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Capitalism is cannibalism.

Li Yu wanted to let capital sprout, and just farming had no future. Because the court's feudal system was essentially to drive all the powerful landlords and families to the frontier, and other policies were to create a central system of the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong system was established, and the princes did not enfeoff Guanzhong. The Han court made every effort to spread the Guanzhong area, which gave the Western Han court a solid rear. Even if the princes rebelled, they could never shake the Western Han court.

The feudal system that Li helped Li Shimin was not designed to create a group of princes who were too big to lose. The fundamental point was to clear out the Central Plains and become a reserve for the court. Those new military meritorious officials, or thousands of years of family members, rushed to the frontier.

Ensure that there are no wanton mergers of powerful and noble landlords in the Central Plains, so that more self-cultivated farmers and small landlords in the Central Plains will be allowed to be more self-cultivated farmers and small landlords in the Central Plains.

As for the vassals on the frontier, the court was not afraid of them as they were promoted because of the order of grace. Every time the princes passed on their generation, if they did not have high military merits, they would have to be demoted to the title. At the same time, other sons could also be demoted to the titles several levels and divided into the vassals' territories. A duke may have to be divided into a county duke and a group of viscount barons. The next generation, the duke and the duke, became a county duke and a group of barons.

In this way, each territory will become smaller and smaller unless it is made to be granted. Otherwise, in a few generations, the territory may become small barons, or even private estates without titles.

Under such a system of feudal and grace promotion, and the court restricted its armed forces on its territory from the beginning and had great powers such as administration and taxation, the princes even enjoyed high economic rights in their territory, but they were difficult to truly become local emperors and could not confront the central court.

When Li was designing this system, he made great efforts.

But now Li Ting regrets it because he is the biggest prince now. But because of the rules and regulations he designed at the time, he was restricted.

But Li was unwilling to give up, so he thought about going another way.

Li hoped that one day, he, the prince, would become a capitalist. He even hoped that one day, he would sign a contract with the emperor to establish a national constitution in the Tang Dynasty and establish a constitutional monarchy.

These sound a bit ridiculous now, and Li never even revealed even a little of this kind of thought to anyone. Because he knew that, when he said these things, they were just a traitor and a madman.

But Li really thought so.

Centrification is of course beneficial. It makes the country more cohesive and accumulates stronger strength. But on the other hand, being too strong may not be a good thing.

The system of general ministers did not have much effect in the Tang Dynasty. For example, before, Li insisted on seeing each other, but Emperor Li Shimin did not accept it at all. In the end, the collision between the monarch and ministers and ministers was the unquestionable defeat of the prime minister's power.

Mr. Li has a sense of crisis.

Perhaps Li Shimin is more wise and open now. Li Shimin can tolerate Li, but who can guarantee that Li Shimin's son can continue to tolerate him in the future?

Even if Cheng Qian is the crown prince, even if he is the crown prince's teacher and father-in-law, Li cannot guarantee it.

In history, Li Zhi became the emperor. Changsun Wuji was the key figure in establishing Li Zhi. After Li Zhi became the emperor, he was also loyal to the government. What was the result?

Some people accused Changsun Wuji of rebelling, but Changsun Wuji was too lazy to question him in person and exiled directly. Changsun Wuji was so capable, and eventually ended up dying in exile in a foreign land.

In the face of power, sometimes family affection is very fragile.

Li still hopes to give himself and his descendants a guarantee, and also hopes to give the Tang Dynasty a more stable future.

Cabinets, parliament, and feudal princes may be able to avoid the internal strife in history.

But all this is really too far away.

Now, these are still too far away, so we can only come step by step.

Dai Zhou is here again.

"Your Majesty agreed to hand over the thirty salt farms and mines to the Li family for contract mining, and the loan of more than 4 million yuan offsets the contract mining fee. However, the tax was 15% and it cannot be reduced. In addition, the court had half of the coal and iron produced by Li Ji, and half of the coal and iron produced by Li Ji, and the other half had priority purchase rights."

This result was not beyond Li's expectations.

"It's okay for the court to acquire it, but it must be at the market price. If the court acquires it at the market price, we can give the court priority to acquire it."

Li refused to give in. The court wanted to become an official and bought it at a low price here and sold it at a high price there, Li would not agree.

"The court can agree to your request."

"Then let's have a happy cooperation!" Li smiled and stretched out his hand.

Dai Zhou shook his hands helplessly, "Li Xiang is really free of water, and the court will not take any advantage."

"The basis of cooperation is fairness. If the court always wants to take advantage of it, such cooperation will not last long, right?"

Dai Zhou nodded helplessly, "Your Majesty has basically agreed after considering the plan to contract the construction of border roads and castles for the imperial court. The specific land exchange for the quantity needs to be discussed in detail."

"No problem, I will send the Li family's manager to form a negotiation team to negotiate with the court."

Both sides were very happy to reach a cooperation intention on several important matters.

Li brought wine to celebrate together.

Dai Zhou sipped a sip of wine and said with a complicated expression, "Duke Zhao, the debt has been paid off. Should we continue to talk about the loan? The court is indeed not rich."

Li smiled and said, "I said it was a long time ago that it was not difficult to borrow and repay. Since the previous account has been paid off, it is of course no problem to talk about borrowing money later."

This is what Dai Zhou was waiting for.

"Then I'll borrow ten million!"

Li Hehe smiled and didn't turn against him.

Ten million is not bad, but Li Ji still took it out.

"It's okay to borrow money, but this time you have to have a mortgage first. What mortgage is the court going to take? Ten million coins, this is not a decimal."

"The court can use salt farms and mines as collateral."

But Li shook his head.

Dai Zhou frowned, "What does Duke Zhao mean? What mine do you want? The court can choose the salt field, and the same is true for you."

"Dai Xiang, let's not talk about this salt farm. There are only so many people in the Tang Dynasty, and the demand for salt has basically not changed much every year. The existing salt farm in the imperial court has basically enough market demand. Now the imperial court is still trying hard to get salt entries, which makes us salt sellers spend real money and silver to buy salt entries first, and pay the salt tax first. As a result, the salt entries were handed over to exchange for salt, but now they can't sell them. The court gave me the salt farm. What's the use of the more salt I produce? It will only make the court's salt company desperately suppress the purchase price. The more salt entries are produced, the more money it loses."

Dai Zhou's old face turned red.

The salt induction system was originally quite good. The court bought salt from the merchants in the salt farm and did not sell it directly to the sales salt merchants. Instead, the salt merchants sold salt induction first, and could only get salt by relying on the salt induction. When buying salt induction, they had to pay the salt tax first.

But the annual demand for salt in the Tang Dynasty was 1 billion jin, but the court had a 2 billion jin of salt entries. Then the salt merchants received the salt entries and paid the salt tax at the same time, but the market could not consume so much, so the salt was accumulated in their hands.

But the imperial court doesn't care about these things and will continue to attract salt next year. Even if the salt merchants still have salt in their hands, if they don't buy this year's salt intake and don't pay taxes, they can't sell salt this year.

I don’t know how many salt merchants curse this obvious cheating behavior.

Compared with the salt administration in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this is completely the opposite. At that time, the sales were divided into districts, and the salt entries obtained by each salt merchant were actually a sales area. Salt merchants were regional distributors. If they wanted to sell salt, they had to buy salt nests first, obtain regional distributors, and then buy salt entries and get salt.

But at that time, salt was also inducing, but the salt production in the court's salt farm was insufficient. The main reason was that it was not really insufficient, but that many salts in the salt farm were secretly sold to salt merchants to act as private salt.

As a result, the court had a lot of salt intake, so the salt merchants had to line up to get the salt, but there was salt intake but no salt. On the other hand, the salt merchants colluded with the salt farm to buy the salt that was not taxable at a low price, and sell private salt in their own area to evade taxes.

Anyway, it's all a cheating father.

"Duke Zhao, let me tell you about the news that the court has planned to raise the salt tax."

Li frowned, "How much is it transferred?" The salt tax is actually equivalent to a disguised count tax. This kind of tax is the most unscientific and unfair, because no matter how much property is, the same tax is paid. The core essence of taxation should be that there are more property, more taxes are paid, less taxes are paid.

"The court planned to divide the salt into sections and sell each section into one stalk, and implement the preparation of salt. Each stalk is 100,000 stalks, and each stalk is 120 stalks, and the price is 6 stalks. Selling salt requires a stalk, and each stalk is 2 stalks."

Li forgets, he's cheating.

Originally, when Wude was in the beginning, salt was not sold exclusively, but it was just an ordinary commodity. The price of salt was indeed higher than that of grain, but it was not as high as that of an outrageous price. Later, the court launched a salt monopoly, which increased a lot.

But now the court is even more outrageous.

One ingestion of salt costs 6 jin, and one jin of salt costs 10000 yuan. In fact, one ingestion of salt costs 7 jin and 200 yuan. One ingestion of salt costs 120 jin, one jin costs 60 cents. It turned out that a bucket would not cost so much, but now one jin costs 60 cents.

Moreover, according to the urinary nature of the imperial court, it must be salt-induced, which means that the ultimate risk must be transferred to the people. You must know that these 60 pounds per pound are just the wholesale price of the court. In the end, the salt merchants sold them to the people, and they would definitely have to increase the price.

This time the court raised the salt price, so the salt tax was directly added to the salt price, so the salt merchants no longer had to pay the salt tax, but now they have developed a salt syllabus and divided sales.

You can’t sell salt as freely as before. You have to obtain the slaughter first, that is, the qualification of a regional dealer. Only when you have the qualification can you sell salt. The slaughter is not cheap, and you can calculate the salt price in the salt price, and a pound of salt costs ten cents.

But if you really sell salt according to the court's method.

If one pound of 2 million salt is sold, one pound of salt is sold for seven guan, and one guan is 14.4 million guan a year. If the court again, it would be 15.6 million, or even 17.8 million a year.

The Tang Dynasty now has a population of 50 million, and the average annual average of one person is less than five kilograms of salt.

But the imperial court generated 15 million guan of salt income per year. Even if the salt is collected from the people, it still costs capital, but there is still a net profit of tens of millions of guan per year.

It turned out that the imperial court's salt tax was only about two million yuan a year, which was equivalent to five times the price.

Li couldn't help but admire these people in the court. A pound of salt costs 60 cents or even 70 cents. They are not afraid of the people scolding them.

And because of so much salt price, I’m not afraid of others taking the risk of selling private salt.

Selling private salt is a huge profit.

However, the more this happens, Li is less interested in running a salt farm. Under the new salt administration, it is actually forcing salt merchants to engage in smuggling.
Chapter completed!