After visiting Luoyang for more than a year, it was actually equivalent to building a wall and a palace. None of the rest started. When it was completed to this extent, I have to thank the orderly surrendered soldiers.

Seventy thousand people worked tirelessly to finally create this majestic Luoyang City.

It is useless to say that the country is in virtue but not in danger, or that the troops are at the city, and no matter how strong the construction of the capital is, Li Jia did not take this fallacy at all.

A powerful capital can definitely give the emperor a sense of security, not whether it can be kept, but whether it can hold on for a little time to allow the emperor to retreat calmly.

However, the city is large and difficult to guard, and there are loopholes everywhere, so it is necessary to build a satellite city.

After patrolling for a while, Li Jia did not stay in Luoyang for long, and the cavalry led by the Imperial Camp rushed to Bianliang again.

When they left, the willows were swaying, and when they returned, the fragrance of osmanthus was already wafting, adding a little beauty to Bianliang City.

Naturally, there is no need to say anything about the civil and military officials. When Li Jia returned to the palace, she finally relaxed a lot, and at least she was much more familiar with Bianliang.

The prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall also breathed a sigh of relief. The emperor left Beijing for half a year and visited the entire northern country. It was really scary, especially when they heard that the people in Hezhong were in chaos, everyone was scared and sweated.

Fortunately, the emperor was not a reckless man, so he chose to escape, which made people feel relieved.

"I am congratulating Your Majesty on his way back..."

All civil and military officials knelt down in unison, with a spectacular momentum.

"Get up—"

Li Jia glanced at him and said softly: "Thanks to the stable government of all the officials, otherwise how could I go so long?"

"I am ashamed of me-"

After a question and answer from the monarch and ministers, and after dealing with some trivial matters, Li Jia summoned the Political Affairs Hall, the Transportation Commission and the Military Affairs Office to conduct a detailed inquiry.

As the prime minister, Zhao Cheng explained the government affairs to the emperor in detail, especially the summer harvest this year. It can be said that the north is shabby.

As the capital moved north, although the canal was directly transported, the freight rate increased a lot. The transportation department spent more than one million guan, and the annual cost was more than two million guan.

"The Transport Authority has added several prefectures in the north, adding 1,900 officials, and there are fewer rivers in the north, so the transportation costs more effort, which leads to frequent consumption."

Hu Binwang explained softly, telling the situation of the Transportation Commander, for fear that the emperor would be dissatisfied.

After all, the cost of the Transportation Office is already in line with the two taxes in the one government, which is at an extremely high level.

Li Jiaran silently, this is the result of excessive power in the court!

For example, the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, basically taxes were collected by local governments themselves and transferred, with actual tax rates several times and regular taxes, but now the tax power is concentrated with the court, and the cost will definitely increase.

"Yes!" Li Jia nodded and said, "The Transport Authority is responsible for the heavy responsibility of the court, and it consumes so much. It is necessary to achieve results. The land in the world is a certain amount, the population is growing, and business is naturally flourishing. Tax issues cannot be reduced-"

"Here—" As soon as he heard in his heart, Hu Binwang quickly responded. He knew that this was the emperor's request, and the taxes were not reduced, which means that the taxes were not increased every year, which was a huge pressure.

At this time, Sun Zhao, who was in charge of finance, frowned, stood up, took a step to the right, and couldn't help but say:

"Report to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue of the Transportation Office has increased its expenses, but the Ministry of Revenue of the court has realized an important problem."

"Speak!" Li Jia glanced at him, looked at his serious look, and seemed to have something big, and she couldn't help but become nervous.

"Yes!" Sun Zhao quickly said loudly: "Now the imperial court has returned to the former Tang territory, from south to north, and has established the world. When it was in the south, the forged copper coins were already unusable, and now several palaces have been added, so that the people have shortage of money, which affects the court's expenditure exchanges."

Then, Sun Zhao complained to him that in recent years, the copper coins of the Transportation Office had been running less and less, and the food was increasing, so that the money rewarded by the court to all officials was reduced.

Moreover, during the most half of the Northern Expedition, the civil servants had only one month of corvee service, and the rest of the time was paid by the court to serve.

In this way, the money from the Ministry of Revenue went out like flowing water, but it was collected very slowly, so that Sun Zhao beat his chest and stamped his feet, as if the sky had collapsed:

"I heard that after collecting money and silver, I often use it to refine it, either as jewelry, Buddha statues, or simply hoard it, and it is like watermelons, and I am reluctant to use it."

"In the long run, money shortages are growing, commercial taxes are difficult to collect, and income is decreasing. How can we use the imperial court?"

"What's more, the imperial court is afraid that it will be difficult to take out the rewards for the reward."

Although this statement is extremely exaggerated, Sun Zhao also stated a fact that the court's taxes were mostly grain, and the money was mostly commercial taxes. However, the people's money was short and merchants could not afford money, which would inevitably lead to an inevitable decline in the court's taxes.

Food is depleted, but money does not.

Li Jia was silent, this was just deflation.

He encountered this situation before. What he did was one thing, directly using gold and silver to make gold and silver money, as a large amount of money.

In the Song Dynasty, as early as the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, it was forged as two cents, and later as three, ten cents, and in large quantities were introduced. In the Southern Song Dynasty, two cents became the mainstream currency.

Li Jia couldn't do as shameless as in the Song Dynasty. He openly plundered people's wealth. For the current plan, he still had to do the old way:

"Since the money shortage among the people, I would like to make another five million chunks of money, and the Ministry of Revenue and the Shaofu Department will forge it together, is that okay?"

The last sentence is obviously asking Sun Zhao.

When Sun Zhao heard the emperor's words, he immediately bowed and said, "It is natural to make money, but now the money is short of money in the government and the Ministry of Revenue, especially the Ministry of Revenue, is still lacking in hundreds of thousands of copper coins for the Transportation Commission. His words do not require food, and the old ministers really rack their brains and are unable to deal with it."

Li Jia looked at Hu Binwang, who lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Report to Your Majesty, the officials of the Transport Authority will naturally have some salary, but the transport porter, ship fee, etc., all require copper coins to pay. The food is bulky, it is difficult-"

"Is this true?" Li Jia thought something was wrong. He felt something was wrong, but he didn't expect that it would be impossible for Shaofu Temple to borrow money!

"Some time ago, I used salt to induce reform and got hundreds of thousands of chunks of money. Let the Ministry of Revenue use it for the time being!"

"Your Majesty—" Sun Zhao became energetic and stared at the emperor with a bright look, saying: "Since ancient times, salt tax has been the main income of the imperial court. In the late Tang Dynasty, it even accounted for more than half of the revenue and expenditure of the user department."

"Besides, most of the salt traders accept money. With such money, why should the Ministry of Revenue worry about insufficient copper coins? Why is the reward for rewarding the army insufficient?"

It turns out that I'm waiting for myself here.
Chapter completed!