Chapter 603: Don’t Judge Political Achievements by Taxation

Li Yi had just finished saying "Old Bi" when a carriage came over, followed by four guards on horseback.

The carriage stopped, and two servants got out of the carriage, followed by Bi Gou.

Bi Gou was wearing casual clothes and holding a steamed bun made of whole wheat flour.

He got off the carriage and went straight to the place where free soup was provided. He said loudly as he walked: "I'm poor, I don't have money to make soup, drink a bowl of free soup, thank you Li Dongzhu."

Li Yi: "..."

Bi Gou didn't see him, obviously he said it on purpose, and then someone passed it to his ears.

"Old Bi, I still have free wheat rice, mixed with bran, do you want to eat it?" Li Yi couldn't help but speak out.

"Huh?" Bi Gou was startled and turned to look at Li Yi. It took him a while to recognize him.

He finished serving the soup and brought it over.

"Xiao Yi, how did you become like this?" Bi Gou looked at Li Yi, and Li Yi had a beard on his mouth.

"Be your true self for once." Li Yi reached out to adjust the beard.

Bi Gou didn't understand what the beard had to do with the real Li Yi, he lowered his head to look at the soup.

"Today's soup is good, with pickled cabbage in it." He took a sip and found that it tasted really good.

"We made too much pickled cabbage and stewed bones, and everyone found that if they ate it all, the other dishes would be left over, so they just ate a little, added water to the rest, and took it out for others to drink."

Li Yi explained why there was pickled cabbage in the soup, and sighed: "Farmers can't even eat as well as others."

Guo Ziyi echoed: "Eating too much meat, the people of the Tang Dynasty should have time to raise more chickens."

"The Ministry of Revenue plans to add a new department dedicated to collecting taxes, separate from rent collection and adjustments, all the way to the county."

Bi Gou didn't study how good the life of the farmers in Lijiazhuang was, and others couldn't learn it.

He talked about the purpose of coming here, to set up a tax department directly under the Ministry of Revenue.

From the Ministry of Revenue to the prefectures and counties, come to ask Li Yi, if it doesn't work, think of another way.

"The Ministry of Revenue is directly in charge, with great power and strong independence, but does it count as being linked to the performance of local governments? Without the benefits of local governments, it is difficult to implement tax collection."

The current taxes are not all handed over to the court. Local governments will keep a portion, including counties and prefectures.

The more taxes collected, the more money the local government can use, and it also proves that the officials are capable.

The court has vertical jurisdiction, which belongs to national taxes, not local taxes. How can the local government be linked to the performance of officials?

"The Ministry of Revenue is training personnel to be proficient in the use of three-part bills, as well as the use of red and blue pencils and carbon paper. They..."

Bi Gou was asking Li Yi how to arrange these people.

"Decentralize to the prefectures, and draw personnel from the prefectures and counties below to learn from the Ministry of Revenue personnel. The Ministry of Revenue personnel are responsible for checking accounts and teaching others how to keep accounts."

Li Yi separated the positions of those who are currently studying in the Ministry of Revenue from participating in the specific tax collection process.

Bi Gou nodded slightly, looking at the people scrambling to buy the kerosene lamps and thermoses whose prices had increased: "You have to wait another year, why are you in a hurry to buy them when they have increased the prices?"

"Because the prices will increase again in a few days." Guo Ziyi gave the answer beside him.

He has a special status, as a sixth-rank official, but he does not need to give face to any official except His Majesty.

Other officials usually do not contact Yulin Feiqi, let alone interact with Guo Ziyi.

"Keep increasing? In the end, fewer people will be able to buy." Bi Gou asked the same question as Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi gave the answer: "Wait for a while..."

He mentioned the purchasing qualification of Li Yi's new set of good products, and shook his head slightly when he looked at Bi Gou, meaning that you can't think of it, right?

Bi Gou: "..."

"Xiao Yi, why don't you be the Minister of Revenue." Bi Gou said the same thing as Guo Ziyi again.

"Old Bi, can you still appoint the Minister of Revenue now? If you resign, who will take over is up to His Majesty."

Li Yi observed Bi Gou's face, he was looking to see if Bi Gou was sick.

The data showed that Bi Gou would get sick this year and then die.

It was not said when exactly, anyway it would be this year.

Bi Gou was very uncomfortable being looked at, so he changed the subject: "The promotion of local officials cannot be calculated only by tax revenue, otherwise it may be forced to collect profits and taxes."

Speaking of such things, he was familiar with them. In the past, he had always petitioned to stop the officials who were directly sent to the Secretariat by the emperor.

Later, they were withdrawn and conferred again, until Li Longji killed a bunch of people, including Princess Anle, and most of the officials who had been conferred before were dealt with again.

There is also the promotion of officials outside the ninth rank. In the past, it was thought that whichever one was good could be directly promoted to the ninth rank.

The suggestion he made was that there were also ninth ranks outside the ninth rank, and the same rank was taken up one by one, otherwise the ninth rank outside the ninth rank would become a formality.

Now he talked to Li Yi about the performance evaluation of local officials. Whoever collects more taxes will be promoted. Do we still need other evaluations?

Then there will be goods that can only be sold for 50 strings of cash, but when collecting taxes, they must be said to be worth 100 strings of cash, which will cause the merchants to suffer losses.

Li Yi gave Bi Gou a thumbs up: "It depends on the population of a place and the amount of rent and taxes paid. The more prosperous the place, the more taxes.

Unless there are special circumstances, if the taxes of a lower county are more than those of an upper county, there must be something wrong with one place.

Either the lower county has taken measures to collect more taxes, or the upper county has taken measures to reduce taxes."

Li Yi gave a measurement method, the lower county has a small population, and the upper county has a large population.

The business of a place with a small population is bound to be inferior to that of a county with a large population. If the business is prosperous, the population will be larger.

The amount of rent and tax paid by each county is recorded every year. When the tax is promoted, a general ratio can be obtained according to the size of the county and the population ratio.

"This method is good." Bi Gou thought it was okay, and he was relieved.

Sure enough, he should come to Li Yi. If there is something, he can ask in person. It is too much trouble to write a letter.

After drinking a bowl of soup, he asked Li Yi for a basket of vegetables, left the steamed bun to Li Yi, and left happily.

Li Yi looked at the steamed bun: "Can this still be eaten? You can play with it as a toy."

"Yes." Guo Ziyi gave a positive answer. Not to mention whether Bi Gou's hands are dirty, even if it falls on the ground, it can still be eaten.

"Throw it in the soup pot, boil it and it will sterilize it." Li Yi said, and really threw the steamed bun into the soup pot.

Immediately, someone stood by, waiting to boil it for a while and soak it and then fish it out. This is a steamed bun.

"Don't move, it's mine, I saw it first, my home is far away, I walked to Chang'an, hungry."

The person guarding the pot stopped others from taking the soup spoon. UU Reading www.uｕkanshｕ.net

"No one is snatching your steamed buns, I'll scoop the soup, you watch, when will anyone care who eats the things in Li's manor?"

He used a spoon to push the man away, and sure enough, he just scooped the soup, and didn't even take out the pickled cabbage.

Bi Gou went into the city, thought about it, and went to find Yao Chong. He wanted to ask Yao Chong how to control the price of something if it kept rising.

Yao Chong was meeting people, and there was a long queue at the door. Many people were not there to see Yao Chong, but Yao Chong's family.

They were not qualified to see Yao Chong, but to see his family, or even to be in charge, and the relationship was established.

Bi Gou got off the car and went in directly, muttering: "There are also queues at my house. These people, in order to secure their official positions, always use their minds elsewhere.

Learn from Li Yi, as long as you have the ability, you don't have to worry about your official position. Yes, Li Yi can't be a big official with real power."

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