Chapter 689 National Budget

Zhongmu is located in Gong County, the only way for the Song Dynasty royal family to go west to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum. Nowadays, a large number of satellite towns are being built.

Whenever the royal family passed through Zhongmou to offer sacrifices to the Song Dynasty Mausoleum, they would pay homage to the Lord and pay homage to the temple of Lu Gong, the magistrate of Zhongmou County in the Han Dynasty.

According to the "Book of the Later Han·Biography of Lu Gong", in the seventh year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, pests occurred in other parts of Chenliu County that damaged crops. Even though the land in Zhongmou intersected with the land in other counties, the pests did not harm the crops in Zhongmou County.

Henan Yin Yuan'an felt that it was not credible and sent people to investigate.

Lu Gong personally accompanied the officials to the field for inspection. When he was tired from walking, he sat under the mulberry tree to rest.

A pheasant flew by, and there happened to be a child next to it. The officer who went to investigate asked the child: "Why don't you catch the pheasant?"

The child replied: "Now is the season when pheasants are hatching and feeding young pheasants. You can't catch them."

The official stood up and said goodbye to Lu Gong: "The reason why I came here is to investigate how you became an official. It seems that the pests will not harm the crops in your county. It seems that animals and pests have also been 'civilized'."

"Civilizing" animals and pests is of course not credible. Su You feels that even if such a phenomenon does occur, it is most likely the result of protecting a good ecology.

The Song Dynasty just used to respect "Lu Gong's benevolence" to show off the emperor's virtue.

However, Suyou's "good governance" has indeed inspired the thinking of many knowledgeable people, making their eyes light up just like seeing the aquarium.

During the Spring Festival, Yujin Garden receives tens of thousands of tourists every day and earns 40,000 yuan a month.

Zhao Xu personally paid a hundred scholars for viewing, which obviously underestimated the spending power of the people of Bianjing. However, he made back the expenses of the imperial meeting. Zhao Xu was very happy for his wise decision.

But Zhao Xu did not earn the most.

Su You opened a snack street at the back gate of Yujin Garden. On this street, the per capita consumption is more than one hundred yuan.

Those who make money are horse and carriage dealers, Baojia households, and small traders...

The roads have been repaired, the carriages and horses have become faster and more comfortable. In addition to people from Bianjing, people who come to Yujin Garden include Zhongmou, Weishi, Dongming, Chenliu...

Kaifeng Prefecture charges market management fees and public housing rents, which are suitable for both young and old.

Even the public restrooms in Bianjing City, which the maids are most grateful for, charge a fee for using the toilet and a fee for selling feces, which is a lot of money.

Speaking of this, Su You couldn't help but murmur that the rent of public housing in Bianjing City was reduced by Zhao Xu for three days as usual. This amount of money is not small!

It was painful and happy at the same time. Nothing major happened after a month, but it was still enough for Su You to keep busy.

When there are more people, there are more things to do, including fights, drunkenness on the street, all kinds of things being thrown, all kinds of embarrassing things...

It’s really embarrassing, embarrassing for your wife, your husband, your parents and your children...

The firecrackers in Zhengzhou got louder and louder, and the fireworks went up higher and higher. Even when watching the lanterns on Yuan Ye, Zhao Xu asked Su You to accompany him, but Su You resolutely refused. I wanted to set an example and stay on the watchtower of the fire shop at the head of Bianjing City.

, be prepared for fire.

The entire Bianjing City is, to put it bluntly, just a lot of erected wood. This is so scary!

After the 15th day of the year, it’s time to hunt for spring oxen, sacrifice to the Dragon King, ward off drought demons, and beg for water, and a series of other activities.

Originally, Su You wanted Liang Yanming to do the work for him, but the people were unhappy, so Su You had to put up a big-character poster to "refute the rumors," saying that the Kaifeng government had never considered this, and that farming was the top priority in the world, and Su Shaobao would definitely do it himself.

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On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the young men who were released in front of Kaifeng Mansion were escorted back to the government office by their fathers and brothers.

A lot of them, no doubt, this will become a legend again.

Su You finally came forward this time, and managed to comfort the young people not to gnaw at their old age. He assigned them to the Military Inspection Institute as temporary workers. They patrolled and inspected on weekdays, maintained public order and health, inquired about information, and understood the sufferings and urgent needs of the citizens to see if they could be solved.

Let’s not talk about it for now. If you find a problem, you must report it.

At this point, Su You has completed the news network in Bianjing City. This group of teenagers is used to supervise the subordinate officials in the city and prevent them from bullying the people.

Before the first month was over, Su You started to go to work.

In addition to supervising irrigation, preparations should also be made to encourage cotton cultivation.

Kaifeng Prefecture adjusted agricultural production varieties a few years ago, allowing people with irrigated land to grow winter wheat.

The sowing period of winter wheat is October and the harvesting period is April and May, so that wheat stubble can be harvested or cotton can be interplanted in the wheat rows. The sowing period is late April or early May, and the picking period is all in September, which ensures that there are no empty fields.

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However, this requires fertilizing, and the next year you have to plant beans and rapeseed, or leave it fallow.

This year's drought has already started to show signs. According to old legend, if Kaifeng Prefecture encounters this year's weather in previous years, it will be doomed. Production will be reduced by at least half, and Changping warehouses will have to open warehouses to store grain.

But this year, it turned out to be okay. The old and new canals were repaired by Su You vigorously and were not broken. They were managed by the power of the water tanker. Some farmers even secretly built a shrine for Su You at home.

Under the emperor's feet, such feudal superstitions are strictly prohibited. Su You issued a document to all county yamen to organize education, and any cases found would be dealt with seriously.

However, there were policies and countermeasures, and soon the common people changed Su You's name to the Third Prince of the Dragon King. Now even Su You had no choice.

What the hell, the third prince of the Dragon King that the people sacrificed turned out to be the third prince of the Dragon King of Jinghe, thousands of miles away from Bianjing City!

According to folklore, the Dragon King of Jinghe River is Xiao Su Shaobao's best friend, and the aquatic tribes all over the world are one family. Therefore, after the Dragon King of Jinghe River greets the aquatic tribes, there will be no floods or droughts in places where Su Shaobao is present.

So it’s the same for everyone.

When Su You received the report below, he couldn't help but laugh and cry. How wonderful it would be to put such clever energy into efforts to develop production!

Bianjing can handle it, but Hebei is in some danger. Locusts started appearing last autumn, and from autumn to now, it hasn’t rained! We can’t wait for spring sowing, but the moisture level is not good!

There was a lot of discussion in all walks of life in Beijing. Su You strictly controlled Si Tianjian and was not allowed to make random remarks.

In the fifth year of Xining's reign, Kang Ying, the director of Lingtai, Sitian Supervisor, said: "The sky has been overcast for a long time and the stars are out of date, so it is appropriate to remove Wang Anshi." Zhao Xu was so frightened that he "submitted the letter to Zhongshu with the Ying letter."

Wang Anshi's method of dealing with political opponents is generally to expose them to the outside world, and the method of dealing with them is not too drastic.

Only that time, "then he paid a visit and ordered to assassinate the Yingzhou prison city."

Assassin's wife! This is not an ordinary felony. Everyone in Si Tian Prison must learn a lesson and not act blindly.

In the court, Wang Anshi's control reached its peak.

At the end of the Xin Dynasty, Changping rice was distributed to help the hungry people in Heyang. At the Weiwei period of the Xin Dynasty, the three ministers were ordered to collect the amount of money coming in and going out from all over the world.

Regarding the national statistics and budget work, even before Lao Zhang became the Third Secretary-General, famous ministers have already proposed that the country should "live within its means."

At that time, several national revenue statistics were carried out, but due to limitations of technical means and the complexity of the revenue structure, it could not be implemented every year.

With the joint efforts of the three successive envoys of the Song Dynasty - Zhang Fangping, Zhao Pian, Tang Jie, Xue Xiang... generation after generation, the Song Dynasty basically established a relatively complete system.

Coupled with the practice of Sitong Company and Huangsong Bank, the establishment of the annual national budget system was finally put on the agenda during the seven years of Xining in the Song Dynasty.

The financial system of the Song Dynasty has developed to this day and is roughly divided into three levels and two categories.

The third level is the central planning department, the local transportation department, and prefectures and counties. The two categories are divided into "provincial" and "not provincial", which are similar to the national tax and local tax in later generations.

However, in line with the national policy, the so-called "defending the internal and external", the financial system of the Song Dynasty has become "gathering troops in the capital, leaving no money in other states, all the needs of the world are divided into three departments, and the states can only calculate the funds"

In addition, all gold and silk will be sent to the palace."

This is a fiscal policy that unifies revenue and expenditure, so local "appointments" test the wisdom of officials.

Appointment means that the local government makes a budget report based on the annual final account report, agrees with the central government on a limit that everyone can accept, and then reports monthly accounts to the three departments every month and settles the accounts every month.

Its colors and eyes include six categories: gold, silver, money, silk, grain, and grass.

Under each item of income each month, the time of income must be indicated and whether the state has spent it. The Zhongshu will compile monthly statistics into a general ledger to supervise the implementation of the national budget.

The people of the Song Dynasty have thought very carefully, such as various tax regulations, that is, industrial and commercial taxes. This part is a national tax and the local government has no right to pay it.

Local occupation tax can only be agricultural tax, and it can only be a part of agricultural tax.

For the rest of the remaining property, the Third Division can directly collect all of it, or it can collect part of it, and leave the rest for local allocation to make up for the lack of expenses in some places.
Chapter completed!