With the emperor's encouragement, Wen Jin became much more courageous, and his thoughts broadened instantly.

As a prime minister, although Wenjing's status was not high, he had access to more information and knowledge than even the two thousand stones of the local county.

I have long been familiar with the allusions, stories, policies, laws, edicts, and literary prohibitions of the Han Dynasty, and I can even recite them by heart.

Now, this knowledge clearly appeared in Wen Jin's mind. He just recalled it briefly and put together all the laws and regulations on horse administration issued by the emperors of the past dynasties since the founding of the Han Dynasty, as well as various laws and regulations in the Han Dynasty.

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He was slightly respectful and boldly expressed the solution in his mind: "If Your Majesty wants to make the people raise more horses, in my humble opinion, you may use the method of fake farmland and fake horses for officials and people...

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"Fake horse?" Liu Che showed a meaningful smile: "It's interesting, sir, please give it a try in detail!"

This person's answer surprised Liu Che. If Liu Che hadn't confirmed that this person was not included in his cast, and that this person would not have had the opportunity to come into contact with those actors, then he would have really suspected that the secret had been leaked.

Wen Jin bowed and said: "Nowadays, the country fakes farmland, and gives official farmland to the people, and collects rent and taxes every year. The fields are like this, and the horses and animals should be like this as the ministers think!"

Liu Che nodded in agreement.

The so-called fake is a loan.

The Han government has always liked to lease state-owned land to landless farmers in order to alleviate social conflicts and protect the people at the bottom.

For example, the current Shanglin Garden has almost become a paradise for landless farmers in Guanzhong.

After Liu Che came to the throne, he cut the land rent level in Shanglinyuan to one-tenth in one breath.

Although it is a loss compared to growing your own land, it is much better than working as a tenant or even selling yourself.

And these measures are effective.

On the one hand, the country has benefited. With the help of the fake land policy, Shanglinyuan can now reclaim at least tens of thousands of acres of land every year.

On the other hand, the people also got a chance to breathe. At the very least, after bankruptcy, besides being tenants and slaves, there is another way to go.

However, at present, this policy is basically only available to farmers in Guanzhong.

People in other places can only rely on luck.

Of course, in some respects, the land reclamation and immigration policy launched last year is actually a variant and enhanced version of the past fake land policy.

Han people have always been smart. They can draw inferences from one example and use their imagination to scare people to death.

About twenty years later, during the reign of Xiaozhu, the Han Dynasty came up with such a fake horse trick.

However, Xiaozhu calls it ‘Xi 11’

Why is it called ‘Xi 11’?

Because the core of this policy is to use horses as a resource to lend to the people, and the horses as the principal will be recovered after three years. In addition, the people need to pay one-tenth of the number of foals produced by the loaned horses as interest.

If the foal is less than one, it will be converted into money, grain, and cloth.

Is this policy a good policy?

Of course!

In the early days of implementation, the whole world was in a state of joy, with everyone rushing to raise horses and trying their best to borrow horses from the government.

History records that in the first few years of the implementation of the National Day policy, "there were horses in the streets and alleys, and there were flocks of horses in the streets." The "Salt and Iron Theory" even praised "there were flocks of cattle and horses, and farmers used horses to plow the land, and the people were all

ride'.

Although Liu Che did not witness that time, judging from the text, it was indeed a golden age.

But unfortunately, this golden age lasted too short.

A few years later, the country faced financial difficulties and tight military spending.

After Xiaozhu tried his luck, he felt that he was still unsatisfied and wanted to expand his financial resources, so he decided to implement the "11% Interest Rate" policy.

First, he imposed an additional tax on six livestock.

The so-called six livestock are horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, pigs, and chickens. All are taxed at a unified tax rate of 2%.

Then, under the pretext of national affairs, they levied additional horse money.

Finally, the original voluntary application to the state to raise horses became a compulsory assessment and compulsory collection of horse interest taxes.

Anyone can imagine the consequences of any policy once it changes from voluntary to mandatory by the state.

Wang Anshi's green seedling method and the armor-preserving method were all ruined in this way.

Piggy's breath is eleven, so naturally he can't escape this vicious circle.

The government and officials at all levels have put their hands into Xishili to reap the benefits, adding more taxes and levies at every level. What is even more frightening is that they have also applied the same methods used to collect land taxes and grains to Xima.

Taxes intentionally injure horses or refer to deer as horses.

Then use this to blackmail and extort people.

Countless people who originally wanted to make a fortune by raising horses have gone bankrupt, or even lost their families.

As a result, the situation immediately changed from everyone vying to raise horses to one where whoever raises the horse is in trouble.

So much so that during the reign of Emperor Zhao, in order to encourage people to raise horses, they stopped the horses.

This is undoubtedly an extremely ironic fact!

With such a lesson learned from the past, Liu Che naturally knew what to choose.

Of course, Liu Che also wanted to hear the opinions of Han Dynasty officials, especially those at the grassroots level.

They have been at the grassroots level for a long time, are familiar with the people's sentiments, and are well versed in accidents. They must consider issues more broadly than the emperor who lives in the palace.

For example, they must know what kind of tax rate can ensure that people have the passion to raise horses without causing the country to suffer losses.

Therefore, Liu Che asked: "From a public perspective, how appropriate is it for a fake horse to be treated as a tax?"

"The duties and powers of the minister are beyond the discretion of the ministers..." Wen Jin looked at the giants and said humbly and very wisely.

His answer made the two thousand stone people present feel very comfortable, and they all felt that this person was a talent who could be promoted and cultivated.

Even Liu Che let out a sigh, showing some admiration for this guy's cleverness.

The reason is very clear.

There are many people who can expand their imagination to this point like Wenqin.

For example, among the ministers in Lantai, there are many people with similar ideas.

After all, the Liu family has been playing with fake fields for decades. As long as the emperor is so interested and has a smart mind, he can quickly think of this level.

But there are very few people who can put themselves in a right position and still understand their status and be able to bend and stretch even after receiving the emperor's praise.

There are many smart people in this world, and there are also many talented people.

However, after making some achievements, there are many people who raise their tails to the sky, hold their heads high, and only have eyes for themselves.

Why did Feng Tang leave the sigh of "Feng Tang Yi Lao" in the history books?

The phrase 'I don't know what to do' is at least half responsible.

In this world, if you want to succeed, you will never succeed without talent.

But if you only have talent but don't know how to be a good person, you will just become a technical geek, a staff member and a think tank.

Only those who are talented, know how to behave, know how to advance and retreat, and understand the world can reach the pinnacle of life.

At least for now, in Liu Che's view, this literary ban has the foundation for success.

Liu Che has always loved to do things along the way.

So, he smiled and said to Prime Minister Zhou Yafu: "Prime Minister, I think that for capable officials like Wen Qing, Prime Minister might as well give them more responsibilities in the future and give them more space to display their talents..."

Zhou Yafu immediately bowed and said: "No, I will obey the imperial edict!"

When Wen Jin heard this, he immediately kowtowed and said, "How dare your Majesty praise such a humble minister with so little talent? There are so many people in the Prime Minister's house who are far more talented than a humble minister..."

Liu Che laughed and said jokingly: "My dear, you are too humble, which is not good. You should be more confident and bolder. I have always advocated that scholar-bureaucrats, ministers, ministers and marquises should lead the people to change, give more loyal advice, and give more advice.

Give me some good advice!”

Being teased like this by Liu Che, the originally solemn and tense atmosphere was suddenly diluted a lot.

All the ministers relaxed their mood and said: "Your Majesty is a saint, and I congratulate you from all over the world!"

This is also what Liu Che hopes to see.

Liu Che did not hope that today's itinerary would be filled with large sections on anti-corruption and promoting integrity.

The government and the opposition should focus their attention and focus on political reform.

Therefore, he doesn't even talk about the affairs in Taipu Yamen now.

These matters are handled by the court lieutenant and the imperial censor.

As the emperor, Liu Che did not need to intervene to avoid causing a huge political turmoil.

"There is some truth in what Wen Aiqing said. I will consider Aiqing's opinion. Now, please step aside and I will ask others to see if they have any different opinions..." Liu Che said with a smile, actually

Above, because of this literary ban, part of Liu Che's Ma Zheng ideological context has been revealed to the public.
To be continued...