After listening to Luan Yi's explanation of the prosperity of the people and the strength of the country, Cao Cao asked: "Zhao Ziqi said this, when the people are rich, the treasury should also be abundant." But why is it beyond our means? ”

Luan Yi smiled: "This involves another issue - hiding wealth from the people." ”

"Hiding the wealth from the people?"

"That's right." Luan Yi told the story. He told Cao Cao that in order to enable the people of the diocese to live a prosperous life, he first used taxes to feed the poor people in the diocese with the high taxes paid by the rich to the treasury, and gave them material and living help. He called this adjustment the first lever in income redistribution.

After the adjustment of the first lever, the Church will also take out a part of the funds from the daily membership dues to help the people, and call on the businesses in the diocese to give charitable support to the poor people. This is the second lever of income redistribution.

In this way, to a certain extent, the gap between the rich and the poor can be narrowed at the material level, so that the rich are less rich and the poor are less poor.

In addition, Luan Yi also started official projects such as repairing city walls and ditches in various places in the name of the imperial court, recruited poor people to come to work, and paid corresponding salaries. It is used to subsidize the poor in a cash-for-work model, and at the same time, it can also enable the poor to learn a skill and earn a living in the future.

In this way, the people of the diocese became richer day by day, while most of the tax revenue in the treasury was used to improve the people's livelihood, and the continuous war made it naturally empty.

After listening to Luan Yi's explanation, Cao Cao went around in a circle and brought back the question he had just raised, "That's it...... What if there is a war or a state affair such as building bridges and paving roads, but the treasury has no money? ”

Luan Yi smiled slightly, "Taking it from the people for the people is the original intention of hiding wealth from the people." And if we want to really hide the wealth of the people with a correct vision, and at the same time not lag behind the state affairs, we must know how to make the wealth of the people use the country. ”

"Hiding the wealth from the people? For the people's money and the country? Cao Cao was confused and didn't know why. He couldn't figure it out, according to the experience he had accumulated over the years, the money had gone into the pockets of the powerful and the people, and it was even more difficult for them to donate it for state affairs. "How is this possible?"

Luan Yi replied to the question, "The world is all for profit, and it is unfavorable to lure it." ”

Cao Cao became more and more puzzled, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"I can't say a word or two about this. Brother Meng De stayed in the diocese for a while, and he would naturally understand. After speaking, Luan Yi turned his head and walked to the inner room.

Cao Cao was hung by Luan Yi's appetite, and at this time it came to an abrupt end, unspeakably depressed. He chased after Luan Yi and asked, "Hey, Ziqi." Tell me about it! ”

"Oh, Brother Mengde, I'm peeing!" In the face of Cao Cao's chattering inquiries, Luan Yi was very helpless. However, the question of "how to use the people's wealth and the country" mentioned by Cao Cao is indeed not something that can be finished in one or two sentences. Besides, Luan Yi really didn't know where to start with him for a while. In the end, there was really no way to force him, so he simply promised him that after a while, he would operate an example of "people's wealth and national use" to open Cao Cao's eyes.

The location of the implementation of the example was set in Yuzhou after the war.

As the saying goes, "War is the continuation of politics." After the end of the smoke of war, the fruits of the war, whether evil or good, will eventually return to the court to be harvested.

It is different from Yanzhou, which has abundant resources. In the past ten years, the people of Yuzhou have been devastated under the rule of the mediocre Yuan Shu. The greedy Yuan Shu and the local scholars took advantage of the people everywhere, did everything they could, and frantically exploited the wealth from them, not only scraping off the oil and water on the people's bodies, but also cutting off a layer of bones.

The poor cannot be poorer anymore.

They are so poor, and in the past two years, there have been continuous wars in Yuzhou, which has made their situation even worse. Last year alone, only 30 percent of the farmland registered in Yuzhou was harvested, and the remaining 70 percent was either destroyed by the war or left uncultivated.

The shortage of grain has a direct impact on the vegetable basket of the people of Yuzhou -- the problem of survival.

In addition, after the war, Yuzhou was full of devastated towns, and most of the infrastructure such as roads and bridges were damaged and fell into disrepair.

In the face of so many problems, the post-war reconstruction work in Yuzhou can be described as difficult, and even the rich five cars such as Lu Zhi are also a big two, and they immediately asked Luan Yi for help. He begged the state treasury and the Holy Treasury (Notre Dame Treasurer) to send money and food to Yuzhou for disaster relief.

In Cao Cao's view, according to the practice that has been inherited from thousands of years of history. At this time, Luan Yi should first send people to raise grain and grass from Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou, which are rich and large, and transfer them to Yuzhou, and at the same time pay money from the treasury to support Yuzhou.

Of course, the current treasury is indeed beyond its means, which Cao Cao personally verified. But what if you don't have money? Cao Cao pondered for a long time, and finally got something. The treasury has no money, but the church has money, even if the church's money is not enough, isn't there a Luan family chamber of commerce behind his Luan Yi?

The current Luan Family Chamber of Commerce is amazing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rich country. First spend money from the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce for disaster relief, will the problem be solved soon?

I have to admit that what Cao Cao thought did work. It's just that this set doesn't seem to fit Luan Yi's style.

In Luan Yi's view, his money is his money and has nothing to do with the treasury. Mo said that he is only the nominal helmsman of the imperial court now, that is, in the future, he will really be the emperor above 10,000 people, and his property is also personal private property, which should be distinguished from the state finance. Unless there are special circumstances in which he wishes to donate.

Therefore, in the situation of extreme shortage of money and grain in Yuzhou, Luan Yi didn't want to pay for a copper plate. In fact, he didn't have to pay - because he had a better solution, neither the empty treasury nor his own pocket.

The specific solution is "people's wealth and national use".

How can the wealth scattered among the people be used by the state? This involves a number of important measures.

First of all, Yuzhou has been fighting wars for many years, and a large number of people have been lost due to the war. Some of them have fled to other states and counties for refuge in order to survive. After the war, everything is calm, and they will return to their homeland; Others died in wars and power struggles.

Of those who died, a considerable number belonged to landowners. Now that they're dead, the lands are borderless. As the victor of the war, Luan Yi deserved to return them to the imperial court.

Now, faced with financial difficulties, Luan's first step is to sell the unclaimed land publicly.

The price of 3,000 wen per mu is not cheap in the whole Han states. However, compared with the price of every inch of land in Jinan, it can definitely be called cheap.

Relying on the strong military strength of the Church of Our Lady, the stable social order, the friendly social environment, the transportation network and the extensive transportation network, and the rich life of the people, the land prices in Xu, Yan and Qing have always been high, among which the land price in Yanzhou, which has just ended the war, is the lowest, but even in the cheapest place in the diocese, one mu of fertile land there costs 5,000 wen per acre. Now that the war has stopped, the price of land is still rising, and I am afraid that it will not be long before it will be on par with Qingzhou and reach a high price of 7,000 Wen.

Now, when the people in the diocese heard that there was 3,000 acres of land for sale in Yuzhou, their eyes instantly lit up with green light.

Of course, the vast majority of wealthy families and scholars in the diocese have become accustomed to high-income capital investment in industry and service industries, and the little income from the land that depends on the sky for food is no longer in their eyes, and they are too lazy to bother to manage it.

Therefore, most of the people who have a strong purchase of land this time are the middle class in the parish, such as those craftsmen above the fifth level, who have a stable and good income, but they are unable to start their own businesses, so they use the extra property for land purchase in order to obtain long-term income; Another example is those long-term workers who have saved some wealth through a few years of hard work. For the past few years, they have been plowing the land for others, dreaming of owning a piece of land of their own.

In short, who has lived in the diocese for three or five years in these years has not had any spare money? People with a lot of money do big business, and people who don't have a lot of money are staring at the one-third of an acre of land in Yuzhou.

For a few days in a row, the people have time to pinch their fingers and calculate, their own savings can buy a few acres and a few points, if the tight is so bad, should they find relatives and friends to borrow it?

As a result, a craze for land purchases swept up in Yuzhou, and in just half a year, the vast majority of unowned land was sold out. The yamen in various parts of Yuzhou sold land on the spot and collected money on the spot, which not only enriched the local finances, but also attracted a large number of people and added vitality to the county. It can be described as both people and money.

Luan Yi's plan to help Yuzhou did not end there, on the contrary, this is just the beginning. While the land transaction was in full swing, he threw out another dose of fierce news.

It said that the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce will build a large-scale workshop in Runan County, Yuzhou, which will involve furniture production, jewelry, pottery, ware, paper production, book printing and many other industries. At the same time, it was also made public, saying: Your Majesty is sympathetic to the continuous wars in Yuzhou and the lives of the people, and decides to exempt the taxes in Yuzhou for two years from next year, that is, the second year of the Shengyuan.

Hearing this important news, those suppliers of raw materials such as timber, gold and silver ore, and clay in the downstream of the business system of the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce, as well as those retailers located upstream, have made their own small calculations.

In the past ten years, they have relied on the big tree of Luan Yi to come from a small business to the current rich one.

Now, the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce has taken a new initiative to add industries in Yuzhou, and they naturally have to take the lead and keep pace with Luan Yi, so that they can continue to enjoy the shade under the big tree. What's more, Yuzhou will be tax-free in the next two years. How much benefit does that have to be for nothing?

Thinking of this, the chambers of commerce in the diocese have successively snapped up land in Runan counties in Yuzhou, built factories and opened shops.

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