Chapter 113: Qi Civil Strife
After moving the capital to Jinling, the land around Jinling City was in ruins, and the population who moved in from Chu a few years ago also settled down completely after eight years of running-in, and this year is the first year for these people to pay taxes normally.
After eight years of recuperation, these people who migrated from Chu have already taken root in the Huai Kingdom. After several years of tax exemption and half tax concessions, almost every household has accumulated a lot of wealth. Life was much better than when he was in Chu, and the price of salt in Huai was cheaper.
The reason why Chu was reluctant to give some of the Ba State to the Qin State back then was because the Ba State had well salt.
In the Jinling Palace, Wang Qi is listening to the report on this year's tax situation with the ministers. Watching the clerk summarize the taxes in various places and sort them out by category, Wang Qi couldn't help laughing heartily.
"Your Majesty, this tax has increased by one-third compared to last year, and more than doubled compared to before the war." The clerk said excitedly.
"Hahaha, Huai has the prosperity it has today, thanks to the concerted efforts of all the monarchs!" Wang Qi laughed.
Everyone said: "This is the king's way of governing the country, the heavens are sheltering, and the Huai country is smooth in the wind and rain, so that there is a great rule of the Huai country, and we are just doing our duty as a minister, and we have a small merit!"
"The monarchs are too modest, if this deed, if it is a small duty, the countries of Bangzhou will not be what they are now." Wang Qi said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, this tax increase is due to the fact that the migrating population has started to pay taxes normally, and although the tax will increase next year, it will not increase so much." Wu Zixu next to him reminded.
Wang Qi nodded and said, "Gu understands, and he won't blame the officials for this."
"Dr. Wu is too worried, and the minister guesses that next year's tax will also increase significantly." Fan Li next to him said with a smile.
Seeing everyone's eyes, Fan Li chuckled and said, "Qingmiao Loan."
"Since the implementation of the Seedlings Loan, many people have borrowed money to reclaim wasteland, and next year, the first batch of reclaimed fields will start to pay taxes."
Since the implementation of the green seedling loan, many problems have arisen, and there are many grassroots officials who have taken advantage of it to make profits. Many grassroots officials directly brought the money and grain allocated by the state directly to the local heroes, and then the heroes took the money and grain to lend to the people at higher interest rates.
Then, after the people repay the loans to the local heroes, the heroes will return the money and grain allocated by the state with interest. It seems that the loan issued by the state has been recovered, the officials below have overfulfilled their tasks, the people have also got loans to tide over the difficulties, and the heroes have made a profit, and no one seems to have lost.
But what was the original intention of the BIBS Loan? It is to reduce the burden of the people and let the people tide over the difficulties, or to help the people expand production and reclaim wasteland, and to make profits for the people.
No, there are some differences, and the state has received some benefits through the Seedlings Loan. The heroes and the powerful empty gloves white wolves, without paying anything, earned high profits, and then distributed the profits twenty-eight.
And when the profits are distributed, thirty percent will be handed over to the state, and seventy percent will be returned to Haoqiang. Don't think it's less, that's it, giving you 30% in the eyes of those heroes is already a great face.
After inspecting the imperial history and exploring it many times, Wang Qi directly sent a large army to uproot these heroes and officials together, and then threw them to Wu Zixu to build Jinling City.
After several years of governance, Wang Qi killed a lot of people, and even the inspection of the imperial history was ordered by him to execute a few, so that the Qingmiao loan was carried out according to his will.
The emergence of the green seedling loan has reduced the burden of the people, and at the same time, many people have the ability to reclaim wasteland. According to the situation reported by local officials in recent years, tens of thousands of people borrow green seedlings to reclaim wasteland every year.
According to Fan Li's settlement, Huaiguo's taxes will also increase significantly next year.
"Fan Qing has worked hard to implement the Seedlings Loan!" Wang Qi happily pulled Fan Li and said with a smile: "Lone is just a middle-aged person, but it can create the current momentum of Huaiguo, all thanks to the assistance of Zhu Qing!"
Fan Li bowed his hand to Wang Qi in the second seat and said, "The king is favored by God, so he can have such an achievement. We can
It is because of the trust of the king that he has achieved what he has achieved now."
The implementation of the Seedlings Loan has greatly reduced the bankruptcy rate of small people, curbed the growth of private heroes, and made more people rich.
Huaiguo's Qingmiao loan was able to succeed, thanks to the cooperation of Wang Qi and Fan Li. Huaiguo's green seedling loan was successful, while another Qi country, which implemented green seedling loan, was different.
Since Fan Li's envoy to the State of Qi, the Marquis of Qi began to target the Tian family, and the Marquis of Qi worshiped Yan Ying as the prime minister, and then suppressed the Tian family.
Although the Qi State Office has experienced several civil strife and decay, it is still not something that the Tian family can fight against, plus Xiangguo Yan Ying, the Tian family is not an opponent at all. At the moment of crisis, the Tian clan co-opted some other families in the Qi State to confront the Qi State Office.
Qi Hou couldn't exterminate it for a while, and later in order to gain the support of those nobles, Qi Hou had to throw out the Qingmiao loan. So far, the green seedling loan has become a tool for the nobles to gain profits.
It really became a three-seven account, Qing Shihao forcibly accounted for seventy percent, and Qi Hou accounted for thirty percent. After getting the benefits of the Qingmiao loan, the Qingshi family began to support the Marquis of Qi, without the support of other nobles, although the Tian family hid a lot of strength, but it was still exterminated by the Marquis of Qi and the Minister of State, Yanzi, and the fief of the Tian family was also reclaimed.
This Tian rebellion lasted for several years, and the politics, economy, and agriculture of Qi were greatly affected, but after that, under the governance of Qi Hou and Yan Zi, Qi began to recover rapidly. In particular, the Qingmiao Loan, which was controlled by the nobles and nobles, although it could not bring too many benefits to the people, it also increased the tax revenue of Qi State a lot.
Although the goal of enriching the people was not achieved through the seedling loan, the goal of the rich country was achieved.
Wang Qi was not surprised by what happened in the Qi Kingdom. And even a lot of them are fueling the trouble.
As for why Wang Qi did not support the Tian clan to replace Jiang Qi's lineage, on the one hand, it was because of the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and on the other hand, because if the Tian clan succeeded in replacing the Jiang clan, the strength of the Qi State would be further improved.
After all, if the Tian clan succeeds, it is equivalent to an emerging prince. And as long as there are no accidents in those vassal states, the previous generations will be Ming monarchs, and the Qi country is thousands of miles away and has a population of two million, such a country, as long as the monarch is virtuous, it will rise soon, and a strong Qi country is not in the interests of the Huai State, so Wang Qi chose to help the Marquis of Qi.