"Your Majesty, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been disarmed and returned to the government, and they have dispersed one after another, but their meritorious rewards have not yet been fulfilled, but now that the treasury is empty, I don't know how to honor the white slips in the hands of the soldiers."

Shangshu's left servant shot Du Ruhui in the Zichen Hall and played to the emperor.

When fighting, he couldn't care about everything, so he could only go all out to recruit soldiers and horses, mobilize people, and transfer money and food. Now that the war is over, Daqin has also won, but the aftermath is still very troublesome.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were dispatched, millions of people were served, soldiers were rewarded, and people were also paid, all of which the imperial court promised before the war.

Not to mention the money and silk to reward the soldiers, but the real exploits of the soldiers must be fulfilled, those martyrs who died in battle for the country and buried their bones in other places, they always have to care for their families, as well as those disabled soldiers who were disabled for the country's killing of the enemy, most of them have to retire from active service, and many people will always be disabled in the future.

The imperial court must give a bereavement pension.

The imperial court has special regulations and detailed standards for the bereavement of the war dead and disabled, but now the problem is that although the imperial court does not want to repay the debt, it cannot get a reward.

The imperial treasury was completely empty.

"I remember that Yang Guang was surrounded by the Turkic army in Yanmen, and he promised a heavy reward to the soldiers who defended the city, but after the war, he couldn't get a reward, and only gave some empty titles and useless medals, and finally provoked everyone's resentment, and even made a rebellion of the Longyou soldiers, which can be said to make the soldiers of the world chill, which also laid the foundation for him to be killed by Xiaoguo later." Luo Cheng knows very well that there are clear rewards and punishments, which is a necessary thing.

If the rewards and punishments are unfair, then the army will also lose that spiritual momentum.

Previously, the imperial court couldn't come up with money to cash it, so it had to give all the soldiers a reward for their merits, and then first issued a white note, telling the soldiers that the court would cash it out to everyone later. But the treasury was really empty, and the amount of white slips in the hands of the soldiers and civilians was too large.

"Otherwise, the white slips in the hands of the people will not be cashed first, and then they will be allowed to pay one percent of the two taxes they pay every year, and the discount will be completed in ten years, how about it?" The person who said this was Chang'an Mansion Yin Changsun Wuji, although he was not Zaifu, but as the governor of Chang'an, he could still participate in the government.

"No." The prince said.

But the emperor directly gave his brother-in-law a childish comment.

"At the beginning of the promulgation of the two tax laws by the imperial court, it was already stated that the people would no longer bear the free Yao service and miscellaneous labor, etc., if there was a service, although the people had to serve, but the court had to pay for it. Now that this system has only been in place for a few years, does the imperial court want to regret it now? So where is the credibility of the imperial court? ”

"Your Majesty, it's just a temporary expedient measure, and besides, let them deduct their taxes." The eldest grandson argued.

The emperor shook his head and said, "Unless it is a one-time discount, but the number of white strips in the hands of many people is not small, and some of them have served the imperial court in this war for several months, and the discount money has to be several thousand dollars, and this is not counting the other rewards promised by the imperial court in order to recognize and motivate them." ”

Millions of people have white slips in their hands, a few hundred dollars, more than a few thousand, or even more than a dozen thousand, and if they are all discounted into two taxes, then the imperial court will have to lose a lot of taxes this year. After the imperial court implemented the two-tax system, the tax revenue was divided into three tiers, and the third was reserved for the county to be used as the yamen's funds, including the local officials' salaries. The other three are used for the distribution of the three departments of the province, and it is also used for the office expenses of the three departments of the province, the salaries of officials, as well as the expenses for repairing bridges and paving roads, and even for disaster relief.

The last third was handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Imperial Court and deposited in Taifu Temple and Sinong Temple, and this tax was used to support the Sanya army, the royal court, and the hundred officials of the imperial court.

Money is counted, and the two taxes of the imperial court are basically fixed, not within the limits of the means, nor within the limits of the income. The land tax of one acre of land and the tax and service money apportioned in it are all fixed, which means that there will be no change. The household tax has changed, but it will not increase or decrease much.

If the white stripes of millions of people are converted into two taxes, it means that the local counties, provinces, and central courts of the imperial court will lose a lot of income, especially the local counties, and they may not even be able to pay the salaries of officials.

And the eldest grandson Wuji said that it will be discounted in ten years, which means that the court deceived those people, after all, this is wages and rewards, and your tax discount has been excessive, and it will be discounted in ten years?

In this way, next time something happens, who is willing to actively contribute to the court?

This victory was also succeeded by the positive response and contribution of these millions of people. If it is really like Yang Guang's expedition to Liaodong, everyone does everything possible to escape, and even chops off their hands and feet to avoid service, then this court will not be far from the world.

"I have previously issued an edict to exempt the people of the whole world from the land tax of this year, and later issued an edict to exempt the household tax of Guanlonghe, Shuohe, Dongshannan, Jiannan, Henan, Huainan and other provinces. However, the exemption from taxation is exempt from taxation, and the promised rewards and wages for hired workers still have to be paid. ”

The new secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is Cui Junsu, the father of Emperor Cui Fei, although this is also an old official of the Huan Hai, but it is also difficult for a good woman to cook without food, "Your Majesty, the treasury is indeed empty, even if the two taxes are paid after this autumn, it is a drop in the bucket, not to mention that this year, Your Majesty is merciful, exempting the whole world from land tax for one year, and exempting most of the world from household tax, and this autumn's two taxes, and can only collect some local household taxes, not much at all." ”

The Emperor frowned.

"What about this year's salt, tea, and wine tax, this year's market tax, and this year's industrial and commercial tax."

"Your Majesty, due to the tension of the war before, the imperial court was in a hurry to use the money, so it had already collected all the monopoly tax, industrial and commercial tax and market tax for this year in advance."

The tax has already been levied, and the money has long since run out.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court is no longer able to make money." Cui Junsu reminded the emperor that he was eager to resign from this post of Shangshu. At the beginning, he was awarded the post of secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the title of Jiaping Zhang, and the prime minister of the political affairs hall, which made him very excited and happy for a while, but now facing the empty treasury, his hair was about to be scratched.

The imperial court has not been able to pay hundreds of officials, and the salaries of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army and the Inner Ya Pro-Army have not been paid. And there are still so many migrant workers and soldiers whose IOUs have not been honored.

The situation is already very dangerous, although everyone can understand a little, but if the imperial court fails to honor the white slip for a long time, and can no longer pay the salaries of the Northern and Inner Ya troops on time, something will happen.

After all, the soldiers of the North and Inner Offices are not as good as the soldiers of the South Ya, and the soldiers of the South Ya are government soldiers, and there is still land to grow at home. The soldiers of the Beiya Inner Government are recruits, and they are paid without granting land, and the family depends on this bit of food.

"What about my inner treasury, are the people out of money?" The emperor asked.