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Li Shimin was poor and crazy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's strange to be so poor that his father is the emperor, and it's not good to be the emperor. At that time, there was still a war every year, and the territory was not so big.

After thinking about it, Li Shimin felt that he was too good to the people.

Tax exemption and tax reduction at every turn, the world suffers disasters, this used to be a common thing, even in the heyday of the emperor, but at that time, the imperial court did not help the people like him, and the people did not accept the famine to ask for food in the face of disasters, which is a very common thing. Even Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian often took hundreds of civil and military officials to Luoyang, at that time, behind the emperor were hundreds of thousands of people in Guanzhong, dragging their families and mouths, and bringing the old to help the young.

In fact, if Li Shimin, like Yang Jian, or his father, were not so tough, then this time he would not be so poor and crazy looking for money.

He was even thinking about whether to borrow money from Li Chao just now.

Li Chaocai's wealth is very powerful, which is the envy of Li Shimin.

When you are an emperor, you are tired.

It's still his father's way, it's good to rule the world with the Guanlong nobles, as for the rest, what does it matter so much. It is only issued to Beijing officials, and officials from other places are not issued to them. The imperial court yamen also did not issue service funds, so they let them lend money by themselves and use the public money to collect interest.

Most of the titles of the magnates are fictitious, and they give more power elsewhere and let them earn it themselves.

The government soldiers were not paid, and the allowance for fighting the war was also small.

In short, the imperial court minimized its financial expenditures.

When you encounter a strong Turk, then compromise with them and give in, send money and women, and call yourself a minister, don't be in a hurry, you have to fight hard with them.

But when it comes to Li Shimin, his new policy is reformed everywhere, but the more he reforms, the more money he spends.

In the face of the aggressiveness of the Turks, they refused to pay tribute and refused to sit back and watch them invade the border.

Li Shimin wanted to borrow money from Li Chao, but unfortunately Li Chao didn't have this awareness.

"Tell me, what do you have to do to raise money?"

As long as Li Chao can get the money, Li Shimin doesn't care if the money is from Li Chao or someone else, anyway, he needs money now.

Li Chao looked at Li Shimin, less than thirty years old.

This year should be twenty-eight to be exact, tall, and very heroic, but a little haggard. In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin worked very hard, had a lot of anger in his heart, and kept mentioning it, just to prove that he would be stronger than Li Yuan when he sat in the world.

This is an emperor who is too persecutive, and he is very similar to Yang Guang in many places. In the years when Yang Guanggang succeeded to the throne, he also vigorously reformed, and then the subjects of the world praised that in the early years of the great cause, it was much more enlightened and powerful than the later years of the emperor.

It's a pity that Yang Guang's life was too smooth, and after encountering a heavy setback, he gave up on himself. Li Shimin is similar to his cousin Yang Guang in many places, but Li Shimin's road to the throne has been very hard, and he was a martial artist earlier, so Li Shimin is much more tenacious than Yang Guang.

The defeat of the overlord of Western Qin did not defeat Li Shimin. The tempering in the army has undoubtedly made Li Shimin have a more tenacious quality.

This may be the reason why he finally became the Emperor of the Ages, but Yang Guang was called the Faint King by countless people.

Li Shimin wants to prove himself, to prove that he is stronger than Jiancheng, even stronger than Li Yuan, stronger than Yang Guang and Yang Jian, he wants to be an emperor like Emperor Qin and Han Wu, and Li Chao is willing to assist him.

Li Shimin asked for money, and Li Chao has been helping him get money.

Now that the imperial court owes 3,000 yuan in national debt, Li Shimin still wants to be tough with the Turks and have a fight, instead of thinking about ceding land and paying compensation, and paying tribute, Li Chao is also very moved.

"Your Majesty, if it is less than 30 million, the minister has a way to raise funds. But this money is not obtained out of thin air, this money is the wealth of the people, no matter what method is used to collect it, this is actually a loss of national strength, national prestige, and imperial power. ”

Li Shimin nodded.

Of course he knew this, just as he had done to buy grain from the rich and to issue bonds, and he knew the essence of these things.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat.

There were many reasons for the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the eventual return of the world to the Tang, among which the Tang defended the interests of all parties, which is a key point. If the imperial court has been only concerned about looting the wealth of the world, someone will eventually rise up, just like the Sui Dynasty, no matter how strong the Great Sui is, once it breaks out, it will collapse.

"Tell me about your solution, I'll think about it!"

Li Chao has many ways to raise money, but each one is not without a price.

For example, donating money for war and collecting donations from the rich in the world is the lowest means, and it is a real forcible expropriation, which will attract the resentment of countless people.

It is also possible to increase the salary, so that the world Dingkou can increase the war tax, just like the three salaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but history proves that at the beginning of the design of the three salaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although it sounds like the people are not burdened, but in the actual collection process, these salaries are apportioned and transferred to a very small number of poor people, so the last three salaries have also become an important straw for the Ming Dynasty.

According to the essence of taxation, it should be to tax more on those with the most wealth, and less on the people with less wealth, so that the most wool can be plucked from the fewest sheep and the fewest sheep can be heard.

However, there are also many tricks in this, and simple taxation methods will make people resentful.

"Your Majesty, salt!"

Li Shimin stared at Li Chao, and when he heard the word salt, his brows furrowed.

"Salt?"

The imperial court has already implemented a monopoly policy on salt two years ago, and one salt has increased the salt tax by one million yuan per year for the imperial court, and this tax has made Li Shimin very satisfied. This is a tax that was not available before, and now it has increased by a million.

But the salt tax in the past two years is basically about one million guan a year, how to get 30 million guan?

"Is it necessary to increase the price of salt and increase taxes?" Li Shimin asked, he had heard Li Chao say before, the salt tax is actually essentially a poll tax, because everyone wants to eat salt and tax the salt, so in the end, everyone has to pay for the salt tax, but the imperial court does not need to tax all the people, only needs to tax the salt merchants, and the salt merchants increase the price of salt, which is equivalent to collecting taxes from the people.

In this way, the imperial court did not directly levy salt taxes on the people, but only on a small number of salt merchants, and the taxes were not so bothered.

In Li Chao's words to him, this is actually a turnover tax.

Li Shimin now only wants to know how to increase the original salt tax of one million guan to 30 million guan.

"Your Majesty, the salt tax can be raised, but we can't raise it by 30 million, so although our money is on salt, we still need more methods and strategies."

Li Shimin couldn't help but pinch his mustache again, he couldn't figure out how to do it.

"Please borrow the Four Treasures of the Study!" Li Chaodao.