After the destruction of Dongyi, there was no foreign enemy war in Donglu, and after the reform of the new tax law, the army was reassigned to various places to supervise the payment of taxes by merchants.

Jiang Huanchu's original purpose was to firmly control the name of taxation in his own hands, after all, with the participation of the central government, the difficulty of fraud would skyrocket.

Moreover, it is not easy to cut meat from merchants, for the sake of profit, merchants can take risks and unscrupulous means, I am afraid that only the deterrent power of the regular army can make them pay taxes obediently.

Jiang Huan Chu's thoughts were roughly right, but he underestimated the businessman.

The merchants of this era are by no means the lowest level of the Shinong industry and commerce in later generations, on the contrary, the current merchants are at least the best among the common people, and they basically have to have the same wealth as Jiang Ziya's brother Song Yiren to be qualified to go to Dongping, and even many of them are simply the direct family members of the princes and nobles.

They traveled thousands of miles to and from Dongping, employing many guards, and each caravan was actually equivalent to a small armed group, several of which were large convoys, and had the strength to resist thousands of regular troops.

However, Jiang Wenhuan, as one of the earliest disciples of the military family, the elite soldiers he trained were even better than those of Xiqi, and he was indeed not afraid of the caravan at all in a head-to-head confrontation.

After several encounters, the caravan found that it was not good to please him, and immediately began to change tactics and target the tax collectors.

Slaves were not educated, and the entry of taxes naturally had to be completed by special officials, and merchants began to learn their own trick - bribery.

The collusion between officials and businessmen has been like this since ancient times, and in the same way, the people at the bottom also hate this the most, because the embezzlement and harm of officials and businessmen is the meager interests of the people at the bottom.

The soldiers of Donglu were even more serious.

The matter of taxation has completely detonated the contradictions.

There were also wise men among the slaves, although they were not educated, but how could they not know the amount of goods, and under the cold eyes, they soon saw the deception of the tax collectors, and many people with strong temperaments stepped forward to stop them.

The reaction of officials fell into two categories:

The first type is anger.

Imagine that Ji Chang's methods are so clever, there are officials such as San Yisheng in Xiqi who oppose it, and the dissatisfaction within Donglu is even more intense, but they are afraid of the prestige of Jiang's father and son, and they dare not say it.

Moreover, the slave became a soldier, and there was no fundamental damage to the officials themselves, and there was not much interaction between the two sides, but now they prevented officials from accepting bribes, and the nature was different.

The tax checkpoints are filled with the roars of officials who are much the same.

"Are you going to commit the next offense?"

"Cheap slave!"

"Die!"

Scolding and scolding, the truth is all out.

The fig leaf was lifted, and the soldiers found that their position in the hearts of the nobility had not changed in the slightest.

Still a slave.

It pierced the heart deeply.

They practiced day and night in the barracks, defended their homes and the country, and fought bravely to kill the enemy, in exchange for what?

......

There is also a category of officials, who are harmonious and wealthy.

This kind of is more sleek, knows how to be flexible, and buys people's hearts.

They ate meat, let their subordinates drink soup, and scattered a small part of the bribes under their command, and everyone made a fortune together.

As a result, this group of soldiers soon joined the bribery team, and even intensified, and the speed of degeneration was outrageous.

Why?

Because there is no sense of security.

The soldiers found that although they were no longer slaves, they lacked one of the most necessary things, except for the change in status.

Money!

When they were slaves, they had no savings, everything was handed over to the slave owners, and the slightest secret possession was beaten, and after becoming soldiers, there was no military pay.

If you can become a free body, you are very content, what do you want?

But now the income from taxation has made the soldiers suddenly realize that it is impossible to be a soldier for a lifetime, no matter how poor ordinary civilians are, they have at least a few acres of private land at home, as long as they work hard, they can always get by, they have no land, no military salary, how to live after leaving the army?

If this continued, the essence of slaves did not change, but they changed from slaves who were generally engaged in labor and production to slaves who specialized in war.

went around in circles and returned to the dead end.

As a result, the soldiers naturally stopped working, and only a few could receive bribes, and most of them began to ask for military salaries from their superiors, and even worse, for land settlement.

It was not allowed from above, so the emotions of the soldiers became more and more intense.

In the past, the contradiction was only one-sided, and the aristocratic slave owners looked down on the slaves who turned into soldiers, and the slaves still obeyed it, but now when the two sides are completely opposed, they can no longer be reconciled, and in just a few days, a mutiny even broke out in the army.

When the lid couldn't be covered, Jiang's father and son were shocked to realize that something was wrong, and convened civil and military forces overnight to discuss remedial measures.

Although Donglu's team does not have the four sages and eight friends of Xiqi, and there are many talents, it cannot be ignored.

Some courtiers suggested that since the soldiers were not satisfied with the status quo, it was better to divide the land among them, and really turn them into civilians, and at the same time bear the military levies and military service.

The so-called military endowment is to pay nanometers and pasture to the state every year as military expenses, and military service is to serve as a soldier in wartime, preparing weapons, food and military supplies by yourself.

This was a very far-sighted arrangement, and civilians who had the right to serve as soldiers and receive education were called scholars in the Zhou Dynasty, so that the country could be long-term with the division of labor among the classes.

But that is in the future, and the current situation is that the common class is no longer doing it.

Don't forget, Donglu is just a vassal state, there are a number of fertile fields that can be cultivated, once the fields are to be divided into soldiers, the fields belonging to the civilians will be redistributed, greatly reduced, they are already very reluctant, and then they are divided into fields, but they will be reduced to the end of slaves.

Jiang Huanchu was sad and indignant to find that they had liberated the slaves, and instead of getting the gratitude of the slaves, they had been "betrayed", and the entire Donglu was in chaos, and the rule was in unprecedented turmoil.

The furious Jiang father and son went to search for Jiang Ziya, but found that the initiator had already used the escape technique to hide in Dongping City.

In fact, the initiator was not Jiang Ziya, but Jiang Wenhuan.

However, if the reform and change of the law, if the military system is changed alone, and the others are not changed, failure is inevitable, and this point Xiqi is much stronger than Donglu, and Dashang is even more comprehensive.

The twelve volumes of Tianshu have long been integrated by Gu Cheng, and the essence of the hundred schools of thought has been incorporated into the twelve, complementing each other, helping each other, and making progress together.

Even so, when the emergency report of the Wandering Soul Pass was placed on the desk of the Star Picking Platform, Gu Cheng couldn't help but nod his head in approval for Jiang Ziya's efficiency.

The means are clever, the soldiers are not bloody, and they are worthy of the respect of the saints of soldiers.

In comparison, Shen Gongbao is under a lot of pressure.

He found that Jiang Ziya was in Dongping City, and he didn't dare to go down to meet him, so he held his breath and headed towards the East China Sea.