After walking around Xuzhou, I found that Xuzhou is relatively wealthy, but Xuzhou's wealth is concentrated in the hands of several wealthy families. The Mi family who ran away with Liu Bei, the already dead Cao Bao was also behind the Chen family, who was now in power. These families almost brought all the land in Xuzhou to their own name and owned hundreds of thousands of tenants. Now I know that the three thousand strong servants who were dowry when the Mi family married their daughters were just a superficial number. If the family of these three thousand people was small, Liu Bei would get tens of thousands of people and a large area of ​​land by marrying a wife. The Mi family did not only have land in Xuzhou, but also had land in several nearby prefectures and counties. Not only the Mi family, but many large families did this. It seems that everyone understood the principle of not putting eggs in a basket for a long time.

When I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I thought that Liu Bei really had such great ability to take more than 100,000 people to run away at any time. Now after investigating, I found out that except for Liu Bei who did have the means, the leaders who followed Liu Bei should be the tenants of him and his subordinates.

Fortunately, Cao Bao died now, the Mi family ran away, and the Chen family was left among the major wealthy families. Cao Cao is currently the emperor far away for me, so I can pull Chen Deng to do whatever he wants in Xuzhou. Of course, the toss I have to do cannot start from above, but must start from below in the name of making money.

After Xun Yu made a report to Cao Cao, most of the private land, gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, jade, classics and books of the Lu Bu, Liu Bei and Mi family were transported back to Xuzhou and handed over to Cao Cao for processing. The fields were distributed to tenants, making them free people, and implemented the method of placing acres to collect agricultural taxes, which allowed the Chen family and some wealthy families to give up the idea of ​​taking more land.

Implementing the implementation of the stakes to the acres is a good thing for the people, but it is definitely a big blow to the large farmers with a large amount of land. Of course, in exchange, after I told Chen Gui and his son the method of using sea water to dry salt, they immediately agreed to carry out the implementation of the stakes to the acres, and invested the 5,000 tenants in their own name as shares in the salt field. The other stakes also distributed some of the shares. Everyone knew that the profit of salt far exceeded the income from farming, so the opposition disappeared immediately.

After spreading the news of a large number of iron ore near Xuzhou, wealthy and powerful people organized people to go into the mountains to search. Lack of skilled workers in this area? It doesn’t matter, these big families mobilized all their connections and recruited many people from nearby states, and some families even recruited many people from Jiangdong who knew how to find mining and smelting.

I also took out many more complicated things, such as unicycles, four-wheelers, pulleys, springs, cement, steel bars, glass, gears, and new textile machines. Of course, these things were not for nothing. Although they were just conceptual and no finished products, they sold a lot of money after publicity. The big players who got these ideas organized a lot of manpower and material resources for research. Some of them soon started to make money in addition to the results. Because of this, the exclusive right law was also supported by these big players in Xuzhou and was successfully implemented.

Among Yanzhou officials, subordinates engaged in commercial activities have also entered Xuzhou one after another, transporting their previous inventory for sale, or recruiting handicraftsmen to process on-site, and some have been operated in conjunction with local merchants. New stores are constantly opening, and a wide variety of goods fill the streets and alleys of Xuzhou. Although they were rich but dead, Xuzhou seemed full of vitality in a short time.

The implementation of the tax system in Xuzhou has in turn led to the tax reform in Yanzhou. Yanzhou's industrial and commercial tax revenue has exceeded the agricultural tax and became the government's first income. Xun's uncle and nephew received a letter from Chen Deng from Xuzhou, concluding that this was something Guo Jia made. After discussion by the House of Representatives, he immediately asked Cao Cao and then promoted it in the area under his control. At the same time, he also put forward their own ideas on the reform of the industrial and commercial tax system, hoping to change the ten-take one to fifteen-take one to fifteen-take one while increasing supervision of industry and commerce. Cao Cao asked them to discuss with me. When I saw their letter, I had to admit that the uncle and nephew were definitely first-class internal affairs management talents. The reduction of tax rates does not necessarily mean a reduction of tax revenue. While strengthening management, the tax rate was reduced.

, which reduces tax evasion, and if the tax rate is not reduced in the area under the jurisdiction of the princes, then the merchants there will be attracted to us to trade with us as a reference; if other princes also lower the tax rate, it would be even better, and the goods we sell to them will make greater profits. Since this is the case, I will do it more absolutely. In the reply, it is recommended to change the commercial tax rate to 30 to 1, and at the same time put forward the concept of income tax for them as reference. The income tax rate is 20% to 30% of the net profit. Of course, in order to accurately calculate the profit, I also mentioned the general method of the double accounting method in the reply, but I have never done any economics and I just talked about it in general. The specific details will make others feel troubled.

The next step is the establishment of skills schools and the promotion of simplified characters. The initial promotion of simplified characters has actually begun in a small range. I asked the teenagers at home to learn simplified characters. With the establishment of the flag language station, under my deliberate request, the translators must translate the numbers sent from the flag language into words within a certain period of time. Simplified characters have become a lesson that translators must learn because of the simple and fast writing of simplified characters. The courses taught in the skill schools are mainly carpenters, blacksmiths, and other handicraft skills, which can quickly provide workers for emerging handicrafts, and also select commonly used simplified characters and simple maths required for calculating materials.

At the same time, in order to find something for the Corrupt Confucians, I threw out the idea of ​​unifying the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Chinese pinyin, and organized many so-called famous scholars to pronounce each Chinese character. In addition, they asked them to compile a dictionary to mark the meaning represented by each Chinese character.

Unexpectedly, I, who had insulted Kong Rong and was regarded as a scum by the Scholars, because I promoted simplified characters among the people and organized the pronunciation of Chinese characters. These two things became famous scholars in the world! Complex Chinese characters were a major obstacle to Confucius' educational thoughts, and simplified characters could facilitate education of the people; and the promotion of simplified characters among the people also made traditional characters a symbol of identity, and made wealthy families have another thing that distinguished from untouchables. Using such a wonderful method to pay attention to pronunciation of Chinese characters, it is a major event that has been famous in history. The initiator of this incident and financial supporter. The status of the initiator in the academic world is naturally rising.

Another thing that I didn't expect happened!
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