Li Yuanji and Li Chengguang, father and son, entered the banquet hall one after the other.

This banquet was not particularly formal, it can be seen from the location of the banquet alone, it was not in the main hall where the emperor normally feasted his ministers, but in a small palace in the harem.

Although the weather outside is very cold, at this moment, the temperature in the hall is just right, and the residual temperature of the hot pot is emanating, which makes the whole hall feel like a restaurant.

Hot pot is naturally one person and one pot, and it is impossible for everyone to eat together in a big pot here, although they have also been accustomed to this way of eating over the years.

When the emperor came, the first task of the ministers was naturally to pay homage.

Of course, the intention of hosting the minister at this time is naturally needless to say, and it must have something to do with the next re-election.

However, what is puzzling is that the change of office usually begins after the New Year's Day, and the change of office within the imperial court must be completed before March, and then preparations for the change of state will begin.

But last time, about the change of office within the imperial court, preparations began in the second half of the previous year, and this time, so far, there is not much preparation, only the Ministry of Monks and Shangshu Province and those who clearly want to retire have made some preparations.

As for the issue of re-election, Li Yuanji once mentioned that the principle is to be re-elected once, but the relevant laws have not been clearly proposed, so this is still up for discussion.

"Eat first!" The ministers were all waiting for Li Yuanji's lecture, but Li Yuanji unexpectedly announced the start of eating.

This action makes people feel depressed for a while, haven't I eaten it or what? Running here for a meal?

Well, you are the emperor, you say the word, you let you eat.

As a result, there was a scene of eating and drinking in the whole palace.

Of course, in the palace, except for Cheng Zhijie, who couldn't walk when he saw the wine, he drank almost a pound of liquor, and the other ministers all took a slight sip, and after a meal, they just drank a glass of liquor.

Everyone knows that the emperor will not invite someone to eat for no reason, and there must be something important to say next, who dares to drink too much at this time?

Except for Cheng Zhijie.

Looking at Cheng Zhijie's slightly drunk appearance, Li Yuanji hated to go up and beat up this product, although the amount of alcohol in this product was about three catties, he had just drunk one catty, and he was not yet half drunk.

But the previous performance of this product at the banquet made Li Yuanji grit his teeth angrily.

But Li Yuanji kept reminding himself that he couldn't be angry, he definitely couldn't be angry, and once he was angry, he would fall into the trap of this goods.

After the meal, a pot of tea, and some melon and fruit desserts after the meal came in one after another.

Of course, these things are not too rare for ministers now, and although the price is more expensive, they can still afford to eat them.

Besides, who cares about eating? Which one is not waiting for Li Yuanji's next words alone?

"I summoned Zhuqing here this time, mainly for the sake of zoning." The ministers were a little anxious to wait, and Li Yuanji said unhurriedly.

"Division?" Fang Xuanling was stunned, he hadn't heard the wind before?

Moreover, if you want to discuss zoning, it's just that the cabinet ministers will come, what are the two of them doing with Duan Lun and Li Daozong? Of course, it is not ruled out that the two of them will enter the cabinet after the New Year's Day, after all, there are four people who have retired this time, and if nothing else, five cabinet ministers should be added.

But if it's five, why are there two now? Where did the other three go?

Also, if you want to discuss zoning, isn't it a little inappropriate here?

"Zoning reform is imperative, the current zoning system, virtually increased the workload of the imperial court, I feel that there should be a province above the state capital, so that the work pressure of the imperial court will be sharply reduced several times, can be limited energy to more important places, at the same time, the state capital of the same province, can also coordinate with each other, joint development." Li Yuanji directly said his opinion.

There are more than 300 states in Datang, and now these states are directly managed by the imperial court, more than 300 ah, just listening to it knows that it is very tiring.

Moreover, this system also invisibly increases the pressure on the issuance of administrative orders, and if the imperial court needs to issue an order, it needs to send more than 300 messengers to transmit it, but if it is a province, it only needs to send a dozen messengers to convey it to the province.

In addition, everything in the local government needs to be reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court also needs to be responsible for solving and coordinating, and these administrative wastes are also a problem.

If there is a province, these problems can be solved by the province itself, and those that cannot be solved will be reported to the imperial court.

It can be said that the administrative system has been optimized, and if it weren't for Li Yuanji's accession to the throne, Datang would have completed this optimization long ago.

"Zoning?" Fang Xuanling was stunned, isn't this the same meaning as the road proposed more than ten years ago? Immediately afterwards, Fang Xuanling nodded again and again: "This proposal is feasible!" ”

The other ministers also reacted, nodding their heads in agreement, indeed, their pressure is too great, if they can set up provinces, for all departments, their pressure will be reduced a lot.

"Your Majesty, the financial ......" Huangfu Wuyi was depressed.

The division of provinces is also good for the household department, but there are also disadvantages, and if a provincial-level administrative unit is set up, then the finance must always leave some for people, right? Otherwise, how can people still work, and how can they deploy?

In this way, the amount of money that the household can get has decreased, but in recent years, the household department has been bleeding heavily, and at the same time as the hemorrhage, he has to let blood out, which is a bit unbearable.

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Chengguang, how could he explain such a complicated issue one by one? Of course, it's up to the prince to solve it.

Li Chengguang understood and said directly: "The fiscal revenue is allocated according to the county 16, the state 10, the province 24, and the imperial court 50, and the local self-retained funds are used for the development and education funds of each locality, and the imperial court funds are used for national projects, military expenses, imperial court expenditures, and coordination of provinces. The enterprise income tax is divided according to the imperial court 60 and the local 40, and this part of the funds is directly included in the local finance, not within the scope of payment, such as the machinery factory, which belongs to the joint establishment of the imperial court and the Yongzhou Prefecture Luozhou Mansion, so the fiscal revenue will be divided according to the imperial court 60 and the second state government 40.

However, it is necessary to avoid the emergence of this model in the future, that is, only the government enterprises belonging to one place are allowed to appear in the future, if they belong to the county-level government of the official enterprise, the court and the county will be 64 points, if it belongs to the state or province, it will be 64 points with the corresponding government. ”

Li Chengguang said in a hurry, in fact, the current tax system of Datang is still quite chaotic.

Even if this reform is proposed, it is still relatively chaotic.

It's okay to say personal tax, but there are not many of these parts now, and there are not many people with real high incomes, mainly corporate taxes.

However, corporate tax does not have a clear place of registration as in later generations, and the current system collects taxes for the sales area, but when the money is returned to the place of ownership, it is also taxed, but these are two completely different tax systems.

So under this model, you can basically see the tax situation in each region.

In ordinary counties, the most corporate tax they pay is the sales of each store, which is the majority, and the income tax of a manufacturing workshop is added at most.

But big households like Luozhou or Chang'an have much more income, shops, manufacturing, distribution, and so on.

However, this system has been implemented smoothly, and it is not bad, and there is no need for large-scale changes.

Therefore, what Li Chengguang said is mainly aimed at government enterprises, and do not underestimate government enterprises, because in the era of planned economy, government enterprises play a far greater role than those private enterprises.

The emperor has nothing to say, he has nothing to say, and he can't say anything.

Next, I only hope that the household can spend less money, indeed, part of the income has been cut, but correspondingly, their expenditure will also be reduced by a part, it can be said that there are gains and losses, anyway, the workload of the household department has indeed been reduced a lot.

Seeing that Huangfu had nothing to say, Li Chengguang continued: "Datang will be divided into sixteen provinces, namely Guannei, Henan, Hebei, Hedong, Shannan, Longyou, Huainan, Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiannan, Lingnan, Qianzhong, Donghai, Gaoshan, Xinyu, Zhenbei ......"

The names of the fifteen provinces were said one by one, and the general division was not much different from what was proposed more than ten years ago.

The five added are Jiangbei, Qianzhong, Donghai, Gaoshan and Xinyu.

Most people have some impressions about this division, but it doesn't matter if they have an impression or not, you can check it next, and you don't have to rush this meeting.

Gaoshan refers to Gaoshan Prefecture, that is, the original Tubo, Longyou may contain Tuyuhun, but where are the five places of Jiangbei, Qianzhong, Donghai, and Xinyu?

But soon they knew that Li Chengguang had a general introduction to their respective areas one by one.

Jiangbei refers to the area of Ezhou, Qianzhong, south of Shudi, north of Lingnan, East China Sea, beyond Youzhou, north to boundless, east to Jeju, including the entire Korean Peninsula.

And the new domain naturally refers to the entire Western Regions.

Division, it can be seen that the ambition of the imperial court, which has just annexed the Korean Peninsula, has now begun to make calculations for the entire Western Regions.

Although the Western Regions have been laid out in the early years, and now the imperial court has basically controlled it, but this control is not long-lasting, more of it is the aborigines in self-control, the imperial court only plays a deterrent and coordinating role, so that they can not fight each other, maintain peace in the entire Western Regions, and so on.

Now the ministers can understand the reason for coming to them, if nothing else, there is a chance that these people will go to these provinces to become feudal officials.

Although it seems to have fallen, but in fact there is no way, suddenly come like this, the people below may not be able to adapt, their overall view has not grown to this point, or it is not enough for the imperial court to rest assured and boldly hand over a province to them.