As the right minister of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, Li Linfu has the most say in the operation of the country.

Although the accounts of the central government of Datang still seem to be like that, in fact they are only demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the finances and taxes of most local states and counties in Datang have long been overwhelmed.

Fiscal problems like these are ostensibly caused by inherent flaws in the Tang Dynasty's political structure. It's not that it's just about to say that troubled times are coming, and the country is about to fall apart or something.

It looks like it's just a matter of the political superstructure.

For example, the local political and economic operation of the Tang Dynasty is dominated by Gyeonggi and the "government", and the finance and taxation of one side are controlled. The second is that the "state" is the mainstay, each in charge of its own share, and the general state population is only tens of thousands, and it can't do anything big.

The governance of Datang has always lacked the administrative region of the "province" level to coordinate management.

At the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the establishment of the "Ten Festivals" system was to some extent to make up for the lack of "provinces", and objectively it was an effective adjustment of centralized power.

Therefore, unlike the conjecture of many people who like "key politics" like the Tang Dynasty imperial examination scholars, the operation of government affairs in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the border towns and jiedu envoys is relatively good, at least better than that of the Guanzhong region.

Although Datang is rotten, no matter how bad it is, it can't be rotten in Chang'an.

In addition to the places under the jurisdiction of the Kaijiedu Envoy, the government affairs beyond the scope of the state and county have all been pressed to the center of the Tang Dynasty, resulting in a sharp increase in the central financial expenditure!

For example, if you manage a certain river, you will definitely need to build a river embankment. And in Datang, it is not uncommon for a river to cross several states or even more than a dozen states.

For similar government affairs, each state hopes that the imperial court can stand up and contribute money and efforts to preside over the overall situation; But he doesn't want the state government to contribute money and efforts to manage these "idle things".

In order to make up for the deficit of the central government's finances, all of these "things that can be done or not done" have been shelved by Li Linfu.

The reason is very simple: the revenue of the central government of Datang is decreasing year by year.

So why is it that in the absence of a large-scale war, the population is still increasing, and the social fundamentals are not in chaos, the central finance of the Tang Dynasty is still getting smaller and smaller?

Brother Ji doesn't care much about this kind of problem, but Li Linfu knows it.

The rent of the Tang Dynasty, the grain and silk collected are decreasing year by year. Among them, there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but the main reason why they cannot be said openly is: there are more and more "hidden households" in the Tang Dynasty, more and more people are evading rent and mediocrity, and the overall tax payment ratio is getting smaller and smaller!

Although Li Linfu adopted the method of grasping the land tax with his beard and eyebrows, intensified the collection of land taxes, and tried his best to distribute the new taxes evenly among all those who occupied the land, he was still unable to make up for the growing financial deficit.

The bureaucratic class of the Tang Dynasty can not accept Jiaozi, the powerful family can not accept Jiaozi, and the wealthy businessmen of the private sector can not accept Jiaozi.

However, Li Linfu is the same as Brother Ji, there is no way to refuse to hand over his son, otherwise he, the right minister, will not sit for a few years and will be ousted from power.

With such a complicated feeling, when Li Linfu came to the Calyx Xianghui Building, he saw that Brother Ji was talking happily with Fang Chongyong in a certain study, and there was a hearty laugh from afar.

"Please forgive me, the saint, Wechen is late."

As soon as they met, Li Linfu bowed to Brother Ji, and the kind of respect that came from his bones had been solidified into his expression.

Li Linfu no longer needs to pretend to be a city government, his smile is a city government!

"Eh, it's too late. Brother Nu came at the right time, O wrestler, give me a seat, Brother Nu sat beside me. ”

Brother Ji seemed to be in a good mood, and pointed to the position next to him and said.

Gao Lishi put a cushion next to Brother Ji, and Li Linfu was not polite, and after saluting, he knelt down obediently and sat up.

Then he lowered his head and did not speak.

"Guozhong, the method of improving and retrieving is what you just said, and it's very interesting.

The right phase is here, you can talk to the right phase as well.

I have a headache for peace every year! ”

Brother Ji pointed at Li Linfu and said to Fang Chongyong.

Fang Chongyong bowed to Li Linfu with his hands crossed, and then said eloquently: "Dare to ask the right minister, now the peace law in Guanzhong is paid by the government, and the silk silk is used to directly buy the existing grain in the hands of the people, at one or two percent higher than the market price, right?" ”

"That's true, the harmony method was created by Niu Cyclamen, and it was first run on the Hexi side, and Guozhong should know better than his own appearance."

Li Linfu was a little confused about Fang Chongyong's intentions, and his words were very mellow.

"Today's peace method is to exchange cash for grain.

And once there is a shortage of food in Guanzhong, the local officials will take knives to the township to force peace. The good governance of the imperial court has become a tool in the fish and meat township, and finally the people's resentment boiled, and the imperial court could not receive enough grain because the price of grain was too high.

If the imperial court could issue jiaozi, then it could use jiaozi to lend money to the people so that they could prepare for farming. When the loan is repaid, the grain must be repaid in the second year. In this way, the method of harmony was carried out. The imperial court only needs to print Jiaozi. ”

Fang Chongyong spread out his hands and said to Li Linfu.

"I see, teachable."

Li Linfu nodded slightly, a little understanding what this game was about.

In the past, there were actually two ways to play in Datang.

The first is the method that was first implemented in Shazhou, Hexi, and is rumored to have been created by Niu Cyclamen.

The local government sent the silk silk from Chang'an to Hexi, lent it to the local big merchants, and then the big merchants lent it to the local farmers, and the government was not responsible for the specific implementation.

The following year, the peasants handed over the grain to the big merchants, who in turn returned the grain to the local government and sold the IOUs.

To put it simply, the government will exchange spot silk for next year's futures grain, and the big businessmen will bear the risk. Qiu Ba on the west side of the river is used to talking with a knife, and the big businessmen don't pay back the money they owe to the government, so there is no need to say much about the consequences.

The advantage of this game is that the amount of food received in the second year is guaranteed, and it will not be affected by market conditions, and the amount of food that can be raised is sufficient. Of course, there are disadvantages, that is, the government needs to advance the "peace payment", which increases the financial pressure.

The second is an improved version of the harmony law after it was implemented in Guanzhong, which was adapted to local conditions: that is, the local government directly took silk silk and forcibly exchanged grain from local farmers, without changing hands through big merchants.

To put it simply, it is to buy food from the people with silk and silk, and pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other!

The advantage of playing this way is that the government does not need to pay "and the loan" in advance, and all you get is "spot".

Of course, there are many disadvantages, and the biggest one is that the price of grain in Heli is affected by market conditions. If it is a good year, I am not afraid, I am afraid that there will be a situation like a big drought in Guanzhong, and the government will not be able to exchange food locally with silk silk!

Now, Fang Chongyong has proposed the third method of "making peace", which is to put it bluntly, "using credit currency for futures", from the original barter, to the current virtual for virtual!

The imperial court has a lot of control over how many Jiaozi are issued, and there is no "advance capital". To put it simply, the cost of financing is very low.

In exchange for grain in the following year, it also ensured that the grain collected by the imperial court would not be affected by the market price, and also skipped the loss of the big merchants, and at the same time retained the advantages of the Hexi side and the law: it added an extra layer of insurance to the production of homesteaders.

Li Linfu is a smart person, and after a little thought, he understands the beauty of doing this.

A similar policy is tantamount to sharing the increased tax revenue evenly among everyone through the method of sending more children! Whether you have money or not, you have to accept the rise in prices caused by the government's issuance of Jiaozi.

Without changing the land policy, similar play is already the ultimate in improving the country's finances!

The Juntian system adopted by the founding of the Tang Dynasty is not the field of the powerful people of the Jun family!

These heroes who accompanied Emperor Taizong to fight the world and served as the "cornerstone" of the Tang Dynasty, how many fields they originally had are still only a lot more in their hands.

The land that Datang gave to ordinary people was the so-called "borderless land".

The "law of the ancestors" that could not be changed at the time of the founding of the country is not to be counted on now. Not to mention Li Linfu, even Brother Ji can't change this status quo.

The result of the land reform was the immediate destruction of the country, the chaos in the world, and the amount of suicide.

If Li Linfu wants to change the land policy, Brother Ji will kill Li Linfu.

If Brother Ji wants to change the land policy, the powerful people will unite to kill Brother Ji.

This is completely inexplicable.

"Back to the saint, Weichen thinks this method is feasible, but the details still need to be scrutinized."

Li Linfu nodded slightly and said, which can be regarded as a basic attitude.

Sure enough, hearing this, Brother Ji breathed a sigh of relief, said with a smile on his face:

"Brother Nu, look at the money that the officials have gotten now. When it comes to grain, some of it is rice, and some of it is simply millet. Some are wheat grains, and some are flour.

No letters.

Sometimes it is for the officials to harvest the grain from the public fields, and sometimes it is for the cloth to be issued, sometimes for copper coins, and sometimes for gold and silver utensils.

In other cases, the government sent a few servants to work in an official's house for a few days.

These are not only very inconvenient to use, but also quite a bit of a trick, and those corrupt officials take advantage of it.

In the future, when the government issues Jiaozi, not to mention anything else, Yulu will mainly issue Jiaozi, and the officials will buy whatever they like, and I don't care about that.

The officials of the household department can easily make a fortune, and the officials who get the Jiaozi can also use it, so wouldn't this be the best of both worlds? ”

Brother Ji smiled, obviously satisfied with the convenience brought by Jiaozi.

In the more than an hour before Li Linfu came, Fang Chongyong had already introduced the strategy of issuing Jiaozi and the general impact of Jiaozi to Brother Ji.

In other words, when Brother Ji asked Li Linfu to come over, he was not asking for the consent of the right minister of the Tang Dynasty to issue Jiaozi. He just politely announced and asked Li Linfu to come over to discuss the detailed rules for the issuance of Jiaozi.

Of course, if Li Linfu is well-behaved and sensible, it is good, if the other party opposes the issuance of Jiaozi, then Brother Ji, who is greedy for money, does not mind changing his right phase.

Anyway, for Brother Kei, which minister is a dog, as long as it is necessary, it doesn't matter how many are changed.

"Well, in that case, then brother, you can tell me, who is in charge of planning the matter of Jiaozi? I want to hear what you have to say. ”

Kee Ge paused and said.

He looked at Li Linfu and then at Fang Chongyong, and he was a little hesitant for a while.

The issuance of Jiaozi to fully replace the circulation of silk silk in the society, this kind of large-scale national policy, obviously needs a "respectable" person to balance the forces of all parties.

From this point of view, it is obvious that only Li Linfu can be qualified for this position!

And Jiaozi's method was thought up by Fang Chongyong, in other words, no one in the whole Datang now understands how Jiaozi works better than Fang Chongyong.

From this point of view, there is no one more suitable than Fang Chongyong to manage the issuance and operation of Jiaozi.

The lesser of two evils.

Comparatively speaking, Brother Ji hopes that Li Linfu will stand up and take over this important task. In other words, apart from Li Linfu, who else has the qualifications to subdue the ministers?

Who else?

Even if Fang Chongyong knows how to make friends, even if he can play flowers, he can't control the court field.

"Sage, when silk arrived in Byzantium in the past, the price was equal to gold; However, in the east of Xizhou (Gaochang Kingdom), each catty of raw silk is only equivalent to four coins of gold.

That's a tenfold difference!

Nowadays, the rise of black-clothed food has blocked the trade routes, and the price of silk in the east of Xizhou is lower, while the silk of Byzantium is more expensive. In other words, although my Datang exported silk silk, it did not make a lot of money.

Weichen hoped that he could lead his troops west to conquer Xiaobolu, sweep the twenty countries west of the Green Mountains, open up the trade route between Anxi and Shazhou, and bring Jiaozi there.

This is what Wei Chen wishes in his life.

In Chang'an, the issuance of Jiaozi requires a highly respected court minister to preside. This person has to be right.

If the right minister doesn't stand up, then Jiaozi really can't play.

Please also think again! ”

Before Li Linfu could speak, Fang Chongyong suddenly gave Brother Ji a five-body gift, and knelt down and said a lot.

Li Linfu suddenly suffocated half of the words brewed back to his stomach!

Yes, Fang Chongyong knows the art of war, can lead soldiers, and has been trained in Hexi for many years, knows the affairs of the Western Regions, and has also come up with the method of Jiaozi.

Although there are many generals in the Tang Army who can fight, there is only one person like this who knows the politics, economy and military affairs of the Western Regions! Putting Fang Chongyong in this position can play the greatest role.

The point is, no one can go with him to grab this errand!

On the contrary, if Fang Chongyong is allowed to preside over the work of Chang'an's issuance of Jiaozi, his qualifications and prestige will be far from being able to convince everyone!

Of course, Brother Ji knows that once Jiaozi is born, he will definitely become the fattest piece of meat! Once the magnates in Chang'an City come back to their senses, they will definitely fight each other for the control of Jiaozi Distribution!

Which onion can Fang Chongyong fight with the Chang'an magnates with deep roots in this regard? Even if he was pushed out of the ring by Brother Ji, it is estimated that he would be beaten with a few punches.

"The words of national loyalty are deeply heartfelt, what do you think?"

Brother Ji asked with a smile, his eyes couldn't take his eyes off it, and he looked at Li Linfu with an earnest expression.

"Do you want to ask Zuo Xiang to take a closer look at this matter?"

Li Linfu asked with a humble face. He felt that Jiaozi's thing was too risky, and it was better to find a few more people to take the blame together.

"No need, when the detailed rules are almost out, let Zuo Xiang take a look.

This is a matter of God's Slave! ”

Brother Ji waved his hand and said, obviously not very interested in letting Li Shizhi participate in the issuance of Jiaozi.

"Back to the saint, Weichen must do his best."

Li Linfu bowed and said.

"Hmm.

That Guozhong, you haven't been home for a long time, go home and rest.

I still have some things to talk about with Youxiang. ”

Brother Ji bravely issued an eviction order.

"Wechen retired."

Fang Chongyong breathed a sigh of relief, and finally threw out the pot that issued Jiaozi.

But as long as he doesn't take the initiative to stand up and stick out his head to pick up the stone, then it won't be his turn to take care of the son. Even if Brother Ji is dizzy now, he will change his position later.

No one knows better than he how much is at stake here. In his previous life, a certain world's largest power, in order to consolidate the coinage power, even the president dared to assassinate him.

Not even the emperor, and he still wants to get his hands on the coinage, hehe, I can only say that whoever is greedy for this thing will die.

There will be no surprises.

After leaving Xingqing Palace, Fang Chongyong did not return to his house, but walked towards Pingkangfang.

It is inconvenient to say a lot of things in front of Brother Ji, but after all, I still have to make it clear to Li Linfu.

(End of chapter)