Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 115 Entering Xiazhou (End)

In June [-]th of the third year of Zhonghe, Fuping County.

Shao Shude has just sent away Tian Congyi, the observation envoy of the Gyeonggi System.

Tian Congyi came to urge Xia Suijun to leave quickly.What a joke!Three thousand Yamen were stationed in Huayuan, three thousand were stationed in Tongguan, two thousand cavalry soldiers (including the "borrowed" Fufang Army cavalry) were stationed in Meiyuan, and the main force of the Tielin Army stayed in Fuping.It’s been more than two months since the local government has been supplying these uncles every day, so they won’t leave together, will they?
A few days ago, even the Hebei sergeant, who had just received his reward, left Tongguan and returned home. What is Xia Suijun still doing here?Could it be that they can't get entrenched?So Tian Congyi came over, wanting to inquire about the situation.

After learning that Xia Suijun stayed because of "insufficient food", Tian breathed a sigh of relief.But I am also a little angry, what do these military leaders think of Guanzhong?Randomly search for money and food.Just last month, the Zhongwu Army and other ministries guarding Chang'an were fighting for pay again, and almost robbed Chang'an again. In the end, they urgently transferred some money and food from Ji County to appease them.

Tian Congyi didn't say anything when he left Fuping, and he acquiesced in Xia Suijun's leaving after collecting food.Anyway, the Son of Heaven had a good time playing in Sichuan, and he didn't intend to return to Chang'an. Shao Shude would leave in a month at most, so why bother with him?

"Your Majesty, several counties have finished harvesting summer grain. Li Yanling has sent people to collect the agreed corn and wheat in each county, and transport them to Tongguan County for collection. In addition, Li Renjun has returned." Chen Cheng walked into the study and reported.

Li Renjun coaxed and deceived more than [-] households in several counties near Chang'an, and then transported them back to Suizhou together with the captives in the nest and rewards for food and grass.

This was the last time Shao Shude searched for manpower in Guanzhong.Now that the war is over, no one will follow you.Everyone felt that life had finally stabilized, agriculture and commerce began to recover slowly, and the desire to immigrate abroad was greatly reduced.

This year Suizhou opened 2500 hectares of fields, and the potential has almost been exhausted.Among these lands, 600 hectares have been allocated to military farms. So far, the farms have a total of 2000 hectares. Currently, there are about 900 captives in the nest farming the land. 1000 hectares were given to the sergeants, and each person received an additional 1500 mu of land. The entire army of the Iron Forest Army had [-] mu of land per person.The remaining [-] hectares were included in the prefecture, bringing the number of public lands in the prefecture to [-] hectares, all of which were temporarily leased to Guanzhong immigrants for cultivation.

On the whole, if you count the families of sergeants who migrated from other places one after another, the captives who were escorted back, and the Guanzhong households that attracted the past, Suizhou currently has a total population of more than 124000 people and more than 8800 hectares of land, which is almost close to the upper limit. up.

It is not impossible to continue to increase development efforts, but it is not necessary.The cost-effectiveness ratio of investment has begun to drop sharply. With this effort, it is better to shift the focus to Yinzhou, where the return on investment is quite high.The five counties in Suizhou should be left to the local people to develop themselves in the future, and they will get another [-] hectares of land if they are exhausted, but Shao Shude doesn't want to waste the money.

After less than three years of development, Suizhou has now become the number one economic center in Xiasui.The total number of Han people in the seven counties of Yinzhou and Xiazhou is only [-]% of that in the five counties of Suizhou.Regional development is seriously unbalanced, and it is time to slowly correct it.

"Tell Li Yanling, if you receive a batch, you will send a batch back. You don't have to wait. If you go to the territory of the Baosai Army, no one will dare to stop you." Shao Shude said: "By the way, 30 grains, 20 will be sent to Xiazhou, six Thousands of dendrobiums are sent to Suizhou, and [-] to Yinzhou, so that's about the arrangement."

It is really not so easy to transport 30 hu of grain.The Iron Forest Army won many victories and seized a large number of carriages and draft animals. However, these grains were transported several times, so time was very precious. Before the snow fell in winter, they could be transported almost twice, and it was quite reluctant.

The auxiliary soldiers on the left and right sides of the Ya Army were also mobilized, and even Li Xiaochang, the Baosai Army, received a request from Shao Shude to send someone to help with transportation. In short, he did everything possible to get the food away before the snow .

"Your Majesty, when the canals are opened in Yinzhou next year, there should be a lot of new fields, but there are no people to cultivate them, so what can I do?" Chen Cheng asked.

After Feng Xuan made the tea, she personally brought it to the courtyard.Seeing this, Chen Cheng hurriedly stood up, lowered his head, not daring to look directly.

Identity is different.In the past, she was just Feng Yin's concubine, but now she is the lord's concubine.And seeing how the lord dotes on the Feng sisters, Chen Chengcheng dare not neglect.

"Judge Chen is good at planning, and has repeatedly offered strategies to defeat the enemy. The king often relies on it. This is the tea produced in Huazhou. Although it has not been included in the "Tea Classic", it is still quite flavorful." Feng Xuan laughed.

Since she made up her mind, her complexion has been very good in the past few months, and her personality has become more and more lively, making her brother and sister-in-law Liu almost think that she is a different person.

"Is it Xiaohuashan?" Chen Cheng asked tentatively: "I remember that this tea was mentioned in the song "Tea Pavilion". The world is full of wars, and it is rare to have Xiaohuashan."

"There is no name for tea, but it is produced in Xiaohua Mountain. Zhu Xueshi once sang a poem 'beyond the dust, the tea is fragrant in Xiaohua Mountain'." Feng Xuan pursed her lips and smiled.

After all, he made a salute and drifted away without delaying the two of them talking about business.

"Judge Chen, I felt that I should agree to go out to kill the thieves. Ximen Zhongsui's governor once hinted at this, and I was also very moved, but the court didn't mention anything about the four states of Fufang or the three states of Shuofang. So I lost interest. Thinking about it now, if we go east to attack the bandits, maybe we can gather people in Henan and send them back to Suizhou through the river." Shao Shude sighed and said: "Forget it, this matter is over, Regret is useless. I thought about manpower and opened shops in Guanzhong and Hedong to sell war horses and buy other things. At the same time, these shops can also pay attention to recruiting poor and helpless people, and send them back to Xia Suihou for unified resettlement Go to Yinzhou to cultivate. The world is chaotic, and there are always poor people who have no place to stand, and there are still many people. Over time, you can always get a lot of people."

"This strategy is very good. If horse shops are set up widely, hundreds of households can always get them a year. If there is a war, there will be more." Chen Cheng praised.

"People are always the root." Shao Shude said: "Get ready in the near future, go to Yanzhou, meet Li Xiaochang, and let him feel at ease. When you return, it's time to leave for Xiazhou."

"Of order." Chen Cheng replied.

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On July 21, Shao Shude left Fuping and headed towards Yanzhou, and the Tielin Army Brigade followed suit.The Feng family will also relocate to Xiazhou. This is Li Kan's Zhuangzi, which can be regarded as returning to the original owner.

Shao Shude did not ride a horse, but sat in the carriage with the Feng sisters.The reason is also very simple, Xiao Feng (Feng Du) is pregnant.When the generals heard the news, they congratulated each other. Since the king went to help Hedong, he fought for four years in five years. It is really not easy to have children.The only one who may be unhappy is Zhe Siyu, his sister is the king's wife, and it's really suffocating that things have turned out like this.

Sitting in the carriage, Shao Shude took the time to study the financial problems of Xiaxia and Suizhou.

According to the state system, all states and counties in the world, including feudal towns, must implement the two-tax law.However, in actual operation, the vassals and towns gradually "accumulated illegally", and the operation was very different, or even not implemented at all.The imperial court saw that this was not good, and it had to be rectified, especially those disobedient towns.

When the two tax laws were implemented, the feudal vassals and towns in the world can be roughly divided into four types: the Heshuo separatist type, the Central Plains anti-containment type, the frontier defense type, and the southeast financial source type.The relationship between the Heshuo rebellious vassals and the imperial court was very poor. They refused to apply for household registration and resisted repeatedly. However, after several crusades, they basically obeyed in the end, implemented the two tax laws, and paid taxes to the imperial court.

The three towns of Heshuo are all like this, and the eight towns in Northwest Beijing, which are the Shence Army, are naturally no exception.However, as frontier defensive towns, the eight towns in Northwest Beijing could not make ends meet and depended entirely on the central government to subsidize money and food. Therefore, their so-called financial data were only for the imperial court to see, and they basically did not understand the payment of tribute, and also needed additional allocation from the imperial court.

According to the normal state, the collection of tax and labor in the four prefectures of Xia and Sui mainly falls into three categories: land tax, household tax, and taxation tax.In the second year of Zhonghe, Shao Shude went to war outside, and the tax in the town was collected according to the previous method, and the data was incomplete.Only Song Le vigorously sorted out the information in Suizhou and sent himself a summary.

Taxes in Suizhou are currently collected based on a base of more than 280 households. New immigrants and newly organized households (such as sergeants) in recent years are not included in the scope of taxation.According to the two-tax law of the imperial court, an average household currently pays three dendrobiums of corn, two and a half horses of silk, and 2 coins a year. In theory, it can receive more than 8000 dendrobiums of corn, more than 600 bolts of silk, and more than [-] coins.

This amount of money is almost enough to support state soldiers, maybe not enough, so how can it be possible to support so many sergeants like tigers and wolves?Moreover, for farmers, this burden is too "light" and must be levied!The added part is mainly grain, but the proportion is not fixed.Because Xiasui's fiscal and taxation system is the same as that of the imperial court, the principle is to live within one's means, that is, how much tax you need to spend, but in general, a family of five or six people can cultivate 17 acres of land and spend three to three acres a year. On the basis of the Dendrobium land tax, it is normal to levy an additional ten Dendrobium.In this way, the whole family will only have 18-22 dendrobium grains left, which is still a bit short of the 24-[-] dendrobium grains needed for a normal and healthy life, and they have to eat bran and pharynx vegetables to make up for it.

The household tax is also similar, because it needs a lot of copper coins and silk to distribute rewards to the soldiers.The household tax of less than [-] or [-] cash and less than [-] bolts of silk a year is completely insufficient.Moreover, the household tax is closely related to the sideline business of the farmers. If the sideline business is underdeveloped, even if you want to increase the tax, you will not be able to do so.

Although Suizhou has a sericulture industry, its production capacity is just that.On the contrary, the animal husbandry industry has passed the test, but due to various reasons, the export market is not smooth, the business has not been done, and the money in the hands of ordinary people is not much.After a life-and-death levy, at present, each household only collects three horses and two pieces of silk every year, which is less than five hundred cash, and it is difficult to raise it any longer.

That is to say, in the second year of Zhonghe, Suizhou collected a total of more than 7000 dendrobium corn, 600 bolts of silk, and more than [-] yuan of regular taxes (the taxes were mainly in Xiazhou and Yinzhou), which were not counted. The income of the military farms, and because the Guanzhong civilian households and sergeants are all outside households, they are not included in the scope of taxation. In general, this is the amount, which is basically consumed in raising state soldiers, spending on officials at all levels, and opening river affairs in the state. Yes, and even a small deficit.

"This finance that is riddled with holes." Shao Shude put the documents aside, and said in his heart, "When we return to Xiazhou, we must sort it out. A formal financial system is the foundation of long-term stability. I am afraid that the world is the only one now. Few military leaders can reconcile accounts, and the finances must be a mess, so it's no wonder the sergeants are going to make trouble."

With his head resting on Dafeng's plump thighs, Shao Shude almost thought about the financial and tax issues all the way. When he arrived in Xiazhou in late September, he was still thinking about how to collect tax from Tuoba Sigong.

On September 25th of the third year of Zhonghe, Shao Shude entered Xiazhou. At this time, two years and nine months had passed since the last time he went out to fight against the thieves.The smoke of the war has gone away temporarily, and what awaits him below is the internal governance issue that is a hundred times more difficult than the war.

Perhaps, this is the fundamental factor that determines whether he can pacify the world, rather than force or strategy.

　Chapter 2 was aired at night, and the details of Xia Sui's financial data were not perfect.

　　Take time out during the day to sort things out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)