On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the discussion in Bixiao Palace had basically come to an end.

In the Guangcheng Palace Hot Spring, Shao Xun got the news and decided to go out.

The water vapor, nitrogen and argon made it almost impossible to see his face. He casually pulled a big white buttocks, no matter whose it was, and after releasing it to his heart's content, he got up and went outside to undress.

"Hunjun!" Wang Huifeng finally couldn't bear it any longer and whispered.

"Hui Feng, you have to correct me." Shao Xun said with a smile.

"These beauties are much prettier than me." Wang Huifeng put down the manuscript in his hand, gently arranged Shao Xun's robe, and said: "You pestered me in the first place because of the Langya Wang family. Shao Xun smiled and said nothing.

"Or is it because I am the Crown Princess?"

Shao Xun's face froze.

"You————"·

Wang Huifeng was a little helpless and said: "Sima Jin, Liu Han's palace ladies' chastity has been ruined by you."

"The day you were pregnant with Sang Yu, I was ecstatic." Shao Xun said.

"Are you proud of getting the Crown Princess pregnant?" Wang Huifeng rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's time to go to the meeting."

Shao Xun had already put on his imperial robe and said, "Here we go. Once this matter is over, the voices urging me to go south to capture Jiangdong will become louder."

"Isn't Xiangyang difficult to fight?" Wang Huifeng asked worriedly.

"You can be a court lady for me." Shao Xun said, "This will save you the trouble of having no one come in to deliver messages when you are in the soup pool."

"Hunjun." Wang Huifeng sighed and said, "I'll be forty-two after the New Year, don't you want to exercise some restraint? Without you in this world, I don't know how we would fight against each other."

"Why is this so?" Shao Xun shook his head and said, "If I were still the general of the Jin Dynasty, the world might be in chaos. Now I am the emperor of Daliang. If I am stable for a few more years, people will gradually become more attached to me."

"You also know this truth." Wang Huifeng said: "The founding of the country has only been more than a year, how stable can the people's hearts be?"

"Huifeng is really a good wife." Shao Xun said with emotion, after collecting land, he turned around and looked at Wang Huifeng,

He said: "Actually, when I was not yet married, someone told me that you were a widow at home and asked me to marry you."

"Then I won't make you mad to death." Wang Huifeng said with a smile: "And if I get married, I will really correct you and prevent you from being a fool."

"Perhaps I am really controlled by you." Shao Xun said.

Wang Huifeng chuckled lightly and said, "Go ahead, I'm waiting for you."

Yu left quickly.

Wang Huifeng stood in the corridor for a while, then looked back at the "sex cave" of the hot spring, and told the palace attendant: "Prepare the car to go to the queen."

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"Greetings to Your Majesty." In the Bixiao Hall of Suyu Palace, the scholars and wealthy merchants from various states bowed down one after another and were sincerely convinced.

After Prime Minister Wang Yan stood up, he stepped aside and gave up the main seat.

"The prime minister is an elder, why should he be like this?" Shao Xun asked someone to move the throne and put it next to Wang Yan's bed.

Wang Yan asked people to move the bed to the bottom, and then sat down.

Someone who has been to Jianye heard that Sima Rui and Director Wang were sitting on the throne together, seemingly indifferent.

Let's take a look at Wang Yan, who is even more famous. Comparing the two, we can understand the situation in the world.

Shao Xun looked at everyone first.

Since the Han Dynasty, Cao Wei, Sima Jin, and Shao Liang have had their own national conditions.

The national situation is very complex, but the clearest context is the existence of aristocratic families.

Foreign expeditions, national economy and people's livelihood are almost inseparable from their presence. Even in business, they are the main force.

In the past, Gongsun Zan became brothers with the diviner Liu Weitai, the merchant Li Yizi, and Jia Renle Hedang (all three of them were "billionaires rich"). Later, Liu Bei became in-laws with the wealthy businessman Mi.

However, at that time, wealthy businessmen had limited military power, and they mainly invested in warlords.

During the Cao Wei Dynasty, the Tu people went directly to do business, which was different from the previous situation. They seemed to be more "shameless". Because during the Han Dynasty, the reason why the gentry became gentry was more because of their noble cultural attributes.

No matter what, now that things have come to this, we must face the reality and guide and transform it under actual circumstances.

Moreover, everything has advantages and disadvantages and must be viewed dialectically.

At least, it is easier for aristocratic families to get political protection when doing business in the initial stage when merchant power is weak. Mercantilism, physiocrats, capitalism, etc. are just tools, and the ultimate goal is to develop productivity.

"You are all very talented." Shao Xun said: "I don't understand the trade of goods. You are the only one who belongs to us. I don't want to compete with the people for profit. After all, this is the benefit to compensate you, but there is one thing.

You must buy and sell in the city and pay taxes according to regulations.”

"For long-distance trafficking of goods, there is no tax when passing through the customs. There is a city tax when entering the city. Temporarily, there is a twenty-one tax. If you buy or sell privately outside the city and the amount exceeds 10,000 yuan, you will be severely punished.

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What this sentence means is that the commercial tax is currently only "municipal tax", with a tax rate of 5%, and no customs duties or other miscellaneous taxes.

It remains to be seen whether we will accept it in the future.

Generally speaking, this tax rate is not heavy, and merchants are now very happy to trade in the market, and you are not willing to drive them out to do business.

It is also very easy for the court to collect market taxes. Just look through the account books and it will be clear at a glance.

This income may not be great at first, but once things get on track, it will be amazing.

I think back then, Sang Hongyang made money for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and I don’t know how much profit he made from industry and commerce.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the first great commercial boom in Chinese history, revenue from commercial taxes, salt and wine once accounted for more than 40%, or even close to half, of the Tang court's fiscal revenue.

This is a huge source of wealth and a gift left by Shao Xun to future generations.

However, commercial tax revenue has fluctuated greatly in the past dynasties. There was a lot in the Western Han Dynasty, very little in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties. It increased sharply in the middle and late Tang and Song Dynasties, and then dropped sharply in the Ming Dynasty. Whether you are able to eat this cake also requires

It depends on the ability of the descendants,

Shao Xun can't control it anymore.

"This year, Xiangcheng and other 19 counties have more farmland than last year, with a total of more than 31,300 households.

The population is more than 1,475,000." Shao Xun continued: "The thirty-nine counties have completed the rough land reclamation, and changes in the Northland are becoming increasingly apparent. In five or ten years, you will find the benefits."

"You can take this money away, but I hope that when you are doing business, everyone in the world will benefit. I heard that there are fields in Guanxi, Huainan and other places, and the people are cultivating slash-and-burn farming and are working extremely hard. If you want to sell farm tools,

, plowing cattle, we have to let them change the way they farm."

"Twenty years ago, my ladies would search everywhere in the capital for a piece of kudzu shirt. Nowadays, there are more and more of them, but they are still expensive and cannot enter the homes of ordinary people. However, there are many such things in Huainan and Jiangnan, and they can be found everywhere in the mountains and forests.

It can be seen that after Wu Nu cuts a batch of kudzu vines every year, she will no longer cut and sell them because there is no profit. If you can let Wu Nu pursue profits,

Don't be afraid of scratching your palms, go to the mountains to cut vines and weave cloth, and export it to the north in multiples or even ten times, so that ordinary people can also enjoy the coolness of summer."

"This is the wealth of the country, and this is what I want to see."

Of course, there is a loophole in Shao Xun's words, which is a problem that occurred in colonial trade: farmers did not control the pricing power of cash crops. Due to market fluctuations, prices plummeted, so in order to make up for the gains, there was an opportunity to plant more cash crops.

Impulsive, and then further suppress the price. As the saying goes, the poorer you are, the more you plant, and the more you plant, the poorer you become.

But this is all for the future, and at this stage, it is far from the case. Economic crops such as kudzu are basically wild in Huainan and Jiangnan, and no one specially cultivates them. Wu Nu went to the mountains during the slack season.

It's just a harvest. If it's really unprofitable, they won't do it, and they don't expect to survive. Their main business is farming.

Of course, if you are building a slave plantation with kudzu, that's a different story.

But then again, this thing shouldn't appear in this era - "To travel far and wide by boat and drive, you still need roads." Shao Xun added: "After conquering Jiangnan, the Qin and Han Dynasties,

The ditches and waterways since the Three Kingdoms period still need to be dredged and smoothed to facilitate the cultivation of goods. This matter is urgent, and I will think of a solution later.

For your sake, I have been thinking hard these past few days and have not thought about food and drink. Please don’t let me down in the future.”

"If you have anything to say, you can just ask directly. Now you can say whatever you want."

"Your Majesty, when will we attack Jiangdong?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

Shao Xun glanced at Wang Yan quietly, and saw that Lao Deng was still reliable in doing things, and said: "The military is a major matter for the country.

Now that the fields in the north are in full swing, I am worried that someone will cause trouble."

"Why do you worry, Your Majesty? The North is lost and the South is making up for it." Chenggong said with emotion: "Your Majesty has finished the matter of breeding goods.

That's it. If you still don't appreciate it, I don't know what to say. These crazy people have no one to support them and can be destroyed in an instant."

Shao Xunwen looked at the others and encouraged them to speak.

"Your Majesty, if we attack the south of the Yangtze River, I am willing to donate 50,000 hu of dendrobium." Someone else said.

Wang Yan nodded imperceptibly.

Shao Xun understood that this was also a trust, so he said: "How can I take your money and food for nothing? It's not right."

"Your Majesty, you are so loyal and eager to refuse." Wang Yan twirled his beard and said, "Why don't you make a note for now and choose a good land in Kuaiji in the future and give it to your family."

"Well, it's better for Yifu to seek the country when he is old enough." Shao Xun said with a smile, "I'll handle it accordingly."

When other people heard this, they thought: Damn it, can you go to a good place like Kuaiji by donating food?

What if I offer money, silk, livestock, or human beings?

Sure enough, Jiangnan is such a big place, and there are rules for who goes where and who cannot go where.

Those whose families are relatively well-off already have some ideas and are going to inquire about it privately for a while.

Danyang and Kuaiji are considered to be the best places in Jiangdong. I heard that many people in Sima Rui's court are buying properties in Kuaiji, so it must be no different.

"Everyone." Shao Xun stood up, glanced around, and said, "Now that we know about the new dynasty's elegant government, we should make it known widely.

After you return to your hometown, you can inform your clan and in-laws and discuss it together. Under the general trend, there will be no luck in Jiangdong. You and I will all be rich and honorable, which will be passed down to future generations."

After saying that, he added: "I will hold a banquet in the main hall of Suyu Palace tomorrow. If you have any young nephews, you can accompany them to the banquet."

Everyone's expressions were shocked after hearing this, and they all pointed with their eyes, saying nothing.

Even Wang Yan paused, sighing secretly that the few disciples in the clan were not very capable. There were some in Jiangnan who were praised by others when they were young, but that had nothing to do with him.
Chapter completed!