The most arrogant in history

Chapter 434 Ye Kun’s roar.

To be honest, Gongsun Zhang had a good sense of awareness as he was able to take out 5,000 taels of gold to support the post-war construction in the north.

At this point in the play, Yu Guinong and others understood that they had to pay!

Yan Ju stood up and said with a smile:

"Then I will take some money too, but it cannot exceed the amount given by the emperor. The emperor has five thousand taels of gold, and I will take four thousand nine hundred taels."

Yu Guinong followed soon after, also with four thousand nine hundred taels.

Ma Zhengyang, Xue Changfeng and others all donated generously.

In this situation, we have no choice but to be generous.

For a meal and wine, Ye Kun exchanged it for tens of thousands of miles of gold.

But it's still a drop in the bucket.

Ye Kun asked the clerk to record the donations from everyone, and then said:

"Thank you all for your donations, but this money is still not enough. I need to borrow some more money from you all. I will write an IOU, calculate the interest, and return it within three years."

Yan Ju and Yu Guinong smiled bitterly and borrowed another 5,000 taels each.

Other officials also gritted their teeth and reported the amount they borrowed.

Ye Kun asked Wu Qiong to record again, and then said:

"Zhongyuan has a lot of land, and I want to sell some of it to ease the economic pressure. My lords, please promote it when you go back. Anyone who is willing to buy property in Zhongyuan can sign up.

I will ask the Ministry of Revenue to sort out which lands are for sale. The total area is expected to be one million mu, with 10,000 mu as a unit. "

There are countless fertile fields in the North China Plain.

But the population was too small and many fields were uncultivated.

Ye Kun contracted out the land and let the gentry take care of it themselves, which actually reduced the pressure on development.

Yan Ju, Han Chun and others were all a little tempted and asked, "Excuse me, King Han, after buying the land, do we not have to pay taxes?"

"If no one pays taxes, where will the government's expenses come from? The people's permanent farmland also needs to be taxed."

Ye Kun smiled: "What I mean is that this one million acres of land can be sold as permanent farmland. But the taxes still need to be paid."

Permanent land means the privatization of land.

If you buy land, you can pass it on to your descendants, but you still need to pay taxes, 20%.

Yan Ju and others were not happy with this and said with a smile, "We still have to pay taxes after buying the land. I guess we won't make much money, so no one will be willing to buy it."

These guys are all very smart.

A large amount of land in the Central Plains was abandoned, and the imperial court always had to deal with it.

As long as you wait patiently, the imperial court will no longer be able to hold on and will have to sell it at half price or give it away.

Ye Kun was annoyed and sneered:

"Well, I'm not going to be the King of Han anymore. I can't do it without money. If anyone wants to take the position, take my place. I'll just be a Minister of War and help you build your country."

Zhuge Feng had no choice but to offend others, so he stood up and said:

"King of Han, in fact, the gentry in the world still have money. Why not do this? We should strictly investigate a group of gentry with bad morals, behead them, confiscate their property, and use their money to govern the country."

Jiangdong Group was shocked when they heard this.

Everyone knows that Jiangdong Group is the richest and extremely wealthy.

"There's really no other way. This is the only way."

Ye Kun waved his hand with murderous intent on his face, saying, "My lords, think carefully when you go back, and each of you submit a list of three evil gentry and thieves to me. I will confiscate the homes of 100 households first to help you out!"

Yu Guinong frowned, clasped his fists and said, "King of Han, because the court has no money, you extort money from the gentry. Isn't that chilling the hearts of the people in the world?"

"Xiahou Chang scraped the soil three feet deep, how could that not chill the hearts of the people? Xiao Dequan ruled Jiangnan arbitrarily and regarded Jiangnan as his own backyard, how could that not chill the hearts of the people?"

Ye Kun said with a straight face: "When I was in Pingye County and Dongba County, I mobilized the poor, killed all the gentry, and divided up their land and property. As a result, which common people didn't say good things about me?

Therefore, fighting against the landlords and dividing the land only chilled the hearts of a small group of landlords, but it could win the hearts of ordinary people all over the world.

With the support of 20 million ordinary people around the world, our country is more stable!

The common people and the gentry are always in opposition. As the gentry grows richer and more powerful, the common people will become poorer and poorer, and eventually they will have no food to eat, and there will be another Huang Tian Dao uprising! "

At the end, Ye Kun almost roared.

The whole room was horrified and no one dared to speak.

Ye Kun continued to rage: "I, Ye Kun, am just an ordinary citizen. I have suffered the hardships of ordinary people. I swear, if ordinary people freeze to death or starve to death, I will find a scapegoat for every ordinary person at any cost!"

Yu Guinong was still cunning and sighed:

"Don't worry, King Han. We will find a way to solve the economic problem. I can buy 100,000 acres of the 1 million acres you mentioned."

"Look everyone, Lord Yu Guinong, this is a model of serving the country and the people!"

Ye Kun put on a smiling face: "If everyone is like Lord Yu, our common people will have no worries about having no food to eat."

The Jiangdong Group came to their senses and accepted defeat, saying they would go home and find ways to purchase the permanent land.

The officials of Yizhou and Jingzhou had no choice but to follow suit.

If they can’t afford 10,000 acres, two or three people can buy it together.

At the end of a day's meeting, Ye Kun finally solved the economic problem.

After dinner, Ye Kun took Sang Buyi to see Wu Qiong to discuss establishing a long-term mechanism to ensure economic operation.

Wu Qiong still used the old tricks, suggesting raising the salt and iron taxes, monopolizing the porcelain, glass, sugar, silk, cotton and other industries, and strengthening tax management.

Ye Kun said: "This year's cotton has already had a bumper harvest. I have notified the cotton spinning factory to make a batch of cotton clothes and quilts first and sell them to the gentry and wealthy officials. We can make some money from this. I originally wanted to fully liberalize the cotton spinning industry to facilitate the people. Since Lord Wu said so, we will temporarily monopolize it.

But monopoly also has costs, and we need to build factories in various places to consume the cotton nearby."

Wu Qiong nodded: "Currently, the main cotton production is in Yizhou and Yongliang. There are some in Jiangdong, but not much. I suggest that Yongliang and Yizhou set up ten large factories; Yizhou set up five or six large factories; Jiangdong set up three or five large factories, that's about it.

If we want to open up in the future, we can sell these factories to vendors and recover our investment.”

Ye Kun nodded and asked, "There is another problem, which is the supervision of taxation. The emperor is far away, and tax officials and local officials collude with each other, which makes it easy to embezzle tax silver. Corruption is our biggest enemy."

Corruption among officials is a problem that has been unable to be solved in every dynasty.

Even after ten thousand years, it cannot be solved.

Because human nature is inherently selfish.

Regarding commercial tax, Ye Kun racked his brains but could not think of a perfect solution.

For example, when it comes to tolls, the clerks at the toll station collude with each other, collect one hundred yuan and only hand over ten yuan. What can you do?

Or if the petty officials make things difficult for the merchants and accept bribes in private, what can you do?

The same is true for business taxes, which lack effective supervision.

No matter how perfect the rules and regulations are, without supervision, they are all nonsense!

Unless all industries are monopolized, taxes will be added when goods leave the factory.

Wu Qiong thought for a moment and said:

"Three-party management may be better. Use my financial and taxation personnel, Ma Zhao's law enforcement personnel, and Miss Gongsun's Mohist disciples to form a three-party management and supervise each other. Anyone found to have embezzled public funds, extorted or accepted bribes will be severely punished!"

Gongsun Erniang and Ma Zhao were fair, honest and just in their work, and everyone in the court was convinced.