Imperial study room.

Li Shimin listened to Ma Zhou, the Minister of Revenue, giving a financial report, and the more he listened, the more frowned.

"Why is the financial situation of the court not relieving at all? Didn't it issue salt-induced salt bonds and salt shares?"

Ma Zhou closed the account book, "Reply to Your Majesty, since I took over the Ministry of Revenue, Xiao Guicao followed, and according to the method left by Li Xiang, he stepped up the issuance of salt turbulence and recruited salt merchants to issue salt turbulence, and it was more than twice as many as it raised a lot of money for salt turbulence. He issued salt bonds and raised another fund. In addition, the Salt Company was established, and publicly issued salt stocks to the world, recruited shareholders, and also raised a lot of funds."

"Why are you still short of money?"

Ma Zhou was also a little helpless.

If he was not in charge of the family, he didn't know that oil, salt, firewood and rice were expensive. When he became the Minister of Revenue, he realized that a country with such a large Tang Dynasty had a lot of financial and tax revenue, but his expenses were even greater. He asked for money everywhere and asked for money everywhere.

Fortunately, when Li Chao was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, he established a fiscal expenditure budget system. At the end of each year, the fiscal revenue for the next year would be estimated, and then on this basis, a budget allocation for the expenditure of the court the following year would be made.

In this way, if the large expenditure budget is allocated well and then the part is left for adjustment, it will be difficult to cover. The biggest advantage of this budget system is to allocate the money reasonably.

But no matter how good the system is, you still have to have money. There are too many expenses, and the budget is reduced everywhere. As a result, there is no enough money everywhere, and there is no way to do it without money. In the end, there are still constant requests for money everywhere. In many places, special personnel are even sent to stay in Xiangyang all day long, squatting outside the Ministry of Revenue Department every day, guarding them like thieves, and coming to Liangqiu to report every day.

Although Ma Zhou still keeps a budget in his hand, this money is an urgent matter and cannot be easily withdrawn.

He had found a way to make money. He followed Li Chao's method, issued salt inducement, salt bonds, and salt stocks. In short, a salt could make tens of millions of guan.

He has even formed a tea company, issued tea citations, raised tea stocks, and tea citations are all super-issued.

But the court's expenses were indeed large. Last year, the disaster in the north ended. The court used immigration and equalized land and granted land for two years.

In addition, the previous wars were extremely expensive. At this time, we had to step up the defense of the nine borders in the north and build a new Beijing again.

Li Shimin sighed.

"The treasury of the court is empty, and my inner palace is also empty. But I see that the nobles of the court are all very rich and wealthy. Even those merchants are also very rich. They are dressed in brocade, eat, eat silk, silk, and satin, enter and leave horse carriages, raise polo teams, build tall buildings and manor houses, and build manor villas."

"On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month this year, look at the rich and wealthy businessmen in Xiangyang, the lanterns they have made are so luxurious and luxurious."

When Li Shimin talked about this, he was both angry and a little envious.

"Your Majesty, as long as a noble merchant pays taxes according to law and does not evade taxes, the court cannot levy taxes at will. The market is now prosperous, which is a good thing. If the court arbitrarily breaks the tax rules it has established and collects money from the merchants of the people. Doing that will not be a long-term solution to kill chickens and get eggs and fish in the dry pond. This is not a long-term solution."

"I know, Wen Yuan told me several times that the court should take the path of sustainable development. If the market is prosperous, the court's taxes can increase income. I know all of these, but it is hard to cook without rice. Seeing the situation in the north so tense, the court had to step up the defense construction in the north, but these require money. To immigrate to the border and cultivate farmland, it also requires money. It requires money everywhere, and I can't afford it."

Ma Zhou had no choice.

"Your Majesty can only live within your means and decide the expenditure budget according to the income and expenditure of the court. Compress, reduce, or even cancel unnecessary and not very important expenses. For other expenses, we must also reduce the amount of cuts that should be reduced."

"This is the only way for the time being. However, this is not a long-term solution. The two tax laws proposed by Li Chao should be implemented as soon as possible. This summer, the household tax and local taxes for the first half of the year must be collected first. If this tax is collected, it will alleviate many fiscal vacancies." The new two tax laws proposed by Li Chao are a supplementary tax law for the court to adjust taxes for renting and regulating taxes.

To put it simply, renting a mediocre person means taxation based on the quota. No matter how many households you have or how much property you have in your land, you will be taxed if you have a quota.

If the equal-field system can be guaranteed, then the tax law is relatively fair and not heavy. But on the other hand, when formulating this tax law, it actually favors the powerful and wealthy people. No matter how much money they have, they will only collect taxes based on the digits.

Now Li Chao has introduced the two-tax law as a supplement. In addition to the D tax, he also needs to be taxed according to household tenant tax and household tenant tax, which means that everyone adds a tax, with the poor adding less and the rich adding more.

This tax is actually not a big burden for the rich.

But the land tax is different.

Because Li Chao's land tax is taxed according to the land, and this tax is only levied according to the number of land acres, regardless of the upper limit. The more land taxes the land tax is levied, and neither officials nor nobles can exempt this tax.

For the court, this tax is the real big deal.

The taxes can be collected as much as the land there are. This tax cannot be deceived by the central government of the court in this place, because the amount of land will be clearly understood by this census survey.

At that time, the imperial court would just check the local taxes paid by the local government according to the official registration number.

Li Shimin now needs this two-tax supplement.

If both taxes can be collected, according to official expectations, this will even exceed the income from the positive tax.

After the discussion was over, Li Shimin returned to the bedroom.

"Father, mother's angrily attacked again."

Hearing the prince's words, Li Shimin became nervous, "Have Physician Xuan?"

"The imperial doctor has visited him and prescribed the medicine, but it has no effect. After drinking the Buddha porridge, I feel a little more stable and I am now asleep."

"I'll go and have a look."

"My mother just slept, so my father should not disturb her."

Li Shimin raised his foot, stopped again, turned around and came back to sit down.

Empress Changsun has a bad temper, and it has not been a day or two.

Every spring, the qi tract becomes more and more serious. I often say that I have to breathe several times. In severe cases, not only will the asthma be severe, but I also cough up blood.

Although there are countless imperial doctors in the palace, no one has ever had a good prescription to cure the queen's disease. At most, it is only a symptom but not the root cause.

The father and son sat there and sighed for a while.

When the queen is sick and rests, she can't cook for the father and the other two. Usually, the queen often cooks for the emperor by herself, and when the prince is in the palace, she also eats together.

After waiting for a long time, the imperial meals today were uploaded.

Because the food was not prepared by the queen himself, before the imperial kitchen came from the imperial kitchen, I had to try the food and poison first.

When the dishes were delivered to the emperor and the prince, it was already cold.

The palace servant took the dishes out of the food box one by one and prepared to heat them up again.

The same was true in the past. It was too cold and the dishes were already cold after trying them. I had to heat them up again when I got here.

But today Li Shimin lost the mood.

No matter how delicious the dish is, it will not taste the same after it is cold or hot.

In addition, the queen's illness worsened, Li Shimin was in a worse mood.

He called the eunuch.

"The food doesn't need to be hot anymore, I'll give it to you."

"Is Your Majesty unhappy with today's imperial chef? I can pass on the imperial chef to make another one."

Li Shimin shook his head, and he called the prince, "Chengqian, come with me."

"Where are you going, Father?"

"Go to the Li family, go to the big dog eater."

Cheng Qian smiled and stood up happily. The food in the palace has always been inferior to the teacher.

The father and the other two left the palace and headed straight to Li Chao's mansion.

The two of them did not set up a ceremonial carriage. They followed the light carriage and came directly to the door with few guards.

Li Chao received the report and came out, not surprised. Anyway, Li Shimin did not do this once or twice.

"What does Your Majesty want to eat?" Li Chao saw Li Shimin coming on the meal, and the light car came from a condom again, knowing that the emperor must have never eaten it.

"What's there to eat?"

Li Chao thought for a while, as the emperor, it is not rare to find delicacies in the mountains and seas. He thought for a while and said, "A coincidence, there is a fresh Chinese toon bud just sent by the master of the village. Why not stir-fry a scrambled egg in Chinese toon?"

At this time, in the pastoral spring, the Chinese toon buds that had been holding on for a winter finally broke out of their stems. The stems and leaves were fat and tender, fresh and fragrant, and mellow and refreshing. Therefore, it is said that Chinese toon is as tender as silk before the rain.

Chinese toon is divided into purple toon buds and green toon buds, but purple toon buds are the best, with purple toon buds all over, thick buds, mellow fragrance, and high nutrition.

The most classic way to make Chinese toon is of course scrambled eggs.

The tender eggs and crispy toon buds make the more delicious the more you chew.

Li Shimin nodded. Spring has arrived, winter bamboo shoots have gone, and Chinese toon has arrived. Just when he thought that every spring, the queen's aura has worsened, he feels heavy.

"Your Majesty seems to have something to do?" Li Chao asked. Although they are kings and ministers, they are also friends in private. Seeing Li Shimin's appearance, Li Chao asked with concern.

The prince said on the side, "My mother's angrily attacked again, and the father was worried about her mother."

"Wen Yuan, do you have any good prescriptions to cure the queen's qi?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Shimin actually asked Li Chao more than once, but Li Chao himself is not a doctor. He didn't bring much of the medicines he brought before, and he had used up all the time and timeliness issues. He wanted to find the prescriptions on his computer and mobile phone, but unfortunately, for a few years, no matter whether it is a computer, a mobile phone or a tablet, he could no longer turn on the phone. Because the solar charger was broken, the electronic products had already run out of power.

He really doesn't have the ability to build a new solar charger and regrets that he didn't learn this knowledge at the beginning.

Qi disease is a relatively general classification of traditional Chinese medicine diseases. Sometimes I can’t figure out what Qi disease and wind disease are. After his research, the queen’s Qi disease was determined to be asthma or something, or maybe it was a lung problem. Anyway, he didn’t know much about it. The diagnosis of those imperial doctors was really of no help to him.

"Your Majesty, if anyone in the world can cure the Queen's illness, then the only one who can treat the Medicine King Sun Si. According to my opinion, Your Majesty issued an edict to ask the whole world to find the Medicine King."

"I have issued an edict a long time ago, but I can't find anyone."

Li Chao thought about it and said that Sun Simiao was a master and didn't like being bound by the court, but he would have some pursuits in his personal opinion. Sun Simiao didn't want to be an official, no title, no money, but he would definitely have pursuits.

"Your Majesty, why not issue another edict and invite King Sun Yao to come to Beijing."

Li Shimin was puzzled. He had issued many edicts. Sun Simiao must have known it, but he just refused to respond to the edict. He was appointed as an official and made a wish and promised a reward of thousands of gold, but it was useless.

"Your Majesty, for King Sun Yaowang, fame, wealth and wealth are all passing clouds. It is better to build a medical school for King Sun Yaowang, which can not only treat people, but also accept disciples to teach and continue medical treatment. Your Majesty can also publish medical books for King Sun Yaowang! Provide him with funds for medical research and help him solve medical problems!"
Chapter completed!