Outside the Haixi County Magistrate’s Office, there are short and thick stone cannons.
These stone cannons were assigned to the two Pan-Mongol tribes under the jurisdiction of Haixi County. They look like stone benches in the garden. The surface is uneven, and there is a three-inch-wide barrel inside. The diameter is very short, but the inside is relatively smooth.
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The leaders of the two tribes and their followers stood in the open space in front of the government office, each occupying one side. You stared at me, I stared at you, wishing you could draw your bow and draw your sword to fight in front of the magistrate...
These stone cannons are simple to make, requiring only basic stone tool making skills, and are very cheap.
It is also very simple to use. Load two kilograms of gunpowder and gravel and iron slag, use asphalt yellow wax to paste the fire door, place it randomly on the pile of rocks outside the pier fortress, and connect a lead to the fortress. When the soldiers guarding the fort see the enemy coming,
Just click on it.
In essence, it is not a cannon, but a wire-fired bomb.
Of course, sometimes due to the high quality of the stone, after igniting it, it will just spray out the particles like a cannon without damaging the barrel, so you can only pick it up and reload it, hoping that it will break down again next time.
Liu Guoneng took over this county, and its composition was very simple, consisting of three tribes.
His own tribe is considered a Han tribe, there is a Fan tribe in Haixi, and there is a Mongolian tribe in Hainan. The three tribes have a population of 4,662 and a half, making up the registered people of the entire Haixi County.
The county is extremely poor, and the people make a living by raising animals. On average, one household has three sheep, three households have one cow, and each household has one horse, donkey, and mule.
Everything should not be judged by the average. If the average number seems to be just enough, then the vast majority of people must be able to make do with it.
Liu Guoneng's tribesmen followed and cultivated 1,400 acres of land, almost reaching the limit of the land that Haixi County can currently cultivate.
There are still about 90,000 acres of land suitable for farming in the local area, mainly concentrated among the Mongolian tribes in Hainan, but that area is now pasture land. Liu Guoneng cannot do the work of reclaiming the fields for the Tongmeng tribesmen, so he can only put it aside until the end of the war and let the general
Wailiangzi go try it.
After all, Wailiangzi is a member of that tribe.
Liu Guoneng put his hands behind his back and used a caliper to inspect the thickness of each stone cannon. He used a caliper to check the thickness of each stone cannon. He used a pen to write four big characters on the side of the stone cannon: "The hole faces the enemy."
"Haixi Township has 120 stone cannons from Weiyuan, and 32 of them are not in compliance with the regulations, so the total number is 88; Hainan Township has 133 stone cannons from Weiyuan, and 42 are not in compliance with the regulations, so the total number is 88.
Ninety-one... were taken to Nanshan Fort."
As for the seventy-four extra stone cannons that were not in compliance with the regulations, Liu Guoneng knew that these things could actually be used, but he still ordered the yamen servants to smash them all with hammers in front of the two men.
The Qinghai Marshal's Mansion has not yet unified tax laws. Some places collect tiba like the Mongols, and some places, such as Haixi County, have not yet begun to collect taxes, and they are basically tribute.
Changes in people's identities are the easiest to cause thinking. In the past, Liu Guoneng was a country scholar, and his thinking about the decline of the imperial court was that he collected too many taxes; now Liu Guoneng is an official in the Marshal's Office, and his thinking about the decline of the imperial court is that he collected too few taxes.
Too much taxation refers to the total amount including apportionment, while too little taxation refers to the court's land tax. In fact, they are both the same thing. The lessons and thoughts Liu Guo can get from it are only about the good and evil appearance when the country was founded. p>
In the past six months, Xining Prefecture has been discussing tax issues, mainly animal husbandry tax, sitting tax, and customs duties.
The reason why there is no land tax is because the Marshal's Office has a strong bias towards tax issues.
They are a group of rebels who have suffered a lot. Land annexation is just one of them. Drought and expropriation are the most serious problems. Land annexation is not that important.
But they can succeed and have indeed benefited from land annexation, so they are naturally more willing to ask for taxes from large households, and they also naturally know to curb land annexation.
Any soldier knows that as long as the farmers do not go bankrupt, the majority of farmers will not rebel, so we must limit the number of acres of land per capita to no tax or less tax.
Under this premise, the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion has only a few acres of land and cannot collect land tax at all.
On the contrary, they have transformed into the government. Once they start the Eastern Expedition, they will formalize the Gulf market and impose taxes, and tariffs will be put on the agenda.
But since Liu Guoneng knew that his county had 90,000 acres of farmland to be cultivated, he only focused on submitting land tax documents.
The Ming Dynasty's land tax of one out of thirty was good governance, but whenever something happened to the court, the money and food would not be enough. If it was not enough, it would have to be apportioned, and if it was apportioned, it would be scolded and it would lose the support of the people.
And as the court became rigid, the number of officials increased, and wars continued year after year, various apportionments increased, and nearly half of the people's harvest was taken away. So what do these thirty taxes count? It is better to directly learn from Cao Wei, five public officials and five citizens, and only
Get scolded once.
Liu Guoneng wrote to the prefect's Yamen three times, suggesting that the land tax be set higher. The first time he suggested a tax of one per ten. After inspection, he found that the Fanbu on the border of Xining and Huangnan had to pay tiba twice, so he wrote the second letter.
, it is recommended to pay five taxes and one tax.
When he heard that Xiao Lazun had escaped after the war, he was very happy and directly wrote to the Marshal's Mansion to implement a land tax of three taxes and one or two taxes and one.
Liu Guoneng believed that Xiao Lazun was a stumbling block to the tax rate of the Marshal's Mansion, because in Huangnan Lazun, the tax rate of one per ten tax was imposed.
Lazun only accepts Timba and has no responsibilities except restraining his troops from looting the local area; while the Marshal's Office is responsible for a series of social responsibilities such as building bridges and roads, cultivating fields, and recruiting soldiers.
But the people who pay tiba and taxes don't care about this. People only know how much tax you collected.
Therefore, if Lazun doesn’t leave, Liu Guoneng will not be able to tell his true thoughts. His logic is this: if the place is clean and there are no messy apportionments, the farmers can bear the regular tax of two taxes and one. They are in a war era, that is
So.
Moreover, with the newly established atmosphere of the Marshal's Mansion, clearing out the land, and establishing households and people are all real figures. By laying down a piece of land and uprooting the old ruler, they can have unprecedented dominance over a piece of land.
The taxes collected will only decrease, not increase, in the next one or two hundred years. What's more, Liu Chengzong will have a son in the future. Regardless of whether he is the King of Qinghai or the Lord of the World, he will be able to gain a few points of reduction in the regular tax after he succeeds to the throne.
Human heart.
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There is no harm in setting a high point at the beginning, but setting a low point is to plant bombs for the future.
However, neither Liu Guoneng nor Liu Xiangyu have the right to decide on the tax discussion. They are just making preparations in advance for the final decision in the future.
None of them knew what was going on in the south of the Marshal's Mansion, only Liu Chengzong knew.
But Liu Guoneng's idea of being strict first and then lenient in taxation has been implemented in Haixi. Even if it is just two stone cannons, he must be very strict. Whatever the rules are, what is handed over must be
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"Liu's parents, please don't smash it." The Mongolian leader stepped forward and said, "The boss is famous. If you smash it, you won't know who did it."
This leader from the Mongolian tribe in Hainan is the father-in-law of Wailiangzi, named Old Man Liang.
Old Man Liang could speak Chinese, so he handled all the contacts with the Marshal's Mansion. As he worked hard, he became the officially certified leader.
His surname comes from Liu Chengzong's letter of commendation, which he sent to Wailiangzi's mother-in-law, praising Wailiangzi as a hero and mainstay of the Marshal's Palace, saying that Wailiangzi was a Batu'er personally named by the Grand Marshal, and a warrior.
So their family, including the two teenage boys, now all have the title of Batuer. What is the corresponding Chinese character for Batuer? The old Mongolian man thought about it and realized that the mainstay, well... it should be Liang.
Therefore, when registering their household registration in Haixi County, their family all had the surname Liang.
Liu Guoneng heard what Old Man Liang said and waved his hand: "This is the first time. I smashed it directly. You don't want to go back and punish others. Next time, just let people build it according to the regulations."
The two leaders nodded in agreement, and then the stone cannons were loaded and transported by the government officials to Nanshan Fort to prevent attacks from the Mongolian tribes in Chaka Yanchi.
After finishing this matter, Liu Guoneng called the two leaders into the yamen and asked: "How is the vaccination of your subordinates?"
A pox doctor is a doctor who specializes in vaccinating people with pox. The main purpose is to prevent smallpox.
People found that people who had suffered from smallpox would not get it again, so they developed the technique of vaccination. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, doctors from Ningguofu created a relatively mature attenuated vaccination technology.
Even today, most of the doctors who travel all over the world to vaccinate the people are from Ningguo Prefecture.
Three hundred years later this was a very backward ancient medical skill, but in the Ming Dynasty it was the most advanced science in the world.
Technology is yesterday's science, and science is tomorrow's technology.
The Marshal's Office didn't notice this at first, but last year a tribe in Huangnan was completely free of smallpox, so Liu Chengzu noticed it.
The reason why that tribe disappeared was not entirely due to smallpox. Catching smallpox would kill four out of five people... Strictly speaking, smallpox was not that serious, but in this era, fever and diarrhea can kill people, and no one can tell who is suffering from acne.
Why did he die?
Moreover, there is an incubation period of up to twenty days. People have no way to prevent this disease. Once it arises, it will burn like wildfire everywhere.
So when Lazun heard that someone had acne, he directly sent troops to implement the highest level of isolation - separation of yin and yang.
Although the incident did not happen to him, Liu Chengzu was still afraid. He found two vaccination doctors from Ningguo Prefecture from Xining to vaccinate the entire army. They might be going to fight somewhere. If they were infected, the entire army would be gone.
When fighting, this situation means death.
In this era, vaccinations were generally given to children aged one or two years old, and the mortality rate was considered successful if it was less than 5%. Doctors with better skills in cultivating vaccines could control the number of deaths to one in 400.
One of the two vaccination doctors was killed by Liu Chengzu. The man kept saying that he had excellent vaccines and technology and could kill one of five hundred people. However, he vaccinated 120 soldiers of the Zhenhai Battalion with vaccination. Thirteen of them died, which almost caused the disease.
Mutiny.
The other doctor had better skills, but basically one in a hundred died. He was awarded an official position by the Marshal's Office and built a pox village at the foot of the Qilian Mountains in Haibei. At first, there were relatively few vaccinia vaccines, and he only vaccinate the army. This year, he also vaccinates the common people. p>
However, the people in Haixi and Haibei counties lack enthusiasm for vaccination. People can accept the separation of yin and yang after acne, but they cannot accept the one percent fatality rate.
After all, one is accepted by God, and the other is driven to death by oneself. There is a big psychological difference.
Old Man Liang shook his head and said: "It's less than half, there will be another war now, and no one in the tribe is willing to run to Pox Village."
"Let's wait until the war is over. After the war, we must all plant crops. The commander-in-chief will be back by then." Liu Guoneng said: "I heard that General Zhong said that the enemy troops in the Heka Grassland were mobilized abnormally. Maybe the commander-in-chief has come from the south.
Coming over."
Old Man Liang nodded heavily: "Don't worry, parents Liu, I will take my troops to Pox Village after the battle... I have something else to do when I come back. When is the date for the official robes of Liu's parents?"
Liu Guoneng was stunned for a moment by the question, then sighed and said, "Let me do the math."
The Marshal's Mansion does not have a systematic uniform system, and the prefects Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui still don't have official robes, so they are fine if they don't use them.
But the county magistrate must have official uniforms, because when the couple gets married and registers at the county government, they have to borrow official robes and phoenix crowns and harems as the official wedding attire of the matchmaker.
When getting married, it is much easier for men to wear whatever the county magistrate wears. For women, it is a little more troublesome. The county government should prepare phoenix crowns, phoenix hairpins, gold hairpins, Xia pei, pei pendants, and fishing hoops.
For this reason, the magistrate's official robe of the Marshal's Mansion is mainly used for common people to wear at weddings. People only wear it once when they get married. It may be the best robe that many people have ever worn in their lives.
Liu Xiangyu served as Mi Zhi's acting parent official. He knew that this custom was very important and very helpful to the people's hearts, so he specially asked the Weaving Bureau to use the best fabrics and the best craftsmanship to make the county magistrate with dark dark patterns.
Official robes and phoenix crowns.
Liu Guoneng liked that official robe very much. The fabric and the color made it look like an official of the fourth rank or higher... but he never wore it even a day.
He made some calculations in his mind and said to Old Man Liang: "October, the last person to get married is on the sixth day of October. I forgot the names of the Nanshan Fort soldiers. General Zhong told me, you have to use the beginning of October."
Seven."
Old Man Liang calculated with his rough fingers, his face turned bitter: "Then we have to wait another three months?"
Liu Guoneng nodded, then waved his hands angrily and said: "Wait a minute, I've been waiting for half a year, and I haven't worn it even once. I've almost worn it out for these married people. Which general is it this time?"
Is there any happy event for you?"
Old Man Liang was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and paused before saying: "This time he is not under the general's command, but a descendant of our headquarters. This... Liu's parents, our descendants are getting married, can't they borrow official uniforms?"
"Huh? What do you mean you can't borrow it?"
Liu Guoneng's eyes widened when he heard this: "I'm telling you, the rules are the rules. When you get married, you have to wear official uniforms, you must wear them!"
"You go back and tell the couple that the wedding will be scheduled on the seventh day of October for the time being. There are many sergeants getting married in the front. If there is a war and the date cannot get married, I will tell him to come in front. Anyway, it is ready. The date will be three days earlier.
There is a notification from the Yamen."
Old Man Liang was very happy when he heard this and laughed. The married young man in the tribe gave him a break for several days in order to ask him about this matter. He was afraid that Liu Guo would not allow this trip and it would be a disgrace to his mission. Now he was heartbroken when he heard this.
Landing, it was so easy.
At this moment, some tired horse soldiers came from outside the Yamen and reported into the hall: "Liu Magistrate, urgent report from Nanshan, the general has nine battles and nine victories in Nanshan, Heka, and has defeated the Japanese army. Now the vanguard has arrived at the Heka grassland.