Looking at Wei's appearance, it seems that he immediately wants to set off to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion to see Minglan . sink

Li Hao hurriedly said: "Mother, it's not too early now, and my cousin has to rest early, so let's go back tomorrow."

It just so happened that I also promised Gu Tingye, saying that I would send him some supplements, and I would ask the eldest lady to prepare it in the evening, and let my mother bring it tomorrow. ”

After listening to Li Hao's words, Wei said to himself: "Yes, this is just pregnant, Minglan should really rest more." ”

Li Hao saw that Wei's mouth was moving, but he didn't hear the sound, so he asked, "Mother, what are you talking about?" ”

As a result, Wei Shili ignored Li Hao, got up straight and walked out of the door.

Seeing this, Li Hao hurriedly chased after him, and asked again: "Mother, where are you going again?" ”

Wei didn't look at Li Hao, and said directly: "Aren't you going to send supplements to Minglan , I'll go tell your daughter-in-law about this." "Fall

Hearing this, Li Hao didn't continue to chase after him, and let Wei go and toss it himself.

Li Hao himself went to the study to think about where Li Wei should be placed.

Anyway, Li Hao was sure that Concubine Miao had no other way, and in the end, he still had to accept his own suggestions, so he simply thought about it in advance.

Since he wants Li Wei to reach out and get the money, he must help him choose a place with rich oil and water, and he can't be in Bianjing City, otherwise there are so many people staring at it, Li Wei is only afraid that there are thieves and no thieves.

But you can't be too far away from Bianjing, otherwise it will be difficult for you to control the actual situation, so don't get away with it when the time comes.

After thinking about it, Li Hao planned to put Li Wei in Yingtianfu, which was Zhao Kuangyin's Longxing land and was located on the Bianhe River.

Both politically and economically are very capable. sink

Of course, with Li Wei's qualifications and ability, he is not enough to take on the burden of a government, and it is estimated that Li Wei himself will have to doubt it if he really wants to arrange it like this.

Therefore, the place that Li Hao arranged for him was Ningling County, although it was not the seat of Yingtianfu.

However, because it is adjacent to Bianshui, there is a commercial tax on the edge of the river, so the commercial tax that can be collected every year is quite generous.

After making up his mind, Li Hao planned to go back to his yard to rest, but as soon as he arrived here, he found that there were large and small boxes in the middle of the yard, and Zhang Guifen and Wei were picking and choosing in it.

Li Hao couldn't help asking: "What, are you planning to empty your home, Gu Tingye doesn't lack things there, just find some good ones and send them." ”

After hearing this, Wei said impatiently: "Aren't we just picking, you go to the side and stay, don't bother us." ”

However, Zhang Guifen walked to Li Hao's side at this time and said softly: "Mother just wants to be fully prepared, if you are tired, go back to the room to rest first." sink

I accompanied my mother to pick out the things, and then I sorted them out before I went back. ”

Li Hao nodded and left, leaving the seat to the Wei family and they toss slowly.

Early the next morning, when Li Hao got up and was about to rush to the court, he saw Zhang Guifen also get up.

Later, he said, "Why don't you sleep more today, why do you get up so early." ”

Zhang Guifen replied: "I told my mother-in-law that we would go to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion together today and get up early to prepare." ”

Hearing Zhang Guifen's answer, Li Hao couldn't help but say: "Mother is really, I pulled you to pick things for a long time yesterday, and I want you to go with me today, I feel better to my cousin than to me." ”

Zhang Guifen disagreed with this point, and replied: "Minglan lost her mother at a young age and lived alone in the Sheng family, although she was taken care of by the old lady, it was inevitable that there were some unsatisfactory places. sink

Mother-in-law is also distressed by Minglan now, and she has the heart to make up for it, not to mention that her aunt also blessed the Li family at the beginning, and this friendship also has to fall on Minglan . ”

After listening to Zhang Guifen's words, Li Hao felt a lot more relieved, and he didn't care about Wei's attitude.

I was just worried that Zhang Guifen would feel uncomfortable when she saw this situation, but now that Zhang Guifen is fine, she will go to the court.

However, after the next dynasty, Li Hao did not return directly to the Third Division, but went to Ouyang Xiu, preparing to officially explain his idea of reforming commercial taxes to Fu Bi.

After all, Fu Bi has been in office for a while since he returned to the dynasty, and everything has basically been straightened out.

In addition, before Fu Bi was summoned by Concubine Miao, he gave Fu Bi an advance measure in his mind, so as not to hear Concubine Miao's words.

In this regard, Ouyang Xiu did not object now, and replied directly: "Okay, I will invite the rich minister to my mansion today, and you will also come over then." sink

In addition to the tax law you mentioned, the new policy changes that were originally discussed have been stopped for a long time in the middle, and this time we are discussing how to restart them. ”

Li Hao agreed, and hurried back to the third division to prepare the introduction of the plan for the relevant commercial tax reform.

After leaving the palace, Li Hao rushed to Ouyang Xiu's mansion as promised, and at this time, Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi had not yet returned, so they went to the mansion first and waited.

After waiting for a while, I saw the two of them go back to the house together, it seems that Ouyang Xiu went to wait for Fu Bi, and this face seems to be doing a good job.

Li Hao also immediately got up and said, "The lower officials pay a visit to the two prime ministers." ”

Ouyang Xiu said, "You came here early, sit down." ”

After finishing speaking, he led Fu Bi to sit on the left side of the main seat in the middle hall, and he sat down on the right side. sink

After An sat down, Fu Bi said, "I heard Uncle Yong say that you have ideas about the reform of commercial taxation and want to discuss with us. ”

Li Hao replied: "That's true, I checked the accounts of the three divisions over the years and found that there are many problems.

Although on the surface of the tax is increasing every year, the proportion of commercial tax is increasing, and on the contrary, the land tax is even decreasing.

It stands to reason that since Emperor Taizu, the population of our dynasty has grown, and the acres of land cultivated have also increased.

Even though the imperial court has always been light on land to support the people's livelihood, in recent years, the court has not been reducing or reducing land taxes, so this phenomenon is obviously very abnormal. ”

After listening to Li Hao's words, Fu Bi said: "Oh, since the taxes collected by the imperial court have not been reduced, it is understandable that there is less on top of the field tax, after all, the small people are difficult." ”

"This is the problem, if these reduced land endowments can really be reduced to the heads of ordinary people, it is indeed a good thing. sink

But this is not the case, Gyeonggi Road is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the situation is better.

However, according to the news sent back by the people I sent from Jingxi Road and Jingbei North Road, the amount of land paid by ordinary people is nearly forty percent higher than that during the Dazhong Xiangfu period.

If it is calculated in this way, it is worth pondering where the reduced field endowment has gone. ”

Of course, Fu Bi understood what the problem Li Hao was talking about, but the interests of the gentry class were not easy to move, and he fell into contemplation for a while.

Ouyang Xiu, who was on the side, saw that the scene was a little cold, so he said loudly: "Didn't you originally want to reform the commercial tax, why did you talk about Tian Fu again?" ”

Li Hao replied: "Because both are actually related to the people's livelihood, whether it is commercial taxes or land taxes, most of them basically fall on the heads of ordinary people. ”

Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi didn't quite understand this, and immediately asked: "What do you mean by this, how can commercial taxes be related to the people." "Fall

Li Hao explained: "Because nearly half of today's commercial taxes come from salt, iron, tea, wine, and coal.

This has led to a significant increase in taxes in the DPRK and China, but it has also made the burden on the people extremely heavy.

Now I want to make changes in the field fu, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve for a while, so I thought about reforming the commercial tax first.

The price of the things that the people need daily will be reduced, so that the people can better recuperate. ”

In terms of views on people's livelihood, Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi are both unified.

And after the failure of the Qingli New Deal, the two didn't want to make things big all of a sudden, but wanted to carry out the reform silently.

Originally, the two of them were worried that Li Hao was young and vigorous, and they wanted to do things well all of a sudden, but now they see that Li Hao is also measured. sink

He agreed: "Okay, then the tax change will start with the commercial tax, and you can tell me exactly what you want to do." ”

So, Li Hao then explained his plans one by one, and first talked about the specific measures or the purpose of doing so.

Among them, the most important one is to restrict the right of local taxation, because the field is required to carry out an inventory of the acres of land, so the inventory is relatively difficult, and it is impossible to do so without the assistance of the local government.

But the commercial tax is different, the commercial tax is divided into two kinds: residential tax and passing tax, and the residential tax is the tax of business, residential and sales, with a tax rate of 3%, which is equivalent to the municipal tax; The tax is the tax passed by the trader, and the tax rate is 2%, which is equivalent to the customs duty.

The residential tax is easy to collect, because the stores of each merchant are there, as long as the merchants are strictly restricted from registering and making registers, it is collected according to the routine, and this is a precedent.

As for the tax, it involves the local tax customs, and now there are more than 2,200 tax customs in the Great Song Dynasty, a large part of which is in the hands of the local transit divisions.

This time, Li Hao planned to take back these customs in a unified manner, and they would be directly under the jurisdiction of the three divisions, and they would be separated from the jurisdiction of the local yamen. sink

In addition, for the number of levels, Li Hao is also ready to make some deletions, after all, there are too many now.

Now the Great Song Dynasty has 26 branches, 4 Jingfu, 30 Fu, 254 Prefectures, 63 Jian, and 1,234 counties.

That is to say, basically most counties have at least two tax customs, and this time Li Hao plans to sort it out.

And there are also advantages to this, as long as the power is in one place, the problem of double taxation can be avoided to some extent.

After Li Hao's explanation, Fu Bi raised a key question: "According to what you said, the amount of taxes that the imperial court can collect will only be reduced a lot!" ”

In this regard, Li Hao said: "Don't worry, according to the calculation of the people I arranged in several customs customs, and the number of taxes paid in the corresponding places."

Most of the officials in various places are in and out, and if they can be directly governed by the three departments, the taxes will not necessarily be much less. sink

And the three divisions can't take over all at once, so I'm going to start with Gyeonggi-ro and Gyeongseo-ro.

First take over the corresponding functions and powers of Kaifeng and Yingtianfu, and then extend it to other states and counties on these two roads.

After the three divisions took this opportunity to train the corresponding personnel, they continued to distribute and take over the various roads, and implemented them to the 26th road in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

After Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi glanced at each other, Fu Bi said, "Since this is the case, then Uncle Yong and I will also come to support you, and then you will start to arrange this matter." ”

Li Hao immediately got up and replied: "The lower official understands that the lower official will definitely handle this matter." ”

"Just sit down and talk." Fu Bi said to Li Hao, and then said to the two of them: "Since the matter of commercial taxation needs to be changed, then other reforms can also be started." ”

The main discussion was between Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu, and the two began to discuss the unfinished measures in the original Jiayou New Deal, and from time to time they had to consult Li Hao's opinions. sink

This time, Li Hao is no longer the original petty official, and the last time Li Hao was in the book, he only mentioned the law of enriching the country.

On other aspects of the reform of the administration of officials and the reform of the military, Li Hao kept silent so as not to get into trouble.

But now the situation is different, although Li Hao's plan is not as good as the two in front of him, he is also a high authority, and these words can be said.

Anyway, after some discussion, the determination to continue the new policy was finally established.

Of course, it's not yet time for a full recovery, after all, the three of you can't accomplish so many things.

So next, I plan to comprehensively recall many old ministers who were demoted because of the Qingli New Deal as a help.

These words also made Li Hao's heart move, can he also take this boat and bring back the people he needs. sink

Li Hao remembered this matter in his heart, and it depends on whether there is a chance to do it later.

In the next few days, Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi successively found some trusted courtiers to discuss the new coup d'état law, and helped Li Hao seize power and taxation power.

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Li Hao is selecting personnel, among which the candidates of Ying Tianfu are extremely important, after all, they are not under their noses.

Many things require the person in charge to make decisions on the spot, which is still very demanding on ability, and the issue of loyalty must also be taken into account.

After all, about Li Wei's affairs, someone has to help him watch it nearby.

Just when Li Hao was entangled in the candidate, Concubine Miao in the palace summoned Li Hao into the palace and agreed to Li Hao's suggestion in person.

So under Li Hao's arrangement, Concubine Miao summoned Li Wei into the palace alone and had a long talk. sink

Anyway, the meaning of the words is to promote Li Wei as the tax supervisor of Ningling County, in exchange for Li Wei to leave Beijing to take up his post, so that Princess Fukang can return to the palace to recuperate.

Li Wei didn't suspect anything about Concubine Miao's actions, after all, Li Wei also knew how unpleasant Concubine Miao was to look at her, and it was normal for her to want to send her out of Beijing.

At that time, Li Wei was actually very reluctant, although it was good to be able to take up a real position, but Li Wei was worried that after he left Beijing, he would never come back.

However, under the persuasion of Concubine Miao, Li Wei finally agreed.

After all, in Li Wei's opinion, as long as he does not break off his marriage with Princess Fukang and has the protection of this husband and wife, Concubine Miao can only be a rat trap.

As for directly ordering the divorce, Li Wei didn't believe that this orphan and widow dared to do this, you must know that people who admonish Taiwan are not easy to mess with.

After Li Wei left Beijing to take up his post, the candidate for Li Hao's side was basically selected. sink

The people who went to Yingtianfu were all those who had followed Li Hao to Jiangnan at the beginning, and they were still good in terms of obedience.

However, after this time, Li Hao felt more and more that there was no one available under him, and he made up his mind that he must transfer some people back to Beijing.