When Cai Jing took office, he immediately went to the granary to borrow grain on behalf of the WFP.
The director of the granary was unhappy when he saw that there were four or five prosecutors accompanying Cai Jing. Now in the financial department, when seeing people from the prosecutor's office, it was like seeing the god of plague, so he said to Cai Jing: "Director Cai is afraid that we will make things difficult for you."
, and even brought people from the Procuratorate to help."
Cai Jing was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Misunderstanding, what a misunderstanding! I just happened to meet them."
"It's not just a coincidence."
A young inspector came over and said, "We are here under orders. Firstly, we are here to find out the situation in the granary in the capital. Secondly, we are also supervising the WFP."
Upon hearing this, the principal snorted, turned around and left.
Cai Jing smiled softly and thought to himself, you are quite lucky. When you meet your mentor, you just send a few students here. If Prosecutor General Su is here, he will be enough for you to drink!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Fei is also stepping up efforts to exercise the authority of the Procuratorate, which is to conduct comprehensive supervision of warehouses and tax coins. In the future, this will become a routine practice.
The Procuratorate is more than just an official office that files lawsuits.
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Rendian.
In a private room, three middle-aged men were seen standing in front of the window sill, looking at a grain shop across the street. In front of the grain shop, a brand-new sign slowly rose up, with two words written on the white cloth -
--WFP.
As long as this kind of trick is used, it means that it is cooperating with the WFP, and only these grain shops only accept tax coins to purchase grain.
After watching for a while, the three middle-aged men returned to the wine table and sat down.
These people are Liu Ping, Chen Xiang, the famous big landowners in the capital, and Cao Huai, the big grain merchant...
"It seems that the WFP wants to support these small grain merchants to deal with us." Chen Xiang couldn't help but said with worry.
Liu Ping said disdainfully: "These small grain merchants only have so much grain at home, let alone twenty or thirty. Even if they were put together, they wouldn't be able to release much grain. The main thing is grain from the WFP."
Cao Huai said: "Do you think we can find a way to buy all these grains?"
"Someone has thought of this a long time ago."
Liu Ping shook his head and sighed, "But for the time being, there is still no way, because the court stipulates that purchases can only be made with tax coins, and the tax coins have not been distributed yet. Even if they are distributed, they will mostly be distributed to the people.
It cannot reach our hands."
Chen Xiang suddenly said: "Don't underestimate these small grain merchants. They are closely related to the small owners. If all the small owners unite, they should not be underestimated."
Liu Ping said: "Don't worry, what the court is doing is also very detrimental to the small owners. Originally, this was a good opportunity for them to make a fortune. Now, it's not worth selling the grain, and it's not worth not selling it. They may think that
They hate us even more. They will not release the food easily until it is necessary. Now most of the owners support us."
Chen Xiang said: "But after half a year, we will have to pay warehouse tax. We are not afraid, but those small owners may not be able to sustain it."
"If we really wait until then, we will lose."
Liu Ping said: "The advantage now is on our side. The court's food is used for the royal family, soldiers, horses, and officials, and it also has to deal with emergencies. In any case, the court is determined not to release all the food. I doubt that the court will release all the food.
It’s just to scare people.”
Cao Huai nodded and said: "This is true. In fact, it is beneficial to us to drag it out. We will lose, that is, we will get some food. But if there is a slight disturbance in the court, then everything may be lost. At present, in Gyeonggi,
There is a drought in Hebei and Huainan, and we don’t know how long it will last. The chances of the court making mistakes are greater than ours."
Liu Ping said: "There are also senior officials in the DPRK who are all on our side. It's just that it's not convenient for them to speak out at the moment. As long as we resist it."
Chen Xiang suddenly said: "Otherwise, let's secretly transport the food out first. This way, it will be safer."
Cao Huai sighed: "Now that the Royal Police have taken over the dock, it is very difficult to transport food out."
"Even if you are lucky, there may be tricks on the other side."
Liu Ping said: "It's not like you haven't seen the methods of the Taxation Department before. If we are caught, it will be the same as last time. With the handle in their hands, we can only kneel down and beg for mercy. Maybe we can only kneel down and beg for mercy.
They are just waiting to do stupid things, so at this critical moment, we must not do anything illegal. Oh, and don’t think about turning grain into wine, the tax department will definitely keep an eye on it, because the bill stipulates that this
Extra wine will be taxed at 300%."
The last time they fought for tax exemption, they lost because they broke the law first, and their lives were lost if they fought. So they were very cautious and determined not to break the law.
...
Due to Zhao Xu's aggressiveness, the powerful, landlords, and some of the scholar-bureaucrats are gradually uniting the front. They will definitely not give in easily. They are all old foxes who have lived for decades. How could they allow you, a little emperor, to sit on our side?
Pee on the head.
This is simply a great shame and humiliation.
It's just that they don't dare to speak out at the moment, so they can only compete with the emperor secretly.
After all, the court's plate is too big, and there are too many places to use food. If there is a slight disturbance, everything may be lost. But compared to now, even if they lose, they will lose a lot of food.
They are still very confident, after all, gentlemen and gentlemen are one body.
.....
As far as the imperial court was concerned, the bill had been promulgated and the grain was already being transported. Now it was the Ministry of Industry's turn to perform.
Zeng Gong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, has not been seen in recent days. He has been running around in various places and has been scolding Wang Anshi in his heart. It is true that every time he gets promoted, he will encounter difficult things.
In fact, until now, the Ministry of Industry does not have a complete plan, because these projects are not to be done casually, and money must be spent wisely. The imperial court is not wealthy.
However, due to the court's regulations, tax coins must be used to buy food, and there was not enough time for them to make perfect preparations. Many people were waiting for the court's relief plan.
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As soon as the project was finalized, the people who were desperate for food rushed forward. As long as they were given money, we would do it no matter how hard or tiring it was. Besides, the wages were quite high.
Now that we have already entered a period of drought, if it were not for the low tax revenue last year, the people would have been complaining.
Moreover, this time, it was also the first time that the soldiers participated in the fortifications in the name of the construction group, but this time they were more relaxed, mainly guiding and managing, and all the people working were civilians.
...
Today, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu met in the suburbs. On the one hand, they could relax and on the other hand, they could inspect the disaster situation. The two elders slowly walked forward along the river that was about to dry up.
"Uncle Hui, what's going on in your family?"
Wen Yanbo asked with a smile.
Lu Gongzhu shook his head and said: "Mostly I don't want to. Everyone has the habit of storing food. If there is no food around, they will feel uneasy."
The Lu family is definitely a famous family in the court, and their food is inexhaustible!
"That's not the case either."
Wen Yanbo said: "Look at Junshi, one time at the end of the year, I saw his servants running to buy food in a hurry."
Lu Gongzhu hurriedly said: "There are a few people in the government and the public who can reach the level of Jun Shi and Xianggong Zhao."
Having said this, he sighed again, "To be honest with Mr. Wen, I actually think that this warehouse tax is not excessive. Isn't it just converting grain into money? If everyone puts grain in the grain shop, it will be available at any time.
You can go buy it, isn’t that different?”
Wen Yanbo laughed and said: "Where do you think those big landowners got their fields? If they didn't rely on natural disasters to annex the land with a small amount of grain, how could they annex the land if they handed over the grain to grain merchants?
In addition, they don’t believe in the imperial court in their hearts, so they will definitely fight to the end.”
Lu Gongzhu asked: "I wonder what Duke Wen thinks?"
Wen Yanbo said: "The concerns of the officials are not wrong, but they shouldn't be too radical. They always want to get it done once and for all, but it can't be so easy. The key is that the right time, place and people are not on the official side. If
If the drought lasts longer, they will definitely try their best to blame the officials for the drought, and then they will be attacked from both sides, and the officials will feel uncomfortable."
Lu Gong said: "Then what should we do?"
Wen Yanbo pondered for a while and said: "Try not to offend both sides and deal with it well. If something happens, we can stand up and mediate the dispute so that the country will not lose control."
Lu Gongzhu nodded slightly, and suddenly heard the sound of banging coming from the opposite side. He turned his head and saw that there were twenty or thirty people opposite, who were very busy.
Wen Yanbo couldn't help but ask: "What are they doing?"
"It seems to be building a police station."
“A police station is also going to be built here?”
Wen Yanbo suddenly asked: "By the way! How many police stations are they going to build? Our political hall has not yet received a report from the Ministry of Works."
Lu Gong wrote: "The main reason is that the people are waiting for food to save their lives, and the Ministry of Industry has not yet determined the final plan, so it did not report it to the Political Affairs Hall first, but I heard from Zigu that it is estimated that a thousand police stations will be built in the entire Gyeonggi area.
, Hebei is about the same, Huainan and other places have a little less, but there are still six or seven hundred."
"How...how much?"
Wen Yanbo looked at Mr. Lu in shock.
Lu Gongzhu nodded, "Anyway, this is the order he received. This time the public security organs and the government will be completely separated."
This is a purely physical separation. At this time, most of the offices of the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate have been transformed from some previous offices or even shared.
However, the public security system is very different from before, and it is also very inconvenient to use.
Now I am taking this opportunity to re-establish a whole set, which is tailor-made for the public security organs and law enforcement agencies.
Wen Yanbo said: "But we don't need so many police stations."
In the past, a county seat was also a county government office.
Lu Gong wrote: "The main reason is that there are many branches and they are close to the docks, so the villages have to be built."
Wen Yanbo immediately realized that this was to completely take over the countryside. The purpose was of course to weaken the squires and big landowners, and said: "But are there so many people?"
"The most important thing the police department lacks today is people."
Lu Gong wrote: "The police station has never stopped training the Royal Police. New Royal Police officers join every month, but they are all transferred from the Third Yamen, so no matter how many more Royal Police are added, it will not increase the burden on the court.
, I think the official plan is to build the Royal Police into a force that can maintain law and order in normal times, but at critical times, can also act as soldiers and go into battle to kill the enemy. This is how the Jingdong East Road is arranged now."
Wen Yanbo nodded and suddenly said: "Uncle Hui has discovered that every time there is turmoil, the public prosecutor and the law benefit greatly from it."
Lu Gong said with a smile: "Wen Gong only discovered it now. I had discovered it a long time ago. Otherwise, how could that boy Zhang San work so hard?"
"Yes! It was all caused by that boy."
Wen Yanbo shook his head and said: "I have to admit that this kid's ability to find opportunities to find opportunities is really first-rate!"
Lu Gong said: "There is one more thing."
Wen Yanbo looked at Lu Gongzhu doubtfully.
Lu Gong wrote: "Even if the public security organs can really solve difficult problems, otherwise, he will not be able to exploit every opportunity."
Wen Yanbo nodded slightly.
Why does the Public Security Bureau expand once a problem occurs? Isn't it because the Public Security Bureau can solve the problem and get the opportunity for the next expansion?
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Alum Tower.
In a private room on the second floor.
"Ma Shuai, your third government office is really calm. Let's not talk about the warehouse tax. The interests of Jiuqu are closely related to your third government office. Now it is almost gone. But the officials of your third government office look really a little bit.
Don’t be in a hurry!”
An official in his thirties smiled at Ma Shuai Wang Chao and said.
The two people around him also looked at Wang Chao curiously.
In this matter, the San Yamen were extremely low-key, and the commanders of the San Yamen did not say anything, but in fact the impact on them was very large, whether it was the warehouse tax or the liquor tax reform.
These people came to Wang Chao today to test their opinions.
Wang Chao said indifferently: "That's how much money it is. Last year, my Guard Horse lost to Qiyunshe. I lost a lot more money than this. Instead of messing with these things, it's better to find a way to improve the Guard Horse Football Team."
Strength."
"???"
The three people opposite could not help but be stunned.
They never expected that Wang Chao would give such a reason.
But this is still the case.
Since the Football League was initially developed in cooperation with Sanya and borrowed many of Sanya's training grounds, the shops around the football field were monopolized by Sanya military generals. Now it is not only limited to Gyeonggi, but also includes Damingfu and other places.
At the same time, they also established a cooperative relationship with Hongwan Gambling House.
This is a cornucopia. The money comes very quickly, and no one can snatch the key yet, so Wang Chao has no time to worry about those things, and he still has to take the risk of going against the emperor.
If the emperor removes him for this reason, the wine tax and food tax are only secondary. The key is that his interests in the football league may also be occupied by others, which will be called a heavy loss.
All the officials of the three yamen avoided him and said nothing.
Wang Chao added: "To be honest, I hope to build more police stations and return those training grounds to our Sanya, so that we can have more football fields."
The three people were completely speechless.
Are you a soldier or a football player?
After having enough wine and food, Wang Chao came to the counter with a general belly, burped, and asked generously: "Does your store accept tax coins?"
Fan Yong, who happened to be passing by, hurried over immediately and said, "Here, take, take, if Ma Shuai has tax coins, that would be the best."
Wang Chao directly took out a stack of tax coins. They had just paid out their salaries. The tax coins were all brand new. He took out a few coins and slapped them on the table. "No need to look for them. I hate those copper coins lately."
Too heavy."
Then he strode away.
The shopkeeper clicked the tax coins and said to Fan Yong: "Master, I just gave you an extra penny."
Fan Yong quickly gave him a warning look, that was Ma Shuai, what nonsense were he talking about, and asked: "Are many people using tax coins recently?"
The shopkeeper said: "Didn't the imperial court just pay out monthly salary recently? Those officials don't have to worry about food. They spend tax coins when they come to the store. I have to say that these tax coins are really convenient to use."
At this moment, an old man came over and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Fan."
When Fan Yong saw this old man, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Fan Yong has met Dr. Chen."
Dr. Chen smiled and said: "Member Fan is still very generous, but I heard that many stores outside are afraid to accept tax coins. If you have to buy with tax coins, you have to pay at least three times the price in tax coins."
Fan Yong apologized and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't want to accept it, but there is no way. The shop consumes a lot of salt every year, and now I can only buy salt with this tax currency."
Dr. Chen just smiled meaningfully and then left.
In fact, they, the wealthy businessmen, have also reached a moment of decision, whether to continue to maintain the old system or embrace the new system. This is also very difficult.
Some businessmen choose to firmly support the old system, and these businessmen often have backgrounds behind them.
But they did not reject the tax coins directly, but collected them at a ratio of three to one.
It's very disgusting, and it will devalue you when it comes out.
Of course, no one is stupid enough to buy things in these stores with tax coins, which is not cost-effective.
But there are also some businessmen who choose to embrace the new system. They actually have backgrounds, but in their view, the old system exploits their interests more, while the new system can make them earn more.
The market is also slowly becoming fragmented.
After all, the butt determines the head.
But it can also be seen that this is a fierce battle.
The main reason why the tax currency is strong at present is not really that anyone cares about using tax currency to pay taxes, but that the grain and salt released by the court are supporting the price of the tax currency.
It was already evening, and in front of a grain store in the suburbs, only dozens of people were seen, and the grain store was surrounded by water.
They were ordinary people who had just come down from the construction site. They immediately came here to buy food with a daily salary of 100 cents.
Sitting in a teahouse not far away was an old man and a young man, it was Sima Guang and Zhang Fei.
"I have to admit that this may be the largest disaster relief effort in history. At this moment, it is indeed much better than opening a warehouse to provide relief."
Having said this, Sima Guang looked at Zhang Fei again, "But how long can this last? I heard some news that the big landowners will fight the court to the end this time. They would rather pay punitive taxes than sell a single pill.
Food, they may know better than you how much food is in the warehouses in Beijing.
At present, two-thirds of the grain in the capital is controlled by the main households, and seventy-eight percent of the grain is controlled by the powerful officials in the court, which cannot be filled by the court's grain."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Every time our country goes to war with the Liao Kingdom, no matter from every aspect, we have the advantage, but why do we always lose when we fight?"
Sima Guang said: "These are two different things."
"It's the same thing."
Zhang Fei said: "This is a war. On the surface, they do have the right time, place and people, but they are just a piece of loose sand. The more this goes on, the more panicked they become. We have calculated that as long as we can take out three of them
With one-third of the grain, we can survive until the beginning of autumn. As long as we wait until then, we can get twice the grain immediately."
Sima Guang was shocked and said: "Twice?"
Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said: "It's better to put it at a lower level. The Taxation Department is already investigating the matter. Many of these big families have saved food for several years. The food eaten by insects every year may be enough to feed them."
Thousands of people.”
Sima Guang frowned, "But this time they are determined."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "You should know them, Bachelor Sima. If they are fined more than 100,000 shi of grain, it will be equivalent to killing them, so we will know the outcome in four months, because they want to sell all the grain."
, it also takes time, this is just the beginning, of course they are screaming fiercely, but I am sure that in the fourth month, they will not be able to bear it."
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Three divisions.
"The three hundred thousand copper coins you applied for have been approved."
Wang Anshi handed an official document to Xue Xiang, "You have to pay close attention. Whenever you buy any goods from big businessmen, you must use copper coins. Never use tax coins, lest they use tax coins to buy
If we don’t have enough food and salt, we won’t be able to survive for long.”
"Mr. Sir, please rest assured. I send people to count the tax coins collected every day. The food sold every day is currently within the estimate."
Xue Xiang nodded confidently, "And according to our current observations, many officials use tax coins to eat and drink in restaurants and buy pens, inks, paper and inkstones instead of buying food. This saves us a lot of food."
There is a lot of food in the warehouse, but it must be used wisely. The design in this regard is used in many small ways.
In the past, food was distributed directly to officials, but now it is changed to tax coins. Although tax coins can buy food, many officials are not short of food at all. As long as these officials don't buy food with tax coins, they will make money.
have to.
For officials, there are not many tax coins to buy much grain. The grain at home still faces warehouse tax, but if they buy grain here, if they lose, they will lose more, so many officials are too lazy to bother, so they just
Spend it directly.
At the same time, construction requires a lot of materials, which are paid with coins. The purpose is to prevent certain people from controlling a large amount of tax coins, and to stimulate the market and make the market more prosperous. This can cover up the decline and also make the market more prosperous.
Destroy the opponent's self-confidence.
At this moment, the newly appointed Privy Councilor Han Jiang suddenly arrived.
"Zihua?"
Wang Anshi was stunned for a moment, then saw that Han Jiang looked strange, and asked, "What happened?"
Han Jiang glanced at Xue Xiang.
Xue Xiang was very sensible and left immediately.
After Xue Xiang left, Han Jiang whispered: "Jiefu, something happened in the Xihe area."
Wang Anshi asked hurriedly: "What's the matter?"
Han Jiang said: "The Tubo leader Dong Fei assigned General Qingyi Jiegui to lead his troops to harass Hezhou. Our army was forced to attack Baicheng, but was surrounded. Generals Wang Ning and Jing Sili took it on horseback, and Zhao Yuankai was killed."