that the whole world can bear, it will inevitably collapse, and the collapse will devour all the healthy and unhealthy cells of society by means of self-destruction, eliminate most of them, keep the small part that survives, reorganize the country, and start a new round of the process of making, spreading, and cutting cakes, and so on.

To put it bluntly, the wealth of a feudal dynasty is a cyclical process from zero to ten, and then self-destructs and then returns to zero.

Thinking of this, Gao Yue couldn't help but think of Wang Anshi.

Is Wang Anshi's change the so-called "state-run capitalism"?

No, stop being funny.

The most fundamental reason why capitalism is superior to feudalism is that capitalism also knows how to develop production and innovate technology while brutally oppressing, so as to obtain more wealth, that is, to "make the pie bigger"; Feudalism, on the other hand, only exploits and collects laborers, and the county system and the tax-bearer system are only different in the tricks of exploitation and different knife techniques for cutting cakes. (As for the economic development of the Great Song Dynasty, it is even more funny, it is nothing more than that the exploitation is more profound and tragic than that of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the financial resources of the whole country have been extracted, which makes the book figures of the tax number more beautiful.) It is true that a considerable part of the taxes in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were consumed by Fang Zhen, but in order to get more of this part of the taxes, the Great Song Dynasty also greatly increased the cost of taxation, that is, it was consumed by redundant officials and soldiers. Fang Zhen in the middle and late Tang Dynasty also undertook a considerable part of the national defense tasks, and the Great Song Dynasty spent most of the finances, but completely raised the army, which was not as effective as the middle and late Tang Dynasty when the feudal towns were divided)

Wang Anshi's "state-run" is actually to concentrate the blood obtained from the exploitation of laborers into the hands of the emperor to the greatest extent, and his ultimate goal is to turn the emperor into the biggest landlord and the strongest exploiter in the whole world.

This is also the root cause of his failure: the emperor exploited more, and the scholars exploited less, so the change was fiercely opposed by vested interests;

The exploitation of the emperor or the exploitation of scholars and doctors is the same pain for the people, so it is impossible to change the law and get the support of the people.

If he doesn't fail, who fails?

It is impossible to prevaricate just by saying that "people are not employed well".

And I, Gao Yue, will do my best to make the cake bigger from now on!