A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 837 Raise the flag to recruit troops and buy horses

Guangzhou Yacheng.

Lingnan Road observed that the envoy was deposed and the atmosphere in the hall was relatively relaxed.

There are actually several other brands hanging here, such as the Lingnan Road Six Prefectures Military Envoy Office, the Lingnan Du Tuan Lian Envoy Office, the Annan Protectorate Office, the Lingnan Road Salt and Iron Transfer Office, and the Lingnan Road Tuntian Envoy Office, but basically they are Each brand has its own team, and anyway, Wu Huaiyu holds multiple positions.

"The recruitment camp on the left and right side of the creek fought well. They deserve a reward. This matter must be done immediately. The reward must not be delayed. We cannot let the soldiers who are bleeding and sweating wait."

"Winter clothing materials and subsidies must also be distributed."

"The garrison soldiers, provincial soldiers, and state and county regiment training native soldiers in the six Lingnan prefectures have also worked very hard this year, and they have to be rewarded,"

Wu Huaiyu took the initiative to mention the reward for the army, and requested that the reward be generous and timely.

If the army has no wealth, the soldiers will not come; if the army has no reward, the soldiers will not go.

There is another sentence at the end, making money is like making water.

To put it bluntly, there must be brave men under heavy rewards.

The army especially needs money. Without money, where will the food, grass, equipment, and equipment come from? Without money, how can we pay for the settlement? Without rewards, how can the soldiers work hard?

"How can this military reward be generous? Where does the money come from?" Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, asked.

As the governor of Guangzhou, he now also has a new title of defense envoy.

This is why the imperial court, in order to facilitate the current situation in Lingnan, Wu Huaiyu, the observer envoy, also served as the six-prefecture manager and the capital regiment training envoy.

The governor of the six prefectures below was given the title of defense envoy. The provincial governors below were given the title of regimental training envoy so that they could also lead the military.

Wu Huaiyu, the manager of the Six Prefectures and the training envoy of the capital regiment, now has a military force of 6,000 people in addition to the thousand tooth soldiers composed of the forbidden army from Chang'an.

However, the emperor only gave him the number of soldiers for these 6,000 people, and did not allocate soldiers from the Central Plains to him. In fact, they were directly assigned to train regiments from the local area and put them under his direct control.

The governors of the six prefectures also gave each of them 3,000 troops. Since the full name of the defensive envoy was the defensive envoy, these three thousand soldiers were called the defensive envoy.

The governors of each state will be given 500 troops, which are called regiment training camps.

These are actually the standard soldiers of the military and political governors of these prefectures.

However, the imperial court only allocated troop quotas, and the required barracks and military expenditures had to be settled by the local government.

"This time I returned to Chang'an and gained a lot. The sage gave us the policy. Lingnan implements the two-tax law. The tax is three-thirds, one for the state, one for the envoy, and one for tribute."

"Not only the two taxes, but also other industrial and commercial taxes, monopoly taxes, shipping customs, mining tax, and sales, etc., all taxes are distributed according to this three-thirds method,"

This is indeed a special preferential policy given by the emperor. Originally it was only two taxes and three points, and the rest was not so much, but in the end Li Shimin still gave Lingnan special preferential treatment.

All taxes are divided into three parts, and even the income from the government-run handicraft workshops in Lingnan is divided into three parts.

In other words, the Lingnan area accounted for the majority, and the imperial court only took one third.

Wu Huaiyu glanced at everyone, and these people can almost be called his team. "The imperial court has given the policy, and we will have to solve it ourselves in the future. From now on, Lingnan will formalize tax collection and formalize tax collection." Taxes are collected,"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone couldn't help but take it seriously.

In fact, in the past, Lingnan only had some local tribute and no real taxes were paid. In recent years, a few prefectures and counties under the actual control of the imperial court, such as Guanggui, Jiaoshao, etc., have begun to collect taxes, but they are not entirely levied on a per-department basis, but the special tax laws of Lingnan have been implemented.

The tax rate for rice in various states is one stone and two dou for the upper household, eight dou for the second household, and six dou for the lower household. If the households are barbarians, they will all lose half.

This tax is one stone and two measures of rice, which is equivalent to two measures of millet. This is equivalent to the tax of an upper household in Lingnan. The tax of one household is equivalent to the tax of one ding in the Central Plains. If it is not a silkworm village, then silver will be lost, which is called adjustment.

The rent of the upper household is only equivalent to one den in the Central Plains, while the rent of the second household is less than that of one den. This is a preferential treatment in Lingnan.

As for Yili, if you lose half, you will get more discounts.

But now Wu Huaiyu has announced that this special discount has come to an end. From now on, taxes will be levied in accordance with the Two Taxes Law. The main taxes are local taxes and household taxes, which are levied according to acres and properties.

Without special discounts, even barbarians will not be levied half tax and will be treated equally.

Those who are engaged in business shall pay 1/30 of the county tax in the state, which is equal to that of the residents.

Even rivers, lakes, ponds, ponds, ponds and other places where fish gather in Lingnan, orange groves, water, geese, ducks, firewood, etc. are still taxed.

Traditional tribute from various states, such as lychees, gold and silver, pearls, and eunuchs, were also collected.

"The imperial court has given us a preferential tax-sharing policy, but we also have a lot of expenses. Expenses such as conquering the rebel barbarians, supporting the garrison, training the local regiments, official salary subsidies, schools, hospitals, city roads, etc. will all be incurred in the future. It's up to us to figure it out,"

Huaiyu made it clear that whether Lingnan will be stable and peaceful in the future depends on officials and soldiers. But to be able to maintain a capable team of officials and soldiers, you must also have money. The biggest source of this money is tax revenue.

Wu Huaiyi frowned. Although his brother had received excellent policies from the emperor and the court, he knew that the tax was difficult to collect.

The situation in Lingnan is complicated. Now there are not many places they can directly control. More states and counties are in the hands of major Lingnan wealthy families such as Feng Ning and Chen Xian.

Not to mention those Jixizhou counties, which are in the hands of the Yili tribe.

In the past two years, the relationship between Feng Chen, Ningxian and other powerful chiefs and the imperial court was relatively good, barely forming a balance.

But if this new tax law is to be implemented now, the balance will be upset.

For example, the Gaozhou Governor's Mansion is one of the six major governor's mansions in Lingnan. It is basically controlled by the Feng family. They have only paid some tribute to the court, including some gold, silver, pearls, slaves, homespun, salted fish and so on.

Now that the Two Taxes Law is to be fully implemented, the taxes collected by the high-level states must be three-thirds. The Feng family can only keep one-third, one-third must be handed over to the Observer Office, and the remaining one-third must be turned over to the national treasury. ,

This is tantamount to snatching food from the tiger's mouth and forcing two-thirds of it away.

Can the Feng family agree?

Not to mention that the imperial court also levied industrial and commercial taxes, engaged in monopoly sales, levied mining taxes, and even engaged in and purchased some important commercial supplies. This was all taking food from the Feng family.

It is not easy for the imperial court and the Lingnan chiefs to reach a balance in recent years.

The barbarians in left and right Xixi have not yet been calmed down. If this is done, won't it break the originally stable situation again, and may even force Feng Xian, Chen Ning and others to rebel?

Even if they don't openly rebel, if they don't cooperate, it will be a big problem.

Huaiyu knew what brother meant,

"This matter has been decided and cannot be changed or delayed," he said.

Huaiyi said, "You really can't think about it anymore?"

Huaiyu shook his head, "First gather the money in your hands and distribute this military reward. It must be timely and generous."

Now everyone understood that to issue generous military rewards at this time was a double preparation. Once the Lingnan chiefs refused to pay their taxes honestly, these officers and soldiers would be dispatched.

"The 6,000 military commanders of the ambassador's office and the 3,000 defensive troops of each governor's office must be recruited and selected as soon as possible. We will pay and order weapons and equipment from the Ordnance Supervisor and the Weiwei Temple, but we must also pay close attention to training.

You must be prepared to pull out the team at any time and win the battle. "

The words couldn't be more obvious. Take precautions before they happen and be ready for a fight at any time. This time the opponents are no longer barbarians, but the wealthy families and local emperors in Lingnan.

(End of this chapter)