Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 958 Why is there so much money?

Chapter 80 Why is there so much money?

All the way westward, the speed of Chen Ying and his party gradually accelerated.

Although the speed is fast, I just watched it from afar, but Anxi, the place where Li Xiuning lived for two years, gradually made Li Xiuning feel a little unfamiliar.

In Li Xiuning's impression, most places in Anxi were dilapidated.Thousands of miles, hundreds of years without human habitation.

But in just over three years, there is no barrenness on both sides of Chidao. Most of them are built workshops and chimneys emitting black smoke.The Western Regions, as a zone where east and west meet, is the frontier where the collision between eastern and western civilizations is most intense.The trade between the East and the West here, the transmission of the civilization of the East and the West, occupies an important position in the world's economic and cultural history.

What shocked Li Xiuning the most was that in today's Western Regions, almost any village or town has a school, Tang Yan School.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you actually made it!"

Li Xiuning vaguely remembered that Chen Ying once said: "One day in the future, I will let tens of millions of people from tens of thousands of miles of land learn Tang dialect by biting corks. Haha, haha, although it was very painful to learn, and I wanted to saw my neck in pain, but I still had to learn with my head hanging on the beam—that scene must be spectacular. Thinking of this, I feel so happy!"

Chen Ying corrected: "Now, this is the beginning. In the future, I want to let the Pacific Ocean, which is the east of the East China Sea of ​​our Tang Dynasty, and then reach the Atlantic Ocean!"

Chen Ying saw that Li Xiuning was confused, and smiled and took out the world map in his carriage. There were three such maps in total.One is in the hands of Li Jiancheng and the other is in the hands of Li Shimin.One copy is in Chen Ying's hands.

Li Xiuning asked curiously: "How did you do it? I saw that they studied very painfully, but they didn't hire tongue speakers, but studied Tang Yan seriously?"

Chen Ying laughed and said, "It's actually very simple!"

"Very simple?" Li Xiuning asked even more suspiciously, "What is the solution?"

Chen Ying is very aware of the ethnic characteristics of the Western Regions. As an example, Kucha, one of the four major countries in the Western Regions, has belonged to China since the Han Dynasty. People, it’s just that the cultural system is completely different. Since then, although the subordinate countries of the past dynasties have always maintained a strong Western Region color, the process of Sinicization has also been repeated. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, although they spoke the Tuluohuo language family, they were all Han Chinese. Mixed blood with Cypriots.Just from the outside, there is only a little surprise.

Moreover, most people in the Western Regions have no concept of "national integrity". When the Huns were strong, they called themselves the Huns, and when the Xianbeis controlled the Western Regions, they called themselves Xianbeis.When the Turks were strong, they called themselves Turks.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is powerful, the people of all ethnic groups call themselves Tang people.

However, they, the Tang Dynasty Anxi Duhufu, would not admit it.Datang actually only recognized the registered common people, the common people who owned Zuyong modulation.Chen Ying developed three household registration systems for the Anxi Protectorate.Both yellow, blue and white.Chen Ying stipulated that war slaves or captives all had white nationality, no personal freedom, no political status, and the second was blue nationality.The blue nationality includes the people who voluntarily surrendered, as well as the refugees who defected.

It is the yellow book and household registration that are the same as those in Guanzhong.Such people can join the army and be officials without any restrictions.And the taxes paid are generally the same as those in Guanzhong.

Datang implemented the land equalization system, and the implementation method was that men over 20 years old were awarded [-] acres of land, of which [-] acres were permanent land and [-] acres were divided into mouths.After his death, the [-] mu of land allocated to him was returned to the government.The government collects rent and adjustments from the people based on the land grant records.

Regardless of rich or poor, all pay a fixed amount of rent.The rent is the land rent, and you need to pay two stones of millet every year.Yong is forced labor, serving for the government for [-] days a year.

Based on the most common farmers' income in this era, one hundred mu of land can harvest about 150 shi of grain. (The tax rate is equivalent to about [-] percent).

However, the natives of the Western Regions are different.They originally enjoyed the buffalo tax.That is, a cow has to pay a tax every year.This gap is really too big.So many Anxi people are very jealous.

Because the yellow book served for 20 days, and two stones of grain or equivalent items.The blue nationality is implemented according to half of the original tax standard.

The three kinds of household registration are not dead, but can be changed.For example, if a white household registration performs well, it can be converted to a blue household registration, and a blue household registration can be converted to a yellow household registration.

But the first rigid standard for changing household registration must be to be able to speak Tang dialect.

If you don't want the cattle you feed yourself to be confiscated by the government once a year, you can only study Tang Yan desperately and advance in the annual assessment, otherwise you will lose the cattle legs.

At this time, the people of Anxi discovered that learning Tang dialect could not only exempt part of the tax, but also join the army and be rewarded for meritorious service. These Anxi people or war slaves learned Tang dialect one after another.

In fact, in the era before Chen Ying traveled, because the state gave preferential treatment to the minorities in various aspects, many people changed their races and ancestors one after another when they saw the benefits. However, after two or three generations, the long falsehood becomes true, and the national concept is formed naturally.

Contrary to the ridiculous "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, the people in Anxi at this time took the initiative to "turn Hu into Han" in order to pay less taxes.

To become a commoner of Huang nationality, not only need to be able to speak Tang dialect, but also need to wear Han clothes and practice Han customs, so that they can officially join the Datang army, relying on the way of joining the army, making meritorious service, and becoming an official.

Of course, this transformation of Hu into Han was fake at the beginning, but because most of the people themselves are yellow-skinned and black-haired, many of them are mixed Hu-Han, and it’s not uncommon for people in Anxi to speak Chinese. Therefore, "carrying one's nationality" is extremely easy. It is nothing more than speaking Tang dialect and changing the style of clothes.

Although the blue nationality is only equivalent to half of Anxi's old tax rate, it is for this half of the tax.Not far away, the tribes defected to Anxi from the far west and became Tang people.

In the beginning, this change was only on the surface, and they would only speak Tang dialect, wear Han clothes, and practice Han customs in formal occasions, but as the time of pretending deepened, more and more people have developed got used to it.The people of Anxi embraced their knives and forks, and threw away their fur robes of the Hu nationality...

In order to integrate, the policies Chen should adopt are actually very domineering.

For example, in intermarriage, the people of the Tang Dynasty will be rewarded with the right to reclaim [-] acres of land for every concubine of the Hu nationality. Of course, this cannot be forced, it can only be voluntary.

The indigenous people in Anxi have no concept of the land, but the people who migrated from the inland, as well as the refugees, all have a sense of the land, which is no less than the feelings of the nomads for war horses.

Money, no one thinks too much.

No farmer has too much land.

The craziest thing was that a poor hukou named Zhang Muzhi came to Anxi alone, and was allocated five houses and one hundred mu of land.Later, after familiarizing himself with this rule, he took in more than 160 concubines in one breath, including Dingling people, Gaoche people, and Qiuci people. In a blink of an eye, he became a landlord with nearly [-] acres of land.

This morning, Chen Ying and his party met an Anxi army head-on on Chidao. This army was not large in number, only about 500 people.

But they are all cavalry, one man and two horses, as if they are performing some mission.

The knight slowly disappeared from sight.Li Xiuning looked at the flag flying in the air, which vaguely read Datang Shuimo Town.Li Xiuning suddenly said to Chen Ying: "The Anxi army is really mighty and majestic, an elite division, well equipped and well trained."

"Looking at the banner, this army should be the Zigu Army of Shuimo Town!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "In Anxi, there are no less than a thousand such troops. They are only second-rate troops, not first-class elites!"

"What, it's just a second-rate army?" Li Xiuning questioned: "Didn't you see it? They marched like clouds and flowing water, and their movements were skillful. Except for the neighing of the horses, not a single soldier made a sound, which shows that they are rigorously trained. Such a strong murderous intent, even a rough horse can't stand it, so this kind of army is only a second-rate army?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "The fact is so..."

The equipment of the Tang Army can be said to be not bad, but it is more than a little worse than the local Xiangyong of the Anxi Army.

The armor of this army is not like ordinary armor, which is assembled from small pieces, but they are simply a large piece.The entire front chest is one piece, and the back is another piece.The arms and legs are nothing but four large pieces of armor.

Li Xiuning doubts how a large piece of steel is processed into an arc shape, which just fits the shape of the human body... This is definitely not the processing technology of this era.

In fact, Li Xiuning guessed right, this is indeed not a craft of this era.

In this era, except for the heavy infantry, ordinary soldiers were equipped with armor and leather armor. Mingguang armor was the most powerful armor in history except for the infantry armor in the legend of the Song Dynasty.

But the production efficiency of Mingguang armor is too low.Later, Anxi invented the hydraulic forging press, which changed the standard of armor.

But he can use a giant hydraulic punching machine, and the armor will be formed by pressing it directly. There are only 39 armor pieces in total, and he can make an armor that can resist a stone bow within a distance of twenty steps.

The top of the armor has been carefully polished and polished, as bright as a mirror.At least it won't be worse than the Mingguang armor that people use now.

Li Xiuning was secretly surprised that the Anxi army even equipped the second-rate troop with a traitorous nature like this, so it must be said that it was rich and powerful.

Li Xiuning was guessing that Chen Ying not only tried his best to win over the downcast nobles and refugees, but also borrowed money from farmers at such a low interest rate, where did his money come from?
Why is there so much money?

(End of this chapter)