"Lingnan Dao Observation and Transfer Envoy and Salt and Iron Envoy?"

East Palace.

Li Xiao listened to the words of Guo Zhengyi, the squire of the military department, and showed a little surprise. Guo Zhengyi is the current squire of the military department, and he was the former secretary and supervisor. Originally, Li Xiao came back this time to worship the secretary of the military department, but in the end he was opposed by the ministers, so he asked the secretary and supervisor Guo Zhengyi to pick up this leak and become the secretary of the military department, and then logically added the same Zhongshu door under the Ping Zhang, and entered the political hall to become the prime minister.

And Li Xiao, in the end, succeeded Guo Zhengyi's secretary and supervisor, and also served as the crown prince Zhan Shi.

Because of this relationship, Guo Zhengyi was still very polite to Li Xiao, and even a little grateful. Otherwise, his qualifications may not have the opportunity to enter the political hall.

Today, he was entrusted by the prime ministers of the political hall to come to negotiate with Li Xiao.

"This is a resolution appointed by the Council of Ministers?"

"It's advice." Guo Zheng said with a smile.

The power to appoint and dismiss officials above the fifth rank in the imperial court is no longer in the hands of the ministry but in the hands of the prime minister of the political hall, and the appointment and dismissal power of officials above the third rank is in the hands of the emperor.

But the prime ministers also have the right to make suggestions.

"Then I don't have to accept this suggestion?" Li Xiao smiled.

"The land of Lingnan is a bit special, the land is extremely wide, but the control of the imperial court is very weak, and this situation needs to be improved, but there has been little progress for many years. Li Gongbao is young and strong, with outstanding abilities, and especially full of energy. I miss you in Anton, but in three years, you have run a big granary for Datang. ”

"What's the matter with the Salt and Iron Envoy?" Li Xiao asked, as far as he knew, Datang did not have a monopoly system for salt and iron, so the position of salt and iron envoy should not appear. In the real history, the position of salt and iron envoy appeared in the Middle Tang Dynasty, that was after the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal towns were divided, the wars continued, and the imperial treasury was empty, so they had to expand their financial resources, and finally there were monopoly heavy taxes such as salt tax and tea tax.

"Considering the particularity of Lingnan Road, there has always been a copper money forbidden area before, the imperial court decree, copper money is not Lingling, over the years, there is a large amount of gold and silver brought by barbarians to trade, and a large amount of gold and silver mined by Lingnan people privately, in view of this, the imperial court intends to set up a salt and iron yamen in Lingnan."

The original intention of the establishment of this salt and iron yamen was for money.

Lingnan was originally a special currency zone, so the bigwigs in the political hall also planned to get a few more special policies in Lingnan, which was also prepared for Li Xiao, after all, if they wanted Li Xiao to go, they didn't just plan to let Li Xiao eat lychees, they still admired Li Xiao's talent.

In a word, Lingnan will be a special zone in the future, and there will be many unique policies, such as monetary policy, such as the monopoly policy of salt and iron tea mines.

In Lingnan, the imperial court will continue to implement the policy of not allowing copper coins, and Lingnan will continue to be a silver coin area in the future. At the same time, the imperial court wants to arrest the piece of silver, starting from digging silver ore to smelt silver, and you are allowed to dig silver mines, but you have to apply to the imperial court and obtain a license before you can dig it.

As for the silver ore dug up, a certain percentage of the ore must be paid to the imperial court, and the remaining ore must also be handed over to the imperial court to be responsible for purchasing, and private individuals are not allowed to sell or buy.

After the acquisition of these silver mines, the imperial court set up a special silver money supervisor, responsible for refining silver and minting silver coins, unifying the issuance and circulation of silver coins, and changing the chaotic situation of the silver and coin system in various parts of Lingnan today.

The same is true of gold, copper and other minerals, which can be mined by private individuals, but they have to be sold to the imperial court in the end, and the imperial court will take these things into their own hands, and if they need iron materials in the future, the merchants will have to come to the government to buy them.

As for salt and tea, a monopoly system is implemented, and the tea produced by salt farmers and tea farmers must be sold to the government for purchase, and the government will then sell it to salt merchants and tea merchants for sale, and the tax amount will be increased.

The copper coins of the Tang Dynasty will not enter Lingnan, and the salt will not enter Lingnan in the future, and the salt of Lingnan will not flow into the Lingbei area.

Salt and money will form a closed environment in Lingnan.

"Salt tea is not taxed in other places, but Lingnan is taxed, but I am afraid that this tax is not easy to collect, and once it is levied, it is easy for illegal dealers in other places to sell salt into Lingnan for profit."

Li Xiao said.

This is almost inevitable, once the salt tax is imposed, the price of salt will rise, and the Central Plains does not levy a salt tax, the salt over there will be cheap, so profitable businessmen, how can they not sell salt, although this is illegal, but profitable, there will be people who take risks.

After the Middle Tang Dynasty, the huge profits of illicit salt made many people become smuggler salt dealers, and even in the end, the Tang Dynasty died in the hands of a group of smuggler salt dealers, Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao, Qian Biao and other figures of the late Tang Dynasty were all born as smuggler salt dealers.

"The salt tea monopoly will be tried in Lingnan first, and after some successful experience is obtained, other provinces in the world will also fully implement it." Guo Zhengyi said, of course, this opening is not to engage in special, but only to engage in pilots.

I don't know who first suggested to the emperor to tax the salt tea monopoly, but it is obvious that someone in it has calculated this account for the emperor and impressed the emperor and the prime ministers.

In fact, the salt tax is indeed a huge amount of income, starting from the late Tang Dynasty, and later in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, all dynasties and dynasties all relied on the salt tax, and even there was a saying that there was no country without salt tax. The salt tax often accounted for more than half of the state's revenue, and in the Qing Dynasty, the annual salt tax revenue was as much as tens of millions of taels of silver.

Datang also needs this large sum of money.

The imperial court only collects some positive taxes every year, but in fact, it does not have much money, mainly in kind, and the imperial court fights every year, and each war costs huge expenses.

Li Xiao tilted his head and thought for a long time.

He just returned to Chang'an, and he didn't want to leave Beijing again, he hadn't been together with his wife and children for long, and the children hadn't seen him since they were born, they were all three years old, and they were very strange to him.

During this time, he finally got acquainted with it, and now he is letting him go, he is really reluctant.

Especially he is reluctant to give up the crown prince Li Hong, that kid is really smart and admirable.

"I just returned to Chang'an, and I don't want to leave for the time being, I want to spend more time with my wife and children." Li Xiaodao.

"Li Gongbao went to Lingnan to serve as an official, and he could bring his family with him. It is actually quite convenient to go out of Chang'an, take the waterway, take a boat to Yangzhou to go to sea, and change to a big ship to go south to Guangzhou along the coast. Guo Zhengyi persuaded.

Li Xiao still shook his head and refused.

Guo Zhengyi left with some regret, and came again the next day.

He brought new conditions to the political hall and appointed Li Xiao as the governor of Lingnan. The governor's envoy is a temporary dispatch sent by the imperial court, which is equivalent to a minister. The governor himself has no rank, but in order to allow Li Xiao to manage the officials of Lingnan Province, the prime ministers are willing to ask the emperor to give Li Xiao the third rank of Tongzhongshu.

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