In July, Chang'an, a rainstorm hit passers-by in a hurry, the rain came quickly, went quickly, did not drive away any heat for Chang'an, but added a touch of stuffiness. After www.biquge.info heavy rain, passers-by walked out of the locust trees to shelter from the rain, stepped on the newly paved cement pavement, and went to their own busy places, leaving only one locust tree, swaying after the rain.

In the crowd, there are occasionally a few people, stepping on the concrete road under their feet, saying that the road is well repaired. Chang'an, the best road is the sand embankment road, this is not a certain road, but refers to the Chang'an City to connect the imperial city to several roads, including three roads such as Zhuque Street, take the water to get the sand mixed with the original soil, mix evenly, spread out, sprinkle a layer of silica sand on top, such a road is very convenient to walk, there is a poem as evidence, "Chang'an Avenue sand is the embankment, the morning wind has no dust and rain and no mud".

At the same time, this sand bank is also an honor for the new prime minister. When the new prime minister of the Tang Dynasty took office, he would specially pave the way for him with white fine sand.

These are all in the past, all the roads in Chang'an City have been paved with cement roads, and even some official eunuchs gathered in Delifang, which are paved with cement roads, so there is no need to worry about being like Han Shilang, because of rain and snow, the road is muddy, and he rushed to the court, but halfway through the process, he found that he didn't have to go to the court today, and he came back with a foot of mud.

Of course, in addition to this inconvenience, Chang'an City is still the best place in the world, these are just small troubles for dignitaries, they will not suffer from the hot weather like those people, Chang'an still has many locust trees into forests, enough to shade, but it is inevitable to suffer from it.

Li Chen likes to know very much, as long as it is not too close and there are so many of them, he doesn't hate this kind of background music. This is nonsense, but not the emperor, but it is the owner of a major house, and he still has to run errands, so now everyone in the Ayaqi Hall can hear the cicadas from time to time.

'Sage, this year's summer tax has already reached 9 million, and it is expected to collect more than 14 million yuan for the whole year. Li Deyu counted this year's summer tax, and then estimated that the annual tax revenue could increase by 2 million compared with last year.

The increase in tax revenue of these two million yuan is partly due to the results of tax reform. There has been a lot of increase in commercial taxes, although many taxes are still controlled by local wealthy families, but commercial taxes are paid by themselves, and they can't control them.

Now the merchants are quite much more observant, and when they get used to the new tax, they pay more and more taxes. The Department of Finance and Taxation has symbolically inspected several shops and asked them to hand over their account books, which the Department of Finance and Taxation will check.

However, that is also for the slightly larger scale, many small-scale shops, no account books at all, earn more and earn less, and even whether it is a loss, even they themselves do not know, for this situation, the Department of Finance and Taxation is helpless, can only be as before, how much money a household, let them pay by themselves.

Li Chen was also helpless about this, and he tried to get them to come forward through the guild and teach these shops how to make account books. It's not difficult to keep accounts, if you don't know how to read, you can draw a symbol instead of it, and replace it with a symbol if you sell it and buy it.

As long as you learn the numbers from Tianzhu, plus simple addition, you should be able to do a good account book. When the time comes, you can let the Department of Finance and Taxation check it.

However, Li Chen only asked people to try it, and he was not optimistic about the situation. I don't think they'll be motivated to learn this. It is the nature of the Chinese not to show their wealth, and probably many people would rather pay more taxes, or not know whether they are making or losing, and do not want people to know their own accounts, especially not to let the government know.

But these are all small things, the increase in commercial taxes, and the improvement from Caoyun. Originally, the Transshipment Department was set up to use the original function of the canal to transfer various materials into Beijing. At present, although the Tang Dynasty said that it was to collect money, in fact, there were still a lot of taxes in kind, and it was also very important to transport materials from all over the country into Beijing.

However, from the root, the Tang Dynasty officials have been corrupted, from his accession to the throne to last year, the average grain and grass transported from Jiangnan to Beijing in a year is only 400,000 stones. It's not that Chang'an only needs 400,000, nor does it only transport 400,000, but it has been hacked by many places along the way.

The reason is a big push, what is piled up in the warehouse is rotten, what accidentally capsizes, sinks, or is broken by the cloth and is bitten by rats, and it is gone. Supervising the imperial history Pei Xiu, he proposed a bullet seal, and Li Chen appointed him to rectify it, and the results were very good, not only did the grain transported into Beijing increase to 1.2 million stones, but also the taxes increased.

Don't forget, there is also a part of the checkpoint tax for commercial tax, and the Transit Department is also responsible for Changping, implementing the art of light and heavy in various places, using money flexibly, balancing prices on the one hand, and making money for the imperial court on the other.

As a result, after such a rectification, a lot of moths were caught, Li Chen cut off a few heads, hoping to set an example, but Li Chen felt that a more drastic way, or a more effective way, was needed to rectify, killing people was useless, killing people was useful, Zhu Chongba had already succeeded, and people still peeled the skin and filled the grass.

In terms of commercial taxes, there is also an increase in salt taxes. On the one hand, Lu Hongzhi's method has been effective, and it is expected that the salt tax will increase next year. In addition, Li Chen asked two students to go to the beach to find a salt farm, and the experiment was successful.

They opened up many cement bottom salt pans by the sea, and then used windmills to pump seawater, poured it in, and used the scorching sun and strong winds on the seashore to save labor and convenience. There is no longer a need to carry the seawater into the urn as before, and then work hard to cook and boil.

will drag on until now, mainly because the two were too cautious, only did a little experiment, the scale was not large, and it was not until last year that it was popularized on a large scale. Li Chen planned to reform the salt law again, restore Liu Yan's old system, no longer sell salt in different areas, and the imperial court would only sell salt, and then set up Changping salt in some places to stabilize the price of salt in those remote areas with inconvenient transportation.

However, Lu Hongzhi's reform is not in vain, salt is not taxed, but it is still the same as general goods, transportation must be taxed, and stores must also be taxed, although it will not be very expensive, but it is difficult to guarantee that no one will continue to take risks, and there is that the liquor tax needs to be improved, and moonshine is still very rampant, and from the second half of this year, it will have to compete with these moonshiners.

In addition to these, another feature of this year's commercial tax is that there is more money. Probably because in recent years, the amount of coinage in the Tang Dynasty has increased dramatically, and because copper is no longer used, many people who rely on melting coins to make profits cannot make profits, and as a result, the circulation of coins in the market has increased. The amount of money that has to be paid for taxes has also increased.

And this year is the first attempt, switching to remittance..., the left army of Shence has been realized, the soldiers who enlist in the army will have an account, and part of the salary will be directly credited to the account, and the family can receive it when the time comes, which is a benefit, needless to say. You don't have to think about eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood.

This year's summer tax is the first trial time, and the tax is remitted by bank transfer. Deposit this year's monetary tax into the local bank, and the local bank will open a certificate, and then this certificate will be sent to the Beijing Division, and the household department can use this certificate to withdraw money from Datang First Bank.

'How can the tax revenue of the state be handed over to a bank and used such a frivolous thing as flying money?' Cui Yuanshi is opposed, how can the country's finance and taxation be handed over to a cabinet to handle, even if the cabinet has official shares.

Moreover, in his opinion, this kind of behavior of competing with the people for profit is very unacceptable. For example, during the previous Xianzong period, there was an attempt to nationalize the flying money, but it failed, and the merchants did not buy it, and the people were wasted.

Li Chen felt speechless and looked at the sky, does it matter? Just because you failed during the Kenjong period doesn't mean you will fail now. Moreover, since the opening of the bank, the flying money business has done a lot, this profit has become the largest in the local banks, some loans have not been issued, this flying money income has been a lot, before he Lao Tzu was too greedy, the price charged is more expensive than the people, of course, people don't buy it, can this be the same?

'If the flying money is accidentally lost, won't the finance and taxes of this Shu land fall into the hands of people? ''How so?'' Li Chen explained, "There is a designated payee for this flying money, not me, and no one can receive it." You said that ordinary people, maybe they were also impersonated, who will take the risk of this household? Unless your household collectively hacks this money. ’

To put it mildly, under the persuasion of several prime ministers, this year's pilot project was placed in Shuzhong, and the taxes from the east and west rivers were handed over to the bank. Because of topographical factors, the tax revenue of Shu has always been very troublesome, and it is not easy to escort goods into Beijing.

The effect is good. Anyway, a few pieces of paper arrived at the household department, which means that the coin tax of Shu has arrived in Beijing. Although the household department has to pay a little handling fee, it will not be charged because the bank has official shares, but it is also lower than the cost of escorting these coins to Beijing.

However, at present, there is also a problem, that is, the amount of coinage cannot be increased. Datang now mints a lot of money, one hundred and one hundred thousand yuan a year, although this is the sum of Datang's previous ten years, but it is still not enough, and besides, this method is almost reaching the limit.

What tin plating, copper plating, after all, can not really replace the use of pure metal to cast money, just a trick. Precious metals, copper, silver and gold, are still used. It's just that his terrible geography knowledge is all back to the teacher. He knew that there was a major copper mine in Yunzhinan, which was developed in the Qing Dynasty, and in other places, his eyes were dark.

He had no choice but to use another method, a place he remembered had a lot of precious metals, just a little far away. He's trying to get someone to get it.

After a brief discussion of this year's taxes and an optimistic outlook for the future, the meeting was dismissed. That's how it should be.

However, Bai Minzhong still has something, 'Saint, the minister has his own music. Li Chen looked at him, meaning that if he had something to say, Bai Minzhong continued, "The king has made meritorious contributions, and there will be those who show the world with light, and now he will not move a pawn, and the blood will be a blade, and the river will return to himself, please go to the Son of Heaven." ’

'Ministers, please take the honorific title. Several prime ministers said in unison, Li Deyu felt that this was very boring, and when the first emperor was alive, he had never done this, but he was not stupid, and he would not oppose it, so he would go up if he wanted to, so Li Deyu also expressed his position.

'The Honorable One? Li Chenleng, the last Mao Zun, people came to descend, it has nothing to do with me, I got a gift from the sky.

'No, I don't. Li Chen waved his hand, and was about to say that this point of broken merit should also be honored, and suddenly he had an idea and said, "Xianzong tasted the river and died, and now he should talk about the martyrdom of the ancestors, and his proposal is on the Shun and Xian two temples, and he exaggerates the future generations." ’

On his own honorific title, Li Chen's cheeks are not so thick, and he also feels meaningless, he has no pursuit of this honorific title, when he is alive, he pursues the current merit, and after he dies, he wants to be immortal, what is this honorific name, after he dies, someone will naturally give it. But it is really admired by all generations, and future generations are admired, not this kind of honorific title can bring, when future generations read history, who remembers what honorific name, remembers, it is his merits.

So unless he rules the four seas today, is really rich in the four seas, and all the Americas and Australia have become Tang soil, then he is interested, otherwise, this kind of self-esteem is meaningless.

However, if he doesn't want it, it doesn't mean that he won't give it to his ancestors. It is good to give their own Lao Tzu and grandfather, or to give them gold stickers, or to show that they are cautious and chase away, and they are a filial son.

'Minister, there is one more thing. Bai Minzhong continued, he was a little apprehensive, Li Chen didn't seem to like any honorific title very much, he had a feeling of being slapped on the horse's leg, but this matter was arranged, he had to bite the bullet and say, "The people have returned to my Tang Dynasty, and they are happy, and now there are more than 1,000 people in Sanzhou, old and young, and they are facing the sky." ’

Ale, what are you doing, this kind of vain head and brain, it doesn't make any sense, he doesn't believe that these people are coming by himself. Forget it, come and come, 'Properly receive the people, and the expenses will be paid by the inner government.' ’

Bai Minzhong breathed a sigh of relief, this matter was originally a happy event connected with the Shangzun number, and it was a happy event, but Li Chen didn't look like he was very happy, so he beat the drum in his heart, and it was just a matter of slapping the horse's legs, in case he was kicked by the horse, it would be really wronged. Fortunately, this horse has no intention of kicking people, bah, how can you describe the emperor as a horse.

I don't know what Bai Minzhong is thinking, Li Chen saw that he really finished speaking, so he let them disperse, opened the gate of the Ayaqi Hall by himself, and looked at the northwest direction, Xiaohu They should have arrived in Yuanzhou now, and I don't know if they can adapt.

'How is the situation. On the city wall of Yuanzhou, Xiaohu and Li Chengyi were watching the army drill, they had been in Yuanzhou for several days, and when the adaptation period passed, they stepped up the drill of the soldiers, they didn't come to have fun.

'Yes, after all, we have practiced every day, and now we look presentable. Xiaohu nodded, although it was a bit unexpected, but things did not go as they thought, the worst case scenario had evolved, and they didn't have to go to the battlefield right away, they had more time to train the soldiers.

Xiaohu sincerely hopes to give them a little more time, but things often don't go their way. Soon, the time will come to test their true combat prowess. (To be continued.) )