Wang Wei stretched out his hand and patted Chu Kun's shoulder, and said earnestly: "There will be pot helmets, and there will be ordnance, take your time, Mr. The first task now is to make money, and all affairs can only be done on the premise of money." ”

Speaking of money, Chu Kun has a lot of bitter water to pour: "Duwei, when it comes to money, I have to report to you." The total number of households in our three cities is only 5,000, the population does not exceed 30,000, and the vast majority of them are agricultural and animal husbandry population, and the taxes they pay every year are converted into money, which is only 100 million yuan, which is not enough even for the expenses of the western governor's office. It's hard for a strong man. ”

100 million yuan, it sounds like a lot, but when converted into silver money, it is only 100,000 yuan, 100,000 taels of silver, and 10,000 taels of gold. Moreover, since the three cities of the Western Governor's Mansion are all taxes in kind, the situation of this tax will fluctuate greatly.

For example, the cattle, sheep, horses, camels, donkeys and mules handed over by herdsmen will certainly not be slaughtered, but will be leased to farmers for farming, or dairy products will be produced and distributed to officials as welfare. Sheep can be sold in exchange for money, but this item fluctuates greatly, and sheep can also be issued to officials as welfare, as for whether to eat meat or produce milk, it is not up to Wang Rong to have the final say.

Horses, donkeys and mules are military supplies, and they must be sent to the army when they are collected, and when Wumo collected war horses, he promised the herdsmen that this was their tax for a year, and it was because of this that he was able to collect horses so smoothly, and in this way, he could not collect only 300 qualified war horses.

Camels were a much-needed livestock for caravans traveling through the Western Regions, especially the Bactrian camel, which was the most popular. This four-hoofed cute, often spitting out people's faces, is large in size and has a fat storage hump, adapted to long-term life in the desert, and is the most reliable companion of the caravan in the Western Regions.

Wang Wei looked at Chu Kun's sad face, and said to the sledgehammer: "You have also watched it for a few days, and you understand how to train, so you will continue to train the villagers, and I will come over at any time to check it." By the way, add a subject in the evening, literacy, everyone has to participate, and you are no exception. ”

Wang Rong's biggest hobby now is to teach these village soldiers to read and write, and those who don't study seriously and can't learn will be punished, such as jumping around the school yard frog ten times or something.

"Whoa! Captain, I know about it. Sledgehammer said with a bitter face, he is the head of the township corps, and he has been punished for jumping ten times for two days in a row.

Wang Bian took Chu Kun back to the Western Governor's Mansion, sat on the main seat, Wang Bian spread out a roll of paper and began to write on it:

First of all, the three cities persuaded the farmers to teach mulberry and urged reeling and weaving, and in the three cities of the Western Governor's Mansion, the cultivation of mulberry trees was very little, but not none, and the reclamation of new land was the first of many affairs. In addition to the lack of money, the Western Governor's Mansion also lacked food.

In order to alleviate the economic burden on farmers and herdsmen, Wang Rong decided to cancel cattle rent. Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the imperial court has leased cultivated cattle to use with the common people and collect rental fees. And the most pitiful thing is that after the cattle died of old age, this tax has not decreased, but has always been there. Wang Rong's decision to abolish cattle rent was to arouse the enthusiasm of peasant households in reclaiming wasteland and cultivating intensively.

Then, Wang Rong abolished the old tuntian affairs in the three cities. The old tuntian affairs belonged to the institutions directly managed by the government, and since the abandonment of the county system of Shuofang County, the tuntian affairs have been inactive, and the field affairs have been rotten to the roots.

Tuntian began in the period of Qin Shi Huangdi, and the war between Qin and the Xiongnu was protracted and faced with the problem of lack of grain and grass. "The first emperor made Meng Tian to send 100,000 people to attack Hu in the north, and learned that the south of the river was blocked, and built forty-four county seats, near the river, and it was suitable to fill it."

Since then, Tuntian has been customized and managed by the government, and is divided into two types: Mintun and Juntun.

Mintun is a tun with 50 people, and the peasants of Mintun are free to apply, and set up the main envoy of Tuntian and the deputy envoy of Tuntian, which are subordinate to the county. The harvest of Tuntian is divided with the government: those who use official cattle are divided between the government and the people; Those who use private cattle are divided between the government and the people in half, and the peasants are not allowed to leave the tuntian casually.

The army is tun with soldiers, with 60 people as a tun, and the Sima is placed in the tun, and the lieutenant of the pawn farmer, the captain of the pawn farmer, and the lieutenant general of the pawn farmer. The soldiers of Tuntian defended the fields while guarding the fields, and paid a share of the land rent, so that they could cultivate their own land and produce the food they needed.

There are two types of military tuns: one is in the field of soldiers in service, which is cultivated as appropriate, and cultivated and defended. The other is the Shijia Tuntian, which includes the families of conscripts and reserve soldiers who have not yet been transferred.

Both the Mintun and the Juntun have played an important role in relocating displaced people, reclaiming wasteland, and restoring agricultural production.

But as time went on, the exploitation of the tuntian became more and more severe. The proportion of the government in the distribution ratio has gradually increased, and some crazy people can actually reach 80% of the government and 20% of the people of Tuntian. The peasants were tied to the land, their identities were not free, and their enthusiasm for production was seriously dampened; The Tuntian soldiers were even more difficult, not only enslaved by their superiors, but also faced war. At the same time, the land of Tuntian was constantly seized by the family gatekeepers, which directly destroyed the Tuntian system.

The consequence of this situation is the abandonment of a large amount of land and a serious decline in food production. At the same time, the serious exploitation directly caused the people of Tuntian and the soldiers to flee and resist.

Wang Rong did not follow the example of the city to return the land to the government, the situation is different, if all the land in the three cities is returned to the government, then the landlords of the three cities will be boiling, and the western governor's mansion will be directly tossed by these people.

Wang Rong first divided the nomadic pastures for the herdsmen in the three cities, and then allowed the farmers to take possession of the land and houses they had built, but they had to register with the government. The last is to change the agricultural tax system, which must be done, Wang Rong will cancel all the miscellaneous taxes, and then according to the measured land for taxation, all landlords who have land ownership need to pay taxes, more land, less land, prohibit arbitrary abandonment.

The last was Wang Rong's reform of the commercial tax, and the three cities and two fortresses under the jurisdiction of the Western Governor's Mansion were the only way for the Guanzhong caravan and the grassland caravan, and Wang Rong's method of taxation for the caravan was to abolish the customs duty, and take one-tenth of the value of the traded goods as the commercial tax, while retaining the municipal tax.

As for the salt, iron, and mines, this was a project that Wang Rong had prepared for the official camp, and he did not intend to hand over such heavy weapons to private individuals.

What Wang Wei wrote made Chu Kun refreshed, he really didn't expect that this young lieutenant would know these things. He carefully looked at the entries listed by Wang Rong, analyzing them while reading, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became.

Chu Kun's eyes revealed a fine light, and he was both surprised and a little worried about Wang Rong's policy: "Duwei, this strategy is feasible, but it will inevitably make some people dissatisfied and take action." DO YOU INTEND ... ”

Wang Wei looked at Chu Kun and said seriously: "Since it is a policy promulgated by the government, of course, it is necessary for everyone to know and understand the content of it, and to be able to cooperate well with the government's implementation." If someone knows both the government's policies and the government's policies, but is still unwilling to cooperate with the government's implementation, then they are against the government. Mr. Chu, for those who oppose the government, my Dayong law has punishments, so I don't need to explain this in detail. ”

When Chu Kun heard Wang Rong's words, he felt a wave of slander in his heart, this big hat is really big, and he is against the government, isn't that a rebellion against the court? To put it simply, it is treason. This young lieutenant has a very poisonous mind.