Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 530

After Han Xizai explained, he had to bring Su Chen into the palace, and go to Chengxin Hall to personally report to the officials how to implement the first strategy, so that the officials would be relieved.

Su Chen didn't care, he had already thought about how to expand the official kilns, increase the strength of weaving, how to tell the method of distilling wine, so that the treasury would be abundant.

The Song army is about to overwhelm the country, so Li Yu must agree to his proposal, otherwise, the Southern Tang Dynasty will not be able to withstand the siege of the Song army for several years.

Han Xizai and Su Chen entered the imperial city, and under the leadership of the imperial guards, they came outside Chengxin Hall to report.

After a while, a little eunuch Hong Song came out and brought Han Xizai and Su Chen into Chengxin Hall.

"Chengxin Hall" was originally a private hall, and its original name was "Chengxin Hall". Li Yu thought it was too vulgar to name "Chengxin" because of honesty.

This "clear heart" is derived from the sentence "Huainanzi Taizu Xun": "Scholars must clear their minds and clear their minds in order to be able to distinguish between heaven and man."

After Li Yu came to the throne, because of the quiet environment, he often wrote poems and lyrics here, which later became his study.

Because there is a forest outside Chengxin Hall, the tree happens to be the raw material for papermaking. In order to facilitate the collection of materials, the royal craftsmen responded to the request of the royal craftsmen and built a royal workshop in the forest not far from the palace Chengxin Hall to produce paper. "Chengxintang Paper" was also mainly used by Empress Li.

The two of Han Xizai entered the outer hall of Chengxin Hall and found that Li Yu was discussing matters in the inner hall. Ping, Zhang Ji, a scholar of Qinghui Palace, is in Chengxin Hall, explaining to Li Yu that he wants to abolish the envoys from all walks of life.

After Han Xizai and Su Chen entered, they waited in the outer hall, waiting for them to discuss before going in.

Su Chen faintly heard Pan You's statement: "The taxation of the tenants in the farmland is too heavy, and they are already suffering unspeakably. It is urgent to depose the farmer envoys in the south of the Yangtze River..."

Han Xizai saw that Su Chen was listening intently, smiled lightly, and explained to him: "In the later period, Liezu set up farm envoys in various places, and the land rent and tax were collected uniformly by the local prefectures and counties according to the regular tax, and one tenth of it was used as the salary of the local officials. However, the number of farms is large, and gradually the burden on the tenants of the farms is several times heavier than that of the registered households. The officials in charge of the farms are harassing the prefectures and counties, vying for the interests of the people, and raising taxes layer by layer, causing the people to suffer. Now they want to depose The envoys from all walks of life are called back to the capital, and they can no longer give more taxes to the people. This point, Mr. Pan You and his reformers, still make sense."

Although the parties were different, Han Xizai belonged to the Sun Party, Pan You and others belonged to the Jiangzuo New Party. However, in terms of benefiting the court and Tang, the two parties also had a tacit understanding that they would not undermine the other party's political views for the benefit of the people.

After a while, several officials in the house expressed their opinions, and finally persuaded Li Yu, decided to depose the Tuntian envoy, and asked Zhongshusheren to arrange for someone to draft the abolition decree.

At this time, the little eunuch Hong Song came out, and politely said to Han Xizai and Su Chen: "Master Han, Su Zhuangyuan, the official has announced that you can go in."

"Okay!" Han Xizai and Su Chen entered the inner hall of Chengxin Hall one after the other, which is Li Yu's imperial study.

"I pay my respects to the officials!"

"You don't need to be too polite." Li Yu looked at Han Xizai and Su Chen with a friendly face. After all, these are the two most favored lovers at present.

Yan Xu, Pan You, Qin Chengyu, Zhang Ji, and Li Ping were all curious when they saw Han Xizai and Su Chen coming together, and they didn't leave right away. It seems that as long as the officials don't let them retreat, they plan to stay and listen for a while. listen.

They have the chancellors who work in the same order, as well as the people from Zhongshushe, Chengxintang, etc. They do have the right to observe and discuss major proposals and admonitions from the court, unless Han Xizai is here for Su Chen. Self-interest is another matter.

Li Yu looked at the crowd with a smile, and saw that Pan You, Qin Chengyu, Zhang Ji and others had no intention of leaving, and he also guessed the thoughts of several people in his heart, and said with a smile: "Master Han brought Su Bian here to raise his mind The new strategy can solve the dilemma of the imperial court and the problem of empty treasury."

Pan You, Li Ping, Zhang Ji and others are reformers themselves, and they have been working hard to solve the crisis in the Tang Dynasty and the severe emptiness of the treasury. Interested.

If it makes sense, they are willing to support it. If it is taken for granted and violates the law of change they are promoting, then they will not be polite and will definitely stop it.

Han Xizai said: "Officials, Su Chen has unique insights on how to establish internal warehouses, official workshops, official kilns, business systems, etc. You can ask him to explain them in detail."

Li Yu nodded: "Okay, while Tongping Zhangshi, Zhongshu Sheren, Chengzhi and other ministers are here, Su Chen, if you have any thoughts, just say it, and let the adults listen to the comments."

Su Chen took two steps forward, stood in a conspicuous position, cupped his hands and said, "This is some of my thoughts on increasing taxes in business, please comment and correct me, the officials and adults."

"Let's talk about it, the number one scholar doesn't have to be restrained." Pan You added a sentence, but he first approved of Su Chen and expressed his goodwill.

After all, the New Party is a reformist faction, and it is carrying out reforms. It can be said that Su Chen also has this idea. It can be said that they are like-minded, and they all consider the overall situation of the Tang Dynasty. This alone is worthy of praise and encouragement.

Su Chen began to say: "The minister's idea, in a nutshell, is to increase income and reduce expenditure, establish more official workshops and royal merchants, and the imperial court will send people to supervise the operation, build large-scale workshops and official kilns, and produce more products, which will not only stimulate domestic consumption It can also be used for foreign trade, to obtain gold, silver, copper coins, strategic materials, etc., to alleviate the emptiness of the imperial treasury.

"Official enterprises?" Li Yu and the ministers were a little surprised, and felt a little novel about this new term.

"Yes, it is an official enterprise. The word enterprise generally refers to all workshops involved in textiles, papermaking, printing and dyeing, shipbuilding, etc., and the word "enterprise" can be used instead." Su Chen explained this modern term.

The people present were all highly knowledgeable and intelligent people in ancient times. They were knowledgeable and talented, so after listening to Su Chen's explanation, they already understood.

Yan Xu frowned and said: "The proposal compiled by Su is to make a fuss about the business of the workshop? Let the imperial court increase the investment and production of the workshop, and compete with the people and businessmen for profit?"

Li Ping, the tuntian doctor of the Tuntian Department of the Ministry of Industry, was also a little disappointed. He thought that Su Chen was also going to make a fuss about the fields, and suggested to restore the "well field system" and "fubing system".

In the eyes of the ministers, the foundation of a country is the land, and the various reforms in ancient times centered on land, military merit, taxation, and systems, which are fundamental changes. Now that Su Chen just wants to increase his status as an official and businessman, and put into production, etc. It is to compete with the public and business interests, not to solve the problem fundamentally.

After all, "scholars, farmers, businessmen" is a deep-rooted thinking of scholars, and Su Chen started to promote reforms from the lowest level of "business", so he was despised by these ministers.

Seeing the regret and disapproval on the faces of Pan You, Li Ping, Yan Xu and others, Han Xizai knew that these people's thinking was rigid, and they hadn't really heard the key points of Su Chen's political views, so he smiled and said, "Su Chen, go on Go on, tell the specific measures, let the officials and a few adults listen, can the country be rich and the people strong?!"

(End of this chapter)