Chapter 426: Taxation
Fear?
Because they are afraid, they just blindly hide and hide, and they will die sooner or later on this fearful word.
In the past few years, many people have poured into Liangzhou, and most of them are vendors.
Many of them are their fellow countrymen, maybe it's because they're nearby, or maybe it's because they're looking at He Yuanling.
The years of coming and going have already made them bold, and the local government has also seen the sweetness, and even the checkpoints have relaxed a little.
I just received a letter from the third brother three days ago, and the person has arrived.
Shen Boqing had wanted to come for a long time, but he didn't get away with the chores all these years.
When he didn't come, he thought that his sister and brother-in-law had a lot of inconveniences and sufferings here, and when he arrived in person, he realized that maybe he was thinking too much.
Although my sister has been writing from home over the years, she hasn't seen anyone after all, so where can the family really rest assured of him.
Fortunately, in the past two years, the trade routes have been opened, and it has become more convenient for them to send letters back and forth, and he has come to see them on behalf of the whole family.
Two nieces and a nephew, the younger one has never seen each other, and the two older ones are almost impossible to remember.
When he saw it with his own eyes, he didn't recognize it, and in his memory they were all the same as when they were children, and they had long since opened up over the years, and they changed every year.
Last time, he also sent a letter back to show off, saying that the three children called him uncle when they saw him, which made him and his eldest brother envious.
That kid was in the wilderness outside, and his father and mother asked him to go back and discuss the marriage, but he had no intention of going back now.
What he says is up to his parents.
No one is at home, so it's hard for his father to marry him a daughter-in-law and leave it at home.
I wondered if he had a happy girl in Beijing, but he shouldn't ask him anything, and finally his father wrote to the uncle to ask, and the uncle also said no.
is a young man in his twenties, and he doesn't even have a partner to marry, so he is so anxious that his father and mother are restless, and they think he is in a physical deficit?
This time, he came to see his sister's family, and he was also asked by the whole family to ask his sister, did Bo Cheng mention anything to her?
After all, their sister and brother have had a better relationship since they were children, and I think he might have told Hua Rou.
However, when he came, Lingcheng was not peaceful, and the family didn't even have the opportunity to sit together for a meal, and Shen Huarou was afraid that he would be implicated if he stayed too long, so she let him leave.
I don't have a chance to ask what I want to say.
Shen Boqing came, and their family was able to sit together to eat and talk peacefully, and they were reunited after many years, and He Yuanling also indulged in a drink with him.
If it weren't for the third uncle coming, He Yuanling wouldn't have found such a good opportunity to drink.
Shen Huarou thought that he would mention the matter of the assassination, but it didn't.
Shen Boqing stayed in Lingcheng for ten days, and as soon as he left on the front foot, Shen Bocheng's letter from the back foot arrived.
I have to think about it, how much Shen Bocheng wants to avoid this question.
Shen Bocheng went to northern Hebei and met Han Fei and Xie Shifeng.
He said that he would stay in northern Hebei for a while, and then go for a walk with Xie Shifeng.
Now, I don't know when I'll be back.
I don't know if he sent a letter to his family, so Shen Huarou immediately wrote a letter to ask people to catch up with the third brother quickly.
The messenger came back with only one sentence for her: Got it.
Well, anyway, she can't manage it if she wants to.
After the New Year, I heard that King An wanted to go to Qingzhou to help, but this time he really couldn't sit still.
I don't know if he really had water in his head, and he actually sent a will to Lingcheng, asking He Yuanling to lead 80,000 troops to Qingzhou?
How to get there? Is it Jingzhou or a detour from Luojing?
He Yuanling didn't go, and bluntly said that the foreign tribes in the west were eyeing each other, and if 80,000 soldiers and horses were taken away, the rest would be old, weak, sick and disabled, and they couldn't resist it.
Then another decree came: Liangzhou has always been garrisoned by 350,000 soldiers and horses, why can't it be in your hands?
Bah! The strong are the same as the weak.
Anyway, Luojing has no soldiers and horses, and Yangzhou has no soldiers and horses, so do you have to give up the near and far?
Not going is not going.
Only two days later, another decree came, and the one who came to think of it had trouble sleeping and eating for two days.
He was ordered to lead his troops to the border of Yongzhou, so that they would threaten King An and make him consciously retreat from Yanzhou.
has already refused, this time He Yuanling can only copy, but he didn't go in person.
In less than half a month before and after, He Yuanling received a letter from King An.
Probably it means that he should not be nosy, he likes to guard Liangzhou, and King An can let him guard Liangzhou all the time.
Anyway?
The court asked him to bring troops and didn't say that he wanted to fight, so let's do it first, wait for the will.
He Yuanling didn't reply to King An, but the soldiers and horses didn't have more at the Yongzhou border.
When everyone thought that King An would return to Yongdi, no one thought that he would turn his head and force Luo Jing directly.
People's hearts are inevitably selfish, and when they choose between their soldiers and other people's soldiers, he naturally does not want his soldiers to go to war.
Half a month later, Luo Jing was in a hurry, and He Yuanling sent Qian Xin and Chang Yuanwei to lead 30,000 troops to rescue.
Before he got to the place, he came back again, and King An didn't really plan to attack Luojing, so he turned back to Yongdi with a false shot.
It felt like a cat teasing a mouse, and when he saw that the mouse was frightened, he retreated and left laughing.
The imperial court did not order him to withdraw his troops, so he let the soldiers and horses be stationed on the border of Yongzhou and practice horse running every day.
Today's trend is no longer something that Shen Huarou can follow, and the chess game has long been messed up.
In my previous life, this was the most chaotic time, and I continued to fight for years.
The temporary peace of mind is all an illusion.
And they've been in the game all the time.
No matter whether King An and the court fought or not, and when they fought, they were all caught in the middle.
God also seemed to be teasing everyone, thinking that the saber rattling was tense but embarrassingly maintaining the balance, and no one took the initiative to break it for a while.
Don't want to, that's it?
Far from that, everyone has a string in their head, waiting for whoever breaks the string first.
The plague in Yanzhou stopped, and the imperial court allocated disaster relief funds and food to the coastal areas of Qingzhou in Yanzhou.
Where does all this come from? All other states and counties have raised their taxes.
In the past, when King Liang was there, he asked for tax reductions every year, but in the last two years, it was reduced.
Because of these two percent, how many families will be killed?
Even if it can be replaced with silver money, how many people have enough surplus food and money in their homes to pay taxes?
It's just that this tax increase has made Liangzhou accumulate at least two years into water, and it has to start all over again.
The tax money and grain were collected, and all the account books were handed over to He Yuanling.
Looking at the numbers above, He Yuanling didn't want to hand it over.
He lifted the pen and put it down, and when he lifted it again, a cloud of ink dripped down the account book, and it blurred.