In the second year of Jian'an, the fifteenth day of the first month.

The state pastoral office moved to Jinling for a while, and Jinling has become more and more prosperous, and this New Year has become more lively.

The major families and wealthy families have now also purchased houses in Jinling, even if they have not yet served in the state governor's mansion, they are not short of a separate courtyard, and some even directly buy a grange outside the city......

Although the family will not really be relocated, a group of clansmen will be resettled, firstly, to show closeness, and secondly, to be well-informed.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs, which took the lead in copying the bottom, naturally made a lot of money, but it was not a lot of money.

In the Han Dynasty, the price of the land in the city was not high, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, even in Luoyang in its heyday, grassroots officials could buy a small house after saving a few years.

The price of land in the city needs prosperous merchants to take off, and the wealthy merchants of the Han Dynasty are indeed enough to be entrenched, but they all rely on Gu Rong, that is, monopoly, and large transactions.

Especially after Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the commodity economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty actually regressed compared with the Western Han Dynasty.

In order to alleviate the economic pressure caused by foreign conquests, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to have budding transportation taxes and property taxes, that is, "equal losses" and "calculations".

However, the first is that the pace itself is too big, at that time Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was already poor and crazy, this blood was a little ruthless, directly hurt the root, and secondly, in the later period of the Western Han Dynasty, especially Wang Mang's retro vigor, so that the commodity economy almost collapsed.

Although the Han Dynasty already had a "fang market" system, the housing prices were average.

In the Tang Dynasty, the price of land in the city really took off, and Han Yu, who was a servant of the Ministry of Officials, also wrote in the poem "Thirty years of hard work to have this house", not to mention Du Fu, who was bullied by the children of Nancun, could only build a thatched house in the suburbs of non-first-tier cities......

It can also be seen from here that the commerce of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not perfect, although there are wealthy families who do bulk trading, but there is a lack of private business, and the demand for commerce among the people is also very low.

And these so-called large transactions, it is difficult to provide taxes for Bai Tu, just like the Chen family helped Bai Tu transport a thousand cavalry to Jiangdong - even Yuan Shu, who mastered Huainan, did not find their whereabouts, so where did they go to collect taxes?

Unless one day, Baitu can open up stable trade routes, ports, and trading points, so that they can become a reliable distribution center, a place for bulk trading, and more convenient than their own joint transactions, there will be a basis for collecting taxes.

Otherwise, Bai Tu would not have been able to build a Great Wall to enclose Jiangdong......

As for the private commodity economy, which is easy to collect taxes, the Eastern Han Dynasty is even more backward than the Western Han Dynasty, and ninety percent of the Han people are outright small-scale peasant economies and self-sufficient.

In this way, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that Baitu now allows the household department to revise the commercial tax regulations, and the source will be cleared before the business develops, and the disadvantages are ...... For a long time, Bai Tu didn't expect how much the commercial tax could subsidize himself.

It is only a vision to rely on commercial taxes to support itself, but in recent years, it is still necessary to endure the torture of conscience and "exploit" the peasant households to maintain the army.

Only when food production increases, more manpower is freed from arable land, and the commodity economy is revived, can the "commercial tax" gradually come in handy.

Even not only food, after the food production capacity is increased, the dietary structure can also be upgraded......

When the Han Dynasty was in its heyday, especially in the Western Han Dynasty, during those strong periods, meat was not a luxury among the people, and the border army could be equipped with a few catties of meat per person every month - the military food of the general defenders was the staple food and salt directly allocated by transportation and supplementary food, and purchased locally.

Only the armies that are on the battlefield will be completely dependent on the transportation of grain and grass.

However, obviously this does not include the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and now it is good for ordinary people to have enough to eat!

Moreover, even ordinary people in the Han Dynasty ate mainly chicken and beef, even if most of the time, they couldn't eat meat at all, and pork was rarely considered.

It's not just the smell of the fishy smell, after all, the bark and grass roots can be eaten when you are hungry.

There are not many people who raise pigs, there are no gelding pigs, and they are not like the big fat pigs in the pig farm, especially now the domestication degree of pigs is far less high than that of later generations, and the amount of exercise of non-gelding pigs is greater than that of cattle!

The wildness is more abundant than that of cattle, not to mention the difficulty of breeding, and the amount of exercise is large, and the natural fat is slow, and it is difficult to have considerable benefits......

However, Bai Tu understands that as long as the breeding is preferred and the scientific gelding pigs are selected, the feed to meat ratio of pigs is much higher than that of cattle, and even if Bai Tu can't get corn for the time being, pig breeding is also promising.

And what Baitu wants to do today is to break people's prejudice against pigs first!

Because there were too many people invited to the banquet and the middle hall was not big enough, Bai Tu directly set up a banquet in the large courtyard of the state governor's mansion.

In addition to Sun Ce, who is still in Poyang, and Tai Shici is still on the way to Liaodong, the main figures of the other state pastors have basically arrived, even if they have not served in the state pastor for the time being, but there are already families and wealthy families who represent Jinling, and they have also been sent invitations, just to accompany the last seat.

Next to Bai Tu at the front are the Lu Bu family, Zhang Liao, Gan Ning, and other military generals who are usually stationed outside, as well as the main staff of the Sixth Department......

Seeing Gan Ning sitting there in a dignified manner, many people also decided in their hearts that what happened a few days ago was really a rumor.

Even if Sun Ce was not there, the Sun Quan brothers, and even Mrs. Wu, these family members were also invited, and Diao Chan was also next to Lu Bu in the same case.

In addition to these people, there is also an unexpected guest - Xun You.

Baitu's Naxian Pavilion has "admitted" a lot of famous and surnamed talents, but it does not include Xun You.

After all, before he crossed over, Xun Yu and Xun You's uncle and nephew had already been conquered by Cao Cao, and now Xun Yu is also an envoy of the imperial court, coming to Jiangdong to invite Bai Tu to send troops together to crusade against Yuan Shu!

Yuan Shu only announced that he was the emperor on the first day, and Xun Yu had already arrived in Jinling on the fourteenth day of the first month, which shows that Cao Cao was really urgent enough.

And...... It's better to come early than to come by chance, and Bai Tu can't even give up this bite of meat.

Xun You didn't expect that he, as Cao Cao's messenger, and even nominally an "angel", would be pulled to eat pork, if it weren't for the fact that other major generals and staff members in Jiangdong were also there, he really thought that Bai Tu was humiliating him!

In fact, I already knew, in addition to eating pork today, the other specifications of the banquet are still good, Bai Tu is on top, everyone sits on both sides, each has a table, and there is a big ding in the middle of the courtyard, which is burning at this time......

A burst of rich aroma emanated from the ding.

Gan Ning was idle, not only did he not sit down, but he also shouted to Xun You from several seats: "Mr. Xun, don't worry, this Ding is for boiling cheap meat, not for cooking envoys, hahaha......"

Xun You: ......

Hua Xin glared angrily at Gan Ning's rude joke, but Gan Ningquan didn't see it.

Although Xun You was not very familiar with Gan Ning, he also knew that he must be Bai Tu's henchman, so he had to pretend not to hear it, and talked with Hua Xin, Wang Lang, Kong Rong and others on the side.

In addition to asking Bai Tu to send troops, Xun Yu also had other tasks this time, that is, to see if he could use the name of the imperial court to conquer Hua Xin and others, and at the same time to test whether Bai Tu had the heart to fight for hegemony.