my days with tyrants

Chapter 207 I Stop Pretending, I Have a Showdown, I Am a Monster

Yingzemen.

Fu Youde hurled his gun and leaped his horse, standing in front of the city gate all by himself.

It seems to be back 30 years ago, when he was on the battlefield.

But at this time, in front of him is an ocean of torches that seems to be drowning Taiyuan City, boundless and unstoppable, and on this ocean, there are shrines shrouded in holy light...

More than 30 young and strong came.

With the command of the River God, those capitals immediately summoned their subordinates as quickly as possible. As for how to quickly find them in this level of gathering, it is obviously not difficult for them. In fact, this kind of geographically divided team is the most convenient to assemble. up.Shout out and then you can find out your own people. After all, there are different sounds in ten miles, and hundreds of different customs. If you shout out with the purest local accent, even if everyone is mixed, you can also call out your companions immediately.

Just like the call of a mother penguin.

In this way, the teams quickly assembled, and then gathered outside the Yingze gate.

None escaped.

The God of the River has already promised that the land will be free of grain, so who will run away?

As for those concerns, they are all worth mentioning in front of this. In any era, this is a big killer. Don’t say that the land annexation was not serious in the early days. It is the same in any feudal dynasty, let alone 30 years, which is already a long time. , It has already started again, but it has not reached the limit that ordinary people can bear.

"fall!"

Accompanied by the shout of the leader, the shrine landed slowly.

"Welcome to the River God!"

Then there was worship all around.

"Welcome to the River God!"

The same sound of worship spread outward, spreading as if endlessly.

"Since your Excellency has arrived, why don't you be more open and aboveboard, you and I are old acquaintances, why hide our heads and show our tails?"

Fu Youde said with a somewhat contemptuous smile.

"What Ying Guogong said is very true. If Yang doesn't show up to see each other again, it will appear to be rude to Ying Guogong!"

Then Ambassador Yang’s voice sounded inside the shrine, and then the door of the shrine opened in the blank eyes of those young and strong. Ambassador Yang came out with a smile, standing in front of the door and holding the iron gun of the river god in his hand. But the holy light behind him was still there, so the people behind didn't feel anything wrong.

After all, there are too many people.

Except for those in front of them, more than 30 people behind only looked at the holy light.

"Aren't you afraid of their suspicion?"

Fu Youde said with interest.

Yang Feng looked at the young men who were still worshiping.

"The River God is an immortal, wouldn't it be disrespectful to attack a mortal like you, not to mention that you are already over sixty years old!"

All of them shouted.

"Yes, with the identity of the River God, how could he attack you, a bad old man!"

"If you want the River God to take action, are you worthy?"

……

Those bosses shouted angrily one by one.

Yang Feng stood there, looking at Fu Youde with a smile on his face.

"Understood, you don't care who he is, it doesn't make any difference to you whether it's the God of the River or Ambassador Yang, you just want someone who can lead you into trouble and give you what you want. As long as he gives you equal land and free food, not to mention he is the God of the River or Ambassador Yang, even if he is an ordinary general, you will follow, just like when the old man rebelled in the past, he would use the rebirth of the Ming King to coax the people. Said The key is not who he is, but what he can give you. Sure enough, the world is full of unscrupulous people after all. His Majesty has tamed you for 30 years but has not tamed your rebellious bones."

Fu Youde said.

"Mr. Ying, if you weren't a troublemaker, how could you be where you are today? If you say that our rebellious bones have not been tamed, then you should touch your own rebellious bones first."

All of them sneered.

What is going on with the God of the River and Ambassador Yang is really confusing.

But does it matter?
It's not important!

As long as you can bring your brothers to share the land and avoid food, is there any difference between the God of the River or Ambassador Yang?Not to mention them, even if Fu Youde was able to lead his brothers to share the land without food, the brothers followed, so at this time, we must firmly believe that it is only because the God of the River disdains to take action against a bad old man that Ambassador Yang is asked to do it for him.

As for why Ambassador Yang suddenly appeared in the shrine...

The river god knows magic!

Can't it be summoned directly from the void?
Even if it is to put a stamp on your own mind, you must firmly believe that the river god is the river god, and Ambassador Yang is Ambassador Yang.

(No doubts!
Believe it like some people believe in sweet air, after all, they really got the same sweet air as the Agent Orange children in Vietnam. )
Fu Youde actually reached out and touched the back of his head.

"It's been 30 years. If you don't tell me, I've forgotten that I have this thing. It's been 30 years. I've lived in luxury for too long. I almost forgot how I started my business. I really have no right to say anything about you. But The old man wants to ask you, the old man also said such good things when coaxing the people, but the old man has never kept it since he became an official. How do you believe that he can keep it?

Juntian is fine.

As long as those landlords are killed, the land will naturally be equalized. I dare to do this, and I think he will not dare.

But do you believe in this free food?

To maintain a court, and to maintain the government and army in various places without taxation?What does he feed on?What do you use to maintain your schools, nursing homes, and pharmacies? "

He said.

He pointed at Yang Feng while speaking.

"Mr. Ying, how much is Shanxi's annual tax?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"More than two million stones."

Fu Youde said.

"In the future, except for the salt industry, all industries and commerce in Shanxi will be liberalized, and all mining will be liberalized, but these have to be taxed. In addition, treasure banknotes are still used in Shanxi. My bank is the only issuer. Ying Guogong, you are a hero, but Compared with me, you don't understand too many things. You don't know that there are too many ways to solve the money and food problem besides scraping the land.

Do you think that His Majesty the Emperor of your country is relying on the revenue of the court for his conquests all these years?

Relying on his annual income, he was already bankrupt.

Relying on the means I gave him, I can let him use troops everywhere without lack of money, why can't I save a province from scraping the land?

I can say it again, equalizing land and exempting grain, Yang will do what he says. "

Yang Feng said.

What is the most indispensable thing in Shanxi?
Merchant!
As long as the various restrictions on industry and commerce are loosened, those Shanxi merchants will show their strengths, and the rest only needs to collect industry and commerce taxes, not to mention that Yang Feng still has financial monopoly power. In fact, as long as he provides a free development environment for industry and commerce, the rest is completely Never mind, in the early days of liberal capitalism, everything went wild.

And then until the economic crisis.

But before the economic crisis, that was fine.

Enough to cover up all problems.

In this way, he wants to turn Shanxi into an experimental area of ​​Ming Dynasty, where he will experiment with his new economic policy. As for why he chose this place instead of the southeast coast...

The southeast coast is Lao Zhu's territory.

For him, Shanxi was originally a province far away from the emperor, and it was not his core ruling area at all. He could tolerate it, and the strengthening of Shanxi's industrial and commercial strength also meant that his northern frontier defense had a solid rear.After all, the current transportation of military supplies of the Ming army in the north almost all depends on Shanxi. This is also the key to the development of Shanxi merchants. A prosperous Shanxi is beneficial to him.For Yang Feng, doing these things in Shanxi is also conducive to the development of Hetao, and Hetao is what he plans to build in the future as his own site.

Do it on the southeast coast?

Grab business?

Lao Zhu has already tasted the sweetness of sea development.

Zhu Yunxi is even more familiar with this.

When he succeeds to the throne, it is estimated that all the southeastern coastal provinces will gradually start to industrialize and commercialize.

But he was not interested in the north.

So Yang Feng is most suitable for developing the northern provinces.

"And you, you too, as long as you are willing to stay, the guard fields you cultivate are yours, and you don't need to pay any more food."

Yang Feng then shouted to the soldiers on the city wall.

The soldiers on the city wall looked at each other, and many of them immediately began to drop their weapons...

Good thing!
You must know that they need to hand over a large amount of food to the guard every year, and a soldier only needs tens of acres of land, but they need to hand over more than a dozen shi to the guard every year. Yu Ding's half, but the land is also halved.

The proportion of taxes paid by military households is actually far higher than that of civilian households.

The latter is roughly equivalent to twenty tax one, and even some Susukida can be thirty tax one.

Even those heavily taxed official lands in the south of the Yangtze River are owned by the government but leased to private households for cultivation. The government does not collect rent, but converts the rent into taxes. Most of the land in Suzhou is.Therefore, the taxation of a prefecture in Suzhou exceeds that of Shanxi Province, and Shanxi is also the province with the highest taxation in the north.However, nearly one-third of the military households handed over. Although there are modern sayings that half is handed over, it is actually not that much. A regular army in Liaodong has 25 acres of land, and it is rated to hand over [-] shi of grain every year. If the average yield is less than One stone, Yu Ding [-] acres, rated to pay six stones.

Of course, military households have other compensations.

For example, various rewards, at least in Zhu Yuanzhang’s time, there were a lot of rewards, and the clothing rewards for two seasons a year alone were a lot of money. For example, before the accumulation of pepper was too much, a regular soldier in the capital was rewarded with ten catties.These are extra income for military households, but in any case, in addition to being promoted on the battlefield, they can also be robbed in wars. The burden on military households is heavier than that of civilian households in peacetime.

It's just covered up by rewards.

The civilian households in the Hongwu Dynasty, that is, the peasants, had the lightest burden.

The lowest tax rate.

There are all kinds of guarantees, and even Zhu Yuanzhang even used money to let the elderly buy food in good years, and use it for relief when needed.

Just need to serve corvee.

This is the biggest burden for civilian households. They really have to serve all kinds of corvee, instead of discounting the price later.

But now Yang Feng can directly give them the land cultivated by military households.

Still not paying taxes.

Still not serving corvee.

What a fart to resist under such good conditions!
Everyone has been in Shanxi for decades, and basically they have taken root. They don't want to fight the dead, and they don't want to give up. It's almost stupid to resist.

Yang Feng looked at Fu Youde...

"Mr. Ying, you coaxed the people to rebel with you back then, but after the rebellion succeeded, one by one became emperors and princes became princes. You just used the bones of your brothers to achieve your glory and wealth. , has made your Lord Wandai, but don’t think the same about me, I will not lie to them, I will give them what I promise, and I am not interested in Lord Wandai.”

He said.

"You're not interested, but they are!"

Fu Youde pointed at those heads.

Yang Feng smiled slightly.

Fu Youde looked at him with a complicated expression...

"Your Excellency was born at the wrong time. If you were born in the troubled times of the past, you would have been the overlord of one side. Even if you want to win the world, it is not a bad idea. But now, the world has been settled, and you can't make too much trouble."

He said.

Then he picked up the long gun...

"Let the horse come here, the old man is ordered to save Taiyuan, and I can't let you wait in the end."

He said.

Yang Feng took a deep look at him, and then jumped off the altar, someone beside him led a war horse, and after getting on the horse, he also carried a spear, and then rushed straight to Fu Youde, who also started to charge.The two charging towards each other, amidst the sound of war drums on both sides, crossed each other instantly. At the moment of crossing, Fu Youde's spear hit Yang Feng's chest.But Yang Feng's spear was avoided by him with his incomparably rich actual combat experience. The force of the impact made Fu Youde's spear let go, and Yang Feng on the horse also fell straight down.

At the same time, his spear was also dropped.

After landing, he got up immediately, and at the same time he took off his rifle, Fu Youde, who had completed the U-turn, arrived.

The latter's iron mace fell in the air.

Yang Feng sideways avoided, but the iron whip hit his back.

But the bayonet of the rifle in his hand pierced straight into the neck of Fu Youde's horse, and the latter's galloping caused the bayonet to cut a huge hole in an instant. The horse galloped a few steps and fell down screaming, but Fu Youde jumped down instantly when the horse fell to the ground , and then turned over and jumped while throwing the mace in his hand.

Yang Feng still didn't dodge, the iron mace hit his chest, and was still bounced off by the bulletproof plate.

This thing can be called the wall of sighs for cold weapons.

Stabbing, slashing and smashing will not break the defense.

But Fu Youde picked up his spear and stabbed Yang Feng straight.

Yang Feng swung the rifle away from his hand.

But Fu Youde's long spear was very fast, and it arrived again in a blink of an eye, and it hit his shoulder accurately, but because of the armor and Kevlar body armor, it only hit Yang Feng's body crookedly.

This old man has too much experience in actual combat, and he is different from Sapphire. Sapphire is purely pretending to be big. If he is serious, he will not allow Yang Feng to stab him. In addition, Yang Feng's requirement of the same length of weapon also limits his performance. .But Fu Youde is really fighting now, without any restrictions at all. After all, compared with the top fighters with cold weapons, Yang Feng's cold weapon fighting level is still a lot worse...

"You actually rely on the armor on your body!"

Fu Youde couldn't help mocking.

"Actually, it's not just armor. I'm still unkillable. To tell you the truth, the injuries I've suffered now will be unscathed by tomorrow morning. Many things about me are actually true, but it's just too absurd to realize." It is false.

in addition……"

Yang Feng pondered for a moment.

"I still have a lot of respect for you. I just wanted to fight you as a normal person. I didn't expect to get ridiculed in exchange. I stopped pretending. It's a showdown. I'm an evildoer."

He said.

The next moment, at a speed that clearly exceeded the limit of human beings, he arrived in front of Fu Youde in an instant like a ghost, and then the bayonet stabbed straight into the latter's heart...

(End of this chapter)