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Chapter 516 What if I can't spend a lot of money?

This poem by the official family is obviously not my own experience.

In Li Qingzhao's opinion, these two poems actually describe more the story of a couple who were forced to be together.

Li Qingzhao did not explain in depth. She was afraid that she would misunderstand, just as she did at the time.

Similarly, after experiencing Zhao Mingcheng's incident, she had reached the point where she was neither sad nor happy.

If there are good results, then there is.

If not...

She took a deep breath and wrote on the blank note:

[Not sad, no joy; no crying, no sadness; no coming, no going; no leaving, no leaving.]

The next morning, Zhao Huan finally ushered in the first court discussion after returning to the capital, which was extremely boring.

In Zhao Huan's view, the quarrels in the government are like quarrels between women on the street, standing on their own preset positions and starting a debate.

I just want to convince the other party, but I can never convince the other party, and I even refuse to take a step back.

The court officials kept arguing, and Zhao Huan sat upright on the imperial palace, bored.

Before this tearing ends, it is not convenient for Zhao Huan to end.

Otherwise, he will be both a referee and a player, and then the court meeting of the great court meeting will be useless.

At the beginning of the court meeting, Zhao Huan was not in this state of wandering wildly, but also actively sat in front of the imperial court and listened to the court officials discussing the national affairs.

The mother is right, and the mother is right.

At first glance, it makes sense, but it seems that nothing makes sense. Later, I just repeat the words and say them again, and it becomes boring.

Zhao Huan boredly swept everyone's loyalty and ability values.

Li Gang is extremely accurate in looking at people.

At least Zhao Huan looked at the loyalty and ability of the court officials, and basically did not have many positions, and there were no places where the ability was not matched.

Moreover, some people are very capable, but they are in a low position. Zhao Huan looked carefully and found that they were all young people.

Their experience is not enough to serve as more important positions.

In terms of seniority, the bad habit of officialdom was also a common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty.

"Official family?" Zhao Ying whispered to Zhao Huan.

"ah?"

Zhao Huan returned to the god from the heavens and said, "Is the discussion finished?"

Li Gang looked at the official family on the imperial throne helplessly, and he went out and said, "The official family is a few opinions on the relocation of orders outside the territory. Can the official family take a look?"

He did not blame the officials for not being diligent. Today, the emperor is not diligent, so there will be no diligent emperor in the world.

In fact, Li Gang almost fell asleep when the court officials quarreled.

In the official words, it is just a car to talk about car wheels, which is too boring.

Court arguments are actually just a formality and form.

The formulation of most terms, the reduction and increase of welfare were all agreed on the night before the Grand Court meeting. All forces sat together and had already agreed.

It has also been submitted to the government for approval.

But this form cannot be done without leaving.

Zhao Huan pretended to pick up Li Gang's letter, and after he criticized it, he said, "Please follow the order."

Most of the courtiers in the front row could not reach the letters approved by the emperor.

Some court officials were excited that they participated in the court affairs, and even their opinions were adopted by the court officials.

Some court officials were covered in dust, like defeated roosters, without fighting spirit.

A sense of participation.

Zhao Huan shook his dizzy head and stood up, dispersing the meeting for the big dynasty.

The ministers of Li Gang's departments stayed and began a real exchange of interests.

Basically, the orders for the relocation of favors outside the region are decided by the court.

Zhao Huan finally cheered up and began to participate in the court discussion. Whenever he raised a question, the court officials agreed, opposed stating the reasons or putting forward constructive opinions.

This also made him admire the top people who stood in the court and thought about the problems carefully.

Under the persuasion of the ministers, Zhao Huan finally suspended the various reforms against the ill-fated government of the court, and focused on stability. After fighting the Jin people, the court official system would be reformed.

However, a problem that needs to be resolved has become a controversial point in today's government affairs.

And there were many discussions and the discussion was extremely eager.

With the continuous advancement of commercial reform, the tax system established by the Song Dynasty became extremely inefficient and could not keep up with the pace of the times by relying on the monopoly and tax-packing systems.

The Song Dynasty has been in operation for 160 years. This official system, tax system, field system, and military system has been implemented for 160 years, and it has a scent of decay and pedantic flavor everywhere.

As for the same sentence, Zhao Huan still believes that the most exquisite language in the world is Chinese and Chinese characters, because it is profound and comprehensive.

But the least vocabulary that should appear is about these three words.

After the Song Dynasty's system was put into operation for 160 years, it was almost the same everywhere.

Taxation is the first problem to be exposed.

With the continuous advancement of commercial reform, the tax revenue in the Song Dynasty was composed of an inspection team composed of retired military soldiers to conduct tax audits and urge payments. The accounting accountants of the province calculated the tax, and then collected the provincial subsidies for the unified payment and distributed the funds.

The supervision of retired military soldiers was very good. Even the first-class merchants in Didian were scared when they saw the three words "tax audit".

These inspectors don’t tell you anything about their feelings, and it’s a neat way to recover taxes.

The accounting accountants in the accounting province have no problem with the calculations, and they can also find a lot of stolen and missed taxes through the account books.

The problem lies in the issue of unified collection and expenditure.

The Song Dynasty's plan was really at the point where it was time to be abolished and then re-established.

In addition to maintaining a lot of accountants who are good at accounting, Ji Sheng no longer has his original functions.

Plan fiscal revenue and expenditure.

The Song Dynasty, or all feudal dynasties, did not have a complete financial plan.

In other words, it is Qinguan Chulou [Note 1] - do whatever you want.

In the whole year of Jingkang, nearly 70 million guan was collected in commercial tax alone!

Due to Zhao Huan's large-scale tax reduction and exemption policy, the agricultural tax was reduced by half compared with the past, only about 10 million chunks.

But the national treasury is not only more than 80 million guan, but more than 140 million guan of money and food are lying there!

Where did this money come from?

The Ministry of Revenue spent some money on the land.

Jinzouyuan’s tabloids and morning newspapers have actually contributed a lot of money this year.

But this is all small money. What really makes money is that Li Gang sold a lot of luxury goods from Bian Jing warehouses.

But the extra 60 million guan is 40 million guan, which is earned by the two departments of the Workers' Relief Institute and the Military Arts' Institute.

When Li Gang was appointed as the Minister of War and the Military Arts Supervisor, in order to update the military equipment of the Song Dynasty, he did a lot of civilian work to maintain operation.

However, the main responsibility of the Military Weapon Academy is to produce arms. At Zhao Huan's request, it has been slowed down and even cancelled civilian orders.

So among these 40 million guan, 30 million guan was earned from the work relief workshops and work relief guarantees of the work relief institute.

Jishang did not arrange for the extra 40 million yuan of money. They underestimated the ability of the Song Dynasty to create wealth.

The national treasury of the Song Dynasty caused by the commercial reform continued to expand, unable to keep up with the times's plans and was the first to be eliminated.

The problem of saving money is actually not a big problem. Isn’t it just that there is too much money and nowhere to spend it?

Easy to deal with!

Building roads and bridges is a bottomless pit!

As long as it is started, these 40 million streams of water will be spent.

This was not a big deal. Jishang did not plan where he would go for 40 million yuan, and it wouldn't matter if he didn't spend it.

However, the core issue of the fierce quarrels in the Changchao today is caused by saving the 40 million chunks of money.

It can't spend this money!

The people of the Song Dynasty did not recognize iron coins, but only recognized money and led them.

More than a hundred transactions have started to use money to attract transactions.

Zheng Wangzhi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up and said, "The official family, this money still cannot be spent on this day. I have been a member of the Ministry of Revenue for more than ten years. This is the first time I have heard of this."

Li Gang also bowed and said, "At the beginning of the year, after 10 million silver dollars were released one after another, this trend was created. No one cared about it at that time. Now this silver dollar can be exchanged for almost half a day of iron coins."

"What should I do?" Zhu Shengfei also looked helpless. At the end of the year, they discovered the iron money in the national treasury and wanted to spend it.

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "Didn't Hu Shijiang go to Beijing to report his work? He has been busy in Shuzhong for almost a year, and he hasn't even entered Beijing last year. Ask if he needs iron coins in Shuzhong."

"This solves the urgent problem for a while, what after that?" Li Gang said worriedly.

Zhao Huan was not in a hurry to answer the question. He leaned on the back of the chair and looked outside the hall, his eyes as if he had to play his role after nine hundred years.

Use his vision beyond the times to find solutions to problems.

Zhao Huan didn't feel dazed for long before he came to his senses and said, "I have it!"
Chapter completed!
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