Chapter 1068: Logistics to Taxation

"When the magical gun was developed, the target was changed, and it became a ringed swan with the heart of the human-shaped target as the center. After learning how to operate it, after a short period of training, everyone could become a Condor Shooter of Xixia and Liao Kingdoms, with ten shots.

The firing time is even shortened by half compared to the crane-shin crossbow."

"Now that we have a bolt-action structure, the time can be shortened. The cavalry short-distance attack tactics of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom can no longer be effective."

"The only regret is that the current manufacturing cost is still high, the consumption is too high, and the logistics requirements are too high, so bolt-action gun weapons cannot be widely promoted in the military."

"But we couldn't afford the crane-shin crossbow back then. Looking back now, it was just a transitional product."

"So as long as we continue along this path, the advantages of the nomadic tribe in riding and shooting will eventually be equaled or surpassed by our farming tribe. This is the foundation of eternity."

Di Yong asked: "But what if one day, the nomadic tribe also possesses such a magical weapon?"

Su You smiled and said: "So we can't rest on our laurels. We need to make progress faster than them."

"Moreover, the invention of firearms has directly offset the nomadic tribe's innate advantage in force; the cannibalization model has offset their advantage in mobility. The rest is a competition of national strength and population."

"In these two areas, we, the Song Dynasty, have an absolute advantage, so even if they wait until they pick up firearms, their era is already over."

After saying that, he bowed deeply to Zhao Xu: "Your Majesty, as long as we don't make any rash advances or get lucky, victory will be ours sooner or later!"

Zhao Xu finally became happy again: "I understand, now I understand what you mean by the gambler's war. I, the Song Dynasty, cannot take that road."

Su You bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this is the general strategy discussed by the Military Aircraft Department. However, in order to support such a large war, our biggest shortcomings now are mobility and logistics."

"Everything else in terms of logistics support is easy to talk about. Food is too chaotic now. How many reserves are in the Changping warehouse in various places is really worrying."

"According to a report from the Hedong Transshipment Department, the Yellow River floods in previous years did not result in an emergency warehouse clearance, so there was no warehouse relief, but...many warehouses were borrowed by officials, resulting in a large amount of debt, empty account books, and no food."

"This problem was discovered when Prime Minister Anshi was Prime Minister. Chang Pingcang's operational functions were lost, and local famines could not be relieved. That's why Xue Gongxing was not ordered to ship the sex workers."

"However, after Mr. Xue left office, the shipping department became another Chang Ping warehouse, even worse."

"Although the situation in Shaanxi is improving now, it is obviously stretched to support the dispatch of several armies at the same time. It is necessary to use the canal grain as a reserve."

"However, there is not enough to fill the big hole in water transportation..."

Zhao Xu asked: "What should I do?"

Su You handed over his hand: "Your Majesty's kindness has increased the salaries of officials all over the world. The carrot has been eaten, and the stick must follow."

"Now that Taiwan's reform has been effective, it's time to put more burdens on them. I ask you to reorganize the official warehouse and clean up the officialdom."

Zhao Xu's eyelids twitched: "This... the country treats scholar-bureaucrats kindly..."

Su You was speechless: "It has been clearly stated in "The Theory of Scholars' Virtue" that only those who can recite poems, compose poems and memorize the Six Classics can be called scholar-bureaucrats."

"Scholar-officials should be the benchmark and role model for the people of the world, and officials should be the benchmark and role model for the scholar-bureaucrats."

"If someone is corrupt, perverts the law, oppresses good people, deceives the people, and embezzles state funds, then such people should be called criminals and national cowards."

"If such a person can be called a scholar-bureaucrat, Su You is really ashamed to be in the same category."

Zhao Xu still hesitated: "If the movement is too big..."

Su You said: "It won't be too big. We will only attack one road, that is, warehouses and cauldrons. As for the Shipping Department, encourage the development of private commerce and transportation, cancel the shipping department's power to unify collection, purchase, and sales, and let him become a businessman.

Institutions on an equal footing only measure their capabilities based on costs and profits, with the capable ones promoted and the weak eliminated. I believe the situation will get better."

Zhao Xu nodded: "This is a national plan. If the water transport waste can be halved, they really dare to do it... By the way, how much is the sea transport loss?"

"This..." There is no harm if there is no comparison. Su You was embarrassed to say: "Half percent... is faster..."

Zhao Xu's face turned gloomy again: "These silverfish deserve to die!"

Su You quickly handed over: "Your Majesty, after all, water transportation and sea transportation are different. First, there are many people, second, there are many checkpoints, third, the speed is slow, and fourth, the cargo volume is small. The cost is definitely higher than that of sea transportation."

"Although sea transportation has many advantages, it also has shortcomings, such as relying on sea breeze. The wind direction along the coast of Song Dynasty is from southwest to northeast from June to December, and from northeast to southwest from December to June. Although the wind direction is just right during the autumn ripening season,

There is also timeliness.”

"As long as His Majesty removes the monopoly advantage of the Shipping Department and provides some preferential policies, maritime merchants from the southeast will be able to find ways to transport grain northward on their own. Soon the water transportation along the Hedong and Hebei routes will naturally be eliminated by sea transportation."

"As for the water transport ships to Bianjing, it is actually best to combine the methods of Zhang Xueshi and Xue Gong - Zhang Gong stipulated that the water transport ships should stop along the way, and Caoding was not allowed to disembark. After arriving in the capital, the daily consumption of the water ships was equal to that of Caoding.

The labor wages are then deducted from the ship's grain. This reduces the possibility of collusion between the local government and the ship owners to take advantage of the inspection-free opportunity of the ships to transport other goods."

"Because a ship of grain has a certain amount from the day it is shipped. Without the many reliefs such as stops and transfers along the way, the ship owners and warehouse managers have no excuse to falsely report losses."

"Xue Gong's method is to mix private ships and official ships. Reporters will be rewarded. The official ships will be watched by private ships all the way, so they don't dare to be so blatant."

"What I mean is to combine all of them. In addition to the laws of Zhang and Xue, we also need to add official supervision."

"In order to solve the problem of redundant officials, many local officials were transferred to the Procuratorate after the Taiwan Admonition was separated. Now it is time for them to perform their functions."

"The country has no food and is unstable, so we started with the inspection of water transportation, Changping warehouses, and transshipment warehouses, so that prosecutors in various places can become familiar with their responsibilities."

"There is another point, which is to make it clear that in addition to the two taxes and land taxes, commercial taxes in other places cannot be collected from passing merchants unless they are at the place of shipment and destination."

"All commercial taxes were collected by the imperial court, simplified into two taxes: row and seat, and the tax rate was set at one-tenth."

"An appropriate increase in the tax rate is to ensure the distribution between the court and local governments in the future, but the intermediate link of commercial tax must be eliminated."

"The maintenance of waterways now belongs to the Sansi River and Drainage Department, and the maintenance of roads belongs to the Ministry of Industry. If this is the case, from now on, the local people will only be responsible for providing labor."

"It will be convenient to first allocate funds from the three departments to the River Canal Department and the Ministry of Works, and then the Canal Department and the Ministry of Works will pay local labor costs and change the labor service to employment."

"If commercial road maintenance is not under local management, then there is no reason to collect taxes."

Zhao Xu said: "As a result, the cost of maintenance and repair will be very high."

Su You said: "It's too big, but the cost is calculated and considered. Of course, the wages that should be paid must be paid."

"Your Majesty, what will the workers do when they take the labor money? In order to survive, they will eventually spend it."

"Who does the money spent go to? It goes to the producers who provide the products."

"Producers have to pay taxes to the court, and a large part of the money will be recovered by the court."

"In this process, people's livelihood will be developed, people will live a better life, the local area will become prosperous, and the country will get greater returns and receive more tax revenue because of this investment."

"The essence of "On Finance" is to let the economic cycle flow, turn dead money into living money, let one penny pass through the circulation, and become ten people. The one penny that hundreds of people once owned can be turned into ten penny.

For the purpose of writing hundreds of articles.”

"Of course, all this has a process. We can start from what we just mentioned, start the first step of piloting in grain purchase along the water transportation route, and gradually start to analyze the distribution ratio of agricultural tax and commercial tax between the local government and the imperial court.

Adjust and reach the ideal state step by step.”

This routine Sitong Company is now very familiar with. The so-called control of various industries in a place and the management of people's economic life from head to toe, from birth to death, in fact, it is to use this penny as a hundred pennies.

.And within the entire economic closed loop, most of these tens of millions of dollars will eventually be collected into the pockets of Sitong.

While the benefits are huge, it can also develop the economy and promote people's livelihood. Compared with naked mergers and exploitation, the food looks much better.
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