The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 110 Gou Chun’s Magical Use

As Su Jun chose to surrender to Liu Tai, the wealthy families in Ye County could only accept their fate with a sad face.

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At the moment, the Su family is the largest family in Ye County. Neither he nor the Su family can stand up to Liu Tai, let alone Su Jun, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who surrendered to Liu Tai in a blink of an eye.

As Liu Tai dealt with these matters one after another, the entire Qingzhou was completely twisted into a fist by Liu Tai.

Liu Tai's orders were directly conveyed to the lowest level of the people through veterans in the army.

Let them know that Liu Tai is in charge of Qingzhou now, not the various wealthy families above them.

Of course, for the people of Qingzhou, this incident immediately had a considerable impact on their lives.

Suddenly, many hooligans without houses, property, or jobs appeared everywhere.

Servants of local wealthy families needed to be registered and taxed, so many slaves were released at once.

As an official in Qingzhou, Liu Tai shamelessly allowed the collective farms to accept unlimited slaves, which greatly increased the cost of hiring slaves for the wealthy families.

This is like a modern company. Not only do they need to pay workers five insurances and one housing fund during working hours, but they also need to improve their wages.

Otherwise, the government directly states that it will cover the bottom line in an unlimited amount. Although it will not make a lot of money, it will ensure that you can survive.

And with the officialdom represented by Liu Tai assuming an unlimited stance, it would be quite painful for the exploiting class represented by the gentry and wealthy families.

As for resisting Liu Tai... I didn't see whether those who resisted Liu Tai were destroyed, escaped, or surrendered...

To a certain extent, as long as they don't think about starting a business and stick to their own land, these aristocratic families can still survive.

After all, Liu Tai is a madman in the eyes of the wealthy family, but at least he is still a reasonable madman.

Of course, even if you are not as happy as before, at least you have survived and your life is no longer precarious.

And precisely because the cost of hiring slaves increased, many wealthy families chose to release their slaves.

There is no other way. As long as they hire slaves privately and are caught without registration, the wealthy family will need to pay a large fine.

The fine is divided into three parts, one is for the informant, one is for the slave, and the other is to be handed over to Liu Tai.

If the money is not enough, the government needs to purchase acres of land and use the money and grain exchanged from the acres to make up for the fine.

In order to collect the money smoothly, Liu Tai approached Gou Chun and asked, "Have you rested enough?"

"The governor plans to send me on a mission?" Gou Chun couldn't help but sit upright after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Gou Xi hasn't even solved the Xu niche yet, and I'm afraid he hasn't successfully established himself in Xuzhou yet. How can I need you to contact me!" Liu Tai shook his head and looked at Gou Chun.

"My brother will definitely cut that thief Xu Gong into pieces!" Gou Chun couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

In the decisive battle with Liu Tai, they admitted that Liu Tai defeated Gou Xi's army head-on.

After all, military strategists pay attention to the victors, princes and losers. At least Liu Tai gave Gou Xi a chance to start over.

But in comparison, if Xu Gong hadn't been so precious about his life, Gou Xi would have had a chance to win, at least he wouldn't have been defeated so quickly.

"I think so!" Liu Tai nodded and said casually, "But are you just going to be idle like this and don't want to find something to do?"

"You...what do you want from me?" Gou Chun naturally became more alert after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"I issued a decree that targets the land acquisition and tax collection of wealthy families in the Qingzhou realm! I think you understand." Liu Tai looked at Gou Chun and said calmly.

"I have just been released, but you didn't even give me an acre of land, and there are no servants around me. This matter has nothing to do with me!"

When Gou Chun heard Liu Tai's words, he suddenly reacted, "You plan to use me?!"

Liu Tai looked at Gou Chun and said, "I plan to set up an organization specifically to target tax evasion by noble families, let's call it the Taxation Department for the time being.

I need a ruthless and ruthless official to check the land and service taxes of these noble families. Are you interested? "

"You dare to use me?!" Gou Chun was even a little unbelievable when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Why don't you dare!" Liu Tai looked at Gou Chun and said,
"Your brother's martial arts are amazing, but if he loses once, just look at it, he will definitely be left out by Sima Rui.

When you develop well with me, people will not say that you are Gou Xi's younger brother, but will say that he is Gou Chun's older brother. "

"He is my brother..." Gou Chun couldn't help chewing the term when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Yes!" Liu Tai looked at Gou Chun, smiled and said, "My Majesty took Luoyang and I heard that he kept concubines every day, fearing that he would be misled by wine and sex.

As for other people, at most Sima Rui will be regarded as highly by you, so besides me, who else are you willing to work for and who can you work for? "

Liu Tai pointed at himself, but his face was full of confidence, which made Gou Chun's heart move.

Gou Chun had to admit that just as Liu Tai said, even if he wanted to take refuge, he would take refuge in Liu Tai.

There is no way, Liu Tai has defeated him twice and let him go twice. Is he really going to try to capture him three times? Who is so shameless!
However, even so, Gou Chun still said stiffly, "This task given to me by the governor is very difficult. I have to go against a wealthy family!"

When Liu Tai heard this, he couldn't help but raised his eyebrows, and then said with a smile, "How about it, don't you like it?"

"General, what do you mean, can I do my best?" Gou Chun couldn't help but licked his mouth, and his breathing became rapid.

"It's just to check for tax evasion. We won't leave those wealthy families without tombstones or rankings!" Liu Tai said calmly.

"Huh?!" Gou Chun couldn't help but froze when he heard Liu Tai's words, wondering what he was planning to do.

"If a certain aristocratic family or a few lines of a wealthy family are really wiped out, God will be kind to them, remember to find someone to renew their incense!" Liu Tai said calmly.

"It's just tax evasion. Is this necessary?" Gou Chun looked at Liu Tai and advised him.

Just kidding, Gou Chun felt that everyone in the world called him a little butcher, but there was no one as fierce as this one.

If you open your mouth and shut up, you will lose your heir. Even if you are a cruel official, you still have a bottom line!

"They stole my money, my money!" Liu Tai said seriously, "I don't give my money, no one can steal it!"

"Chun understands!" Gou Chun nodded repeatedly looking at Liu Tai's hysterical look.Liu Tai patted Gou Chun's shoulder seriously and said, "I can rest assured if I leave this matter to you!"

"How dare you disobey me!" Gou Chun took a deep breath and finally chose to agree.

The news that Gou Chun was appointed and dismissed by Liu Tai as the director of the Taxation Department, which specializes in investigating tax evasion, spread quickly.

No one thinks that this so-called Taxation Department is a great position. It is more like an organization specially established to cooperate with Liu Tai's two tax issues of farming and corvee labor.

However, Gou Chun's name is still quite popular in the ears of the surviving aristocratic families in Qingzhou.

After all, last year, the little butcher followed his elder brother to control Qingzhou, so they naturally knew very well what kind of person Gou Chun was. Even Liu Tai's intimidation power may not be as amazing as Gou Chun.

After Gou Chun came forward, Liu Tai no longer interfered with the taxation of farmland and corvee labor, because Gou Chun was very energetic after investigating tax evasion.

Liu Tai gave Gou Chun considerable power. Gou Chun even had the ability to dispatch an army of about 1000 people.

Gou Chun himself was very surprised by this, but he did not expect Liu Tai to delegate power to such an extent.

But in fact, Liu Tai himself was not afraid of Gou Chun's betrayal.

Because Gou Chun's army also had military history, he and Gou Chun were not in the same system, and this system even played a role in supervising Gou Chun.

As for the soldiers themselves, it was indispensable to take the "Han Shu" course every day, and the teachings were all about improving the Han people's sense of honor.

In addition to necessary literacy, patriotic education and national education are integrated with each other. If they rebel purely for personal interests, basically as long as Liu Tai comes forward, the vast majority of people will choose to surrender.

In fact, Liu Tai also tried his best to improve the treatment of the army, and the entire political system itself also tended to give priority to military affairs.

Under such circumstances, Gou Chun himself really couldn't get out of Liu Tai's hands. Moreover, compared with leading troops to fight, the current job of directly confiscating the homes of nobles and wealthy families as long as they evaded taxes, made Gou Chun even more full of enthusiasm. A sense of excitement.

As Gouchun kept an eye on whether these aristocratic families had evaded taxes, Liu Tai's thoughts could be focused on other places.

Liu Tai approached Zhang Song at this time. Zhang Song's eyes were black, and the thick dark circles under his eyes were terrifying.

"Mr. Zhang, you should pay attention to your health, your eyes are so scary!" Liu Tai looked at Zhang Song and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's just a few days of hard work to take stock of the population. Once the population policy is compiled, I will naturally be free!"

Zhang Song took a deep breath and said to Liu Tai, "The prince is looking for me. What do you mean?"

"After taking stock of the population these days, do you think there is any problem?" Liu Tai looked at Zhang Song and couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Song couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words, but he immediately reacted and looked at Liu Tai and said, "But the female population and the number of children are small? The number of men in Qingzhou accounts for more than half?"

"Well!" Liu Tai looked at Zhang Song and nodded and said, "There was no bumper harvest of winter wheat in the past, so I didn't dare to ask you to come forward to recruit people.

Not only men, but especially women and children, we need a large number of acquisitions, and this will be a long-term work.

After much deliberation, I can only leave this matter to you to handle. The fall of Luoyang was only the beginning of the world's chaos, not the end of it.

If Qingzhou wants to become strong, the most important thing it needs is population. Now that the gentry are fleeing south and the barbarians are tyrannical, no one cares about the people.

Everyone does not pay attention to the importance of the people. This is the best opportunity for us, especially since we plan to develop the area east of Qingzhou, and we need a large number of people to come here to reclaim the land! "

"I understand!" Zhang Song heard Liu Tai's words and nodded, "Song will try his best to buy the people!"

Liu Tai thought about it and said, "Use our salt as much as possible to open roads and use less of our food.

Compared with salt, it would be too troublesome to wait for the next wave of harvest for food, and it would also have to support the newly added population.

But we have as much salt as they want. You can try to sell our salt stamps to surrounding areas! "

"Okay, I'll try my best!" Zhang Song couldn't help but smile a bit when he heard Liu Tai's words.

To be honest, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Gao Song would have found it hard to believe that the salt notes in Liu Tai's hands had fermented for a year, and the people had vaguely accepted this paper note as currency.

After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the currency of the entire Western Jin Dynasty was completely chaotic, and all kinds of currencies were used on the market.

But the problem is that various currencies are constantly being eliminated in such troubled times, and the entire society has become a barter exchange society.

Liu Tai did not want to play any game of recasting currency, but began to pass Cao Yi's plan to rebuild a new city called Guanggu City. In addition to providing two meals, he also began to issue salt stamps.

At first, the people couldn't believe it and took these salt coupons to exchange for salt. After they could successfully exchange for salt every time, they knew that the salt coupons were guaranteed. If they had enough salt, they would just collect more salt. Salt ticket.

Then, Liu Tai specially opened a grocery store next to each salt industry hall, allowing salt stamps to be traded, so that the salt stamps would not be held tightly in the hands of the people, but would be allowed to flow.

When people break away from the impression that salt stamps can only be exchanged for salt, and can truly become a general equivalent that can be exchanged for all other materials, the salt stamps have taken the strongest step towards banknotes.

The most important thing is that because the salt stamp is essentially a benchmark for salt, even if there is a shortage of certain things in the future and you cannot buy or sell it, the salt will definitely be enough. As long as you can get the stamp, you can afford the salt!
At the same time, because the technology of seawater sun-drying is in its own hands, its purpose is actually to lower the price of salt.

Naturally, he can take advantage of the trend and slowly issue more salt coupons, invisibly lowering the value of salt coupons based on table salt, thereby plundering... or gathering the people's surplus value to do great things for Qingzhou.

After all, it would be a great merit to have brought the price of salt down.

In this process, picking up some wealth from the people can be regarded as collecting some patent fees for science and technology.

Of course, what Liu Tai hopes most is that the surrounding forces can accept his note.

Anyway, if they come here with salt coupons to exchange for salt, they will definitely exchange it for them. All they have to do is use a car to drive the salt back.

Of course, you can't blame yourself for being exploited invisibly by yourself in the process.

As long as you use this salt ticket, you will definitely get some benefits. If you feel that it is a loss, you don't have to use it!

Having mastered the territory of a state, Liu Tai felt that his moving space was much larger.

In fact, apart from the emergence of salt tickets, which have a major impact on the economy, Liu Tai's next focus is on military reorganization.

After all, my current army is actually quite complicated in terms of composition and quality, and needs a considerable comprehensive reorganization.

(End of this chapter)