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Li Shen crossed his hands, slowly walked into the back office of Mengzhou, and after the ceremony, he went to Li Di's study in Zhizhou.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Shen said: "Xianggong, yesterday the envoy sent a message, saying that he would come to inspect next month. ”

Li Di held a pen in his hand, looked at the big characters he had just written on the table, and said without looking back: "Come on, next month is the winter moon, if you don't hurry up, does Xu Ping still want to come to Mengzhou for the New Year?" ”

Li Shen was silent for a while, and then said: "Xianggong, Xu Ducao is here this time, how should we deal with it?" ”

"What is there to deal with? One is one and two is two, we are innocent, what are we afraid of patrolling? I don't have to worry about what you do, if you want to check anything, you just do what he tells you to do, you don't need to prepare anything! ”

Li Shen's face was a little unsightly: "Two days ago, Henan Mansion came over to check the accounts of the flying ticket——"

Seeing that Li Shen was talking and would not leave for a while, Li Di put down the pen in his hand, turned around, asked Li Shen to sit down on the side, and ordered tea. He said to him: "Look at it, it's the end of the year, and all the states naturally have to check the accounts, otherwise they won't be able to keep busy if they squeeze all the things of the year into the lunar month." Since there is a document in Henan Prefecture, you can help to check carefully. ”

"Xianggong, I've checked. But this year, we have issued too many flying tickets, and if we send copper coins to the Jingshi according to the real number, the amount is huge, and it will be a little difficult to do——"

"What's so hard about that? Since the ticket has been opened, there will naturally be copper coins entering our state office, one in and one out, and we still fall a little. Could it be that when the copper money arrives in our hands, it will fly out of thin air? ”

Let the government charge a handling fee of 20 wen per 1,000 wen for issuing a flight ticket, and this money is left by the state capitals themselves, and the more tickets are issued, the more handling fees will be charged. In Li Di's view, the more votes should be opened, the better.

Li Shen was full of embarrassment: "Although this is the truth, when businessmen come to issue flying tickets, they don't all use cash, and a lot of them use silk silk." Xianggong, there are countless cotton cloths coming out of Henan Mansion this year, and the price of silk has plummeted, and it is even impossible to sell it now. In the past, as long as there is silk, there is no worry about not being able to exchange money. And the amount of the ticket is not large, which is not a big deal. But this year is different, when the merchant exchanges the silk for the ticket, it is still the same value, where can he exchange the money now? Not only can't you exchange this amount, you can't exchange it at all! ”

Li Di was taken aback, and then he understood why Li Shen was embarrassed. Flying tickets can not only be exchanged with copper coins, silk silk or gold and silver can be used, and the government will give you the corresponding amount of money, and then issue a flying ticket. There is no problem in doing so when the price of silk is stable, and silk itself is hard currency. In the past few years, it was said that prices have skyrocketed, but on a year-by-year basis, prices are still very stable, and the price of silk silk will rise and fall sharply. This year, the large-scale listing of cotton cloth in Henan Province inevitably suppressed the price of ramie and silk silk, and the government that issued the ticket lost a lot in the past few months.

Textiles such as silk and cloth were an important part of the tax, and most of these goods that were previously available in the market came from the government. Although farmers widely plant mulberry and hemp, their products are basically used for their own use except for paying taxes and will not be circulated in the market. Cotton cloth has suppressed the price of other textiles, and the biggest loss is the local government.

After thinking for a while, Li Di asked Li Shen: "This kind of thing is not only in Mengzhou, how can other state capitals deal with it?" ”

Li Shen smiled bitterly: "Other state capitals have money to settle accounts, and the flying tickets are not as many as ours." In addition to Mengzhou, there is only Xiangzhou on Jingxi Road, which is facing this dilemma. However, our two states are the places where foreign merchants exchange the most tickets, and there is a big deficit this year! ”

Mengzhou is the gateway of Jingxi Road to the northwest, and Xiangzhou is the gateway to the southwest and southeast. However, Li Di and Zhang Qi, the governors of these two states, opposed Xu Ping's new policy and did not implement it. At present, the two states have a large amount of silk in their hands, and they are facing a huge deficit in finances.

Li Shen said: "In fact, it's not just flying tickets, but also commercial taxes. Because other states have set up companies, what kind of value-added tax do they receive, and they no longer separate taxes and taxes, and the more transactions, the more taxes they collect. We still collect taxes as in previous years, and the merchants have all the tax approvals, and we can't collect taxes—"

If Mengzhou does not set up a company, it is not good to do business in Henan Province if it is not a company, so businessmen have to open their companies to other states. Most of the merchants in Mengzhou went to Henan Province to open companies, and the newly established Fufu Financial Supervisor, which is across the Yellow River from Mengzhou, gathered a large number of companies opened by Mengzhou merchants. The biggest income of a small town that mints money is not the minting of money, but also a wonder.

Xu Ping's series of reforms did not have an impact in the first half of the year, and the performance of Mengzhou and Xiangzhou was even very outstanding at that time, which made Li Di laugh at Xu Ping is tossing blindly. As a result, in the second half of the year, cotton cloth was listed, the situation changed abruptly, Mengzhou and Xiangzhou were pitted miserably, and all the taxes for a year were put into it, and the deficit could not be filled.

Seeing Li Shen's sad face, Li Di said: "You don't have to worry, this kind of thing happens, it can't be stopped by manpower, it's not our fault." As long as we have clear accounts, there is always a solution. ”

"Alas, Xianggong, I'm afraid things are not so simple. Do you remember what Xu Ducao said when he left Mengzhou last year? One exam a year, good awards, bad punishments, I'm only afraid of being sad this year-"

Why doesn't Li Di remember? It was because Xu Ping was angry with him that he let this come out, but he didn't expect it to come true. It is better to say that there is a big hole in the state's finances that cannot be explained. Because of the lack of the New Deal, the entire economic system was effectively detached from the states on Jingxi Road, and Mengzhou and Xiangzhou were isolated. The boom in this round of cotton cloth trade is actually equivalent to other states pumping the blood of these two states, and they are still being pumped.

What to do? Forcibly release the silk silk pressed in the state as copper coins and send it to Beijing? In the past, silk was a hard currency, but now I am afraid that the third division will not be the head of this injustice. Chen Zhizhong is a person that Zhao Zhen relies on very much, and it is estimated that he will not suffer this dumb loss. And the deficit caused by the flight ticket is also faced by the three divisions.

Mengzhou and Xiangzhou, one Zhizhou is the former prime minister, and the other Zhizhou is the former privy envoy, under the annual examination of Xu Ping on Jingxi Road, will they both hang behind and become the bottom two states?

The joke is a bit of a big deal.