After the summary meeting was held, Zhao Xu asked Ouyang Bian to chat with him alone.

"Ji Mo, although your official rank cannot be promoted for the time being after the New Year, it is too scary to be on the fifth rank in your early twenties, but the burden is a little more important."

Zhao Xudao.

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Which pit do you want me to fill in again?"

Zhao Xu laughed and scolded: "Other people are afraid that they don't have enough power, but you always want to be lazy.

The matter of clearing the land of Zhangzhang is almost done, and it will not cost you too much trouble next.

Aren’t you going to transform the lower-level officials? You can just put the Liu Neiquan together. Anyway, there are precedents in the Zhizhizhi and the Power of Liu Neiquan."

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Who has already explained that the matter of Zhangtianmu is almost done? Is it just the beginning?"

Zhao Xu said in confusion: "Isn't this going smoothly? The north has basically been completed, and the south should have a better inspection.

Especially Liangzhe Road, Jinghu South Road, and Jinghu North Road are all places where the central bank has deeply cultivated, so there should not be too much resistance."

Ouyang Bian shook his head and said, "Well, this is fine, but there are two things to do next."

Zhao Xu's face became solemn: "You said."

Ouyang Bian looked at Zhao Xu's eyes and said, "First, the hidden fields that were previously distributed to poor and lower-middle farmers were made into a list of the hidden fields, which was legally allowed to belong to farmers!"

Zhao Xu was shocked: "This..."

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Your Majesty is scared?"

Zhao Xu nodded with difficulty: "If you do this, you will offend those big landlords. In order to avoid taxes, they sent the land to the tenants. If you do this, the tenants may not farm for them, because these fields already belong to the tenants, and those landlords will hate you."

Ouyang Bian laughed: "What if we add unified taxes and labor services, restrict harshness, and the amount of a mu of silver will be collected, and the official will be terminated?"

Zhao Xu was stunned: "What does it mean?"

Ouyang Bian explained: "The people of the Song Dynasty not only had to pay land taxes, but also had various names of corvee labor and various levies from local governments, which was a very heavy burden for the people.

But because local management colluded with the powerful and added all these things to the people to evade their own taxes, these taxes were actually embezzled by local officials.

My idea is that the land tax, corvee labor and other miscellaneous deductions in each prefecture and county are all included, and the cash is collected and paid according to the mu.

This greatly simplifies the tax system and facilitates tax collection. At the same time, it makes it difficult for local officials to cheat, thereby increasing fiscal revenue."

Zhao Xu's mouth slowly opened.

"Ji Mo, are you looking for death?"

Ouyang Bian laughed: "Your Majesty understand?"

Zhao Xu said anxiously: "You are trying to stab a hornet's nest in this way. This is a big mistake in the world!

This time, the local tyrants were already very dissatisfied with the clearing of the land. You have to confirm the right of the land to farmers, and now you have to implement this unified tax law.

In this way, the powerful will not only not be able to exploit the people, but also need to pay taxes. You will kill them. It would be strange if they don’t fight you for the most!”

Ouyang Bian looked surprised: "I am really a little scared after hearing what Your Majesty said."

Zhao Xu said angrily: "I'm serious!"

Ouyang Bian laughed: "Your Majesty, I am serious too. However, I have done everything about Qingzhangtianmu. If I don't do this now, I will have no way to do it in the future."

Zhao Xu was silent for a moment: "Why?"

Ouyang Bian said: "One round of energy will decline again, and three times will be exhausted. Since you are doing something on the field, you must do it well in one round.

Because we can't focus on this in the future, and there are more important things to do.

Now that we can do this well, we can stabilize the basic situation. As long as the farmers do not rebel, the Song Dynasty will be stable and we will be able to deal with foreign enemies wholeheartedly."

Zhao Xu said worriedly: "But there will be too many people offend this way. I am afraid that they will attack them in groups."

Ouyang Bian nodded: "Your Majesty, your worries make sense, but this is inevitable.

Look, the key to stabilizing the domestic form is not the landlords, but whether the lower-level farmers can have enough food. When they have enough food, no matter how arrogant the landlords are, they will not dare to make trouble.

If farmers don’t have enough food, even if the landlords don’t incite, they will become bandits on the mountain or even rebel. Once there are ambitious people incite the organization, the world will be in chaos.

Now is a very critical period. Land annexation seems to have not had any major problems, but in fact it has reached a critical point. If you develop further, once there is a large-scale natural disaster, the world will immediately become chaotic and you can't hold it back then.

Now we will find out the land and distribute it to farmers to reduce their burdens. In this way, they can accumulate some food and improve their ability to resist disasters. In this way, even if there are natural disasters, as long as the government provides effective relief and farmers save themselves, they can survive it.

So although this thing offends people, we have to do it.”

What Ouyang Bian said is actually well-founded, but the reason cannot be said.

He was an editor in his previous life. He once read a climatology article. The theme of the article was - According to the results of climate history, there were five climate anomalies in the history of 5,000 in China. One of them was in the first half of the 12th century, namely the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty.

In other words, we have now begun to enter the period of frequent natural disasters.

Compared to administration, this may be much more important.

After all, officials have poor administrative abilities and are more expensive, so they will not lead to the destruction of the country, but rebellion will really lead to the destruction of the country.

So even if it will cause dissatisfaction, Ouyang Bian still feels that this matter must be done.

After hearing Ouyang Bian's reasons, Zhao Xu didn't quite understand, but based on his trust in Ouyang Bian, he nodded and said, "I support you, but it is not easy to pass the permission of the Political Affairs Hall and the Three Departments."

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "I have my own way to do this. Your Majesty, just wait and see."

Zhao Xu was a little helpless: "Okay, it's just right, Liu Neiquan's mission can also intimidate middle and lower-level officials. If you rectify the land tax, you should have some deterrent power. If any local officials dare to fight against each other, you will just take them down."

Ouyang Bian shouted: "You still have to pay attention to methods when doing things. It's not okay to be too rough. I'm not that simple and rough."

Zhao Xu couldn't help laughing.

While Wen Yanbo was called a "good prime minister who has not been seen in a century] by the people, he was also hated by those landlords because the working group was named after Wen Yanbo.

Even in the capital, not everyone knows that these things are arranged by Ouyang Bian.

After all, Ouyang Bian has a small official position, so he can't handle these things.

Only Prime Minister Wen Yanbo can withstand such a big thing!
Chapter completed!