But the appointment to see Mr. Wu the next day failed. "Fan Yanei said that Mr. Wu was not available tomorrow, so we made an appointment."
"What about an appointment the day after tomorrow?"
"Fan Yanei said he was not free the day after tomorrow, so I tried to persuade him, so he reluctantly agreed to help and asked if he was free the day after tomorrow." Feng Zhidai's brother-in-law Xian Zhiyong said.
Feng Zhidai frowned.
"Who is this Fan Yanei?"
"The younger brother of Mrs. Jin's wife is now serving as a soldier in the army."
"Mrs. Fan's brother?"
"Well, my younger brother, the eldest son of Yingguo Duke Fan Xing, also went south this time. I heard that he was the military officer of the Prince of Wei in Beijing."
Strong, so as his brother-in-law, he has to curry favor with other people’s brothers-in-law.
Brother-in-law, you have to work hard.
"Does Prime Minister Wu have anything important to do these days, or does he have an appointment with someone?"
"I don't know about that. That Fan Yanei has a very tight tongue. He is worthy of being a top-notch descendant from Chang'an. Although he is young, he is full of style."
Feng Zhidai was a little dazed,
I thought that by taking the initiative to come, I would be giving a lot of face, but unexpectedly I was rejected.
That night, Governor Feng had insomnia again.
The next morning, I had two big black circles under my eyes and my eyes were red.
During breakfast, the atmosphere in the restaurant was extremely depressing.
The kitchen prepared seafood porridge, but Feng Zhidai cursed the cook, saying that he didn't prepare sesame pancakes for him. He wanted to eat sesame pancakes with haggis soup.
The cook was scolded for no reason, and he felt very wronged, but he didn't even dare to defend himself, so he had to beg for mercy and say that he would do it again immediately.
The kitchen over there is busy,
Feng Zhidai sat there without eating the seafood porridge, just sulking and waiting.
"Alang,"
My brother-in-law came over and said, "Someone from Prime Minister Wu's Mansion has come and sent an invitation."
Feng Zhidai was startled. Didn't he say that he was not free? Then he seemed to remember, "Mr. Wu, are you free to see me the day after tomorrow?"
"No, Prime Minister Wu is not free the day after tomorrow. This invitation was sent by Mrs. Jin, inviting my sister and her family and children to have tea."
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Wu Huaiyu deliberately did not see Feng Zhidai, just as he deliberately did not invite Feng Zhidai to come to Guangzhou, and also deliberately did not write to him to discuss tax sharing.
Deliberately keeping some distance between some things will have good results. If you rush, it will easily make others feel that you are eager to ask for help from him and that you can't live without him.
The matter of tax sharing is very important.
This is not only a major event in Lingnan, but also the top priority of the Tang Dynasty in the future.
Whether it is a country or a small family, money is actually very important. The economic base determines the superstructure.
To put it simply, the emperor arranged for a heavyweight like Wu Huaiyu to be stationed in Lingnan for three main reasons:
The first is to overthrow all the rebellious chiefs and shoguns who disobey the Central Government of the Tang Dynasty. This is conquest by force. The second is to fully implement the Two Taxes Law. From now on, all aspects of Lingnan will follow the imperial court. The third is to divide taxes.
Lingnan not only has to collect taxes according to the two tax laws, but also has to pay two-thirds of the taxes collected.
In fact, the three things can be regarded as one thing. The purpose of dissent is to collect taxes, and the purpose of implementing new taxes is to share taxes.
Two-thirds of the tax revenue from Lingnan was taken, one share went to the national treasury, and the other share was retained for envoys. In the final analysis, it was all for the governance of Lingnan, and governance required money.
The soldiers in Lingnan and the officials in Lingnan all need money to support them.
"Feng Zhidai must be very confused now,"
Yacheng, in the envoy's mansion.
Wu Huaiyu did meet with important guests today, including his brother Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, and Zhang Fuguo, the envoy of Guangzhou.
As well as Doulu Huairang, the governor of Shaozhou, Pang Xiaotai, the governor of Duanzhou, Liang Jianfang, the governor of Wuzhou, Sun Chong, the governor of Qinzhou, Cheng Chumo, the governor of Lianzhou, Yun Hongyin, the governor of Guizhou, Wei Siren, the governor of Chaozhou,
There are also Li Bi, the Lingnan transport envoy, and Wu Junya, the branch envoy.
Shi Wangda, Sima Chensheng, the governor-general of Guangzhou, as well as Jia Runfu, the Qing navy envoy, Dai Yi, the commander of the Guangzhou navy, Wu Shisheng, the commander of the Guangzhou inspection army, etc.
It’s all Wu Huaiyu’s team in Guangzhou,
Basically you can call them one of your own.
Wu Huaiyi spoke relatively casually and even made jokes about Feng Zhidai.
"Feng Zhidai is now also the head of the Feng family in Lingnan. Will Duke Wu be able to live with this? If he is really angered, there will be trouble later." Li Bi said, the transfer envoy.
Huaiyu laughed and passed.
"When I came back from Beijing to meet the Holy Spirit, I came back with an important task. Our most important task in the next stage is the new tax law and tax sharing.
It has been almost two years since Lingnan implemented the new two-tax law, and it has achieved some results."
In fact, everyone knows the details of what Huaiyu said. The Two Taxes Law has indeed been tried in Lingnan for a long time, but it has been really implemented seriously in the states controlled by several imperial courts such as Guangjiao, Guishao, and the remaining states controlled by Feng Xian, Chen Ning, and others.
In fact, tax laws are only implemented in general, and even in some places they are not implemented at all.
So it is difficult to divide taxes now.
"Duan Sima,"
Huaiyu named Duan Gongzi, the elder brother of Duan Wan, his concubine. He went south with Huaiyu last year and was arranged by Huaiyu to be the Sima of the Gaozhou Governor's Office. However, the Feng family was obviously wary of him, and Duan Shen was later transferred.
When it came to the expedition camp, it was actually the Feng family who didn't want him to decentralize power.
Duan Shen actually led his troops to win some battles and achieved military exploits during the expedition, so Huaiyu specially called him here this time in order to ensure that he could return to Gaozhou in good faith.
"The strategic army of the Lingnan Six Prefectures and the Guangzhou Dudu Mansion have been organized. Next, we will also organize and train several other defensive camps.
You hand over the errands at the camp, and then you will be responsible for the training of the Gaofu Guard Camp,"
Huaiyu also gave Duan Shen, the Sima of the Gaozhou Governor's Office, the title of Deputy Defense Envoy of Gaofu, and he was given the command of three thousand new troops in the Gaofu Guard Camp.
"Can Governor Feng agree?" Duan Shen asked with a smile.
"It doesn't matter whether he agrees or not. This is the unified deployment of the envoy in accordance with the imperial edict."
"Where's the military spending?"
"I will allocate part of the one-third of the taxes paid by the Gao Mansion to the envoy to the Gao Mansion to guard the capture camp."
Duan Shen smiled and said, "It will be easier if you have money and food. However, I have a request. For the officers guarding the capture camp, I hope Commander Lian can allocate them from Lingnan officers and soldiers. At least half of them must be given."
"Yes, I will give you money, food and weapons, and I will also give you officers. You can recruit new soldiers by yourself. They can be recruited from the eight-state regiment training in Gaofu, or you can recruit them directly from the common people. The only requirement is that they be young and brave, obedient and dare to fight."
"That's no problem," Huaiyu gave him such a good condition, and he was very confident.
"I don't have much time for you. The autumn tax will be formally collected in November. The three thousand new troops from your Gaofu Guarding Camp will be put to use then."
everyone laughs,
Prime Minister Wu will use the taxes paid by the Gaofu to train and support this new army. The main function of this new army is to help the envoy get the two-thirds of the taxes from the Gaofu.
The Feng family couldn't command the army that Gaozhou spent money to support.
It's a bit bullying.
But it is a matter of military power. Wu Huaiyu will not be careless in this regard. The five thousand garrison troops of Gaofu Yongning Army have now been promoted by Gao Rong, who made great achievements in defeating Huangjiadong in Youxi. This is also one of Wu Huaiyu's brothers-in-law. He is absolutely
People you can trust.
Mr. Duan is a son of the general Duan family. Although he was in Suizhou, Shuofang, under the command of his great-uncle Duan Decao, he had the name of joining the army, but he was more engaged in smuggling and catching slaves. But in fact, he was very fond of the military.
I was familiar with him, but I didn't have the opportunity to lead troops on the battlefield. Later, I followed Huaiyu in Shuofang, Youyan, and to Lingnan, and led troops into battle many times, and his performance was remarkable.
Not to mention Gao Rong, who came from Yanbei Mountain, had already established a great reputation in Shanhou.
Let these two brothers-in-law, one be in charge of Gaofu's 5,000 Yongning Army garrison, and the other be in charge of Gaofu's 3,000 garrison training camp. With these 8,000 soldiers, the Feng family's eight states in Gaofu have actually been put on two levels.
Chains cannot escape the control of the court.
What can Feng Zhidai do if he is dissatisfied?
This is all a conspiracy. As long as he dares not openly rebel, the court will control them more and more tightly with one move after another, one chain after another, and they will slowly lose the ability to resist.
You know the court's plan, but you can't do anything about it.
If you fight back, you obviously know that you can't fight, but if you don't fight, you can only watch this restraint.
Why did Feng Ang enter the court? It was because he had no choice but to retreat.
Feng An didn't dare to rebel, and Feng Zhidai didn't dare to rebel even more.
Gao Rong publicly expressed his welcome to Brother Duan to start a business in Gaozhou. He even patted his chest and said generously, "If your guard camp is short of officers, you can first borrow some from our Yongning Army."
"Brother, Mr. Zhang of the Shipping Department has already divided and paid the autumn taxes in advance, and the accounts are all clear. The one hundred thousand yuan is just used for military rewards and training of the strategic army and the Guangzhou garrison.
Capturing the camp also relieved my urgent need.
Can Guangzhou, especially Guangzhou, take the lead and set an example and pay the autumn tax?"
Huaiyi naturally patted his chest and agreed, "No problem, I'll do it next. We don't have to wait until November, we'll start right away. No matter how much tax is levied, only one-third will be left, and the other two-thirds will be left.
Half of it will be handed over to the embassy, and the other half will be paid to the national treasury."
Over there, Prince Consort Lu Huairang stood up immediately without the need for Huaiyu to speak, "We in Shaozhou also made a statement and promised to implement the imperial court's new tax-sharing policy."
"And let me put it here, we in Shaozhou have done well in the past few years and have money in the treasury, so we are not only willing to use this autumn's taxes from November to share the tax and pay it, but also the original treasury
I am also willing to give two-thirds of the money and silk, half to the envoy and half to the envoy."
Shaozhou has done well in recent years and is indeed rich. Just the Changjian Copper Factory accounts for 90% of the current national copper output in the Tang Dynasty. Shaozhou's Qianjian also accounts for 90% of the country's copper coins minted every year.
The trade in Shaozhou was booming.
The foundation of Shaozhou was conquered by the warriors Yiwu Huaiyi, Wu Huaiyu and others. It was Wu Huaiyu who recommended Doulu Huairang to be the governor. Now he can be considered generous to others, since it is all public money anyway, so he doesn't feel bad about it.
There is too much money piled up in the treasury, and I am worried that something will go wrong.
Wu Huaiyu’s matter is absolutely supported with all his strength, not to mention that Wu Huaiyu’s matter is not a private matter, it is a matter of the saint and the imperial court.
When Doulu Prince Consort said this, all the other governors here had no choice but to follow suit, especially Cheng Chumo, Pang Xiaotai, and Wei Siren, who have been brothers of Wu Huaiyu for many years. Naturally, they shouted loudly at this time.
support.
Even Chang Sun Chong and others are from Chang'an, and their interests are the same.
