A month later.

In the new city, in a hall of the government office, there were thirty-three people sitting at a large triangular table, and a meeting was being held.

Above the large triangular table, sitting from left to right, the caravan steward headed by Cui Yuan and Cui Wu, and Yang Wenhua was on the far right.

Sitting in a row with Yang Wenhua was the caravan leader led by Cui Liu, until the bottom of the face was Cui Cha, and sitting in a row with Cui Cha was the Goguryeo ministers led by Gao Huizhen and Gao Yanshou.

This kind of sitting was specially arranged by Yang Wenhua, Cui Yuan was in charge of government affairs for the head of the country, although Yang Wenhua would leave Liaodong soon, but he was also in charge of military affairs remotely, and Cui Liu was usually in charge.

And Cui Cha led a group of Goguryeo ministers, mainly responsible for criminal law, of course, the five or six-year-old Cui Cha was just a name, and the matter had to be handled by Gao Huizhen and Gao Yanshou.

At this time, Gao Huizhen stood up, took a blank piece of paper and read: "According to the instructions of the king and the prince, we have compiled the criminal law as follows, Article 1: Anyone who endangers national security shall be punished with capital punishment.

Article 2: ~.

Article 50: ~.

Article 100: Anyone who commits acts against humanity shall be punished by death.

After the criminal law has been formulated, please ask the king and the prince for instructions. ”

Gao Huizhen sat down after reading it, and the others looked at each other after listening, and no one spoke for a while, and finally Cui Yuancai coughed twice and said: "This criminal law is well formulated, simple and easy to understand."

But what does the last one mean by being anti-human?

There is also whether the sentence in the entire criminal law is too light, as if there is no death penalty except for the first and last articles, and the highest is to dig for a lifetime.

Wouldn't that be a deterrent enough? ”

After Cui Yuan finished speaking, everyone looked at Yang Wenhua and waited to see what Yang Wenhua said.

"First, against humanity you can understand as madness, and all those who do mad things, regardless of the severity of the consequences, are punishable by death.

I will cite a few chestnuts, those who take pleasure in torturing others, those who have no power to fight back against the elderly and children, and those who commit serious violence, these are all crazy people, and you can go to the detailed rules of the criminal law for details.

As for the elder brother's opinion that the criminal law sentence is too light, I think that as long as this person is not too bad, he can be allowed to live, after all, a person is useful.

For example, mining, and some death-defying things, these also need to be done. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Wenhua stopped, took a few sips of the water soaked in the old mountain ginseng with the teacup, and waited for them to digest it before putting the teacup on the table a little harder.

After everyone's attention was drawn, he continued: "Here I would like to remind all of you here.

After the criminal law is formulated, it is for everyone, except for the king and the crown prince Tricha, all of you only have one chance to break the law, and not including the first and last articles.

Also, I want you to govern the place, don't make a fuss and make people angry, what you want to get, try to take gentle means to achieve the goal.

Most of you are merchants, so I hope that your future governance will be based on trading rather than coercion.

Okay, that's all for criminal law, now let's talk about taxes. ”

After Yang Wenhua finished speaking, he began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Such a meeting has been going on for a month, and Yang Wenhua was still involved in the discussion at the beginning, and after finding that no matter what he said, no one objected, Yang Wenhua stopped speaking.

Until now, Yang Wenhua is sitting here, and he even tries to have as few expressions as possible, otherwise it will mislead them.

When a person becomes a god, he is destined to be unable to integrate into everyone, and Yang Wenhua is a god for everyone here.

After they got Yang Wenhua's help, they didn't want to share anything with Yang Wenhua, they just wanted to give Yang Wenhua a good offering.

Yang Wenhua needed old ginseng, so they did everything to search for old ginseng for Yang Wenhua, and they did exactly what Yang Wenhua said.

Although this is a kind of respect, it is actually a kind of isolation, which is why Yang Wenhua decided to leave as soon as possible, or stay more comfortable in his stone house.

Yang Wenhua especially misses the innocent little girl in the stone house at the moment.

After a fierce quarrel, everyone gave the commercial tax, and when they talked about the agricultural tax, Yang Wenhua stretched out his hand and gently knocked on the table twice, and only after everyone was quiet did he open his closed eyes.

"Have you ever thought about directly exempting the agricultural tax?"

Yang Wenhua's words can be described as earth-shattering, the key is that the past dynasties have never exempted agricultural taxes, and for a while, everyone's fear of Yang Wenhua has forgotten and began to talk in a whisper.

Most of them were not in favor of exempting agricultural taxes, but a few looked thoughtful.

"Don't even make any noise."

Cui Yuan knocked on the table, stopped everyone's discussion, frowned and asked Yang Wenhua, "I don't know what the virtuous brother thinks?" ”

"Gao Jian can't say it, but I just think that collecting agricultural taxes that are not worth a few dollars needs to waste so many manpower, and some of the gains outweigh the losses." Yang Wenhua said disapprovingly.

Cui Yuan slowed down his tone as much as possible, "It's not a matter of money, if the imperial court doesn't have enough food storage, there will be a big mess."

I know that the virtuous brother thinks that Xincheng now produces good gold, silver, copper and iron, and can fully contribute money to buy grain.

But did Brother Xian ever think that if most of the land was controlled by a few people in the future, there would be nowhere to buy grain without collecting agricultural taxes? ”

"That would limit the amount of land a person could own, and stipulate that farmland should not be bought or sold.

Then it was established to divide the nationality of each person, the workers to work, the merchants to do business, and the farmers to farm.

Several people in a family work, and several people must be registered with the government to make a record, and then decide how much land to distribute.

If you want to change your citizenship, you must get permission from the government.

And in this way, there will definitely not be too many people in the family, they want to get enough land, and there is nowhere to buy, so they will naturally split up and move the excess population out. ”

After that, a group of people began to talk again, these people who were born in businessmen didn't think that there was much money in any agricultural tax, but as soon as their minds opened, they suddenly felt that it didn't matter whether they collected agricultural taxes or not.

Many people think that even if those peasants have more grain, they will be fine, and they can buy and sell the grain, and some people even propose to directly increase the price of salt, iron and coal, which can offset the loss of the imperial court.

Yang Wenhua had a toothache when he heard this, so he had to knock on the table again and said: "The rest is bought and sold by you, but there are three kinds of salt, iron and coal, and you must stabilize a price."

Even hunters know that fighting big or not small, fighting male or female, is the long-term solution, you better not mess around, after all, only the more people in Liaodong, the more stable your power can be. ”