The bright moonlight shone into the house through the glass window. Qian Biao was half lying on the bed, but he was not sleepy at all. He simply got up from the bed and pushed open the window.

Although the dark color is already dark, there are still many places where you can see bright lights, including a place not far from Fuyuan Inn, which is built day and night.

That was a major plan being implemented by the court's Business Department.

In Chang'an City, the markets that have lasted for hundreds of years will be completely changed. Each market will no longer be independent units, but will be opened up. The original walls will be converted into street-facade houses. It can be imagined that once completed, the busiest future in Chang'an City will be in the market, but these originally quiet and wide streets.

Of course, this is also a wealth-making plan of the court. It is conceivable how much benefit it will bring to the court after these reconstructions are completed.

The Tang Dynasty Weekly publicized the commercial prospects of these storefronts in succession. The Business Department started a bidding auction before the eight characters were evenly matched, which made many people blush.

This huge plan is not only Chang'an, but also Luoyang. These two places were launched almost at the same time. What surprised Qian Biao was that the implementation of such a large plan requires a long-term and meticulous plan and must be kept strictly confidential, otherwise the court would have to pay more.

The fact now is that the court obtained ownership of these walls and nearby walls at extremely low prices. Once this plan was launched, these originally cheap places were worth a hundred times the price in an instant.

Countless businessmen flew over like flies that smelled the smell.

Wang Mingyi, who is in charge of business in the Ministry of Revenue, is not a good deal. The policy of half selling and half renting has caused the prices of those storefront houses to soar again. However, the court has a different half and has become a golden rooster that can lay golden eggs for a long time that can accumulate wealth for the court.

It is said that Li Xiang is a money skeleton, and he has endless means to make money. Qian Biao has truly seen Li Ze's skills.

If Li Ze had not been so powerful in making money, the Tang Dynasty would not have the ability to arm such a powerful army that could sweep across the four deserts and eight unions.

Before, Yelu Fengze used the means to meet him, but Qian Biao was still a little unhappy, but the conversation with this person and Yang Zhong in the middle of the night made Qian Biao feel worthwhile. Especially Yelu Fengze, who has been in the upper class of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and his thorough understanding of the central court's policies is far beyond Qian Biao's ability.

Qian Biao finally understood why the merchants of the Tang Dynasty were so arrogant and were not afraid of the court's autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves on them.

Overall, Li Ze was desperately trying to please the farmers under his rule.

At the beginning, Li Ze distributed land, built houses, bought livestock, repaired water conservancy, reduced taxes, and used various means to stabilize the farmers and stayed happily on their own land and carefully served their own land. Later, Li Ze's regime became stable. Although land, houses and livestock began to demand money, they provided extremely low interest loans, allowing farmers to repay them in installments.

Without farming, it is unstable.

The Tang Dynasty was still a society dominated by agriculture. This class became stable and prosperous, and the court ruled by Li Ze was also stable.

In the past, the taxes of the Tang Dynasty mainly came from farmers, and all kinds of taxes were almost overwhelmed by farmers. When farmers had enough food, they became their greatest hope. As for wealth, there was no way to talk about it. In the past, the contributions made by commercial taxes to the court were almost ignored. Because those who do business were basically the powerful and wealthy families. Charging them with heavy taxes was equivalent to pulling their teeth.

And Li Ze was just a tiger's tooth extraction.

In the north, he destroyed all the clan and wealthy families, swept across the old powerful class, and completely destroyed the past ruling system.

Then, he vigorously developed business, opened up business paths for merchants, looked for business opportunities, and improved their political status. But at the same time, he also imposed heavy taxes on merchants.

The burden of farmers in the past was perfectly transferred to the merchants.

But what is amazing is that the merchants did not complain about this, but instead enjoyed it. Because under the new policy, merchants have more channels to make money and are more secure. In the past, once merchants became rich, they not only had no sense of security, but were worried that their fat piece of meat would be targeted by the powerful and become the food of others. But now, they can show their strength without any scruples.

As long as you pay the taxes that the court should receive, you will be the guest of honor for the officials. If you can also build bridges, roads and schools for your hometown, you will be a charity in the local area, and the officials will give you plaques with gongs and gongs.

The tax rules clearly state the taxes paid by merchants, without the extra fees hidden under the ground in the past, and no officials dared to blackmail them.

It seems that the tax revenue is extremely heavy, but after careful calculation, the expenditure is much smaller than in the past.

Li Ze's idea of ​​developing business is to put it bluntly to make this big cake bigger and bigger, and at the same time clarify the source and clarify the administration.

What makes officials dare not act rashly is that many businessmen are now members of Yixing Society, and some are even important members. Once local officials dare to make any illegal moves, they can quickly reach the Tianting through the internal channels of Yixing Society.

The identity of a member of Yixing Society can make a businessman worth a hundred times the value.

At the beginning of its development, it was extremely easy to join Yixing Society, but now it is becoming increasingly difficult. People with the status of Qian Biao join Yixing Society due to the introduction of their daughter-in-law Zheng Wenjun. This kind of recommendation is not without cost. Once a member of Yixing Society makes a mistake, the person who recommends him will be jointly and severally responsible.

Li Ze's governing ideas are completely different from those of anyone in the past governing ideas.

He didn't care how much money the court's treasury was. Most of the time, the court was in debt and had to borrow money to live. But the most amazing thing was that once the court opened up borrowing money, whether it was a money house or a big businessman with a wealthy fortune, he wanted to borrow more as much as possible.

This is a credit issue.

It is not difficult to borrow and repay. What's more, every loan has a generous return. Although the interest rate is much lower than that of private lending, there is no possibility of bad debts, which is a stable return.

The imperial court earned a lot of wealth every year, but spent it clean every year.

Where did money go? Money has become well-connected roads, large reservoirs, ditches connecting the four townships, becoming strong ships, powerful cannons, and swords, guns, swords, and halberds.

At the same time, the money also flows to schools, workshops, clinics, and nursery schools.

Convenient transportation communication between the north and the south has accelerated the circulation of goods, causing the prices of goods to fall again and again. Although the prices are falling, sales volume has increased sharply. With small profits and rapid turnover, profits have increased significantly.

Large reservoirs and ditches have made farmers no longer worry about drought and flood. They store water during flooding and replenish water during drought. From relying on the heavens to the people who are now conquering nature.

Strong ships, powerful cannons, weapons and armor gave the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty more combat effectiveness. Now the Tang Dynasty's army has completely taken over the Western Regions and is heading west of the Palacio Mountains. Wherever the army goes, merchants follow up. In addition to these land regaining and protecting Zhang, overseas, the Tang Dynasty is obtaining higher profits, and these profits are all obtained with swords and guns. The merchants who went to sea hired retired Tang soldiers to expand overseas and plunder wealth, and then transported these wealth back to the country to provide nourishment for the Tang Dynasty.

The school is developing people's wisdom. Children of appropriate age must go to the school to study and learn skills. There is extra money in the workshop to study how to improve the quality of products and how to develop more newer products. The large increase in clinics has changed the past appearance of relying on minor illnesses and waiting for death from serious illnesses.

The court was so poor that it was so poor that it was extremely rich, because the court at this time became a real support in the hearts of the people.

Li Ze truly raised his arms and shouted, and responded to him.

To be stable, the farmers must be stabilized.

If you want to be rich, you must vigorously develop industry and commerce.

Of course, there must be a strong army.

However, the last one is not something Qian Biao needs to consider now. He has been completely converted into a civil servant, and what he needs to do next is how to make the people under his rule truly rich.

On the same side of Dongting Lake, there is a fertile land, and Yelu Fengze and Yang Zhong opened another window for Qian Biao. Qian Biao felt that his eyes were suddenly enlightened. His originally ignorant thoughts suddenly became clear. What should he do in the future have also become some general context.

How do those people in the south resist such an imperial court?

Qian Biao suddenly understood why Li Ze was not in a hurry to attack the Southern Alliance. Because in Li Ze's opinion, this was no longer the point. As time went by, the gap between the two sides of the south would become bigger and bigger, and in the end it would even be as big as a defeat without fighting.

He turned to look at a weekly newspaper on the table, which was printed with a great victory for the Tang Dynasty Navy.

The shelling of Guangzhou Port made the enemy feel scared.

Guangzhou City is the ruling center of the Southern Union, but now it is in danger. I don’t know how many smart people will have some other thoughts because of this shelling.

As a former character in the separatist drama, Qian Biao could not imagine how Xiang Xun could turn the situation around. In addition to continuing to fight the military and continuously strengthening military preparations to prevent the north, can there be any other moves?
Chapter completed!