Wei Renshi's heart was beating wildly.

I almost blurted out an idea.

However, Wei Renshi was still suppressed.

He just said to Li Shi again: "Your Majesty's question, I will tell you something about it in the understanding, that is, how can the Tang Dynasty become rich? Is this right?"

Li Shi nodded and said, "Not bad."

"Actually, this question is easy to answer." Wei Renshi determined Li Shi's question and then replied: "It is operational, but it is very difficult."

"Then you... answer first." Li Shi leaned back and said.

Wei Renshi nodded and replied: "There are only two sources of wealth in a country. One way is to obtain it from within the country, and the other way is to obtain it from outside."

"From the inside, the country itself is vast and rich, with vast land, rich resources, and sufficient population, which has a foundation for wealth. Second, the most basic way for the court to obtain wealth from the country is taxation. Stable taxation is the guarantee for a country to obtain wealth from the inside. At present, increasing the country's income is roughly equivalent to increasing the income from the taxation. The key is to increase the income from the taxation, and ensure that it does not give too high burdens to the people, and does not cause resentment among the people due to excessive taxation."

"Haha, Wei Qing's words are not in vain." Li Shi smiled and said, "If you want to increase your wealth, you need to increase your taxes. However, the common people are too stupid, but they only see that the taxes have become more and not where the country needs them. Increased taxes will cause public grievances, and I cannot ignore the public grievances. In this way, how to increase more taxes?"

Although Wei Renshi wanted to ask him back, it depends on where the extra tax was spent.

But this cannot be said to Li Shi, otherwise he would be in trouble.

So he thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, can you ask a few eunuchs to cooperate with the empress and give it a suppose to your Majesty?"

Li Shi looked at several eunuchs in the hall and said, "It's right."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Ren bowed, got up and walked to Li Shi's close servant, and said, "Emperor Liu, please take out all the copper coins on you at this moment and put them here."

Wei Ren really predicted that he would not have too many copper coins on his body at this moment.

Liu Guangqi was stunned, looked at Wei Renshi, then looked at the emperor, and then touched his sleeves. After several times, he took out twenty documents and put them on the ground, saying, "Wei County man, the money on me is here."

"Thank you, Eunuch Liu!" Wei Ren gave a bow.

"I dare not." Liu Guangqi hurriedly hurriedly avoided and said, "How dare he dare to have any airs to others in front of the emperor.

Wei Renshi said to the other eunuchs in the hall: "Please take out the copper coins they carry on their bodies at this moment and put them in another place. But there is no need to take them all out, just take one out of ten."

Those eunuchs didn't understand why.

"Don't do it quickly." Li Shi frowned and shouted in a low voice.

The eunuchs then came and took out some copper coins, and put them in the place Wei Renshi pointed at.

Wei Ren counted, but it was more than thirty words.

Wei Renshi pointed to the two copper coins on the ground and said to Li Shi: "Your Majesty, look, Eunuch Liu took out all the copper coins at this moment, and it was only twenty cents. Perhaps these twenty cents were all saved by Eunuch Liu? Look at this side, each person only took out one-tenth of his money, which was not painful, but it was more than Eunuch Liu took out all of it."

Li Shi looked at the two piles of copper coins and looked up at Wei Renshi, his face becoming a little ugly.

Wei Renshi was not afraid at all.

"What does Wei Qing mean?" Li Shi asked intentionally.

"Your Majesty, what I mean is that if you have to do it, even if you squeeze him out, your income will not be as good as that of so many people, each of them will only take one of them." Wei Renshi said: "To make it bigger and put this theory on the country is to collect taxes from a group of people. Even if you squeeze out people from this group of people, it is not as good as those of people from each group. In this way, you will get more, and because the amount you collect from each person will not cause public grievances."

"Speak further." Li Shi's voice was low and his tone became bad.

Wei Ren made a solid decision and looked at him, saying, "What I mean is that the two tax law is a good method. Whoever has more property will pay more taxes, and princes and ministers are no exception. In this way, the taxes that were originally concentrated on the peasants and the people were scattered to everyone. Everyone gave some, but what they gave would not cause too much loss. If they could persist in the real implementation, they could not only increase the tax revenue without causing public grievances."

"Hmph!" Li Shi took a photo of the previous case heavily: "What do you mean is that the two tax laws have not been implemented, and the reason is that I?!"

"The reason why the two tax laws were not implemented is not because of Your Majesty." Wei Renshi said with a calm expression: "And there are some things that need to be improved."

Li Shi was stunned, paused, his voice lowered, and asked again: "Why is Wei Qing saying the reason?"

"I dare not say it." Wei Ren replied with a stuttering neck: "I think Your Majesty knows it in his heart."

Li Shi was very unhappy and very unhappy.

He could naturally think of what Wei Renshi was going to say.

Therefore, I also know why Wei Renshi dared not say it.

Li Shi really wanted to force Wei Renshi to say that, but judging from Wei Renshi's age, if he couldn't get along with a 12-year-old boy, and if it was reported that others didn't know the inside story, he would feel that he was too stingy.

He knew that there were only three reasons why Wei Renshi dared not say it.

One is the right to collect taxes to the vassal states, and the other is the destruction of the two tax laws after the former. The other is the effect of the upward and the lower. The emperor himself destroyed the rules of the two tax laws, so the officials below naturally turned a blind eye to the two tax laws.

Li Shi sighed.

If the reduction of the vassal states was not the failure to reduce the vassal states, the right to collect taxes would not have to be distributed to the vassal states.

The vassal states did not have the right to collect taxes, so they naturally could not grow. The court also had enough income and no new taxes were required to be imposed outside the two taxes.

The imperial court did not impose new taxes in addition to the two taxes, so naturally localities dared not increase taxes without authorization.

The two tax laws will not be destroyed.

Li Shi remembered that when he had just implemented the two tax law, he still clearly remembered the number. More than 1,3 million guan was the best year for the imperial court's finances and taxes in more than 60 years ago.

It was too urgent to reduce the power of the vassal states at the beginning.

At that time, Li Baochen, the governor of Chengde, died of illness, and his son Li Weiyue asked to inherit his father's throne.

If Li Weiyue's request had not been rejected at that time - rejecting this request, it would mean that the court made a clear statement that it would take over the vassal states to the court - and would win over the vassal states for a few years from other aspects other than taxes, and to exchange for more years of preparation, then the situation will not be known after that.

But now it's too late to regret it.

After all, it was the fault of the feudal states!

Li Shi gritted his teeth and thought to himself.

Li Shi attributed all the reasons to the vassal states, but did not take any more points to himself.
Chapter completed!