At the court meeting, Di Xin slowly walked down from his seat and said to the ministers: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have decided to use 3,000 slaves to build this Lutai, and these 3,000 slaves can be built except for the old and the young. ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．? r?a?n?w?e?na?'co?m" When the ministers heard Di Xin's words, they didn't feel much strange about each other, after all, it was normal to build a deer platform with three thousand slaves, and even a little less.

Then, Di Xin said: "However, the slaves who built Lutai are different, they can eat two meals a day for free when they build Lutai. ”

"What!" Everyone had a surprised expression on their faces after hearing Di Xin's words, you know, three meals a day can only be enjoyed by high-ranking officials and nobles like them, and ordinary people can only eat two meals a day, slaves have one meal a day, and some vassal states don't even give slaves one meal a day, and Di Xin actually let slaves have the same treatment as poor people, isn't it chaotic!

"Don't be a king!" A minister suddenly walked out and said to Di Xin. Di Xin looked at it, ha, the other party is the minister in charge of the treasury. Seeing that the other party objected, Di Xin asked, "My Great Shang Treasury can't support three thousand slaves?" ”

When the minister heard Di Xin's words, he immediately said, "Yes. "Because when Di Yi was in power, the Shang Dynasty once made Di Yi Zhongxing, so the treasury of the Great Shang at this time was still very rich.

Desin asked, "Then why can't the slaves be given two meals a day?" After Di Xin finished speaking, he looked at the minister with a gloomy face.

After seeing Di Xin's face, the minister was a little apprehensive in his heart, and at the same time secretly regretted what he had just done, but at this point, he could only say stubbornly, "Great King, the slavery system has been around for thousands of years, but there has never been a great king's act, and if the great king does this, will it not let the system be disordered?" The people of the world and the aristocracy are cold? ”

When Di Xin heard the minister's words, he didn't even look at him, returned to his seat, and said, "But there are still people who disagree?" ”

For a while, everyone didn't speak, after all, people had already seen Di Xin's determination, and the reason that the minister said just now was too far-fetched, after everyone's reflection, it was found that Di Xin's decision was not indispensable, after all, those were just slaves, and it didn't matter whether they lived or died. I won't care about each other's dining.

Di Xin saw that the crowd did not object. So he said: "Okay, from today on, the national teacher Shen Gongbao is responsible for supervising the construction of Lutai, so that except for the necessary craftsmen, the rest are all slaves, two meals a day, if the slaves can't eat two meals, or automatically saved, allow them to bring back and let their families eat." ”

When Shang Rong heard Di Xin's words, he immediately said, "The king is wise! Bigan also said: "The king is wise! ”

At this time, Di Xin said: "It is decreed that from tomorrow onwards, the city gate tax will be abolished and miscellaneous taxes will be collected instead." Di Xin said again in astonishment.

"Don't be a king!" This time, it was Shang Rong who stood up, and then said to Di Xin in some shock: "Great King, my Great Shang currently only has the city gate tax and agricultural tax, and these two are very stable at present, if they are easily changed, it will definitely make the Great Shang disordered, and please take back the Great King's life." ”

Di Xin said to Shang Rong: "The prime minister doesn't have to be busy refusing first, please listen to me first, if the ministers still think it's not good, we will discuss it then." ”

Shang Rong cast a look at Di Xin and motioned for Di Xin to continue.

Di Xin said to the ministers: "Since ancient times, whether it is the previous dynasty or the great merchants, there are only two kinds of taxes, that is, the city gate tax and the agricultural tax, however, the agricultural tax is too heavy, once there is a natural disaster, the grain will not be harvested, the people will not harvest, and they will starve, and the city gate tax will collect everything, goods, clothing, horses, wild beasts, livestock, these are too numerous, it is too difficult to count. ”

When Di Xin said this, the minister in charge of the treasury nodded again and again, indeed, nowadays, currency has not yet been popularized, and the most used by people is still shells, what copper coins have not yet appeared. Therefore, the taxes collected are even more everything, which makes the treasury almost become a warehouse.

Di Xin went on to say at this time: "Now, I have decided to reform it, first the agricultural tax, reduce the agricultural tax, from the current ten taxes to three, to ten taxes one. Moreover, in the future, there will no longer be a tax based on the number of people, but on the amount of land per acre owned by an individual, and it will be better to encourage the poor to open up land and strive to allow the common people to have a variety of land. ”

Shang Rong and Bigan both nodded again and again after hearing Di Xin's words, but they still had some opinions, so Bigan came out and said: "King, changing the tax collection system and reducing taxes is indeed a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and the minister agrees very much, but wouldn't it be that the income of the treasury will also be reduced a lot, and the king will also build Lutai, I'm afraid that after a long time, the treasury will be empty." When Bigan finished speaking, all the ministers nodded their heads again and again, agreeing with Bigan's words.

At this time, Di Xin said to Bigan: "What Uncle Huang said is reasonable, so I will reform the city gate tax." ”

"Oh? I wonder what this has to do with the gate tax? Bigan asked, confused.

Di Xin said: "The abolition of the city gate tax and the change to miscellaneous tax, miscellaneous, is a general term for some people who do business, because business people buy and sell many kinds of goods, especially miscellaneous. "Nowadays, it is impossible for a merchant to be called a merchant, after all, the name of the great merchant is built there, so the current merchant still belongs to the ancestors of the hundreds of miscellaneous families.

Di Xin continued: "Commoners, merchants, enter the city to do business, or buy and sell goods, all are allowed to come in and out, and only the tax of these people who do business is thirty taxes and one, and miscellaneous taxes will have many beneficial policies, but whether they are commoners or businessmen, they will pay only one tax, and if it is two occupations in one, then two taxes will be paid. That is, the peasants only pay agricultural taxes, and those who do business only pay miscellaneous taxes, but if there are peasants who are doing business and farming at the same time, then they have to pay two taxes.

At this time, Shang Rong came out and said, "King, don't you know that nobles can pay taxes?" When Shang Rong finished speaking, he immediately felt that there were eyes around him, and he was very unkind.

Di Xin thought for a moment after hearing Shang Rong's words, and then said, "Only pay agricultural taxes." "Di Xin did this, mainly for food, the aristocracy not only farmed, but also did business, although the miscellaneous tax Di Xin knew that it was very rich, but the current era is still based on grain, after all, people's purchasing power is not so much, which is why the agricultural tax after the reform is higher than the miscellaneous tax, and the aristocracy has fiefs, and most of the fiefs are fields, so it is still mainly agricultural tax.

Shang Rong also nodded after hearing Di Xin's words, after all, the nobles are also a force to be reckoned with, and now the nobles are very competent although they have a high gold content, so if Di Xin has any orders, even if the nobles don't want to do it, they will do it.

Shang Rong did not retreat, but continued: "The king, the minister thinks that it is already winter at this time, and the peasants have already finished harvesting, so it is not appropriate to implement this reform immediately, and it should be officially implemented from next year, and the miscellaneous taxes should be collected first. After that, the agricultural tax will be collected at the time of grain collection. ”

"Well, what the prime minister said is reasonable, so let's do what the prime minister says." Di Xin thought about it and agreed to Shang Rong's suggestion, after all, it would definitely be unacceptable to people if it was implemented immediately, but instead give them some time to get used to it.

Then, Di Xin announced the dissolution of the dynasty, and then called Shang Rong, Bi Gan, Zhao Qi, Mei Bo, and a cadre of ministers to his Xianshou Palace to discuss the details of taxation together, after all, the Great Dynasty God Xin only said a more detailed framework, so further discussion was needed.

It wasn't until late at night that Di Xin said goodbye to the ministers, and when Di Xin finished doing these things, he was sitting on the ground, rubbing his head, for several hours, most of them were Di Xin talking, and Shang Rong was just using notes, so Di Xin was tired enough.

And at this time, Di Xin suddenly felt that his head was being touched by a pair of soft yi, and then began to massage his head, and there was also a pair of hands on his shoulders massaging.

When Di Xin saw it, he smiled, it turned out to be his queen and Huang Guifei, Di Xin said to them: "Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Wenyuan and Concubine Huang showed a sweet smile, and then did not speak, but did their best to massage Di Xin.

Jiang Wenyuan said to Di Xin at this time: "King, don't you go to Daji's bedroom?" Although Jiang Wenyuan and Concubine Huang didn't know Daji's identity, fortunately, Di Xin had already done ideological work with the two daughters before. Moreover, the second daughter also knew that Daji came to the palace for a purpose.

Di Xin said: "Don't go, let Daji worry for one night, don't leave today, just stay in Xianshou Palace to accompany me." ”

"Ah, the two of us." Concubine Huang was a little surprised when she heard Di Xin's words, and at the same time she was shy.

"What, don't you want to?" Di Xin smiled and said to the second daughter, although the second daughter was shy, she did not refuse Di Xin's request, but stayed in Xianshou Palace.

And Daji, as Di Xin expected, after not seeing Di Xin, he always thought that the construction of Lutai had not been approved by the ministers, and he was sulking, and Daji also heard that Di Xin originally wanted Jiang Ziya to build Lutai, but Jiang Ziya not only did not do it, but also spoke disrespectfully to Di Xin, and even pointed out Daji's identity, which made Da Ji feel very scared, and Sheng Sheng was afraid that Di Xin would notice something again, or let the ministers come to subdue the demons.

The next day, there were two imperial lists were posted, which was written about yesterday's court meeting, and Di Xin also sent the speech officials headed by Mei Bo and Zhao Qi to explain the details of the reform to those who did not understand, and people did not pay too much attention to miscellaneous taxes, but heard that Di Xin reduced the agricultural tax and changed it to ten taxes and one, which made people happy, knelt down in the direction of the palace, and sighed Di Xin's wisdom. After all, food has always been the thing that people are most concerned about, and now they heard that the agricultural tax has been reduced, and the city gate tax has also been abolished, which makes the rural people especially outside the city happy, and after this news reached the vassal states, the princes were immediately stunned by Di Xin's policy, but most of the princes thought that Di Xin was killing himself, so he did not take it to heart, however, a year later they did not think so.