By the end of this year, relying on the resolute and decisive work efficiency of those officials who were full of desire to cut their flesh, the first registration of faith in the Song Dynasty was quickly completed. Except for a very small number of those with firm beliefs, it can be said that more than 90% of the people were registered as believers of the state religion...

In fact, many people only realized that there was a national education at this time.

After all, the folk beliefs were chaotic before.

The Song Dynasty was just the emperors who praised Taoism, but the people, especially the people in Jiangnan, basically did not have any concept of national religion. In fact, bald people are more popular here. However, if they want to collect taxes, the people of the Song Dynasty are still quite pragmatic. Many good men and women even dare to buy officials to register as national religion. After all, it is a one-time spending at this time, and if they really want to collect taxes, they will definitely be collected every year. So at this time, they had to curse the national master and the treacherous figure, while taking out a lot of money and secretly stuffing them to the officials who were eyeing them, waiting to register them as believers of the Hu Cult.

This is where the latter's high efficiency comes from.

Of course, their efficiency will continue to be like this, because then the national teacher made a crazy trick for the traitor.

Commission.

Local officials receive commissions for religious taxes.

Only two-thirds of the religious tax collected by each county need to be paid, and the remaining one-third is kept as office funds for the county government. This crazy system made the officials stupid. The national teacher was a traitor and gave them a blow just now, but unexpectedly, they were given such a big sweet date again.

One-third commission!

Moreover, the property assessment of the Hu scholars is still the responsibility of the Hu scholars. The proportion of the reimbursement of the first tax collection has been determined at this time. Of course, it is not one-fifth of the national teacher said. Even if the property of those merchants is a lot of merchant ships, manors, goods, etc., the working capital in their hands will not exceed one-fifth of the property. If one-fifth is to make many of them bankrupt, one-tenth of them should be more secure. Therefore, Jia Sidao's reimbursement ratio is one-tenth, and one-third of these one-tenth belongs to bureaucrats in various places...

When he thought that he could legally take away the Hu scholars in his territory, especially the Semu merchants and one-third of the temple property, the bureaucrats from all over the country seemed to have been beaten.

Then the vigorous taxation began.

Then civil unrest occurred in various places, including those who surround the yamen and cause trouble, those who refuse to pay taxes, and even openly promote anti-dong slogans. In short, those Hu scholars used various means to fight against each other, but in the end they were useless. After all, their number was really small. More than 95% of the registered people in various places were Nationalists, and the rest were definitely unchanged, so they had to register as Hu scholars. They made trouble...

Can they still make trouble for the big sticks in the hands of yamen servants in various places?

The latter is still waiting to share the money!

There is no need for an army at all, let alone a national teacher. Officials from all over the country solved it themselves under the temptation of gold and silver. Most of them are indeed corpses and food, and most of the yamen runners are indeed bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, but that is because they have no profits and are profitable, especially when there are huge profits, they are still very combat-effective.

In the end, almost all tax resistance situations in various places disappeared without any turmoil under the suppression of local officials.

Then a large amount of taxes began to be sent to Lin'an.

It is said that Jia Sidao's political enemy, Ma Guangzu, the Jiangnan East Transport Author, received a total of 10,000 jin of taxes in a large temple in Jiankang, and it was not Huizi, all of them were copper coins and gold and silver. The masters were law-abiding, and no master had any resistance to this. It was a harmonious atmosphere in which the people of Jiangnan welcomed religious taxes. Of course, the small matter of the two temple hosts accidentally fell into the water and drowned in the Qinhuai River is not worth mentioning.

With the large amount of religious taxes obtained, Jia Sidao immediately began the plan to build a fort along the Huai River.

This Southern Song version of the national defense line starts from the east to Xiangyang and goes west along the Huaihe River, just like the Liaodong fortress group of the Ming Dynasty in history. Castles are built at all possible river crossing points along the Huaihe River. The castles are covered with bricks outside, and a large number of giant counterweight catapults and crossbows are equipped with annual reserves of enough food to support one year. In addition, the Huaiyang Navy was established in the Huai'an Army to equip this navy with a large number of small vehicles and ships, and finally control the main channel of the Huaihe River from Lianshui to Xinyang, and form a defense line together with the Huaihe Fortress group along the Huaihe River.

In the east of Xiangyang, with the Zaoyang Army as the core, it has completely built a fortress group, and even equipped with a large number of small thunderbolt bombs to defend the city, using the Zaoyang Fortress Group to block this crucial southward passage.

The entire national defense line along the Huaihei will maintain no less than 200,000 troops all year round, and will be divided into three large military regions to take charge.

Lv Wende's cousin Lv Wenhuan guarded Xiangyang, Gundam guarded Zaoyang, with Lv Wenhuan as the main one. Xia Gui was responsible for the western front to the east of the Dabie Mountains and Nanyang. The section from Shouchun to Nanyang was under his jurisdiction, while Li Tingzhi was responsible for the eastern front, that is, Shouchun went downstream. At the same time, Li Tingzhi was in charge of the two Huai Rivers. Lv Wende continued to station troops in Chongqing to be responsible for the upstream, but he also supervised the west of the Dabie Mountains. In fact, the entire northern defense of the Southern Song Dynasty used the Dabie Mountains as the boundary, and Lv Wende was in the east to the west of Li Tingzhi.

In order to prevent the Mongolian army from heading straight from the southern line as last time and strengthen defense on the southern line, the Guangxi governor Zhu Sisun continued to expand the Jingjiang City. At the same time, at the suggestion of Yang Feng, Zhang Shijie, who made great contributions in the Battle of Ezhou, led some northern troops to the south and set up Nanning Army in Yongzhou. Zhang Shijie was the master of the Nanning Army and expanded the city to make the defense of the southern line go out to Nanning, forming two lines of defense with Jingjiang behind to block the Mongolian army's route from Annan or Dali.

In short, if Jia Sidao is rich, he is no longer afraid.

No matter what he wanted to do before, he had to face the problem of funds. In the past, he could also issue paper money, but in the past, he sent too much, and now he was almost ruined. He didn't even have enough military pay for soldiers, let alone building castles.

And religious tax has replenished his blood.

Although this is a supplement to the fight against the local tyrants and it is impossible to maintain such an income in the future, it ultimately solved the problem in front of him.

In the future, we must not expect religious tax. Even if he really collects it at one-fifth, this religious tax is not the big deal. The source of finance of the Southern Song Dynasty was the commercial tax collected from overseas trade. However, as an agricultural country, the real core of the matter was still collected from the land. This had to be completed by the economic world. After the public land law officially began, we can only rely on these supplementary taxes for religious taxes in the past two years. As for the economic world, the entire economic world of Lin'an Prefecture will be completed by the end of the year. Moreover, with the expansion of the scale of the economic world team, the economic world of the entire Zhejiang West Road has been fully launched. It is estimated that it can be completed in half a year. Although the gentry in various places is also very upset, the scene of the national rank flooding of the Lei Feng Tower has not faded in their minds. Therefore, although they have to continue to have small conflicts with the economic world team, there is still no way to dare to resist.

After all, this is just the sutra world, and the public land law is not implemented at the same time. The gentry still has some fantasies. This is why they are so enthusiastic about religious taxes recently.

They knew that Jia Sidao was forced by the finance department.

They helped Jia Sidao quickly implement religious tax and wanted to pass it on. The public land law was forced by Jia Sidao. Speaking of which, his family also owns a lot of land. If the public land law is implemented, he must take the lead. In fact, he will have to suffer losses. If he can solve the financial crisis through religious tax, then a good communication may even make a fuss. It is precisely because of this that officials from all over the country cooperated with them. Some gentry even organized servants to help local officials suppress those who dared to resist. Anyway, they were not the ones who were unlucky. Unfortunately, their fantasies were just fantasies after all. It was impossible to solve the financial crisis in the Song Dynasty by relying on religious taxes. This can only be said to make Jia Sidao breathe a sigh of relief.

Uh, Jia Sidao will breathe a sigh of relief soon.

"National Master, this is definitely someone who deliberately retaliated against private revenge. Although Pu Shougeng is rich, its property is 20 million yuan, and the national fiscal and taxation is only tens of million yuan, at most it is only tens of million yuan. The annual tax paid by the Quanzhou Maritime Warehouse Department is only one million yuan. Although the Pu family is the largest maritime merchant in Quanzhou, its annual income cannot exceed the annual tax revenue of the Maritime Warehouse Department? Previously, local officials calculated the property of the Pu family. The total of industries in various places was only one million yuan. According to one-tenth of the supplementary payment, Pu Shougeng and his brother have paid 100,000 yuan of taxes. The Pu family has been doing business in Quanzhou for many years, and the number of enemies must be large, and their business rivals wish they could fall. In order to attack them, these people must do everything they can. It is normal to deliberately report and exaggerate their property."

Jia Sidao said in the Haotian Palace of God in Gushan with a terrifying look on his face.

Well, the national teacher was reported here, Quanzhou Semu businessman, formerly recommended Quanzhou Shibu Shipinsi Pu Shougen, and his brother Pu Shouse and his family property totaled more than 20 million yuan...

This is a terrifying number.

You should know that the annual fiscal revenue of the court was only tens of millions of yuan at this time, and the Pu family's property exceeded one quarter of the annual fiscal revenue. This immediately shocked the national teacher. What shocked the national teacher even more was that the Pu family finally assessed only one million guan by bribing local officials. In this way, they only need to pay 100,000 guan to get away with it, causing the country to lose taxes up to two million guan. This is simply too crazy. Such a giant traitor who steals the country and is fat must be severely punished...

"Are you sure?"

Yang Feng said with a majestic look on his face: "As far as I know, the Pu family is a Seme merchant from Chameng. He has controlled the trade in spices in South China for more than ten years. You may not know how profitable the spice is. I know very well here! The spice is like weeds in South China, and it can be said that it is everywhere in the mountains and fields. It is cheap like a pine tower. It can be picked anyway. As long as it is dried and transported to my Song Dynasty, it will be a thousand times the profit. The Pu family has controlled this trade for more than ten years and has only accumulated a million yuan of wealth. This is too strange, right?"

"Well, the national teacher, the Pu family is just a reseller. It is said that the spices are purchased by the Nanyang merchants from all over the country and then transported to Chameng for sale to local merchants. The Pu family's merchant ships are then transported from Chameng, and the profits he can obtain are only a small part of it."

Jia Sidao said carefully.

"If that happens, one million is a little less! The Pu family also came from Champa. How can they know that they did not have their own business names in Champa? The Semu merchants in Champa all came from Dashi. The Pu family was the same, and how can they know that they did not have their own business names in the Nanyang islands? Without them, the natives in the Nanyang are unable to transport such things. The Nanyang islands have their own owners. The Pu family has enough choices. In this way, their acquisitions in South China should be extremely cheap, but they were almost monopolised in our Song Dynasty. Such monopolists may take away 90% of the profits, and a million yuan of property is a joke.

You don’t have to worry about this matter. I will check the Pu family in person. If it really costs one million yuan of property, then it will be nothing. If there is really anything that is favoritism and abuse of power, I will make them regret it!”

Yang Feng said viciously.

"National Master, you don't need to go to such a small matter in person, right?"

Jia Sidao said in surprise.

"Not only for this, I also want to search in Quanzhou to see if anyone who is familiar with sea routes can go to Taiwan."

Yang Feng said.

"Taiwan?"

Jia Sidao looked confused.

"It's Vishya, my map is marked as Taiwan. Didn't you notice it?"

Yang Feng said.

"Well, this disciple really didn't pay attention."

Jia Sidao answered honestly.

"So what is Taiwan worth the national teacher going to?"

He asked immediately.

The Song Dynasty called Taiwan Visheya because the currents of the Taiwan Strait were complex and the island was too primitive. At this time, the Song Dynasty, which had already formed large-scale trade with Japan and the South China Sea, was unfamiliar with this island that was close to the sea. After all, what those maritime merchants wanted was profit, and it was difficult for the natives on the island to bring them any profits. However, Penghu was within the territory of the Song Dynasty, and Taiwan was included in the vassals. However, the natives there often pretended to be pirates to harass Quanzhou, and the national master was actually interested in such a place, which made Jia Sidao a little confused.

“There are good things there!”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

There are really good things there.

Of course, it is not about camphor. At this time, the Song Dynasty also produced camphor, but the quality was slightly worse. The real top camphor came from Borneo, that is, dragon brain. Doctors in the Song Dynasty often used camphor to pretend to be dragon brain to deceive people. This kind of thing did not bring him real huge profits. In later generations, Taiwan camphor was once important because this thing was used in industry, especially in Nobel safety explosives.

And his targets are gold mines and sulfur.

The latter is what he has to do. If he wants to play with firearms, he must solve the raw materials. The main production areas of nitr are Sichuan and Hanzhong, but the main sources of sulfur are actually Japan and Ryukyu. If Taiwan's sulfur is developed, he will no longer need to make any sulfur from Japan and Ryukyu. As for gold mines, it goes without saying that these two things can basically induce the people here to flock to Taiwan, and then the rest will be gradually developed.

(My wife is sick, today's chapter.)
Chapter completed!