Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 50 Iron

When Fifth Qi took the emperor's order and was about to go south to Jianghuai, the player Jiang Lun met Li Yan.

"Your Highness, one of your subordinates has a rich country and a strong army to offer!"

Jiang Lun looked at Li Yan nervously. He combined his professional knowledge to sort out this strategy with great difficulty. After queuing for two days, he got the chance to be interviewed by Li Yan.

Li Yan allows players to contribute their own plans. If the plan is written well, Li Yan will reward the players with contribution points.

If the plan is written well, Li Yan will even ask the players to try out their plan.

Since Cui Tao has been promoted to the marching Sima of Bafu through continuous advancement.

This guy Cui Tao used his title of Marching Sima all day long, which aroused the collective red eyes of the players.

And the players also wrote plans one after another, frantically giving Li Yan advice.

In the past few days, Li Yan has been meeting players every day, and hearing their strategies is numb.

Facts have proved that most players are keyboard warriors, and there are very few players who can really make useful suggestions.

For example, Jiang Lun, a former player, gave Li Yan a promise to develop the industry.

Of course Li Yan knew about the development of industry, but when asked how this player would develop industry, the player started to ask three questions.

It's just that Che Rulu said that more factories should be built.

My lord also knows to build a factory!But with this technology, what factories can be built?
You should build an assembly line for Grandpa!

But this is not outrageous, there are some players who told Li Yan that the Senate should be established, and the players should be named veterans.

Good guy, Roman orthodoxy is in Datang, right?
Li Yan asked the left and right guards to kick out this unreliable player, and immediately ordered the system to monitor this player. If he also imitated Rome and tried to assassinate Caesar, then he should kick this player out of the game quickly!

Now that Li Yan has met the players for three days, there are very few reliable suggestions. At this time, his head is swollen, and he meets Jiang Lun weakly.

Wealthy country and strong army, almost everyone in the strategy would say so, Li Yan waved his hand and told Jiang Lun to get to the point quickly.

Jiang Lun cleared his throat and said, "Your Highness, wealth is the most important thing in the world."

Li Yan nodded. He put down the rebellion of An, Yang and Wu's families a while ago, and rewarded Mo Lijun afterwards. Li Yan sent out all the money he had looted from the players' pockets during this period.

Only now did Li Yan realize that his flesh hurts, no wonder everyone said that fighting costs money, this reward of only five hundred Mo Lijun emptied Li Yan's savings.

But if the rewards cannot be paid in full, then according to the "tradition" of the Tang Dynasty, it would be relatively mild to come to the armed forces to besiege the tyrant's mansion and ask for salary.

There are too many emperors and generals who overturned because of insufficient rewards. If others work hard for you, they must pay enough rewards and pensions after the war, otherwise who will work hard for you in the future.

Now Li Yan is also worried about finances. Although the players don't need to pay wages, the Guazhou governor's mansion also has to eat.

The Lingwu court has issued an edict to let the towns and towns raise their own salaries. In the future, when Li Yan's territory grows, he will have to bear the expenses of the yamen.

Li Yan became interested, and he said to Jiang Lun, "But Guazhou is exhausted, and the people have just recovered a bit, so we can't raise taxes now, right?"

Jiang Lun shook his head and said, "The strategy for my subordinates to advance to Your Highness is the way to enrich the country without raising rents!"

"Is there such a good way? Tell me quickly!"

Jiang Lun immediately said: "Specialize in iron!"

This suggestion seems to be a bit reliable, Li Yan asked: "How to specialize in iron?"

Jiang Lun said: "This franchise is not for the imperial court to control all blacksmith shops, but to control the iron factories!"

"Control the iron factory and sell the steel to merchants at a higher price."

"The imperial court does not need to control all blacksmith shops and steel factories, as long as it has the raw material of iron ingots in its hands."

"Now the smelting cost of Dashuixia Iron Works is enough to crush any smelter in Datang, and the steel quality of Dashuixia Iron Works is far better than any smelter."

"While ironware is used regardless of rich or poor. Farm tools and kitchen utensils are indispensable in the home."

"Building factories and buying machines will also use a lot of steel, so directly adding taxes to the price of iron is a fair and effective way to collect taxes!"

Li Yan asked: "Effective, the lonely king can understand, why is it fair?"

Jiang Lun said: "Since ancient times, land tax has been the most difficult to collect. This tax needs to be distributed to every household and collected from the people of each household. Not only is the cost huge, but it will also breed a lot of corruption."

Li Yan nodded. No matter how good the land policy is, it needs to be implemented by people. As long as it is implemented by people, there will be loopholes.

Don't look at Li Yan's great success this time, but as long as he leaves Guazhou and doesn't care, the land of these common people will return to the powerful hands in a few years.

Jiang Lun said: "Add the tax to the steel. Anyone who buys iron is equivalent to paying the tax to the court. The poor buy less and the rich buy more. This is a kind of fairness."

"The biggest advantage is that as long as His Highness controls the iron factory, he can collect the iron tax, instead of going to the fields to collect taxes from every household."

After Jiang Lun finished speaking, Li Yan immediately smiled. This is a good way!

The smelting efficiency of Dashuixia Iron Works is very high, and the steel and iron ingots produced are cheap and of good quality.

Although Jian Xia said that these steels are not enough to make cannons, but these steels are enough to make ironware for daily use, and it is enough to make machines.

As long as Li Yan controls the iron factory and adds iron tax to the price of iron ingots sold, he will continue to receive taxes from the iron and steel trade!

This method is good!And it's highly executable, Jiang Lun's plan is the best strategy Li Yan has obtained recently!
Li Yan immediately came down and said to Jiang Lun: "Jiang Lun, can this iron tax collect more than the rent in Guazhou?"

"Guaranteed to be more or less!"

Li Yan understood Jiang Lun's meaning. He wanted to set up a state-owned steel company to use steel's important role in daily life to collect taxes from the people through steel products.

In fact, in that parallel world, many countries have insisted on state-run steel until modern times. It was not until the steel industry gradually became marginalized that it was no longer the lifeblood of the country. Then the state-owned steel industry was loosened and private investment in the steel industry was allowed.

As early as the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty discussed the issue of state-owned salt and iron, and recorded all the debates, and wrote a book "Salt and Iron", which deeply discussed the advantages and disadvantages of state monopoly.

The discussion in the Han Dynasty is actually a continuation of the "official mountains and seas" proposed by Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn Period. The government controls the ore in the mountains and the salt in the sea, so that it can extract wealth from the people and support the court.

With the development of the times, the demand for steel will inevitably increase further, which will bring Li Yan unlimited financial resources.

"Okay, order! Set up the Iron Affairs Bureau in Guazhou, Jiang Lun Gu Wang appointed you to join the army of Bafu, know the affairs of the Iron Affairs Bureau, and take full charge of the collection of iron taxes in the future!"

(End of this chapter)