When Anda Khan's envoy came to Jinling City again, even those who had been to Jinling City last time were still immersed in the prosperity of Jinling City, not to mention that it was the first time for the envoy to come to Jinling City.
people.
When they were still on the ship and had not yet landed on land, they were shocked by the densely packed ships on the pier of Jinling City. After landing on land, seeing the bustling city, everyone was drooling.
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If it's just prosperity, they can still accept it. After all, the prosperity of Jiangnan has long been known to everyone. Even people who have never been to Jiangnan know the prosperity of Jiangnan. After seeing it with their own eyes, although they were shocked, they still felt...
Within their acceptance range.
But everything in Jinling City was in perfect order, but it really blinded them!
They simply could not imagine that at the intersection of a busy street, pedestrians could get along with so many carriages. The carriages would pass only after the pedestrians passed, and the carriages would pass only after the pedestrians passed.
No one will pass carelessly!
When they saw this, they were immediately shocked by the high quality of the Chinese people, and then they felt a sense of shame. Damn, seeing the high quality of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and then thinking about people like themselves, they wished they were
I buried my face, the gap was so huge, I felt embarrassed just thinking about it.
They don't know that the reason why there is such order in Jinling City is purely because of the patrol police's Yamen!
In the early days of the patrol yamen, they were not lenient at all in fines. Those who obeyed the traffic rules were really not of high quality, but they were simply afraid of being fined.
Didn’t you see that at every intersection with a large flow of people, there will be patrolmen in black uniforms? These patrolmen stare closely at everyone with their eyes. When anyone tries to violate traffic rules or throw away garbage, they will immediately
He just glanced at the wolf who spotted the sheep, pounced on it, and then took out a fine ticket that he had prepared early.
Various types of fines are an important supplement to local finance. Basically every place attaches great importance to them, because although part of various types of fines still has to be turned over to the national treasury, the proportion retained in the local area is much larger than the tax revenue.
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As the patrol police office that mainly enforces fines, it also receives considerable attention.
Basically, every local police office, no matter how tight the funds, would rather reduce the number of patrol officers used to investigate criminal cases, but they would never reduce the number of patrol officers used to patrol the streets.
Because the former is a pure financial expenditure, while the latter can be used to generate income.
In the past two years, with the development of industry and commerce, there have been more and more police forces targeting economic crimes, and they have been widely paid attention to by the chiefs of patrol police bureaus in various places. Whenever they find any cases of patent infringement, cost or fraud, etc.
Commercial crimes are like a drooling vicious dog that pounces on you. If you don't bite them hard, no, to be more civilized, you won't give up unless you are fined a heavy sum.
Because the amounts involved in such cases are often relatively large, relatively speaking, if a fine is required, the amount of the fine is also very large, ranging from hundreds to thousands of taels of silver.
If you catch a big fish, it is not impossible to make tens of thousands of taels of silver at once!
Nowadays, for a county that mainly focuses on ordinary agriculture, its tax revenue is often only a few hundred thousand taels of silver, and the amount allocated to the local finance is only a few tens of thousands of taels.
This suddenly resulted in a huge fine. If ten thousand taels were left with several thousand taels of silver, the subsidies to the local finance would also be huge.
Catching a big fish might solve many problems, such as opening an additional government-run primary school, building a bridge, paving a road, etc.
Fines were very important to the local finance of the Tang Dynasty.
However, there are more fines, and now business people are smarter!
Patent authorization is only a few hundred taels of silver. They might as well get a patent authorization instead of being caught by the patrolmen from the Patent Office and then fined several thousand taels. Not counting the fine, they also have to compensate the patent owner a fortune.
money.
However, there are still not many truly smart people in this world. Most of them are fools who think they are smart. They think they can hide the truth, but they don’t know that the people in the patrol patent office are staring at patent infringement cases all day long.
Waiting for a big one, the local finance will be able to have an extra amount of funds instantly.
The bosses at the top are satisfied, and the patrol policemen at the grassroots level who are responsible for the cases will be promoted and made rich.
There are many fines and regulations, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, which also causes the Tang Dynasty to have more and more laws and regulations. In just a few years, there are so many various legal provisions, and they will be updated every once in a while.
Issue new laws.
Some people say that the various legal provisions of the Tang Dynasty can already fit into half a house, but in a few years, an entire house will not be able to contain various legal provisions.
This also led to the rapid development of the lawyer industry in the Tang Dynasty in just a few years. In order to avoid committing crimes, many companies did not care whether they wanted to circumvent laws and regulations or they really wanted to avoid accidentally committing crimes, but most of them
You will always hire a lawyer who is proficient in legal provisions.
This also led to the emergence of a new subject, law, in Datang's middle schools and above.
People who are proficient in the law are in high demand right now!
At Jinling University, students who are proficient in law have not yet graduated. Some companies ask them to be consultants, and the asking price basically starts at a few hundred taels a year. If they graduate, the salary basically starts at a thousand taels.
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But most students are not willing to do it yet, because they would rather take the examination, go to the Procuratorate or the court.
After all, the idea of officialdom is still too strong. Being a lawyer serving those wealthy businessmen is not as satisfying as being a censor, with great power and high salary.
This social environment also caused many gentry and gentry to say that tyranny is fiercer than tigers. However, Li Xuan never complained about the voices of these gentry. Maybe he could not make the entire Tang Dynasty govern the country according to law.
, this kind of thing is not realistic for a feudal dynasty with a high concentration of imperial power, but he can perfect the law as much as possible, so that most civil and criminal cases can be legally based.
High-pressure legal rule was a major feature of the Tang Dynasty, especially in the urban environment. This was why the Tatars who came from afar were surprised.
In fact, it was not just the Tatars, but also people from other countries, such as European foreigners, Arabs from West Asia, Indians from South Asia, and even indigenous people from the Southeast Asian region. They came to the Tang Dynasty for trade on sea ships.
After arriving at the port, everyone will be amazed at the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the high quality of the people.
Many people even thought of simply staying in China and settling down, and then becoming a glorious people of the Tang Dynasty.
Today, in several trading ports, there are a group of foreigners who have stayed in the trading ports of the Tang Dynasty for a long time.
Since Gerdes, the Tang Dynasty has also opened up a hole in the matter of naturalization of barbarians and issued new regulations. If barbarians want to naturalize in China, there are two ways to go. One is to make great contributions. This is
Mainly for technical talents and political immigrants, etc. A person who has paid taxes in accordance with the law for a long time and whose annual tax amount reaches the legal standard is now paying 10,000 taels per year. After paying taxes for 20 consecutive years, you can apply for naturalization, but whether it is passed or not is another matter.
That's what happened.
Anyway, so far, despite these two methods, no one has actually successfully naturalized in the Tang Dynasty through these methods.
Gerdes is still the only foreigner to be naturalized in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tatar mission is here, and there are probably people who want to stay in Jinling City. After all, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. These barbarians came to the prosperous Jiangnan. After seeing the prosperous Jiangnan, they wanted to leave.
To be honest, there are not many people who have returned to their savage tribes.
Li Xuan soon received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that it was a Tatar mission, and sent a reply from Anda Khan!
Anda Khan was more straightforward and decisive than Li Xuan imagined. He did not raise any questions about the preliminary agreement reached by the two parties, and even took the initiative to lower some of the requirements. For example, on the supply of horses, Anda Khan took the initiative to propose
, the annual number of five thousand war horses can be increased to six thousand.
This is a war horse, not an ordinary horse. According to the agreement between the two parties, the Tatars provide no less than 5,000 war horses to the Tang Dynasty every year. The weight and shoulder height of these war horses must meet certain standards. The shoulder height
That's 1.35 meters.
There are also ordinary horses, and there are no special requirements for ordinary horses.
However, as for stallions, they refused to provide them on a large scale and only promised to provide dozens of horses a year.
And other stallions, regardless of war horses or ordinary horses, are all castrated horses.
The Tatars are also worried that after they obtain a large number of mares and stallions, they will start breeding horses on a large scale, thus posing a huge threat to them.
But they didn't know that the Tang Dynasty had already reached relevant agreements with the Oara people and the people from the Western Regions, and had obtained many stallions and mares. Although the price was a bit high, it was all worth it.
Nowadays, the military has organized manpower and funds to carry out large-scale breeding of Central Asian horses, and is trying to cross-breed Central Asian horses with Mongolian horses in an attempt to breed better horse breeds.
An Dahan took the initiative to raise the stakes, and Li Xuan could guess why. It was just to buy more time.
But this is the same for Li Xuan. The Tang Dynasty also needs time to buffer and then establish large-scale cavalry. Without enough time, large-scale cavalry cannot be established, and the two sides cannot fight.
Therefore, in response to Anda Khan's request to declare himself a vassal and pay tribute, Li Xuan did not show any pretense and simply agreed to what he said. Then he officially named Anda Khan King of Shunyi and granted the Tang Dynasty Jin Kingdom his fiefdom.
The Tatars went back with the treaty signed by both parties. Also going back with them was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. This person was an imperial envoy and went to the grasslands to issue the canonization edict to Ada Khan and preside over the canonization ceremony.
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After the Tatars and the Tang Dynasty formally signed this contract, it also represented that thousands of kilometers of northern borders would usher in peace, and large-scale border town exchanges between the two sides would begin.
But how long can this peace last?
The answer given by the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty was that it could be as little as three years and no more than five years!