I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 525: The princes and princes are too fat, I will bleed them and shave them!

"My dear friends, do you think the rent collected this year is enough?" Liu He asked with a dark face.

"..."

Zhang Anshi and others looked at each other in confusion, not knowing how to answer. Of course they thought it was enough, but the emperor seemed to think it was not enough.

"I think the people's lives are still too hard, and the court's income is still too little."

Liu Heyi looked at them pointedly, expressing his dissatisfaction and anger with indifference.

Zhang Anshi and others are all smart people. During this time, they were beaten more clearly in the court, and they immediately understood the emperor's deep meaning.

At that moment, they did not dare to sit still anymore and stood up one after another to bow down and apologize to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, we will definitely support the new deal and work with the emperor to make the people rich and tax money abundant!" Zhang Anshi said.

"Your Majesty, we will definitely support the new deal and work with the emperor to make the common people rich and tax money abundant!" everyone followed.

Liu He asked them to stand up and nodded silently. This realization was an improvement.

"Do you dare to join me in issuing a military order?" Liu He asked.

There was a moment of hesitation and silence, but it was Zhang Anshi who was the first to say: "Your Majesty can issue an edict, and we will do our best without any hesitation."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang Ge said it well! Then I'll just tell you..."

"The tax temple in Chang'an has been established, tax guards and tax offices in various places have also been established one after another, and the new tax law has been circulated throughout the world..."

"In the coming year, new agricultural tools will be more widely used, and grain production will definitely be greater...so I hope that the land rent in the coming year will reach 7 billion yuan."

Seven billion yuan is equivalent to a sevenfold increase from this year's one billion yuan. This may sound like an impossible task at first glance.

Zhang Anshi and others initially thought they had heard wrongly and looked at the emperor in confusion.

Liu He did not explain much to them, but responded to them with calm and indifferent eyes, as if the answer was in their hearts.

Of course Zhang Anshi and others know the answer. If everyone in the world pays grain and taxes, the land rent will be at least 57 million dan, which is 5.6 billion yuan converted into money.

Coupled with the progressive tax rate, it is possible to collect tens of billions of dollars, not to mention seven billion.

They saw clearly that the emperor was a good settler and calculated the fortune of this big man clearly without any mistakes.

But as a result, the aristocratic family is really going to shed a layer of skin.

"My lords, please don't think this amount is shocking. I have calculated that as long as the government and the people pay the taxes together, it will not be difficult to receive this amount of land rent..."

"Although there will be little crazy people who will interfere with this, all the ministers are capable people. I don't think this will be a problem for you."

"I ask you to rest assured that the new army will be doubled in the coming year. When the time comes, with the new army as the backing, no one will dare to stop it."

Use the taxes received to train new troops, and then use the trained new troops to pay taxes.

Not only is the emperor's calculations sound, but this transaction is also very cost-effective, and there is no possibility of losing money.

At this point, a group of academicians have completely given up the idea of ​​competing with the emperor. They only hope that the much-rumored "sea trade route" can be opened up and new business opportunities can be discovered.

"Zhang Qing and other ministers, do you think it is possible to receive the 7 billion yuan in land rent?" Liu He asked again.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty has an edict, and I must obey it. I will definitely collect the land rent in full." Zhang Anshi gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Liu He said several good words in a row, and also set a number for other taxes.

Oral money, calculated taxes, and overdue money are closely related to the population, and the possibility of increase is running out, so Liu He set a goal of 3.5 billion, which is slightly more than this year.

However, there is still a lot of room for exploration in taxes such as commercial tax and property tax. The wealthy families can squeeze out a lot of money, so the target is 4 billion, which is 50% more than this year.

With the development of commodity trade, the scale of commercial tax and property tax will become larger and larger, and will eventually replace land rent and become the largest tax type.

Finally, in the second year of Dingxin, the revenue target of Da Sinong, Shaofu and Shuiheng Duwei was set at 16 billion yuan, 50% more than this year's 11.5 billion yuan.

The goal set was not too high, but Zhang Anshi and his friends became clearer and clearer as they calculated their calculations.

They knew that according to the emperor's method and intensity of taxation, this goal would be achieved. In this case, there was no room for rejection or remonstrance, and all of them were accepted immediately.

Anyway, this is shared equally by all the aristocratic families in the world, and it is not just one of them.

When Zhang Anshi and others thought that the "money" matter was over, the emperor seemed to still have more to say, and put another tool for making money on the table.

"Uncle, I have one more thing to discuss with you..."

"Your Majesty can issue an edict." Liu De felt his liver tremble when he heard the name uncle.

Ever since he was punished by the emperor at the imperial meeting a few months ago, he no longer dared to act like a clan leader.

He figured out that his "Liu" and the emperor's "Liu" were not the same Liu. In the emperor's heart, they were not as important as the Liu family in Changyi.

Therefore, Liu De would rather the emperor call him "Liu Ge Lao" or call him by his first name "Liu De" for official business, rather than "uncle".

"How is the annual contribution of gold from the Han princes and princes calculated?" Liu He asked knowingly.

"Your Majesty's warning, the tribute is four taels per thousand people." Liu De replied, with some bad premonitions in his heart.

Chu is a high-quality fine wine. The brewing cycle lasts from January to August. Raw materials must be added three times. Drinking Chu is an important part of the sacrifice.

When Emperor Xiaowen was in power, he established a system that when offering sacrifices to Gaomiao in Chang'an every September, people should offer wine and drink wine, and the princes and princes should offer gold as a sacrifice according to the population of the feudal state.

The standard set is four taels for a thousand households, and the remainder for more than five hundred households is also four taels, subject to acceptance by the Shaofu.

This was not only a means for the emperor to collect money from the princes, but also a weapon to suppress them.

Emperor Xiaowu once deprived princes and princes of their titles on the grounds that the fineness of the gold they donated was insufficient.

Take the fifth year of Yuanding as an example. Emperor Xiaowu sent troops to attack South Vietnam, but no one from the princes responded to the call to join the army and contribute money.

In September of that year, after offering sacrifices to the Gaomiao, Emperor Xiaowu suddenly took action and took away the titles of 106 princes at once on the grounds that the quality of their gold was insufficient.

It can be called a thunderous method.

Therefore, donating fine gold became a matter that frightened the princes and princes.

This is the flexibility of imperial power. Emperor Xiaowu was wise and wise in doing this, but Emperor Xiaozhao was probably crazy in doing so.

Of course Liu He should be like Emperor Xiaowu, or even more wise and powerful than Emperor Xiaowu.

"Uncle, if I understand correctly, this gold is used as a sacrificial offering when worshiping the high temple?" Liu He asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty is wise." Liu De replied anxiously.

"Sacrifices to the Gaomiao Temple must be accompanied by mint gold assistants, and sacrifices to Taizong Temple must also be supported by mint gold assistants. By the way, there is also the Sejong Temple..." Liu He slowly stretched out three fingers.

Of course Liu De understood what the emperor meant, and he smiled bitterly in his heart. Not only the aristocratic families were going to suffer, but the princes and princes were also going to suffer.

"Your Majesty is a wise man who sees farther than a humble minister. Please issue an edict. From next year, the princes and princes will offer gold to the three temples, twelve taels per thousand. What does your Majesty think?" Liu De asked.

"My uncle made a mistake in his calculation. It was not twelve taels, but sixteen taels. There is also a part of offering wine and drinking wine to the Pantheon, and of course there must be wine." Liu He said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is wise." Liu De sighed deeply in his heart and replied with a normal expression.

The population controlled by the prefectures and states in the world was as many as seven million, with sixteen taels per thousand people. One tael of gold was equal to ten thousand qian, and the gold mint that year was equivalent to 1.1 billion qian, which was four times the original amount.

This is another huge source of income for the Shaofu. It not only makes the princes bleed, it is simply bleeding the princes.

It seems that the princes and princes have to tighten their belts and live a better life. Moreover, it is not known how many princes and princes will lose their titles due to insufficient fineness of the gold.

Liu De is suffering so much that he can't express it.

Until then, Liu He was finally satisfied with the "money" matter. He put down the love book in his hand and picked up the next love book related to the imperial examination.

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