Valley Emperor

In a few years, Chen Lifu was once again promoted to the Minister of Commerce, became a high-ranking official of the second rank, and became a walker in the imperial study. His power was so prominent that he was enough to squeeze into the top 20 in the entire imperial civil service class.

But this is not the end of Chen Lifu's career.

In August of the 36th year of Xuanping, Chen Lifu ushered in the most glorious moment in his life!

He successfully entered the duty and became the minister on duty in the imperial study, one of the most prominent civil servants in the empire.

When he received the imperial decree from the imperial envoy, he almost fainted and couldn't stand up.

It was his eldest son who quickly stepped forward to support him, and then helped him up.

After sending off the imperial envoy, the eldest son reminded him that he should take a shower and change clothes immediately, and then enter the palace to thank him, but Chen Lifu said that he wanted to be quiet, and then went into the study alone.

The study is full of bamboo pictures of his New Year's paintings.

Chen Lifu's bamboo pictures are considered to be unique in contemporary times. Looking at the empire, there is no other person's bamboo pictures that are better than his. Even if it is purely from an artistic point of view, Chen Lifu's bamboo pictures should also be considered. A contemporary first.

Especially his cold bamboo map, even the Son of Heaven was full of admiration, and even joked to Chen Lifu, Aiqing, if you don't go into politics, you can make a name for yourself in history with this cold bamboo map.

However, in Chen Lifu's opinion, these bamboo pictures are nothing more than a small means to express various emotions in his heart.

After entering the study, as soon as he looked up, he saw a picture of cold bamboo hanging in front of him. The time stamp on it was Xuanping five years.

In that year, he just entered the official position of Long, and he painted this pair of cold bamboo pictures. One day, Chen Lifu will stand on the court and assist the Son of Heaven to create a prosperous era of peace and prosperity.

Now, he is more than half successful!

Now that he has paid in, he will be able to hold the power like several senior ministers on duty in the future, and then realize his political ambition: to create a prosperous world!

Today's empire is strong, but in Chen Lifu's view, it is far from enough.

The Imperial Navy seems to control the world's oceans, the Imperial Army is invincible all over the world, and the Imperial merchants have footprints all over the world, but this is still not enough in his opinion.

Although the empire is strong, it is still far from the standard of a strong country and a rich people in his mind.

He is an official who has served in the local area for many years. He knows better than many officials who have stayed in the center for a long time. The empire seems to be strong, but the life of the people is not as good as imagined.

More than 90% of the people are still struggling with food and clothing, working hard to be able to eat enough.

In some areas, people are extremely poor, and the number of people who can't even get enough to eat is huge!

But at the same time, the rich and powerful are spending a lot of money!

Thirty-one years of political career, Chen Lifu has seen through many things.

Especially in recent years, with the increase of age and the possibility of entering the imperial study, he often thinks about what kind of empire can be called a real Xuanping prosperity!

The mighty imperial army and navy?

no!

Strong business?

no!

Global **** of the earth or even a unified world?

Still not!

What is a real Xuanping prosperity?

Chen Lifu found the answer: all the people of the empire can eat their fill through their own efforts!

There are two very important elements in this answer, one is hard work and the other is eating enough!

Chen Lifu's thinking has never been the same as others. When he was a tax official back then, he was different from other tax officials.

Later, when he was in charge of the local government, he was still different from other officials.

Now that he is in the imperial study, he is still different from others.

So when he went to the palace to thank him as usual, he handed over to Li Xuan a brief account that he just wrote and the content was very simple.

When Li Xuan opened this document, he was a little suspicious for a while, this person is still Chen Lifu?

This Chen Lifu has done a good job in the past, and his ideas in all aspects are very mature, but he is very stable when governing, rarely radical, and he is more inclined to conservative policies, but today, what he said is different. It seems a bit aggressive.

Li Xuan did not give Chen Lifu any answer on the spot, but said that he knew, and let Chen Lifu go back.

After Chen Lifu left, Li Xuan read Chen Lifu's book again.

This booklet can be clearly seen that it was just written today, the handwriting is new, and the number of words is small, but only a few hundred words.

The above thing is simpler, that is, it is recommended to further expand the step rate of agricultural tax in some provinces in the hinterland of the empire, such as the central and eastern parts of the empire.

In this way, the landowners of Zhongda are further sold off, so that the people can obtain more arable land.

If you follow Chen Lifu's suggestion, then the landowners holding more than 50 acres of land per capita, the cost of the land tax rate they hold will exceed the land output, which means that not only will they not make money, but they will also lose money.

In the past, although the empire had adopted a step-by-step agricultural tax rate~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the tax rate was not so terrible, at most it was just not making money.

But now, Chen Lifu wants them to lose money!

After reading Chen Lifu's account, Li Xuan also reflected on the land policy of the empire, and found that it seemed that it had not changed for almost 20 years. In order to maintain the overall stability, although the stepped tax rate was formulated, it was not implemented. too much.

The original intention was to make the big landlords unprofitable, and then let them take the initiative to sell their land, and then bring capital into the industrial and commercial world.

However, if other landlords would rather hold a large amount of land and leave it unprofitable, the empire will not interfere.

Now Chen Lifu is even more ruthless. He not only prevents the landlords from making money, but also wants to make them lose money and force them to sell the land.

But now more than 20 years have passed, it is not impossible to do this now.

Today's landowners hold land on a large scale, and they are basically unprofitable. If the management is not good, they will lose money instead.

The current social wealth is mainly concentrated in industry and commerce, and pure agriculture can no longer bring any benefits to the gentry and the elite.

With so much land, you can't get a few dollars after working so hard. It's better to invest directly in industry and commerce, such as the oil industry, which has been very hot in the past two years.

After the release of petroleum processing licenses, dozens of companies have obtained petroleum processing licenses one after another, giving them a lot of opportunities to make money.

Therefore, it is now possible to further increase the tiered rate of agricultural tax, and the expected opposition will not be too great.

But what Li Xuan didn't expect was that this Chen Lifu was not finished yet. A few days later, Chen Lifu gave Li Xuan another discount, suggesting that workers' working hours should be further shortened and a minimum wage should be set.

When he saw this book, Li Xuan was speechless.