Without waiting for Princess Jingming to speak, a scholar in white clothes on the side got up and said: "Otherwise, there is a saying in the Taoist scriptures, all living beings are equal, the scholar clan occupies a vast area, but they do not pay taxes;

Princess Jingming frowned slightly, and introduced to everyone: "This is the son of Ju Xianju from Jizhou, the ancestor of the son, Ju Jing, who once supervised the sacrificial wine for the son of Emperor Guangzong, and Shangshutai Shangshu Ling. ”

The latter point is very important, indicating that Ju Gongzi was born in a famous family, but Emperor Guangzong was a few decades ago, and there was no outstanding person at home since then, simply put, the family has been defeated.

"The Taoist code also says that those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people," Wang Fen slowly interjected: "All things are born and have their own belongings, this is the avenue, and if the avenue is chaotic, the world will be chaotic." ”

Princess Jingming nodded: "I don't understand Mr. Wang's words, but the sages have a saying, the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light, if the people are not there, where is the country?"

"The little people's hair is like a leek, cut and reborn, and the head is like a chicken, cut and recalled. Officials need not be fearful, they must never be light. Ju Gongzi sighed.

"Otherwise, the soldiers are the cadres of the country, and the people are the leaves of the country.

"This new tax system is supposed to solve the financial difficulties of the imperial court, but it actually involves the Great Dao of the World, how can it be so?" Princess Jingming asked puzzled.

"The Tao is the foundation of governing the country, and the solid is Bangning," Wang Fen solemnly explained: "The new tax system violates the avenue and shakes the country's foundation, which is a great harm and should be abolished." ”

Princess Jingming smiled slightly, and raised her glass to each other: "Wang Sanye is reasonable, this solid can be Bangning." ”

"What's the reason!"

Without waiting for others to echo her, Princess Jiatai had already said loudly: "Sister Huang, what is this solid Bangning, Yangzhou is difficult to argue, Gu Wei Gu has refuted it, what is this, the people are the first, the society is secondary, the monarch is light, since the people are the foundation, the people are the foundation! The people are uneasy, this is going to be chaos!"

Qiu Ge applauded: "What Princess Jiatai said is, be congratulated!"

Saying that, Princess Chong Jiatai raised her wine glass, and Princess Jiatai raised her glass with a smile.

Xue Mi also smiled and raised a glass in response, Wang Fen and Lu Qiao exchanged glances, and reluctantly raised their glasses.

Putting down the wine glass, Lu Qiao said: "The people are the foundation, it is right, but there is a lot of wealth in the world, there are more courts, and there are fewer people.

As soon as the words fell, Gongzi Ju shook his head: "Brother Lu's words are wrong, the overcharged silver in this new tax system is not collected from the people, but from the gate lords of the Shi clan. ”

"Brother Ju's words are bad, taking Jizhou as an example, according to the law of the Great Jin Dynasty, the scholars do not pay taxes, and the shade households of the scholars do not pay taxes, and the land occupied by the scholars is a lot, but the problem is that these lands are not cultivated by the scholars, but leased to the small people to cultivate, the scholars as landlords, but collect part of the rent, but Zhang Meng believes that these small people who rent land do not pay taxes, which is wrong, in fact, they are taxable, and the small people have to pay land rent, and they have to pay taxes, which is already very heavy, and the new tax system has further increased their burden, but Zhang Meng still said no, isn't this a lie！”

Ju Gongzi was slightly stunned, and didn't know how to refute for a while, Princess Jingming smiled, and her eyes flowed: "Lord Xue, you are in the center, what do you think?"

Xue Mi hasn't understood it yet, but one thing he knows is that tonight's drinking party seems to be a debate similar to Yangzhou, Ju Gongzi and Princess Jiatai seem to be in favor of the new tax system, Wang Fen Lu Qiao and Song Gongzi seem to be opposed, and Qiu Ge is not clear.

He suddenly remembered a question, why did there be Qiu Ge in Baiyi Garden last night and today's cocktail party?

It seems that he wants to see Qiu Yun's attitude through Qiu Ge.

But why is that?

Before he could figure it out, he heard Princess Jingming's question, he looked up at Princess Jingming, then at Princess Jiatai and Wang Fen Luqiao, smiled and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, you know that I don't read much. ”

Everyone let out a burst of laughter, and Xue Mi also smiled self-deprecatingly: "This new tax system, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, in my opinion, let's make do with it first, or that sentence, you can't come up with a way, you have to do it according to others." ”

In a word, everyone was silent again, and Princess Jingming smiled: "It's this reason, those who oppose the new tax system are opposed, but they can't come up with a way, this is a difference, Wang Gongzi, what do you say?"

Wang Fen was silent for a while, and nodded: "Princess, what Lord Xue said is true, but the reason still has to be made clear, Gu Wei's argument in Yangzhou seems reasonable, but in fact, this strategy is just drinking to quench thirst." ”

"Drink to quench your thirst?" Princess Jiatai raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "The new tax system can improve the finances of the imperial court, and the imperial court has silver, so it can fight back against Tibet and resettle the displaced people, isn't this good?"

"Settle the displaced people?" Wang Fen sneered: "There are no displaced people in that generation?" Gu Wei has always sold his reputation and reputation under the banner of serving the people, but in fact, he is just seeking power for himself, and the emperor has not transferred him to Shangshutai yet, I am afraid he is very disappointed. ”

"Master Gu used to run for the disaster victims and the homeless, which is also a reputation for fame, so I hope there will be more people who sell their reputation like this. Princess Jia Tai sneered coldly.

The woman on the side also smiled and said, "Third uncle, our Princess Jiatai has a lot of respect for Master Gu. ”

Xue Mi was slightly stunned, Lu Qiao was also stunned, they all looked at Wang Fen, and Wang Fen smiled bitterly: "This is Xu Shu, the second lady of the Xu family, and she is my niece." ”

The two families of Wang Xu have intermarried for generations, and the relationship is complicated.

Xu Shujiao said with a smile: "Third uncle, I also think that this new tax system is nothing, at most it is a little silver, there is no shortage of this in the family, so why bother." ”

"Nonsense!" Wang Fen's expression was stern: "The Great Jin has been a monk for eight hundred years, how can my generation not be called for the Great Jin!"

Wang Fen said impassionedly, and Song Gongzi also raised his arms: "Well said! The Taoist classics say that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and we have the responsibility of supporting the society, and we cannot sit idly by and watch Zhang Meng, Gu Wei and others destroy the society." ”

Xue Mi didn't know this Song Gongzi, so he looked at Qiu Ge, Qiu Ge didn't pay attention at first, and then understood, so he introduced in a low voice, this Song Gongzi's name is Song Ding, the word is self-realizing, and he is a person from the Song Dynasty in Qingzhou.

"Hmph, everyone is talking about Kuang Fu Sheji, but who is really Kuang Fu Sheji, and who is hypocritical. Princess Jia Tai snorted dissatisfiedly.

Song Ding was suddenly a little at a loss, Princess Jiatai and Xu Shu were like two delicate flowers, blooming at the banquet.

For more than a year, these two women were notorious in the imperial capital, and the two women were not the masters of peace, and caused a lot of trouble, sometimes dressed in revealing clothes, dressed like singing and dancing girls, and ran to the door of the Qinglou, provoking some unknown scholars to go up and talk, and were beaten up by the two women; sometimes women dressed up as men, the most interesting time was that the two women dressed up as men, participated in a poetry meeting, in the poetry meeting, the scholars were greatly ridiculed, and then they went away, making those scholars all disgraced.

The two girls didn't know Song Ding, but Song Ding knew them, these two little evil girls were a nightmare for the scholars, and Song Ding had seen them throw a scholar into the river.

Song Ding didn't dare to refute, Qiu Ge said with a funny smile: "Her Royal Highness the princess said well, they are all talking about Kuang Fu Sheji, there are a lot of good intentions to do bad things, whether the new tax system is useful for Sheji, you have to use it to know, just like Lord Xue said, you have no way, people come up with a way, then you can only do it according to other people's methods." ”

"I thought that the imperial court was not financially insufficient, but was corrupted by the corruption of Tian Ning's generation," Lu Qiao took out yesterday's reason, and today he added further:" The imperial court's finances mainly come from the poll tax and commercial tax, and the salt and iron tax, a large part of it goes into the Shaofu, how much silver is still in the Shaofu, no one knows, the imperial court, every year to subsidize two million taels of silver to the palace, in addition, each clan, there are a lot of annual salaries, really used for the imperial court, roughly only fifty percent of the entire financial revenue, if the imperial court can save expenses, squeeze out two to three percent, in addition, the salt and iron tax, and then take out part of the imperial court, the imperial court's finances are bound to improve greatly, and the new tax system is not committed. ”

"Yo, Lu Gongzi, if you want to do this, let's drink the northwest wind!" Princess Jiatai smiled: "I can only pay six thousand taels of silver a year, a large family, just point to this silver to eat, Sister Huang, you are only five thousand taels a year, if it is not a little industry, less than me, I said, Lu Gongzi, dare to accept some of your silver, you will complain, you will complain about the sky, and hit the idea on our heads, this is how Kuang Fu Sheji helped." ”

Princess Jiatai's cynicism with a gun and a stick made Lu Qiao embarrassed to speak, and Qiu Ge laughed: "What the princess said is reasonable, the royal family also wants silver, Shaofu's accounts are never clear, how much silver there is, only the emperor and Ding Cong know, besides, there are only a few ways to get silver from Shaofu, and if you cut it, I'm afraid the emperor won't even be able to get the silver reward." ”

According to the law of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are several main ways for Shaofu to come to silver, salt and iron workshops, textile workshops, taxes from mines, and imperial capital entry fees, the most important is gold, silver and copper mines, gold, silver and copper are the materials for coinage, and the income from coinage is all returned to Shaofu.

During the period of Wuzong, the treasury was insufficient, so Wuzong handed over part of the money that belonged to Shaofu to the treasury, such as salt and iron workshops and textile workshops, and handed over some of them, but the imperial capital entry fees and coinage fees were all returned to Shaofu.

In addition, the Shaofu also controls various expenses in the palace, such as the annual palace people need cloth and clothing, the daily need for food and meat, and the gardens belonging to the royal family.

The entire Shaofu, what is the annual income, except for the Shaofu Ling Ding Cong, I'm afraid even the emperor doesn't know.

Xue Mi frowned, what's wrong with this Lu Qiao? He actually hit the idea on the royal head, is he sick in the brain, since Emperor Wuzong was forced to transfer part of the Shaofu income to Duzhi Cao, the Shaofu income has always been a secret, and anyone who probes this secret will be attacked by the royal family.

It is a joke to let the royal family fill the deficit in the treasury, it seems that this Lu Qiao is also in vain, Xue Yu couldn't help but shake his head when he thought about it.

(End of chapter)