Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"Mutual tax cuts benefit the people and self, Demao, you have shown such sincerity, if we don't respond, isn't it a bit too petty?"

"I, Yuan Boye, hereby promise that I am willing to reduce taxes by [-]% for the members of the alliance as a whole. Among them, coal, silk, and timber are permanently exempted from taxes, as a show of sincerity!"

"Also, although my Shanyang is not as rich as Qingzhou, after so many years, I still have a little surplus food in my hand. Now that the prefect Sun Jian is in trouble, I can assure you, De Mao, that as long as the prefect Sun Jian also joins the alliance If so, then I, Shanyang, would like to donate grain and ten thousand stones to help Prefect Sun Jian tide over the difficulties!"

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"I would also like to join!"

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"And me, take me one!"

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Soon, when Yuan Yi was the first to make a decision unable to withstand the temptation, everyone's attitudes were like dominoes, falling in one direction.

Especially those whose families were seriously harassed by Qingzhou thieves, or who were close to the Qingzhou border, expressed their opinions faster than anyone else.

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"De Mao, this matter is very good. I and others have already agreed to join the alliance you mentioned, but I don't know. Do you have any ideas about how to do it?"

"Mutual aid and offensive and defensive alliances are easy to talk about. If you cut taxes for each other, it's easy to be used by others?"

"Just talk about the origin of this businessman, how can we be sure?"

After discussing with each other for a while, Kong Rong was the first to speak and asked Zhang Yan.

"Hehe, that's easy to say."

Smiling at everyone, Zhang Yan couldn't help but relax when he saw that the matter was going smoothly.

"It is true that tax cuts are like a double-edged sword. If you are not careful, you will be taken advantage of, but I have already prepared for it."

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"Everyone, when you entered the city, you should have each applied for a temporary identity certificate for Lujiang, right?"

"Even if I don't mention the convenience of this kind of identification, everyone understands it."

"As long as this kind of household registration system is implemented in their respective places, everyone forms a unified format, and then exchanges data with each other at regular intervals, and that's it."

His eyes flickered slightly, Zhang Yan then said.

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Yes, he didn't mention anything else, he just encouraged people to exchange household registration data with each other on the grounds of promoting trade.

In this way, for example, the population situation of various places in the northern Central Plains was also grasped by Zhang Yan.

Even if this kind of data is much less accurate than Lujiang's data, it has nothing to do with it.

As long as there is a rough number, there are already many operations that Zhang Yan can perform.

Imagine that when you go to war with an enemy, the other party has the identity information of the vast majority of citizens in your entire country, including gender ratio, age structure, education level and even the job they are engaged in...

With such an information advantage, even if Zhang Yan fights with everyone in the future, he will have a considerable intelligence advantage.

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"Since that's the case, let's settle this matter like this."

"In another day, we will call Shang Sun Jian, the prefect, and we will sacrifice blood together as an alliance, so as to plan for the future."

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Of course, regarding the role of intelligence... Most people in this era are actually not clear, or even if they can faintly feel something is wrong, they don't know how to use this thing.

After everyone's discussion, this matter was decided at the banquet, and they only waited for Sun Jian to be there in the future, and formed an alliance with him.

And Zhang Yan also got the first thing he wanted - the basic information of everyone, and a trade agreement that facilitated his commodity dumping.

Now that Lujiang has just built a large number of light and heavy industry factories, the naked eye can see that the future commodity output will increase a lot, which is a great advantage for foreign trade.

It's just that among them, there are not no voices of doubt.

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"This...De Mao, this is really good, but what do you want if you do this?"

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It was none other than Tao Qian who had been silent all day today.

I saw Tao Qian staring at him blankly, as if he was constantly speculating about something in his eyes.

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"Hey, sure enough... Ginger is still old and hot."

"I was noticed by this old thing."

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With a secret sigh in his heart, Zhang Yan could only put on an embarrassing smile in the face of the other party's questioning.

After thinking for a while, he decided not to hide any more, but chose to confess to everyone.

This matter... is nothing to hide.

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"De Mao, you just said that you are not short of food, so you are different from Sun Jian and don't need relief from us northern princes."

"But when it comes to soldiers...you don't lack troops under your command, do you?"

"Back when there were thousands of people, you could find a way to sweep the entire Hetao area. Now that you have tens of thousands of troops in your hands, do you need Sun Jian's military assistance?"

"I do not believe."

"Don't forget, when you started your business, I sold you the first batch of weapons and equipment. There were more than 1 soldiers' equipment!"

"Now that more than a year has passed, I don't know how Lujiang is developing this year, but the army in your hands must have continued to increase... Thirty thousand, forty thousand, or fifty thousand?"

"Anyway, it will only be more than this number, and it will never be less than this number."

"You, who have no shortage of troops or food, why did you bring us together to form an alliance like this?"

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Looking at Zhang Yan with burning eyes, Tao Qian's attitude at this time was even a little aggressive.

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"Hehe, Mr. Tao has good eyesight, so he really can't hide it from you."

Scratching his head in embarrassment, Zhang Yan continued:

"It's really something else to ask for, but it may not be the same as what you imagined, what I want."

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"In forming this alliance, I have two goals. One is that I hope that everyone can exempt each other from taxation. I can sell some of my special products in Lujiang to various places, instead of only selling in Jiangdong area like now."

"there's one more thing……"

"Aren't there many bandits in Qingzhou?"

Turning his head and glanced at Kong Rong who was eavesdropping beside him, Zhang Yan straightened his expression.

"The total number of thieves in Qingzhou exceeds one million, but a large part of them are former farmers in the Central Plains who lost their fields, and finally embarked on this road of no return."

"It can be seen from this that the population of the Central Plains is actually too dense, too dense to be fed."

"As far as I know, the counties in many places are small, but have a population of more than one million, while the six counties in my Jiangdong area combined can cover a quarter of the size of a big Han, but the total population is less than one-tenth of that. "

"My idea is, for these fallen thieves and bandits, those who can be scattered and collected should be scattered and collected as much as possible. As long as the bandit leaders who take the lead in committing crimes are cleaned up, there is actually no need to kill the remaining ordinary people."

"Jiangdong is located in a remote area. If it relies on normal development, I don't know when it will be able to compare with the prosperous areas of the Central Plains."

"If only one-tenth of the millions of Qingzhou thieves surrendered and were incorporated, then these people will be incorporated into Lujiang County, Yangzhou, which will have a great impact on Lujiang's development of resources."

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Yes, apart from trade, another goal of Zhang Yan is population.

The reason why he urged the northern counties to give Sun Jian money and food, and then asked Sun Jian to defeat the Qingzhou bandits, was to be able to reorganize the Qingzhou forces in the future——

These are real labor forces, which are extremely valuable to the future development of Lujiang.

In the original history, Cao Cao wiped out the banditry in Qingzhou and incorporated the local Qingzhou bandits into the Qingzhou Army. Only then did he have his first fortune in dominating the north and contending with Yuan Shao.

In order to grab a share of the Qingzhou territory before Cao Cao, Zhang Yan didn't even dare to say too much to everyone, and only said a number of one-tenth.

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Basically everyone knows that in this era, when those so-called peasant rebels have leaders, they can say that once the leader dies, their will to surrender will be terribly high.

If there was a fight, let alone one-tenth, if Sun Jian really gritted his teeth and gathered [-] elite soldiers to go north to Qingzhou, then maybe one-half or even two-thirds of the thieves in Qingzhou would surrender.

According to the historical fact that Cao Cao reorganized 30 Qingzhou soldiers, even if he is one out of ten, there are at least 300 million Qingzhou thieves.

Coupled with some local farmers who refused high taxes in the name of Qingzhou thieves, Zhang Yan guessed that the number would only be higher.

Swallow 150 million people at once?

Zhang Yan is afraid that he can wake up happily in his dreams.

He didn't dare to say so much in front of everyone, otherwise, if Tao Qian and others reacted, he would be labeled as a private plunderer who intends to rebel.

After all, this kind of way among the three parties, where one person provides money and food, one person sends soldiers and generals, and one person is responsible for receiving and handling prisoners of war, has never appeared in today's big Han.

Zhang Yan believed that as long as some time passed, after everyone realized the importance of population in times of war, it would be difficult for him to pick up such a big deal again.

PS: Thanks to the three big guys for their rewards. Yesterday and today add up to a total of almost 2000 cat coins, just add 3*[-].

Being idle is also idle, I pretended to give myself a reward of 10000, to make up the whole, and strive for three chapters today to get [-].

This is Chapter 1.

Chapter 38 Things Don't Always Go Bad

"De Mao, you shouldn't want to rebel like those thieves, right?"

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