"Old Liu, be careful to protect that man."

Cai Yan pointed at the man who was held down by the yamen runners, and felt a little embarrassed as the whip raindrops fell on the man who was screaming with his head.

"Sanlang, go and have a look."

Liu Yidao ordered, and Liu Fang nodded and strode towards the chaotic crowd.

"Young Master, it's very windy here, let's go back?"

Cai Huang's eyes were always looking at the crowd still quarreling...

"Um."

There are not only Hairui Business at the dock, and there are many merchants who load and unload goods early in the morning. Everyone watched the chaos from afar. No one came forward to dissuade them. Even worse, those who retreated from afar again, glanced at the crowd and pointed at them. Listening to the ridicule and sarcasm, there was no desire to wander in my heart.

Perhaps seeing his dislike, Liu Yidao sighed in his heart and whispered to the side.

"Young Master, don't worry too much. When the court relaxes the salt ban and allows merchants to buy salt, the life of the transportation husbands will be better."

Cai Yan was silent for a moment...

"The only thing about buying salt farms is to buy salt farms. Unless the court prohibited salt, wine, tea, medicines, spices, alum, vinegar, copper, iron, tin, lead, grain, textiles, coal...all industries are released, otherwise, the conscription will still exist and it will still be the situation in front of you."

Cai Yan smiled brilliantly again inexplicably.

"The government is not a good person. Free labor will not be used, and officials will not give up the opportunity to make money with free labor. Of course, it is also good for the court to unlock the ban on salt."

Listening to these words, Liu Yidao smiled bitterly.

"What the young master said is that it is impossible to completely eradicate the recruitment."

Cai Yan walked silently on the hard mud road, and sighed for a long time...

"It is reasonable to fight foreign wars and the government temporarily recruited military service, because without the protection of the army, the people will suffer from military disasters. Once the country is destroyed, the invading enemy will not have any mercy. It is related to the life and death of all people, and the recruitment is reasonable..."

"Young master, if you don't collect military service, the court will not pay taxes to officials and soldiers, and the court will be in chaos!" Lu Tao suddenly spoke.

Cai Yan opened his mouth and wanted to scold him, but could not argue. He spent more than 100 million yuan of silver dollars every year, which shows how much pressure it puts on transportation. If you negligently care, you will have big problems.

Seeing that he had nothing to say, Lu Tao shook the maid's little braid with smugness. Seeing that everyone was silent, Cai Yan pulled the annoying little braid very much, but he didn't notice that Liu Fang came behind him with a man with a blue nose and a swollen face.

"There are causes and results. When wars are in chaos, the people cannot cultivate them. The prices of grain change ten times a day. I won't mention these abnormal situations. During the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, a Dougu was worth five cents; during the reign of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, two coins of rice were 20 cents, that is, twenty cents of grain. During the prosperous Kaiyuan period, two coins of rice in the two capitals were only 20 cents, which was 20 cents of rice in one stone. "

Cai Yan pulled down his funny bun again and said with a smile: "What about today? The price of one stone is always the same! During the same Taiping period, why is the price of today five times that of the previous dynasty?"

Lu Tao was repeatedly pulled into her hair and didn't dare to resist. When she heard him ask back, she was a little stunned and couldn't figure it out.

"Young Master, why?"

Cai Yan wanted to pull off her braid again, but finally put her on.

"Why... there are many reasons. Too many people died during the Sui Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the territory was wide, with few people and more land, so the price of grain naturally was lower. On the contrary, the price of grain in the Song Dynasty was slightly more expensive, but this was only one of them."

"The upper-class land, summer tax, and the upper-class land is levied for two hundred cents, and the autumn tax is levied for two dou and two liters of grain. According to the amount of one stone, one silo is 420 cents, and there are two dou per stone, one acre of high-class land, and four dou is produced, which means eight dou is added, which means eight dou is added, and there are twenty dou is added, and there are twenty dou is added, and the agricultural instrument tax is 20 cents, one liter of charity warehouse tax is paid for fifty-money, and one silo of cow horns and beef tendon tax is paid for fifty-six cents of foot fee... The total amount is 2,100 cents, which is two dou of money."

"One acre of high-quality fields, Jiangbei only produces four stones of grain a year, earns two stagnant money, Jiangnan is slightly better, fertile fields produce eight stones a year, earns six stagnant money."

"A mu of high-quality land tax and two stale money, as well as twelve kilograms per year, forty-five kilograms per kilogram, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and firewood, clothes, houses, children's schooling expenses, marriage, birth, old age, sickness and death... If the price of grain sales of 200 kilograms per kilogram in Kaiyuan was sold at the price of 200 kilograms per kilogram, the people could only find a crooked tree."

Green peaches are too young, and the daily expenses are paid directly by the mansion, which is far from the four maids around Su who deal with the account book every day, and they don’t understand these things. Liu Yidao, Meng Fei and others remain silent.

"Taxes are too high, which will inevitably lead to price increases. If the price increases, the people will not be able to survive. The grain output cannot satisfy the needs of the people to support their families. What should I do? I can only think of another way, helping people work and earn some money to supplement the family's income, and I can only rob the family and do some unsubsidized business. I can only think of ways to avoid the government and do some illegal things. No matter how good the benevolence, righteousness and morality are, can I still have a big stomach?"

...

"snort!"

A cold snorted into everyone's ears. Cai Yan couldn't help but look back and saw that the man with six feet high glaring at each other. He was not very strong under his thick robe, but he knew that the thick joints and dark muscles were very powerful. Only under heavy physical strength could he have such solid muscles. The man did not hide in mud and barefoot, and wiped a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth with his arms, and looked at him with anger.

"Has the court given the people a way out?"

Cai Yan was silent for a moment, shook his head again, and sighed: "There is a cause and there is a result. Cause and the result are right and wrong. Who can tell you clearly? The people have the sufferings of the people, and the court also has the difficulties of the court..."

Seeing that the man was about to open his mouth and angrily, Cai Yan waved his hand to stop him and said, "You have a difficult life. I believe you are not a lazy and sloppy person. There must be a reason for the difficult life. But this is the case in the world. In the general environment, everyone has a court over their heads. There are still rich people and poor people, even if I said before that during the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties, no matter when it comes, because of their family background at birth, hard work, mind, situation, etc., there will still be some poor people and rich people, and this will never change."

Cai Yan sighed and smiled bitterly: "My younger brother Cai Yan, the son of the Grand Master of the current dynasty, is not my younger brother who defends the court or something. The facts are facts. Some situations cannot be solved at all, such as one and two million soldiers."

"The eight hundred thousand imperial guards are divided into five grades, the first-class monthly salary is 1,000 yuan, and the fifth-class salary is 300 yuan; the wing army is 400,000 yuan, and the first-class salary is 500 yuan, and the third-class salary is 300 yuan. And based on the minimum price of 300 yuan, a total of 432 million yuan."

"Each soldier, he would have two stones of rice and grain per month, and one and two million soldiers would need 28.8 million stones of grain, that is, two hundred and eight hundred and eight hundred thousand cents of qian."

"In addition to the monthly food, there are also oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Each of them has two sets of clothes, including border guard subsidies, subsidies for suburbs, holiday allowances, firewood, charcoal money, and snow cold money... This item is consumed tens of millions of yuan a year."

"These military soldiers consumed more than 40 million stakes in total. These were only one hundred and two million soldiers. There were also soldiers, such as armor and equipment, and only one hundred and two million soldiers, which cost only sixty million soldiers every year. These were just military soldiers."

"Three people are a small team, three teams are a squadron, and the fifth squadron is a squadron. One squadron has a escort officer, the head of the team, the deputy head, and the left and right flags, that is, the first squadron has eleven generals."

"Two brigades, one capital, one battalion, one battalion, one battalion, one army, one 10th brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one brigade, one

"Where are officials? And the nobles? In the fifth year of Emperor Zhenzong's Yuanxi, he earned 15085 million guan a year and paid 12677 million guan a year; in the first year of Emperor Renzong's Huangyou, he earned 12625 million guan a year and had no room for leaving; in the second year of Emperor Yingzong's Zhiping, he earned 11613 million guan a year and paid 12034 million guan a year, and lost 15 million guan a year. At this point, the court was deficit every year... and the subsequent Xining reforms and the subsequent changes in salt administration were made many times."

Cai Yan looked at the dumbfounded man and said helplessly: "The annual tax of the Song Dynasty is less than 120 million guan, which is less than 120 million guan. The court will lose money. This is why Lao Cai's Grand Tutor changed the employment service to conscription, because the court wants to save money; in order to increase wealth and make up for holes, he made another 'one guan for ten guan'. "

"Of course, deficits are not the people's business. It is the court itself that he is shitting and not wiping his butts. The responsibility lies with the court. The reason for this is to say that is to explain some reasons to this elder brother. Sometimes... the arm can't twist the thighs, and the court's big hat is put down. What can we do if the people don't wear it? Could it be that we rebel? We can beat the court's 1.2 million soldiers?"

Cai Yan reached out and wanted to take out some money from his pocket, but found that he had no money at all. He smiled bitterly and reached his little hand in front of the little butler of Lu Tao.

"This day, except for a better-looking piece of clothing, the clean pockets are not as good as this big brother..."

"Get the money!"

Cai Yan was very domineering. Lu Tao pouted her mouth and took out her small wallet. She was about to check how many copper and iron horns there were, but Cai Yan snatched them up...

"Young master, there are several taels of silver!"

Green Tao was very anxious. Cai Yan didn't even look at it and threw it into the man's arms.

"After working, you have to gain something. I am not as big as Old Taishi Cai, nor have the ability to abolish the rules of the court. These are your rewards. I can only treat you as a reward. I will treat you as a drink. In the future, if you use Hairui business name to ship, you will follow this rule until the court pays you all the wages."

Cai Huang sighed and turned around and walked towards the car not far away.

"Hope... life is getting better and better..."
Chapter completed!