Li Yu was in the Hanlin Academy, checked the classics, and turned over the official systems of all dynasties, but fortunately he had the ability to never forget, otherwise he would never have been able to complete such a huge project in three years if he was replaced by someone else.

But after Li Yu looked at everything, he found a problem.

The current difficulties encountered by the Great Zhou are unique in all generations, in other words, don't try to find too much inspiration from the experience of the ancients.

"The wind of greed for ink in the DPRK and the central government, it really can't all be blamed on the heads of hundreds of officials!" As soon as Li Yu spoke, Chai Rong's old face darkened, "Waiter Li, are you interceding for those corrupt officials?" ”

Li Yu said: "The minister never meant that...... It's just that all along, learning and excellence are the best, without some family property, it is impossible to support a scholar, even if it is a poor child, into the official career, the family will not be poor. More or less, there are some industries, even if there is no industry, they know some friends, and businessmen will try their best to get closer...... Around the officials, a group of such people gathered, and then gave them power, it is not equivalent to inviting a group of rats to take care of the granary, how can it not be reasonable not to steal food! ”

Chai Rong groaned: "I have long known this reason, so I rectified the officials and set up embroidered messengers, just to supervise the hundred officials and prevent the greed for ink, haven't I done enough?" ”

Li Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, it's not just not enough, but far from enough!" ”

Chai Rong took a breath of cold air and looked at Ye Hua on the side, "Ye Qing, what do you think?" ”

Ye Hua said: "Your Majesty, commerce is becoming more and more prosperous, factories and workshops are becoming more and more prosperous, and the amount of coinage in the Great Zhou Dynasty is already more than ten times the peak of the Tang Dynasty!" Even so, there is a shortage of money from time to time. The world is changing and developing, and the speed is getting faster and faster. The reform of the official system has not always been able to keep up with the progress, to put it too far, the way we collect taxes and purchase has not improved much compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, and there are many drawbacks, which are difficult to avoid. ”

Listening to Ye Hua's words, Li Yu's eyes lit up, he really deserved to be the champion Hou, he had worked hard for so long before he came to the conclusion, and he was actually broken by him in a few words, it was really amazing!

"Your Majesty, as the champion Hou said, for example, taxation, except for Kaifeng, which has the ability to tax large commercial transactions, other state capitals generally adopt the tax package system."

"Tax-inclusive system? How do they do it? ”

"Your Majesty, it was originally the household department that was in charge, and later handed it over to the degree branch, which will set a tax target for this year according to the tax amount of the previous year, and then issue it to the locality, and the local officials are limited and cannot afford to collect thousands of taxes. Usually the magistrates would find a few powerful merchants, ask them to pay the taxes in advance, and then allow the merchants to collect the taxes! ”

"Ridiculous!" Chai Rong was furious, "Just a businessman, he is also worthy of enforcing the laws of the imperial court and collecting taxes from the merchants?" The officials below are derelict and incompetent, they are really damned! ”

Ye Hua grinned, and he didn't have anything to say.

The so-called package tax system appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and in the original history, the two Song Dynasty were even more of a peak.

For example, salt, tea, copper and iron, porcelain and koji, these all take the form of buying, that is, the merchant takes money in exchange for franchise, and then makes a profit by selling the goods, which is also a kind of tax system.

There are more direct ones, such as a certain market, find some ruffians and let them be responsible for collecting taxes, as long as they can pay the prescribed amount each time, and all the excess money goes into the pockets of these people, of course, if they can't collect it, let them bleed to fill it themselves......

If you think about it with your toes, you can also see the drawbacks.

But this crude way is endless, and it boils down to four words: simple and easy to use!

To put it bluntly, the tax package system equates the collection of business tax with the collection of land rent, and regards commercial behavior as cutting crops.

But the problem is that business operations happen every day, and the crops are only two crops and three crops a year, can the same method be used? What should really be done is to tax every business transaction, on turnover, on profits.

The question arises again, business is carried out every day, and there are so many things, where are so many tax collectors in the imperial court......

"Your Majesty, at the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, he proposed that the gentry pay food and pay taxes and serve as one...... As far as the minister knows, over the years, the grain has basically been paid, and the service is almost the same, except for paying taxes, and after Kaifeng, no one cares. Moreover, the minister also knew that some people deliberately chose to trade outside Beijing in order to avoid taxation. ”

Li Yu said: "With the current prosperity of the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if seventy percent of the commercial tax can be collected, the annual income will exceed 200 million taels, which is enough to support Your Majesty's foreign use of troops." ”

When Chai Rong heard this, he couldn't help but be moved, and secretly clenched his fists, and Li Yu said: "This is only one aspect of the matter, the taxes that should be levied by the imperial court cannot be collected, but the money that should not be spent has all been spent!" ”

Chai Rong said curiously: "At present, the procurement of goods by the imperial court is in the form of buying and selling, with high quality and low price, so that it can be selected, will it be wasted a lot?" ”

Li Yu smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, how to define the so-called high quality and low price, it's not up to the yamen to have the final say, they can use some bizarre requirements to exclude other businessmen, and then sign a contract with the businessman they want, it seems that everything is okay and in accordance with the rules, but in fact it is a lot of drawbacks!" ”

……

Chai Rong kept asking, and Li Yu kept answering...... Ye Hua basically didn't interject, just listened carefully, in fact, there are many problems, which have been raised before, but with the unification of the world and economic development, it has become more prominent.

In other words, it turned out to be a small problem, but now it has become a major problem and must be solved.

What really surprised Ye Hua was the change in Li Yu, he talked eloquently, without the slightest hesitation, not only can talk about the macro, but also some cases, speak with facts, faintly, he already has the demeanor of a generation of famous ministers.

Ye Hua once said that Li Yu might be able to become a virtuous minister, and now it seems that this person's progress is even faster than he imagined!

Junchen kept talking about the afternoon, and Chai Rong was still unsatisfied, "Li Shiyu, you have said the situation, and I have understood it, but where is the prescription, do you have any good solutions?" ”

"Yes!"

Li Yu immediately said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the yamen for collecting commercial taxes should be separately divided from within the Du branch, and from top to bottom, select capable ministers and officials, recruit professional talents, and conduct unified taxation for the entire Great Zhou Dynasty and all commercial transactions. ”

Chai Rong subconsciously glanced at Ye Hua.

Ye Hua immediately said: "The minister thought that it was okay to discuss this, the original branch had already come out of the household part, and there was nothing wrong with dividing it into another part!" As for talent selection, there is one in front of you! ”

Chai Rong grabbed his beard and seemed to be smiling, "Ye Qing, do you mean Li Shiyu?" ”

"Well, he's the right choice!"

As soon as the monarch and the minister sang and harmonized, they handed over the glorious task to Li Yu, and Li Yu was calm, "Your Majesty favors, the champion Hou is promoted, and the minister is not allowed to do anything, but the minister still has half of the words not finished!" ”

"Speak!"

"The minister thinks that in addition to the Yamen of the Department of Taxation, it is also necessary to conduct management and audit of all the expenses of the branch and various procurements!"

"Another yamen?"

"That's right!" Li Yu said: "Since the minister proposes it, he is not afraid of offending people, if His Majesty is willing to agree, let the minister be responsible for reviewing hundreds of officials and supervising expenses." The minister is sure that within the year, the waste of expenses of various ministries will be reduced by more than 20%! ”

Li Yu turned out to be an embroidered messenger, and it was indeed more appropriate for him to do things to mark people, but the question was who would collect the tax?

Li Yu smiled, "Your Majesty, the minister has the courage to recommend the champion Hou, no one knows finance better than him!" ”

Chai Rong thought for a while, stroked his palms and laughed, "Sure enough, you two will take care of the money bag for me!" ”

Ye Hua was still a little hesitant, he was used to being idle, it was easy to come back from an expedition, he wanted to accompany his relatives at home, he didn't want to come out to work, especially he didn't want to do the work that offended people, but Chai Rong didn't allow him to shirk it at all.

"Ye Qing, in times of crisis, the treasury is empty, so you have to go out in person!"

Ye Hua could only smile bitterly, "Since this is the case, the minister will be reluctant to make it difficult...... It's just that what to do with the stock market, please ask Your Majesty to decree. ”

Chai Rong groaned slightly, and said: "Don't bother the two masters, leave everything to Ye Qing to deal with, and when there is a suitable candidate, it will not be too late for you to recommend it to me." ”

……

After the monarch and the ministers talked, Chai Rong successively issued decrees, adding Huagai Hall Scholar, Champion Hou, Xiong'an Army Festival Envoy Ye Hua Jixian Hall Scholar, concurrently serving as the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Taxation, and overseeing all financial and tax matters. In addition, an audit temple was added, and Li Yu, a bachelor, was the secretary of the audit temple, responsible for supervising the procurement expenditure of the imperial court.

After the two wills, countless people immediately couldn't sleep, and the worst of them was Xu Xuan, the secretary of the branch several times. The power that originally belonged to him was cut off in two pieces, not to mention, in addition, there was one more emperor!

That's the champion Hou Yehua!

How powerful he is, as a minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, can Xu Xuan not know!

Now let him be in charge of finance and taxation, and work under him himself, and he will die!

The more Xu Xuan thought about it, the more scared he became, fidgeting, but tomorrow is the cabinet meeting, and he is going to face Ye Hua directly, what can I do? What will he ask, and how will he answer...... Xu Xuan thought about it over and over again, so worried that he kept pulling his hair, and after the third watch, Xu Xuan still couldn't sleep.

At this moment, suddenly there was movement outside, and he was just about to go to see it, when the door was pushed open.

Li Yu walked in with a few people laughing, "Xu Shangshu, I know you can't sleep, come with me to the Audit Temple for a good chat!" ”

Xu Xuan saw that Li Yu was not good, and immediately became angry. As a minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xu Xuan was very reluctant to face the former royal family, for fear of misunderstanding, and he was still attached to the previous dynasty, so Xu Xuan glared at him, "Master Li, the old man is a court scholar, and you are also worthy of arresting me?" ”

"Hahaha, I have no authority, so how about you look at this?" As he spoke, Li Yu took out a bright and flickering holy decree from his sleeve, and in an instant, there seemed to be a golden light shining on Li Yu's body, making him look solemn, and even his voice was even more powerful and terrifying!

"Seo Hyun, aren't you going with me?"

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