The Eastern Wei Dynasty, which inherited from the Northern Wei Dynasty, was different from other dynasties, and in addition to Gao Cheng's attack on the scholars, the Juntian system was implemented, and the people lived a solid life.

Regardless of whether it is collected on a household or per person, there can be no tax evasion for the time being.

After all, people can escape, but they can't take away the acres of land allocated to you.

In the era when it cost 300 yuan to transfer a piece of cloth, the tax of 240 yuan for a husband and wife was already 60 yuan lower than the original tax.

Even if he gave birth to more children, he compared the open fields, mulberry fields, and hemp fields he obtained.

It is clear which is more important than the other.

If you really want to abandon so much land just to avoid that little tax, then there is really no way to recover it.

Ignoring the dissuasion of the general Gao Cheng, the son of heaven Yuan Shanjian forcibly abolished slaves and cattle to grant land, which immediately attracted the abuse of millions of slaves and maids in the Kanto region.

Although most of the income from the land goes to the owner's family, he will also have his own soup to drink.

The people don't know that they themselves will ultimately benefit from this policy, and they don't have such a long-term vision.

When they wantonly abused the court and abused Yuan Shanjian, because the animal slaves were not profitable, although they were exempt from tax for three years, considering the degree of food and clothing, the family began to release a large number of slaves and maids.

Gao Cheng immediately took over the population, organized them into tax households, and redistributed the public land that had just been recaptured from these people.

Taking away other people's acres of land and returning them to others seems to be redundant.

But this means that after the slaves and maids paid the rent and household adjustment in the past, most of the money went to the master's family, and the situation of drinking only soup by themselves was completely changed.

They became good citizens and tax collectors, paid enough rent from the state, kept enough taxes from the court, and the rest was their own, and no master took the lion's share from them.

Needless to say, Gao Cheng, who ordered the redistribution of acres of land for them, is full of praise and virtue.

Even Yuan Shanjian, who was scolded before, also fell into some good.

Gao Cheng didn't have a good reputation on his own, compared to tearing his face and nakedly attacking the family, Gao Cheng was more willing to play the show, so that Yuan Shanjian would have a good reputation among the people, and anyway, the restoration of the Han system would be ruined.

Yuan Shanjian is the mastermind of this attack on the family, and what bad intentions can the little Gao Wang who is beautiful and kind-hearted by others have.

In the final analysis, it is the Hebei Shi clan that has provided a lot of help in the process of the Gao family's fortune, and in the past, it was just a matter of inspecting hidden households and reforming the official system.

And he, Gao Cheng, at least on the surface, wants to stand with this group of scholars, even if everyone knows each other's positions, but political performances are like this, if you see through it or not, if you really tell the truth about it, you will tear each other's faces.

Gao Cheng, who passed through Dingzhou and Yinzhou from Youzhou and returned to Yecheng, finally ended his third tour of Hebei and set off for Luocheng after presiding over the compilation of slaves and maids.

After all, after the slaves and maids are organized into households, the whole thing can no longer be changed, and the slaves and maids who have obtained the status of good citizens will spontaneously safeguard this interest.

The slaves and maids who were not freed, seeing that their past companions had received so many benefits, even wished that their master's family had plotted rebellion, and they were given the opportunity to perform meritorious service.

Before Gao Cheng left Hebei, he sent 20,000 salt soldiers to Xindu and handed them over to Lou Zhao as the commander and training.

In order to show his absolute trust in his uncle, Gao Cheng even transferred Sima Zhang Liang, the general's mansion responsible for the formation of the salt army, back to the shogunate.

There is no surveillance.

As for the secrets, there are still some movements, for example, long before inspecting various places, many personal guards were placed to serve as middle and low-level officers among the salt soldiers, a total of 100 people.

Because of the oath that day and the inspection of various parts of Hebei with him, and the fact that he had personal guards serving in the army, Gao Cheng had already established influence among the salt soldiers, which was why he was relieved to hand over the 20,000 people to Lou Zhao.

The personal guard capital expanded due to the addition of 100 people from Xue Hu'er's department, and with 100 people serving as salt officers, Gao Cheng's personal guards returned to the number of 1,000 again.

The focus of Gao Cheng's pacification has always been in Hebei, and there are many negligences in Henan.

In the past, the pattern of the four surnames of the Han people in the Northern Wei Dynasty, namely Taiyuan Wang, Xingyang Zheng, Qinghe Cui, and Fanyang Lu, had long been changed after the establishment of Xindu.

The four surnames and five clans in Hebei, who made great contributions to the start of the Gao family, jumped to the top of the scholars.

The Taiyuan Wang clan and the Xingyang Zheng clan were inevitably reduced to the second line, which was equal to the political treatment of the Bohai Feng clan, who were deeply involved in the construction of Xindu.

This situation cannot be changed by Gao Huan marrying two widows, such as Zheng Dache of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and Wang Niang, who is suspected of entering the door with pregnancy.

After all, the four surnames and five clans did business in the Hebei Uprising, and how much they paid and how much they gained.

It makes no sense that the Zheng clan of Xingyang, and even the Taiyuan Wang clan that only joined until Er Zhuzhao fled back to Xiurong, completed the reversal with only two widows.

It is reasonable that these people must take a back seat to make way for the four surnames and five clans, but fortunately, the people in charge of the two clans understand this truth, and they may also be forced by the Gao clan's soldiers.

There wasn't much friction in the lifting of the door.

Now that the four surnames and five clans in Hebei have all expressed their support for the Luoyang decree, how can the Henan Shi clan rise up to resist when the generals are divided into towns.

Of course, even if Henan and Hebei are in a mess, the Taiyuan Wang clan will not make any moves, who told them to be in the state, the Gao family relied on the group of people who were moved in one after another.

On the seventh day of the 11th month of the sixth year of Taichang (537), Gao Cheng returned to Luoyang, and in the past, it was only the widows who threw melons to welcome him, but now there are many more maids who have been put into the people's household.

Gao Cheng had to use a suspicious tactic, and the army entered the gate from the Jianchun Gate with great fanfare, and he led his guards, family members and brothers to detour to the north of the city, and entered the city through the Daxia Gate, so that a group of enthusiastic women pounced.

There is no way, Yuan Jingyi, who is a foreign wife, was awarded the title of Princess of the East China Sea, such an honor is too tempting.

More than 2,000 people died in the Heyin Incident, less than ten years ago, and among the wives and concubines, some were widows who had to be widowed for various reasons.

Once Gao Cheng was in the picture, all the problems were solved, and many widows surnamed Yuan were also looking forward to the scenery of being like Yuan Jingyi and Yuan Yuyi, two sisters, to get a princess title.

Even in the Yaoguang Temple, which houses concubines, there are many female nuns who lead the practice of cultivation and are also moved by the vulgar heart.

For most people, if they have a choice, who wants to be a good youth and always accompany the ancient Buddha of the green light.

It's just that compared with the people outside the temple, they are still a little more restrained, and they only dare to secretly ask the maid to invite Gao Cheng to Yaoguang Temple for incense.

Gao Cheng was busy with government affairs and was afraid of people's words, so he did not go to the appointment in a grand manner.

As for whether he had contact with the queens and concubines of Yuan Xu, Yuen Long, Yuan Gong, Yuan Ye and others in private, it is unknown.

Maybe not, after all, King Xiao Gao is not a woman.

It was not Gao Cheng's excuse to be busy with government affairs, and when he returned to Luoyang, he immediately went to Zhongshu Province and drafted a decree as the Zhongshu supervisor:

It is stipulated that private salt is forbidden to be bought and sold, and salt merchants directly deduct taxes from the market price and sell it directly to government shops in various places, and government shops continue to sell to the public at market prices.

This behavior is equivalent to the separation of production and marketing, and the salt merchants who produce salt do not participate in the sale, and the government, a big customer, eats it in one bite, which accelerates the capital turnover.

The government sells on behalf of the market price, but the purchase price has already deducted taxes, so as to prevent salt merchants from evading taxes.

Salt is also a hard currency, so there is no need to worry about sales.

There is no need to worry about the possibility of accumulating a large amount of unsalable salt, so it is a big deal to send it to Luoyang and let Gao Cheng be used as a military salary and official salary.

There is no need to worry about the problem that the villagers will not leave the countryside when they die old, and in other dynasties it is the poverty of the people in the final analysis.

This point does not exist in today's Eastern Wei Dynasty for the time being, although it is impossible for everyone to get the maximum amount of land, but life is indeed comfortable.

With a surplus, there is also a demand for trade.

Other dynasties are so poor that they jingle and run to the county seat.

Gao Cheng did not let the shops send people to the countryside to peddle, and the market sales were supervised by the city department, tax collectors and others, and the prices sold could generally maintain the market price.

There is no need to ignore the survival wisdom of the people at the bottom, even if they don't have time to enter the city, they will organize trustworthy people to enter the city to buy.

They may lack a long-term vision, but the little people are never less clever.

Gao Cheng considered whether to explicitly promote this behavior, and then appointed this type of people as village officials, so that power could go to the countryside.

But after thinking about it carefully, I still gave up, and for the time being, I didn't want to persecute the scholars too much, cut the flesh with a blunt knife, and take my time.

And the possible consequences of this act are also worth considering.

In order to prevent the possibility of making profits, Gao Cheng deliberately set the price of 20 yuan for salt for the time being, taking into full account of the current market price of salt, and only made small profits but quick turnover.

The main Kanto, Hebei and Huaibei have salt-producing areas, and the transportation cost is low.

Can it be set higher? Of course, the highest bucket of salt in the Wu Zetian period was 500 yuan, which was 25 times that of 20 yuan in the Tang Taizong period.

In the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, the price of salt dropped to 10 yuan per bucket, and in order to collect money, after the implementation of the salt monopoly, the price of salt was immediately extended to 110 yuan per bucket.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the price of salt also remained roughly between 200 and 300 yuan.

Compared with the Tang Dynasty's means of collecting money, Gao Cheng's poll tax is only the price of a bucket of salt.

This is also the reason why he must keep the price of salt, the market price fluctuates, and no one knows how outrageous the market price can be shouted by the officials under the collusion of many local forces.

During the Wu Zetian period, a bucket of 500 yuan was 20 yuan higher than the annual poll tax of the four adults under Gao Cheng's rule.

As soon as Gao Cheng's decree on salt affairs was introduced, it did not arouse any opposition, and the tax amount was deducted from the market price, and the government directly sold the government's shops, and then the government resold them to the people at the market price.

No one can point out where this behavior is wrong.

Under the small profits and quick turnover, the salt dealers made less money, but there was a big customer of the government, and they did not worry about sales, and the government provided such convenience for salt merchants, if they still objected, the intention was obvious, it was nothing more than to evade taxes or disrupt the market price.

Both of these actions will be dealt with heavy blows.

Gao Cheng boiled salt in Sizhou and set up 2,666 salt stoves, which was also his confidence to lower the price of salt.

The people praised the constant price of salt.

After Gao Cheng did such a great deed, he rarely relaxed himself, and led his guards to take advantage of the night at the invitation of the empress of Yuen Long, the fifteenth son of heaven of the Northern Wei Dynasty, to go to a separate courtyard outside Yaoguang Temple to participate in Zen meditation with each other.

A righteous gentleman like Xiao Gao Wang will definitely not enter Yaoguang Temple.

But when he thought that Yuen Long was only 19 years old, he let his father-in-law Yuan Kang suffocate with a quilt.

Gao Cheng felt that as the son-in-law of Yuen Long, he had the obligation to take care of the family for Yuen Long.

There are too many sins made by the old man, six years ago, he suffocated three emperors in a row, 19-year-old Yuen Long, 23-year-old Yuan Ye, and 34-year-old Yuan Gong.

Aren't these people's wives and concubines waiting for Gao Cheng, the son-in-law, to atone for their sins?

With great power comes great responsibility.

It's gone tonight, and the National Day will be maintained twice a day as much as possible.

(End of chapter)