Destiny Only Han

Chapter 160
Guanzhong, Mei County.

A carriage slowly drove into the county government office, and a tall, fat man got off the carriage.

This person is Zhang Cang, and his current identity is Prime Minister's Mansion Chief Shi, which is equivalent to Xiao He's secretary-general.

It's just that the reason why he didn't assist Xiao He in Hanzhong and ran to Guanzhong was naturally Xiao He's promise that day.

Liu Ying was temporarily in charge of moving the people from Guanzhong to Shu, and all the officials were at his disposal.

So, Liu Ying took Zhang Cang's idea.

After all, Zhang Cang used to be the historian of the state of Qin. He was not only responsible for sorting out and preserving the historical materials of the books and archives, but also reviewed the materials sent by various counties and counties in the world in October every year.

The above calculation is similar to the year-end audit and planning for the coming year in later generations.

A person in this position must first be good at arithmetic, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

However, in the state of Qin, where the laws are strict, officials committing crimes are usually aggravated!
Of course, those close ministers who are favored by the king are not included.

After all, Daqin is a country ruled by individuals, strict legislation and selective law enforcement are inevitable.

Zhang Cang walked slowly into a wing room in the county government office, looked at the mountain of files, and quickly got into work.

These are all the applications from the county newspapers, the victims who voluntarily relocated to Shu County.

The cost of moving to rich households is very different from that of moving to poor households.

After all, it is to ask people to abandon their farmland and houses at home, and run thousands of miles to open up wasteland.

If it was according to Qin's habit when he was there, it would be an order to move out within a time limit, otherwise he would be executed...

Those 10,000+ wealthy households who relocated to Xianyang in the past did just that.

But now Guanzhong's people's hearts are not very stable, so it is necessary to lure them with benefits.

According to the regulations negotiated by Liu Ying and Xiao He, the houses and properties of the relocated people need to be redeemed.

Well, in this era, a house with an adobe wall covering an area of ​​[-] to [-] square meters costs about [-] yuan.

A strong man, if he is willing to endure hardship, can earn about twenty or thirty dollars a day, that is to say, not counting food and drink, he can buy a house like this in one or two years.

Therefore, it doesn't take much money to buy a commoner's house.

Maybe, people at this time are really living in houses and not speculating.

As for land property, although Guanzhong was the base camp of the Qin army's meritorious system, the main purpose of Shang Yang's farming and warfare system was to enhance the country's war power, not to enrich the people.

The laws of Qin are strict, and the end of the people who are easily blamed is that they or their relatives become slaves.

And to turn a slave into a commoner, he needs to return the military honor.

In this way, ordinary people fight desperately on the battlefield, and their titles usually do not exceed the fourth level. Therefore, under the military merit system that legally occupies land according to their titles, they do not have many acres of land in their hands.

Therefore, the final plan given by Liu Ying is to raise the two levels of citizenship of the new immigrants in the new land, which means that they can legally occupy more land.

For example, if someone is a soldier without a title, then his legal grant of land is one hectare, that is, one hundred mu.

So now, after being promoted to two levels of title, that is, after becoming a second-level superior, he can legally occupy another two hectares of land.

It is equivalent to doubling the assets of the home!
On weekdays, if he wanted to obtain a two-level title, he had to go to the battlefield and cut off the heads of two enemies with his own hands, and he had to ensure that the number of enemies killed by his ten-man team exceeded the number of deaths in battle!

Otherwise, it is necessary to use the decapitated heads first to offset the number of people killed in battle, and then decapitate the meritorious deeds.

If it is not enough, after the war, the ten-man team will either "do nothing in the battle, and stay in prison for three years";
Therefore, if you want to obtain two ranks of knighthood at once, it is actually very difficult!
Another job of Zhang Cang here is to screen these applications, screen out those wealthy households, and reject their immigration applications.

After all, new immigrants are exempt from taxation for five years.

The exemption of land rent is the icing on the cake. The yield per mu of uncultivated farmland is extremely touching. Planting one gourd and reaping two scoops is not just talk!

Therefore, the focus of tax exemption is poll tax.

This item is a very objective figure for rich people with tens or hundreds of slaves in their families.

The Han State followed the Qin State’s standard in terms of taxation, and the head tax on slaves and businessmen, that is, oral tax and calculation tax, was twice that of ordinary people.

In this era of limited output per mu, people were the main creator of social wealth. What the country worried about was not land annexation, but a large number of slaves owned by rich households.

This is also before the Tang Dynasty, the so-called "shedi taxpayer" policy has been used.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the output capacity of the land was greater than that of people, so it was "divided into mu".

Therefore, as soon as the immigration policy came out, the first people to sign up enthusiastically were those rich households who owned a large number of slaves.

After all, five years is enough for them to save a large amount of taxes that they should pay, and the government's two-level policy of the people and the nobility also gives them the opportunity to legally occupy more land.

Each household can occupy an additional [-] mu of land. If a large family has dozens or hundreds of adult men, how about breaking it up and registering?

You can get tens of thousands of acres of land out of thin air!
And tax free!

If it is normal, Liu Ying is actually very welcome to these people who take advantage of loopholes.

After all, he is a shepherd. After five years, there will be plenty of ways to re-squeeze these people's oil and water.

But now that the world is full of wars, such an opening cannot be opened!

The contribution of ordinary people to the war is nothing more than a life.

But the rich are different. The large number of acres they control can collect a lot of land rent every year! ,

The large group of servants they control can also collect a lot of taxes every year!
But under the poor culture and wealth, their heirs are actually the best fighters!

So they want to get out, how can it be that simple?
Zhang Cang quickly approved the application based on his accumulated experience as a historian under the pillar, and kicked out everyone who tried to muddle through.

By the evening, he had already approved the applications of a thousand immigrants again.

As a result, the official letters printed with engraving blocks were stamped with the official seal of the prime minister's mansion, loaded into carriages by postmen, and delivered to the people of all households along the smooth and stable roads in Guanzhong.

And on the old road leading to Shu County, groups of people under the guard of soldiers, pushing small carts, carrying parents, wives and children, embarked on the road leading to the new world with longing.

Well, the small carts in their hands were bought with the money from the government to buy their thatched cottage...

While the cart creaked, a line of small characters could be seen faintly.

Dahan Coal and Iron Trading Company.

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Guanzhong, Hangu Pass.

Liu Bang stood on the side of the completely demolished city wall, holding two memorials stamped with wax in his hand.

After staying at home for a few days, he returned to the front line without stopping because the battle in Guanzhong was not yet completely over.

What he is holding in his hand at the moment is the battle report sent by Han Xin.

Well, two Han Xin.

According to the report sent by the great general Han Xin, the waste hill has been destroyed, Zhang Han committed suicide, and most of the Yong Kingdom has been taken down one after another. It won't be long before the Yong Kingdom will completely cease to exist and become a part of the Han Kingdom.

Han Taiwei Han Xin also sent a battle report, saying that Xiang Yu appointed Zheng Chang, a former Qin official, as the king of Han, but this person did not know how to fight, and Han Xin captured more than a dozen cities one after another. Han land can be completely pacified.

"It's really good things come in pairs!"

Liu Bang put down the newspaper in his hand, and looked at Chengxin Hou and Zhang Liang, who was holding his hands beside him, his face was full of joy.

People are happy when they are happy.

The reports sent one after another dispelled his melancholy of being separated from his family again.

Cheng Xinhou is the title he bestowed upon Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang took the newspaper from Liu Bang, and first touched the paper used in the newspaper with some surprise. Now, with Xiao He's large purchase of bamboo paper, the carrier of daily writing official documents has also changed from bamboo slips to paper.

It's just that when he saw the memorial written by Han Wangxin, a trace of loneliness still flashed across his face.

South Korea, may really cease to exist...

When Zhang Liang was full of melancholy, in Luoyang City, in the palace left by the Zhou royal family, Henan Wang Shenyang welcomed a very familiar person.

open ears.

Shen Yang, who was wearing a king's suit, snatched down a few steps, bowed his hands and bowed: "Shen Yang has seen the king!"

He used to be Zhang Er's favorite minister, although now Zhang Er lost his master and humiliated the country, and he is still the king, but the etiquette cannot be abolished.

Zhang Er smiled wryly and helped him up, and walked towards the hall hand in hand.

Along the way, Zhang Er talked with Shen Yang very kindly, from the elderly parents to the newborn child.

In the end, the two sides sat down in the hall according to priority, and opened their ears to tell the real purpose of the trip.

"Do you think that you are the opponent of Han Wang Liu Bang?"

Shen Yang was taken aback for a moment, and fell into deep thought.

He also heard about the great changes in Guanzhong. After writing to inform Xiang Yu, the other party only asked him to keep a close eye on Liu Bang's movements, and sent Zheng Chang as King of Han to prepare to form a siege network against Liu Bang.

Of course, before Zheng Chang's butt was hot, Han Wangxin led the army to attack, which was unexpected by everyone.

But Shen Yang remembered that in Xiang Yu's reply to his letter, he vowed that Liu Bang was old and had no ambitions. He would only stop in Guanzhong and would not go east. He asked him to send all the soldiers except for the guards to the east. , together with Chu State to attack Qi State, after destroying Qi State, there will be great benefits...

It's just that after Shen Yang received the reply, he was skeptical about Xiang Yu's judgment on Liu Bang, and as for sending troops, he treated Xiang Yu as farting and ignored it at all.

After all, according to Xiang Yu's urgency, I am afraid that after Qi is destroyed, Henan Kingdom is likely to be divided into three parts, and the remaining two parts will be divided among the generals sent to cooperate with Xiang Yu...

At this moment, he looked at Zhang Er sitting opposite him with piercing eyes, feeling inexplicable in his heart.

Changshan Kingdom is gone, is he going to call Henan Kingdom's attention?
It's just that what the other party said makes sense.

Liu Bang, he really can't beat...

　I went to poke someone's throat again, the update is late, sorry!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)