Crossing the Battle of the Three Kingdoms

In the meeting hall of the Li Mansion, Li Huiyi sat on the top seat, and said slowly, "Everyone, Cao Cao has pushed into the front line of our army with the help of Xiliang's army, and a big battle is imminent."

"In order to be able to schedule in time and control the overall situation, I decided to leave tomorrow. As for the rear matters, I will leave it to Hua Xin to handle."

When Jia Xu went to Xiliang, Li Huiyi could only leave the important matter of You Beiping to Hua Xin, who was relatively stable, and he could not rest assured of others.

On one side, Hua Xin stood up and cupped his hands, "Don't worry, General, Xin will definitely do his best."

"Okay, then I'll have to work." Li Huiyi looked at the middle-aged Zhen Yu and said, "Zhen Wu, is there any problem with the food, if so, please bring it up now, otherwise there will be no delay when the war starts."

Food and grass are the foundation of the army, and Li Huiyi attaches great importance to it. Although Zhen Yu rarely makes mistakes in his work, he still doesn't feel relieved to ask a question.

Zhen Yu's father has passed away, and now he is the head of the family, and this branch of the Zhen family is now on par with the main family, all of which are developed by Li Huiyi.

In this regard, Zhen Yu is determined, as long as Li Huiyi gives orders, he will do everything possible to complete them.

Upon hearing the question, Zhen Yu replied respectfully: "General, the grain ducks have been purchased from various places, and received from some merchants. It should not be a problem if they persist for a year or so."

"Yeah." Li Huiyi nodded in satisfaction and said, "Okay, but we will continue to buy, even if the price is higher, because we don't know when this battle will end."

Zhen Wu's face showed a hint of embarrassment. You must know that he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to collect these grains.

Right now, Li Huiyi doesn't think it's enough, so if he wants to buy more, it will be a bit embarrassing for him. You know, food in this troubled world is very expensive.

Buying from someone else's control, not to mention the high price, has to go through layers of checks and gifts, otherwise it won't be shipped back at all.

After the official management is over, they still have to deal with those bandits and rogues, otherwise they will be intercepted halfway, and all the hard work will be ruined in one go.

And the most important point is that when buying food under other people's control, you can't buy too much in one place, otherwise it will make them suspicious, which also increases the difficulty and manpower.

Seeing that Zhen Yu's face was slightly ugly, Li Huiyi said: "If you encounter difficulties in purchasing grain, you can ask Shen's Trading Company to help. You are already old acquaintances. He should be able to handle such small things."

Zhen Wu said: "General, Shen San has already asked Shen San to help. Most of Shen's food has been allocated, and I am afraid he has nothing to do."

"Even if I bought it, it would be difficult to transport it back immediately, because we all bought it in Yizhou, Jingzhou and other places, the journey is far away, and it is not peaceful."

Except for the people under Li Huiyi who had surplus food, Cao Cao and other places had long since had no food to sell, in order to win this war.

Cao Cao listed the food under his rule as military supplies, and all personnel could only buy the specified amount of food, and the family would eat it for a few days, and then went to buy it when it was finished.

In this way, if someone buys food wantonly, the officials under Cao Cao's command will immediately know and report it. As for buying from the hands of the people, they don't even think about it.

"Oh?" Li Huiyi was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking for a moment, he turned to Hua Xin and said, "Ziyu, what do you think about land tax?"

"It means ten liters of land is handed over to each mu of land a year. According to the current normal yield, the yield per mu is at least two stones or more. It shouldn't be a problem to take one-twentieth of it."

(To popularize, one stone in the Han Dynasty was ten dou, and ten dou was one liter.)

Li Huiyi's method seems to be very little, but some people have a lot of land in their hands, if they can collect all of them, it will be an astonishing sum.

Although Li Huiyi occupied more and more territories, his finances were still not redundant. If he hadn't extracted a huge sum of money from the Shen family every year, he might not have been able to launch multiple battles at all.

Although Li Huiyi never wanted to collect taxes from the common people, he has no choice but to do so now. After all, one day, if this precedent is to be set, it is better to break it himself, so as to avoid future generations from being stigmatized.

After hearing this, Hua Xin thought for a while and said, "This method is not bad. Now that the general is ruled by the general, the people's households are rich. Presumably such a small tax should not cause pressure."

"It's just that when the tax comes up, I'm afraid it will miss the time when the general is in urgent need. How about collecting it a year in advance?"

Being a little older, he deserves to be more thoughtful, Li Huiyi agreed: "Okay, Ziyu is more thoughtful, then I will leave this matter to you."

"Remember, this matter can only be treated with gentleness to the common people. For those aristocratic families, it doesn't matter if you are tough at all. It must be implemented as soon as possible."

"In addition, the previous [-]% tax must be abolished before the land tax is levied, otherwise there will be worries in the hearts of the people."

Hua Xin cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, General, Xin knows in his heart that he will send someone to do it as soon as possible, and will never delay the important matter."

"Yeah." Li Huiyi nodded and looked at Zhen Wu who had recovered, and said, "Although the food problem has been solved, the purchase of food cannot be stopped."

Li Huiyi cares so much about food because he knows a truth, no matter how powerful you are or how ambitious you are, without a certain foundation, it is all empty talk.

But in this chaotic world, food is the foundation, and there are people with food, and the city is naturally nothing to worry about.

There is no need for urgent needs, so Zhen Wu is relieved. After all, if you have money, you can buy food and ship it back slowly. "Don't worry, General, Wu has been sending people everywhere to buy it."

Since Zhen Yu took refuge in Li Huiyi, he has been in charge of money and food, so in order to avoid shortages, he converted all the shops of Zhen's family into rice shops for convenience.

Therefore, Zhen Wu did not order this food, and would buy it every year, for fear that Li Huiyi would ask for food again that day.

"En." After arranging these things, Li Huiyi glanced at everyone, and said: "Everyone, after I leave, I hope you will perform your duties, and don't take it lightly."

"Don't worry, General, I will keep it in mind."

After Li Huiyi finished speaking, a group of officials immediately got up and said yes, but in fact Li Huiyi didn't need to explain, and they didn't dare to neglect their duties and do things that violated their duties. .

Chapter 639

At the beginning, there was an official who promised to help find an errand because he accepted half a bag of corn from his relatives. Li Huiyi found out that he was dismissed from office on the spot and never hired.

Another person was also severely punished by Li Huiyi for being half an hour late.

Li Huiyi did this to convey a meaning, that is, no corrupt officials and those who do nothing are not allowed to appear under his command.

The Qianli Dam was destroyed by an ant nest. Although this is a trivial matter, if it goes on for a long time, it will definitely become an uncontrollable trend.

After arranging these matters, Li Huiyi waved away the crowd and went to the backyard, preparing to say goodbye to the two wives and the heirs.

"Son doesn't teach father and son..."

As soon as he entered the backyard, he heard the sound of reading aloud, Li Huiyi immediately smiled and shouted: "Jiancheng, Shimin, father is here."

Hearing Li Huiyi's voice, the two children holding books immediately stood up and ran towards Li Huiyi.

"Father, what are you going to do with Shimin today?"

"Yes, father, how about playing hide and seek from last time?"

Looking at the expectant eyes of the two sons, Li Huiyi said happily: "It won't work today, father will go out for a few days, now you have to spend time with your mother so that they don't get angry."

Li Shimin, who was a little younger, muttered, and said unhappily: "Father is lying. You said that you will accompany us every day if you memorize the Three Character Classic. Now my brother and I know how to do it. If you don't keep your promise."

Li Jiancheng, who was a little longer, heard what Li Huiyi said, and stood aside obediently, but the expression on his face showed that he was not happy either.

Seeing the appearance of the two sons, Li Huiyi could only seduce them. "Father has business to do, but he will definitely do what he promised you. That's fine. When Father comes back, can I bring you something fun?"

"Okay, okay." Li Shimin jumped up happily and said, "Father, my son wants firecrackers, so many, many, many."

"Hahaha, okay, okay, I promise you." Looking at his innocent and lively son, Li Huiyi couldn't help laughing.

Li Huiyi has a little understanding of the principle of firecrackers, because he was lucky enough to work in a fireworks factory, but he didn't expect it to come in handy one day.