"Lone believes," Li Wei said this, but he didn't believe it.

But the military order, don't come out. Di Renjie is also flexible, but it doesn't mean that he has a sleek personality, through Wei Yuanzhong, you can see the fierce side of these good ministers. If he can't do it, he will wipe his neck, where will he find this military advisor?

Di Renjie didn't explain it, and he was the only one who slowly looked for clues in this matter. The fewer people who know, the better, otherwise Xu Jingzong will kill people and kill him, and there will be no proof of his death. He said casually: "Before the minister came, I heard that the little lady of Pei Zuo Jinwu's family was summoned into the palace by the queen for a long time. ”

"What did the queen call her for?"

"I don't know, maybe it's for the end of Nanshan, how about this little lady of the Pei family?" Asked casually again.

"I don't know much, but I saw that she was very small that day, but she was very strong. About from a famous family, the etiquette is also very good, and I know some sophistication. That's it, Xu Li asked him to pay attention, first, there was a handover in the East Market, the little hot girl impressed him very much, and second, she was beautiful. He is not a saint, when he sees a beautiful girl, he pays more attention to it, and has a normal physiological reaction. Didn't you say the first sentence of the opening sentence of the Book of Songs? My Fair Lady, Gentleman.

Besides, Xu Li is also fourteen years old, since Jingtang rubs Bi'er's oil, the age of fourteen is slowly acceptable. But Pei Yuhe is only thirteen years old, and every time this age drops, it is a burden to him. What can you do at the age of thirteen, I am afraid that I will only be in the first grade of junior high school in the future! When it comes to Shangguan Wan'er, who is so famous in history, and now she is a little beauty fetus, Li Wei's mind is still relatively decent. Too young, eight years old, how can he move his mind? Shangguan Wan'er wants him to think about it, and he has to wait for six or seven years, if six or seven years are safe, the possibility of him ascending to the Dading will be infinitely magnified, well, at that time, maybe he will think about it for himself.

However, this idea is more or less covering up and stealing the bell, the virtual thirteen years old is in the first grade of junior high school, and Bi'er is only fourteen years old, and she is only in the second grade of junior high school, what is the difference? Fifty steps and a hundred steps are not as good as ......

It can only be said that the backwardness of this era is very sad for future generations.

"Yes, the minister also heard that this little lady of Zuo Jinwu's family is excellent in character and learning." Di Renjie chatted casually again.

In fact, I said in my heart that the impression is not evil, and things will be easier.

Before leaving Luoyang, Wang Cainian sent a secret letter and asked him to bring it to the prince. said that Xu Jingzong wrote a memoraly, which made the emperor and the queen have the idea of retiring the crown princess, and also summoned the daughter of the Pei family, it is very likely to replace the daughter of the Yang family with such a woman from the Pei family.

Di Renjie had expected this for a long time.

There are many rumors in the capital, although it is biased, but it is really groundless? If it is a prominent family, it is strictly forbidden for women in the family to contact men outside, even if Helan Minzhi is a cousin, he is not a real cousin, and if he can't see the princess, will he think of the idea of kidnapping the princess? Moreover, it was really bad for the prince before, but later it changed, and the prince's health also improved at that time. It's inevitable that people will think about it.

This is a great drought and strong wind, which makes the emperor and queen have a headache and do not pay attention. If there is no drought and strong winds, hearing these rumors, most of them will also have the idea of taking a leave of absence from the crown princess. Or someone else wakes up, and the result is still the same.

It is precisely because of the drought and strong wind that the big pheasant festival has become a chicken rib, I don't know whether it should be held or not, it is possible to return to this family, but it will make the emperor drag it out, and he will not make a decision so quickly.

Di Renjie immediately replied to the message, and he must not tell the prince.

I don't know what the status of the daughter of the Yang family is in the prince's heart, but I heard some rumors that this girl is stunning, only fifteen years old, and her appearance is not inferior to the two righteous daughters he accepted. The little lady of the Xu family saw it with her own eyes, how stunning it was. This comparison will make you know.

If the prince is reluctant, he has another "Ramadan", Ramadan is very good, but for the Yang family's daughter to return to the Eastern Capital to discern reason, then it is not only that he does not love the country and the beauty, but he does not love the father and the emperor and loves the beauty. This problem is serious!

In fact, some of the Yang family's daughters are not suitable to be the mother of a country. But the prince may not only have the princess's wife, it depends on how it is operated, and if it is operated well, it can also have both fish and bear's paws. I'm thinking about it.

In fact, Li Wei met Di Renjie, how fortunate he was. Although Lao Di worked hard and wanted to get on the top, he really paid a lot, and he had to help Li Wei come up with ideas, make up for the omissions, and make up for the behemoth Xu Jingzong for him, and from Xiangxue painting willows to Yang Min, he also had to be a nanny for Li Wei.

This is Lao Di's brain is enough, and if he is someone else, it is the same, and he can't bear it.

………………………………

The guards didn't bring much, more than a dozen people, but they were divided into all directions, just blocking Li Wei from all directions. Especially Xue Ne, walking in front of him, does not mean not leaving.

Di Renjie nodded secretly.

Although it is said to protect the prince and princess, this group of guards has put their minds into it. In case there is any danger, if a cold arrow is shot from the mountains, the first wave will definitely not be able to hit the prince.

The reason why this is the case is that the prince didn't do much, just two words, generous.

In this era of clear hierarchies, Li Wei has not completely degenerated, he was an elegant lecturer in his previous life, and he is peaceful to people, and he is still like this in this life. But in this era, it is amazing, and this generosity is revealed in the bones. Therefore, it is very loyal to the guards.

Di Renjie did not expose it. There are always two sides to everything, the prince's words in the palace made the emperor angry, why didn't he issue an order to abolish the prince, it was also in consideration of the prince's reputation among the people. It's the same now, it's not about bribing the guards, and there's not much to be afraid of. But the loyalty of the guards, God knows if it will be used that day? Besides, it is also necessary to let the emperor have some fears, as long as this degree is grasped well and the emperor does not feel a serious threat, then there are two different kinds of fears and unscrupulousness.

If you don't have any fear at all, you can scrap it if you want to, which is actually not good.

Gradually, we came to the farmland area.

When the barley and wheat were harvested, they also went into the barn. The field is green, with sorghum, millet, beans, mulberry, hemp, and kudzu. However, because it has not rained for a long time, the seedlings in many fields are wilting and growing very badly. So the peasants were carrying water and watering it non-stop.

"Isn't that wonderful." Li Wei said.

Everyone's expressions were heavy, and Di Renjie said: "This is Henan, and Guanzhong is still very serious." ”

Even if it's not growing well, it's still growing, isn't it? But in many places in Guanzhong, the ground is dry and cracked, and there is no way to plant it if you want to.

Yao Yuanchong suddenly said, "Where do you look." ”

He pointed to a small river in the distance, and because there was no shortage of water on both sides of the river, the crops were growing well.

Everyone walked over together, and saw an old farmer hoeing, Li Wei walked over and said, "Uncle, you have crops." ”

"This Lang Jun, the land is not mine, it is the land of Zhang Mingfu's family, and I am just a tenant farmer." Mingfu is the honorific title of the county order, that is, the field of a certain county commander.

Di Renjie shook his head.

"Di Qing, why are you shaking your head?"

"Your Highness, come here, the minister said to you," Di Renjie led Li Wei aside and said, "Your Highness, do you know the modulation of rent?" ”

"Yes." I didn't know it before, but I didn't know it until I came to the Tang Dynasty.

The founding of the Tang Dynasty was the uniform field system, and one man was awarded one hundred acres to men. So with this system, the year is two stones, and the public field is a dummy, so it is called rent. Very light rent. Only two catties of grain are paid for one acre of land. The small-scale peasant economy, self-cultivation and self-weaving, and the country does not have large-scale textile workshops, so every Ding needs to lose silk, silk, silk, no matter what it is, two zhang, three taels of cotton. Where there is no sericulture, the cloth is two zhang five, most of them are hemp or kudzu, and three catties of hemp.

This cotton is not cotton, cotton has, Gaochang in the Western Regions, or Lingnan have, very little, because the textile machine is backward, the seed removal trouble, the seed is removed, from lint to cotton cloth is more labor-intensive than Ma Ge silk, so I know that the warmth, the popularity rate is not high, and the price is even more expensive. This is what Li Wei asked when he visited Dongshi, but he didn't know what a textile machine should look like, not even Huang Daopo's one. However, the planting method can be improved. But I was afraid that my parents would be jealous, so I didn't dare to say it.

This cotton refers to silk cotton.

It's also very light.

Then the state still has many affairs that require labor, such as water conservancy, or the transportation of goods, etc., that is, forced labor, which is twenty days per year, which is unpaid compulsory labor. If you can't serve for any reason, you can pay three feet of cloth every day instead.

At least in Li Wei's opinion, it's very simple and cheap.

There are other taxes, which are not good, because of the increase in the number of officials in my father's hands, and seeing the prevalence of private usury, he takes out a part of the money every year to lend official loans, and the interest is heavier than that of private individuals. The common people were unwilling, so they forcibly apportioned it. In some places, the interest rate is as high as 15 percent, or even 300 percent. Fortunately, there are not many such usury, and they get more than 100,000 yuan of money for the state every year, which is used as the income of officials. But in fact, it is certainly more than that, and most of them go into the private pockets of officials.

The other is tariffs, the state is ashamed of business, tariffs are very vague, and some checkpoints are very taxed, and then accept bribes from businessmen. It is tantamount to smuggling in a different direction. Either Guangzhou Port, Hu Ying said this, originally the city can bring a large number of tax rates to the country in a year, but the tax is very heavy, so before the ship saw the port, the goods were unloaded by smuggling, and then the empty ship entered the port. Because of the imperfection of the tax law, officials feel helpless about this.

The latter two may have enriched many officials and soldiers, but they have not done much to the revenues of the state treasury. The source of national taxation is still the regulation of rent.

Di Renjie said: "At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, from the people of the People's Republic of China to the common people, the population decreased by two-thirds, and there were many more borderless lands. The state rent regulation can still be implemented. Even in a narrow area with a large population, the population is only 30 acres, 10 acres, or even 5 acres. The country is stable, the population is multiplying, the Yongye field does not increase, one ding becomes three ding, five ding, and the pressure on the people begins to increase. ”

Li Wei's face was gloomy. The original meaning of rent modulation is good, but this foundation is overhead on 100 acres of people, if there are only a few acres of land in a ding, and these rent modulation must be paid, it will be very heavy. If you have two or three acres, hand over two stones of grain, and still have to plant mulberry hemp, with the current output, you will go bankrupt directly!

However, more than that, Di Renjie said: "Because at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the fields were abundant, so there were many rewards, the prince was 100 hectares, the first-grade officials were 60 hectares, and the ninth grade was 2 hectares. There will even be exceptions, such as Gaozu once granted Pei Lianxiang Gongtian Qianqing. It has been a special case, and Imada is thin, but the rewards are continuous. ”

Li Wei's face was even heavier, the land was insufficient, such a reward invisibly made the field more tense, one hectare is not the later one hectare, the current unit of measurement is very problematic, but it is also about the same as the later one hundred mu. That is, he rewarded Pei Lin with 100,000 acres at once! How many 100,000 acres were there in the Tang Dynasty?

Di Renjie continued: "However, most of the imperial court is only a false reward now, and there is not much real land to award. But the problem is not here, according to the legal system of the imperial court, the empress dowager, the empress dowager and the queen are above the line, the first rank of the inner wife, the prince of the county and the grandfather and brother above the fifth grade, the minister, the rank and above, the male father and son of the county, the son of the country, the Taixue, the students of the four disciplines, the gentleman, the filial son, the grandson, the righteous husband, and the women of the same nationality, are exempt from military service. It is also stipulated that officials above the ninth grade will not be classed. Those with the name of the family will be assigned to the township in the township. These taxes included the taxation of the tribes and tenants. ”

He is good at judging cases, so he is familiar with the law and picks it up.

Speaking of this, he pointed to the old peasant and said: "Many people can't bear the pressure of the imperial court, so they take their fields to the names of various tax-exempt landlord officials to escape the rent regulation of the imperial court. However, most of the fertile land in various places is occupied by landlords. Including the ministers, the family has hundreds of acres of fertile land, although it is not much, but there is no tax service, and some people are employed, and the whole family is lucky enough to have food and clothing. ”

If you are not greedy, or there is no other way out, even if it is a few hundred acres of land, you can only have food and clothing, but how many Di Renjie can there be in the Tang Dynasty?

"Speaking of the government soldiers, the government soldiers originally had enough righteous land, and they were tax-free, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, they were given 25,000 dollars, so their combat effectiveness was strong. However, Yoshida is declining, and even the tax exemption cannot provide food and clothing for the whole family. And because of the tension of the fields, once the battle is killed, a little compensation will be given, and the righteous fields will be recovered. This is not counted, the defeat of Dafeichuan, Tuyuhun and the Western Regions are gradually lost, and the ministers come from afar, and the price of horses rises in response to the sound all the way. And iron tools and other materials have long risen, twenty-five thousand dollars, in a place where horses are scarce, not a single old and weak horse can be bought. If this continues, the soldiers are worried. ”

This made Li Wei think of the Earth pony again, in fact, the imperial court forbade private horse trafficking. However, this is also a gray area, after all, farmers also need horses to cultivate their land, and the imperial court sells the old horses, weak horses, and inferior horses that have been eliminated to farmers every year. However, the officials were rigid, so they also adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye to private businessmen.

Its practical merchant method is not necessarily a bad idea, after all, the Tang Dynasty is very rich, and if it is fully liberalized, a large number of war horses will come from the Turks, Khitans, and Tibet. The supernatural powers of these businessmen cannot be ignored. But this merchant, who was scolded by his father that day, couldn't speak. And for every reform, there are loopholes to exploit, such as usury. Maybe it will be released, but the price of horses will not be controlled, and the businessmen will operate at sky-high prices, which will not dare to bear the consequences.

At the end of the day, it's the tax law. After all, why don't you read more history books!

Later, there were many good tax laws, such as the two tax laws, the one whip law, and the apportionment into the mu law, but I don't remember it very clearly.

And the government military system and the rent and yong modulation were the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and the destruction of these two systems was also full of crises even if he ascended the throne in the future. And the more stable the country and the more populous it is, the greater the crisis!

He asked tentatively: "Di Qing, what if taxes are levied according to the acres of land?" ”

Di Renjie's face changed, and he said, "Don't do it." ”

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