Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 455 Chapter 466: Court Debate National Policy

In fact, the day before yesterday, Li Hao had already submitted the memorial to Li Shimin on tax reform, and Li Shimin was quite satisfied. Now that Li Shimin is asking for advice, it is just going through the motions. He also knows in his heart that these guys are not like Li Hao. There are always whimsical ideas, and it is estimated that I can't give any good ideas.

When all the officials frowned and thought, Li Hao suddenly came out, holding a memorial in both hands, and said: "Your Majesty, I have a good plan to offer."

The officials were shocked when they heard the words, this shit... Even the memorial is ready, cheating!

Obviously, Li Hao cheated. Li Shimin was in the court to ask for advice, but Li Hao had already prepared the memorial. This is different from knowing the test questions before the test. This made the officials very angry. They wanted to see it. Li Hao can come up with any good idea, if it is not a good idea, he must be angry, even if it is a good idea, he must be angry if he creates a problem.

Xu Lian came down and presented Li Hao's memorabilia to Li Shimin, Li Shimin opened it and pretended to read it for a while, then closed the memorabilia, and said: "Poetry Man, please dictate your good strategy for all the ministers to listen to, and everyone can refer to it together. "

"Yes." Li Hao arched his hands, then turned to face the officials, first gave a trademark cheap smile (Anyway, no matter how Li Hao smiled, the opponents thought it was a cheap smile), and then said slowly, "Everyone , My suggestion this time is to change the tax system.”

"Tax system?" The officials were surprised when they heard the words. The tax system is one of the basic national policies and cannot be easily changed. How could they not be surprised that Li Hao proposed to change the tax system.

The old-fashioned Kong Yingda didn't care what Li Hao proposed to change the tax system, and asked with trembling steps: "Young man, you have also changed the national policy in vain. Who do you think you are?"

Li Hao frowned immediately when he heard the words, he wanted to swear, you haven't listened to Lao Tzu's reform content, and you said that the labor and management are too young and unqualified, which is unreasonable, you know, so Li Hao suppressed his anger and sneered: "Yes, I am indeed a yellow-mouthed child, unlike Kong Jijiu, who is dying."

Li Hao's words touched Kong Yingda's pain point, implying: Yes, I am still young, you are different, you are dying.

"You..." Kong Yingda trembled with anger when he heard the words. Since ancient times, people have been afraid of death. Although many people have the courage to sacrifice, it is because they have their own spiritual beliefs. love.

Kong Yingda is old, he is 74 years old this year, and he has to use a cane to walk, but he still feels that he has not lived enough. Li Hao's sentence "I am dying" directly hit his sore spot, and he almost fainted to the ground in anger.

Seeing that Kong Yingda was on the verge of collapse, Li Shimin quickly changed the subject and said, "Kong Jijiu, don't worry about it, Li Hao, don't talk nonsense in the hall, and tell all the ministers about the tax system change you mentioned in your memorandum."

"Yes." Li Hao turned around and arched his hands towards Li Shimin, then turned to face the ministers, and said, "Everyone, if you have any dissatisfaction with Li Hao, please wait for Li Hao to finish speaking, everyone feel free to argue, Li Hao will be one by one answer."

Everyone fell silent, Kong Yingda snorted coldly, rolled his eyes at him, and did not speak, Li Hao continued: "Then I will start talking, the tax system change I mentioned has a lot of content, but after summarizing, it can be summarized into one sentence In other words, reduce the agricultural tax and increase the business tax.”

As soon as this remark came out, the officials were in an uproar. Many people screamed like cats whose tails had been stepped on. Seeing the surprised reaction of the officials, Li Hao smiled because he had expected such a scene. I am mentally prepared.

"It's nonsense! It's nonsense!" Kong Yingda pointed at Li Hao and said angrily, "Farming is the foundation of the country. Your Majesty is a wise king. We should vigorously encourage farming and mulberry, how can we reduce the agricultural tax!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials nodded, thinking that what he said made sense.

There was a very strange phenomenon in ancient times, the emperor and officials repeatedly shouted to encourage farming, but increased the agricultural tax again and again. At the same time, they looked down on merchants, but did not collect commercial tax. This is a very strange phenomenon, which made Li Haobai Can't figure it out.

After listening to Kong Yingda's question, Li Hao smiled calmly and asked, "Kong Jijiu, let me ask you, do farmers want to reduce the agricultural tax or not?"

Kong Yingda was taken aback when he heard the words, and said casually, "Farmers naturally hope to reduce agricultural taxes."

"That's it." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Majesty is a sage who loves the people, so he naturally wants to benefit the people. Since the people want to reduce agricultural taxes, why do you want to sing the opposite? Let Your Majesty lose the opportunity to be praised by all people?"

The hat was a bit too big, and Kong Yingda was stunned when he heard the words. It took him a while to react, and he said anxiously: "The agricultural tax is the foundation of a country's income. If the agricultural tax is reduced, how can we fill the national treasury? Besides, I The agricultural tax of the Tang Dynasty is not heavy!"

Li Hao smiled indifferently: "That's right, the agricultural tax is the main income of the Tang Dynasty, but Kong Jijiu seems to be unaware that the wealth of a country is not in the hands of the peasants, but in the hands of the merchants. The agricultural tax has been reduced. , Self-owned merchants make up for it with taxes, although there are few merchants in the Tang Dynasty, they have a lot of money."

"Absurd!" Kong Yingda squinted and snorted angrily, "The tax is for food, and only a few states and counties are inconvenient to transport food or do not produce food, so they pay taxes with money!"

"You're ridiculous!" Li Hao raised his voice and angrily yelled at him, "If you have money, are you afraid that you won't be able to buy food? Do you know how much food Datang has now? Do you know the price of food now?"

"I..." Kong Yingda was speechless when he heard the words, yes, how can he not be able to buy food if he is rich? As for how much food and the price of food are in Datang, he really doesn't know, he is a scholar People, and they are the leaders of scholars, and they are in a high position. How can they care about these issues all day long? Everything is inferior, but reading is high. Most scholars in ancient times were like this, thinking that they were immortal, different from those ordinary people.

Seeing that Kong Yingda had nothing to say, Li Hao snorted coldly and said, "You eat rice grains from the Tang Dynasty every day, but you don't know how much the grains cost in the Tang Dynasty, and you dare to speak nonsense here. How dare you come here to criticize the peasants! Is it because you are afraid that the collection of commercial taxes will delay the business of your Kong family?"

"You...you...you..." Kong Yingda trembled with anger when he heard the words, and pointed at Li Hao "you" for a long time, but he couldn't say a word, and his body began to shake under the excessive anger , seems to fall at any time.

Seeing this, Li Shimin hurriedly called out: "Help him up!"

Xue Rengui's eyes were quick, and he stepped forward quickly. It happened that Kong Yingda was about to fall, and Xue Rengui held him up. Kong Yingda's eyes were blank, his mouth was open and he was panting heavily, as if he would die at any time, and he had already entered a semi-comatose state. state.

Li Shimin hurriedly said: "Come here, send Kong Jijiu to the imperial hospital quickly, and order the imperial physician to treat him attentively!"

Two Jinwu guards walked in outside the hall, and carefully carried Kong Yingda out.

Seeing that Kong Yingda was stunned, all the officials frowned. Datang officials almost everyone let their relatives do some business for their livelihood, but because people in this era think that businessmen value profits over righteousness, which is against the way of saints, they all look down on businessmen. So this kind of thing will not be brought out in the open, everyone tacitly, but Li Hao is not particular, he tore off Kong Yingda's loincloth in public in the Tai Chi Hall, ah no, it is a fig leaf, he actually pierced it. The layer of window paper was removed, which made all the ministers' hearts rise.

Kong Yingda is a native of the Kong family in Hengshui, Jizhou. It is said that he is the 31st grandson of Confucius, a famous family. Confucius was born in the Spring and Autumn Period.

A family that has been passed down for more than 1000 years, how can there be no land in the family?Is there any business?What a joke, although the Kong family did not rank among the five surnames and seven names, their strength should not be underestimated among the gentry, especially in the literary world and among the scholars, the Kong family is quite famous, after all, it has the name of Kong Sheng Covered, this is why the Kong family has been passed down to this day, no matter which dynasty, which emperor, who dares to do something to the descendants of Kong Sheng, it is against the world, and the saliva of scholars can drown them.

Although the nobles and nobles own a lot of land, they don't have to pay taxes. That's right, they don't need to pay taxes. The nobles don't need to pay taxes. Otherwise, why would they call the nobles and nobles blood-sucking insects.

The wealthy families are very large, so they naturally need a lot of financial support. Their main source of income is agricultural production and business, that is, agriculture and commerce. The commercial tax collection policy proposed by Li Hao directly touches their interests, so They all opposed Li Hao's proposal.

However, Li Hao is very careless. He actually punctured the window paper in court. Now whoever comes up to object, then it is tantamount to taking the right seat. These courtiers are very face-saving. Although everyone knows it well, they never disclose themselves. How much business does the family have, because they look down on businessmen, but they are running a business, isn't this self-defeating, just like some people, like watching small movies but look down on actresses, this is very immoral.

Li Hao is different, he is notoriously shameless and frank, even in the future world, Li Hao is also very frank, he dared to admit openly that he likes to watch small movies, he also said without hesitation Singing instead of making a small film is a kind of dishonest behavior. The small film industry is looking forward to her return. Of course, these are not the point.

Kong Yingda became sick with Li Hao's anger, and all the other officials looked at each other in blank dismay. They wanted to attack Li Hao, but no one dared to step forward. How embarrassing to throw it out.

There was silence in the hall, and after a while, Changsun Wuji suddenly asked, "Then, King Qiongnan, how should this commercial tax... be collected? What is the tax rate?"

The ministers couldn't help but cast approving glances at Changsun Wuji. As expected of an old fox, it was a very wise choice to continue asking instead of blindly objecting at this time.

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