"General Qiyu, there are 8,635 horses of silk in the city today......"

When he heard Cang Cao's announcement of Pei Hong's total amount of market tax collected today, Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked in surprise: "There are so many?" ”

It's not that he hasn't seen money, let alone more than 8,000 pieces of silk, even if it's more than 80,000...... Forget it, even one horse needs to be faced, half a thread and half a thread, and it is difficult to keep thinking and material resources!

The commodity economy of the Southern Dynasties was developed and the market transactions were frequent, so the city tax was also an important part of the government's fiscal revenue, which was usually levied according to the transaction amount of 40 percent, that is, the transaction tax of 400 yuan was charged for the transaction amount of 10,000 yuan, and the seller gave 300 yuan and the buyer gave 100 yuan.

In addition, there are also various kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes collected around market transactions, which mainly depend on the social development of the time, government finances, and the moral bottom line of rulers, etc., which are different in each era.

Among the regimes of the Southern Dynasties, Xiao Bodhisattva's family has a relatively low moral bottom line, so the pressure on the people is relatively heavy. At that time, Hou Jing only used one trick to exempt the land rent and city tax, and he recruited a large number of Huainan people to rebel with him, and the weight of the tax in Nanliang can be seen.

The Northern Dynasties, especially the Western Wei Dynasty, were very backward in the development of the commodity economy, so there were very few commercial taxes. It's not that Yuwentai has a high level of morality, it's just that he didn't receive it.

The Jingzhou Governor's Government is financially independent, and there is no need to follow the laws of Chinese and foreign governments to generate revenue. Due to its location at the junction of the north and south, the commodity economy is also developing day by day, so the state government has also drawn up a municipal tax quota, which is full of 100 taxes. Compared with the system of the Southern Dynasties, it is naturally not very serious exploitation.

More than 8,000 horses of silk are taxed in one day, which means that the total transaction volume in the market has reached more than 800,000 horses of silk in this whole day! If it is a large trade, it is needless to say, but the commercial market in Jingzhou City is mainly based on retail daily necessities, and it is unbelievable that the daily transaction volume can reach so much.

"How much does the city usually collect each day?"

After Li Tai asked this question, Pei Hong was also prepared, and hurriedly sent the city tax records for nearly three months to the front of the case.

Li Tai took the book and looked through it slightly, and found that the daily market tax collected in three months was only a few hundred horses of silk, and the most was only between two or three thousand horses, which was gradually rising from the trend point of view, especially since November, the daily data has jumped more than doubled, and today it has reached an unprecedented number of more than 8,000 horses of silk.

Seeing this unusual data, Li Tai looked at the data of the commercial market in Jingzhou again.

There are more than 700 shops in the whole commercial market, and there are more than 100 shops in the Xiangyang West Market, although this data cannot be compared with the east and west cities of Chang'an in the heyday of the Sui and Tang dynasties, but it is already the largest market between the entire Jianghan and Han at present.

With so many shops, it is natural that they sell a wide variety of goods, from daily necessities to treasures from the north and south.

Pei Hong continued: "According to the owner of the shop in the city, there are many Jiangling people who enter the market to buy goods, and they are not even buying, but sweeping and buying......"

Li Tai listened to Pei Hong's report, vaguely remembered some things in his mind, and while motioning for Pei Hong to continue reporting, he stood up and rummaged through the bookcase next to the desk a little, and finally found a report from Li Yunxin, the assassin of Yingzhou who was in Shicheng before.

This report was sent in the middle of the year, and it was the Gangneung Military Government that had previously requested the Governor's Office to increase the annual trade volume of the mutual market. Previously, Li Tai coerced the prestige of Handong and demanded an exchange of markets with Gangneung, and purchased a large number of raw materials from Gangneung every year.

At that time, Gangneung was still more affluent than Chubei, and although the turmoil in the lower reaches became more and more serious, the middle reaches were not greatly affected. Therefore, in the trade between the two sides, the Gangneung side was not very active, and it was still necessary to rely on the deterrence of the military forces in the north to reluctantly fulfill this agreement.

However, gradually when Hou Jing's rebellious army entered the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiangling's enthusiasm for trade increased, and it was necessary to raise materials and improve finances through trade to develop armaments.

By the time the Battle of Jiangling was over and Wang Shengbi and other armies began to launch a counteroffensive downstream, Jiangling became more dependent on trade with the north. It was not until this year that he took the initiative to increase the volume of trade, and the volume of trade doubled by nearly double.

This change in attitude is reflected in the fact that the industrial and agricultural production around Gangneung has also been severely damaged, resulting in a sharp decline in the quantity of commodities and a large number of desires and discontents.

Li Tai hadn't noticed this before, but now that he saw many Gangneung people entering the city to sweep goods, which directly caused the trading volume of the city market to skyrocket, he realized that there was a lot of room for maneuver.

Thinking of the turbulent situation in Gangneung and the lack of food and clothing for the people in the city, Li Tai felt that it was his duty to help these people get their lives on the right track.

Especially those Southern Dynasty clans who fled from Jiankang to Jiangling before and after the pacification of the Hou Jing Rebellion, they could not endure a little hardship, and they could not get tired of eating, and the material comforts that Jiangling could not provide them with at the moment could be satisfied in Chubei.

In line with the principle of helping others and being happy, Li Tai wrote an order to Li Yunxin, the assassin of Yingzhou who was sitting in the south, and asked him to strictly inspect the goods in transit, especially the goods and goods transported from the territory of the governor's office to the direction of Jiangling, as long as there are no certificates, deeds and other certificates, they will not be issued.

If you want to sweep the freight back to Gangneung in private to make a big profit, that's a dream! If you don't come to worship Lao Tzu Wharf, make some contribution to me, I won't let you earn a single iron jump!

In addition to strictly inspecting the transportation of smuggled goods, he also formulated a rule that those who enjoy gold medals, silver medals and other guest treatment in Hongbin Building can carry different quantities and more types of materials in their luggage.

General Li's friendship is very valuable, and it can be directly measured with real money. If you don't cherish or fight for it, you are destined to not mix four dishes!

Those who lived in Gangneung were still gone, and they had a lot of money to support themselves.

But the people who migrated from Jiankang to Jiangling were a little difficult, whether it was social status or economic conditions, there would be a very big decline, not to mention others, even Yu Xin, the head of the literary world, was snubbed by a little boyfriend he raised in his early years.

It is more difficult for these people to obtain stable and considerable assets and income in Jiangling, even if they can get the care of Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang, it is only a few people after all, and most of the others have to face a practical problem of difficult life.

Today's northern part of the country is rich in commodities and materials, which naturally has a great attraction for these people. Therefore, Li Tai also unceremoniously took advantage of this and continued to develop eyes and ears among the people of Gangneung.

Just when Jiangling was worried about internal and external troubles and the north was thriving, it was the New Year in a blink of an eye. Due to the depletion of the river, Xiao Ji, who led his troops to the east and approached the mouth of the gorge, did not launch a large-scale offensive, but built cities along the river and advanced step by step.

As for Wang Lin's troops in Xiangzhou, they were much more lively, and after consolidating the results of the battle in Xiangzhou, they immediately marched north to besiege Baling. This city, which Wang Shengbi used to sit in and successfully retreat Hou Jing's rebellion, now lives up to its previous good luck and is actually broken under the attack of Wang Lin's rebels, so that the rebels can directly base Baling, and the road to Jiangling to the west is already unimpeded.

In the face of this change, the new Liang Emperor Xiao Yi was also shocked, on the one hand, he ordered the leading army Hu Seng You to refuse, and on the other hand, he sent an envoy to the Western Wei side for help, and finally said that moving request, that is, to ask the Western Wei to send troops to attack Shu.

Of course, even without Xiao Yi's request, the Western Wei side would not give up this military operation that had been in operation for a long time and was about to begin.

However, just before the Western Wei Dynasty was about to carry out the plan to cut down Shu, the conspicuous Bao Emperor Yuan Qin here also began to behave as a demon, and directly ordered the dismissal of Yuwentai's prime minister and Daxingtai positions, and only retained the title of Taishi and the governor of the Chinese and foreign military.

This was undoubtedly a great blow to the power of the hegemon, even Li Tai, who was far away in Jingzhou, hurriedly sent an envoy to Huazhou after learning of this incident, asking Yu Wentai if he needed to lead a large army north to Wuguan in this situation.