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"Ziran, let's hear it!"

Weng Tongyi looked at Tang Haoran and asked, although he was over sixty years old, he was still attracted by Tang Haoran's words, what can be learned from Japan's reform of the law?

In the past, he was attracted by the "Examination of the Japanese Politics", and the reason was that Meiji used the name of the Restoration to take power from the central government and re-establish the power of the emperor, which is exactly what the emperor needs now, and it is also what he needs, the emperor needs to re-establish authority, and he needs to use this to seize the power of Li Hefei, and then achieve personal success.

As for foreign affairs, whether it is changing the law, or the Restoration, it is just a tool.

"In the past, Japan's system, although it was very different from our country, but most of its effects on our country, its origin is similar, such as Japan and our country, for thousands of years, are based on agriculture, most of the country's financial resources come from land rent, which is similar to our country, before the Meiji Restoration, its annual income of land rent is only 2 million yuan, and the silver is only 1.4 million taels, but it accounts for 60% of its national wealth, how similar is this to our country?"

"Indeed, for thousands of years, China has been agriculture-oriented, and the land tax naturally accounts for a very heavy amount!"

As the head of the household, Weng Tonggong naturally knew the importance of agricultural taxes in the imperial court, and naturally became interested in Tang Haoran's words, and in fact, this is exactly Tang Haoran's other way, since in history such as Weng Tonggong's generation, originally had no intention of changing the law and reforming, all they needed was to use the reform of the law to fight for power and profit, all they needed was a name, so they would give him a reason, a reason to change the law and reform.

Financial resources, since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the financial resources of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been tightened year by year, so that they have to borrow foreign debts year after year, in this case, what is more attractive than "open source", they need a name, and what they need is not a name.

"Xiang Ye can know that after 8 years of local tax reform, its land tax revenue has increased?"

Looking at Weng Tongyi and looking at the honest face like an old farmer, Tang Haoran didn't know that there was a hidden scheming behind this seemingly honest face, and Li Hongzhang also avoided it, but when he raised this question, he took the opportunity to plant a seed in his heart.

"Its land tax revenue has jumped to more than 40 million yuan, an increase of more than 20 times compared with the early years of the Meiji era!"

Tang Haoran only let Weng Tongyi gasp, the land tax revenue increased by 20 times, as the head of the household department, how could he not be curious, in the past, people talked about the strength of the West, in business, in the factory, what to talk about no business, no wealth, no work is not strong, but that is too far, and now the example of Japan is in front of him, people are "rich" by relying on the land tax, if the land tax of the Qing Dynasty can also be increased by 20 times, then how can the Qing Dynasty not be strong?

So Weng Tongyi looked at Tang Haoran and hurriedly asked.

"Ziran, why is that?"

Since Weng Tongrong asked, how could Tang Haoran not answer, Tang Haoran explained one by one the many steps of Japan's Meiji Restoration land tax reform, how to implement the land tax reform step by step, and how to formulate the implementation of the land tax reform, and Weng Tongrong listened, sometimes frowning, sometimes raising his eyebrows, and in the end, he closed his eyes and said.

"Those who are like the Japanese are so wanton and tyrannical to the people is not the way taken by the country!"

And this is because Tang Haoran's "land tax reform" takes 3% of the land price, and the reason why the tax collected by the state accounts for more than 30% of his land revenue.

"This is natural, the law of the Japanese, there are also inappropriate, and later it has also lowered the land tax, although it is still inevitable to levy tyranny, our country can also take the long, make up for the short, in the view of Ziran, the cultivated land of the country is dozens of times that of Japan, if you follow the example of the Japanese, sympathize with the people to formulate the corresponding land tax reform, to avoid local waste, harshness, and its natural multiplication, at that time, the country can not be strong!"

Tang Haoran's words made Weng Tonggong's heart tumble very for a while, indeed, if you can follow Japan's example of the land tax reform and appropriately reduce its taxes, the Japanese can collect 3% of the land price, and the dynasty can collect 1 percent, and then exempt from harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, not only will the people no longer bear the pain of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but more importantly, the imperial court can also use the power of land tax reform to collect wealth in the center.

Thinking about it like this, Weng Tongrong felt that Tang Haoran was quite desirable, and his eyes became more and more appreciative of the Tang Haoran in front of him, but he was a promising newcomer, and he did have a little talent, in fact, the reason why he saw Tang Haoran first today, on the one hand, was because of the previous article, and on the other hand, he really wanted to take the opportunity to consider it, so as to recommend it to the emperor, and now it seems that this Tang Haoran is indeed available, but if you think about it carefully, Weng Tongrong can still appreciate the risks from this local tax reform. The government and the opposition are far from being able to stop him......

After hesitating, after a while, Weng Tongyi nodded slowly, looked at Tang Haoran and said:

"This day of the land tax reform does have merit, but our country has the ancestral precept of the Holy Ancestor Emperor to "never give more", if the land tax reform is carried out, it violates the ancestral precepts, during which the resistance of the government and the opposition is probably not easy, how to eliminate this resistance? ”

After that, Weng Tongyi stared at Tang Haoran, all looking like he was asking for advice.

"There is no resistance to any reform, so that in the history of all reformers, if they give up halfway, the reason is that they are all presiding over the reform, or they cannot resist their resistance, or they are dismissed from government halfway......

Tang Haoran said as he moistened his throat with tea, and at the same time took the opportunity to look at Weng Tongyong's expression, and sure enough, as he expected, Weng Tongrong's face changed slightly when he mentioned "dismissal of officials and political rest", and he was familiar with history books, but he didn't know what happened to Shang Ying's change of law? and the dismissal of Wang Anshi's reforms, which is exactly what Tang Haoran needs.

"However, in Ziran's view, the reason why the ancient law change was abandoned halfway, in addition to the internal and external resistance, is because although the government and the opposition know the key points of reform, they do not know the benefits of reform, so if you want to change the law, you must first let the people see the merits of the reform of the law and see the benefits of the reform of the law, so that the reform of the law can be accepted by the world."

"This, if you can't reform the law by changing the law, how can you let people see the merits of the reform and see the benefits of the reform of the law?"

Tang Haoran's words made Weng Tongyi confused, there is always a sequence in everything, if there is no chicken and there can be eggs, if there is no change of law, how can there be a change of law and reform?

"Xiangye, what if you can take one place as the first place for the whole country?"

When he said this, Tang Haoran was secretly smug for a while, a hundred years later, when the reform and opening up, China was facing conservative pressure compared with the late Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it was no less than that, if it were not so, how could the central government make a "special zone", and finally use the effect of the special zone to influence the whole country, so that there was a comprehensive reform and opening up more than ten years later.

And now, he just put a "successful case" a hundred years later in front of Weng Tonggong, he knows the conservatism of Weng Tonggong and others, and he also knows what they are difficult to refuse.

"One place is the first in the whole country!"

Weng Tongyi looked at Tang Haoran, and after he said this, he thought for a while, and then asked rhetorically.

Could it be that what Ziran said is like Liu Mingchuan in Taiwan, "to base the country with one island to become rich and strong", and to implement the new policy with one place first? ”

When Tang Haoran thought that "one place is the first of the whole country", Weng Tongyi naturally thought of Taiwan first, after all, when Taiwan was established as a province, Liu Mingchuan also had the same words.

"Hmmm! It's a bit similar! ”

Seeing that Weng Tongyi took the initiative to mention Taiwan, Tang Haoran couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, since he mentioned Taiwan first, it was better than before, Taiwan, isn't it exactly what he wanted?

"There is indeed a bit of similarity, with the facilities in a corner of Taiwan as the model of the whole country, it is indeed somewhat similar to what Ziran thinks, as Xiang Ye said, compared with other provinces, the implementation of the new policy in Taiwan, there are indeed natural benefits, first of all, Taiwan is far away from the mainland, isolated overseas, and the population is only more than 3 million, the implementation of the new policy here, its resistance is small, and because it is far away from the mainland, even during the implementation of the new policy, something is inappropriate, the imperial court is as knowledgeable as the prime minister, can also be recovered in time, so as not to hurt the overall situation......

At this time, Tang Haoran was all the same as Weng Tonggong said that those who proposed to "implement a new deal in Taiwan" were all like Weng Tongyong, and he was contemplating and thinking about making suggestions for Weng Tongyong's "new deal", where he analyzed the benefits of implementing the new deal with Taiwan, that is, he was as shrewd as Weng Tonggong, and this would involuntarily follow Tang Haoran's way, and recognized the benefits of implementing the new deal in Taiwan, and he even vaguely saw that when Taiwan's new policy was successful, the whole country praised him, and then grasped the power of the whole country to implement the new policy in one fell swoop……

Under Tang Haoran's intentional or unintentional guidance, he had completely fallen into his Gu and did not know that Weng Tongyi's heart was surging, but a wave emerged, if this is a trial of the new policy in Taiwan, then who will preside over the new policy? Do you still want him Liu Mingchuan to preside? Thinking that Liu Mingchuan is Li Hongzhang's person, how can he be willing, and then his mind comes up with the old students of the past, and after weighing them one by one, he finds that they are inadequate, they may be able to make articles, can do poetry, but if it is about foreign affairs and new policies, how can they be the opponents of Li Hongzhang and others? Whether it is doing foreign affairs or implementing new policies, in the final analysis, it is still better than Li Hefei, if not, wouldn't it make people laugh? Thinking about it in his heart, in the end, he set his eyes on Tang Haoran.

"It is my responsibility to recommend promising talents to the imperial court, and it is within my responsibility, not to mention Ziran's talent, everyone knows it, if the old man knows and does not recommend it, how can he be a minister? Ziran, go back and tell me how to try out the new deal you said! Well, it's how to try it out in Taiwan, write an article, he will have the opportunity one day, I will definitely dedicate it to the emperor, and recommend Ziran ...... to the emperor" (a good activity for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! ）