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In just four days, Liang Chongxin crossed Tiannan from southern Burma to Guanxi on a lone horse, and boarded a ship from Hanzhong to go down the east of the Yangtze River, where he could arrive at Yuhang Mansion for a week to meet His Majesty the Emperor, who had just visited the south of the Yangtze River. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The road conditions in the Kansai region have been greatly improved, and the road from Bashan to Hanzhong can be felt, although it is a mountain road, but the road is quite smooth, and the order along the route is very good, Liang Chongxin is the first time as an ordinary person to feel the changes over the years so closely. There were also a lot more tea inns along the route than before, and the hurried manners of the business travelers who came and went along the road and the manners they talked and behaved when they rested and stayed all proved that the mercantile policy pursued by His Majesty the Emperor was gradually showing its strength.

Although the tax of the merchants has not been reduced much, but the most important point is that the Tang River Empire was said to be the Tang River Empire in the past, the many customs along the way were completely abolished, replaced by a simple and accurate tax payment system, merchants no longer have to worry about paying taxes locally and going out of the house to face another burden, this system and procedural simplification not only greatly eliminated the most headache time consumption of merchants, but also to a large extent eliminated the original officials to take the opportunity to accumulate money, the extortion of officials to merchants has been stifled"The slightest degree ever" (in the language of a certain silk merchant), almost negligible.

The officials and spies of the Supervisory Yuan stationed in various counties and provinces are willing to share clues and information with other departments of the political axe, because they can obtain enough political achievements, which is the only way for them to be promoted and make a fortune, and other departments are also willing to be used by the officials of the Supervisory Yuan, and the rich rewards for reporting and providing clues are enough to make the middle and lower level officials and ordinary people blush, and the Supervisory Yuan is happy to distribute this kind of interest that will further stimulate the interest of officials and the public in reporting and exposing, anyway, the wool is out of the sheep, and these rewards will be raised in proportion to the head assets of those criminals who bend the law for personal gain and are corrupt and bribery, no wonder they are tired of it。 This mechanism not only greatly improves the efficiency of the Supervision Yuan, but also increases the prestige of the Supervision Yuan, and the performance evaluation of local officials is also directly linked to the integrity of their subordinates.

New Commercial Bribery Ordinance Having been signed and approved by His Majesty the Emperor and officially entered into force on June 1, 700 A.D., this decree issued directly against industrial and commercial owners in order to obtain unfair benefits or engage in unfair competition caused great controversy in both the newly established House of Nobles and the House of Commons in the Empire, and also became the focus of discussion in the media in May, and finally it was reluctantly passed in the House of Nobles under the strong impetus of the House of Commons, and His Majesty the Emperor seemed to be the best pass, and he signed the decree almost without hesitation, which made some people suspect that this regulation was deliberately proposed by the representatives of the House of Commons that His Majesty the Emperor deliberately instructedThe purpose is to severely punish those who have a tendency to abuse power for personal gain.

The law clearly stipulates that all active bribery for the purpose of obtaining improper benefits, regardless of whether the administrative official accepts it or not, will be severely punished by the bribe-giver, and a series of performances such as the so-called share money, regular money, receiving kickbacks, and dividends from cadres are all included in the scope of commercial bribery in the specific interpretation, which has given the entire industrial and commercial and political circles a considerable shock, and of course the active bribery of administrative officials is no longer included. This was the most talked about issue by businessmen along the road, and it was clear that businessmen were deeply interested in the promulgation of this law, and the intensity of its implementation was largely related to their business.

Together with the Regulations on the Punishment of Commercial Bribery, the new Imperial Officials Salary Standards Regulations and the Imperial Reward Navigation and Exploration Regulations were promulgated, but the former regulations were proposed by the representatives of the House of Nobles and were soon passed in the House of Commons and submitted to His Majesty the Emperor for signature and entry into force, also on June 1. Compared with the salaries of officials before the adjustment, the income of these officials has almost tripled, and all of them are open to the society, which has caused an uproar, and the sharp increase in income naturally makes the officials happy, but the openness to the society makes them a little unacceptable, but compared with the former, although the latter condition is a little harsh, it is nothing.

The implementation of the three decrees made Liang Chongxin have a lot of anecdotes along the way, and the businessmen were naturally talking about the fact that the spies of the supervision department began to infiltrate all walks of life, and the business activities of the businessmen had to be more standardized, otherwise it would be unpleasant to be invited to tea by the supervision department. Officials are more discussing the issue of salary increases and disclosure, and the skyrocketing salaries are exciting, and disclosure is embarrassing, but there is no such thing as perfection in the world, and disclosure is nothing compared to income increases. Officials are also worried about whether such a huge adjustment in salaries can be sustained this time, the empire is start-up, foreign wars are continuous, and finances are so tight, the empire actually has to carry out a large increase in salaries, which can certainly win the hearts of officials, but once it cannot last, it will make officials resentful. There are also some officials who wonder if the empire has made new gains on the battlefield in the Indean region, so that His Majesty the Emperor will have such confidence to make this adjustment.

Compared with the influence of the previous two regulations, the influence of the Imperial Reward Navigation and Exploration Regulations seems to be much smaller in the mainland, but Liang Chongxin also felt the impetus of this law from the conversations of some merchants related to overseas trade. In fact, His Majesty the Emperor had publicly stated the Empire's support for overseas development on many occasions before, but this time it was clearly fixed in the form of a decree, and the meaning was naturally different. The empire will support the foreign trade of the empire's merchants with policies, taxes and financial support, especially overseas trade, which will greatly stimulate the development of maritime shipping and shipbuilding, and will be able to cultivate a large number of talents related to maritime shipping and trade, and at the same time promote the pace of the empire from a land power to a maritime power.

In this regulation, the rewards given for rewarding overseas territories outside the mainland of the empire are particularly rich, and they can even be canonized nobles, you must know that the empire is now quite strict with the canonized nobles, often there are only a few counties in a county, and some counties even have only two or three people, and a large mansion may not be able to produce one person, and it is naturally a supreme honor to find that overseas territories can receive this kind of reward, no wonder it will cause huge waves in the hearts of those merchant captains and sailors who walk overseas all the year round, and even the owners of those who operate inland waterways when Liang Chongxin boarded the ship in Hanzhong are sighing。

Feeling the rapid changes in the empire, Liang Chongxin was also very pleased, at least the living standards of the people in the empire have made great progress, and the social order has reached a fairly good level. On the descending ship, Liang Chongxin sometimes pondered that His Majesty the Emperor was still tirelessly promoting foreign wars, and wondered whether such persistent pursuit was really in line with the fundamental interests of the empire? Whether the interests of the empire could only be guaranteed through external expansion? And whether military means were the only effective way to safeguard the rights and interests of the empire through external expansion?

This question should not be a problem for Liang Chongxin, who claims to be a pure soldier, soldiers must obey political needs, and what is politics, politics is just a means used by the ruling class to control the people to meet their interests, at least for the time being, the empire has not shown aversion to foreign expansion wars, perhaps some open-minded people have realized this, but as long as the expansion of the empire can bring benefits to them, they are also happy to see this situation, and once the pay and benefit can not become a good surname, then all kinds of contradictions will be slowly exposed。

The cool river breeze blew in his face, making Liang Chongxin think about slowly returning to the pressure he would face this time when he went east to Yuhang. The defeat in the war in the southwest is not necessarily a good thing for the empire, for the mythical emperor who has been obsessed with the invincibility of the empire [***] Fang ringing a wake-up call also helps to kill the arrogance that grows in the army, although Cui Wenxiu has a good overall situation on the battlefield of Indean, but still suffered setbacks on the local battlefield, the performance of the Hansen Allied Army far exceeded the expectations of the Imperial Privy Council Staff, forcing Cui Wenxiu to give up the idea of taking the entire West Indean in one fell swoop, Liang Chongxin also saw some of the views on the Indean campaign that Cui Wenxiu talked about, it seems that Cui Wenxiu is also reflecting and changing his concept, the idea that Lao Tzu is the first in the world is not a good thing in the minds of senior officers。

Liang Chongxin took a deep breath, Yu Hang's trip may bring an end to his relatively peaceful life, and even the post of commander of the First Army has been removed, it seems that His Majesty wants to let himself take responsibility for the entire southwest war, but what to do next, Liang Chongxin now has no bottom in his heart.

(To be continued)