When Zhou Huaian set out on the road to Guangzhou again, his mood was still quite complicated; because during the rounds, it was already early spring of the second year;

Compared to the two or three cats who followed him, the team he is following now has grown even more than tens of times. Everyone is wearing helmets, armor, crossbows and knives, and on the vehicles or horses that are being transported, they are equipped with corresponding shields, spears, axes, hammers, sticks and other multiple equipment. Just the small and small flags surrounding the guns around his carriage have at least dozens of sides.

However, compared to the warm wind that makes people feel a little lazy and sleepy, he prefers the cool and dry winter in Lingnan. The faint fragrance of the green seedlings and the earthy smell of the paddy fields are mixed in the warm air. The biggest change and touch along the way is an atmosphere and environment called orderly.

Through the early cleaning and rectification, and the pain of killing, many scattered scattered wildernesses were punished; the loss of most of the rural areas that originally existed at the upper level had to be negotiated and interacted with the rebels in nearby cities and towns, and a basic order and order of regular transactions and reports were initially established through negotiations and interactions with the rebels in nearby cities and towns.

Especially in addition to self-sufficient parts such as food rations, most of the relevant things required for people's livelihood, as well as foreign products and other economic lifelines that can only be supplemented through market transactions, are controlled in disguise through the traffic rush controlled and controlled by the rebels. The so-called connection and confrontation have become a joke in a sense. If you have the ability, you will not eat salt for a month, and your whole body will become a soft and swollen everywhere. Then say this.

Although this is still quite extensive and simple, it can be said that there are still many problems and loopholes; but even if there is a flawed order, it can still achieve better results than continuous chaos and disorder.

Therefore, when the spring plowing and sowing of the new year began, various labor figures became dense and frequent among the paddy fields on the roadside and terraces on the hillside; although the proportion of the elderly, weak women and children was still relatively large, at least compared to the kind that was when we first came, there were few people and were rare and deserted, and all kinds of sparse and abandoned appearances;

Moreover, most of them no longer avoid people. Facing the teams running on the road, they only looked up and looked at them for a few more times before they returned to their busy schedules. Only some people who were really close to the road would stop their schedules and retreat respectfully until they watched the team leave.

With Zhou Huaian's eyes, he could not even see their panic and cramped expressions. According to the new order under the rebel army today, there is no longer the traditional clerks and wealthy families who have been exploited by the continuous double-double layers. As long as most of the output is paid at one time, the remaining part is still enough for most people to live safely with a lower burden;

After all, we must know that all the original tax and labor service system in the Tang Dynasty were based on the "equal land system"; renting, the households received two stones of grain per cob; transferring, in the hometown of sericulture, each household had two feet of silk and three kilograms of hemp; serving each household had 20 days of labor per cob, and in the leap year, and two days were added to the leap year. If the company did not serve, they would have to fold silk to replace the service. It seems that there was not much, but this was only the standard when the founding of the country in the early Tang Dynasty.

As the country develops and land mergers grow, more and more people go bankrupt and flee, in fact, the equal-land system based on small farmers has long collapsed; at the same time, there are more and more "unsubscribers" who evade tax payments; and with the expansion of bureaucracy and military scale, the cost of the state withdrawing from all aspects is becoming more and more heavy; and these needs are concentrated on the books of government officials in various places, becoming less and less taxable household registrations. Therefore, in addition to various regular taxes, various complex tax donations and taxes emerged.

(The standard for exemption of household registration is: officials above the ninth rank, men under the age of 20, old, aborted, wives, concubines, slaves, and servants, as well as monks and Taoists. Therefore, it naturally creates a very large group that does not pay taxes and is not counted in the official household registration.)

After the Anshi Rebellion, the state lost the ability to effectively control household registration and land accounts, and land annexation was even more severe. In addition, military expenditure was urgently needed. Military officials in various places could levy them at will without obtaining the central government's approval. Therefore, there were many miscellaneous taxes. The central government could not inspect the envoys, and the envoys could not inspect the states. The tax system was very chaotic. The people were suffering from the relatively wealthy Jiangnan area, and armed uprisings by Yuan Chao, Fang Qing, Chen Zhuang and others also appeared. People who were suffering from tax collection participated one after another.

Therefore, with the increasing financial constraints of the country, Yang Yan, the prime minister of Jianzhong, proposed to promulgate the "Two Tax Law" for reform. The new tax law formulated based on the original local tax and household tax as the main focus, and unified various taxes. Since it was collected in summer and autumn, it was called the "Two Tax Law". The main content is "living within one's means". The total tax amount set by the central government based on fiscal expenditures will be collected from local households according to the amount allocated by the central government; the "rental adjustment" and all miscellaneous donations and miscellaneous taxes, and the Dante amount (capital tax) will not be abolished; the two taxes will be paid according to households and other households, and the fields will be based on the acres of nano millet;

Although later generations agreed and praised the advanced significance and concepts of "formulating budgets", "nine-class distributions" and "paying taxes by households" in the two tax laws; in real history, because it seriously violated the interests of the wealthy class, it was only implemented for more than 30 years, and was forced to order the "money-based" currency to be changed to physical objects to avoid the color and shrinkage of price fluctuations.

Moreover, as time goes by, the greedy feudal officials made false names to extort outside the two tax quotas, such as "intermediate tax", "excluding money", "green seed fees", etc. In order to get promotion, many officials levy taxes to achieve their performance.

The "Two Tax Law" that claims to be exempted from "rent and mediocre donations" and all miscellaneous donations, actually no longer exists. However, the fixed taxes formulated and distributed according to the two tax laws are the result of only a large or a large amount and increasing day by day. The heavy and heavy taxes have put the working people in a tragic situation where life is worse than death;

In addition, the vassal states in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were full of separatist rule and conquests continued to cause chaos, the court could only divide the wealth collected by the world into three parts, one was the Shangshang (the court), the second was the Shangshang (the town), and the third was Liuzhou. However, in order to obtain sufficient expenses, these three parties increased and expanded the taxes layer by layer without exception; and the powerful local households and clerks who were in charge of the grassroots level also had to make profits and gain self-improvement.

After all the sharing and increasing the amount, it is actually not enough to take away all the hard work of the farmers, and they have to sell their children to make up for it. Therefore, it is necessary to implement it completely until the local area is in a period of no famine, which is a vicious cycle of escaping in dire straits. Moreover, when the poor households at the bottom of the class who are most burdened are almost the same, it is the turn of the wealthy households above the sixth level to be unlucky; when the wealthy households at the sixth level are also bankrupt one after another, those small and medium-sized landlords who lack sufficient backers and backgrounds will have to break their families and provide them with full supply;

When these families of poor families began to join the tide of peasant uprisings that flocked to the world, leading to a transformation from quantitative to qualitative, which means that the death knell of a dynasty is really ringing.

Therefore, the ultimate beneficiary of all this was the powerful households who colluded with local governments. In any case, the court had no more taxes, and they relied on the merger of land and the gathering of exiles who sold themselves to join forces as slaves, and were able to annex each other in waves of peasant riots, becoming increasingly influential and private armed existences in the local area. They were also potential reserve forces for the final results of peasant uprisings in the process of seizing and stealing the dynasty in the future.

Therefore, the small share of output that the rebel army can leave to local farmers is enough to surprise and cry out; although this gratitude is only short-term, it will gradually fade away with the uncertainty of the counterattack of the official army. At this time, Zhou Huaian left another magic weapon for the rebel army. Compared with the tax that has to wait until summer to gain something and fulfill its promise, this is a plan that can quickly see results and reverse in the short term;

It is the dozens of mobile vendors team formed by personnel and chariots drawn through the baggage brigade, which gradually penetrated into more than 100 towns and villages distributed along the road, selling rice, cloth, oil, salt, wine, sauce, and iron tools for various basic materials needed for people's livelihood, as well as purchasing local relatively cheap local vines, hemp, ceramics, porcelain, poultry and livestock, as a primitive commercial circulation system that regularly communicates between urban and rural areas and adjusts market supply and demand.

In addition, the Guanshi controlled by the rebels before was equivalent to disguisedly binding these new local autonomous groups to a certain indispensable temporary interest system. Perhaps with the change of time, this temporary communication and interaction will become a habitual result of sustainability.

Although these temporarily laissez-free semi-autonomous villages may re-differentiate over time, new exploitation and vegetative classes and individuals have emerged, the current benefits and benefits are actually somewhat beneficial to them. This is just an external arrangement.

Before leaving, he had reorganized his direct forces, and expanded his investigation team, census team and work team; then, in addition to the five patrol teams that maintained order and basic laws in cities, a team of more than 100 people was established; he was responsible for supervising the discipline and atmosphere in the army, and also with the responsibility of inspecting and preventing spies.

And this last and combined responsibility is the real intention and playfulness of his establishment of the relevant team this time. The main reason is to gradually eliminate the old forces in the army and the influence from Cantonese, and even take some decisive and extraordinary measures when necessary.

Therefore, this team is actually a loyal loyal from Lingnan, Xu Si and Xu Yi, who are also a member of the former official army. The specific personnel are also the people who are deeply suffering and revenge who choose places to gather, and are prioritized for having connections and involvement with the old camp of Nufeng. The leaders who go to Guangzhou should also have four candidates:

One is Sun Liumao, the officer of the horse team, and the other is Wu Xingchen, the deputy lieutenant of the rebuilt front camp. The former was once the captain of Wang Pan's personal guard, and the latter was a new addition promoted by Wang Pan; and he was also an important witness to the survival of the Chaoyang Incident.

There is also a Qingzhou native Lin Ming, who served as the deputy lieutenant of the direct (team to junior) regiment. He is the candidate who is truly responsible for his own safety and security work; the last one is the new brigade coach Ge Guomei and Ge Congzhou, who is also a chance to show his face and open his eyes among the upper class of the rebel army.

He also gave part of the silk that was rewarded this time without any surprise to the human rights around him for additional clothing, and part of it was used as a subsidy for the additional shelter of orphans and teenagers in the army.

Anyway, except for daily food needs, he has no more demand for private goods. If there is really something he needs to use power to allocate directly. Therefore, on all the open side, the income he can withdraw and the gains he has obtained will soon become various experimental materials and finished products, or subsidies and assistance to people around him, and basically did not stay by his side for long.

And some new things or test items he has compiled from this will be immediately shared with everyone around him (as a guinea pig's nature as an experiment), which is a potential benefit and close expression that is affordable. However, the effect is still quite good, because everyone knows that he can always tease out some unique good things, and regards the opportunity to give priority to trial as a unique reward and praise.

This is more meaningful and motivating than direct rewards and gifts of money.

However, along the way, Zhou Huaian also accompanied him as a messenger and an interviewer. It seemed that because of the change in identity and status, and because of the degree of familiarity, he became more and more verbal than his cool and noble appearance, he asked about many things related to the Nufeng Camp almost in detail. In addition to some details of the Chaoyang Incident, he was even very interested in many changes and measures that occurred in the Nufeng Camp and looked very interested in the deep-rooted changes.

Zhou Huaian didn't have much thought of hiding this, but just made some choices and filters to inform some things; on the one hand, it was to repay his original support,

On the other hand, there are comprehensive considerations. Some contents include health and epidemic prevention, internal affairs sorting, logistics distribution, and some experiences and means. If the other party can learn a little bit of it seriously, it will also be beneficial to improving the overall strength of the Rebel Army.

Compared with the value of this knowledge itself, it is more important to cultivate groups that can spread and promote this knowledge.
Chapter completed!