Chapter 573

Wei's restaurant.

Looking at the bustling Qingzhou street, Xiao Qi felt a little confused. He had sent someone to send the armistice conditions back to Jinling City, but he was very pessimistic about the result.

In fact, after the failure, Xiao Han slandered him in Jinling City. In his words, he was just flashy, and he was just a stupid way.

Nevertheless, the king of Wei had not lost his trust in him, but his attitude was very clear. What he wanted was for Xiao Ming to withdraw his troops and return to the city. However, after seeing the rest of the war today, he immediately understood that Wei Di had become the goods that Xiao Ming had traded with other vassal kings.

Because of this, he suddenly felt a burst of sadness from his heart. Once upon a time, Wei Di was the first feudal state of Dayu, and even Xiao Wenxuan had to fear three points. But now Wei Di can only shiver in the shadow of Xiao Ming.

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

But now the king of Wei has not come out of this gap. He has always looked down on Xiao Ming and is not willing to give in to him.

With a sigh, Xiao Qi closes her eyes. After Xiao Ming leaves, he suddenly has an ominous premonition. This feeling is strange, but he can't tell.

However, the foreboding soon became a reality. On the third day, he got the news that the southern army was attacking huaizhou.

Knowing the news, he finally understood the meaning of Xiao Ming's words. As long as he didn't sign the truce one day, he would have time to continue to conquer the city. At this time, the envoys of the king of Yan and the king of Zhao were helpless. After all, they were all created by him.

When the king of Wei agreed to this, it was estimated that huaizhou was another city in the truce. Thinking of this, he immediately wrote a letter to the king of Wei, telling him that he must agree to the truce.

Otherwise, Wei will only lose more and more cities, and the king of Yan and the king of Zhao will not stop Xiao Ming.

In the prince Qi's residence in three streets of Wei's restaurant, Xiao Ming also got the news of the southern expedition's attack on huaizhou.

"Your Highness, this time the king of Wei is eating evil fruit. We don't have to be polite. After taking huaizhou, the land in the north gate of Wei will be ours, and our fiefdom will increase the population by one million." Said Pang.

Xiao Ming nodded. Pengzhou City has a population of 500000, Tongzhou city has a population of 200000, and huaizhou city has a population of 300000, which adds up to one million. This is equivalent to adding one third of the population to the feudal state. The south is indeed a densely populated place.

If the whole country swallowed Wei Di, he estimated that the population of the feudal state would be as many as seven million, which was almost the same as the population of Britain in this era.

With this population base, he was no longer afraid of the sea of people tactics united by other vassal kings. It was just that huaizhou was now heavily deployed by the king of Wei, and it was not easy for the southern expedition to bite this hard bone.

"I just hope Lufei can take huaizhou quickly, but what happened to the agricultural tax you said last time? Did anything go wrong?"

It's important to attack cities and plunder lands, but internal affairs are the foundation of attacking cities and plundering lands, so Xiao Ming certainly dare not relax.

Pang Yukun said: "Your Highness, this time the officials came to talk about it. The people in Liuzhou didn't say anything about the restoration of the agricultural tax. After all, they have paid the agricultural tax before, and this time our agricultural tax is very low. The people are very happy, so the collection of the agricultural tax is very smooth."

After a pause, he continued: "but some people are not willing to pay grain to offset the agricultural tax, but directly pay silver, cloth, raw silk and other things. I don't know what your highness thinks?"

"People now know that there is chaos outside, and it's normal for them to want to keep more grain. Moreover, the Levy of agricultural taxes by the state of Dayu was originally offset by a variety of materials. Since some people are like this, take it." Xiao Ming pondered.

Pang Yukun nodded and then asked a very important question, "Your Highness, will the collected taxes be kept in the government or turned over to the state treasury?"

Stunned for a moment, Xiao Ming asked, "why do you ask this question?"

Pang Yukun said: "the agricultural taxes of the state of Dayu are all left by the prefectures themselves, and the rest are handed over to the state treasury. But the tax method learned in Bowen college is to let the prefectures turn over all the taxes to the state treasury, and then the State Treasury allocates them to the prefectures according to the situation. This tax is a major event of the state, and the lower official only reports to his highness."

Xiao Ming understood, he said: "it's inevitable that the state's self retaining taxes have the disadvantages of shoddy and embezzlement. In order to avoid the tax being withheld in the States and counties, you ask them to hand over the accounts and taxes to Qingzhou, and then return some of them after the accounts are summed up."

"Only in this way, it will cost a lot to transport these materials to Qingzhou." Pang Yukun reminded.

Xiao Ming immediately responded. He sighed that this era is still too backward, but even so, he still insisted on this method. He did not forget that in the Ming Dynasty, tens of millions of taels of silver tax was intercepted layer upon layer, and only a few things were left when he arrived in the capital.

In any era, corrupt officials have great courage. Xiao Ming doesn't believe that his feudal state is honest and upright.

In fact, the proportion of corrupt officials in officialdom was higher than that of honest officials in that dynasty, whether it was the founding or the end of the country."Some of them are given away, but all of them are given away." "And every village and county should have its own account book backup for verification," Xiao said

"Yes, your highness." Said Pang.

Xiao Ming continued: "Pang Shoufu, this tax is the place where officials are most likely to be corrupt. You should grasp it. You can't rub the sand in your eyes, nor can you rub the sand in my king's eyes."

"Yes, your highness." Pang Yukun looks a little strange. He looks at what Xiao Ming wants to say, but in the end he doesn't say anything.

……

Huaizhou.

When Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun talked about the farming tax, the southern expedition was launching an all-round attack on huaizhou city.

As the intelligence said, the king of Wei increased 50 guns in huaizhou City, but these guns were smashed by the artillery of Qingzhou army before they were used.

Different from Pengzhou City, huaizhou is very flat.

Facing such a city without a moat, Lufei boldly spread out his soldiers in front of the city wall, while Baimu's cavalry were on both sides of the infantry to protect the flanks, because there were 3000 cavalry in huaizhou city.

This time, in order to defend huaizhou City, the king of Wei made a lot of capital.

When it comes to cavalry, how can these huaizhou cavalry be the opponents of Qingzhou cavalry who had personally fought with barbarians? When the southern expedition army first arrived in huaizhou City, the cavalry of huaizhou army tried to attack the infantry in array, but after leaving a corpse, these cavalry hid in the city and never came out again.

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