"Lord, the inventory is clear." On the banquet, Chen Mo drank and danced with everyone, Li Qing walked quickly to Chen Mo's side, and whispered: "These squires who came today donated a total of 100,000 stones of grain and grass, and the Wei family also sent 10,000 stones, but the Wei family did not participate in tonight's banquet, but set up a banquet in the Wei Mansion to invite the lord to go to the banquet five days later, in addition to 3,000 catties of minced meat, all kinds of gold and silver utensils can not be calculated for a while." ”

The squires who came this time were mostly not local to Anyi, but the gentry of various counties, and the Wei family was not very favorable, and they invited Chen Mo to let the Wei family come to be a foil, the Wei family was obviously unwilling, and they couldn't help but give Chen Mo face, so they sent ten thousand stones of grain and grass to show their respect, and they shot a banquet to invite Chen Mo to talk about it another day, and it was not that the Wei family was high, didn't you see that Cai Yong, Zang Hong, these celebrities didn't come? It can only be said that the hosts of this banquet have not reached that level, most of them are some squires and gentry, if it weren't for Chen Mo's face, the Wei family might not even be in the mood to express it.

"The benefits of the Wei family can't be wanted." Chen Mo groped his chin and said with a smile while looking at the dancing figures on the dance floor: "Just choose some of the gold and silver artifacts sent by these people as a return gift, the value will be about the same." ”

Since the defeat of Mrs. Guo, the Wei family has cut off contact with the white wave thief, Chen Mo has a clear conscience when he collects the money and food of these squires, this is their money to buy their lives, it can also be said to be before atonement, but the Wei family's will have to weigh it, if it is accepted like this, there is nothing to say, then the Wei family will open his mouth next to ask for something, Chen Mo is really not good to refuse, but he has promised the Wei family to compensate with the land of Taiyuan, this Taiyuan County has not yet taken it, and a batch of land has been allocated to the Wei family.

"Whoa!" Li Qing nodded in agreement and turned to leave.

Chen Mo was drinking with everyone, while looking at a few rolls of bamboo slips sent by Li Qing, during this time, the teacher took over the rule of law in Hedong and began to implement the law studied by Chen Mo and Man Zhong step by step.

Most of them inherited the Han law and did not change much, but the intensity of the implementation of the law and the supervision were extremely strict, not to mention the elimination of favoritism, but the risk of officials favoritism would be much greater, and the exploitation of the people was reduced from the overall situation.

In addition, the biggest change is in the taxation, Chen Mo initially wanted to classify the tenant farmers into the household registration, but there were a lot of obstacles in the open and secret, and later studied with the full pet for a long time, so he did not contribute to the household registration, but in the taxation, from the original poll tax to measure the land, and collect taxes according to the land.

It doesn't matter how many tenant farmers you have, but the government only collects taxes according to how much land you have, increasing the cost of supporting tenant farmers in the clan, if there is land that is concealed and not reported, once discovered, it is not protected by the imperial court, and you must pay the tax for three years to continue to occupy it, otherwise the government has the right to take it back.

In this way, it is not as cost-effective to raise a tenant farmer as it is to hire a tenant farmer, after all, a tenant farmer needs to provide for the tenant farmer's family, and if you hire a tenant farmer, you only need to pay a fee, and as for how the tenant farmer supports his family, it is not up to them.

Naturally, there is resistance, and it is very great, why do these wealthy gentry spare no effort to secretly help the white wave thieves? It was Chen Mo who changed the way of tax collection in this way, so that these wealthy gentry who had a large amount of land paid almost ten times or more taxes every year than in previous years.

But correspondingly, the taxes paid by the people at the bottom are much less than in previous years because of the many policies for the benefit of the people promulgated by Chen Mo, as well as the policy of tax reduction and exemption, of course, the most important thing is that under the auspices of Zang Hong, various laws can be directly implemented from the county government to the people, and there is a presence of supervision, which makes the counties have less opportunities to misinterpret their intentions.

However, although it is effective in the short term, these wealthy gentry and wealthy people cannot be suppressed all the time, and they have to give sweetness, otherwise there will be no interests, and these people will make trouble, which is much more powerful than ordinary people, and it is not conducive to the stability of Hanoi.

Chen Mo looked at the enchanting and moving dances on the dance floor a little distracted, if this problem cannot be solved, it will be a hidden danger after all, but the problem is that this is not a march to fight, at least you know who the enemy is and where it is, no matter how difficult it is, the current problem is that Chen Mo can suppress these people in a short time, but to solve this problem, there is no direction and no clear goal for the time being.

Mr. Tian saw that Chen Mo was a little distracted, and said with a smile: "Envoy, these women were purchased by us from the Western Regions, not only are they bewitching and moving, but also know how to please people, if you like them, you are willing to give these dancing girls to the envoy." ”

"Not necessarily!" Chen Mo shook his head and said: "A gentleman doesn't win people's love, besides, these dancing girls can be enjoyed, if you want to take them home, you will lose their unique charm, but they are not beautiful, thank you Mr. Tian for your kindness." ”

Mr. Tian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said with admiration: "Jun Zhen is an elegant person. ”

Chen Mo shook the picture, looked at Mr. Tian and said, "Why is Mr. Tian also engaged in foreign business?" ”

In these years, the materials are not abundant, so although there is commerce, most of them are one county, and there are also those who run long distances, and they also circulate between several rich states and counties in the Central Plains, or run to sell horses, and there are fewer farther away.

"Slightly involved." Mr. Tian didn't know what Chen Mo meant by asking, so he nodded and said, "Maybe you think this trader is vulgar, but this trader is also the key to being able to communicate with each other, so if you have sexual interest, we can lead the way." ”

Chen Mo remembered that in the dream training camp, there was a special skill training for business, and for fields other than his cognition, Chen Mo would not act rashly, shook his head and said: "I don't have this intention, I know that this food tax reform has an impact on you, and you are also dissatisfied with me because of this, and I am thinking about whether I can compensate for it from other aspects these days." ”

"Don't dare!" Everyone hurriedly bowed down and said, these words can't be taken randomly.

"The grain tax is the foundation of the country, and I can't compromise on this, but in other matters, this official is willing to think of a way for you, and it can be regarded as the government's compensation to you, and besides, it is indeed beneficial in the long run." Chen Mo pondered: "But I don't know much about commercial affairs, so you can wait for me for a few days, three or five days at most, and after I have some research on this Tao, I will give you a satisfactory answer." ”

"This ......" Mr. Tian saw the sincerity of Chen Mo's words, and said with some hesitation: "Envoy, although this business is a bit low, but the truth is difficult for many people to understand in their lives, I know that the gentleman is very knowledgeable, but ......"

"Don't worry, I'm learning things quickly." Chen Mo became a little interested in business affairs, and he didn't stay at the moment, stood up and hugged his fists to everyone and said: "Thank you for your hospitality today, it's not too early, the official will leave first, you can do it yourself!" ”

Seeing Chen Mo leave very simply, a group of people were a little dumbfounded, and a person next to Mr. Tian looked at the direction of Chen Mo's departure and shook his head and sighed: "This envoy is too young after all, thinking that this business is the same as learning?" ”

Many people have been immersed in this road all their lives, and they don't dare to understand, but now Chen Mo has to figure it out in three or five days, isn't this a fool's dream?

"Let him go, this time the white wave thief is defeated, I can only admit it, let's talk about it later." Mr. Tian shook his head and said, as for Chen Mo's words, everyone didn't believe it, but there was one thing, now that Chen Mo has the land east of the river, holds military power, and responds to the will of the people, it is absolutely unwise to go against Chen Mo at this time, as for how Chen Mo wants to toss, then he can't care, and they don't have the ability to take care of it.

Chen Mo knew more or less about these people's thoughts, but he didn't care, whether it was the stability or future development of Hedong, something new was needed to stimulate the more orderly and good development of Hedong.

Business matters, let Chen Mo feel a little interesting, but how to use it, there is no clue for a while, he does have the heart to learn, as for whether he can finish learning in three or five days, Chen Mo is still confident.

"Wang Wang~" Back home, Chen Mo did not go back to rest immediately, but first went to see the young and missed for several years, at this moment he couldn't help it, just entered the yard, he heard the sound of a dog barking, and a long black circle stared at Chen Mo vigilantly under the lamplight.

"This is a sunspot?" Chen Mo looked at his mother and grinned.

"Yes, when my son left, Kuroko was still a puppy, but now he has grown up." Chen Mo looked at Chen Mo lovingly, and behind him were Yun Si and Juan'er, who were accompanying Chen's mother.

"It's all so big, let me take a good look!" Chen Mo took a few steps forward in the dissatisfied cry of the sunspot, and reached out to grab its neck skin as if he was a child, the sunspot wanted to hide, but where could he dodge, and was picked up by Chen Mo.

"It was a small bean back then, but now it's so thick." Chen Mo touched Kuroko's lower body with a strange smile, and Kuroko struggled hard.

"Don't even recognize the owner? It's time to fight! Chen Mo slapped the sunspot on the head, without force, and then put the sunspot on the ground, and stepped forward to face his mother is a bear hug: "Mother, the child is like a mother." ”

"My son has grown taller and stronger." Mother Chen hugged Chen Mo's face and looked at it carefully: "It's been very hard all these years, right? ”

"It's not bitter, the child is also considered a high authority now." Chen Mo grinned.

"Mother is talking about the heart." Mother Chen sighed and said: "With my son's background, I can get to this point, and the calculations and risks involved are really unimaginable for my mother." ”

For Chen's mother, it doesn't matter how much Chen Mo has accomplished, she just wants her son to live a more comfortable life, but in life, many things are unsatisfactory.

"It's not bitter to see my mother." Chen Mo smiled without his usual calmness and wisdom.

Yun Si looked at Chen Mo's appearance, inexplicably a little sad, and whispered to Juan'er: "It's the first time I've seen my husband look like this, and the same is true in the past?" ”

"Juan'er hasn't seen it either." Juan'er shook her head blankly, she had never seen such a son, Chen Mo had always shown himself as calm, wise and resolute, whether by Zang Hong's side or later in Luoyang.

"That's how you look like a young man~" Yun Si said with a smile.