Chapter 35: Speech and Commerce (1)

Under the silent mountains, there was a figure moving, and there were flickering torches, silent, even the air was frozen, only the darkness was boundless......

The last enemy had already gathered on the ridge in front of him, and there was nowhere to escape, just waiting for Xu Qing to give the order to attack.

But Xu Qing ordered to be stationed at the foot of the ridge to rest, because he was tired, the soldiers were tired, and the horses were tired. Although the enemy on the mountain was vulnerable by virtue of the superiority in numbers, Xu Qing did not want to pay a greater sacrifice for this. Whose life is not life?

Xu Qing didn't sleep all night, and the next day, when it was just dawn, Xu Qing ordered to set fire to the mountain! With the way of others, they also governed their bodies, they set fire to the dark camp, Xu Qing didn't play with fire? That's a loss of momentum. Moreover, in the previous battle, it has been confirmed that the other party should be a battalion of dead soldiers, and there is no one left alive, rather than letting his soldiers attack like ants, it is better to burn him with a fire. Light.

The fire spread quickly, redder than the newborn sun......

To put it simply, the people on the mountain couldn't help the fire spreading, and they were resurrected from the ground to death, and they launched several breakthroughs, but they were still shot back with arrows by Xu Qing's command. In the end, the leader of the other party wanted to break the net with Xu Qingyu, and took the already small number of people to attack Xu Qing's middle tent, but unfortunately he was just overwhelmed.

There is no suspense in winning the battle, but Xu Qing does not look happy at all. Happiness and revenge, in charge of life and death, is actually under a lot of pressure. There was another thing that made Xu Qing unhappy, before the leader died, he left words for Xu Qing from afar:

"You dare to use the official army against us, you have broken the rules! Wait for the people above, and be furious! ”

Xu Qing is very depressed, who did he offend? How can the rules be broken when the official army is used?

From the murder case in the Huangjia Salt Shop last time to the revenge of the dark river, Xu Qing is facing an opponent, but Xu Qing can't even figure out who the opponent is. Swatted the flies on the ground, but there was no tiger behind them, the key is that the flies are still coming one after another......

I knew it earlier, and I didn't care about the Huang family's Na Lao Shizi......

After Dark River came back, he brought back a definite news, the person Xu Qing offended was from Chang'an, but there was no more specific news. It was another broken clue, Xu Qing was tickled in his heart, and he was helpless.

Dark River suffered a lot of losses and urgently needed to replenish blood, so Xu Qing directly arranged them into the army and asked them to secretly collect people who could be cultivated. On the other hand, Xu Qing was also "honest" a lot, and he didn't run around anymore. Rebuilt a batch of fires. guns, equip Xun Xue'er and the three daughters, just in case.

The battle in the dark camp should have caused great damage to the other party, and the days seemed to be calming down......

After a month, the grain in the fields began to be harvested, and the golden fields were eaten away by the sickles, leaving behind piles of straw and black fertile land. The straw can be dried in the field, and it can be taken home to mend the roof, make beds, and make firewood.

Someone from Luonan came over, bringing over a lot of products from Xu Qingtian, as well as dozens of big white pigs. This can make Xu Qingle bad, he hasn't eaten pork for more than half a year, where do those pigs outside who grew up eating Shi dare to eat?

In the harvest season, every family has a surplus, but every family also has a shortage, so it is necessary to use the excess to exchange the insufficient. So as soon as the harvest season comes, the merchants begin to move. If industrial products are exchanged for agricultural products from the peasants and then bought from the handicraftsmen, if they are transported to places where there is a shortage of grain, they will immediately make several times the profit.

Xu Qing's tax is very low, basically only enough for Xu Qing to hand over to the treasury and pay his salary. The bandits are gone, there is no need to pay protection money, and this year's harvest is not bad, and the people's families can finally live a peaceful and happy year, and even pork has become scarce. From the end of the Sui Dynasty to this year, Xu Qing came to Cangzhou, the people of Cangzhou can be regarded as the first fat year, and the people in order to thank Xu Qing, the children born in the autumn of this year were named Xu.

The displaced people also have access to food, and when they do not lack food in their stomachs, they will think of other things to improve their lives. The displaced people spontaneously organized themselves to build houses, pave bridges and roads, and most importantly, build a temple - Xu Thorn History Temple.

When Xu Qing heard this, he happily changed into civilian clothes and went to the Xu Thorn History Temple to see his own statue. But I only saw a portrait of a lewd middle-aged man with a big belly and a long beard, and the good officials in the hearts of the people looked like this?

This kind of personality cult is undesirable and unaffordable...... Xu Qing unceremoniously took a big apple on the altar and ate it, but was chased out by the broom of Miao Zhu, this is not the end, out of the Xu Thorn History Temple, Miao Zhu beckoned passers-by to chase Xu Qing together, if Xu Qing didn't run into Cangzhou City, otherwise he would really have to be flattened by the angry "believers".

In the days when Xu Qing and the family were in a commercial war, Xu Qing issued a decree: Cangzhou is exempt from road tax. But after the end of the commercial war and even the extinction of the family, Xu Qing has always "forgotten" to take back the decree. This led to an increase in the number of caravans in Cangzhou City, and there were signs of prosperity.

Xu Qing stood on the city wall and watched a team of goods transported into Cangzhou City, and another team of goods were transported out, drooling like that......

With so many merchants, how many accounts should there be on that day? Draw a little bit, and how much money will there be? Although the tax drawn is in the public account, isn't the entire Cangzhou in Xu Qing's hands, and he takes as much as he wants.

Xu Qing will not collect the tax in kind, and the small income of that thing discourages the merchants, once the levy is started, the prosperity of Cangzhou City will disappear as quickly as a bubble. What Xu Qing wants to collect is value-added tax......

In the past, the tax system was that a bucket of rice was shipped over, and no matter how much you sold it, you would take a tenth of it when you entered the city anyway. One-tenth of it is for the imperial court, and the tax collector's hardship expenses are calculated separately, such as tea, foot expenses, wear and tear, and pest fees. This kind of tax system is very unreasonable for merchants, it is good to make up for the loss of the tax part, but if they do not make money, they will have to make the caravan lose blood until they vomit blood because of the few taxes drawn. Therefore, the former merchants, if they were not completely sure, easily refused to sell the goods.

The value-added tax to be levied by Xu Qing is different, taking the same example, a bucket of rice costs ten cents, and if it is sold for twenty cents, then a penny tax will be charged. That is to say, if a runner does not make any money, he can still recover the goods in their original form without taking off one-tenth. This time, the risk of businessmen is greatly reduced, if there are goods in hand, don't they come to Cangzhou to take a look first?

But how is the tax collected? Who collects taxes?

This system requires two aspects to work together. On the one hand, the businessmen have to cooperate, if they falsify the accounts, and the profit is ten cents, but he insists on saying that the tax will not be collected. Of course, Xu Qing can officially check the accounts, but the businessmen who can't stand it unite to fight against it, and in the end, they will go to the old road of confrontation between officials and businessmen.

On the other hand, it is the quality of the tax collector. The king of Hades is easy, the little ghost is difficult, and the tax collector is the little ghost, if they disobey the yang and the yin, set up a name for the subordinates, and conceal the private reports from the superiors, they will still be the same as before.

The system is undecided, talent first, let's hold a job fair first!

A large red paper was pasted on the notice board at the entrance of the vegetable market, and two mighty and majestic soldiers stood on both sides of the red paper. Passers-by look, huh? It's red paper, it's a happy event! Is it time for another tax cut? Hurry up...... Huaxia has loved to follow the crowd since ancient times, and after a while, the billboard was crowded with people, and it was impenetrable, even if few people present could understand the things on the billboard.

"Squeeze ...... Squeeze ...... Let me take a look first......" A skinny guy squeezed in, patted his chest, stood in front and looked proudly, "I know how to read, I will read to everyone......"

"Oh, I can't see it, you're still literate?" A person said with questions.

"I'm calling a real person without showing ......," the thin guy read, "Recruit ...... One long, two, dry ...... Fifty, one hundred! ”

"That's it, that's it? I think that's a lot of words......"

The thin guy's yellow face turned red, he had helped the shopkeeper manage the accounts for a few days, he saw that there were a lot of numbers on the billboard, and immediately jumped out, but he only recognized the numbers on the billboard, and where did he recognize the other words, so he had to slip down.

Seeing that the onlookers were chaotic again, there was a humane in the crowd: "Zhang Shusheng is here, he is literate, let him see ......"

Everyone looked back and saw a person holding a paper fan leisurely, closing his eyes and recuperating. Everyone scolded in their hearts, you want us to give way, don't you say a word and it's over, what are you pretending to be profound? It's just that everyone still made up an empty passage and let the scholar go to the bulletin board with pride. The scholar shook his head, looked at the bulletin board and read:

"Recruitment: The new commercial tax department of the Assassin Mansion recruits one director, two deputy directors, fifty officers, and one hundred street patrols. From now on, interested parties will go to the Thorn History Mansion for an interview within 10 days and will be admitted on the basis of merit. Specially, no one can ......"

When everyone heard this, an old farmer who went into the city to sell rice said:

"This, this Assassin's Mansion is recruiting long-term workers?"

Now that the grain in the field has been harvested, he is trying to do some odd jobs to supplement the family. When the other old farmer heard this, his eyes lit up:

"I heard that this new assassin is a very good person, even the homeless people work and give big white rice to eat, if he hires long-term workers, the salary will not be short!"

A butcher laughed: "Hahaha, you two foolish old men, Lord Thorn Shi is a tax collector......"

The scholar listened, and nodded pretentiously: "Ran, ......."

"Hey...... And, ah, it seems that there are no conditions yet, you two old men to be officials? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare ......," the two old farmers quickly shook their heads. They don't dare to say it, but others secretly care in their hearts, even if they are a small patrol street, isn't it an iron rice bowl and eats imperial grain? Glory to the ancestors! This time I recruit 100 people at a time, am I worse than others?

The scholar looked disdainful: "Oh, a tax collector, where can he be considered an official?" But the tax collector is also a member of the court, how can anyone go, this thorn is confused, it is insulting! ”

After the scholar finished speaking, he drifted away......