Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 321 Tax Payment
Compared with the prince who found true love, the princess was lying alone and cold in her palace, weeping secretly.

The princess touched her swollen belly, full of hope but also full of grievances, but she could only lie alone in the palace with resentment.

She never thought that her opponent would be a man, and she felt even more wronged when she thought about it.

Li Tai didn't know that his brother the prince had found the true love of his life, let alone the complex relationship between him and the princess.

Even if I know, as long as my father Li Shimin agrees, I don't mind learning from my father's good example.

It's just that at this time, he is all focused on how to further develop Luoyang. After all, Li Tai knows that this is his foundation.

For example, when Li Tai approached Lu Cai, he planned to discuss with him about his education.

But Lu Cai looked at Li Tai with despair in his eyes, he was silent for a while, and said to Li Tai, "King Wei, is there too much about me? The city's sewage and waste residue treatment pool has not yet been completed!"

"Is that so?" Li Tai was taken aback when he heard this, but he quickly smiled and said, "No way, there is no reason for anyone else to intervene in this matter, so I can only leave it to you to handle!"

"Also ask the king of Wei to order!" But Lu Cai also understood that since the king of Wei said so, he must not be able to escape.

Li Taidao, "It's very simple, I want to hold back some of the Kanto candidates who are going to Chang'an for the exam, do you have any ideas!"

"Cutting off the Guandong Juzi?" Lu Cai couldn't help being stunned when he heard this. King Wei wants to establish a small court?Go crazy!
For a while, Lu Cai didn't react.

But Li Tai said calmly, "Is it strange? For the Kanto students, when they go to Chang'an to take the imperial examination, Luoyang is almost the place they must pass through. Whether they come back or leave, they must pass through Luoyang."

"Your Majesty Wei, you mean... let them go to the agricultural school?" Lu Cai was a little unbelievable when he heard Li Tai's words. It is possible that the current candidates are in Gaoling to prepare for the next exam, and they will come back to Luoyang. No wonder it stays.

"No!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "They only read the Four Books and Five Classics, and the liberal arts alone can't accommodate so many students. As for mastering other skills, I'm afraid they don't come from ordinary families. It's not easy for them to stay."

"What do you mean, King Wei?" Lu Cai was a little dazed when he heard Li Tai's words.

But Li Tai touched his chin and said, "It's fine if they pass the exam, but if they fail the exam, can we retain some of them as teachers of enlightenment literature and arithmetic? After all, it is impossible for a child not to understand elementary arithmetic. .”

"Mengxue..." Hearing Li Tai's words, Lu Cailue was a little dazed and a little bit happy.

"Well, Mengxue, we didn't have enough money in the past, but now we set up a Mengxue private school for students to study in every city, and give the teachers in it a proper treatment along the way, do you think it can be done?

And when these elementary school students grow up, they can go to agricultural colleges, what do you think? "

"It's possible, but I don't know how many people are willing to stay!" Lu Cai worried,

"Those candidates for the imperial examinations, if they really want to take the imperial examinations, they will probably sing their poems in Chang'an, and if they come back frustrated, most of them will choose to go home.

Although Luoyang is prosperous, but to them, I am afraid that this place is just a passer-by! "

"Try to win over one or two!" Li Tai said to Lu Cai, "It really doesn't work, let the liberal arts graduates from Chang'an teach."

"This is at least a way out for liberal arts students!" Lu Cai heard Li Tai's words, but did not object to Li Tai.

To be honest, most of the liberal arts graduates from agricultural colleges went to agricultural colleges.

In terms of management, people with a background in liberal arts are indeed better than those with a background in other subjects.

Moreover, the real task of the agricultural society is not to do work, but to spread agricultural knowledge to the local people and teach the local people how to use certain farm tools, so they are also suitable for doing it.

Not to mention the agronomy magazine produced every month by the liberal arts department of the Agronomy Society. Ordinary people can understand the words on it.

It also requires liberal arts students to work tirelessly to translate the above words into knowledge that local people can understand.

It's just that the current Agricultural Society is still expanding, and they are needed almost everywhere.

Now it is necessary to transfer some people from the agricultural society to teach elementary school, which is still very difficult for the agricultural school.

No matter what, Lu Cai still took over the task.

After all, Li Tai's request was only to establish a school in Luoyang Fang City. Relatively speaking, even if he had to deploy manpower, he did not have more than 300 people.

After all, these people can still be recruited if they are squeezed a little bit. If it doesn't work, let the liberal arts students who are about to graduate go to part-time jobs.

This is also the reason why Li Tai wanted to detain those candidates.

The area under Li Tai's jurisdiction is getting bigger, but the follow-up talent pool can't keep up, and he doesn't have the ability to avatar, so he can handle everything by himself.

But seeing that Lu Cai is now thinking of a solution by himself, Li Tai won't talk too much.

After all, Li Tai's request is only to build a place for the common people to study in every square city in Luoyang.

After Lu Cai left exhausted, Li Tai decisively went to find Zhang Sui, who was the person in charge of the medical department in Luoyang.

Zhang Sui saw Li Tai and saluted Li Tai solemnly.

But Li Tai was not polite, to Zhang Suidao,
"I plan to expand the medical building in Luoyang to the extent that every square city has a medical building. Is the number of doctors enough?"

Hearing Li Tai's words, Zhang Sui thought for a while and said, "If there are only local doctors in Luoyang, the number is definitely not enough. We need to send doctors from Chang'an, at least 100 people."

When Zhang Sui said this, he felt somewhat guilty. After all, he knew clearly that it was not easy to train doctors.

Regardless of the thousands of graduates from Gaoling Academy and Youzhou Academy every year, not even one-tenth of them can really have the status of a doctor and can sit in a medical dormitory.

After all, the profession of doctors requires both talent and experience, even if Li Tai has teamed up with Sun Simiao, the level of doctors can be reduced to just taking medicine according to the prescription.

But even so, many students who graduated from the school can basically only be apprentices. At most, the foundation is just a little bit stronger, and what medicine they have caught knows what disease it is for.

Otherwise, the scale of the medical camp will not only be maintained at 500 people.

Of course, Li Tai consciously maintained the 500-person medical camp. After all, Li Tai felt that 500 doctors would be enough for the battlefield, and it would be better to strengthen Datang's own medical system.

If the cost of forced medical recruitment is not counted, Liu Shenwei's team should be able to forcefully recruit four medical camps of 500 people. If Sun Simiao leads the team, as long as Sun Simiao himself does not die, the number of medical camps that can be forced to recruit should be doubled.

"Under normal circumstances, the medical camp should maintain 300 people, which is enough.

Usually, at the beginning of a war, one would go to the infirmary to recruit doctors like recruiting government soldiers...

I wrote a letter to Liu Shenwei, believing that I should be able to dispatch some doctors to Luoyang! "

Li Tai thought for a while, and decisively decided to dispatch some people from Gaoling.

After all, with the opening of the night market this year and the organization of the futures chamber of commerce, plus next year there will be a game in Luoshui. To be honest, Li Tai can be sure that by next year, there will be people coming and going here, and it will be very lively.

With more people coming from south to north, no one can guarantee what will happen, so let's get more doctors here.

After all, as the flow of people increases, in addition to the possibility of conflicts increasing, hygiene issues are also a big problem!
The larger the city, the more attention should be paid to hygiene issues. After all, there are not many people in small villages. If you close the door yourself, no one can provoke it.

But people come and go in big cities, if no one takes care of the sanitation problems, I am afraid that various plagues caused by sanitation problems will appear in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, Li Tai opened medical offices in every square city in Luoyang, and even opened several more if necessary.

After all, Luoyang now has a population of more than 20. Even if I build a hospital in every square city, almost 2000 people can enjoy a hospital.

Not to mention, in Li Tai's plan, Luoyang's population goal is to exceed one million, and the goal of one hospital in each square city is naturally far from enough, and these are the things that need to be prepared now.

At this moment, Zhang Sui watched Li Tai enter deep thought, and said to Li Tai cautiously,

"Quasi-Wei Wangling, I will first go find a good location for the medical buildings in each city, as long as the doctors come, I can let them practice medicine directly!"

"En!" Li Tai nodded in satisfaction when he heard Zhang Sui's words, and said to Zhang Sui, "Go and do your work. If you don't have enough money and food, just come to me!"

"Zhang Sui understands!" Zhang Sui showed a clear expression when he heard this.

This may be the best place to follow the king of Wei. Generally speaking, you can prepare enough start-up funds to work with him.

And as Zhang Sui left, Li Tai took a deep breath, no matter what, he was ready for the development of Luoyang.

Next, there is only patience left, which cannot be rushed anyway.

Soon, as spring came to the east, everything grew, especially the time for spring plowing. Of course, the farming around Luoyang is mainly wheat, so the local people have not yet come out of the winter laziness.

However, after a winter of brewing, Li Tai clearly saw the prosperity of the entire Luoyang night market, showing how soon it was booming, Li Tai also took advantage of the trend to open the two markets in the West Market and the North Market.

The whole of Luoyang, with these three markets as the core, began to become lively.

Suddenly, on behalf of Li Tai, Peacock invited the heads of those chambers of commerce to start discussions and meetings.

At the same time, Li Tai took advantage of the trend to promote the transaction tax. Simply put, all the shops that open stores in the three places of West Market, South City, and North City, as well as the surrounding Fang City, need to pay land tax. Of course, the specific price of the land tax needs to be discussed with the chamber of commerce. .

Basically, daily necessities such as charcoal, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the cheapest, followed by medical care, the four treasures of the study, book sales, brothels, etc., and then luxury goods, such as gold and silver jewelry, and mortgage credit is the most expensive. It's temples and casinos.

In addition, taxes are collected according to the area of ​​land occupied. The more land occupied by a house, the more taxes will be collected.

As for Taoist temples, they have to pay the same tax as temples, but because Li Tai believes in faith, he will refund the tax paid by Taoist temples.

Obviously, Li Tai's way of playing is a bit too much for the Buddhists, and the Buddhists quite disagree.

But Li Tai's rule is that if you don't like it, you can transfer the temple to others and open a temple outside Luoyang yourself.

Anyway, there is no need to charge commercial fees outside Luoyang City. All in all, everything is up to you.

At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth collection of taxes, basically all the shops that collect taxes will be given a sign with the word "tax".

Bad people in places with this brand have an obligation to protect them. If someone makes trouble, whoever makes trouble breaks his leg.

After all, even if Li Tai doesn't like Buddhism, as long as he pays taxes, he will be his parents for food and clothing, and it is normal to respect his parents for food and clothing.

But for those without the "tax" brand, Li Tai directly said that bad people are free.

Because they don’t pay taxes on the money they earn, even if they are extorted, you can help as much as you want, and you don’t have to, it’s not mandatory.

As long as they didn't do anything that violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty, it would be considered that they didn't see it.

After all, Li Tai didn't want to kill them all. After all, in this era, there will also be mom-and-pop shops that start early and work late, or other poor people who want to save this tax money for various reasons.

After all, there are always poor people in this world who they don't understand, just like poor people don't understand the once-in-a-lifetime rite of passage.

Social productivity has not yet reached, and the strength of organization cannot keep up. If I exercise extreme control over everyone's words and deeds, and issue orders across the board, I am afraid that many people will die.

The regulations of this era will eventually leave a gray area for those who cannot survive.

If you order yourself, you can't set up a stall without a token. For the lowest-level people, it may not be that they are unwilling to pay taxes, but that they can't pay taxes at all with their capital!
But when these people have made money, but they still don't go to the tax bureau to get a sign to protect themselves, and the local gangsters or other gray forces find it, then they can't blame the court and bad people.

After all, in the feudal era of China, businessmen were born with original sins, but if you still choose to evade taxes and do not want the protection of the court, then you have to bear the price of this matter.

To Li Tai's system, none of those big businessmen dared to say a word. After all, the family has a big business, and after all, they know that less trouble is better than less money.

And after the entire chamber of commerce agrees and sets a suitable price according to their respective chambers of commerce, those big and small merchants who are attached to this chamber of commerce basically dare not say anything more.

Even if those small chambers of commerce or small merchants violate the regulations formulated by Li Tai, and Li Tai doesn't even need to do anything, basically the merchants of that system will take the initiative to swallow these small merchants, and maybe the property in them will be returned. Give Li Tai a fortune.

Of course, Li Tai's actions counted as an increase in exorbitant taxes, but who made Li Tai the King of Wei, or Henan?

Li Tai still has the right to formulate rules and regulations within a certain range. After handing over part of the money and food obtained to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the eunuchs, the imperial court just turned a blind eye and regarded Luoyang as a city. Check it out!
(End of this chapter)