Chapter 430(2/2)
As a result, the income of Liguo people has dropped sharply and their burdens have skyrocketed. At the same time, their assets have begun to shrink significantly, and prices have skyrocketed. The national finances are on the verge of collapse, and the wealthy families cannot collect taxes at all, and they are still using money internally and externally.
In this situation, if it were any other country among the twelve countries, the situation would have collapsed.
But if we don’t specifically mention that the country is rich and the people are strong, and there are many talented people, even in such a situation, it has not collapsed! It has been stabilized!
This is also because of the support of friends and businessmen. There are wars in all directions, and the protagonist can at least feed the people of a country, so the situation is not serious yet, and everyone feels that they can get over it if they endure it.
Then the big one came.
In order to make up for the shortfall in national finances and military expenditures, and to deal with the flooding of bad money, under the auspices of the imperial censor Li Hongxian, Li Wenrao, the doctor of Duzhi, introduced the strategy of Duzhisi, preparing borders and extending treasury, to rectify
National finance.
To put it simply, salt, iron, silk, horses, water and wine, etc., are all changed to be exclusively handled by the Du Branch Department directly under the Ministry of Household Affairs. At the same time, local taxes no longer collect Shengang money, and instead collect silk and cloth. All debts are paid off in kind, and the cloth is settled.
.In an instant, Shengang's money collapsed. Changsi City alone saved 120,000 pieces of cloth in one year. Even the concubines who left the Qiu Palace went crazy and dyed cloth...
As for the local specialty products, all the local specialties will be collected and liquidated in the Beibian treasury of each prefecture, state, and county, and will be used as a priority for the Beibian military supply. The remaining part, or the goods that are not used by the front line, will be transferred to the Yantse treasury.
It was dispatched by Du's envoys and transported to various markets for sale as military supplies.
To put it bluntly, leaving the country in the future will be all about farming and fighting, and there is no need for the profession of 'merchant'.
As a result, the small citizens of Changsi City went bankrupt one after another. Those who had some connections sold their ancestral property, or simply fled their hometowns, dragging their families with them and becoming refugees, and came to Mozhu Mountain to open up wasteland.
Why come to Mozhu Mountain?
Chapter completed!