As soon as October passed, the weather quickly turned cold, and the north wind howled all day long.

The Black Cloud Army took turns to rest for two months, and then started a new round of winter hunting.

Li Yue also took the soldiers to the newly hunted yellow mutton, green onions, leek mushrooms, and antique soup in Wang Meng's mansion.

Antique soup is a hot pot, named after the sound of "clattering" when food is put into boiling water, and it was used in the Warring States period.

Shihu built Yecheng greatly, built a large area of Taiguan Garden for greenhouse planting, covered with houses on the acre, lit a warm fire day and night, and waited for the warm air to be born, planting vegetables.

Li Yue reduced the scale and planted twenty or thirty acres, so that he could eat some vegetables in winter.

"Since there is a bumper harvest this year, Your Highness should reduce taxes, and the people will work hard to cultivate it next year." Wang Meng took a chopstick and cut thin mutton, put it in the kettle, scalded it, and put it in his mouth.

"Is Jingluo going to be light?" Li Yue looked at the boiling mutton fat in the kettle, but unfortunately there was no chili, pepper was a super luxury in this era, and it had to be transported from the Western Regions.

However, soy sauce has already appeared, sprinkled with peppercorns, ginger, fennel, chopped green onions, pure natural lamb and green vegetables, and dipped in it, it is extremely delicious.

"If you want to rest with the people and increase the population, you must lightly pay for the small endowment, the population of the country today is more than 7.32 million, the court has enough utensils, the treasury is full, when the people's hearts are collected, the Central Plains will be reduced, it will be able to attract the people of Yan, Qin and Jin, and the Liang will become stronger and stronger!" Wang Meng wiped the oil and water from his mouth.

The Liang state had one advantage over its other states - it did not need to support the clan.

The Murong clan, the Fu clan, and the Sima clan all had a large number of clans, which seriously consumed national strength and increased the burden on the people.

However, many clans are definitely not satisfied with just eating the country's money, but also fighting for power and profit.

Liang Guo is completely free from this burden.

Li Yue gave birth to four more sons and two daughters this year, but unfortunately one died young, the eldest one babbled, the younger one was still in infancy, and there was not much use in the palace.

In the past 20 years or so, wars, famines, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters have alternated, and the whole country has been very frugal.

Today's meal is not a luxury.

Ordinary soldiers' homes can also get a meal from time to time, if you want to talk about luxury, it's just these greenhouse vegetables.

"How much is appropriate?" Li Yue also agreed with the reduction.

When the pressure on the people is reduced, the population will come up, and when the population increases, the number of people who pay taxes will also increase, and a lot of barren land can be reclaimed.

Don't look at the development of the Central Plains for so many years, in fact, there are still many places that are no man's land.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was no one for thousands of miles and no roosters crowing for hundreds of miles, and there is no fundamental relief until now.

The main population is insufficient, so from the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qiang, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups have been moved inward, and Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou have been reduced to Hu land step by step, and the Wuhu chaos is inevitable.

A simple truth, the more people there are, the more territory can be occupied.

There is no doubt that increasing the population is a long-term national policy, and all dynasties have encouraged childbearing.

"The ministers thought that it was appropriate for the soldiers and the people to pay ten taxes, two common people's taxes, three servants' taxes, and six slave taxes." Wang Meng swallowed a large mouthful of vegetable mushrooms, probably a little hot, and hurriedly took a sip of wine.

"Yes!" Li Yue nodded, this matter still has to be discussed with Chang Wei, and then it will be carried out by Shang Shutai.

When Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was at his best, the whole country was exempted from field taxes, and the taxes of the Han Dynasty were generally about one or twenty taxes in the fifteenth and twenty years.

The Liang State had a large number of official slaves and official tuntian, and the ten taxes had little impact on the national strength.

In this era, it is not only taxes but also labor that weigh on the people.

Whenever the imperial court built a large construction project or launched a major war, it would requisition the people on a large scale.

Shi Hu mutilated the people of China, relying on this method, I don't know how many dry bones were buried under Yecheng.

However, in the Liang State, this was not too much of a problem, and the conscription was basically borne by slaves.

Li Yue was not interested in the palace either, only during the war, he requisitioned the people to deliver grain and grass.

"I don't know how the battle between the Yao clan and the Fu clan is on?" After talking about political affairs for such a long time, Wang Meng was a little tired and changed the topic.

Li Yue smiled bitterly, "What else?" Yao Xiang couldn't attack for a long time, Fu Jian became more and more courageous, and Fu Sheng transferred three support troops from the country. ”

Now it seems that the decline of the Yao clan is not unreasonable.

There is an opportunity, there are troops, as long as you cross the Yellow River and enter Guanzhong, it will be a situation where all calls are answered.

But he was blocked in Kasaka and couldn't get an inch.

"Yao Xiang has no chance, this battle will be lost, His Royal Highness can prepare for the future." Wang Meng's heart was straightforward, and he raised the wine bottle to respect.

Li Yue picked up the wine bottle, a little crying and laughing, but he also understood what he meant, "Gao Yun is in Baibo Valley, you can collect Hedong, Xu Cheng is in Yi County, you can collect Hongnong." ”

Yao Xiang can't fight, but his reputation is surprisingly big, and he raised his arms in Hedong, and the responders gathered, and there were more than 100,000 people under his command, and they had grown into a piece of fat.

Wang Meng laughed, "Haha, it turns out that His Royal Highness is not optimistic about Yao Xiang either. ”

"Lone Gui persuaded him many times and asked him to endure for a year or two, but he couldn't wait, this battle made Fu Jian rise."

Although the trajectory of history has changed, the inertia is still there.

Even if there is no Fu Jian, the Guanzhong Hao chieftains will support another Fu clan.

Li Yue didn't bother to the heart of the west, as long as he annexed the Murong clan, the Fu clan couldn't fly into the palm of his hand.

Eating and drinking, talking about some state affairs and strange news, time passed in a flash, and Li Yue got up and said goodbye.

The efficiency of the court was extremely high, and the matter of reducing the tax quickly passed through the Shangshutai.

It will come into force next year.

After the edict was issued, Yecheng was jubilant, and Li Yue sat in the Tongque Terrace, and could still hear the faint sound of "Long live King Liang".

In the past 30 years, in addition to Shile, the Liang family has been the only one who has lightly endowed the people in the northern country.

Chang Wei said with a smile: "His Royal Highness's light and meager behavior has won the hearts of the people, and after today, the orthodoxy of Jiangdong will be greatly weakened!" ”

People are realistic, and when Shi Le lightly paid for his meager endowment, the people of the northern country joined one after another.

If you want to keep people's hearts, you must give sincerity.

Li Yue remembered that in the history of the two Song Dynasty, the northern people would rather prostrate under the rule of Liaojin than belong to the Song Dynasty, in the final analysis, it was still a matter of taxation.

"Jiangdong is not so strong, but it is not so weak, after Huan Wen took power, isn't he also promoting Gengxu Tu Xuan?"

The heroes see the same thing, the Liang State innovates and changes, and other forces are also following suit.

Yan has Murong Ke and Yuewan, and Jiangdong has Huan Wen, which is quite powerful.

Counties and counties of overseas Chinese were abolished, household registration was checked, and overseas Chinese were included in local household registration and were subject to taxes and forced labor.

In Huiji County alone, more than 30,000 households have died.

At the same time, Huan Wen was selfless and severely punished the nobles of the clan for occupying the population, and Sima Xuan, the king of Pengcheng, was questioned by Huan Wen's court lieutenant for hiding five households of displaced people for violating the ban.

For a time, the Jiangdong clan was terrified.

It can be said that Jiangdong is in the hands of Huan Wen, sweeping away the black smoke and miasma since Wang Xie Xunyin, which is quite cheering.

The Jin army was also expanded, recruiting a large number of "Beiling" and using brave and good fighters as generals.

(End of chapter)