Wei Ren's heart was beating wildly.

There was an idea that almost blurted out.

However, he was still suppressed by Wei Renshi.

He just said to Li Shi again: "Your Majesty's question, the minister will say it clearly, that is, how can Datang become rich." What the minister said is right, right? ”

Li Shi nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

"Actually, it's an easy question to answer." Wei Renshi confirmed Li Shi's question, and then replied: "It can be operated, but it is very difficult. ”

"Then you're ...... I answered first. Li Shi leaned back and said.

Wei Renshi nodded, and then replied: "There are only two sources of wealth in a country. One way is to get it from within the country, and the other way is to get it from outside. ”

"One of the things that comes from within is that the country itself is a vast land, rich in resources, and has a sufficient population, which has the basis for wealth. Second, the most basic way for the imperial court to obtain wealth from within the state was taxation. Stable taxation is a guarantee for a country to obtain wealth from within. For the time being, raising the country's revenues is roughly equivalent to raising tax revenues. The key lies in not only increasing tax revenues, but also ensuring that the people are not burdened with excessive burdens, and that people will not be resentful because of excessive taxes. ”

"Hehe, Wei Qing didn't say this in vain." Li Shi smiled and said, "If you want to increase your wealth, you must increase taxes." However, the common people are so stupid that they only see that the taxes have increased, but they do not see where the needs of the country are. Raising taxes more will cause resentment among the people, and I can't ignore the resentment. So, how to increase taxes? ”

Although Wei Renshi wanted to ask him rhetorically, it depends on where the extra taxes go.

But you can't say this to Li Shi, otherwise you won't be able to eat and walk away.

So he thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, can you ask a few chamberlains to cooperate with Wei Chen, and make an analogy to Your Majesty?" ”

Li Shi looked at a few attendants in the hall and said, "Yes." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Ren bowed, got up and walked up to Li Shi's attendant, and said, "Liu Neishi, please take out all the copper coins on your body at this moment and put them here." ”

Wei Ren really didn't expect that he would have too many copper coins on him at the moment.

Liu Guangqi was stunned for a moment, looked at Wei Renshi, and then looked at the emperor, then touched and touched the inside of his sleeve, and took out several times before he took out twenty pieces of text, put them on the ground, and said: "Wei County man, the money on the slave and maid is here." ”

"Thank you, Liu!" Wei Ren gave a salute.

"Don't dare." Liu Guangqi was in front of the emperor, how could he dare to have any arrogance with others, so he naturally hurriedly avoided and said.

Wei Renshi said to the other attendants in the hall: "Please ask the other attendants to take out the copper coins they are carrying at the moment and put them in another place." But you don't have to take it all, just take one out of ten. ”

The attendants don't know why.

"Don't do it quickly." Li Shi frowned and shouted in a low voice.

Only then did those servants react, and hurriedly came over and took out some copper coins, and put them in the place Wei Renshi pointed out.

Wei Ren counted it, but there were more than 30 texts.

Wei Renshi pointed to the two copper coins on the ground and said to Li Shi: "Your Majesty, look, Liu Neishou took out all the copper coins at the moment, and it was only twenty yuan. Maybe these twenty articles are all the savings of Liu Neizhi? Looking at this side again, each person only took out one-tenth of his money, which was not painful, but it was more than all of Liu Neishi's money. ”

Li Shi looked at the two piles of copper coins, looked up at Wei Renshi, and his face became a little ugly.

Wei Renshi was not afraid.

"What does Wei Qing mean?" Li Shi asked deliberately.

"Back to Your Majesty, what the minister means is that if you squeeze one person dry, even if you squeeze him dry, you won't get as much as so many people and each person will only take one." Wei Renshi said: "To generalize and put this principle in the country is to collect taxes from the heads of a group of people, even if there is not even flesh and blood left from the people of this group, it is better to collect less from the people of each group, so that they will get more, and because the amount collected from each person is less, it will not cause public resentment." ”

"Further on." Li Shi's voice was low, and his tone became bad.

Wei Ren looked at him squarely, and said, "What the minister means is that the two tax laws are a very good method. Whoever has more property pays more taxes, and princes and ministers are no exception. In this way, the taxes that had been concentrated on the peasants were dispersed among the people. Everyone gives some, but what they give out doesn't make them lose too much. If we can persist in the real implementation, we will be able to increase tax revenue without causing resentment among the people. ”

"Humph!" Li Shi slapped the case in front of him heavily: "You mean, the two tax laws have not been implemented, and the reason is that I am the one?!" ”

"The reason why the two tax laws have not been truly implemented is not Your Majesty." Wei Renshi's face did not change: "And it itself also has some things that need to be improved. ”

Li Shi was stunned, paused, lowered his voice, and asked, "Then what is the reason why Wei Qing said?" ”

"The minister didn't dare to say it." Wei Renshi stiffened his neck and replied, "The minister thinks that His Majesty knows it in his heart. ”

Li Shi was very unhappy and unhappy.

He could naturally think of what Wei Renshi was going to say.

Therefore, I also know why Wei Renshi didn't dare to say it.

Li Shi wanted to force Wei Renshi to speak. But looking at Wei Renshi's age, if he can't get along with a twelve-year-old boy, and others don't know the inside story, he will feel that he is too stingy as an emperor.

He knew that the reasons why Wei Renshi didn't dare to say it were nothing more than three.

One was given the right to collect taxes to the feudal towns, and the other was the emperor's own destruction of the two tax laws in desperation after the former. The emperor himself has broken the rules of the two tax laws, and the officials below naturally ignore the two tax laws.

Li Shi sighed.

If the reduction of the feudal domain had not failed, the right to collect taxes would not have been given to the feudal towns.

The feudal town had no right to collect taxes, so it naturally could not grow, and the imperial court had enough income to no longer need to levy new taxes on top of the two taxes.

The imperial court did not levy new taxes in addition to the two taxes, and all localities naturally did not dare to raise taxes without authorization.

The two tax laws will not be broken.

Li Shi remembered that when the two tax laws were first implemented, he still clearly remembers that number. More than 13 million yuan is the best year for the imperial court's finance and taxation in the past 60 years.

At the beginning, it was too anxious to cut the feudal domain.

At that time, Li Baochen died of illness due to the Chengde Festival, and his son Li Weiyue asked to inherit his father's throne.

If Li Weiyue's request had not been categorically rejected at that time—the refusal of this request would mean that the imperial court had made it clear that it would have returned the feudal towns to the imperial court—no matter how many more years had been drawn over the feudal towns from other aspects other than taxation, in exchange for a few more years of vigorous warfare, then the situation after that would have never been known.

But now it's too late to regret it.

In the end, it's the feudal town's fault!

Li Shi gritted his teeth and thought in his heart.

Li Shi attributed all the reasons to Fan Zhen, but he didn't take half a point more from himself.

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