Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

Fan Fuzhong.

Fan Chunli, who was worried, went down to court, and Ma quickly came to greet him. Since Fan Chunli became the prime minister, Ma has become extremely prosperous.

"Master, thank you for your hard work!" Ma quickly served tea and took good care of him.

Fan Chunli took a sip of tea and snorted coldly: "Where is that traitor?"

Ma couldn't help being stunned, and asked quickly: "Zheng'er just returned from the prenatal checkup with Qingzhao, why did Zheng'er get into trouble again?"

Facing her husband's inquiry, Ma immediately thought that her son must have caused trouble again, which made her husband furious.

Fan Chunli looked a little worried and said: "It's not like he caused trouble. This traitor even dares to scheme against me!"

Fan Chunli believed that he had extraordinary talents and learning, and that he was the prime minister because of popular expectations. However, who would have thought that both the official family and the officials would regard him as Fan Zheng's answering machine and prepare to use his hands to implement Fan Zheng's evil methods and change the situation. The precarious fiscal deficit of the Song Dynasty was just like what he had experienced in Bozhou and Kaifeng before, which dealt a big blow to the arrogant Fan Chunli.

"Father, is there something wrong with the child?"

Soon, after hearing his father's summons, Fan Zheng came and said loudly.

Fan Chunli sat upright and said as if unintentionally: "If you control the Royal Bank, do you know how to solve the fiscal deficit of the Song Dynasty?"

Fan Zheng was stunned and said: "What father is talking about - evil prescription?"

Fan Chunli suddenly looked embarrassed. Every time Fan Zheng tried to do something wrong, he would always yell to break Nizi's legs. Now he took the initiative to ask Fan Zheng to do something wrong. This was a slap in the face.

"Whether it's good or evil! As long as it can solve the current crisis in the Song Dynasty?" Fan Chunli said stiffly.

"There is indeed an evil recipe, but I don't know if father dares to use it." Fan Zheng said with a smile.

Fan Chunli twitched the corner of his mouth, not knowing that Nizi was provoking him, and he became angry and said: "Whether I can use it naturally depends on whether your evil prescription is effective. If it can solve the deficit crisis of the Song Dynasty, even if it is controversial among the world, as a father And not afraid.”

Fan Zheng then said seriously: "Since the so-called imperial deficit is essentially a money issue, if we want to solve the fiscal deficit, we can only increase revenue and reduce expenditure, increase fiscal revenue, and reduce fiscal expenditure. This will naturally solve the imperial deficit crisis."

“Increase revenue and reduce expenditure!”

Fan Chunli frowned. Everyone knows the truth. However, if the Song Dynasty wanted to suppress Liaoxia by force, it was impossible to reduce expenditures. As for the source of income, the Song Dynasty had already opened up the Maritime Silk Road and had a certain amount of income. If it increased the amount of income, , I am afraid that taxes will be increased, which is even more unacceptable to the conservative Fan Chunli.

Fan Zheng spread his hands and said, "With this only method, can we still conjure money out of thin air?"

"Everyone knows the method, but if you collect more taxes, the people will be dissatisfied. If you spend less, the court will not run smoothly." Fan Chunli was torn between the two.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "My father has just taken office and is on an unstable footing. He can neither pay taxes nor spend money in the court. If we want to solve the deficit, there is only one way - to turn into a French-run workshop!"

"State-run workshop?"

Fan Chunli couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect that Fan Zheng's evil recipe was to turn into a French camp!

"That's right! Since my father served as Minister Youcheng, he naturally saw the tax ratio of the Song Dynasty. Among the taxes of the Song Dynasty, land tax only accounted for 30%, of which 70% was commercial tax! It can be seen that commercial tax was crucial to the Song Dynasty. It's important." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

The Song Dynasty was the most commercialized dynasty in history. Huge military expenditures made the Song Dynasty have a lot of demands for money. It changed the previous dynasty's policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business and began to implement a mercantile policy. Even the entire Song Dynasty court had Many state-owned industries.

The most famous one is the Song Dynasty’s wine tax. All brewing workshops must use the Song Dynasty’s official distiller’s yeast. There are government-run liquor workshops in Kaifeng and other prefectures, responsible for brewing distiller’s yeast and selling wine.

During the Renzong period, a wine tax contracting system was implemented. After one person bought the wine tax in a certain area, he could monopolize the wine profits there, and other small hotels became its vassals.

The wine tax is just one of them. In addition, the state-run workshops of the Song Dynasty covered a wide range of areas, including salt, iron, vinegar, grain, tea, porcelain, and minerals! Wait, there are even many industries closely related to people's lives, forming extremely large state-owned industries.

"That's why the imperial court changed the emphasis on agriculture and suppressed business in the previous dynasty, opened many state-owned workshops, and contributed a lot of business tax to the imperial court every year!" Fan Chunli frowned.

Fan Zheng immediately sneered and said: "The state-owned workshops did contribute a lot of commercial taxes to the imperial court, but it was far from enough. The state-owned assets occupied the best resources of the Song Dynasty, and they monopolized the entire industry. The commercial taxes they contributed to the imperial court every year were insufficient. 10% is simply a waste!”

Fan Chunli frowned. Although the state-owned workshops did not contribute much in business taxes, they were stronger than pure income taxes. Now that the imperial court was extremely short of money, how could it cut off the state-owned workshops?

Fan Zheng continued: "Fan always believes that professionals need professionals to do things. How can a carpenter sit in the clinic and practice medicine? The same is true for business. State-owned workshops occupy the best resources, but it is managed by officials. Their professionalism Inadequate experience, poor economic efficiency, even overstaffing, and bloated organization! This results in low economic efficiency.”

"There are also some who usually take photos with wealthy businessmen, share profits with officials and businessmen, or supervise business affairs. This will also lead to the loss of national financial resources and rampant corruption."

Fan Zheng controls the Royal Bank of the Song Dynasty, and naturally has a very good understanding of the economy of the Song Dynasty. He is well aware of the shortcomings of the state-owned industries of the Song Dynasty, which are simply harboring filth and evil. Now, Fan Zheng cited the shortcomings of the state-owned workshops of the Song Dynasty one by one. The cancerous tumors in Song Dynasty are constantly absorbing nutrients from Song Dynasty.

"The state-run workshop may have some drawbacks, but it is too huge. If it is done rashly..." Fan Chunli said worriedly.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "There are also problems with official administration. How can father take action? Military expenditures are also huge, can father reduce them? In contrast, the French camp workshop is the most suitable place for father to display his ambitions."

Fan Chunli was immediately shocked. A large part of the reason for the failure of his father Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's reform was the change of officialdom. Not to mention that the Song Dynasty was facing the threat of Liao and Xia. Nowadays, the officials are pursuing a policy of opening up borders and are moving towards As South Korea tests the Great Detour strategy, military expenditures will probably only increase rather than decrease.

Fan Zheng continued: "The officials of the state-owned workshops are not the chief officials of the Song Dynasty. Any move will not offend the officials. If my father is doing it in the name of investigating corruption, he is even more famous. The state-owned workshops are even more related to the wealth of the Song Dynasty. Good operation is enough to solve the Song Dynasty’s deficit crisis.”

Hearing Fan Zheng's explanation, Fan Chunli nodded slightly. Compared with reforming government and military expenditures, reforming French-run workshops is indeed the most likely method to succeed. After all, state-run workshops are extremely scattered, and the rank of officials is not high. With his minister, You Cheng's identity is enough to completely suppress him.

"State-run workshop!"

After Fan Zheng left, Fan Chunli came and thought for a moment, and finally got up and came to the tomb of his father Fan Zhongyan.

"Father!"

Fan Chunli couldn't help but fall into memories, recalling the glory of his father's reform and the loneliness after the failure of the reform. He had personally experienced those turbulent years with his father.