I'm The Emperor of All-Heavens

Chapter 887

After the destruction of Dongyi, there was no foreign enemy war in Donglu. After the reform of the new tax law, the army was just reassigned to various places to supervise businessmen to pay taxes.

Jiang Huanchu's original purpose was to firmly grasp the name of tax in his own hands. After all, if the central government is involved, the difficulty of fraud will rise sharply.

What's more, it's not easy to cut meat from businessmen. For the sake of interests, businessmen can take risks by all means. I'm afraid only the deterrence of the regular army can make them pay taxes obediently.

Jiang Huanchu's idea is roughly right, but he underestimates the businessman.

Businessmen in this era are by no means the lowest level of scholars, farmers, industry and Commerce in later generations. On the contrary, today's businessmen are at least the leaders among the common people. They basically need the wealth of Jiang Ziya's adoptive brother song Yiren to be eligible to go to Dongping. Even many of them are simply held by the immediate relatives of princes and nobles.

They travel thousands of miles to and from Dongping and employ many guards. Each caravan is actually equivalent to a small armed group, including several large convoys, which are more powerful against thousands of regular troops.

However, as one of the earliest soldiers, Jiang Wenhuan trained better soldiers than Xiqi. He was really not afraid of the caravan.

After several confrontations, the caravan found that it was hard to deal with each other. It immediately began to change its strategy and aimed at tax officials.

Slaves had no culture, and the recording of taxes naturally had to be done by special officials. Businessmen began their own skill - bribery.

The collusion between officials and businessmen has been the same since ancient times. Similarly, the people at the bottom hate this most, because it is the meager interests of the people at the bottom that officials and businessmen embezzle and harm. Life is hard enough and they have to be exploited. Who can bear it.

The soldiers in Donglu were even more serious.

The tax issue will completely detonate the contradiction.

There were also intelligent people among the slaves. Although they had no culture, they didn't know how much goods they had. Looking on coldly, they soon saw the fraud of the tax officials. Many people with strong temperament came forward to stop them.

Official responses fall into two categories:

The first is to become angry.

Just imagine that Ji Chang's means are so clever. There are opposition from San Yisheng and other officials in Xiqi. The dissatisfaction within Donglu is more intense, but he is afraid to speak out because of the prestige of Jiang's father and son.

Moreover, slaves became soldiers, which did no fundamental damage to the officials themselves, and there was little intersection between the two sides, but now they prevent officials from accepting bribes, which is different in nature.

Various tax checkpoints are filled with similar roars of officials.

"Do you want to do the following?"

"Cheap slave!"

"Go to hell!"

Scolding and scolding, the truth came out.

When the veil was lifted, the soldiers found that their position in the hearts of the nobility had not changed at all.

Still a slave.

It deeply hurt my heart.

What did they get in exchange for training day and night in the barracks, defending the country and fighting the enemy bravely?

……

There is another kind of officials, who make money by being kind.

This kind of is smooth, flexible and buys people's hearts.

They ate meat and let their men drink soup. They scattered a small part of the bribes under their command and made a fortune together.

As a result, this group of soldiers soon joined the ranks of bribery, even intensified, and degenerated at an appalling speed.

Why?

Because there is no sense of security.

These soldiers found that although they were no longer slaves, they lacked one of the most necessary things in addition to the change of status.

Money!

During the slave period, they had no savings. Everything was handed over to the slave owners. If they had a little private possession, they would be beaten severely. After they became soldiers, they had no military pay.

If you can become a free body, you will be very satisfied. What military pay do you want?

But now the income from taxes makes soldiers suddenly realize that it is impossible to be a soldier for a lifetime. Even if ordinary civilians are poor, they have at least a few mu of private land at home. As long as they work hard, they can always live. They have no land and no military pay. How do they live after they retire from the army?

In this way, the essence of slaves has not changed, but from slaves engaged in labor and production to soldiers and slaves specialized in war.

I went around and went back to the dead end.

In this way, the soldiers naturally quit. After all, a few can receive bribes. Most of them began to ask for military pay from officials. What's more, they asked for land resettlement.

The top refused, so the soldiers' emotions became more and more intense.

In the past, the contradiction was only unilateral. The noble slave owners did not look up to the slaves who turned into soldiers. The slaves still accepted it. Now when the two sides were completely opposed, they could no longer be reconciled. In just a few days, mutiny even broke out in the army.

When the lid couldn't be covered, Jiang's father and son were surprised that the event was bad. They called Wenwu all night to discuss remedial measures.

Although Donglu's team is not as talented as Xiqi's four sages and eight friends, it can not be ignored.

Some ministers suggested that since soldiers were not satisfied with the status quo, they might as well divide their fields and turn them into civilians, and bear military taxes and military service at the same time.

The so-called military tax is to pay rice and forage to the state every year as military expenditure. Military service is to be a soldier in wartime and prepare weapons, food and military supplies by yourself.

This is a far sighted arrangement. Civilians with the right to be soldiers and education were called scholars in the Zhou Dynasty. In this way, each class has a division of labor, and the country can be long-term.

But that is the future. The current situation is that the civilian class has quit again.

Don't forget that Donglu is only a vassal state, and there are several good fields that can be reclaimed. Once the land is divided to soldiers, the land belonging to civilians will be redistributed and greatly reduced. They live very reluctantly. If they are divided to the land, they will be reduced to slaves. It's OK. Suddenly, the crowd is excited, there are frequent conflicts everywhere, and the situation is out of control.

Jiang Huanchu was indignant to find that they liberated slaves and did not get the gratitude of slaves. Instead, they were "betrayed". The whole East Lu was in chaos and their rule was subject to unprecedented turbulence.

The angry Jiang family's father and son went to search for Jiang Ziya, but found that the originator had long used land escape to escape to Dongping city.

In fact, the originator is not Jiang Ziya, but Jiang Wenhuan.

Whenever the reform reform is carried out, if only the military system is changed and the others do not change, failure is inevitable. Xiqi is much stronger than Donglu, and big businessmen are all inclusive.

Tianshu twelve volume was early Gu Chengrong, and the essence of all classes of authors was included in twelve families. Complementarity and mutual help and common progress, Jiang Wenhuan only learned from the military, and went back to fight for war, but not to explode.

Even so, when the urgent report of youhunguan was placed on the desk of the star platform, Gu Cheng couldn't help nodding his approval for Jiang Ziya's efficiency.

With brilliant means and bloodless weapons, it is worthy of the honor of the soldier saint.

In contrast, Shen Gongbao is under a lot of pressure.

He found that Jiang Ziya was in Dongping city. He didn't dare to go down to meet him. Holding his breath, he went to the East China Sea.