As for taxation, since the Middle and Tang Dynasty, the local festival envoys have dictatorship, martial arts are in charge, what taxes to levie, and how much taxes to levy are basically not decided by the imperial court, but by the local assassins. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Therefore, in this era, if you encounter a benevolent thorn history, the people will definitely cheer and celebrate; On the contrary, they can only sigh.

Historically, Zhang Chong, the general of Wang Maozhang, later lived in Luzhou to assassinate the history, and was tyrannical in office, and the people in the state were miserable.

Later, once Zhang Chong returned to Guangling to report on his work, the people of Luzhou thought that Zhang Chong was going to be transferred away this time, so they congratulated each other and said: "Qu Yi will not come back!" "Quyi" here means "he". However, the celebration of the people of the state was a little early, Zhang Chong was not transferred, and after he returned to Luzhou, he heard about this matter and ordered to collect "Quyi money" from house to house according to the population.

The next year, Zhang Chong returned to Guangling again to report on his work, and this time the people did not dare to celebrate each other, but only dared to stroke their beards and gesture to each other. As a result, Zhang Chong was not transferred this time, and after returning to Luzhou, he began to collect "mustache money" according to the population.

Zhang Chong used the looted property to bribe the powerful people in the DPRK and China, and he stayed in Luzhou for nearly 20 years, but he was never punished.

Although Huainan is now implementing the separation of military and government, and gradually replacing military generals with civilian officials to serve as local assassins, the right to pay taxes is still in the hands of local assassins.

It's just that for the assassin history of military generals, if they are brutal and harmful to the people, they will always have scruples about dealing with them, worrying about causing turmoil. Compared with military generals, it is much easier to deal with a assassin from a civilian background.

In addition to the great damage that may be caused to the people, the control of the tax power in the hands of the local envoys or assassins is also an important reason for the growth of local separatist forces.

If you want to divide the territory, you must first have soldiers, and the recruitment of soldiers in this era requires a lot of money and food to maintain, so local division often starts from the control of taxes. In order to deal with the problem of local secession, the right to pay taxes cannot be controlled by the local government in this way.

When Yang Wu was thinking about countermeasures, he had to refer to the Northern Song Dynasty, which also faced the problem of local separation, but although many systems in the Northern Song Dynasty achieved great results, they also caused a lot of problems later.

In terms of taxation in later generations, in the second year of Qiande (964), Zhao Kuangyin issued an order, that is, the annual rent and monopoly income collected by various localities should be transported to Beijing except for local expenses, and the localities should not be occupied.

This system has achieved some effect in strengthening the centralization of power and preventing the local power from becoming too large, but the result is that the local government has been weakened too much, and the court can only be relied on for everything, but it is difficult for the local government to play any role, which is inevitably overkill.

Nowadays, Huainan is in a time of war, and all localities must also leave enough taxes to deal with the war that may occur at any time; Moreover, unlike the judiciary, the interests involved in taxation are greater, and it is easier to cause a backlash, and now that the separation of military and government and the reorganization of the army have not been completely over, Yang Wu does not plan to make a major reform in the short term.

Of course, not planning for a major restructuring does not mean that adjustments will not be made. Some time ago, Xu Wen mentioned in the book that the account books for collecting taxes in Suzhou are still the old account books of more than ten years ago, and the family conditions of many people have undergone great changes, but the account books have not been adjusted, and the taxes are still collected according to the records in the old account books.

In addition to the account books, there are still too many problems in the collection of taxes in various places, and the impact of these unreasonable places on the people is very huge, but the impact on local officials is relatively small, and it will not involve too many interests. It's a pity that those military generals are busy with military affairs, where do they have time to solve these problems.

This time, after the policy of civilian officials serving as assassins was implemented, Yang Wu planned to focus on solving these problems first.

Outside the city of Gwangju, in the Huainan army camp, Qin Pei, Chai Zaiyong and Li Yu sat on the main seat together.

Although this counterinsurgency operation was mainly based on Qin Pei, the status of Chai Zaiyong and Li Yu was not lower than him, so the three of them were on an equal footing when they were deliberating.

"As everyone knows, although the direct cause of the Gwangju rebellion was the restructuring of the separation of military and government, the root cause was the problem left over from many years ago, but it broke out at this time. Now many people in Huainan are paying attention, and some people with bad intentions are afraid that they still want to see the jokes of His Royal Highness the Prince at this time, and want to use the topic to play and attack the policy of separating the military from the government. Therefore, we must put down the rebellion as soon as possible, not only to win, but also to win beautifully, and quickly! Qin Pei said in a deep voice.

"Although the rebels in the city at present have 4,000 men, and they are defending the city, they must be unprepared in a hurry. Therefore, Ben will feel that he should launch a rapid attack, and he will rush to make siege equipment overnight today, and start the siege tomorrow! ”

This was the first time he had led an army alone to take charge of an important war, and as he said, the Gwangju counterinsurgency would not only affect his own future, but also affect whether the policy of separating the military from the government could be implemented, so he was a little anxious about the counterinsurgency.

On the side, Li Yu also said: "Yes, although Zhu Quanzhong's main forces are on the Qingzhou side, but with General Wang Maozhang taking the initiative to retreat, the remaining Qingzhou army has poor combat strength, Zhu Quanzhong has no need to leave all the main forces there, if he sends a part of it south to trouble us, I am afraid that things will have twists and turns, so the counterinsurgency must be done as soon as possible." However, our army's rapid march to this point certainly caught the enemy by surprise, but our soldiers were also very tired, and the officer felt that it was still a little too hasty to rush to make siege equipment overnight. ”

Li Yu turned his head to look at Chai Zaiyong, and saw that this middle-aged man who had always been called an incompetent assassin in Huainan, but was promoted to the commander of the capital by Yang Wuli against public opinion, at this time, his face was not embarrassed by the rebels to drive out of Gwangju, but a calm face, as if he was quite confident in the counterinsurgency.

Thinking that Chai Zaiyong had been in Gwangju for many years after all, and knew much more about the things here than he and Qin Pei, Li Yu couldn't help but move in his heart, and asked with a smile: "General Chai, this official sees that you are calm and calm, as if you are not worried about counterinsurgency, but you have the means to win?" ”

Qin Pei also turned his head to look at Chai Zayong, and was also shocked in his heart, when Yang Wu appointed Chai Zaiyong as the commander of the capital and was responsible for commanding the troops of the first division, Qin Pei, as Yang Wu's henchman, also spoke out against it at that time, thinking that there were many generals in the Huainan Army who were enough to serve as the commander of the capital, why choose a Chai reuse who was not capable and was not close to Yang Wu. At that time, Yang Wu only said that Chai Zaiyong was not an incompetent general, but just lacked a chance to perform.

Seeing his expression now, Qin Pei also had doubts in his heart, and hurriedly asked.