"Ah..." Captain Zhao and Master Chen were frightened when they heard this. They were originally frightened because of Wang Yu's power, but now they were frightened to death after hearing this.
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Being able to achieve this step, even if it was bought with money, is a bit of a wink. However, the two of them still wanted to make a final struggle, so they forced themselves to calm down and said: "Sir, what are you talking about? How do we feel? I don't understand.
Ah!"
"I don't understand, huh, that's ridiculous." Wang Yu snorted immediately after hearing this, then took out a stack of account books from his body, threw them over, and sternly scolded: "Since you don't understand, just read it yourself." "This..."
When the two saw the bright account book falling in front of them, they immediately looked at each other, then took it tremblingly, and their faces suddenly turned pale!
Because these account books all record the illegal things the two of them have done by taking advantage of their powers, such as colluding with bandits and actively asking for bribes from their subordinates!
However, they clearly remembered that these account books were hidden in a secret place. How could Wang Yu find them so easily?
However, the two of them are not the kind of people who are easy to catch. Since they will die no matter what, they might as well fight with Wang Yu. Anyway, they don't have any family weaknesses.
However, before they had time to take action, they were caught by Chu Xuan and then sent to the guillotine.
[Ding dong, congratulations to the host for killing County Lieutenant Zhao of Yicheng. The highest force before death was 81. The host will be rewarded with 8 summoning points. The current host...]
Because County Lieutenant Zhao and Chief Chen were easily solved by Wang Yu, and the evidence collected was so clear, those who originally had a sense of luck no longer had a sense of luck at this moment, and their eyes were filled with despair. p>
In the end, Wang Yu used his political skills to clean up all the officials in the county without any effort. Everyone present had nothing to say and everyone was convinced!
After that, Wang Yu placed his subordinates in the county government. The reserved position of chief clerk was naturally given to Zhang Chu himself, replacing the original chief clerk Chen!
As for the position of county captain, Wang Yu also had his own thoughts. After all, Yicheng is a large county with a population of more than 70,000, so the imperial court set up two county captains here.
Among them, Lieutenant Zhao had just been slaughtered by Chu Xuan. If the remaining Lieutenant Li was sensible, he would know what to do.
Logically speaking, as an important official in the county, the county captain should have been appointed by the imperial court. However, Wang Yu was not an ordinary person after all. The emperor gave him the right to uphold integrity and be free to accept orders from local officials in Yicheng!
Therefore, he can accept the fate of whomever he wants without having to report to the court!
Therefore, Wang Yu directly accepted Chu Xuan and Zhao Pusheng as the left and right county captains, responsible for the security of the entire area of Yicheng, plus training the original army on weekdays!
Zhong Yao, the position Wang Yu left for him is a meritorious officer, who can handle a wide range of affairs, including personnel and government affairs.
Tax Wang Yu gave it to Hua Xin!
Finance Wang Yu gave it to Chen Gong!
Wang Yu gave other important positions to his cronies and replaced them with his own people. These important official positions were the foundation for him to settle down in Yicheng!
Not to mention that he has many talented people, even if they are pitifully small, he does not dare to hand them over to the children of those families. If the time comes, he will find some way to trick him, and he will really be in big trouble.
Of course, if you eat meat yourself, you should also leave a mouthful of soup for others to drink. Otherwise, the appearance of the food will be too ugly.
Therefore, Wang Yu still left some room. In addition to several more important official positions such as county captain, finance, and taxation, he still left a path for several families, such as the current county magistrate.
According to Wang Yu's original idea, he wanted to promote Zhong Yao, but Zhong Yao did not choose to accept it, but put forward his own opinions. Only then did Wang Yu realize that he had been a little too hasty!
Therefore, Wang Yu did not take any action as the second-in-command of the Yicheng County Magistrate and the post of County Magistrate, and it was still held by someone from the Xi family in Yicheng!
Speaking of which, this person is quite capable, with a political attribute of 76, which makes him qualified for this position!
In addition, Wang Yu did not treat the members of the Yang family, Xiang family, and Ma family badly. Some of them were officials in the county, and their official positions varied.
Wang Yu believes that under this power, even if they use their power to seek benefits for their family, they will choose to do so in moderation. Otherwise, Wang Yu will not let them go easily.
The first thing Wang Yu does when he takes office is to target those county officials who are corrupt and pervert the law!
This second fire is naturally to build some private houses.
The place Wang Yu chose was near Xiang Yun's Xiangjiazhuang. After Xiang Sheng learned the news, he was naturally very happy, so he sent out a lot of help!
The reason why Wang Yu did this was to deal with the refugees in the near future, so that he could recruit a team of people as soon as possible to deal with the following Yellow Turban Uprising.
Of course, while Wang Yu is ordering people to build houses to absorb the refugees in the future, he will not forget the most important part. In more than three years, there will be the Yellow Turban Uprising!
If you want to succeed in the chaos of the Yellow Turban Uprising and catch up with the rapid development of strength, what you need most is of course soldiers who are good at fighting!
In the late Han Dynasty, people basically practiced every three to five days and performed exercises every ten and a half days. On weekdays, they maintained armor and weapons, practiced martial arts on their own, or found work by themselves.
Wang Yu, on the other hand, chose the smallest one, training every three days and practicing once every ten days.
However, Wang Yu also ordered Chu Xuan and others to recruit troops aggressively, but the upper limit was 7,000, because the entire Yicheng County only had a population of more than 70,000, and if there were too many people, they would not be able to feed them.
Moreover, seven thousand troops are already enough. If he adds a little more, the emperor may be afraid. That is not what Wang Yu wants to see.
In addition, Wang Yu also decided to reduce the land tax. The original ten-to-one tax will definitely not be implemented under his rule, because if the tax is too high, many ordinary people who farm will prefer to attach themselves to powerful families and choose farming families.
fields!
In this case, they only need to pay a certain amount of food rent every month. Although their lives are harder, at least the food left behind is much more than planting official fields!
It is precisely because of this that no common people came to plant the land reserved by the government. After this, many fields in the county were mostly abandoned, resulting in a bunch of weeds.
According to Wang Yu's original intention, he wanted to restore the thirty-one tax in the early Han Dynasty, so that the people's lives would be better. However, this proposal did not make Zhong Yao and others agree!
Although they know that Wang Yu is thinking about the people, sometimes things are not that simple. After all, the current economic development of Yicheng is not too strong.
In addition, Wang Yu's current military expansion will definitely require a large amount of money in the future. If a tax of thirty to one is adopted, the county government will definitely not be able to afford it. If the tax rate is too low, how will it be used to feed the soldiers!
Secondly, if the sudden reduction is too severe, the aristocratic families from all over Yicheng will definitely not be willing to do so, because the government tax rate is so low, and people will plant government land as long as they are not stupid!
In this way, no one will plant the land belonging to the wealthy family.
Although Wang Yu's dragon crosses the river, this dragon has not yet taken root. If these local snakes unite to put pressure, even Wang Yu will not feel easy.
Therefore, Wang Yu can only tolerate it for the time being, and both parties take a step back, temporarily setting the tax rate at 15% tax, which is neither high nor low!
If this continues, the people who do not want to rely on the aristocratic families will definitely reopen those wastelands, and the aristocratic families will not be under too much pressure, so they will naturally turn a blind eye and acquiesce.
However, Wang Yu will not give up so easily. Since there is no way to change the land tax, he can reduce other tax rates and try to reduce the burden on the people.
Wang Yu even made arrangements for the business tax in Yicheng. Whether it is a shop owned by aristocratic families or a shop owned by ordinary people, they will only charge 20% of the profit.
Wang Yu believes that once this news comes out, Yicheng’s business development will definitely get better and better!
After setting the specific amount of the tax rate, Wang Yu decisively established a special supervision agency called the Xiang Taxation Bureau, and the first director was Xie Yu!
The purpose of Wang Yu's establishment of this department is to specifically supervise the taxation situation of various ministries and prevent the officials below from working together to raise taxes privately.
If ordinary people discover that someone has raised taxes without permission, they can come to this department to complain, and Wang Yu will personally handle the matter.
There are also disciples of the Beggar Clan in Yicheng!
After Wang Yu arrived here, he contacted the Jingzhou Beggar Clan sub-helm. The leader of the Jingzhou Beggar Clan branch, whose surname is Liu Mingzhenlin, is also a Jianghu ranger conquered by Qiao Feng. He has the strength of the peak of Qi Condensation Realm! p>
As the helmsman of Jingzhou Branch, he naturally has the right to know Wang Yu's identity.
Therefore, after Wang Yu set various taxes, he ordered Ling Ying to contact him and spread the news. It must be said that the news spread of the Beggar Clan is still very powerful!
In less than two days, this news reached the ears of the people in Yicheng. Some people seemed to be in a dream and couldn't believe it for a while. After all, they had suffered too many taxes, and it had not been a year or two. p>
Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Liu Zhenlin immediately ordered people to act as common people and lead the people to the tax bureau to inquire. The location of the tax bureau was set up by Wang Yu at the entrance of the market, and he could see it at a glance.
Now, the people completely believed him, and Wang Yu's reputation spread widely in Yicheng and even nearby counties.
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July, 180 AD.
At this time, Wang Yu had been the county magistrate in Yicheng for more than a month.
In more than a month, Yicheng's economy has developed rapidly, especially the entry of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce, which has driven Yicheng's business development.
Moreover, Wang Yu has not relaxed about the security of Yicheng. These days, Zhao Pusheng and Chu Xuan are constantly patrolling in all directions of the city with their murderous and tiger-backed soldiers!
If they encounter someone driving a car on the sidewalk, no matter what background the driver has, they will not let him go and will directly arrest him and do hard labor.
If there are thieves stealing, or if they see ruffians molesting women from good families, Zhao Pusheng will also let them join the corvee to work for the government.
It can be said that under Wang Yu's iron-blooded governance, the whole of Yicheng has changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The gangsters and thieves that could be seen everywhere in the city have disappeared, and the people can feel relieved when they go to market, and they don't have to be worried and afraid at all times.
Someone touched me.
Wang Yu's reputation is also increasing day by day!
On this day, Wang Yu suddenly received an invitation letter from Cai Mao of the Cai family in Xiangyang.
Wang Yu is also very interested in Cao Cao's childhood.
The Cai family is a famous family in Jingzhou in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and Cai Mao is the son of Cai Xi. His aunt (Cai Xi's sister) is the wife of Taiwei Zhang Wen. The eldest sister and younger sister married Huang Chengyan and Liu Biao successively and became stepchildren.
In the first year of Chuping (AD 190), Liu Biao served as the governor of Jingzhou on behalf of Wang Rui. At that time, the Jiangnan clan was flourishing, and Cai Mao assisted Liu Biao in pacifying Jingzhou.
While serving Liu Biao, he successively served as the prefect of Jiangxia, Nanjun, Zhangling and other counties. When Liu Biao was granted the title of General Zhennan by the Han court, he served as his military advisor.
Later, Liu Cong, the second son of Liu Biao, married Mrs. Cai's niece. Mrs. Cai loved Liu Cong and hated Liu Qi because of this. Cai Hao also supported Liu Cong's succession after Liu Biao died of illness because of the family.
In 208 AD, when Cao Cao sent his army to Jingzhou, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue jointly forced Liu Cong to surrender to Cao Cao. He then became an official under Cao Cao and served successively as Zhonglang, Sima, and Changshui captain, and was granted the title of Marquis of Han Yangting.
In the novel, Cai Mao can be said to be a waste, a simple sidekick, but in history, he is a figure who can compete with Sun Jian on the water, and he can also be regarded as a famous water battle general.
Cai Mao invited him, naturally, to cure his father's illness. I don't know where he knew that he could cure illnesses!
However, now that he has an opportunity to contact him, Wang Yu will naturally not miss it.
Xiangyang is not far from Yicheng. After Wang Yu left the internal affairs to Zhong Yao and others, he went to Xiangyang alone. Since Qianli Galaxy Lightning Horse is a good horse, Wang Yu only spent a few hours to get there from Yicheng.
The city has arrived in Xiangyang!
Xiangyang City was also a strong city in history. Under Meng Gong's iron arm defense, it was a fortress against the Mongolian army.
Even the history of the Three Kingdoms is famous in the world, because it later witnessed Guan Yunchang's power in China, Cao Cao's desire to move the capital to avoid his attack, and the fall of a generation of war gods.
However, Wang Yu had no intention of thinking about this, and the carriage circled the city and drove straight to the southeast.
Because the purpose of his coming to Xiangyang was not to see the scenery, but to treat Cai Xi, Cai Mao's father.
Soon, Wang Yu rode his horse to the door of Cai Mansion and ordered the gatekeeper to go in and report. When Cai Hao learned that Wang Yu had arrived, he immediately greeted him personally. He saw a handsome young man more than seven feet tall waiting outside.<
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Seeing this, Cai Mao quickly clasped his fists and said, "I heard Meng De praise Ziying a long time ago for his graceful and handsome character. When I saw him today, he really lived up to his reputation!"
Cai Mao is indeed Cai Mao. With just one word, he got closer to Wang Yu and answered Wang Yu's doubts.