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Chapter 89 Perfect Kindness and Benevolence (1) 【Ask for a monthly ticket】

When Zhao Xu woke up, he saw Queen Mother Xiang sitting in front of him.

"Queen, why are you here?" Zhao Xu asked.

"My son..." The Empress Dowager handed the text written by Li Ding in her hand to Zhao Xu: "Let's take a look..."

Zhao Xu took it and looked at it carefully.

Except for a few places that are slightly exaggerated, it is basically true!

"Just now, the officials from the three provinces have also written about this matter..." The Queen Mother observed Zhao Xu's expression, and said: "Zhang Shilang said: What Wu Juhou and others did was definitely not the original intention of the Emperor Daxing. He is the one who deceived Emperor Daxing!"

Zhao Xu nodded: "Zhang Shilang is right!"

"How much does the father love the people? If you know the behavior of such rebellious ministers, you will never forgive them!"

But Zhao Xu himself did not believe these words.

On Jingdong Road and Jingxi Road, in just a few years, the salt and iron business tax has increased several times, and it was even the highest in the world last year.

Zhao Xu's father, the emperor, has always been known for his emphasis on information acquisition and love of micromanagement.

How could he be ignorant of what Wu Juhou and the others were doing?
impossible.

He must know something, but Wu Juhou did too well.

There will be no emperor who will go to the depths of a minister who has a clean sleeve, can wear a piece of clothing for a year, and works hard to make money for the emperor in the local area.

Even if he makes a small mistake now and then, it doesn't hurt.

But what Wu Juhou did was really too much!

Therefore, in Zhao Xu's previous life, when he was Shao Sheng Shao Shu, he was supposed to recall Wu Juhou back to the court and enter the three provinces and two prefectures.

However, Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu, the enemies, joined forces to prevent and persuade Zhao Xu: Wu Juhou was in Jingdong in the past, and the people of Jingdong still want to eat his flesh.

Zeng Bu even said bluntly: Wu Juhou should not be an important minister!If you are an important minister, the world will be in trouble!

They are still too young.

I don't know, there are talented people from generation to generation.

In modern times, Zhao Xu has seen Cai Jing's ability to make money under Zhao Ji later - it's amazing.

Then, he saw He Shen's ability - he was dumbfounded.

Compared with Cai Jing, Wu Juhou is a pure and kind little white rabbit, and compared with He Shen, Wu Juhou is nothing.

Even so, what Wu Juhou did to make money on Jingdong Road should be ranked among the top ten cool officials in history.

How did he get the money?
The answer is the same as Baojia Baoma Law.

There is a saying that tricks are not afraid of old age, as long as they are useful.

For example, to discuss salt, in the past Jingdong Road could not sell salt.

It is a three-point transaction between kitchen households, merchants, and common people. Common people can eat cheap salt, kitchen households can also get reasonable profits, and merchants can make a fortune.

However, Da Song Chaotang has always been coveting this piece of fat.

As early as the Xining period, Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu both proposed to discuss salt in Jingdong.

It was only because Su Shi, Wen Yanbo, and Han Qi strongly opposed it that they gave up.

Until the first year of Yuanfeng, when Han Qi died, Wang Anshi also went to Jiangning to plant flowers and practice meditation.

Great Song Chaotang re-focused on Jingdong Road Quyan.

Li Cha was pushed to the position of deputy envoy of Jingdong Road Transshipment, responsible for presiding over the work of distributing salt.

However, his superior, Liu Teng, the transfer envoy of Jingdong Road, resolutely obstructed the implementation of Quyan, so he was dismissed.

As a result, Li Cha was able to dispatch envoys to Jingdong Road.

Immediately, the Salt Discussion Law was promoted in an all-round way. Li Cha's Salt Discussion Law was the source of many disadvantages of the new law after Yuanfeng.

It was also the starting point of all Wu Juhou's subsequent actions.

Its reform method is no longer the same as the Xining reform era, focusing on the convenience of the government and the people, and no longer paying attention to the reaction of the people.

There is only one general principle: make money!

Zhao Xu has read countless related studies in modern times.

So he even understands better than Wu Juhou how to play his set of games.

In the case of Quyan, it is to interrupt the connection between kitchen households and merchants in the past.

Stove households are prohibited from selling salt to merchants.

Instead, through the monopoly of the government, the salt produced by the kitchen households was deliberately suppressed to less than half of the original.

These salts are then sold to merchants for profit.

Is this over?
No!

Don't forget, there is also the market change method and the equal loss method beside it.

Relying on the decree, Li Cha forced the salt merchant to borrow money from him, which generated salt interest money.

Don't you borrow it?
Then don't sell salt on Jingdong Road!

So, relying on this trick, Li Cha made a profit of more than 20 yuan from the salt and salt interest money back then!
One salt is equivalent to the sum of the commercial tax revenue and other miscellaneous tax revenue of the entire Jingdong Road for one year.

As a result, Li Cha was transferred to Yanyan Road as a transfer envoy to prepare for the five-way attack on Xia.

Wu Juhou, who succeeded Li Cha, went a step further based on Li Cha's experience.

In the first year after Wu Juhou took office, the salt interest alone had already surpassed Li Cha's annual salt income of that year - reaching 24 yuan.

When the news spread to Bianjing, almost no one believed it.

Until Wu Juhou moved more than 36 copper coins to the packaging warehouse in Bianjing.

In the face of real money, even unbelievers have to believe.

How did Wu Juhou do it?

The answer is the same as Baojia Baoma method, layer by layer!

He set extremely stringent tax goals for his subordinates, and he rewarded them heavily for achieving them, so he was promoted quickly.

Because of this, someone jumped from a candidate to a Beijing official within a year!
This is so exciting.

Therefore, the salt income of Jingdong Road and Jingdongxilu has been increasing every year.

Thus, Wu Juhou began to be path dependent.

Later, the same method was used for discussing iron and wine.

Especially the iron!
In order to increase income, but also to sell more ironware.

Wu Juhou directly ordered that the people of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Jingdong Metropolitan Transit Envoy were not allowed to privately repair ironware, nor were they allowed to buy or sell privately.

Even so, the money is coming too slowly.

Therefore, he forced his subordinates to go back and distribute the share of iron and steel in various places.

It is still layer upon layer.

In the end, the people from all over Jingdong Road, the most four households have to buy a piece of iron from the government on a regular basis!
This is not the end, Wu Juhou later felt that making money is faster than making money?

So I planned to use the pig iron produced on Jingdong Road to forcibly cast money, and once it was cast, it would be a big iron coin with a discount of [-]!
But the problem is that Jingdong Road itself does not have the habit of using iron coins. In the Song Dynasty, it was Shanxi Road and Sichuan that used iron coins.

So he needs to transport the minted iron money to Sichuan or Shaanxi.

However, the transportation costs are very high - if it were not for this reason, how could Jiaozi appear?
The second is that the pig iron produced on Jingdong Road is too brittle, and the loss rate is too high when casting money!

But Wu Juhou doesn't care about these things!
Forcibly mount the horse, force the mine owners and blacksmiths who contracted the mine to mint money, increase the amount layer by layer, distribute the quota, and punish those who fail to complete it to the end!

Among the many policies implemented by Wu Juhou, the only one that has no public grievances is drinking.

Because the wine merchants wish the government would sell more koji for them to go back to make wine, and they can eat as much as they have!

In modern times, Wu Juhou's game is called "classical government-run monopoly economy".

It has long been abandoned, and can only be seen in those benevolent models of black Africans.

Normal people don't bother to scrape the ground like this.

There is neither profit nor benefit, and the cost is too high.

……

Seeing Zhao Xu's expression, the Queen Mother showed no resistance.

She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she and the empress dowager were afraid that the sixth brother would be too young to distinguish between good and evil, but they were pure filial piety and wanted to protect the ministers who were valued by Emperor Daxing before his death.

However, after thinking about it, the Queen Mother still tentatively asked: "Sixth brother thinks, how should we deal with them?"

Zhao Xu recovered from his own thoughts, looked at the queen mother, and replied: "Mother, the father taught my son: the state owns the state law, and the family has family rules!"

"How to deal with it, how to deal with it!"

Wu Juhou, has been promoted to Tianzhang Pavilion Attendant System, Tongyi Doctor, only one step away from three provinces and two governments!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Zhao Xu's father hadn't had a stroke.

Then he will be eligible to serve as the ruling envoy once he has served as a transit envoy.

For such an important minister, the tradition is at best to demote his descendants.

Nodding to the Queen Mother, she thought the same way.

"Empress..." Zhao Xu suddenly asked: "Mother and you, how do you plan to clean up the Jingdong Road?"

"How to appease the local people?"

The Empress Dowager hesitated for a moment, and said, "I haven't thought about it yet..."

Then she looked at Zhao Xu and asked, "Brother Six has an idea?"

"I have a few thoughts, but I don't know if it's right..."

"Sixth Brother, tell me..." Empress Dowager Xiang immediately smiled: "Mother, listen, if Sixth Brother is right, Mother will carry it out, even if it is wrong, it doesn't matter!"

Zhao Xu gently held the Empress Dowager Xiang, and buried his head in her chest: "The Empress Dowager is so kind!"

This sentence is true!

In his previous life, even after he got married, he had already grown up, and the courtiers all said that he wanted the emperor to participate in the government.

But that Empress Dowager took power to her deathbed!
Later, when she fell ill, when she was seriously ill, she would rather let ministers like Chen Yan and Zhang Shiliang handle state affairs than let Zhao Xu get involved in power!
Both Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang were terrified by her decision.

Therefore, since the eighth year of Yuanyou, these two prime ministers have been desperately trying to retreat.

"Stupid child!" Empress Dowager Xiang stroked Zhao Xu's head: "If the empress mother doesn't treat you well, who else can she treat well?"

She is the only child!

Just such a hope!

"That's what I said..." Zhao Xu said softly.

"Okay! Let me tell you, the queen mother is listening!" The queen mother smiled and hugged the child.

Right or wrong, she is willing to listen.

Moreover, as long as the child said something right, she could tell it to the empress dowager and the courtiers.

As for what's wrong?Or childish and naive thoughts?

Certainly not rumored!

Zhao Xu hugged the Empress Dowager Xiang and said in a low voice: "My son has been studying recently, and I feel that all the sage's scriptures mentioned in the book are based on the people,..."

"Father also taught his son: the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful..."

"Therefore, Gu Liangzi said: The people are the foundation of the emperor!"

"I think, no matter what, the well-being of the people should be put first..."

"Related matters must not let the common people suffer!"

This is to fertilize.

The crops must thrive and the land must be fertile!
Only when the cake is bigger can you make money!
If the people are poor, they can only serve as pants, no matter how hard they are squeezed, there will be no oil or water!

　Thanks to: Kong Jiexi, Zhi Gao Hongjun, for the reward of 700 starting point coins.

　　Thanks: Dirk cat, monthly pass for walking, and 500 starting point coins for tipping.

　　Thanks: Holy ㄆ Festival. Sky, a reward of 100 starting points!

　　PS: After thinking about it for a long time, it seems that this is the only way to explain things clearly in the shortest words. Using other people's mouths or words, it is too watery!
　　Well, ask for a monthly ticket.

　　Or, use the monthly ticket to offer a reward to add something?

　　500 votes plus one update, now almost 2000 votes, that is, 2500 votes can add one update!
　　It's not that I don't want to order less, but my ability is limited!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)