"What's your name?" Li Xiao sat on the main seat with a big thorn and looked at the county lord who was crawling at his feet.

"Old decay Liu Yupu."

At first glance, it is a very cultural and meaningful name! Li Xiao shook his head, this elegant name was ruined.

"My name is Li Xiao, and they all call me Dashuai." Li Xiao reported to his home.

"Big ...... Handsome! Spare your life! Spare your life! "Liu Yupu thought it was a thief just now, but if it was a robber, it would be fine.

If there is no deep hatred, basically this group of people are rushing to seek wealth. As long as you give money, you can always save a life!

But when this big man comes, it's over.

This handsome man can be described as a killer of the Donglin Party, killing more than 2,000 people overnight in the capital that year. The Donglin Party scholars killed over the years have had 8,000 if not 10,000.

I fell into the hands of this handsome, and it was very difficult to survive. Damn, this Hades has also come to his own jurisdiction. I haven't received any news from myself, and today is more than lucky.

"Oh! If you want to live, that's easy. Let me ask you why the taxes you collect under your rule are so much higher than the regulations of the imperial court. Li Xiao said slowly, picking up a fruit on the table and eating it. The fruit that I don't know tastes very sweet.

"Xiaguan ......! It is true that the jurisdiction of the lower officials is ......, and it is indeed slightly higher than ...... Slightly higher than the imperial court ......! Liu Yupu stammered in his mouth, and his eyes were rolling as he spoke, thinking of a countermeasure.

"Slightly higher than the imperial court? Your fucking tax is as high as seventy percent, more than double the maximum tax rate set by the imperial court. Also fucking slightly higher! I don't think you're going to say anything, come and hang him on the tower with the tax collector, and you won't be allowed to put it down until he becomes a skeleton. ”

Li Xiao waved his hand, and immediately two big men came over, dragging Liu Yupu like a dead dog.

"Spare your life! Spare your life! Spare your life! I've recruited them, I've recruited them all. Liu Yupu was so frightened that he cried his father and called his mother, and his voice was split.

Li Xiao waved his hand and motioned to pull the person back.

Liu Yupu lay on the ground, his head hitting the ground with a "bang" and "bang" sound.

"Say it!" Li Xiao glanced at Shi Kefa next to him.

The Donglin Party is really a strange group, which can not only cultivate tough guys like Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, but also do their best to be such bastards who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

If the course of history had been a little more normal, the Manchu army would have moved south. Except for a few people such as Shi Kefa who led people to resist, most of the remaining cities were surrendered without a fight.

With such soft bones in front of you, how can you not surrender.

For them, the most important thing is to enjoy the wealth of the world as an official. The so-called change of dynasty is just a change of person as the emperor. As long as Lao Tzu can still be an official, he will surrender if he surrenders.

Individual shameless ones also put gold on their faces!

If no old man gives up his reputation to preserve, Jiangnan will be ruined. It's as if he surrendered, and there was no life.

Historically, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was close to 200 million, but only tens of millions remained in the prosperous era of Kangxi. Tens of millions of people have died in this year, and it is not called a misery?

Sure enough, Liu Yupu confessed! said in more detail than the master book, and said that he was willing to make meritorious contributions, and it was his nephew who managed the account books in Jinling City, and he could ask for the account books from his nephew.

Traitors appeared within the revolution, and they all took refuge with guns.

This is very happy, especially Li Xiao's heart. That's great! The Liao army's sword is fast, but it can't kill the innocent. The account books are hard evidence, as long as the account books are obtained.

The officials of the entire Jiangsu Province should be killed and arrested. This account book can not only make the people breathe a sigh of relief, but also greatly promote the speed of promotion of Jiangsu officials.

"Good! Send for the books, and give you seven days. The books of accounts have arrived, and you are alive. The account book has not arrived, so I will wash my neck and wait for the knife. Li Xiao said, raised his feet and left.

"Go to Jinling and tell Yang Sichang that the provinces in Jiangnan have paid the money and grain this year. Don't send it to the capital, just stay in the Jiangnan Mansion. In this way, when there was a famine in the spring in the south of the Yangtze River, there was also money and grain for disaster relief. Li Xiao commanded helplessly.

I really hope that in the spring, Jiangnan will not starve to death.

"Yang Sichang, the governor, is at the end of his life." Shi Kefa glanced at Li Xiao's back and shook his head.

Yang Sichang is a loyal minister of Chongzhen, and he is definitely the standard Donglin Party. It's just that Sun Chengzong used to protect him, and he only stayed in the position of governor for ten years.

In the past, it was a time of war, and it was necessary to ensure the stability of Jiangnan and not make trouble. Some things, Li Xiaoda can rub into the sand.

But now it's different, Sun Chengzong is retired in Yuquan Mountain, and the country has not fought for two years. Li Xiao's vision has been invested in China, and now there is such a thing under Yang Sichang's rule.

Originally, the way to enter the imperial court as an auxiliary minister in the cabinet was impossible, and now the best outcome is to be kicked out by Li Xiao and find a place to retire quietly.

The worst result, of course, is to be pulled out as a baby and stabbed in the head at the entrance of the vegetable market.

Whether it is dead or alive, it is just between Li Xiao's thoughts.

Li Xiao doesn't speak, and it's not good for others to intervene in this. Anyway, Yang Sichang has eaten alone in Jiangnan over the years, which has also aroused the dissatisfaction of many people in the imperial court.

It can be seen that people who eat alone cannot always eat, and those who always eat alone will become a single husband sooner or later. Last month, the Chen family intended to get married, and this time they need to return to Beijing to ......!

On the airship back to Beijing, everyone had different thoughts.

"I want the state to abolish the agricultural tax! And every year, the state will buy rice and grain from the peasants and buy and sell them at a fair price. The extra rice grain was bought and sold by the peasants. If grain merchants are willing to buy at a high price, this is also a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people. Back in the capital, Li Xiao did not return to his marshal's mansion, but went directly to Zhang Huangyan's office.

"No taxes on farming?" Zhang Huangyan closed his mouth in surprise.

If you plant the land of the Ming Dynasty, you have to pay taxes to the Ming Emperor. The national tax on imperial grain has been paid by the people of the world for more than 2,000 years. Now Li Xiao actually said that he would not collect it, this is an important source of tax for the country.

"Although commercial taxes now account for 50% of the national treasury revenue, if half of the income is suddenly lost ......, what will happen to the various expenses of the imperial court.

The Yangtze River Bridge in Jinling is still under construction, and the Hankou side will also apply for approval to build the Yangtze River Bridge.

Every bridge is built with silver, not to mention the fact that roads and railways, bridges and factories are now being built across the country. It's a lot of money!

There is also the annual investment in scientific research, plus military spending, which ...... It's a big investment, and it's all planned. There is a fixed amount of cumulative investment each year, and it must not be changed at will.

Lost half of the income all of a sudden, what should I do with so many things? Zhang Huangyan vomited bitterness.

You Li Xiao is the shopkeeper, and you have bought the hearts of the people in the world with one sentence. But Lao Tzu, the master of spending money, can no longer open the account.

And what else do you have to do to make the price of grain easy, every year the state spends money to buy grain from the peasants. This is not a fraction of silver, but a mountain of silver coins that can do.

Where do you let Lao Tzu go to get money?

"I thought about it, the state has a monopoly on the tobacco and alcohol business. These two kinds of inputs should make up for the receipts of the treasury.

In addition, the customs money will also be transferred to the national treasury in the future.

Although there is no agricultural tax at the local level, grain merchants still have to collect taxes when buying and selling grain. That's another bonus! Seventy-seven-eighty-eight add up, and they can finally plug the hole of agricultural taxes.

And I think that in the future, ...... will all taxes be collected by the state. All tax officials are directly under the state, and the State Administration of Taxation has been established. In the future, all taxes will be collected by the state, and the money bank system will be entered into the national treasury account.

There were no more feudal treasury in the provinces, which allowed for the reduction of many local tax collectors and feudal officials. Again, it is disarmament again. ”

"Disarmament? Also disarming ......, this ......, Ao Ye and they ......! Zhang Huangyan couldn't close his mouth in surprise, the number of the Ming army had dropped to a dangerous number.

During the reign of the Apocalypse Chongzhen, the Ming Army had the private armies of military households and various generals, and once reached the scale of two million people.

But now, the Ming army is only 970,000 people combined. Not even half of what it was back then!

The Ming Dynasty now has only four full-fledged main divisions, and Ao Ye's first division is stationed in the capital. Yuan Chonghuan's second division was stationed in Liangguang, and Cao Wenzhao's third division was stationed in Xi'an.

Zu Dashou's four divisions were stationed in the Western Regions, and these were all armies of the stable side, and they could never be dismantled.

The rest of the country is the security army, which has a size of 10,000 to 20,000 in each province. These troops are mainly used to suppress the localities, and the equipment and training are all simplified versions of the Liao army.

One or twenty thousand people sounds like a lot, but for managing a province, it's not much. It's like a place like Jiangnan, in fact, there are only eight or nine thousand people. A big city like Jinling was garrisoned by more than 1,000 soldiers.

However, in places like Yinchuan and Xining, there are many local troops. There are just over 20,000 in Gansu, and less than 30,000 in Xining.

There are also many places in Heilongjiang, with more than 18,000 people.

If these troops are dismantled, I am afraid that there will be instability at the border gates and in the localities.

The rest is the overseas marines, all of whom are stationed abroad, and it is up to them to protect the overseas interests of the Ming Dynasty. To dismiss them, not only Li Xiuhui will work hard, but even Zhang Huangyan will not agree.

"I have thought about it, and the security forces of the six provinces south of the Yangtze River will be abolished. Only 2,000 posts were left in each province, and the security forces in the other two provinces were halved. With Yuan Chonghuan in Liangguang, there is nothing that can't be suppressed.

Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and the security forces in the two Huai localities have been abolished by 60 percent. In this way, more than 150,000 security forces can be abolished in the whole country.

This is another savings! ”

Obedient and obedient, Li Xiao cut the security army in so many places. Especially in Jiangnan, there is almost only one percent left, and Zhang Huangyan understood it in an instant.

In so many places, apart from the borders, only Liaodong, Shandong, Hebei, and Gyeonggi will not be dismantled. The security forces in these places are on par with the main divisions in terms of equipment and training.

In the event of a war, these security forces quickly become a supplement to the main force. Anyway, the Liao army is the world of these local people, and there will be no problems in communication.

And Gangnam ......! Needless to say, this time Yang Sichang is in danger. It is estimated that it is very likely that it will become the chicken that scares the monkeys.

But what kind of monkey does such a big chicken have to scare?

Shut up decisively, there are not many monkeys of this level, and he happens to be one.

"Since you have said so, there must be a buffer period, otherwise this manpower will not be able to be broken. After all, collecting business tax requires more professionals who can review the accounts.

The old man felt that it should be gradually rolled out throughout the country in a two-year period. The first to promote should be Shandong, Liaodong, Hebei and Gyeonggi.

These places are well developed and there are many factories. There are more migrant workers than farmers, and it is the least difficult and least labor-intensive to promote.

The tax collectors who have been laid off in these places may be transferred to the south. In addition, officers in the security forces that were abolished in the south could also be trained in the north to become tax collectors in the south.

In this way, such a policy that benefits the people can really benefit the people and not plunge the country into chaos. ”

This is the difference between Zhang Huangyan and Sun Chengzong, if it is Sun Chengzong, he will only nod to Li Xiao at this time, and he will not tell Li Xiao what to do about specific things.

And Zhang Huangyan will come up with a plan and ask Li Xiao's opinion. Li Xiao will only implement it after agreeing!

"Alright! Give you three years, and after three years, the whole country will abolish the agricultural tax. In addition, the establishment of an official-priced grain store should be put on the agenda.

We can't let those black-hearted grain merchants stir up grain prices to the sky. In that case, the policy of benefiting the people will become a policy that harms the people, and it will kill people. ”

Capital is naturally profit-seeking, and when he thinks of the inhumane operation methods of capital, Li Xiao feels that it is better to squeeze them out of the grain market.

This market needs to be stable, highly stable. According to Li Xiao's idea, this market is better a pool of stagnant water.

"Uh......! The old man thinks that the grain in the world is divided into 369 and 369, and the price of grain will naturally be divided into 369.

It's like the rice in Liaodong, which is round and jade, and it is far better than the rice in the south of the Yangtze River. The price of this kind of rice should be high. After all, if you want to eat something good, you have to pay a good price.

As for the low-grade rice, although the taste is not very good, it is better to be able to eat a full stomach. If you are a poor family, it is naturally no problem to eat if you want to fill your stomach, so that kind of food needs to be cheap.

In the same way, there are wheat from the northwest and Shandong, and the delicious flour is naturally more expensive, as for the poor taste...... Then there is one cheaper left.

In this way, we also collect more taxes in the price of food. After all, those who can afford expensive rice and noodles are not bad for money. Looting taxes on these people is also in line with the principle of tax law that the rich increase the poor and reduce the poor. ”

"Hmmm! I am not as good as you in these things, so I will do what you want. Li Xiao nodded, fighting eight battles Zhang Huangyan is not an opponent of Li Xiao. Speaking of this, the eight Li Xiao are not Zhang Huangyan's opponents.