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Chapter 62 There are trade-offs!

Not only that, Ouyang Bian has different views on Wang Anshi's preparation of exemption and market law.

The so-called exemption method refers to the fact that all the materials needed by the government government offices are supplied by the cities where the government offices are located.

However, because officials at all levels work hard to get more money and property, the money spent by each company is often more than ten times the materials needed by the government. Therefore, there are many vendors and poor people who go bankrupt because of being business households.

Therefore, Xu Zhongzheng and others from Kaifeng Mansion Meat Shop (supporting official meat) wrote a letter, suggesting that after the merchants pay the exemption money, the merchants' supplies will no longer be sent to the government office.

Wang Anshi plans to set up a special agency for "detailed business household interests" under the Municipal Affairs Bureau, which is specifically responsible for formulating the exemption law.

In his plan, the business owners issued a exemption regulations, and paid the government money for exemption according to the amount of profits made by each bank. The officials and the business owners were jointly responsible for collecting the goods, and exempting the business owners from supplying materials to the government government offices.

All the goods required by the palace and government offices are sold by miscellaneous stores, miscellaneous business, etc. based on the price of materials estimated by the market.

It seems much better, but it is still unreasonable in Ouyang Bian's opinion.

Other businessmen have already paid the commercial tax, so why do they still have to bear the supplies of the government office?

And the market law is even more unreasonable.

The original intention of the Municipal Yi Law is to set up a city Yisi in Bianjing, and set up a city Yisi or a city Yisi in borders and important cities, purchase unsold goods on the market at a fair price, and allow merchants to borrow or credit, and collect interest funds according to regulations.

Set up a market service in Tokyo, pay for unsold goods, and sell them when the market is short.

This limits the control of large merchants over the market, is conducive to stabilizing prices and commodity exchanges, and also increases the government's fiscal revenue.

It is a policy measure to calm market prices.

It seems that this is a perfect measure, right?

Generally speaking, since both the government and the people benefit, they should be favored and continued to be promoted.

But in fact, the market law is extremely harmful to business.

On the one hand, the Market Law cracked down on big merchants and the so-called "mergers and acquisitions", but on the other hand, it also damaged the interests of small and medium-sized merchants to a certain extent.

Historically, after the death of Shenzong, according to statistics, the interest rate of the merchants owed 9.21 million guan at that time was only 9.21 million guan.

Take Kaifeng Prefecture as an example. After exempting the money and fines owed by merchants, 27,155 households owed 2.37 million guan of capital.

Among them, there are 27,093 households with small surnames (referring to families with low families) who owe 830,000 guan, while those with 200 guan are owed below 25,353 households with owed less than 460,000 guan. This set of data shows the impact of the Market Yi Law on small merchants.

No matter which dynasty or country, as long as the government comes to do business, it will inevitably cause harm to the business.

The new policy, which was originally based on calming prices and suppressing big businessmen's exploitation, was transformed into a state monopoly market, with supply, prices, and even wholesale and retail being manipulated by officials in the process of implementation.

Even if you want to do a big business, you have to pass the barriers of government officials first.

As a result, large, medium and small businessmen worked hard together, causing urban industry and commerce to wither.

From the records of people at that time and a large number of words by Su Dongpo and others, we can see that the urban commerce and markets across the country have shrunk and were depressed for a while, and the society began to experience turmoil and uneasy.

In Ouyang Bian's view, the essence of the Municipal Law is to implement a state monopoly on commercial trade.

Under the state's monopoly, where can the economy remain vibrant?

Ouyang Bian's later experience told him that the socialist market economy is the best solution.

Now the economy of the Song Dynasty is so vigorous, it was built by him in more than ten years. If a market law was established and such a good economic situation was destroyed, Ouyang Bian would have to cry to death.

In fact, in Ouyang Bian's plan to strengthen the country, the economy is his most persistent step.

No matter how bad the army is, it is fine, no matter how corrupt the officialdom is, it is fine, but you must have money!

The army is rotten, right? Then spend money and kill it.

Most of the time when the Song Dynasty was not strong, it was because the money was not enough. As long as you were willing to spend money, it was actually quite useful.

But if you don’t have money, let alone the army, you won’t be able to stabilize your country, let alone fight.

Wang Anshi's Baojia Law, Horse Protection Law, Market Change Law, and Exemption Law were all aimed at destroying the economy, so Ouyang Bian was of course unwilling to do so.

The Baojia method is actually quite harmful to business.

The Baojia Dharma Assembly confines farmers to the local village and has no way to flow into the labor market. This makes it difficult for business to go further, and the various trainings of the Baojia Dharma will actually delay farming.

The so-called farming time refers to the farming time of wheat and rice, while the farming time of many cash crops is different. Once the Baojia method is implemented, these will inevitably be ignored. Then the output of crops will become extremely monotonous, farmers' income will become less, and their consumption power will become extremely poor, which will be fatal to the development of business.

Therefore, if all the three Regulations and Regulations were directed towards Wang Anshi in the same year, then Ouyang Bian would not be able to do it. There would be no other way except to abolish the three Regulations and Regulations and Regulations and sack the three Regulations and Regulations and slander.

But that's too expensive.

First, he has to be responsible for betraying his teacher, and the charge of deceiving his master and destroying his ancestors is enough to make him die in society.

Second, Wang Anshi is the banner of reform after all. With Wang Anshi there, Ouyang Bian doesn’t have to carry the conservative swords, guns, swords and halberds alone, and can hide behind and make some small moves.

Now that we have these support from the same year, Ouyang Bian can talk more with Wang Anshi. With these bargaining chips, Wang Anshi can always be grateful and fearful.

However, Ouyang Bian was still a little guilty because Wang Anshi's personality was too stubborn. To be honest, Ouyang Bian did not have the confidence to convince Wang Anshi.

Although Wang Anshi has also learned a lot of opinions from Ouyang Bian over the years, it is just a reference, and the core is still his own style.

However, it is still a little earlier to talk about these things. Wang Anshi's energy is still implementing the equalization method.

The equal-to-date method is a good method, and it was also something Ouyang Bian wanted to promote from the beginning, which is part of his previous tax law reform.

Now promoting the equalization method is the most important task of establishing the three departments' regulations. Ouyang Bian also intends to start from here to start.

After Ouyang Bian held a meeting and studied it, he asked Lu Huiqing and others to report on their work so that they could have some understanding of the overall situation.

The equal-to-date method of this version is actually very different from the equal-to-date method of Wang Anshi's version in history.

Because this version of the equal-loss method was ultimately derived from Ouyang Bian's tax reform, and the craftsmen were Lu Huiqing and others. The current Lu Huiqing and others have undergone complete changes with the history. These people have experienced the influence of economics!
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