The State Council is in progress. The Prince Yuwen Weicheng, who attended the meeting on behalf of his father today, sat next to the throne of the upper head. Looking at Ping Zhang who was discussing fiercely in front of him, the political and grand sages couldn't help but feel a headache.

The Censorate currently only selected 34 political officials (participants in politics) in the first period, and on the basis of this, four governors of Pingzhang (Pingzhang), and the Secretariat of the Secretariat established Hanlin and Privy Councils, each with seven Grand Secretary.

Fourteen Grand Secretary, thirty-four Ping Zhang, participated in politics, and ten three high-ranking officials, totaling fifty-eight people. They only sat half of the meeting hall of the New Political Affairs Hall, but the intensity of the debate made Yuwen Weicheng feel that the air became hot.

Today, my father left the palace in contempt and asked him to continue to come to the Zhengshi Hall to perform his power. After several days of observation, Yuwen Weicheng has truly realized how determined the "interest groups" mentioned by his father are to safeguard their interests.

The topic discussed now is submitted by several political parties, which is to increase marine fishing, and then import pickled fish into the mainland on a large scale, using some of them to replace chickens, ducks and other poultry as the source of meat for the people.

To this end, the court should reduce the commercial tax collected for pickled fish during the passage of the process, that is, through tax cuts, increase the sales of the goods such as pickled fish.

This issue, of course, was proposed by political participation in politics representing the interests of fishing boat owners in coastal areas, and has now sparked heated debate.

Supporters believe that marine fishing and inland farming do not require a large amount of feed, just fishing, and sea fish are larger than river fish and more numerous. The number of sea fish caught in the fishing season each year is enough to supply inland.

At the same time, salt is used to marinate sea fish. For ordinary people, eating pickled fish can save salt.

If the court could reduce taxes on pickled fish, then pickled fish could be transported to the mainland at a lower cost (area of ​​convenient transportation) so that more people can afford to pickled fish.

The opposing side believes that pickled fish consumes a lot of salt, resulting in a decrease in the share of sea salt imported into the inland, so the scale of the marine fishing industry must be limited.

Secondly, fishing is very risky, and fishing boat owners cruelly enslave ship workers. Many boat workers are prone to accidents due to overwork, so the casualties rate is very high. In coastal harbors, ships go to sea with full capacity, and when they come back, they always have fewer people.

How many of these people who cannot come back fell into the sea accidentally? How many of them died of exhaustion but were thrown into the sea? How many were beaten to death by the boss of the ship, abused to death and then threw their bodies into the sea, and came back to lie that they fell into the sea?

In the past few days, the family of the victim was beating drums in front of the government's door to complain about justice, but the government could not give justice. It was not because the local officials were incompetent, but because it was difficult to supervise fishing in the fishing boats. If something happened, no one could testify and the government could not give justice the family of the victim.

The current fishery situation is that boat workers' lives are like grass, and they also need to increase fishing volume. Wouldn't it cause more innocent people to die in the sea?

Regarding the question, supporters gave a solution: there is no need for the government to send people to accompany the boat, but only the fishing boat owner needs to force the fishing boat owner to purchase "accident insurance" for each boatman.

The money for buying insurance is given by the ship owner, and the shipman who goes to sea fails to come back with the ship, which means that something happens to the person and the insurance company pays the amount of compensation as stipulated in the contract.

At the same time, the ship owner must also pay the victim's family according to the amount of compensation paid by the insurance merchant company.

In this way, no matter what the shipworker's accident was, his family would not cause trouble at least every three days if they received compensation.

If the shipworker who fell into the sea was rescued by other ships, or returned safely due to various adventures, the compensation received by the family must be returned to the insurance merchant company.

The port fishery guilds have expressed their willingness to accept government supervision and carry out industry self-discipline. The guild will lead the implementation of a forced shipboard or ship owner to purchase "accident insurance" system, and will not purchase ships that purchase accident insurance for ships. Once discovered, severe fines will be imposed.

At the same time, in order to prevent "insurance fraud" or "killing and insurance fraud", the Insurance Guild, as the supervisor, will cooperate with the Fisheries Guild to formulate a series of management systems.

Of course, this system of compulsory purchase of accident insurance and compensation for accidents will inevitably lead to an increase in fishing costs. However, as long as the court reduces taxes and allows pickled fish to be sold in the mainland at a lower cost, the increased profit will be enough to neglect the added costs of the fishing industry.

As for the issue that pickled sea fish consumes a lot of salt, supporters believe that the salt used for pickling fish in fishing boats will not harm the interests of the salt farm.

Secondly, due to the comprehensive popularization of salt drying methods, the sea salt output in various salt fields in coastal areas has grown rapidly year by year, and the output supply is more than enough to supply inland areas. There is no fact that pickled fish and people are fighting for salt.

The opposition raised new questions, believing that the court reduced the commercial tax on pickled fish sold to the mainland, which caused the court to reduce taxes and increased sales profits, but they all entered the pockets of merchants. How could such a policy of damaging the court's tax revenue be implemented?

Regarding this question, the supporter's supporter gave a set of numbers.

These numbers are various data based on the development of the marine fishing industry in recent years. After complex formulas and the "prediction" principle of mathematical statistics, we came to the surprising conclusion that "the tax decline along the way promoted the sales of pickled fish, which actually increased the tax revenue of the court."

Equation 1: Using various fishing fishing figures in the past five years, "predict" the output of fishing fishing in the next three years.

Equation 2: Using the tax collection of pickled fish by the imperial court in the past five years, the number of pickled fish circulation (barrels) calculated by each pass, "predicted" the cumulative tax collection amount under different tax rates as the number of pickled fish circulation (barrels) increases.

Equation 3, profit analysis, based on the coal price trend in the past five years and the degree of "benefit" caused to long-distance transportation and sales costs of pickled fish after the decline in commercial taxes along the way, the "predict" the increase in profits of long-distance sales of pickled fish after the tax rate is reduced to a certain level.

The conclusion is that profits have increased significantly, so since it is profitable, fishing boat owners have a greater demand to increase the amount of fishing. On this base, based on various mathematical formulas, a result is "predicted":

Once the court appropriately lowers the tax rate and stimulates the sales of pickled fish, the total commercial tax collected from the sales of pickled fish will increase.

This is the principle of small profits but quick turnover. Everyone understands the principle whether it is trading or tax collection. This time, supporters of this issue rely on practical data and mathematical statistical knowledge to use data to explain this principle.

Using mathematical statistics and complex mathematical formulas to combine a large amount of data and make "prediction", this debate method has exceeded the response ability of ordinary bureaucrats.

Fortunately, the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy who was proficient in mathematics was present, and the Imperial College doctoral student was present as the "advisory group" waiting for questioning. After some argumentation, the Grand Secretary and the members of the "advisory group" got a consensus and confirmed to the three high officials and Pingzhang who had voting rights that there was no flaw in the calculation results.

Facts outweigh words, and this issue was passed in the vote.

The participants have a break and the next topic begins.

Yuwen Weicheng sat in his seat, but his mind had already flown outside the clouds of nine heavens. In the past few days, he attended the Political Affairs Hall meeting. According to the principle of "the majority of votes passed, it was passed", he did not interfere in the decision-making process and became familiar with the decision-making process of the Political Affairs Hall meeting under the new system.

He also witnessed the impact of the emergence of the Censorate, the Hanlin Academy and the Privy Council on the Political Affairs Hall meeting.

When the Censorate is full four years later, the personnel participating in the Political Affairs Hall meeting should be 124 people, not counting as errands.

The 124-member party held a meeting to "quarrel". The two sides gradually became clear and clear, and sooner or later they would evolve into party struggles.

The party is fighting against different people, not against things, and disputes with each other, and internal friction is becoming more and more serious...

Interest groups, bureaucrats, and nobles are quarreling, and the emperor is just in the middle of the ruling. This is a way to ensure the emperor's transcendent status, but...

Since representatives of interest groups from all parties can decide national policies through the political affairs meeting, they can exchange interests privately, thereby compromising each other and realizing de facto manipulation of state affairs.

So, once the emperor is weak and powerless, will he be undermined by disguised form?

The civil and military officials of the court formed gangs and factions, formed cliques, and the parties attacked each other, and the internal and external chaos in the court and the country were in chaos. What should the emperor do?

If I were the emperor, I would probably be able to control the situation, but what about my children and grandchildren?

This is the thought that came to Yuwen Weicheng's mind at this moment, which made him shudder. He really couldn't understand that his father should not be unable to see such a development prospect, and why he still had to make such arrangements.
Chapter completed!