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Just the new year's money can be 6000 taels, and the regent has a look of no pain. You can imagine how much money the regent's family has.

In fact, the children of the aristocratic families also spent money like water, some even had more money than the emperor could use, but when it was their turn to spend money, these people began to cry poor.

For a moment, he had the urge to ask the regent to advance his New Year's money for the past few years, but the next moment he dismissed this idea.The regent's money is his money, so you can't just let him, the emperor, pay for it every time something happens.

Once this precedent is set, will the officials take it for granted? For the 40 taels, he must not be responsible for more than half of the money alone. If he wants to bleed, he must be accompanied by those rich families. out is.

So many sheep, with a little wool on each of them, can grow until he is a hundred years old.

Thinking about the money the Xiao family got from raiding the house, he would have the urge to raid another corrupt official's house.However, it is not so easy to search the house, and it takes time to collect evidence. With that effort, a large amount of disaster money has been sent to the victims.

He then asked the regent: "Uncle Wang told Gu earlier that he will talk to Gu later about the fundraising for the disaster. It's already night, so we can talk about it."

However, Yan Yuge didn't teach him how to get money from those families who were generous to him and stingy to the common people: "Does Your Majesty know how much money the richest merchants in Yandu earn every year?"

Yan Qin shook his head: "I don't know." Although he often went out of the palace, and listened to courtiers arguing about trivial matters every day, and read more notebooks and travel notes than any emperor in Dayan's history, he didn't know everything. We all know.

"The richest merchant in Yandu can make a net profit of one million silver a year."

Yan Yuge opened his eyes wide, and calculated the volume of 200 million cash in his heart, and suddenly felt that his eyes were full of white money: "But the national treasury is only tens of millions of silver a year, how can he earn so much by himself?" ?”

Yan Yuge thought in his heart, they are all No. [-] merchants, so they are naturally rich, with millions of silver a year, and the accumulation of ten years is almost the same as the national treasury's annual revenue.He sighed and said: "He earns a lot, but he also pays a lot of taxes to the court every year."

Dayan's taxation mainly relies on the land and population tax, which emphasizes agriculture over business, levying business and suppressing business, and business tax is far more stringent than other taxes.

"It can solve the disaster in Shanxidu County, and we can't take the tax amount arbitrarily." When the court is about to fight and runs out of money, it always tries to find a way to collect more money to come up. The war has finally ended in the past few years, and it is the common people. When he was recuperating and developing well, during Yan Qin's reign, he never thought of increasing the tax easily.

Yan Yuge said again: "But those aristocratic families have no fewer shops than this rich businessman, but they don't pay any taxes."

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are at the top, and those who enjoy various preferential treatment are scholar-bureaucrats.After becoming a scholar, some lands under his name do not need to pay taxes. The bigger the official, the higher the amount that can be tax-free.

"You mean, let Gu collect taxes from those aristocratic families?"

This is a good idea. When the first emperor was still alive, he actually deliberately suppressed the aristocratic family to prevent the aristocratic family from becoming too powerful and threatening the imperial power.

After Yan Qin ascended the throne, he naturally followed the will of the former emperor, vigorously supported the children of poor families, and suppressed the power of the aristocratic family.

But the aristocratic family has been able to stand for so many years, naturally there are reasons why they are strong enough and outstanding.If he really wants to touch this area, Yan Qin can imagine that every day there will be endless quarrels in the court over the reform of taxes and fees, and the memorials will fly like snowflakes, quickly filling the table in his imperial study.

"Uncle Wang, far water can't quench near thirst."

Mobilizing the aristocratic family is similar to those royal family members who have a lot of royal family members. It only affects the interests of high-level people. If it is really mobilized, it will definitely be a very slow tug-of-war.

When Yan Yuge mentioned the merchants earlier, he also considered another possibility, saying that the whole world could be the land of the king, but if those merchants refused to pay, would he, the emperor, force his own people to pay for it? Taking out money to donate to the people of Shanxidu County will not work.

"The matter of taxes, I just mentioned it to His Majesty, because after solving the mountain stream disaster relief, this matter should also be put on the agenda."

Yan Qin: ...Why is the Prince Regent talking so much nonsense? Of course these things are very important, but at present, isn't the matter of the earthquake in the mountains and streams the most important thing?

The regent cast his eyes on the little emperor again: "Your Majesty, what do you think the jade pendant I gave you is worth?" It does not include the meaning given to it, but its own value.

Yan Qin took a look at the poor workmanship of the jade pendant, and reluctantly gave a reasonable amount: "I think it's probably worth a hundred taels of silver."

In fact, he didn't think it was worth the price, but the regent had said so much before, so it was fine if he didn't know, and now he asked him to evaluate the value regardless of the meaning given above.

If it is too high, the lie will appear too false, if it is too low, the regent will definitely be unhappy.

Yan Yuge was not unhappy: "I feel that this jade is sold in the market, not to mention a hundred taels of silver, even ten taels of silver can't be sold."

Yan Qin looked at the Prince Regent's expression even more complicated. During this time, the Prince Regent had created an image full of nonsense and always lying in front of him. Why did he suddenly become so frank now that it made him He found it difficult to adapt for a while.

The regent went on to say: "But for the minister, it is impossible for me to buy this jade pendant, let alone a hundred taels of silver."

This involves a more serious problem.He flipped the copper coin in his hand, and then looked at the silver bill in the little emperor's hand: "For example, today I use these silver bills to exchange for the copper coin in His Majesty's hand. Maybe outsiders think it's expensive and think It’s a loss, but to Chen, the value of this copper coin is even higher.”

A copper coin, even an ancient coin, is not much higher. If someone said that someone exchanged [-] for a copper coin, no one would believe it.

Yan Qin felt that what Yan Yuge said was also reasonable. People who lived to the level of the Regent had no special pursuits, so spending money was naturally capricious.

"Then how to solve the near thirst?"

The regent's thin lips opened and closed, and he spit out a word: "Equivalent exchange."