Wuyi, Xindu and other places have entered the autumn harvest work in full swing. Different from previous years, this year, because of the existence of Yixing Society, the progress of the autumn harvest is extremely rapid, and it is still the same old-fashioned, Yixing Society organizes young people from all over the country to work intensively, and concentrates the scattered labor force together, which greatly improves labor efficiency.

Li Ze must hurry up now, every extra day he grabs, he has one more day to prepare for the battle, and if he grabs one more day, the Henghai side will correspondingly lose one day.

This year, because of a rain disaster in the summer, although the harvest has been affected to a certain extent, but the impact on Wuyi is relatively small, and the problem of Xindu is more, as time passes day by day, the output reported from all over the country is also summarized day by day, and the reduction of production has become a foregone conclusion. Even though more wasteland has been reclaimed in Wuyi this year, the output still cannot make up for the loss.

Xia He has already made a preliminary estimate that the food gap in Wuyi, Xindu, and Shiyi is roughly more than thirty percent, and these three percent need Li Ze's other ideas to make up for it.

Yizhou can't count on it now, and they are also short of food.

Fortunately, because of the agreement reached with Gao Xiangsheng, Yixingtang, which Tu Hu is in charge of, has opened up the trade routes from Chengde to Zhaoyi, Weibo, Luoyang, Chang'an and other places.

Now he has no shortage of money in his hands, he just needs to turn it into the supplies he needs. And after this year, he believes that he no longer has to be controlled by others on food.

Walking on the embankment of the Chestnut River, looking at the large soybean fields that have turned golden in the embankment, I can't help but smile on my face.

This is the Lizi River in Wuyi last year is a reclaimed fertile land, originally a barren beach, rocky land, after covering the soil dug out of the river, now has become a good land. Unfortunately, it was too late to plant spring wheat at that time, only soybeans. Now these soybeans are also in harvest season.

Soybeans can not only be used to feed livestock, but also can be used as a staple food after processing.

"Soybean fields!" Pointing to the continuous soybean fields that are only afraid of tens of thousands of acres, Li Ze said to Hou Zhen: "By the time of next year, these lands will be able to produce a lot of output. Hou County Order, you have vision, I heard that you bought 5,000 acres of riverside land in one go?"

Hou Zhen smiled and said: "This is the blessing of the prince, the Hou family did buy 5,000 acres of land, in fact, with our financial resources at that time, we could buy more."

"Then why not buy more?" Li Ze laughed: "There is no shortage of labor in Wuyi now."

Hou Zhen said with a smile: "This is because of the tax system formulated by Gongzi, we have calculated, 5,000 mu is a node, at this point, the profit we get is the largest, beyond this point, the profit will be sharply reduced, more than 10,000 mu, that is a real loss-making business."

Li Ze's taxation is progressive, every person who enters Wuyi has an acre of garden, which does not need to pay taxes, it is regarded as a ration field, and then with the increase of land, the taxes will gradually be upgraded. And those who don't have a penny of land and simply do business have another tax system, called commercial tax. Compared with the land tax, the commercial tax is much higher. Of course, there are many types of commercial taxes, such as grain, food business, now Wuyi, Xindu, Shiyi are exempt from tax, and like salt, iron and other tax rates are as high as 100%.

From the first day of Li Ze's reign, his tax system implemented a separate collection of taxes under his rule, which was very different from the one-size-fits-all commercial tax in Yizhou in the past.

And this has also brought more financial revenue to Wuyi Xindu and other places.

Since the merger of Yixingshe, Yixingtang and the local government, Yixingtang has given up the operation of strategic materials related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and has auctioned these businesses to other people who want to do business, such as those who came from Texas, are very willing to participate.

Because Li Ze's rule imposed tax exemption on grain and other food businesses, it attracted many merchants from other places to start trafficking grain to Wuyi, which to a large extent alleviated the food crisis in Wuyi.

Hearing Hou Zhen's words at this moment, Li Ze couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, all of them are cunning guys, I spent a lot of effort to formulate the tariff rules, and they were studied by you so quickly?" I was going to trick a few people who don't know how to do it to have a good look!"

Hou Zhen is also a coriander: "Son, who can afford to buy thousands of acres of land, who in the family has not raised some talents?" The first time we arrived in Wuyi, we got a series of policies formulated by Gongzi and then studied them carefully, and this tax rule is naturally the top priority. There is a lot of power in numbers, so it is not surprising that the trap in the Childe tax code was quickly calculated. I don't think Childe will be blamed, right?"

Li Ze shook his head: "How come?" If you have the ability to find loopholes in these tariffs and exploit them, I have nothing to say, the law does not prohibit it. Of course, you have found these loopholes and taken advantage of me, and then I will definitely plug this loophole, this is a process of game between the two sides, and as time goes by, our tax rules will become more and more perfect."

"What Childe thinks is always different from ours." Hou Zhen smiled: "In this way, we really have to dig out our minds to find loopholes in Childe's policy."

"Feel free!" Li Ze smiled and said authentically. He didn't dare to say anything else, it was almost impossible for them to find out how much of a loophole they could exploit in the tax rules.

"But wait for the county order, you are now the big landlord of our Wuyi, but you are also the county commander of Wuyi, the lord of a county, don't confuse these two identities." Li Ze admonished.

"Don't dare, the public is public, the private is private, and you will never dare to abolish the private because of the public, and the public will benefit the private." Hou Zhen bowed.

Li Zedao: "You are a person with a clear mind, I don't think you will either. But you still have to keep an eye on some people in the territory, and some people will use some illegal means to obtain benefits if they can't take advantage of the loopholes in the policy, and we must crack down such people, and even kill them if necessary."

Hou Zhen's heart froze slightly, and he nodded again and again.

"Wuyi is my experimental area, and I will never allow his development to deviate." Li Zedao: "In fact, this tax rate also has the meaning of inhibiting land annexation, can you understand the stakes here?"

Of course Hou Zhen understands.

The peasants are all attached to the land, just like he waits for his family, and now he has 5,000 acres of land, so he has to hire people who can cultivate 5,000 acres of land, in fact, this is a disguised transformation of these people into people who need to rely on their own livelihood, that is, another kind of subordinate. The more land you have, the more people you control. When a certain number is reached, it naturally forms a constraint on the government.

This is the problem of the store bullying the customer or the customer bullying the store.

After tapping Hou Zhen for a few words, Li Ze pulled the topic back to the ground in front of him.

"When the beans are harvested, what are you going to plant in the field? This winter isn't far off, and there's not much to plant, right?" Li Ze asked.

"I rushed to harvest this season's beans, and then I could only plant Chinese cabbage and turnips."

"This is good, this is good!" Li Ze said with a smile: "Chinese cabbage can be eaten for a year after pickling, it can also be made into dried pickles, radishes can also be made into dried radish, these things can be used as military rations!"

"That's going to take a lot of salt." Hou Zhen said." Childe, now like salt, we are still controlled by others!"

Li Ze nodded: "Don't worry, this situation will be improved in the future, Hedong is a salt producer, where can we get salt in the future, there are more salt resources in the Lianghuai region, of course, we have to rely on ourselves now, when we take Henghai, we will also have a coastal area, and we can always solve part of the demand."

Hou Zhen nodded, in his opinion, Henghai is now desperate, and whether he can survive this winter is not certain.

The two of them walked slowly along the ridge of the soybean field, Li Ze bent down, picked a few pods, and gently rubbed them in his hand, more than a dozen round beans rolled in his hand, looking at the plump beans, Li Ze was very happy.

In his previous life, he had never had such an obsession with food, and now, he finally understands why ancient China has made special emphasis on agriculture. Although in the actual implementation process, it is still inevitable that there will be large deviations.

With food, so many people can be fed, and with more people, more can be done. If you can't even support your subordinates, then it's no wonder if something happens.

"When the harvest is over, send me a few liters, and I'll try it!" Li Ze put the dozen beans into his arms and said to Hou Zhen with a smile.

"This is the honor of my subordinates, and I will definitely pick the best when the time comes." Hou Zhendao.

The two laughed and strolled, but suddenly there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the embankment, the two stopped, looked back, Li Mi, who had been following them not far away, had already hurried up to meet them, and after the two whispered a few words, Li Mi trotted to Li Ze's side.

"Childe, Gong Cao has sent a messenger, it seems that there is an urgent matter to see Childe." LI Midao.

"Got it." Li Ze nodded.

When he returned to Wuyi City, he read the letter sent by Cao Xin, but Li Ze was stunned.

His own Lao Tzu actually summoned himself to Zhenzhou, but he had to go secretly, not to alarm anyone, and he also sent the Chengde wolf cavalry led by Min Rou to come as a support for his attack on Henghai, and now, this famous cavalry in the north has arrived in Yizhou and is heading towards Wuyi!