As the meeting ended, Liu Tai's entire administrative apparatus began to work.

First of all, Cao Wei became the assassin of Youzhou, and he completed the cutting with Guo Pu, who was responsible for continuing to widen the river from Bohai Bay to Linzi.

Cao Wei began to build Jinkou on the basis of the prisoners and retired soldiers of Wang Jun's army, as for the canal from Jinkou to Youzhou City, naturally need some knowledgeable people to be responsible for survey and planning, and have not yet started directly.

Therefore, Cao Wei first went to build the city of Jinkou and completed the preliminary planning.

Originally, Cao Wei built this small city of Jinkou with a population of 50,000, but Liu Tai thought about it and felt that the city was likely to become the economic center of the north after the canal was opened, so he asked Cao Wei to build it with a population of 200,000.

Cao Wei expressed doubts that Jinkou would become such a big city, but he believed that Liu Tai's vision also chose to do it.

Liu Tai knew that until now, there had never really been a city with a recorded population of one million in the whole world.

However, in the end, the productive forces are developing, and Youzhou and Jinkou, the prototypes of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic circle, will definitely accommodate a population of more than one million people in the future.

It's just that because of the troubled times and the displacement of the people, the population is a little sparse.

But over time, it shouldn't be difficult for the population to recover to around two million.

In contrast, his own Qingzhou even includes Taishan County, if he hadn't insisted on letting Zhang Song continue to buy population, I'm afraid that there is still a distance from two million people!

At this moment, Cao Wei sent people to many counties to start recruiting people, and some people directly pulled the banner of "Bao Bao", the world's most appealing banner, to tempt the people of this era.

At this time, those people who have land and land will naturally ignore this, after all, no matter what signboard Cao Wei plays, it is not as practical for them as the fields that their families are still cultivating.

In particular, the government rented a large number of iron farm tools, and for the local people, there was no reason to give up spring plowing and go to work in Jinkou.

But in this world, not to mention those wealthy families who encroached on a large number of fields, even if the middle class with only a few acres of land was not the majority in this troubled era, but more tenant farmers who had no houses and no land.

Especially after Wang Jun's defeat, the pillars of the family either became deserters or were captured, and the family members had to find a way to survive.

Therefore, Cao Wei began to fight for this group of people, and this group of people finally fell into the trouble of happiness at this time:

"Do you go to help the wealthy family with spring ploughing, or go to work with Cao Wei and have a bag to eat and live!"

I had never seen such a good life in my life, and for a time the tenant farmers and the scoundrels who had nothing were troubled by choice.

The vast majority of tenant farmers still chose to stay in their hometowns and continue to honestly help the wealthy families of the noble clan to cultivate spring farming.

After all, in any era, people leave their hometowns, as long as they can have a way to live locally, then who wants to leave their hometowns!

Under such circumstances, Cao Wei's recruitment effect cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said that it still needs to be popularized over time.

Liu Tai did not urge Cao Wei to build Jinkou quickly, but just asked Cao Wei to build the dock and port first, and first open up the channel from Youzhou to Qingzhou, so that the materials in the two places can be smoothly turned, which is the right thing.

I have to mention that even if Liu Tai completely occupied Youzhou and Jizhou this time, Liu Tai did not cancel the city gate fees of the two places.

Therefore, ordinary people are still confused at this time, and they don't feel the slightest opportunity to change their fate.

But businessmen with a keen sense of smell, they found that from Youzhou to Qingzhou, if they passed through Jizhou, not to say that Jizhou had just fought a big war, deserters fled everywhere, and no one dared to guarantee the safety of their journey.

But taking the waterway is different, not only can it be more guaranteed in terms of safety, but it must also be worth mentioning, and even the city gate fee that needs to be paid through each county magistrate, as well as the various food and card requirements of the city gate order, seem to be avoided.

Smelling business opportunities for a while, businessmen began to pour into this small city, which could not be regarded as built.

As long as the gourd is tied to his body, even if he accidentally hits the reef or encounters turbulence and causes the boat to capsize, the things may be gone, but at least he can pick up a life.

To be honest, this waterway is generally only used by merchants, and there are only two kinds of boats for merchants.

One is a relatively rare large ship with a sealed cabin and damage management personnel, even if it hits the rocks, at least it can drive to the shore.

The other is a civilian boat of the type of one-leaf flat boat, so no one dares to guarantee that it will be able to sail to the other side alive.

After all, as long as there is a gust of wind at sea, maybe the things on your ship will completely capsize under a gust of wind.

But even so, after Cao Wei built a dock and built a dock, small private docks sprung up one by one as if after a rain.

No one encouraged this to go from Youzhou to Qingzhou before, and there was no corresponding infrastructure along the way.

For example, ports, houses, food, manpower, etc., are indispensable for merchants.

But now, all the docks that Liu Tai built on the shore can be converted from military to civilian use, and supporting facilities have been quickly set up in coastal prefectures and counties.

The merchants calculated a little the speed of their own exchanges, and then the cost of their own exchanges.

Compared to the risk posed by the Bohai Sea itself, or the small probability of one's own cargo capsizing in the seawater......

As a qualified businessman, what risk should you not take for the sake of profit?

As a businessman with the most sensitive sense of smell, one by one began to desperately want to eat a profit.

"With the help of the port, these businessmen directly arrived in Qingzhou, allowing Jizhou to escape a lot of taxes!" Cao Wei frowned a little and said, "Zhang Song sent me a document because of this incident, and asked me to severely crack down on these merchants who go by sea!" ”

Liu Tai did not feel surprised when he heard this, because it is unrealistic for the merchant class to let them spend a lot of money to invest in infrastructure, because it is not in line with the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, and even big businessmen may not be able to keep such profits.

And the infrastructure can only be led by the government, from the construction of ships to the exploration of shipping lanes, from the construction of dockyards to port facilities.

At least in this era, these things need to be invested by the government, and when the basic investment is built and the businessmen see that it is profitable, they will come to take advantage of the state.

In fact, it is not only now that Cao Wei built Jinkou and built a wharf and dock, so it attracts merchants.

Even in modern society, as long as a road is repaired, the government has not yet stated that the road can be opened to traffic, but often the road has been driven and flying, and anyone wants to take advantage.

And the same is true of Cao Wei's current port, as long as you build some infrastructure, then the merchants of this era will definitely come over to take advantage.

Not to mention that if the cost of freight and time is greatly reduced by shipping than by land, it is strange that these businessmen do not choose this route.

"Well, after the merchants chose to take the waterway, Jizhou was originally used as a transit station between Youzhou and Qingzhou, so it will naturally suffer a little, which is determined by geographical advantages!"

Liu Tai was not surprised by this, and said to Cao Wei, "In the future, all ships that sail must first go to the port to count the goods, and all the goods are put into boxes of uniform specifications, and then collect taxes according to the boxes."

In order to facilitate the calculation, it will be one cubic meter, and as for the specific fee, you will work out a unified specification.

As long as they paid the tax, they were given a flag and a bill for the goods to ensure their safety in the Bohai Sea.

After the flag is docked, it will be recovered, and after the toll bill arrives, let people count the goods again to see if there is any entrainment on the road! ”

Because Liu Tai made a column of mercury from mercury and winter ice, he has made the unit of centimeter.

The kilogram is calculated through the density conversion of water, so Liu Taijun's unit of measurement has been unified by Liu Tai into meters and kilograms.

"Those who don't buy and sell our flags, do you need me to find someone to be them!?"

Cao Wei heard Liu Tai's words, but at this time, he couldn't help but have his eyes shining.

Obviously, no matter how self-cultivation this guy Cao Wei is, but the guy who followed Wang Mi to raise troops has a few good goods, and doing this kind of black work is really self-taught, and it is thorough at all.

"Uncle Cao, we are officials now, don't do such a tasteless thing!" Liu Tai looked at Cao Wei and said,

"You arrange for people to keep an eye on these guys who haven't paid the money, and if they get on the boat, they should hurry up and inform Tian Yu to maintain the waterway.

Ships that do not issue our flags are not under our protection, and if they are carrying non-prohibited goods, they will be arrested on charges of tax evasion and smuggling, the goods will be confiscated, and people can be released.

If you transport goods that are expressly forbidden, you will directly encircle and suppress them in the name of rebellion! ”

Liu Tai looked at Cao Wei and said, "All in all, we need to make sure that only our people can sail on this part of the Bohai Sea, and if others want to evade taxes, they will be our enemies, and we must not let them go!" ”

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Cao Wei nodded, indicating that he knew what to do.

However, Cao Wei spoke: "This matter involves Qingzhou, should a special agency be set up to manage the affairs of the states?" ”

"Then let's establish a city division and hang it under the name of the sailor, after all, the sailor is needed to patrol, fight smuggling, and maintain the waterway.

A quarter of the money and grain obtained by the city shipping department was handed over, a quarter was used to supply the ships that the sailors were constantly changing ships, a quarter was used for the construction of the Jinkou and the North Canal, and the remaining quarter was used for the city shipping division itself! Liu Taidao.

Cao Wei thought about it for a while and didn't think there was anything wrong with it, after all, the navy is different from the army, and the training cost of the navy is really much higher than that of the army.

And having a city shipping department that specializes in supplying the treasury of the navy can also make the navy more active in fighting smuggling and opening up shipping routes.

Now there is a municipal department specializing in civil affairs for cross-state coordination, which will be relatively more relaxed and convenient to deal with affairs.

I have to say that after having Liu Tai's opinion, Cao Wei immediately took action.

After all, he has built a city from scratch, so as long as he finds the right direction, Cao Wei's action is beyond doubt.

Not to mention that the city of Jinkou has not yet been completely built, but there has been an entry, and maybe even a large part of the cost of this section of the canal from Youzhou to Jinkou will be able to be paid in the future.

It can be said that with the establishment of the city's shipping division, Cao Wei's spiritual strength has completely risen.

His Jinkou City naturally began to work in full swing, and with this period of precipitation, the time slowly passed the spring ploughing, and as the busiest period passed, the family and the wealthy family no longer needed so many tenants to help.

These tenants, who had eaten the last meal but did not eat the next meal, might have fared better if they had been recruited as slaves by the family or the wealthy family.

But the problem is that now this land is under Liu Tai's control, and Liu Tai does not object to the family and the wealthy family recruiting slaves, nor does he propose that everyone is equal.

Liu Tai is just simply dying to ask for money and collect taxes!

As long as you hire a slave and don't serve in the court, you're taxed!

To be honest, they gritted their teeth at Wang Jun when Wang Jun was there, but now that Liu Tai is here, they find that they are not as good as Wang Jun!

At least Wang Jun won't collect any conscription tax and Qiantian tax, but now Liu Tai wants to collect taxes at every turn!

"Since Han Gaozu opened up the Han Dynasty, where there is a reason that the scholars have to collect taxes if they hire a servant!"

"The Eastern Han Dynasty may be sorry for the relatives, the people, the eunuchs, and the clan, but at least they are not sorry for the scholars.

The Shi clan chose to be attached in the face of Cao Wei's hegemony, and the Sima clan chose to be the emperor of the same stream, you say, what is the use of your family inheritance.

So from now on, the scholars will collect taxes, and if you don't accept it, try whether the sword in my hand is sharp or not! ”

In the face of Liu Tai's vicious words, these wealthy families all chose to stop fighting.

Even if you grit your teeth, you should pay taxes, and you still have to pay taxes.

In contrast, Liu Tai's decision had little impact on the people at the bottom and Liu Tai's army.

Because the people at the bottom can clearly feel that with the arrival of Liu Tai, the society has become stable, and even as long as they are willing to work hard, they can survive to move bricks for Cao Wei, and they can even get a few cents more than they used to be tenants for the wealthy family.

For the army, being able to become a member of the army is the ladder for the vast majority of ordinary people in Youzhou.

Because the most direct thing is that in addition to the army having the best food, the most important thing is to give the land directly to those of you who have families.

Fifty acres of ripe land or one hundred acres of reclamation quota, either for the people of Youzhou, it is enough to make them crazy.

After becoming a government soldier, those who still wanted to progress even more stubbornly took the Hanshu in their hands to read it, and asked for advice from the military history more diligently.

Because they also want to become a tun commander, or a centurion, and become the backbone of the middle level.

So in the face of the support of Liu Tai from the bottom, the wealthy family gritted their teeth, but looking at the surrounding forces, no one dared to stir up trouble.

What can I do, I can only accept Liu Tai's policy!

(End of chapter)