Chapter 216 Special Economic Zones
The scorpion didn't remember how he took Monado into his arms with the strength of wine, he only remembered that he had said a lot, and when the sky was white, Monado got up from the scorpion's arms, and it seemed that the scorpion was not completely bad, and this kind of good day and beauty was a good time, and he didn't take the last step.
Monado also escaped as if avoiding the scorpion's slightly open gaze, while dressing up and walking out of the small courtyard quickly, this night she heard too many novel things, or this is the information she wants, and the courtyard is smelling the scorpion with the residual fragrance of Monado in her hand, although the eyes are slightly open, but the inside is clear, if Yanglin sees this scene, he will definitely sing a song "Impulsive Punishment" that was popular all over the country in the later world in a sad tone, but it is a pity that the scorpion has no impulse, so there is no punishment.
Finally, there was no longer a foul smell in Yanglin's tent, and it turned into a good smell of flowers, which was most likely to attract butterflies or bees, so the white roses came more diligently.
These days, the army has not marched very decently, under the back and forth of nearly a thousand elephant soldiers, from Jiaozhi to Nanzhao has stepped out of a very decent mountain road, except for a few steep places, this road can already be almost the same as the official road between Jiangnan County. With so many elephants tossing back and forth on this mountain road, even wild beasts are now afraid to approach the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and today White Rose is here for this road.
"Captain! I've sung the eighteen bends of the mountain road hundreds of times, we have to change the songs, those sergeants who opened the road have songs as trumpets, and the process of building the road is much faster, so you can take the time to write me a few more songs! White Rose shook Yang Lin's arm and pleaded. Normally, when he used words like 'ah' or 'you', it would be difficult for Yang Lin to refuse her request.
Yang Lin knew that she was holding back her strength in her heart, and wanted to compete with Xiliang for the title of the first singer, and she wanted to take out a few more songs from herself with the convenience of following her. Her strong temperament may have been cultivated in a place like Zuixianlou after the family suffered a big change, plus the idea that Yang Lin has always instilled in them is that 'people with ability can live very well when they go there', so she has an almost fanatical pursuit of being strong, so after planting such a bad result, Yang Lin has to pay for it himself.
After singing for two hours, Yanglin's inventory was missing another song, and it was one of Yanglin's plans to promote Mandarin Chinese in a large area in Jiaozhi and Nanzhao. In this regard, he can't be stingy, but he can't get enough of the white roses that he has a song, and he wants to get some more goods from him, but he still shakes his arm and wraps around him, who asks him to compose a song every time, it is easy to look extremely relaxed.
"Okay, okay, no more shaking, I'm about to be hollowed out by you." Yang Lin said impatiently. Who expected that as soon as these words came out, the white rose's cheeks were red with embarrassment.
In this day and age. The atmosphere is relatively open, and White Rose has been in the Drunken Immortal Building for several months, and after coming out, she has dealt with those big-headed soldiers all day long, so naturally she has heard a lot of meat words. Very reflexively thought of this sentence 'hollowed out' to the affairs of men and women, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was too intimate to hold a man's arm and be coquettish, after all, Yanglin had reached the age of development, and he was growing fast. Now he is half a head taller than her, and his figure is burly and strong, and he already has a bit of a manly look. It's not a child, the more embarrassed and embarrassed the more embarrassed the more blushing, and finally blushing and running out of the door without looking back, only to be stunned by her actions Yang Lin, who didn't know how to touch his head, was stunned on the spot, and it took a long time for Yang Lin to come back to his senses and sigh secretly: "When did this girl think so evilly?" â
In fact, Yang Lin's psychological age is about forty years old, more than ten years older than Li Er, it can be seen that if Yang Lin was born in this era, he may not be smarter than Li Er, at least after seeing several princes who began to fight for power and profit in their teens, Yang Lin knew that his superiority from later generations would be used up one day, but there was still no problem within one or two generations, thinking that the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty was the status quo of a generation, Yang Lin was even a little worried about his middle and late life.
Cheerful songs sounded in the barracks, this is a necessary program when the sergeants return to the camp to rest after a day's work, the soldiers in charge of cooking have prepared a big pot of rice, since the Tang army brought the mill and windmill to Jiaozhi, the Jiaozhi people no longer eat grain with shells, so whenever night falls, the camp is full of the fragrance of white rice, who calls Jiaozhi not much else, is more food!
Whenever eating, Yanglin's handsome tent is always the most lively, because several generals know that the commander-in-chief is very mouthful, not delicious and generally does not put down chopsticks, so his food is generally the most carefully cooked, and the young commander-in-chief is easy-going, no shelf, when it comes to the meal, no matter who comes to the camp, he will politely leave that person to eat, as time goes by, everyone is familiar with each other, and those generals are not polite to him, all of them take the dishes and chopsticks and sit down to eat, This situation even has a tendency to spread from high-ranking generals to middle-level generals, and when it comes to meals, Yanglin's camp is always the most populous.
"While everyone is here, I will tell you something today, I have given me a reply in the past few letters, especially the local generals of Jiaozhi, I can tell you now, your expectations for the imperial court have been realized, Your Majesty is not a stingy person, after the end of the war, the Jiaozhi people not only enjoy the same rights as the Tang people, but also enjoy the permanent exemption from agricultural taxes and forced labor, and Jiaozhi is about to become a special economic zone in the Tang Dynasty, it is foreseeable that this will be one of the richest places in the Tang Dynasty."
As soon as Yang Lin's words fell, he heard the heavy breathing of the generals in the camp tent, Jiaozhi with a huge grain output, if there is the protection of the powerful military force of the Tang Dynasty, there will be no more wars, and there will never be to pay taxes, then there are only two words left, 'Enjoy the blessings.' â
In the history of Jiaozhi, no grass head king has ever been exempted from agricultural taxes and forced labor, what kind of ambition did the emperor of the Tang Dynasty have? Do you want to provide for these people of Cochin in vain? At this moment, even these local generals who regarded Yanglin as a god and the Tang army as a heavenly army did not believe what Yanglin said, and they believed or speculated that the Tang Dynasty army might have encountered difficulties in Nanzhao and needed them to serve to the death, so they prescribed such a generous policy to buy them well.
Not only the generals of the Jiaozhi system do not believe it, but those Han generals also do not believe it. The land that has been fought with all our hearts and minds will not be taxed, so why are we still fighting this battle? Most of their thoughts are the same as the generals of the Jiaozhi system, I am afraid that there will be a bloody battle next, and the one who rushes to the forefront of this bloody battle may be the army of the Jiaozhi system, and the smarter generals are even planning, when they ask for rewards after the war, they should not seek an industry in the place of Jiaozhi, you know. The promise made by the emperor is a sure thing, they have no doubt that the final winner of this war will be the Tang Dynasty, so it seems to be a good idea to take a high-yield tax-free field, although it is far away, but the field does not need to be planted by himself, and some tenants can be recruited in the Central Plains to send them to this kind of land.
"I know what's on your mind right now, but don't worry. Although the battle is to be fought, our next task is still to repair roads, widen roads, and level roads. It is convenient for the trade and passage between Jiaozhi and Nanzhao in the future. We don't need to worry about the matter of destroying Nanzhao, the credit belongs to His Majesty, and what we have to do is to ensure that the credit falls into the hands of His Majesty steadily. The great siege of hundreds of thousands of troops, it will not be your turn to die. â
In the Lingnan Army, Yang Lin's promise was sometimes even more useful than Li Er. Now this kind of sentiment has already spread to the entire new army, believing in the Buddha, gaining immortality, believing in the commander-in-chief, and getting glory and wealth. In fact, half of the Yang Lin in Li Er's reply has not been finished, that is, after the Tang Dynasty exempts Jiaozhi from agricultural taxes and forced labor, the commercial control of Jiaozhi will be very strict, this new army will not be disbanded after the war, but will be stationed in the border and coastal defense of Jiaozhi, the grain of Jiaozhi can be sold to any country, but any foreigner or caravan must pay extremely high taxes to transport the grain from the border control after buying grain in Jiaozhi, this is the import and export control, And only the Tang people did not have such a tax as zĂ i in their own country.
Yanglin can now imagine that when the people placed in their own armies by the major powerful families will pass back the policy of permanent tax exemption for Jiaozhi, how many people will choose to buy property in Jiaozhi, which has a great grain output, and how many tenants who know how to cultivate intensively will be sent to Jiaozhi, and it is foreseeable that the grain output of Jiaozhi will be greatly increased at that time, and when the time comes, all of them will be full of grain, so they can only choose to sell through commercial channels, and they will form caravans themselves without the guidance of the imperial court. The grain will be transported to the places where the grain is needed in Datang to sell, but with a large amount of grain to offset the market, the price of grain in Datang will fall, benefiting the whole people, gradually, the people of Datang will say goodbye to brown rice and eat polished rice, that is, the white rice eaten by later generations, completely hulled and shelled.
Of course, once this is circulated, it will not only be grain, but also sea ships, river boats, and other materials needed for navigation for freight, and when the people here grow more food and make money, they will think about consumption, and at that time, the good things manufactured in batches by the ten major factories in the east and west will also be brought here by the merchants, driving the overall prosperity here, and if the lazy Jiaozhi locals can learn a little more diligent like the Han people, then their quality of life will also be greatly improved. If they continue to be lazy, they will face a situation where they are not as good as others, and this kind of comparison will force them to become more industrious.
Yanglin's announcement at dinner made the atmosphere in the whole barracks more enthusiastic, and it was a major event in the barracks that the white rose had a new song to sing, although it was only a rehearsal, it also attracted a lot of soldiers to watch and listen to the corner, in the past few months of the arrival of the Tang Army, it was the happiest day for these Jiaozhi soldiers.
In the distant northeast black soil, the billowing smoke and dust heralded the end of a war, Gaisu Yuanwen didn't know why he was defeated, like the arrogant Tang army general, he had extremely strong self-confidence before the war, and the enemy's army was doubled, and it would collapse after a charge, which was a scene he couldn't imagine, he led the most elite all-cavalry troops under his command, and these soldiers followed him to conquer the Qian and Jurchen Turkic many armed forces close to Goryeo, The cavalry of the Tang army could not be stronger than these nomads, they relied on those things that could make loud explosions to win the victory, which made Gai Su Yuanwen very unwilling, the more unwilling, the more he wanted to figure out why he was defeated, how the things that the Tang army had came about, and what kind of effect they had.
After countless wars baptism of the elite is worthy of being the elite, although it was defeated by Hou Junji's blow, but the real death of the subordinates is less than one percent, after a small half of the retreat and reorganization, Gai Su Yuanwen regathered most of his army, Hou Junji saw the defeat of the Goryeo army and did not disperse, so he did not order the pursuit, three thousand horsemen, although with the advantage of gunpowder and silk paper armor, a charge killed almost equal to the number of enemy troops of their own army, but wanted to scatter and chase and kill the army that was twice as large as their own, Small-scale damage will definitely appear, even if there is no pursuit, the Tang army has killed more than 100 people, and even a few people have not even found their bodies, but this is enough for him to write a decent good news, killing 3,000 enemies, and only more than 100 of his own dead and wounded, so that whoever sees it is a big victory, of course, except for Yanglin. (To be continued......)