When talking about hiding rich people, the tone of the people became heavy. The Song Dynasty implemented the two tax laws in accordance with the Tang Dynasty. When Zhao Bing developed Qiongzhou, he promoted the land granted by the population. Both men and women were given land, and then collected taxes according to the amount of land. In fact, the past D tax and field tax were combined into one. The summer tax was mainly used to collect money, while the autumn tax was mainly used to physical goods. In order to prevent large-scale land annexation and officials from using their identities to avoid taxes, a system of tax payments was adopted, which means that the privileges of officials were abolished and the scope of tax revenue was expanded.

Long before the southward transition, land annexation in the Jiangnan region was extremely serious, and the phenomenon of land loss among farmers was very common. Some people said that land annexation can promote population mobility, and instead transfer the landless population to other industries, thereby promoting the development of handicrafts and commerce. However, Zhao Bing did not dare to completely agree. On the surface, land annexation did not affect the country's tax revenue, but it was transferred to the land loss and became tenant farmers, making them even more difficult. Even if they switched to other industries, they were often the lowest-level employees, which was not conducive to the stability of the country's grassroots level.

On the other hand, bureaucrats can reduce taxes. After using their identities to acquire land, they do not have to pay taxes. In fact, the state's taxes are reduced. Some illegal landlords take advantage of this loophole and place their land in the name of bureaucrats. They only need to pay a little fee to them and do not have to pay taxes to the state. However, tenants still have to pay to the landlords according to the taxes stipulated by the state, so that the poor are poorer and the rich are richer, and the national taxes are decreasing.

After the recovery and fall, land annexation reached a climax. The Yuan court granted land to heroes, temples and Taoist temples, and princes and nobles occupied peasant lands on a large scale. However, this laid the foundation for Zhao Bing to implement the "Qiongzhou Experience". He ordered the confiscation of the land of the Mongols, illegal gentry and temples for free, so that eight or ten of the land in the south of the Yangtze River fell into the hands of the court. In this way, the right to redistribute the land was in the hands of Zhao Bing.

Regarding how to allocate land, Zhao Bing adopted a county-level unit to break the restrictions on leaving hometowns and unified allocation. For the population that meets the distribution of land, the local household registration method is adopted. That is to say, although your ancestral home is Hubei, but you are in Hunan, I'm sorry that you can only participate in the distribution of land in Hunan, and you cannot divide it into another portion of your original home. For self-cultivated farmers who already have land, the policy of more land will not be refunded and less subsidized to ensure their interests.

For counties with small land and large populations, they will move forward to counties with large land and sparse populations in order to fully develop and utilize the land. Every ten years, the land and population will be re-approved and increased to limit the merger of land, ensure that the plunderers have their own land, and obtain stable financial income. This policy has been tried in Qiongzhou, and it has accumulated a large amount of grain for counterattacking Jiangnan. Relevant regulations have been made for the sale of land. After the sale, the seller will be included in another account and will not be granted land for the rest of his life.

In addition, the counties also retained about a quarter of the official land. One was used as a job land, but the income was used to help the poor and pay the expenses of welfare institutions such as Luzeyuan, Anjifang, and Pharmaceutical Institute; the other was to reward meritorious officials and spare land for land adjustment. The government should give corresponding compensation to requisition of private land and redistribute land.

In this way, Zhao Bing naturally established a grassroots leadership organization and extended its control to the grassroots level. After completing the land and population statistics last year, the land had been allocated, and this year's summer tax collection has been levied most of the time. However, looking at the faces of several people, he knew that the situation was not optimistic. As soon as he asked, it turned out that although the summer tax could be collected in full, the commercial tax dropped by more than 40% compared with previous years. In other words, food and drink were enough, but the pocket money was not much, and those with serious illnesses and minor disasters had to borrow money...

"Your Majesty, due to the war, the foreign merchant ships relying on the port this year have dropped sharply, less than 40% of the previous years. This has led to the unsalable sales of items produced by many kiln factories and silk woven workshops, resulting in a sharp reduction in commercial taxes and tariffs. In addition, the sales of picked tea also decreased sharply, and prices continued to fall. Only the alcohol and salt taxes have increased, and miscellaneous taxes have remained basically the same. If they still cannot improve in the second half of the year, they will inevitably be deficit this year." Lu Xiufu sighed lightly.

"This is expected. With the decrease in foreign merchant ships, the export of goods produced was hindered and they could only be sold domestically. However, the market could not digest so many things at all, and the prices naturally fell and caused unsalable sales. Over time, handicrafts will inevitably be affected and affected various industries." Zhao Bing nodded. He knew that the taxes in the Song Dynasty only came from commercial taxes, and tariffs accounted for the majority, and the things produced could not be exported, so where did the taxes come from?

"Your Majesty, I and others have also tried their best to retain foreign maritime merchants, reduce tariffs and provide preferential measures, but they still have little effect!" Lu Xiufu sighed.

"It's understandable that no one wants to get involved in the war. If you lose money, you will have to save your life if you don't do it well!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, if this lasts for a long time, it will definitely affect the financial income. Not only will public expenses be difficult to maintain, but military expenses are also difficult to guarantee. Can we consider increasing some taxes to make up for the shortcomings?" Lu Xiufu pondered for a moment and suggested. He knew that in order to win the hearts of the people, the young emperor reduced a large amount of miscellaneous taxes, and restoring them would definitely make him unhappy, but if it did not increase, the treasury would be deficient in succession and the court would find it difficult to maintain it.

"Don't break the trust of the people!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and did not get angry. He turned around, "Since the foreign maritime merchants do not come, how about we go out?"

"Your Majesty, this is not impossible!" Lu Xiufu nodded and said with a wry smile, "But Your Majesty also knows that all the merchants in Jiangnan were controlled by the Mongols. After our dynasty returned to Jiangnan, we either killed or evacuated, and all the ships in the family were confiscated. Those who had no connection were small merchants. They were weak and unable to travel far away!"

"Oh, it turns out it's my reason!" Zhao Bing touched his chin and smiled embarrassedly.

"I have no intention of blaming Your Majesty!" Lu Xiufu said quickly.

"So should we give these small sea merchants some preferential policies, support them, and encourage them to go overseas to go to business?" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said again.

"Your Majesty, there are only some discounts, and those small sea merchants are powerless. You should know that they have very little capital and only have one or two sea ships in their hands. If there is a slight change in the sea, they will lose all their family resources. Moreover, not only are the wind and rain at sea, but there are also pirates. In the past, they could rely on the sea merchants, not only carrying their sea ships, but also using their power to seek protection. Therefore, although the sea merchants are profitable, they will take risks unless those who are interested in money will take the risk!" Wen Tianxiang took the speech and said.

"Well, how about we imitate the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty to implement the official ship?" Zhao Bing also made his own suggestions. The official ship was a form of trade that occupied a very important position in the overseas trade activities of the Yuan Dynasty. That is, the government provided capital to be handed over to merchants. The practice was to build sea ships by the government, send capital, select people to trade goods in foreign countries, earn 70% of the profits of the court, and earn 30% of the people, send ten boats, give certificates, and then pay taxes as a system.

"Your Majesty, you must not. This is an act of treating the people as enemies and resenting the country for resentment. The Yuan court has only abolished it for more than a year, and our dynasty must not be criticized!" The little emperor said to Honglu, and Lu Xiufu firmly opposed it.

"Your Majesty, the official is fighting for profit with the people, so you must not act rashly." Ying Jieyan also opposed, and the other two nodded.

"..." Seeing that several prime ministers were opposed, Zhao Bing was speechless. He thought that Lu Shirong's official ship was driving the maritime trade and increasing taxes was actually a good policy. However, he only tried to monopolize maritime trade in this way because he did not see the situation clearly. However, he was involved in the dispute between the Mongolian and Han factions, but also harmed the interests of the Mongolian and Yuan nobles. As a result, he was criticized and became one of the crimes. As a result, his head was cut off and the official ship ended in vain.

Zhao Bing thought that Lu Shirong was too eager for quick success and instant benefits. If he allowed multiple forms of trade rather than monopolizing the entire maritime trade business, lowered tariffs and encouraged foreign merchants to trade in China, it was not a good policy. However, because he was eager to show his financial management ability in front of Kublai Khan, it might not end like this in a hurry, and it also made people misunderstand this policy, so bad that he could not even pick it up again.

"Master Lu, how many sea ships are we seizure and confiscated?" Zhao Bing asked again after thinking for a while.

"Your Majesty, there should be about two thousand in size. The specific minister is not clear, so it needs to be verified!" Lu Xiufu thought about it and looked at him suspiciously, unable to figure out why the little emperor suddenly asked about this.

"How do those ships deal with?" Zhao Bing frowned and asked again.

"Report to Your Majesty, those ships were initially planned to be allocated to the Ministry of War for use, but they felt that it was very troublesome to transform them, so they would rather rebuild them. So they only selected about a hundred ships as baggage ships, and the rest should be moored in various ports." The little emperor repeatedly asked about the status of these ships, which made Lu Xiufu alert and reported cautiously.

"The four are all in the position of prime ministers, and I have a private matter with you. Please give me some gifts and give me some convenience!" After hearing this, Zhao Bing bowed to the four present and said with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, please tell me if you have something to do!" Lu Xiufu was even more confused, and he bowed and said with a bow.

"Since Your Majesty's private affairs are state affairs, I will naturally take it as my ministers!" Ying Jieyan knew that the little emperor's style was definitely not a good thing, and said with a smile.

"Hehe, it's just a private matter, and it's a small matter. I want to buy all the confiscated ships!" Zhao Bing couldn't hear the warning in Old Man's words, but Liu Fu smiled but said nothing, Wen Tianxiang had a serious face, and he said with a smile.

"Buy a boat?! What does Your Majesty want to buy a boat?" Wen Tianxiang said in surprise.

"Of course I'm sharing your worries!" Zhao Bing said slowly while taking a sip of tea.

"What do you say about Your Majesty?" Ying Jieyan asked with a normal expression.

"Look, so many ships are useless in the port, and they need to be taken care of. The ship will decay for another year or two. If it encounters a strong wind, it may be damaged. Then it will be a pile of waste and no one will ask for it for nothing. If I buy it, you don't have to worry about it anymore. And it turns into cash as a national student, so why not do it!" Zhao Bing spread his hands and smiled, looking like he was thinking about you.

"What does Your Majesty want so many ships to do?" Lu Xiufu wondered.

"Of course, it's just a small business and make money!" Zhao Bing said without any obscureness.

"What do you have to do with us?" Lu Xiufu said in confusion.

"How could it be okay?" Zhao Bing put down the cup in his hand and said, "There are two major things to do now. One is to build a burial for the emperor's brother, and the other is to marry a wife. I heard that the bride price is only 30,000 taels of gold. There are other places that do not require money, and the warehouse has few children left. Just now, the gentleman also said that since my family affairs are state affairs, I will make some money in a small business, which will not reduce the burden on the court? How can this have nothing to do with you!"

"Your Majesty is right!" Lu Xiufu nodded. He knew that the emperor's funeral usually costs one-third of the country's total financial resources, and the wedding also consumes a lot. If we get together, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind.

"Of course it's good, so you can sell those useless broken ships to me at a price and sell them to me cheaper!" Zhao Bing immediately continued.

"What business is Your Majesty going to do? You won't be a maritime businessman!" Ying Jieyan was not so easy to fool, so he asked.

"It's still the sir who knows my heart, but I will definitely abide by the laws and pay taxes according to the rules. I will never forget the sir's teachings!" Zhao Bing politely said to the old man.

"Your Majesty..." Ying Jieyan was also angry when he saw the little emperor's serious appearance and didn't know how to answer.

"Although Your Majesty has always been careless in his work, he never jokes." Liu Fu smiled. "Your Majesty buys many ships to go to sea. One can turn our ordinary things into gold and silver. The second is to pay taxes to increase taxes for the country. The third is to allow many merchants to follow His Majesty's voyage to go to sea to earn more wealth for the Song Dynasty. The fourth is to prosper one business, and the hundred industries will prosper, which can prompt the people to step up production and have surplus wealth for the households; the fifth is to say, as Your Majesty said, if the warehouses are overflowing, the country will not be used."

"Look, Governor Liu's eyes are like a rifle, and he can see through my heart for the country and the people at first glance!" Zhao Bing pointed at Liu Fu and praised.

"Wen Xiang thought it was feasible?" Lu Xiufu turned to Wen Tianxiang and asked.

"I think it is feasible. Your Majesty is far-sighted and has always been self-disciplined. He will never do anything to compete with the people for profit or harm the country." Wen Tianxiang nodded and said.

"His Majesty……"
Chapter completed!