I am Da Song

Chapter 212 The method of mobilizing scholar-bureaucrats to forge ahead
After Yang Shi's words fell, the eyes of the ministers who had been listening silently in the hall immediately lit up, and they straightened their chests, intending to argue hard and argue eloquently in the next session.

3000 million fiscal revenue!
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has never been such a high fiscal revenue.

It's not that the Song Dynasty has never done it before.

In fact, there was money for young crops in the Song Dynasty, which was land tax surtax, which was a tax law inherited from the Tang Dynasty.In addition to the land tax, an additional [-] yuan is collected as an additional tax per mu of land.

And the land tax in the Song Dynasty has always been one tax per ten, and the people's income is one stone and the official is one fight.Eleven taxes are commonplace both at home and abroad.

However, no one expected that after the clearing of the fields of the literati and bureaucrats, the combination of these two types of taxes would directly cancel the land tax and levy silver per mu, and the tax revenue would suddenly increase to such a terrifying level.

So much so that this unprecedentedly rich tax has become a fiscal revenue that everyone is eager to see.

The Privy Council felt that as long as half of this financial revenue was given to the army, the army's combat power could soar and wipe out the barbarians.

The Ministry of Industry felt that as long as [-]% of this income was given to the Ministry of Industry, it would be able to remediate the Yellow River and reduce flooding.

Various departments such as the Zhengshitang, Military Weapons Supervision, and Dali Temple all felt that as long as they gave themselves the money, their political achievements would undergo earth-shaking changes.

Since then, politics has been efficient, law and order have been peaceful, and armaments have been perfected.

Even the emperor Zhao Huan was very moved. Last year, he almost moved all the internal treasury to save the country. The emperor was so poor that he didn't even have the money to reward the palace.

Not to mention returning the 8000 million guan that I donated to the country to myself, at least 800 million guan, right?

You can't add a piece of clothing to the queen, and you have to ask the prime ministers for money.

However, if all the companies follow the ambitious plans of the Cao companies, not to mention the 3000 million yuan of national taxation, even if it is increased tenfold, 33 billion yuan will not be enough.

Ji Xiang Yang Shi solemnly said to Zhao Huan: "I think that the 3000 million yuan of the country's regular tax should be used to mobilize the wealth of the entire country, especially the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, and it will have the effect of diverting a thousand catties."

Four or two to pull a thousand catties, mainly pay attention to a lever.Zhao Huan understood this, so he frowned and asked, "Do you mean borrowing money from scholar-bureaucrats?"

"That's right. According to the current situation, the people in the south of the Yangtze River are scattered, the roads are muddy, and the scholar-bureaucrats are entrenched in the prefectures, counties, and fish and meat towns. It is difficult for them to forge ahead, and the money is piled up in the cellar. Rather than letting them rot and mold, it is better for the imperial court to use it as a coordinator , building roads, digging canals, and constructing water conservancy projects.”

"As far as society is concerned, when the local politics is clear, the law and order are good, and the roads are smooth, the local people will be more inclined to invest in production, and the industry and commerce will be prosperous. Although the scholar-bureaucrats are decadent, they cannot escape this rule. After all, they love money. Will actively invest in business.”

This is the most typical representative of the Donglin Party members in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is a stain that the scholar-bureaucrat class can never erase.

In order to protect the business interests of the southeast scholar-bureaucrats, regardless of the country as a whole and the safety of the world, they resolutely opposed the imperial court's collection of commercial taxes, so that the imperial court could not collect taxes.

The Ming army is obviously very capable of fighting. With the army at the end of the dynasty, against the double-layer debuff of the cabinet and civil servants, and the shocking corruption and empty salary, it can beat the army of the late Jin and the founding of the country.But in the end, because of insufficient food and pay, firing three shots before the battle would be worthy of the emperor.In the end, Shenzhou Lu Shen.

Zhao Huan is very convinced that these scholar-bureaucrats are greedy for money and lustful, and take the initiative to do business.

He just asked with concern: "Will the scholar-bureaucrats be willing to lend money to the court?"

Yang Shi said: "Maintaining the reputation of the imperial court is a matter that needs to be persisted and accumulated over time. Therefore, Shang Yang's reform requires the establishment of trust in the original wood to revive the trust of the people in the court. I have been in the Song Dynasty for 200 years, and my reputation among the people is at least counted. Excellent."

"Moreover, Zijin merchants have existed since ancient times. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty quelled the Seven Kings' Rebellion, and Zhou Yafu led the army to go out. He borrowed a batch of gold from the nobles and Zijin merchants of the dynasty. Afterwards, he returned the principal with interest."

"The Green Crop Law in our dynasty is the most typical government loan behavior. The people do not add taxes and the country uses enough. Its original intention is to curb the situation of high-value private borrowing. It is only because corrupt officials force people to borrow money and adjust tax rates at will. Wen Gong's New Deal failed."

"Now the imperial court has 3000 million yuan in fiscal revenue, and this is enough to convince the literati that the imperial court has the capital to repay their debts. Then in this new policy, the imperial court strictly controls borrowing and does not allow local officials to intervene. The family, the Imperial City Department, and the Procuratorate jointly supervised, and the borrowing funds of scholar-bureaucrats were directly controlled by the central government and entered the national finance. It is enough to make the New Deal stable.”

Zhao Huan nodded slightly. When central officials promote a system, they always hope that the system can continue to operate.They are different from the small local officials, who don't care about the significance of the national policy above them at all, and try to distort its original form to satisfy their own personal desires.

Although the central officials are also corrupt, what they are corrupting is power and bribery, and they will not use the national policy for personal gain, because at this height, as long as the national policy is changed, they will be stared at by countless pairs of eyes.

And as Yang Shi said, it is controlled by the imperial court.It is also easier for various supervision departments to supervise, and the audit departments and personnel are relatively fixed.

But Prime Minister Mei Zhili frowned and asked, "It's easy to borrow money, but what's the point of so much money? How can the court repay it?"

Everyone in the hall realized at the same time that this country is controlled by the ministers and ministers in the hall.

Although it is a good thing to receive a lot of wealth, for the ministers, the most important thing is always to make the country run smoothly, and the safety of the world is far more important than a little money.

When an event is extended to a time span of hundreds of years, everything can be postponed, but the survival of the country is something that must be guaranteed.

There is no need for Yang Shi to explain this point. Zhao Huan said with a smile: "Repay the interest on the loan, let me tell you. When the country invests a lot of money in infrastructure, it will make the private economy more prosperous and productivity will further increase. The wealth of the entire country Growth will inevitably lead to rapid expansion of fiscal revenue. This annual increase in fiscal revenue is enough to easily repay the interest on loans.”

Otherwise, countries in the future will not be keen to issue national debt and invest in infrastructure.Which country in later generations does not borrow money?The level of debt ratio has even become part of a country's overall strength.

Moreover, Yang Shi's plan is tantamount to harvesting the wealth of those corrupt scholar-bureaucrats to the imperial court, unified planning, and investing in production, which is tantamount to the fastest primitive accumulation.

(End of this chapter)