After three years of enfeoffment, the waste prince shocked the court boss

Goguryeo, the royal palace.

At this time Gao Juji was sitting on the throne with a sad expression on his face.

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Forcing the widow to shut down the free trade zone. If someone takes the opportunity to send troops, who do you think can stop it!"

Gao Juji ruthlessly pushed the documents on the copybook to the ground, and said angrily.

The civil and military officials below suddenly didn't dare to make a sound, and shrank their heads.

The free trade zone in Maxiangping has been in operation for more than a year, and countless commodities have poured in from Silla.

Gao Juji and the courtiers didn't take it seriously at first.

But it wasn't until the taxes came out half a year ago that I was surprised to find that the taxes collected were not half of what they were in previous years.

After sending people to investigate the reason, they found that the incident happened in the free trade zone created by Wang An.

The value of goods flowing into Koguryo from the free trade zone every day is as huge as 10 taels of silver.

And these things are tax-free.

In fact, it is just the tariffs on these things, and the impact on Goguryeo is not so great.

The main reason is that these commodities almost involved all aspects of Koguryo, from the nobles to the people's basic necessities of life.

Cloth, tea, meat, furniture, farm tools... almost everything that can be used in daily life can be found in the free trade zone.

These things entered the Goguryeo market, because of their high quality and low price, they quickly seized the share of the original Goguryeo products.

Many merchants and workshops went bankrupt.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the cloth, the cloth sold from Silla, the quality is tight, the specifications are neat, and it keeps warm. The value is only two-thirds of the price of the local cloth in Goguryeo.

This directly crushed the local cloth workshops.

In the end, the cloth shop was no longer willing to buy local cloth, and instead sold all the high-quality and cheap dry cloth from the free trade zone.

Another secret is that when selling dagan cloth, merchants can get rebates from dry people, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of merchants in Goguryeo.

Thanks to the technological innovation of Lingnan University over the years, new machines have been adopted in various industries.

Things like cloth are clustered and mass-produced, and the manufacturing cost is reduced to an astonishing level.

In some people's livelihood industries, there are even direct applications of steam engines as power.

When these commodities entered the Goguryeo market, it was a dumping disaster.

"Your Majesty, I have a plan!"

State Prime Minister Gao Min came out and bowed.

"Uncle Wang, please speak!"

Gao Juji sat up.

Gao Min is his uncle, and has always been Gao Juji's right-hand man, and has always attached great importance to his opinions.

"It was just agreed not to levy tariffs before, but we can collect this part of the tax in disguise.

Chen suggested that an additional tax should be levied on those merchants who sell dry goods.

As long as this tax is not called a tariff, no one can find anything wrong with it. "

Gao Min said.

"Would this—would it make Gan people dissatisfied?"

Gao Juji hesitated.

"My lord, this free trade zone can't be closed, so I can only use this method. Otherwise, within two years, my Goguryeo treasury will be emptied."

Gao Min persuaded.

"Okay, let's carry on with it for now."

Gao Juji sighed.

When I first signed the contract, I didn't expect that a small free trade zone could bring such a big trouble, it's insidious!

At this time, Daqian Jingshi is full of New Year's flavor.

Red lanterns were hung at the gates of the common people in the capital.

In the past few years, life has improved visibly with the naked eye, and the people in the capital have more and more hope.

People walking on the road are full of energy.

There were also more foreigners on the road than usual.

There are still ten days until the Great Court Meeting, when the participants from all over the world will gather in the capital.

As early as a month ago, Emperor Qian made a decree to add an Enke in the spring of the next year, and sent imperial envoys to the army to reward the frontier soldiers.

In the name of fire prevention, the defense of the capital is also a bit stronger than before.

Emperor Qian's actions made everyone with a keen sense of smell smell something unusual, as if some shocking news was about to break out.

Chapter 189 Wen Zhi Wu Gong

The Hall of Carrying Fortune, the Grand Court Meeting.

At this time, the hall was bustling with people.

"Master Zhang, Happy New Year!"

"Lord Liu, happy new year, please don't say anything wrong at today's court meeting."

Zhang Lian joked to Liu Bazhai.

This made Liu Bazhai's originally beaming face covered with black lines.

It really is a pot that cannot be opened without mentioning.

The officials in the hall spoke auspicious words to each other, waiting for the start of the grand court meeting.

At this time Li Su was also impressively above the main hall.

I found a place and stood still, surrounded by a few royal relatives chatting.

Although everyone had doubts about Li Su's arrival, they didn't think much about it.

"Snapped!"

A golden whip exploded.

A long horn sounded outside the hall.

"Your Majesty is here!"

Following the roll call, Emperor Qian led a six or seven-year-old boy into the hall with dragon and tiger strides, strode towards the dragon chair and sat down.

The child was also placed on the side seat, and a cushion was thoughtfully laid out.

Everyone speculated about this child who had never shown his face.

"Long live Your Majesty!"

All the ministers bowed down.

"Everyone loves to be flat!"

Emperor Qian was full of anger.

Then the Great Court will officially begin.

First, Wang Quan eloquently read a National Fu as usual, summarizing what he had experienced in the past year.

The Holy Son of Heaven, also known as Emperor Qian, did not live up to the expectations of his ancestors after all. In this year, things are flourishing and getting better and better.

In the next year, everyone will definitely achieve better results under the wise leadership of the Holy Son of Heaven.

Bigger and stronger, create greater glories.

Li Su found that the content of the previous national Fu was all made up and made up, and some empty words about good weather, prosperity of the country and people's peace were added.

Today's national endowment has been enriched a lot, and some of the things listed are indeed real political achievements.

Looking at Emperor Qian who was sitting on the dragon chair, Li Su couldn't help showing a very relieved expression. This emperor father has finally grown up.

Feeling Li Su's gaze, Emperor Qian always felt that his eyes had malicious intentions, so he gave him a secret glare before restraining himself.

The next step is the part of the ministers to announce the good news.

"Your Majesty, I have worked hard to collect more than [-] million taels of silver from taxes this year.

New types of grain have been fully rolled out, reports from all over the country, official warehouses are full, and grain prices have dropped by [-]% compared to last year! "

Zheng Kun, Minister of the Household Department, took the lead.

As soon as this remark came out, the nobles and ministers in the hall did not respond, while the Fanbang envoys sitting in the corner watching the ceremony showed shocking eyes.

There was a sound of exclamation.

You must know that for most of the small countries here, this money can buy their entire country.

Emperor Qian was naturally very satisfied with Fanshi's performance, and this effect was what he wanted.

Back then, Dagan’s treasury’s annual income was only more than 1000 million taels of silver, the court was stretched everywhere, and Emperor Qian’s internal treasury was also empty.

In just six years, the treasury's annual revenue has doubled several times, which Emperor Qian and all his courtiers could not have imagined before.

This is thanks to Anwang's Jingling Railway and the influence of sea trade.

And there is one thing that no one has said, that is, the tax contributed by Lingnan Prefecture has now reached an astonishing 300 million taels of silver.

What is this concept?

Longjing's 13 years of working hard for the entire year's tax revenue for the treasury was only 200 million taels of silver, and now a government in Lingnan is comparable to the tax revenue of a country that worked hard in those days.

This still does not include the income of places driven by railways and places driven by maritime trade along the southeast coast.

If all of them were counted on Lingnan's head, no one dared to imagine how huge this number would be.

According to the estimates of those who are interested, all these factors may account for half of Dagan's tax revenue!

Li Su stood there with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

If they knew that there were so many silver mines in Wa country, wouldn't they be scared to death.

When the Japanese silver was mined, Li Su didn't order people to bring it back immediately.

For the current Daqian, the more silver the better, otherwise the social production level cannot keep up and it will only cause inflation.

Silver, in the final analysis, is only used as currency, as long as it is enough.

What Li Su cares about is population. Compared with money, population is the key.

The current population of Dagan is still too small. In the future, Dagan will control more land, and the current population is simply not enough.

If the population is large enough, it will not be so troublesome to treat Goguryeo, Wa, and Luzon by myself.

After the direct occupation, a large number of immigrants garrisoned troops.

The big deal is to kill those who dare to resist. There is no need to be so troublesome as it is now.

"it is good!"

Emperor Qian nodded lightly, showing the majesty of His Majesty the emperor of a great country.

The best way to show off is to keep a low profile, Emperor Qian knows this well.

"Chen Qizuo, our frontier army has replaced 3 new equipment and more than [-] new artillery pieces.

Since the year before last, the Tatars have been expelled and retreated for four hundred miles. So far, the Tatars have not dared to violate the border again!

The border is peaceful and peaceful, and the people of the border will send Wanminbiao to congratulate! "

Minister of the Ministry of War Zhao Jinming bowed and said, and then someone brought in a huge brocade scroll.

Spread out, it is embroidered with the four big characters of "Wen Zhi Wu Gong", on which are densely packed names and handprints.

"Okay! Good! The border guards still need to fight the enemy with all their strength to keep our border safe.

Put this calligraphy away, and hang it in my sleeping hall when the Tatars are destroyed in the future.

The current me is not worthy of the praise of the people in the frontier. "