Gao Xun was speechless for a while, and the young man wanted to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed it again, thinking that he couldn't refute Lu Mo, so he could only give up. Seeing that Gao Xun was difficult to answer, Lu Mo smugly arched his hand to everyone, and said in a straight voice:

"The amount of knowledge is not about how much, but whether it is fine or not, and whether it can be used by the king. Brother Gao's words seem to be quite reasonable, but I don't know what Brother Gao is worried about, and the discussion between the king and the inner dynasty has already been decided.

According to Lu's opinion, the implementation of the "Business Tax" by Lord Xiangguo is just in time, which can be described as a great drought and a rainstorm, saving the people from fire and water. ”

Just when Lu Mo was smug, Bai Liyan couldn't stand it anymore, he stood up and said:

"According to Brother Lu's opinion, minting money is really to make up for the old, why is Dr. Xun Qishi also like a profiteer and an unrighteous person, not long after the promulgation of the "Nongsang Order", he also made a lot of money. It is not the likes of Qi Shi and doctors, but also like the generation of chickens and dogs, who collude with profiteers and unrighteous people to earn ill-gotten gains. ”

"Your Excellency is Wei Langzhong of Yicaotang, you are polite." Lu Mo looked fixedly, a trace of jealousy flashed in his eyes, and under his cover-up, he didn't react on his face at all. Then he continued: "I don't know what Wei Lang is referring to, what is the same stream, where is the same stream, and what is the same pollution, and I ask Wei Lang to give me some advice." ”

"I'm ashamed to be instructed. However, as far as I know, ten years ago, there were only more than 200 people in the Dingyang Marquis Mansion, including families, servants, and guests, and six years ago there were more than 600 people.

In the past four years, even if the Marquis of Jiangdong was rewarded by the Emperor, there were only more than 100 people in the mansion. Dare to ask Brother Lu, how did the more than 400 people in the Dingyang Marquis Mansion overnight six years ago raise them. ”

In the early years, there were only more than 200 people in the family of Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang, together with the family, servants, and doormen, and in the third and fourth years after the implementation of the "Nongsang Order", which was also the two most fierce years when prices skyrocketed, the number of people in the Dingyang Marquis Mansion suddenly tripled, reaching more than 600 people.

Nowadays, a person with a serious livelihood can support a family of five or six people, which means that although Ding Yanghou's family has more than 600 people, in addition to the children of the family, the rest of the people in the house still have their own families hanging on their bodies, so there are at least more than 3,000 people's food pockets hanging on Ding Yanghou.

This is not counting the situation of Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Ding Yang, if you count the fiefdom, I don't know how much profit the Marquis of Ding Yang took advantage of the skyrocketing prices to seek back then.

Most of the properties of the fiefdom are not taxable, which means that all the goods produced in the fiefdom can be sold duty-free, and the after-sales wealth except for labor and foot-money is almost all into the pocket of Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang. Coupled with the soaring prices, Zhang Jun will definitely not make less profits, otherwise he will not be able to support more than 600 people in the house.

If you count the outer mansion of the fiefdom of the Marquis of Dingyang, and also maintain the configuration of more than 600 people in the mansion of Chenling, the annual cost of rations for the Marquis of Dingyang will be about 3,000 stones, plus the annual expenses of these personnel to support the family, the annual expenses are at least 15,000 stones.

This is not counting the private soldiers and other complicated expenses raised by the Marquis of Ding Yang in the fiefdom, all of which should be counted, and the various expenses of the Marquis of Ding Yang a year alone will not be less than 30,000 or 40,000 stones.

Even if Zhao Xun is a doctor, he only has 800 stone a year, plus the output of other positions and 200 mu of food, the annual income will not exceed 2,000 stone, and he can't support hundreds of people at all.

What's more, Zhao Xun has always followed the rules, almost no business, and did not catch up with the price trend of the year, and rarely has gray income.

On the other hand, among the other scholars, none of them are squandering money and money, even if they are the most low-class scholars, all the private wealth hidden in their families is the rich party, saying that they did not participate in the speculation of the year, and they don't even believe in ghosts.

As long as there is a fiefdom, there must be a property, and there is a property that can be traded and sold, who does not want to sell strange goods at a price, and sell the goods at the best price to earn the greatest profit.

At this time, Lu Mo said:

"Wei Langzhong's words are bad, but there are more people in the Hou Mansion, but they are also raised by Lord Hou's fiefdom, what does it have to do with the name of profiteers, Wei Langzhong's words are inevitably suspected of malicious slander."

"Oh, since the Marquis of Ding Yang raised his scholars on the land, he dared to ask Brother Shouqian, why in the twenty-first article of the "Pushing Business Tax", the private property of the princes and nobles and the income from land exemption were not included in the tax collection of this new policy, but those whose family wealth was higher than 500 yuan or more were included.

If this is calculated, the next little lang will also be taxed, so it is against the way of the doctor not to be taxed. Even the Le Ji of Nale Fang and the bitch of the Qinglou also have to pay taxes, why only the wealth of the powerful is omitted, could it be that the new policy promoted by Lord Xiangguo is a strategy to rob the rich and help the poor? ”

Nowadays, "doctors do not tax" is a common tax law measure for individual industries in various countries. The healer saves his life, and it is unrighteous to levy another tax, so the nations seldom levy taxes on Langzhong. This also led to the emergence of another type of people in Langzhong, pharmacists.

There are two kinds of pharmaceutical dealers, one is to buy medicinal materials and sell them in a purely commercial way. The other is that Lang Zhong deals in medicinal materials through channels, so as to satisfy the dual identity of doctors and pharmacists, so as to avoid the current ugly tax laws.

As a result, many Lang Zhong are treating diseases and saving people, and at the same time, they are also wealthy. Especially the palace medical officials, all of them are human spirits, and there is no medical official who does not have his own pharmacy and medicinal material channels, so this kind of doctor and merchant combination has a lot of private wealth without exception.

Even Langzhong, who has not been established for a long time like Bai Liyan, has accumulated a lot of wealth because of seeing a doctor for Haogui.

Just throwing bricks and attracting jade spearheads directly at the land and private wealth of princes and nobles, Qi Shi and doctors, is to tear the face of "Pushing Business Tax". Gong Shouqian, as a protégé of Xiangguo Gongsun Yue, pointed the finger at him, that is, he directly attacked Xiangguo Gongsun Yue.

The scene is full of literati and scholars who are self-assured of their talents, and they all want to rely on the power and the powerful to get what they want and show their ambitions, coupled with the long-term exposure to the way of loyalty to the king, the privileges of the powerful have become a matter of course.

Even if some people find that the "Push Business Tax" excludes the powerful, under the influence of the idea of loyalty to the monarch, privilege has become a normal value logic in the eyes of the literati. They are attached to the powerful, and they are only here for privilege, and few of them are really born out of the starting point of working for the welfare of the toiling masses.

Bai Liyan asked from this, which caused everyone to talk about it for a while, most of the people present and standing were old faces of the Yixian Pavilion, but Bai Liyan did not come often, and he never showed up, and there were few Liao who knew him, and even few people in Wei Lang of Yicaotang in Chengxi heard of it.

At this time, Gong Shouqian spoke:

Wei Lang is right, but the New Deal does not include Xun Qi in the New Deal. But as the saying goes, the food monarch and the king relieve the worries of the king, and the pillars of the country, and reward the fiefdom and the food is intended to encourage his heart, and make suggestions for my king to revitalize the society, if the tax is levied again, it will not trap my king in injustice. ”

Due to the lack of knowledge and the poor dissemination of information, knowledge is only held by a small number of elites, and in order to govern the country, knowledge is needed, but it is also mastered by the elites, so the strategy of governing the country naturally takes into account the interests of the elites. It has become a consistent unspoken political rule to relieve the king's worries and obtain economic privileges.

Linking aristocratic privileges with administrative rights is nothing more than a blind spot in current thinking and political inertia, which is simply untenable in the eyes of modern people, but it is natural at the moment.

Therefore, this forbidden area cannot be overturned at the moment, and it cannot be refuted head-on, so Bailiyan changed his strategy and said:

"How dare you ask Brother Gong, Dr. Xun Qishi is the pillar of the country, and what do the people of the world do."

"The whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, the people are the people of the king, and the people of the world should be loyal to the king."

"In this case, all the people can be pillars." Bai Liyan asked again.

"This ......" Gong Shouqian paused and said: "The pillar of the pillar of the country, how can all the people and ordinary people compare with it." ”

"That's good, the people are not the pillars of talent, dare to ask Brother Gong, the army can become an army without the people, the people are not taxed, where does the government treasury get money and food. If there are no people, how can there be the birth and birth parents of all of you here, and how can everyone talk about state affairs here in a rhetorical manner.

And the so-called people, is the backbone of the world, the foundation of the national strength of the community, if the people are not the pillars, what should the world do, but also please Brother Gong to teach. ”

"This ......"

Gong Shouqian kept saying that the common people are not pillars, but in fact, even he himself could not justify himself. At this time, Bai Liyan said again:

"Brother Gong, if all the people are not pillars, what should Brother Gong's biological parents do. If there were no Brother Gong's biological parents, how could Brother Gong have today's status. The so-called non-pillars of the people is a great fallacy for the country.

The people in the world are only the people, and there is no world without the people, and there is no world. The nobles and magnates of the DPRK and the central government, looking back two hundred years, one thousand years, were not ordinary people in the market back then. If there is no people's power in the world, how can we talk about social welfare?

If the army has no people, how can we talk about state affairs, and if the people do not pay taxes, how can we talk about the country's society. If there are no people paying taxes, where will the daily consumption of ten stones come from, how can Rong Er and others talk nonsense again. According to the following view, the new policy promoted by Xiangguo can neither solve the worries of the monarch nor help the people's difficulties.

And businessmen all come from the people, and no one in the world is born to be the life of businessmen and magnates, and dozens of generations of ancestors, who are not ordinary people. Nowadays, the new policies are all based on heavy taxation, which is no different from killing chickens and taking eggs......"

"Bold, arrogant!"

Without waiting for Baili Yan's voice to fall, an old man refuted angrily. Following the prestige, it was sitting behind Gong Shouqian that the foolish faction Ming Yangzi.

Ming Yangzi stood up with a wooden cane in his hand, and said with an imposing hum:

"The king, the minister, and the people, like the sun, moon and stars in the sky, each performing his own duties and performing his own government, how can he transgress the principles of heaven and humanity and discuss the change of life in vain. The old man advises you not to mention this matter. If you criticize it again, it will be the heart of the world. ”

"What Ming Yang Gong said is very true, Gong is taught."

Gong Shouqian stepped forward and bowed to Ming Yangzi, indicating that he agreed with Ming Yangzi's statement.

Talking about politics is a pragmatic way, but Ming Yangzi suddenly jumped out and used the words of the stars, the sun and the moon as a metaphor for the monarch and the people, which caught Bailiyan off guard.

At the same time, a bright color flashed in the eyes of the white-clothed young man before, and his gaze suddenly fell on Bailiyan, thinking in his heart how Bailiyan was going to deal with it.

At this time, Bailiyan also gave Ming Yangzi a slight salute, but he was not polite at all:

"What Mingyang Gong said is nothing more than one-sided words. Late life dared to ask Mingyang Gong, if the world is not the world of all people, how can this day be the day of the sun. If there is no star and moon to accompany each other, how can the sky be heavenly. ”

"Concubine!" Ming Yangzi suddenly became angry, twitched his old face and waved his cane to point at Baili Yan's nose: "Heavenly Dao Chang Lun is destined for a certain number, how can you allow such a fallacy and heresy to talk wildly here."

Granted by the Mandate of Heaven, there is the way of the Mandate of Heaven. Born for the people, he should cultivate with the people's strength. Born as a minister, he should be assisted by the heart of a courtier. If everything is as you say, the people can also be the pillars of talent, the old man asked you, everyone in the world is like a pillar, who cultivates and pays for food, and how can the king drive the people to rule the world. ”