Chapter 71, paving into acres
Jianshan Customs is just a whim of Emperor Ling, and the name is just an accident, and it is not the same thing as the Shanhaiguan that took six dynasties to repair and expand during the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhang Hao took tens of thousands of young people to build a city about the same size as Linyu County in nearly four months, towering between the mountains and the sea, and it was completed.
Unlike Linyu County, it is not inhabited by ordinary people, but only used to garrison the army and hoard supplies.
At the same time, Fang Zhu and Mi Zhu also settled the people before spring ploughing. Then, as long as there are no problems with this year's autumn harvest, everything can be on track.
After doing these things, Zhang Hao can finally officially go to Xiangping to take office. By the time he arrived in Xiangping, the year's spring ploughing had just ended.
Now it's time to prepare for the big things.
The first thing Zhang Hao did was to summon high-ranking officials above 1,000 stones from the four counties of Pingzhou to Xiangping for a meeting and give them work content and indicators.
Although Zhang Hao is a assassin, he exercises the power of the state pastor. Even Taishou is considered his subordinate. So after receiving the summoning order, most of the high-ranking officials set off.
Since Zhang Hao's summoning order was issued on his way to Xiangping, and because he was traveling by land, which was even slower than the speed of the messenger, high-ranking officials from all over the country could rush to Xiangping within the time of Zhang Hao's arrival.
In the Xiangping Assassin's Mansion, it was already full of high-ranking officials who came at this moment.
Sitting in the front row are Zhang Qi, the Taishou of Xuansu County, Wang Peng, the newly appointed Taishou of Changli County, and Yang Ji, the Taishou of Lelang County.
Zhang Hao's recommendation of Mi Zhu to serve as the county guard of Liaodong was rejected, and the reply was that Jia Ren was not allowed to be an official.
Although Zhang Hao knew that this was the Taifu Yuan Kui who was in charge of the audit deliberately making things difficult for him, this reason was too strong, and he was speechless.
If you really want to talk about it, the Mi family has been in business for generations, but the person recorded in this household registration is no longer a businessman, so he can also be an official.
However, who made his family too rich, even if there is no problem with the procedure, but this method of covering his ears and stealing the bell can't change other people's cognition.
There is no way, Zhang Hao can only appoint him to be a different driver first, and this Liaodong Taishou is still led by Zhang Hao.
When everyone arrived, Zhang Hao got straight to the point and went straight to the point: "First of all, the first thing is a small thing, due to a large number of people moving into Pingzhou, now the original two military towns of Liucheng and Yangle in Changli County have been expanded into administrative districts and changed to Liucheng County and Yangle County. And Fang County and Xiandu County are under the governance of Liaodong County, can Wang Taishou have any objections? ”
Fang County is Zhang Hao's basic plate, and the people there are most convinced of him, and the people's hearts are towards him. And the pastures, test fields, and so on are all there, so of course you can only rest assured when you hold them in your own hands.
As for the danger, it was Zhang Hao's request to look better on the map. Otherwise, there is such a place in the middle of the entire Liaodong Plain that is under the control of other counties, and it is awkward to look at it.
Wang Peng, who was about fifty years old and looked a little fairy-like, asked Zhang Hao: "I don't know about this, can the assassin be based on the edict of the Son of Heaven or the decree of the Taifu?" ”
"When I came, His Majesty ordered me to take full charge of the affairs of Pingzhou, and the edict is here." As he spoke, Zhang Hao took out the edict given to him by Emperor Ling.
I have to say that Zhang Hao's promise to Zhang Rang to give him a thousand gold every year in the future is still very worthwhile, if Zhang Rang did not slander Emperor Ling, then Zhang Hao would definitely be restrained in Pingzhou in the future.
"In that case, everything is left to the history of assassination."
Zhang Hao nodded: "Okay, then the next topic." When I was the prefectural governor of Fang County, I established the first government-run ranch in Fang County, and this ranch can now provide livestock to the whole county, which not only helps farming, but also provides meat for the people, and the effect is remarkable.
Therefore, I hope that this year, eight more pastures will be built on the wasteland of the eight counties of Danger, Wuxi, Wangping, Liaohu, Xiangping, Liaoyang, Houcheng, and Gaoguli. Zhang Taishou, these three counties of Liaoyang, Houcheng, and Gaoguryi are under your rule, are you okay? ”
This gray-haired Zhang Qi is slightly obese, and he is the most famous one in the history of these county guards.
A few years later, Zhang Qi Zhishi returned to his hometown of Ganling. After Dong Zhuo moved west with Emperor Xian, Zhang Qi was sent by Yuan Shao and Han Fu to Youzhou to persuade Liu Yu to become emperor. Because of this incident, he left his name in history as a background board.
The old Zhang Qi spoke very energetically: "The subordinate officer receives the order." ”
As the meeting progresses, large and small transactions are assigned. An hour later, Zhang Hao announced the last decree: "From now on, I will send people to thoroughly investigate all the acres of land in the four counties of Pingzhou and their belongings." After the inventory was completed, Pingzhou, as a pilot in the world, began to try to spread the land into acres. That is, the tax is not levied on a per capita basis, but on the amount of land owned by each family......"
"The lower officials have objections!" Le Lang, who had never had a sense of existence, guarded Yang Ji too much, and suddenly stood up and raised his voice against it.
Zhang Hao didn't annoy him because his words were interrupted, and asked patiently, "What objections does Yang Taishou have?" ”
Yang Jiyi said rhetorically: "The assassination of history is a big mistake, since ancient times, the imperial court has collected taxes according to the number of people, this is the ancestral system, and it is also the country's capital, how can it be moved lightly." Besides, our Han is based on agriculture, and agriculture is based on the field, if the land is taxed, it is to compete with the people for profit, I am afraid that it will provoke the people to resist, and then it will be even more unprofitable for the people. ”
The other two county guards were also lost in thought.
Zhang Hao sneered in his heart: What he said is better than what he sings, the so-called "people" in Yang Ji's mouth is probably not the people who occupy the majority, but the powerful and powerful landlords of the scholars.
"Why did Yang Taishou say this, the land in this world is limited, if the tax is collected according to the land, the tax is a fixed number. In this case, the people will pay less taxes, how can this be a competition with the people? This is for the benefit of the people. ”
Yang Ji jumped a little, he thought to himself: This is indeed the case, but in this way, when collecting taxes from the people, the room for maneuver is not small, which is to cut off the financial route of the majority of colleagues.
Moreover, aren't the people and the "people" two different concepts, how many of the people are yeoman farmers nowadays, and they have land in their hands, aren't most of them tenants of the "people" family? If they don't have land, they don't have to pay taxes, but the "people" have to pay several, tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times the taxes.
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, Yang Ji's family is now the big landlord in Changli County, if he really wants to do this, he will definitely not agree.
"Anyway, this law is not appropriate, if Lord Assassin Shi is really worried about the people, he can meet the tax with His Majesty."
Hmph, tax reduction? If the tax is reduced, will the landlord's tenant rent be reduced? It is not they who are powerful, but what does it have to do with the majority of the poor people.
"I have obtained the permission of the Son of Heaven to take full charge of the Pingzhou pilot, which is to test whether this law is suitable and must be implemented. I did not seek Yang Taishou's opinion, and your objection is invalid. ”
Zhang Hao made a final decision and made a decision directly, ignoring Yang Ji's resentful eyes.