There is a sixth watch in the evening, asking for tickets and rewards Capitalism is cannibalism.
Li Chao now wants to let capital sprout, just farming, there is no future for development.
Because of the imperial court's feudal system, the essence is to drive those powerful landlords and lords to the frontier, and policies such as land replacement are to create a Central Plains system of the Tang Dynasty.
At the beginning of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong standard system was established, and the princes did not seal the Guanzhong.
The Han court made every effort to develop the Guanzhong region, so that the Western Han court had a strong rear.
Even if the princes rebelled, they never wavered the Western Han court.
Li Chao helped Li Shimin get this sub-feudal system at the beginning, but it was not to create a group of princes who could not be defeated.
The fundamental starting point is to clear out the Central Plains and become a reserved area for the imperial court.
Those military upstarts, or thousand-year-old gate lords, all rushed to the frontier.
Ensure that the Central Plains will not be arbitrarily annexed by powerful and noble landlords, so that there will be more yeoman farmers and small landlords in the Central Plains.
As for the feudal marquis of the frontier, the court is not afraid of them sitting big, because there is a push order.
Each generation of princes, if there is no high military merit, then they have to be demoted to the rank of lord, and at the same time, other sons can also be demoted to a few levels to get a knight, and divide the princes' territories.
A national duke may be divided into a county duke and a group of viscounts and baronies.
The next generation, the county duke, has become a county duke and a group of barons.
In this way, each piece of territory will become smaller and smaller, unless it is sealed by meritorious service.
Otherwise, in a few generations, this territory may all become a small barony, or even a private estate without a title.
Under such a system of feudal and tui en en, coupled with the fact that the imperial court restricted the armament of the territory from the beginning, and had great powers such as administration and taxation, even if the princes enjoyed high economic power in the territory, it was difficult for them to truly become the emperor of the soil and could not confront the central court.
When this system was first designed, Li went beyond his strength.
But now Li Chao regrets it, because now he is the biggest prince.
But because of the rules and regulations he designed at the beginning, he was restricted.
However, Li Chao was unwilling, so he thought about taking another path.
Li Chao hopes that one day, he, a prince, can also become a capitalist.
I even hope that one day, I can sign a Magna Carta with the emperor, convene a congress in the Tang Dynasty, and establish a constitutional monarchy.
These sounds ridiculous now, and Li Chao has never even revealed even the slightest bit of this idea to anyone.
Because he knows that now, to say this, is a great rebellion, a madman.
But Li Chao really thought so.
Centralization is certainly beneficial, it makes the country more cohesive and can accumulate stronger strength.
But on the other hand, it is not necessarily a good thing that the imperial power is too strong.
The group system does not have much effect in the Tang Dynasty, for example, before, Li Chao insisted on seeing it, but Emperor Li Shimin did not adopt it at all, and in the end, the collision between the monarch and the minister and the prime minister was undoubtedly the defeat of the prime minister.
Li Chao always has a sense of crisis.
Perhaps Li Shimin is now more virtuous and open-minded.
Li Shimin can tolerate Li Chao, but who can guarantee that Li Shimin's son will continue to tolerate him in the future Even if Cheng Qian is the prince, even if he is the prince's teacher and father-in-law, Li Chao does not dare to guarantee it.
Historically, it was Li Zhi who became the emperor.
The eldest grandson Wuji was the key figure in establishing Li Zhi, and he was also loyal to the auxiliary government after Li Zhi became emperor, and the result was Someone accused the eldest grandson Wuji of rebellion, but the eldest grandson Wuji didn't even bother to question him face-to-face, and was exiled directly.
In the face of power, sometimes family affection can be very fragile.
Li Chao still hopes to give himself and his children and grandchildren a guarantee, and also hopes to let Datang have a more stable future.
The cabinet, the parliament, and the feudal princes may be able to avoid the infighting and tragedy in history.
But all this is a little too far away.
It's too far away to say that this can only be done step by step.
Dai Zhou is here again.
"Your Majesty agreed to hand over the thirty salt works and mines to the Li family for contract mining, and borrowed more than 4 million yuan to offset the contract mining fees.
However, the tax is 10% and cannot be reduced further.
In addition, half of the coal and iron produced by Li Ji must be purchased by the imperial court, and the other half of the imperial court also has the right of first refusal. ” This result was not unexpected by Li Chao.
"It's okay for the imperial court to buy it, but it must be at the market price, and if the imperial court buys it at the market price, we can give the imperial court the right of first refusal."
Li Chao also refused to give an inch, the court wanted to be an official, buy it at a low price here, and sell it at a high price there, Li Chao would not agree.
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"The court can grant you this request."
"Then the cooperation is happy," Li Chao smiled and stretched out his hand.
Dai Xuan shook his hand a little helplessly, "Li Xiang is really leaky, and he won't let the court take advantage of it at all." ” "The basis of cooperation is fairness, if the court always wants to take advantage, in fact, this kind of cooperation will not last long, right?"
Dai Xuan nodded helplessly, "Zhao Guogong's plan to contract the construction of the imperial court's frontier roads and the construction of the castle was proposed before, and after His Majesty considered it, he basically agreed.
The specific amount of land exchanged for still needs to be discussed in detail. ” "No problem, I will send the Li family's steward to form a negotiation team and discuss with the imperial court."
Several important things reached a cooperation intention, and both parties were very happy.
Li Chao asked people to bring wine and celebrate together.
Dai Xuan took a sip of wine, and said with a somewhat complicated expression, "Zhao Guogong, the arrears can be regarded as paid off, shall we continue to talk about the loan, the imperial court still has no money." ” Li Chao said with a smile, "As I said earlier, there is borrowing and repaying, and it is not difficult to borrow again."
Since the previous account has been paid off, of course, it is no problem to talk about borrowing money later. ” That's what Dai Xuan was waiting for.
"Then I'll borrow 10 million" Li Chao smiled and didn't turn his face.
Ten million is not a lot, but Li Ji still took it out.
"It's okay to borrow money, but this time you have to have a mortgage first.
What kind of mortgage is the court going to take, 10 million yuan, this is not a small number. ” "The imperial court can use salt works and mines as collateral."
Li Chao shook his head.
Dai Xuan frowned, "What does Zhao Guogong mean that you want any mine, the imperial court can choose by you, and the same is true for the salt farm." ” "Dai Xiang, don't talk about this salt farm, there are so many people in the Tang Dynasty, and the demand for salt basically does not change every year.
The output of the existing salt works in the imperial court is basically enough for the market demand.
Now the imperial court is still desperately over-issuing salt, and those of us who sell salt spent real money to buy salt first, and by the way, we paid the salt tax first, but as a result, the salt was exchanged for salt, but we found that it could not be sold.
If the imperial court gives me more salt, what is the use of producing more salt, it will only make the imperial court salt company desperately suppress the purchase price, and the more salt is produced, the more money will be lost. ” Dai Xuan's face flushed.
Originally, the salt introduction system was very good, the imperial court bought the salt from the merchants of the salt farm, and then did not sell it directly to the salt merchants who sold it, but the salt merchants sold the salt first, and only by relying on the salt introduction could they receive the salt, and to buy the salt introduction, they had to pay the salt tax first.
But originally, Datang's annual salt demand was one billion catties, but the imperial court overissued two billion and three billion catties of salt.
Then the salt merchants received the salt and paid the salt tax at the same time, but the market could not consume so much, so the salt was backlogged in their hands.
But the imperial court doesn't care about this, and will continue to issue salt introductions next year, even if the salt merchants still have salt in their hands, if they don't buy this year's salt introduction and don't pay taxes, then they can't sell salt this year.
This kind of obvious cheating behavior, I don't know how many salt merchants scolded their mothers.
Compared with the salt administration of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, this is completely reversed.
In later generations, it was a zoned sale, and the salt introduction obtained by each salt merchant was actually a sales area.
Salt merchants are regional dealers, and if they want to sell salt, they must first buy salt nests, obtain regional distribution qualifications, and then buy salt to receive salt.
However, at that time, it also carried out excessive salt introduction, but the salt production of the imperial court was insufficient.
The main thing is not that it is really insufficient, but that the salt from many salt farms is secretly sold to salt merchants and acts as private salt.
As a result, a large number of salt introductions were issued by the imperial court, so the salt merchants had to line up to receive salt with salt quotations, and there was salt to attract salt.
On the other hand, salt merchants collude with salt farms to buy salt that does not pay taxes at low prices, and sell smuggled salt themselves to evade taxes by selling it in their own areas.
Anyway, it's all cheating.
"Zhao Guogong, let me tell you the news that the imperial court has planned to raise the salt tax."
Li Chao frowned, "how much" salt tax is actually equivalent to a disguised poll tax, this kind of tax is the most unscientific and unfair, because no matter how much property you have, you will pay the same tax.
The core essence of taxation should be that those with more property pay more taxes and those with less property pay less taxes.
"The imperial court planned to divide the salt into districts for sale, and each dish was a program, and the salt system was implemented.
Each class of salt is 100,000 citations, each quotation is 120 catties, and the price is six times.
In addition, the sale of salt needs a nest book, and each nest is folded into two. ” Li Chao calculated, cheating daddy.
Originally, at the beginning of Wude, salt was not monopolized, it was just an ordinary commodity.
The price of salt is indeed higher than the price of grain, but it is not ridiculously high.
Later, the imperial court engaged in salt monopoly, and it rose a lot.
But now the imperial court is even more outrageous.
One hundred and twenty catties of salt, the price is six times, and the cost of the consistent two nests is added, which is actually seven times and two thousand for one lead of salt.
One hundred and twenty catties, and one catty costs sixty dollars.
It turned out that I didn't want so much money for a bucket, but now it costs sixty wen per catty.
And according to the previous urine of the imperial court, it must be caused by excessive salt, which means that the final risk will still be passed on to the people.
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You must know that the sixty wen a pound is only the wholesale price of the imperial court, and in the end, when the salt merchant sells it to the people, it will definitely increase the price.
This time, the imperial court raised the price of salt, so the salt tax was directly added to the price of salt, so the salt merchants did not have to pay the salt tax anymore, but now they have engaged in salt compendium and zoning sales.
You can't sell salt as freely as before, you have to first obtain the qualification of Woben, that is, the regional distributor, and you can only sell salt with the qualification.
Woben is not cheap, and when it is amortized into the price of salt, a pound of salt costs ten cents.
However, if you really sell salt according to the method of the imperial court.
One pound sells 2 million salt, and one salt is seven and two, which is 14.4 million yuan a year.
If the imperial court overspends it again, it is possible to issue fifteen or six million a year, or even seventeen or eight million.
Datang now has a population of 50 million, and the average person is less than five catties of salt a year.
But the imperial court has generated 15 million yuan of salt income a year, even if this salt is collected from the hands of the people, it will cost capital, but there is still a net profit of 10 million yuan a year.
It turned out that the imperial court's salt tax was only about two million a year, which was equivalent to a fivefold increase at once.
Li Chao couldn't help but admire these people in the court, a pound of salt was sixty yuan, or even seventy yuan, they were not afraid of the people scolding their mothers.
And with so much salt at a price, I'm really not afraid that others will take risks to sell smuggled salt.
Selling smuggled salt is simply a million profits.
However, the more this is the case, the less interested Li Chao is in operating a salt farm, and under the new salt policy, he is actually forcing salt merchants to engage in smuggling.
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