Chapter 732: Zhang Dun’s sniper attack

"Check? How to check? Who is going to check?!" Zhang Dun was meeting Zhao Xu, and he was furious: "With such chaos in government, Your Majesty forgives Zhang Dun for not daring to issue an edict!"

Zhao Xu was a little helpless: "But I think what Lu Shenzheng said makes sense."

Zhang Dun laughed angrily, and replied to Zhao Xu with one sentence: "Your Majesty, since when did Sinong Temple become an institution for formulating national laws? How could I not know?"

"Well……"

Zhang Dun continued: "Who is the target of the actual tactics? If the exemption money is not enough, why can Su Mingrun still mobilize 70,000 labor and pay three hundred dollars a day when the two Zhejiang provinces are suffering from continuous floods and droughts?

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Zhao Xu said: "That's... Mingrun borrowed thousands of hectares of fertile land from Sitong Company..."

"Yes!" Zhang Dun said: "This is Su Mingrun's method. All the workers he hires can make money! This is the root of the matter!"

Zhao Xu said: "But among the workers, there are still many who cannot make money. People everywhere say that the money for exemption is insufficient. Isn't it because of this?"

Zhang Dun said: "The exemption law is to sum up the needs of one state and one county, and then convert it to each household. I don't understand. No matter what the household level is in the state or county, it is not the same after calculation and apportionment? Why?

Now what happens if there is a shortage again?"

Zhao Xu said: "Lu Shenzheng's explanation is that there are too many lower-class households..."

Zhang Dunzhi sneered and said: "Your Majesty, let me remind you, it's not like the lower-class households haven't paid! Not only that, even the official households, orphans, and orphans who didn't have to pay before have now paid.

It’s called service money!”

"Isn't it enough? Is this Lu Shenzheng's solution? Forcibly raising lower-class households to upper-class households will solve the problem?"

Zhao Xu said: "What Lu Shenzheng means is that there are too many low-class households in the reports of various states and counties. The main reason is due to concealment of reports. As long as the facts are corrected, many of the households that have concealed the reports will naturally be found out."

Zhang Dun said: "As a result, the burden on the upper-class households will be reduced, and more of the exemption money can be allocated to these so-called 'concealed households'. Is this the result?"

Once this truth came out, Zhao Xu understood a little bit.

Zhang Dun continued: "So this law reduces the burden of upper-class households and expands the scope of tax collection for middle- and lower-class households."

"Then I would like to ask, isn't such a decree running counter to the 'repression of mergers' that the new law has always advocated? Is Lu Shengzheng trying to change his ways, abandon Wang Xianggong's legislative foundation, and become the spokesperson of the merger family?!"

Zhao Xu was deceived by Zhang Dun again. This makes sense.

Zhang Dun said: "If the basis of practical methods is to combat the concealment of annexed households, then I have nothing to say. However, Lu Shenzheng's memorial mentioned all the issues of concealment of households, then I

We have to ask, the registered upper-class households, their registered households, etc. are already the highest, they should still pay the same fees."

"Then who is this law targeted at? It is targeted at the majority of middle-class families!"

"Furthermore, the business philosophy of upper-class households tends to be stable and conservative. Only middle- and lower-class households can take risks and be radical. Who said that one-fifth of the output will definitely produce one-cent profit? Practical methods are used to

This is the basic basis for collecting exemption money, and it is simply untrue."

"Your Majesty, Huangsong Bank is already considered a first-class industry in the Song Dynasty. How much is its principal? How much is its annual income?"

Zhao Xu was a little speechless. The business philosophy of Huangsong Bank was to be sound. The deposits plus principal it absorbed now amounted to tens of millions of dollars. However, according to the rules given by Su You, half of the tens of millions of dollars could be invested to make a profit.

None.

Although Huangsong Bank's investments are extremely accurate and the gains from investment are very high, when spread evenly across all assets, the profitability is not high.

From time to time, the Beijing Times published stories about people who got rich overnight, but almost without exception, they were from ordinary people.

Zhang Dun cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, various places have reported insufficient funds for exemption from military service. It is obvious that this is a sign that local governments are changing their ways to impose additional taxes on the people. We must crack down severely."

"The local labor service and exemption laws are very clear, so why did the issue of insufficient labor suddenly come to light?"

"If the local budget is unclear, then order them to re-create the budget. If there is a disaster, then the disaster must be reported in detail! If the exemption money is insufficient, then we must ask them why it is insufficient, and what is the use of the exemption money collected?

place!"

"The Exemption Law stipulates that in addition to paying exemption money, which is the practical amount of labor service budgeted for the year, people also need to pay exemption allowance money, which is the amount of money used to cope with unpredictable labor service; and auxiliary service money, which is

Official households, temple households, young Guo households, female households, single households and underage households that did not originally bear the burden of labor service must also pay half of the fixed quota."

"Your Majesty, the burden on the people has increased a lot as a result. The exemption money collected by the prefecture and county is twice as high as the previous fee for raising the military. Now the people below are still making trouble about not enough. What's the reason?"

"This is just a figure on paper, in reality it is definitely even higher! What does this mean? It shows that the draft exemption law has become a tool for states and counties to exploit the people! People's freedom is in trouble."

"Not only does the practical method not help this, but it continues to give officials a reason to exploit the people. Hoes, fruit trees, chickens, ducks and pigs are all considered the property of small people. This will have a negative impact on the newly emerging middle class families.

How big a blow will it cause? Your Majesty, this is impossible!"

Zhao Xu nodded: "Then what are your plans?"

Zhang Dun cupped his hands and said: "Lu's way of participating in politics is to sacrifice the basics and pursue the weak, which is inappropriate. He is putting the safety of the country and the people in order to please those corrupt officials!"

"I ask the school to manage the accounting system of the world, and to organize the household registration, population, site affairs, pits, housing, rent, annual taxes, and implement accounting methods to see if there is any consistency, and to review the national plan!"

"In addition to the Accounting Department, follow the example of Su Mingrun and the Liangzhe Road Water Conservancy Department, and set up a Statistics Department and a Budget Department to oversee the country's annual income and expenditure. Only when we are well aware of this can we strengthen the inspection and inspection of state and county finances!"

Zhao Xu was moved: "Okay, I will allow you to ask for permission from your beloved, and use other practical methods... Forget it, if you don't want to issue an edict, I won't issue an edict."

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In July, the grain harvest in Liangzhe Road was finished, and Su You just learned that the so-called double crops in one season, except for a small amount of replanting, were actually more "regenerated rice".

That is to say, the rice ears are cut off and the rice piles are left. The rice piles will grow some rice again in autumn.

Su You is calculating that this kind of planting method has not yet maximized the income. The maximum planting mode is to turn the paddy fields into land after the first season of rice harvest, and then plant another season of wheat or rapeseed. That would be great.

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However, in this case, the fertility of the field will definitely not be able to keep up, and fertilizer must be supplemented.

After much deliberation, it would be better to plant alfalfa, rape or beans.

With alfalfa, rapeseed, and beans, you can get pasture, oilseeds, soybean meal and rapeseed meal, which can be linked with animal husbandry, whether it is raising pigs, chickens, ducks, or fish, and the income is much higher than growing rice alone.

And this is just the basic market. To develop, it is better to grow cotton.

In later generations, Zhejiang was also a huge cotton-producing area in China. However, the seedlings were cultivated in April and harvested in May, which competed with rice for land. They could only be interplanted with wheat, which required higher land.

Shaking his head, cotton can only be grown by Sitong Company, and the rapeseed and rice intercropping model can only be partially promoted on the land controlled by Sitong. The local gentry and common people can still only follow the old-fashioned mulberry, fish pond and rice field model.

Forced promotion will definitely be met with resistance.

I have already entrusted Hangzhou Qianjia Bookstore to print the "Southwestern Agricultural Book" and requested that it be distributed to the township school level.

This year's severe drought has been overcome, and things will be easier to deal with next.

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To the west of Hangzhou, at the foot of Niutou Mountain, a huge factory area was built.

Changxing Coal Mine.

Surrounding the coal mine are coking plants, smelting plants, mints, ceramics factories, and cement factories.

Part of the Yijin Army was moved here by Wang Zhongzheng.

The establishment of the Yijin Army was reduced from 3,000 to 1,000. All the previous armies were disbanded, and then a thousand people were selected from the 14th Army of the Liangzhe Road to form the new Yijin Army.

The new army is a gold-eating monster, so there is nothing Zhao Xu can do to put the new army here for training.
Chapter completed!