Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 714 Chongbao Found (Please Subscribe!)

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After Mrs. Li walked into the post house, she silently found a corner and sat down.

These days, it is a novelty for a woman to appear alone in a posthouse.

What's more, this woman is as beautiful as a fairy, and her temperament is empty and orchid.

Therefore, countless eyes have been escorting Li to sit down, unable to leave for a long time.

Li Shi has become accustomed to this kind of gaze, and has become as calm as a breeze and as quiet as a blue sky. Anyway, there are people who maintain order in the post house, so who dares to tease her?
After ordering four dishes and one soup from Xiaoer who was familiar with the road, Mrs. Li began to prick up her ears to listen to other people's discussions on current affairs.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Shi likes to come to the post house for dinner - here, she can always hear something interesting.

Coincidentally, the two merchants not far away from Mrs. Li are people who like to talk, especially after seeing Mrs. Li, they talked more about current affairs, hoping to attract Mrs. Li's attention.

Not to mention, these two peddlers, because of traveling all over the world, have really extraordinary knowledge.

From their mouths, Mrs. Li did hear a lot of great things, like Yue Fei has recovered Yizhou and Zhuozhou, like Liu Qi has attacked Huguan, like Han Shizhong has taken back Pingyang Mansion, like the appointment of Zhang Suo as a direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion in the Southern Song Dynasty , Acting as a recruiting envoy in Hebei and Henan, Zhang Suo has now recruited 10,000+ soldiers and civilians, and they are fighting guerrillas with the Chinese army in Hebei and Henan. Grab and grow rapidly.

In addition, the two merchants also talked about the current good situation of the merchants. They said in a loud voice that the status of the merchants is not as good as before. They are big taxpayers and have made great contributions to the country.

Mrs. Li laughed secretly, knowing that the two merchants were speaking for herself, and then thought of some national policies advocated by Dazhong...

One of Dazhong's basic national policies is to encourage business development.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty already encouraged commercial development.

But compared with Dazhong, the Northern Song Dynasty was like a child's play.

Dazhong completely took down the shackles that merchants had put on for thousands of years. For the first time, merchants and their children were allowed to wear silk clothes, and merchants and their children were not classified as lowly households. And some of the current Dazhong officials are well-known businessmen, like Wang Ze and Xu Derong.

Moreover, the banks and banknotes created by Dazhong can greatly facilitate merchants' trade.

Therefore, the merchant class is the most supportive of Li Yan and Dazhong.

In this regard, Lee has reservations.

In Li's view, being honest and honest with others, while doing business with businessmen will inevitably lead to shortfalls, and what's more, they will do anything for the sake of wealth. Therefore, in order to promote the idea of ​​generosity and benevolence and maintain the social atmosphere, treacherous businessmen should be suppressed to a certain extent.

Li's this is standard Confucianism.

however--

Not to mention the woman Li, even all the adults in the court were unable to prevent Li Yan from completely liberating the merchants.

Of course, while Li Yan liberated businessmen, he also imposed heavy taxes and torture on business—the tax on some luxuries was even set by Li Yan to over 90.00%, such as tobacco, spices, etc., and the minimum penalty for tax evasion is also a hundred times Fines, two hundred sticks on the spine, and thousands of miles of thorns. If it is a little more serious, it is ransacking the house, or even sitting on the ground. In short, tax evasion is a felony in Dazhong.

However, Li Yan collected very little from the traditional two taxes, only 70%, and the meritorious people (someone in the family who served in the army or became a martyr) only paid [-]% to no need to pay the two taxes (first-class meritorious service) Citizens are exempted from the two taxes, and the maximum range is [-] mu. Second-class meritorious citizens only pay [-]% of the tax, and the maximum range is [-] mu. Fifty acres. The statute of limitations is [-] years).

In addition, Li Yan "invented" a very important tax, that is, printing tax.

The previous house deeds, land deeds and land deeds are all invalidated (but can be used as evidence). The deed only protects the real estate, real estate, and land property recognized by Dazhong. The transaction can only be considered legal and effective if it is stamped with the stamps of the Housing Management Bureau, Land Management Bureau, and Land Management Bureau. , Land Management Bureau, and Land Management Bureau filed data - refer to later generations for specific tax details.

All in all, Li Yan liberated merchants and encouraged commerce, but also increased business taxes. On the traditional double tax, Li Yan greatly loosened the ties of farmers, but pointed the finger at the landlord class—the landlord class wanted to be like As before, it is absolutely impossible to annex a large amount of land without paying taxes. The printing tax will make them invisible.

After Mrs. Li figured out the purpose of Dazhong Taxation, she was amazed!

She never expected that Li Yan would be so bold that he would dare to carry out such a big reform as soon as he came to power!
You must know that the reason why the Northern Song Dynasty died was largely caused by Wang Anshi's reform. Finally, the reason why wars and wars are uncertain is related to whether the ministers have the main battle or the main peace, but it is more related to the internal struggle between the reformists and the conservatives. And, the reformists advocated peace, and the conservatives advocated for war. Zhao Huan, a novice driver, simply couldn't drive a big car with such sharp internal conflicts in the Northern Song Dynasty, so the car crashed and died.

And although Li Yan is an old driver, is it a bit too hasty to carry out such a big reform as soon as he came up?

in fact--

Mrs. Li's worries are completely unfounded.

The reason why Li Yan dared to carry out such a big reform as soon as he came up was not only because Li Yan held powerful force in his hands to suppress all resistance forces, but also because Li Yan had already experimented in other places like Korea and Japan, and All of these policies have been shown to work.

The food that Mrs. Li ordered was served soon, and Mrs. Li was in no mood to listen to those two businessmen's high-spirited talk.

Seeing this, a peddler suddenly lowered his voice mysteriously and said to another peddler in a voice that only Mrs. Li and the other peddler could hear: "Your Majesty has found the treasures that the Jin people looted from the Northern Song Dynasty imperial palace and Northern Song imperial tomb."

Another merchant said differently: "We found it so quickly? Didn't you say that Yan Zonghan sent his cronies to transport all these treasures to a secret cave on Songshan Mountain and hide them? Songshan Mountain is so big, how could it be found so quickly?" found it?"

Seeing that Mrs. Li was also listening, the previous merchant was greatly encouraged, and then continued to whisper: "General Liu Kai, General Han Shizhong, and General Zhang Xian captured more than 1000 Jurchens and sent them back to the capital. Wanyan Xiyin, Gaitian King Wanyan Zongxian, Golden Pearl King Wanyan Sheyema, Baoshan King Wanyan Xiebao, and Jin Donglu are all among them."

Another merchant said: "This is not new news, who doesn't know about it now."

The previous merchant hurriedly said: "Listen to me first, General Liu Qi and the others didn't kill the more than 1000 Jurchens, but the people wanted to kill them, and the people said that these Jurchens did a lot of evil. If you don’t do it, you can’t let them live, some people even stopped Prime Minister Wen’s sedan chair and asked to kill these Jurchens, so many ministers sent memorials to His Majesty, asking to kill these Jurchens.” After a pause, he continued Said: "After listening to the various crimes of the Jurchens, His Majesty said that killing these Jurchens is too cheap for them, and then ordered that all of these Jurchens be subjected to imperial punishment, and then all of them were sent to Kyushu County to dig gold mines. No pardon."

Another peddler urged: "Yes! Let these Jurchens do all the evil things in our Han land, they should be eunuchs, let them dig mines for a lifetime, really think that my Han emperor and the Han court are all Zhao Huang and Zhao Song You can be so weak... By the way, you haven't said yet, how did His Majesty find those treasures?"

The previous merchant secretly glanced at Mrs. Li again, seeing that Mrs. Li was still listening, he said, "Don't worry, I'll just say... In order to castrate these 1000 Jurchens, more than 100 eunuchs were deployed in the palace. , and recruited more than 100 execution and pig knocking masters from the people, you don’t know, on the day of the execution, there were huge crowds of people, listening to those Jurchens howling ghosts and wolves, the people called it a relief, and more than 1000 Jurchens all turned into eunuchs in the end , even Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Zongxian, Wanyan Sheyema, and King Xigu An Dahao are no exception."

After a pause, the previous businessman changed his tone, and then said mysteriously: "However, when Wanyan Xiebao was about to be castrated, something happened, and for some reason, Wanyan Xiebao's gag He actually fell down and saw all the Jurchens turned into eunuchs. Wanyan Xiebao was terrified. Think about it, he is a young man in his early 20s, and he is just at the time when he is obsessed with women. How can he be reconciled? He turned into a eunuch, so he yelled desperately, but the old eunuch ignored him at all, and was about to forcefully castrate him. Wanyan Xiebao might be in a hurry, and shouted, 'I know where those treasures are, let them go I, I'll take you to find', the prison officer took Wanyan Xiebao away after hearing what he said, and there was no news of Wanyan Xiebao after that."

Another merchant said, "It's over?"

The merchant before said: "It's over."

Another merchant said: "There is no definite news that His Majesty found those treasures."

The previous merchant said: "You are stupid, Wanyan Xiebao is the second son of Wanyan Zonghan, he probably participated in the matter of hiding the treasure, and even presided over the matter of hiding the treasure. If he is willing to lead the way to find it, how could he not find it?"

Another merchant said: "This is not sure, what if he is talking nonsense for his own protection?"

Seeing that Mrs. Li seemed to have disbelief, the previous merchant secretly gritted his teeth, then lowered his voice very low, and said, "You don't know that, that night, Ruan Xiaoqi, the first personal guard of His Majesty, I led 3000 people out of the city, and the 3000 people came back last night. My house is facing the street, and when I got up at night, I happened to see them escorting nearly a thousand carts straight to the palace..."

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(End of this chapter)