"It seems so hard."

"So I have to set a second goal, the first goal is ambitious, it can be said to be a dream of life, and the second goal is achievable."

Zhu Jun was a little confused.

"Secondly, the saddest thing is to set goals and not work hard."

"Some goals may not be achieved."

"Then why not set a second goal?"

"Xiaolang, can you explain a little bit clearly?"

"Okay, let me start with the third, the third is that hard work alone is not enough, there must be a direction. For example, my first goal is the same as yours, to roll name Donghuamen, but it is so difficult, so I have to set a second goal. ”

"And what's your second goal?"

"Originally, the second goal was to live, so I raised sheep, and then I studied on my own while waiting to grow up, and only when I grew up could I do more. That's the second goal, the one that can be achieved with just a lot of effort. ”

"But you have the Xia Guo Sword."

"Yes, with Xia Guojian, the lives of our brothers and sisters can be improved. But if you want to be motivated, you have to go out to study, and once you leave the village and enter the city, everything will cost money, and you will have to gradually save money from now on. ”

"I admire Xiaolang's self-reliance."

"I'm not talking about this, let me ask, where is Erlang's second goal? You have to know how difficult it will be to be named Donghuamen? It's not that I'm saying something that makes you discouraged, with Erlang's talent, it will be possible to lift a son, but it will be even more difficult to roll the Donghua Gate than to ascend to the sky. Is it really time to spend a lifetime on an unattainable dream? Even if it can be realized, you have to pay attention to ways and means to learn, does Erlang have a plan for how to learn? No plan is the same as no purpose in life, that is, studying indiscriminately and reading dead books. ”

Zhu Jun pondered.

Wang Ju was also helpless, he didn't say it, but he knew it in his heart.

The battle of Heiaoling actually did not earn a thousand yuan of goods for the Zhu family, but brought trouble.

Zhu Huan is holding the idea of investment, and Wang Ju also knows.

But in any case, he has received the favor of others.

This is a favor, and it has to be taken down.

Therefore, Wang Ju is also moderately enlightening Zhu Jun, not Zhu Huan's kind of armed enlightenment, but a kind of enlightening enlightenment.

"How do I set a second goal?"

"Your second goal should be how to help your father, so that your Zhu family will not be defeated."

"I don't know how to do business."

"What is there, can you learn, is it more difficult than me having to feed a family of three at the age of thirteen?"

With just one sentence, Zhu Jun was swallowed alive.

While he was talking, the second uncle hurriedly ran over: "It's not good, the officials have come to collect taxes." ”

In the Song Dynasty, the rural taxation was mainly summer tax and autumn tax.

The summer tax is generally collected from April and is often received in July, and the autumn tax is collected from August and October, and may be extended to February of the first month of the following year.

Wangjiazhai is located in the bitter cold land of the northwest, the harvest of winter wheat and barley is very poor, and even most people do not plant, so it is difficult to pay taxes in summer, and it is generally not difficult to pay taxes in autumn.

In the past, when it was time to collect the autumn tax, it was the head of the village next door who came to say hello, and everyone sent the autumn tax to the security military city, but there would be no officials.

"For the sword?"

Wang Wei nodded.

"These inkmen have sharp noses." Wang Ju said funny, and hurried over, there was not only a Xu official, but also two officials.

"How many Xia Guo swords have you forged?"

"It can't be called Xia Guojian, it's an imitation of Xia Guojian and some swords."

The official looked at Wang Ju strangely, why did this village let a child talk to him?

"How many swords, how many do they sell?"

"Twenty swords, sold for four hundred." Wang Ju replied honestly.

Since people have come to the door, they must have heard some rumors, and they can't hide it if they want to.

This was the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, the commercial tax in the Song Dynasty was not heavy, and the merchants who sat on the ground paid a tax of 3% of the transaction value, and the traffickers paid a tax of 2% of the transaction value for each field service. But since the Qingli War, there has been chaos.

Before the Qingli War, the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty was generally maintained at 8 million yuan, and in those years, the country was not good, and the country hurriedly started the war, but after a few years of fighting the war, it cost hundreds of millions of dollars before and after. Therefore, they had no choice but to re-impose heavy taxes, including commercial taxes, and even farmers who sold vegetables had to pay taxes on melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables. Even if it is one end and the other, it has to be taxed repeatedly.

For example, in the initial transaction, whether it is a merchant or a producer, as long as one party pays, but in those years, the producer also has to pay tax, and the buyer also has to pay tax. After the final transaction, the trafficker has to pay the last pass tax, and the retailer has to sell to the people, so the tax has to be paid.

As a result, in those years, the commercial tax swelled to more than 20 million yuan, an increase of nearly three times.

If the Song Dynasty is commercial, the tax of more than 20 million merchants is actually not much.

However, whether it was the merchants of the scholars' families or the businesses of the powerful and powerful, the officials did not dare to offend and openly evaded taxes. In the end, this huge commercial tax had to be borne by small and medium-sized merchants, causing many small and medium-sized merchants to go bankrupt, coupled with the indiscriminate behavior of Jiaozi, the rise in prices, and the people's livelihood, just encountered drought, which induced a large-scale peasant uprising in Guanzhong and Henan.

Bao Zheng and other ministers kept writing that the war had stopped, and they wanted to relieve the pressure on the people.

But this head is open, where can it be taken back?

The state's commercial tax revenue seems to be back to the past, but the officials below are still exploiting the merchants.

Wang Quan's face also changed.

Wang Ju gave a calm look, instead of the three percent tax, he was worried that there would be other taxes.

Xu Yan's eyes rolled, and he said: "If it's not the Xia Guo Sword, can a sword be sold for twenty times?" If it is the sword of Xia Guo, how can a sword only sell for twenty times! ”

Wang Ju just talked to Zhu Jun about reasoning, and Xu was also reasoning, but what he was talking about was false reasoning.

Wang Quan's face changed drastically.

The official opened his mouth wide, if he really taxed according to the price of Xia Guojian, God knows how much tax he would have to collect?

"May I ask the name of the chagong honor, where is the field affairs?"

"A certain surname is Gu, and the field affairs are the field affairs of the security military city."

"Second uncle, please come to my house and take down the pen and paper."

Wang Wei went to get a pen and paper.

"Boy, do you want to resist taxes?"

The result of the tax resistance is arrest, imprisonment, and torture.

Since Zhao Kuangyin, the imperial court has also issued many orders to release the imprisoned people in arrears of taxes and forgive the people's tax arrears.

However, there was no strict suspension.

If the people are tightened, they will have resentment towards the country, and if they are loosened, the people will not be afraid of the court and will not pay taxes, which is also the way of the "golden mean". In fact, it is the "flexible governance" in the rule of man.

Gu Xu spoke in front, and the two officials in the back stared at each other.

"Gu Gong, that kid dares to resist taxes." Wang Ju smiled slightly, and said, "I just want to write a text to Cheng Gong." ”

"Did Cheng Gong let you not pay taxes?"

"No, Uncle Yuan Hei created the real Xia Guo Sword, and the kid wants to ask Cheng Gong to write to the court and let the court reuse Uncle Yuan Hei."

"Are you dreaming......" Gu Xu's voice suddenly stopped.

The Xia Xia national sword, the Western Xia crossbow, and the cold-forged armor are famous all over the world, but the cost is high and the output is small.

However, the Song Dynasty's annual military expenditure was almost equivalent to the total tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty for three or four years, and the iron output of the Song Dynasty was not comparable to that of the Western Xia. If you want money and money, you want iron and iron, once the Song Dynasty gets the technology of Xia Guojian, it can be greatly promoted.

This principle is the same as the later god arm bow, the Xixia chieftain Li Dinglai to cast, he brought the Xixia bow and crossbow technology, and then combined with the Song Dynasty bow and crossbow technology, so the god arm bow, the front Ming, the back immediately promoted, and constantly improved, the pull from the original two stones to one stone two. Although the status of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty was somewhat low, but knowing this sharp weapon, Song Shenzong issued an edict to reward Li Ding and gave Li Ding an official position.

If Yuan Heizi really has the technology to make Xia Guojian, it will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition.

If not, he would have come to blackmail this time.

It is conceivable that once this performance is presented to Cheng Kan, there will be a lot of turmoil.

The border needs to be stabilized!

"Do you dare, do you want to protect me, can you still arrest me? Or when you bring more officers and soldiers, maybe I will write dozens of recitals and send them to Yanzhou, even the capital, and even the Wengu Courtyard in the capital! ”

"You, you ......"

"You can stretch out your hand, but it's not an excuse that can be used, using Xia Guojian as an excuse, if you don't get it right, it's just a black character with an army!"

"You, you ......"

"That's it, since Gu Gong has come down, then open the five swords."

This is for the officials surnamed Gu to step down, but Wang Ju lamented in his heart, the Song Dynasty had high salaries and honesty, and it should be said that official corruption is relatively light in history, but what about these officials? How can Wang Anshi's law change be undefeated!

Tigers have to be beaten, and flies have to be swatted.

ps: The Song Dynasty was taxed with "banknotes" as evidence, and its banknotes were not printed before paying taxes, which was called white banknotes. After paying taxes, it is stamped with the seal of the tax group, the strip seal, and is called the Zhu banknote. In order to prevent forgery of seals, the group seal is stamped with the date, and the style of the seal is changed regularly, and the seals are not the same in various places, and the old seals are destroyed after the reprinting. At the same time, there is also a set of strict measures for backing up and keeping account books, so as to know the economic situation of various places, facilitate management, reduce the danger of small coffers, and evaluate the performance of officials. Some of these measures are worth learning from even now. Of course, backwardness in ancient times inevitably had many drawbacks, which was a helpless thing, after all, the productive forces were backward, and it was the era of imperial power.

Wang Ju asked Zhu Wen, who had five swords, and the remaining fifteen swords were three hundred and nine swords, which was for three people to pay for errands, otherwise the matter would be deadlocked.

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