Datang started from being a salted fish

Chapter 134 No wonder you Datang are so poor
"Why is Wang Yin sighing? Do you have a different opinion?" Li Shimin asked doubtfully.

After all, the status of merchants is low, which is common sense in the eyes of Tang people, not only their gang of princes and nobles, but also common people and even merchants themselves think so.

This is as natural as people need to eat and drink when they are hungry.

"No wonder you Tang Dynasty is so poor..." Wang Yin looked at Li Shimin and said pitifully.

"How do you say that?" Seeing that Wang Yin seemed to have different views and opinions, Li Shimin immediately became interested.

One must know that Wang Yin is an outsider after all. Through Wang Yin's description of his hometown before, Li Shimin understood that the prosperity of Wang Yin's hometown can surpass tens of thousands of streets in the Tang Dynasty.Now that Wang Yin seems to have a new view, Li Shimin is naturally very interested.

Among other things, if he could absorb some advanced experience from Wang Yin's hometown, wouldn't he make a lot of money?
"You look down on businessmen, but you collect a lot of taxes from them. Isn't this deceiving yourself and others?" Wang Yin said helplessly.

"Businessmen? A lot of taxes?" Li Shimin asked suspiciously, "But the taxes for businessmen are not high?"

"The business tax is not high? Are you kidding me?" Wang Yin looked at Li Shimin with contempt and said, "You don't even think about it, my restaurant pays you...how much tax..."

Originally, Wang Yin was sternly despising Li Shimin there, but when he talked about paying taxes in his restaurant, his tone suddenly paused, and his attitude softened immediately. . .

Wang Yin: Fog grass!My restaurant seems to have never paid taxes. . .

Lu Dage and Wang Yin had raised this question before, but Wang Yin rejected it.Li Shimin asked Wang Yin, and the business tax was not high, so naturally he didn't send anyone to collect the tax. He came and went, and the matter was exposed like this.

Seeing that Wang Yin didn't speak anymore, Li Shimin looked at him cheerfully: This kid was sometimes embarrassed.

"Ahem, is your business tax in Tang Dynasty very low? How much is your business tax now?" Wang Yin coughed in embarrassment and quickly changed the subject.

"Thirty tax one." Li Shimin said truthfully.

"Foggrass..." Wang Yin immediately felt pain after hearing this: "You don't think the tax is mainly agricultural tax?"

After Wang Yin finished speaking, he ignored Li Shimin, and opened the search function to check.

After reading it, Wang Yin has nothing else in his mind except the mythical beast. . .

"Wang Yin...Wang Yin?" Li Shimin was in a daze after seeing Wang Yin's exclamation. He stayed there for a long time, and couldn't help stretching out his hand and shaking it in front of his eyes.

"Oh, it's okay..." Wang Yin said casually, then looked at Li Shimin and said with emotion: "It's not unreasonable for you to be poor... You are picking sesame seeds and losing watermelon!"

"Wang Yin, do you mean that commercial tax is more important than agricultural tax?" Although Li Shimin didn't understand what a watermelon was, he could roughly understand what Wang Yin meant.

"Otherwise, how much money can the common people get you for a year of digging in the fields?" Wang Yin asked back, "Our hometown doesn't collect agricultural tax now, and the country also subsidizes the land."

Hearing Wang Yin's words, all the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty were stunned: No agricultural tax will be collected, and the land will be returned by the country?Is this a dream?

"But if the agricultural tax is not collected, what will happen to the national treasury?" Changsun Wuji wondered: "And now the agricultural tax is mainly based on grain. If it is canceled rashly, the country will have no food in special circumstances in the future..."

Changsun Wuji stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking.

The country is indeed in short supply, but that was in the past!Now with this potato. . .Are you still afraid of a hair? !
Not only Changsun Wuji, everyone present was aware of this problem at the same time.

"It's not obvious anymore." Wang Yin said, "In the future, the country and the common people will not be short of food. Besides, with the output of potatoes, food will not be worth much in the future~"

Everyone was shocked again when they heard the words, but when they thought about it carefully, what Wang Yin said was indeed reasonable: with the output of potatoes, one mu of land would be enough to eat for a year, not to mention that even if the common people in Datang Each family can have a few acres of land. . .

I'm afraid that in the end, if there is too much food, it will be destroyed, right?
Thinking that a group of people were worried about not having enough food for the people of the Tang Dynasty before, and now they began to worry about too much food in a blink of an eye, and everyone suddenly felt like a dream. . . . . .

The change is a bit too fast, I can't adapt to it. . . .

As for the officials of those aristocratic families, after thinking of the impact of potatoes on food, they secretly worried.

"The business tax in your hometown is very high?" Li Shimin continued to ask, "Won't the businessmen have any objections?"

"It's very high," Wang Yin replied, "It's less than 5% to more than 20.00%, and it can be about [-]% to [-]%."

"20.00% is the income tax of [-]% and [-]% of tax." Seeing a group of people stunned, Wang Yin quickly explained.

"Hiss~ so many?" Everyone was shocked again.

"That's right, but the status of our businessmen over there is higher than that of your Datang~" Wang Yin returned.

"But merchants are always too unstable..." Li Shimin said: "Some of these merchants are running around, even if they want to collect taxes, they can't find anyone. Besides, the merchants have a lot of property in their hands. If the government and business collude..."

Li Shimin's words are true. There are many examples of rebellion funded by businessmen in history.

"If you want to talk about rebelling against your Li family, you are an expert, so you are afraid of others rebelling?" Wang Yinfu whispered in Li Shimin's ear.

"However, your current social system is here, and there are too many problems. It is not enough to copy it completely from our side." Wang Yin didn't wait for Li Shimin to say anything, and said to himself: "Actually, I am also responsible for the business tax. Not very clear, you can study it slowly in the future."

After showing off for a while, Wang Yin didn't bother to continue talking about this topic, after all, what he knew was not even superficial.

"Your Majesty, the meal has been prepared, do you want to eat now?" Cao Wenxi ran over sweating profusely and said.

He had been staring at the stove just now. After all, His Majesty was eating with so many ministers, and if he made a mistake, it would be over. Cao Wenxi dared not be careless.

"In that case, let's serve it up." Li Shimin signaled, "Let's just taste how the potatoes taste."

The ministers thought to themselves: The yield of these potatoes is so high, the taste should not be much better, right?

After a while, the yamen servants came over with the meals and placed them on the table in order of their status.

"Eh? It smells pretty good?" After the food was served, the officials sniffled and asked in confusion.

"You don't have to be cautious, just be casual." Li Shimin motioned, then picked up a piece of potato and put it in his mouth.

Seeing that the emperor had already opened his mouth, the ministers also stretched out their chopsticks after waiting for a long time.

"Huh? These potatoes are so delicious?" A potato was placed on the chopsticks, and everyone immediately let out a low voice.

Everyone only felt that the potatoes were soft, glutinous and smooth, sweet and delicious, and there was an aroma of mutton permeating inside.

Wang Yin curled his lips: nonsense, fresh potato stew with MSG added, wouldn't it be delicious?

"Wang Jungong, is there any spice in it?" Changsun Wuji looked at Wang Yin and asked in doubt: "This potato stew has a salty aroma that I have never tasted before, and it has the same spice as the dishes in your restaurant. Taste."

"That's right, a kind of spice from our hometown." Wang Yin replied: "It seems that Zhao Guogong often visits my restaurant to cheer."

"After all, the food in your restaurant is really delicious." Changsun Wuji said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the potato itself tastes so delicious, which is beyond my expectation. I thought that such a high-yielding crop should taste like It will be worse."

"High yield doesn't necessarily mean bad taste." Wang Yin picked up a piece of potato: "This potato is a good thing. It can be eaten as a meal or as a vegetable. Different ways have different deliciousness."

"Sure enough, it's a fairy crop, but it's not ordinary." Changsun Wuji patted his horse lightly.

"Wang Yin, if these potatoes are eaten as a meal, how should they be cooked?" Empress Changsun asked after hearing the words.

She had eaten potatoes before, but as a vegetable, but now that she heard that they could be eaten as a meal, she was somewhat curious.

"This is simple, it can be steamed or boiled." Wang Yin replied.

"It's convenient." Empress Changsun nodded.

"Brother Yin, I dug up the biggest potato plant today." Li Lizhi looked at Wang Yin proudly, with an expression of 'come and praise me'.

"Amazing." Wang Yin gave her a thumbs up: "Then what reward do you want?"

(End of this chapter)