Song Jiu decided not to commit, so he couldn't do it. After all, Zhao Kuangyin was not evil to him. Of course, he was not even more evil to Zhao Kuangyin. As a minister, he did a lot and immediately made contributions to the Song Dynasty.

He didn't dare to enter, these fierce brothers were more cruel than the other. On the surface, they saw several people falling down. These big bosses were all eye-catching. There were more people coming down one after another, and many unknown people even died because of it. He was involved in it and sent to death, not seeking wealth.

The decisions made are just to watch, not participate, not remind, and develop naturally.

On March 14th, Song Jiu hurried back to the capital. If he didn't go back to the capital, his mother-in-law wanted to settle the score with him. Pan Weigu would soon get married, but he couldn't find the groom, and the matter would be a big deal. Song Jiu brought a lot of drawings and written records into the palace.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at it and shook his head. It could only prove that Song Jiu was interested. He didn't have the time to read it slowly, so he said, "You just report it."

"Hey, Your Majesty, I want to solve the problem of cattle. I have thought that, first, the price of meat is cheap and the price will fall. Otherwise, in the future, more and more rich people will be more and more people will eat meat, and beef will only become more and more expensive. This expensive means that more people will slaughter cattle. Secondly, make cattle expensive."

"Make the cow expensive?"

"Your Majesty, no matter how expensive the cows are, they will still raise them, and those who do not raise them will not raise them. Now it is not a matter of the high and low cattle, but it prevents the people from slaughtering them and increases the number of cattle. Just like glass, it only comes out very few, so it is so expensive that I can't even imagine that I sold a vessel that was fifty cents per kilogram, and it turned into more than one thousand cents in the blink of an eye. I sold vegetables for about four hundred cents per kilogram, and I don't know how many cents per kilogram on the market. It's too small. The price of cattle has not risen, but the court has controlled and regulated it, and the court used it to calculate taxes, or increased the wealth of the people to increase taxes. The people who raise them are not very motivated. Therefore, the price of cattle has not risen. If the price of beef is fifty cents per kilogram and the price of cattle is seven or eight cents per head, and the court does not use it to increase taxes, what will happen?"

“This is very difficult.”

"It's difficult, so it has become an unsolved issue for eternity. All the court can do is issue a ban to prevent the people from killing cattle, and let the ox die to make a proof. Therefore, the Central Plains have always lacked plowing oxes. And the empress thought of another thing. Horses are very expensive, why are there not many horses?"

"Tell me, look."

"This is the purpose of the Wealth Minister. The cost of raising horses in the imperial court is very high. Although there is a pasture, barley needs to be purchased and other feeds must be purchased. Barley is cheap. But from the place of origin to the pasture supervision, the officials will make a little more cheap. In the middle, the people will be employed. If this manpower is also included in the cost, the cost will be higher. On the other hand, what if the people raise it? Only a few liters of barley a day will be planted in the field. The cost is only a few cents. The cost is less than two cents a year. As for grass, children can be grazed, or mowed grass to spend the winter, which cannot be included in the cost. Why aren't there many people raising horses?

?Weichen looked around and found that few people raised horses. One reason was that horses were too expensive, even though they were more effective than cattle. They could pull things, run, and cultivate land. Moreover, horses were included in property taxation. They were originally a fifth-class household. When a horse came out, the horse immediately became a fourth-class household, which was a different level. The taxes were completely different. Therefore, this horse also exists among the people, either like Weichen, who did not lack this amount of money, and usually used horses. So they raised a few horses. Or they used it to pull goods or carriages to carry passengers. However, this kind of horse was used for horses in cities and towns, and they all required expensive costs. Therefore, although horses were expensive, there were not many people who had to raise horses!"

"rational."

This is a process of argumentation.

When it comes to cattle being cheap, they are taxed and they dare not kill them, so there are not many people raising them, so what about horses?

With it, it can be proved that if the cattle price is increased and tax exemption will be exempted, more people will be willing to raise cattle.

Song Jiu also said: "There are many inappropriate places, first of all, the influence of geographical advantage. The Tang Dynasty's horse breeding starts from Qinzhou, Liangzhou, Liangzhou, and Ningqi in the west, and connects to Hetao and Loufan in the south of Yinxia (northwest Shanxi). Our dynasty's horse breeding is mainly in Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Daming, Huazhou, Weizhou, and Chanzhou, and uses tens of thousands of hectares of wilderness as pastoral supervision. This is the first problem. Your Majesty, there are three good horses around, one is Qinghai horse. Qinghai horses are the area around Qinghai Lake, and most of the short horses are short horses. The northwest horses are the best for Liangzhou horses and Hetao horses, and the prefecture horses are also the best for good horses, followed by the inland, including Hedong horses. The third is the Khitan horses."

“The Khitan horse is not good.”

"Your Majesty, I think it's good. Especially the horses produced by Wugu Dilie, the northwest Khitan, are not fast in running speed, but they are hard-working and suitable for expeditions, long journeys, long lasting power, can enter low-lying areas of the plains, and cold cities in the snow."

"Even if it's good," Zhao Kuangyin smiled and actually retreated. He wanted to hear Song Jiu continue to say.

"The best one is the Qinghai horse, which is what the Tang Dynasty said, but they have a significant disadvantage. Like the Tubo people, they are suitable for running and fighting in an oxygen-deficient environment on the plateau. They are not allowed to go to low-lying plains or hot areas. Therefore, Tubo has always been eyeing Dali, only removing Dali from the western part of the plateau, and cannot go south and deep. Northwest horses are the best, running fast, high and low, so they are the place for the herdsmen in the Tang Dynasty. But Your Majesty, you look at the map."

Song Jiu pointed to the map and explained in detail.

Qinghai Lake produces good horses, which can be west of Chishan Mountain, higher and colder, and cooler weather.

Liangzhou and Nanhetao produce good horses, but there is also a line. The area north of the line from Longshan (Liupan Mountain) to Douling to Hengshan is the same as Qinghai Lake, which makes the weather cooler and cooler. It is also the same as Wugudi Lie produces good horses. The water vapor west of Jinshan (Daxinganling) is insufficient, and although the weather is dry, the weather is dry.

Song Jiu also said: "Oranges are oranges in the south and citrus in the north. Only a small part of our horses were from Khitan private vendors, and some were obtained from Uighurs, and most of them were from northwest horses. But after our dynasty was raised for several years, they began to mutate, and the horsepower would be weaker by the next generation. Even when we were not used to the cold weather on the northern battlefield, they could freeze to death in the blink of an eye. I also made a competition and went to the territory of the prefecture and prefecture. Before I had a conflict with the elder sister of the prefect Zhe, I competed with a herdsman for horsepower. The horses raised by Weichen were not bad, but the horses of the herdsmen left Weichen's horses in the blink of an eye. However, the court had not used the cavalry to directly collided with the Khitan or the Qiang people in the northwest, and everyone was not aware of it."

“Continue.”

"This is a geographical difference, followed by people. The feed of horses is regulated. How much does a horse eat? It doesn't float much, so I want to report it too much. The three officials will not agree. Some officials want to be greedy, so they deduct horse feed. The horses are not well raised, and even many horse deaths occur. Besides, although the land occupied by the herd prison is wasteland, most of which are rich in water and grass. These lands are suitable for farming. Nowadays, the population is not large. Once the country is stable and the population increases, it will inevitably invade the land." Song Jiu suddenly thought of a set of data he had seen before. It was forced to say that Wang Anshi promoted the horse protection method. The Song Dynasty alone raised horses alone reached more than 500,000 yuan in a year, and the cost of buying horses was more than 1 million yuan. There were only one thousand horses a year, and only two hundred horses could be used for riding horses as war horses. The cost of a war horse reached 2,000 yuan! Sweat-blooded BMW!

"What do you think you should do?" Zhao Kuangyin said angrily, but said in his heart that more officials have to go down to investigate this issue. If this is true, it will be a big deal.

"Does Your Majesty want a docile people like the Southern Tang Dynasty? Or do you want a pioneering and enterprising people in the early Tang Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty during the Warring States Period, or the Wenjing and Han Wu periods in the Han Dynasty?"

“What does it have to do with horses?”

“Rent horse.”

"How to rent a horse?"

"The good officials must be sent to take charge of this matter. They will pick out some short, injured and disabled horses in various pastoral prisons. They cannot be raised. Sooner or later, the minor officials will be raised to death, and they will be divided into male and females and rented to major families. Whether they are alive or dead, regardless of whether they are alive or dead, one male or two females in a family will be given two horses of appropriate age ten years later, and two horses will be given again after twenty years. The court will not let them hand over horses again in the future, and there will be no need to pay any taxes. Let them raise arable land and breed them."

"Twenty years..." Zhao Kuangyin hesitated. It was five percent interest, and there were more than four horses in twenty years, and there were three native horses.

"Your Majesty, if you don't give it to the people, you will still die. Pick out these horses. The Shepherd Supervisor will continue to die because of the corruption or poor management of the minor officials. It is better to hand it over to the people. There are more people who raise horses and more people who can ride horses. If the people are encouraged to practice martial arts in their spare time, they will not have the ban on soldiers when they use military force, and they can also pick out some elite soldiers. The main reason for the corruption of the Tang Dynasty's government system was the corruption of the equal-field system. The government system was not bad at first, and it cultivated a large number of soldiers with strong combat power. The ministers did not encourage the restoration of the government system, but chose their essences to allow a large number of people to use it.

The source of troops may also stimulate the training of the ban soldiers. At the same time, the horses hidden among the people, not the horses hidden in the northwest, but the Qiang people in the northwest. Do Your Majesty think they are reliable? Emperor Taizong of Tang was the emperor of the ages. What he regretted the most in his life was to conquer Goryeo. The misunderstanding was to marry Princess Wencheng, but the marriage was not mentioned, but sent tens of thousands of craftsmen. As a result, Tubo was powerful and destroyed the Great Wall. Second, he moved the Hu people of all races to scattered in Youzhou in the northwest. These were fences in the Central Plains, but now there was a Huyin everywhere. Maybe it would be a major harm to our dynasty in the future."

"Hidden horses for the people?"

"Yes, and it's not that simple. If you don't send good officials, you may not be able to get the wealthy families who want to adopt it. What you get may not be a horse that is raising a period, but a horse that is about to die. Or some wealthy families with connections, small officials will give the strong horse that can go to the battlefield as a gift to the weak horse. Or you may forcibly distribute some seriously disabled or dying horses to the people. That's not because you hide your horses to the people, but it has become a bad policy for the country and are seriously worried about the people."

The reality is not very good. If you leave it to the people, the people will definitely use it to pull carts and cultivate the land. Once the horse is pulled, it will not run frequently. When it comes to the battlefield, it will still be better than raising horses randomly. Song Jiu's discussion is not about war horses, or to solve the problem of arable land, and to increase the number of horses in China.

“What does this have to do with the cattle?”
Chapter completed!