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Jin Liang's current goal is to consolidate Wuyuan County and Yanmen County within the jurisdiction of the state, and take Shuofang County, Yunzhong County, and Shang County, as for the other counties in the Hetao area, they will come to take it later

After three or four months of rest and recuperation, the officers and men of the Central Army, no matter how badly they were injured and how tired they were, have recovered, and they are all fierce and vigorous, waiting to establish great military exploits and win more military merits

Jin Liang's name of sending troops this time is to return to his hometown in fine clothes, and go back to his hometown of Wuyuan County Jiuyuan County to see, Jiuyuan County is located north of the Yellow River, south of Yinshan, on the edge of the Hetao area, to the east is Yunzhong County, to the west is Shuofang County, to the south is Dingxiang County and Xihe County, to the north to face the Xianbei tribe, since Jin Liang has returned to his hometown, he must ensure the peace of his hometown, and it is natural for him to sweep the area near his hometown

Jin Liang returned to his hometown this time, playing a big deal

Jin Liang first sent Zhao Yun to lead the men and horses of his headquarters, crossed the Yellow River, passed through Shangjun and Beidi County, and arrived at Fuping near Beidi County

Jin Liang also sent Xu Huang to lead the headquarters of the people, to Beidi County Niyang, and Liangzhou Muhuang Fu Song joined forces, together to march north, Xu Huang's Hedong County Lieutenant had Hao Zhao who guarded Jiguan, Hao Zhao led the Hedong County soldiers and Zhu Jun to defend Hedong together, in case Zhang Ji of Hongnong attacked Hedong without authorization because of the hatred of taking his wife and killing his nephew

Jin Liang also sent Zhang Yan to lead 40,000 Feiyan troops to scatter in the mountains of Shangjun, Yunzhong County, Dingxiang County and other places, waiting for an opportunity to ambush the lone tribe

Jin Liang also asked the Juyi Division, which was temporarily in Wuyuan County, the Zhu Ling Division, and the Yanmen Taishou Guo Yi to prepare for battle, and then swept the Hetao area together with a thunderous momentum

Jin Liang personally took the Guards Division, Gao Shun Division, and Zhang Liao Division to Jiuyuan County, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were both generals in the state, and they had dealt with those nomadic tribes and knew how to deal with them, and Zhang Liao's original Liyang defense line was in charge of Zhang Ren's subordinates.

Sweeping through the Hetao area is not a difficult task for the Central Army, and the difficult problem lies in how to hold it.

The worst result is that Jin Liang led the army to drive the Hu people in the Hetao area to the north of Yinshan, and when the army withdrew, the Hu people went south again, and the Hetao area became the Hu people's pasture again.

Therefore, Jin Liang considered building ten fortresses on both sides of the Yellow River to block the southward movement of the Hu people, and build a city, using the 200,000 tenant farmers to build ten cities, and before the arrival of winter, I am afraid that most of the farmers in the prefecture would be dumped, which involved the issue of conscription.

The conscription was also somewhat involved in taxation, because Jin Liang wanted to pay the light tax and rest with the people.

Jin Liang forgot that the light and meager endowment should be applied to the period of recovery and development after the world was pacified, not the current period of war, during which it is necessary to frantically accumulate war resources, first quickly pacify the world, and then consider the issue of recuperation.

Fortunately, Jin Liang had several strategists with strategic vision, Dong Zhao and Fu Zhu mentioned this issue to Jin Liang, and even Sima Hui and Hu Zhao, who taught and educated people in the Central University Hall, also came to visit Jin Liang, saying that the policy of lightly dispensing with small endowments was not applicable to the present, and even the Taifu Lu Zhi sent Lu Yu to tell Jin Liang that all the poll taxes could not be reduced at once, but should be reduced gradually.

Jia Xu said most frankly: "Lord, you have reduced so much at once, no matter how great the kindness falls on the heads of the people below, they are only grateful to you once, if you reduce a little every few years, a little every few years, and complete the purpose of lightly giving the people rest when the world is pacified, wouldn't it be better." The people's gratitude to you is continuous, and only then can the people's hearts be stable. ”

Jin Liang deeply agrees, he understands human nature. Even if he sacrifices his whole heart and lungs for someone, he can only thank you once, and even forget it later. If you are kind to him little by little, and maintain the posture that if you are disobedient, I will not be good to you, the other party will know how to be grateful, and will always be grateful.

But the problem is that Jin Liang has already announced that he will be exempted from all poll taxes, and the current people of Jizhou and Jizhou know that the sitting emperor is Liu Wei, his words don't count, and the standing emperor is Jin Liang. His words count, but Jin Liang is as loyal to Liu Wei as Huo Guang was back then, and for Jin Liang, the change of the order will definitely damage the majesty he has accumulated with great difficulty.

Jin Liang thought about it for a while, and then came up with a very ingenious method, that is, to spread the land into acres. All the previous levies, military service, and other miscellaneous taxes are converted into the field endowment, converted into one mu and two buckets, and thereafter the levy is reduced by one liter per year, and the tax is halved or exempted in the year of famine, and if the people deliberately do not pay it in the harvest year. The levy is doubled the following year.

In this way, the tax paid on the fields owned by yeoman farmers and clans is five buckets per acre. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, in a normal year, one acre of land in the general field is more than 120 catties of millet or wheat, according to a stone of wheat is about equal to 30 catties, this 120 catties is about equivalent to four stones, according to the weights and measures that one stone is equal to ten buckets and is equal to 100 liters, the harvest of one mu at this time is about 40 buckets, 400 liters.

In this way, Jin Liang levied a total of four buckets of grain per mu of land on yeoman farmers and landlords, which was converted into 10 percent according to the tax rate, which did not seem light, because the land tax in the Eastern Han Dynasty was only 30 taxes and 1, which can be said to be the lowest land tax in history.

However, the poll tax in the Eastern Han Dynasty was very heavy, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, each household needed to pay 200 yuan per year; Adult men also have to pay 300 yuan a year, and those who are disabled are not exempt; All children aged 1~14 years old, regardless of gender, have to pay 23 yuan per year; Adult poll tax is called arithmetic, 15~56 years old, regardless of men and women, each person pays 120 per year, merchants and slaves are doubled, 240 yuan per person per year, in order to encourage childbirth, women 15~30 years old who do not marry are divided into five classes, and each liter is levied and calculated; If a woman becomes pregnant, her husband is exempt from paying for one year; There are also indiscriminate apportionment of contributions, all adult men and women, each of whom has to give 63 yuan to the emperor every year for the court expenses, and there are many local indiscriminate fees, too many to mention.

In addition, the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty also had a heavy burden of forced labor, which means that every man who has reached the age of 17 must serve one month of unpaid labor in the place of household registration every year, engaged in civil engineering, building bridges and roads, treating rivers and canals, transferring Cao Valley and other infrastructure labor. It is said that the levy is limited to 30 days, but as long as the quality of the project is not up to standard and needs to be reworked, it is not counted in the fixed service period, which shows that the levy is actually often more than one month, and because of the relationship between the emperor and the emperor, it is never new for local officials to issue conscription indiscriminately. Many people are suffering from forced labor, so they simply pay people to pay for their own labor, which is another few hundred dollars out.

In this way, on average, a family of four pays at least 800 to 2,000 yuan a year to the government.

During that period of history, after Cao Cao conquered Xiangyang, in view of the heavy poll tax in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he changed it to household modulation, and collected four buckets of land rent per mu from homesteaders and landlords, and each household produced two horses of silk and two catties of cotton.

In this comparison, the proportion of Jinliang's collection of four buckets of grain per mu of land is not high, because those tenant farmers who are attached to the landlords of the family family have to pay more than 50% of the grain to the landlords every year, which is equivalent to paying 20 buckets of grain per mu of land, and the exploitation is so heavy, why are they still willing to rely on the landlords of the family, first, they are forced by the landlords of the family, and second, because the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the imperial court and the local government are too many, which are far more than 50% of the land rent, and these tenant farmers are attached to the landlords of the family. Protected by the family's armed forces, the safety of life was guaranteed.

Careful calculations, originally the Eastern Han Dynasty's land tax was 30 taxes and 1, converted to the field endowment is an acre of land to collect one bucket and three liters, under the control of Jin Liang at all levels of government apportionment into the mu, overcharge two buckets and seven liters to deduct other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, a family of four, allocated to 40 acres of land, is an extra 10 stones, according to the market price of 200 yuan per stone of grain, about more than 2,000 yuan, calculated more than the government levy taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

As a matter of fact, yeoman farmers will not settle accounts in this way and feel that they are at a loss, because the current grain price is the wartime grain price, which is very vain, four or five times higher than the real grain price, and if the grain price returns to normal, the extra grain handed over by one of their families is only equivalent to more than 400 yuan, which is far less than what they paid before, and it is better to be stable.

Except for the landlords who can settle accounts, no one complains, because the land they get has been guaranteed by the Central Army, and they will no longer be forcibly seized and annexed by the landlords of the family as in the past, and the evenly divided fields they have allocated to them have followed them for generations, ten acres of land per person, two or three times more than before, as long as they are not lazy, and they can farm well, and it is no problem to have enough food and clothing, because the current grain price is very high, which is four or five times that of the past, the rest are sold to the central army, in exchange for coins to buy other necessities, no need to worry about other things, do not have to worry about being smashed by the county officials in the middle of the night to urge other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, do not have to worry about being forcibly conscripted, because the hussar general has given an order, and in the future, the people will take advantage of the agricultural slack season to have wages every day.

Jin Liang levied taxes in kind, one is to hoard grain for the war, and the other is to avoid hurting the peasants, Jin Liang knows that the grassroots officials below have a very serious desire to harm the people and enrich themselves, if the people are allowed to pay taxes with copper money, those officials will unite with those businessmen to lower the price of grain, hurting the image of the government, hurting the common people, and fattening the small number of rats.

Under Jin Liang's deliberate management, many tenant farmers who were attached to the landlords of the family fled from the family manor and defected to the government at all levels under the control of the Central Army, which intervened to help them break their leases with the landlords and distribute land to them according to the standards of homesteaders.

In fact, the tenant farmers of the Eastern Han Dynasty basically did not bind themselves to the fixed grange of a landlord for life, and had more personal freedom, theoretically there was the feasibility of changing jobs and changing careers, in addition to the condition that the land could be bought and sold and changed hands, a small number of tenant farmers could also rise to the space of self-cultivated farmers and even officials, such as Yang Zhen of the Eastern Han Dynasty's famous minister Hongnong Yang, who was a tenant farmer before his career, and the history of Yang Zhen was "less lonely and poor, living alone with his mother, planting and breeding in fake fields, in order to provide for support", but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the nature of many family landlords has changed, They supported the army and respected themselves, and regarded those tenant farmers as their own source of soldiers, and even regarded them as their own slaves, and forbade the tenant farmers to escape from the manor without permission.

Jin Liang was ready to sweep the Hetao area this time, for which he used a lot of money, dispatching 40,000 horses of the Guards Division, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Ju Yi, and Zhu Lingshi 120,000 horses, as well as Zhang Yan's 40,000 Feiyan Army, Ma Teng's 40,000 horses, Huangfu Song's 30,000 horses, Guo Yi's 10,000 horses, in addition to the Southern Xiongnu's 40,000 cavalry in Huchuquan, a total of 320,000 horses, of which 100,000 are elite cavalry.

In addition, Jin Liang also requisitioned 100,000 county soldiers from Jizhou and Bingzhou, who assisted them in wartime, and as the war progressed, after the ten fortresses were built, these 100,000 county soldiers were stationed here to defend against the nomads in the north.

The more than 200,000 tenant farmers who came out of the family manor, those who escaped from the family manor one after another, and the displaced people who poured into Bingzhou and Jizhou from other war-torn areas, as well as the people of nearby Sili, Yongzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Youzhou, were all attracted by the notices posted by the Central Army everywhere: "Do you want to make a fortune? Please come to the Loop! The Yellow River is nine meanders, plugged into the small south of the Yangtze River. Each person can get 20 acres of fertile land, and the central army will provide cattle, seeds, and farm tools, as long as you open up the wasteland and sow seeds, and only need to participate in the construction of canals and cities during the slack time, you can be exempted from tax for three years. ”

Those tenant farmers who were squeezed by more than 50% of the landlords' land rents and frequent labor and labor, those yeoman farmers who were exploited by the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the princes and local officials of the family, and those refugees who had given up hope of begging everywhere, every time they walked to a notice, they would be read out to them, and told them in detail that the Xiangyang court had a major plan to develop the Hetao area, but only one million people were needed in the early stage, and if they did not go for a long time, there would be no "tax exemption for three years of 20 acres of fertile land" after a year The good thing will never be again.

Hu Jia, the city guard of Puyang, was patrolling the city on horseback, and suddenly saw a notice posted on a high wall, and a person stood in front of the notice, explaining the notice to the people who gathered around, Hu Jia dispersed the people, and took a look at the horse, it turned out to be a notice from the Central Army, recruiting the people to develop the Hetao.

Hu Jia is the former official of the Liu family in Donglai, Qingzhou, followed Liu Dai of Yanzhou for many years, and was loyal to Liu Dai, he was worried about the development of Jin Liang's power, Yanzhou is close to Jizhou, and Jin Liang's clutches will sooner or later reach Yanzhou, so Hu Jia saw that Jin Liang's people posted notices here, blatantly attracting local people to develop the Hetao for Jin Liang, his fat and oily face couldn't help but twitch, and he was furious, and ordered the people who read the notice to be beheaded, and intimidated the local people not to follow Jin Liang's people to develop the Hetao.

The news of his beheading by Hu Jia quickly spread to the Ministry of Military Affairs in Xiangyang, and Dong Zhao, the governor of the Ministry of Military Affairs, thought that this was just a normal sacrifice of a supernumerary person, and it was not a big deal. He was about to ignore it, but it happened that Jin Liang went to the Ministry of Military Affairs to ask the Xuanfu Division how the people were mobilized to develop the Hetao in various places, and he noticed the news that the supernumerary was beheaded by Hu Jia, the defender of Puyang City.

Jin Liang said angrily: "Hu Jia." The loyal dog of the Liu family in Donglai, he killed the people sent by his father for the benefit of his master. I want to give Ben Gong a warning, if Ben Gong retreats, the loyal dogs of other places will follow suit, and those people who originally wanted to go to the Hetao will cringe! This kind of thing doesn't want to happen again, and the king is coming sooner and more! ”

In the past few months, Wang Yue has been teaching a thousand special staff swordsmanship in a compound near the imperial palace. These 1,000 special staff members are attached to the Operations Division of the Military Intelligence Department and specialize in some difficult matters.

Jin Liang didn't want to send agents so early, but Hu Jia's actions angered him, so Jin Liang asked Wang Yue to send a few agents to infiltrate Puyang City, and a day later, Hu Jia's fat dog head hung high above Puyang City. There is a line of blood written under his head, and those who kill angels die without permission.

Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai stared at the city, and the line of blood words confused him, what kind of bullshit angel?!

When Liu Dai was puzzled, someone sent an edict from Liu Wei, the son of heaven. The edict said that the development of the Hetao is the will of the imperial court, and those who read the notice are the envoys sent by the imperial court to read the will in various places, and these angels convey the will of the queen mother and the Son of Heaven, but they were killed by Hu Jia, the guard of Puyang City, and the court was furious, and sent someone to kill him, and at the same time told you Liu Dai, if there are more angel killers under your rule, the Son of Heaven will be angry, and your life will not be saved.

Liu Dai was angry and angry, and wanted to tear the holy decree to pieces and kill the messenger of the decree, but after thinking about it, he still didn't dare, if he angered Jin Liang, the central army poured out, and the 20,000 horses under his Yanzhou assassination history were sandwiched by the central army and the Yanzhou Yellow Turban, and he Liu Dai must have died without a place to be buried, especially when he remembered the scene when Jin Liang's central army broke Dong Zhuo a few months ago, those princes of the family, including him Liu Dai, were the same as the princes of the six countries when Xiang Yu broke the Qin army, bowing his head to the ground, Jin Liang's murderous spirit was too strong.

Liu Dai hated the cowardice in his heart, but he didn't dare to go against Jin Liang openly, so he had to grit his teeth and say: "Pass the order, let those people post notices here, let them read the notices, don't embarrass them." ”

Liu Dai, as a prince, also raised some strategists below, and some strategists asked: "Lord, the people below us are being instigated by these people to leave, don't we stop it?" ”

Liu Dai said hatefully: "If we set up troops to stop us, then Jin Liang will press other charges on me, since those untouchables have no intention of being my vassals, forcing them to stay here, it will only evolve into the Yellow Turban Remnants, it is better to let them go, so as not to harm the place." ”

At the same time, the loyal dogs of the princes of the family who killed the people who read the notice were assassinated by the agents sent by Wang Yue, and their heads were hung on the head of the city, and some of the princes of the family who could not hold back wanted to raise troops to deal with Jin Liang, and to treat such princes of the family, Jin Liang mobilized other close princes of the family such as Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, Liu Bei and the generals below him to transfer troops to besiege the princes of the family and force him to accept.

Jin Liang's coercion of the Son of Heaven to make the prestige of the princes has been created, Jin Liang used this to crusade against the ministers, and the name is justified, those princes of the family have witnessed the eight-sided majesty of Jin Liang sweeping the rebels of the five states, and they dare not go straight to Jin Liang's troops, and they all recognize the migration of the people below to the Hetao area one by one, they are all like Liu Dai to comfort themselves, thinking that those untouchables and people staying in the local area will only be a disaster, it is better to send them away, but they don't know that the poverty and cunning of these people are caused by their superiors.

Jin Liang also led the Guards Division and Gao Shun and Zhang Liao Division from Xiangyang, and the general Cao Xing and Cheng Lian also followed the army, Wu Anguo was sent by Jin Liang to the Qingzhou Corps as the commander of the first brigade, Tai Shici and Liu Zheng had not yet finished their studies in the teaching brigade, and still followed Jin Liang's side, only waiting for the end of the war, they were sent to serve in the Qingzhou Corps. (To be continued.) )