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Fan Zhichang has made his ideas on change very clear at this point.

The tax revenue of this dynasty comes from cities and villages, from the land system and public-business system. The land system and land tax are the foundation of the country and cannot be changed, and there is no need to be modified from more than a hundred years of practice. The industrial and commercial system and commercial tax have immediately become an important way for the dynasty to increase taxes. However, the industrial and commercial system of this dynasty is still not perfect, and there is still huge room for commercial tax to increase, which is the focus of the reform of the financial system.

The land privatization system has caused the gap between the rich and the poor to become more and more serious, and the gap between the rich and the poor has caused national turmoil. For this reason, this dynasty must find ways to establish an effective resource optimization mechanism and a reasonable wealth distribution mechanism to balance and alleviate this contradiction, so as to win the hearts of the people and stabilize the kingdom.

The goal of this dynasty's reform is to strengthen the country and enrich the people. In order to achieve this goal, we must first optimize resources to the greatest extent and invest more surplus labor in other industries except agriculture. Vigorously developing industry and commerce is the first choice to increase the country's total wealth; secondly, the rational allocation of wealth is based on the growth of total wealth, and various means such as commercial tax adjustments to increase the treasury income, ensure the interests of ordinary people, and at the same time safeguard the interests of bureaucratic and wealthy people and merchants, do our best to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, alleviate social conflicts, and stabilize the country.

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"The General Commander ordered the convening of giant merchants and wealthy businessmen from the northwest, Sichuan, Shu, Jinghu, western Jingyuan, and Central Plains to Chang'an to discuss the major reform plan. This is indeed a wonderful move, which allows the imperial court to come up with the principles and specific measures for financial system reform in the shortest time, and at the same time can also receive a lot of assistance, and use these people and the local forces behind them to quickly stabilize various prefectures." Fan Zhichang praised, "The General Commander is far-sighted and extraordinary."

"I invited them here, I didn't just want to rob." Li Hu smiled, "But after hearing what you said, I'm thinking a lot and know what to do next."

"Whether Wang Jinggong or Cai Jing, the biggest opponents of the reform are bureaucratic wealthy and wealthy businessmen." Fan Zhichang said, "Wen Jinggong was defeated by them. After Cai Jing came to power, he implemented thunder methods. He first stepped on the Yuanyou Party members under his feet, and then successively promulgated a series of new financial policies such as tea debate system, amending the salt law, and indiscriminately allocated money to induce huge losses, especially Sichuan and Sichuan merchants. Because of the "money induced" system by Cai Jing, the loss was even more terrible. After the general commander took office, he immediately abolished the transformation of the new policies implemented by Cai Jing, and won the praise of rich merchants from all over the country, especially Sichuan and Sichuan merchants, who were even more grateful to the general commander."

"As long as the Chief General takes advantage of this rare opportunity, to win the trust and support of these rich merchants, not only can the reform be implemented smoothly, but the local situation can also be quickly stabilized." Fan Zhichang looked solemn and his tone was very sincere. "From the current situation, the Chief General must be regent, otherwise he will not be able to appease the generals of the tiger and harsh generals. However, the Chief General Regent alone will definitely arouse opposition from some people, and there is a very likely rebellion in the local area. At this time, if the Chief General can make these rich merchants willingly use money and food to help you conquer the world, the situation will be completely different."

Li Hu nodded vigorously and was very grateful to Fan Zhichang. He wanted to say a few words of thanks, but then he felt it was unnecessary. With Fan Zhichang's words, the most core and most critical part of the reform plan had already been solved. This contribution was too great, and a few words of thanks were hard to express.

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On the morning of June 11, Li Hu summoned the prime minister, the main officials of the East and West Prefectures and the Censorate to listen to Fan Zhichang's strategy of reforming the financial system.

This is a new way of change. In the past, whether it was Fan Zhongyan or Wang Anshi, the idea of ​​change was "Open Source Festival"

", but their "open source" is actually still making a big pie, which is to put it bluntly "reduce money". Fan Zhichang clearly pointed out that the new financial system is to create wealth, make big pie, increase total wealth, and closely combine resource optimization and wealth distribution.

If the financial crisis of the Song Dynasty was compared as a flood, then the changes of Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi were to build dikes and blockades, while Fan Zhichang's changes were to clear the flood diversion. The consequences of these two changes were to intensify the contradictions and ease the contradictions. Their implementation effects were of course very different.

Middle Earth is an agricultural kingdom, with more than 90% of the population farming on the land. Because of serious land annexation, at least 90% of the population is poor ordinary people. The so-called wealth in the Song Dynasty was formed by less than 10% of the population occupying most of the wealth of the entire Middle Earth.

Also because of land annexation, farming technology has developed rapidly, and the yield of grain and other crops exceeded historical levels. Therefore, land tax was the absolute majority of the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty. This is also the reason why the reformers always pointed the goal of increasing taxes firmly towards the land, but things will turn back. When Cai Jing, Wang Fu and others squeezed the farmers out of their hands, the great uprising in Hebei and Shandong also flourished and was out of control. From this, it can be seen that this reform

The road is over.

The urban population of the Song Dynasty was the largest in all dynasties, with more than 10% of the total population living in about 3,000 towns, which concentrated industry, commerce and other industries. The wealth of cities was calculated by commercial tax, including Bianjing, Xingyuan (now Hanzhong, Shaanxi) and Chengdu, with annual commercial tax revenue of more than 400,000 guan. There are five cities with annual commercial tax revenue of about 200,000 to 400,000 guan, while there are more than 20 cities with 100,000 to 200,000 guan. There are more than 3,000 cities with 100,000 to 200,000 guan. There are more than 3,000 towns in the Song Dynasty. If the average annual commercial tax revenue of each town is 10,000 guan, it is 30 million guan, which has exceeded the land tax revenue.

It is obvious that if you change your thinking and change your attention, the goal of increasing taxes in the Song Dynasty should be cities, other industries dominated by industry and commerce, and commercial taxation. As long as the court leads the direction of financial system reform to cities, industry, commerce and commercial taxation, then increasing taxes can not only become a reality, effectively alleviate the financial crisis, but also ease various social contradictions, stabilize the country and strengthen the people.

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Fan Zhichang's ideas on change immediately caused heated debate.

Contend

The focus of the theory is still as always, whether to suppress mergers or not, adopt a laissez-faire economic model or a state-monopoly economic model.

Fan Zhichang is a descendant of the Yuanyou Party members and the grandson of Fan Zhongyan. The Fan family has two famous Yuanyou Party members, Fan Chunren and Fan Chunli. Fan Zhichang's reform strategy happens to be a genuine old party strategy, but he is more radical than the old party. He adopted a bolder approach to further expand the laissez-faire freedom of the economy and firmly held high the banner of "not suppressing annexation".

In today's court, whether it is the Hu Lieutenant or the Song people, they are all reformists, and are more or less influenced by Wang Anshi's theory of reform. Especially Li Fu, the change theory of Xinguanxue directly absorbs the change theory of Xinguanxue, and the one who promotes this change theory is Zhao Mingcheng. Fan Zhichang's change idea obviously violates the change theory of Xinguanxue and the change strategy of the court, so Li Fu and Zhao Mingcheng's fierce opposition is not surprising.

Judging from the current situation, the court needs money and a lot of money. The strategy of increasing taxes has been decisively adopted a state-monopoly economic model to quickly plunder wealth. For example, in order to save the finances, he even directly issued a "Refusal Order" to destroy merchants into it.

Hell. The financial system reform formulated by Li Gang, Li Fu, Zhao Mingcheng and others followed the Wang Anshi and Cai Jing's plan, but the steps were small. Fan Zhichang's reform idea was the opposite, not only continuing to be free in the economy, but also taking bigger and bigger steps.

In addition, there is another more important factor, that is, since ancient times, the idea of ​​"respecting the root and suppressing the end, and suppressing agriculture and commerce" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially in the souls of scholars. This dynasty attaches importance to the development of industry and commerce, and the first priority is to resolve social contradictions, that is, the contradiction between population and land, and use industry and commerce to solve surplus labor. However, whether it is craftsmen or merchants, their status has not improved. Of course, it has improved a lot compared with the previous dynasty and is no longer a pariah in the lowest level of society. However, the two industries of industry and commerce are still low-level industries and are looked down upon. Therefore, to vigorously develop industry and commerce, we must first liberate our minds and support them from academic theory so that the people of the world can accept them. Then supporting policies can play a role. Otherwise, you have policies, but no one pays attention to it. Most of the surplus labor is still living a hard life with one acre of three parts. What can you do?

In this world where "scholars" control power, culture and public opinion, the industry and businessmen who create wealth are always a low-level industry, so that their practitioners themselves look down on themselves. This reflects the firm control of effective resources by "scholars" from another perspective, and then firmly control them.

It is firmly controlled by the right to distribute social wealth. If industry and commerce want to develop greatly, then the status of industry and businessmen must be improved. The status of craftsmen and merchants will be improved. Then, some effective resources can be controlled and used, and then some social wealth can be distributed. This will profoundly affect the interests of the "scholars", which will violate the interests of a whole class, which is unimaginable.

At noon on the 11th, Fan Zhichang became the target of public criticism in the conference hall. From the prime minister to the officials of various government offices, there were almost unanimous controversies.

Fan Zhichang was not afraid and fought with reason.

He now has Cai Jing's new policy as an example, and the main reason for the transformation of Cai Jing's new policy is the continuous wars. Disasters and excessive royal squandering caused the treasury to be inadequate. Cai Jing and Wang Fu were in the end to save the finances. There was no way, so they had to publicly plunder the people in the name of the country again and again.

In a sense, the new policy transformation and the crimes of Cai Jing and Wang Fu's disaster to the country were unfair. At that time, even if Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi were sitting in the position of prime minister, they would still have to plunder money to fill the shortage of the treasury. To take a step back, even if there was no Tong Guan's Western Expedition and Northern Expedition, and without Cai Jing's expedition and levy, the result would still be the same.

It was still impossible to stop the Jurchens from destroying the Liao Kingdom and the Jin army from invading south, because the Song Dynasty system cultivated a group of shameless bureaucrats and scholars. These shameless bureaucrats and scholars had corrupted the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty could not escape this disaster.
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