Chang'an, the room of the office staff of the Political Research Office in the Imperial Palace.

"Team Leader Yang Jia, this was sent by Lord Jingwen in an expedited three hundred miles, take a look! This seems to be about taxation and forced labor, and you are better at this area, so take a look! If Lord Jingwen wants to temporarily implement this new method in Mengjin County, according to the rules, it should be reviewed by the Political Research Office once. If it has not been reviewed, it is not easy for Lord Jingwen to implement it without authorization. ”

Yang Jia took the document, and then began to read it carefully. Because this political research room was set up by Jing Wen himself, and Jing Wen was not easy to bypass the political research room and implement it, so he used a fast horse of three hundred miles to send it, and if nothing else, it could be delivered in less than seven days. If you want to make a decision, it won't take more than 20 days. I have to say that the level of communication in this era is so clumsy, and twenty days were wasted for no reason. Of course, it is fortunate that it is not the time for the autumn harvest, otherwise it will delay the harvest of the people.

Yang Jia opened the document and took the initiative to look at this strategy, and Jingwen did not pity the pen and ink in this strategy, and directly put the local people to bear the exploitation of the government and grain merchants and silk cloth merchants when they paid taxes, and it was precisely because of this multi-headed tax policy that only grain merchants and silk cloth merchants obtained huge benefits, and then exploited the people. Then the gentry in those places will inevitably follow the exploitation of the people, so that the burden of the people will become heavier and heavier, and finally they will simply not be able to stand it.

Yang Jia used to be a local official, so he naturally knew very well the urine nature of those local officials and squires. The imperial court increased the tax by one cent, but when it came to the magistrates below, it might become three cents, and in the hands of the grassroots officials, it was not surprising that five cents were paid. But in the hands of the squires, these squires immediately became seven to ten points, depending on the wealth of the place. So. The tax is a penny, but where it is reached, it may be increased by seven to ten times. At that time, Yang Jia had no way to solve it at the grassroots level, but now he has a way to solve it.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has just opened the country, all kinds of officials dare not be corrupt, and many small officials have spontaneously not dared to be too corrupt in order to be able to work in Chang'an, which can be regarded as maintaining a relatively good atmosphere. However, the multiple taxes of the Tang Dynasty were superimposed, and in the end, the beneficiaries were the grain merchants and those silk cloth merchants, which obviously violated the Tang Dynasty's government's idea of light taxes. Originally, the policy idea was good, but it was distorted by the officials below. Of course. It wasn't necessarily the officials, but the businessmen who seized the reaction in the market and then took the opportunity to exploit the people.

It is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong, after all, the merchants are profit-seeking, and the officials also want to quickly gather the taxes to complete the task, and then inevitably force the people to exchange all the grain for cloth. Perhaps, it is this coincidence that the two sides coincide, and as a result, the people have been exploited a lot. Yang Jia thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of a way to solve it. Because with the knowledge of his time, he could not have come up with it.

"Lord Jingwen, genius!" Yang Jia exclaimed.

Yang Jia also had to marvel, Jingwen's method was really powerful. I was able to think of this solution. The government and the common people collected all the taxes and collected the grain, and then took the grain in the name of the official and exchanged it for cloth with the grain merchants and silk cloth merchants, and finally took the silk cloth and grain to transport it to Chang'an. As for forced labor, it is also to hire others to serve in the same service. In this way, there will be no delay in farming.

And this method can be said to take care of the interests of many parties. First of all, the interests of the government were not damaged, and the burden of the people could be greatly lightened. The grain merchants and silk cloth merchants, on the other hand, were not able to make as much money as they had in the past, but they were able to maintain a fixed profit. Moreover, a one-time large-scale transaction can also reduce the operating cost of those grain merchants and silk cloth merchants, and it can also reduce a lot of costs compared to the past transactions with farmers. And the government has a lot of resources in its hands, so businessmen don't dare to offend lightly.

With the merchants of this era, of course, they did not dare to make trouble with the government and dare to bully the government. Not to mention this era, even those Western conglomerates in later generations have to save some face for the government, although they are very powerful, but they also have to save some face for the government, and they will not fall out with the government accused by them for a little profit.

As for the final spending money to hire some people to serve, it can also be said to be the finishing touch. And Jingwen knew that these people who took the government's money to serve in the conscription could be used to resettle those landless people, and the people who lost their land also had a channel to obtain income steadily. And these people who specialize in forced labor may be the predecessors of the workers, and if they serve as laborers for others for a long time in the future, then they are also out-and-out workers. Even, perhaps, many landed people would sublease their land to others and then go to work full-time as a laborer, so that they could get two incomes. It's not impossible, it's very possible! At that time, conscription will no longer be a free sale of labor, but a sweet and sweet food that can be paid.

"Adults are talented, I can't catch up even if I shoot horses. It seems that it is no wonder that adults can preside over this political research room at a young age, and I am now convinced. Yang Jia suddenly sighed.

In the past few years, Yang Jia has actually been a little unwilling to host the political research room for Jingwen, a person younger than herself. But after all, it was the emperor's authority that covered Jing Wen, and he had to be convinced, and it was Jing Wen who promoted them from a small official to this point. And now in the past few years, Yang Jia has also been treated as a seven-rank official, so Jingwen is still their Bole. Although Yang Jia is grateful, she is still a little unfamiliar with Jingwen's ability. However, now that he sees this solution, he immediately knows that as soon as the expert makes a move, he will know if there is one. With a plan, the interests of all parties will be taken care of immediately, and the damage to all parties will not be great, so of course it is good.

At that time, the establishment of the Political Research Office was actually to encourage local governments to implement more innovative policies to benefit the people. Anyway, the magistrate can think of some new policies as much as possible, but as long as they are brought to the political research office for review, if they can stand up to scrutiny, then they can be temporarily implemented. Even, if it is very effective, it can even be recommended for implementation nationwide. Many officials also want to use the ladder of the Political Research Office to show their abilities, and then maybe they will be able to get the country's reuse after the implementation of the whole country.

"What's this method called?"

"A whip?" (To be continued......)