When An Xuan swore to the north to recover the Duchy of Great Poland under the command of Simmons Bro, the general of the Kingdom of Poland, and the Jinyi Guard of the Chinese Empire, a major event occurred in the Chinese Empire.

On the northern border of Dingde County, the capital of Luozhou in the Chinese Empire, there is a county town called Dewang, which is currently the northernmost county seat of the Chinese Empire.

Because Dewang County is located on the border of the Chinese Empire and is adjacent to the Great Karelian Chiefdom of Finland, it is not uncommon to see some people from the Karelian tribe of Finland wearing animal skins coming to exchange supplies near Dewang County.

The materials in Finland are quite poor, and the civilization of the great chiefdoms in Finland is not high, but the demand of the people there is not high, so whenever the tribesmen in Finland bring animal skins and the like to the Chinese Empire to sell, the people of the Chinese Empire like to barter in exchange for the animal skins they hunt.

The merchants of the Chinese Empire had also planned to exchange for the hides of the people of various tribes in Finland for a long time, but the merchants of the Chinese Empire found that the people of the various tribes in Finland did not hunt many hides.

After all, the hunting level of these tribesmen is not as good as the hunting level of the hunters of the Chinese Empire, and the methods of separating animal skins of these tribes in Finland are also very inadequate, and those people sometimes even make a complete animal skin incomplete, so the merchants of the Chinese Empire have never dealt with these people much.

Eventually, the merchants of the Chinese Empire chose to buy hides from hunters in their own country and sell them to the common people and armies.

The Chinese Empire did not control animal skin products and clothing, which was the requirement of Gaoyang Yajun, so most of the clothing and leather products of the Chinese Empire were made and sold by merchants.

Anyway, the officials of the household department of the Chinese Empire only managed to collect commercial taxes and regulate the market, and they didn't care about other things, and they couldn't control them.

The commerce controlled by the Chinese imperial government mainly included: mines, ports, rivers, national highways, salt, land, and so on.

However, there was an official clothing workshop in the household department of the Chinese Empire, and the clothes produced by the official clothing workshop of the Chinese Empire were mainly the emperor's clothes and the costumes of court officials.

Although this workshop mainly produces official clothing, they also undertake the production of civilian clothes for court officials, which means that the workshop only undertakes the production of clothing for officials of the Chinese Empire, and they do not accept the clothing of civilians and other people.

Therefore, the main clothing of the people of the Chinese Empire was the clothing they made or bought from the merchants.

It was precisely because the merchants were not very interested in the hides of the Finnish region that small bazaars gradually formed on the border between the Chinese Empire and Finland, and the Chinese government had no intention of banning these bazaars when they discovered them.

In fact, for this matter, the Chinese Empire Zhongshu Province also discussed it once, and some officials believed that the imperial court should ban these small markets, and their reason was that these small markets were not safe, so the imperial court should take the lead in re-establishing the small markets after the ban.

In fact, this kind of officials are interested in the taxation of these transactions, when the Chinese Empire issued the commercial tax, these officials thought that the commercial tax was not very important, but after the commercial tax was implemented for a few years, they found that the commercial tax was the bulk of the imperial court's income!

Since the introduction of the imperial court's commercial tax, the imperial court's tax revenue has increased several times compared to their original assumptions, and the commercial tax accounts for two-fifths of the annual revenue of the Chinese Empire's treasury, while the other three-fifths of the income is salt, mines, ports, rivers, and national highways.

Moreover, the Chinese Empire has been using money in recent years, including the army's food and salary, the officials' salaries (including the officials of the post station), the construction of roads and waterways in various parts of the Chinese Empire, the construction of ports, the construction of cities, the construction of post stations, and the new palace required by Gaoyang Yajun to be built.

However, these places where the money is used are evenly divided, and at most half of the income of the treasury is used in a year, so in the past few years, the money in the treasury of the Chinese Empire has not only not decreased, but has become more.

That's why these officials enthusiastically proposed to remove the small bazaars where the people spontaneously gathered, and the imperial court took the lead in setting up the bazaars.

But their proposal was rejected by the Ministry of Household Shangshu Feng Jialan and the Ministry of Law Shangshu Qiao Haiyun.

Among them, it is understandable that Qiao Haiyun, the secretary of the Ministry of Law, vetoed and rejected this proposal, after all, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice thought that those people did not break the law, and wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the court to ban their bazaar for no reason.

You must know that these people just bartered, and did not violate the laws of the Chinese Empire, so Qiao Haiyun ruthlessly refused to ban these small bazaars.

But Feng Jialan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, refused this proposal, and the officials did not understand, not to mention others, and even Qiao Haiyun, the secretary of the Ministry of Law who refused the proposal with Feng Jialan, was puzzled.

The head of the household, Feng Jialan, told everyone that his thoughts were similar to those of the law department, and he also thought that it was up to the people to barter on their own.

In the end, Prime Minister Mei Andao clapped his hands and decided to approve the idea of the Household Department Shangshu and the Law Department Shangshu, so let the people barter on their own.

Prime Minister Mei Andao wrote the official document and handed it to the Holy Son of Heaven Gao Yang Yajun, after Gao Yang Yajun read it, she also thought that these things should be handed over to the people to barter on their own.

However, for the sake of safety, in order to prevent the people from trading strategic materials to the people in Finland, Gao Yang Yajun wrote more content on the prime minister's official document.

Gao Yang Yajun asked the troops everywhere to wait until the barter season to send troops to protect the people, yes, Gao Yang Yajun's slogan is to protect the people.

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Not far from Dewang County, the people of the Chinese Empire are exchanging some grain (raw rice) with animal skins and bones for the people of the Karelian tribes in Finland.

However, when they watched the army protecting (watching) the people today, they noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere today, and after discovering that something was wrong, they carefully observed the people of the great chiefdom of Karelia in Finland, who had come to barter.

After observing for a while, the hundred households found a trace of abnormality, and he found that the people of the Karelian Great Chiefdom here were different, and he informed his subordinates: "Come and one person to inform the Dewang County Commander, I see that the situation is not right today, let the Dewang County Commander prepare, and another person will notify the Thousand Households, so that the Thousand Households will always be ready to support." The rest are always ready to fight. ”

The soldiers under the hundred households whispered, "Yes, Lord Baihu. ”