Cheng Yi is in danger, but the other person is cornered.

The Song Dynasty became richer, to be precise, there were more rich people, but the poor people were still like that, what they were like when they were founded, and what they are still like now.

But it has produced some very powerful consumer classes.

Therefore, the folk play with insects, flowers, birds, and horses...... He even began to play with antique calligraphy and painting.

A pure white handsome Hai Dongqing can be worth thousands of dollars.

But in the depths of Liaodong, not only Haidongqing, but also ginseng, deer antler velvet and all kinds of precious furs.

It was Wu Nan who went to Liaodong, and it was his previous performance that made Wang Ju very important, and this trip was very risky, so Wang Ju handed over the heavy responsibility to Wu Nan.

Then Wu Nan met a Bohai man named Yeluji, his ancestors did not have the surname Yelu, the reason why the surname Yelu was given was the surname, just like Li Ji's original surname was Xu.

His ancestors followed the Liao State to conquer Goryeo, made military exploits, was given the surname by the Liao State, and was given the detailed stability, which is the meaning of the general of the Song Dynasty, but the regimental training envoy is also a general, and the commander is also a general.

However, this detail is about very powerful, even if his ancestors have been dead for a long time, but several Yeluji brothers still hold some official positions in the Liao State, and their family is also a local wangmen in Suzhou.

The two have dealt with each other for two years, and the relationship is not good, mainly because the trade in these two years has brought a lot of wealth to the Yeluji family.

Compared with the Han people in the Central Plains, the Northeast people are not the Northeast people of later generations, and the number of Han people in the Northeast is still very small, but it is the same. The character is bold and rough.

Plus Yeluji's house is located in Suzhou. That is, the area of Dalian in later generations. Originally, the sea route was not very smooth, there was a sea route, it was such a big Bohai Bay, but there were no good sea ships in Liao, and there were good sea ships in the Song Dynasty, but who dared to go to Liao?

Therefore, Yeluji's family had very little traffic with the people of the Central Plains, and Wu Nan did a good job and made money. Yeluji also regarded Wu Nan as a good friend.

Wu Nan heard that Yeluji had a brother named Yeluze, who held an official position in the depths of Liaodong, and often served as a messenger to go to the various departments in the depths of Liaodong to collect various tributes for the Liao State, and where it was not far from Changbai Mountain, the south was the Changbai Mountain Division, the Huibai Division, the northwest was the Wanyan Division, and the northeast was the Five Kingdoms Division.

Actually, it's Jerughi. Even Yeluze, who stayed in the depths of Liaodong, did not know much about the depths of Liaodong. I only know that there are five major tribes, such as the Five Kingdoms, the Changbai Mountain Division, the Wanyan Division, the Five Kingdoms Division, the East China Sea Division, the Wuja Division, and the Tieli Division, and even think that the Huibai Department and the Tieli Department are also their own Jurchen Tribes, and as for the big rivers, they are mixed with the same river, Nashui, and Talu River. However, the same is true of the information in Wang Ju's hands, in general, the departments in the depths of Liaodong are very backward, the land is vast and sparsely populated, so after so many years of trade, Wang Ju has not obtained more detailed information and more detailed maps. However, relatively speaking, Wu Nan may know a little more about Liaodong than Yeluji, especially the Jurchens of the East China Sea (the Jurchens east of Heilongdong), of course, Wu Nan will only pretend to be stupid and go crazy.

Wu Nan said, can you let me go and have a long experience.

Yeluji readily agreed, almost making Wu Nan very embarrassed.

It's too straightforward, in fact, Wu Nan is also a straight person, with these intrigues and tricks, he himself is not used to it, and he is not used to these straightforward Bohai people.

But he was wrong.

Yeluji asked the servants in the family to take Wu Nan to the depths of Liaodong.

Where did he go, in the end, even Wang Ju couldn't tell anyway.

Wu Nan only knew that he went to a place called Mulu River, but what about the Mulu River or the Mulu River, Wu Nan couldn't figure it out.

But fortunately, now Chinese is like English in the world in later generations, and many people in surrounding countries can speak Chinese, and after two years of communication, Wu Nan has also learned a lot of Khitan language.

Therefore, there is no problem with communication.

The further you go, the more sparsely populated the land, the mountains and black waters.

The slave of Yeluji's family took Wu Nan to find Yeluze, and Yeluze came to a fierce hug when they met.

Friends may not take it seriously, but it is precisely because of the arrival of Wu Nan that he has brought a lot of wealth to this Bohai Yelu family.

Maybe there are some people in the upper echelons of the Liao State who know, but the attitude of the two countries towards trade is different, the Song Dynasty is rich, relatively speaking, the trade difference is beneficial to the Liao side, and the Liao State does not have a complete commercial tax system, so it is more conducive to the nobility to welcome, in addition to the war horse, the rest of the materials, although the exchange, so in terms of trade, the Liao State is more relaxed, otherwise Wu Nan and his party will not go so smoothly to Suzhou.

Wu Nan also knows this in his heart, not Wu Nan knows it in his heart, but Wang Ju knows it in his heart, Wu Nan just implements it according to Wang Ju's plan.

So in this line, he is very generous.

But when he got here, he didn't know where he was in Liao.

But fortunately, now the spring is blooming, although the depths of Liaodong are still relatively cold, but this cold can be withstanded.

The two talked about wine, and Wu Nan proposed to follow him to see the situation of collecting tribute, Yelu didn't think much about it, but thought that Wu Nan just wanted to go to the Jurchen Ministries to see the Jurchen property in person, so let's take a look, does Wu Nan have the ability to transport these properties directly to the Song Dynasty? I don't need my own help yet.

As for the terrain, it's even more of a joke, even many people in Liao don't know about this area, the Song Dynasty just knew, and what role did it play, besides, what skills did Wu Nan have, just by looking at it, you would know its detailed terrain? Or do you have this ability to know that the Song Dynasty has the ability to use troops here?

Jerod readily agreed.

The next day, the group went to a Jurchen Ministry.

Wu Nan really observed it carefully, this tribe is similar to many tribes in Shaanxi, it is just a village. But this village is not small, there are more than 100 households, as for these Jurchens, they really look very tough, the weather is still relatively cold at this time, at least here, Wu Nanyi is wearing thick clothes, but most of the people in this village are only wearing a leather jacket, and the two arms and half of the chest are all open.

Men and women, young and old, carried weapons or bows and arrows.

He thought to himself. Sure enough, the folk customs are very tough. It's just that the number of people is a little less.

It is true that there are not many people who give birth to Jurchen. This kind of bad weather, and such a backward way of production and farming, how many people may be there, but it is this group of people who have entered the Central Plains twice......

But Wu Nan didn't know.

Yelu began to collect tribute, and Wu Nan asked: "General Yelu, these people look fierce, aren't you afraid?" ”

"Hahahaha." Yelu laughed and said, "You Southern Barbarians, you are timid, it's not us Da Liao, I'm afraid of what they will do." ”

Wu Nan was speechless in his heart, are we barbarians? That's pretty it.

As if to prove it, Yelu called the patriarch of this tribe and said a few words in Jurchen, anyway, Wu Nan didn't understand, and the patriarch looked embarrassed. Jerod rebuked a few more words. The patriarch had no choice but to make promises.

After a while, more than sixty young girls of the whole clan were brought up by the patriarch.

Yelu said to Wu Nan in Chinese: "Brother Wu. These women, as they like, are picked. ”

"Ah, how can this be."

"What's not to do." Yelu said a few words to the patriarch, and then said to Wu Nan: "Brother Wu, these women were left by me together. ”

Wu Nan was speechless, leaving so many girls down, can you afford it? However, the same was true in the Song Dynasty, and some scholars and doctors had dozens of prostitutes, such as Han Qi, Xiao Song and others.

But there is still a difference between the two, one is voluntary and the other is coercive.

He said: "I'm not very interested in these women, I'm interested in Haidongqing and ginseng deer antlers. ”

"It's okay, I'll let them catch a few real Haidongqing this time," Yelu shouted to the patriarch again.

However, Yelu was also negligent, now there is no artificial breeding, whether it is Haidongqing or ginseng deer antler, they are all wild, and it is very difficult to obtain, especially Haidongqing, in the past two years, because Wu Nan came to trade with a caravan, the Bohai people have increased the number, which has brought great pressure to the Jurchens of all departments.

Now Yelu wants to exaggerate his martial arts and blackmail again, which finally angers the people of this tribe.

The patriarch hesitated for a moment, still resigned, but when he turned around, his eyes flashed with anger. The two parties did not understand the language, but their expressions were similar, Wu Nan immediately noticed it, so he didn't dare to eat much wine that night.

As night fell, the shock began.

Just when Yelu was getting drunk, and his two hands were still groping around with those young girls, a large group of raw girls really Ding Zhuang broke in, and Wu Nan didn't eat much wine, so he immediately got up and fled.

When he escaped from the tent, he saw a Jurchen warrior slash Yeruze's head in half.

"It's the knife ...... on the other side" Wu Nan thought to himself, but he didn't care, he immediately turned over and got on his horse, and this line of Yelu also brought a team of Liao soldiers, and several of them also saw that the situation was not good, turned over their horses, and began to run back.

But the Jurchens also kept horses, and many warriors got on their horses to chase after them.

One after another, someone caught up and killed the Liao soldiers brought by Yelu Ze, and ran and ran, Wu Nan ran away, but he didn't dare to stop, and continued to run forward in one breath, until the sky was dark, he stopped.

But where now?

He was also dumbfounded, he didn't know what the dynamics of the Liao Kingdom would be after that tribe killed Yeluze, but Guan Jian was not led by the descendants of the Yeluji family, he was Han after all, and his language, clothing, and hair were all the same.

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The three divisions reported last year's financial income, not only last year's financial income, but also compared with Yuanfeng's four years.

Yunnan two roads and Jiaozhi Road are still not counted.

When can it be calculated, get the year after tomorrow, because Wang Ju pondered, get the year after tomorrow, it will be basically stable, and then he can partially provide support to the imperial court. Therefore, only then can the financial revenue of the three roads be counted on the general ledger.

In the same way, there is also the future Western Xia region.

But after a long period of recuperation and integration, it can be considered whether it can bring some benefits to the imperial court.

So this is the difference between Wang Ju and Wang Anshi, in fact, a Qinzhou City can bring a lot of profits to the imperial court in a year, but Wang Anshi is still not satisfied, and Yu Xihe Road immediately implemented the taxes with the Song Dynasty.

You must know that Xihe Road is not Xixia, nor Dali, and the taxes have not been heavy before...... Do so. Is it good for integration?

But that's fine. Bad or bad. It's already history. Everything still depends on the Western Xia, the Western Xia successfully won, even if there are some tribes dissatisfied with Xihe, it is not enough to do harm, Western Xia can't take it, some tribes on Xihe Road are dissatisfied, plus Ali bones, there will be a long battle to recover Huangzhou in the future.

The first item. That is, the green seedling money, the market exchange money, as well as the house tax and cattle rent have all been banned, and even the rental income of the official house has been reduced a lot.

Taken together, these major items brought nearly 12 million losses to the imperial court.

Zhao Ji was a little puzzled, in his memory, these incomes were only eight or nine million yuan at most.

Wang Ju snorted to the southwest, which means that Renzong Qiongzhou is free of salt.

On the bright side, the income of the imperial court is only eight or nine million, but it is actually more than that.

This is still Wang has made great efforts to rectify the officialdom, and there are more than 700 officials in various states and counties who do not act, and officials who are greedy for ink. or officials with insufficient ability, who were punished successively. More than 200 officials even retreated directly.

This gives officialdom a new look, otherwise the losses will be heavier.

The second item is the loss of exempt money, the state has to pay more than 4 million guan for it every year, but at the same time, it has exempted nearly 5 million guan of surplus money, which is equivalent to an increase and a decrease, and the imperial court loses more than 9 million guan every year, which is a new guan, not an old one.

The third is the two taxes, which originally amounted to 55 million (bundles of stones), because the number of households dropped sharply. At the same time, in order to promote morality, the families of martyrs, or disabled veterans, filial sons, good people who act bravely, philanthropic families, and female households, are also exempted from all the two taxes. However, the evaluation of philanthropists is stricter, and those who have to take out more than half of their family property to do good deeds can be philanthropists. It is impossible to have a family property of one million yuan, and if I take out a thousand yuan, I am a philanthropist, and I have to exempt tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land from tax.

In addition, the families of all kinds of Baoding, volunteers, archers, and strong soldiers are also exempt from tax or half tax.

So the two taxes dropped to 38 million last year, a decrease of 17 million.

The various officials listened to these cold data and smacked their tongues one by one.

These are all manifestations of policies that benefit the people, and most of them benefit the poor.

At the same time, over the years, the state has taken out millions of yuan to pay compensation to the horse owners, as well as the loss of weapons for the protection of Ding Yiyong.

An additional $31 million has been allocated for infrastructure.

The rest is basically the same, such as the loss of privatization of pit mines, but the annual increase in Fangchang Hedu has increased to more than 9.5 million, and some of it is summed up in the increase in commercial taxes, which is negligible.

The five kings did not dare to move.

Although the sugar cane prison brings nearly one million yuan of income to the country in a year, it can also be ignored in this huge finance.

Then there are two increases.

Last year, the travel agency had not been handed over to the Limin Supervisor, so the Limin Prison Imperial Court only made a profit of three or four hundred thousand yuan, in fact, this was a good job for Shen Kuo, otherwise the profit would be even less. So the various shareholders are not equal......

Last year, the net income of the banking department, excluding the profit from the issuance of silk delivery, reached more than 12 million yuan, which refers to the dividends of the imperial court, but in fact it is only eighty percent of the net income of the banking department.

This year and next, with the repayment of the 30 million debts on the other side, the income will be even more.

The second is the increase in commercial taxes, and the income of purple and red banknotes reached more than 27 million yuan last year.

"Oh, oh......"

Many officials opened their eyes wide.

However, there is another huge expenditure, that is, the cost of the two wars in the south and the two wars in the northwest, which is very staggering, and more than 40 million yuan of money and silk have been shared before and after.

Therefore, it seems that the imperial court has implemented many policies to benefit the people, but the actual income of the imperial court has not decreased much, at most about 10 million yuan.

However, after three or four years of recuperation, if the war against Xia is launched in the future, the finances will still be a little tight.

However, a very small number of officials were not very convinced, Wang Ju could see it clearly, and when the report of the third division was completed, he walked out and said: "To this day, there may be scholars who think that I am not the so-called self-sufficiency of the people without endowment. ”

"Yes, all kinds of miscellaneous taxes such as transfer and consumption have not been removed, how can it be called that the people do not add taxes and the country is self-sufficient. But it's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't, because there's still ...... Western Xia! But as long as the Western Xia is taken, even if there are still some areas that rebel and return from time to time, the imperial court will still save money on war costs. ”

Even if there is a rebellion. It's also less expensive than fighting with Western Xia again and again.

"But it's much less. It depends on the future national integration policy of the imperial court. ”

A few days ago, Wang Ju deliberately used Li Shimin's ethnic policy to make mistakes. Got to the point.

And emphasized that integration, not too harsh, but also not too weak.

Just like the Qing Dynasty forcibly let the Han people have their hair and keep their children, it almost really turned hundreds of millions of Han people into slaves.

That is the backwardness replacing the advanced, and now the advanced is replacing the backward, and if the national political nationality implements it well, it will be even more natural.

At the same time, Shaanxi Road no longer needs to retain so many troops and militias, which not only allows the people of Shaanxi Road to immediately release pressure. The imperial court also saved at least 10 million yuan a year in military expenses. ”

All kinds of forbidden soldiers, soldiers, Baojie and archers stationed on Shaanxi Road reached more than 300,000. In addition, there are a large number of strong men who are brave......

Think about it, except for the hundreds of thousands of forbidden soldiers, the rest are borne by the people of Shaanxi Road, how many Ding Zhuang can there be on Shaanxi Road?

"Without Western Xia, the Liao State may not use troops against our dynasty, and even if it does, our dynasty does not need to take the initiative to provoke. At least a dozen years will take a dozen years to further recuperate and recuperate, until the northwest is completely integrated. Then the Liao State will provoke again, our dynasty will not lack cavalry, the second will be richer, and the third will have a large number of Qiang and Tibetan warriors from the west road, which will make the Liao State embarrassed. But as long as we don't provoke for the time being, or put the battle in our territory, and maintain a record of losing less and winning more, then even if there is a war in the north, it will not cost much. At this time, the imperial court can take advantage of the abundant finances to further exempt all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and repair the Yellow River, which can no longer flood. If it is possible, the cost of salt will be fine-tuned, so that the price of salt will be further reduced, one is to eliminate some illegal salt, and the other is to further benefit the people. The country can really enter the time of small governance, and now ...... It can't be called a small rule yet. ”

In fact, it can be called Xiaozhi now, but does Wang Ju want to show this merit?

At this time, it can really be called the self-sufficiency of the people without endowment. However, some scholars may think differently, believing that the increase in commercial tax is actually caused by making the powerful pay commercial tax in disguise. The income of the banking department is actually the interest money obtained from the usury merchants. ”

"Your Majesty, I will go down in two months, so today the minister deliberately asked the third division to report the accounts to the public, in fact, I just want to make one thing clear, although the purple banknote is the commercial tax paid by the powerful, but is it true that this increase has nothing to do with the prosperity of commerce? If nothing else, I'm just talking about the extraction of the city, what does it have to do with the powerful? Indeed, making the powerful pay commercial taxes has brought losses to some of the powerful. However, many powerful people have followed the general trend of the imperial court and have actually benefited more in the past two years! ”

"Isn't it right to conform to the general trend of the imperial court?"

"There is also the banking department, in the past, the interest rate of private usury was so high, how many people dared to borrow it, but now that the interest rate of the banking department is low, there will be more businessmen and ordinary people who dare to borrow. But if it robs the usury merchant of his income, why should he sympathize with him? There are still so many people in the country who can't even guarantee food and clothing! ”

"If the country has no measures, if there are measures, some people will benefit and some people will suffer. Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, this minister has always thought that this is the real open source move. ”

"This is still now, because gold and silver have been insufficient, once ten years later, with the help of the other side, the imperial court has enough gold and silver, and can issue another 200 million pieces of silk, then it can barely meet the demand for currency, then commerce and trade will be further prosperous, there is no doubt that the commercial tax will be further increased, and the income of the banking department will also increase. Coupled with a long period of recuperation and recuperation, the country can move from small governance to great governance. ”

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he slowly retreated.

He said three things, the banking department is open source, not to move the money of the owner to the west.

The future of banking is brighter...... Of course, if the politics are corrupted, there is no need to say anything, in fact, Wang Ju mainly said it to the ministers, but to the queen mother in the palace......

Even the other side of the future is still important.

But these can also be regarded as instructions before leaving.

The ministers scattered the dynasty, but they were still talking about it on the road, and the military expenditure was not counted, mainly the two taxes, which was equivalent to a one-third less at once, and it had dropped so much, it can be said that since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has never happened.

Cai Bian said: "Taibao, in fact, it can be compared with Wenjing Kaiyuan. ”

"It's still far away," Wang Ju said hypocritically, the actual rule of Wenjing and the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty are just like that, at least last year and this year, it can be similar to these two prosperous times, but it is too far from the requirements in Wang Ju's heart.

After all, the Song Dynasty had this economic foundation, but it was helpless, dragged down by the two strong enemies, Wang Ju didn't even dare to move the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, what if he was rich...... The key is that I don't know if Gao Taotao will continue to have neuropathy in the future.

"Let's hope this old woman dies sooner." Wang Ju cursed in his heart.

Wang Ju and Cai Qu and his party returned to Zhongshu.

He continued to conduct official business.

Through the various measures initiated by him, except for the contracting system of mountains, tidal flats, lakes and rivers, the rest have reached the final stage, and in this short period of two months, it is time to consolidate.

The more this happens, the more careful he becomes.

And explained to Fan Chunren from time to time that in the past few months, under the guidance of Wang Ju, Fan Chunren will not be muddy, but God knows, none of Fan Chunren's good friends will save trouble.

The key to the future lies in this person.

As for Cai Qu, he will probably never participate in the dispute between Zhao and Zhao Hao again, but the question is that Cai Qu is the leader of the New Party and has served as the prime minister for so many years, can Gao Taotao, who has a strong desire for power, bear it?

After dealing with official business for more than an hour, he stood up and glanced in the direction of Luoyang......

It was also a crucial move, albeit a very dark one.

At this moment, Han Zhen came to Zhongshu in person and said, "Cai Gong, Taibao, the front line has sent good news." ”

"Huh?" Cai did snort strangely.

There was no battle arranged on the front line, or Western Xia, did Western Xia still dare to invade the Song Dynasty now?

"Cai Gong, you misunderstood, it has nothing to do with the war, not long after the death of the Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia, the uncle Liang Yibu also died of illness. Li Bingchang, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it and wanted to regain power, but the Liang family and Liang Yishu had already handed over the military power to Liang Yiwei to control, and the inner palace was controlled by Empress Xiaoliang. Now the Western Xia is controlled by Liang Yi on the outside and Xiao Liang on the inside, which is a very good news for our dynasty. ”

There is also the lord of the country in Western Xia, Li Bingchang's son Xiao Qianshun, don't take that seriously.

But after Wang Ju heard the news, his eyes lit up, and he saw far more than Han Jin, much more...... (To be continued.) )