Compared with the current situation, the class fee has been reduced by one percent, in fact, there are not many people who really care about this.

Even, if Li Yuanji directly proposed a reduction of two percent, as he did last year, they would not have too many opinions.

Although the income of the imperial court in this area has decreased, the tax revenue in commerce has increased a lot.

In the past year, these ministers have clearly and intuitively realized what is the real economic construction and what kind of decisions need to be made in order to make their status in the hearts of the people suddenly increase several times in a short period of time.

In terms of economic construction, Fang Xuanling is a talent, but compared with Ma Zhou, Fang Xuanling's talent is somewhat inferior.

"Your Majesty, it is better to drop the tax in the coming year even more, which will stimulate the economy to a certain extent." Ma Zhou directly proposed.

"No, it's acceptable to reduce one, if it is more, it will disrupt the imperial court's plan." As soon as Ma Zhou's words fell, someone immediately stood up and retorted.

"It's this principle, evenly distributed to individuals, in fact, there is no difference between reducing one percent and reducing two percent, although after the curfew is lifted in the coming year, the imperial court tax will increase a lot, but those money have already been arranged, once the tax is greatly reduced, I am afraid that it will directly affect the normal operation of the government at all levels, and some of the gains outweigh the losses." Fang Xuanling also agreed with the rebuttal.

If the drop is larger, will it only drop by 20%?

Although it is not enough to let the imperial court subsidize the localities, there is no doubt that the income of the imperial court will definitely decrease.

There is a dead amount at the local level, and once it is less than that amount, all kinds of problems will arise, so the imperial court will not move the local levy, so this part of the reduction can only be reduced from the amount that should be paid to the imperial court.

That's right, the imperial court is rich, but having money does not mean that it cannot be spent, and it does not mean that it can be invested in other places without restrictions.

As mentioned before, every amount of money, before it has been collected, has already been determined its place, if it is greatly reduced, the budget can only be reduced, and then a part of it is set aside to fill the loopholes in the tax allocation.

"No, Fang Xiang only saw the losses of the imperial court in terms of taxes, but did not see the gains in other aspects." Ma Zhou shook his head with a wry smile in his heart, finding that his thinking seemed to be a little ahead of his time, and secretly glanced at Li Yuanji, and found that Li Yuanji was also waiting for his explanation, which seemed to have a kind of test.

Up to now, Ma Zhou finally realized the feeling that Li Yuanji had for himself at the beginning, hating iron is not steel, and he is afraid to do anything.

"The imperial court's series of actions, whether it is the opening of curfews, the promotion of commerce, or the reduction of taxes, have only one ultimate goal, to make the people have money in their hands. But how can we make the people have money in their hands? It is inevitable that the imperial court must have money in its hands first, and only when the imperial court has money can it have more energy to do more things, such as building roads, bridges, improving transportation, and so on.

The role of transportation for the economy is naturally needless to say, but its cost is also very large, the cost of the cement road from Luozhou to Chang'an, you are also aware of it, before taking some special methods, so it was reluctantly built, and even now there are still a lot of arrears in the cement workshop.

How much economic benefit has this road brought to Datang? How much military strategic significance has it brought to Datang? None of this can be measured in terms of money. But looking at Datang, is it just a cement road that can be satisfied?

But now Datang is gathering the strength of the whole country, and it is difficult to build a second road of this scale.

Therefore, the most important thing we should consider at the moment is how to recover the cost as soon as possible through this road, and there are many ways to recover the cost, such as setting up checkpoints along the way, and paying tolls after vehicles, but this method is relatively stupid and easy to bypass.

Then we need to solve this problem in another way, and that is to let the people have money in their hands.

As long as the people have money in their hands, it is naturally impossible to hide and refuse to spend it as before, and besides, prices have been falling this year, as long as they are willing to spend money, our goal has been achieved.

The more people who buy things, the more income the vendors have, the more the vendors' income, the more taxes and fees collected by the imperial court, and don't forget that compared to a single tax, commercial taxes are actually double taxes in many places.

And I calculated that as long as the people of the Tang Dynasty can spend 100 yuan per person per year, the increased income of the imperial court can be worth the entire year's taxes. Ma Zhou obviously made detailed preparations, and even the tax was calculated.

And this set of statements was even more stunned by the audience.

"Each person only needs to spend a hundred dollars to cover the whole year's school payment?" Huangfu Wuyi was stunned, as the head of the household, he had never calculated this account, so he was the most surprised.

"Yes, let's take the clothes we wear as an analogy, if the people weave and make clothes by themselves, the court will naturally not have income, but what if it is placed in a clothing store? When they collect materials, they will extract a tax and fee, and when they make clothes and sell them, they will collect a second time, if it is only calculated according to the thirty tax one, the tax on a piece of clothing has actually reached fifteen tax one, but the account can not be calculated in this way, the store spends thirty dollars to collect the raw materials, and the clothes made are sold for seventy or eighty yuan, or even more expensive, so the two are balanced, in fact, it has reached ten taxes and one. Ma Zhou gave the simplest example, and he also came up with strong data to prove his words.

"It's true, but this model is not unique to the dynasty, it has been this model since ancient times, so the taxes of all dynasties and generations are actually the same, the difference is not bad, the only difference may be that the people themselves have to pay taxes." Fang Xuanling nodded, he didn't know how much tax he had to pay for a commodity, but he knew that he had paid it more than once.

This is normal, if all taxes are only paid according to the sale of the final finished product, just like a beer workshop, they collect a lot of grain, and after they are made, they are handed over to the agents, and then the agents themselves sell them, or distribute them to the lower agents, do they only need the last retail agent to pay the taxes?

This is obviously unfair, and the tax rate of thirty taxes and one is really not high, whether it was before or now, the tax is collected separately, not mixed with each other, and the dynasty with chaotic management may collect taxes repeatedly, and this repetition refers to the same tax item, the same batch is levied many times.

Of course, it is actually very simple to avoid taxes, from the production of raw materials to the final sales, they are all responsible for their own family, so they only need to pay taxes according to the final sales, but this model is not big, and it can't make too much money.

Although Fang Xuanling knew this, he didn't know that the tax of this model had reached the ratio of one in ten taxes, that is, the more agents there were, the more taxes they paid.

Obviously, for the imperial court, this is a good thing, but no matter what, this account can only be paid by the people in the end.

"But what does this have to do with lowering the curriculum?" talked about a lot of things in a daze, but none of them had anything to do with the class, which made many people a little confused.

"Of course, it has a relationship, the people have money in their hands, the purchasing power will come up, the purchasing power will come up, the traders need more goods, the traders want more goods, the workshops also need to expand production, and the expansion of production naturally needs to recruit more people, and the scale is up, the price will naturally come down, the price will come down, the people will naturally be willing to buy, so it is a complete cycle.

There will be a market when there is demand, the example of Jingyang County is in front of everyone, to put it mildly, now from Jingyang County to pull a random people out, put it between the ordinary people of Chang'an, that belongs to the richest one, put the two together, do you think the people of Jingyang will take care of spending money? As long as they think it's worth it, they will spend it, and it's a big deal to earn it. Ma Zhou continued.

"Yes, there is only one way to make the people rich, to find them a job and let them have a continuous income, only in this way will they have money and be willing to spend money." Li Yuanji couldn't help but secretly praise, Ma Zhou, this kid seems to have really figured it out, although it has been a long time, but it is not in vain that he has carefully cultivated.

"Your Majesty, this is just a proposal, whether it will be lowered or not, and how much, I hope Your Majesty will make a clear decision." Seeing that Li Yuanji approved his proposal, Ma Zhou didn't gain an inch, and hurriedly said.

And for him, it is enough to give an opinion, and Ma Zhou will naturally not participate in specific matters.

After all, this involves whether the entire imperial court can operate normally, and it is not unreasonable for these ministers to refuse, even if they agree to a significant reduction today, it will take a period of time to count and calculate before they can come up with a specific plan.

Besides, if this kind of thing is decided on a whim, it is better to say if it fails to affect the follow-up, but once it has an impact, it will be too late to regret it.

"The idea is right, but the difficulties also need to be considered, after all, the Tang Dynasty has not been established for a long time, and the body is not as tough as an adult, and it can't withstand any big toss." Li Yuanji said with a smile.

When the reduction of the tax was proposed last year, it was indeed a whim and ill-conceived, but fortunately, it was stopped by the ministers at that time, so it did not cause a major disaster.

And with last year's experience, Li Yuanji didn't think about doing it in one step, Datang couldn't support it at all, and he didn't have the ability, sometimes, it was important to do what he could.

"That's it, from this year onwards, it will be reduced by one percent every year, and it will take ten years to abolish all the taxes." Speaking of this, Li Yuanji paused, and felt that it was still necessary to knock on these ministers: "I don't want the annual income to be less than this part of the reduction, and I don't want the increase in nine years to be just the same as the tax endowment......"