Everyone looked at each other, paused for a while, raised their hands and answered enthusiastically.

"Your Majesty is a land. Only when the land produces grain can there be taxes."

"Your Majesty, it is the fields, mountains and lakes, where you can produce various products such as grain, ore, trees, fishing catches."

...

More than a dozen people spoke, and most of them were talking about land.

Zhao Si shook his head, "You all only see the surface, not the essence."

Everyone looked at each other again. What is not land? Could it be a merchant?

Zhao Si turned around and wrote a big word "man" on the big blackboard behind him.

He turned around and looked at everyone and said passionately: "The most fundamental tax source in the world lies in people! Because people create wealth, only with wealth can there be taxes. No matter how fertile the fields are, no one will cultivate them. Can you grow food by yourself to collect taxes? Rivers, lakes, fish and shrimps swim in the water, no one will fish, and they will jump into your bowl by themselves?"

"...so all this, so the most fundamental tax source in the world lies in people!"

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and they raised their hands with wise and boldness and said, "Your Majesty, then our tax reform is to focus on the tax source and people to collect taxes."

Zhao Si looked at the man and shook his head, "You are wrong again! Tax sources are tax sources, but they are just the basis for levying taxes, but they are not the object of levying taxes. Why? Are there any people from the middle of the taxation process?"

"Yes!" someone raised his hand and said.

"Tell me, is it particularly troublesome for you to collect entitlement taxes? And it is easy to cause injustice?"

"Yes, your majesty, you're right."

Zhao Si continued: "Why is this? Because the object of tax collection is wrong, it is true that people are the source of tax, but they live, and everyone has differences. How to mediate and unify this difference is a huge problem."

"I call the object of taxation a tax handle, such as a spoon handle. Only by grasping it can you easily scoop water-tax. So what is a tax handle?"

Zhao Si asked again. This time everyone became very cautious. Look at me, look at you, but didn't say anything.

Finally someone raised his hand, and Zhao Si saw that it was a young man and pointed at him.

"Then tell me."

"When you say to Your Majesty, it is a property, and it is the wealth you just said, created by people."

Zhao Si nodded and asked, "What's your name?"

"If you want to go back to your Majesty, you are Zhang Yi, the assistant to the Budget Department of the Branch of the Kaifeng Prefecture Department."

Zhang Yi and Zhao Si thought the name sounded very familiar, and seemed to have heard it somewhere. He turned his head and glanced around his faces with Huatian, Tan Shiji and others.

Several close ministers who knew his temperament quickly passed it through in their minds and looked for the name of this person.

Yu Huatian came up and whispered in Zhao Si's ear: "The official family, Zhang Yi, is a newly accepted disciple of Mr. Yichuan. He was originally a bartender. He was recommended to the Sihui Continuing School and the Civil Affairs Continuing School respectively with Li Guang. After graduation, Zhang Yi went to Kaifeng Prefecture and Li Guang went to the Henan County Civil Affairs Hall. For some reason, Li Guang was also recommended to this study class and sat next to Zhang Yi."

After Yu Huatian said this, Zhao Si remembered that last year, hundreds of Tai students who had no future caused trouble, and he took the opportunity to issue an edict to reprimand him and returned to his hometown, and at the same time, he simply closed the Taixue School.

These two were the leaders who led hundreds of students to make trouble at that time.

interesting.

Zhao Si nodded and said to Zhang Yi: "Yes, you answered correctly. People are the fundamental tax source, but only when they create wealth can we collect taxes. So what we need to focus on is not people, but things. So the tax handle lies in things, things, such as fields and grains it produces, factories and cotton cloth it produces..."

Some people couldn't help but raise their hands.

"Your Majesty, tax entries are property, what should I do if I have a penny? That's a big income."

Zhao Si waved his hand with approval and asked him to sit down.

"This person has made a very good opinion. The tax handle is set as a property, what should I do if I have a head tax such as dime money?"

After pausing, Zhao Si gave his own answer: "Do you know how to collect money for diligence? Most of them are subject to the tax payment of two departments, and each household needs to collect it from home. Do the tax collectors dare to collect it from home? Can the hunters who live in the deep mountains and forests collect medicine? Will the tax collectors be willing to collect it?"

"I dare not or do it. The former is afraid of being beaten out by the high-ranking officials, while the latter is not enough to buy a pair of broken shoes."

Everyone chuckled.

Zhao Si and others chuckled slowly and continued, "The former shows that tax collection is unfair, while the latter means that the cost of tax collection is too high. The tax collection of 10,000 guan is increased, the salary of tax collectors, the miscellaneous copper coins, transportation losses, and the messy needs to be spent on 9,500 guan. What is the point of the court asking for this tax? It only makes the people flock to the crowd?"

"So should this person be charged for the head tax such as Ding money?"

Everyone hesitated. After all, it seemed that there was no point in collecting it. After all, the commercial tax on land production and salt and tea is the big deal. How much money can the body be?

Many people have no money at all, and the dynasty is relatively lenient, so they allow the people to use "local specialties" such as firewood and dried fish. Therefore, the imperial court often sees such strange records as how many firewood and how many dried fish are on the tax list.

Then, through unreasonable conversion - small mountainous counties can only sell fifty cents of firewood, and the clerk casually swipes his pen and converts it into the account at the price of two jin of Kaifeng City. The income of the court can often exceed 100 million jin, directly breaking through the atmosphere, but what kind of birds are used for?

Then the price of firewood and dried fish is paid according to the converted price, do you want it?

As the official said, if you collect too much money, it will cause trouble. Local disputes and public grievances will account for 50% of the money you get due to your own money.

The academies looked at each other, and a message was conveyed in their hesitant eyes, otherwise we would not accept it.

But Zhao Si's voice broke their conjecture again.

"Of course we should collect it. The treasury is short of money and has not reached such a generous point. We just need to change the method to collect it, and change it to collect it in an effective and convenient way. Do you have any suitable suggestions?"

Everyone was speechless. Official, are you walking us for fun today?

But when the official asked a question, everyone still had to think about it. He lowered his head and followed the official's questions, then whispered a few more words, and raised his hands one after another.

Some people say that they set up checkpoints at the city gate, and they can collect one if they come. But this will scare the young and strong men so hard that they dare not go out to enter the city.

Some people say that they will collect the land and grain tax on their behalf when paying the land and grain tax. But what should the tenants who do not have land and will not pay the land tax directly? Could it be that the landlords still have to pay the tuition money for them?

...

All kinds of methods are not good methods. So everyone looked at the official family expectantly, wanting to know what good methods are there for His Majesty who took everyone around today.

"I'll suggest a way, salt!"

When Zhao Si mentioned this word, people who were not sure were still confused. What does salt have to do with money? But the smart people's eyes lit up.

Zhao Si swept around and saw everyone's expressions. Needless to say, Cai Jing and other old foxes, Lu Yihao, Li Gang, Zhao Ding, Zhu Shengfei and others were all thinking.

These people who can leave their names in history are the ones who have truly cheated.

After studying for a while, I opened my horizons and opened my mind, I was more powerful than the other. If I hadn't had a little more inventory than the times, I would have been embarrassed to pretend to be in front of them.

Zhang Yi, Li Guang and others whispered in a low voice, as if they were talking about something. The young backbone of the Luo School appeared here, which made Zhao Si feel moved.

Mr. Yichuan... This old fox divided his disciples into two groups. Those who are famous and knowledgeable will recommend them to Hongwen Academy and Chengjun University College through various channels to continue their studies and promote Luoxue.

Those who are proficient in current affairs and understand the world will find ways to recommend them to the official career.

But he himself hid behind his back, integrating the sparks that collided with various schools, absorbing the essence of various schools, and perfecting the ideological system of Luoxue.

This is also good. If you want to grow and develop in the tide of the times you set off, you must follow the trend. Being self-satisfied and rigid, will only be eliminated by the trend of the times.

Well, as long as it is not the stone in the pit, it is smelly and hard, it can tolerate it for me. Think about it carefully, what is the difference between them?

The laws of nature are all rules that restrict others. There are a few who truly follow the rules that you say, and you will follow the words and actions. If you do a little well, you will almost be called the saint of the world.

It can be seen how rare it is.

You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Ganquan:

Chapter completed!