Settled in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 302 Three Policies
"Opportunity? What kind of opportunity does the Qing family want?"

Li Yuan asked with great interest, looking at Xue Lang with a smile in his eyes.Xue Lang walked to the opposite side of the saint, solemnly bowed and saluted: "I have spent a lot of energy in recent days to write something, put it in a wooden box, and put it in the place of the personal servant Chang Jian who accompanied me into the palace. Please take the time to read it! Please ask the saint to send someone to fetch it. I implore the opportunity given by the saint. Can the saint read it before talking?"

The saint looked Xue Lang up and down, and nodded: "Yes!"

After agreeing, he glanced at the servant next to him, who immediately understood and walked out quickly.

After the servant went out, the saint was not in a hurry to ask questions, but waited patiently, only looking at Xue Lang from time to time.Xue Lang calmed down after speaking out all of a sudden, a little bit of the water that was spilled could not be recovered anyway, he said everything he should say, and he didn't feel nervous anymore.In this way, the sage aroused a bit of interest, and became a bit more curious about what Xue Lang asked him to see.

After waiting for a while, the servant came back, holding a wooden box in his hand, and asked Xue Lang respectfully: "Mr. Xue, do you dare to ask this?"

Xue Lang nodded: "Yes, thank you."

He personally took the wooden box from the waiter, opened it, and took out a stack of papers——

The paper has been divided into three by him according to the content, each of which was simply bound.

Xue Lang: "Please forgive me for being presumptuous!"

After finishing speaking, he stepped forward and separated the three items, and placed them side by side on the sage's new royal case.After putting it away, he took a few steps back, bowed and cupped his hands: "The sage please read it."

With a smile on his face, the saint casually picked up the one on the left, his expression changed drastically after he glanced at it, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Xue Lang. Clenched fists and saluted.

The sage's expression became serious, his expression solemn, and he lowered his head again. He was not in a hurry to look at the manuscript paper in his hand, but grabbed the second and third copies and looked at them. Just looking at the title, the sage's expression became more and more serious. Seriously, more and more serious: "Xue Lang, do you know that deceiving the emperor is a serious crime?"

Xue Lang said seriously: "Returning to the saint, I dare to use the head on the item to guarantee that the words written on the paper are true. If there are false words, Xue Lang will die!"

The sage took a deep look at him, lowered his head, picked up the manuscript paper, and read it carefully.In the huge Zichen Palace, there was no sound for a while, and needles could be heard.

Xue Lang looked at the saint eagerly, and now he was a little nervous. This nervousness was more because he was afraid that the saint would not understand what he wrote——

His choice of words and sentences are almost vernacular, the saint should not have any dyslexia, right?

Xue Lang was a little apprehensive.

The first and second copies, the sage just read it roughly, but the third one, the sage read it carefully, read it very carefully, after reading it, he would stop and meditate for a while, after reading it through, He closed his eyes and meditated for a while, then nodded, put down the manuscript paper, and stared at Xue Lang, his eyes seemed to be admiring, but also seemed to be relieved, looking at Xue Lang, and said: ""Salt Making Technique", "Bamboo Papermaking Method" , "Please Make Fish Scale Atlas and Yellow Book", the Qing family's three strategies are more shocking than the last one. Even I can't help but shake my heart after reading it. I can't help myself. Why did the Qing family adopt these three strategies? Please tell me carefully."

"Here!"

Xue Lang said loudly: "The first one was about the art of making salt. When I was at Weize Pass, because I assisted Princess Pingyang in training soldiers, I had a general understanding of the current situation of the salt industry in our dynasty. Whether it is the court or the people, Everyone is short of salt. The salt industry is related to the taxation of the world, the national economy and the people's livelihood, etc., and it is the most important thing. Xue Lang is not talented, so he offers the art of making salt to the sage, hoping that the sage's treasury will be abundant, and our court will no longer lack salt. "

The saint nodded.Xue Lang continued: "The second is the art of making paper with bamboo as the raw material. According to my observation, the paper used in my court is made of hemp. However, the production of hemp is limited. It is also necessary to make paper, and the price of paper has always been high. I think that the shortage of raw materials is most of the reasons. Using bamboo as raw material to make paper can greatly save the cost of paper making. Paper is cheap, and ordinary people who want to study There will be more people, more people who study, and more talents who want to come, and the scope for the sage to select talents will be wider."

Xue Lang paused, then continued to explain: "For the third copy, ask the sage to build fish scale albums and yellow books. In the previous dynasty, the tyranny of Emperor Yangdi caused the people to live in dire straits, and the world was in chaos. Today, in the world, how many acres of land and how many households do people have? There is no exact data. The data is inaccurate, and there are big loopholes in the collection of corvees and taxes. Those who do not abide by the king's law will take advantage of the loopholes, hide their fields and households, evade taxes, and cause losses to the court. Estimates. If the Fish Scale Atlas and the Yellow Book are built, there will be a basis and accurate data. Now that I have established a government, a lot of waste is waiting to be built, and there are few incidents of annexation of land and random occupation of cultivated land. There is almost no case of farmers losing their land. At this time, it will not cost too much money and energy to build the fish-scale atlas and yellow book. The most important thing is to build the book when the kingdom is first established. You should think twice before doing this, even if you do it naively, the court is not without evidence."

Xue Lang didn't speak too clearly about some things, but the sage should have understood.Jian Yuscale Atlas and Yellow Book are the first to be hit by the aristocratic and noble class, and they are the ones who like to play hidden fields and hidden households the most.

The biggest role of the fish-scale atlas and the yellow book is to fix farmers on the land, reduce land mergers, reduce the chance of becoming a hermit of aristocratic families in order to evade taxes, and strengthen centralization.

A sage should be able to understand the benefits of it.Otherwise, I wouldn't have paid so much attention to the third manuscript paper, read and read, thought and thought.

The sage nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and said: "Although this strategy is good, it may cost a lot of money to implement it. There are Turkic invasions on the outside, and riots and bandits on the inside... The previous dynasty died because of excessive expropriation. Thinking that quitting is the most difficult thing! It’s hard! It’s hard!”

Three difficult words in a row, to the best of the sage's handicap.Xue Lang said confidently: "Thus, among the three strategies offered by the minister, the technique of making salt ranks first!"

In terms of the most profitable and tax-paying business in ancient times, it must be the salt tax!The status of salt in ancient times is equivalent to that of modern oil in later generations. It is inseparable from anyone and is closely related to production and life.

Xue Lang continued: "As far as I know, the salt produced by the various salt wells can't meet the needs of the people at all. Mineral salt and sea salt are not well utilized because of the ineffective salt making techniques. I tell the saints that if the salt produced by the minister is used There are so many new laws presented that I dare not say that doubling the current salt production is absolutely not a problem. By then, the salt tax generated will be used to support the various expenditures of the imperial court, which should ease the financial pressure on the imperial court. What's more... ..."

Xue Lang paused, and the saint urged: "What's more? Qing's family, come quickly."

"Here."

Xue Lang said: "What's more, there is also the technique of making paper from bamboo. The establishment of fish scale albums and yellow books must require a lot of paper. Bamboo paper can save a lot of cost when it is made at the right time. Some imperial courts took the lead in using bamboo paper. It couldn’t be better for promotion. It’s said that what works from the top must follow from the bottom. It shouldn’t be too difficult or too far to replace hemp paper with bamboo paper!”

(End of this chapter)