Chapter 176 Rice

"It's a boom here!" Li Cunhuan looked at the bustling shops on both sides and the dense flow of people, and couldn't help but sigh.

Duan Ziyao, who was accompanying Li Cunhuan, couldn't help but puff out his chest proudly, a little proud, but said a little modestly: "This is just a relationship between the general and the Goguryeo envoy who reached an agreement!" Otherwise, Liaodong City is not so prosperous now! ”

"That's what you used properly!" Li Cunhuan will not hesitate to praise those who have achieved success, although this success is also an opportunity given by Li Cunhuan, but as the sentence goes. Opportunities are not given by people, but grasped by oneself.

A very simple example, the famous working emperor Tang Jun once designed a set of software in the United States, but instead of developing it himself, he sold it, losing a chance to become the second largest in Gates, and instead made the company that bought him a lot of money. And Bill Gates developed it himself, and he achieved great success, which is a very simple truth, but also a very short gap. Just to see if you can master it, this simple thing can make a huge difference.

"General, I'm going to raise taxes, the current customs tax is too low, it's only one out of ten, I'll see two out of ten! Anyway, I remember that this is also the tax system on the side of Honben and Goguryeo. Duan Ziyao suggested.

"No!" Li Cunhuan shook his head and said: "This kind of tax system is already good, and I am ready to collect taxes in a unified manner to avoid multiple taxes!" ”

"Uniform taxation?" Duan Ziyao looked at Li Cunhuan strangely.

Li Cunhuan nodded and said: "I am going to implement it in Hebei Province, all imported goods will be taxed at the seaside, and if the goods are transported to another state, they will be taxed according to the prices of that state." At the same time, the local merchants in Hebei Province were graded and collected taxes in a unified manner. ”

Duan Ziyao hesitated for a moment, and said: "If the general does this, I am afraid that it will plunge Lu Long into turmoil, and those county orders and small officials rely on these to increase their income." ”

Li Cunhuan snorted coldly and said: "I keep their financial routes, that is, they cut off my financial routes!" However, this thing has not been realized so quickly, and it is easy to fall if the pace is too big. ”

When Duan Ziyao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Cunxian leaned over and said with a malicious expression: "General, my Anton Army is too few people, do you want to increase the structure?" I used to say that I had no money, but now ......" Speaking of this, Fu Cunxian glanced at the bustling shops on both sides, and couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Li Cunhuan nodded and said, "The Andong Protectorate really needs to increase its troops. Now there are only 15,000 Anton troops and 8,000 black-clothed troops in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, how many regimental training are there? ”

"Fifty thousand! However, 30,000 of them are newly compiled, and it will take at least two or three years to barely qualify. Fu Cunxian said a little depressed.

Regimental training is no better than that of the regular army, and they only have 10 days of training every month, except for spring plowing and autumn harvest, and it is only 100 days of training in a year. In fact, this intensity was already stronger than that of many soldiers at that time, but the regimental training was mainly focused on the fields at home, and their training was mainly on defense, so it took two or three years.

Li Cunhuan nodded, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he drove his horse towards a shop.

The soldiers of Tieyingdu who opened the road in front of them had not yet noticed it, and Fu Cunxian and Duan Ziyao hurriedly followed with more than a dozen personal soldiers on horseback. The owner of the shop looked at Li Cunhuan's arrival at a loss. Fu Cunxian, Duan Ziyao, and they have already arrogantly driven away the guests in this not too big shop with their own soldiers.

Although Fu Cunxian and Duan Ziyao are not well known in Liaodong City, the more than ten personal soldiers wearing iron leaf armor let people know that they did not provoke themselves. Some people who wanted to protest were introduced by the people next to them as soon as the names of Duan Ziyao or Fu Cunxian came out, and they immediately lost their hearts.

"Where did this rice come from?" Li Cunhuan pointed to a bag of snow-white rice on the side of the shop and asked nervously.

"Back to my lord, this, this is here, it was shipped from my hometown!" The merchant replied tremblingly.

"Your hometown?" Li Cunhuan looked at the businessman in front of him who was obviously dressed as a Bohai person, and asked with some confusion.

"Yes, sir! My hometown is Lucheng in Bohai Country, which is the most famous land of fish and rice in Bohai Country, and even the king of Bohai Country eats Lucheng's tribute rice. The merchant replied cautiously.

"How much is the production?" Li Cunhuan asked a little nervously.

The merchant glanced up at Li Cunhuan a little strangely, but this is not a secret thing, you can find a random person in Bohai and ask him. He didn't have any scruples, and replied directly: "It depends on what kind of field is used to plant, Shimoda is just one stone, Nakata is one stone and one bucket, and Ueda is nearly one stone and two buckets!" ”

Li Cunhuan's heart beat violently when he heard this, Fu Cunxian and Duan Ziyao didn't have much feeling about this, because they would use grain and grass, and they wouldn't care about the yield of grain and grass.

But Li Cunhuan is different, and now Lulong's wheat produces an average of one stone per mu per year. And this person actually said that the rice produced in Bohai proves that the people of Bohai have mastered the technology of planting rice in Northeast China. Doesn't this mean that Hebei, which is warmer than the northeast, is also suitable?

According to the calculation of one acre and one stone and one bucket in Zhongtian, assuming that Lulong has 10 million mu of land, then it will be possible to increase the output of one million stone of grain! Li Cunhuan doesn't have to be so nervous at hand.

Of course, things will not be so simple, now northerners are used to eating food made of flour, and this habit is still relatively difficult to change for a while. But Lee believes that rice, which tastes better than wheat, will eventually replace wheat. After all, he remembered that the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to Cao Yun, and this Cao Yun was to transfer grain from Jiangsu and other areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to Yanjing. In fact, now, the people of Guanzhong have also taken rice as their main food, but Li Cunhuan doesn't know.

Li Cunhuan asked people to buy a bucket of rice, but when he saw the shopkeeper take out a wooden bucket, Li Cunhuan frowned, pointed to the wooden bucket and asked, "Where did you get this wooden bucket?" ”

"Oh! I brought this from my hometown! We in the Bohai Kingdom also use this, and it is all made by the Tang Dynasty! The businessman thought that Li Cunhuan said that he was short of two catties in the wooden bucket, and hurriedly explained.

Li Cunhuan said to Duan Ziyao: "I saw some merchants selling wooden buckets before, and this is slightly less, if it is not for someone to pay attention, it is not clear, you send someone to find out." And in front of the bazaars, place public wooden buckets, wooden liters, standard weight tools, once you find that someone is short of two pounds, immediately fine! But be careful not to let those petty officials use this to blackmail. ”

"Yes!" Duan Ziyao hurriedly responded.

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