"You don't even care about your own officials, what qualifications do you have to say fair?"

"We, we ......"

"Hu Nanchengcheng, I'll leave it to you here, Qianhai, the knife is cold, come with me. ”

The three walked out.

Ye Chen said to Youxiong Qianhai: "You know, the five coffins have not come out, and Lu Wei and I will not leave Licheng if they have good merit and good deeds." This will take at least more than a year, more than a year, enough time for your family to degenerate. The official has also given you the opportunity to break away from the derangement, and supported you to continue your trade with the desolate tribes, but remember, don't associate with those desolate bandits in the future. ”

"City Lord, my subordinates remember. ”

The big drama just now was to suppress the Xiao Zhong family, and it was also the real help of the Xiong family.

"Dao Hanbai, follow me. ”

There are some dirt mountains next to the City Lord's Mansion, and beyond the two small earth mountains, it is the dirt mountain behind Jiang Ning's house.

Ye Chen took Jiang Ning to the earth mountain and asked, "Dao Hanbai, have you figured it out?"

"Is there a Xiong Cao Lord who promised to change his evil and return to the right?"

"No, will it be, it is difficult to estimate. ”

"Then why ......?"

"There are Xiong families who do evil outside the city, in the city, they will do it, and they must be a qualified character, with them leading and suppressing, other families at least in the city, they also dare not come nonsense. If the Xiong family falls, what will the Xiao family and the Zhong family develop into in the future?"

It may develop to the better side, but through Jiang Ning's observations these days, this is unlikely. That will only develop to the bad side, there are many county towns that are referenced, and many county towns are reckless, as for the officials, those who are unwilling to complicit will often force these officials to think away, and those who are willing to complicit will be even more unscrupulous. Often inside the city, ordinary people become unsafe. But he still didn't agree with Ye Chen's approach in his heart, Xiao Zhong and the two families were arrogant in the future, and now the Xiong family was the threat to Jiang Ning, and even in Heibo Village, Jiang Ning used any method to drag the Xiong family directly in, but he couldn't think of it before he gave up.

"Many people have seen the invasion and rebellion of the Desolate Race, defeated by the Terrans again and again. In fact, the desolate race cannot be underestimated, and the human race is not strong now. Therefore, the imperial court forbade some commercial goods, such as armor and fine iron, to trade with the desolate clan. ”

"There used to be a Black Skeleton Army in the Xiong family, who killed people and robbed merchants, controlled trade routes, and smuggled in a large number of barren people's goods. However, for the Terrans, they must purchase from Licheng, or from the provinces and counties around Licheng. Because of the identity of the semi-desolate people, these purchases will be stared at by many people, at least the contraband of the imperial court, they have no way to sell them in large quantities to the major tribes in the depths of the sand plain. ”

"If the Xiong family falls, their original identity will be replaced by the Xiao family, the Zhong family, and replaced by their family, in order to satisfy their greed, what kind of prohibited goods are not to be sold?"

"Balance ......" Jiang Ning muttered, this may be the posture of the real superior, thinking only about the overall situation, what is black and white is not really important to them.

"It's a balance, so this official doesn't let the Youxiong family fall immediately, and then take some official positions from the Xiao family and the Zhong family, and replace them with people from the various seven-rank and powerful eight-rank families, just to contain the two families from many aspects. ”

"Hu Nancheng Cheng also told you the truth, the five coffins were not transported, and the official has always been worried that something big will happen, so he tolerated the greed of the Xiao family. ”

Jiang Ning finally understood a little that City Lord Ye could still force the Xiao family to pay a higher price, but he was also worried about having too many dreams at night. So he agreed to sell the sixteen yuan to Xiao Zhong's two families at a very low price, and those pastures and mountains quickly turned into money.

This is the first batch, and there are tens of millions of acres of land behind, although each family is not like the Xiao family and the Zhong family, there are enough manpower, but it can be circled first, it is theirs, and it can be slowly developed in the future.

The money was turned into a reward for meritorious service and was quickly distributed to the officers and men of the battalions. Although there are many officers and soldiers in Lichengwei, the two batches of money together are an astronomical amount.

Every officer and soldier can get a reward of tens of thousands of ringing coins, those who want money will be given money, and those who want cultivation resources will be given cultivation resources, with cultivation resources, it is impossible for all the officers and soldiers of Lichengwei to break through to the innate stage, but with so many effective resources, Lichengwei will become stronger.

"Not only are they greedy, but some merchants in Guibao Street are also greedy, and the rewards have not been shared, and many goods have begun to increase in price. They didn't know that the official would ask General Lu Wei to gather all the resources that the officers and soldiers wanted to procure and arrange for people to go to Pingwei Mansion to procure. ”

"Price increase?"

"It's not a little bit up. ”

The city lord's mansion had to support so many people, including the city guards, various officials, government officials, government officials, miscellaneous servants, and many expenses, most of which were supported by taxes.

Generally speaking, the monthly dynasty business tax, from the workshop, must pay a tenth of the tax rate, each transaction, must also pay a certain percentage of the tax rate, as well as customs duties, city tax, and other miscellaneous taxes. Generally speaking, every commodity, including various cultivation resources, is in the hands of customers, and they pay taxes seriously, and they often have to pay a tax rate of nearly thirty percent.

It is impossible to actually implement it, and it is good to be able to collect a 20% tax rate together. As for the shops in Guibao Street, they don't need one-tenth, but they can collect one-fiftieth, and they can be regarded as good citizens.

This tax is also quite a lot.

The taxes paid by shops are the foundation tax, that is, the house tax, which is also paid by ordinary people, but only the tax rate equivalent to five thousandths of the house, such as the house in Jiangning, which has to pay a foundation tax of four rings a year, and the house occupied by the Jiang family has to pay a foundation tax of more than ten rings a year. The proportion of shops has reached a tax rate of 3 percent, such as Aunt Li's Ruyi Liquor Shop, because Jiang Ning transferred it to Aunt Li, and got more than 300 ringing coins a year.

The miscellaneous tax, that is, the tax on cleaning, is paid according to the price of the house, and the tax rate is 5 per 1,000 for ordinary houses, and 2 percent for shops. The security tax, the rate of law and order maintained by the city lord's mansion, is about the same as the miscellaneous service tax.

There are some taxes on the sale and transfer of buildings, and there are some taxes on special industries, such as wine, fireworks, and other special industries.

This is because many taxes are based on the price of the premises, which also effectively depresses the price of the premises.

Compared with the two worlds, these taxes are not too heavy, of course, various businessmen are trying to find ways to evade taxes, and most of those who pay taxes honestly will go bankrupt.

The tax hall is not more, but simpler.

In addition, there is a more important tax, that is, the one percent tax, the purchase of goods, the city lord's mansion will take half of the equivalent of the goods of the goods, and after the sale, the merchants will continue to pay the remaining half percent tax. But there is almost no one who pays this tax honestly, and it is not easy to check.

However, this time it was different, it was purchased by the City Lord's Mansion, and the tax of a single iron coin could not be missed. How much does the City Lord's Mansion have to take a cut of the one-tenth tax rate?

These businessmen were smart, and when they saw that so many rewards were coming down immediately, most of them would inevitably be distributed to Lichengwei, and these officers and soldiers would inevitably spend most of them to buy cultivation resources, so they joined forces and raised prices one after another.

This is normal, but it has risen too much. The reward has not yet been issued, and once it has been issued, how far will it go?

So Ye Chen simply didn't even pay a percent tax to Pingwei Mansion, and he didn't want to buy it in Licheng.

"Licheng needs to be quiet even more now, including Arabe. If I connive at Xiao Zhong and his family to continue to suppress the Youxiong family, there will be even greater panic with the various wastelands outside the city. The official will have the Xiong family to shelter, which shows that the purpose of the official is to take it lightly. ”

"It turns out that the officials are not afraid of the Xiong family's rebellion, they can maneuver between the two clans, and they are the beneficiaries. Now, even if the official supports it, there is no Black Skull Army, and they are not allowed to come into contact with other bandits. The official feared that if there was a change, they would hold a grudge and might rebel, which would be a heavy blow to Licheng. I want to let go of Ochre Fort and let people from the bear family settle in. ”

The ochre fort is the last fort of the West Fifth Fort, and it is not far from the sandy plain.

If Ochre Fort is controlled by the Youxiong family, they are still the biggest beneficiaries of the trade route in the West Five Forts, and at least they can maintain the balance of power with the Xiao family and the Zhong family, and they are the beneficiaries, and the probability of rebellion will be infinitely reduced.

The trade of the Xiong family can still be turned from darkness to light, not only can some taxes be collected, but they can no longer do evil as before.

Isn't that right?

Jiang Ning felt that his brain circuits couldn't keep up.

"It's too risky......"

After going around several times, Jiang Ning was even more confused.

Ye Chen explained: "There are two possibilities, the five coffins were found by the people of the imperial court in advance, and before the enemy reacted, most of them were transported away from Licheng, and there must be a tragic battle, but at most Licheng paid a few battalions of officers and soldiers, and they could avoid it." ”

"The people of the imperial court did not find it, those people got some special magic chariots in advance, and they must have transported the five coffins to the depths of the wasteland, but Huang Zhong made them never leave the border fortress, plus the various military forts, the imperial court will send people to follow all the way, bite to the death, until the five coffins are recaptured. ”

"In order to prevent the imperial court from discovering them, they had only one way out, mobilizing the major tribes of Shayuan to invade the counties and prefectures on the border of Huanzhou and Langzhou on a large scale, and at this time, Ochre Fort will become the most important military fort in Licheng. If there is a Xiong family and the heart of rebellion, and the Ochre Fort is controlled by them, it can quietly transport tens of thousands of desolate warriors......"

"Will it turn out like this?"

"Yes, it's not my idea, it's the deduction of the imperial court, and I secretly issued a notice to the lords of the counties in the border area. ”

"Why didn't the imperial court send officers and soldiers to station?"

"Once the latter is the latter, how many officers and soldiers does the imperial court have to send to the city? This is not a battalion as a unit, but a division as a unit. Dozens of officers and soldiers have come over, have you ever thought about what the counties of Biansai will use to bear their supplies?"

The officers and soldiers of a county are one guard, and the officers and soldiers of a government are one division.

Even if supplies were brought from the rear, the counties would collapse without a fight, and how much money would have to be wasted, and how many people would have to be recruited?

The Yue Dynasty will not be restrained, they have made some arrangements, and they will arrange some clever people to turn into the retinue of various merchants, and follow these merchants to go deep into the depths of the sand plain to find out their movements. At the same time, the most elite 1,000 battalions of officers and soldiers were transferred from the rear prefectures and counties to form a temporary 10th Division, which was not stationed in the border counties of Licheng, but in the six prefectures of Pingzhou, Gaoting, Xiangzhou, Pegasus, Qizhou, and Fengyang.

Six of them are all large states, and the additional arrangement of a thousand battalions of officers and soldiers is not too burdensome.

However, in order to prevent accidents, the Yue Dynasty had to dispatch a large number of people to escort a large number of supplies from the inner states to the six states after the beginning of spring, so as to meet the consumption of a thousand battalions of officers and soldiers

This is the strongest battalion drawn from dozens of states, maybe hundreds of counties, and there is no doubt about the combat effectiveness, and the Yue Dynasty let them come to the six states in advance, and the temporary ten divisions and one hundred guards were actually further run-in, so that they could cooperate well with each other before the battle came.

The strongest officers and soldiers of the 1,000th Battalion, as well as the strength of Huanzhou, Langzhou, Xizhou, Youzhou, Hanzhou, Luzhou, Baizhou, Chunzhou, Huazhou, Fengzhou, Pingzhou, Gaotingzhou, Xiangzhou, Feimazhou, Qizhou, Fengyangzhou, Hezhou and other prefectures themselves, even if those people gathered all the forces of Shayuan, they could calmly defeat them.

However, Fengyang Prefecture is behind Huanzhou, with a Baizhou in the middle, Qizhou is in the upper right of Langzhou, a Chunzhou in the middle, Pegasus is behind Langzhou, and there is a Huazhou in the middle, Xiangzhou is in the lower right of Langzhou, there is a Fengzhou in the middle, Gaoting Prefecture is behind Luzhou, and Pingzhou is in the lower right of Gaoting Prefecture, which is more than 10,000 miles away from Licheng.

This means that once it becomes the latter result that Ye Chen said, all counties, including Licheng County, must be able to block the first wave, or even the second and third waves of attacks, before they can wait for the imperial army.

Turning into the court of the Moon Dynasty, it is only a wasteland of the sandplain, and it is not to be feared.

However, if these forces are pressed on dozens of county towns......