Yipin Farmer

Ting Shuang's decision to be the supervisor of Dajun Liangtai shocked everyone.

Ting Hui was very worried: "Although the emperor's will must not be violated, if you say you are not competent, he will not force it, after all, you have never done it before."

Ting Shuang pondered for a long time and said, "Remember, when you don't know what to do, just follow the situation."

"Follow the situation?"

"Yes, follow the current situation, knowing how difficult it will be ahead, but go along with the situation."

Ting Hui thought about it.

Baoqi reorganized the soldiers and horses and chose a day to set off. After repeated discussions, Geng Xianghua took his group of brothers to follow Baoqi as personal protection. Chenguang insisted on following to protect safety, so Baoqi had no choice but to take him and Tingzhi with him. Counselor for military affairs.Qin Shu was in poor health and could not endure the long-distance battle, so he stayed to help Ting Shuang, just as Ting Shuang also needed him to handle the documents and rely on the contacts of the Shen family.

Tingzhi and Qinshu are reluctant to leave, while Tingshuang looks at Baoqi in military uniform and suppresses her worries, only missing another send-off on the eighteenth stage.

"Don't be brave, don't take the lead, don't go to dangerous places, the art of war is useless, don't be dangerous, if you see the momentum is wrong, run fast, don't look at me like this, this is not called escape, this is called strategic retreat..." Ting Frost babbled non-stop.

Baoqi agreed, but only smiled, and when he had finished his chatter for a while, he took the opportunity to interject and said, "Remember, your job is to raise food, not transport it."

The grain transportation route is the enemy's key target, which is very dangerous. Similarly, the place where the enemy stores grain is also a must-attack place for the enemy, which is equally dangerous.

"As I said, I want to give you a good horse. This horse is my best partner named Chasing the Moon. It is like my friend. Now I will give it to you." Baoqi stroked the healthy white horse, Like saying goodbye to an old friend.

This horse is docile and elegant, with beautiful big eyes, long mane, and slender four hooves. The whole body is snow-white without any stray hairs. It is good for traveling at home, breeding to make money, and escaping in danger. Foal.

Ting Shuang stroked it lovingly: "I will take good care of it, seeing it is like seeing you."

"I'm prettier than it." Baoqi raised her eyebrows, gave him a last look, turned over and stepped on her own dark clouds to ride the snow. This horse is black and white with snow-white hooves. It is very human. It has received special training. A good assistant on the battlefield.

Baoqi's armor is clearly riding on it, with a dazzling charm, like a synonym for the gods, people can't take their eyes off.

Ting Shuang watched the army go farther and farther, until the man's back could no longer be seen, and suddenly tears could not stop flowing. The future of this trip is uncertain, and life and death are unpredictable. I don't know if I will have the opportunity to live with him again. Tranquil and quiet life.

When the army had walked a certain distance, Bao Qi turned to Chen Guang and said, "Chen Guang, go back and tell him to find a way to get 5 taels of silver for the departure fee."

Chen Guang wondered: "When you were together, why didn't the master say it, and now it's time to say something so important after we parted."

Baoqi smiled wryly, and touched an old purse in her waist, which contained the 350 Wen wages he earned working for Ting Shuang for more than two years. This stingy guy, asking him for a few Wen wages is like asking for his life, and now he opens his mouth to ask for 5 Ten thousand taels of silver, he still has to blow his hair and strangle himself to death.

Thinking of Ting Shuang angrily jumping up and choking someone, Baoqi shrunk her neck and said, "Anyway, you go and bring the news, and say that if you can't get 5 taels of silver, I have no choice but to order the soldiers to rob and rape."

Chen Guang was sweating coldly on his back and tearing up in his heart. The master is really cunning. He knew that this request would make someone jump, so he didn't dare to tell him face to face, but after we parted, someone sent a message to him.

Ting Shuang was eagerly watching the army go further and further away, his eyes were sore and his neck was stiff, when he suddenly saw the morning light and ran back, he was so excited that he was surprised and thumped, did that guy have something he forgot to say, he changed his mind ?Stop going to war?Knowing that this idea was impossible, Ting Shuang still stared expectantly at the person running towards him.

After Chen Guang conveyed Baoqi's first order, he first tried to raise [-] silver for the departure fee, otherwise he had no choice but to order the looting of the people.

"What does he mean?" Ting Shuang jumped with anger.

"Understand the spirit." Chen Guang threw down a phrase of someone's catchphrase and ran away.

The violent factor in Ting Shuang's body suddenly rose, but the guy walked away, and he couldn't pinch his neck, so he had to get angry. Your grandfather used to ask for a salary of a hundred or so, but now he just asks for 5 taels of silver. Do you think I'm a money machine?

When Ting Shuang was out of breath, she also understood Baoqi's difficulties. The old feudal army could not have the same lofty beliefs as the Communist army, and liberated all human beings. "This old trick.But where does the reward come from?If the imperial court could not raise the salary, the generals who led the troops had to be generous with the generosity of others, that is, hinting or acquiescing that a city could be plundered for three days, and rape of women was indispensable.

Thinking of Baoqi's difficulties, Ting Shuang cursed and summoned a group of think tanks to find a solution.

Ting Shuang's principle of doing things is to listen to other people's opinions extensively before making major decisions. His think tanks include agricultural personnel, Li Changfu, Zhang Daquan, etc., as well as industrial and commercial think tanks, Shi Jie, Hu Junxian, etc., and there are also encyclopedias equivalent to this era Wai Hsien's old treasure.The most important of these is Shen Qinshu, a highly educated intellectual.

Qin Shu is also a student who has read the history of poetry and books. He first cited the precedents of the previous dynasty and proposed the issuance of banknotes.

War is a monster that eats money. When there is a war, tens of thousands of silver are thrown down without hearing a sound. However, after entering the customs, in order to reduce the burden of the people and win the hearts of the people, an order was issued: "Never add money."Therefore, the agricultural tax cannot be re-levied on land, money and grain.

The emperor was dedicated to the public, even digging out his own private pockets, reducing palace expenses, and halving the salaries of all officials. Finally, the Ministry of Households in charge of the state treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of the emperor's private house both said that the treasury was bottomed out and it was difficult to pay huge amounts of money. military spending.In this situation, according to the historical practice, it is nothing more than donating and selling nobles.

But donating, selling officials and so on, it’s okay in the early stage, and those who can donate donate and don’t have to search, and it’s easy to cause accidents if you’re in a hurry.

Therefore, Qinshu proposed to issue banknotes.The earliest banknotes issued in Chinese history was the Yuan Dynasty, which issued banknotes to meet the huge military needs.

Ting Shuang didn't know much about the history of the Yuan Dynasty, and he didn't know the results of the Yuan Dynasty's banknote issuance, but he could guess that the result must be bad, because if it was feasible to issue banknotes, why would future generations still use the extremely inconvenient silver and copper coins as currency? ?

He is very familiar with the history of the Qing Dynasty. During the Xianfeng period, Hong Yang rebelled. In order to wipe out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing government issued household treasures to raise huge military expenditures. What happened?Prices in the capital rose three times a day, and bartering even occurred in some places. This situation meant that the country's economy was on the verge of collapse.What's more terrible is the corruption of officials. When 4000 million taels of banknotes were issued, 1000 million of them were embezzled. The power minister Sushun took the opportunity to raise the Household Banknote Case, and wanted to bring down Zhou Zupei, a scholar who was in charge of the Household Department at that time. Self-protection turned to supporting the Empress Dowager Cixi in launching a coup to overthrow Sushun, and the entire upper echelon of the court caused a bloody storm.

As for the indiscriminate issuance of gold dollar coupons by the Kuomintang in later generations, it caused the country's economic collapse without mentioning it.

Therefore, it is not feasible to issue banknotes.

Ting Shuang did not directly veto it, but only asked: "What is the result of the Yuan Dynasty issuing banknotes?"

Qin Shu immediately fell silent, and he also knew the lessons learned from the previous dynasty's issue of banknotes.

Ting Shuang thought of borrowing money, so he didn't have to think about foreign debts. Although the country is not closed to the outside world, it is still in the era of the boss China, and there are not many external contacts, so there is no place to borrow.Internal debt can be considered.

"You mean not to issue banknotes, but to issue national debt?" Everyone was stunned when they heard the term national debt for the first time.

Ting Shuang explained to them in detail what national debt is. Simply put, it is the country's interest-bearing domestic debt for the domestic people.

Qin Shu did not immediately agree, but only asked: "How do you pay the principal and interest? The issuance of national debt is based on the national credit, and we must not break the trust of the people, otherwise the prestige is not there, and the country will not be guaranteed."

Ting Shuang suddenly remembered that the current era he lived in was only a relatively developed commodity economy, but it was still far from the highly developed commodity economy in modern society. thing.

How to raise military expenses smoothly under the economic conditions at that time without compromising people's livelihood?

Ting Shuang mobilized all the brain cells to search for ways to make money in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Well, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in order to raise a large amount of funds to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, after increasing the land tax, persuading donations, and issuing banknotes all failed, the military expenditure problem was finally solved by lijin.

Lijin, simply put, is a commercial tax, because it is worth [-] percent, so it is called likin.The evaluation of later generations of economists is: it has a strong feudal and anti-people nature, harms business and people, destroys the newly developed commodity economy, causes foreign commodities to invade our country, and weakens the competitiveness of domestic commodities. It can be summed up in two words That is: "bad tax".

When Ting Shuang thought of this, white hairs broke out in his head, but when he thought about it, there was no other good way. Since the Qing Dynasty could use this method to solve the problem of huge military expenditures, it can also be considered in this era, as long as it is evil. The idea is to weaken it.

Hearing Ting Shuang's proposal to levy a commercial tax, the members of the think tank were silent, only the scholar Mr. Shen thought it was feasible.

Shi Jie first raised his doubts. Daily necessities are closely related to people's livelihood, and the commercial tax collected on department stores will ultimately transfer the burden to merchants and ordinary people.

Ting Shuang already has a solution to this point, that is, general small department stores do not charge a percentage, but charge according to the turnover.

Then brainstorming, everyone puts forward all the possible negative effects of harming the people, and then everyone thinks about solutions or avoidance, and finally the piano book is compiled into a document and ready to be played.

When the piano book is finished, show it to Ting Shuang for review. Although Ting Shuang can't write the classical Chinese of "Piansi Liliu", she can still understand it. The most important thing is not gorgeousness, but simplicity, you must go straight to the point, focus on the heart, and it is best to convince the emperor.

The piano book is a person who has passed the test, and the writing comes naturally. An excerpt is written in parallel, with sonorous rhymes, smooth and gorgeous, but there are too many branches, and the gorgeous diction conceals the main point of the full text, making people unable to go straight to the topic at a glance.

"Okay, it's a good article." Ting Shuang commented calmly, only saying that it was a good article, but did not say what effect such words would have.

Qinshu also knew that when this kind of memorial was submitted, the emperor would issue a biography to his ministers, and whether he could convince most people, especially the emperor, was a problem.So humbly ask for advice: "If there is something wrong, please point it out. I am a person who does things, and if I don't do it, I will do it well. If I want to do it, I must do it well. Feel free to speak out."

"That's good." Seeing him being so honest, Ting Shuang said it bluntly. "Documents like memorials can't be written to harm the meaning, but go straight to the point, like you who are 'sorrowing everywhere, mourning the suffering of the living and the people, solitary and self-reliant, tears falling down but not restrained." Parallel four Li six beautiful are beautiful , but the memorial is not a place for you to express your emotions."

In his previous life, he read all the articles on the Internet, and he knew that for an article to grab the readers, it is most important to directly attack the readers' cuteness. Is the author looking at the sky 45 degrees to express his feelings?To impress the emperor, what to show loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, how to appease the pain of the people, how the people suffer, how hateful the rebels are, what he wants to see is not these.How difficult it is to raise military pay, how morale will be low and cause chaos if it is not paid, the emperor is not a fool, he knows these things even if you don't tell them.What he wants to see is not how hard you work, how loyal and patriotic you are, and what difficulties you will encounter in doing things. What he wants is that you come up with a solution to the difficulties, and this method must be implemented and effective.Instead of talking big and empty words, proclaiming loyalty to the subjects, encouraging donations and so on, loyalty cannot be eaten.

When Ting Shuang said this, Qin Shu grasped the spirit, cut out the manuscript, and went straight to the topic at the beginning, which is how to raise military pay, one is to issue national debt, and pay the principal and interest on time.

The second is to levy business tax.The method of collection is to levy lijin according to the turnover, and small businesses are exempted from it.There will be no taxation on food and salt, which are extremely important for people's livelihood.The centical shall not be set repeatedly.

Ting Shuang added another one, this fundraising plan is a wartime plan, and it will be canceled after the war.The reason for adding this article is that on the one hand, he does not trust the anti-corruption efforts of the imperial court, and he is afraid that the money collected will be cheap for corrupt officials.On the other hand, it is afraid of too much resistance. If it is a temporary emergency plan, the resistance encountered will be smaller.

After the final draft was written, Ting Shuang read it again, um, straight to the point, without literary talent, but with strong points and sufficient arguments, which is very good.

"Hey, I heard that if you write this thing, if you accidentally break the taboo, you will be killed." Ting Shuang reminded again.There is a lot of emphasis on how to write a document like a memorial. In addition to avoiding ambiguity, typos, and leaving room for maneuver, there is also a certain format that must not be wrong. For example, words such as Emperor Taizu must be raised by one or two Or three grids or something, if you accidentally write the name of the emperor or the previous emperor, you may be decapitated. In short, Ting Shuang is very worried.

Qin Shu smiled: "Don't worry, I understand this. Brother Bao asked me to stay and help you handle the paperwork because of this."

Ting Shuang thought that he was an editor in the Hanlin Academy as a Tanhua, and he often came into contact with these documents, so he should be familiar with them, so he was relieved to see how he handled them for the time being.

Qinshu took out the prepared memorials, all memorials were made of yellow silk as the envelope, inside was white paper, write the content on it, sign it after writing, and then send it out.But Ting Shuang discovered that the booklet that Qinshu took out had already been signed, which was Baoqi's autograph.

"What does this mean?" Ting Shuang couldn't figure it out, she always wrote the content before signing, how could anyone sign on a blank booklet?

Qin Shu smiled and told him the reason.It turned out that the emperor was afraid that Tingshuang's qualifications were low, and others would look down on him and refuse to accept the command, so he was allowed the right to directly report to the emperor.Baoqi was also afraid that others would speak lightly, and no one would answer the performance, so she prepared a few blank papers and signed her name in advance. Ting Shuang could, according to the situation, put her name behind him as a joint performance. More weight.Or play it directly in his name. Once there is any accident and you need to be held accountable, or if you offend some people, Baoqi will bear it all.

Ting Shuang understood Baoqi's intention, and stayed for a long time before saying, "He doesn't even know what I wrote on it, so it's his share?"

"That's right." Qin Shu replied, "You signed it, and the two of you are responsible for it. If you don't sign it, he will bear it alone. If such a book is not signed by the commander who is on the front line, only you will play it alone." It has no weight."

"He..." Ting Shuang said foolishly, "I have really entrusted his future and life to my hands."

"He believes in you. If you make any mistakes or want to participate in a certain high-ranking official, he is willing to share the responsibility with you." Qin Shu said with a smile, shaking the pen in his hand, "However, I will check, no You made a mistake."

After the memorial was finished, Ting Shuang solemnly wrote her own name behind Baoqi's name. When the memorial was sent out, how many people's interests were violated, how many people were offended, and all the consequences and pressures were first on Baoqi's shoulders.

Ting Shuang officially took office, planning to set up the general grain platform of the Pingnan Army in Kaifeng. Thinking of how miserable he left back then, and now returning as the supervisor of the fourth-rank grain platform, it can be regarded as revenge for being angry and humiliated at the beginning. As for the Chen family who murdered him, it's time to settle the account.