Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 629 Talking Clearly
Sun Xiangfu had high expectations for Li Shimin. He hoped that Li Shimin could redefine the monarch and define the imperial power. As for any plans to use tricks, of course, Li Shimin thought too much. Governing the country should not rely on tricks alone.

"Your Majesty, strategies can only be made for a while. If you want to maintain the stable development of the country for a long time, you must rely on a complete and feasible system. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, the problems you need to solve are to establish a complete management system. implement these management systems.

In the past few days, the villagers who have set up stalls in the village told me that many old, weak, sick and sick people have come to Jiangling City to appeal to the chief yamen mansion. They also hope to enjoy free medical care, pension, education and other benefits. How do you plan to solve it? "

"I haven't made up my mind yet, but I can't ignore it! After all, they are the people living in hardship under my rule."

Sun Xiangfu was silent for a while before saying, "Caomin suggests that you just take care of it symbolically, explain the matter clearly to them, give them some necessities for food and life, and send them back to their hometown.

As for the expenses incurred for doing these tasks, those who incited them to come should also be let out, and they must be publicly punished to a certain extent.

As for the policy, you can’t make any concessions to those people because they are old, weak and sick. If you compromise this time, next time the people have any needs, they will still use this method to make trouble with you , If the number of times is too high, it will become a normal state, and after that, there may never be peace. "

Hearing this, Li Shimin also pondered for a long time without opening his mouth. As a person who has ruled the country all year round, he naturally knows how to manage the people. However, in recent years, he has become accustomed to appearing in front of the people as a benevolent and wise king. Naturally, he hopes that he can continue to maintain this image in the hearts of the people, and helping the people solve these problems will make his image of a wise monarch even taller.

"I have seen the financial expenditure details of the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce. The medical, pension and education expenses paid by them for the people are almost 300 yuan per month. Calculated by the population ratio, our Datang is now more than 1000 million. The population consumes almost 2000 million guan every month, and 2000 million guan a year. Do you think that in the next three years, our Datang’s tax revenue will exceed [-] million guan?”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu shook his head firmly and said, "Absolutely impossible, don't think that the fiscal and taxation in the past few years has doubled and will continue to grow like this. When the amount reaches a certain level, The growth rate will definitely slow down. If it can break through 4000 million guan this year and reach about 5000 million guan next year, it will be an excellent situation.

Moreover, the reason why the people in Jiuyuan County only consume about [-] guan in these three aspects every month is because they have a large output and rely less on policies. The [-] guan expenditure is mainly used For tens of thousands of children's books, study, food and hundreds of teachers' salaries, other aspects, medical care and pension expenses are very small.

Here, not to mention 45 years old, people who have reached the prescribed retirement age, even some elderly people in their 50s who feel that they are in good health, are still working and refuse to eat free food.

Their thinking is already different from that of people in other places. With reasonable working time allocation and sufficient food and nutritional supplements, their illnesses are relatively rare.

And if the imperial court wants to promote such benefits in other places, the same population size will definitely cost more than that, unless it takes about three years to fully replicate all matters of education and various systems in Jiuyuan County.

As for the financial and tax issues you just mentioned three years later, I think the calculation is very inaccurate. Judging from the current population growth rate, we will have at least 200 million more newborns in the third year of the Tang Dynasty. After all, without an annual expenditure of more than 5000 million yuan, it is absolutely impossible to get all the welfare protection items.

Because it is impossible for the imperial court to reach this amount of taxation, and it is impossible for all the taxation to be used for these welfare protection projects. The country still has a lot of large infrastructure construction that needs to be invested, so if you want to rely on The state finances can realize these benefits for the people, not to mention three years, even thirty. "

Jiuyuan County's expenditure is not bad in terms of pensions, but it is a minority group that receives some money and food expenses on a regular basis.

The cost of medicine and reading is the big one, especially medical medicine. Due to various commonly used medicinal materials, the farm is still in the stage of groping and planting, and has not formed a large-scale output. The small amount will inevitably lead to high prices. The medicine collected in the mountains will be transported from all over the world to Shanyang Pharmaceutical Factory, and then produced into Chinese patent medicine according to multiple processes. The cost of manpower and material resources is very high. When it reaches the hands of the people, the price will naturally not As cheap as ordinary food, it is usually worth tens of hundreds of dollars, some of which are a little more expensive and rare, or even pennies.

Even in later generations, there are not many countries that can rely on national finances to provide free medical care, education, and pensions for all. What's more, in this era of low productivity, Li Shimin came to his senses after being settled by Sun Xiangfu.

"What do you mean, the imperial court's finances can't afford it, so it can only be promoted by local commercial profits like Jiuyuan County?"

Sun Xiangfu did not deny it, and said, "In the future, the imperial court's finances and taxes will mainly be based on industry and commerce. From the current point of view, the ratio of 2000 to 2 tax is extremely low. Based on the average profit value of all our products in the Tang Dynasty, it is about three to three. Calculated at about [-]%, the annual profit of a businessman in business can almost reach ten times that of the national commercial tax. Based on the current business tax of [-] million, it is almost more than [-] million. This kind of profit is affordable. We will implement this welfare system nationwide, but it is difficult for all business people to contribute more than half of their profits to the common people."

"You mean, because we can't let everyone contribute more than half of their profits for nothing, so there is no way to do it at present?"

"That's it!"

"Then, can increasing the commercial tax solve this problem?" Li Shimin asked tentatively.

Sun Xiangfu replied without even thinking, "No, history has told us that the heavier the tax imposed by the country, the worse the economy will be. This has led to more circulation and circulation of commodities and money in the market, which in turn has led to an increase in fiscal and taxation, and the imposition of business taxes will not only fail to solve this problem, but will actually slow down the development of private commerce."

"Since you have seen these problems so clearly, then there must be a solution!" Li Shimin touched the beard on his chin and said,

Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "In any case, this needs to go through a slow process, just like the construction of a new countryside. It is impossible to complete it in one step. Jiuyuan County can be said to be the first one we have established. Template, this template can roughly solve the problems of hundreds of thousands of households in more than a dozen counties of a similar size. If you want to promote such welfare projects in more places and on a wider scale, you need more different I think the reason why those people have made such a big move is to take the power of these development projects into their own hands.

If you think about it, if these welfare projects are implemented nationwide like Jiuyuan County, and it is these organizations such as the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce established by the family consortium that provide these benefits to the people, what will happen then? What kind of picture is it? "

According to Sun Xiangfu, what Li Shimin hadn't thought through before was completely cleared up. The aristocratic family members originally wanted to use this method to transform and complete the future layout.

"So, how should we respond?"

"I have told you before, set up a supervision system!
Including organizations like the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce that have already started operation, the imperial court must set up an effective management system to follow up, allowing them to have a certain degree of financial freedom, but must accept the overall control of the imperial court and cannot confront the imperial court.

Just like the previous state-owned enterprises, after using local resources and the output of people's labor to create economic value, the imperial court cannot simply hand over all the profits obtained to the state treasury, or even use them for other purposes, but should follow the After the tax rate of the imperial court is paid, the remaining part is reserved for the livelihood guarantee of the local people.

The imperial court can set up a social security portal in the Ministry of Households, and stipulate that non-governmental commercial organizations in various places want to cooperate with the imperial court to develop resource projects, and a large part of the income will be allocated to a special fund account in proportion. If the funds in this account can cover [-]% of the medical, pension, and education expenses of the people under the rule, then the people need to pay [-]% by themselves.

The funds in this account can cover [-]% of the welfare expenditures of the people under the rule, so the people only need to pay [-]% of these benefits.

If the funds in the account can be as large as Jiuyuan County, which can fully cover the expenses of various welfare projects for the people under the rule, then the people will enjoy these benefits for free. "

Hearing Sun Xiangfu's suggestion, Li Shimin's eyes suddenly brightened. His idea is to hand over the welfare of the common people to the common people themselves. There are two kinds of relationships among the local people, that is, the relationship of cooperative production and the relationship of mutual supervision, because if these people cannot actually help the people develop projects and obtain a certain level of welfare protection, the people will not agree to invest in development. If the people in the project want to make a profit, they also need the common people to have enough output.

Of course, this is just a simple idea of ​​Sun Xiangfu. How to turn it into a practical system still needs to be researched and verified. Similarly, it just points out the consistent direction for Li Shimin.

In later generations of enterprises, they are required to purchase social insurance, medical insurance and other items for employees. Moreover, when the enterprise reaches a certain level, secretaries, union chairmen and the like will be sent to you. Listed companies of high-level enterprises are basically controlled by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commissions at all levels. This characteristic socialist road has been proven to be successful. Sun Xiangfu led Li Shimin to this road and asked him to apply it to the present. To what extent, he needs to study according to the current social situation.

After discussing this issue thoroughly, Sun Xiangfu gave Li Shimin a lot of routines that later generations have basically used maturely, and taught him to formulate rules. After learning the routines, Li Shimin didn't stay for a moment, and didn't follow him for a long time. , The two brothers Li Tai and Li Ke, who wanted to come to visit, chatted for a few words, and then left.

Therefore, when Li Tai and Li Ke asked Sun Xiangfu afterwards what Li Shimin said when he came here, Sun Xiangfu just told them that he was here to make them feel at ease to farm here.

This seemingly simple answer made them think a lot, especially Li Tai. In his opinion, Li Shimin's attitude towards him is very clear. Wu hoped, but this actually made him, who had gradually accepted the reality, calm down to study.

Li Ke felt that Li Shimin's indifference to himself in terms of family affection, or in other words, his indifference to all the princes and princesses except the prince Li Chengqian, made him even more indifferent to this father. Now he just wants to hurry up. At the age of 16, he became a feudal clan in the local area and lived his own life.

Two days later, in Jiangling City, in front of the Shannan Province Governor's Mansion, thousands of old, weak and sick people from all over the country crowded the surrounding blocks. Of course, this also included tens of thousands of people who came to watch the excitement local people.

"Chairman Changsun, you are unfair! The people in Jiuyuan County, Jinan County, and Zhongxiang County have big houses, good fields, and riches. Why does the court want to help them and give them money?" Such good treatment, but turn a blind eye to those of us who are incapable of farming and suffering from chronic diseases all the year round, what's the reason?" Among the crowd, an old man over sixty years old with white hair stomped on his crutches , loudly asked Changsun Wuji.

(End of this chapter)