Shi Bufan strives to gradually encroach on the financial power of the household department and empty the financial power of the household department, so as to help himself grasp the financial power. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info However, at present, Shi Bufan still found that there are problems with the tax system of the Tang Dynasty, especially the system of managing the tax of the Tang Dynasty is seriously problematic, so Shi Bufan imitated the methods of later generations and wanted to deprive the tax collectors of the right to collect large amounts of taxes, so that Shi Bufan had the corresponding methods.

"Your Majesty, the courtier's view of the current imperial court tax strategy of my Tang Dynasty is obviously problematic. This tax revenue of my Datang is completely multi-headed, among which the rent is mainly grain and silk cloth, which is a tax in kind, so it is not much to say that it is collected by the local local government. However, the taxes of the various customs of the criminal department of the imperial court were collected by the customs themselves and paid directly in cash. This is not only not conducive to the management of the imperial court, but will easily breed the disadvantages of allowing those grassroots tax officials to take advantage of the opportunity to eat and take cards, and even directly overcharge on top of the imperial court quota. ”

"Even so, once a tax from the imperial court reaches the grassroots people, I am afraid it will increase tenfold. In this way, the people suffered from the grassroots tax collectors, and even blamed the imperial court. As the saying goes, eggs are three points lighter, and there is a saying called goose plucking, so collect layers of so many links from the people to the top, then I am afraid that the consequences will be very serious. In order to ensure that they could cope with the imperial court and to ensure their own profits, those middle and low-level officials would also raise taxes on their own, and the people would have no way to ask for help, and finally cause a catastrophe. ”

Shi Bufan explained a lot to Li Shimin about the examples of those taxes going down layer by layer, and officials at all levels increasing the weight, and finally making one tax of the imperial court become ten, so that the people couldn't stand the example of rebellion. Shi Bufan will definitely not look down on the style of the grassroots conventions of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing cannot be completely eliminated after more than a thousand years, not to mention those ancient things that are as cunning as oil.

Li Shimin saw this layer by layer, and finally the tax revenue increased tenfold, and even this extra money court had no work, and it all went into the hands of those middle officials, but the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Emperor had to bear the black pot because of this, and became the scapegoat of those corrupt officials, so Li Shimin was immediately furious.

"Bastard, asshole!" Li Shimin finally couldn't help it, because although Shi Bufan said all the things of other dynasties, Li Shimin obviously knew that he was afraid that his Tang Dynasty would also have this kind of thing.

In those places where the emperor is far away, the taxes of those imperial courts are probably easy for officials at all levels to increase their weight. As for Li Shimin, his face is also dark, if this is the case, Datang is tantamount to planting a big bomb, who knows when it will explode.

"Governing the country first governs the officials, it seems that this is not wrong at all! If there is no good governance, then how can we govern the country! It seems that in the future, when the court selects officials, it must pay attention to morality. Li Shimin replied.

Shi Bufan said: "Your Majesty, if you don't have enough supervision, it's actually useless." Without adequate supervision, I am afraid that the people who are originally good in character of the officials may also degenerate in the face of power, and eventually they will all become bad. After all, absolute power leads to absolute corruption! ”

"Huh?" Li Shimin's words were a little interesting, and Li Shimin felt that his words seemed to be a bit sarcastic.

Because the most powerful person in the country is the emperor. What does this "absolute power brings absolute corruption" mean? But Shi Bufan didn't seem to have a specific name, so Li Shimin couldn't have a seizure, so he could only pretend to be stupid directly, after all, Li Shimin, as the emperor, was very thick-skinned. If you don't have a thick skin, how can you be a famous king through the ages? If you want to be a good emperor, you must first have a thick skin.

"Your Majesty, I think that since there is no guarantee in terms of morality, because the morality of human beings will change. Then we might as well change our methods and adopt some other methods in the process of collecting taxes, which will help us prevent tax collectors from overcharging taxes and extorting people from others. In fact, this is not difficult, as long as we make additional changes in the way we collect taxes, we can also get very good results. Shi Bufan said.

"What should I do?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, this is actually very simple, according to the normal financial process, the principle of separation of money and accounts, we might as well use this principle in the collection of taxes. When the grassroots tax collectors collect large amounts of taxes, they do not have the right to collect cash directly, but only the power to issue tax bills. The tax collector gives the amount to the taxpayer after giving it to the taxpayer. And this tax is in multiple copies, of which the tax collector keeps one and the taxpayer holds one. ”

"As for the others, that is, the taxpayer takes the tax bill to the local Datang Money Village Federation's subordinate money bank to pay, and then the Money Village Federation leaves a number of tax bills, and then each money bank regularly sends it to Chang'an for reconciliation, and then transfers the money into my Datang treasury."

"In this process, those large amounts of taxes will not go directly through the tax collectors, or even through the hands of the local government, so they don't have to be handed over layer by layer. It was directly deposited into the money bank under the local Datang Money Village Federation, and the money bank did not need to transport a large number of copper coins, as long as the tax bill was taken to the center of the imperial court for reconciliation, so that the corresponding transfer and reconciliation could actually be carried out. In fact, the imperial court will allocate funds in the future, in fact, it may not be necessary to transport copper coins in the future, as long as these statements are taken to other places, copper coins can be directly transferred from the local area. ”

Shi Bufan's method is actually borrowed from a method in later generations, that is, the way of bank collection and withholding. In later generations, banks have many functions, not only for daily financial services, but also for paying pensions, instead of collecting various fines for violations, and so on.

This is actually for the convenience of the people on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is actually to prevent the occurrence of those cases of indiscriminate issuance of fines. Many grassroots tax collectors or some people with the power to punish casually borrow their power to carry out additional collections, and the people dare not speak out about this.

After that, the separation of money and accounts was gradually implemented, and the traffic police or other people who had the right to punish did not have the power to directly collect money, but issued a fine and then sent it to a designated place or bank for withholding, so as to avoid those civil servants who have the right to punish at the grassroots level to increase the code and issue fines indiscriminately.

The current situation in Datang is the same, and many grassroots tax officials are afraid that it is strange that they do not increase the weight. At that time, the fees were much more than the official fees collected by the imperial court, but the imperial court did not benefit from this, but was swallowed up by those officials who filled their own pockets, and the people were angry with the imperial court because of this.

However, it is impossible for the state to collect taxes directly from every citizen, so how to solve it? In fact, this method of withholding from the bank is a good one, the tax bill and the tax are separated, so that the tax collector does not have the right to collect cash directly, and the people go to the money bank to directly take the tax bill to pay the tax according to the tax officer's bill, and the payment is completed after the tax is paid.

However, in this process, most of the time there will be no horizontal connection between the tax collector and the money bank, and the two sides will have many troubles. In this way, through the division of money and accounts between departments, the probability of corruption is greatly reduced, and it is a way to curb corruption through the system.

Of course, there may be collusion in a small number of places, but this will not affect the whole world. The system is to curb those grassroots tax officials from increasing the weight without authorization, and the court is behind the black pot.

"Your Majesty, in this way, we can directly collect financial power from the hands of various departments, and the departments cannot directly collect taxes to exploit them and separate the money account, then we are equivalent to further collecting financial power." Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan's plan is actually to deprive the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Criminal Justice of the power to directly collect taxes, and in the future, merchants will pass through various checkpoints, and those tax collectors can only issue tax bills, but have no right to collect taxes directly, and the businessmen will then go to various money banks to pay. The tax collectors in those places lost the power to collect wealth directly, and their minds were changed. They don't have this power, so naturally they don't want to open a large tax bill. Because they can't get the opportunity to make a profit from it, then it is impossible for them to add additional numbers to the tax bill, so they are asking for trouble.

Once there is no benefit, it is "fair" and there will be no favoritism.

"Okay, this is a good solution, it's really good! In this way, not only can the imperial court directly collect taxes, but even all kinds of exploitation by lower-level management are eliminated, so that the people can be less exploited by many corrupt officials and corrupt officials. It's a good method, it's good! But ......" Li Shimin then changed the conversation, obviously there was still a problem.

"But once you, the Datang Money Federation, spreads to the whole country, won't they charge more?" Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan asked rhetorically: "The power of the scorpion tax bill that day is in the hands of the tax collector!" ”

"No, I'm not at ease! This power to collect taxes is a public instrument of the imperial court, and I will never let a group of private money banks just casually overstep their responsibilities. Li Shimin said.

Shi Bufan thought for a while, and hurriedly said: "Then please ask the emperor to send someone to supervise, in addition to setting up a money supervisor at the headquarters of the Qian Zhuang Federation, you can also set up a number of Qian Jian sub-inspectors, who are responsible for patrolling the money houses of the Qian Zhuang Federation in various parts of the world, and this patrol envoy can also be supervised by the emperor, what do you think?" ”

"Yes, okay! That's how I feel a little more at ease. Li Shimin said.

Shi Bufan was not afraid that Li Shimin would send someone to supervise, but he was afraid that Li Shimin would not send someone to supervise. In fact, even the more people Li Shimin sent to supervise, the happier he was at that time. Because once there are too many people, it will form an interest group that relies on this money federation. Once there are more people in charge of supervising the money federation, it will have a strange effect, once they are institutionalized and departmentalized, they will also produce the "departmental interests" that they maintain.

Although they are nominally the overseers of the Money Federation, sometimes it is so strange that the survival soil of the overseers is the existence of the supervised. If the supervised no longer exists, then these full-time overseers will also be attached to them.

This relationship is just like the CBRC and the banks in later generations, although the CBRC is responsible for supervising the banks, but they also depend on those banks for their survival. If one day the government wants to abolish the banks, the first to oppose it is not necessarily the banks, but the CBRC.

This is also institutionalized, and the consequences of departmentalization are easy to produce departmental interests. Sometimes the soil for the overseer to survive comes from the supervised, and once the soil for survival is gone, then they will all be unlucky. So don't look at these guys who are here to supervise and inquire about the Qian Zhuang Federation, once they are institutionalized and departmentalized, then they will become people who support the Datang Qian Zhuang Federation to a certain extent.

This is so strange that the overseer and the supervised have become the same "interest group", so it is called a pit. Therefore, Shi Bufan not only did not oppose Li Shimin sending people, but he supported it very much. Once these guys are institutionalized by the departmentalization, then they will in turn fight for the interests of the Datang money houses in the court, and if the Datang money houses fall, they will also face the result that the skin is not left and the hair will be attached.

"Li Shimin, you're sending me a backer, why should I refuse? Do you think it's a good thing to send multiple people to oversee it? At that time, once those guys are departmentalized and institutionalized, it will be enough for you to cry the most. At that time, they may change from supervisors to the biggest supporters of the Datang financial system led by our Datang Money. You're sending me a backer, you're sending me an ally! Shi Bufan thought with a wicked smile in his heart.

Li Shimin thinks differently from Shi Bufan, Li Shimin believes that this can strengthen the supervision and control of Datang Qianzhuang and help stabilize himself. However, Shi Bufan thought that this Li Shimin was sending allies to himself, but raised his hands and feet in agreement.

The thinking of the two is different, because Li Shimin still thinks of rule of man through and through, and Shi Bufan's thinking is more inclined to the rule of law. Li Shimin recognizes "people managing people", so he thinks that as long as these people who are overseers of the money bank are people sent by themselves, then they will also be loyal to themselves and the court. But Shi Bufan is very aware of the pitfalls of the department's interests, not to mention Li Shimin, it will not be able to solve it for more than a thousand years! No matter who you send, you will all be involved in the interests of this cheating department. Just like no plant will destroy its own survival soil, the survival soil of this organization that supervises Datang Qianzhuang depends on Datang Qianzhuang, so they will not take the initiative to destroy Datang Qianzhuang. When the time comes, those who are in charge of the Datang Qianzhuang Federation will collectively make the same choice to "raise their own respect", not only will they not supervise excessively, but will act as the protectors of the Datang Qianzhuang Federation to a certain extent.

Therefore, with Li Shimin's knowledge base in political theory, it is very shallow, and it is much more Qin than Shi Bufan. In fact, political science is not just a discipline of struggle, but a discipline that truly studies politics, and it is not a discipline that exists for the sake of political struggle, as ordinary people imagine.

A politician is not necessarily a "political scientist", and certainly a political scientist is not necessarily a politician. Many political scientists have never been in politics in their lifetimes, but they have contributed greatly to the management of the country. However, there are also many more politicians who have been in politics all their lives, but they have not been able to fundamentally contribute to the country's management system. Li Shimin may be a politician, but he is very superficial about "political science", so it is difficult for him to predict the future outcome.

The two sides look at the problem from different angles, which leads to different judgment results.

(To be continued.) )