I am Da Song

Chapter 362 The 300 Million Go-Overtake
The court meeting in March was not specially held for the public opinion turmoil that swept the entire Song Dynasty.

It's just a routine financial audit meeting of the imperial court.

In previous years, the meeting was held in February, but due to the addition of professional taxes such as commercial tax, customs duty, real estate tax, and property tax, it was only December, and the temple supervisors could not complete the tax statistics at all, so it was delayed by one month.

Only tax collection will last for nearly two months, which also shows the prosperity of the Song Dynasty economy.

Taxes from various places were sent to Tokyo in detail, and were collected by the three departments. More than a dozen temple supervisors and hundreds of officials were busy day and night, and finally completed the data before the end of March.The financial audit meeting was successfully held.

When Zhao Huan walked into the Wende Hall, the hall was already packed with dozens of ministers.

Everyone saluted respectfully: "The minister waits to pay homage to the official family, all blessings."

They can't tolerate the slightest disrespectful thought.

When the emperor regained Yanyun, destroyed powerful enemies, and unified Liuhe, his prestige was not weaker than that of Emperor Qin and Han Wu.

In addition to prestige, the prosperity of authority is unprecedented.The essence of this massive public opinion dispute that swept across the Song Dynasty was the replacement of the ruling class.

Its situation is completely comparable to the military aristocrats replacing the aristocratic families, and the landlords and scholars replacing the military aristocrats.

Because he has an alternative plan in hand, it is up to the emperor to choose which class of scholars and students to help the imperial power govern the country, so no force dares to challenge the authority of the emperor.

The power, arrogance, and influence of the literati and bureaucrats have all languished to a historically low point.

While all the ministers were bowing and saluting, Zhao Huan calmly walked to his dragon chair, and after sitting firmly, he waved his hand unhurriedly and said, "Excuse me, sit down."

Because of the blazing authority of the imperial power, Zhao Huan actually treated the ministers better.

The greater Zhao Huan's prestige, the less he needed to pay attention to the ranks of the generals and the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers like when the Supreme Emperor was in power.

Therefore, ministers basically don't need to kneel down to Zhao Huan to salute, let alone perform a dance for Zhao Huan after a long time.

Like Ting Yi, everyone sits and discusses things.

This made the top leaders of the Song Dynasty always feel that the Song Dynasty was restoring the grandeur of the period of the former kings and kingdoms.

This kind of atmosphere is mainly the mental outlook of mind, tolerance, boldness, self-confidence and so on.

The situation of the country is very similar to that of the sages of the Xia Dynasty extolled by the "Book of Songs" in the Shang, Zhou, and Spring and Autumn Periods, expanding their territory and expanding their territory.

The Central Plains is mighty, the martial arts are illustrious, the society is prosperous, and the ancestral temple is brilliant.

"Song of Lu·喟宫" once again became a grand ceremony and music popular in the Central Plains.

"Bus chariots with thousands of rides, Zhu Ying with green scorpions, and two spears with heavy bows. The public disciples are [-], and the shells are Zhu Qi. The steam will increase, the Rong and Di will be angry, and Jingshu will be punished. I dare not accept it!"

Thousands of chariots, [-] troops, strong bows and spears, shining armor, punish barbarians, no one dares to stand in the way of our king's soldiers!
With such great strength as the backing of the country, Zhao Huan was completely indifferent to the clamor of the scholar-bureaucrats.

At the beginning of the court discussion, Zhao Huan didn't have any extra topics, and proceeded completely according to the procedure, and said to Yang Shi, the third minister: "Let's introduce the financial situation first."

Yang Shi stood up and said to everyone: "Before introducing finance, please allow me to introduce the reform of the third division first."

"In the past, the three divisions were divided into the household department, the salt and iron department, and the Duzhi department. However, with the reform of the new policy, matters related to household registration have been handed over to the household department, and the state has canceled the salt and iron patent at the same time. Therefore, the three departments have carried out a reorganization. "

"Now the three divisions are Taxation Department, Public Temple Department, and Duzhi Department."

"Among them, taxation management includes tax collection by the state, statistics of assets, verification of land loans, adjustment of tax rates, establishment of border customs, overall planning of the city shipping department, supervision of the market, and many other contents."

"The public temples are directly set up by the government to conduct commercial operations. For example, the third military supervision, official land lease, state-run ranch, government-run workshops, government-run temple supervision, etc."

"Duzhi manages the national budget, Taicang treasury, supervision and auditing, and supervision and verification."

Although it seems to have changed a lot, the core of the third division has not changed much.

There are still three aspects: tax collection, national patents, and financial auditing.

The main reason is that many modules have been expanded in various aspects of the content, but the ministers communicate with the three divisions on weekdays, so it is not difficult to understand.It's just that every department is in contact with the third division on weekdays. Today, Yang Shi can be regarded as showing the whole of the third division to everyone.

This is also closely related to the content of the next court meeting.

Yang Shi continued: "Last year's financial surplus was 4000 million guan, and now Taicang has a total of 2000 million guan. Gold is 7205 million taels, silver is 730 million taels, and silk is 600 million pieces. There are grains in Changping warehouses everywhere. More than [-] million stones."

This report is very clear.

Compared with the 6000 million pebbles before the Song Dynasty, it is more clear at a glance.

In particular, the government has more than [-] million stones in storage, which is really reassuring.

In terms of national financial surplus, the Song Dynasty was in an absolute prosperity, and it was unmatched by any previous prosperity.

With so much food, the imperial court can do its best to provide disaster relief to any disaster-stricken area, and it will definitely not cause civil uprisings or rebellions in the area.

And as long as there is no civil uprising, with the current scale and system of the Song Dynasty, there is no possibility of being overthrown or defeated.

No matter how the power of the world is changed, the foundation of the country is stable and firm.

Soon Yang Shi talked about this aspect.

"The national tax revenue reached 6000 million guan last year. Among them, the land tax was 320 million guan."

"Industry and industry taxes, customs duties, rents, taxes, and other tax revenues total 670 guan!"

As Yang Shi's voice fell, there was an instant commotion in the court hall.

Even if all the seats were full of court ministers who had experienced ups and downs in the officialdom, they still couldn't control the shock in their hearts.

300 million guan!
The industrial and commercial tax is only 300 million more than the land tax.

This number is so insignificant in the huge tax system.

But at this moment, it became a burden that all the scholar-bureaucrats could not bear!

This means that the scholar-bureaucrats have lost a complete defeat in this massive power struggle.

Industry and commerce have become the main taxpayers of the country.Citizens, workshop owners, and businessmen will replace scholar-bureaucrats, master more wealth in society, and represent more advanced ideas.

Even if the debate continues, the business class will use its huge wealth to overwhelm the scholar-officials and support the students to win the final victory.

This scene was unexpected even by Zhao Huan, a traveler.I just improved the industrial and commercial environment.The business class spontaneously learned to use wealth to arm their own ideas and theories.

In today's situation, they have mastered a very strong power of public opinion.Any stratum can no longer bring up the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

Zhao Huan never expected that Song Dynasty would break through the shackles of the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business in this way.

The change is the bottom-up change of the whole society, not the top-down reform of the time traveler.

(End of this chapter)