After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Chapter 387 The First Snow in Zhaohua's 23 Years

Chang Gonggong Chang Zuoqing lit a pot of charcoal fire in the imperial study.

He looked at the memorials piled up on the dragon case, and suddenly remembered that when the late emperor was in power, in the first few years, there were also many memorials that needed to be dealt with on the dragon case.

But later the first emperor went to Changle Palace.

Except for the Four Treasures of the Study, there was never a memorial on this dragon case.

The young boy finally came here a few days ago, and he sat on the dragon chair behind the dragon case!
He summoned several ministers here.

But he didn't announce his enthronement as emperor!
Instead, he pretends to be the regent!

Afterwards, I started to get busy, sending the memorials gathered in the political affairs hall to this desk every day, and the young regent would read them very carefully and annotate them very seriously.

Looks good, was a little rusty for the first two days, and then seemed calm.

Great talent!
Not only poems and articles, he also seems to have extremely profound insights on the way of governing the country!

Thinking of the scene when he welcomed the regent into the palace for the first time, Chang Zuoqing touched the bank note still in his sleeve pocket, and a smile appeared on his old face.

The regent is fine.

young.

Vibrant.

Energetic.

diligent.

Also approachable.

He didn't have the airs of a regent king at all, let alone the arrogance and arrogance of suddenly grasping the great power.

He is still the same boy as before.

Here, discuss national policy with the newly appointed six ministers, formulate plans, and argue with each other, and even blush and thick necks because of a certain point of view.

But hold no grudge.

He even apologized in person after realizing that he was wrong!

In this way, he was liked and loved by those ministers, and it also brought a new look to the atmosphere in the court.

Although the number of officials has dropped by more than half compared to before, these officials are now more dedicated, so that their efficiency is much higher than when Ji Tai was in power.

This is Mingjun!
It's a pity he's not Jun.

If he is the king, it may only take three to five years for Ningguo to recover, or even reborn.

Hey……!
Eunuch Chang sighed. He walked to the door and looked at the white snow. After a while, a person came in the snow.

Not the regent, but Li Wenhou, Minister of the Household Department.

"Good morning, Master Li!"

"The Prince Regent hasn't come yet?"

Eunuch Chang cupped his hands and saluted: "It's too cold today, the regent is young after all, please come in and wait, Mr. Li."

Li Wenhou still had that stern coffin face. He walked into the imperial study room, sat down in front of the coffee table unceremoniously, put a memorial on the tea table, thought for a while, and cooked a pot by himself. Tea.

Before the tea was boiled, Li Chenan came.

Li Wenhou raised his head, his gaze was cold, "It's the end of the hour!"

Li Chenan grinned: "We have to change our working hours... Don't look at me like that, I'm doing it for your own good!"

After saying this, Li Chenan sat opposite Li Wenhou, "Second Uncle,"

Li Wenhou glared at Li Chen'an: "This is the imperial study, the official office! Please the regent call this official Li Shangshu or Master Li!"

Li Chenan shrugged his shoulders, "Second Uncle, have the tax and food statistics of the five Ningguo Dao, except Jiangnan Dao, been calculated?"

Li Wenhou had nothing to do with Li Chenan, he twisted a pinch of tea and threw it into the teapot, handed the folder on the table to Li Chenan, and said:
"Due to the invasion of barren people, Beimo Road lost a large area of ​​territory including Jiuyin City."

"Northern Desert General Xiahou Zhuo has long written a letter. In order to resist the army of the barren country, he asked the imperial court to keep this year's Northern Desert tax and grain in Northern Desert as military rations, so that the Northern Desert frontier army can resist foreign enemies."

"Ji Tai agrees."

"So the tax and rations from Beimo have not been transported to Kyoto."

"Annan Dao, because the Wu Kingdom stationed troops outside the Wuya Pass, and the general of the Red Flame Army Yan Ji Nong also wrote a letter to Ji Tai, so the taxes and rations of Annan Dao have not been transported to the capital."

"The taxes and food in Jiangnan Road were robbed, so there are only two roads left: Shuzhou Road and Lingdong Road."

“这两道的税粮倒是入了仓，谷麦共计210二万八千670二石，银220五万三千480三两，绢16万三千760二匹。”

Li Chenan frowned slightly, and asked: "How many people and households does Ningguo have?"

"The registered population of the five provinces and 72 states is roughly 600 million, or about 720 million households."

Li Chen'an pondered for a moment. After preliminary understanding these days, he already knew that Ningguo's taxes mainly include land tax and population tax, which are collectively called taxes and servitude.

The so-called land tax is to collect food or currency according to the number of acres of land.

The per capita tax is based on the apportionment of labor labor on the basis of the head or converts it into physical objects or currency.

The per capita tax is more complicated. Anyone who is an adult must serve corvee. If the family is well-off, it can be replaced by money and food.

The population of the entire Ning Kingdom is not large, and the most prosperous Jiangnan Road accounts for [-]% of the population, which means that Jiangnan Road has a population of tens of millions, while Shuzhou Road and Lingdong Road are the two roads with the worst environment and the poorest environment in Ning Country. The total population of Dao is tens of millions.

这1000万人大致也就是200万户，却缴纳了210二万八千670二石的粮……平均每户缴纳了一石余，一石120斤，也就是近130斤的粮！

In this era, the land in the south of the Yangtze River with the highest rice yield per mu was only about two hundred catties, while in places like Shuzhou and Lingdong, the average yield per mu was bound to be halved.

Therefore, the heavy taxation has become unbearable for the common people.

But even so, the taxes collected were still not enough for the court's expenses.

If there is a war or a disaster year, it will be even worse!
He flipped through the booklet, instead of looking at it carefully, he looked at Li Wenhou.

"I thought that the national policy of Ningguo should be changed!"

Li Wenhou's hand holding the teapot froze suddenly, "Change the national policy? How?"

"Heavy industry, heavy business!"

Li Wenhou's eyes widened immediately, "Food is the most important thing for the people! Agriculture will always come first!"

Li Chen'an raised his eyebrows: "But Ningguo's agriculture is limited by the unfavorable conditions in the land. Before the seeds and fertilizers are improved, it will never be able to increase its output! In terms of agriculture, Ningguo does not have the land advantages of Yueguo and Wuguo! "

"The population of these two countries is larger than that of Ning, and the country also has more gentle and fertile fields, which are more suitable for food growth!"

"I don't mean to give up agriculture, but before the crops can find higher-yielding categories, we need to give priority to boosting the handicraft industry and prospering business!"

Li Wenhou didn't pour tea, he put down the cup, "Nonsense!"

At this moment, he showed the prestige of the second uncle:

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, this is the order of a country, and this is the same truth for thousands of years!"

"The second is to live in a farm. The country is governed by scholars and survived by agriculture!"

"Industry and commerce are just icing on the cake!"

"The so-called handicraftsmen are nothing but ingenious skills! Yu Guo is meaningless!"

"The so-called merchants are a bunch of profit-seeking villains. They don't do production, but live by buying and selling. They are of no benefit to the country!"

"You have such a bad idea!"

Li Chen'an stared, and the two of them just stared at each other.

"you are wrong!"

"The promotion of the handicraft industry will improve the equipment, increase the output and quality of goods! It can even improve the efficiency of agriculture!"

"When the output and quality of commodities increase, the prices of commodities will be lowered, and only when the prices of commodities are low can they be competitive and make business more prosperous!"

"Business is prosperous, merchants earn money, commercial tax will inevitably surpass the current agricultural tax and become the pillar of Ning's tax revenue!"

"It's faster than farming!"

Li Chen'an reached out and knocked on the table: "The national tax has increased, so that you can be paid on time! Only then can the army be equipped with better weapons and equipment!"

"All the officials are going to starve to death. What kind of tricks do you think? What kind of money do you think?"

"I thought that copper stink is not shameful, what is shameful is that a living person is starved to death!"

Li Wenhou obviously couldn't accept this point of view, he also slapped the tea table, "You, you are simply ridiculous!"

"I don't agree with your idea!"

Li Chenan also slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Are you the regent or am I the regent?!"

Eunuch Chang on the side bowed his head, looking at his nose and heart.

He doesn't know who is right and who is wrong.

He only knew that in the past few days in the imperial study, such quarrels had become commonplace.

Good!

Just then, Wang Zheng Jinzhong walked in.

Take a look.

Yo, it's not the right time.

He was about to retreat, but was stopped by Li Chenan:
"Come in!"

"Ah, ha...!"

Wang Zheng Jinzhong bowed, with a wretched smile on his face, "Regent, this, my subordinates didn't hear anything. Even if they did, I still don't understand. You keep arguing, and your subordinates are waiting!"

(End of this chapter)