Chen Lin, as the chief secretary of the Zhengnan General's Mansion, has more than 100 scribes under his command, and he quickly sent these scribes to various camps to spread the good news, so that the originally gloomy military heart suddenly became clear, there are 1.5 million stones, save a little, and it can support it for half a year, not to mention that the lord's father-in-law, Mr. Tang Long, is still transporting and purchasing grain from all over the country, not to mention the grain borrowed by Tian Feng and their families. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"How much money do they have, and how much do they have, and how much do they have, and how many are their servants?" Jin Liang was very concerned about how much he had benefited from this campaign.

"From the Li family, the Li family, the Wang family, the Xue family, and the Jia family, a total of more than 13,000 catties of gold, more than 24,000 catties of silver, and more than 460 million copper coins were copied, and there were other rare treasures worth more than 500 million yuan." Chen Lin read.

Jin Liang said angrily, and then ordered: "So much money?!" It seems that these big families have really looted a lot of people's fat and people's ointment! In addition to taking out a part of the reward for the meritorious soldiers, a part of the rare treasures was given to the royal family, and the rest were handed over to the father-in-law to be auctioned by his auction house in Xiangyang, and the gold was also handed over to the father-in-law's money bank for safekeeping, and the silver and copper coins were used to recruit laborers to repair Xiangyang, build the imperial palace, build the central castle, and build the Flying Tiger Tower. ”

"My lord, I have always had an opinion on the establishment of the Dedication Bank." Chen Lin said with a frown.

"Kong Zhang, please speak." Jin Liang had successfully left a good impression in the hearts of the soldiers that he could correct his mistakes, so his subordinates were never afraid to give him advice, even if there was a problem, Jin Liang could laugh it off, and even let the questioner learn a lesson.

"First, it is very inappropriate to use the name of the money bank. It will make people think that keeping money in this bank is the same as giving money to us. Since they have such thoughts. Surely they will not be happy to put money into it.

Second, the security of the money village is now in chaos everywhere, thieves are rampant, all kinds of hostile forces rise and fall, if the money village is located in the general city, it will definitely be coveted by the hostile forces, like the lord originally set up the money village in Keiguan. was attacked by Zhang Yanqi, and hundreds of millions of money were turned into nothing, and the lord must not be careless about this.Third, I heard that Dong Zhuo's side has begun to make copper coins indiscriminately, the copper coins are very coarse, ten dollars are not worth our original big money, if Dong Zhuo's bad money flows into Jingzhou, how should our money village deal with it, these problems are related to the life and death of the money bank, but also related to the rise and fall of the lord's great cause. Don't be careless! ”

Jin Hao thought for a moment, and then smiled: "What you said is very reasonable." Kemonoseki is a profound lesson. However, we are now only setting up money banks in Xiangyang and Shangdang, with General Zhang Yang guarding Shangdang and our Central Army guarding Xiangyang. Xiangyang's money village is divided into four branches, all of which are close to the central army station, built into a castle, and the degree of defense is comparable to that of the imperial palace, which should be foolproof. After that, the development of the money bank and the development of the power of the central army were complementary to each other, and once our army firmly grasped a city, I began to open a money bank in that city, and the development of pawn shops and auction houses was also carried out steadily. Dong Zhuo minted inferior money privately, I already knew it, and I have notified the two money houses to prohibit Dong Zhuo's private money from circulating in Jingzhou, once discovered, it will be confiscated immediately, and the merchants in Dong Zhuo's influence can only use gold and silver or the big money minted by the previous imperial court if they want to do business in Jingzhou.The name of the dedication money village is really not good enough, for the money bank, Kong Zhang, do you have any good suggestions? ”

"My lord, since our army is called the Central Army, why can't our money bank be called the Central Money Bank? The lord can take advantage of the situation to play the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven, and set up the central money bank as a state-owned money bank, with the state-owned signboard, the people will not have resistance to the central money bank. ”

"Central Qianzhuang, it's really a good name for the atmosphere, it's better that the pawn shop and the auction house are renamed the Central Pawnshop and the Central Auction House, and the dedication group is also renamed the Central Group." Jin Liang said happily.

In fact, Jin Liang wanted to directly change the name of the central bank to the central bank, but thinking about the fact that it was now directly renamed the bank, it was still a bit abrupt, because silver could not be directly circulated in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it had to be exchanged for horseshoe gold or five baht money to circulate. It is better to wait until a large amount of silver is excavated from the Wa Kingdom and other places, and the amount of silver is enough to be used as legal currency, and then change the name to become a central bank, otherwise the name is very unworthy of the name now.

"The lord is wise." Chen Lin saw that Jin Liang readily accepted his opinion, so he complimented him.

"Kong Zhang, this sycophant will be a little less in the future, I know my wisdom, I don't need you to remind me, haha." Jin Liang made a joke with Chen Lin, and then asked, "Why don't you tell me how many fields their five families own in total?" ”

"The fields of the five families together have more than 125,000 mu, and there are more than 50,000 mu of wasteland that is not registered, all of which are distributed around Xiangyang." Chen Lin continued.

"All these fields are owned by the Central Army, and 100,000 mu near Xiangyang will be allocated to the Central Army for military cantonment, and the other more than 70,000 mu will be given to Han Hao's Mintun Corps."

Let the 160,000 troops under his command all be professionalized, all trained to fight, and the pressure on logistics is also relatively great, Jin Liang plans to pilot a part of the military cantonments to see if there is a significant difference in combat effectiveness and morale between the army that occasionally takes some time to plough the fields and the army that always trains to fight.

"There are more than 500 of their stores in Jingzhou, what does the lord plan to do with it?" Chen Lin radiated a rare passion and took the initiative to ask.

"Kong Zhang, what do you think should be done?" When Jin Liang saw Chen Lin take the initiative to ask, he knew that he wanted to benefit the family from it.

"I think that there is a lack of business talents in our Central Army, and Mr. Tang Long already has the behemoth of the Central Group to take care of, so it is better to transfer these stores to other families, right?" Chen Lin suggested with a smile.

"Kong Zhang, I have another opinion on this point. There are many disabled people in our Central Army, how should they make a living once they are discharged from the army, I have been thinking about this problem, this time the shop might as well be divided into two parts, the smaller shop is reserved for our Central Army to house the disabled soldiers, and the larger shop will be transferred to you, but it cannot be transferred in vain. Although Jin Liang said that he had to take care of the interests of his subordinates, Chen Lin and other family talents were only a small part of his subordinates, and he couldn't ignore the interests of more people in order to take care of this small part.

"How is there an assignment law? Please make a public announcement. "Chen Lin is not a greedy person. As long as you can get a little benefit for the family. Don't be nagged by the elders of the family. And he was satisfied.

Jin Liang saw that Chen Lin was a little disappointed, and said with a smile: "Auction, the captured treasures can be auctioned, like these shops are actually considered loot, and they can also be auctioned, and the rules for auctioning ordinary items are the same, the one with the highest price wins." Kong Zhang don't have to worry, I'll auction this time. Only for Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Dong Zhao and your family and your vassal close family, unless others take the initiative to participate, they are not allowed to participate, and the same will be true in the future, those who do not share the same heart with us will not be able to share the benefits from us. ”

Chen Lin's eyes lit up: "In this way, we can negotiate in advance, and the final price may be lower than the market price, thanks to the generosity of the lord." ”

"Kong Zhang, there is a reason why I am so generous, in the future, your shop will have to pay taxes to the government. The tax rate is not high, one out of ten. "Jin Liang decided to start a full tax. You can't rely on the old book anymore.

"What?! One out of ten, isn't that high? Chen Lin asked in surprise.

"One out of ten refers to one percent of the profits, not one percent of the operating income, the profits of each industry are different, for example, the profits of restaurants are higher than the profits of grocery stores, and it is very unreasonable to collect money according to the operating income, so it will be collected according to the profits, and converted to the previous method of collecting taxes according to the operating income, which may be one out of fifty, and other miscellaneous taxes have been cancelled, which is much less than before." Jin Liang patiently explained.

"It is collected according to profits, and other miscellaneous taxes have been abolished, which is indeed several times less than the previous collection. My lord, I understand what you mean, you want to gradually open up the tax revenue of the family by taxing us families, who occupy most of the fields and shops, even if it is one out of ten profits, it is a large source of wealth, enough to support the expenses of the central army. Chen Lin served as the chief bookkeeper in He Jin's Great General's Mansion, and he was well-informed, and he immediately saw through Jin Liang's intentions.

Chen Lin thought for a moment, then shook his head suddenly: "Lord, have you ever thought about why those big families are hated by the people of Hanshu and the royal family, why?!" Mainly because the family is mostly a miser who plucks a hair to benefit the world and does not do anything, they desperately ask for it from the people from the court, if the court or the people want to take a little benefit from him, it is like asking for their lives, do not hide it from the lord, some elders of my family have such a temperament. The imperial court has long been unable to curb the family, and nominally the family also has to collect taxes, but in fact, none of them have ever paid it, if the lord levies the business tax, he will inevitably offend most of the families in Jingzhou, please think twice! ”

Jin Liang was so angry by the shameless behavior of the family that he was speechless for a long time, you can only give them benefits, and you want to get benefits from them, this kind of family is really hateful and hateful to the extreme, occupying so many social resources, but never making any contribution to society. This family is a parasite attached to the body of the Han, and it is a huge parasite, if you want to shoot them to death, they bite back, and they can bite the body of the Han to death. Jin Liang suddenly understood a little why Emperor Han Ling was so wild, dealing with such a shameless class all day long, making him angry all day long, and he had nothing to do with them, so he could only indulge in pleasure and forget about these helpless pains.

This family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is probably more shameless and powerful than the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, Jin Liang is helpless now, so he can only sigh and say: "Kong Zhang, for the time being, I will not tax the family family, or tax ordinary poor merchants and homesteaders, alas, forget it, it is a drop in the bucket to levy their taxes." When the imperial court has newly arrived in Jingzhou, it wants to extend favors, so it will announce tax exemption for three years. ”

Jin Liang gritted his teeth and thought, in the past three years, he will dig graves everywhere to make up for his financial resources, and occasionally find some bad luck from small and medium-sized families, kill a small number of small and medium-sized families, and use their family property to spend the past three years miserably. In these three years, the Central Army has been built into the strongest army in the Han Dynasty and an army that is completely obedient to gold and good orders; At the same time, the various forces in the north were annihilated, and at the same time, those families were eroded and divided step by step.

Endure you bastards, just endure it for three years, and then Lao Tzu will pay heavy taxes, and those who don't accept it will be beheaded, and at least they will be pulled to dig coal. It took a long time for Jin Liang to calm down his resentful state, he couldn't show anything strange in front of Chen Lin, this guy is also a member of the family, it seems that he will have to be wary of him a little in the future. There is no need to tell him about the policies that suppress and weaken the great family.

Jin Liang was suddenly silent for a while. Then clench your fists. Gritting his teeth, this series of actions fell in Chen Lin's eyes. Chen Lin tried to think from Jin Liang's point of view, and found that he couldn't stand the shamelessness of the class he was in, but what could he do, he couldn't betray his family, but he couldn't betray his lord.

Chen Lin didn't want to make the lord no longer trust him because of this, so after thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice: "Lord." In fact, I don't object to you suppressing the clans, those clans are insatiable, and they will only loot and expand more and more, if the lord does not restrain them, the realm that the lord can control will be less and less in the future, and the court will fall more and more into a situation of existing in name only. It is really difficult for the lord to suppress the family for a while! I fully support the lord in doing that, but when the lord suppresses the interests of the family, can he be a little merciful to my subordinates?! ”

How could Jin Liang answer, he could only smile and say, "Of course." I just asked you to buy those shops at a low price to take care of your family's interests. Please rest assured that what I am against is those families who do not support our Central Army. As long as they are willing to support our Central Army and are willing to obey the imperial court, I will not restrain them much, but I will never tolerate those unscrupulous, domineering and arrogant families. ”

Jin conscience said, if I can fully control the power of the country like Zhu Yuanzhang in the future, I will never allow any of the following families to have private soldiers, do not pay taxes, and treat me with disrespect, you have worked hard for me, I will be more tolerant of you, so that you can have a rich life, but if you still make a personal kingdom like now, it is a dream. That day will probably not be realized until twenty or thirty years later.

Jin Liang waved his hand: "Leave those things for later discussion, and then tell me how many tenant slaves are in these families?" ”

"There are more than 25,000 tenants, there are more than 8,000 shopkeepers, lord, I have another proposal, since the land has been taken over by the lord and owned by the central army, then the tenants naturally have the central army, but those more than 8,000 shopkeepers belong to those 500 shops, can they be handed over to the family who bought the shop?" Chen Lin is still actively fighting for the interests of their family.

Hiding the disgust in his heart, he smiled slightly: "A store is a store, a person is a person, and I have never heard of a buying and selling store with additional guys, these guys are also considered the trophies of our Central Army, and they also use the auction system." "I can't let you get too much light this time.

"Alright then, everything is arranged according to the lord." Chen Lin didn't continue to be reluctant, because he knew that if he put the interests of the family on the high side, the lord might gradually gain trust in him.

"Kong Zhang, how many private soldiers are there in these families? How many were killed in battle? How much is disabled? How many are available for adaptation? Jin Liang continued to ask.

"Their private soldiers add up to more than 32,000 people, more than 2,000 were killed in the attack on the palace of the Son of Heaven and the main mansion, more than 3,000 were killed in the course of our surprise attack, more than 2,000 were seriously disabled, and only 25,000 remained.

"Okay, let's select 10,000 people from it to join our Central Army, and the other 15,000 people will be allocated to Han Hao to make Tuntian. By the way, what are the casualties of our Central Army in the recent battles? Jin Liang was more concerned about the casualties of his troops, and he gradually became less inclined to fight tough battles, because that meant that he would have to die a lot of his own people, not only the loss of strength was obvious, but also the pension had to be compensated a lot.

Jin Liang has not been rich in the later life, and he has not been very rich before he arrived in Luoyang in this life, he is really sensitive to money, and there are many people who do not want to die by himself, because the pension standard he set is relatively high, and the reason why it is higher is that he hopes that the people below will be brave and not afraid of death when they fight.

"Because the lord took appropriate measures, first put down Li Sheng's rebellion without bloodshed, Lu Chong, Wu Chong, and Dian Wei responded in time to reduce the loss of our army, and this surprise attack also greatly reduced the combat attrition of our army during the siege of the city, and the total statistics show that we have only lost nine hundred and fifty-six people, which together is less than a thousand, and most of them were lost when defending the palace."

"It's a pretty good result." Coming out of Luoyang, the unprecedented victories along the way made Jin Liang feel a little fluttery.

"My lord, there are still some people who need your orders." Chen Lin was a little embarrassed.?“ Who? ”

"It's those heads of families and their relatives, as well as the families of those who died in the war, these people add up to more than 20,000 people!"

"The heads of the Jia family and the Xue family were handed over to Yuan Shao to deal with, and those men in their family who had the ability to incite people were dealt with according to Li Cheng's treatment, and the other men who began to be sensible and could remember hatred were given to Han Hao as Tuntian soldiers, focusing on mining. Didn't our Central Army start to set up orphanages, and send the boys and girls who had not yet begun to remember to be raised in orphanages, and all of them were given the surname Jin, and as for the names, let them take them as they like when they grow up. Jin Liang thought about it, he couldn't bear to do the thing of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots. (To be continued.) )