In short, in the eyes of Liu Zongyuan, this Wei Guogong will never reduce the taxes of Caizhou and Gwangju.

When he was in the hall before, this Wei Guogong also asked him: They all say that my methods in Caizhou are too cool, what do you think of Zihou?

As a result, what you say, don't harm the righteousness with small benevolence, and now I feel extremely ashamed to think about it.

At this time, Gao Yue was in the hall and continued:

I have a history of assassination in Huainan states, and the county orders of each county have only one job from now on, that is, to set a deadline, collect taxes, and collect all the taxes in the summer and autumn of this year as soon as possible! In addition, in the summer and autumn, the people are forbidden to litigate, harvest with all their might, transfer and pay taxes, and those who dispute to the government office will pay the rod and fine money and grain!

Hearing this, Liu Zongyuan only saw that Han Yu, the county magistrate of Jiangdu County, was extremely solemn in his seat, and when he heard the taxation, Han Huizhi, who had practical experience, understood that Wei Guogong's words were not a joke - the assassination of history and the county order, his job is to collect taxes, and everything else is false.

Alas, this Han retreated, that day in Dongwei Bridge was impassioned, what to write "Feeling the Two Birds Fu", angrily criticized the government, but it is really about the matter, I am afraid that he will definitely use all kinds of means to order the people to pay taxes, and he really said one thing and did another.

When Liu Zongyuan secretly complained, Gao Yue's plan was not broken like a cannon, and he said to Wang Haichao, the queen of Yangzi: "Please implement salt introduction in the whole territory of Huainan." ”

Wang Haichao's muscles at the corners of his mouth were obviously touched, and then he could only listen to it.

Gao Yue means: "In terms of salt and profit, we demarcate Huainan, Xuanrun, Sanchuan and Hedong." Sichuan salt and Xiaxia salt (salt from Kuifu) are sold to Jingxiang, Xie salt (salt from Hedong) is sold to Jinggi and Dugi, and Shuofang salt and Qishan salt are sold to Helong. For us in Jianghuai, Xuanrun's Suzhou salt is sold domestically in Xuanshe, eastern Zhejiang, and western Zhejiang, and exported to Jiangnan West Road and Fujian; The salt of Huainan is sold domestically in Yang, Chu, He, Shou, Lu, Chu, Shu, Cai, Ying, and Guang Kyushu, and exported to Eyue and Hunan. The boundaries of each security, to the military government published salt citation as a trust, no salt quotation of salt is regarded as private salt, salt quotation to ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred for the size of the denomination, Yangzhou salt merchants must pay cash in exchange for salt, and abolish the false valuation method, prohibit cloth in exchange for salt. ”

All the inspectors present were stunned.

This also means that the high profits of the entire Huainan salt merchants were suddenly cut off by Gao Yue.

Originally, the huge profits of salt merchants came from the false valuation method, using the so-called "four dollars and one horse" cloth to remove the equivalent value of salt, and then sell it to the people at a higher price.

Now it doesn't exist, and the salt farms in Yangzhou, that is, the production bases, are still in the hands of the government, so Gao Yue is very confident, don't take cloth to get salt in the future, we only accept cash.

"Gong Wei, what if the salt merchants don't come to get salt?" Wang Haichao still didn't give up, so he questioned.

Yes, the reason why the salt merchants used to be domineering was because the Tang Dynasty had set a quota of 6 million guan per year for salt profits in the southeast since the time of Liu Yan, so in order to complete this quota, the officials had to condone the salt merchants, and then exchange the salt profits for messy "light goods", and then mark the light goods at a high price, so as to make up enough for the 6 million guan on the book to prevaricate the imperial court.

In short, the market was previously dominated by salt merchants.

Gao Yue sneered at this.

Meng Zhongyang, who was patrolling the Shoulu Courtyard over there, understood it and immediately came out of the ranks, "Then my Salt and Iron Division is willing to take over the Yangtze Salt and Iron Institute and lead merchants from other states to market Huai Salt." ”

Wang Haichao was embarrassed.

If he doesn't do it, then Meng Zhongyang of the Salt and Iron Division will do it.

"Salt is owned by the state, boiled in seawater, and it is the salt farmers who work hard, does that group of salt merchants really think that the dominant power is in his hands? They don't want to ask for this profit, and some merchants in the world take their place. Gao Yue is completely confident in this, not only that, but Gao Yue also strongly stipulated:

"Since then, with the introduction of salt, the entire Huainan must not raise prices at will. In order to sympathize with the hard work of salt households, the salt cost rose to 25 wen per bucket; Merchants make salt, 125 Wen per bucket (excluding the salt book, 100 Wen belongs to the government), pay the money in exchange for salt marketing, the reserve price is 200 Wen, and then every 500 li, raise the price of 15 Wen, not arbitrarily increase the price, violators are heavily fined. ”

That is to say, the market price of salt sold to the people in Chu and Yang, which produces salt, is 200 wen per bucket.

After 500 miles, to the area of Shoulu, the market price is 215 Wen, and the extra 15 Wen is the foot power money;

Sold to Caizhou, Guangzhou, or Eyue, thousands of miles away, each bucket is 230 Wen.

In addition, every year, the government transports part of the salt at the reserve price in the salt works (the production of sea salt is actually much greater than the sales volume, but because of the government's monopoly, the excess part will not be put into the market), and it is stored in salt warehouses in various places, and once the price of Huainan salt fluctuates due to market reasons, it will use these salts to balance the price.

Hearing Gao Yue's words, Liu Zongyuan felt admiration in his heart again.

In the end, Wang Haichao cried with a sad face, and could only say that he obeyed the arrangement.

Gao Yue left the backyard for Yangzi to set up the task of the salt introduction system and take cash from the salt merchants.

This Gao Yue's power is much greater than that of a simple Huainan Jiedu envoy, and he also has unquestionable power over the entire Jianghuai Three Divisions' patrol court.

Then there is the Shoulu Patrol Hospital, Gao Yue gave Meng Zhongyang two tasks, one is to imitate the salt introduction, the same tea introduction and wine introduction, Gao Yue previously abolished the tea law, but in order to facilitate the tax collection, it is still ordered that all tea and wine must be obtained in the field to be marketed; The second task is to let the Shoulu Patrol Institute send additional manpower to be responsible for surveying the project of moving through the water and applying water to the Chaohu Lake in Jiminggang.

In this regard, Meng Zhongyang also accepted it.

Then Gao Yue stretched out his fingers, which were still scarred, and announced loudly to the audience, "In addition, this way wants to set up a new military government Jingjie Patrol Institute in Huainan, which is responsible for setting up tax fields and taxes in various important towns and market towns, and second, to thoroughly paint the fields of Huainan Kyushu, starting with the simplest Caizhou and Gwangju!" ”

He was directly under the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion and Huainan Jiedu Envoy, and Gao Yue immediately named him, and Sima Guxiu of the Governor's Mansion was the chief governor, and Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Zhan, and Pei Du were also listed in the list of inspectors - this list was read out by Gao Yue himself, which shows that he has been planning this matter for a long time.

"What, this also means that I want to act directly under the command of the Duke of Weiguo, and I still do things like tax collection and painting and farming......" Liu Zongyuan's psychological activities are very rich.

Gao Yue is definitely resolute, he claimed that the Jingjie Patrol Institute first set up two places, one in Yangzhou, let Gu Xiu co-ordinate and be responsible for setting up field affairs; One is in Runan, Caizhou, "known by Pei Zhongliquan!" Draw the Caizhou field boundary, and implement the armor protection. ”

As soon as these words came out, the four were shocked again.

Pei Du is only eight grades, but now he was promoted by Gao Yue to the level of the First Quan Zhi Academy, and Liu Zongyuan and others still have to work under him.

Even Han Yu had a jealous expression.