Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Fang Xuanling took the report and walked a few steps. Seeing that Wei Zheng hadn't moved, Fang Xuanling stopped and looked at Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng: "?"

He raised his head and looked at Fang Xuanling with a puzzled expression on his face, you should go, what do you mean by standing here.

Fang Xuanling: "?"

You won't come with me?

"What do you see me doing?" Wei Zheng asked helplessly.

"You're not leaving?" Fang Xuanling asked.

"Why should I go with you? This old man is a junior minister. What does it have to do with your minister?" Wei Zheng was a little depressed. When did I wear a pair of pants with you?My subordinate province is specially in charge of supervising your Shangshu province, so you should find out more.

"Let's go, Your Highness is not to be fooled, I am strong enough alone." Fang Xuanling said helplessly.

"I'm not going, it has nothing to do with me anyway." Wei Zheng was a little depressed. I'm depressed enough to be detained as a person of His Highness for no reason now. You call me over every now and then.

"Then Zhao Guogong will go with you." Fang Xuanling looked at his eldest grandson Wuji who was about to go back to his yamen.

"What am I going to do? You forgot, and the old man doesn't know about it." Changsun Wuji shook his head and said.

"Did you forget that you slipped the tongue?" Fang Xuanling was a little speechless.

"No, no, it doesn't conflict with whether or not I know or don't know. I don't know about it." Changsun Wuji shook his head, "I'm going back to work. There are still many laws of the Tang Dynasty that need to be re-discussed whether to pass."

Fang Xuanling: "..."

You really don't like oil and salt.

But Changsun Wuji didn't go, Fang Xuanling had no choice but Wei Zheng couldn't go.

So... on the way to the Liangyi Hall, Fang Xuanling walked in front, and Wei Zheng, a big grievance, walked behind. He was dragged here directly by Fang Xuanling.

"Hey, to be honest, I miss Duke now." Wei Zheng said with a sigh.

"What do you mean?" Fang Xuanling looked at Wei Zheng with some doubts.

"Because if he is here, he will definitely accompany you now, and it has nothing to do with the old man." Wei Zheng shook his head and said.

"You think beautifully. Although Du Keming is gone, I have to say that his heart is dark, and I'm not afraid that he will come to trouble me at night. For things related to His Highness, we have to Zheng Guogong, come here." Fang Xuanling shook his head and said.

Wei Zheng: "..."

You are really ruthless, you just say that about your partner.

"Zheng Guogong, don't make such an expression. You might not believe me if you tell me. My relationship with Du Keming is not good." Fang Xuanling said seriously, "Although I often need him to help me make some decisions."

"But who told you that the two of us cooperate well, and our personal relationship is good."

"That's why I'm scolding him now, and I've said it in the past. If he cuts his heart, he's black."

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said.

Wei Zheng didn't bother to talk to him, anyway, Du Keming can't refute your words now, so it's up to you to say what you say or not.You said that Duke's open heart is black, and you are not going to get better. The hearts of you advisers are all dirty.

Only I, Wei Zheng, have a sincere heart, and the world can learn from it.

Hey, why did I end up on this road of no return.

Wei Zheng sighed and followed Fang Xuanling to the Liangyi Hall. Fang Xuanling didn't care about Wei Zheng's appearance, as long as he came, because Fang Xuanling only discovered in the past two years that Wei Xuancheng was interesting.

Arriving at the Liangyi Hall, after Fang Xuanling came in, he suddenly asked, "Hey, why is your Highness you, where is Your Majesty?"

You are so fucking shameless, the corner of Wei Zheng's mouth twitched, and he almost cursed out.

"Liang Guogong, that's not enough. I'm not here just now. Are you so slow?" Li Ke looked up at Fang Xuanling helplessly and asked.

"It's not that I'm slow in news. Rather than saying that I'm slow in news, it's better to say that I have a lot of things to do. The statistical work after this year has continued until now. I don't have a moment to spare, so I naturally ignore many things." Fang Xuanling said helplessly. opened the mouth.

Li Ke automatically ignored his words. Since the Shangshu Province was divided into more than a dozen departments, and each department had to deal with more things, Fang Xuanling had to complain up and down every time they met. Anyway, it was impossible for Li Ke to talk.

"So, Datang's 23 years of statistical work is probably over?" Li Ke directly changed the subject.

"It's over. Datang's 23-year treasury tax revenue is about 1675 million guan, almost all of which come from commercial taxes, and other tax rates have basically been exempted. In addition, state-owned commercial banks have handed over 1850 million guan in profits, with a total income of 3525 million guan. "Fang Xuanling nodded, and then reported a series of numbers to Li Ke.

"It's okay, not bad, there are about 3.5 warehouses." Li Ke said with a smile.

Fang Xuanling was a little speechless, he wanted to complain, Your Highness, can you stop using the Ku unit, it is almost becoming a real unit now.

"You have to discuss the formulation of taxes yourself. Since many taxes have been cancelled, whether the cancellation is reasonable or not has to be demonstrated. If there are some taxes that have other meanings, then it is best not to cancel them. It is based on the situation of state subsidies, it is still there in name, but in fact it does not need a penny from the people." Li Ke explained.

"Yes, I will discuss this in detail." Fang Xuanling nodded.

Datang’s treasury income is still far behind. It is said that during the peak of the Song Dynasty, the treasury’s income was more than 6000 million guan a year, but now Datang is only more than 3000 million guan, not even a fraction of others.

However, considering that Datang canceled the complete agricultural tax, it is already very good to rely solely on commercial tax to achieve this point.

Of course, a considerable amount of commercial tax here must come from the large amount of tax revenue brought by foreign trade, and a considerable part of it is the profits handed over by state-owned commercial firms.

And a considerable part of the profits they handed over is because the private firms of the powerful families need to add various equipment, and the profits of these equipment must be paid to the court.

"What about population?" Li Ke asked again.

"In terms of population, we have no way to investigate carefully, but based on the proportion of counties and counties near Chang'an, and referring to the current overall population of Datang, we calculated that it is about 3160 million people. The survival rate of newborn babies in Datang in recent years The mortality rate is increasing, while the case fatality rate is decreasing rapidly."

"Only this point, in the next few years will inevitably be the population explosion period of Datang. According to our estimates, the population growth rate of Datang is estimated to be about 8% in the next year." Fang Xuanling reported to Li Ke .

"Your Highness, the officials from Shangshu Province outside the door are asking to see you." Xu Song opened the door and walked in.

"Come in." Li Ke was a little confused. Fang Xuanling is here, and the officials of Shangshu Province have something to report?

Soon, an official in his thirties opened the door and walked in. After saluting Li Ke, he said, "Your Highness, Liang Guogong, it is His Majesty's order that you have something to report to the Xuanzheng Hall."

Li Ke: "?" Aren't you going to have a look?