Li Su is a qualified "shoe throwing shoe upstairs" and never leaves suspense for too long to make people feel like they are.

So if he throws away the first leather shoe at night and wakes up the residents downstairs, he will definitely throw the second one soon.

Just five days later, when Zhuge Liang was transferred to the Ministry of War during the court meeting on November 11, when Zhuge Liang met again on the 16th, Zhuge Liang had already come up with some important policy motions for everyone to discuss.

And judging from that attitude, Liu Bei also tends to support it.

"Here, finally, this time Sikong returns to Beijing and wants to instigate His Majesty to do, probably it is here. With His Majesty's trust in Li Sikong, he is willing to return to Beijing without any nostalgia and return all the military power to pacify Wu. How could His Majesty disagree with his several major policies and advices to show his honor and favor?"

The three dukes in the court, the nine ministers, and the ministers and the ministers and ministers all made such speculations.

The content of Zhuge Liang's request is as follows: I hope that the court will expand another 100,000 next year based on the 80,000 troops this year. All 180,000 people will be regarded as "paid engineering soldiers" and participate in the construction plan of the Nanyang Canal.

Liu Bei has discussed the canal construction plan proposed by Li Su before, and Xun You, Zhong Yao and Fa Zheng all know about it. Five days ago, even Liu Ba, who was in charge of money, was brought in to participate in the discussion.

So today's court meeting only lets the remaining officials and officials understand this matter, and lets them know that the court will not continue to attack Yuan Shao next year because of the destruction of "Hanoi and Shangdang, it is difficult for them to continue to attack Yuan Shao, and they have to turn their main attack to Cao Cao first."

However, all the officials and ministers did not know how to repair Li Su's canal plan, who to use to repair it, and where the money came from before, and did not enter the discussion.

Although Jingzhou has actually started to repair it, legally speaking, it is "stolen from the government budget and temporarily made a decision to misappropriate other funds."

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's above table is equivalent to a specific implementation of the Li Su Canal Plan and formally proposed a solution for money and people.

The court is short of money now, and the people are also tired due to the logistics consumption of the protracted war.

Zhuge Liang's suggestion made the people tired and the problem of excessive use of the people could be alleviated, but the problem of the court's shortage of money was even more serious.

Therefore, the first person to stand up and express his opposition from public opinion was Liu Ba, who had always been in the same heart as Li Su on the issue of tax law reform. Liu Ba was not enough to know the real inside story, so he was portrayed by Li Su.

Li Su also hopes that Liu Ba will act like this without knowing the entire inside story. After all, even Liu Ba has hidden it, so his acting skills are more realistic.

Liu Ba said with apology: "Your Majesty, I am not against the new strategy of the imperial court to attack the puppet dynasty of 'first south and then north'. The canal should be repaired.

However, the measures that Zhuge Shishang said, "There will be a lot of money to recruit 100,000 new recruits next year, and to join forces to work and build rivers with 80,000 troops this year" are still a bit too naive.

Zhuge was good at fighting and planning, but he didn't know about money and food. This year, the imperial court fought bloody battles on both sides of the north and south, and he created divine arm crossbows, steel armor, warships, and military expenditures for many years were more than 9 billion yuan. If we count the loss and depreciation of equipment accumulated in previous years, it would cost more than 10 billion yuan!

The imperial court only earned 8 billion yuan a year, which included the corvee service that the people served and the transportation capacity provided. The real money, grain and food were only collected for 4.7 billion yuan throughout the year, and the Ministry of Finance had detailed accounts.

This year, at least more than 3 billion yuan spent, relying on His Majesty's royal family's direct domestic business, allocating the treasury to enrich the national treasury, or borrowing it with nobles and wealthy merchants. In name, it is still a discount of future commercial taxes—

I admire Zhuge Shilang. Zhuge Shilang and his brother Zhuge's family, who subscribed to "deduct the treasury of the treasury bonds" to help fight, accounting for 10% of all the honorary officials.

However, I still think that things should be divided into one code. I cannot spend money on the imperial court projects just because the nobles actively subscribe to future tax-deductible government bonds.

If we insist on letting the new recruits repair the river to rectify their hearts and strengthen their military discipline, we should not pay full military pay according to the wartime period. Cao Cao in Kanto spent much money on this aspect than the court. Although Cao Cao was a traitor, his living within his means is worth learning from."

Liu Ba mentioned "deducting commercial tax to offset the government debt", which is nothing to be surprised about, because as early as this summer, Liu Bei felt that there was not enough money in war and had already discussed the reform of commercial tax with Li Su.

Li Su advised him to be serious at the time and not to use it for the time being, but then he suggested that Liu Bei issue this debt and encourage wealthy businessmen to subscribe in advance, which will be calculated in the future. Now subscribe to 300 million more treasury bonds, and may be able to pay less than 500 million in commercial tax in the next few years. If the court defaults on the debt for a longer period of time, the interest will even be higher.

Therefore, the tax-deductible government bonds have been issued, but how to deduct taxes in the future and how to change commercial taxes, it has not yet been decided.

This specific repayment method is still "not a single word" and is naturally suspected by wealthy businessmen at the beginning. They are not very enthusiastic about subscribing, but they are still sold.

The main reason is that many people have also seen that whether this kind of national debt can be fulfilled in the future depends not only on whether Liu Bei's court has credit, but also on whether Liu Bei is confident of unifying the world.

After all, this is equivalent to the Western war debt. It has a certain investment bet nature. If you lend money to a monarch who can win a battle, the probability of returning with capital and profit after winning is high.

If he lends it to the defeated king, his country will be destroyed after he loses, and you ask who wants money? His enemies will not admit it.

At this critical moment, Liu Bei was absolutely not afraid of Yuan Shao or Cao Cao learning the trick of "issuing war national debts", because the rich people in Guandong must be unsure and dare not buy it for fear of losing all their money. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao wanted such money unless they were forcibly levied, which was actually robbed.

Liu Bei issued this summer and autumn. At the beginning, the problem of private people not wanting to subscribe was not big. After all, there were so many nobles who supported him. Including Li Su, he also symbolically bought 300 million yuan.

In fact, he can buy more and earn more, and pay less commercial tax in the future. However, the interest earnings are not very big, and the second is that he cannot make a real deal, which makes people who miss the government debt regret it in the future. He said that Li Su has "insider information" so he bought more.

Therefore, Li Su made a statement, "If everyone wants me, I won't rob it. If everyone wants me, I will go there and just make contributions to the country." He had a very noble attitude, and the final subscription amount was just the same as that of other major families.

The Li family, Zhuge family, Zhen family, and Mi family all bought 300 million yuan, and Liu Bei spent more than one billion yuan on his own treasury, which combined to 2.5 billion yuan. The last 10 billion was distributed to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Lu Su, and other families with wealthy businesses at home.

Even the radical economic reformers such as Liu Ba and Yang Hong subscribed 100 million yuan. Others, including Weidu, Jianwei Chen family, Kuai family in Jingzhou, and several families in Jingnan who do the Nanhai Jiaozhou precious goods trade, such as Dong He, and the families in Liangzhou who do the foreign trade dealings in horses, including Ma Chao's family, all bought tens of millions of yuan with their noses and suspicion.

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Liu Ba tried his best to advise Zhuge Liang to pay attention to saving. If he really brought 180,000 new recruits to build the river according to wartime treatment, the imperial court would spend at least 5 billion yuan a year. If new tools and consumables were used, it might not be enough.

After a fierce debate, Zhuge Liang was finally "persuaded" and then under the guidance of Liu Ba, he brought out the "man army system".

Of course, Zhuge Liang would definitely find another basis for the introduction of the military system of the palace, such as placing accusations on learning from the new "military system" of Cao Cao in Kanto.

The military farming system is also familiar to Liu Bei's camp. As early as Liaodong, he used the military farming system to settle refugees and expand production. Moreover, Mi Zhu's "early investment and loan" was better than Cao Cao.

After all, a super rich businessman like Mi Zhu started his business with lending. No one in the land of the Han Dynasty knew better how to lend money for usury than Mi Zhu.

However, Cao Cao was the main master of the military farming system in history, and Cao Cao also had his own unique ideas on military farming, that is, he invented the "military military farming system" a few years ago.

Compared with the later government system, the difference between "military troops" is that the official actively organizes production, and the official needs to provide early start-up information such as oxen farm tools and seeds to farmers.

In the later generations, there was no such thing as the military system of the government. The court did not provide original funds. The difference was that after receiving the land from the imperial system, the military service obligations to bear were lighter.

For example, under the military garrison system, the family planted 100 acres of land of the government, took the 100 acres of seeds provided by the government, and lent them enough to plant so many lands of oxen and farm tools. Their family had to issue a soldier during the war.

The coordination between the government military system and the equal-field system/the land occupation system may require the government to grant 300 to 400 acres of land, but the government does not undertake other means of production, and then you will also be allowed to send a soldier.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang had of course discussed with Li Su a long time ago.

So he first described the laws that Cao Cao used when he expanded his army in Kanto and strengthened the government's infrastructure capabilities. Then he said that he learned from the military camp system and thought of a "military camp system variant that did not give cattle, seeds and tools to the people."

At the same time, this variant is similar to the military service laws used by the Guanxi court in the Banyan Manchu in Bajun and Kunming Yi in Jianning. They are considered to be "barbarian law and Han Chinese" and can be widely promoted to counties dominated by Han people in the inland areas.

In short, the "historical basis" is very sufficient and the details are very detailed. It is obvious that it is prepared.

Then Zhuge Liang pointed out: According to Liu Ba's previous statement, the imperial court used recruitment to build canals, so the money was definitely not enough. Then our Ministry of War tightened its belt and lived a hard life. If we reformed this matter, we would not have to spend so much money.

If you can't make any money, you have to save money.

As the Minister of War, Zhuge Liang was so strict with himself and lenient to others, and to relieve the burden on Liu Ba of the Minister of Finance, how noble it is.

However, Zhuge Liang can be noble and honest, and not all vested interests under the current military law are as noble as Zhuge Liang.

Other officials from the Ministry of War, including Xu Jing, the official secretary of Zhuge Liang, jumped out to object.

(Note: Attached to the current list of nine ministers, some ministers are missing from the ministers in charge of the ministers, Ministry of Rites - Liu Biao, Ministry of Envoys - Jian Yong, Ministry of Culture - Guan Ning, Ministry of Personnel - Dong He, Ministry of Finance - Liu Ba, Ministry of Civil Affairs - Sun Gan, Ministry of Works - Guoyuan, Ministry of War - Xu Jing (mascot, actually Zhuge Liang is in charge of the affairs), Ministry of Justice - Fa Zheng)

Their reasons for opposition are also very high-sounding: Your Majesty is a kind-hearted king. How can you learn from Cao Cao who is so cruel and abuse the people?

The mobilization efficiency under Cao Cao's rule is high, but his exploitation of the people is also very outrageous! Under the military farming system, the people have to pay 40% to 60% of the harvest. This is more than the fact that the tax burden is more than three or four times higher than that of our country's "all the men rented all the meritorious people and transferred money in a year."

Therefore, Cao Cao's "military garrison system" forced military conscription and plundered the military households, which was equivalent to the previous trial method of "free duty-free military service family members" against Banyan and Kunmingyi, and the burden was three or four times heavy!

If Cao Cao is exempted from tax, he has to go to the army for nothing. Liu Bei can be exempted from tax by himself as a soldier!

Isn’t it equivalent to learning from Cao Cao that generally increases the burden on the people to four times that of the present! It’s so cruel!

After a fierce quarrel, the court meeting on the 16th was not passed.

The training period of soldiers is used to build rivers, but there is not enough money.

The government forces were renamed to force the conquest and serve, and the people were used too much.

However, this court discussion also reminded all officials that Liu Bei is now very kind. If he learns from Cao Cao, whether it is military service or tax payment, the burden on the people will be increased to three to four times the current level!

If you don’t want to fall into the dire straits under Cao Cao’s rule in this regard, you can only give Your Majesty another source of wealth to carry out the war of unification.
Chapter completed!