The best way is to implement a stepped tax law in the Tang Dynasty, impose heavy taxes on high-income, high-profit merchants, and impose a luxury tax on luxury goods such as jewelry, jade, ivory, and animal skins.
These things cannot be eaten or drunk, and ordinary people cannot afford them. They are basically consumer goods for landlords or wealthy families with connections.
Therefore, imposing heavy taxes will basically not exploit the people.
As for the impact on commodity prices, causing commodity prices to rise and making people unable to live, there is no need to worry.
As long as the imperial court strictly controls the prices of grain, salt, cloth and other daily necessities, as well as the price of acres, it will basically not affect the people.
However, the current Datang Dynasty does not have the soil suitable for implementing the stepped tax law.
Because the people of the Tang Dynasty were already accustomed to tax laws such as one for thirty, one for sixteen, and one for eleven. If they rashly changed the tax law into a stepped tax system, not only the people could not accept it, but officials at both the government and the public could not adapt.
They will be confused and unable to understand.
If there are people with ulterior motives who influence it, business taxes will be messed up and business will be in a mess.
Therefore, we can only think about implementing a stepped tax law.
However, this does not prevent heavy taxes on water and sea transportation.
There are specialties in the art, but Su Dingfang, a military general, could not understand these things about commercial tax, nor could he understand the disadvantages of commercial tax, so he sat there in silence and drank tea quietly.
Li Yuanji didn't want to talk too deeply to Su Dingfang. After taking a sip of tea and moistening his throat, he continued: "However, you and each household have already decided on the water and sea transportation taxes, so it is difficult to change them.
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Just implement it according to your decision first, and we will change it when it becomes inappropriate later."
Su Dingfang knew that this was Li Yuanji trying to protect his face, so he immediately raised his hands sincerely and said: "Thank you, Your Highness..."
Li Yuanji nodded and continued: "After you leave the palace, you will act as if you have been taught a lesson by me, then close the door and thank the guests without seeing anyone.
In a few days, when the limelight subsides, you will fund the construction of some elementary schools in various districts of Chang'an City that will only accommodate children from poor families, so as to give Li Gang a step forward."
As a leading scholar among scholars, Li Gang was also a good person.
If Su Dingfang spent some money to open elementary schools and help some children from poor families to study, Li Gang would not be able to chase him and shout to kill him.
After all, Su Dingfang encouraged merchants through water and sea transportation. However, Su Dingfang did not be unkind for the sake of wealth, but instead spent some money to support children who could not afford to go to school.
For the sake of those children, Li Gang couldn't yell at Su Dingfang anymore.
Su Dingfang also knew that Li Gang had been staring at him in recent days and frequently went in and out of Wude Hall to impeach him. Now there was a way to make Li Gang change his mind and shut up.
He naturally followed the good advice and said, "I understand that after I return, I will send the steward of the palace to find a suitable house. After the limelight has passed, I will open a wide range of elementary schools."
Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing more.
He just asked Su Dingfang to accompany him to enjoy tea in the pavilion until the moon rose and the light rain fell, and then he let Su Dingfang leave.
There is a saying that spring rain is continuous and autumn rain is majestic.
It only took less than a quarter of an hour for this autumn rain to go from pattering at the beginning to pouring down.
Then it went down harder and harder, and down harder and harder, with no intention of stopping.
It rained for three days in a row, accompanied by thunder after thunder.
Several water systems connecting Tai Chi Palace have increased more or less.
The Jing River also flooded, flooding tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland in Xinping County, burying all the beans and other crops grown by the people in Xinping County under the sludge.
After the Xinping County Magistrate reported the incident, Chen Shuda immediately rushed to Xinping to investigate the disaster situation.
Li Gang was also in trouble because of Xinping County, and Su Dingfang thanked guests behind closed doors, so he kept a low profile and stopped chasing Su Dingfang to beat and kill him.
Just when Li Yuanji thought that the matter of selling tickets would be over, the visitors from Liangyi Hall appeared at Wude Hall.
After entering the palace, he bowed cautiously and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Yong, the saint asks you to take His Royal Highness the Princess to Yanxi Palace to meet you."
Li Yuanji was reviewing the memorials submitted by the governor's offices for the expansion of official roads and the establishment of post stations. When he heard this, he raised his head slightly and said suspiciously: "Why does my father see me at this time? Why do you want me to bring the princess with me?"
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The visitor knelt with his head lowered and said nothing.
Li Yuanji thought for a moment and asked, "Are my eldest brother and second brother with my father?"
The visitor hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness is here, and so is the Second Young Master."
Li Yuanji was stunned, and his eyes slowly fell on the visitor.
The word ‘also’ is used well.
He is worthy of being a visitor who can serve in front of the Liangyi Palace.
"Who else is here?"
Li Yuanji asked.
The visitor lowered his voice for the first moment and whispered: "Several princesses are also here..."
Li Yuanji raised his eyebrows slightly, "Who are those?"
The visitor whispered: "Except His Highness Pingyang, everyone else is here."
Li Yuanji was stunned and said thoughtfully: "Changsha, Xiangyang, Gaomi, Guiyang, Wanchun?"
Currently, among the princesses in the royal family, only these few and Li Xiuning have reached adulthood.
Wanchun was betrothed to Lu Huairang, son of Lu Kuan, and they were not married yet. The others were married and had children.
"yes……"
The visitor responded in a low voice.
What were they doing running into the palace and getting together?
Li Yuanji groaned in his heart.
As far as he knew, Xiangyang didn't have a good relationship with the others, and Changsha had a domineering temperament, and the relationship with the others didn't go well either.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for these people to get together, let alone appear in front of Li Yuan together.
Why are they all gathered together now, uncharacteristically, and all appear in front of Li Yuan?
Have they given up caring about who Li Yuan loves more now?
Give up worrying about who has benefited the most from Li Yuan?
"Did they say anything when they got together?"
Li Yuanji stared at the visitor with full doubts and asked.
The visitor's head was lowered and he didn't say a word.
Li Yuanji understood instantly.
The visitor has said everything that should be said and can be said. The rest is what should not be said and cannot be said. He has no way to say it.
"You go back and tell my father that I will be there soon."
"Here..."
The visitor softly agreed and walked backward out of Wude Hall.
Li Yuanji did not send someone to call Yang Miaoyan, but asked someone to bring him a pair of dry clothes. After changing them, he sat in Baohu and rushed to Yanxi Palace.
The reason why I didn't call him Yang Miaoyan is because I still haven't figured out why a few people from Changsha got together for the first time and ran to the palace.
If it's for power and gain, or if you have other small motives, it doesn't matter whether you take Yang Miaoyan or not.
Moreover, if a few people in Changsha really want to fight for power and have some serious intentions, they will inevitably start a war of words.
When the time comes, a group of people named Li will be embarrassed if there is a person named Yang in the middle.
If someone among Changsha and the others got angry and said something they shouldn't have said, embarrassing Yang Miaoyan, it would be difficult for Yang Miaoyan to deal with it.
Baohu passed through the Liangyi Gate and arrived at the Liangyi Palace Palace Group while swaying, then passed through the Ganlu Gate and Ganlu Palace, and walked to the end of the Jinshui River in the palace, and then arrived at the Yanxi Palace.
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Yanxi Palace is built on the bank of Jinshui River, and a little further west is Sanhai in Taiji Palace.
Compared with other palaces in the palace, Yanxi Palace is nothing special. The only saving grace is that after autumn, the scenery outside the palace is more beautiful than other places.
Because there are many plants planted outside the temple that show their most beautiful side in autumn.
"Your Highness, we have arrived..."
The warriors who carried him stopped when they reached a position fifty feet in front of Yanxi Hall.
Because they can't go any further. If they go any further, they will easily collide with the women in the palace.
Li Yuanji signaled the warriors to be kicked out. After being kicked out, he asked the warriors to rest where they should go, and then he took Liu Jun and rushed to Yanxi Hall.
When he walked to the entrance of the palace, he bumped into Wan Chun.
Wan Chun is the youngest of several grown-up princesses, and is also Li Yuanji's only sister. The rest are all sisters.
Not only is Li Yuanji's sister, but also Li Shimin's sister.
All are bigger than them.
"Fourth brother!"
Wan Chun held a girl's hair in a bun, jumped up to Li Yuanji, and called out sweetly.
Her voice is sweet and her smile is bright. She looks like the favored little girl in the family.
It was just her stiff expression and stiff movements that gave her away.
"Well! I've grown up! She's a big girl now!"
Li Yuanji responded calmly.
He could see that Wan Chun seemed to be facing him like a sister, but in fact she was very afraid of him.
Otherwise, the expression will not be stiff and the movements will not be stiff.
"Well, my father said that he would let Huairang and I get married after the winter, and he also gave me a large house in Yankangfang to be my residence."
Wan Chun said with a hard smile.
Yankangfang is the Fuguifang in Chang'an City. During the pre-Sui Dynasty, people of high status lived there, and it is still the same now. The famous former Sui Dynasty official Yang Su lived here.
Li Yuan could give the house here to Wan Chun, but he should give the house here when the "luxury houses" in Chang'an City were already becoming scarce.
This shows that Li Yuan is really generous to his own people.
Princesses from other dynasties after the Tang Dynasty would be jealous of her generosity.
"The house in Yankangfang is not cheap."
Li Yuanji sighed perfunctorily.
Wan Chun nodded heavily and said in a low voice with some embarrassment: "I just didn't prepare any other dowry..."
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and in an instant he understood the purpose of several people from Changsha gathering in the palace today.
This is obviously for money, and it is also for money from water and sea transportation.
This is because I didn't get the ticket from Su Dingfang and came through the back door.
"Who taught you these words?"
Li Yuanji stared at Wan Chun and asked.
Wan Chun grew up in the palace and was not married yet. She had no worries about food and clothing, and only came into contact with eunuchs and concubines, as well as a group of younger brothers and sisters who were much younger than her.
Even if there is any utilitarianism, it is impossible to care about water transportation and sea transportation.
So what she said must have been taught to her by someone.
When Wan Chun heard this, his expression froze, and he whispered unnaturally: "No, no one taught me..."