Gao Ming thought that the reason why so many people knelt at the city gate was because the city gate guards were too reckless, but he was wrong.

You must know that no matter how strict the hierarchy of the Tang Dynasty is, it is impossible to make the city gate kneeling full of people with the words of the city gate guards, "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince".

Gao Ming didn't realize how terrifying his prestige in Jinju was.

At the beginning, Li Shimin agreed with Gao Ming's opinion and divided Jinju into an "autonomous prefecture", Gao Ming asked Li Goudan to exempt the people of Jinju from agricultural tax, and Jinju's fiscal revenue was mainly based on collecting transaction taxes from merchants.

The issuance and implementation of a policy cannot be completed with one mouth and one mouth, it requires many people to implement it.

At the beginning, because Li Goudan was alone, the progress was naturally not fast, but since Gao Ming came to help him select a group of officials last time, the progress of this tax exemption has also been faster.

You must know that many newly appointed officials in Jinju City today almost all carry the word "acting", and they also hope that they will become regular as soon as possible, so they will naturally spare no effort in their work.

And when Gao Ming established the Tang Royal Business Alliance last month and sent Wu Laoliu and Chen Yu to Jinju, the progress of this tax exemption can be described as leaps and bounds.

Now that Jinju has realized the exemption of agricultural taxes for the entire state and county, many landlords in Jinju have been greatly affected by such circumstances, among which the Jeongsan family of Xingyang is the most.

Jinju was originally the territory of the Zheng family, and a lot of land here belonged to the Zheng family, and the Zheng family did not need to pay taxes to the Tang Household Department for these lands, but the farmers who farmed for them had to pay rent to them, which was tantamount to grabbing taxes with the Tang Dynasty.

But now no, Gao Ming has exempted Jinju from agricultural taxes, and the farmers themselves are planting many kinds of crops, and under such conditions, the people would rather go to reclaim the land by themselves than help the Zheng family's people farm.

In this way, of course, some people raised objections, but Gao Ming dismissed it with one sentence.

"I am in charge of my territory, whatever I say, it is what it is, in Jinju, this acre and three points of land, my words are the king's law!"

Nowadays, everyone knows that Jinzhou is Gao Ming's territory, and even a behemoth like the Zheng family in Xingyang has to bow his head in front of Gao Ming, not to mention others, and no one dares to take Gao Ming's words as a joke.

Then, Gao Mingyou asked Li Goudan to issue another order, that is, once the land is barren, he will be punished with ten times the average yield of Jinju's farmland, and if he can't pay the money, not only will the land in his name be recovered, but he will even be imprisoned or exiled.

As soon as this decree was issued, many landlords and gatekeepers were immediately frightened, and in order not to be punished, some of them sold their land, and many more hired people to work for them at high prices.

In Jinju, the landlords' farmland accounts for 30% of the entire Jinju farmland, and it is precisely because of this need to hire people to cultivate the land that although it is not yet harvest season, the hands of the people of Jinju are rich.

Before the harvest season, I felt the joy of harvest, which made the people of Jinju feel very happy.

Without contrast, there is no gap.

The people of Jinzhou, who were previously controlled by the Zheng family in Xingyang, lived in poverty, and more than 100 people died of hunger and cold due to a heavy snowfall, but now after Jinzhou was controlled by Gao Ming, the people not only had enough food and clothing, but also had surplus money in their hands.

Although it is the same place, it is controlled by different people, and the living conditions of the people can be said to have changed dramatically.

The hearts of the people are like mirrors, they know who is good to them, so although many people have not seen Gao Ming, this does not prevent them from being grateful and worshiping Gao Ming.

And when Zhou Zheng, the head of the Tang Imperial Academy appointed by Gao Ming, stood up and shouted out the sentence "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, let everyone in Jinzhou have food, and let everyone in Jinzhou have a book", which suddenly pushed Gao Ming's prestige to a peak.

This was indeed said by Gao Ming, Gao Ming was inspecting the Tang Imperial Academy under construction at that time, so he subconsciously learned the lines of the leaders in the previous news, to put it bluntly, this was just a casual remark he said, and he forgot about it after returning to Chang'an.

But Zhou Zheng didn't forget it, and he took it seriously, not if he took it seriously, even the people of Jinju took it seriously.

Therefore, at this time, Gao Ming's reputation in Jinju has reached a terrifying level, as long as someone dares to say a bad word about him on the street, a group of people will immediately go up to teach him to be a new person.

If Gao Ming is compared to a star in later generations, then the people of Jinju can say that he is the most fanatical fan!

Gao Ming was worshipped by the entire Jinju, and many people even set up an immortal tablet for him at home, hoping that he would be healthy and live a long life, and told his children that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the benefactor of Jinju and their benefactor.

Not only are the people of Jinju full of gratitude and admiration for Gao Ming, but those merchants who do business in Jinju are also full of respect for Gao Ming.

In the land of Jinju, no one looks down on them, and no officials exploit them, as long as they honestly pay the transaction tax that should be paid according to the regulations of the Jinju government, they can enjoy the same treatment as everyone else.

You can wear silk and satin, you can ride a horse across the street, you can sit in a sedan chair, you can live in a high-ranking household, and so on......

These are benefits that businessmen can't enjoy anywhere else.

And what makes them most excited is that businessmen can be officials in Jinju!

Wu Laoliu, Chen Yu, Zhao Bo and others are also big businessmen in Chang'an, especially in the business circles of Chang'an and Jingzhao Mansion, they are also quite prestigious, and many businessmen know them.

Now, they appear as tax collectors in Jinju, which has stunned many businessmen.

It turns out that businessmen can also be officials!

Many people feel a little incredulous, but the facts tell them that these are true, and what makes them even more envious is that Chen Yu and others are still quite famous in Jinzhou, and many scholars will respectfully call them "adults" when they see them, which makes these foreign businessmen extremely envious.

"When are we going to have such a day?"

With this feeling in mind, many of these businessmen bought houses in Jinju and brought their families to Jinju City.

They didn't do it impulsively, but Jinju has such a good business environment, it's too hard to find elsewhere, and most importantly, from their investment perspective, if they don't buy a house and land in Jinju City now, in two years, they will pay a higher price if they want to buy it!

Under such circumstances, the deed transaction in Jinju City became popular, and some houses even changed owners every other day.

Faced with a possible situation, Chen Yu and others immediately made a suggestion to Li Goudan in Jinzhou at this time to increase the tax on the transaction of the house deed and title deed in Jinzhou, and the standard for the additional charge was one percent.

In other words, once the houses and land in Jinju City are traded, when they come to the government with the title deed to transfer the property, they have to hand over 10% of the transaction price, and they have to pay once every time they sell it.

After listening to this suggestion, Li Goudan agreed on the spot.

"That's it, but one percent is not enough, double it, harvest two percent, and the house deed and title deed that have been traded within a year, every time it is traded, add one percent, if you dare to conceal the price, you will recover the title deed under its name after finding out, and expel both parties from Jinju!"

In Li Goudan's view, this is a rare opportunity to develop Jinzhou City, so at this moment, he has to work hard to raise the value of Jinzhou City, and it is best to be on par with a big mansion like Jingzhao Mansion, and these are the political capital for his promotion at that time.

has been the assassin of Jinju City for so long, and now Li Goudan has cultivated a little political sense, and he is no longer the second stunned person at the beginning.

Li Goudan's new wife is from the Taiyuan Wang family, and she is a real famous lady, not to mention anything else, her knowledge alone has thrown Li Goudan a few streets, and the reason why Li Goudan was able to adapt to the identity of Jinzhou Thorn History so quickly is that his wife has contributed a lot.

People say that behind every successful man, there is a woman who pays silently, and Li Goudan belongs to this situation.

Merchants are buying up and not buying down, the higher the price of land in Jinju, the more assured they are, coupled with the deliberate manipulation of Li Goudan's thorn history, the housing prices in Jinju City have ushered in another skyrocket.

As long as it is a house close to the center of Jinju City, even the most ordinary adobe house courtyard is sold for hundreds of dollars!

You must know that even if the money is taken to Chang'an and Luoyang, you can buy a big house with three entrances and three exits.

The government that received a large amount of transaction tax in Jinju City was naturally the beneficiary, but the biggest beneficiary was the people of Jinju, and many families who had worked hard for most of their lives could not save more than ten guan money, and suddenly found that someone was taking hundreds of guan money to buy their adobe houses!

This is a stupid person with a lot of money!

When the people encountered such a situation, they sold their houses without saying a word, and after selling their houses, they took out a few dollars to hire a few acquaintances to build a new house on the vacant land on the edge of the city.

In their opinion, as long as they are in Jinju City, where to live is not the same?

However, the people of Jinju are still more welcome to foreign businessmen who are "stupid and have a lot of money", not only because they have raised the housing prices in Jinju, but also because the people also know that Jinju's tax revenue comes from these merchants.

In other words, it was the merchants who helped them pay their taxes.

Because of this idea, the people of Jinju were much kinder than the people of other places when they got along with foreign merchants.

This also made these foreign businessmen realize the different places of Jinju, so they didn't want to leave like the merchants who came before.

But if you want to stay, you have to buy a house and land, and buying a house and land will benefit the people of Jinju, so that the people will be more kind to the merchants who come next time, and they can't help but want to stay......

It's a virtuous circle.

As the initiator of this virtuous circle, Gao Ming is naturally revered by the people and merchants, and it is precisely because of his unparalleled prestige that the city gate guards will make the city gate kneeling full of people when they shout "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince".

This is something that even Li Shimin, the emperor, can't do!

However, Gao Ming didn't realize this at this time, and when he saw so many people kneeling at the gate of the city, he could only sigh, and then poked his head out of the carriage and roared at the people around him.

"The people of Jinju, get up, don't kneel here, it's getting dark, let's go home and eat!"

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, the surrounding people immediately cheered.

"Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming was suddenly a little dumbfounded.

"What's going on? When did the people of Jinju become so enthusiastic? I just said a few words and they were ......"