Sand ......"

The dripping drizzle is like cow hair, gently, densely, and swaying down. The trees are lush and green, and the grass is fresh and green, as if it has been soaked in rain, and the fragrance is repeated and lingering. Pearl-like crystal clear raindrops, rolling on the white lotus, slowly dripping in reluctance, rippling on the surface of the pond ripples......

The breeze swept through the window, fit into his arms, and passed through in a flash, taking away the restlessness of the mixed body, and Zhang Han felt indescribable comfort. This comfort is not only physical, but also mental. The drought in spring has worried Zhang Han for a long time. The people take food as their day, they can't feed their stomachs, and any policy is fake.

"Leave two windows and don't close them!"

The rain gradually became heavier, a gust of wind blew, wrapped in cold raindrops rushed in, and the scribe hurried to close the glass window. Hearing Zhang Han's order, the scribe hesitated and gently tied the glass window - the glass is much cheaper, but such a large piece of the glass window will always cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Zhang Han stretched his body and slowly walked to the window, the dense raindrops hit the glass, splashing a layer of mist, and everything in the garden was like seeing flowers in the fog, vague. Suddenly, Zhang Han saw a figure, holding a big oilcloth umbrella, and walked in - I don't know who it was, on such a rainy day......

Zhang Han returned to his place and sat down, the candles everywhere had been lit, and the room was brightly lit. Candles made with honey are bright and smokeless, making them the preferred choice for lighting.

"Lord!"

Cen Tao bowed his hand. Zhang Han nodded, smiled and beckoned him to sit down, and someone had already sent ginger soup next to him. In this weather, Cen Tao has something to do, but it is not urgent, so he can naturally come calmly.

A few years have passed, and Cen Taodi's position is still in the hands of An Min, who is responsible for managing many displaced people. But. Cen Tao, an people, has been transferred from Qingzhou Mu to a subordinate of the general of Che Cai. Similar adjustments, as well as Zhang Jian, Guan Ning, Xun Yan and Hua Tuo, all remained unchanged and were turned into chariot generals. In the middle of governance, he was engaged in Zhang Jian or took care of the political affairs under his rule, and led the shogunate of Zhang Han; persuade students to engage in Guan Ning or be responsible for building schools and persuading students; Hu Cao is engaged in Xun Yan or manages the households to worship the agricultural mulberry; Hua Tuo still ignored everything and concentrated on healing. It is worth mentioning. Zhang Han finally expressed the two thorn histories, and the state thorn Shihua and Youzhou thorn Shi Zhang Chao.

An Min said that he was in charge of the affairs of the displaced people, but the displaced people had already been included in the household registration of various places and were managed by the magistrates, not by him; The personnel provided for the military tun are under the management of the military tun system, and they are not under his control. In other words, Cen Taodi's authority has been greatly reduced. His current duties are similar to those of a general, building roads, castles, Zhang Han's mansion (it seems that it can also be called a palace), a temple, a cemetery, and other civil works, and he is responsible for planting trees on both sides of the road.

Plainly. This is the work of the displaced people, building bridges and roads. Construct water conservancy, repair cities, and so on. Recent times. Cen Tao was very busy, and in addition to the roads of Jizhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou, he also had to build a fortified city in Xindu as a place of governance for the next few years. Therefore, although Cen Tao has been staying in Xindu, Zhang Han does not often see him.

Cen Tao is not polite, he has been busy in the light rain in the morning until now, he is tired and hungry. A few mouthfuls of ginger soup under the stomach, which is a little warmer.

"How. Yuanbo, what's wrong with Xincheng? ”

Seeing that Cen Tao's face was slightly better, Zhang Han asked questions while asking people to bring ginger soup again, ordered someone to close the window, and prepared dry clothes.

"Lord, there is no problem with the new city, the foundation has been built, the city wall is half completed, and it is expected that in another four and a half months, the new city will be completed......"

Xindu New Town was built from the spring, the new city is only used to set up office areas, and arrange some guards, the area is not large, the structure is not very complicated, Cen Tao has been staring, the project is progressing very smoothly.

"Oh, that's a problem with the roads in the state?"

In Zhang Han's mind, if it is not a new city, it should be the road of the state.

The conquest of the annexed states was also going well. Wu Zifang waved his division and won a series of battles, and easily took Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, Li Damu, Yu Gen, etc., especially the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan and the four battalions Tu Ge and Yanmen Wuhuan Coalition Army, almost swept away the Black Mountain thieves, and the news came out, shocking the world. Subsequently, Wu Zifang drove the army to chase and kill all the way, and the momentum was like a bamboo. Bingzhou is a place in Shanxi in the later generations, which is composed of several basins of large and small, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although Zhang Han's momentum is prosperous, his family background is mediocre, which is not enough to make people look forward to it, and it took a while. Fortunately, the group of dragons in the state has no leader, and each does its own thing, and Wu Zifang finally took the state not long ago.

However, the state is mountainous, transportation is very problematic, which brought a lot of trouble to the army, as soon as the state was taken, Zhang Han ordered Cen Tao to quickly build the road between Jizhou and the state.

"Lord, it's not, it's also ......"

Cen Tao said it like a tongue twister.

"There is nothing difficult to build roads, and Bingzhou has a large amount of coal, the coal seam is shallow and easy to mine, and lime and other places can be used locally, which is much more convenient than Youzhou......

If you want to get rich and build roads first, good roads will greatly improve transportation conditions, reduce transportation costs, and at the same time, reduce prices. In other words, it can transport soldiers and horses at a faster speed, enhancing Zhang Han's control. Zhang Han is a personal practitioner of this, and has always been addicted to road construction. However, it takes time to build roads, and according to the time of his reign, the road conditions under Zhang Han were as follows: Qingzhou was the best; Jizhou is second, Youzhou has made a lot of efforts recently, and it is not far from Jizhou, and it is second.

The more roads are built, the more experience is naturally gained. Building roads is not difficult for Cen Tao. Not to mention the roads, on most of the rivers in Qingzhou, there are stone arch bridges - the kind of Zhaozhou Bridge. Single-hole long-span, no piers, low-height stone arch bridge. There is no way, Zhang Han knows Zhaozhou Bridge. Let's put it this way, Cen Tao even calculated a series of parameters such as the bridge pressure and center of gravity to complete the data model of the bridge. Cen Tao had a dream to build a bridge across the river. Of course, dreams are just dreams, and Cen Tao also knows how difficult it is, and he has never mentioned it to others.

Cen Tao briefly described the construction progress of the state, and turned the topic back to the current difficulties:

"Lord, we don't lack anything now, the only thing we lack is manpower!"

"Oh?"

What Cen Tao said must not be groundless, but Zhang Han was somewhat skeptical. You must know that in the process of sweeping away the Montenegrin thieves, due to the land reform, a total of 470,000 people were captured. Half of them surrendered voluntarily and also had to serve two years of hard labor. The other captives were to serve ten years of hard labor. Moreover, there are not many displaced people recently recruited, and there are more than 300,000 people. It stands to reason that there should not be a shortage of manpower.

To put it more bluntly, the implementation of land reform is not very attractive to the displaced people - in the wilderness, the land they have cultivated will naturally belong to themselves, and they will not have to pay any price at all. However, these lands can also be easily encroached upon by local families. In addition, the stable life and low taxes in Qinghai and Hebei are also full of attraction to the homeless

However, after all, the population is limited, and it is difficult to travel long distances, and there are certain restrictions on the large outflow of people from various places. For example, Tao Qian was in Tuntian, Xuzhou, and directly captured the displaced people and carried out semi-military management, which was basically used as slaves. Therefore, in the past year or so, the number of displaced people has been decreasing.

Thinking of this, Zhang Han suddenly felt that there was something wrong. Cen Tao's words answered his doubts:

"My lord, the homeless only need to serve two years of hard labor, and many of them are about to expire......"

“！”

This, Zhang Han 'Geden' in his heart, so that's it. Two years ago, Yuan Shao engaged in a crusade against Dong Zhuo by the Kwantung Coalition Army, and there were not a few people who ran to Qingzhou to escape the war.

Roads and cities are being repaired everywhere, and camps are being built in Youzhou, which requires a large number of manpower, and the military tun will definitely need a group of manpower in the future...... That's a big problem!

"Yuanbo, how many homeless people are there now?"

"Well, the total number of displaced people is about 2,874,000, of which nearly 2 million are laborers, and the number of displaced people who expire in two months is as high as 1,140,000, and the labor force is about 770,000 ......."

Cen Tao obviously came prepared, the data came as soon as he opened his mouth, and the explanation was very detailed. Hearing such a large number, Zhang Han frowned slightly.

Private hired workers are in charge of the food. It also costs three or four hundred dollars a month. Like here, away from home, and very hard heavy physical labor, the wages are even more. Even at the rate of 5,000 dollars per year, the increased expenses for this year are close to 400,000 dollars. Moreover, by next year, this cost will increase by more than half, and it will only increase in the future...... You can't rely on five baht to maintain fiscal balance, right?

Thinking of the golden five baht, Zhang Han sweated profusely. He doesn't know much about the economy, but he also knows about inflation. Even at this time, Zhang Han did not rely entirely on the golden five baht as a financial pillar, but took advantage of Qingzhou's rich water resources and used water conservancy textile machinery to weave a large number of cloths, thus reducing the casting of gold five baht by about one-third. Meanwhile. Zhang Han still felt that it was inappropriate and was preparing to increase the proportion of cloth. If another 5 baht worth 7.8 million yuan is added every year, Zhang Han can be sure that there will be extremely serious inflation within 10 years.

"The lord and the lord set the term of service for the displaced people at five years, and they will directly enjoy the treatment of land division at the end of the period......"

Cen Tao was indeed prepared, and he had already prepared a solution to the problem. However, Zhang Han's brows did not stretch, but wrinkled even tighter.

"Yuanbo, this method is not bad. But after all, it is a palliative rather than a cure......"

Three years will come in a flash, what will I do then? Cen Tao didn't think of this. But. It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

At the end of the day, the problem is at its root. The reason is that the tax is too low, and the difference between fiscal revenue and expenditure is huge. Of course, according to Zhang Han's view, as long as this period of time is survived, after the unification of the whole country, there will be a relatively large increase in commercial tax, and then it is better to have a ratio of land to households, and it is better to levy a progressive tax on land. There is always a way to solve this problem.

However, that was in the distant future. Zhang Han is confident of victory. However. If you want to unify the whole country within three years, the difficulty coefficient will definitely exceed 3.2. Moreover, the implementation of the policy was not achieved overnight, and in particular, it is not surprising that such a policy of increasing the land rent -- which harmed the interests of millions of people -- led to rebellion.

Cen Tao also has a way to cure the root cause. Cen Tao made a contemplative appearance, but he just didn't say that since the tax was too light, it would be better to increase the tax, and everyone could think of this method. However, the decision to reduce taxes and exempt people from military service was insisted on by Zhang Han. The change of the order will inevitably affect Zhang Handi's prestige. Cen Tao has made up his mind, unless Zhang Han speaks by himself, he will definitely not open his mouth to overturn Zhang Han's decision. If it really didn't work, he would instigate Zhang Jian to come out.

Zhang Han didn't speak, Cen Tao was silent, the rain outside the window stopped for some time, and there was silence in the room, and there was no sound at all.

……

The two sat opposite each other for a long time, Zhang Han finally couldn't stand it anymore, he was so busy all day that he was dying, where did he have time to lean on Cen Tao:

"Well, let's promote the deed tax......"

The deed tax has a long history, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is mainly levied on the transaction of land and houses. What Zhang Han means is that in addition to the deed tax, a deed tax (stamp duty) is levied - a tax on all land deeds. The tax rate ranges from 1/10000 to 1/10,000, which is negligible, and if the official provides a notarization, the opposition will not be fierce.

"This, every time I sign a contract, I have to go to the government, it's too troublesome......"

Cen Tao was not very enthusiastic and hoped to rely on this contract tax to solve the financial problem, which was impossible. Of course, at the moment, a little more is a little more.

"Well, it's not that hard to ......"

I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pigs go, Zhang Han drew a scoop according to the gourd, and soon came up with a detailed solution.

"As for the affairs of the homeless, Yuan Xin, for the time being, I will do your suggestion first......

Zhang Han thought about it for a long time, but after all, there was no good way, so he had to get by first.

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In May of the fourth year of Chuping (193), an interesting event happened in Xuzhou. The thief Que Xuan proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven - this is just a trivial matter, everyone knows that the Han Dynasty has exhausted his strength, and there are many people who want to be called the king and emperor. Que Xuan's power in the local area is not small, gathering thousands of people, hiding in Geshan, Tao Qian has no way to deal with him for a while. Moreover, Tao Qian also intended to use Que Xuan to some extent.

However, Yuan Shao occupied Yuzhou, and while fighting with his brother Yuan Shu, he also eyed Xuzhou and Yangzhou. It's just that Yuan Shu has Sun Jian to lead the troops, and Yuan Shao has Cao Cao as a general, and the two brothers have been fighting for many years and still can't hold each other. And Zhang Han blocked the north and killed the west, and had no intention of going south for the time being, which also caused the relationship between Yanzhou assassin Liu and Tao Qian to deteriorate sharply. In troubled times, the only way to protect yourself is to grow stronger. The state is bordered by Qingji in the north, Yujing in the south, Sili in the west, and Xuzhou in the east. If you want to strengthen yourself, only Xuzhou can conspire. Without strong pressure, the tacit understanding between Yanxu and Xu will naturally not be able to be maintained for a long time. Once there is an excuse, I am afraid that there will be a war soon.

In desperation, Tao Qian pretended to unite with Que Xuan, booby-trapped him, and annexed his subordinates.

Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Liu Yan of Yizhou have no ambitions, guarding their own territory, and have no intention of expanding. The generals of Liangzhou held the puppet emperor Liu Xie, who was dedicated to the emperor, and shrank in Chang'an, and the government decree was not subordinate.

From south to north, from east to west, the war swept through most of the Han Kingdom. Under the starry sky of the Three Kingdoms, rivers of blood flow, and people who die in war every year: the white embroidered pig sneaks by. I still owe a few chapters......

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