"Reporting to your Majesty, this is everyone's misunderstanding. They think that with tax exemption, the people can survive. You know, at this stage, it is very good for ordinary people to have enough to eat. How can there be so much surplus food.

Once there is a natural disaster, I would like to ask Your Majesty and Your Excellencies, apart from selling their fields, what else can the people sell? Their sons or their daughters?" Wang Ning'an asked loudly.

Fang Xuanling stood up and said: "Once there is a natural disaster, officials from all over the country will open Changping warehouses to provide relief to the victims. There is no need to sell land, let alone sell children."

Wang Ning'an nodded and said: "In the world managed by Your Majesty and all the ministers, students believe that no one will ever sell their land, or even sell their children or daughters.

As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it, and wealth cannot last more than three generations. None of us can predict whether future officials will be corrupt. The emperor will become an emperor who only knows how to enjoy himself and does not care about political affairs."

"Bold." Li Er said solemnly.

"Your Majesty, calm down." The ministers all knelt down.

Wang Ning'an's words are so heartbreaking. He is saying that the Tang Dynasty may have weakened in national power after three generations. In other words, the Tang Dynasty slowly declined and was replaced by other dynasties.

As for this matter, almost everyone knows that a thousand-year-old family or a century-old dynasty, from ancient times to the present, no dynasty can last forever.

But you know, you know, but that is what happened after they died, and everyone knows a rule, that is, don't tell anyone if you know.

However, Wang Ning'an violated this rule, so Li Ercai got angry and all the officials knelt on the ground. Even Zhou Mang and Yang Hai knelt down, leaving Wang Ning'an not.

Li Er stared at Wang Ning'an for three full minutes. When he saw that the other party showed no fear, he spoke again: "Wang Ning'an, do you know that what you just said, I can think that you are cursing the fate of the Tang Dynasty."

Wang Ning'an said: "There is no doubt that the Tang Dynasty will last forever. The students are just expressing their opinions. Your Majesty cannot deny that what the students say may come true."

Li Er looked at Wang Ning'an again for a while and said: "My dear friends, please get up first."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Everyone stood up to thank him.

Li Er said again: "Wang Ning'an, since you think what you said is possible, then I ask you, how can you prevent such a thing from happening?"

Wang Ning'an raised his hands and said: "To report back to Your Majesty, I first order that private sales of land in the country are not allowed, and the land will be confiscated for those who violate it.

Secondly, when the land equalization system is implemented, ten years are used as a period, and distribution is carried out every ten years. No matter who is in the land, they will have land after ten years.

In order to prevent the land from being depopulated, those who are allocated land need to farm it, and the people who do not have land to farm will take back the land.

The extra land provided by the court can be leased to other people who want to farm, and the grain will be provided by the court.

In fact, the land annexation is so powerful, it is nothing more than that the people can freely buy and sell land. When one day all the land in the world belongs to the imperial court, and the common people's land is cultivated by the imperial court for the common people, may I ask Your Majesty and all the ministers, what will the world be like?

Will there be any land annexation?"

Du Ruhui thought about Wang Ning'an's words, then stood up and said: "Ning'an, your words may be idealistic, but the reality is that the court does not have much money to buy land, and since the land is privately owned by the people, how can we prevent people from buying and selling it privately?

?”

Wang Ning'an said: "This depends on the court.

According to the law, if the people are really in difficulty, the court or local officials can pay for the people's land."

"Where's the money?" Xiao Yu stood up and asked.

Wang Ning'an smiled and said: "Mr. Xiao, of course money depends on taxation. What we need to do next is a taxation method that combines industry, agriculture and commerce.

Everyone knows that commercial taxes are an important source of finance for the imperial court, and in the future, workers’ taxes will exceed those of farmers, which will eventually lead to the abolition of agricultural taxes.”

Cancel agricultural tax?

Everyone was not calm anymore.

"You are deceiving the public with your lies." Zhou Mang jumped out first and said, "You are simply deceiving the public with your lies. How can it be possible to cancel the agricultural tax, which is an important source of finance for the national treasury."

Wang Ning'an said: "Impossible? Huh, how could it be impossible? Agricultural taxes are only the current financial source of the imperial treasury, which does not mean that it will always be the source of finance in the future.

As long as one day the court realizes that it doesn't matter whether the agricultural tax is a small amount of money that goes between the teeth, the agricultural tax can be cancelled."

Li Er said with some emotion: "Ning'an, which day are you talking about?"

Wang Ning'an said: "When the status of businessmen improves, when commerce develops, when cattle are no longer the main labor force, when people come to work in the city one after another..."

At once, Wang Ning'an explained all the factors. All of them are indispensable. Without any one of them, the agricultural tax cannot be cancelled.

"Your Majesty," Xiao Yu said, "What Wang Ning'an said about Yu is illusory, so I think this question should be dropped here, and it can be regarded as a question for Zhou Mang to answer.

I also have a question: when there is no money in the national treasury, there is a disaster in the local area, and the disaster is urgent, what should the court do?"

Yang Haidao: "It's up to the students to answer this question."

"You tell me." Xiao Yu was very optimistic about him and said, "Okay, you answer."

"Thank you, sir." Yang Hai said happily: "The imperial court can organize donations from merchants and erect monuments to commemorate them. Secondly, the officials can reduce their salaries, and the palace also needs to reduce expenditures to relieve the victims."

"Well, not bad, not bad." Xiao Yu nodded.

Zhou Mang said: "Master Xiao, can you allow the student to say a few more words?"

"Okay, okay, but I have to ask Yang Hai first." Xiao Yu looked at Yang Hai and said, "Do you have anything else to add?"

Yang Haidao: "If it is a court policy, there will be no students left? If it is a disaster-stricken area, students will still have something to say."

"Whether it's the local government or the imperial court, you can say it." Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Yang Hai cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, after local disasters, local officials often dare not privately open Changpingcang to relieve the victims because they do not have the permission of the court.

By the time the court's decree came down, it would take ten and a half days for the victims to starve to death. The student had experienced such a thing. The family had no money and no food. In the end, the student's sister was sold. My parents were starving.

The students barely survived even though they were dead.

So when I was a student, I already swore an oath that I would become an official and I would not starve to death alone in the place under my jurisdiction."

Li Er said in a deep voice: "Xuanling, Keming, after you retire, go and investigate Yang Hai's hometown and who will serve as the local official."

Yang Haidao: "Thank you Your Majesty, but after so many years, the student only remembers his last name."

Li Er said: "Don't worry, I will never let such officials appear in Datang."

Yang Hai thanked him again, and then he stopped talking.

Zhou Mang said: "I sympathize with your experience. What you just said is that opening warehouses for disaster relief needs to be done in a timely manner. However, we still need to inspect the refugee area, summon all the doctors, and gather all the medicinal materials.

After a major disaster comes a major epidemic. When providing disaster relief, we also need to prevent the emergence of epidemics, so disaster relief and epidemic prevention must be carried out at the same time."

"That's good." Xiao Yu said excitedly.

Li Er and others nodded with satisfaction.

Wang Ning'an said: "That's right."

"What? Ning An also thinks Zhou Mang is right?" Xiao Yu asked, looking surprised.

Wang Ning'an nodded and said: "There will be a big epidemic after the big disaster, but what about the victims? How do you plan to arrange them?"

Zhou Mang raised his head slightly, took a step forward, and said, "Of course we will set up a refugee camp and place the victims in the refugee camp until the disaster is over."

"Well, it makes sense." Wang Anning nodded and continued to ask: "What else?"

"There is more?" Zhou Mang was a little panicked. He had never thought that there was more.

Wang Ning'an shook his head and said: "Hey, I can see from your expression. Once there is a natural disaster, the first thing to do is to organize all the victims and divide them into the elderly, children, women and adults."

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yu asked.

Du Ruhui seemed to understand something. His eyes lit up and he said, "Are you planning to let young adults do things?"

"That's right." Wang Ning'an said: "This is called work-for-relief. Instead of giving the victims free food and drink, leaving them with no hope, it is better to let them work.

With jobs, people can see hope. In the face of a major disaster, it is difficult for people to see hope. What we have to do is to give hope to the victims.

Of course, this is the general direction. There are also small details in the middle, such as work, what should be done? How to arrange people, who will manage it, the laws in between, etc.

Your Majesty, gentlemen, these are just the personal thoughts of some students. There are still many things that need to be done. Different disaster situations require different methods.

In case of floods, it is necessary to lead young people to dig rivers and dredge floods. In earthquakes, it is necessary for ordinary people to rescue people and rebuild cities. Snow disasters..."

A lot of contingency measures for natural disasters were mentioned at once, and everyone was a little overwhelmed at the same time.

"Okay, very good. With Ning'an's method, when there is a local disaster in the future, it can be dealt with quickly, and there is no need to wait for the court's order to act." Du Ruhui said with some excitement.

Li Er nodded slowly: "Yes, that's true. Ning An wins this question."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Ning'an said immediately.

Zhou Mang and Yang Hai's faces turned pale. They tied on the first question and lost on the second question. What about the third question? If it was still a tie, they still lost, and Wang Ning'an still won the top prize.

This made them feel very uncomfortable. In their eyes, Wang Ning'an was just a person who used money to solve everything. He was a market person and a philistine.

Li Er continued: "Two beloved ladies have already asked questions, so I will ask the third question."

Zhou Mang and Yang Hai were shocked, cupped their hands and said, "Your Majesty, please come up with a question."

Wang Ning'an could only follow and said: "Your Majesty, please come up with a question."
Chapter completed!