Iron Dynasty

Weijia Restaurant.

Xiao Qi looked at the bustling Qingzhou street and felt a little confused. He had sent someone to pass the truce back to Jinling City, but he was very pessimistic about the result.

In fact, after the failure of the integration, Xiao Han slandered him in Jinling City. His words were just flashy, and the integration was just a stupid method.

But despite this, King Wei has not lost his trust in him. It's just that King Wei's attitude is very clear. He wants Xiao Ming to retreat and return to the city. However, after seeing this truce today, he suddenly understood that Wei Di was thoroughly thorough. It became a commodity traded by Xiao Ming and other vassals.

Because of this, he suddenly felt a sorrow in his heart. Once upon a time, Wei Di was the leading state of the Great Yu Kingdom. Even Xiao Wenxuan had to be afraid of three points, but now Wei Di can only tremble in the shadow of Xiao Ming.

Yes, Wang Wei has a bit of a hard bone, but in his opinion, no matter how hard this bone is, it can't stop Xiao Ming's guns.

It's just that Wang Wei hasn't come out of this gap, he has always looked down on Xiao Ming, and is even more reluctant to give in to him.

After sighing, Xiao Qi closed his eyes. After Xiao Ming left this time, he suddenly had an ominous premonition. This feeling was weird, but he couldn't tell.

However, the ominous premonition soon became a reality, and on the third day he got the news that the Southern Army had attacked Huaizhou.

Upon hearing the news, he finally understood what Xiao Ming said. As long as he did not sign the truce for a day, he would have time to continue to attack the city. At this time, the envoys of King Yan and King Zhao were helpless. After all, this was caused by him. .

When King Wei agreed to this matter, it was estimated that Huaizhou would be another city on the truce. Thinking of this, he immediately wrote a letter to King Wei and told King Wei to agree to a truce.

Otherwise, Wei Di will only lose more and more cities, and King Yan and King Zhao will not stop Xiao Ming.

In the Prince Qi's Mansion on the three streets of the Weijia Restaurant, Xiao Ming also learned that the Southern Army had attacked Huaizhou.

"His Royal Highness, this king of Wei is eating his own evil result this time, and we don't have to be polite. After we take Huaizhou, the land of the north gate of Wei Di will be ours, and our fief will increase the population by one million." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, Pengzhou City has a population of 500,000, Tongzhou City has a population of 200,000, and Huaizhou City has a population of about 300,000, which adds up to a total of 1 million people, which is equivalent to adding one of three people to the country. The population, this south is indeed a densely populated place.

If we swallow the whole land, he estimated that the population of the country would be as high as 7 million, which is basically the same as the population of Britain in this era.

With this demographic foundation, he was no longer afraid of the crowded tactics of other vassals united, but Huaizhou is now being deployed by the king of Wei. It is estimated that it will not be easy for the Southern Expedition Army to gnaw off this hard bone.

"I just hope that Lu Fei can quickly win Huaizhou, but what happened to the agricultural income you said last time? Is there anything wrong with it."

Siege of cities and land is important, but internal affairs are the basis for siege of cities and land, so Xiao Ming must not let go.

Pang Yukun said: "His Royal Highness, this time the official is just about to talk about this matter. The people of the six states didn't say anything about the restoration of agricultural income. After all, they have paid agricultural income before, and this time our agricultural income is very low. The people are very happy, so the collection of agricultural income went smoothly."

After a pause, he continued: "But some people are unwilling to pay for the agricultural taxes, but instead pay directly for money, cloth, raw silk and the like. I don't know what your Highness wants?"

"The people now know that there is chaos outside, and it's normal to want to keep more grain. Moreover, the requisition of agricultural taxes by the Great Yu Country is to offset by a variety of materials. If there are people like this, please accept it." Xiao Ming said with a deep voice.

Pang Yukun nodded, and then asked a very important question, "His Royal Highness, should the expropriated agricultural taxes remain in the government office or handed over to the national treasury?"

Startled for a moment, Xiao Ming asked, "Why are you asking this question?"

Pang Yukun said: “The agricultural taxes of Dayu are part of the state government’s own, and the rest is turned over to the state treasury. However, the tax method learned at Bowen College is to let the state government’s government pay all taxes to the state treasury. The state treasury will then allocate it to the prefectures according to the situation. This taxation is a major matter of the country, and the lower officials only report to His Highness."

Xiao Ming knows, he said: “The self-retained taxes in each state will inevitably have the disadvantages of shoddy and embezzlement. In order to avoid this tax being withheld in each state and county, you ask them to hand over the accounts and taxes to Qingzhou together. After the accounts are completed, part of them will be returned."

"It's just that, the cost of transporting these materials to Qingzhou in various states and counties will be very expensive." Pang Yukun reminded.

Xiao Ming suddenly reacted. He sighed. This era is still too backward, but even so, he still insisted on this method. He has not forgotten that the tens of millions of taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty were intercepted by layers and arrived in the capital. Only a few things are left.

In any era, the courage of corrupt officials is great, and Xiao Ming doesn't believe that his country is an upright official.

In fact, no matter in that dynasty, whether it was the founding or the end times, the proportion of corrupt officials in officialdom was higher than that of honest officials.

"Part of it is given, and all of it is given." Xiao Ming said: "Moreover, every village and county must have its own account book backup for inspection and verification."

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming continued: "Pang Shoufu, this tax is the place where officials are most prone to embezzlement. You have to hold on. You can't rub sand in your eyes, and you can't rub sand in my eyes."

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun's expression was a bit strange. He looked at Xiao Ming what he wanted to say, but in the end he didn't say anything~www.ltnovel.com~Huaizhou.

At the time when Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun were talking about this farming, the Southern Expedition Army was launching a full-scale attack on Huaizhou City.

As the intelligence said, Wei Wang added fifty artillery pieces to Huaizhou City, but these artillery pieces were smashed by Qingzhou Army artillery before they were used.

Different from the city of Pengzhou, Huaizhou has a very flat terrain.

Facing such a city without even a moat, Lu Fei boldly deployed the soldiers in front of the city wall, while Baimu's cavalry was on both sides of the infantry to protect the flanks, because there were three thousand cavalry in Huaizhou City.

In order to defend Huaizhou City this time, King Wei had invested a lot of capital.

Just talking about the cavalry, how can these Huaizhou cavalry be opponents of the Qingzhou cavalry who personally fought against the barbarians? When the Southern Expeditionary Army first arrived in Huaizhou City, the cavalry of the Huaizhou Army tried to attack the arrayed infantry, but After dropping their bodies, these cavalrymen hid in the city and never came out.