Being attacked by the crowd, this taste is self-aware.

But the resentment in Wen Yanbo's heart gradually subsided.

Han and Zhang are inseparable from the work of opening up.

It is indeed an immortal achievement to open up territory, but almost none of the other rulers in the column have any experience in leading the army. Hearing that Zhang Dian and Han Gang relied on their military exploits, didn't they feel a little resentful?

Kumamoto, the only one who has merit, was pressed by Zhang and Han to raise his head, there is a pioneering work, there is no rare reward, seeing Zhang and Han are above everyone, is there no anger in his heart?

Even if it is a brother, it can't be a heart, not to mention that Yiying Zaisuke here, there is no similarity in his age, nationality, experience, and personality, how can he be willing to bow down to Zhang Dian and Han Gang?

It's just that there's no time.

And from the words of Zhang Dian and Han Gang, Wen Yanbo even smelled a hint of danger - of course, it was dangerous to Zhang and Han.

Taxes!

Janitor and Hangang mentioned taxation several times, and regarded the amount of tax as the key to the prosperity of a region.

While this is true, it is absurd to the local doctors.

Even if there is an occasional heavy rain, how can the local clans who have to fight the famine to the yamen endure the thirst of the imperial court for local taxes?

Whoever wants to touch their purse strings must be prepared to lose their reputation. And if the magistrate is impartial and acts according to the law, it is indispensable to gather and welcome the evaluation.

In the past, the imperial court implemented the exemption law, and the rich Bi family was urged to pay the exemption money, which made the children of the rich family resentful for a long time, and regarded it as a villain's revenge.

The situation of the Wen family is also average, this donation, Tian Fu, are all can be concealed, can resist and resist, false name subordinate, false name consignment, false name coercion, more than a dozen methods to evade taxes, the Wen family has not used any of them.

On the one hand, there is merger, and on the other hand, there is tax evasion, which is the most common means of opening up sources and reducing expenditures by the official eunuchs. Whoever dares to make a move on the Wen family's financial resources will immediately become the enemy of the Wen family until death.

And among the people in the column, maybe Zhang Dian and Han Gang can make a fortune by relying on workshops and shipping, but which of the other Zaifu can have such skills and opportunities, and they don't rely on the old way to enrich their families?

Listening to Zhang Dian and Han Gang's tone, he didn't think so.

From this, it is even possible that they will come out after Wang Anshi's green seedlings, exempt from military service and Lu Huiqing's hands. Taiwan is a decree to exploit the world's corporal husbands and wealthy households.

If they were so arrogant that they wanted to put their hands into the money bags of the scholars, then Wen Yanbo could sit firmly on the bank of the river and watch Zhang Dian and Han Gangshu fall and collapse.

It doesn't matter if they continue to be on their toes in front of them now.

After all, it won't be long.

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"I don't know what the ministers are going to do with Lu Guogong? They shouldn't have expected the Luguo Guild to come to the door, right? ”

"Wang Da...... Wang Zhongcheng personally brought it in, how could he not have thought of it? ”

Outside the hall.

Under the stairs.

The two parishioners were whispering to each other.

The Zaifu are all in the hall, and they can't help but be uninterested in these casual clerks in the two houses.

"Let Wang Zhongcheng bring it specially, is it to persuade Lu Guogong to stop making trouble?"

"Where in the world does such a good thing come from? If you want to seize the power of the two governments, according to the current situation, you want to rebel. When have you ever heard that after the thief is caught, isn't it okay to accompany him? ”

"But that's Lu Guogong, Taishi, Senior Minister's Palace, Kaifu Yi and the Three Divisions, can they be compared with the rootless anti-thieves? I haven't heard of it, no one in the DPRK and China rebelled! ”

"It's Mo to be an official!"

"It's not all the same. No one can do anything, someone can do anything. When the two kings were going to rebel, a few rebellious rulers, and only one Cai Xianggong was killed by Han Xianggong on the spot, what about the others? But send it to the south for retirement. Think about the time when Xizong, Zhao Shijiang was planted to rebel, how many people died in total? ”

"I didn't see that Han Xianggong was angry in the newspaper, and he was able to spare Lu Guogong."

"If Han Xianggong really had fire in his heart, he would have died to cure Lu Guogong, think about how happy the hammer was back then...... Hey, do you want to bet?! ”

"Bet on what?"

The two officials got closer and closer, but the hall behind them suddenly shouted, "This discussion is ridiculous, the two ministers want to be stable in the world and become their own name?!" ”

The two officials exchanged glances and sat up straight again, this is not a gamble.

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"Why did Lu Gong say this." Zhang Dian asked in surprise.

His eyes widened and his face was full of puzzlement, as if he never expected to be opposed by Wen Yanbo.

'Had so much fun. ’

Kumamoto looked down in boredom and flipped over the male on the table. Wen, and then, like everyone else, focused on Wen Yanbo.

Wen Yanbo was heartbroken, "It's easy to get rid of salt classes in the world, but where can I make up for the shortage?" Could it be that the imperial court is so rich that it doesn't care about tens of millions of years of income? ”

Zhang Dian and Han Gang said that the scholars evaded taxes, and Wen Yanbo waited for them to learn from Wang Anshi, which made the world uneasy. But he didn't expect that - there are too many of them these days - Zhang Dian and Han Gang would say that the salt class in the world will be reduced.

If it was exempted from the Ding tax, Wen Yanbo would not have been so gaffe.

It is very common to exempt a state or a road from the Ding tax, some are temporarily exempted due to disasters, and some are permanently released. Even just three years ago, because the world was ripe and there was no disaster for a year, the Queen Mother issued an edict to exempt all walks of life in the world from taxes for a whole year, as well as the exemption of money for fourth- and fifth-class households.

The taxes of the Great Song Dynasty were directly inherited from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Five generations of countries have not been without war for a day, in order to maintain the army, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the people are innumerable, and after the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, they have basically inherited it.

Although the body money collected by the southern roads was exempted during the Taizong Dazhong auspicious year, but there is no Ding tax, and there is still Ding salt money, it is still collected, and today, a hundred years later, even the name of the tax item has changed back to the body Ding money.

In terms of name, there is no money in the north, but in fact, what is the difference between the free money and the money in the world?

The imperial court really exempted the nominal Ding tax, which did not do much good to the people of the world.

But the salt tax is completely different, no one in the world does not eat salt, even livestock have to be fed with salt.

Farmers and workers who work heavily account for most of the world's mouth, and Thai women also work hard all day long, and their demand for salt is often more than ten catties a year, or even higher. Even if the elderly and children don't eat much salt, on average, one person has at least five or six catties of salt a year.

The cost of salt is only five wen - there are pavilions in Haiyan District that specialize in boiling salt, and the imperial court buys finished salt from them, and the price is average between five and eight wen, Chuandijing salt, which is also purchased by the imperial court, and the salt in the northwest pond, the official cost is lower - and the external selling price, according to different regions, is about forty or fifty wen on average.

Moreover, the official salt is often mixed with dirt and gravel, and there are less than two. Therefore, the flood of private salt in various places is often sold for one and a half catties, and the quality is better than that of official salt, and the price can be discounted.

Naturally, snatching food from the mouth of the imperial court in this way, and it is the fattest piece, selling smuggled salt has become the most hated crime of the imperial court, and it is a capital crime of iron beating!

Today, if the government hall can relax the ban on salt in the world, the people of the world can eat cheap and high-quality salt, and this reputation will rise gradually.

It's just that how can the financial plans of the imperial court be supported?

Wen Yanbo remembered that when he was in power, the proportion of salt revenue in the imperial court was half, at least 20 million.

If this money is lost, or this income is reduced, the imperial court's financial plans will inevitably be stretched. At that time, officials and military men who can't get money for materials will think of Dongfu and know it with their toes.

Wen Yanbo was furious about the case, but in his heart he hoped that Zhang Dian and Han Gang would not regret it.

With Wen Yanbo's current situation, the more he opposes, the more the political hall will insist. It's best to let Zhang Dian and Han Gang become awkward ministers, and it's best to go to the black one way.

"Lu Gong is extremely worried that the salt tax accounts for at least 10% of the imperial court's financial plans, and if this tax revenue is lost, many of the imperial court's arrangements will be abandoned halfway."

Zhang Dian nodded, and seemed to have listened to Wen Yanbo's advice.

However, Wen Yanbo's face almost changed, how could this salt tax only account for one percent of the imperial court's financial plans? Is the current imperial court income the most widely rumored 10,000,000 stone horses, or more?

"But the people of the world have been suffering from salt for a long time. The price of salt varies from place to place, ranging from 30 to 40 to 670 to 60 to 100 wen per catty. In many places, the people could not afford to buy salt, so they could only live on light food, so they were sick and weak, which made the local people's livelihood not prosperous, all industries withered, and the two taxes were insignificant. Can this be blamed for the fact that the world regards the salt law as an evil law, but it is only because of its benefits that it is silent? It is imperative to reform the salt administration! ”

Zhang's tone was righteous and awe-inspiring, and his expression was extremely firm.

"But Lu Gongda can rest assured." He looked like a student who was still confident in front of the demanding teacher, full of desire to show Xiàn, "The government hall is not going to take out the salt and distribute it for free, but to lower the excessively high price of salt and give the people some comfort. These losses can still be supported by the imperial court. ”

No, it's a local-specific means!

Wen Yanbo was keenly alert.

In view of the previous dynasties, the Great Song Dynasty has always adopted a policy of strong cadres and weak branches. In addition to military and personnel, another rope that binds the necks of states and counties is called financial planning. In most of the affluent lands, all local taxes were sent to the capital through the Guò Transshipment Division, leaving only enough for daily use.

No one, no soldiers, no wealth, the disaster of the feudal towns that overthrew the Tang Dynasty could never appear in the Great Song Dynasty.

When Han Gang proposed the parliamentary system, there was another pair of hands in the state and county to ask for money - it was impossible for the imperial court not to pay for it, otherwise the parliamentarians would have to pay for their own purses. To maintain the normal operation of the local council, it is also necessary to support the money, and whoever has this money will have the ability to influence the council.

If the government hall can ensure that no matter how tossed, the tax revenue of the imperial court will not be reduced, then reducing the tax revenue of the state and county is a good means to control the local government.

Even with parliament, it's still the same.

However, Wen Yanbo believes that the imperial court can't hold the neck of the Great Council.

Even if lowering the price of salt can buy the hearts of the people of the world, it will not buy the hearts of scholars. Compared with a little bit of a blockage, the authority of the court is the focus of the parliamentarians.

In that case, the two provinces are called stealing chickens and rice. I didn't receive much benefit, but the right was really released.

The parliamentarians came from all over the world, and the number was large and mixed, and Han Gang, who lacked a foundation, could not control the Great Council.

At this time, Wen Yanbo became more and more firm in his judgment.