Liu Zheng was originally able to get thousands of gold every month through the water trade of Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, but after opening the line from Xuzhou to Jiaozhou, the money earned through trade, plus the taxes collected from trade transactions, could bring him 5,000 gold from here alone.

This is still a month's time, not including the taxes collected from other places, and if it weren't for the fact that Liu Zheng's economy is not active enough now, he would even want to directly exempt the peasants from the grain tax.

If he can open more trade routes, in the future, the whole of the whole with these commercial incomes alone can be worth the oral and calculated endowments of an entire state.

In the Han Dynasty, the common people had to pay taxes, which were generally divided into three types of taxes.

Koufu, which was a poll tax levied by the Han Dynasty imperial court on children aged fourteen and younger. It is also called mouth money, mouth cheap money. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the levy was 20 yuan per person. The age of the expedition was 7 years old, and by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was 3 years old. During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Gong Yu wrote a letter requesting that the minimum age be postponed to 7 years old, which was accepted. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, warlords fought and ruled the darkness, and even babies were ordered to pay off at the age of one year.

Calculation of fu, calculation of fu is a poll tax levied by the imperial court on adults in the Qin and Han dynasties. It was also the main source of taxation, which began with the Shang Dynasty Reform and was a poll tax levied as a military levy. In 203 BC, Liu Bang decreed that all people aged 15-56 should give money, and 120 yuan per person would be counted, which was the calculation of the endowment, and it became customized.

Calculation is a major item in the financial revenue of the Han Dynasty, which is operated by large farmers. The purpose is to "govern the treasury soldiers (weapons) and chariots and horses", so it is still in the nature of military endowment. Except for Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, who hurt the peasants due to the excessively cheap price of grain, there were two special edicts that temporarily used corn to replace money, there were almost no exceptions.

Generally speaking, the calculation of the endowment is calculated for each person once a year, but there are also special circumstances, such as the Qin Dynasty had a decree that "if the people have more than two males, they will be doubled"; In order to encourage the multiplication of household registration, the Western Han Dynasty advocated early marriage. In 189 B.C., it was decreed that a woman aged 15 to 30 and unmarried was counted five times as much as an ordinary person.

The "Han Law" also stipulates that the Jia people and slaves and maids are doubled, that is, the calculation of merchants and slaves and maids is twice as much as that of ordinary people. This was clearly an attempt to suppress commerce and limit slavery.

However, in Liu Zheng's Jiaozhou, all these regulations that suppressed merchants were abolished, but they were vigorously supported, such as the calculation of taxes and oral taxes, Liu Zheng only collected half.

Even, even more endowed with this kind of thing, Liu Zheng directly abolished it.

The so-called more endowment is a kind of substitute tax. Beginning in the Qin Dynasty, this law was still used in the early Han Dynasty, stipulating that men between the ages of 22 and 56 must be subject to additional endowments. There are three types of military service or military service: "change pawn", "regular pawn", and "pawn".

The peasants had to serve one month of labor for the localities every year, and they were called pawns. The peasants personally served in the service, which was called "practice change". If you are not willing to serve in person, you can pay 300 yuan to be hired by the government to serve on your behalf. Sometimes, the localities do not need much more soldiers, and the peasants are still required to pay for it, which becomes a kind of burden of servitude, which is called "more endowment."

Regular soldiers are officially serving in the military. The Western Han Dynasty stipulated that men between 23 and 56 should serve two years of military service. In addition, each person serves one month a year in the county, which is called a shift or pawn. Those who do not serve in the military will pay 2,000 per month, which is called practice. Each person has to defend the border for three days a year, and those who do not serve will pay 300, which is called passing.

Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty stipulated that men between the ages of 20 and 56 must serve the country for one year and return home after completing the service. But in the event of a war, he will be temporarily requisitioned and will not be able to return for several years. Soldier means that every man has to go to the border for one year in his life to garrison the country, or to the capital to serve as a guard.

If you don't want to go in person, you can also hire someone to pay 300 a month instead, and the average peasant can't afford it, so he has to serve in person. In successive dynasties, there were similar methods of forcibly pulling civil servants, but the names were different.

This kind of military service system was directly canceled here in Liu Zheng, so Liu Zheng's more endowment was not at all, not only did he not have more endowment, Liu Zheng also gave military service to those who served in the military, and the military salary was several times higher than that of other princes, what is this, the soldiers under Liu Zheng's command are more eager to be soldiers, and the other princes are arresting people to be soldiers, Liu Zheng only needs to shout a few times, and the soldiers are endless.

However, because of the cancellation of the new endowment, the tax revenue of the entire Jiaozhou is much less, after all, the more endowment is also the source of most of the tax revenue of the entire state and county, according to the news that Liu Zheng got from Shi Xie's mouth before.

Before Liu Zheng occupied Jiaozhou, the tax burden of Jiaozhou for a year was actually not much.

The mouth is less than 10 million dollars.

Calculate 50 million dollars.

and gave 30 million dollars.

Calculated down, it's actually only 9,000 gold.

Of course, this is also because the population of Jiaozhou is too scarce, but the population of one million is not even enough for some counties in the Central Plains.

Although because of the emergence of Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng migrated a lot of people from Yangzhou, but these people have no taxes to pay for the time being, and at the same time, Liu Zheng removed the more taxes, plus the policy of halving other taxes, although it pleases the peasants and the people of Jiaozhou.

But his **, every year's income has indeed dropped a lot, if it weren't for the business support of the Mi family, Liu Zheng had an extra income of 50 million gold out of thin air, which just offset the taxes he was exempted, Liu Zheng really didn't know what to do.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Zheng is more determined to do business and expand the business line, as long as the lines of several states and counties are developed, Liu Zheng will be able to completely exempt some taxes on the people, and then the world will be peaceful.

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world.

Seven days later, Liu Zheng's fleet has arrived in Xuzhou, through a period of stay on the Xuzhou side, the loading and unloading of goods, Liu Zheng let the fleet stay here for a few days, he went to Xuzhou's Mi family, and met with Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, again, explaining his decision to continue to go north and go to Youzhou.

Mi Zhu naturally supported it, and sent a small team of people to follow Liu Zheng, so that he could familiarize himself with the line as soon as possible, and after arriving, he could open up business in the shortest possible time.

This time, Mi Zhu no longer doubted Liu Zheng's words, but chose to believe it, and followed Liu Zheng directly with the goods.

It was not the first time that Liu Zheng had set sail, so although he didn't particularly understand the route of these advances, he still understood the truth of walking along the coastline and getting closer a little bit, and four days later, they came to a small county town called Donglai.