Chapter 521: Outside the Directors

In the past, because the center was also confused, there was nothing we could do about it.

The important significance of what Tang Jie and Su You have done in the past six months is to sort out the confusing accounts of the central government. Now Tang Tietou is holding the account book as a big stick and holding up the great cause of justice as a banner, beating the various transfers below.

The envoys and the governor of Shangzhou cried.

However, Keji only hurt him, not killed him.

If we really want to pursue the case based on the central account books, then all the officials in the Song Dynasty will not be able to survive. No, Tang Jie and Su You will not be able to live in the first place.

The purpose of the accounting department's work was to ask local governments to report the actual situation, promote new accounting methods, and compare the accounting department's methods of cleaning up the inventory to make the central and local accounts consistent, so that the central government could grasp the true financial situation of the Song Dynasty.

Falsification also requires evidence, so although the financial situations reported by various places have a lot of water content, when you meet a knowledgeable person like Su You who has a lot of mathematics, statistics and accounting talents, you can squeeze out a lot of water for them.

Suyou's approach is that we don't need to look at specific data, we can mainly focus on studying the changes in these data.

There is no base figure to draw from, but the changes in these data are definitely caused by local officials making false accounting changes based on the actual fiscal situation of each locality in each year.

Therefore, with the addition of statistical summary and some calculation methods, the accounting department can also get a glimpse of the situation and get a rough idea based on data such as the increase and decrease over the years.

Then you can use this rough idea, together with the central statistical account books, to blackmail local officials and ask them to report real data. They will definitely be afraid.

Let’s start with the ugly words. This is an opportunity for various places to throw away their old baggage and travel light. Next, the Planning Department will send an investigation team to verify those local exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. As soon as possible, we should deal with them from beginning to end. The specific true annual income, honestly

Create a record and then submit it to the central government for revision, so that everyone can relax in the future.

Even if the local government also conceals reports and falsifies, it is still much more true than the current accounting department's purely false accounts.

As for the existing water, you can squeeze it out through other methods in the future.

For example, by stimulating slow inflation in the economy, officials will soon find that the hundreds of coins they have withheld from their hands now will be nothing in twenty years.

By that time, the supervision of banks, taxation, and accounting departments had been fully implemented. If you want to find new financial resources and set up a private treasury, the difficulty is as different as it is today. That is the difference between heaven and earth.

For another example, after understanding the true financial situation of the Song Dynasty, the next step is to negotiate with the Eighteenth Route Envoy to clarify the tax distribution amount and distribution method, and clarify what belongs to the local government and what belongs to the central government.

For example, industrial and commercial taxes belong to the central government, while agricultural income belongs to local governments.

With this distribution, local governments can now not only have enough to eat, but can even eat well, even better than the central government. Of course, the food cannot be exaggerated.

However, with various restrictions and supervision, and after the tax distribution is clarified, in ten or twenty years, industry and commerce will develop vigorously, and the working population will undergo structural changes, and the gap between the two will inevitably widen.

This is actually another way of boiling a frog in warm water. Wang Anshi’s famous saying that the people do not need to be endowed with wealth but the country can make enough use of it can actually be achieved secretly through this method!

But how many people in the Song Dynasty are there who can see through this level now?

After all the twists and turns, the answer to the mystery was finally revealed. It took Tang Jie a long time to figure out what Su You wanted to do.

This child is too ambitious. It turns out that clearing the accumulated debts is not the final result. This child wants to take advantage of the victory and use this method to attack local taxes and increase national taxes!

However, Tang Jie not only did not blame Su You for his previous deception, but instead forced him to study hard. Seven days later, he secretly reported to Zhao Xu.

This is actually how the position of political counselor in the old Tang Dynasty came about.

Tang Jie has already decided that Su You is a good person, ah no, a gentleman is upright and upright, he works tirelessly, does not shy away from resentment, is not greedy for self-interest, and does not live up to his reputation.

Merits are attributed to those above and below, and faults are... Huh? This kid has been in politics for several years, and he really doesn't have any faults.

Tang Jie often shook his head and sighed, everything else is easy to say, but even I can't do it if I don't live up to my reputation...

In the old man's mind, Su You is now the most ideal candidate for prime ministership in the Song Dynasty only because of his qualifications and age. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to be a big problem even sitting on his current bench to participate in political affairs.

After peeling off the window paper layer by layer, Old Tang now understands that finance can still be played like this!

Things don't have to happen step by step, so Su You is still angry now, but the things he can do are only limited to his own one-third of an acre.

So in the next few days, Sima Guang was responsible for the theoretical preparations, and Su You was responsible for the practical preparations. Each took charge of his own stall, and wrote letters together to prepare for departure.

When inspecting the river affairs this time, Zhao Xu said the words "I am here in person", and the standard was suddenly raised, and it became an inspection on behalf of the emperor.

According to Suyou's suggestion, a large number of surveyors and accounting personnel are needed.

In view of the current academic imperfections of the Song Dynasty, which still needed talents in the field of mathematics who could improvise research and come up with mathematical models when encountering problems, Su You asked the emperor for two people, Chen Zhaoming and Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo is currently studying map drawing, which is considered a professional counterpart.

With the addition of the two foreigners in his pocket, the team of experts has been established.

As for surveying and mapping talents below experts, Shuzhong now has a lot of them.

The ability to lay a simple railway from Meishan to Shangzhou, the further widening of the Xiajiang waterway so that large ships with thousands of materials can reach Jiazhou directly, and the improvement project of dangerous areas of the Jinsha River waterway in Dizhou are three major events that have given the surveying and mapping team under Sitong

The long-term and valuable experience is no longer the same as Wu Xia Ameng when Su You was in charge of Kuizhou.

As for the accounting team, Shuzhong said we don’t want too many of these types. Now the children in Meishan and Shudu have included abacus mental arithmetic in primary school teaching.

There were also a large number of ships transporting grain in the accompanying team, and the imperial court issued seventy chapters of blank edicts, which made the merchants extremely happy.

Dong Fei has caught up with the good times. He is a big brewer, and preparing grain is his job. He collected 50,000 kilograms of rice in Huangzhou, and now he is a proper official and a foreigner. When he sees Su You, he comes up and hands it over.

: "The villain has seen the magistrate."

Su You was directing the team to load the goods. Some of the equipment was very sophisticated and you needed to be careful. Seeing him, he smiled and said: "The road you are taking is a bit crazy. You should not follow the food down the river to Jiangning Prefecture, and then go up the Sui-Tang Canal to the north from Chuzhou."

, Huaiyang, Weishan, Rencheng, and Liangshan are famous? What are you doing here in Bianjing?"

Dong Fei chuckled: "How can it be the same? If I hadn't received it in Bianjing, the weight of this edict would be much lighter! When I go back, the elders of the clan will punish me by kneeling in the ancestral hall."

After saying that, he rolled his eyes and said: "But don't worry, the magistrate. I have already explained everything. After the ship passes Liangshan, it will be docked in Bozhou. When the magistrate and Sima Bachelor arrive, they will accompany the fleet to Daming Mansion to show the magistrate's face."

Earn enough!”

Su You was furious: "Rescuing disasters is like putting out fires! How can it be so delayed?! I want you to earn this face for me? What a nonsense!"

At this time, Sima Guang also arrived at the dock, accompanied by an emissary, Li Deming: "Mingrun, you arrived so early? What are you arguing about?"

This Su You didn't dare to tell the truth to Sima Guang, otherwise Dong Fei, a foreigner, would have his brains blown out in the blink of an eye. He smiled and said: "This is Dong Fei, a merchant who was growing barnyard grass in Weizhou Shangtun.

It was his suggestion to use grass as a green reserve. Now I heard that Hebei was hit by the disaster, and he contributed 50,000 jins of rice and got a free official from Yuanwailang."

Sima Guang nodded: "It is reasonable for businessmen to value profits, but the biggest benefit is the stability of the country and peace between the top and bottom. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans were together, and both jade and stone were destroyed. Yuanwailang can serve the country, which is different from ordinary merchants."

Dong Fei nodded repeatedly: "Yes, since the Empress Dowager personally led the charity, I have encouraged myself to be compassionate and be a Buddhist merchant..."
Chapter completed!