Chapter 872: Black-haired Iron Corpse
"Originally, there was no plague and there was no trouble, so it was actually possible to develop like this, but the throughput of commercial goods at the wharf has slowed down, and the decline in commercial taxes has become inevitable. At this time, either the business tax will be increased, the epidemic tax will be collected, or some less important industries will be bought off to the market. Tian Cailiang stopped Yan Shangao from speaking and said it himself.
He is a master, although he is also making up and eating imperial food, but he is not an official after all, and there are no taboos when he speaks.
Yan Shan Gao can't do it, this is the rule of officialdom.
This is also why the officials of the Great Song Dynasty always have their master's staff by their side. They need someone who speaks from the point of view of non-officialdom.
He Li shook his head and didn't say much, everyone quietly looked at the scene of hundreds of boats competing on the sea.
Raising the commercial tax is apportionment, and for the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, who is sitting in the sky, and the people are the sky, this is to dig his foundation.
No matter how cheap the merchant status is, it is also the Song people, and the official family who is often worried about the people of the Great Song Dynasty will be charged with the epidemic tax, for fear that they will be questioned.
Even He Li has no confidence that he will not be held accountable by the officials for raising business taxes, after all, there is a Zong Ze in front of him, who was almost held accountable, and when it comes to people's livelihood, no one dares to touch the string of the Great Song Emperor.
As for buying, it's even more important not to think about it.
In the Great Song Dynasty, this thing leads to a series of political problems, and it is an official casino-like purchase, and no one knows how this wharf will make a living this year and how much harvest it will have.
But since they have bought this dock merchant tax, they can't even get back the money they invested, and these giant businessmen are definitely not happy.
This has given rise to gang-like associations similar to the five prefectures of Ezhou, especially under the premise that the Great Song Dynasty Jieyi Society is widespread, this kind of gang-like society is really easy to breed.
It has been more than five years since the abolition of the buying system, and without continuous capital investment, the situation of gangs in the city and bandits outside the city has finally been alleviated.
This is not that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is unacceptable alone, and even the ministers of the court and the central government have to collectively attack.
He Li's fingers tapped repeatedly on the wall, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "I will first send a letter to Li Xiang to inquire about the style, see if the court can still send some money, and then put on a note to see if I can ask for money." If it doesn't work, then take a smaller step and take your time. ”
Tangkou is short of money, and the money casting workshop of the Great Song Dynasty can print money, and it can't satisfy the gluttonous appetite of the Great Song Dynasty, which is prosperous in commerce and trade, but at least there is a solution.
But at the moment, Yue Fei is short of food, not military food, and the military food is completely sufficient, but how can the military ration of the Great Song Dynasty be given to Huanglong Mansion?
Yue Fei had already arrived at Huanglong Mansion, but the most serious problem in Huanglong Mansion was not the plague, but famine.
When the Jin soldiers evacuated Huanglong Mansion, they were not prepared to leave a situation for the Great Song Dynasty to clean up, and after the grain and grass in the city were removed, the white rice in Huanglong Mansion had soared to the price of one bucket and two times. You must know that in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, one stone of white rice is only two times.
If the people of Huanglong Mansion have money, at least there will be businessmen who are greedy for money and risk their lives to transport to Huanglong Mansion, but the people who have been oppressed by the Jin people for a long time have no money in their hands.
This has created a peculiar phenomenon in which there are still grain stores that sell grain, but no one can afford it.
After thinking about it, Yue Fei stopped his intention to ask the Great Song Dynasty for food, not because he had harmed all the ministers in the court before, but because the food of the Great Song Dynasty was not enough.
The only extra grain was that the official family let three foreigners into the palace to show the open attitude of the Great Song Dynasty, and the grain and grass purchased from Zhancheng and the Western Regions, this grain and grass, about 300,000 stones, was prepared for disaster relief on the Yongxing Military Road.
This grain is a tool for the official family to completely disintegrate the Yongxing Army, he wants grain at this time, according to the official family's previous practice of what he Yue Fei wants, the Great Song Emperor will give something, this grain will most likely be misappropriated.
That's what to do with the people of Yongxing Military Road?
In Yue Fei's heart, the people of Yongxing Military Road were obviously greater than the people of Huanglong Mansion.
If the Huanglong Mansion really collapsed, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong would take a picture, take the Mountain Navy and the Hejian Army, and return to Linhuang City to watch the play.
Loving the people like a son is a quality that an official family should have.
They are the national army, a violent organization, and discussing with the generals that they love the people like sons, especially when this people still belong to the Jin people at the moment, it is obviously not valid here for Yue Fei.
It is even more impossible for him to take out his own military rations for relief, which is not in line with the rules, and it is not in line with his consistent style of Yue Fei loving soldiers like sons.
"This second child is really insidious and cunning, playing this trick really disgusting Ge Laozi." Han Shizhong looked at the grain on the account, slammed the table, stood up, and paced back and forth.
"It's a vicious move." Yue Fei also nodded, very tricky.
Saving land and losing people, losing people and land, is a holy parable of the official. At present, if you really want to occupy the situation of Huanglong Mansion, you really have to solve the dilemma of Huanglong Mansion.
Han Shizhong paced back and forth and didn't think of any good way, so he sat down on the couch and glared at Yue Fei: "Pengju, tell me, the people of Huanglong Mansion who are this special mother are Lao Tzu?" Isn't he the second one? He plays like this, isn't he afraid that he will have a son without eyes? ”
Yue Fei looked at Kanyutu, shook his head and said, "The second brother, he estimated that he was desperate for the Northern Expedition to the Mobei Provinces. ”
"First gather the grain in the city, and then distribute it to the people, let the bandits in Changlin move, send rice and noodles to the people's homes, gather together, and then the plague should spread again."
The plague in Huanglongfu is a pimple disease, which is what the official family calls bubonic plague, this kind of plague is relatively easy to deal with, and the way of transmission is still fleas and rats, Han Shizhong's method is still effective.
But even if it was a bubonic plague that was not too strong, the official army of the Great Song Dynasty did not enter the Huanglong Mansion, after all, there was a plague in the city.
If it was pneumonic plague, Yue Fei would never dare to approach Huanglong Mansion. It was a disease that everyone who saw it was infected and died in the twilight of the morning.
If the pneumonic plague really broke out, then there was no need to take any measures at all, just take the city and wait for everyone to die.
According to the explanation of plague by Dr. Hu Shen of the official family and the Imperial Hospital, pneumonic plague is a secondary plague, which is based on bubonic plague and sepsis plague, and after the patient infects the lungs, the disease becomes a virulent infectious disease that everyone can see.
Of course, there is also a type of plague that even Han Shizhong and Doctor Hu have never seen, that is, the pneumonic plague continues to develop uncontrollably, and it will become a terrible disease called [Black Death]!
According to the description of the official family, the body of the Black Death was purple-black after death, and after three days, the corpse was not burned, and the corpse would rise up and turn into a black-haired iron corpse!
This iron corpse will gnaw on any living thing it sees, and it will also accelerate the spread of the Black Death! In an instant, millions of big cities were mourned and iron corpses were born, and iron corpses were rampant on the streets, and purgatory on earth was true.
Although Doctor Hu proposed this iron corpse when describing the Black Death in the official family, why can he move without eating, and even Doctor Hu still wants to catch a black-haired iron corpse, grinding tofu is a good choice.
Of course, Yue Fei felt that it would be more cost-effective to pull the black-haired iron corpse down to Cizhou to dig coal.
But Yue Fei still believed in the official family's golden words.
Of course, he didn't believe in the idea of defrauding corpses, he believed that the officials were describing the horror of the Black Death.
PS: There will be another chapter in a moment.