The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

Now many courtiers feel that Jinyang's imperial palace is too small after all, but Luoyang is not rebuilt, and it is not easy to move the capital back.Therefore, Liu Tao was not in a hurry, but the officials below secretly stepped up efforts to rebuild Luoyang.

"What do you think about encouraging immigrants?" Liu Tao thought for a while, "Anyway, there are so many wastelands, and new irrigation methods and new farming methods are also being promoted one after another. We don't lack land, but we lack people!"

"Who are the immigrants mainly targeting?" Xun Yu heard this for the first time.

"The first is the Xianbei, the Huns or the Qiang people. Then for the people around us, we can even set up a reward, how many people are helped to immigrate here, how much money will be rewarded..." Liu Tao thought for a while, "Or else Look for King Wei and King Han to ask for someone!"

The two of them have surrendered to him on the surface, so they are already regarded as his courtiers in theory.It is not a big problem to ask them for people.

"Your Majesty, isn't this just buying someone with money?" Xun Yu was speechless, "Besides, if we can buy it, others can too!"

"It's just the difference between primary and secondary. First of all, we have to publicize the policies of the Han people. People who come here can share land. At the same time, there are free literacy classes here, which can teach them how to read. There are also libraries, refresher classes and imperial examinations for them. The chance of fate, among other things, can attract many people to settle here." Liu Tao replied.

When it comes to education and the imperial examination system, the "big men" can't imitate, or there is no way to imitate, so naturally we are not afraid of them following suit.

Later generations buy a house in the school district for the sake of the school district, and recognize the ancestors of ethnic minorities in order to give their children extra points?Liu Tao has even seen parents who transfer their children to other provinces because of the high admission scores in the local college entrance examination.

It's just to change fate, to be able to study and become an official. For this reason, there are probably quite a few people who are willing to immigrate here.Not to mention that as long as you come here, you can arrange the land.

How many people in this world are working as tenants, or even servants, who doesn't want to have their own fields?

"In addition, it is announced that no matter what their original status is, even if they are servants, as long as they come here, they can regain their household registration and arrange fields." Liu Tao then threw out a more shocking condition.

"Your Majesty, this is to encourage family members from various prefectures to flee..." Xun Yu was speechless, his family was in Yuzhou.When the servants in the family receive the news, although not all of them will riot, at least a few people will be moved.

"Anyway, these servants will be armed at critical moments and used as soldiers." Liu Tao said indifferently, "In this case, as long as we win them over, it will be equivalent to weakening the combat effectiveness of our enemy. Why not do it? ?”

Besides, he can be regarded as completely offending the aristocratic family, and he is not afraid to continue to offend more.

After thinking about it, he added: "Leave the publicity to the Ministry of Rites. If your own emperor and the court don't tout it well and let others smear it, then the Ministry of Rites' work is not in place!"

If you really want to count, in fact, you have to learn from later generations and separate out the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Propaganda. At this time, there are actually settings, but they are all subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Rites.

The six volumes are actually the integration of various fields into six volumes.And later generations are forming each field into a separate department, everyone is a minister, and has more independent powers at the same time.

Earlier, Liu Tao set it up as a strategist, so he was under the household department.The Ministry of Industry is responsible for the national promotion of agricultural technology.Considering that there was no yamen dedicated to commerce before, Liu Tao also set up one specially under the jurisdiction of the household department.

At present, the commercial department has only one responsibility, which is to adjust the taxation of various commodities according to the local price situation.It is updated once a year and issued to the local government, which collects taxes according to this standard.

For gold and silver jewellery, spices and wine, taxes are heavy; for grain and cloth, these taxes are light, but for grain production areas, the tax is heavy, and the grain production is low, or there is almost no output. Merchants are encouraged to transport the grain to sell.

Liu Tao spent an afternoon convincing Wang Yun and Xun Yu.Then it took a year to try it in Bingzhou, and found it was good, but it took two years to promote it.

"That is to say, the Ministry of Rites sends people to publicize, and then secretly sends people, such as Jinyiwei, or through giving out some rewards, sending people to encourage the folks and help the local people, and the servants come to our side." Xun Yu probably understood.

On the surface, it is not advertised to spend money to buy people, but privately it is rumored that there are a few people who can help you go to Sizhou and take you there for free... The question is, doesn't the court also need to spend money?

When it comes to expenses, Xun Yu is not so easy to talk about.

"When people come, except that the children can be arranged to study, they have to carry out construction work for about two years before they can arrange fields. During the two years of construction work, the imperial court arranges meals and gives a small salary at the same time.

After two years, they can save some money to buy daily necessities and maintain it until the next harvest... During these two years, they built the railway.

Railways can transport goods in large quantities, and they are used exclusively by the government during wartime, and commercially available in normal times, and a certain commission is charged.Wen Ruo, how many years do you think it will take to pay back the capital? "Liu Tao expressed his thoughts.

Chapter 525

I don't know when it started. Anyway, he used to read Three Kingdoms novels, and the protagonists in it almost used commercial tax to gradually replace agricultural tax. In fact, this is considered mainstream even in later generations.

Just considering the singleness of commodities, population, mobility and means of transportation, etc., the economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not so easy to develop.

Just like Jiuxianniang in the past two years, with the chaos of wars everywhere, everyone gradually discovered that good wine is not as good as a few stones of grain, and sales have declined. Especially with so many cottages coming out, profits have begun to decline, falling to For export only.

Anyway, the sales of 'Yuhuchun', which was first blended with high-grade wine and ordinary wine, have increased.The price is lower than Jiuxianniang, but it is more mellow than many wines. Of course, the former is the most important.

It's not that the people in the wine shop mentioned whether to sell at a reduced price, Liu Tao was the first to not allow it.A brand should look like a brand, and no matter what others do, they cannot cut prices.Not only will the price not be lowered, but the price will be raised slightly, and purchases will be restricted at the same time.

It has not been effective yet, the domestic market is like this, and it is hard to say in the future, especially when the people in his territory have lived in peace for a few years and start to have money in their hands.Pretending to be an artifact, no matter at home or abroad, has been needed throughout the ages.

Ordinarily, the population is not small, but almost all of them are poor.There are wars everywhere, and wars require tax increases. They have no money, and they have to sell themselves to survive.

Not to mention liquidity, it means that you don’t have to go if you want to go, and you have no conditions to go.Where do you want to travel, but you have no money!

This also involves the issue of transportation conditions, basically on foot.Having a horse is equivalent to having a car in later generations. Even if it is a donkey, it is also an N-handed Santana. When you ride on it and see passers-by, you can proudly ask: "Poor, do you have one?"

Horses are a scarce commodity. After all, there is going to be a war. War horses are in short supply, and even poor horses can be used to pull goods.Folk horses will always be conscripted immediately, and warlords are just such a thing after all.

Therefore, now that mobility, population and means of transportation are lacking, commercial activities, mainly non-governmental commercial activities, have also begun to become sluggish.

The only thing that can survive is government procurement.In other words, the big businessmen active in the market are basically official businessmen!

"Population, we are very short of this now; and transportation conditions, we need a method that can quickly transport soldiers, food, etc. to the front line, and the loss can be reduced." Liu Tao said slowly.

An army of 1000 people probably needs about [-] civilians to transport supplies.Not just food, but also tents, pots and medicines.

The civilian husbands responsible for transportation also need to eat, even if they eat two meals a day, the meals they eat are of course deducted from the escorted grain.So after arriving at the destination, about [-]% of the food was consumed by these peasants.

The more primitive the means of transport, the greater the consumption.If you carry it on your shoulders, it can even reach [-]% consumption.For carts, it is about [-]%, and if cattle and horses are used for transportation, it can be reduced to about [-]%.

If it is transported by rail, a large amount of grain and grass will be transported by replacing the horses, and there will not be so many peasants to help consume it, and the transportation time will also be reduced.

The loss rate of food can even be reduced to [-]%.The [-]% of the food saved is earned.

When there is no war, it can also serve as freight for merchants. Anyway, with horseshoes, the loss rate of horses can be reduced.In addition, Liangzhou and Bingzhou can also buy horses themselves, so the replenishment of horses is not a problem.

After all, how much benefit can a railway from Yunzhong to Jinyang, passing through Dingxiang County along the way, bring?In about three to five years, the cost can be earned. After all, the labor used and the salary that needs to be paid are not much.

Especially during the slack season, one or two months of corvee can be collected.Of course, according to Liu Tao's request, the mobilized civilian husbands must prepare meals for them.

If conditions permit, wages will naturally be paid, but the wages are lower than the wages of ordinary part-time workers.

"This, I still need to go back and do some calculations. If conditions permit, I will discuss how to implement it with the Minister." After Liu Tao's years of nurturing, Xun Yu's eyesight is actually not bad.After hearing what Liu Tao said in such detail, it was obvious that he was already hesitant.

It's just that without an accurate figure, he won't feel at ease. After all, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources from publicity to poaching to resettlement.At the same time, the management work must be in place, and no one can imagine where the hands of local officials will come from.

Even if you see it once and chop it once, as long as you are an individual, you will have a gambler mentality.Especially after one or two successes, the courage is completely fattened, and people start to go crazy...

"Well, let's discuss it carefully, but don't delay too long... next autumn, there will be an Enke, and this should be well publicized. In a year, I hope they can study hard." Liu Tao nodded, not too embarrassing Xun Yu .

It is not easy to be a big steward of a country. There are always insufficient manpower in all aspects of money.Nowadays, the Ministry of Rites does not give secondments, and the problem of population shortage is even more serious.

The only good thing is that most of this year's work has been implemented some time ago, just as he expected, Liu Tao really made a mess in the second half of the year, but fortunately, he had time to deal with this matter in advance.

The next series of policies of the Han court suddenly caught people off guard.

The local army immediately took over the local granary. Before the local officials could react, the censor had arrived secretly and began a thorough investigation.During the period, Jin Yiwei also secretly followed up to confirm who Yu Shi had contacted during the mission.

There are indeed problems with the granaries in some places, but fortunately, at least [-]% of the counties have no problems with the granaries.There are also bad debts from Liu Tao before he ascended the throne. According to the agreement, this part can be ignored.