Prime Minister Du Xun held the white jade board and said a good plan.

"Okay, if this kind of three-year-old child doesn't believe it, can Su Thief believe it? Since this is the best policy, when there is a middle policy and a lower policy, let's talk about it together."

Du Xun touched his nose and retreated, and was replaced by another prime minister, Jia Changchao, who stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the next strategy is to mobilize a large army and besiege Su Shi at any cost. In this way, he will be able to get back all the money he has taken. You can even force them to hand over the source of business and turn bad things into good things."

"The price is too great, have you ever considered that if we do this, will Liao, Western Xia and Barbarian Meng come to fight the autumn wind? Hey, the plan is too risky, let's talk about the middle strategy." Zhao Zhen shook his head again, obviously he didn't want to take risks, he didn't have the courage in his bones.

The upper and lower strategies are indispensable, and the other prime minister, Pang Ji, stood up with a bitter face, "Your Majesty, the middle strategy is to negotiate with Su Shi, of course, not to make him surrender, but to let him leave the Great Song Dynasty, the world is so big, you can go to other places."

This is persuasion.

What is unpleasant is that Da Song has no way to deal with him, and he doesn't want to be an enemy of Su Shi, so he simply let him go. But Su Shi also has to ensure that he is not in Hokhosong.

The so-called bigness of the world is to let Su Shi go to other places to make trouble.

In the final analysis, the middle strategy is that you can't beat it.

This idea can be regarded as talking to Zhao Zhen's heart. The most important thing is to do this, there is no need for Da Song to pay anything, which is especially liked by Zhao Zhen.

"This is a good strategy, but I don't know who to send to negotiate with Su Shi?" Zhao Zhen nodded first, and then asked rhetorically.

"You can send the privy envoy Bao Xianggong to go." Pang Ji did not hesitate to say the candidate, which shows that he had been prepared before.

In fact, the so-called upper, middle and lower three strategies were all thought up by the ministers together. And the three prime ministers divided the three strategies by drawing lots, but Pang Ji was not very lucky, and he chose the middle policy. Look at the book

Don't think that such a big event is child's play to use lottery to decide. In fact, in the dynasties of history, there are many times when major events are decided, and they are decided in a child's play.

"Bao Xiren?" Hearing that it was this candidate, Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction, Bao Zheng and Su Shi had a very close relationship, and he had known this for a long time. Now that Da Song and Su Shi have turned their faces, let the old people with Su Shi go, they are indeed good candidates.

Just ordered Bao Zheng to go alone, Zhao Zhen was a little uneasy, he was afraid that something would happen that he couldn't know about at that time, and he would be surprised, so he looked at Pang Ji and said: "Pang Aiqing, the solution is what you came up with, why don't you go to the north and go with Bao Aiqing." By the way, this matter has been done, and Bao Aiqing should also return to the capital."

This is the condition for Bao Zheng to come forward.

As for Pang Ji, it was pure bad luck and he won the lottery. He seemed to have known that this would be the result, and his face was bitter and he clenched his fists and said, "The minister obeys the order."

Su Shi's matter was carried out in the form of negotiations, and the outcome is unknown. And the next thing to talk about is the major issue of the country's finances.

When Zhao Zhen brought the topic to this, the courtiers below all lowered their heads, looking like they were going to be dumb.

When it comes to money, no one wants to speak, which is normal. After all, if you want to make more money, you will inevitably offend people, and such work is often thankless.

Everyone didn't speak, Zhao Zhen naturally wouldn't be satisfied, so he directly named him, and the first one to point out was the third envoy Song Itchy. Who asked the other party to deposit the treasury money into Huaxia Bank, and now there is a problem, don't look for you to find anyone.

Song itched his person, maybe because of his personality, or maybe because of his duty, so that he never formed a gang in the court.

Come to think of it, if a big man in charge of a country's finances is forming a party for personal gain, the emperor will not tolerate it.

Song Qi, who was named by name, was not like other courtiers who couldn't say a reason for a long time, on the contrary, he seemed to have already thought and said, "Your Majesty, there is only one opinion of the minister, Jiatian tax?"

"Never."

As soon as Song Qi opened his mouth, the other ministers collectively objected as if they had come to life.

The field tax can be called the agricultural tax, but there are some differences.

The reason for this is not that the rulers of the Song Dynasty are benevolent, but that their control over the local area is weaker than that of the later dynasties, and the rulers of the Song Dynasty did not redistribute land at the beginning of the dynasty , which is reflected in the history of the Song Dynasty and the edicts of the Song Dynasty.

This led to the Song Dynasty being lenient with land taxes and paying heavier taxes in other areas. For example, there are commercial taxes, wine taxes, tea taxes, salt taxes, etc., which are relatively heavy, which is also the fundamental reason for the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is why some people say that Song Fu is dozens of times that of Han.

It's just that over the years, other taxes have become lower, all because of the serious land annexation, which has caused many Song people to lose their land. But without land, other forms of forced labor have not been reduced in the slightest, which makes the quality of life of the people much worse than before.

When the people have no money to spare, their spending power declines, and naturally their business development is affected.

The impact of business development directly affects taxation, and even so, Song Qi proposed the addition of a tax on the field.

Seeing that many ministers stood up against it, Song Qi snorted coldly and continued: "Your Majesty, the minister is talking about the tax on adding fields, not the tax on agriculture."

"What's the difference?" Zhao Zhen asked a little dizzily after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, there is naturally a big difference between this. The so-called agricultural tax, that is, all the people who work in agriculture have to pay more taxes. A land tax can be added, which means that only the landable people are taxed. What he means is that no tax is levied on land less than two acres, and if there are more than two acres, the more land he owns, the heavier the tax will be."

"Your Majesty, in the year of famine, the people had little surplus food, and in order to tide over the difficulties, they had to borrow money from the local gentry to borrow seeds to survive the day, and wait until the harvest to return. However, these gentry all took advantage of the danger of others, and the interest rate was set extremely high, forcing the people to finally sell their land to pay off their debts. In the intervening years, many people have already lost their original land and have been forced to become tenant farmers."

"Your Majesty, the number of sharecroppers in the Great Song Dynasty has exceeded that of the Taizu period by more than fifty times."

"What, is that true?" When he heard this astonishing number, Zhao Zhen was really taken aback.

What is the concept of fifty times, doesn't it mean that during the original Taizu period, fifty-one people had their own land, but now there is only one person left?

If the people have no land, what will they live on?

Once the people have no source of income, won't the world be far from chaos?

"Your Majesty is in person, the minister naturally doesn't dare to talk nonsense, the minister has a statistic here, and Your Majesty will know the truth when you see it." As he spoke, Song Qi took out a book from his arms, followed by the lieutenant Zhang Mao, and hurriedly stepped forward, took it and forwarded it to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen didn't look at it immediately, he knew that even if Song Qi said this, there would be no mistake, otherwise the other party would not be able to bear the charge of bullying the king.

"Tell me, how will the land tax you mentioned be collected?"

Listening to Zhao Zhen's question, Song Qi opened his mouth to explain, "Your Majesty, Tian has more to pay more, and Tian has less to pay less. Ordinary people who have only two acres of land can pay low taxes as usual. In this way, under heavy taxation, the local gentry will find that the land will not only not make them rich, but will become a burden, so they will hand over the surplus land. At that time, the local government can buy it at a low price, and then rent it to the local people at a normal price."

"In this way, the local government can have an extra amount of income, and after the people have their own land, their lives will become better, and under the stability of people's hearts, business will naturally be easier to do, and commercial taxes can also be collected by a few percent, which is the way to strengthen the country and make the people rich."

"Okay, a good country is strong and the people are rich."

After listening to Song Qi finish his theory, Zhao Zhen faced

Lust is overjoyed.

The truth that water can carry a boat and can also capsize a boat, of course Zhao Zhen is very clear.

If the people are stable, the power of Zhao and Song will be more stable. And after this move, we can also collect more land taxes and commercial taxes, and the treasury will become full again, isn't it beautiful?

Such a good thing, where does Zhao Zhen have any reason to disagree, and now this Bendang Hall announced that the field tax will be increased from now on.

The emperor made a decision, and the other ministers hated it in their hearts.

These ministers are all beneficiaries of land annexation, and Song Yi's move is to pluck the hair from them, and it is strange that they can be happy.

It's just that His Majesty agreed to this matter, and they can't refute it in public, so they can only think about what to do in private.

They don't care if Da Song is rich or not, but he must be rich and can't suffer losses, otherwise what's the point of being an official?

......

In the battle outside Qingfeng City, Su Shi broke the backbone of the Song army, and in the process of going all the way north, it was very smooth, and no one who opened his eyes came to find trouble.

At this moment, Su Shi seemed to have become the Marquis of Wu Ji of the Great Song Dynasty again, and the local city took a policy of ignoring the places he went, that is, not suppressing or opening the city for him to enter.

Su Shi has a system to help, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and there is no need to enter the city when passing by. In this way, the Su Jiajun team went all the way north, successively passing through the Daimyofu, Enzhou, Dezhou, Cangzhou, Qingzhou, and finally Bazhou, the northern border of the Great Song Dynasty.

When I set off in September and arrived in Bazhou with more than 10,000 dependents, it was already the beginning of November, and the weather was already cold at this time, especially cold in the morning and evening, and I saw that the heavy snow was coming.