Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Zhang Yong is now very suspicious. The other party is actually pretending to surrender, but in fact he has ambushed a large number of troops in the city. He only waits for him to enter the city before defeating and annihilating him.

Pretending to surrender and then ambush the troops in the city was a trick that the Xixia people had done before, and Zhang Yong felt that he had to guard against it.

But the drone has just observed in the sky, and there seems to be no one on the street. Unless they are hiding in private houses, there should be no other hiding place.

Why don't you send a team of people in first to check out the situation?

"King of Guanzhong! We, we are willing to surrender Kaicheng! I just ask that your army will not try to torture the people in the city." He Youliang looked at Zhang Yong and said nothing, so he said tentatively again.

He was now afraid that the King of Guanzhong would not agree to surrender and the people in the city would be massacred, which would be terrible.

Before, he had been with. Some wealthy merchants and gentry in Hanzhong City have discussed it. According to Mongolian customs, as long as you open the city and surrender, nothing will happen.

On the contrary, if you hold on desperately, the Mongols will definitely massacre the city after breaking it.

Moreover, in their view, the Mongols only asked for some property, and Kaicheng's surrender was only symbolic. After a period of time, these Mongols would automatically retreat.

"I remember that the supervisor surnamed Lu from before should have brought 30,000 troops to station in Hanzhong. How come you have 30,000 troops and you surrender without a fight? And why didn't he come? Zhang Yong asked.

How could a middle-aged official come out and surrender? Where did the real Mr. Lu go?

"King Guanzhong, are you kidding? How can I have an army of 30,000 in my city? All the soldiers put together are only more than 1,300 in total." He Youliang smiled bitterly and said helplessly.

If there were really 30,000 troops, why would he go out and open up the city and throw up walls? Wouldn't it be a better choice to stick to Hanzhong?

If a 30,000-strong army faces an attack by a 50,000-strong army, they can still hold on to the city.

"Oh! Isn't Supervisor Lu not in the city, nor are his 30,000 troops in the city?" Zhang Yong asked in confusion.

"King of Hanzhong, you don't know something! When news came that your army was passing through Chencang Road and attacking several surrounding counties.

Supervisor Lu led an army of 30,000 people, looted all the food reserves in the city, and then escaped overnight. "He Youliang said helplessly.

He is just an ordinary fifth-grade local official and has no right to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Do you want him, a fifth-grade local official, to tell the second-grade official named Lu that you don't want to rob food and grass, don't run away, and you want to stay and fight against the Mongols?

When the 30,000-strong army withdrew, they moved all the food and grass in the city. If they hadn't really been unable to take it, they might have taken action against the ordinary people.

The most terrifying thing is a military disaster, especially a broken army. After these people came, everything was thrown away, only the knife in their hand was left.

If it weren't for the fact that Supervisor Lu wanted to suppress the soldiers with dignity, I'm afraid they would have done something like robbing civilian girls.

In the past ten days, Hanzhong City had suffered a lot. After the arrival of the 30,000 soldiers, they had done nothing good. All the big households in the city had been robbed and a certain amount of property had been handed over.

Originally, everyone was counting on losing money and avoiding disasters, first taking good care of these military lords, and counting on Lord Lu to lead 30,000 troops to guard their Hanzhong City and prevent the Mongols from coming in. But what they didn't expect was this.

After hearing the news that the Mongols were about to attack, Mr. Lu actually escaped with his army overnight.

"Did he really run away? Or did he lead an army of 30,000 people to loot all the food and grass in the city, and then ran away." Zhang Yong asked.

Are you mistaken? Are you so timid? He didn't even dare to fight himself, so he just ran away with the others.

Zhang Yong didn't know that Mr. Lu was actually frightened out of his courage. How could he dare to fight Zhang Yong again?

In the past, the army of hundreds of thousands was defeated at a loss, but he was only a few pounds and a few taels, and he knew clearly what his level of commanding the battle was.

As for my ability, I can usually talk nonsense and write articles, but staying here is just sending me to death.

I still want to remain useful and go back to serve the country. How can I die here?

Moreover, there are 50,000 to 60,000 people in Mongolia, and he only has 30,000, so we are outnumbered, and there are 50,000 to 60,000 Mongolians. After he returns, he can tell the court that he has encountered a 100,000 Mongolian army.

In order to protect these 30,000 disciples, he led them back to the Central Plains and to the south.

"Reporting to the King of Guanzhong, if you, Your Majesty, need additional food and grass, we can also collect some for you. The big families in the city are willing to pay to buy more food and grass." He Youliang said.

When Zhang Yong mentioned the matter of food and grass, he thought that the King of Guanzhong wanted to ask for some food and grass, but he was a little dissatisfied when he heard that the food and grass had been looted.

All the grain stored in the government office was taken away by Mr. Lu, but fortunately, their land in Sichuan and Sichuan was relatively wealthy.

There has been no large-scale war for decades. If you pay, you can also buy some food from the private sector. He has discussed it with some wealthy businessmen in the city before.

If the prince of Guanzhong asked for property or food, then they would grit their teeth and collect some more, and each household would provide something.

Anyway, as long as you can save your life.

"We are willing to donate some money to the King of Guanzhong." Some wealthy businessmen, officials and gentry who followed He Youdao said.

"I have to ask for money from you, and I won't ask for your food, grass, or money. In the future, your officials will still manage this place as usual. But the tax revenue will not be given to the Southern Song Dynasty, but to me." Zhang Yong said.

I don't want money or food. I'm here to conquer the territory, not to rob. Wouldn't it be faster to settle the place and then collect taxes than to rob it?

What's more, this time he went south to conquer Sichuan and Sichuan, but he brought enough food and grass for the army to last more than half a year, which was a hundred thousand dan. Zhang Yong did not lack these at all.

"Thank you so much to the King of Guanzhong for your kindness. I would like to thank him on behalf of the people in the city." He Youdao breathed a sigh of relief and said.

Without asking for money from them, it seems that the King of Guanzhong does not want to leave, but wants to live here permanently.

If you want us to pay you taxes, it's not a big problem. As long as you can hold on to this place, it's not the money you pay anyway!

As long as they can't afford military disasters, it seems that the King of Guanzhong has a big appetite. He should not want Hanzhong, but the entire Sichuan, Shu and Chengdu.

Zhang Yong nodded, and immediately called one of his Mongolian Qianhu, and then called one of his Guanzhong cavalry general Wang Ming.

"Bart has one thousand cavalry, and the king has five thousand infantry. The two of you will go ahead and enter the city immediately.

Please comfort the people in the city and tell all the soldiers that they are not allowed to loot after entering the city. This is a surrender. "Zhang Yong said.

Six thousand troops entered the city. Even if there was an ambush, Zhang Yong was no longer afraid. As for the remaining troops, Zhang Yong asked them to be stationed in Hanzhong City first.

"Yes! Your Majesty."

Soon, an army of 6,000 people marched into Hanzhong City in a mighty manner, and Zhang Yong himself took the remaining army and selected a military camp a few miles outside Hanzhong City and began to station.

In the evening of that day, after confirming that there was indeed no ambush in Hanzhong, Zhang Yong led hundreds of personal guards into Hanzhong City.

That night. As the current highest official in Hanzhong, He Youliang held a banquet in his mansion and entertained Zhang Yong and his party well, as well as many generals who followed Zhang Yong.

"The King of Guanzhong is here today, which really brings glory to this humble house. Come on, let me toast the King of Guanzhong." He Youdao raised a glass of wine and said to Zhang Yong.

After the six thousand troops entered the city, they were also stationed in the military camp of the former Supervisor Lu.

The remaining people lived outside Hanzhong City and did not cause any disturbance to the residents, which made him, the local official, breath a sigh of relief.

"Master He, you are welcome. From now on, you will continue to be the prefect of Hanzhong City. I will arrange a military commander here. He will only be in charge of city defense and not care about anything else. You will still handle all taxation and government affairs here." Zhang Yong said.

"Thank you King Guanzhong for your trust! May I ask King Guanzhong, how much tax do you want to collect?" He Youliang asked.

"How much did you charge before?" Zhang Yong asked.

When he was in Xixia before, because the monetary system and economic system were not established at all, the tax he collected was only 20% of the food tax.

After capturing Guanzhong, some money was collected. Most of the tax revenue was contributed by some businessmen. The Mongols attach great importance to business, and Zhang Yong naturally attaches great importance to it.

During the more than two years of exploring Guanzhong, Zhang Yong also opened trade routes, sold goods from the Western Regions, and reopened the ancient Silk Road. After all, the entire ancient Silk Road is now in the hands of Mongolia.

"Previously, various taxes were collected twice a year. The summer tax was mainly on cloth and the autumn tax was mainly on rice. The tax was levied according to the fixed amount of land area. Generally, the annual tax was one dou per mu, and in Jiangnan and other places, the annual tax was three In addition to the two taxes, there are also small coins and corvees, as well as various land tax surcharges. The main ones include head money, warehouse tax, agricultural equipment tax, cow leather and sinew tax, import tax, silkworm salt money, and Quyin tax. Money, market money, etc.

All items of cloth, utensils, spices, treasures, etc., as well as folk pawnshops, farms, shops, houses, horses, cattle, donkeys, mules, and camels, as well as merchants selling tea and salt, are all subject to the tax.

They are the seventh grade of grain, the tenth grade of cloth, the fourth grade of fine iron, and the sixth grade of products," He Youliang said eloquently.

In order to please the king of Guanzhong, He Youliang explained the taxation in Hanzhong in great detail.

From exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes to large commercial taxes, local taxes, and agricultural taxes, everything is clearly stated, and even some tax exemptions have spoken out.

General scholars have partial tax exemption rights, and country gentry and landlords also have tax exemption rights.

The land is divided into public and private land. In addition, there are some people with titles granted by the Southern Song Dynasty and a large number of their family members, who do not need to pay taxes.

He talked incessantly for more than half an hour, and Zhang Yong felt a little drowsy after listening to it. Only the first things could be understood clearly, and the latter things were completely incomprehensible.

But generally speaking, the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty was very high. Especially during the Southern Song Dynasty, the people were almost exploited to the extreme.

Although many people on the Internet said before time travel that the Song Dynasty had developed commerce, the taxation of the Song Dynasty was the heaviest in the history of Chinese dynasties, and there were also extremely many tax items.

Some scholars once made statistics. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the land rent was generally 2/10, which is what Zhang Yong is now practicing in Guanzhong. No matter what you do for a living, you can pay /.

But in the Southern Song Dynasty at the end of the Song Dynasty, land taxes gradually increased, even reaching a peak of 1/3.

A large number of people do not even have their own private land and need to farm for landlords, and the taxes the landlords ask them to pay are even as high as 60%.

In other words, no matter what you do for a living, you need to hand over 60% of all your income. After the state collects taxes, the landlord also has to collect another amount.

It can be imagined how serious the taxation of the people in the late Song Dynasty was.

In addition to ordinary land taxes, people also need to collect some Ding taxes, land taxes, salt taxes, etc.! Those who make a living at sea must also pay boat tax and fish tax.

Those who raise sheep and cattle must also pay a cattle and sheep tax.

The life of the people at the bottom of the Southern Song Dynasty was quite difficult. The prosperous scene in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" describes the Northern Song Dynasty rather than the Southern Song Dynasty.

No wonder, no wonder! After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the south, under the banner of the Song Dynasty, no one welcomed him, and he was even very hostile. The taxation of the Southern Song Dynasty reached a terrible level.

Even Zhang Yong, a modern man, finds it a bit scary when all these taxes are collected. Mongolians only collect taxes once a year, and the tax is still 1/10.

No matter what business you do or what you do for a living, you only need to hand over 1/10, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, things were extremely complicated!

"I am from the Han Dynasty. Even during the Han Dynasty, I have never heard of so many exorbitant taxes and levies." Zhang Yong said.

"The King of Guanzhong doesn't know something! I'm old, ahem, the Southern Song Dynasty supported more than one million soldiers, and 70 to 80% of the tax revenue collected every year was needed to support these troops and their families.

There are inevitably some exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but the people can still live. " He Youliang said.

To be honest, the court's tax revenue is increasing every year, and even changes every few years. The people's lives are getting worse and worse, and even the people are complaining about the court.

Many old people say that the taxes paid a few decades ago were not even half of what they are now, let alone compared with those during the Han Dynasty.

"The common people's taxes should be reduced or reduced first! Those ordinary miscellaneous taxes will be exempted, and only the property tax will be paid. Merchants will still collect taxes as usual, and some unnecessary miscellaneous taxes will be exempted.

This year you will follow this tax first, but I have to change some places.

First of all, those scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as title holders, who were exempt from taxes, now have to pay taxes. "Zhang Yong said.

With so many excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes, it was difficult for Zhang Yong to make a conclusion at the moment. He needed to send some students from the north to have a serious discussion.

But one thing is necessary, that is, for those people who were exempted from tax before the Southern Song Dynasty, you have to pay taxes again.

As soon as Zhang Yong finished speaking, the whole place fell into silence, because most of these tax-free persons were sitting here.

Not to mention half, at least 80% to 90% of the people who came to entertain Zhang Yong today were enjoyrs of these tax-free benefits and were the real dignitaries of Hanzhong.

"King of Hanzhong! I, my ancestor made great contributions to the imperial court and was named the Founding Viscount. My family has little land and has not paid taxes for a hundred years." A civil servant in his thirties or forties jumped out immediately and said.

"That was the contribution your ancestors made to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, not to me, or to Mongolia. Your ancestors' tax exemption has now ended.

If you want to be tax-free, you can do it. As long as you make a contribution to me and prove your worth, then I can exempt you from tax. "Zhang Yong took a sip of wine and said.

The hundreds of elite soldiers Zhang Yong had brought to the banquet immediately cast dangerous glances at the speaker.

what are you thinking about? You have a title assigned to you by the Southern Song Dynasty. Your taxes were exempted by the Southern Song Dynasty, not by me.

"King Guanzhong, should we discuss this matter again? Most of these tax-free persons are wealthy nobles from Hanzhong." He Youliang said in a very embarrassed tone.

"Since you have surrendered, it is under my control. Don't worry, the taxes I collect are not as complicated or as large as those of the Southern Song Dynasty court.

Only merchants engaged in these commercial activities have to pay salt tax, wine tax, ship tax, and city tax, and other ordinary people do not need to pay. "Zhang Yong put down his wine glass and said unhurriedly.

Eat, just eat, what nonsense.

Depend on! I really want to imitate someone, so I just jumped on you.

"Since the King of Guanzhong has spoken, we will naturally have to pay taxes." At this moment, an old man who looked to be in his sixties stood up and bowed to Zhang Yong and said.

The identity of this old man was obviously very prominent. As soon as this man spoke, everyone at the banquet stopped talking and expressed their willingness to pay taxes to Zhang Yong.

After the banquet was over, Zhang Yong left the scene with his own soldiers.

Next, I have to prepare for the attack on Chengdu.

After Chengdu was captured, some other areas in Sichuan and Shu were no longer a problem.

"Master Cui! Why should we agree to this King of Guanzhong!"

"If he can collect our taxes today, he can claim our land tomorrow."

"Yes, if he asks us to hand over all our fields in the future, do we have to hand it over too?"

After Zhang Yong left, a group of people started asking questions.

"Hmph! Don't you see what the situation is now?

If we can save our lives, everything is fine.

If this King of Guanzhong is offended, he will kill us now and confiscate all our properties. What can you say? "The old man surnamed Cui said.

A bunch of idiots, can't they see the situation?

They came with tens of thousands of troops and didn't ask for any money or food.

I just mentioned the tax issue. If you are still unwilling and offend others, you will raise the butcher's knife. (End of chapter)