In the battle of Penn Pond, more than 40,000 people were able to kill the Yellow Cave, and a huge Jingguan was built, and Gao Yue's plan to quickly attack the thieves was declared a success.

Even Huang Shaoqing's big drum, which symbolized authority, was captured by Gao Yue, the Duke of Weiguo.

Now he is beating this drum and summoning the slang commanders of the various states, which is actually a drill, a march into the West Plains, and a drill to divide and dominate the West Plains, no, it should be said that it is a drill to dominate the entire Lingnan West Road.

Yongguan, Rongguandi, as well as Qin, Lian, Leidi, and the slang handsome chieftains are here.

In front of the Yongguan Jingluo Mansion, they stood densely on the ground.

In the deep ebony hall, Gao Yue and Du You sat side by side on the Yin mat, with screens stretched out on both sides, and behind them stood warriors dressed in armor.

At first, no one spoke, only Gao Yue's three officials held stationery, and then this group of handsome slang fish crawled forward, signed and drew in the book, and after they were finished, they had to swear a curse and swear, and there was no deception.

Because the Duke of Weiguo and the Duke of Fufeng County (Du You) required all the slang marshals to report their "holes" or "villages", the number of households, and the number of fields, for Gao Yue and Du You, this is the "colonel reading", and for the slang marshal, it is "Fengnai edition".

Not only did the slang men of Lingnan come to Yongguan to visit Gaoyue, but the local Mo Yao was also ordered to participate in the Hajj.

Previously, Liang Lian, the commander of Mo Yaoqu in Datengxia in Xunzhou, resisted stubbornly and was unwilling to accept the edition, but was blocked on both sides of the canyon by the Wu Yi Army, the Qing Navy, and the Jingluo Army, and completely cleared up, and more than ten cave houses on all sides of Liang Lian were burned, and thousands of people were not spared.

As for Liang Lian himself, he bowed his head and tied his neck, and sent Luo Yueshui to Yongguan City, Gao Yue said to him: "Do you know how I watch you?" ”

Liang didn't answer.

Gao Yue said directly: "Before, you relied on the cave where you were located to be high on the top of the gorge, so you plundered the ships that transported salt from Guangfu along the Luoyue River. At first, Du Lingnan compensated you and others, and was willing to give you a bucket of salt for every ten stones, as transit money, but you couldn't fill it, and you were not satisfied with a bucket, and you still wanted to get a stone, and you were still not satisfied with a stone, so you simply killed people and overturned the boat, and plundered all the salt, money and rice. When the Huangdong barbarians invaded Yong, Heng, Xun, Bin, Rong, and Wudi, you were on the side to deal with the slang thieves, and you were asked to do everything you did. After the siege of the pond, Bendao sent someone to announce that you would come to Yongguan to listen to the government, but you still resisted stubbornly. Du Lingnan treated you before, like parents to a child, but you have become a proud son, the more sympathetic to you, the more you cry, although you are over forty years old, like a giant baby, this time I whipped you to bleed, still crying? ”

Liang was silent.

It's useless to say anything more.

However, thinking of the entire thirteen caves of Datengxia, 6,700 men, women, and children, all killed and slaughtered by the officials and soldiers, especially his own family, up to his parents in their eighties, and then his wife and children, all died under the blade, Liang Lian stared at Gao Yue at this moment, and looked at Gao Yue, and was resentful and annoyed, and really shed tears and cried.

Who wants Gao Yue to say, "The thief is crying and begging me to spare my life?" ”

The soldiers and warriors on all sides of the main hall shouted that they could not be spared.

When the scribe recorded the scene of "Yaoqu Liang leading, tied to the foot of Wei Gong, trembling and weeping, and kowtowing to forgiveness" on the scroll, Gao Yue ruled: How can you save your life if you cry now.

So the scribe picked up the pen and wrote, "Wei Gong said, if you have an unbearable heart, you will inevitably suffer from unbearable disasters...... The pen and ink have not yet run out, only to hear a crisp sound, the scribe raised his head.

In the courtyard, Liang Lian has been in a different place.

Therefore, at this time, ninety percent of the slang marshals and Yaoqu all came to the Yongguan Mansion with trepidation to accept the edition from Gao Yue and Du You.

But after really accepting the edition, Gao Yue was quite generous, and said to this group of people, the number of households you are talking about, in the future, the state will send the imperial history to verify, and on the issue of taxes, it was previously stipulated that Lingnan Han, Slang, Mo Yao and other households, only pay half of the tax rice is "half lost", from now on this Tao will be sent by the imperial court, in Lingnan to re-establish the detention of the state, you and so on for the "Tu Thorn History", "Tu Ju Division", "Tu County Order", "Tu County Cheng", etc., all have official ranks, and issued to silverfish, copper fish, official seal uniforms, post station legends, As for the official salary, it is also equal to the officials of the same level of the Tang family, if the monthly salary of this Tao is now one hundred and twenty yuan, and it is always one stone of rice, then as long as you sit on the same level as this road, it will be one hundred and twenty stone rice, or thirty stone of salt per month.

This group of simple slang and Yao leaders really thought that Gao Yue had so much "salary" every month, so they couldn't help nodding.

Then Gao Yue said again, the toast is not paid by the imperial court, and you wait for you to take it yourself in the tax of the county in the prefecture.

It turned out that the Tang Dynasty implemented the "southern election system" for Lingnan, because there were no Jinshi and Ming Jing who were willing to come to Lingnan as liuguan, so they simply let the governor choose officials from the natives himself, and then the state sent the imperial history to supervise, but this group of southern election officials all ate the money of the imperial court, so it was quite hypocritical.

Now Gao Yue simply let the Tusi officials eat themselves.

In return, Gao Yue was very generous, saying that Tusi was in charge of the state, and he didn't even need to "lose half" after that.

The taxes paid by the county are kept for themselves, one is to pay for the toast, and the other is to use it for local reclamation and production.

As for the large and small gold pits, silver pits, copper pits, tin pits, iron pits, cinnabar pits, etc., Du Lingnan and you have since "shelved disputes and jointly developed", and the profits obtained are divided into profits, isn't it beautiful.

This group of slang marshals and Yaoqu heard that Wei Guogong was willing to exempt them from taxes, and promised never to levy them, and said that they would develop mining and metallurgy together, and they were all overjoyed.

So everyone happily agreed.

In fact, in the mansion before, Gao Yue discussed with Du You:

"What is the use of collecting those tax rice from the slang people and Yao people now? Every year, it is looted, and it is only more than 100,000 stones (too backward), and it is not enough to pay for the foot power when it is sent to the Cao River, and it is easy to provoke riots. It is advisable to abolish the tax rice of Lingnan West Road, and the rice for the imperial court in the future can be supplied separately by Lingnan East Road. ”

"However, Lingnan West Road never produces salt."

"What Wei Gong said is very true, the salt of the states and counties in the western province all depends on the Qin and Lian of the eastern province and the production and transportation of Guangfu."

"Isn't that good, it's good to sell each bucket of salt to the states and counties of Xidao for a price of thirty yuan, and those slang Yao and others don't think it's bitter (indirect tax), and the profits are all in it. By the way, how to transport salt between the east and west roads of Lingnan, please Yidugong. ”

"Cangwu is a water transport hub, which undertakes the Luoyue water, Xunshui, Liushui, Guishui, and Qianshui from the west, and then goes straight to the east to Guangfu into the sea; As for Liushui and Qianshui, it can be connected to Hunan; Luo Yue water west to the Yong pipe here, divided into left and right streams (that is, left and right rivers), through the west of the original place. ”

"That's good, in addition to adding money to salt, Du Gong can also set up tax yards in each of the water transportation, extract the past taxes of goods, and let the states and counties of Lingnan West Road widely plant cutting, tea, and mint money with gold, silver, and copper. Isn't it the same as choking the throats of the toasts? ”

Not to mention anything else, salt alone is a magic weapon to strongly control Lingnan West Road.

But control alone is not enough, Gao Yue still has to ask for use.

At the same time of tax exemption, he also asked the slang marshal and Yaoqu to build a "Tutuan" based on the Tusi system.