Hope?

Of course, Zhang Yue had been ready long ago.

When the ministers were all excited, Gongsun, the minister of the Shaofu, left a list and bowed: "I wonder if the Shizhong Gong, how many civilians are needed to lead Huai to Bian and Luo to Bian? How long is the construction period? Have you calculated it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yue immediately replied: "The officials have done the calculations and need to dig up about 700 miles of rivers to lead the Huai River into Bian River..."

"In addition, in order to facilitate water diversion, a stone door is needed for every 50 miles of river channel to store water, release water, and adjust the water power..."

"If you lead Luo into Bian, you need to dig open more than 400 miles of land from Luoyang to Xingyang so that the Luo River can enter Bian, and you also need to build a stone gate and a sluice along the way..."

"To sum up, it may take more than 300,000 civilians to introduce Huaihe into Bian, and the construction period is about two to three years..."

"It would take about 200,000 civilians to bring Luo to Bian, and the construction period was about two years!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the court officials immediately whispered.

As a entrusting, Gongsun Yi immediately said: "It's so good for the Shizhong to know that the Shaofu treasury can't afford so much money to support..."

The courtiers immediately stopped doing it.

Especially Taichang Qing Shang Qiucheng, the leader of Sanhe official, had a broken face.

He immediately said, "Young Master! Don't use these things as an excuse!"

"The Shaofu Inner Treasury now has hundreds of millions of banned money! With a measure of 100,000 gold, how can there be no money?"

This year, the Shaofu searched the house but his hands were weak!

Just from the mansion of Gongsun He and his son, gold, treasures and other goods worth more than 100,000 yuan were collected.

Not to mention, the Ziqian merchant from Huai City and the noble family who were banned not long ago were killed.

The total number of these properties is probably breaking through the sky!

The Shaofu itself has calculation income and renewal income, and can also obtain the income from Shanglinyuan and minting money escorted by the Shuiheng Duwei Yamen. The annual income is twice that of the national treasury!

In other things, Shaofu cried poorly, so Shangqiu Cheng regarded it as if he could not hear it.

But in terms of projects that concern the welfare of my hometown, will the Shaofu cry for poverty?

Do you really think that Taichangqing is a decoration?

Gongsun Yi was calm and replied: "Taichangqing doesn't know anything. Although the Shaofu has a lot of income, he also spends a lot!"

"Military expenses, magistrates, palaces and Guanzhong's "purchase restrictions" will cost most of the expenses. The rest will also support craftsmen and servants, but there is really no spare money..."

Gongsun Yi looked like the landlord's family had no spare money, and spread his hands and said, "If it was only tens of millions, the young mansion could probably take it out, but if it was tens of millions or even tens of millions, please forgive me for the young mansion's powerlessness!"

The directors of the Shaofu Department's Department looked like a scoundrel who wanted money but no money, no life', and were ready to roll on the tantrum at any time!

"Ten millions?" Shangqiu Cheng and Sanhe courtiers listened, wishing they could chop Gongsun Yi with a knife!

With such a little money, Shaofu is sending beggars!

But there is no way. The Shaofu has always been independent of the government. No one can force them to take out the money except the emperor!

Therefore, the focus and pressure came to the Grand Secretary Gang Sang Hongyang.

When Sang Hongyang saw this situation, he immediately said: "You must know the situation in the treasury..."

"Last year-old land tax was only 150 million yuan, most of which were still physical..."

"As for the income from both salt and iron," Sang Hongyang frowned and said, "It has been allocated to the national treasury and paid as military pay and official salaries..."

"Unless the public and other people allow the Grand Secretary to increase the land tax or commercial tax, the Grand Secretary can squeeze out up to 50 million yuan of funds per year..."

Increase land tax?

Who has the courage?!

The land tax is thirty and one tax. This is the political achievement of Emperor Taizong, the late emperor and the three generations of today's sons.

It is the good governance that the country makes concessions to the people and the archway of the Han Dynasty.

The court officials who dared to propose to increase the tax on land have not been born yet!

As for commercial tax?

Well, nowadays, the Dashen and the farmers are all exported to the department, so some people are clamoring to 'please cook Hongyang' every day.

Increase commercial tax?

I'm afraid the public opinion is going to be in a mess!

I am afraid that as soon as the news comes out, a good show of going to be held under the Beique City Tower tomorrow, asking for the treacherous and slanderous people to be punished.

Besides, how much tax can you charge based on commercial tax?

It's just a drop in the bucket and it's useless.

However……

With this gap of 2.0, the Sanhe court officials and Xuzhou officials have already made up their minds to practice, and they cannot do it without practice!

For Xuzhou people, this is about life and death.

For the court officials and nobles in Henan, Hanoi and Hedong, this is related to fame and image!

No one wants to be criticized by their hometown party, and no one wants their hometown party to think that they are 'useless' and ruthless people'.

After all, who has to go home to retire?

Moreover, even if you don’t think about yourself, you should consider it for your parents, ancestors and descendants?

But no one hopes that their clan will be poked at the backbone in his hometown!

But without money, you can’t practice it or you can’t practice it!

Zhang Yue was on one side, watching all this quietly.

He knew that the time was ripe.

It's time to sell your tunneling plan to the courtiers.

In fact, when Zhang Yue began to conceive of this anti-COVID-19 engineering plan, a primary question highlighted how to make the landlords, literati and powerful people cut their lives!

You should know that the water conservancy projects of the Han Dynasty were generally feasts for the powerful and nobles!

Take the Baiqu project several years ago. Baiqu mobilized tens of thousands of civilians and took three years to complete it.

After the channel was completed, thousands of hectares of land along the way were irrigated, benefiting the people of several counties.

However, the ones who benefited the most were the powerful people in Chang'an and the local tyrants.

Some people even make several times their net worth by relying on Baiqu!

So how did they make money by Baiqu?

The answer is slaves!

During the Qin and Han dynasties, labor service was the obligation of every minister in the first place.

Generally speaking, if the title is below the five major officials and the rank is below the six hundred stones, they need to serve the state for one month free of charge every year.

But the problem is that the gap between the rich and the poor in society is different.

Some are rich and some are poor.

Just like some businessmen, they have hundreds of thousands of families and more than a dozen slaves.

When it's his turn to serve, he will definitely not do it.

what to do?

Ask someone to serve on his behalf!

Therefore, a special ecological chain was developed in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Serve for others has become the last path for many poor and bankrupt people.

Because, this thing can make money!

According to the Qin law, the tax was 300 coins per month. (Please note that the Qin Dynasty sold half a liang of coins, and the value of the currency was far greater than that of the Wuzhu coins in the Han Dynasty! Theoretically, one and a half liang coins should be equivalent to 3-4 Wuzhu coins. If the factors of inflation are calculated, the value of the 300 coins in the Han Dynasty should be no less than one thousand coins).

And in the Han Dynasty, the price of hiring people to serve is even greater!

The most added value is military service!

In the unearthed Juyan Han bamboo slips, it is recorded that a man named Chen Geng from Hongnong County served as a man named Zhao Xun for one year of border guarding military service, at the cost of the latter paying 29,000 yuan to the former.

Of course, military service is different from corvee service.

The Han army's requirements were quite strict, and most people really couldn't do this job.

In fact, those who can serve others are all veterans.

This is also the largest income for the elite Han army in addition to military pay!

Corvée has various classification standards due to its type and distance.

Generally speaking, the cost of service for water conservancy projects such as river management is about 1,200 yuan per month.

Therefore, in the early Han Dynasty, serving people formed a complete ecological chain.
To be continued...