As the generals under Liu Bei's command went to their respective defense areas one by one, a large number of generals and soldiers who were originally stationed in Yecheng also left one after another.

In the end, even Wenchen gradually began to follow the army and left, and Yecheng, which was originally surrounded by the army, became much more deserted, but Yecheng became more prosperous.

The withdrawal of a large number of military camps and the departure of a large number of soldiers ended the military management of Yecheng, and Yecheng, which was originally depressed because of the war, once again regained its original popularity.

After all, it is one of the most prosperous cities in the north, and after ensuring that food and grass are worry-free and more suitable trade policies are injected, the prosperity of commerce has led to the prosperity of the whole city.

However, in general, Yecheng is unable to reach the level of Fenggao's commercial prosperity to the extent that it has suppressed agriculture, and the positioning of the two sides is different from the beginning, Fenggao's positioning is the center of the world's commerce, while Yecheng's positioning is a military strategic town in the north.

In the feudal era, in the era when manpower could not be completely stripped from the land, there could not be too many commercial centers like Fenggao in the world.

If food and clothing cannot be solved, even basic materials will become a problem for commercial flow, so Chen Xi will not have the luxury of building a second commercial center in the world now, even if someone is constantly making noise, Chen Xi will not agree.

"Who proposed to change Yecheng's commercial tax this time?" Chen Xi squinted at Jia Xu, he didn't let him give an explanation last time, and he should give one this time.

"This is the appeal of Yecheng merchants, and we have now used a lot of Jizhou scholars, and they are also making efforts in this regard. After all, the changes in Taishan County have indeed greatly increased our taxes. Jia Xu didn't dare to block Chen Xi's words again this time.

"Oh, to put it bluntly, it's Xuzhou. Yanzhou, Yuzhou. The demands of the states of Jizhou? Chen Xi raised his eyebrows, the appeal of Jizhou businessmen? Jokes, believe it or not, Chen Xi's side appealed through the people of Jizhou, and other states will also jump out to say that they also have this demand.

"That's true." Jia Xu nodded silently.

This is indeed the common appeal of all the states under the rule, and although the transaction tax is obviously beneficial for small businessmen, it is even more beneficial for large businessmen with the support of rich banks!

But there is a big problem here, it takes thousands of miles to transport goods to Fenggao, and it would be better if it could be nearby. The problem is that under Liu Bei's rule, only Fenggao is like this, and other states and counties have not completely adopted Fenggao's commercial tax.

In fact, this is a problem of the local economy and the central economy, and Chen Xi naturally developed and strengthened the local strength under the premise of consolidating the central government, and relied on political and economic means to control the local rule as much as possible.

He didn't want the last day that the local tail would not be big and become the same as the Assassin Zhou Mu in the late Han Dynasty, and the ruling power must be in the hands of the central government, so that it would be a unified country!

If each region had independent military and political forces, even if they were united around the leadership of the central government, would it still be called a complete empire? The Federation and the Empire are not the same thing at all. To be called a unified empire, at least the central government must have the power to overwhelm all local unions.

"Now that you know why, why did these things come to me?" Chen Xi looked at Jia Xu dissatisfied, Jia Xu, who had always been worry-free, actually had times when he added to the blockage.

"Because I think there's some truth to what they're saying." Jia Xu stared at Chen Xi with his eyes and said. "The tax revenue of Taishan County is basically comparable to the tax of Jizhou, the first of Kyushu, and money is very important to us."

"As things stand, there are probably less than 10 percent of the people under his rule who have been completely liberated from the land." Chen Xi was helpless. Even a wise man like Jia Xu can't jump out of the shackles of history, there is really no way.

"That's true. About 1 in 10 of our people are not productive. Jia Xu nodded and said, they have also measured this data. The other nine adults are basically farming.

"Among these people, there are about seventy percent of the businessmen who remove the family itself and the services of the family." Chen Xi felt that it was necessary to make things clear to Jia Xu, nothing was a one-step approach, if it was really the whole map transaction tax that could solve the problem, Chen Xi would have changed the business tax on the whole map a long time ago.

Jia Xu slightly measured the number of people, and nodded to indicate that this was indeed the case.

"Fifty percent of those who are out of work are our people, whether they are front-line veterans, low-level officials, or Tuntian soldiers, they should all be counted among them." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

"In the end, most of them are craftsmen with a bit of craftsmanship who can support themselves, which is why I don't recruit soldiers, and the same is why I don't engage in promotion and transaction tax." Chen Xi shrugged his shoulders and said again, ninety percent of the people are still struggling for land, and business is now at its limit.

"In other words, if we want to maximize tax revenues now, the most important thing we should do is to make the original nine people support one person to eight, which is less." Jia Xu frowned and said, thanks to which he could understand what Chen Xi said.

"In the past, it took about fifteen or sixteen people to support a jobless, so I always said that Hanmou was very important." Chen Xi sighed and said, this era is such a pit, what can you do.

The result of forcibly increasing the number of people out of production is that the people are not able to make a living, if the adult strong labor force is not enough, it is a very big problem, this era is a sinkhole, even food is not enough, you still want to develop business to increase taxes, first ensure that the people are fed!

"Therefore, according to my estimate, even if we promote the new farming method to the world and continue to increase the number of workers who are out of production, we will only be able to build two more trading offices in the world." Chen Xi has seriously considered this aspect.

There is no way, rather than merchants who are short of materials, it is better to do a good job of restricting them as early as possible, so that while there is a surplus of materials, the number of merchants in bulk trade is stable at a reasonable number, although this is not conducive to commercial circulation, but it is much easier to manage.

By the way, even in the afterlife, some trades cannot be done freely by individuals, and the number of merchants who are engaged in large trades has not yet reached the limit.

"Is that so?" Jia Xu also barely understood Chen Xi's thoughts, "It's that I didn't think it through, but dare to ask where are the other two trading points you chose?" ”

"One is in Luoyang, and the other is in Jiangling, Xiangyang or Wancheng, I haven't thought about it yet." Chen Xi was also a little hesitant, "Actually, if I can hit the Central Plains, I want to establish a trading office here." ”

Jia Xu silently remembered these places, especially the overseas point, and when he turned around, he went to prepare to enclose the land, which is the real chicken that lays golden eggs. (To be continued.) )