Looking at Wei's appearance, she seemed to want to leave immediately to see Minglan at Ningyuan Hou Mansion. perish
Li Hao quickly said: "Mom, it's getting late now, and I have to rest early at my cousin's place. We'd better go there tomorrow.
It just so happened that I promised Gu Tingye that I would send him some supplements. I asked the eldest lady to prepare them in the evening and asked my mother to take them with her tomorrow. "
After listening to Li Hao's words, Mrs. Wei said to herself: "Yes, she has just become pregnant. Minglan really should get more rest."
Li Hao saw Wei's mouth moving but heard no sound, so he asked, "Mother, what are you talking about?"
As a result, Mr. Wei ignored Li Hao, stood up and walked out the door.
Upon seeing this, Li Hao quickly chased after him and asked, "Mother, where are you going again?"
Mrs. Wei didn't even look at Li Hao and said directly: "Don't you want to send supplements to Minglan? I'll go talk to your wife about this."
Hearing this, Li Hao stopped chasing and left Wei to do the work.
Li Hao himself went to the study room to think about where it would be best to place Li Wei.
Anyway, Li Hao was sure that Mrs. Miao had no other options and would have to accept his suggestion in the end, so he might as well think about it in advance.
Since you want Li Wei to reach out for money, you must help him choose a place that is rich in oil and wealth, and it cannot be in Bianjing City. Otherwise, with so many people watching here, Li Wei may be a thief but not a thief.
But you can't be too far away from Bianjing City, otherwise it will be difficult for you to control the actual situation, and don't lose your hands when the time comes.
After some thought, Li Hao planned to put Li Wei in Yingtian Mansion, which was Zhao Kuangyin's Longxing land and was located above the Bian River.
Whether it is politically or economically, he is very capable. perish
Of course, Li Wei's qualifications and abilities are not enough to take on the responsibility of a government. If such an arrangement is really made, Li Wei himself would probably be suspicious.
Therefore, the place Li Hao arranged for him was Ningling County, although it was not the seat of Yingtian Mansion.
But because it is adjacent to Bianshui River, there is a commercial tax on the riverside, so the commercial tax collected every year is quite generous.
After making up his mind, Li Hao planned to go back to his yard to rest. As soon as he arrived, he found boxes of various sizes placed in the middle of the yard. Zhang Guifen and Wei were picking through them inside.
Li Hao couldn't help but ask: "Why, are you planning to empty out the house? Gu Tingye doesn't have any shortage of things. Just find some good ones and send them over."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wei said impatiently: "Aren't we just making choices? You go aside and don't bother us."
However, Zhang Guifen walked up to Li Hao at this time and said softly: "Mom just wants to be fully prepared. If you are tired, go back to your room and rest first."
I accompanied my mother to pick out the things, and then went back after finishing them. "
Li Hao nodded and left, leaving his seat to Wei and the others to take their time.
Early the next morning, when Li Hao got up and prepared to go to court, he saw Zhang Guifen getting up too.
Then he said: "Why don't you sleep more today? Why are you getting up so early?"
Zhang Guifen replied: "My mother-in-law and I have agreed that we will go to Ningyuan Hou Mansion together today and get up early to prepare."
Hearing Zhang Guifen's answer, Li Hao couldn't help but said: "It's true, mother. I took you to pick things for a long time yesterday without saying anything, and today I want you to accompany me. I feel like you treat my cousin better than me."
Zhang Guifen disagreed with this point and replied: "Minglan lost her mother when she was young and lived alone in the Sheng family. Although the old lady took good care of her, there were inevitably some unsatisfactory things. She fell.
Her mother-in-law feels sorry for Minglan now, and she just wants to make up for it. What's more, her aunt also protected the Li family in the past, and this friendship must also be with Minglan. "
After listening to Zhang Guifen's words, Li Hao felt relieved, and he didn't care about Wei's attitude at first.
I was just worried that Zhang Guifen would feel uncomfortable when she saw this situation. Now that Zhang Guifen was fine, she went to court.
However, after going to court, Li Hao did not return directly to the Third Division. Instead, he went to Ouyang Xiu and prepared to formally explain his ideas on reforming commercial taxation to Fu Bi.
After all, Fu Bi had been back in office for some time, and everything had basically been sorted out.
In addition, before Fu Bi was summoned by Concubine Miao, Fu Bi was given a heads up in advance, so that Fu Bi would not get confused after hearing what Concubine Miao said.
In this regard, Ouyang Xiu did not object now and replied directly: "Okay, I will invite the rich prime minister to my house today, and you will also come over then."
In addition to the tax law matters you mentioned, the originally negotiated new policy reforms have been suspended for a long time for some reason. This time we are discussing how to restart them. "
Li Hao agreed and hurried back to the Third Division to prepare a presentation on the plan for commercial tax reform.
After leaving the Yamen, Li Hao rushed to Ouyang Xiu's house as promised. At this time, Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi had not come back yet, so he went into the house and waited.
After waiting for a while, they saw the two of them returning home together. It seemed that Ouyang Xiu had gone to wait for Fu Bi. It seemed that he had done a good job in saving face.
Li Hao also immediately stood up and said, "I'm here to pay my respects to the two great ministers."
Ouyang Xiu said: "You came here early, please sit down."
After finishing speaking, he led Fu Bi to sit on the left side of the main hall, while he sat down on the right side. perish
After An An sat down, Fu Bi said: "I heard from Uncle Yong that you have ideas about commercial tax reform and you want to discuss them with us."
Li Hao replied: "That's true. I checked the accounts of the three companies over the years and found that there are many problems in them.
Although on the surface, taxes are increasing year by year, the proportion of commercial taxes is getting larger and larger. On the contrary, land taxes are even decreasing.
It stands to reason that since Emperor Taizu, the population of our dynasty has increased, and the number of acres cultivated has also increased.
Even though the imperial court has always lightened land taxes to support people's livelihood, in recent years the court has not reduced or reduced land taxes, so this phenomenon is obviously abnormal. "
After listening to Li Hao's words, Fu Bi said: "Well, since the taxes collected by the court have not been reduced, it is understandable that there is less tax on land. After all, it is difficult for the common people."
"That's the problem. If these reduced land taxes can really be reduced to ordinary people, that is indeed a good thing."
But the actual situation is not like this. Gyeonggi Road is at the feet of the emperor, and the situation is better.
But according to the news from the people I sent down from Jingxiangxi Road and Jingxiangxi Road, the land tax that ordinary people have to pay is nearly 40% higher than that during the Dazhong Xiangfu period.
If this is the case, it is worth pondering where the reduced land tax went. "
Of course Fu Bi understood what Li Hao was talking about, but the interests of the gentry were not easy to influence, so he fell into deep thought for a while.
Ouyang Xiu, who was on the other side, saw that the situation was a little cold, so he said loudly: "Didn't you originally want to reform the commercial tax? Why are you talking about the land tax again?"
Li Hao replied: "Because both are actually related to the people's livelihood, whether it is commercial taxes or land taxes, they basically fall on the heads of ordinary people."
Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi didn't quite understand this point, and immediately asked: "What do you mean by this? Why is commercial tax related to the people?"
Li Hao explained: "Because today, nearly 50% of commercial taxes come from taxable items such as salt, iron, tea, wine, and coal.
This has resulted in a significant increase in taxes between the DPRK and China, but it has also made the burden on the people extremely heavy.
Now I want to make changes in the land tax, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve for a while, so I want to make changes to the commercial tax first.
Reduce the prices of things that people need daily, so that people can better cultivate themselves and live a better life. "
Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi both have the same view on living a good life for the people.
Moreover, after the failure of the Qingli New Deal, the two of them did not want to make the matter a big deal all of a sudden, but wanted to carry out the reform quietly.
Originally, the two of them were worried that Li Hao was young and energetic and wanted to get things done at once, but now they see that Li Hao is also measured in his actions. perish
Then he agreed: "Okay, then the tax changes will start with the commercial tax. Please tell me specifically how you want to change it."
Therefore, Li Hao then explained his plan one by one, first talking about the specific measures or the purpose of doing so.
Among them, the most important one is the restriction of local tax collection rights. Tianfu requires an inventory of acres, so the inventory is relatively difficult and cannot be separated from the assistance of the local government.
But commercial tax is different. Commercial tax is divided into two types: residential tax and over-tax. The residential tax is a tax for doing business, living and selling, with a tax rate of 3%, which is equivalent to the city tax; over-tax is a tax for passing business, and the tax rate is 3%. 2%, which is equivalent to a tariff.
The residence tax is easy to collect, because the stores of various merchants are there. As long as the merchants are strictly restricted to register and registered, and they are collected according to the regulations, this is all established.
As for paying taxes, it involves local tax customs. There are now more than 2,200 tax customs in the Song Dynasty, and a large part of them are in the hands of local transshipment departments.
This time, Li Hao planned to collect all these customs duties and put them under the direct jurisdiction of the Third Division, away from the jurisdiction of the local government. perish
In addition, Li Hao is also planning to make some cuts in the number of levels. After all, there are too many now.
Now the Song Dynasty has twenty-six branches, four in the capital, thirty in the prefecture, two hundred and fifty-four in the state, sixty-three in prison, and one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four in the county.
In other words, basically most counties have at least two customs offices. This time Li Hao planned to sort them out.
And this also has advantages. As long as the rights are concentrated in one place, the problem of double taxation can be avoided to a certain extent.
After Li Hao's explanation, Fu Bi raised a key question: "If you go by what you said, the amount of taxes the court can collect will probably be reduced a lot!"
In this regard, Li Hao said: "Don't worry about this. According to the calculations of the people I arranged at several tax customs, the amount of taxes paid in the corresponding places can be seen.
Most officials from various places have their own affairs. If the three departments can be directly under the jurisdiction, taxes will not necessarily be reduced much. perish
Moreover, the Third Division currently does not have the ability to take over all of them at once, so I plan to start from Gyeonggi Road and Jingxi East Road.
First, take over the corresponding powers of Kaifeng Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture, and then extend it to other states and counties in these two areas.
After the Third Division took this opportunity to train the corresponding personnel, they continued to assign and take over various roads, and promoted them to the 26 roads of the Song Dynasty. "
After Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi looked at each other, Fu Bi said, "In that case, Uncle Yong and I will also come to support you. Then you can start arranging this matter."
Li Hao immediately stood up and replied: "I understand, I will definitely handle this matter."
"Just sit down and talk." Fu Bi said to Li Hao, and then said to the two of them: "Since the business tax matters need to be changed, other reforms can also be started."
The main people talking now were Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu. Regarding the unfinished measures in Jiayou's new policy, the two began to discuss and consult Li Hao's opinions from time to time. perish
This time Li Hao is no longer the humble official he was before. When Li Hao submitted a letter last time, he only mentioned the method of enriching the country.
Regarding other aspects of administrative reform and military reform, Li Hao kept silent to avoid getting into trouble.
But now the situation is different. Although Li Hao is not as good as the two in front of him, he still has a high position of authority, so these words can be said.
Anyway, after some discussion, we finally established our determination to continue the New Deal.
Of course, it's not yet time for a full recovery. After all, there is no way the three of us can accomplish so many things in a game.
So next, we plan to fully recall many veterans who were demoted due to the Qingli New Deal as a boost.
These words also made Li Hao's heart move. Could he also get on this ship and bring back the people he needed? perish
Li Hao kept this in mind and decided to see if there would be a chance to do it later.
In the next few days, Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi successively found some trusted courtiers to discuss the new coup law and help Li Hao seize power and taxation.
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Li Hao was selecting personnel, among which the candidates for Ying Tianfu were extremely important, after all, they were not under his nose.
Many things require the person in charge to make a decision on the fly, which still requires a lot of ability, and the issue of loyalty must also be taken into consideration.
After all, someone has to be nearby to help keep an eye on Li Wei's affairs.
Just when Li Hao was struggling with the candidate, Princess Miao summoned Li Hao into the palace and agreed to Li Hao's suggestion in person.
So under Li Hao's arrangement, Princess Miao summoned Li Wei into the palace alone and had a long talk. perish
Anyway, the meaning of the words was to recommend Li Wei as the tax supervisor of Ningling County in exchange for Li Wei asking to leave the capital to take up the post, so that Princess Fukang could return to the palace to recuperate.
Li Wei had no doubts about Concubine Miao's behavior. After all, Li Wei also knew how displeased Concubine Miao was with him, and it was normal for him to want to send him out of the capital.
At that time, Li Wei was actually reluctant. Although it would be good to be able to take up a real job, Li Wei was worried that after leaving Beijing, he would never come back.
However, after some persuasion from Concubine Miao, Li Wei finally agreed.
After all, in Li Wei's view, as long as he did not marry Princess Fukang, and with the protection of the couple's status, Princess Miao could only do the best she could.
As for directly decreeing an end of marriage, Li Wei didn't believe that this orphan and widower would dare to do this, knowing that the people who advised him were not easy to deal with.
After Li Wei left Beijing to take up his post, Li Hao's candidates were basically selected. perish
The people who went to Yingtian Mansion were all those who went to Jiangnan with Li Hao, and they were quite obedient.
However, after this time, Li Hao felt more and more that there was no one available for him, and he made up his mind to transfer some people back to Beijing.
