Liu Maopao looked at it, this was the scholar who debated with himself last time about King Chuang's "not paying food". He didn't know that the person in front of him was Li Yan, the military advisor of King Chuang.

Li Yan has often gone to the city recently, on the one hand, to find out the public opinion trends of the common people, and on the other hand, to often listen to Liu Maopao's "acupuncture and disadvantages".

He is different from ordinary people, and he doesn't just listen to it. Every time I listen to Liu Maopao's reasoning, I will gain a lot, plus some of my own thinking, I feel that I have gained a lot.

What Liu Maopao said today made him feel quite useful.

I couldn't enjoy listening to it, so I couldn't help but jump out and grab the former.

Liu Maopao: "Brother Tai, I remember you, the one who didn't pay for food when King Chuang came last time we discussed." ”

Li Yan: "Thank you Brother Tai for remembering, I said some immature opinions last time, but it made Brother Tai smile." Today, I listened to Brother Tai's high theory, and it seemed to be an empowerment under it, and I suddenly opened my mouth, and I had a few questions, I really wanted to ask Brother Tai, I don't know if I can appreciate my face? ”

Liu Maopao said with a smile: "Let's go, let's talk in the teahouse next to us." ”

The two sat down in the teahouse, ordered a pot of tea, and began to chat.

Li Yan said: "Brother Tai said that plan before, I really think it's good after listening to it. Take this Jinan city as an example, the Dewangfu family occupies half of the land, and these fields are not taxable. In addition, the local squires and scholars also did not pay taxes, so that the people who really paid taxes in Jinan City occupied less than 20% of the total number of fields. ”

He let out a long sigh and said, "How can the common people not suffer if they use these two percent of the land to pay ten percent of the tax?" I just listened to my brother's words, let these eighty percent of the fields also pay taxes together, and the fields that pay taxes will have ten percent. Even if the tax collected per mu is reduced by half, the tax collected will be more than before, and the tax will be reduced by half for the common people. ”

Liu Maopao smiled: "Yes, that's the case." ”

Li Yan: "I understand the aspect of agriculture, but what about the aspect of business?" Merchants have no land, only business dealings, so how can the merchants who earn more pay more and the merchants who earn less pay less? ”

Liu Maopao: "This involves commercial taxation, and it is a very complicated issue. ”

He pulled an invoice out of his bosom......

This is the invention of Wang Tang, the chief steward of Xi'an in Gaojia Village, every time you buy a commodity, you will receive an invoice, which has been vigorously promoted in the Tianzun Liberated Area, but outside, no one has seen it yet.

Li Yan took the invoice, looked left and right, and said strangely: "What is this?" ”

Liu Maopao: "Invoice!" When someone buys something from a merchant, the merchant gives the customer an invoice with the price and quantity of the item, in duplicate, one for the merchant and one for the customer. ”

Li Yanqi said: "What is the use of this thing? ”

Liu Maopao smiled: "Collect taxes!" If you collect the invoices issued by the merchant and calculate them, you can calculate how much money he has earned, and the more he earns, the more he will pay. ”

Li Yan suddenly said: "But, this ...... What should I do if a businessman cheats? ”

"It's hard to do." Liu Maopao spread his hands and said: "It is very difficult to do, as long as the businessman makes a little false account, opens some fake invoices, or hides some invoices, he will not be able to find out." Therefore, the invoice can only be put into trial operation at present, and it cannot effectively solve the problem. For this reason, we have invented a method, which is to add the merchant's tax directly to the goods, but this trick is not very effective at present. ”

Li Yan: "??? ”

Liu Maopao smiled: "As soon as you look at Brother Tai, you know that you are not a businessman, and you don't need to know too much about the details, you only need to know one thing, the system is set by people, there must be loopholes, and it is not terrible to find problems, and it is necessary to correct them." What's really scary is that there's no courage to fix the loopholes. ”

Li Yan: "Brother Taiwan, this sentence really benefits Zaixia." The real problem of the Ming court is not that there is maladministration, but that the court does not have the courage and ability to solve malgovernance, so it will become like this. ”

When Liu Maopao saw him say this, there was a special emotion in it, and his heart couldn't help but move: "Brother Tai, you seem to have a kind of 'I have the courage and ability to solve it'." ”

Li Yan: "No, no, how can you have this ability." ”

Liu Maopao: "Brother Tai is modest, just look at your eyes, you know that you have an idea to change the world." Dare to ask, is there anyone in the brother's family who is a high-ranking official in the court? So there is a sense of reform? ”

Li Yan hurriedly said: "No, no." ”

Liu Maopao smiled: "I dare to say it, even if someone in your family is a high-ranking official in the court, it doesn't matter if you want to reform, Brother Tai is a person of insight at a glance, and he should know very well that the current court is impossible to turn things around with a few officials." ”

Li Yan: "!! ”

Liu Maopao carefully observed Li Yan's eyes, and when he said the sentence "There is someone in the family who is an official in the court", he saw that his expression did not even change at all, indicating that this sentence was not poked, and when it came to "It can't be reversed by a few officials", he nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with this sentence.

Combine these two points and think about it......

A bold assumption, and it jumped out.

Liu Maopao said with a smile: "Brother Tai wants to reform the country, but no one in the family is an official, as an ordinary person, he is very confident that he can make some reform measures...... Hey hey ......"

He grabbed Li Yan's collar and said with a smile: "Wow, it turns out that your kid is plotting to rebel, if I expect it to be true, you must be an important figure in the anti-thief, come with me to the official mansion." ”

This frightened Li Yan, and he hurriedly slammed backwards.

With a "hiss", the robe on his chest was torn.

After all, the quality of his clothes is not as good as that of Gaojia Village.

Liu Maopao couldn't help but be stunned, ah, just kidding, this person had such a big reaction, it seems that he is really an important figure in the anti-thief.

Liu Maopao hurriedly reached out and grabbed it again, but Li Yan jumped back, tripped on the stool under his feet, fell with a pop, and rolled twice.

Liu Maopao took another step forward and wanted to catch it.

Both are civilians, and their combat effectiveness is shit-level. The movements are slow and embarrassing, and Liu Maopao's funny movements are like a powerless scholar tying chickens.

Li Yan was not much better, and the two of them rolled over and rolled over and rolled out of the teahouse.

At this moment, two men suddenly rushed out of the street, protected Li Yan as soon as they came out, and at the same time punched Liu Maopao's face.

It turned out that it was the old Eighth Team bandit who escorted Li Yan into the city.

This is a Lian family, a punch, a weak chicken like Liu Maopao can't flash at all.

Seeing that he was about to be beaten all over the face, a fist suddenly stretched out next to him, in front of Liu Mao's robe.

"Bump!"

Blocked!

The Gaojia Village special service soldiers who protected Liu Maopao also arrived.