Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 135 Speech Quotient (1)

Under the silent mountain, there is a figure and a flickering torch, there is no sound, even the air is frozen, only the dark night is boundless...

The last enemy has gathered on the ridge in front of him, and there is nowhere to escape, only waiting for Xu Qing to order the attack.

But Xu Qing ordered to stay at the foot of the mountain to rest, because he was tired, so were the soldiers, and so were the horses.Although the enemies on the mountain were vulnerable due to their superiority in numbers, Xu Qing didn't want to make a bigger sacrifice because of this.Whose life is not life?

Xu Qing didn't fall asleep all night, and the next day, when it was only dawn, Xu Qing ordered to set fire to the mountain!Treating him in the same way as others, they set fire to the secret camp, Xu Qing didn't play with fire attack?That would lose momentum.Moreover, in the previous battles, it has been confirmed that the opponent should be a battalion of dead soldiers, leaving no one alive. Instead of letting the soldiers under him attack like ants, it is better to burn them all.

The fire spread quickly, redder than the newborn sun...

To put it simply, the people on the mountain couldn't help the fire spreading, and they put them to death and survived. They broke out several times, but they were all shot back by Xu Qing's arrows.In the end, the leader of the opponent wanted to fight Xu Qingyu to the death, and brought a small number of people to attack Xu Qing's middle tent, but it was a pity that he just overestimated his capabilities.

There was no suspense in winning the battle, but Xu Qing didn't look happy at all.In fact, it is a lot of pressure to be in charge of life and death.There was another thing that made Xu Qing unhappy. Before the leader died, he left a message to Xu Qing from afar:
"You dare to use officers and soldiers to deal with us, you have broken the rules! Wait for the people above, be furious!"

Xu Qing is very depressed, who did he offend?How can the rules be broken by using the army?

From the murder case at Huang's Salt Shop to now revenge for the dark river, Xu Qing is facing an opponent, but Xu Qing doesn't even know who the opponent is.I slapped the flies all over the place, but I couldn't see the tiger behind me. The key is that the flies came one by one...

If I had known earlier, I would have ignored the troubles of the Huang family...

After An He came back, he brought back a definite news that the person Xu Qing offended was from Chang'an, but there was no more specific news.It was another broken clue, Xu Qing felt like tickling his heart, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Anhe suffered a great loss and urgently needed to replenish blood, so Xu Qing directly arranged them into the army and asked them to secretly collect manpower that could be trained.On the other hand, Xu Qing was also "honest" a lot and stopped running around.They rebuilt a batch of firearms and equipped them for Xun Xueer and the three girls, just in case.

The battle in the dark camp should have caused great damage to the opponent, and the days seem to have calmed down...

One month later, the grain in the field began to be harvested, and the golden field was gradually eaten away by the sickle, leaving piles of straw and black fertile land.The stalks are put in the field to dry in the sun, and can be taken home to repair the roof, make beds, and make firewood.

Someone from Luonan came over and brought many products from Xu Qing's fields, as well as dozens of large white pigs.This made Xu Qing so happy that he hadn't eaten pork for more than half a year. How dare he eat those pigs that grew up eating pork outside?
In the harvest season, every family has a surplus, but every family also has a shortage, so they have to use the surplus to replace the shortage.So as soon as the harvest season comes, the merchants start their activities.Industrial products are exchanged for agricultural products from farmers, and then resold to handicraftsmen. If they are transported to places where there is a shortage of food, the profit will be several times immediately.

Xu Qing's taxes are very low, basically only enough for Xu Qing to pay the treasury and pay wages.The robbers are gone, there is no need to pay protection fees, and this year's harvest is not bad, the people's families can finally live a peaceful and happy year, and even pork has become tight.From the end of the Sui Dynasty to this year when Xu Qing came to Cangzhou, the people of Cangzhou had their first fat year. In order to thank Xu Qing, the children born in the fall of this year were all given the surname Xu.

Refugees also have access to food, and if there is no shortage of food in their stomachs, they will think about other things to improve their lives.The refugees spontaneously organized to build houses, build bridges and roads, and most importantly, built a temple—Xu Cishi Temple.

After Xu Qing heard about this, he cheerfully changed into civilian clothes and went to Xu Cishi Temple to see his own statue.But I only saw a portrait of a middle-aged man with a big belly, a long beard and a straight face, which is what all good officials in the hearts of the people look like?
This kind of personality worship is unacceptable, not affordable...Xu Qing unceremoniously took a big apple on the altar and ate it, but was chased out by Miao Zhu's broom. The temple, the temple wished the passers-by to chase Xu Qing together, if Xu Qing hadn't run so fast into Cangzhou City, otherwise he would have been flattened by the angry "believers".

During the few days of Xu Qing's commercial battle with the family, Xu Qing issued a decree: Exemption of road tax in Cangzhou.But after the end of the commercial war and even the extinction of the aristocratic family, Xu Qing kept "forgetting" to take back the government order.This led to the increasing number of caravans in Cangzhou City, which seemed to be a sign of prosperity.

Standing on the city wall, Xu Qing watched convoys of goods being transported into Cangzhou City, and another convoy was transported out, drooling...

There are so many businessmen, how many accounts should there be for that day?How much money will there be if you smoke a little bit?Although the tax was paid into the public account, isn't the whole of Cangzhou in Xu Qing's hands, and he can take as much as he wants.

Xu Qing will not re-collect the tax in kind, which is less profitable and discourages businessmen. Once it is levied, the prosperous scene of Cangzhou City will disappear as quickly as a bubble.What Xu Qing wants to collect is value-added tax...

The previous tax system was that no matter how much you sold a bucket of rice, you would get one-tenth of it when you entered the city.One-tenth is given to the imperial court, and tax collectors' hard work is counted separately, such as tea, travel expenses, wear and tear, and insect and rat expenses.This kind of taxation system is very unreasonable for businessmen. It’s okay to make money, and you can make up for the loss of tax revenue, but if you don’t make money, you have to let the caravan Lost to vomit blood.Therefore, if the merchants in the past were not fully sure, they would not easily sell the goods.

The value-added tax that Xu Qing wants to collect is different. To give the same example, a bucket of rice costs ten cents, and if it is sold for twenty cents, it will be taxed for one penny.That is to say, if a trip to the merchant did not make any money, at least the original goods could be recovered without taking a tenth of it.In this way, the risk of the businessman is greatly reduced. Whoever has the goods in hand, don't they all come to Cangzhou to have a look first?
However, how to collect taxes?Who will collect the tax?
This system requires two aspects to be able to cooperate freely.On the one hand, businessmen have to cooperate. If they falsify the accounts, and they insist on ten cents of profit, the tax will not be collected.Of course, Xu Qing could conduct an official audit, but many businessmen would not be able to stand together to fight against him. In the end, he would go back to the old road of confrontation between government and businessmen.

On the other hand, it is the quality of tax collectors.The king of hell is easy to deal with, but little ghosts are hard to deal with, and tax collectors are little ghosts. If they pretend to be obedient and disobedient, set up a name for their subordinates, and conceal private information for their superiors, they will still be the same as before.

The system is undecided, talent comes first, let's hold a job fair first!
A piece of red paper was pasted on the bulletin board at Caishikou, and two mighty and majestic soldiers stood on both sides of the red paper.People passing by saw it, huh?It's red paper, it's a happy event!Is there another tax cut?Hurry up and come here... Huaxia has always liked to follow the crowd. After a while, the bulletin board was crowded with people, and it was airtight, even though few people present could understand what was on the bulletin board.

"Squeeze...squeeze...let me take a look first..." A skinny guy squeezed in, patted his chest, stood in front of him and looked proudly: "I can read, let me read it to everyone." ..."

"Oh, I can't tell, are you still literate?" a person asked with doubts.

"I'm a real person who doesn't show his face..." The skinny guy read: "Recruit... one person, two people, and...50 people, 100 people!"

"Just, that's it? I see those words..."

The skinny guy turned red with his yellow face. He once helped the shopkeeper manage the accounts for a few days. He saw a lot of numbers on the bulletin board and jumped out immediately, but he could only recognize the numbers on the bulletin board. How could he recognize the characters, so he had to get down in despair.

Seeing that the crowd of onlookers was confused again, someone in the crowd said: "Scholar Zhang is here, he can read, let him have a look..."

Everyone looked back, only to see one person holding a paper fan and relaxing with his eyes closed.Everyone cursed secretly in their hearts, you want us to make way, wouldn't it be over with just one word, what are you pretending to be profound?It's just that everyone still managed to create an empty path, allowing the scholar to go under the bulletin board proudly.The scholar shook his head, looked at the bulletin board and read:

"Recruitment: The new Commercial and Tax Department of the Governor's Mansion will recruit one director, two deputy directors, 50 officers, and 100 street patrols. From now on, those who are interested will come to the Governor's Mansion for interviews within ten days, and the admission will be based on merit. Especially, no one can... ..."

After everyone heard this, an old farmer who went to the city to sell rice said:

"Here, is the governor's mansion recruiting long-term workers?"

Now that the grain in the field has been harvested, he is thinking of doing some odd jobs to supplement his family income.Another old farmer's eyes lit up when he heard this:
"I heard that the new governor is a very good man. Even the refugees are given white rice to work. If he recruits permanent workers, the wages will not be short!"

A butcher laughed loudly: "Hahaha, you two foolish old men, the governor is a tax collector..."

The scholar listened and nodded his head, "Of course..."

"Hey... Besides, it seems that there are no conditions, you two old men, go to be officials?"

"Don't dare..." The two old farmers shook their heads hastily.They said they didn't dare, but the others secretly thought about it, even if they were small street patrols, wouldn't they still be earning their jobs and eating the emperor's food?Guangzong Yaozu!This time recruiting 100 people at a time, am I worse than others?

The scholar looked disdainful: "Hey, tax collectors are nothing more than officials. But tax collectors are also members of the imperial court. How can anyone go? This governor is confused and insults the gentleman!"

After the scholar finished speaking, he drifted away...

(End of this chapter)