A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

After receiving the report, Gu Qing walked into the Ganlu Hall step by step, "Your Majesty."

Li Er pointed to the writing in front of him and said, "Look, how about this writing."

"That..." Gu Qing glanced at it and said, "Good word! Hmm! Flying around like a phoenix is ​​not ordinary."

"Flying dragons and flying phoenixes..." Li Er looked at Gu Qing, did this kid understand it?The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, "I heard about your work in Zhongshu Province again, and I just can't figure it out. In fact, you have such a good idea, why do you keep refusing to become an official in the court."

"Isn't the minister already a minister?" Gu Qing looked confused.

"Did you do Shang Shuling like this? Fishing for three days and fishing for two days!" Li Er's face darkened again when he mentioned Shang Shuling, why did he always want to beat people without saying a few words to this kid.

Gu Qing cleared his throat and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the subject is called intermittently complacent, and continues to eat and wait to die."

Li Er: "..."

Wang Qin: "Intermittently smug, persistently eating and waiting to die... so appropriate."

"You..." Li Er pointed at Gu Qing's clenched teeth and itched.

"So!" Gu Qing took out two memorials from his bosom, "I received two memorials today, after reading them, I sat up in bed and sat up in shock, and immediately brought them to His Majesty."

Li Er: "..."

Wang Qin took the memorial and put it in front of Li Er's desk. Li Er glanced at it with a look of disgust and a reluctant expression on his face. The disgust in his eyes became stronger when he saw the unsightly handwriting, but he looked at it. He also felt something. After reading the two memorials and putting them down, Li Er pondered for a long time. The two concepts of Fang Tian's equal tax law and equal loss method have been lingering in his mind.

Looking at Gu Qing again, the boy sat down and was eating a pastry without knowing when, "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious? Very glutinous." Gu Qing nodded while eating.

This kid is really surprisingly casual, let alone the prince at this moment, who would dare to treat the palace as casually as his own guest's house like Gu Qing, seeing him Li Er likes his casualness, at least There's not a lot of formality and pretentiousness.

"Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong?" Li Er was puzzled.

"That's right!" Gu Qing was eating the pastry, "The average tax law and Fang Tian's average tax law were proposed by the two of them. I was shocked to see that they are heavenly beings, and they are actually the pillars of the country, so I want to pull them into it. Shangshu save it."

"Tell the truth." Li Er shouted.

Gu Qing swallowed the pastry in one gulp and said immediately, "Acquaintances are easy to handle."

"Hehehehe..." Li Er smiled wryly, what he said at the beginning was really not the truth, "Then tell me, what kind of process and benefits is this Fangtian average tax law?"

Gu Qing, who was rinsing his mouth with the tea beside him, stood up and said, "First, the acres in the Central Plains have always been uneven, which will also lead to ambiguity in the number of registered fields, which also leads to the unevenness of the annual grain harvest. The amount of grain brought up is vague, and second, some fields have been reclaimed and not even registered.”

"So the first element of the Fangtian Average Tax Law is to measure the acres of land in the world." Gu Qing said loudly, "Then comes the large-scale reclamation. The grain tax between good land and thin land is collected separately, and adjusted on the basis of the original grain tax. , Qing Zhan came out to conceal the fields and reduce the burden on the farmers.”

When Qingzhang came out to hide the farmland, Li Er immediately saw the stakes in it. The benefits are good for the dynasty. There are indeed a lot of farmlands that have not been registered in the Tang Dynasty in recent years. Fang Xuanling has already discovered the clues , but it was shelved again considering the aristocratic family, and the aristocratic family is already half-dead, and after thinking about it, he said, "Gu Qing, there will be a lot of opposition to this matter."

"Your Majesty, the family has fallen." Gu Qing said loudly again, "I can ask the Li family of Zhaojun to set an example, and the Li family of Zhaojun can take the lead."

"Can you let the Li family of Zhao County take the lead?" Li Er looked at Gu Qing.

Speaking of this, Gu Qing said angrily, "Your Majesty, I have some friendship with the Li family of Zhao County, so it shouldn't be a big problem. Besides, they think that I have already earned a lot from the coal stove."

Chapter 396

It has only been so many years since the Tang Dynasty has been based in the Central Plains. Some disadvantages have already appeared. Hidden acres are one of them. The sooner some lesions are removed, the better. At the same time, it can increase the food income of the court and reduce the burden on farmers. It can be seen that the court has reached a state of old and changing from the withdrawal of the old officials one by one, so that new officials can be cultivated.

The younger the officials, the more daring they are, and the more aggressive they are. After the imperial examination, there were a lot of idle officials in the court. Now they have been put on hold and they can just be used, and they can be taken out for a walk.

After getting a concrete idea of ​​Fangtian's average tax law, Li Er continued to ask, "Now let's talk about your average tax law."

Gu Qing took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, the previous one was aimed at farmers, so this one is aimed at merchants."

business?Li Er narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Qing. These years, Gu Qing has been secretly promoting the flow of business. In just a few years, the flow of business between Chang'an and Gu Qing has become larger and larger. This can be achieved after Gu Qing and Changsun Wuji wrestled. It can be seen that Fang Xuanling mentioned more than once that it is time to take care of the merchants. At the beginning when Gu Qing and Changsun Wuji wrestled with each other, he couldn't see anything. After letting it go for a while, Li Er found that Gu Qing's old business acquaintance was out of control. The dead wild horses galloped all the way.

"Your Majesty." Gu Qing went on to say, "The so-called average input method is simply eight words. If you move to the expensive, you will be cheap, and you will use the near and the easy to go. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the distance between the surplus and the shortage. People in different places have different abilities to buy things. There are also different levels of prices, which restrict merchants from buying and selling, which is more detailed than what I said a long time ago, and the county governments in all regions have to send additional manpower to control the commodities."

As far as Fang Tian’s average tax law is concerned, Li can understand it, but he has only a half-knowledge of this commercial law.Adjusting the degree of surplus and deficiency, then said, "Gu Qing, what you said cannot be accomplished overnight."

"Your Majesty is right." Gu Qing looked up and continued, "Under the prosperity of business, commercial predators will naturally appear!"

"Business predators?" Li Er smiled, "Gu Qing, are you talking about yourself?"

"Cough, cough, cough..." Gu Qing cleared his throat in embarrassment, "Your Majesty, I am digressing."

"Actually, I can also see it." Li Er looked at the past, "Those hungry merchants who do business with your factory, you will always pay attention to the price of the goods. Your factory is also in charge of it, but what is the situation of the merchants in Chang'an? After a few hands, you are also blinded by what you have become."

"It's not so bad." Gu Qing said with a smile, "If the price is made transparent, and the trading rules and prices that each place should have, it will be much clearer, and it will be transferred, labor-saving, heavy-duty, and wide-ranging. , this is the equal loss method.”

Li Er finally understood a general concept, but he still had to go through the discussion above the court to make a decision.

"These two memorials were really made by Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu?" Li Er was suspicious.

"Yes." Gu Qing's face was not red and his heart was not beating, he looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

"That's good." Li Er said with a nod of his head, "You step down first, and I will pass on the two of them to tell me about Fangtian's equal tax law and equal loss method."

"Ah?" Gu Qing raised his head blankly, "Your Majesty, that... the two of them should be sick right now."

"Hehehe..." Li Er's laughter was very cold, "Gu Qing, Gu Qing, why do you need to take such a big turn if you want two people, just tell me directly, how dare you bully the king!?"

Gu Qing bowed and lowered his head and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, it's actually not like this. I just want to be polite. Reciprocity."

Seeing this boy's appearance of being a good boy, Li Er felt angry in his heart, "Get lost!"

"Hey." Gu Qing stepped back step by step.

Gu Qing left Ganlu Palace and Li Er kept looking at the palace in front of him with empty eyes, as if he was doubting his life. After a long time, Li Er's breathing became more and more rapid, and he smashed the things in front of him angrily, "This bastard boy It's unreasonable! It's a good national policy, but he actually..."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Seeing that Li Er was about to throw his calligraphy and painting, Wang Qin hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, that belongs to Wang Xizhi..."

Li Er stopped and turned around and smashed a potted plant, "This bastard, he knows how to eat and wait to die on weekdays! A good national policy is still given to me for nothing! One Li Yifu, one Xu Jingzong, two memorials for one person I understand even one copy, are he and I also doing business?"

Wang Qin stood aside and did not dare to speak at all.

Three days later, news came from the imperial court that both Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong had entered the Shangshu Ling and became ministers of the Shangshu Province, and Gu Qing's two memorials caused a sensation in the imperial court. Li Er had to summon Cen Wenwen and Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, let's discuss together.

Li Er pulled all the talented people who could be used in the court to come up to discuss the matter. The court meeting went on for a whole day from early morning to dusk without dispersing. After the matter finally came to some conclusions, Fang Xuanling drafted it all night. After writing the detailed chapters, Li Er felt inexplicably angry when he thought of the scene in Ganlu Hall.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" Empress Changsun saw what Li Er was thinking.

"You brat, Gu Qing!" Li Er hesitated to speak, and then heaved a long sigh.

"The concubine heard that there are many people who oppose Gu Qingxian's strategy." Empress Changsun was worried.

"Guanyin maidservant, think about the fact that the law of per-acre tax in the Qing Dynasty is actually beneficial to both farmers and dignitaries. Why do some people object to it?" Li Er was worried. The more people who opposed it, the more it showed that the rich and powerful in Guanzhong hid their farms privately. How serious it is.

"Your Majesty is really worried about who will do this." Empress Changsun poured tea for Li Er and said.