More than ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and those soldiers in Suizhou City walked more than thirty times, and they couldn't stand Li Yan's training for them. It's easy to say, but it's extremely difficult to do.

And one thing they do is to stand up, and they have to stand where they are with their chests held high. At first it was half an hour, a quarter of an hour, but then it became longer and longer, and they were asked to stand for an hour. You can't move in the middle, otherwise you won't be given food.

Those bad-tempered officers and soldiers all tried to resist, but Li Yan's soldiers were not vegetarians, and they directly lined up to press over, even if fifty or sixty people resisted, they were still beaten all over the ground by more than thirty people. If it weren't for the wooden sticks and scabbards that removed the head of the spear, those who resisted would have died long ago.

Therefore, some soldiers couldn't stand it and chose to leave. Li Yan also spoke his word, and he didn't embarrass them, he really let them go, and he didn't care where he went. The rest of the soldiers endured for a stone and a half of food a month, after all, the most important thing is to feed their families.

As soon as the ten-day period passed, the training changed a bit, and the equipment and queues began to be trained. With the previous ten days of training, the soldiers already have a sense of obedience, and it is relatively simple to train the others.

The soldiers who were divided into two teams, the untrained team had to patrol the streets to help defend the city head and the city gates. The appearance of these soldiers has changed a lot, and they are simply the same as before. Not only have they been trained to have a greater sense of obedience, but they have also re-learned military discipline and punishment measures, and they have also become much more honest, and they dare not show their bad habits of eating for nothing and oppressing the good.

At the same time, the resettlement of displaced people outside the city and the establishment of forts were also carried out at the same time. These leaders were all drawn from Huang Desheng to help the displaced people choose their addresses, guide them to build walls, allocate fields, and so on.

Today, Li Yan invited all the big families in the city to come over. The Yuan family, the Tang family, the Ye family, and so on were all invited.

Li Yan and the others all came, and said, "Everyone, I have asked you to come here today because I have something to tell you. ”

The old housekeeper of the Yuan family arched his hand and said, "General, please speak." "Yuan Keli has no brothers, and only one son, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu was an official in Liaodong at this time. Yuan Shu's sons were all studying, and they were impatient with these mundane things, so they sent an old butler over. But the Yuan family's influence in Suizhou is the greatest, and even the housekeeper sent is the first to speak.

Li Yan said: "I brought troops over to suppress the thieves, but the food and salary of the court was not good. Therefore, Ben will need to reach out to the gentry. ”

Steward Yuan hugged his fists and said: "Please also ask the general to make it clear, we can do what we can and work hard to support the general." ”

Li Yan smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's not the specific money and grain, but the twenty percent income of the gentry's grange." As for the shops in your home, all kinds of shops are less collected, and they are all customized. If there is no objection, let's do so. ”

At this time, his soldiers handed over a few pieces of paper to the people present, which was the proportion of commercial taxes imposed by Qi County. The necessities of life are less, only one percent. And luxury goods are to be collected more, such as gold and jade jewelry, which has reached as much as 30%.

Everyone watched carefully, and the more they looked, the more frightened they became, and one by one their brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Only Steward Yuan is light-hearted, anyway, no matter what it is, he can't make up his mind, just a messenger.

Ye Juren and the others knew that Steward Yuan was unreliable at this time, so they could only say it themselves.

"General Li", Ye Juren said stubbornly: "This is not appropriate, right? We all have the grace of the imperial court and are exempt from paying some taxes. Isn't this a tax? And they also have to collect money from shops, isn't this to compete with the people for profit! If the goods of the shops are sold at a high price, are they not the people who are sinned? The general should be cautious? ”

Li Yan said with a smile: "You have also seen the proportion of money collected, such as grain, cloth, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, these are all one percent of the amount, and there is almost no impact." For those extravagant things, you can set the price as you like, I don't care. ”

"General Li," the second master of the Tang family said dissatisfiedly: "All the imperial court has its own customization, general, you set up another set here, is there still a imperial court in your eyes?!" ”

Li Yan looked at the second master of the Tang family and said lightly: "Tang Hussar, I will inform you here." Whether you agree or not, I will take it when the time comes! If there is no food, how can my soldiers fight to kill the thieves?! The soldiers were injured and died, how can the soldiers be relieved to get rid of the bandits without a pension?! The court only gave me an edict, and there was nothing left! If you could give me the bread and pay, the general would not stretch out his hand to you. ”

Now everyone stopped talking, and now it is impossible to ask the court for food and salary. Even if it is a natural disaster in Henan now**, the imperial court still added the "Lian Rice" of Tongzhou brown rice, which is eight cents per stone, but it will be collected from tomorrow.

Now Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are also making trouble at the junction of Henan and Huguang, King Xiang and King Fu were killed one after another, and it seems that it is time to raise a large army again, and it is strange that they can pay food and pay now. And they don't have this weight, so they can ask for food from the court.

Li Yan continued: "Everyone, you are giving out all this money and food for your family property. As long as I am here, I can ensure the stability of the entire Suizhou, without thieves, and you will be the one who benefits in the end. You've tried it this year, but it's not just a little bit like 20%, right? ”

Ye Juren thought for a moment and said, "General Li, if you want food, we will try our best to meet it." But you~, it's not as simple as asking for some food, right? ”

"I forgot to say just now, as long as you pay these harvests, you don't have to take care of the rest, and I will pay the taxes of the imperial court." Li Yan added.

Xiang Yuan, Tang, and Ye didn't react, after all, they all had a way, and they basically didn't have to pay the taxes of the imperial court. Only a few other families were slightly interested, but only slightly. Without the immunity of the imperial court, they also have a good relationship with the officials in the state and county, and it is just a little risky to let those small people hand over their share.

Li Yan saw that everyone didn't react, so he said: "Okay, Li has already notified you, please go back." However," he paused for a moment, glanced at these big households, and then said: "If you have any drastic actions, Li can't guarantee that there are no thieves and strongmen in this city!" ”

In the face of Li Yan's threat, those big families all had black faces and gritted their teeth, but they didn't dare to say anything else. They all bowed their hands to Li Yan, and then left the barracks without saying a word.

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