Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 200 Three Imperial Orders
In August of the third year of Chuping, the Han Dynasty, which had survived the ups and downs for three years, finally burst out with a new look at this time.During this month, the imperial court successively promulgated three important and far-reaching edicts.

The first decree was at the end of July. The imperial court issued an edict to award the royal family garden in the outskirts of Chang'an, the donated land and beautiful houses of the ministers and the court to the children of good families in Chang'an, and reiterated that the agricultural tax of the Han Dynasty court was still [-]. tax one.After the sons of good families who get the farmland cultivate it for three years, the land can be handed over to the cultivator.

Although such a decree sounds very good, there are many unsatisfactory places in actual operation.

For example, many good people in Chang'an have suffered from the war and have already reached the point of hunger and cold.Even though they were given habitable houses and arable fields, they did not have the seeds, farm tools and the most precious labor force of this era-the cattle.

In view of this, Liu Xie had no choice but to once again brazenly plunder from the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, ordering them to take out seeds, farm tools and provide farming cattle rental services.At the same time, the imperial court also provided the only grain seeds, agricultural tools, and cattle in the Shaofu, promising that the people only need to provide ten taxes and one agricultural tax, and then they can start the first step of a peaceful and stable life.

Of course, these are only the most difficult steps at the beginning of everything. Others, such as building water conservancy, remodeling houses, measuring land, maintaining order in Chang'an, etc., were unexpected events that greatly tested the efficiency of the Han Dynasty court agencies.

Fortunately, what pleased Liu Xie was that the officials of the Han Dynasty, who were educated in Confucianism, more or less embraced "taking the world as their responsibility" and worked hard to do their jobs well.

Cao Cao has been tossing and tossing for more than half a month, and everything is gradually on the right track.But that's the case, the more the situation is good, Liu Xie can't help but worry about gains and losses.After all, no matter how you say it, the early stage of this matter is a bit too long.

After pacifying Chang'an and the court officials, the time has come to August.Farming time never waits for anyone. People mistake the land for another year, and the land misses people for a year. After a rain, if you don’t rush to plant seeds, a piece of land will be deserted in vain.

Liu Xie, who walked out of the farmland with a leg of mud, saw with his own eyes that large tracts of fertile land were wasted because no one cultivated it-the kind of distress and anxiety of repentance far outweighed the excitement and achievements of benefiting the people.

However, this is only Liu Xie's personal perception.For the people in Chang'an, their worship and admiration for Liu Xie has reached the point of deification.They walked out of the trauma of the war, and they didn't have much expectations for life. Their biggest expectation was to survive in this troubled world.

However, Liu Xie's edict pulled their gray and indifferent hearts back from the edge of hell.Even, for some refugees and beggars, they just feel dizzy from being hit by the pie from the sky.

So much so that in front of the gate of Weiyang Palace, there are always people who cannot be driven away.However, it was rare to see Tian Yan after all, and afterward they would all kowtow three times to the front hall where Liu Xie was, and then leave with those officials in tears of gratitude.

But before the people in Chang'an recovered from this great surprise, the imperial court's second edict was issued again.This time, the target is no longer the penniless poor Lishu, but those merchants who want to pawn their daughters.

Regarding the reform of the East and West Markets, the first item of the imperial court resolutely restored the five baht coins, and stated that it would unswervingly implement this policy for 100 years without wavering.

This measure has undoubtedly given a boost to the businessmen in Chang'an, Guanzhong, and even the entire Han Dynasty. With this measure, they no longer have to worry about their wealth being evaporated unknowingly.And in ordinary commercial trade, they don't have to hold a chicken or carry two sacks of corn in exchange for the necessities of life.

For those merchants who have hoarded a large amount of small coins from Dong Zhuo's era, Liu Xie's remedy is to use the method of proportional exchange to exchange their small coins for five baht coins that can be circulated in the market.

Of course, such a measure led some treacherous speculators to melt the copperware at home to defraud the court of five baht coins.However, Liu Xie was not worried about this, because the recasting of five baht coins caused the court to lack a large amount of bronze for a time, and the recycling of these bronze wares just temporarily filled the emptiness of the court.

The market is a universal and self-regulating space. A large amount of bronze flowed into the court, which made the five baht coins issued by the Han Dynasty more gold-rich and more recognized by the market.Liu Xie knew that he could grasp the financial lifeline of the big man from the source as long as he stuck with the measure that the people were not allowed to mint coins privately.

Therefore, on this point, Liu Xie adopted the same harsh punishment as Guan Zhong.Once it is discovered that there are criminals who have illegally minted coins, as long as there are witnesses and physical evidence, they can be dragged directly to the downtown area and beheaded for public display.

After all, no matter ancient or modern, the road of commercial development has always been full of blood and tears. Without the backing of strong and iron-handed means, any vision to stimulate the vitality of the people and promote economic recovery is empty talk.

The second aspect of reform is all gentle and gentle measures to optimize the market economy. The gentleness of the gentle and gentle, is simply more integrated into the hearts of the people than the tolerance of a lover.

According to the regulations of the Han court, the east and west cities of Chang'an no longer have a time limit of "the city is closed at midday and the city is closed at sunset". As long as you work hard and work hard, no one will interfere if you drive for a whole day.Even for this reason, Liu Xie postponed Chang'an's curfew by half an hour to accommodate the night markets that were automatically developed in the east and west cities of Chang'an.

In addition, the location of the transaction is not limited to the eastern and western cities, as long as you want to start a small business, you can work in the idle houses.All the procedures are quite simple, as long as the common people report to the county government, there is no handling fee at all.Any county government officials who dare to extort money in this way, once they are found out, will be thrown directly into prison, and they will never think about being a public servant of the people for the rest of their lives.

Also, the most important one is that the county government no longer restricts the transaction process, and all purchases and sales are automatically negotiated between buyers and sellers.All the merchants have to do is to pay a certain business tax to the court according to the turnover.This measure was opposed by some courtiers, especially the eunuch Zhao Qi, who expressed strong concerns about it.

Comrade Zhao Qi is definitely the kind of person who has a big jump in temperament. Since the Guanzhong lobbying incident, the old man has lost confidence in the atmosphere of the Han Dynasty, and has adopted very extreme and dark speculations about everything.He believes that the imperial court is so lenient to those merchants, it will definitely cause some cunning merchants to evade taxes and embezzle the wealth of the imperial court.

However, Liu Xie didn't care much about it.First of all, the income from the city tax has long been destroyed in name only by the previous set.Even if it is a merchant evading tax, it is something that can only be done when there is a certain turnover.And if ordinary people really have a certain turnover, they are already considered the middle income class.Naturally, he would not take the risk of being punished or even exiled for the mere one-tenth of the tax.

The last commercial reform has little meaning to ordinary Changan merchants.But for merchants from other places, it is extremely attractive.On the surface of the edict, Chang'an is the heart of the Han Dynasty, and has its own style of the capital of Gyeonggi. For foreign merchants, they can be exempted from certain customs duties if they pull one cart of goods; if they pull five carts of goods, the imperial post can be used for free for merchants. And if you pull ten carts of goods, in addition to being exempt from customs duties, the county government can even find tour guides, servants, and labor for you to drive.

Such an approach is naturally the method of attracting investment learned by Liu Xie in his previous life.With such favorable conditions, looking at the whole big man, it is definitely the only innovation of Scorpion Shit.It is conceivable that with such a relaxed investment environment, coupled with Chang'an's well-connected geographical location, Chang'an Shoufu will sooner or later become a political and economic dual center.

"Hey, the emperor thinks very well, but Guanzhong has been peaceful recently. But the other places are still in turmoil, who can make it through?" A Maocai who was under the imperial list looked at this edict and couldn't help feeling A little acid reflux.Moreover, he still maintains the leisurely mind of a scholar, doing the job of writing family letters for others, but worrying about state affairs.

"Who said merchants from other places can't come?" A big-armed foreigner squeezed into the Huangbang circle, and said triumphantly, "Look carefully, the emperor said that as long as you want to come, the imperial court will send our Xiongnu's tour guide." Ride forward to guard. In the whole world, who would dare to show their knives against us Huns?"

This Maocai looked at the strong figure of the Huns, and didn't bother to argue with him at all. He just spat in his heart and said: Idiots, it is obvious that you Huns are being used as spearmen by our emperor. You are really brainless .But having said that, our emperor is really wise, and he really made the best use of these Huns who only ate our food.

(End of this chapter)