Iron Dynasty
Chapter 572 Tax System
Wei's restaurant.
Xiao Qi looked at the bustling streets of Qingzhou and felt a little confused. He had sent someone to pass the conditions of the truce back to Jinling City, but he was very pessimistic about the result.
In fact, after the failure of the merger, Xiao Han wanted to slander him in Jinling City. He was just flashy in his words, and the merger was just a stupid way.
But despite this, King Wei has not lost his trust in him, but King Wei's attitude is also very clear. What he wants is Xiao Ming to retire and return to the city, but after seeing the truce today, he immediately understands that Wei Di is completely It became a commodity traded by Xiao Ming and other vassal kings.
Because of this, he suddenly felt a burst of sadness in his heart. Once upon a time, Wei Di was the top feudal country of the Great Yu Kingdom, and even Xiao Wenxuan had to be afraid of three points, but now Wei Di can only shiver under the shadow of Xiao Ming.
Yes, King Wei has some tough bones, but in his opinion, no matter how tough the bones are, they can't stop Xiao Ming's guns.
It's just that now King Wei has not come out of this gap, he has always looked down on Xiao Ming, and is even more unwilling to yield to him.
With a sigh, Xiao Qi closed his eyes. After Xiao Ming left this time, he suddenly had an ominous premonition. This feeling was weird, but he couldn't explain it clearly.
However, the ominous premonition soon became a reality. On the third day, he received the news that the Southern Expedition Army was attacking Huaizhou.
Hearing this news, he finally understood the meaning of Xiao Ming's words. As long as he does not sign a truce for one day, he will have time to continue attacking the city. At this time, the envoys of King Yan and King Zhao are helpless. After all, this is all caused by him. .
When King Wei agreed to this matter, it was estimated that Huaizhou was another city in the truce book. Thinking of this, he immediately wrote a letter to King Wei and told King Wei to agree to a truce.
Otherwise, Wei Di will only lose more and more cities, and King Yan and King Zhao will not stop Xiao Ming.
In the Qi Wang Mansion on the three streets of the Wei family restaurant, Xiao Ming also received news that the Nanzheng Army was attacking Huaizhou.
His Royal Highness, this King Wei is self-inflicted this time, and we don't have to be polite. After winning Huaizhou, all the land in the north gate of Wei land will be ours, and our fief will also increase by one million people. Pang Yukun said.
Xiao Ming nodded. Pengzhou City has a population of 500,000 people, Tongzhou City has a population of 200,000 people, and Huaizhou City has a population of about 300,000 people, adding up to a total of 1 million people, which is equivalent to adding one of three people to Fengguo. population, the South is indeed a densely populated place.
If the Wei land was swallowed whole, he estimated that the population of the closed country would be as high as seven million, which was basically the same as the population of Britain in this era.
With this population base, he is no longer afraid of the crowd tactics of other vassal kings united, but Huaizhou is now heavily armed by the Wei king, and it is not easy for the Southern Expedition Army to bite this hard bone.
I just hope that Lu Fei can take Huaizhou quickly, but what happened to the agricultural wealth you said last time, is there anything wrong?
Siege is important, but internal affairs are the foundation of siege, so Xiao Ming must not relax.
Pang Yukun said: His Royal Highness, this time the lower official came to talk about this matter. The people of the six states did not say anything about the restoration of agricultural fu. After all, they have paid agricultural fu before, and this time our agricultural fu is very low. The people are very happy, so the collection of agricultural taxes is very smooth.
After a pause, he continued: However, some people are unwilling to pay grain to offset their agricultural duties, but directly pay silver, cloth, raw silk and other things. I wonder what Your Highness thinks?
The people now know that the outside world is chaotic, and it's normal to want to keep more food. Besides, the collection of agricultural taxes by the Great Yu Kingdom is a combination of various materials. Since there are people like this, let's accept it. Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.
Pang Yukun nodded, and then asked a very important question, Your Highness, should the levied agricultural tax be kept in the government office or turned over to the state treasury?
Startled for a moment, Xiao Ming asked, Why are you asking this question?
Pang Yukun said: The agricultural tax in the Great Yu country is left by the prefectures and ya, and the rest is turned over to the state treasury, but the taxation method I learned at Bowen College is to let the prefectures turn over all the taxes to the state treasury. The national treasury will then distribute it to the state governments according to the situation, this taxation is a major matter of the country, and the lower officials only report to His Royal Highness.
Xiao Ming understood, he said: The self-retained taxes in various states will inevitably have the drawbacks of being shoddy and deducting stolen goods. In order to avoid this tax being detained in the states and counties, you ask them to hand over the accounts and taxes to Qingzhou together. After the account is settled, give them a part of it back.
Just in this way, the cost of transporting these materials to Qingzhou will be very expensive. Pang Yukun reminded.
Xiao Ming reacted immediately, he sighed, this era is still too backward, but even so, he still insisted on this method, he did not forget that tens of millions of taels of silver tax was withheld layer by layer during the Ming Dynasty, and arrived in the capital. There are only a few things left.
In any era, corrupt officials are very courageous, and Xiao Ming does not believe that his own kingdom is a clean official.
In fact, no matter in that dynasty, whether it was the founding of the country or the end of the world, the proportion of corrupt officials in officialdom was higher than that of honest officials.
Part of it is also sent, and all of it is sent. Xiao Ming said: And each village and county must have their own account books to back up for inspection and verification.
Yes, Your Highness. Pang Yukun said.
Xiao Ming continued: Pang Shoufu, this taxation is the easiest place for officials to embezzle money. You have to hurry up. You can't rub sand in your eyes, and you can't rub sand in this king's eyes.
Yes, Your Highness. Pang Yukun's expression was a little strange. He looked at Xiao Ming and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
...
Huaizhou.
While Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun were talking about the farming, the Nanzheng Army was launching a full-scale attack on Huaizhou City.
As the intelligence said, King Wei added fifty artillery pieces to Huaizhou City, but these artillery pieces were smashed by Qingzhou Army artillery before they were used.
Different from Pengzhou City, Huaizhou has a very flat terrain, and a horse is flat.
Facing such a city without a moat, Lu Fei boldly deployed his soldiers in front of the city wall, while Baimu's cavalry was on both sides of the infantry to protect the flanks, because there were three thousand cavalry in Huaizhou City.
This time, in order to defend Huaizhou City, King Wei spent a lot of money.
Just talking about the cavalry, how could these Huaizhou cavalry be the opponents of the Qingzhou cavalry who had personally fought against the barbarians? After dropping the corpses, these cavalrymen hid in the city and never came out.
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