Hearing Xie An's answer, Zhang Shuo nodded with satisfaction. Obviously, Xie An meant that there should be rewards and punishments. The punishment is for the hearts of the Anshi clan, and the reward is for appeasing the elk, and the two have different intentions.

"If Lu Zhu has a mistake in his words, he is not worthy. He was stripped of his military merit and demoted to a member of the Commercial Department (Adjutant), temporarily acting as the Director of the Commercial Department. ”

Zhang Shuo immediately stopped hesitating and announced his verdict. All of a sudden, Lu Zhu's military merit and the position of director were removed, and he must not be feared or ruthless. But in the same way, because no one can take Lu Zhu's position, although Lu Zhu's official position has been reduced, his real power has not changed.

Zhang Shuo looked at the old courtiers who were about to soften their expressions, and then continued: "The elk member is willing to abandon the lord for his younger brother, which is really righteous, and he appreciates it a lot. In order to carry forward his spirit, Lone not only had to teleprompt General Elfang. The construction of the ancestral hall was also funded and contributed by the imperial court of our Qianguo and coordinated! ”

As soon as Zhang Shuo's words fell, whispers sounded again in the court, but he didn't say anything against it. After all, rewards and punishments go hand in hand, which Xie An proposed.

"Thank you!"

Lu Zhu naturally understood that he was squeezed out by the nobles of the Qianguo, and Zhang Shuo's rewards and punishments were very biased towards him, so he immediately quickly bowed to Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo waved his hand: "Okay, this matter is over." Getting back to business, now about business taxes...... The commercial tax is initially priced at 30 tax one. That is to say, for every thirty copper coins, one copper coin must be paid a commercial tax. The commercial tax is aimed at all those who sell goods, even if they sell a grain of rice or a pheasant, they must pay the commercial tax to the imperial court! ”

"What about the wandering merchant groups, the monarch? For example, if merchants from other countries come to trade, should they also be restricted? ”

Although Lu Zhu was demoted to the position of a member of the Commercial Division, he is still the chief officer of the Commercial Division, and now the commercial tax proposed by Zhang Shuo is closely related to the Commercial Division, and he is naturally the person he pays the most attention to and cares about.

"Elk Aiqing pointed out the key point! As for the issue of foreign trade, Gu also took into account, and all foreign merchants who sell goods in their own country are subject to the same commercial tax as local officials at the county level.

If the goods are purchased from China, it is necessary to pay 5% of the purchase price of the goods to the garrison troops at the place of departure as customs duties.

At the same time, our border troops are obliged to escort the merchants who have paid the customs duties and leave the border areas of our country safely! ”

"Let the border army escort the merchants?"

When Dazai Xie An heard this, he couldn't help frowning a little: "Monarch, the border army has a great responsibility to guard the frontier. At present, all sides are eyeing each other, and if we do this, we may be taken advantage of by the enemy. ”

"The border army escorts businessmen, and they are also on the border of our country, so it does not affect the border."

Zhang Shuo said a little helplessly, he originally wanted not to take the money of the businessmen in vain, at least on the surface, the border army only needed to follow symbolically for a while, but he didn't expect Xie An to be the first to stand up and oppose it.

However, as soon as Zhang Shuo finished speaking, the ministers unanimously gave a negative speech, including Wang Anshi and Lu Zhu, who had just been excluded.

The courtiers are so concentric, and Zhang Shuo is not a fool, so he naturally knows that this routine will not work. However, Zhang Shuo's words have been said, and naturally there is no reason to change it easily, otherwise his imperial prestige will inevitably be damaged.

Zhang Shuo's predicament, Xie An discovered it at the first time. So, a new plan was immediately given. That is, to change the border garrison to government soldiers,

Escorted by local government soldiers.

The current government soldiers are not so much soldiers, but actually ordinary people who have been incorporated into the military and have roughly received a certain amount of training. Although they also have the duties of both engineers and logistics troops, they are allowed to do some bodyguard work in peacetime. It will not delay the military situation, still less will it affect the status and identity of the cadres.

Xie An even put forward a new suggestion, that is, if the merchants lacked labor, they could also hire local soldiers to help load, unload, and transport goods. In this way, it can also bring an additional income to the Qianguo court.

However, in order to prevent the generals of the government soldiers from taking over the work privately, the government soldiers were completely enslaved. Xie An suggested that post stations should be established in various places, and only the government soldiers who were assigned to the post stations by the Ministry of War were allowed to accept the transportation and escort commissions of merchants.

"Inn?"

Zhang Shuo was overjoyed when he heard this, if on the basis of Xie An's idea, add the function of sending and receiving letters and packages. Isn't this just the direct establishment of a postal logistics department?

In this way, these post stations are post stations in peacetime, and they are transit places for military intelligence and materials in wartime. Thinking of this, Zhang Shuo couldn't wait to tell Xie An his thoughts.

Listening to Zhang Shuo's thoughts, Xie Anxin couldn't help but secretly admire. The two conducted a series of exchanges around the post station and perfected the details.

In the end, Zhang Shuo decided to establish post stations in various counties and towns in Donghai County. Responsible for military intelligence and civilian communications. At the same time, it is responsible for the transportation of private goods and the distribution of various parcels.

To this end, Zhang Shuo also set up a special postal department, with Xie An temporarily serving as the director, specifically responsible for coordinating the contact between the post station and the locality.

Then Zhang Shuo asked Chen Wen, director of the Construction Department, about the current progress of major projects. It's just that the results are a little unsatisfactory.

In the past half a month, the main road leading to Tanglin County has not been repaired. According to this efficiency, it will take at least a year for the construction department to build the main road in the nine counties of the East China Sea.

In this regard, Zhang Shuo was quite angry, but before he could get angry, Chen Wen poured bitter water on him. From Chen Wen's account, Zhang Shuo also understood the reason why the construction period was so slow.

At the beginning, Zhao Yun defeated Sun Ru and captured more than 4,800 players. Because all parts of the country were in ruins and needed a large amount of labor, Zhang Shuo sent them all to the construction department at once and became a glorious road builder.

The players came in to play the game, and the captives were not paid, where could they afford this kind of treatment. In recent days, players have been running away or committing suicide almost every moment. It is precisely because of this that in recent times, the construction division has been captured by players and engaged in chicken flying and dog jumping.

Not only did it not speed up the construction of the road, but it delayed the original construction speed, which made Chen Wen have a big head every day.

After all, Zhang Shuo sent people to the Construction Division, and as the chief officer of the Construction Division, Chen Wen was naturally responsible for this group of player captives. So much so that in the following time, Chen Wen not only had to send a group of people to capture the escaped captives, but also wrote various work reports to explain to Zhang Shuo the reasons for the decrease in the number of prisoners. Under this tremendous pressure, the whole person was about to collapse.

After Zhang Shuo understood the ins and outs and received a positive answer from Xie An and Gao Lishi, he reluctantly forgave Chen Wen, and said that he would recruit some people from all over the country to join the Construction Division.