At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The number of road cards on a road is not unique. It is assessed according to the length of the road and the flow of people. The tax fee will also be announced after the assessment and will be implemented as soon as possible.

The road card is fixed and will not be transferred, so there is no excessive cost, and it can be widely set up and managed by people.

This was Guo's earliest purpose.

But now the situation has changed, Mr. Guo is not satisfied with just charging a toll, and now he has to collect taxes on the profits generated by commercial transactions.

Municipal tax itself is also a tax, but the tax collection methods and ratios are not uniform in various places. Someone Guo unified them and set up a method of increasing the tax rate step by step for the total profit.

This tax is paid in the local market where the transaction takes place, and the tax is drawn according to a certain ratio. There are clear regulations at each level, and neither more nor less can be charged.

In this era, every city has a fixed place for transactions, called the city. The city has special management personnel and is also a fixed organization, so there is no excessive cost.

These two taxes can be implemented soon after they are enacted.

According to the implementation efficiency of the Wei Empire, basically if it is promulgated this year, the results will be seen next year.

A new tax was born, and the empire had another sum of money that could be used for great things.

Officials, look at me and I look at you, knowing that this is the condition for the emperor to raise it high and put it down gently.

There is a price to pay for the emperor to make a compromise.

Everyone takes a step back from each other, you pay taxes, I turn a blind eye, hello, hello, hello, everyone, right?

After this tax increase bill was issued to Shangshutai, Shangshu Ling Cheng Yu discussed it quickly anyway, and passed it quickly.

Cheng Yu became a staunch supporter of tax increases.

Cui Yan seemed to have suddenly realized that he also expressed his firm support for tax increases.

He also became a staunch supporter of tax increases and said a lot of good things for this bill, and he still expressed his opinions in public.

There is no doubt that the bill has been "approved" by almost everyone.

Afterwards, the bill was issued to the Ministry of Industry, and Minister Cheng Yu ordered the Ministry of Industry to immediately organize manpower to carry out the road card construction of roads in various places.

Then the bill was issued to the Ministry of Finance, which asked the Ministry of Finance to select and dispatch special tax collectors to prepare for stationing road cards in various places to collect road maintenance taxes.

Then the Ministry of Civil Affairs promulgated the world.

Let everyone know that the imperial court will levy two new business taxes on business travelers from all over the country, and then distribute them to all counties and counties, ordering the counties and counties to make corresponding settings in their respective markets and prepare to levy transaction taxes.

The Ministry of Finance needs to send special personnel to various markets for special guidance and supervision, and local governments cannot be allowed to operate at will, so as not to arouse public anger.

For this reason, Wang Can, Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance, stated in a form that the Ministry of Finance was seriously short of manpower, and requested to expand the number of officials of the Ministry of Finance.

This request was supported by Emperor Guo Peng. Guo Peng issued a government order to the Ministry of Officials, ordering the Ministry of Officials to select outstanding officials to join the Ministry of Finance and expand the number of officials in the Ministry of Finance.

After a series of operations, by the beginning of March, the sudden tax hike had basically subsided.

Everyone's focus is no longer the political turmoil itself, but the changes brought about by the political turmoil, that is, the increase in business taxes.

The rich and powerful families still failed to withstand the emperor's high pressure, and chose to compromise with the emperor in the face of the emperor's thunderous anger. The emperor paid some political benefits in exchange for some of their economic benefits.

It seems to be an exchange of equal value, but some people can still see that this is a long-planned action, and the emperor's payment is definitely much less than what he received.

It seems that everyone compromised with each other, but in fact, the emperor definitely made a profit.

Made a fortune!

Who knows how many road cards he will set up, and what level of transaction tax will be set in various markets?

This is everyone's hard-earned money!

The officials were frowning, only feeling that their hearts were bleeding.

But there is no way, this decree has already been passed, and various departments are fully implementing it, who dares to oppose it on the cusp of this crisis?

Cui Qu, who was beaten to death, was just an insignificant little person, but what his death reflected was a large-scale battle that was about to spread across the board.

Once it spreads across the board, everyone bites and fights with each other, and the scandals and dirty things exposed by each other will be revealed to the world. When the emperor is furious, how many people will survive?

The emperor forcibly put a stop to this battle, because the emperor didn't want to make things worse, but what if the emperor didn't hold back?

Chapter 921 - From the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin

Among officials there are fears of a future crisis more dire than this one.

They advocate taking precautions before they happen.

There are also people who are quite helpless and feel that this is something that cannot be helped.

The emperor's force is too strong, and he has built a national mobilization system with himself as the core, and his wings are already very hard.

He can start a war without the tyrants providing soldiers, food and supplies. He has too many means of production and too many people. They are no longer a threat to them.

Such an emperor, they are quite helpless.

If you can't restrain the emperor's force, you can't restrain the emperor's actions.

Unless the emperor really messed up and attacked the things they depended on for a living, such as the second academic transfer or something.

Otherwise, they would not have the determination and courage to fight the emperor to the death.

In a sense, both parties have drawn a line for each other, and they cannot cross the line.

On the edge of the line, it doesn't matter how many times you jump sideways, but if you cross the line, I'm sorry, we can have a real fight.

After all, the emperor can't rely on one person and those mud legs to govern the world, can he?

So this struggle ended here, and it was never brought up again, and some kind of waves caused by this struggle were also confined to Luoyang, and did not spread outward.

Start fast, end fast.

The localities were not much involved, and the scope of the struggle was limited to the central government.

For the local officials involved, most of them were reprimanded, and the punishment did not involve the core interests of these officials.

For example, Chen Gong, the governor of Yongzhou, was ordered to dismiss the subordinate officials who had joined forces with Wang Can, and was also fined a year's salary. Chen Gong was shocked and pleaded guilty.

Mi Zhu, governor of Qingzhou, was revealed to have lax supervision over the construction of naval ships and water conservancy projects, and was fined a year's salary. Mi Zhu was horrified, and personally investigated corrupt and dereliction of duty officials, punished more than 30 low-level officials, and killed chickens to scare monkeys.

Basically, the deterrence of the localities is limited. The struggle has not been expanded, and most places are still carrying out daily life step by step.

The war on the frontier is still going on, Yangzhou's southward campaign, Jingzhou's southward campaign, and small-scale battles throughout Yizhou.

Generals such as Zhang Liao, Zhu Ling, and Le Jin are still engaged in various pioneering wars and conquest wars in the humid and hot southern land.

They used brutal means to deal a devastating blow to the local aborigines and to destroy the local original ecological environment.

They killed a large number of local aborigines, captured a large number of local aborigines, and emitted a large amount of various carbon dioxide, stepping on the pace of death and heading south.

They used blood and fire to pave the way for the Wei Empire to open up to the south, and used blood and fire to promote the official transfer of Chinese civilization from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin.

Along the way, the southward expansion of the country's territory and control is really not as simple as passing the message.

National territory, is it really sent by charging phone charges?

Zhang Liao, Zhu Ling and Le Jin definitely don't think so.

With the capable Wei army, they opened up bit by bit in the primitive jungle, opened up roads that could be walked bit by bit, and opened up the way to spread civilization bit by bit.

On this road, they will also encounter the remnants of Shanyue and the local indigenous people who are struggling to resist. These people will not honestly surrender their living space. They will fight to the death with the Wei army to protect their own living space.

Guo Peng attaches great importance to this.

In order to ensure their safety and health, Guo Peng also dispatched a large number of military doctors and medicinal materials, and formulated various mandatory health regulations to prevent a wide range of infectious diseases in the army.

For example, drinking water must be boiled before drinking, and food must be cooked before eating. It is absolutely forbidden to drink raw water and eat raw food. Once found, they will be severely slapped.

Go to the toilets together, bury or transport them to surrounding counties for manure, no defecation is allowed, and once you find them, take off your pants and spank them—publicly spank them in front of everyone!

In any case, wash your hands before eating, and after going to the toilet, and you are not allowed to eat for a day if you do not comply.

The military medical team in the army is on duty [-]/[-]. Once a person with abnormal fever, diarrhea, vomiting, or cough is found, they will be immediately isolated.

All-round isolation, no contact with other soldiers.

Guo Peng thought of the great lethality of the plague to people in this era very early on, so he always maintained a strong vigilance against the plague.

People in this era don't know what is a virus and what is a bacterium. Once a large-scale infection occurs, it will be called a plague.

They often don't know the cause and the source of the disease. It is quite lucky to be cured, and there is no way to cure it.

In fact, the origin of these plagues is also easy to understand. It is nothing more than lack of hygiene, drinking dirty water, eating wild animals that have not been raised, and not cooking food well.

There are hundreds of large-scale plagues recorded in history books, and there are countless unrecorded ones.

Because of the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, it was generally difficult to communicate with other places after a plague broke out in a certain place, so the plague was difficult to transfer from the beginning to the end, and it could only fend for itself. This is also a blessing in misfortune.

However, any major plagues that killed hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions, such as the several major plagues at the end of the Han Dynasty, were basically related to the sharp increase in population mobility brought about by the turmoil.

Originally, under the small-scale peasant economy, everyone was tied to the land and did not move locally. The contagion of the plague was limited and the loss was limited.

However, under the turmoil of the war, the population flow has intensified. From one place to another, it is easy to take the virus away, causing widespread infection and death.

The more chaotic the world, the more likely a large-scale plague will occur, and the plague is an infectious disease.

Therefore, after Hua Tuo's great medical center and great medical personnel set up a firm foothold, Guo Peng kept asking Hua Tuo's team to investigate and summarize the great plague in various places in the late Han Dynasty.

Then, using the prestige of Hua Tuo's team, they continued to promote various health and epidemic prevention knowledge, and first realized the most thorough popularization of epidemic prevention knowledge in the military, a highly organized institution.

Therefore, military doctors and medical soldiers serving in the army are required to conduct epidemic prevention drills.

Once a disease similar to the plague occurs and more than five people are infected, apart from anything else, they will be quarantined immediately, and all close contacts will also be quarantined.

In an era when there is no concept of bacteria and viruses, it is conceivable that it is extremely difficult to effectively treat the plague, and the only and most efficient way is to isolate.

Guo Peng doesn't expect to be able to come up with something like a vaccine in the face of the plague in the future. He only needs to implement a concept from top to bottom-isolation.

Carry out this concept from the princes in the palace to the young children playing in the countryside, so that all of them will remember two words - isolation, and passed on from generation to generation.

isolation.

This is the most primitive, most helpless, and most effective way.

If Guo Peng remembers correctly, the reason why Cao Cao's southern expedition to Jingzhou was defeated was inseparable from the large-scale infectious disease in the army that caused the main elite to lose their combat effectiveness.

He didn't want to make the same mistake again.

If this hits, it is definitely not capsized in the gutter, this is not the gutter, this is the sea of ​​death, this is going to capsize.

His army is all well-trained professional soldiers, and their combat effectiveness and organization are first-class.

He did not hesitate to invest a huge amount of money in training this army. Everyone is a precious asset. If a large number of them are knocked down by an unknown infectious disease, it will definitely make him die of heartache.

What's more, he built roads all over the country, which greatly enhanced the transportation capacity, and moved the people of the Central Plains to settle in areas with less people and more land on a large scale, resumed production, and increased the population mobility of the Wei Empire.

If a plague breaks out in this situation, it will be a terrible situation that is even unimaginable.

So his vigilance was well rewarded.

Chapter 922 .930 Er Guo wants to run a military academy

Not to mention other levels, at least at the military level, the strict epidemic prevention regulations required by Guo Peng have been implemented.

The sanitation conditions of the army have become quite good after long-term investment. The sanitation guidelines are as strict as the military laws, and the punishment for breaking the regulations is the same as that of violating the military laws.

Therefore, so far in the Southern Expedition, no large-scale infectious diseases have occurred in the three major corps of the Wei Army.

Occasionally, when such signs occur, they will be quickly pressed down by well-trained military doctors and immediately quarantined, so that there will be no large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases.

The absence of infectious diseases is an important prerequisite for the spread of civilization.

Civilizations destroyed by infectious diseases abound from ancient times to the present, and countries and species perish due to infectious diseases abound.

This kind of terrifying invisible killer made someone Guo be extremely vigilant from the very beginning, especially in the context of the great plague in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Since the Qingzhou era, Guo has issued quarantine regulations in his ruled area. Through the village chiefs at the grassroots level, Guo has also implanted the concept of infectious diseases and the concept of quarantine into the most grassroots farmers. .

Right now, in the great medical clinic led by Hua Tuo, it has basically been determined that the best way to fight the plague is to isolate such a rule. From some classics left over from the pre-Qin era, they can also draw similar conclusions.

In short, under the escort of someone like Guo, the pioneering war in the south was not troubled by infectious diseases.

Likewise, it was not affected by political struggles.