Regarding Liu Hong's madness about loving Qian Ai, Guan Yu has some other opinions.

"The Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, why is he so keen on these things? Shouldn't the Son of Heaven rule the four poles and sweep the eight wildernesses? Why should you be so concerned about the affairs of such vendors? It's still like this...... Greedy? ”

In front of Liu Bei, Guan Yu didn't want to hide himself, he directly said what he thought in his heart.

Liu Bei thought for a moment.

"This is probably the difference between our Son of Heaven and other Sons of Heaven, other Sons of Heaven will be more or less concerned about their own image, but our Son of Heaven does not have such thoughts, he ...... More practical. ”

"A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, and the Son of Heaven loves money, and he should have a way, so I really don't know what the truth is."

Guan Yu shook his head and said, "Brother, what do you think?" Do you think this is the right thing to do? ”

I think?

It's not time for me to think.

What's more, as a political figure, Liu Bei feels that it doesn't matter whether what the Son of Heaven does is right or not, but whether it is good for him or not is the most important thing.

Not only are there benefits, but the benefits are great.

The issue of salt was discussed before it was less, because the matter of Pu Tao wine had not been discussed, so Liu Chang ended discussing the matter of livestock and iron tools in Liangzhou with Meng Tuo.

"It's all seventy percent, but at most one percent, according to the above experience, two percent to eighty percent is more common, and the key is to double taxation, which is less than the tax levied on salt, so it is really difficult to sell iron ware."

Guan Yu was surprised: "Selling from this county to our county, you have to levy seventy percent of the tax?" Did you hear about such a low tax later? ”

Now all his energy is focused on rectifying the affairs of Liangzhou, and soon he will start to work with Meng Tuo, who arrived in Ji County.

However, Meng Tuo also gave his own views on some of the details raised by Guan Yu before, and assisted Guan Yu in repairing some of the things that Liu Chang himself understood thoroughly, and made targeted improvements.

"I don't have those things out there yet."

When I learned that Liu Chang recommended me to be the common agent of the eight parties, I was very excited and very grateful for Guan Yu's recommendation, and expressed my willingness to donate a sum of money and food to help the Liangzhou government.

You can see that there is no heavy agriculture and suppression of business, agriculture levies taxes, and businesses levies taxes, all of which are cheap and heavy, but there are no officials and nobles, as long as we live comfortably, what agriculture and businessmen are just our money bags. ”

That's really a dilemma, it's a trivial matter if you don't have the ability to reach the sky, and with a little operation, tax reduction and exemption is also a trivial matter, but nevertheless, you also suggest that you go beyond the land of Hachifuhe and the land of eight rivers to sell ironware, and the price is to sell, it is too expensive, and the peasants can buy it. ”

When I was in my hometown in Youzhou, I also ran an iron farming tool business, and at that time, I was able to increase taxes on Liu Bei's protection, so I made a lot of profits.

In this way, private workshops could not forge agricultural tools for sale, but because of government errands, they had to take their own hands, so farmers had to try their luck if they wanted to buy iron agricultural tools.

And high-quality iron tools will only be used as weapons, even if the forging of farm tools, the quality of farm tools is quite poor, and it will be damaged after a short time. ”

Guan Yu admired my next way very much, accepted my gift, and then instructed me to send it to Ji County with a small fanfare, so as to make the momentum small.

Meng Tuo sighed: "So it has always been very difficult for traders to travel far away, if you want to avoid the tax checkpoint, you have to go to the inaccessible mountains and forests, and these places are often fierce beasts, weak people have a place, one is to pay attention, life is there, if you want to be a little more dangerous, take the official road, you have to pay heavy taxes."

So Liu Bei just appeased Guan Yu and did not answer his question directly.

So the peasants in very few places are very troubled by this, delaying the farming time, but there is no other way, and the peasants in some places will even use stones to grind into the shape of farm tools, and reluctantly replace the use of farm tools, but the effect is ......."

Is Liu Hong's actions good for himself?

Before Guan Yu heard this, he was silent for a while before he hurriedly spoke.

The demand of folk farmers for iron farm tools is very small, in the last year of the heavy travel to a few places, generally found that the local lack of farm tools, asked the local farmers, farmers all said to buy farm tools, even if you can buy, the quality is very high and inferior, is usable, very slow damage.

Knowing that Liu Chang only wanted to engage in the trade of salt and peach wine, and also wanted to engage in the business of iron tools and livestock across regions, Meng Tuo also gave his own views from a professional point of view.

I am very familiar with business and cross-regional business matters, and I am very familiar with the small checkpoints, ferries, and private checkpoints set up by local governments from Liangzhou to Luoyang.

Meng Tuo smiled bitterly: "The imperial court is to tax iron smelting, iron mining and production, and local sales of iron tools need to pay a tax of 20 percent. ”

Meng Tuo did not see the same view on this.

Guan Yu was very surprised by this.

"Livestock and iron tools are the same as the local demand, but generally speaking, Jiangnan is more lacking than Jiangbei, and it is definitely not possible to sell horses to Jiangnan, so you can't get a small profit, and in terms of iron tools, what is really lacking is the government, but the people.

Meng Tuo is worthy of being a professional, although his character is debatable, but his professional ability is indeed very weak.

After Emperor Xiaohe, during the reign of Emperor Xiaozhang, the monopoly of salt and iron was restored for a time to subsidize the state, and when the monopoly of salt and iron, the iron officials mainly made iron tools in response to the orders of their subordinates, not for the sake of private agricultural production.

The technology of the Han people wrought iron is not poor, and the output is not high, so it is difficult to make the output of agricultural tools cover the agricultural production of the whole country, as long as you have no heart, you will definitely be able to do it.

Of course.

"Seventy percent?"

With such a bad business and such a small market, how can there not be so few farmers who use agricultural tools?

"That's still counted, that's just a question."

"Agriculture is the foundation of the country's existence, and business is the only way to revitalize the country's situation. Tax?

Guan Yu has little understanding of that aspect of affairs, and when he ran iron affairs in Zhuo County, he mainly relied on Liu Bei's protection, and now think about it, if he has Liu Bei's protection, his iron smelting business will be done no matter what, and the profit will not be mentioned.

When there is no official errand outside the workshop, you can't forge farm tools a little, once there is no errand, you must immediately complete the official errand, it is able to slack, and the production of farm tools will be wasted.

Even I don't have anything to do with those places, and I know a lot about the road problems in Liangzhou, Bafu and the land of eight rivers, and I'm a rare expert.

"The iron affairs of this dynasty, since the emperor Xiaohe, are both official and private, in particular, the iron tools used by the government are rarely forged by the government-run workshops, and the private workshops are mainly for the private production of iron, but this is not the case.

Before Emperor Xiaohe, although the monopoly of salt and iron continued, there was little corruption in the government-run workshops, and the imperial court issued orders that the government-run workshops often embezzled funds, and used more money to ask private workshops to forge iron tools to cope with errands.

Meng Tuo immediately assured me that I would definitely do it beautifully.

Once the farm tools are damaged, it is even more difficult to buy them again, which means that they can be bought, and once there is no war, whether it is the government or the private sector, they will all produce farm tools and weapons.

(End of chapter)