Chapter 191: New Deals
Li Tu felt that his body was about to melt, it turned out that being hit by this terrifying blue flame was such a painful feeling, from the moment his body was set on fire, he had no image and demeanor to speak of except for instinctive wailing, the gate of King Tony's city was opened, and the people on the main road with various farm tools and shovels poured out of the city gate, their task was to clean up the corpses outside the city, these bloody pictures of Yang Lin were intended to be engraved in their minds, only those who knew awe were more suitable to be ruled.
Partu's team went too fast, even if the scouts had discovered their direction, the Tang army now did not have troops faster than them to catch up with them, and it was good to go back to part of it, let them know the horror of the Tang army, they would definitely consider it carefully when they wanted to compete with the Tang army again, Yang Lin rode into the city on a head, this time the people of Tony King City looked at him not only with laughter, but also with more awe, and even fear, Yang Lin could imagine the effect of his next decree now, That's definitely the rule.
I don't plan to let King Tony return to King Tony's City, if King Yingji and King Hun Sen are positive teaching materials, then King Tony is a negative teaching material, his wealth and territory belong to the Tang Army, and it depends on them whether the next three kings choose to be King Yingji or choose to be King Tony.
On the first day of October, the Tang army continued to march north after more than a month of reorganization in the city of King Tony, the territory of King Mori and King Jieta should be most of Vietnam and Burma and a small part of Yunnan in the later generations, and the territory of the Khmer King should be the entire Yunnan region, in fact, this area is the most valuable area in Yanglin now. Large areas of mangrove and rubber groves are located in this area.
The 20,000 sailors are still moving along the Mekong River, and along the way they have to explore all the waterways that are available or exploitable. The army ranks have expanded to 50,000 people, as well as 1,000 newly reorganized war elephants and 5,000 cavalry, which is far more than in the former Han Dynasty.
The spheres of influence of the Seven Kings of Cochin are bordering each other, and the distance is not very far, so the other three kings have already heard of the great battle that took place in the city of Tony more than a month ago, and now the Seven Kings have been conquered by the Tang army. Jiaozhi was basically set by the general momentum of the unification of the Tang Army, but the rulers all had a common problem, unwilling to let go of the power in their hands. Nationalists such as the Khmer kings were even a headache for Yang Lin, and allowing autonomy was the best way Yang Lin learned from later generations, but it was not approved by the ministers of the court and Li Er during this period. In their opinion. Allowing autonomy means that the Tang Dynasty has not yet ruled, even the first to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty Lan Miao, Li Er also has the intention of moving his descendants to the Han city to live, the letter asked Yanglin, Yanglin gave him the answer is not to worry, just wait for Yuezhou City to be built more beautifully, they will move out themselves, but the Khmer people. No matter how you move to that Han city, it is a distance of thousands of kilometers. It is impossible to move.
A few months ago, Yanglin gave Li Er a letter on the governance of the new frontier, which stated that the land of southern Xinjiang would be exempted from a single harsh tax in the future, and even the land tax, the main source of the empire's tax revenue, would be permanently exempted, and all the people of the Tang Dynasty who were willing to move from the Central Plains to these newly conquered territories would not only be given fields, farm tools, and even houses, while the more populous places in Jiangnan and the Central Plains would only reduce the land tax in a small amount and increase the commercial tax in large quantities, and there would be a new household registration system to match it.
In the original Datang, all the people who walked out of their household registration are called homeless, marriage, purchase of property, etc., all need to be within the place of household registration, unless you have an official body or title to get through the world, and most of the ordinary people are compiled in a certain magnate's food to help the magnates farm the land, and now Yanglin Tiyì to all the people of the Tang Dynasty issued a unified household registration document, identity document, so that the people can move freely, marry, and purchase property, And those food households will also become in name only with the implementation of this policy, and the rights of the herdsmen enjoyed by the magnates will be deprived, but the court will give them the corresponding income of the Yulu, such as a national duke, there are thousands of households like Li Jing and Qin Qiong, and there are hundreds of households like Wei Zheng and Dai Guan, all of which will be converted into Yulu according to how much the food is eaten. Just let you live a happy life in a non-war time.
Li Er studied this article for a long time, and he felt that the tax-free policy was simply bullshit, moving the people of the Central Plains outward? He still thinks that the population of the Central Plains is too small! All of them do not pay taxes, and the officials of the government and the yamen, the salaries of the soldiers, and the conscription for development and construction rely on the money from there? And he is very concerned about the household registration policy, the powerful fief food is the emperor's reward routine for the subordinates since ancient times, and the same kind of reward has laid the root for the courtiers to make the king, the Spring and Autumn Period of the Lu State, the three powerful ministers of the food and fiefs of the people and fiefs are even greater than the monarch, so they began to directly do not bird Lu Jun, although the Tang Dynasty is far from that kind of Cheng dù, but in charge of the fief and the people is equivalent to letting the courtiers control a civil power force, such a strength of one or two may not be able to shake the emperor's fundamentals, But if many are united, the emperor has to give in, and all the rights to govern the people will be returned to the emperor, and only those magnates will be given money and food according to their positions, which can greatly reduce the possibility of the magnates hoarding grain and grass and gathering the people to control private power, after all, a thousand households may be thousands of people at the beginning, and in the next generation, it may become tens of thousands of people, and it is normal to become hundreds of thousands of people after a few generations, but anyone who is in charge of hundreds of thousands of people may have an impact on the emperor.
When Li Er put away the letter paper and was about to take out the household registration system to discuss with the ministers, he inadvertently saw that there was a small paper attachment inside the envelope.
In fact, these two policies are equally important, the ancient emperors blindly moved the people outside the customs and remote places to the Central Plains, and their dynasties were eventually shattered, which proved that what they did was wrong, the Central Plains has supported the Han people for thousands of years, and it has long been barren, and a part of the people who are unwilling to endure poverty will be moved to southern Xinjiang with the tax exemption policy. It can make the overall cultivation environment of the people of the Tang Dynasty more relaxed, within a few years, whether it is to move to southern Xinjiang, or the people who are still in the Central Plains, the surplus wealth in their hands will be more, first of all, the start of tax exemption in some areas is just to drive them to relocate, and finally realize that the people of the whole world do not have to pay taxes to farm land is the big goal that Erchen hopes that his father will implement, this goal seems to be very big, but in fact, Erchen feels that in a few years, this unprecedented feat can be achieved in the hands of his father.
You can take a look at the growing commercial tax, from the first year of Zhenguan to this year, especially after the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce, the amount of commercial tax is increasing by multiple every year, this year's commercial tax should be able to slightly exceed 20 million yuan, millions of agricultural taxes in front of the huge commercial tax has accounted for a small proportion, you can also see at a glance that the rich are still businessmen, and the poor are still the people who farm the land, why is this? Because of the imbalance of taxation, the people spend a year to cultivate, to plant ten acres of land for every family of four, the output is only more than 20 stone of grain, in addition to the part of their own food and taxes for a year, some families even can't make ends meet, and the businessman converts the grain or other species produced by ten acres of land into commodities, it can be sold in a very fast time with several times or even dozens of times the profit, the larger the amount, the more profitable, which leads to the Tang Dynasty accounting for eighty percent of the peasant households and the common people have not accounted for one percent of the businessmen are rich. Therefore, the adjustment of land tax and commercial tax is a lever to balance the polarization of the wealth of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
When a country prospers commerce, it is bound to be more prosperous, because agriculture is the original producer of commerce, exempt from farmers' field tax, their enthusiasm for farming will be higher, when they have surplus food, surplus wealth, they will buy delicious and fun things to feed back business, rather than in the field tax and commercial tax are checked, it is better to only put the good business tax, such as selling a jar of Chang'an brewed Yangjiang Daqu, the cost price of making wine is less than the consistent money, but the price is ten times, and the tax generated is only more than 300 Wen, Do you think that makes sense? Anyway, Erchen thinks it's unreasonable, not to mention thirty taxes one, even if it's ten taxes one, it's unreasonable, profiteering products should be taxed higher, Erchen just took this opportunity to adjust the tax development and governance of southern Xinjiang to think of it together, you know, there is no road in this world, there are more people walking, there will naturally be a road, I believe that within two generations, the people of my Tang Dynasty will take the land of southern Xinjiang everywhere.
Besides, the hukou system should be what you think, it can be very effective in reducing the influence of the magnates on the court, but if you just take out this policy to discuss with the ministers, it is absolutely impossible, because this policy damages the interests of all of them, there are no people in their hands, there is no grain in the warehouse, and a bunch of gold and silver treasures are useless to them, and what the magnates are most afraid of is that their lives are as thin as paper as ordinary merchants and ordinary people, so no minister will be willing to let this situation occur, after the previous household registration reform, The growth of the ministers' power has been limited to a certain extent, this time, you can let them freely choose whether to be the tenants of those powerful people on the grounds of giving up the power of the people, the number of households and the number of fields of the minister's fiefdom remain unchanged, and the people who were originally designated by His Majesty to be divided into the minister's name will be recruited by them independently, and each minister with a fief can only recruit enough households for his own food, and I believe that those people who want to live a better life will apply to the government to move to the new territory by themselves, The landlords, on the other hand, may leave a group of tenants who are unwilling to leave, and then recruit some poorer tenants, until they can't recruit new tenants, and the food and euphoria will become in name only, because the farmland tax will fall every year, and when there is no tax, who is willing to be the tenant of another family, at most three or five years, His Majesty will be able to complete the exemption of the land tax, the development of new territories, and the abolition of the feudal food system. ”
Yanglin really dares to tell Li Er anything, but Li Er is very happy, Zhenguan's four-year commercial tax is indeed going to exceed 20 million, this is still the case of Li Chengqian's administration, and it is Li Er's lifelong wish to achieve an unprecedented feat, Yanglin's letter Li Er is very happy to see, but thinking of Xiliang, who has not come to see him for many days, Li Er's brows furrowed again, is it really not as wise as that little guy? (To be continued......)