Chapter 59 Taxation Matters Shaanxi Grand Plan

Several giants from Yaogang came to the command center one after another, and everyone was very happy to see Li Mao. Now these people in Yaogang are not in a good mood, and the front-line victories are one after another, making everyone happier than the festival, and seeing Li Mao inevitably greets each other and exchanges their own information.

Everyone was very concerned about the situation in the south of the Yangtze River that Li Mao was responsible for, because the eyes of the people of Yaogang had already crossed the Central Plains and looked south.

After the people arrived, Zhang Zhimu said: "Today it happens that Li Gongzi is back, and our leaders at home have also arrived, and the war in Shaanxi has become a foregone conclusion, and there are a few things we need to study." The first thing is that we in Shanxi will collect taxes this year, which is a test for our officials. It was not an easy task to collect taxes in all dynasties, and the fact that there was silver was also a test for our officials who had access to silver. ”

Speaking of taxation, Qiu Laodong took over and said: "Some time ago, I went around various places, and I also discussed with officials at all levels about taxation. Most of them still didn't find it too difficult. But they also made some suggestions. They said that the tax policy we formulated was much lighter than that of the original Ming Dynasty. However, while we need to light taxes, we must ensure that the collection is in place. It is necessary to formulate a strict punishment system for those who evade and resist taxes, and resolutely enforce it. Because the tax we have set is very low, it is unforgivable not to pay the tax again. They say that those who deliberately fail to pay their taxes on time will be fined one percent of the tax due for each day of delay; For those who deliberately evade taxes, a fine of ten times the tax; For those who maliciously resist taxes, their property will be confiscated and exiled. However, for those who do have difficulties, they can apply for tax deductions in advance. However, it needs to be approved by the government at the next higher level. Of course, if there is a natural or man-made disaster, we will give the affected people relief in advance. In short, the tax should be light, but the violator will be punished heavily. ”

"It seems that Qiu's old club has already started working. Hehe! Zhang Zhimu said, "I agree with Qiu's old boss in principle. Please ask Qiu Laodong to organize a complete document to come out after he goes back, and formulate detailed implementation rules. Then let's look into it. ”

"I've arranged for them to write," Mr. Qiu said, "but I don't think things are going well in Qinshui." It seems that some of them have become even more rampant when they see that we have not touched them for a while. It's also difficult for our officers and police to work over there, and there's basically nothing to do. After I look at Shaanxi Dading, it's time for us to study and solve them. ”

"Huh!" Zhang Zhimu laughed and said, "Old Dong Qiu, isn't there one in your opinion, those who maliciously resist taxes, confiscate all family property, and exile personnel?" ”

"Yes, I left this one for them." Mr. Qiu said, "When we finish sorting out this document, we will send it to them, what do I think they think?" ”

"If they pay us taxes on time, we ignore them," Mr. Zhang said, "but they will definitely feel that paying us taxes is throwing in the towel, and I don't think they will." Then we're absolutely welcome. To deal with them in one fell swoop. ”

Zhang Zhimu's proposal was unanimously supported by everyone.

Li Yan said: "Our tax policy has revoked the tax exemption rights of those who are exempted from taxes by the imperial court, and they will definitely find a way to fight it." Let's not underestimate them yet. ”

Yan Boju was already a little angry, "I see! We have to use the kind of thunderbolt that Zhimu said, and don't grind with them. Make it clear, if they don't listen, then resolutely you're welcome. It doesn't matter if they are royal relatives or national relatives. ”

Li Mao said: "There is one more thing that we cannot afford to guard against. In the past, we relied on not allowing the officials of the imperial court to collect taxes and make it impossible for them to stay. But now that it's time to collect taxes, those people in the court won't let us stop collecting taxes. ”

"I'll deal with this matter," Zhang Zhimu said, "During the stable years, the imperial court could collect hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Shanxi every year, and now they take at least two million taels of silver from us every year, and I think the emperor will know which is more and which is less." Besides, we don't let their officials into the city, and they can't help it. We killed a group of their officers and soldiers, and I don't think anyone will come looking for death. It's really turned his face, and now the emperor dares to send troops to the kiln? ”

"Hahaha!" The people in the command center all laughed heartily. Everyone laughed heartily at this laughter, because no one dared to use any force against the kiln gang people now.

"I see! After this battle in Shaanxi, there may not be any major battles anywhere we go in the future. When we encounter an army that doesn't run, I can't imagine what kind of army it will be? Li Yan said.

"It's a pity that the people who cleaned up those floods have to wait until the taxes are collected, and I can't wait." Yan Boju said, "The rabbit cubs of our SWAT brigade have drawn the maps of the castles in Qinshui one by one clearly. Just waiting to clean them up. ”

"The time to solve this problem is after the autumn harvest of this year, before the end of the year." Zhang Zhimu said, "This matter is specifically for the two of you from Yan Bo and Qiu Laodong's family. In addition, Li Zhi will also give them some help. ”

Yan Xing said: "Our people really feel like a nest over there, and they will cooperate with you." As for the integrity of the officials mentioned by Zhimu, we should have said everything to the officials, first, our discipline does not allow any corruption, and there is also a strict punishment system. More importantly, the openness of government affairs and financial affairs is an effective means of supervising them. Our local electors can directly monitor the councillors, and the people who feel that they have financial problems can also ask the officials through the councillors. These tools should do some tricks. Even if there are some problems, we are not afraid, we can correct them at any time, and the system needs to be gradually improved. ”

"Alright! I think the tax matter and the Qinshui matter are decided in this way. Zhang Zhimu said, "It just so happens that Li Yangongzi has returned, let's discuss the matter of taking measures to control soil erosion in Shanxi and Shaanxi at the same time." ”

Since everyone calls Li Mao and Li Yan Li Gongzi, and now that they are present at the same time, when Zhang Zhimu mentions them, he emphasizes the names of the two of them to show the difference. Everyone will smile at Zhang Zhimu's name.

Li Yan knew that this was their business, sat up straight and said, "Our plan has been completed, and the document has been formed. The first thing we did when we went to Shaanxi was to verify the land, especially the riverside land. When the land verification work in Shaanxi is completed, we will notify Shanxi and Shaanxi at the same time, and the two places will implement it together. The land verification work on our side of Shanxi has been completed a long time ago, and we are waiting for the progress of Shaanxi. ”

"Can you start by talking about some of the important initiatives?" Zhang Zhimu also wants everyone to hear about it.

"The first requirement is that all the banks of the rivers in the territory should be within one mile of the riverbank, and all cultivated land should be returned to forest; secondly, trees within one mile of the riverbank shall not be cut down; Thirdly, there is the need to apply for the felling of trees, and after approval, five trees must be planted for each felled tree. Except, of course, for specially approved forest farms. Li Yan said, "The land that has been returned to farmland can be replaced by the land we confiscated." If it is found that there is a severe punishment for secretly cultivating the river, it is required that all localities and all the riversides should be replanted with trees, and a one-mile-wide shelterbelt will be formed by the river. ”

Lu Bingyi said: "The shelter forest along the river should be planted with shrubs and large trees. The root system of shrubs is well developed, the ability to fix sand is stronger, and the root system of large trees is deeper. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "We need to make a more in-depth plan. Restoring vegetation cover to the same level as hundreds of years ago would greatly reduce the sediment content of our major rivers and reduce the damage downstream. ”

"We have set up a nursery in Shanxi and a nursery in Baotou, and they have already cultivated a lot of poplar seedlings." Lu Bingyi said, "We followed Mr. Zhang's suggestion and used cuttings. Since last year, we have been experimenting, and many saplings have been planted in the spring of this year. I suggest that more nurseries be built in various parts of Shaanxi, so that a large number of various saplings can be cultivated. Also ready for our plan. ”

"Mr. Lu's suggestion is very good, we will pay for the cost of building a nursery." Zhang Zhimu said, "I think that in the future, every county will have a nursery, so that we can meet our requirements for a large number of afforestation." In the future, we will make a plan to green a part of the bare land every year. Where watering is difficult, I have to bring water through. Gradually cover all the mountains with vegetation. ”

"Huh!" Li Mao smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang really wants to change the world?" ”

"Mr. Zhang! Do you think about it," Lu Chengxiang's face was longer, obviously not agreeing with Li Yan's plan, "Most of the good land in our Shanxi and Shaanxi is by the river, and it would be too much if they were all returned to forests." Especially, especially the land that we have carved out ourselves, is also by the river. In this case, the loss is too great. You'd better think about it! ”

"What Mr. Lu said is that such a decision will come at a great cost." Zhang Zhimu said, "But the sacrifice we make today is for the sake of our children and grandchildren." The sooner we take action now, the less harm we can do to the environment. Otherwise, it will be more difficult for us to govern. I hope that in my lifetime, I will see that the water of the Yellow River and the Wei River is not so muddy. Mr. Lu, I understand your feelings, but we should all pay this price. ”

Lu Chengxiang lowered his head and didn't speak, he knew that Zhang Zhimu's decision couldn't be changed, and it was estimated that Lu Chengxiang was already calculating how big the loss caused by this decision should be.

After this matter was finished, Zhang Zhimu looked at everyone and said, "Let's study the next few major events in Shaanxi." ”

"Mr. Zhang, what you said last time, using Li Zicheng's 300,000 captive soldiers to repair the Qin Straight Road, I went back and studied it again. I calculated that there are 750 kilometers of land from Baotou to Xianyang Qinzhi, and if we use 300,000 people, that is, 25 kilometers for every 10,000 people. I think even if some of the roads need to be widened, they should be repaired in less than a year. The few bridges that need to be built in the middle, we have cement and steel bars, and it will not be difficult to build. Because this road has been built before, we are just supplementing and improving it to improve the traffic capacity. Lu Bingyi said, "The second thing you mentioned is to connect the Weishui River with the Jialing River, and I think it will take a year to measure the topography and water flow in that area." At that time, if feasible, the road was also completed, and people could be transferred to repair the canal. ”

Li Mao heard for the first time that Zhang Zhimu wanted to carry out these two major projects in Shaanxi, and after asking about these two things, he said: "I think it is very necessary to build the Qin Straight Road. I even think that in the future, if possible, I will propose to build a railway. But is it too much to say that you are going through the Qinling Mountains and building waterways on both sides? ”

"Huh! Li Mao Li Gongzi, you may not fully understand what I mean. Zhang Zhimu explained: "If you look at it from the plane, with the Qinling Mountains as the watershed, there are many rivers to the south and north that have the origins of the Qinling Mountains. The source of the water flow is that the hot air with high water content from the south merges with the cold air from the north above the Qinling Mountains, causing the temperature of the moist air from the south to drop, and the water vapor is turned into rainwater and left in the Qinling Mountains as a source of water for various rivers. Moreover, it can be seen that the water sources on the north and south sides are not very far from each other in a straight line. The predecessors also wanted to open up the waterway between the north and the south, but due to technical conditions, they did not succeed. We also know that although the source of the north-south river is very close, there is a drop of several hundred meters between it and the river below the mountain, and it is impossible to directly connect to the boat. But we can use the method of several levels of locks to turn the ship over from the Qinling Mountains. ”

Li Mao said: "Does Mr. Zhang know how high the Qinling Mountains are? It's impossible. ”

"Actually, we can dig a canal from the low place at the western end of the Qinling Mountains, in those ravines. In this way, there is no need to cross the summit of the Qinling Mountains. Zhang Zhimu said, "Everyone knows that there is a place called Tianshui in Shaanxi, so do you know the origin of the name?" ”

Li Mao is obviously familiar with Shaanxi, "There is a saying that there is a great drought in the world. Once Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dreamed that the Tianhe River was opened, and a large flow of water flowed down from the sky, and since then the water of the Wei River has been very abundant, and the drought has been solved. In commemoration of this event, the name of the place was Tianshui. ”

"Then how can there be no Tianshui now?" Zhang Zhimu asked, "Which of the remaining bits of water is still muddy?" During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, large ships could sail on the Wei River. Why can't it now? ”

No one could answer Zhang Zhimu's question, and Zhang Zhimu knew that they couldn't. Because the answer to this question is a question that many people have studied in their previous lives.

Yan Boju is an anxious person, "I said Zhimu! Don't lose everyone's appetite. Tell me about it! ”

"Don't worry!" Zhang Zhimu said, "I want everyone to use their brains to think about it." ”

Lu Bingyi was also a little anxious, and said: "Mr. Zhang, we can't know about this, just say it!" ”

"I remember looking at some information, but I can't find it now. In the southwest of the Qinling Mountains, there is a basin (Huicheng Basin) between Huizhou (Huixian) and Chengxian, where there are more than 100 kilometers from east to west and more than 20 kilometers from north to south. There is a difference of three or four hundred meters between the bottom of the basin and the surrounding mountains. From there, the Liangdang River, Shuining River, Luojia River, Luo River, Qingni River and so on flow from north to south to join the Jialing River. In other words, the source of these rivers is this basin. In fact, in ancient times, the location of this basin was originally the location of the Heavenly Lake. The original rivers flowed out of this lake. At that time, the water level of the lake was very high, and part of the lake water was also diverted to Weishui. Therefore, Weishui at that time was not as watery and sandy as it is now. It won't be as clogged as it is now. ”

When Zhang Zhimu introduced this, Lu Bingyi couldn't help but ask: "How did this lake become a basin later?" ”

"This is all due to the erosion of the river headwater," Zhang Zhimu explained, "At that time, the river flowing out of the lake was a natural overflow, and after a long period of river washing, the river channel became deeper and deeper, and finally, the original river channel was washed into the current river valley." It is also possible that a geological change such as an earthquake changed the geological appearance of the place. ”

"Then Mr. Zhang, you mean that we can block the current channels and gaps in this basin and store the water again, so that the original diversion to the Wei River can be restored?" Lu Bingyi understood what Zhang Zhimu meant.

"That's what it means," Zhang Zhimu affirmed, "but we need to re-examine the situation there." Because from ancient times to the present, the terrain there must have changed a lot. However, I don't think much will change even if some of them are the same. The advantage over there is that it is already the west side of the Qinling Mountains, and the mountains are not so high. We can use the ravine there to find a way to cross the watershed, and even if there are a few peaks in the way, we can blow them up or open a tunnel to pass through. ”

Yan Boju didn't understand yet, "Hey! Zhimu, you still didn't say how our ship could pass over the mountain? ”

"That's right, I guess in the future we will re-impound that basin, and the water surface will be hundreds of meters high to Weishui. We can build cascade reservoirs and locks on both the north and south sides. In this way, we can pass through the lock and roll the boat over the Qinling Mountains. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Oh my God, a dam is still built on the mountain for a few hundred meters, how dare you think about it!" Yan Boju couldn't help but sigh.

"This is probably easier than the reservoir that Mr. Tang Jingyao and they are building now. Our water flows from the mountains to the north and south. We built a 50-meter-high dam on the mountain, and a 100-meter ditch could be dug down a distance below the dam, and then several locks were built to send the boat down or up it, and the actual drop was 150 meters. We can also build power plants to generate electricity. In this way, we can send the boat down from our Tianhu Lake, or carry the boat up, after passing through several cascade reservoirs and the free fall of part of the river. Zhang Zhimu continued to explain.

"Not to mention building a dam on the mountain, but to say that digging down a 100-meter-deep river would be too much." Lu Chengxiang couldn't help but say.

"The amount of work is larger, but the technical difficulty is not great, we have the best, and there will be a large number of new means of transport such as tractors in the future, and even built conveyor belt transportation. It's not that it can't be done. "Lu Bingyi sees the problem very accurately.

"As long as I can do it, I guarantee that there will be enough food to eat. What can I prepare," Lu Chengxiang also came to the enthusiasm, "We have silver, and we are not afraid of anything." ”

After listening to Lu Chengxiang's words, everyone laughed again. Because Lu Chengxiang is not afraid of spending money, he will definitely be able to do it.

Li Mao said: "In that case, we can sail the warship from the Qinling Mountains, enter the Jialing River, enter the Yangtze River into the Han River, and go straight to Xiangyang." ”

"If we complete this project, then the Jialing River in the south of the Qinling Mountains will be divided into two roads, one will continue to enter the Jialing River, and the other will go directly into the Hanshui. Because in ancient times, the West Han River was the source of the Han River, and the Han River and the Jialing River were connected in the past. Or we can directly dig the Han River and the Jialing River, because the two rivers are not far away. Zhang Zhimu said.

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