But what has to be admitted is that the design of the stamp tax is extremely clever, and the commercialization of royal qualifications and sea flags can be regarded as a well-established and clever extension, and the resistance should be very small.

As for the Northern Expedition national debt, that was what the title meant, and the Ministry of Revenue had put this matter on the agenda from the beginning.

It is worth mentioning that with so many credit products, the share of pure national debt can be further reduced to ensure that it remains within a safe share.

Secondly, it is the sea trading company.

This thing is obviously the result of the institutionalization and stabilization of the large fleet created by Zhang Jun and Zhang Boying... The sea trade program has already alarmed the entire city of Tokyo, and it seems to be in response to this.

According to Zhao Guan's explanation, not only maritime merchants, but also cargo owners, not only Zhang Boying, but even the royal family, provinces representing the imperial court, and some high-ranking officials and dignitaries could use their respective names to enter and become owners.

Then we all discuss it, work together to reduce the company's resistance, and share the money together.

This is certainly groundbreaking and has great benefits... because it can reduce risks and avoid internal friction caused by internal processes. In the past, both cargo owners and maritime merchants had to bear all risks independently.

So they should be happy to do this.

If nothing else, why did so many maritime merchants and cargo owners respond in response to Zhang Boying’s appearance that day? This speaks for itself.

However, to put it bluntly, this thing is essentially competing for profits with the people, or forcibly snatching the benefits that originally belonged to the normal commodity trade among the people into the hands of the court, the royal family, and the powerful.

However, the idea of ​​​​making a hole in the hole was the fundamental guiding ideology of the imperial government's finances. Coupled with the overall situation of the Northern Expedition, it left people speechless.

Next, there is no need to say more about lottery tickets.

The imperial court does not allow people to buy and gamble privately, but they use the Northern Expedition to engage in such a thing... How should I put it? It can be regarded as a profit.

There is also the excess property tax, which should have come from my own proposal that day, which is an improved variant of the imposition of taxes on the rich... After all, these days, agriculture is still the most important thing, and it is better to say who is the rich for no reason.

, forcing people to pay taxes and levying additional property taxes on large households whose property exceeds a certain amount is of course the most feasible method.

Because the property is clearly there, it is difficult to hide it.

Of course, even so, officials and dignitaries will inevitably play tricks on the upper and lower fields.

It can only be said that this is the most conciliatory plan among the forced tax increase plans that are flying around the world after the Dibao published an article asking for opinions on wealth accumulation.

Finally, there is the royal private property auction... This is more like something that the Zhao Guan family can do.

All in all, Zhao Guan's family really tried their best, but how could it make the ministers feel so embarrassed?

"official family,"

Li Guang hesitated for a moment, but still spoke seriously. "I see the stamp tax, the Northern Expedition treasury bonds, the sea flag, the royal qualification auction... they are all extremely ingenious designs, and I admire them very much, but what exactly is the sea trade company?"

Competing with the people for profit, the lottery is gambling after all, which is harmful to morals. There is also the auction of royal private property, which will inevitably damage the royal decency. If additional land taxes are levied according to the land property, there will be some slippery officials to do it... I think that since there is a previous

Four, you might as well slow down for the next few and see how the results are before you make plans."

It would be strange if the officials agreed!

Facing Li Xiantai who interrupted his thoughts, Lin Shangshu's expression remained unchanged and he sneered in his heart.

"It would be weird if I agreed to Li Qing!" Zhao Jiu shook his head in reply. "The country's Northern Expedition is something that we must do our best. How can we make any plans? Li Qing, really don't talk about competing for profits with the people and what kind of decency it is.

Oh... In front of tens of millions of people in the two rivers, the argument of competing with the people for profit is too ridiculous; in the face of the humiliation of Jingkang, the royal family and the imperial court are worthless! Moreover, the corporate system and lottery are also progressive, not only

Competing with the people for profit is as simple as losing decency. As for the additional land tax for those who exceed 500 acres, Li Qing must not forget that I came up with these things because I don’t want to force additional land taxes (stock property taxes).

It also has the intention of inhibiting annexation... If you are interested in this, why not think of a way for me to prevent these big landowners from transferring the newly added land tax to the tenants."

Li Guang sighed slightly and said no more.

Although Lin Jingmo said nothing, he sighed slightly in his heart.

By the way, in fact, it is not only Li Guang, a professional opposition who raises questions, but also the mentality of many people present. Lin Shangshu has guessed... Zhang Jun and Zhang Shu must be a little frustrated and uneasy, because he has always claimed to be an official.

He was indeed the one who presided over the preparations for the Northern Expedition and stole the limelight this time. However, when it came to the most important work of building wealth, many excellent plans emerged that had nothing to do with him.

At this time, Mr. Zhang, who first flattered a few words and then remained silent for a while, must be thinking, who is giving so many good ideas to the government?

Was it really called by Di Bao? Is Di Bao really that useful?

If you spread the word about a problem, so many useful methods come out so quickly? And all of them are more sophisticated than those designed by your own party?

As for the mentality of Zhao Ding and Mr. Zhao, he should be somewhere between Li Guang and Zhang Jun.

On the one hand, I feel that some methods are still problematic, so I have a certain resistance. But on the other hand, as the Prime Minister, it is also a huge kindness given to me by Zhao Guan's family, the kind that I can't even repay in eight lifetimes...

Therefore, after Zhang Jun said the five things to his face, Mr. Zhao could not help but feel a little uneasy as the dignified provincial prime minister could only be reduced to an executor. He felt sorry for Mr. Zhao's preferential treatment.

Moreover, he definitely doesn't know who is giving advice to our Zhao Guan family, and he is also suspicious.

Even Shangshu Lin himself saw through his own mentality. As Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue, as a core member of Zhang Jun's party, and as the executor of the financial construction work, he originally had the mentality of risking everything for the government, but unexpectedly he half

Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared on the road. Not only did he take away his job, but he also had better methods and more methods than he did. Of course, he was a little uneasy and had mixed emotions.

However, unlike others, Lin Shangshu is an insider after all. When others fell into various complex emotions, he had already taken the lead to escape and locked in the biggest suspect.

That is, Hu Yin and Hu Mingzhong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, sat silently next to him!

I think back then, before Hu Mingzhong was sent abroad, he had already served as the imperial censor Zhongcheng, and after he went out, he was appointed as the transfer envoy of the Fifth Route of Guanxi. However, when he came back, he was tied with himself and others, or even worse - the Ministry of Industry was the most leisurely.

Except for the rank of Minister of Ministry and Ministry of Industry, compared with other ministers, he has too little real power.

At that time, there were rumors within the court that Hu Mingzhong opposed the official's sending troops to Xixia and was rejected by the official.

But Lin Jingmo sneered at this... Liu Ziyu still opposed the attack on Yaoshan. Didn't Zhao Guan's family still let him rise step by step? Besides, no one had the details of how Hu Yin opposed the official's sending troops to Xixia. On the contrary, when the army swept through the northwest, they

Hu Mingzhong worked diligently to ensure the logistics support in the early stage of the battle, and did a great job.

Such a person.

In terms of seniority, he was one of the three ministers of Taixue at that time. He was the first batch of ministers to be recruited by the official family. He was more senior than himself.

In terms of stance, before Hu Quan took control of Di Bao, he had always been the one with the most radical stance against gold.

In terms of ethics, is it not as good as Mr. Zhao? Is it not as good as Mr. Zhang’s party? Is it not as good as myself?

Execution and courage, what does it matter when someone was whipped, but he also took away the military power of Qu Duan? What does it matter if he forcibly took Wu Jie'ai and Yang Zheng to the capital to be beheaded? And don't forget, he is the most handsome man in the world today.

The most admired minister, Han Shizhong, Prince of Yan'an County, was the most admired by Hu Mingzhong. The second commander-in-chief, Yue Fei, a relative of the official family, was recommended by this man.

Such a person should have come back and gone directly to Xifu.

Of course, in addition to his age, why he could not be the prime minister of the Xifu, avoiding Zhang Jun, the most important official in the official family, may also be an important reason... If Hu Yin had also entered the Privy Council and became the Prime Minister, with this character

and strength, the drama between the three officials of Jingkang Imperial College that day was definitely more exciting than "Water Margin"!

The Zhao Guan family obviously hopes to maintain the stability of the court, ensure the power of Zhao Ding and the image of Princess Zhang, and then ensure the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

Even earlier, Hu Yin took the initiative to seek external transfer, which allowed the Zhao Guan family to choose Liu Ji and other Nanyang party members who were weaker and more compatible with Zhao Ding as the third party. There was probably a tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers.

For this reason, it also attracted Wan Qi's famous remonstrance, which made Wan Qi Yuanzhong rise up, which is another matter.

All in all, such a close confidant must be of great use to the Zhao Guan family when he comes back this time. If he is placed in the Ministry of Works, which basically has nothing to do, he may be used to do some big things...such as these specific plans to build wealth.

Just when everyone is feeling complicated.

On the other side, the Zhao family, who were waiting for feedback, became increasingly uneasy... As the provider of the plan, or the provider of the copied plan, facing these close ministers who have rich experience in governing, they naturally lacked confidence.

I was afraid that I had made a huge childish mistake that caused these people to react slightly strangely.

In comparison, how could he have imagined that this method was so sophisticated that none of his close friends thought it was thought up by Zhao Guan's family alone, so they were all suspicious?

As for Hu Yin, if Zhao Guanjia knew what Lin Jingmo, who had been his secretary for several years, thought so, he would have jumped up and slapped the mulberry in front of him on his face!

First of all, this is really what he, Zhao Jiu, thought of! Although there is some suspicion of cheating, it was also what he thought of!

Secondly, in a sense, Lin Jingmo guessed it right... Zhao Jiu put Hu Yin into the Ministry of Industry, a place where there is no job at the moment, and he really put his heart into it.

However, Zhao Jiu did not regard Hu Yin as a staff officer at all, but as a minister regardless of the situation. He wanted to use Hu Yin's integrity, black face and execution ability to treat the Ministry of Works as a subordinate in his preparations for the Northern Expedition.

Execution center.

In the future, Hu Quan, who holds the Di newspaper, Yu Yunwen, who controls the supervisory power of Qingmiao Loan, and Mei Yue, who gradually becomes a business consultant, are also prepared to allow these people to interact with Hu Yin to a certain extent.

Of course, let’s not mention these things for now. As Zhao Guan’s family continues to force them little by little, from Zhao Ding onwards, most people still express their agreement or reluctantly agree. Questions about relevant policies also stop at arguing with the people.

profit, or to the extent that it is unethical.

This made Zhao Guan's family gradually feel relieved.

"You don't understand, I am really worried." After ventilating, Zhao Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, twisted a mulberry, swallowed it in one gulp, and then showed a tired look on his face. "These days, I have almost been...

The shortfall of 30 million guan drives me crazy, and I can't sleep all day and night. If these methods don't work, I really have no choice but to increase taxes on a large scale, and then set a share of the Northern Expedition national debt of 10 million guan. I can't say.

I also pointed at places like Nanyang, Yangzhou, and Tokyo, and accused them of being implicated in the Second Sage, and of conspiring to rebel, and then connected them and openly plundered them..."

These words were really too much, and they really seemed to be the work of the Zhao Guan family. Li Guang instinctively wanted to stand up and defend, but when he thought that this was a hypothetical strategy, he could only sigh.

And Zhao Jiu also continued: "But again, all the difficulties are always worth it. As long as we can recover the two rivers and reunify the country, everything is worth it... While the Xixia court and I are still alive...

If we have a little prestige, it is only right that we settle things early."

In a thousand words, it is the Northern Expedition.

Everyone looked at each other, then sighed in their hearts, but under the leadership of Prime Minister Zhao Ding, they all stood up and said they obeyed the order.

At this point, it stands to reason that there is no need to keep everyone in the Zhao Guan family.

Because next, Zhao Ding and others will take the plan back and find professionals to discuss and analyze it, and then come up with truly executable details. I am afraid that there will be discussions in the secret cabinet, public disclosure in the public cabinet, and big events.

The announcement of the court meeting, the warm-up and official promulgation of the newspaper, etc...

There is still much to do.

However, Zhao Guanjia waved his hand and said: "Sit down, there are two things that are slightly related to the Northern Expedition, and they are also raising money. Please don't open your mouth and just take a look."

Zhao Ding and others were at a loss, but they could only sit back and wait for a while. Wang Lun, the minister of Honglu Temple, and Xu Jing, the young minister of Honglu Temple who had just taken office two days ago, entered the place one after another.

The important minister suddenly realized.

"Official officials, Jin Fushi and Ping Zhongsheng have been waiting outside Yingyang Gate for a long time... In addition, there is also a Tokyo merchant who has lived in Hakata Port, Japan for many years. I am afraid it is also indispensable." Wang Lun is a serious minister after all.

The imperial report was very calm, and Xu Jing, who was following Wang Lun, for some reason, even though he came from a family of officials and should not be frightened, he still frequently looked at the mulberry picking fish on a large scale from the moment he came in.
To be continued...