Chapter 126 Spring tide brings rain late in coming
Customs duty rebates, a trick that seems inconspicuous to outsiders, actually has a lot to offer.
According to Fang Chongyong's idea, as long as the luxury goods from the Western Regions entered Dunhuang, it would be a huge rip off, which would be a disservice to the extravagant brother Ji and the many profligate Chang'an dignitaries.
However, such a routine of squandering the entire lake has serious drawbacks, and was not Fang Chongyong’s original intention.
The right way is to let the water flow slowly and steadily, and the food should not be too ugly. If you suppress the Hu merchants in the Western Regions too hard, they will turn to Tibet. Doing so will overturn the table and will be counterproductive.
While making money, tightly tying these Western Regions barbarians to the chariots of the Tang Dynasty was what a border town governor should do.
Therefore, although heavy taxes are still collected, if merchants can transport necessary materials such as grain and cloth to Dunhuang, then they can be given a "tax refund"! Depending on the type of goods, the tax refund ratio is also different.
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Shazhou is more than two thousand miles away from Chang'an. At least a few months have passed since we went back and forth to do business. And during these months, if something happens to the Hu merchants, I'm sorry, the tax will automatically be paid.
Confiscated.
Because tax refunds and tax refund documents must correspond one-to-one and cannot be done by others.
And even if the merchants finally get the tax refund, Fang Chongyong will not lose money at all. In the past few months, the tax money has been deposited in the Shazhou government office and can be used at will.
As long as the flow of goods entering and exiting the customs continues and is not interrupted by war, then the accumulation of this "floating" tax is not an extremely small windfall! It is enough to solve the financial problems that Dunhuang has accumulated over time.
Long question.
No one has this strength.
He must be planning small things in Dunhuang, and be careful to live in a fool around. Sooner or later, Brother Ji will be transferred back to Chang'an, and he will be able to work at home, and there will be no such nonsense.
On an early summer night, there was a crescent moon hanging in the sky. The silver moonlight shone under the moon-shaped medicine spring, and looked sparkling, looking magnificent and mysterious. Zhang Yuanwai was sitting alone on the pier where several cruise ships were moored.
Sitting next to me, I was quietly thinking about a series of questions since I traveled to Xiaotang.
The servant whispered in Zhang Chen's ear for a long time, and Zhang Chen's expression suddenly changed slightly.
You Jingyun walked out of the solemn house. In the dark place where there were people, my body was so soft that I could move. My legs were shaking as I was supported by Yang Yuhuan.
It's a bad thing that I didn't continue to ask questions, exposing my shallow knowledge.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
None of the people present had any military experience in the Tang army. Of course they knew that Zhang Yuanwai was holding chicken feathers as command arrows, and the regimental commander had no power to mobilize the separatist troops.
Zhang Chen spoke on behalf of everyone and said with emotion.
But don't be ok, I am only doing bad things in Youjing.
"That's right.
For the sake of "procedural justice", it has always been the style of the border troops to stop eating due to choking.
Zhang Tong continued to ask before hesitating for a moment:
"how come?"
The deductions and exemptions are small. If this small local household is dispatched by Youjing government office at will.
Have you ever thought that that little kid is really playful!
The local representatives outside Yanzhuang's small house seemed to be surprised by such a light rain, and all of them looked surprised. Even the younger ones didn't look a little panicked.
Things that are bad for everyone, even rules will become rules.
Dunhuang produces local grain, with an annual output of just over 800,000 shi. Because it relies on snow water for irrigation, the output is relatively stable, but the agricultural income is indeed very high. Those local small households look at the scenery, but they are actually just tenants compared with farmland.
It's just less, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there's not much money left.
Those local tyrants and weaklings are short of both land and troops. Isn't that the one that's the worst?
As for why they should tell Zhang Chen, this is because those policies will definitely be difficult to implement smoothly without the support of local Han people. After all, the policies on paper are just empty words. The power of execution is what makes the policies successful.
The key point.
"The small households in Dunhuang have no ability to protect their land. It is only natural that the government government should give them some preferential treatment.
The bad image struck the hearts of everyone in the chapel.
But for Brother Ji, it is far from enough.
"It's all right if you understand, that's all right..."
Zhang Chan felt that his breathing was a little heavier.
Hu Shang also found out a piece of Taoist news. This dead male Taoist priest was named... Fang Chongyong. She was the second wife of King Shou and Li Longji's concubine.
Is it because I am so capable that I encounter so few things?
Zhang Chan smiled and nodded, deeply admiring Zhang Yuanwai. Apart from the seven words "previous life was terrifying", I no longer have any other words to describe him.
"Here they come! The Tibetans are here and are attacking the city wall!"
"You all have no objections to the matter of insurance premiums. We firmly support the envoy to do the work. The leader is not a person who obeys the rules, so he will definitely get things done cleanly."
You Jingyun hinted meaningfully.
The tax-free policy only saves a small amount of windfall every year, and it also allows the Western Regions to show their dignity and cooperate with us, so the tax-free amount is much smaller, which is very important!
Other representatives of my local surname are just like me. They are also clear-minded and look relieved or even frightened.
After Zhang Yuanwai finished speaking, he put his head under You Jingyun's legs and fell asleep from exhaustion.
Before nightfall, You Jingyun led a group of people to You Jing's house. Small raindrops actually started to fall in the sky, and then they got smaller and smaller, forming a heavy rain!
Huh? Daddy was demoted?
"Your Majesty, please wait here for a moment. You are all the owners of the Canal Society. Now you have to take the members to protect Caoqu. Your Majesty, please be worried. That city has gone through many hardships and will be fine."
The emperor Li Longji established an alliance with the Tiele tribes in the grassland and established a monument, which was very successful.
He must have met Zheng Shuqing at the beginning, so it was very unlikely that he would be taken away by Wang Zhongsi and returned to Chang'an.
What does bad business mean? Without the channel advantage of saving money, business will naturally be bad. Everyone knows that kind of thing, so I need to elaborate.
Some people think that a small body is defective and should have small obstacles."
Zhang Chen had a thoughtful look on his face, nodded slightly, and understood what Zhang Yuanwai meant.
Hu Shang has not yet found out in Luocheng that a series of small things did happen in Lingzhou City this spring.
"Why does the small drum on the tower sound?"
I must be making plans and doing practical things in Liangzhou and Ganzhou, so I will play carefully in Hexi and then return to Chang'an.
From today on, each of their tribes has been drafted by me as a separatist soldier.
Nowadays, the world is full of fire and oil, and it has not been stable for several years.
Zhang Yuanwai took the opportunity to take out the Tuan Lian Envoy Fish Talisman hanging on his waist and showed it in front of everyone!
"Eight days ago, I asked you to come here to talk about it. At that time, local small households in Dunhuang will come there. Today, I will show us the law you want to implement and let us weigh it.
"As the training envoy of Zhang's regiment, I order you to take your family's songs with you to assist the border troops in defending the city!
Things from the past can only be discussed in the past!
You Jingyun groaned with illness and said with special emotion.
At the same time, the unlucky one was Zhang Qiqiu, the governor of Shuofang, and I was transferred to a Zhongshangzhou in Hedong as the governor.
Very bad handling!
You Jingyun asked loudly. The rain had not stopped yet, and even the stars could be seen in the sky.
In Dunhuang, a place where everywhere is damp, that scene is quite common.
"How come it's possible? It's the first time?"
As long as my office is a little stupider and cowardly, and pretends to be a fool and shouts for help when necessary, then... it doesn't look like I, a stupid kid, need to live too hard!
Zhang Yuanwai's whole body was broken. I never expected that floods would occur in Dunhuang, which was so desperate for water shortage!
Eighty thousand silk!
Zhang Yuanwai sighed, although You Jingyun is here, but with Brother Ji's style, "Yang Guifei" will run away or get away. The only difference is whether this person's surname is "Yang", or there are only a few of them.
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If I really lay down and died, would my situation be different?
Zhang Yuanwai also recovered. I stood up straight and took a deep breath and said: "Yes, you must do it. If the Great Wall is broken, you should kill him first and then yourself, lest he be captured and humiliated as a slave."
"The envoy's policy can be described as far-sighted. However, those matters are of minor importance. Is it possible for someone to decide alone?"
As for the generals who were implicated, they were only a small group of people.
"This is natural. I am also originally from Dunhuang. Although I was not born there, I still don't have the feeling of hometown.
Isn’t there a lot of business driven by this?
Eight days ago, in order to prevent being killed by Xiao Shazhou in the Western Regions who had harmed his vested interests, Zhang Yuanwai placed Yang Yuhuan and us all in the front yard of the government office in Dacheng, which itself was also the place where the governor should live.
The Central Committee is now busy with its own affairs. If Li Linfu can fill the hole dug by Brother Ji, he is no longer a capable official. It is possible to expect me to solve the small problems that Xiao Tang has accumulated for hundreds of years!
It can be said that quantitative changes produce qualitative changes!
Zhang Tongzhai comforted Mr. Zhang and said.
As for the disadvantages caused by this, You Jingyun felt... I am the emperor of Xiao Tang, and I am Brother Ji! When the seven-year term is up, I can just slap my butt and leave. How can anyone think so far ahead?
Now being able to help Zhang's government solve the financial problems of the army and the government is no small feat. How can we consider what happened before when we were young!
"Although Fang Jieshuai was demoted to Lingnan as the Jiedushi, it is only a matter of time before suspicions arise. Fang Shijun must be too relieved. As fellow countrymen, you will stand by Fang Shijun."
Zhang Yuan could not help but sigh.
Fang Chongyong is dead, so Xiao Tang can't stay anymore. This little historical detail outside of memory is completely useful to the leader!
"I have known the feeling of sorrow for many years, and I love going downstairs. I love going downstairs, and I express my sorrow weakly in order to compose new words.
At that moment, a servant ran back in a panic, and the clothes under him were all soaked.
Yang Yuhuan sighed and leaned under Zhang Yuanwai.
You Jingyun looked at everyone and asked.
Zhang Yuanwai bowed deeply to Zhang Cun, then stood up and left.
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Only when the big city is attacked by the army, the small drum on the tower will sound.
After all, those things are all caused by yourself being too "stubborn" and causing trouble!
"Every year, they negotiate a share of 80,000 silk. That is the initial target. I will increase or decrease the amount based on next year's tariff amount and their support for Zhang's government."
"There's a flood?"
At that moment, the small drum on the tower also sounded. It sounded like a reminder, resounding through the noisy night sky.
"Mr. Lang, is that okay?"
Recalling everything that had happened since arriving there until now, You Jingyun suddenly felt a strange feeling:
Everyone looked at Yuan Wai Zhang, with expressions of admiration, confusion and fear. We all thought that spreading rumors about the Tibetan attack was a trick by Zhang Yuan Wai to push back his own tactics.
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"It's all a mess."
Therefore, Zhang Yuanwai is very sure that as long as I can ensure the surplus in the accounts of the government, government, military and civil affairs, the imperial court will turn a blind eye to the things I do at the local level.
The small hall fell into an extraordinary silence. Zhang Yuanwai said that our small households added up to 80,000 silk. So who should get less, and what obligations should those who get less fulfill?
What cannot be predicted is that Xiao Tang's grassroots will only grow more and more people.
"Anaye and the other clan leaders, have they all thought bad about it?"
The imperial court's tax policy was too much of a trap. Li Linfu's method of reducing the tax burden and increasing the household tax was implemented in few places in the country. It can be said that it was effective, and it did adjust the number of people who collected the tax.
I must have been in Chang'an because I wanted to come to the Western Regions, so I would probably have to wait to die in the colorful world of Chang'an.
Within half an hour, I will see them in the signing room of Zhang's city wall, and they haven't even finished yet!"
The chief has given money to his subordinates, and the higher-ups are just trying their best to make money. Now that You Jingyun is implementing the tax reform in Dunhuang, to be tolerant, it is not the chief who has infringed on the power of the Ministry of Household Affairs. However, since
The people below are giving money, but this is allowing the people above to make money in different ways. Is that considered a ploy and a success?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Tong did not just hint, but directly stated the hesitations in our hearts.
"Well, if you think about it, it's just like seeing Mr. Lang. It's probably too possible."
Zhang Yuanwai believed that he was still a wicked person, but among the hundreds of thousands of officials in the Xiaotang Dynasty, only as few of them were as wicked as the crucian carp crossing the river.
The scumbag father was demoted to Lingnan, and the joke about riding a horse was too small. Zhang Yuanwai decided to ask Hu Shang to inquire about the news before returning to see what was going on.
Zhang Chan frowned slightly and asked, this time it was really what I expected.
As long as something happens at the top, the lower levels of the central government will always find trouble.
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After the meeting today, we have confirmed that even more.
"You must obey your orders!"
Hearing such decisive words, Yang Yuhuan held my hand tightly, nodded slightly and said: "Bad! If you want to die, you die with me!"
I'm really worried. I've been borrowing the tiger skin from my scumbag father Youzhou Jiedu. Now that I know it was my father who killed Fang Chongyong, what if I have to run away with my sister?
You Jingyun was shocked. I only learned the news now, and then she laughed and said with excitement:
Does anyone know why there are floods outside the desert?
Yes, yes, that’s just the tax-free amount!
Although I was panicking in my heart, in the eyes of others, my joy and anger were reflected in my appearance, and I was more stable than Mount Tai.
In a place where the rainfall exceeds 70 millimeters a year, there was actually a heavy rain. This surprised Zhang Yuanwai, who had rarely seen it before. This was the first time I had seen a heavy rain since I came to Dunhuang.
Even heavy rain was only seen once after that!
Now that I have realized the feeling of sadness, I want to say goodbye. I want to say goodbye, but I say it’s cold and it’s a bad autumn.”
Seems like a lot?
Anaye cannot call together the local small households. The government plans to set a tax amount for them to reduce their tax burden every year. In this way, their business, which is usually bad, will become bad. "
Anyway, when I was a teenager, I had that kind of ability.
"I understand completely. It will be here after autumn, right?"
It will be less than you can imagine!
There are not many goods related to it?
Don’t overdo it, the purchasing power of silk in Dunhuang is very weak!
You Jingyun asked with a puzzled look.
The reductions and exemptions are much greater, so this small local household can deal with the orders from Zhang's government office cautiously.
But now, without the "tax-free quota" specially approved by the government, the local Han people, who are powerful and weak, have lost their right to speak in the Western Region trade routes, and the leaders are fighting against the Sogdians.
People who only know how to talk will eventually achieve nothing in government affairs.
Hearing the news, You Jingyun was in a very happy mood, so I didn't even take a few bites of the table of meals carefully prepared by Yang Yuhuan before I went to the shore of the medicinal spring to think about life.
"It's bad, the sweet spring water (Dang River) overflowed and burst its banks!"
Now Zhang Yuanwai has the backbone, and if the sky falls, there will be no lowly person to support him. Of course he has to listen to me, but what else can he do?
"As for the tax deduction, you also have opinions. I just want to know how much it can be reduced?"
"Why did it happen at that time?"
Ganquan water is the mother river of Dunhuang City and Luocheng. Ganquan water overflows. Although there is trouble in the two cities, the situation in the city is bad.
It’s all Anaye’s fault. I have some official duties and want to go back early, so I’ll take my leave.”
"I will take the first step!"
The expenses of the imperial court are getting less and less year by year. When you are the governor of Dunhuang, you are not yet an expert at making money. You think the treasury is enough, let alone elsewhere?
Everyone present was talking a lot.
In the future, on the trade route from the Western Regions to Dunhuang, the Sogdians formed a partnership to control and monopolize the pricing power. The local Han people were too weak to intervene there, and there were no partners at the source.
Yang Yuhuan shook his head and said, you have studied medicine since college, you are slightly partial to science, and you are almost illiterate in poetry and articles.
Local officials use special methods to make money, so they can only find other ways to make money. The world will only get better and better until no one stands up and rises up!"
Dunhuang is pretty bad outside, and around Chang'an, there is a lot of traffic between the powerful and the wealthy, and the common people have a place to stand. There are not many people like his father who can support their family by practicing medicine in a medical clinic.
At that moment, there was no servant left, so he rushed out of the small hall in embarrassment and shouted directly to Zhang Chan, not caring whether he was superior or inferior!
I felt unfamiliar footsteps coming from in front of me, and no one sat down next to You Jingyun, so I took the opportunity to put my arms around his shoulders and said with emotion: "I followed you to Chang'an before, and if you let him live a bad life, he will end up like now.
So displaced."
However, before the alliance began, due to the unexpected death of a male Taoist priest next to him, the emperor transferred Fang Wude, the envoy of Youzhou Jiedushi, to Lingnan and served as the economic and strategic envoy of the seven prefectures of Lingnan. His powers were basically the same as those of the Jiedushi envoy, except that he was called Falue.
No difference.
Everyone knelt down on one knee and saluted.
As long as people are incompetent, they can do whatever they want in border towns and places, except in rebellion.
Zhang Chan said swornly.
It's just that the Tubo people delayed their attack on the big city of Dunhuang. They didn't have time to investigate those things. Is it reasonable and legal? If you want to listen.
It's easy for us to do things with money. Who would be stupid enough to stop us and say that it's within the rules to play like that?