Zhou Zhiruo was unmoved, and said lightly: "Without me, no matter how good you are, no matter how great your ability is, it will be useless." One sentence made Zhao Min punch into the air, and his heart was suffocated.

Song Qingshu's scalp tingled when he heard this, and he thought that it was really the biggest mistake for him to ask the two of them at the same time, and he should talk to them privately one by one.

Zhou Zhiruo saw that she had the upper hand, and glanced at Zhao Min on the side quite proudly, and then began to tell Song Qingshu about other things as if she was invited: " During this time, I have read the resumes of the officials in the Jianghuai territory, many of whom are corrupt and pervert the law, but considering that Yangzhou is newly attached, everything is mainly stable, and our focus during this time is still on mastering the army, so we have only fine-tuned those local officials, except for a few special bastard officials who were killed by me and made an example, the others have not moved, and we will slowly settle accounts with them after everything is stable in the future. ”

"Well done, stability is indeed the most important thing now!" Song Qingshu couldn't help but admire, and glanced at Zhao Min in surprise after finishing speaking, "These are also what you came up with?

Zhou Zhiruo's face darkened, and Zhao Min couldn't help but giggle: "People ask you for credit, but I didn't expect you to directly count the credit on the head of the county lord, giggle~ It seems that in your mind, I am much smarter and more reliable than some people." ”

Feeling the murderous aura behind him, Song Qingshu only felt a chill in his back, and instantly changed his words: "But if you are more powerful, you can drive such a powerful person to use it for yourself." ”

Hearing his words, Zhou Zhiruo's face really looked better, but Zhao Min's face darkened.

"What about taxes?" Song Qingshu secretly wiped his cold sweat and quickly changed the topic.

"Taxation is more troublesome," Zhou Zhiruo frowned, "Although the land of Jianghuai is rich, most of the land is concentrated in the hands of the gentry...... The amount of tax collected is far from the actual amount of land. ”

"Land annexation, a necessary stage of feudal society, normal. Song Qingshu began to ponder, although he understood the inevitability, but he had to find a way to solve this problem, he didn't want to fight without military pay and repeat the mistakes of Chongzhen.

"It's easy to solve this problem. Zhao Min on the side suddenly spoke.

"How to solve it?" Zhou Zhiruo had been having a headache for this time, and subconsciously asked.

Zhao Min's chin was raised, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes: "Please!"

Zhou Zhiruo was suffocated for a moment, and turned her head directly and chose to ignore it.

Song Qingshu smiled bitterly: "County Lord, don't sell Guanzi, tell us about it." ”

"Hmph, for the sake of your better attitude, the county lord will teach you. Seeing that Zhou Zhiruo said that he was ignoring, but in fact pricked up his ears and was ready to listen, Zhao Min smiled very brightly, "Our Mongolian Empire is now a vast territory, and taxation is also a big problem. ”

"Cut, what good idea did I have at that time," Zhou Zhiruo sneered, "Raise the tax rate and the lower-class people still don't rise up?"

"What are you doing in such a hurry, I haven't finished yet," Zhao Min glanced at her and continued, "This tax rate is very high, and it is true that ordinary people can't afford it at all, but the imperial court will establish an institution that can issue loans, lend money to the people to pay taxes, and at the same time appropriately extend the repayment period, of course, the longer the repayment period, the higher the interest." ”

"Wouldn't this make the people miserable? Won't the people still rise up?" Zhou Zhiruo frowned.

"Of course not," Zhao Min suddenly sneered, "The people at the bottom are contented animals, as long as there is room for choice, they will not rebel, and the court lends them money to leave room for them." ”

"Isn't this multi-layered exploitation?" Zhou Zhiruo was quite dissatisfied, "You Mongolians are really vampires. ”

"What's the matter!" Zhao Min didn't care, "It is the principle of heaven that the law of the jungle eats the strong, although this method seems inhumane, but the tax collected is dozens of times that of your Han people, and our Mongolian treasury is full, so we can organize a stronger army to conquer more countries." ”

"Rude savage. Zhou Zhiruo snorted, but in her heart she had to admit that Mongolia was so powerful, and it really made sense.

Song Qingshu listened with a strange face, the imperial court borrowed money from the people to pay taxes, why is it so similar to the mortgage of later generations......

"The county lord's plan is indeed very reasonable......" Song Qingshu praised Zhao Mintian a lot, and suddenly changed his words, "But this method is too advanced, and if you are not careful, it will be easy to exhaust the fish, there may be no problem in the short term, but in the next ten years, all kinds of problems will erupt, and the people will not be able to survive at that time, and the country will also be in danger of collapsing." ”

You must know that later generations do not know how many economists, mathematicians, and political geniuses are calculating their models and keeping their finger on the pulse of the housing market at any time, and there are economic crises all over the world from time to time.

In today's world, Song Qingshu doesn't believe that there are so many scientists who can handle this extremely complex financial system, and Hui Hui people have just begun to get involved in this area at most, and all the experience is still being explored, and many big problems will definitely break out in the future.

Historically, Mongolia adopted a tax policy for the Hui people, which did hide the sweetness at first, but then serious turmoil broke out and this method had to be abandoned.

Although Zhao Min is smart, but after all, there are limitations of the times, she feels that this tax method is so effective, she told Song Qingshu without reservation, he actually didn't appreciate it, and couldn't help but be secretly angry: "Hmph, you think this doesn't work, that doesn't work, it seems that you must have an idea?"

"I've come up with a couple of ideas, let me think about it first. Song Qingshu's mind was racing rapidly at this time, but he didn't pay attention to Zhao Min's emotional changes.

Seeing him hit the snake with the stick, Zhao Min snorted and turned his head directly, planning not to give this bastard any more ideas in the future, Zhou Zhiruo on the side was full of energy, obviously happy to see this situation.

Song Qingshu didn't notice the undercurrent surging between the two women, and began to pay taxes carefully. The first thought that popped up in his mind was to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, and the road that Taizu had traveled back then proved to be practically effective, giving full play to the enthusiasm of the majority of farmers, and it would burst out with very terrifying energy.

However, he quickly dismissed this idea, and now the time was not yet ripe. The reason why Taizu succeeded back then was because of internal and external troubles, and China was facing unprecedented changes in this millennium, to the point of not breaking or standing.

In today's world, the scholar class has a lot of wealth in society, and at the same time, almost all talents are from the gentry class, if they are completely offended, they will have a big deal to flee to other countries, plus the gentry class still controls social opinion, and then they will really become the image of butchers.

As a result, as soon as Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, he looted tens of millions of taels of silver from the gentry's house, although he was refreshed for a while, but in the end he was regarded by the scholars and doctors all over the world as enemies who did not share the sky; on the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty treated these gentry very favorably, so they all became the leaders of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Song Qingshu also needs these gentry class to help govern the place, and the gentry class also needs the support of talents from the gentry class, after all, the peasants in this world have no culture at all, and it is okay to expect them to become rogues and loot, and there is really no way to expect them to do great things.

He didn't want to be Li Zicheng, so he could only give up the tempting method in the future.

"Is there a way for you, if not, use me. Zhao Min waited aside, and when he saw that he hadn't spoken, he suddenly became a little impatient.

"Of course there is!" Song Qingshu had already straightened out his thoughts at this time, and replied directly, "We can combine 'never add endowment' and 'spread the land into the mu' in a two-pronged way." ”

"What do you mean?" the two women looked dazed.

Song Qingshu explained: "I myself used to be just a small common man, but now that I have the ability, I naturally have to think about the lives of the people, and never give more money is mainly to reduce the burden of the people, of course, it is also to win the hearts of the people. ”

Zhou Zhiruo also lived at the bottom back then, and deeply agreed with his thoughts: "Yes, if there is chaos today, the majority of the people are facing all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they have to raise taxes at every turn, and they are already miserable, Qingshu You can think of them, it is really admirable, I ...... I love it too. ”

Zhao Min couldn't help but said sourly: "If you want to be famous, anyone will, but if you want to save face, you can't ask for a lining, if you don't add it, you will have no money, food, and military salaries, so you can only be slaughtered in the disputes of the countries, and maybe there will be one more Song Xianggong in history." ”

"So this has to be solved by 'spreading the land into the acre'. Song Qingshu explained unhurriedly, "In the past, taxes were all 'poll tax', how many people paid how many taxes, but often the poor people have a few people in a family, and there are only a dozen people in the gentry's family, but the wealth of the two sides is different by countless levels, and it is not reasonable to calculate taxes and fees by head, if the tax is paid according to the number of acres of land owned, it can not only reduce the burden of the poor people, but also greatly enrich the treasury, and the taxes collected are far more than before." ”

Although the Qing Dynasty's treatment of the Han people and later its weakness towards the Western powers became an inextricable black spot, from the perspective of the feudal dynasty alone, some of its systems were much better than many previous dynasties.

In particular, Yongzheng made this paving into the mu, which really solved the stubborn problem of land annexation for thousands of years and the encroachment of national interests by the gentry class in the back, of course, because of this, the scholar class's reputation for Yongzheng has always been very bad.