Li Tai left, Li Yuanying stayed and asked Xiao Deyan to tell him, he really didn't see him when he was tired of listening, and asked someone to lead him to an empty guest room to rest.
Li Yuanying slept soundly, but Liu Baolin in the palace knew that he was staying in Wei Wang's mansion, he tossed and turned in the middle of the night and did not fall asleep, so he got up and started sewing with a lamp on.
After stitching carefully, Liu Baolin gradually calmed down. Although his son loves to play and play, he has never suffered any disadvantages since he was a child. No matter how much he and Li Tai have a quarrel, it is impossible for Li Tai to be with him. Wouldn't it be a fool for his own mansion to attack him
That old scholar Xiao is extremely knowledgeable, since his son is determined to learn, the mother should fully support her, and she can't hinder her son no matter what. Liu Baolin thought about the matter clearly before putting away the unfinished autumn clothes and resting.
The news that Li Yuanying had gone to Prince Wei's residence did not reach His Majesty Li Er's ears until early the next morning from his servants. It was His Majesty Li Er who mentioned that Princess Jinyang and the others had not found Li Yuanying yesterday and had been unhappy all night when he was getting dressed. His Majesty Li Er wondered: "That kid didn't come back at night?"
Left and right replied: "Before the palace gate was locked, I sent someone back to say that I want to ask the old scholar Xiao how to write articles, and I will stay at Wei Wangfu at night."
His Majesty Li Er said: "He really likes Xiao Qing." This Xiao Deyan is a well-known and well-educated man, he is very old, he has gone through many dynasties, and has many disciples, his knowledge and knowledge are far more extensive than ordinary people, he is indeed a seeker Good object. If Xiao Deyan was ten or twenty years younger, he might reuse it, instead of just asking him to compile books and revise history.
The left and right dared not talk about the important affairs of the court, but dared to talk about the matter of meeting King Teng: "Old scholar Xiao is kind and patient. When King Teng met him, he couldn't make a fuss anymore. I don't know how to be obedient. "
His Majesty Li Er said: "That kid is indeed obedient when he meets someone he likes, and makes a fuss when he meets someone he doesn't like. Unfortunately, I have asked Xiao Qing to help Qingque compile the book. Otherwise, I can let Xiao Qing be my boss as he wished." His teacher."
Fortunately, His Majesty Li Er said these words casually, and Li Tai had no chance to hear them, otherwise Li Yuanying would have been torn alive, and His Majesty Li Er would have scolded His Majesty Li Er for being biased! Would Li Yuanying make a fuss? It's too much to give whatever you want if you can make a fuss!
Although Li Tai didn't know that His Majesty Li Er wanted to arrange Xiao Deyan to Li Yuanying, he was not a person who repays grievances with virtue. He was provoked by Li Yuanying yesterday, and new and old hatreds came to his heart. After waking up the next day, he asked someone to arrange the matter. Let people encourage courtiers to read Li Yuanying's book.
Selling sky-high tea in the name of Yuci tea, there is a lot to do in this matter!
Even those of them who are sons and daughters don't think about the father, why should he, Li Yuanying
Making money is so fun, right? He wanted Li Yuanying to spit out everything he took!
Li Yuanying stayed at Wei Wangfu the next day. In addition to learning how to write articles with Xiao Deyan, he also consulted with Xiao Deyan about the issues about scholars, farmers, industry and commerce mentioned yesterday, and followed Xiao Deyan to reason about the current taxes of the imperial court. Now the tax is collected by the dime, which means that everyone is granted a certain amount of land, and a certain amount of rice, silk and silk are paid per head every year, and 20 days of hard labor are performed.
According to the current situation, such a tax is not high, enough for the people to recuperate. However, Xiao Deyan specifically mentioned one point, that is, relatives of the emperor, dignitaries, Taoist priests, monks, and craftsmen from wealthy households are all exempt from taxes.
Li Yuanying didn't quite understand the key point: "Is there anything wrong with this?" He himself is a relative of the emperor, so it's good to be exempt from taxes, he doesn't send money to the emperor, let the emperor worry himself!
Xiao Deyan said: "In "Liezi", there is a story about the Yugong who moved the mountain. It is said that the Yugong wanted to remove the mountain in front of the gate, so that the travel in the future would be smoother. The wise old man thought it was ridiculous. How could people move the mountain away? The Yugong replied to him: "Although I die, there will be sons; sons will beget grandsons, and grandchildren will beget sons; sons will have sons, sons will have grandchildren; sons and grandchildren will be infinitely scarce, but the mountain will not increase. Why bother?" Not flat?'”
Li Yuanying hadn't read "Liezi" yet, so he secretly wrote down the title of the book and decided to go back and read it. He likes books that tell stories the most!
Li Yuanying said: "What does this have to do with taxes?"
Xiao De said: "Think about it, how many children does the Supreme Emperor have, how many children does His Majesty have? Do you want to marry wives and have children? Do all the officials in the court have children and brothers? Will rich people buy land and build buildings when they are rich? House, marrying a wife and taking concubines?"
When Xiao Deyan said this, Li Yuanying understood that he had more than twenty brothers alone, and there were countless sisters. Excluding the brothers and sisters who died young or were killed, they could not be counted with ten fingers. As for nephews, there are a lot of them. I printed a hundred books last time, but there are still many that have not been delivered!
Li Yuanying calculated in his heart, and was a little speechless: "In the future, there will definitely be more and more people who will not have to bear the tax." He thought about it carefully, and then added, "The tax is collected on the basis of the head. If a person has several thousand Mu of land, then he only needs to pay his own tax, right? If I am like me, I have land, and I rent it to people who don’t have land to grow it. They don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t have land. If you pay taxes, then the entire land will not have to pay taxes!"
Xiao Deyan liked his intelligence the most, nodded and said: "That's it."
It was the first time for Li Yuanying to understand this aspect, and the more he thought about it, the more shocked he became: "No wonder "Han Zi" has to write about the 'five beetles' and 'eight traitors'. If things go on like this, this son will have grandchildren, and grandsons will have sons." Yes, if you don’t have to pay taxes and have money to buy land and land, Datang will definitely distribute it to others.”
Xiao Deyan said no more.
Li Yuanying sat alone thinking about it.
No wonder, he said, why such a big Tang Dynasty would not have it, it turns out that there are such ways for small taxes. However, knowing the root cause of this disaster, he didn't know how to solve it.
If someone has money, he can't stop them from buying land. The land is the foundation and the guarantee. As long as you have the land, you can't die. Who doesn't want to buy more? Even he felt that the more land the better, he would be happier if all the land in the world gave him! He himself is like this, how can he ask others not to
Li Yuanying pondered for a long time, but did not come up with a reason, and humbly asked Xiao Deyan for any solution.
Xiao Deyan sighed and said: "If I have a solution, I will go to His Majesty to talk about it even if I have my old bones. But there is no perfect solution in the world?" Xiao Deyan explained to Li Yuanying carefully, "For example, the Han Dynasty wanted to encourage farming and mulberry, and did not want the common people to become merchants in order to profit from the market, so they imposed heavy taxes on the rich. , so the wealthy households are exempted from paying taxes, and the exchange of goods is not taxed. This is a method chosen by the wise and capable people in the court according to the current situation, and it is very appropriate in terms of the situation at the time."
Li Yuanying said: "The situation has changed since then, the original method is not appropriate, can't it be changed?"
Xiao De said: "If you have worked so hard to save money to buy land, and the imperial court suddenly tells you to change the tax law and charge you a lot of money, will you be happy? It doesn't matter if one or two people are not happy, if the whole world is not happy , how do you want to change it?"
Li Yuanying fell silent.
This won't work, that won't work, it's too difficult! Thinking about his imperial brother and his eldest nephew, Li Yuanying felt that they had worked so hard, that it was really hard to be an emperor!
Seeing that Li Yuanying's little brows were tightly frowned, Xiao Deyan comforted him in a gentle voice: "You are still young, so you don't need to think too much."
Xiao Deyan watched Li Yuanying's actions, and felt that this child was different from others, so he talked about these things with him. He was already old, and all he could do was to plant a seed in the hearts of these juniors, to see if these seeds would take root and germinate in the future.
Li Yuanying nodded in agreement.
Left and right he can't think of a solution, so it's better not to think about it. When he builds a big academy in the future, he will leave this problem to the students of the academy to think about. These students will also have sons and grandchildren. Generation after generation, they will always be able to solve any problems in the future!
Li Yuanying made up his mind, stopped bothering Xiao Deyan, and happily went back to the palace. Back in the palace, he also told Liu Baolin that he had studied with Xiao Deyan all night, and he didn't feel tired at all!
When Liu Baolin saw that he came back wholeheartedly, he immediately felt relieved, and softly told him to study hard if he wanted to, and not to disappoint the old scholar Xiao.
Li Yuanying readily agreed.
Li Yuanying came back with something new in his head, and he didn't shut himself in the room to think about it, but went to find Sizi and the others to play. Recently, Li Yuanying has been busy working on the Qianjin Tea. He was coming up with ideas and drawing pictures. He even slipped over to watch the grand auction. He really neglected a few precious little nieces, and they all turned their backs and ignored him!
Li Yuanying sat cross-legged and said with a sigh: "It seems that you don't know how lively the tea sale was yesterday."
Gao Yang loves excitement the most, so he couldn't hold back all of a sudden, turned around and asked, "Why didn't you take us there?"
Li Yuanying said: "Didn't Changle want to enter the palace yesterday? You just left Changle and went out to play?"
Chang Le is his eldest niece, she came to see His Majesty Li Er in the palace yesterday, and met with several younger sisters by the way. Li Yuanying liked this gentle and good-looking eldest niece very much when she was a child, and often took her to play with her, but within two years Changle married into the eldest grandson's family!
Li Yuanying hadn't seen Changle for a long time, but he was thinking about the excitement of selling tea, so he still found an opportunity to sneak out of the palace.
After all, the bigger Changle is, the more polite he is. When she goes back to the palace to see her sisters, he can't take them to play, it's boring.
Hearing Li Yuanying mention Changle, Sizi also turned around and said, "You ran out to play by yourself! My sister even asked about you!"
Li Yuanying said: "I will take you to Changsun Mansion to see her some other day!"
Sizi and the others became happy after hearing this, and surrounded Li Yuanying and asked how a catty of tea was sold at such a high price yesterday, it even spread throughout the palace! Li Yuanying talked to them a lot, and promised that the corn in the sunflower garden was almost edible, and then asked Changle to roast the corn together, and then a few little girls pulled him and shouted.
At this time, Gao Chang sent back a good news. This good news is even more bizarre than the legendary stories outside. It is said that Gaochang originally thought that Chang'an was far away, and the Tang Dynasty would never send troops over. They were still singing and dancing at the beginning of May, but they heard someone say that Tang Jun was coming to their house soon. The door is open!
When the Lord Gaochang heard this, he fainted on the spot, and he was gone that night.
The lord of the country is dead, and the new monarch can't stand at all. What can the Tang army do when they come to the city? You can only open the city gate and descend!
So Hou Junji and Xue Wanjun were like winning a country before the battle was fought!
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