The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 282 Alliance
Dongfang Sheng can understand very well that in this era, the phrase "come to see me with your head up" is just like "guaranteed to complete the task" in the later generations, it is just a mantra.

After arranging Yan Pu, Dongfang Sheng immediately called Zhang Xiu over.

"My lord, what do you order?"

Zhang Xiu has been very empty recently. He hasn't gone out with Dongfang Sheng since he surrendered, and of course he didn't get the mission.

"I want you to go with Zhang Lu to conquer Guo Bang, would you like it?" Dongfang Sheng asked.

As a surrendered general, Zhang Xiu was also very dutiful and didn't make any demands, but he also quickly got in touch with Jia Xu. Maybe it was because of the fate between him and Jia Xu in the original history. Anyway, Jia Xu admired him very much, and he also Very close to Jia Xu.

Then Jia Xu told Zhang Xiu that he should have a chance to go out soon, but before that, I hope Zhang Xiu will not show dissatisfaction.

Sure enough, Dongfang Sheng sent Zhang Xiu to Yongzhou now.

Zhang Xiu was deeply moved by Jia Xu's ingenious plan, and immediately stepped forward to pay homage: "I wish to share my worries with the lord, and wipe out Guo Si's three clans."

At this time, there is no saying of the nine clans of later generations, and the Yi clan has already copied their homes.

If Guo Si hadn't fought Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji would not have died, and Zhang Xiu would not have fallen to such a state, so he hated Guo Si and Zhang Xiu to the bone.

Dongfang Sheng doesn't like to destroy people everywhere, but he also understands that one should not be too kind to the enemy.

So Zhang Xiu proposed to destroy Guo Siman's family, but Dongfang Sheng did not object.

After Zhang Xiu left, Dongfang Sheng immediately called his uncle Dongfang Youcai over. The war is about money, and if there is no money, no war can be waged. After hanging around for a long time, Dongfang Youcai felt that it was a good job to manage money. So now the entire Yizhou government's money and taxes are managed by talented people from the East.

Dongfang Sheng has only changed part of the tax system for the time being. It's not that he doesn't want to make big changes, but if you change the tax too much all of a sudden and move some people's cheese, then Wang Mang before the Eastern Han Dynasty is a lesson for you.

Don't think that you can control everything after time travel, this is what Dongfang Sheng has always said to himself in his heart.

Even so, Dongfang Sheng still encountered obstacles when changing the tax, but because the changes were small and the benefits of the changes were not great, Dongfang Sheng also strongly suppressed it.

In fact, in ancient times, taxes were mainly collected from those with low and middle incomes, and people with upper incomes basically received very little tax.

Because people with upper incomes can always think of ways to avoid taxes, just like in modern America, the rich evade taxes, the poor pay their taxes honestly every month, the middle class and the poor support the US finances, while the rich use the law The loopholes cleverly avoided the tax.

In order to collect taxes from the rich, Dongfang Sheng asked Dongfang Youcai to collect information on rich people from all over Yizhou. After the government filed a case, these rich people had to pay taxes for the industries they were engaged in.

At the beginning, after Dongfang Sheng's tax policy was put forward, the whole Yizhou was in an uproar, and even Jia Xu angrily accused Dongfang Sheng of making chaos, which would cause chaos and so on.

But after Dongfang Sheng announced the tax rate, those people immediately shut up.

The taxation of wealthy businessmen has been done before, but it has been very unsuccessful.

Because the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s order to collect money targeted merchants and handicraft owners at that time, taxing all their money and goods, and then expanded the scope of collection with the development of the situation. The property of Fanhao’s family and middle-class families Including money, goods, vehicles, boats, fields, livestock, and even slaves and maidservants, etc., are all within the scope of taxation, and need to be assessed one by one and collected in a consolidated manner.

Because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented a reporting system for those who evaded taxes, once the reported people were found out, their property would be confiscated. Therefore, this measure eventually destroyed some middle-class people, and the real wealthy businessmen hid. weakened the country's economy.

However, the tax set by Dongfang Sheng was very low. Of course, it was very low at the time. Dongfang Sheng canceled the tax on livestock and increased the tax on slaves.

The purpose of this is to encourage everyone to raise more livestock and less to buy and sell people.

Moreover, although Dongfang Sheng also implements the reporting system, he will not confiscate all his property after investigating the reported rich businessmen, but will issue fines to those rich businessmen to fine them.

Appropriate taxation and moderate administrative means made Dongfang Sheng's policy met with some resistance at first, but it was quickly accepted by those wealthy businessmen.

And the most important thing is that Dongfang Sheng canceled some restrictions on businessmen not being able to wear silk and satin, which greatly encouraged the wealthy businessmen in Yizhou. They spontaneously went to Shu County to Chengdu County to send things to thank Dongfang Sheng.

Think about it, no matter how rich the rich merchants were, they couldn’t wear good clothes to go to the streets. If they wanted to wear good clothes, they could only stay at home. It felt like you were walking at night in brocade clothes. This has been handed down since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The regulations make many merchants want to give up their old business and change their identities.

After Dongfangsheng lifted these bans, all merchants in Yizhou were grateful and praised by everyone, and they would spontaneously rush to Chengdu County to dedicate their valuable treasures to Dongfangsheng.

Of course, although Dongfang Sheng would not refuse anyone who came, he did not take these things into his bag, but announced in a high-profile manner that he would build a martyr hall to house the orphans and widows of the soldiers who died in battle.

The early funds are the money and goods exchanged for the things sent by these merchants, and the subsequent funds will be paid by the government.

Dongfang Youcai shook a large abacus vigorously in his hand, and the beads of the abacus crackled.

"Uncle, prepare to pay the money. This time Yuan Shu is going to become emperor and we have to take the opportunity to make some money." Dongfang Sheng said to Dongfang Youcai.

crackle!crackle!crackle!

Dongfang Youcai fiddled with the abacus and said, "Nephew, you need to save some money. You have fought too many wars recently, and now my money is a little tight."

Don’t think that Cao Cao and the others are not short of money, they are also short of money, but Cao Cao found another way to rob tombs in addition to robbing other people, which finally eased the problem of military expenditure. Later, his system of garrisoning land has achieved results, so he no longer has to worry about food and military expenditure. up.

However, Dongfang Sheng didn't want to form a tomb robbery team to supplement military expenditures. Of course, he also had his own methods.

"Go to Dongfang Escort to withdraw some money." Dongfang Sheng reminded.

Recently, the business of the Eastern Escort is booming. Tang Youqian has set up branches in major cities in various states. With the cooperation of those retired soldiers, the name of the Eastern Escort has spread all over the land of Kyushu.

The insurance business conceived by Dongfang Sheng has also developed under the operation of Tang Youqian. Although not many people can accept it at present, those wealthy businessmen or officials are quite interested. Some people have already booked this insurance business. Pay premiums on your own property.

(End of this chapter)