"I listen to what others say, maintain a country, and divide it into various branches such as government, military, agriculture, commerce, taxation, and collection of wealth.

Today’s country is in a state of corruption and there are serious ills everywhere.”

"In terms of taxes, the national treasury is now empty. There is no money left inside to support hundreds of officials, and there is no military resources outside to support soldiers and horses. As a result, Your Majesty has no choice but to sell his officials and titles to replenish the treasury. You can follow this method of drinking poison to quench your thirst. Recruit officials without recruiting talents.

If you only take the wealth, you will miss the road of virtue and be blocked by great obstacles, and you will be mediocre in the court, and the officialdom will collapse.

Furthermore, the maintenance of state affairs is not a temporary need, but more and more officials and titles are sold than too few. I asked Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty can sell ten and hundreds of officials and raise hundreds of millions of money, how many official positions in the government can be sold? Is this true?

A method that can last forever..."

"Then in your opinion, how can we solve it?"

Liu Bei looked up and saw that the Ling Emperor was listening meticulously and couldn't wait to hear the rescue method.

Liu Bei felt relieved, and in an instant, all the haze was swept away.

Liu Bei breathed a long sigh of relief, smiled happily, and said, "Taxation is the foundation of the country. The great Han Dynasty used salt and iron as an official business to collect taxes on what the people needed. This initiative was quite clever.

In addition to this, there are also Ding tax, land tax, etc.

There is no harm in levying taxes on the people, but the Han Dynasty is now levying excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which makes the people miserable. What's more, the rich are shielding them from paying taxes, while the poor are taxed heavily.

In this way, the rich are more than rich, and the poor are more than poor.

As time goes on, fewer and fewer people pay taxes, and the tax revenue naturally exceeds the amount, and the national treasury naturally becomes increasingly depleted. In addition, taxation weighs heavily on the poor, and eventually the poor become more poor than the poor, and the poor have no way to live in poverty.

, there will definitely be turmoil like today’s Yellow Turban.”

“The great evils of taxation in the Han Dynasty were serious.

A certain person has a law that taxes both the rich and the poor.

The rich are taxed heavily, those who are more than rich are taxed too heavily; the poor are taxed lightly, and those who are more than poor are taxed too lightly.

In this way, the poor can survive, taxes can be collected from the rich, and the country can have enough money."

Emperor Ling listened thoughtfully and couldn't help but nodded.

"However, it is difficult to use the method of collecting taxes equally from the rich and the poor.

Why?

Because it is difficult to measure wealth and poverty.

If your Majesty sends an order to the world and orders the rich to be heavily taxed and the poor to be lightly taxed, this move will definitely have little effect.

"

"Why?" Emperor Ling couldn't help but ask.

Liu Bei replied, "Because the rich and powerful are protecting people from above and below. Whether they are poor or rich depends entirely on what the rich and powerful say. In this way, taxes still fall on the shoulders of the poor."

"To solve this problem, someone has a strategy that will definitely work!" Liu Bei looked at the Ling Emperor and said firmly.

"Speak!" Ling Emperor urged.

"The law is - the law of dividing a small family into an acre.

The taxes imposed by the Han Dynasty were mostly agricultural taxes, so taxation was based on land control.

The so-called method of allocating dings to acres is to abolish the ding tax, household tax and other miscellaneous taxes, and only collect taxes based on the acre. Whoever has a lot of acres will collect as much tax as the number of acres he has.

In this way, land and taxes are dependent on each other. The wealthy have more acres, so they pay more. However, the poor people who have little land and no land in their name can get a lot of money because they no longer need to pay Ding tax, household tax and other miscellaneous taxes.

To stay alive, you will not end up with no hope of survival and take dangerous risks until chaos breaks out."

"Abolish all kinds of miscellaneous taxes and spread the tax from every din to the mu. This is the tax spread from every ding to the mu."

After finishing speaking, Liu Bei stopped and allowed Emperor Ling to think about it.

Emperor Ling fell into deep thought, thinking quietly, and there was silence in the hall.

After a long time, Liu Bei asked, "Your Majesty, do you think this method of sharing taxes between the poor and the rich can be used?"

Emperor Ling raised his head and looked at Liu Bei, "Very good!" Emperor Ling's eyes were filled with satisfaction.

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In addition to the method of dividing the land and filling the treasury, there is a second method."

Emperor Ling was surprised, "Oh?" He looked at Liu Bei in surprise, "Say it quickly!"

"The second law is the law of national debt.

What is the National Debt Act?

In the name of the imperial court, we borrow money from wealthy merchants and even ordinary people in the world..."

"Well," Ling Emperor's eyes lit up, he said to himself, "It's a good idea. If you borrow money and simply don't pay it back, you will lose all your capital and profit!"

"No, Your Majesty!" Liu Bei was confused and dumbfounded, "If you borrow money and fail to repay it, the credit of the imperial court will be ruined, and it will be difficult to borrow money again!

Moreover, a one-time loan of state-owned equipment can only solve a temporary emergency, but it is not enough to last for a long time."

Emperor Ling looked embarrassed.

Liu Bei fully explained to Emperor Ling how to control the national debt.

"The national resources are huge, so the borrowings are also huge. The state is long-lasting, so the borrowings are also long-lasting.

The amount borrowed is huge, so borrowing only from the rich may not be enough. Therefore, we need to borrow money from all over the world, and the loan will last for a long time. Therefore, we must pay attention to our credibility for the long term, and we must not ruin our credit or ruin our loans.

The method of national debt is to borrow money from the world's richest people or ordinary people, and then agree to pay an annual interest of one thousand or one hundred dollars.

Led by profitable money, wealthy families can accumulate hundreds of millions of dollars, and if they save it for ten years, it will not increase by a cent. If they borrow money from the court, they can increase it by a hundred or a million dollars a year.

When lured by big profits, many people, whether rich or ordinary, buy national bonds.

The national debt is borrowed, and the national treasury is solidified. Then, there is no need to repay the loan, and only one hundred and ten interest payments are required in a year.

In this way, if you borrow hundreds of millions of national debt every year, you only need to pay back one million in interest, and the national treasury will get more than ninety million.

Although debts are accumulating year by year, and the national debt is over-borrowed and over-borrowed, it will eventually become heavy. However, it will be decades before the burden becomes heavy.

There will be a period of decades when the national treasury will be full, and your Majesty will have a lot of breathing space, whether it is to strengthen the military or to reform the country."

Liu Bei learned the method of national debt from Li Mengxi. Before Julu even started borrowing national debt, Liu Bei taught this method to Emperor Ling.

Ling Emperor Xili Hutu understood that the national debt is to collect money with interest. If you borrow a hundred, you only need to pay back 1% of the interest. In this way, you will not break the trust and not pay it back immediately, so that the money will be retained.

hand, and can be borrowed for a long time.

Although the Ling Emperor was fatuous, when the treasury was empty, the Ling Emperor did not put taxes entirely on raising taxes. Instead, he chose to sell his official position and confer titles, a method of raising money that would have less impact on the country's foundation. It can be seen that the Ling Emperor's influence on the country was

There is some insight and ability in taxation.

Emperor Ling frowned and pondered for a long time. He felt keenly that the national debt method was useful, but it seemed that it was useless because Emperor Ling had already borrowed money from the wealthy people in Luoyang.

Copy it and kill the person.

If you have already done something that broke your trust, if you try to borrow money again, there will probably be very few people who will accept it, unless you take it hard.

Liu Xuande's words about borrowing from the world provided inspiration to Emperor Ling. Emperor Ling turned his attention to the rich and powerful in the world. There were many rich and powerful in the world, so he could borrow money from all the rich in the world.

With the current situation of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling's loan to the world was in great danger, because at this time the Han Dynasty's control over the local areas was extremely low. If the borrowed money was not repaid, the local powerful people might take risks.

However, the law of national debt is a more subtle method of borrowing. First, the law of national debt states that interest will be paid. The attitude of the Ling Emperor in borrowing money from Luoyang's wealthy people is fundamentally different. The imperial power is domineering, and the Ling Emperor borrows money.

Heng did not think of raising interest at all, and the rich did not dare to ask Ling Emperor for interest.

Compared with loans that do not mention interest rates, those who actively raise interest rates have a much softer attitude.

People are different, and countries are different from individuals. Businessmen took the initiative to ask for interest and wanted to borrow money. Others thought it was not sincere. However, the court offered to pay interest. It is estimated that many wealthy people would reciprocate the favor.

He took the initiative and said no interest.

In ancient times, imperial power, with thunder and rain, was the color of monarch's kindness. A little justice from imperial power was given to individuals, and individuals would regard it as kindness.

This is one of them.

Secondly, according to the national debt law, the court borrowed money and returned the interest every year. This is completely different from borrowing money, not repaying it, and then killing people.

They borrowed money and killed people. Nine out of ten wealthy businessmen wanted to rebel. They borrowed money and kept silent and refused to pay it back. Out of ten wealthy businessmen, five were dissatisfied. However, they borrowed money and paid interest every year. Ten powerful businessmen

, it is estimated that five of them will be satisfied, and the other five will even think that this is a way to make money and make huge profits in a day.

After all, based on the business conditions in ancient times, the ancient economy was extremely unprosperous. A wealthy businessman with a fortune of hundreds of millions could not make much money in business in a year, but when he bought national bonds, he could earn a profit of 1% a year.

But millions of dollars.

All in all, the national debt method can really be used.

Later, Liu Bei mentioned that if national bonds were to be issued, a large number of bonds would need to be printed, paper would need to be made, and printing would be needed. Emperor Ling didn't know why, and was interested in chatting.

What Emperor Ling thought was that there was no need to issue any bonds. He could just issue a decree to the wealthy every time he borrowed money, write down the amount, and then return the interest as scheduled. What would be so difficult about this?

From the bottom of his heart, Emperor Ling never wanted to borrow people's money. This was not because Emperor Ling had good intentions, but because Emperor Ling was not proficient in economics. He didn't know that at least 50% of the world's money belongs to the people.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If Emperor Ling only wanted to borrow money from the wealthy, then there would be no need to print so many bonds, he would just issue an imperial edict.

After Liu Xuande's two good strategies of "dividing people into acres" and "national debt law", the problem of the empty treasury seemed to be easily solved. With this opening, Emperor Ling looked down upon Liu Bei.

Later, the emperor asked if there was any other method of taxation.

Liu Xuande pondered for a long time and had no other choice.
To be continued...