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Cui Zao was a Tang Chancellor and Fiscal Reformer.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 53Volume 53 Treatises 43: Finance and Economics 3 · 4 passages
德宗以給事中崔造敢言，為能立事，用為相。
Dezong made Supervising Secretary Cui Zao chancellor for his blunt counsel and reputation for action.
造以江、吳素嫉錢穀諸使顓利罔上，乃奏諸道觀察使、刺史選官部送兩稅至京師，廢諸道水陸轉運使及度支巡院、江淮轉運使，以度支、鹽鐵歸尚書省，宰相分判六尚書事。
Zao, reflecting Jiang-Wu hatred of profit-grabbing finance commissioners, urged circuit governors to send the dual tax through chosen officials, abolished the circuits' land-and-water transport commissioners, revenue patrol offices, and Jiang-Huai transport commissioner, restored revenue and salt and iron to the Ministry of Revenue, and had chancellors divide the six ministries among themselves.
崔造厚元琇，而韓滉方領轉運，奏國漕不可改。
Zao favored Yuan Xiu, but Han Huang still ran transport and argued that national grain logistics must not be dismantled.
琇稱疾罷，而滉為度支、諸道鹽鐵、轉運使，於是崔造亦罷。
Xiu resigned on grounds of illness. Huang took revenue, salt and iron, and transport; Zao fell soon after.