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The emperor sent an envoy to Taozhou.
The military exploits of the First World War in Jiangxin City were reported to the imperial court, and the merits of all the meritorious soldiers were confirmed, and the emperor even personally issued an order to raise the rewards of a group of meritorious soldiers on the list of meritorious soldiers like Zhang Chao.
All the soldiers who participated in the war in Taozhou recorded their merits.
The emperor also sent people to bring imperial wine and brocade to reward the meritorious soldiers.
All the high-grade martial arts also got a brocade robe and cloak sewn by the palace ladies, and all the government soldiers got a brocade robe and cloak made by Taifu Temple.
Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Pi Lou Wuche and a group of Taozhou civil and military officers also received special gold, purple and special crimson silver and other honors.
The Tang Dynasty gave clothes, and there were no python robes, unicorn robes, bullfighting robes, and yellow jackets, but the Tang Dynasty also gave clothes, giving gold and purple and crimson silver.
Giving gold and purple is to give purple robes and goldfish bags, and purple gold is the color jewelry of official robes that can only be worn by officials above the third grade.
But for those who have great merit, the imperial court often gives gold and purple to those ministers who are not of sufficient grade to show glory.
The scarlet robe is the color of the four or five grade officials, and the imperial court sometimes gives scarlet rewards to those officials who are not enough to wear silver fish bags.
Zhang Chao is already a high-ranking official of the third grade, and he has already had Jin Zi.
Therefore, this time, the emperor specially crowned Zhang Chao as the commander of the Shangzhu State, and rewarded Zhang Chao with gold and silver bottles, a bottle full of money, a bottle full of silver coins, and a lot of silk.
Zhang Chao was also given 3,000 acres of Yongye field in Taozhou Zhang Chao was awarded as a solicitation envoy, a salt and iron envoy, and a transport envoy.
Looking at the bunch of envoys granted to him by the imperial court, Zhang Chao was also a little helpless, and the envoys had a characteristic, that is, they were not formal permanent posts, but temporary posts.
If you add the pacification envoys, economic envoys and tuntian envoys granted to Zhang Chao by the imperial court before, Zhang Chao has six envoys, which can be regarded as unprecedented.
However, Zhang Chao had some doubts about the three new envoys.
Those who came to express their condolences to the Taozhou soldiers were Zhongshu Shilang, Yingguo Gongyu Scribe and, Yu Wenshi and Sima of Tiance Mansion at the same time.
The emperor sent the deputy governor of Zhongshu Province, and at the same time Sima Lai of Tiance Mansion, which is very subtle.
Although Yu Wenshi and the Tang Dynasty have not been for a long time, he is an old colleague and an old friend with Li Yuan, his brother Yu Wenhua and killed the monarch in Jiangdu, and he was later retained by Dou Jiande, but as soon as he voted for the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan used him quite really.
Li Yuan once said to Pei Lian, "I talked to him about world affairs six or seven years ago, and you are still after him." ” However, although Yu Wenshi and Yu Wenhe are the younger brother of Yu Wenhua, he also married Yang Guang's daughter Princess Nanyang, but he did not participate in the Jiangdu conspiracy.
It has not been long since he joined the Tang Dynasty, and he has already become the deputy official of Zhongshu Province.
"Congratulations to Saburo" Yu Wenshi smiled and congratulated, Zhang Chao had dealt with him a lot in the past.
Because Yu Wenshi and not only Zhongshu Shilang, but also a bachelor of Hanlin and a bachelor of the Qin Wangfu Literature Museum, they have eaten together and compiled books.
However, Zhang Chao also sympathized with him.
He was the son of Wuguiyu Wenshu of the Sui Dynasty, and married Princess Nanyang, the daughter of Yang Guang, Princess Nanyang is a very good princess, and the couple had a very loving time.
But after the Jiangdu mutiny, although he did not participate, Princess Nanyang hated him.
Later, Yu Wenhua was defeated by Dou Jiande, and Princess Nanyang and Yu Wenshi were all in the Xia army.
Princess Nanyang was quite resolute and asked Dou Jiande to kill her, Yu Wenshi and her son, and then became a nun.
It's a tragic thing.
I heard that later Yu Wenshi returned to Chang'an, met Princess Nanyang, and wanted to get back together, but Princess Nanyang disdained.
Princess Nanyang is indeed a strange woman, poor Yu Wenshi.
"Gong Ying, what does Your Majesty mean by adding these three envoys?"
The envoy is not an additional title, it is not a glorious title, and the envoy is generally a special errand.
For example, Jingluo and pacify, that is to appease the people of Taozhou, and the Tuntian envoy is specifically responsible for Taozhou Tuntian affairs.
"San Lang, Your Majesty is very satisfied with the battle in Jiangxin City.
This trick is to give you a greater power to dispose of it cheaply. ” Zhang Chao, the governor of Taozhou and the history of assassination, commanded the civil and military forces of Taozhou.
Under normal circumstances, the soldiers of Taozhou Prefecture are not allowed to be mobilized without the order of the Ministry of War, and the last battle of Jiangxin City was a defense, so it was special.
Now the emperor has given Zhang Chao a solicitation to give him greater autonomy.
If there is any disturbance on the border of Taozhou, Zhang Chao can mobilize government troops to defend without first requesting the imperial court, and even take the initiative to attack Tuyuhun.
This is the right to make a decision on the fly without a request.
Recruitment, specially designed to deal with Tuyuhun.
It seems that the emperor and the ministers of the court were quite annoyed by the last time Tuyuhun took advantage of the fire to rob, this is deliberately conniving at Zhang Chao to stir up trouble at the border pass.
"Salt and Iron Envoys, Transit Envoys" Yu culture and explained that this salt and iron envoy is actually in charge of the tax of minerals and salt tea.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, many systems inherited the Sui Dynasty, mining and metallurgy were managed by the Shaofu, and copper and iron were mined by anyone, as long as taxes were paid to the government, and the same was true for salt.
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At present, some officials in the imperial court have suggested that the right to collect taxes on mining and metallurgy should be returned to the central government, and that monopoly taxes be levied on salt, tea, and wine, which should be in the sole hands of salt and iron envoys.
Salt and iron envoys were also set up in various places to manage one or some important towns.
Taozhou sent a lot of money to the imperial court last time, so that the imperial court attached great importance to Taozhou, originally there was only one salt and iron envoy per province, but now the imperial court has also set up a salt and iron envoy in Taozhou, and let Zhang Chao concurrently serve as a minister.
"How much is the tax on salt, tea, and wine?"
"The imperial court's tentative plan is to draw one out of ten."
The tax of one out of ten is a lot, but it is not too much, not too much.
Historically, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the tax on salt tea was extremely heavy, and the official price of a bucket of salt was only ten yuan, but the tax had to be increased by one hundred and ten yuan, and even increased even higher at one time, and the tax levied was more than ten times the original price of salt.
"In recent years, the imperial court has been using troops constantly, and the treasury is empty.
In order to reserve materials and wait for the early dispatch of troops to the Turks and Tuyuhun, the imperial court had to levy salt and iron taxes, customs duties, and commercial taxes in the border cities. ” These are actually the important ministers of the imperial court who were stimulated by Zhang Chao.
For a long time, the operation of the Tang Dynasty was very simple, spending as little money as possible, not spending if it could not be spent, and the taxes mainly relied on agriculture, and the levy was rent, which was relatively fixed.
Most of them are in kind, and these taxes in kind are transported to the capital every year, and they have to spend a lot on the road.
But Zhang Chao made a border market in Taozhou, levied customs duties and commercial taxes, and casually took out a little bit to supply to the imperial court, which made those prime ministers and scholars extremely red, and they also launched a ruthless attack.
Usually spend a penny in half, it's too stupid, it's not good to throttle alone, you have to open source.
But the rents are all dead and relatively fixed.
Therefore, in the end, we can only start with commercial taxes and customs duties, and finally some people suggest that a special tax on salt and iron be levied, which was levied in the Han Dynasty.
In order to reserve more money and food, dry up the Turks as soon as possible, etc., not to let them ride on the neck of the Tang Dynasty to and pee, and did not want to send the princess and relatives again, so Li Yuan slapped the table and decided to levy a salt and iron tax.
Fortunately, Li Yuan is still relatively conscientious, and the taxes on salt, tea, wine, and iron are only one out of ten.
There is no cruel thing to do with a tenfold increase in taxes "San Lang, the imperial court has another task entrusted to you, to find copper mines in Taozhou.
If you can find a copper mine, then organize people to mine and smelt copper, and the imperial court will also set up a coinage bureau in Taozhou to open a furnace to mint money, and then you will have to serve as a coinage."
Speaking of copper coins, this has also become an embarrassing problem for the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.
Abolish the old money of the previous generation and cast the Kaiyuan Tongbao.
Kaiyuan Tongbao is good money, better than five baht, five baht meat and other money, and much heavier.
But there is a law in the market, Li Yuan and they don't understand, that is, bad money drives out good money.
Kaiyuan Tongbao is very good, but the amount of coinage is limited, even if the Tang Dynasty desperately started the coinage furnace, a furnace is only about 3,000 yuan a year, and the Tang Dynasty has built hundreds of coinage furnaces in various places, and it can only mint 300,000 or 400,000 new coins a year.
New money is good, but the quantity is small.
Therefore, after the new money was put into the market, the people began to hoard and not use, exchange the old money for the new money, and the new money was not used, which resulted in Kaiyuan Tongbao constantly putting into the market, but the new money in the market became less and less.
The Tang Dynasty was short of copper, and constantly melted the old copper coins confiscated to mint new coins, and as a result, the old coins were also rapidly decreasing.
There is a money shortage in the Tang Dynasty, and it is getting more and more serious, and now the imperial court has to order that copper coins are prohibited for more than ten transactions, and silk must be used, and copper coins are prohibited from going out of the border of the Tang Dynasty.
But this did not have much effect, and now the imperial court had to look for copper ore everywhere, and constantly added coinage furnaces.
There is a shortage of money, but it has always followed the ancient Chinese dynasties, especially in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, millions of copper coins were minted a year, but the problem of money shortage could not be solved.
Money shortage, one is the lack of copper in ancient China, the mining and smelting technology is not high, the money casting technology is backward, and the casting cost is high.
In addition, the outflow of copper coins, and the behavior of melting copper into bronze to make money several times the profit, made the money shortage in various dynasties very serious.
Datang had to do both money and silk.
Minting money.
If this is added, Zhang Chao will have seven envoys.
However, when it comes to minting money, Zhang Chao is quite interested, he knows that the official cost of coinage in the Tang Dynasty is very high, and a coinage furnace requires a lot of craftsmen.
However, if you improve the coinage process and increase the speed, such as putting on a hydraulic punch or something, it should be much faster.
If there is enough copper, tin, lead, etc., and slightly change the proportion, you can make a lot of money by minting money.
Of course, in fact, building more money banks and issuing some bankers with better credit can also help solve the problem of money shortage.
After all, the money shortage is mainly due to the lack of currency in circulation, and if the banker has enough credit, it can actually be used as currency.
The transfer envoy is similar to this salt and iron envoy, transporting money, grain and materials in Longxi.
Because Taozhou has become the largest border commercial port in Longyou, and a large number of cattle, horses and other materials have entered the Tang Dynasty, so the imperial court specially gave Zhang Chao a transshipment envoy.
"San Lang, Your Majesty, after I let you go to Taozhou, take a closer look at everything in Taozhou, the military government, Tuntian, schools, border markets, etc."
Zhang Chao smiled, "Of course there is no problem, Taozhou has changed quite a lot, as long as Gong Ying has time, I can accompany Gong Ying to take a closer look." ” "San Lang, you have only been in Taozhou for three months, but you have already sent 30,000 yuan to Chang'an, Your Majesty is very happy."
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"This is also thanks to His Majesty's Hongfu, now Taozhou has entered a very stable period of development, and it is possible to pay 10,000 yuan to the court every month in the future."
"Hahaha, good" Hearing that he could hand over 10,000 yuan to the court in January, Yu Wenshi and happily closed his mouth.
"San Lang, I want to go to Jiangxin City now" "No problem" 10 chapters are still owed. t1706231537: