"Mr. Zhang, I used to hear Taibao say that you are invincible in terms of military talent. I still don't believe it. Mr. Zhang is indeed a god-like military use." Han Yun said in admiration.

Don't think that with artillery, the Xia army was only a few thousand people killed by artillery, and they were all scared, otherwise the casualty rate would be even lower. In fact, the real hero of the victory was Zhang Shi. If it were not for Zhang Shi's planning and commander-in-chief, this battle would never have been so easy.

"I dared to take credit for it, thanks to Taibao's plan." Zhang Feng said modestly.

But he was still a little satisfied. Although he defeated Bagan in the south, who would have kept Bagan in his heart? If the north had not restrained the Song Dynasty and given him a few years, he would have destroyed Bagan.

Defeating the Bagan Kingdom is not a skill, but defeating the Xixia people is not a skill.

"Taibao told me that I would like to ask you to help him do something..."

The defeat of Pingxia City frightened Liang.

Novel + 3. She launched 300,000 troops in Yongle City. In fact, there were not many soldiers who could fight in Xixia. After this defeat, Xixia even had difficulty in defending.

Therefore, the news of the defeat reached Liang's ears, and she immediately sent an envoy to Liao Kingdom to ask for help from Liao Kingdom.

At the same time, the Qiang on the front line were tied inward to prevent them from defecting to the Song Dynasty.

He even ordered the villages in front to dig holes and hide the food and food in the holes together, at least to strengthen the walls and clear the fields on the surface to prevent the Song Dynasty from counterattacking.

It cannot be said that she was full of soldiers. At this time, the Song Dynasty had already built a fortress in Wuyan Gorge. Wuyan Gorge passed by, where? Tiandu Mountain!

Zhang Yu sent cavalry from time to time to go out to Yanxia, ​​and swayed to the bottom of Tiandu Mountain. He came to the tribes west of Tiandu Mountain and persuaded them to see how miserable your life is now, why don’t you join our dynasty and not raise light taxes. As long as you send Ding Zhuang to be strong people and horses, you will not even have taxes.

Since ancient times, this place has been a land of China. From the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty and then to the Tang Dynasty, our dynasty made a mistake and was occupied by Li Jiqian, but it will be taken back sooner or later. Therefore, you are not from Xixia. What is the land of Xixia? The four prefectures of Dingnan include this area?

Be loyal to our dynasty quickly so as not to be liquidated by our dynasty in the future.

Under the threat and deception of these racials, some tribes have secretly sent people to contact Zhang Shi, and Zhang Shi is really "reasonable". You are in trouble now, so I won't blame you. Keep loyal to Xixia on the surface for the time being, but remember that when our army attacks, you must not resist, and you must not cooperate with Xixia invading us. Even if the crazy empress dowager forced the order, you must still disobey.

By this point, more tribes were quarreling with the Song Dynasty.

Not only on Jingyuan Road, Liu Changzuo was in Yanzhou, but also began to send people to secretly win over the tribes behind the mountain.

How could Liang not worry?

Moreover, after this defeat, she also received more information. Zhang Feng was the second official in the Qingzhou Battle and Wang Ju's assistant. She heard some rumors again that Wang Ju may come to Shaanxi next year and will probably attack Xixia the next year.

Wang Ju’s assistants are so powerful. What if Wang Ju himself comes?

She regretted it at this time.

It was said that the peace talks were a good thing. Why did I believe my younger brother? In order to get the annual gift, I launched several attacks on the Song Dynasty since last year.

But on this day, the cavalry came to the foot of Tiandu Mountain and shouted to the Xixia people on the mountain. In this battle, the Song army captured many prisoners of war, many of which were nobles and senior generals. As long as the Xixia people took out enough Helan stones, they could redeem these nobles.

After the news spread, Helanshi was in the limelight for a moment...

Everyone should have laid enough groundwork for this Helan Stone. However, Wang Ju was unsure of how much it could play. Zhao Xu was suspicious, and some important officials who already knew the truth thought it was a joke.

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"Your Majesty, everyone, I will tell you two jokes. When it comes to a gentry in Hebei, there is a lake in front of his house, so he sent his family to occupy it and plant water chestnuts, and he earned a lot of money every year. However, people were indifferent. A few years later, he saw another place, not far from his house, a farmland area. Because the land was not very fertile and there were many potholes, the people were not dense. Therefore, in the autumn, he dug up the river embankment, submerged the farmland, and colluded with local clerks to prevent the government from sending people to block the gap, and then sent tenants to plant water chestnuts in this farmland."

This is a true story, and after the incident, the court immediately sent someone to deal with it.

"The second joke is Shaolin Temple in Shaoshi Mountain, Songshan. The Tang Dynasty classified Shaoshi Mountain as a temple property of Shaolin Temple. Our dynasty did not, but the government also agreed that Shaoshi Mountain was a temple property of Shaolin Temple. There are many monks in Shaolin Temple, and many monks are superb and energetic. Therefore, these monks patrol the surrounding area every day, not Shaoshi Mountain, but all the mountainous areas around Shaoshi Mountain. When they saw people coming to log wood, they immediately punched and kicked the people away."

Why?

Wood is money, firewood is money, and charcoal is money. Of course, these monks will not come to log wood by themselves. However, there are many temple households in Shaolin Temple, which pay a "protection fee" to Shaolin Temple every year, driving away other people, and the income of the temple households will increase, and undoubtedly Shaolin Temple will get more money.

Is this a joke?

Even a joke makes people feel chilled.

But no matter every dynasty and every generation, there are too many unfair things going on. Just like the Celestial Empire, or the American Empire, do you really do the word fair?

Never take it seriously.

Therefore, you have to look at things comprehensively. The good side is far more than the bad side, and that is a healthy country.

Wang Ju listed these two things with a purpose.

"I returned this time and launched the Quan Shang Taxation and Banking Department. Now it has begun to have results. Therefore, many people support me, thinking that I have achieved the purpose of the country's own use without taxes. Some people exaggeratedly said that Xiaozhi is coming. But some people oppose me, saying that I am ruthless and even use purple banknotes to collect taxes and wealth for the descendants of the country's meritorious deeds and children of powerful people. If the losses of usury merchants are added, I really can't say that the country's own use without taxes. And other more unpleasant things, I won't list them one by one."

"Actually, I have not done well what I want to say. The country's future crisis is the population crisis. Even if there are high-yield miscellaneous grains, the country's population will expand too quickly. In a few months, the total number of household registrations in each prefecture and county will be presented. At that time, everyone will see the increase in the population in recent years."

You should know how many household registrations have been lost to Shaanxi Road in two crushing defeats, and the other side has transferred 60,000 to 70,000 households every year. If this is the case, the population continues to expand, which is indeed worrying.

"The second is that the gap between the rich and the poor is expanding. In order to reduce opposition, I made a compromise, including Zichao, and I have agreed that many merchants have put their industries under the name of the powerful and avoided taxes. In fact, the rich will become richer. Don't ask Zichao. Although Zichao has levied some taxes, the actual commerce and trade are becoming more prosperous, which means that a small part of the tax is imposed. Each powerful and powerful actually makes more profits."

This is also a disheartening topic.

Why they can make more profits is these policies.

However, he only lost a little commercial tax. He continued to be angry, would he really not be able to settle the score?

Too greedy!

"There are also a few families of scholars and officials who have different ways to cheat and rob, and to compromise. In order to obtain wealth, I did not ask about it either. In fact, the family law of the ancestors set the people at the fifth grade and then divided them into the ninth grade. The rich pay more taxes, while the poor pay less tax or exempt taxes. This is the so-called "unique people", which is the purpose of reducing the gap between the rich and the poor. However, because the opposition is too loud, I dare not implement it even if it is the family law of the ancestors. Yes, the banking department and the uniform taxation have temporarily created more third-class and second-class households. However, I have not stopped these ugly phenomena. I am afraid that there will be no problem that the priest dares to touch this taboo in the future. So sooner or later, this small governance will be a flash in the pan!"

In fact, it is still the same saying, it is not that the Song Dynasty has heavy taxes, but that the Song Dynasty has unreasonable taxes.

For example, Quecha, why did Lu Yi, a conservative who was repeatedly attacked by the bricks, briefly reform the tea politics?

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, some did a good job, such as Quecha. At that time, you called me from all over the country and I called me. It was very difficult for people to live. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin issued various orders to stimulate the economy, including Quecha and A. You can't afford to grow tea. It doesn't matter. The court loaned you to grow tea, but it couldn't sell it out. It doesn't matter. The court purchased it uniformly.

If compared with the economic development laws of the Celestial Empire, some of them are really like...

At that time, these measures were correct and advanced, and the court achieved obvious results. Although the Song Dynasty did not unify the world, the annual income of the tea administration reached 4 million yuan, not Guan, and a Guan was the real one, which was the same as the current Xin Guan.

But in the future, the tea-tiaoqi has become a form. When Emperor Renzong of Song ascended the throne, the tea-tiaoqi-tiao profit was only a few hundred thousand coins a year, and at the lowest was only a few hundred thousand coins. Think about how much profit a tea in Hangzhou can generate in a year.

Why is it so bad? It is mainly because many tea merchants cannot collect taxes or are specialized in it. So it is better to just let it go. The court should not pay a lot of clerks to manage and operate, but can also get a lot of commercial taxes. Did Lu Yijian make a mistake?

As a result, many old-school ministers opposed it, including Song Renzong's teacher and Confucian master Sun Shi, why did Lu Yijian's talent and finally act conservatively or fine-tune reforms, and they really couldn't implement radical policies.

This continued until Han Qi, and he barely implemented the Trade Law against Tea.

Then when I arrived at Wang Anshi, why did Wang Ju not agree with Wang Anshi's reform? Just like this tea, it was originally a commercial law, but after Wang Anshi's reform, Bashu tea and Fujian tea were re-specified.

Why is it Bashu? It turns out that Bashu has rebelled from time to time, who dares to discuss it? But the terrain of Bashu is closed, with three Shaanxi blocking in the east and the silence valley plank road in the north, so it seems easy to implement tea. Why is Fujian tea special? Because it is best to build tea in the Song Dynasty!

These two items alone brought more than 6 million yuan in profits to the Song Dynasty in one year.

This is definitely wrong.

For example, salt was like the Celestial Empire. In the 1970s, many people really couldn't eat enough food. The daily meal was just pickles. The most developed areas of the Song Dynasty were only about 90 years of the Celestial Empire, and generally only about 85 years of the Celestial Empire. It was definitely better than the Celestial Empire in the 70s. However, pickles were still the main food dish for the people. However, salt was so expensive, is it right?

However, due to the unreasonable taxation, Wang Ju introduced many policies to benefit the people, but he did not dare to move five major issues, including the special issue of building tea and Shu tea initiated by Wang Anshi, as well as various taxes and taxes...

Or another metaphor. Enterprises in the Song Dynasty generally only paid 3% of the overdue tax. What is it compared to 17% of the value-added tax? Or another metaphor for a miserable literati. The royalties start to be taxed from 800 yuan. If 800 yuan is enough, people will starve to death, but if not, they have to pay taxes!

Even such irregular taxes in the Song Dynasty have affected the other side!

Wang Ju, too.

Then he had to further relax his responsibilities and therefore introduced the next policy.

Mountain monuments, mudflats and lakes!

The specific approach is to contract the unowned mountain monuments, tidal flats, lakes and lakes to the people of each village. The government supervises, place iron pots, and contract them for the higher prices. This system has become very popular because of the Wangju Promotion of the River Ferry System, which is the secret bidding system.

However, several auxiliary measures were taken. One was to prevent the powerful people from occupying each village and lead to a low-price auction. After the bid was completed, the government first estimated the price and then handed it over to the people for deliberation. Or the secret bidding system was handed over to the villagers. Those who agreed to the approve were drawn by the hook, and those who disagreed drew a fork. At least 60% of the people agreed to the final contract price, and the contract could be officially passed. Otherwise, the auction would continue.

Secondly, it is forcibly stipulated that roads, irrigation and water conservancy shall not be occupied. If the court requisitions, the court will make up for its losses. If officials collude with the gentry and the gentry, the losses will be compensated for too many losses, the officials will be held accountable, but if there are too few compensations and the gentry is dissatisfied, they can go from the county to the prefecture to the various ranks and appeal step by step. If the various ranks and ranks cannot handle them fairly, they can come to the capital to beat the drums. Of course, when they reach the level of the ranks and ranks, they are basically the final judgment agency.

This rule is divided into two parts. First, it is road irrigation and water conservancy. You cannot contract a certain mountain, but there are roads on the mountain, and this road is also mine. If you want passers-by, you must leave money to buy roads. That would be messy. Irrigation cannot be stopped, otherwise it will be even more messy.

However, in the future, the imperial court will continue to invest, such as a certain lake and the imperial court invested in building a humble area, but the contractor not only paid the contract fee, but also invested in the cost of planting wild rice lotus roots or fish fry, which the imperial court must compensate.

But the so-called compensation, that is, this cost, as the contractor, cannot blackmail the imperial court. The imperial court cannot forcefully recover the contractor's losses.

The third is the issue of fees. The court collects 5% of the tax from the contract fee, but it does not make money. This tax has many costs. For example, when contracting, the court will send a special person to supervise the execution, or when the court takes it back, or after contracting, the court will send people to protect the difference between contracting. Just like the mountainous areas around Shaolin Temple, there are temple property of Shaolin Temple, and mountain people will not be contracted, but not Shaolin Temple property. After contracting by mountain people, the monks will continue to expel the people, and the government will send people to capture them.

The remaining 95% is beneficial to the people. If it is a mountain mound, tidal flat, lake, it is a solution within a village. If it is a mountain mound, tidal flat, lake, lake, and lake shared by several villages, auction will be carried out together. For example, a certain lake, with three villages A, B, and C, the people of the three villages jointly hold auction contracts. Or large lakes, such as Taihu Lake, there is nothing we can do, but now there is no ability to divide the specific scope of such a large lake. At most, the lakeshore area can be divided, so that the people can grow a kind of water chestnut and water lotus root.

Then, the contracting fee will be paid according to the number of households in each village. For example, there are three barren mountains in Village A. B spent 200 guan a year to contract for 20 years. The government collected ten guan and the remaining 190 guan and distributed it to every citizen of Village A.

The fourth is the support of the bank department. For example, Village A has Lake A and Some B has the ability to raise fish, but he has no money in his hand. At this time, he can borrow money from the bank department. Of course, this kind of contracting is a little risky. The bank department can slightly increase the interest rate. For example, it was originally one cent a year, but now it has been transferred to one cent, two cents, one cent three cents, to encourage more people to participate in this contracting.

The fifth is long-term protection. For example, mountain mausoleums, mountains and hills, and the benefits are nothing more than wood and fruit trees. Therefore, the contracting time must be very long, up to twenty or thirty years. However, before the expiration, if the timber is cut down, the seedlings must be replanted two years before the expiration, and it is necessary to ensure that the number of surviving seedlings exceeds the original number of trees on the mountain.

There are two intentions for this, which can allow a dedicated person to operate these mountain monuments, tidal flats, lakes and lakes. Once these mountain monuments, tidal flats and lakes are used in large quantities, the imperial court will allocate a lot of money to build water conservancy roads. The combination of the two will undoubtedly further promote the economic development of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, many people also benefit from this kind of contract. Perhaps many rural people will get one or two or three coins of money for each household. Don’t underestimate these two coins. For those extremely poor people, if not, they will die. If there is, the family will survive the crisis.

However, Fan Chunren said worriedly: "Taibao, I'm afraid the world will not be peaceful from now on."

Those mountain, mound, tidal flats, lakes may be nominally boundless, but they are really boundless?

"Mr. Fan, when the banking and Qi Shang Tax were implemented, the world was still bustling and bustling, but what about now?"

Fan Chunren was speechless.

The main policy of Wang Ju is indeed to benefit the people. Although it may only benefit those poor people, they did not collect money into the treasury. What can he say?

Mr. Fan, don’t you love the people? Is it because you are pretending to love the people? Or the people you love are not ordinary people, but powerful people.

He swallowed himself to death with just one sentence.

Zhang Qi was standing by, thinking, fortunately, I was transferred to the door.
To be continued...