Dong Zhuo's actual territory is about half of Liangzhou, plus a not complete division. The taxes of other states and counties, which are intercepted by the officials of the local states and counties, cannot reach Chang'an. Relying on such a little territory, it is really not easy for Dong Zhuo to find a way to feed his army of nearly 100,000 people, as well as a huge number of ministers and officials of the imperial court.

According to Zhang Qiao's estimate, even if Dong Zhuo raided the rich families of Luoyang once in the previous capital relocation process, and dug up the imperial tombs of the previous dynasty, he would be able to maintain the expenses for three or four years at most. In the face of such serious financial pressure, Dong Zhuo wanted to mint some low-value small coins to replace the five-baht coins, which was a very normal thing.

However, understanding is understanding, but arrogance will never agree!

When a small amount of money comes out, it does not have the basic value of money at all. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's move will inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire monetary system under his rule. As soon as the monetary system collapses and prices skyrocket, it is just around the corner. Although the government can use such means to easily plunder the wealth accumulated by the small people of Shengdou for most of their lives into the treasury, the price is the destruction of the court's credit.

The end result of these methods is that the wealth of the people has been looted, the people have chosen to reject the circulation of new money with insufficient value, and the commercial system has regressed to the primitive state of bartering in the past.

Thinking of this, insolence will recall the Zimbabwe of later generations. The people there are all trillion-level billionaires. Unfortunately, their billions of dollars often cannot afford to buy enough food to satisfy their hunger.

The people under Dong Zhuo's rule are bankrupt, and of course arrogant can gloat. However, if the small amount of money minted by Dong Zhuo is allowed to flow into the territory of the state, then he will not even be able to cry!

Therefore, for the small money that Dong Zhuo is about to mint, Zhang Zhuo must strictly resist it. The order he gave it. It is forbidden to circulate small money in the state. All commercial activities in the state are still in use of the original five-baht coin. Those who dare to use small money in violation of the order will directly confiscate all small money.

However, in view of the fact that Dong Zhuo is now an ally of the state, Zhang Qiang also wrote a letter by hand, asking the little official to bring Dong Zhuo's envoy. In order to explain that the order of annexing the state was not to be an enemy of the imperial court. As compensation for the rift caused by the refusal to circulate small money, Zhang even proposed in a letter that the two sides should reduce their military forces in the border areas as a sign of friendship and cooperation.

In order to reflect the sincerity and goodwill of the state, Zhang Qiang specially proposed that the state would first move the main force of the forbidden department in Baibo Valley to the east to Shangdang. In this way, Dong Zhuo's cattle auxiliary department arranged in Hedong can be liberated. Used on the Eastern Front to defend the coalition forces of the Kwantung princes. And Yu Ban's main force entering the party will undoubtedly increase the pressure on Yuan Shaojun, who is entrenched in Hanoi, and will be beneficial to Dong Zhuo.

After doing so, Zhang Qiang left the envoy with Dong Zhuo behind and went to the Hetao area to check the situation in the local tuntian. I believe that with the wisdom of Dong Zhuo and the masterminds around him, he will not fail to see that the Liangzhou Army is not suitable for fighting with the state now. With the proposal to withdraw troops, in a short time. It is enough to dispel Dong Zhuo's doubts about merging the state.

The tuntian of the Hetao has been developed for two years. It has already taken shape. Shen Fu has only been in office for a few months, but he has already figured out everything about Tuntian. The originally chaotic Tuntian matters were also sorted out by him.

At present, the number of people engaged in tuntian in the Hetao area has reached 200,000. Of these, 150,000 have been allocated to the reclaimed fields. I perform cultivation with relief. In addition, more than 60,000 newly arrived displaced people were organized into several engineering teams under the organization of Shen Fu to contribute labor to the construction of various engineering facilities in the prefecture.

The original reclamation of the Hetao. By recruiting people, they can get the necessary farming tools and cattle provided by the government, and then they can get a piece of land and cultivate them themselves. The advantage of this method is that there is little pressure on the management of the displaced people, and the idle labor force at hand can be quickly transformed into productive farmers, so as to solve the problem of food shortage at that time.

However, since the first group of displaced people was taxed at 40 percent, the farmers expressed their dissatisfaction with the exorbitant taxes after a year of tax collection. At the same time, due to the lack of understanding of the climate, water and soil in the Hetao area, some displaced people did not have a satisfactory harvest. These things gave the officials who were originally in charge of this matter a headache.

After Shen Fu took office, he quickly adjusted the process of granting land to farmers.

The original farmer's land is not changed, but they do not get it for free. In return for the government's grants, the first farmers had to pay 40 percent of the harvest in the first five years of their landing. Then, for the next five years, pay thirty percent of the harvest each year. For the next five years, 20% of the harvest will be paid every year.

When the farmer has worked on the land for fifteen years in a row, the land is officially owned by the farmer. Fifteen years later, the peasants were only required to pay one-tenth of their harvest each year, even if they had paid all their taxes.

This tax payment ratio seems to be a bit much compared with the thirty taxes and one pursued in various parts of Dahan. However, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes, and in order to prevent the tax collectors from getting their hands on them and filling their own pockets, they simply converted the "calculation of taxes" and "mouth money" that the peasants should have paid, that is, the poll tax, into the farmland.

The tax system of the Han Dynasty developed to a certain extent on the basis of the Qin Dynasty. Among them, the poll tax is divided into two categories: oral tax and calculatory tax, oral endowment is also called oral money, everyone has to pay, and arithmetic is a poll tax levied on adults. The field tax has gone through a process from light to heavy, and from heavy to light. During Liu Bang's period, it was thirty taxes and one, and when Liu Che was fifteen taxes and one tax, Liu Xiu became thirty taxes and one again.

In addition, the industry and commerce of the Han Dynasty developed to a certain extent, so the tax revenue of industry and commerce also became an important source of tax revenue for the state. Judging from the known historical documents, the types of industrial and commercial taxes in the Han Dynasty mainly included industrial and commercial taxes, handicraft taxes, merchant taxes and customs duties.

If they did the math, they found that although the proportion of taxes collected by the states was higher, the total amount of taxes that they actually had to pay was not necessarily higher than the average tax level of the Han Dynasty. The peasants were shrewd people, and after careful calculations, they were tempted by the cheap farmland they could get their hands on, and they were afraid of the might and achievements of the state army, so they reluctantly accepted Shen Fu's tax payment plan.

After dealing with the affairs of the first batch of Tuntian immigrants, there were also regulations on the affairs of the people who arrived in Tuntian. Since the original tuntian people had already occupied the best batch of fields near the Yellow River, the land needed by the tuntian people had to spend some effort to reclaim the original abandoned farmland.

Due to the arid climate and lack of rainfall, the reclamation of the Hetao mainly depends on whether there is a water source nearby for irrigation. Before the area was abandoned, the government organized people to clean up the silted aqueducts every year to facilitate the diversion of water from the Yellow River to irrigated agricultural areas dozens of miles away from the embankment. At that time, the population of the Hetao area reached one million, but it was still able to provide enough military rations to the border counties stationed there, and its high grain yield can be seen.

However, after more than 10 years of abandonment, most of the original aqueducts have been silted up or collapsed on their own, in short, they are unusable. Therefore, if you want to turn the former fertile land into a rich land again, you must first dig up the original ditches and clean them up.

This kind of arduous construction activity requires a large amount of labor. However, in the current state of affairs, it is impossible to mobilize a large number of husbands to do this. For this reason, Shen Fu did not eagerly distribute the existing land in hand, but used the land as a reward and bait to stimulate the enthusiasm of the landless people.

Shen Fu stipulated that the displaced people who had recently arrived in Bingzhou were not eligible to immediately get their own land. They had to work in the engineering corps set by the state government and were given land according to the performance of their labor.

In the engineering team, the new displaced people had to learn some of the relevant new laws and regulations issued by the state government, as well as introduce the climate, water and soil characteristics of the Loop. Of course, their main task is to carry out various basic engineering constructions under the organization of the government, such as digging canals, laying roads, building people's houses, transporting food and materials, and carrying out public land reclamation and collective farming.

In addition, the displaced people are given two days of military training each month to master some basic military skills. Some homeless people who are physically and mentally fit to serve in the army will be selected at this time to become new recruits in the state army. Other homeless people with a good skill will also make a name for themselves through activities such as engineering construction, and after proving their skills, they will become a member of the well-established craftsmen.

In the engineering team, Shen Fu carefully understood the living standards and production conditions of the displaced people, and worked hard to make them fed and clothed. After two years of hard labor, those who work hard and perform well will be given the right of priority to choose land and dwelling, as well as a small material reward. Those who do not work hard will be ordered to extend the period of labor to compensate for the loss caused by the adultery.

The new residents who have been given a house will have to pay back the price of the land they have been given as their predecessors did. After two years of hard work, Shen Fu shortened their repayment time by two years. In this way, they only have to pay 40% tax for three years, and then they can enter the 30% tax for five years and 20% for five years, and finally get full access to the land they cultivate.

After listening to Shen Fu's future planning and arrangements for the people of Tuntian, he expressed his satisfaction. In fact, the predecessor's Guo Yi's ability is also quite good. However, Guo Yi was born in a wealthy family, and his attitude towards the bottom of the homeless people was a bit high-minded, and he never really cared about them. In contrast, Shen Fu, who was born poor, was enough to make Zhang Mad completely relieved in the related affairs of Tuntian.

After staying in Hetao for a while, Zhang Yan had an in-depth understanding of the current living conditions of the people in Tuntian, and put forward some suggestions for improvement to Shen Fu. Finally, after the dismissal of three incompetent and corrupt petty officials, he braved the first frost of late autumn and returned to Jinyang City in early September. (To be continued......)