Chapter 285: Taxation (Refresh in 10 minutes)
Returning to Luoyang, Gao Cheng immediately gave the Gyeonggi Army units official names.
Gao Aocao was often the vanguard, and his 5,000 Han troops were the first to attack the battalion, including 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 foot soldiers.
The Xiongnu general Liu Feng commanded 5,000 Hu troops followed him from Lingzhou to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and was given the name of the Guiyi Camp by Gao Cheng, that is, to return to justice.
The 5,000 Hu troops under Hou Yuan are the left guard battalion, and the 5,000 Han troops under Murong Shaozong are the right guard battalion.
All three of them are configured with 1,000 cavalry and 4,000 foot soldiers.
Gao Cheng's 10,000 men were divided into two battalions, one of which was the assault battalion, composed of 4,000 Wuchuan Xianbei cavalry, and the other battalion was the shooting battalion, with 6,000 people all archers.
King Xiao Gao has never forgotten his original intention, the noble dream of a noble family with thousands of arrows, the number of archers of various divisions of the Gyeonggi Army has already broken the number of 10,000.
The remaining 1,000 cavalry of the Gyeonggi Army fell into the long-named Hulu Guangluo Carving Camp.
Even though he knew that this was a clear definition of the ownership of the army, and in the future, the generals would not be able to take the army away, but it did not cause resistance from people such as Hou Yuan and Liu Feng.
First, Gao Cheng won the hearts of the soldiers, and secondly, these people had no objections.
If King Xiao Gao was attacking Hou Jing's troops, he was afraid that he would defect to Nanliang that day.
For Hou Jing, he has no friendship with Gao Cheng, and even has old grudges in the past, and his subordinates are the foundation of his life in troubled times.
And Hou Yuan, Liu Feng and others, who are close to Gao Cheng, do not need the army to maintain the so-called sense of security, not to mention the five thousand people, what role can they play.
Today, Gao Cheng's troops alone have 35,000 Gyeonggi troops, 5,000 soldiers under Liangzhou Duan Shao, Yuzhou Yaoxiong, and Shaanzhou Gao Jishi, that is, 15,000 people, plus 20,000 Yan soldiers under Zhang Liang, a total of 70,000 troops.
This has even surpassed Yuwentai's main force, but Zhang Liang's 20,000 salt soldiers have not yet tested their combat effectiveness, so they have to draw a question mark.
However, the remaining 50,000 people are all full-time soldiers who have been in the army for many years, and they are not comparable to tens of thousands, 100,000, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers from states and counties at every turn.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen conquered 200,000 soldiers and horses in the five states of Hebei, Ding, Ying, Xiang and Ji.
Now that these five states are all under the command of Gao Cheng, they have been recuperating for many years, and they really want to be a violent army, with the background of Sanhe, it is not impossible for the Western Expeditionary Force to gather six or seven hundred thousand, but the key is that in today's world, no one can command such a large-scale corps operation.
Not to mention Gao Huan, he was already in a hurry with 200,000 people, and Yuwentai was the only time in his life that he led a large army, but he almost lost all his family money in Bishan.
Gao Cheng didn't dare to try it easily, and he regarded the battle of the country as a child's play, and he has been a Yang Guang since ancient times.
Only after truly commanding the army can we understand Han Xin's pride when he said 'the more the merrier'.
However, during this period, Gao Cheng's focus was not actually on the army, but on taxation.
Gao Cheng set up a new division in the household department early in accordance with the suggestion of Wang Xi, the second in the classic department, and Cui Jishu, the secretary of the household department, was personally responsible for mastering the supply and demand situation in various places.
This year's autumn tax is the first trial of the migration of expensive and cheap, after the autumn harvest statistics of the harvest in various places, if the harvest is poor, the grain is expensive and cheap, then the money will be levied.
If there is a good harvest in the land, and the grain is cheap and expensive, the grain is levied.
The implementation of this policy was immediately responded to by the public, after all, it was really for their sake.
After the local government collects the taxes, they do not immediately send them to the central government, but are uniformly assigned by the household department, and after meeting the grain requirements required by Luoyang, the rest of the grain is sent to the places where the grain is expensive and cheap according to the principle of proximity, so as to stabilize the grain price.
The coins were sent to the places where the grain was cheap and expensive, and the government purchased grain and rice and transported them to Changping for storage.
In addition to storing grain, we can also bring grain to a reasonable price, so as not to make grain cheap and hurt farmers.
The whole process of money and grain transfer is in charge of the transfer department stationed in various places, but the hands of the state and county magistrates are to prevent the state and county officials from eating and taking deductions, after all, such a large amount of money and grain is in hand, who can not help but be moved.
Of course, for the supervision of the Transshipment Division, Gao Cheng did not fall behind, with the local government in the open, and the local government in the dark, supervising the whole process.
The policy has been implemented, and all localities are also collecting taxes according to Gao Cheng's ideas, as well as post-processing, Gao Cheng does not know what the result will be, and whether there will be major omissions in the trial process, which is what he is worried about.
However, Cui Jishu is indeed visibly emaciated, every time it comes to collecting taxes, the household department is always the busiest, and now Gao Cheng has added more workload for them, no wonder Cui Jishu has moved into the household government during this time, and he eats and lives in it.
Looking at Xiao Cui's positive work attitude, Gao Cheng made up his mind that as long as there were no major mistakes, he would always find a reason to reward Cui Jishu.
By the end of October, the inspection envoys from all over the country reported the situation in various places one by one, and there were both worries and joys.
Even so, there is still a lot of corruption, mostly in the name of loss in transit.
Because Gao Cheng strictly controlled the tax amount and prohibited overcharging, when the local officials collected money and taxes, they did not dare to collect more money and silver from the taxpayers in the name of loss, so they could only think of some ways when the money and grain were transferred.
The amount is not large, and Gao Cheng did not hold on to it, after all, for most people, thousands of miles for officials are only for money.
But for those who are bold enough to compete with him Gao Cheng for food, since Cui Shuren passed the first place, Song Youdao has also been idle for a long time, and there is a time when he charges into battle.
What really gave Gao Cheng a headache was that the family took advantage of the news gap to earn the difference in the market in the process of money and grain transportation.
For example, the grain in a certain area is cheap and expensive, and it was originally used to transfer coins to purchase rice and grain from the local government, which raised the price of grain.
However, before the arrival of the coin transfer, the family had already begun to buy cheap rice and grain in the market, and as for getting rid of it, how could they not know the psychological price of grain prices from the government with their connections.
Gao Cheng has the power and the soldiers, but he has no reason to prohibit the family from operating.
In the end, they did not violate the law in this way, nor did they hoard the odds.
Besides, over the years, the family has lost its land, lost a large number of slaves and maids, and lost a shortcut to enter the government because of the abolition of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system.
Now he is just making profits in the market, and Gao Cheng will also suppress it, for fear that it will arouse public anger.
These warriors really don't have much strength now, but if they really want to make trouble behind their backs when they are on the westward expedition, it is enough to make people uncomfortable.
Gao Cheng decided to leave this matter behind and find a way to deal with it in the future.
The good news is that this method has been effective, and at least it has stabilized grain prices in various localities, and has not made the people sigh for grain or the peasants sad.
Whether someone steals a little bit on the grounds of loss, or the family makes a profit, compared to its benefits, it can be ignored for the time being and continued.
At 11:59, there were still more than 100 words left before the end of writing, so I quickly copied and updated it first, otherwise I couldn't keep the full attendance, and I changed it as soon as I finished it.
The next chapter is at eight o'clock in the morning
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