The subject states around the counties of Yizhou have existed for a long time, and Man Pet naturally knows about it.

"The minister knows that it is set up by the barbarians who come to the border land to settle the barbarians, and the border counties often have it, and a piece of land is divided into a county outside the county, which is called a county vassal state, which is generally supervised by the imperial court, and the head of the tribe is autonomous, and ......"

Man Chong suddenly understood what Guo Peng meant, paused, and said: "Basically no taxes are paid, just symbolically pay some tribute, and the barbarians in the country often have rebellions to plunder the prefectures and counties, in order to quell these rebellions, the former Han court also wasted a lot of effort, but often there is no follow-up." ”

"That's right, since you don't pay taxes, you will rob the states and counties, and rob me of the taxes that belong to me, isn't that against me? There is no need for such a person to exist. ”

Guo Peng hooked the corners of his mouth: "I will not allow the subject countries to appear again, I will all the subject countries nationwide to be leveled and banned, starting from Yizhou, you go to Yizhou to do the history of assassination, you must coordinate the manpower and material resources of each county and county, and be prepared."

After Shuzhong is settled, I will order the ban on the subject states of each county, and from now on the barbarians are not allowed to be attached, and let Le Wenqian lead the army to pacify the barbarians in the subordinate countries of each county, destroy them all, kill those who resist, and turn the captured population into coolies to build roads.

I estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of barbarians in Yizhou, and there must be hundreds of thousands of men, and you can take part of these hundreds of thousands to build Shiniu Road and Nanzhong Road, and give the rest to Chen Gongtai, so that he can continue to repair Qishan Road and Luogu Road, and when the road is almost repaired, it is time to open up Nanzhong. ”

Man Pet understood Guo Peng's train of thought.

"In this way, it does not cost the people of Shuzhong, but also repairs roads, improves traffic and public security, and kills one stone, isn't it beautiful?"

"Well, this kind of good thing can't be missed, and when Nanzhong is pacified, there will be more barbarian coolies to use, and more roads can be built, the same is true of Yangzhou before, and now Jingzhou, Wen Qian attacked the four counties of Jingnan before, and captured tens of thousands of barbarians in the four counties, and I sent them to repair the roads."

Guo Peng looked happy.

It's not that Man Chong doesn't understand why the emperor wants to build roads, so for his road repair, Man Chong is going all out to help.

He always felt that the emperor would build roads wherever he went, and road construction became as important as governing the place, and even the first priority.

Some people felt that such a move was not very good, and the emperor was a little strange.

The roads that have been built in all directions on the land of the Central Plains, and those smooth roads that can run carriages do not know how much money and manpower and material resources have been spent.

The emperor did not levy taxes on the commercial property of a considerable part of the family, which was basically equivalent to building roads for them for free, and the Haoqiang clan made a lot of profits by organizing caravans to travel around.

In this regard, some officials in the DPRK and China could not look past it, believing that the imperial court spent so much money, and on the premise that it could not reduce expenditure, it should be even more open-sourced, so taxes should be levied on these wealthy businessmen.

This suggestion was immediately opposed by many officials, saying that the city tax and the city gate tax already existed, and how to collect them? Even the taxes that were not in the previous dynasty have to be added today?

Some officials took out the examples of Mi and Cao, saying that the examples of Mi and Cao should be used, businessmen go south and north to make a lot of profits but do not pay taxes, and in the long run, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and something will happen!

Most of those who support it are from families that are not engaged in business, and most of those who oppose it are those who have interests in their families or relatives' families, and everyone's butts sit in different places, and the methods of discussing problems are naturally different.

It is natural and pleasant to do this kind of thing with generosity, let alone in the name of national justice.

Those who have vital interests will naturally feel the pain, and opposition is natural.

Since October of the first year of Yande, such a controversy has been widespread, but Guo Peng, as the emperor, has not responded positively to this matter, and some confidants and ministers know what the reason is.

As a confidant, Man Zhong knew that this matter was essentially a compromise between the emperor and the powerful family.

He built roads to make it easier for these guys to make money, but he didn't raise taxes, so when he wanted to implement the salt and iron monopoly, the opposition of the sober-minded wealthy and powerful households was relatively weak, which was basically equivalent to pretending.

This is of course because of Guo Peng's great power and prestige, but there are also factors in this regard.

protected part of their interests, so when the emperor deprived them of another part of their interests, they did not jump to their feet and oppose it.

Make an exchange, so as not to let the emperor directly attack them, so that the world is not yet unified and the internal instability is not stable.

Does the emperor really not want to attack those rich and oily merchants?

It's nothing more than that they also have their own backers behind them, tracing back to the source, or among the official groups in front of the emperor, whether to levy taxes or not, not in the merchants, but in the court.

In fact, Man Chong also knows that Guo has far-reaching plans for doing things, and everything he does is not something he thinks of for no reason, it must have its intentions.

At one time, everyone did not understand why the emperor was so obsessed with building roads, was it just to facilitate the conduct of war?

Later, I realized that these roads are too important in terms of people's livelihood and business, and they are also of great help in the implementation of new policies.

Because the existence of these roads facilitated commerce, commerce flourished, and the emperor did not raise taxes, so when the emperor implemented the salt and iron official camp, the opposition was much weaker.

The emperor did not use his supreme prestige to suppress it, but made a compromise in a certain sense, and when the unification war was going on, he maintained internal unity to the greatest extent, so that the Guo Wei regime could unite with the outside world and not split internally.

How could the founding emperor of the Great Wei Empire be a simple character?

From the son of a county order to the throne of the emperor, will such a figure be simple?

No one would think so.

Therefore, the emperor was obsessed with building roads, or in order to consolidate his rule, and as his confidant, Manzhong knew that he must follow his footsteps in everything, must work together with him in everything, and his orders must be fulfilled.

This is his way of surviving as an official who has made many enemies in the DPRK and China.

Not to mention anything else, the grievances with Cao Hong are not simple to resolve.

And the smart man doesn't want to resolve it, the relationship with Cao Hong is not good, it is also a good thing for him, if he gets too close to the Cao family, Guo Peng may not be happy.

Cao Cao, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, and the children of the second generation of the Cao family, and even the crown prince Guo Jin has half of the Cao family's bloodline, as the emperor, will Guo Peng pay attention?

The Cao family itself is the most important part of the Qijia Yuancong group, and there is a lot of influence in both the military and political circles.

At present, there are also many people in the DPRK who are not clear about the power of the Cao family, and they like to get closer to the Cao family, and there is a tendency to form parties for personal gain.

Man Chong knows very well that Liu Bang and the Lu clan and Liu Ying's example Guo Peng will not know that the descendants are too strong and it is not a good thing for the royal family.

Therefore, the full favor who married Guo's daughter knew that as a royal relative, he should not have a good relationship with the Cao family at all, but should target the Cao family to a certain extent, suppress the Cao family, and have a bad relationship with the Cao family.

In this way, their own value will be greatly enhanced.

Anyway, his wife is the daughter of the Guo family, a woman of the royal family, he is equivalent to a relative of the royal family, with this identity, the Cao family wants to take revenge on him?

When Guo Peng is blind?

Man Zhong took Guo Peng's order seriously, and then placed his children and parents in Luoyang, and he got up and rushed to Yizhou with only his wife.