The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 118 Yangman surrenders
Liu Tai's sense of Yang Man is quite good, because Yang Man follows the rules.

Even Gou Chun went to investigate Yangman. Whether it was collecting taxes on the family's land or paying taxes on the corvee, the Taiyang family paid them obediently.

It is completely different from the impression given by other aristocratic families. The Yang family gives people more of a soft feeling.

Liu Tai is reasonable to this kind of people after all, and naturally has no interest in bullying the Yang family.

Moreover, this time in the suppression of the plague in Taishan County, Tai Yangshi also donated money and people, playing a considerable leading role, which made Liu Tai even more embarrassed to deal with him.

However, Liu Tai found it strange. Is there really such a pure and good person in the family?

Although he was shocked, Liu Tai still chose to treat Yangman well.

But this time when Yang Man came over, he had thought about it again and again, and felt that working under Liu Tai now might not be a bad thing.

No matter what, Liu Tai can fight personally, and he also pays great attention to the people at the bottom. If such a person said that he would be destroyed soon in these troubled times, to be honest, Yang Man would not believe it.

As troubled times have arrived, it's time for aristocratic families of all sizes to make bets.

It's just that the aristocratic families of this era are somewhat different from the aristocratic families of the late Han Dynasty, because some of the aristocratic families of this era chose to integrate with the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties, some chose to go south to find Sima Rui to find opportunities, and of course some of them united with some Jin Dynasty princes. Seek life.

I have stayed under Liu Tai's rule for the past few years. I don't say how good Liu Tai is, but at least Liu Tai follows the rules.

For any aristocratic family, as long as the other party respects the rules, the aristocratic family is willing to contact them.

After all, these are already troubled times. Firstly, you don’t want to leave your hometown, secondly, you want to continue your family, and thirdly, you want to preserve your reputation.

How come you are so lucky that you can still take advantage of all the benefits in this troubled world?

Even further, since Luoshui of the Sima family broke the oath, the world has already become king. The one with strong soldiers and horses is the king. You say that Taiyang clan is a thief. If Liu Tai wins in the end, then look who is the thief!

Therefore, Yangman came to Liu Tai for a showdown, and stopped pretending. I think you have a bright future, and I want to join you.

And Liu Tai didn't expect that Yangman would take the initiative to seek refuge with him.

Although he didn’t know why, it didn’t stop Liu Tai from choosing to use Yang Man. He couldn’t help but say:

"Zu Yan, the plague is raging now, and we have finally found a cure to save the plague. Can you tell the world about this cure through your connections with the aristocratic family?

It was especially spread to the south of the Yangtze River, and it was emphasized that the plague was solved because of Ge Hong's discovery of kudzu, a life-saving medicine.

If Ge Hong is willing to come to Qingzhou, I will treat him as a guest and give him thousands of acres of fertile land. "

"President Liu is going to announce this medicine to the world?!" Yang Man did not expect that this would be the first task he received.

"Exactly!" Liu Tai nodded, "Compared to the plague, war is nothing.

If it hadn't been for the Eight Kings' Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty, which made the people miserable, how could we, the Chinese people, have suffered such a great loss of vitality?

In this case, if you can save one of the people who are alive now, just save one.

Don't be afraid if you are afraid. Even if you inform the world about the prescription, you are still afraid that no one in the world will care about the people.

I just hope that the word kudzu root can be mentioned more, so that when people save themselves, they can take a few bites of this medicine to survive this natural and man-made disaster! "

"The governor Renyi is so far away that I will definitely pass on this news to Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places." Yang Man said solemnly.

"Now in these two places, some scholars have fled south, some have rebelled, and some have caused trouble, and even the owner of the dock has saved himself. It can be said that it is a mess. For the time being, you can do harm to my lord, and I will give you five hundred elite soldiers. Let you work on this matter!" Liu Tai said to Yang Man.

"Thank you, Governor!" Yangman thanked Liu Tai after hearing Liu Tai's words, and both parties breathed a sigh of relief.

At least from this moment on, for Liu Tai, it was the first time that a top aristocratic family had taken refuge in him.

As for Yang Man, at least his Yang family will not be so embarrassed in Liu Tai's world.

At this moment, Xi Jian was silently watching the scene in front of him. He really did not expect that the Yang family, which was always known for its virtues, and even the Taiyang family, which could be regarded as a family of relatives, would actually choose to join Liu Tai.

To be honest, this is very instructive for a poor family like Xi Jian who has become lonely.

"Should I stay with Liu Tai for a while? At least Mai'er and Yi'er are still young. If I abandon them, how can I be worthy of my brother and sister?" Xi Jian calmed down for a while and finally decided to continue. Let’s talk later.

After Liu Tai had a brief exchange with Yang Man, he found that Yang Man gave people a sense of sincerity, which made people unconsciously trust Yang Man.

However, Yang Man did not stay with Liu Tai for too long. After the two discussed the trivial matters, Yang Man said goodbye to Liu Tai and began to take the initiative to promote the prescription for treating the plague.

After the plague was brought under control, Liu Tai did not stay on the front line for long, but returned to Linzi to deal with various chores.

The first is to gradually arrange for the people who participated in the plague rescue to return to their hometowns, and also give them a sign, so that they can enjoy corresponding treatment to a certain extent.

In addition, each person was given a bag of salt, hoping that they would speak for themselves in the future.

In addition, Liu Tai began to free up his hands to clean up those officials at the bottom, or replace them with a group of retired officers, or promote a group of people at the grassroots level from the martyrs who went to the epidemic area this time.

It can be said that Liu Tai has quite a lot of things to do in Qingzhou.

Especially when Tian Tian submitted his plan to build shipyards in every county, Liu Tai quickly grabbed it.

After all, this matter is related to the future decisive battle between himself and Wang Jun.

But simply building a dock is a bit unreasonable to Liu Tai.

Because the construction of a shipyard, even in ancient times, was a matter of considerable initial investment.

Especially for these shipyards, they will need a certain level of water divisions to carry out repairs and repairs in the future. This will definitely require a larger scale, manpower, materials and space... these are all problems.

For Liu Tai, the biggest problem is how such a shipyard should make profits. This is the key.

It would be too wasteful for me to use it once as an official and then throw it away.

This is really different from my idea of ​​contracting the Bohai Sea as an inland sea. After all, the fishery resources of the entire Bohai Sea are a very important resource point for me.

Other people in this era intentionally or unintentionally ignored the importance of the ocean and thought only of eating from the land.

But I am different. I come from the future. For me, the ocean has a more distant future than the land.Because of this, the big reason why I formulated a strategy around the Bohai Sea is that I wanted to take over the Navy at the beginning of my army... No!The ocean should be included in your basic plan.

There is a saying that you are not here to share the joys and sorrows, and you are not worthy of the glory and wealth. This not only describes the relationship between men and women, but also, this sentence can also form the underlying structure and power distribution when a political power is formed.

The navy has always been a neglected part of China. There is no way, China's own terrain determines the status of the navy.

Therefore, after the unification of China, the navy was often just an embellishment of China's military power.

Even the current highest-ranking navy commander, unless it was a separatist regime in the south, would not be considered a high-ranking official in a unified dynasty.

In future wars, there will indeed be very few places where the navy can help itself. However, the military and political help to itself is not high, but this does not mean that the economic help to itself is not high.

Needless to say, at least in this era without pollution and water pollution, after my navy turned the Bohai Sea into my own inland sea, it not only made it easier for me to get to Liaodong, but also helped me get horses, the most advanced kind. outside of resources.

The most important thing is that under his own guidance, he can continue to develop deep-sea fishing, gradually increase the proportion of seafood and fish in his own food, and use profits to guide the people of this era to develop marine resources.

There is no way, this era has entered the Little Ice Age. As the average temperature drops, farming does not have no future, but if we focus on the farming industry during this period, it is basically going against the will of heaven.

But it's different when it comes to developing marine resources. Even if it's not going with the flow, it's at least encroaching on an uncontested incremental market.

At least for China as a whole, if it takes only 20, 30 or even 50 years to develop distant-ocean fishing technology, it will not be easy for China to curb ocean power in the future.

Because the navy is one of the important foundations for the founding of a country, and ocean fishing supports tens of millions of people. If anyone says the word "forbidden sea", they will probably face a war that divides the entire China. .

Think about it: "One million canal workers are responsible for food and clothing, and it is absolutely forbidden to abandon the canal to sea!" If the profits from offshore fishing are tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, then one million canal workers are nothing.

Therefore, in Liu Tai's strategy, the Bohai Sea is very important, and the plan to surround the Bohai Sea is also very important.

Although this is very unrealistic for the current struggle for the world, the Bohai Rim Plan has no obvious benefits.

But in 20 years, 30 years, or even further in the future, as these people who eat Haiyang's rice grow up, they will become a political group of their own.

The people who originated from the circle around the Bohai Sea will become firm supporters of the ocean and become the foundation for China to open up the world in the future.

Liu Tai can see such a distant future, but the vision of people in this era cannot span a thousand years.

Therefore, Liu Tai needed to cultivate the political group he desired from the beginning to build a suitable hotbed, and the current investment is naturally necessary.

Otherwise, if they really wait until the world is unified and then develop a marine system, they will naturally have less power than the land.

“First of all, people need to be encouraged to fish, but to ask for food from the ocean.

In this era, the risks of begging for food from the land are completely different. The risks of fishing are much greater than the risks of farming.

Moreover, the initial investment required is too great, so should I encourage them to a certain extent? "

Liu Tai was deep in thought, knowing that it would be unrealistic for him to cultivate the political group he desired without a certain degree of policy support for the people of this era.

As for the first step of this, Liu Tai felt that he did not need to come up with too advanced policies.

Not to mention, what kind of insurance, what kind of stocks, or giving them obsolete warships to fish, are these policies good? They are indeed good, and they will greatly help the development of maritime power.

But now even the offshore fishery may not be very mature, and what the coastal people need is not to give them ships.

But let them know that even becoming a fisherman is not a shameful thing. The first thing to do is to collect taxes from fishermen.

Don't think that taxation is an exploitation of fishermen, but in fact the taxation itself represents their inclusion in the national system.

Why farmers in ancient times were particularly important? One of the important reasons is that farmers collect taxes. Naturally, the state must continue to drain their wealth. When farmers are affected by disasters, they will be cared for and exempted.

On the contrary, actors in ancient times were particularly lowly because they belonged to a group that did not pay taxes. Individuals may have someone to protect them, but as a group, there was no political group to speak out for them. Because they did not pay taxes, they did not bear their due responsibilities as citizens. responsibility.

But now, the status of actors has gradually increased. One of the important reasons is that modern actors have begun to pay taxes.

Tax collection also has the effect of helping the country collect IQ taxes reasonably and broadening the channels for national taxation.

Therefore, the country is quite tolerant of actors, but there is also a bottom line for the country, that is, actors cannot make mistakes in taxation, otherwise, the actor himself has reached a dead end and lost his protection as a citizen of this country. .

The same is true now when it comes to fisheries. If you start to tax fishermen, it means that fishermen have been included in your own political system.

To put it crudely, if you have already paid the protection fee, then I will never force you to death. Otherwise, where can I continue to collect protection fees in the future?

Liu Tai narrowed his eyes slightly, "So I can use these docks to become my tentacles for managing grassroots fishermen.

At the beginning, some benefits can be given to the people, such as helping fishermen repair their boats, renting advanced fishing gear, or guiding people to certain waters where fishing is easy.

After all, it is impossible for the people at the bottom to do away with the interests of the official auxiliary fishermen.

But when the information from the grassroots people is almost collected, especially after they adapt to the help of these shipyards.

Then you can publish the news of collecting taxes from grassroots fishermen. If they want to continue to enjoy these benefits, they must register and collect one stone of dried fish a year to enjoy these benefits.

Of course, they can refuse, but those who accept will instinctively form a circle to exclude and suppress them.

Since ancient times, free is the most expensive. I want these simple people to understand the sinister human heart in the 21st life.

However, is it a heavy burden for the common people to harvest one stone of dried fish a year?We still need to collect more information and take a look. "

Liu Tai couldn't help but feel a little hesitant in his heart.

After all, collecting taxes from fishermen is not as well-documented as collecting food from farmers.

After determining how much to charge per acre, farmers are left to their own devices under the contract responsibility system, so that they can be more or less certain.

But when it comes to fishing, the most news from this era is the collection of fish pond taxes.

As for taxing offshore fishing, there is really no such thing. After all, it is too late to dig food from the land. Who would look up at the ocean!

(End of this chapter)