Xu Liang and the others looked up, and saw Feng Suqin, who was wearing a light purple dress, covering her mouth and chuckling and walking in, followed by Luo Baiguan, Dai Yingying and Tietou.

Feng Suqin and the others first saluted Huang Daozhou and Dian Shi He Cheng of Zhenyuan Zhixian County, and then smiled at Xu Liang Qiaoqiao: "When did Xianggong say such a thing, why don't I know?" ”

Xu Liang laughed and said, "Isn't it just now?" Hey, how did you guys get together and what did you do? ”

Feng Suqin smiled and said nothing, Luo Baiguan said: "My lord, the young lady and Miss Dai heard from their subordinates that they have been nervous about silver recently, so they specially went to Liang Ji to inspect various shops. ”

"Oh, what's the catch?" Xu Liang smiled, turned to look at Dai Yingying, and said, "Miss Dai also followed?" ”

Dai Yingying's face was slightly red, and she writhed, "I, I have nothing to do, so I went with Mrs. Bu to have a look, heh, the method of accounting of Liang Ji firm is really fresh, and it is much easier than the ordinary accounting method, I listened to Brother Luo and learned it." Saying that, Dai Yingying looked at Xu Liang with a look of adoration, and little stars seemed to be flashing in her eyes, "Listen to Luo Baiguan, Xu Liang still thought of this method?" It's really amazing. ”

Xu Liang laughed, he was recognized by Dai Yingying, and Xu Liang was also very surprised.

Feng Suqin waited for Xu Liang to stop laughing, found a chair to sit on, glanced at Xu Liang, Huang Daozhou and others, and said worriedly: "Xianggong, this time, our Liang army has expanded its army again, and prepared grain and grass, people eat horses and chew, and the consumption of weapons and equipment is too great. ”

Xu Liang stroked his forehead with his hand and said helplessly: "Sitting and eating empty mountains is not a way after all." After thinking about it, he said to Tietou: "That's it, let's sit down and discuss it today." Come up with a way to deal with it. Ah Tie, you quickly send someone to invite General Dai and General Xing. The owner of the camp, as well as the owner of the house, Mao Yujie, came to the house to discuss matters. ”

The iron head responded. Hurry out.

Taking advantage of the fact that the people had not yet arrived, Xu Liang said to Huang Daozhou and He Cheng: "What can Lord Huang and Lord He do about the current predicament?" ”

Huang Daozhou twisted his beard in his hands, pulled them one by one, his face was entangled, and he said slowly: "My lord, if you want to deal with the financial crisis, the only way is to open source and reduce expenditure. It's just that at the moment, the cool stream thieves are ravaging. The people are poor, the tax on the acres of land is no longer addable, coupled with the drought for many years, the land is not harvested, and the way to open up the source is really unthinkable. So as long as the expenditure is throttled, but looking at the county government of Zhenyuan, there are three classes and six rooms, and officials at all levels can only receive some hungry rice and grain every month, and silver comes and goes. There is no reduction in the future. Thinking about it, Xia Guan was also worried and helpless. ”

What Huang Daozhou said is basically the truth. Xu Liang nodded slightly, and looked at He Cheng again.

Zhenyuan Canon Shi Hecheng coughed lightly and said, "Although what Lord Huang said is the truth, it is by no means that there is no way at all. At present, the people are poor, but there are many people in the family of merchants, I take one of the thirty commercial taxes, but there is almost no income in Zhenyuan, if you want to enrich the treasury, you may be able to do some articles on the commercial tax. ”

Xu Liang nodded again and again. Said: "What Lord He said is right, Shinong Industry and Commerce. Merchants are at the bottom of the list, but they are the richest. As long as the commercial tax of Pingliang is restored, it should be able to solve the urgent need. ”

"Xianggong, don't the shops in our town never pay taxes?" Feng Suqin asked in surprise: "Although the world outside Zhenyuan City is not peaceful, I see that the business of our business in the city is very prosperous." ”

Xu Liang gritted his teeth and snorted coldly, and said hatefully: "Damn, our hair is almost gray in order to make up for the military salary, and those businessmen are lying aside to make money happily, and it is really unreasonable not to ask them to make some blood." Xu Liang turned to Huang Daozhou and said: "Lord Huang, it's so decided, from tomorrow, the commercial tax in Zhenyuan City will be restored, but anyone who does business in Zhenyuan City, whether he is a merchant or a sitter, must pay Lao Tzu!" ”

Huang Daozhou heard this, and said with a wry smile: "My lord, even if we restore the commercial tax and collect it in Zhenyuan City, we won't be able to collect much silver." In the end, it's a drop in the bucket and it doesn't help. ”

Xu Liang sighed lightly and said: "Lord Huang, don't say anything discouraged, I see that there are no less than 1,000 merchants in Zhenyuan City, and each family pays 10 taels or 8 taels, and there are also tens of thousands of taels of silver." Hehe, with this money, my Liang army will be able to expand by 5,000 people, and when the time is calm, the odds of victory will be greatly increased! ”

Huang Daozhou sighed, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and when he looked back, it was Xing Zhongshan, Dai Feng, Wan Wenshan, Mao Yujie and others who had arrived. The newcomers each found a chair and sat on a stool, looking at the Zodiac Zhou.

Huang Daozhou then said: "My lord doesn't know, I have a clear decree that all commercial taxes will be taken from thirty and one, and those who pass will be judged as violating the order." This is known to everyone, but there is another one, commercial tax is collected, and there is no collection, all books, pen and ink, farm tools, boats, cars, silk cloth, etc., are exempt from commercial tax. Although the businesses in the original city of our town are said, most of them deal in rice and cloth clothes, and it is difficult to say how much commercial tax they can receive excluding these businesses that cannot collect taxes. ”

Hearing Huang Daozhou say this, everyone in the room gasped, and Xu Liang was stunned and exclaimed, "There are still such fucking rules? Then he said angrily: "Which * rule is this?" Is your brain watered? ”

Huang Dao Zhou Deng was the most scolded, coughed a few times, waved his hand and said: "This is the rule handed down by the great grandfather." ”

Hearing that it was the rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Liang sat back and stopped talking.

At this time, Mao Yujie, the head of the household, asked inquiringly: "Ladies and gentlemen, are you discussing the matter of levying commercial tax?" ”

Xu Liang nodded dejectedly: "Yes, I finally came up with a trick, and I can only take a small half, alas." ”

"Well, the lower officials have a plan, maybe they can help the adults raise the business taxes." Mao said.

Well? Xu Liang came to his senses, sat up straight, and said to Director Mao encouragingly: "Master Mao tell me quickly, what can you do?" ”

Director Mao looked at Huang Daozhou and arched his hand: "What Lord Huang said, there is a saying that commercial taxes are taken and not taken, which is indeed the rule set by the grandfather. It's hard for us to oppose it explicitly, but there are ways to work around. When the world is peaceful, it is natural that these merchants cannot collect taxes, but now is a special period, in order to pacify the thieves of Pingliang and recover Pingliang City, when necessary, special things can be done. In that year, when the Japanese invaded the southeast coast, the governor Hu Zongxian raised the number of military salaries to the provinces south of the Yangtze River and apportioned them. Now adults may wish to learn from Governor Hu and levy wartime taxes from the merchants, which are temporarily added during the war, and the court also allows them. ”

Xu Liang listened, and then asked Huang Daozhou: "What does Lord Huang think?" ”

Huang Daozhou glanced at Chief Mao with appreciation, and said with a smile: "If you follow Chief Mao's method, bypassing the name of commercial tax and collecting wartime taxes, it is not a bad way." ”

Xu Liang suddenly smiled, pointed at Mao Yujie, and said, "Okay, it's really good that Master Mao can come up with this method." From now on, a tax bureau will be set up under the rule of the Pingliang Mansion, with Mao Yujie as the director, and the rest of the tax collectors and tax collectors will be filled by Liang soldiers......

"Your Excellency!" Huang Daozhou hurriedly interrupted Xu Liang and said, "This matter has to be approved by the Political Envoy and the Trilateral Governor's Office." ”

Xu Liang waved his hand disappreciatively and said: "The above approval is just a formality, and I will go to Guyuan City to ask Master Wu for instructions tomorrow." ”

Xu Liang was in a good mood, looked around at everyone, and said with a happy smile: "If you have any better ideas, you might as well put them all forward and discuss them." ”

Dai Feng, the guerrilla general of Pingliang, got up and said, "My lord, the last general will mention a little. ”

"General Dai, please speak." Xu Liang said.

"What Director Mao said just now can be described as an open source approach, and now the general will think of a way to reduce expenditure." Dai Feng looked at the crowd with a smile and said: "Emperor Taizu laid down the Ming Dynasty, and then set up a guard system, each guard is allocated acres of land, which is cultivated by the guards soldiers, and the guards are soldiers in wartime and farming in their spare time. It was only later that the guards were often negligent in training, and the fields of the guards were annexed strictly, and many of the guards fled, which led to the low combat effectiveness of the guards. What the last general wants to say is that our Liang army has tens of thousands of soldiers, and the court does not provide food and salary, and it will be difficult to maintain it only by relying on the business of the Xu Mansion for a long time. ”

As soon as Dai Feng finished speaking, Xing Zhongshan, the deputy general of the Liang army sitting next to him, sneered and said: "General Dai's words are bad, if you follow General Dai's method, the elite of our Liang army will lose its sharpness in less than two years, and you only know how to plow the fields and farm the land, and you don't know how to raise a gun to fight!" (To be continued)