The Strongest Overlord of the Three Kingdoms

If the circumstances are serious, they may be imprisoned, exiled to the army, or executed according to the circumstances.

Although Sun Quan was friendly, he was definitely not pedantic.

He will never be soft on these rebellious officials and thieves who disturb the law and order.

Under his governance, no one in Jingzhou dared to do anything wrong again.

Political clarity!

Sun Quan thinks he has done a good job, but there are always shortcomings.

For example, the development of Jingzhou has never been able to keep up with Yangzhou.

This made Sun Quan very puzzled!

If Yizhou is the target, Jingzhou is of course far superior.

But Sun Quan is also a proud and arrogant person, how could he be inferior to the superior.

His goal has always been Yangzhou.

To this end, Sun Quan put in a lot of effort.

For the livelihood of the people, Sun Quan suggested that the government should provide money and farm tools.

It even rented the land to the people and let them work.

There is no tax to pay in the first year, some grain is left in the second year, and the rest is handed over.

In other words, as long as the common people work hard, they can live a good life without worrying about other things.

Just focus on production!

However, Jingzhou's output has not increased.

Sun Quan introduced his government decrees emphatically, and asked Liu Ke for advice:

"How do Dongyanghou think it can be improved?"

Logically speaking, Liu Ke is not obliged to answer such questions, but now it is a critical period to win over Jingzhou.

Sun Quan's attitude is also very important!

So, Liu Ke patiently explained:

"This decree seems to have lightened the burden on the people, but it's not. Compared to those people who don't have any tools, what about the richer people?"

Sun Quan was a little confused.

"Those wealthy people, or aristocratic families, will hire the poor to work, and then they wait for the output... This leads to the upper class, who don't pay any labor! They just sit back and enjoy the rewards."

"Driven by Yangzhou, Jingzhou has become richer and richer, and the grain yield per mu has increased, which has also led to fewer and fewer laborers."

"Not only that, those people who are in charge of labor, day after day, year after year, their harvest has increased, but it has not fallen into their own pockets. For example, this year I planted five thousand shi of grain, leaving Next one thousand, turn in five thousand, plant ten thousand shi of grain tomorrow, or keep one thousand...then why do I need to grow more grain?"

"Everyone just wants to eat, so how can productivity be improved?"

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Sun Quan memorized it, but he seemed to understand it half-understood, and he would understand it slowly later.He said cheekily:

"How to solve this problem?"

"One, the more you work, the more you get!"

This is easy to understand, and Sun Quan remembered it.

"Secondly, let wealthy people also work for production."

Sun Quan was very surprised. Everyone has no worries about food and clothing, so it is difficult to mobilize, right?

"Let me tell you this, ordinary people use human power to plow the fields. Why not buy thousands of cows at a high price and lease or sell them to the common people to plow the fields?"

"What does King Dongyang mean to encourage business?"

"When people become rich, it is necessary to do business. Food and clothing can no longer satisfy some people's ambitions."

This reason made Sun Quan a little helpless.

This metaphor is very appropriate, but ambition is like a flood. Once released, it cannot be taken back.

And regarding Jingzhou's taxes, Liu Ke has long wanted to complain.

"Your commercial tax should be changed."

Sun Quan showed a puzzled look.

Liu Ke went on to say: "Abandon the previous decree of poll tax collection and change it to transaction tax."

"What if a businessman evades taxes?" Sun Quan said.

Calculated according to the head, the income is city tax, and if there are a lot of goods, a little transportation tax will be charged.

This is the status quo in Jingzhou, there is no unified standard at all.

"In every city, an exchange is established for merchants to trade. If the transaction is successful, a certificate will be issued and a certain amount of tax will be paid. And people will be assigned to supervise and manage, and transactions that are not traded on the exchange will not be protected."

"There are also various exorbitant taxes and a series of tolls, which should be removed."