Chapter 2 The Richest Man in the Song Dynasty
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The tiger is laughing here. The king of a country is prostitute. This is exciting. And the emperor of the Song Dynasty can be said to be the number one guest in the world.
Yan Qing also looked contemptuous and continued to talk.
"The Supreme Emperor was also shocked when he saw Li Shishi under the escort of Yang Jian and Hui. He was favored that night. This kind of thing is so exciting and easy to get addicted. The Supreme Emperor was out of control."
"Li Shishi didn't know that the person she served was the emperor of the Song Dynasty. When she knew about it, she had already conquered the Supreme Emperor. The Supreme Emperor had already planned to bring her into it. If Li Shishi entered the palace, Yang Jian and Gao Qiu would not be able to achieve the purpose. So the two of them took the risk again and secretly broke the matter out. This incident spread to ten thousand times and hundreds of times. Bianjing immediately caused a sensation. Master Li's guests were like a tide. Countless people spared no effort to open up this joint. In order to open up this joint, they would not only earn money. One day's money was worth more than just a fortune?"
"The Supreme Emperor finally got it. He was very angry and embarrassed. But when he heard that Li Shishi's net worth had risen. Most people were not qualified to see her at all. And those who were qualified to see her had to pay huge amounts of money. The Supreme Emperor suddenly saw a way to get rich." "The strategy of Yang Jian and Gao Qiu finally succeeded. The Supreme Emperor took the initiative to ask Li Shishi to manage the wealth for him. Yang Jian, Gao Qiu, Cai You and others were also tacitly aware of it. While teaching Li Shishi's ways to make money, giving her the opportunity to make money, and at the same time opening the door to convenience for her management. To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is to hand over power and money. Officials and merchants are tied up. It is not difficult. But the problem is that the Supreme Emperor's eunuch and these well-known ministers cannot come forward. They can only use policies to legally plunder wealth. Only Li Shishi can do those things that are plundering wealth that are invisible."
"Actually, Li Shishi should not practice these things. Those who open up this path of advancement and want to get promoted from here will take the initiative to help Li Shishi earn wealth. Li Shishi needs to collect money and then transfer the money to the Supreme Emperor. The Supreme Emperor will appropriately meet the requirements of some people. It is necessary to say hello to the ministers below. This money is easy to make. There is no risk. While the financial path is widening, there is no need to worry about the eunuchs and ministers around you using this matter to threaten yourself or do whatever you want under your own banner."
"Li Shishi was just a prostitute in Bianjing. She didn't ask for anything other than asking for money, so she would not be as ambitious as the eunuchs around the emperor and the ministers. This is an important reason why the Supreme Emperor believed in her and had always favored her for ten years and had always asked her to take care of the royal wealth."
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This result was among Li Hu. When Yan Qing talked about how the Supreme Emperor plundered wealth, he had already thought that Master Li was the key.
Because of the changes in the new policy of the Song Dynasty, the Central and the United States fought for taxes and fiscal crisis, the treasury was severely deficient. This affected the luxury of the Supreme Emperor and the Royal Family. The Supreme Emperor would inevitably plunder wealth from unofficial channels.
The Song Dynasty's economic policies and agricultural commerce emphasize equal importance. Commercial tax accounts for about 30% of the total tax. Whether it is land rent or tax, the overall bureaucracy is corruption due to institutional and policy reasons. The tax revenue of the Song Dynasty is far from truly reflecting the wealth of the Song Dynasty. In other words, a considerable part of the wealth created by the Song Dynasty every year is left among the people, and it is still in the hands of the privileged class and those groups closely related to the privileged class.
This group of privileged classes and those closely linked to the privileged classes accounted for a considerable part or even more than half of the wealth of the Song Dynasty. They actually became the driving force for the economic development of the Song Dynasty. The excessive concentration of land and trade was excessively monopolized, resulting in the fact that grain and other consumer goods were maintained at a very high production level. On the one hand, this ensured that national taxes were made and more wealth. The increase in wealth of this privileged group made their appetites bigger and bigger. So they began to influence and manipulate economic policies. They began to use legal means to plunder national wealth unscrupulously. For example, Huashigang Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau Xicheng Batiansou is a typical example of the privileged class plundering national wealth using legal means.
The reason why the new policy has transformed and the reason why the tax policy has been transformed is largely because the privileged class plunders national wealth in order to be more convenient, legal and greedy.
The current contradiction is that the wealth of the Song Dynasty is actually controlled by the officials and privileged classes. However, Bianjing had no money. The treasury was even more serious in deficit. In this way, the power of the central government was restricted and the authority of the central government was hit. Situation | Bianjing certainly had no money to give to the Hulie Mansion. Therefore, if the Hulie Mansion thought of food, it could only start from the local government. And it must also start from the local government.
The privileged class cannot move. The power class will move. The foundation of the kingdom will be shaken. No one will cultivate the fields. There are no craftsmen in the workshops. And the lack of merchants from all over the country will be lacking. Then the wealth of the Song Dynasty will be reduced sharply. Wealth will be reduced sharply. Taxes will be reduced sharply. The court and government officials at all levels will be difficult to sustain. They will double the storm.
The poor people will survive and will rebel immediately. Such evil will make the whole kingdom collapse.
This time, Li Hu asked Ma to expand to Chang'an to collect the military, political and financial powers from all walks of life in Shaanxi. It was equivalent to adding an institution between the central and the wings. That is, gathering the scattered military, political and financial powers on the road level. In fact, it was to attack governments at all levels. Zhang Yu and Fan Zhichang went to Sichuan and Shu, Princess Roufu and Mao Jun went to Jingxi and Jinghu. It was also to attack governments. As for killing corrupt officials, it was just to plunder the governments better and more.
This leads to a question: If you snatch all the governments, then governments at all levels will snatch the lowest-level people. These privileged classes will not lose their own interests. In the end, the unlucky one will definitely be the people. If the people rebel, the side will fall into chaos. At this time, it is not a question of whether they can control it. It is how to obtain financial resources to support Hu Lie's survival.
The only thing that Li Hu thought of was to centralize power on the side while controlling the side. That is, to concentrate the three powers of military, political and financial powers at the road level into one institution. Then, with force as a backing, we will use iron fist to implement new policies to crack down on corruption and cut off the privileged class from using legal means to scatter the national wealth. In this way, the privileged class and the entities closely related to the privileged class can only earn money through other means. The central and harmonious parties can collect taxes based on real wealth. This will gradually alleviate the financial crisis.
Of course, this is Li Hu's idea. Whether this idea can be successful or not. Whether this idea is feasible depends on the situation of Luo Sinan on Hedong Road and the implementation of Ma Kuo in Shaanxi. In addition, he must come up with a set of effective new policies as soon as possible. Otherwise, the counterattacks of the government and the privileged class will follow one after another. Hu Lie Mansion may not be able to control the situation with force.
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Li Hu was short of money and food after all. His huge tiger army looked extremely powerful. In fact, he was just a paper tiger.
The Tiger and Lieutenant Army sent troops every month. Without military pay, the army would be in chaos, and its morale would be gone. The combat effectiveness would be sharply reduced. Why was the actual number of troops in the Song Dynasty insufficient? It was because officers at all levels were short of food and had all the soldiers. If the Song Dynasty now had one million troops, a veritable one million, and a total of 40,000 to 50,000 imperial guards, then the current situation would be completely different.
The Hu Lie Army's current month's military pay expenditure is one million guan. Plus military expenditure, at least two million guan. In the past, the army was small, and it was enough to capture Grass Valley. The occupation of Xijing and the looting of Yanjing brought considerable income to the Hu Lie Army. Later, the Song Dynasty provided aid and the Western Expedition also paid the Song Dynasty. Only then did it last. Last year, the battle of Xixia was a lot of money. But Li Hu robbed the party's foundation and made up for it. After entering Taiyuan, he made another money. Today, the Hu Lie Mansion could not support this huge expense. He dared not go to the Hebei battlefield to fight. If it was not Bianjing, Li Hu wanted to bring the main force to the Hebei battlefield. The first condition was to go from Sichuan and Shu to Jinghu to a huge amount of money.
Yan Qing was very smart. He handed over the 30,000 guan to Li Hu. Li Hu said, I will borrow it for the time being. Wait until the Hu Lie Mansion has money. - Return it to you. Yan Qing doesn't want to come back at all. The money is hot. It's better to contribute some achievements. He deceived Li Hu and asked Li Hu to rescue Li Shishi from Bian Jing. This matter has been exposed. If it weren't for the 3 million guan, how could Li Hu kick him?
But now Li Hu really wanted to kill Yan Qing. This scheming was too deep and he had been calculating himself. It was not until now that he had shaken out Li Shishi's old truth.
Li Shishi is a rich man in the Song Dynasty. This woman has been managing money for the Supreme Emperor for nearly ten years. She personally accumulated a lot of wealth from it. She couldn't even imagine. If Li Hu could get this money, it could solve the urgent needs of Hu Lie Mansion and allow Li Hu to quickly open up the situation in the northwest. Why did Yan Qing say it? Obviously, he wanted to actually take out the money in Shishi to seek the greatest benefit for himself and Li Shishi.
Yan Qing didn't know the financial situation of Hu Lie Mansion. But after staying in Luoyang for a few days, he soon learned the secret with his identity as the deputy staff officer of the Grand Marshal's Mansion. But the timing was still not suitable. Because Li was not in a hurry to enter the Hebei battlefield. His main force was on the front line of Luoyang in Chang'an and Luoyang. With Luo's finance, he still supported it for a while.
However, the situation on the battlefield in Hebei suddenly changed. Yao Gu was blocked by flying. The Jin army was leaked. His vanguard had begun to approach. It was only more than 300 miles away from the Yellow River.
Bianjing was in a hurry and urged Li Hu to lead his army to help. In order to ensure the safety of Bianjing, Li Hu did not immediately enter the battlefield in Hebei.
Chapter completed!