"Dare to ask King Qi, what are the current households in my Datang?" Lin Feng continued to ask.

Before Li Jingsui could answer, a middle-aged scribe took the lead in replying: "I currently have more than 1,847,000 households in Datang, and there are more than 4,800,000 people in Dingkou. "This person is the head of the household.

"Master Xie Lu, Master Xie Tao. May I ask me again what are the current registered officials in Datang? Lin Feng continued his jumping question, taking the thoughts of everyone on the scene.

"More than 2,400 people." This time it was Yan Ji who answered the official department.

"Xie Lu, Lord Xie Yan." After hearing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the ratio of 1:2000 to the government and the people was already relatively low in all dynasties.

That is to say, on average, an official is responsible for managing more than 2,000 people, and such a ratio of officials and civilians is acceptable in daily management, but if we encounter extreme special circumstances such as major droughts, floods, and wars, it is conceivable that our officials will inevitably be overwhelmed and in a hurry, which is a problem of insufficient manpower. Now, let's talk about financial resources. Lin Feng talked eloquently, and the officials on the scene all looked at him in a daze, no one had ever looked at the problem from such an angle before, and it naturally felt very fresh and chic.

"Master Tao, I don't know how my fiscal year will be?" Lin Feng asked Tao Qian for advice.

"My national plan follows the income and output system, and the annual plan is roughly offset." Tao Qian shook his head and said.

In ancient China, finance was called "expenditure", "national use", "annual calculation" and "national budget". "Expenditure" and "state use" refer to the expenditure of the state; "Annual" refers to the calculation of the annual income and expenditure of the state; "National economy" refers to the state finances. The idea of living within one's means, that is, collecting as much as you spend, was put forward and formed in the pre-Qin period, and became the principle of financial management followed by all dynasties.

"In other words, if there is a big disaster or an accident, we don't have much money to spare for disaster relief, let alone small disasters that often occur in local areas. This is precisely the problem of our lack of financial resources. Lin Feng concluded again.

"That's a very real problem. We want to benefit the people, but we don't have people, no money, no food, what should we do? If we adopt the Shang Jue Law, we encourage and guide the vast number of wealthy merchants and landlords to take out their surplus money and use it where the people need it most, such as building righteous schools, repairing water conservancy, and providing disaster relief. In this way, the poor masses benefited from it, the landlords and wealthy merchants gained their own spiritual satisfaction, won the approval of the official and the people, and the antagonism between the two classes also weakened invisibly. As for us, we just came up with a guiding policy, without much actual effort, but solved the difficulties of the people, alleviated social contradictions, and the foundation of rule was more solid, this is a situation where all three parties win, why not? Lin Feng continued to follow the good path.

"Well, Lin Yilang's law complements the existence of poverty and alleviates social contradictions, and at the same time, it also establishes a good trend in society, and the minister believes that this law is very good." Han Xizai was the first to comment, and he was the first to jump out to support Lin Feng.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Zong, Xiao Yan and others immediately agreed.

The truth has come to this point, and the Holy Lord and the King of Qi have also nodded, and no one will be bored anymore. This article was also passed by the raised hands of all the personnel.

Article 3 of the Commercial Law proposed by Lin Yilang has yet to be tested in practice, and it will not be voted on here. Now, let's start arguing about the basic tax amount of the Municipal Amendment Law. Li Jingsui continued to preside over the overall situation. The debate got off to a good start, and a smile spread across his face.

Lin Yilang suggested that all checkpoints in Datang should be removed, and the national commercial tax should be unified into two types: residential tax and tax. The residential tax is the tax on business, housing and sales, and the tax rate is uniformly 3%; The tax is the tax passed by the trader, and the tax rate is uniformly two percent; All commercial tax revenues are distributed to the central government, except for local expenses. Do you have any thoughts on this? ”

This is what Lin Feng learned from the commercial tax system of the Song Dynasty. Before the two Song Dynasty, there were many names of commercial tax, and there were many names, and in order to promote commercial development, the Song Dynasty determined that there were two kinds of residence and tax, and the residence tax was equivalent to the current business tax, and the tax was equivalent to the current circulation tax.

Today's commercial tax, nominally thirty taxes one, but in name only, along the way taxes often accumulate up to ten taxes, according to Lin Feng's proposed law of the city, if you can only pay the tax once, in essence, it is reducing the amount of tax, which is beneficial to everyone. Since everyone has even passed the Shangjue Law, they naturally have no opinions this time.

This article also passed.

Yes, it only took more than an hour to pass the commercial law, and Li Jingsui was also very satisfied with this, coughed lightly, and said: "This is the end of the debate on the commercial law. Next, we will begin to debate the art of war. ”

Li Jingsui took a sip of the tea cup in front of him and continued: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored. In view of the current situation of our Datang troops, combined with the future development expectations, Lin Yilang especially started from the two aspects of soldiers and generals, and proposed the echelon construction method and the general rotation method respectively. I would like to ask Hayashi to explain the details to the ministers. ”

"The method of echelon construction, as the name implies, is to screen the existing army, select the strongest ability to continue to be soldiers, as the regular army of our dynasty, the inferior is the reserve, as the primary supplementary means of the regular army, and the second is to be transferred to the border local guards, playing the role of vigilance and supervision. The return of soldiers between the three echelons is also arranged in echelons, and they can be converted between each other, the former does not perform well and retreats to the next echelon, and the latter performs well and can be promoted to the previous echelon to improve the fighting spirit and combat power through competition. Lin Feng listed his thoughts, which was naturally a reference to the army division method of later generations, and it was also a safe way to avoid the army's large-scale layoffs causing panic among the people in the army.

"The general rotation method, as the name implies, adopts the same training methods for both the regular army and the reserve forces, and the garrison is generally not easily transferred, but the generals who lead the army can be rotated, and the rotation is carried out at fixed intervals. It can be described as a general of the iron battalion. ”

This point, Lin Feng came up with out of being very wary of the army generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and in Lin Feng's thoughts, he would select the best of these rotating generals and pull them to his special training base for all-round baptism and transformation of modern military concepts, and then continue to spread them through them, and drive the transformation of the army from top to bottom. On this occasion, Lin Feng was not prepared to reveal his special operations plan to the public.

After Lin Feng finished speaking, the ministers on the scene looked at each other, and no one took the initiative to speak. This is because the ministers present accounted for the vast majority of the Chinese officials, and the military attaches were very few, which was very unusual in the five dynasties and ten countries where the military was rampant.

Historically, in order to avoid the evil consequences of military secession caused by the excessive power of the Tang Dynasty's temperance envoys, the Southern Tang Dynasty has always deliberately deprived the military power of weakening the generals with troops. "In the Tang system, the festival envoy is not in the town, but the deputy ambassador or the posterior stays behind, then the cloud knows the festival." In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (942 AD), Li Yu went to Hongzhou with Song Qiqiu and served as the envoy of the Zhennan Army. After Li Jing succeeded to the throne, he also used the old Zhou Zong as the envoy of the Zhennan Army and Song Qiqiu as the envoy of the Zhenhai Navy, and neither of them was able to undertake the military. In a certain sense, the Southern Tang Dynasty court has privately used the appointment of the Jiedu envoy as a means of degrading.