The World Expo was originally expected to be between half a month and twenty-year-olds, but due to the large scale of this year's World Expo and the smooth trade routes in Longbian, a large number of Western Regions merchants still flocked to Chang'an to participate in the grand event, so the meeting period had to be extended.

Time is money, which is fully reflected in this World Expo. Although the Expo period is extended, the total amount of goods that can be traded has not increased significantly.

This has caused many later entrants to have to buy more goods at a higher price and pay more money for the time they missed. The shortage of goods has caused inflation to a certain extent, resulting in a trading model similar to futures, that is, buyers pay the goods first and sellers provide sufficient goods for the futures period.

Similar futures orders are especially the ones facing Zhuguanjian Workshops. After all, compared with private Workshops, the government has a higher creditworthiness.

The time came to the end of October, and finally, under the imperial court's order, various transactions were locked in, and the grand event was over. Not to mention that the people in the market were still in the future, the merchants participating in the meeting made the final statements, and the officials and officials also began to have a new busy schedule, which was the audit of various financial items.

With the development of this work, the grand scene of this World Expo has been gradually outlined. During the entire World Expo, more than 2,000 transactions alone cost more than 100,000 yuan, and the total amount of money involved has reached a huge amount of 370 million yuan.

Of course, there are some repeated transactions of commodities, especially in the second half of the exhibition, the addition of many Western Region Hu merchants allowed some buyers who had completed the transaction to directly sell at a higher price and make money on the spot.

However, the tax rate measurement of the imperial court was effective at each transaction, so even if it was a repeated transaction, the tax money could not be exempted. The commercial tax in the Tang Dynasty was not high, and according to the different commodity attributes, it was between thirty and 40 and 1. But even so, the tax money collected exceeded 10 million during the entire World Expo.

But the overall tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty is not limited to this. With such an amazing total amount of trade, the traded goods will naturally not be digested in Chang'an and will be successively transported to all markets.

During this transportation process, local government bridge Guanjin also needs to withdraw certain commercial taxes. This part of local income will only be reflected in the tax reporting in the second year. Because the distance of commodity transportation is not certain, this part of income is not easy to estimate, but it will definitely be higher than the taxes collected by the court during the Expo.

Of course, the overall income of the World Expo is not only tax, the proportion of tax money is not high, and the real income is also the transactions provided by the officials' workshops and directly participated in.

The various officials' workshops are distributed in internal and external prefectures and counties, and each has a relatively independent accounting system. The data summary will lag to a certain extent, but the total amount will never be less than 100 million.

Of course, this part of the income requires deducting various costs such as materials, labor, and management, so that the remaining amount can be put into the warehouse, but even so, the benefits are amazing.

In addition to the benefits generated by the World Expo, the court also had another extremely considerable income, which was the payment of flying money.

In the past few years, although flying money has become popular among the middle schools, its recognition in foreign countries is not high enough. In particular, the Tubo, which is entrenched in Qinghai, greatly affected the Western Regions trade routes, which are most worthy of promoting the flying money exchange model, cannot become popular on the Western Regions trade routes.

However, in the Qinghai War in the first half of the year, the Tang Dynasty defeated Tubo in one fell swoop and recovered the entire Qinghai area, which made the road to the west completely control the Tang Dynasty, which naturally strengthened the enthusiasm of the Western Regions merchants to participate in commerce. In this way, the convenience and superiority of flying money were highlighted.

After the end of the Qinghai War, the amount of Fei money exchanged for the Baolixing Society branch located in the four towns of Anxi and Longyou increased sharply, and reached a peak between September and October.

Naturally, merchants in the Western Regions did not have a large amount of money to enter the cabinet to exchange for flying money. In order to compete for time, they often use gold, silver, jewelry and Western Regions time goods as collateral, which is equivalent to directly trading with Baolixing Society.

After July, the amount of flying money issued by the branches in Longxi and Western Regions exceeded 100 million yuan, and the value of the money and materials accumulated was even greater. If the profits in this regard were fully realized, they might even exceed the profits of the Beijing Municipal Government.

All kinds of expected returns have reached an extremely amazing level. It should be noted that when the tribute entered Beijing in September, the annual fiscal revenue measured by the Ministry of Finance was only 10 million yuan. But in just one month, more than ten times the revenue will be poured in at the internal and external treasury!

For a time, the entire court was filled with an atmosphere of impetuousness and joy. Originally, many officials were more or less imbalanced when they heard stories of many merchants in the city spending a lot of money and making amazing things. But now, when they look at the imperial court's big numbers, they know who is the best!

The profits of the government-made workshops can be seen as a manifestation of the achievements of the imperial court in the past few years of good practice in internal affairs. The surge in the scale of the World Expo and the various wealth and profit inputs in the Longbian and Western Regions were all the war dividends brought by the regaining Qinghai.

When the saints were about to launch the Qinghai War at the beginning of the year, they had been in power for many years. As early as the third year of Kaiyuan, they held a military exercise in Mount Li. However, it was not until the fourth year of Kaiyuan that in order to avoid disputes and opposition in the court, the saints had to make a decision with the prime ministers behind closed doors and finally sent troops.

But now, the changes in the border environment brought by the war and various amazing dividends are in front of us. Although there is no accurate accounting of various data, the direction of public opinion in the North Korean country has changed.

Especially some young and strong court officials, they all chose the next target for the court to attack with red eyes like chicken blood. Various related memorials were presented one by one. Most of them advised the court to take advantage of this momentum and kill the Turkic Mochu, who was still entrenched in the north of the desert.

The middle and lower-level officials imagined the powerful army and violent soldiers, attacked everywhere, and rode the dragon on the face, while the upper-level officials were considering a more realistic and urgent issue, that is, how to manage and monitor such amazing financial changes.

The rent and mediocre system and various miscellaneous tax services implemented in the Tang Dynasty made the court's fiscal revenue diverse, and most of them could not be reflected in direct money, so affairs could be divided into various departments and managed separately.

However, now, the surge in commercial income and commercial taxes have far exceeded the original tax form. The old administrative structure is no longer applicable, and it is urgent to establish a new management method.

In fact, the changes in the administration of officials and the administrative structure of the court were already participating in the discussion as early as early September. However, this issue was too grand and a conclusion was not reached for a long time. It was only focused on the saints and important officials in the court that heard about it, and there was no extensive solicitation of opinions.

Li Tong is more interested in the separation of administrative, financial, military and supervisory power, but it does not mean that he is negative about the current system of the three provinces and six ministries. Or he himself also has many doubts and is not sure which institutional model is best for the current Kaiyuan New Year.

When it comes to the formation of the system of three provinces and six ministries, anyone can intervene and say a few words, perhaps mixed reviews.

But putting aside all kinds of tricky perspectives, the three provinces and six ministries are the culmination of the evolution of the classical system. It summarizes the crystallization of the wisdom of predecessors in previous dynasties, which is enough to refer to various evolutions in later generations. It is a monument to the exploration of the Chinese civilization system and has a wisdom summary that transcends the times.

Especially in this, decentralization of power, checks and balances, procedures and responsibilities, even in the democratic era when civil rights grew in later generations, the game thinking contained in the three provinces and six ministries system still has extremely high guiding value for the division and operation of government administrative organizations.

There are many people who like to be teachers in later generations. The three provinces and six ministries serve the feudal imperial system, not democracy, and thus deny the achievements made by old friends in institutional exploration and promote the superiority of a certain system. This is also the indifference to eating too much dog food.

As a social animal, humans form large and small social organizations, and their organizational management is reflected in systems.

In a small way, the system is a confrontation between power and power, power is the ability granted by the system, and the power is energy that cannot be institutionalized, such as individual force, connections and unconventional possession of various social resources.

In broad terms, the system is a game between public and selfish desires, a protection of order and a confrontation and compromise of selfishism.

The greatness of the three provinces and six ministries is that this system has an extremely complete power distribution system, and at the same time ensures the procedural space for checks and balances and games. The organization is linked together, each exerting itself and restraining each other. There is no dominance or hegemony in a certain link.

From this point of view, the Chinese ancestors really had a precocious wisdom in the exploration of the system.

But there is also a problem with the system. It is not an independent thing, it is a principle created by people, which restricts human behavior and is implemented by people. Once different systems are implemented, institutional costs will inevitably arise.

The system of the three provinces and six ministries is perfect and meticulous, which is its advantage and its disadvantage.

If its internal interlocking structure wants to fully function, it is necessary to ensure that each component can fully exert its effectiveness. The checks and balances between each other are too detailed, and the friction and constraints generated will be an astonishing number.

The internal friction caused by these institutional costs sometimes even far exceeds the benefits and returns brought by the operation of the system.

Like a certain regime in later generations, many believers have demonstrated their superiority in all aspects, but they do not say that the cost of this system requires global blood supply. If you do not have enough blood replenishment ability, you will have to lose your life, let alone keep your minions and mouthpieces.

Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty's three provinces and six ministries system was perfect, the actual implementation period was not long.

Especially in the context of the Middle Ages, overly perfect institutional construction itself is a kind of self-restriction and cannot adapt to the new variables brought about by the growth and expansion of national strength. For emperors who are ambitious and have sufficient execution, it is difficult for them to tolerate cumbersome procedural processes.

Therefore, as early as the Zhenguan period, the three sentences at the highest decision-making level changed.

During the Kaiyuan period, Zhang Shuo transferred Zhengshitang to the subordinate of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, not to combine the simple Central Secretariat, but to join forces with the two provinces, but to directly surpass the three provinces, and the powers of the three provinces were combined into one.

Li Tong was not a Taiping king who enjoyed his achievements, but a Emperor of the Tang Dynasty who was ordered to be in danger. He had a higher degree of power over the three provinces, and even the Political Affairs Hall became a vassal and was no longer the highest decision-making body for the imperial administration. The prime ministers rarely sat on each other and discussed the truth, but more often they accepted the orders and implemented them, and there was almost no restriction on the saints.

This political ecology is not something he wants to deliberately create, but he originally formed a central court based on the Taitai Ba Mansion.

Under the turbulent and turbulent national conditions of the Tang Dynasty, pursuing procedural legitimacy is undoubtedly the most effective way to quickly get out of the quagmire by entrusting the system and promoting tyranny.

Of course, the premise is that he can successfully lead the revival of the Tang Dynasty. If he loses his life, he will be a typical example of a royal family and vassal king who uses power and harms his family and country in the future.

Although Li Tong is a hegemonic emperor, it does not mean that he does not need institutional maintenance.

First, a person's energy is limited after all. Even if he is diligent and does everything himself, how many government affairs can he handle every day? Second, his model has an irreplicable special nature. The Tang Dynasty regime always needs a smooth maintenance and excessiveness, which requires institutional constraints and management.

However, as a strong emperor, he was full of various ideas and attempts to govern the country. A complete three provinces and six ministries with clear powers and mutual restraints were a disaster for him.

What he needs is an efficient and flexible execution system, rather than a decision-making group with different ideas and conflicting ideas. But he also knows that people have rise and fall, good fortune, and regimes will change for a day, and they cannot turn the entire state machine into a person's voice-over.

The contradiction between the extension of personal power desires and concessions is a key point in the next reform of the court. The officials of the court, including the prime ministers who lead all the officials, cannot be ignored.

How to work out a plan that most people in the country can agree on while ensuring that the North Korean affairs are in an orderly manner requires compromise and tolerance in all aspects, and Li Tong, the saint, is no exception.

But even so, Li Tong did not want to give up his dominance, so how to set the tone requires a suitable opportunity. The just-concluded World Expo, the financial accounting and checking of various departments involved are an excellent opportunity.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the court's fiscal revenue was characterized by diversity, so all matters were divided into various departments. There is no need to say much about the four ministers of the Ministry of Revenue. Taifu, Shaofu, Simin, etc. also had related tasks, and the division of power was trivial, so a matter often occurred when one thing was connected to the various yamen.

Ordinary people may not feel the cumbersomeness of such detailed distribution of ministries, but most people in later generations have been traveling to various civil affairs departments for one thing, and the report proves that they have accumulated a pile of experience. Ordinary people still complain because of this, and the cumbersome process of the relevant ministries of the court can be imagined.

The various departments involved in the World Expo are the focus of attention in the current situation. They have sufficient personnel and talent, but the relevant accounting process is still slow.

Although the calculations circulated by the various departments are quite gratifying, the real measurement process is still circulating in the various departments. More than a month has passed, and various wealth and income are still only in the books and scattered in the warehouses of the various departments, and most of the money is still not included in the warehouse residences that can be used as sub-branches.

In the usual season, other officials who were not involved in the Finance Department would just watch the fun and be glad that they were doing their jobs to be idle. However, as time entered the cold winter month, the atmosphere in the court gradually changed.

During the New Year Festival, the various departments will stop and rest to celebrate the festival together. The court also needs to give gifts to show grace. The various rewards at the end of the year are also important incomes beyond the salary of officials, which are directly related to the quality of the New Year Festival.

Due to the sensation in the World Expo this year, various prices in Chang'an City have risen to varying degrees, so officials are eager to receive the gifts as soon as possible and have a good year.

But now the audits of the various departments have not been completed, the money has not been stored in the warehouse, and the year-end benefits have not become a fixed pattern. This naturally makes all officials complain, and their respective money bags have also commented on the financial department's slow work and inefficiency.

Taking advantage of the public opinion of all officials, on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the court appointed the Minister of Revenue Ge Fuyuan to dismiss the magistrate of the government affairs, and transferred the Minister of Revenue Youpushe, and added the ambassador of Gouji. Zhu Jingze, the chief censor, was appointed as the deputy envoy of Gouji. He worked with the chief clerk of the various departments to set up the idle residence of the official yamen as Gouyuan, blocked the case documents of the Finance Department and stored them, and moved them to Gouyuan to conduct investigations. It is necessary to end the inspection before the day of the day, so as not to miss the anniversary of the festival.
Chapter completed!