The Song Dynasty had a heavy tax, reaching 20%-30% of land, which was higher than the double taxes paid by the people of Liao. There are many reasons for such high taxes, such as the Song Dynasty inherited the excessive taxes during the chaotic period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, such as the recruitment system adopted by the Song Dynasty and maintained millions of soldiers... There are various reasons, so that the people's taxes were very high. However, after the people joined the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, all the messy and high taxes had nothing to do with them. Even if they sued, the Cai Mansion quarreled with the court and quarreled.

Cai Yan admitted that the Song Dynasty was rich, but he did not agree with the wealth of capital as the king. He especially hated the low-level farmers who were too resistant to extreme risks. This led to him who deliberately created such a monster in the fourteen prefectures of Zhejiang Province.

Listening to Su Mei talking about the troubles in Jiangnan, he was not too worried about the dissatisfaction of the officials in Ah Niang's mouth. Isn't it just a quarrel and quarrel, and let the merchants, gentry and the court quarrel.

Cai Yan didn't care. The government had no Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army. Just relying on the yamen runners and constables in each prefecture and county, the elderly and weak in the 100,000 garrison offices were really not afraid of them, and they made him angry. It was possible that all the yamen runners of the 14 states and constables were laid off and unemployed. Yingtianxiang soldiers replaced the yamen runners of the government, and constables were an example.

Cai Yan took the pork dumplings sent by Su Mei, poured a bowl of dumplings into his stomach, and looked at Ah Niang who was wearing an apron and said, "All quarrels are quarrels. If they really make sense, we can make some corresponding changes, but if we can't reason, we must dare to be tough on us... Humph! Let Wang Bing lead the third division to torture them!

Su Mei put a bowl of dumplings for him from the pot and smiled and said, "The court cannot be too tough on us in the fourteen prefectures of Zhejiang Province. Even if the merchants and gentry who do not belong to the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, they are willing to fight with the government, so that they can force the government to only collect 10% of the taxes."

Cai Yan took the bowl and chopsticks and was about to swallow it. When he heard her words, he was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what was going on.

The Cai Mansion has a high reputation because of its 500,000 hectares of land. Almost all the fourteen prefectures in Zhejiang Province say that Cai is kind and generous. If the government wants to seize and suppress the reputation of the Cai Mansion, it will only gain the recognition of merchants and gentry outside the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and the court can only change the excessively high agricultural tax policy.

After swallowing two dumplings, Cai Yan grinned and exhaled the heat in his mouth, and said with a smile: "This is a good thing. It forces the officials in Jiangnan to make changes, and force them to reduce the ten taxes and two to ten taxes and one to ten taxes. It is also good to raise farmers with low taxes."

Su Mei put down the rolling pin in her hand and sighed at him: "It is good to reduce the burden on the people, but the taxes of the court will be much less. Even if the court temporarily endured us because of the Liao Kingdom in the north, what should we do afterwards... what should we do afterwards?"

Cai Ying said without hesitation: "Although Lao Cai's 'feng, Heng, Yu, and Da' is a bit messy, it also shows a problem, that is, the people's concept of extravagance has been formed, and it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!"

"The land tax seems to have decreased due to one ten tax, but the consumption concept of the people has been formed. It will not hide money in the house because of the increase in income, so it will further prosper the market economy. It seems that the income from the agricultural tax has decreased, but in fact it has only been transferred to the commercial tax."

"The great change in the north is imminent. Even if the State of Song finally obtained the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the foreign market of Liao, which was damaged in a short period of time, would be difficult to recover. This requires stimulation and development of internal markets. However, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, farmers at the source of the economy must have enough money. If the farmers have no money, it will be difficult to support the huge commodity output of Song by relying solely on a few wealthy gentry."

"In a sense, it is more important for farmers to have money in their pockets, and the reduction of agricultural tax has been supplemented with commercial tax. Overall, the reduction of agricultural tax has not caused the final reduction of finance. The reduction is only the money and grain corruption of officials in the prefectures and counties in the two fourteen prefectures of Zhejiang Province. The money and grain corruption will not be sent to the court's Ministry of Revenue, so the court will not lose much even if it loses. Instead, part of the money and grain corruption of officials will flow into the pockets of the people, and will then be further invested into the consumer market under the existing consumption concept."

"As for the current tax reduction, it is mainly due to the market depression caused by Manichaeism. Suhe Money House injected taxes into the Song Dynasty for one year, at most, the prosperity and prosperity of Jiangnan will be restored next year and next year, so there is no need to worry too much about taxes."

Cai Huang smiled again.

"Of course, this is when the government and we are kind to each other. If Dad Fujin makes trouble for us, our family will intercept the taxes, clear the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and spread the money into the people, which is much better than him playing with stones!"

When he was talking to Su Mei, Zhao Fujin, who was cooking the pot, did not dare to interrupt easily. It was not until he mentioned the "official family" that Zhao Fujin looked up, but there was not a word. It was a time of embarrassment. If he was still holding a pile of ragged stones and holding Jiangnan taxes would be considered a good thing?

Zhao Fujin is becoming more and more like the Cai family's wife, and Cai Yan is becoming more and more unable to put down her.

The family stayed in the kitchen to make dumplings and eat dumplings, each talking about what happened recently, listening to the happy laughter in the room, Yelu Su, who was guarding outside, dared not know what he was thinking, but just looked at the distant north...

"Hold it."

At some point, Cai Yan had already walked out of the kitchen and threw a bowl of dumplings into his arms.

"Are you okay with Niu Niu and Mr. Sun?"

Cai Yan shook his head and walked towards the gate of the palace.

"I have become prisoners, and with the nothing happened to the Prime Minister's Mansion, even if I think about it with my butt, I know that Niu Niu and the others are not much better!"

Cai Yan was very brave. Not only did he bring Fang Tianding, who had his tongue cut, but Deng Yuanjue was with him, he was even more cautious about Yelu Sugan.

Yelu Su dared to hold a bowl of dumplings, but the huge man followed silently with tears in his face.

"The princess...the princess...the princess is thinking about the princess every day..."

Cai Huang paused and looked to the north silently for a long time...

"well……"

Cai Fei sighed deeply, walked towards the gate of the courtyard and said, "The Liao Kingdom is over. It will be two years at the earliest, and it will not exceed three years at the latest. The Liao Kingdom will definitely destroy the country..."

"Mr. Concubine..."

"I can't save it!"

Cai Yan did not look back and knew the tears in the eyes of the man behind him. Anyone would feel sad and sad when he heard the demise of the country that gave birth to him. Even if he was a traitor, he would be willing to believe it...

"When you return to Liao Kingdom, Liao Kingdom still has a chance, but now there is no chance, but this does not mean that there is no possibility of returning to Yanjing in the future."

Cai Yan stood at the gate of the mansion, and the horse whip fell down, as if he was making some difficult decisions...

"In the coming year, Xijing will lose, Nanjing will be in chaos and people's hearts will be fluctuating. I need someone to bring Niu Niu back to heaven, a loyal person, a person who doesn't care about anyone except Niu Niu, and a person who will bring Niu Niu back even if it becomes a shame or rebellion in Liao!"

...

Without getting the desired response, Cai Yan was a little disappointed and strode towards the ready-made war horse. Just as he jumped onto the war horse and was about to leave, Yelu Sudan suddenly stepped forward, Saner, Pang Wanchun, Fang Tianding, Deng Yuanjue's four guards were furious and were about to draw his sword to cut Yelu Sudan, who had lost weight...

"Bang!"

Yelu Su dared to kneel on the ground, his head hanging deep.

"The last one will swear to protect the princess to the death!"

"The master died and the slave died!"

...

Cai Huang suddenly turned his horse's head.

"Get on the horse!"

"promise!"

Yelu Sugan is the commander of the Pishi Army and the most elite royal guards in the Liao Kingdom. Unlike others, who stepped on the stirrups, held the saddle with both hands, and strode to the front of the war horse. Without waiting for others to pause, the people were already riding steadily on the war horse. The riding skills were far beyond the level of others.

Hundreds of riding horses were galloping, originally Fang Tianding, Deng Yuanjue took the lead in protecting the front, but Yelu Su dared to seize the leading position.

The four major guards became five. Yelu Sugan, Fang Tianding, Deng Yuanjue protected the front, Saner and Pang Wanchun, one left and one right, and there were another hundred cavalrymen who held bows and shields to protect Cai Yan tightly. Dozens of hunters from the village among the hundreds of cavalry scanned the sides of the street from time to time, especially the wooden buildings on both sides, for fear of arrow shooting and assassination.
Chapter completed!