Datang Longya

Chapter 418 Target: Five Surnames

"This is indeed possible!" Li Shimin gave an affirmative answer. In a war, what the general pursues is meritorious service, while ordinary soldiers pursue tax exemption or rewards.

As for spending money to buy military rations, this kind of thing has happened before, and it is the same as the treasury transfer of food.

Last year's locust plague, the solution to the problem is actually very simple, that is, to bring over the surplus food from afar. Although the freight is expensive, the early water can really solve the thirst.

It’s okay if there are disasters in places in successive years, but if the weather is good for five consecutive years, the grain in the treasury is prone to mold.

It is a very contradictory thing that the people suffer when disasters occur and the treasury suffers when disasters do not occur.

But if the disaster relief method is changed to pure monetary relief, although the people receive the same relief, it can avoid the unreasonable loss of food in the treasury, why not do it?

Seeing that everyone nodded, Leng Feng continued: "The printing of copper plates in the Tang Dynasty is either refurbished or reprinted according to whether the agricultural harvest is good or not. Plant it.

Food can be eaten, but vegetables can also be eaten, and beef and mutton can also be eaten.To put it bluntly, the number of copper plates is equal to the replacement of valuable things. It is purely dependent on the casting of coins in agriculture. It is no wonder that silk cloth is still used as money in the market! "

Silk cloth can be used as money. This is a fact that Leng Feng laughed at when he came to Datang. The cause of this phenomenon is actually the copper shortage.

Of course, there are also savings.

Leng Feng didn't understand. The people in the Tang Dynasty thought that copper coins were wealth. Every household used to string up copper coins and hide them in a corner of the house. The most common one was the pigsty. They usually didn't spend a single coin. Unless you are about to starve to death, you will dig out the money jar in the mud of the pigsty and use it for consumption.

Including the old veteran Li, he also had this type of thinking before.

But in Leng Feng's view, the copper plate is just a carrier of the concept of "money", which is used to represent the flow of certain things, such as the dishes of Tianxialou. How dare you say that it is not wealth?Do you dare to say that the glass piled up in glass workshops is not wealth?

What is lacking in these two is just a process of becoming a copper plate.

What Leng Feng said made the four of them a little confused. The reasoning sounded like this, and they also thought it was right, but when they took out the things in the subconscious and put them on the surface for analysis, why did they feel so miraculous, so miraculous Unacceptable?

Li Shimin shook his head, removed that feeling, and said to Leng Feng: "I can figure it out after thinking about it. You should first talk about the saying that agriculture has no tax. Can commerce really replace agriculture?"

Leng Feng nodded: "Why not? Agriculture should be taxed, and business should also be taxed!"

Fang Xuanling stretched out his hand: "Stop it! Lord Xi, there is also a commercial tax!"

Leng Feng mocked: "The thirteenth tax is also called the commercial tax? What's more, it's still tax in kind, which makes it even lower. To give the simplest example, a pot of wine in our Tianxialou sells for five guan, while dozens of It takes a jug of wine to fill a tank. How much food does a tank of wine consume?

In the end, what you collected was still a tax on food. I remember that it seemed that a tank of wine was only charged three copper coins. How much money could these three tanks of wine sell for?Do the math. "

Even if a tank of wine is 150 pots, then a tank of wine is sold for [-] guan, calculated according to the general [-] copper coins, which is a tax of three copper coins out of [-] copper coins.

It is true that the actual goods are thirteen tax one, but when the tax is calculated on the commodity, how much is the tax one?

Even if Tianxialou is a profiteering industry and cannot represent all businesses, it can be seen from a glimpse of the leopard.

Li Shimin was a little panicked. The huge comparison between [-] copper plates and three copper plates is really huge. The thirteenth tax plus the tax in kind, these businessmen are actually almost getting away with it!

Leng Feng continued: "You always talk about emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, but you still haven't eliminated the merchant industry. Its necessity is one of them, and so is huge profit. Although you have vigorously suppressed merchants in the Tang Dynasty, you have not eliminated them. You know, the businessman is actually wearing a pitiful coat and living a life of sudden wealth that the common people envy."

Snapped!
Li Shimin patted the table: "It is necessary to re-enact the law of commercial taxation. If this continues, it will be worth it? Isn't all the money earned by businessmen?"

Leng Feng shook his head: "Although the business tax must be re-enacted, you are still wrong to say that all the money is earned by the businessman, the money is still the same, but the businessman has more wealth because of the flow of money.

A poor person has a thatched hut and a piece of land is considered good; a family with a donkey is a rich family or a landlord, and a cow is considered a great deal.But what about businessmen?

Therefore, currency reform is imperative, and banks, as the direction of currency circulation, must also be opened.Although merchants were at large before, after the re-enactment of commercial taxes, they will gradually replace farmers as major taxpayers.

When the backbone of taxpayers in the Tang Dynasty changed from farmers to businessmen, let alone farmers without taxes at that time, maybe you still had to give subsidies to farmers who cultivated the land. "

"But in this case, will there be a situation where all the people are engaged in business?" Wei Zheng asked worriedly.

Everyone is in business, the land is barren, what will people eat then?Do you eat silk from Jiangnan or raw silk from Sichuan?

Leng Feng shook his head: "No, farmers' taxes will decrease, merchants and the state will have more money, and the corresponding food prices will also rise. In fact, farming is also a commercial activity. The grain grown by one farmer, or Say the whole family can finish it? Don’t you have to sell it and enter the circulation of goods!”

Wei Zheng nodded. In the short time of a stick of incense, he received too much impact. It seemed that the three outlooks of the whole person were about to be refreshed. ", "Business and tax reform", "bank"... a series of words are constantly colliding with each other.

He came to Leng Mansion to seek solutions, but after listening to Leng Feng's words, he became even more confused and confused.

The same was true for Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, their hands were trembling slightly, as if they wanted to write out all the words in their minds.

Li Shimin is much quieter in comparison, but judging from the sweat on his forehead, his thinking activities are not easy.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Shimin finally opened his mouth: "I just want to ask you, what role did the bank play in this? Also, why do I feel that you want to do this to deal with the five surnames?"

As expected of Li Shimin, he was able to deduce from these clues the aura of dealing with the five surnames!
Leng Feng smiled slightly: "Actually, if these things can really be carried out, the five surnames will lose the most!"

　The previous chapter was 423. The author made a typo with his disabled hand. Please forgive me, friends from Qidian Duan!

　　
　
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