The ancient rulers were not fools, they all knew the hardships of farmers, but farmers were just leeks and could only be exploited.

The food collection was exploited by the court. If only money was collected, it would be convenient for the court and let the merchants exploit it again.

This made Li Jia unable to bear it.

In addition to exploitation, business will also develop rapidly. For example, the Shanxi merchants and Hui merchants who were famous in the world in the later generations grew stronger in the Wanli period of the late Ming Dynasty and after Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

However, since ancient times, business giants have basically been collusion between officials and businessmen, and they can hardly do anything without a background. In other words, business prosperity only makes the bureaucratic class richer.

It is true that the Song Dynasty's business was developed, but if it is said that commercial tax accounts for half of the land, it is actually false. The Song Dynasty's commercial tax actually relies on monopoly on salt, iron, vinegar, etc., and it takes tens of millions of chunks a year. In fact, there is not much real commercial tax at all.

In other words, the Song Dynasty had already begun to implement large-scale state-owned enterprise operations.

Do you think bureaucrats would pay the court from their own pockets?

Moreover, Li Jia's original intention of establishing a Transportation Office was to facilitate the court and the people and collect taxes more reasonably. Without intermediaries, both parties would benefit.

Therefore, it is impossible to implement it by paying food with money.

The function of grain is originally used by the supply center. The annual commercial tax of tens of millions of yuan will the court still be short of money?

"Equalizing both parties is an emergency measure, which is just this year!" Li Jia directly talked about the difficulties of the transferee, and said:

"The reefs are prevalent in the Three Gorges, and many reefs are hard to guard against. The Transport Authority cannot sit idly by and try every means to remove them. This will not only benefit the country, but also the people!"

"The same was true in the spiritual canal in the past. Reefs are full of. As long as gunpowder is used and fired at any cost, it will definitely be successful. The road to leaving Shu will be smoother..."

In fact, as the saying goes, before the world is chaotic, Shu is chaotic, and the world has been pacified, Shu has not been pacified. Even if he is trying to seize Shu, Li Jia is still worried that the separatist power is too strong.

Therefore, the smooth flow of the Three Gorges makes it easier for the central government to transfer the army and enhance control.

Zhao Cheng immediately thought of this layer. His eyes lit up and said, "If the Transport Office is in a difficult situation, he can cooperate with the Ministry of Industry. As for the specific costs, the Ministry of Revenue must be able to allocate money!"

"Should you do this!" Sun Zhaoyi responded righteously.

"Then do it like this, and try to smash the guys who are in trouble within four years!"

Li Jia nodded in agreement.

However, compared to these prime ministers, he remembered the disadvantages of the two-tax system in this era: the mixed business of renting and the two-tax system.

The meaning is very simple. The core of the renting system is renting, mediocre, adjustment, renting represents taxes for people, corvee service, military service, etc. The transfer is a local offering, such as sugar-producing areas that require sugar.

The two-tax system merges all the messy taxes. As long as the people pay taxes, they don’t have to worry about anything else.

This is the superiority of the two-tax system.

However, the fact is that the court repeatedly violated its promises, not only did it charge taxes, but also required local tribute and labor service.

Theoretically, the current corvee service is to betray the two-tax system, which makes the people worse.

What’s fun was that until the Northern Song Dynasty King Anshi reformed the law of exemption from labor service, and he would be exempted from labor service as long as he paid money. In other words, he would spend money to redeem the power that should belong to the people and then continue to implement it until the Qing Dynasty.

Sima Guang later abolished the new law, but under the exemption law, there were still many obstacles. Su Shi questioned it in person, and it was not until Cai Jing helped that he barely abolished it.

Thanks to his summer retreat in Yuelu Mountain, Li Jia has a deeper understanding of the two-tax system. He finally decided to make adjustments to this legacy issue.

The emperor took a deep breath and watched the prime ministers calm down and look respectful, he became more and more calm in his heart. He was the emperor and the founding emperor, so he should clear obstacles for future generations and benefit the people.

"Now, the two tax law has been implemented for nearly two hundred years!"

Li Jia sighed.

"However, the two tax law has been implemented for many years, and its disadvantages are getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer beneficial to the people, but harming the people!"

"Why did Your Majesty say this?" Zhao Cheng looked puzzled. After so many years of implementation of the two tax laws, isn't it just right to prove its good side?

"Not to mention anything else, just to say that those who paid tribute in various places this year have received 100 stones of good sugar in just half a year. On weekdays, the spices used by the Neijing, such as musk, agarwood, white gum fragrance, erectus, Zhantang fragrance, etc., are as little as 100 kilograms, and the most are tens of thousands of kilograms. Although the value is not uniform, the total number is at least more than 100 kilograms!"

Li Jia said without hesitation: "Even you prime ministers and officials from the prefectures and counties must be bound to have your tribute in order to bring closer relationships. For me, the emperor, I dare not slackew, so it is difficult for me to be an official if I don't pay tribute!"

Several prime ministers were embarrassed and bowed their heads without saying a word. This is a well-known unspoken rule and their welfare as prime ministers. It is naturally impossible to punish crimes, but it is related to ethics and Confucian morality that makes them feel ashamed.

Of course, if you put this statement in the Central Plains, those governors and senior officials would not even be ashamed of, but rather be proud. The turbulent times and the atmosphere of peace for many years will be different after all.

"These are the rules of the past, and I can't blame you. After all, I am the emperor, and I can only punish me if I want to punish you!"

Li Jia said calmly, his tone was not angry at all.

"I'm wrong with me-"

The four prime ministers and Hu Binwang quickly knelt down, looking very scared.

But Li Jia knew that these were all illusions. They had decades of bureaucratic careers, and they were very ordinary and didn't care about them.

"Get up, I can't be punished without guilt, right?"

Li Jia smiled, and her tone suddenly became much heavier:

"Recalling that during the Tianbao period, Guanzhong could not raise lychee trees. In order to satisfy Yang Guifei's desire, several horses died from Lingnan to Guanzhong, and countless people were exhausted!"

"During the Tianbao period, An Lushan would definitely offer camels, horses, hawks and dogs every month to win the trust of the emperor and the harem, thereby stabilizing his rebellious foundation..."

The emperor sneered and said unafraid to Emperor Xuanzong: "I satisfy my momentary joy, but I let the whole world be buried!"

Li Jia mercilessly criticized the emperor who actually led to the end of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Anyway, his ancestor was not him, but Xuanzong's elder brother.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, criticizing Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is a political correctness of some level.

Otherwise, how can we prove the correctness of the throne falling on his branch?
Chapter completed!