Chapter 447: Preparations Before the War (Part II)
Grain into the warehouse, firearms out of the warehouse, pre-war personnel arrangement drills, general routes and plans.
In the era when there was no communication network, there were basically no other complicated operations when it came to fighting.
Just when Wang Lanling and the others were preparing to attack Yemaling, a document came from the state capital.
Wang Lanling quickly convened a meeting.
"The imperial court has issued new regulations, and the seals of the state capital and the imperial court are there, and counties across the country will receive them one after another."
Wang Lanling passed the document to Gong Yueman next to him, and while the rest of the people successively learned about this new requirement document, Wang Lanling also began to explain.
"This time I asked for a lot of things, and I changed the arrangement of many things, so in case some of you don't understand, I'll talk about it roughly."
The rest of the people quickly looked at Wang Lanling, and began to record with pencils and small notepads.
The documents of the imperial court are not readable by everyone, just like holding technical documents on the table, and people with elementary school education cannot read them.
In particular, the data on physical drawing, mechanical drawing, electronic drawing, etc., has its own aura of persuasion.
Moreover, this time the document is several pages long, and it is not a simple and easy-to-understand order like marching and fighting, but requires subordinate officials to manage their own territory, and in some places it is more obscure.
With the little genius of Lord Wang leading the way, it must be much stronger than their own blind understanding.
There are so many people here, and there are few who can do reading comprehension, and all of them can't compare to Lord Wang.
"First, all counties and counties are required to do a good job in financial and taxation work, and truthfully submit the tax and financial status of the city to the subordinate county or state town, which has nothing to do with us, don't care."
Wang Lanling directly skipped this, and now unless the state government sends troops to the county government of Giant Whale Island, or the county government itself recruits and transfers the guards to deter the subordinate counties, no one listens to the county guards.
The subordinates of Shanhai County are basically county towns established by the pioneers themselves, and those county lords have a considerable part of autonomy, as long as they are not openly anti-the imperial court, they can't pay taxes, and everyone will not care.
The mainland must not be able to do this, but whoever makes this a poor ravine, it is good if the people below do not ask for things from above, and the tax collection will be exempted.
"Second, the imperial court allows counties to have the right to appoint, that is, the county seat can appoint officials in townships and towns, the county seat can appoint officials in the county seat, and the state government can appoint officials in the county seat."
"Township chiefs and town chiefs can be appointed by the county seat, but the prefectural governor can only be appointed with the consent of the state government, and the county town only has the right to dismiss from office, but does not have the right to fire or imprison the prefectural governor."
"This article is to prevent the people below from making things bigger, so that the county order can bypass the county government and call the state capital, so as to prevent the occurrence of self-respecting things."
In the overall situation of the imperial court, chaos is also at the level of the county town, and the territory of a county is not worthy of their attention.
Wang Lanling explained: "Roughly speaking, it is to strengthen the control of the local countryside, whether it is good or bad, and the majesty of the imperial court must be rooted in the grassroots. ”
Wang Lanling couldn't figure out why this court liked to take root at the grassroots level so much, and after taking root, it didn't care about anything.
Many of the ruling regulations of the empire have imposed strong constraints on the subordinate township level, and have also suppressed and deterred the landlords.
But most officials don't care about this, which is understandable, after all, people go up and are responsible for the people above.
"Several official positions in our county still depend on the appointment of the county seat, but new departments can already be set up."
"The third is this, the imperial court requires all localities to start building roads, and cooperate with the surrounding counties to build a road connecting the counties, and this fund will be paid by ourselves, or we will ask the county for it."
"The governors of each state should allocate a part of the road repair fee to the localities, and at the same time call on the local farmers to build the roads, and call on the squires to donate money."
"Tolls shall be collected by the local counties themselves, and shall not be higher than the commercial tax, and shall not be charged to the imperial merchants, officials and merchants."
"Fourth, the local tax will be divided into three points."
"It is divided into heavenly taxes, including field tax, fish tax, sambu tax, salt and iron tax, and poll tax. What God gives, the royal family comes to collect taxes. ”
"It is divided into land taxes, including the taxes collected from all kinds of immovable shops, and the things given in the fields, which are collected by local officials, and the taxes are distributed by the state government."
"One is divided into personal taxes, including entry tax, road tax, registration tax, penalty tax, and taxes to be paid by basically mobile people, all of which are handed over to the local government."
The matter of the separation of the three taxes was definitely not proposed by Wang Lanling, and Wang Lanling didn't know how his road construction plan was added so many things, so he could only say that there were too many smart people.
Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Zhenhai can't do everything he says, people are also people, so he is not allowed to show himself, what do I think?
"Fourth, and the most critical one, is that when the imperial court requires all localities to pay taxes, they will be replaced by 10,000 yuan or 1,000 yuan tickets, except for a part of the grain, and the rest must be exchanged for this big money to pay taxes."
"This is a good thing for us, it shows that the imperial court itself has recognized the indiscriminate issuance of tickets in the past few years, and those tickets have their own value printed!"
For Wang Lanling, the fourth one, which is the most trivial matter that is easily ignored by the rest, is the most important one.
This article proves that the imperial court is trying to find a way to solve the problem, instead of continuing to pretend to be dead.
Throughout thousands of years of world history, in fact, the vast majority of governments are drinking to quench their thirst and are willing to find ways to solve problems, very few.
In Wang Lanling's opinion, this one is much more powerful than the emperor's letter of repentance!
It doesn't matter if the old emperor admits his mistake or not, he is willing to take back his indiscriminate money, which is excellent!
The collapse of the monetary value system is not conducive to the commercial trade below, and a stable monetary system can promote the development of commerce.
Especially for the large-value transactions of Wang Lanling and other counties, a thousand-yuan ticket is obviously much more convenient than 10,000 dime tickets and coins.
"In short, it's a good thing for us, let's continue the matter of Mustang Ridge for now, and talk about road construction when we come back from the war."
Wang Lanling made a summary, at present, the most important thing is the current battle!
The reason for the war had already been thought out, and Wang Lanling also applied to the county guard and the state pastor in advance, saying that someone on the other side of Yema Ridge had killed his friend, and he had to go over to suppress the bandits.
It's easy to talk if there is money in the county town, and the county keeper has already made a plan to save money and return to his hometown for three years to retire.
The state capital really didn't bother to pay attention to this person, and also thought that Wang Lanling would go back by himself because of the trouble of going to find a group of horse thieves, so he was also approved.
On Muzhou's side, it's just a simple trip to kill a thief, it's not a big deal.
Lord Zhou Mu still doesn't understand, if a few Yunzhou Mu who stepped down know, they must understand that this kid is going to play big again.