Everyone took themselves off the wall, as if they were falling apart, in their hearts they hated Ren Baqian to death, but on the surface they were honest.
They naturally knew that they were cheated by Ren Baqian, but they really couldn't control the expressions on their faces.
If they can control it, they are not ancient people.
In fact, most people had strange expressions on their faces at that time. Many people tried to keep calm while showing such expressions on their faces, and their faces were distorted in the end.
"Do you think I'm easy to deceive because of my ignorance?" The female emperor said murderously, narrowing her phoenix eyes slightly, and inspecting the people below.
"I dare not wait!" The crowd hurriedly said, but the expressions on their faces still betrayed them.
Seeing this, the empress was even more angry, seeing the upper body of the empress swaying, a series of bricks flew out and hit everyone's foreheads like a goddess scattered flowers, and suddenly the hall was full of debris flying around.
"Since you dare not, then shut up." The empress let out her domineering air.
Then Ren Baqian continued to speak: "Let's talk about the concerns of the adults first. It is nothing more than an empty treasury. With the current situation, it is not bad to be able to maintain the status quo. If the money is used for other purposes, there will be a shortage somewhere."
Ren Baqian finally said something that everyone wanted to hear.
"But everything is changing. The Izumo Kingdom is smaller than Dayao, but the annual treasury tax revenue is seven and a half times that of Dayao, which is five thousand taels, which is half of Daxia. This is still the Izumo Kingdom The city lords from all over the country support their own self-respect, and it is difficult for the central order to spread throughout the country."
"Why? Why under such circumstances, Izumo's treasury income far exceeds that of Dayao?" Ren Baqian asked back.
Everyone was silent, and these words were a bit of a slap in the face.
"Izumo is rich in minerals, that's one thing. But as far as I know, a large part of Izumo's minerals has also enriched the city lords of various places. Only gold mines and silver mines are partially in the hands of the imperial court.
In fact, Izumo is prosperous and business is popular, as you all know.
A large part of Izumo's treasury revenue comes from taxes. The taxes and taxes of the various cities in Izumo are only paid to the imperial court every year, which is a full 30 million taels. If Izumo's national taxation is mentioned, it can reach at least 60 million taels of silver every year.
In fact, I, Dayao, have also formulated taxes according to the system of the Hao Kingdom. The annual income is about half of the treasury income, about five million taels. Most of the five million taels come from the taxes paid by businessmen from various countries. On the contrary, there are very few people.
Of course, the first emperor cared about the people and reduced or exempted the people's taxes, but on the other hand, Dayao has no business! There is also a lack of commercial soil.
The fundamental reason for this is that the people have no money in their hands, and many times they are still in the stage of bartering and exchanging the necessities of life. Naturally, there is no commercial soil, and naturally there is no taxation.
Only when the common people become rich will the soil for commerce be formed, more taxes will be generated, and the national treasury will be filled more. This is a virtuous circle.
A country can only be rich if its people are rich. If the people are poor, the country cannot be rich! "Ren Baqian began to give lessons to everyone.
Tuwan and other members of the household department were thoughtful after hearing this, and many of them were also thought of. After all, they have been in this position for so many years, and it is impossible for them to think of everything. But if the people are rich, the country will be rich. This is the first time I have heard this saying, and it makes sense when I think about it carefully.
But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, even if they know, they can't change the status quo for a while.
Or incapable of changing the status quo.
"If you want all the people to be rich, you must first develop the country. This is an argument.
When the country develops, the people will be rich, the people will be rich, the country will have more taxes, the treasury will have more wealth, and Dayao will develop.
If you want to move forward step by step, I don't know how long this step will take.
But now there is a shortcut, which is Izumo. Izumo's resources and Izumo's wealth are what we want. As long as Izumo is merged into Dayao, the national treasury can be filled firstly, and secondly, the wealth can be used to accelerate the development of Dayao.
However, does obtaining the wealth of Izumo depend on robbing? Just robbing but not managing is a one-shot deal, and it will only drag Izumo into the quagmire, and it will become Dayao's current situation. "
Ren Baqian didn't talk about the blueprint this time, but looked at how the country develops and the source of the country's income from a different perspective.
After finishing speaking, he paused for a while, waiting for everyone to digest his words.
What I said was very simple, even an ordinary junior high school student could understand it clearly, but these Dayao officials had to digest it for a long time, and they all looked contemplative.
It's not that junior high school students on Earth are smarter than officials like Dayao, but that the information channels of the two sides are completely different, and what they have learned is also completely different.
There was another sentence in Ren Baqian's mind that he swallowed. It has been proven many times that a backward civilization dominates an advanced civilization. In the early stages, it will cause the regression of civilization and wealth.
But in Dayao, this situation is even more serious, because the ancient people believe in force too much, and know little about other things.
For example, the original Hao Kingdom was ruled by the ancient clan for 70 years, and the result can be seen clearly by looking at the situation of all living beings in the land of Tianjing.
"Mansion Chief Ren, continue to talk about your thoughts." After a while, Shi Qing raised his head and smiled at him.
"So we can't destroy Izumo, but we must peacefully develop Izumo and maintain the prosperity of Izumo. At least tens of millions of income per year are enough to fill the treasury. With His Majesty's ruling power, Izumo will definitely not be allowed to be as it was before. Each city supports its own soldiers and earns at least fifty or sixty million taels of silver every year.
Then the talents and wealth of the Izumo area will drive the inland and develop Dayao. "
Ren Baqian's idea is Huaguo's national policy. On the one hand, the whole country develops science and technology, and on the other hand, it is to get rich first and then get rich later.
"The kind treatment of the captives and the payment of wages to the captives I mentioned before are because of this."
"Other things are fine, but this one is not!" Tu Wan was furious as soon as Ren Baqian mentioned money.
Ren Baqian's forehead turned black, even though Tuwan is a woman, if he could choose, he would really like to kick Tuwan out.
There was no need for him to speak, at this moment the empress finally spoke and said coldly, "Tuwan, shut up!"
The aura from his body also radiated out, pressing down on Tu Wan like a mountain.
"What we need to do most now is to build three concrete roads, strengthen the transportation force, and ensure that the transportation is barrier-free. The first one is leading to Izumo, which is the most important thing. One leads to Heicheng, and the other one leads to To Liuwan Dashan.
In addition to these three roads, there is still a lot of infrastructure construction, so the labor required is not a small number, tens of millions of labor.
But this time we want to bring Yunguo under His Majesty's rule, so we can't blindly oppress it like before.
On the one hand, it is the public opinion of Izumo, and on the other hand, it is necessary to give these people some hope, so that they have the hope of surviving, so that they can exert their greatest effectiveness.
Therefore, these people will be sent back sooner or later, but these people will already be skilled craftsmen by then, so we must find a way to keep them..."
Ren Baqian repeated what he had said to the empress before.
From the value of those craftsmen, to the impact on society after millions of prisoners of war return to Yun Country, we can illustrate the importance of keeping these people.
After speaking these words, it was noon, and Ren Baqian's mouth was parched.
Look at Tu Wan, her whole body is drenched at this time, the breath released by the empress locked her tightly, making her feel like she was carrying a mountain, and she couldn't even open her mouth.
"Your Majesty, let go of Tu Shangshu!" Ren Baqian turned to the empress and said.
Then Tuwan staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"After occupying Izumo, it may not be as the Governor Ren said. I will not agree to pay them wages, unless someone else takes this position." Tuwan said stubbornly as soon as he stood firm.
Fortunately, except for Tu Wan, everyone else was thinking about what Ren Baqian said.
"Actually, the situation of the household department has improved a lot by then, but if you are worried about the empty treasury, you don't need to send real money. You can first issue vouchers to the captive camps to use instead of silver. Then provide Merchant of supplies settled in silver."
After Ren Baqian finished speaking, someone immediately asked for the voucher.
Ren Baqian explained the vouchers again, they are actually ordinary paper vouchers that can be exchanged for silver, but there is no need to take out the silver immediately.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of vouchers, Ren Baqian also planned to get out the bank and banknotes. These people were the first users to use banknotes, and when they were released, they could easily accept banknotes.
He had long since had enough of having someone carry a bag of gold for him when he went shopping in the street.
"And if the national treasury does not have a major improvement in taxation by then, I will be responsible for paying this part." Ren Baqian finally said. "There are glass factories and spices. You won't doubt my ability to pay, right?"
"What Governor Ren said makes sense." Shi Qing nodded first, and everyone also agreed.
Ren Baqian's words really moved them.
Regarding Ren Baqian's ability to pay, not only did everyone not doubt it, the income from spices made everyone envious. The number of spices harvested in this batch is not unknown to everyone. After all, many people are paying attention to this matter.
This time, as long as Ren Baqian sold all the spices, it can be said that he earned the income of the royal family for ten years.
So everyone has no doubts, as long as His Majesty agrees to this matter.
Anyway, those things belong to His Majesty.
As for the empress, naturally she would not object at this time.
Now even Tuwan has no objection, as long as he doesn't take money from the treasury. If by then, as Ren Baqian said, there will be tens of millions of taels of silver every year, then the treasury can pay for the money.
If Tuwan doesn't speak, the others won't speak either.
Ren Baqian said that his mouth was dry, and when he returned to the empress' bedroom, he poured several large bowls of water first.
No matter what, they finally persuaded them to push this idea forward.
And also announced the future policy for Izumo, which was initially approved. With this initial approval, it will be easier to implement any plans in the future.