"King, although this turmoil was caused by someone secretly spreading rumors, the emptiness of the Guangling granary is a necessary condition for the success of this turmoil. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIf we keep enough food reserves in the future, even if this kind of thing happens, we won't be so passive. Luo Zhixiang said.

Yang Xingmi nodded, the lack of food in Guangling is indeed an important factor, and the main reason for the shortage of food is due to too many wars.

"As for the people of Guangling, there will definitely be some losses this time, but Guangling, as the center of my Huainan, has gone through ten years of recuperation, and the people in the city are relatively rich, and their ability to bear losses is greater than that of ordinary farmers. In addition, according to the estimation of his subordinates, this turmoil should not exceed a month, even if it has some impact on the households in the city, but there will be no major chaos. Luo Zhixiang said his judgment, and everyone listened to it, and their faces were better.

Yin Wengui said angrily: "What about those grain merchants? They didn't do anything, they could make a lot of money by hoarding Juqi, and the law did not blame the public, and it was difficult to punish them. What about these people? ”

Luo Zhixiang smiled bitterly and said: "Your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness, my lords, when it comes to those grain merchants, in fact, they manipulate grain prices to seek profits, where is this time?" They've been doing it almost every year over the years. ”

"King, our two tax laws are now levied on cash, but how can ordinary farmers have so much cash in their hands? So when it was time to pay the tax, they had to sell the grain in exchange for cash to pay the tax; And every time that time comes, the grain will take the opportunity to lower the price of food and make a profit. Luo Zhixiang bowed and said.

"When collecting cash, didn't it also take into account the lack of cash in the hands of farmers, so they were allowed to discount it in kind according to the market price? Why should these farmers be exploited by unscrupulous profiteers? Yin Wengui was a little puzzled.

"Any policy needs to be implemented, and those officials below exploit the people more than the merchants, so the people generally prefer to be exploited by the merchants rather than directly use the grain to offset it." Luo Zhixiang smiled bitterly.

Everyone couldn't help but be silent when they heard this, and Luo Zhixiang took the opportunity to propose: "Therefore, my subordinates feel that while strengthening supervision and preventing the officials below from arbitrarily changing the price of the discount in kind, they should also directly abolish the collection of taxes and levy them in kind instead, so as to reduce the burden on farmers!" ”

Regarding Luo Zhixiang's proposal, everyone felt that there was some truth. Even Yang Wu, although he knows that the collection of taxes is not only very convenient and conducive to settlement, but also conducive to transportation, which can reduce the consumption of collected grain in the process of transportation, which is the inevitable direction of the development of the tax system.

But at the same time, he also knows that in this era of underdeveloped commodity economy, it will cause great damage to households, especially in this era of war.

So he didn't object to Luo Zhixiang's proposal. And Yang Xingmi nodded directly: "Yes, you have a point, but this year has come to this time, and it is inappropriate to rashly change it to levy in kind, so let's change it when we pay taxes in the summer next year." ”

Hearing that his suggestion was approved by Yang Xingmi, Luo Zhixiang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and bowed down and said: "The king, in addition to strengthening supervision and requisitioning in kind, the minister also asked the king that when the price is discounted, the current price should be inflated, and the current market price is 500 wen per silk, 600 wen for silk, and 25 wen for cotton. The subordinates suggested that each horse of silk should be raised to 700 wen, silk should be 200 wen, and cotton should be 200 wen, in short, when collecting rent and tax, the inflated price should be three or four times higher than the market price to convert the real thing. In addition, the Ding Kou tax is harmful and should be abolished! ”

As if he was worried that his proposal would be opposed, Luo Zhixiang finished his words in one breath, and then looked at Yang Xingmi with anticipation, hoping to get his approval.

If the previous proposal to levy physical goods was unanimously approved by everyone, then this method of inflating the market price was unanimously opposed by everyone.

Yang Xingmi shook his head and said: "Raising the market price is certainly beneficial to the people, but it has too much impact on the tax revenue of the Jiedu Embassy, so this law is not feasible!"

Seeing that his opinion was rejected, Luo Zhixiang couldn't help but be a little anxious, he stepped forward and said loudly: "King, how can there be a reason that the people are poor and the country is rich!" Inflating the market price and making the people profit can not only support the people, but also encourage the people to produce more. The king has repeatedly ordered to persuade the farmers to teach mulberry, although some results have been achieved, but Huainan still has a large number of fields barren, if the king implements the subordinate policy, it will only take ten years, will make the people rich, the treasury is full! ”

Yang Xingmi and the others thought about it carefully, except for Fan Yu, the people present all had some understanding of civil affairs, and naturally knew that Luo Zhixiang's method was a real strategy for recuperation, and it was indeed beneficial to restore the economy that had been seriously damaged by the war. If it is implemented seriously, ten years from now, it may be possible to see the situation he said.

Seeing that everyone was a little moved, Yang Wu hurriedly came out to dissuade him: "Father, although this policy is reasonable, it is not appropriate to implement it at this time. If there is chaos today, it is the world of great controversy. All the feudal towns are doing their best to increase taxes, even if I Huainan does not raise taxes, but it is impossible to reduce taxes significantly, so let's wait until the world is stable in the future! ”

In fact, the reason why Yang Wu dissuaded him, in addition to the reasons he just said, was that he was not optimistic about this policy at all.

In Yang Wu's view, the positive tax in Huainan is actually not high, or the positive tax in most dynasties is not high, and what really causes a huge burden to the people is actually the indiscriminate collection of taxes by the officials below, the excessively high rent of the landlords, and the great injustice of the collection objects.

Those unreasonable places are not corrected, but the positive tax is not high, which is not high in the first place, which is not advisable in Yang Wu's view.

However, now is obviously not a good time to argue about the tax law, so he quickly diverted the topic and said: "Who are those people who are secretly spreading rumors, Fan Yu, can you find out?"

"According to the preliminary investigation of his subordinates, the mastermind of this incident should be led by Expected and Jia Ling, and there are several other commanders below, but they are not the masterminds."

Jia Lingwei used to be a commander and envoy, and his ability was average, but he had more experience in Huainan, and he took refuge with Yang Xingmi with Liu Jin, the current assassin of Haozhou.

As for Qu Zhang, he has followed Yang Xingmi for longer than Jia Lingwei, and previously served as the assassin of Huangzhou, but was later dismissed from his post because of the defeat and loss of Huangzhou, and in recent years he has been appointed as the assassin of Qizhou.

This time, when the military and the government were separated, both of them were dismissed from their original positions because of their average ability, and now they hold positions in the General Military Division.

Hearing this result, everyone was a little silent. Especially Yang Xingmi, these two people have been following him for a long time, and they don't want to get to this point now, although it was because Yang Wu transferred them from their original positions, he still felt very annoyed.

However, anger is anger, these two people have deep qualifications in Huainan, and they really can't move them at will without tangible evidence, otherwise it will be easy to cause centrifugation up and down.