Qin Shi: Sword Asks the Bright Moon

Chapter 504 Prime Minister Zuo's Strategy of Yandi

Chapter 504 Prime Minister Zuo's Strategy of Yandi

The half-truth and half-fake jokes between Yang Ming and Xue Nu are just a small adjustment in life. In Yan Country, Yang Ming has more important things to do.

Qin Wangzheng was able to completely put the power to deal with Yandi in Yang Ming's hands. No matter what Qin Wangzheng's thoughts were, it was a kind of trust in Yang Ming after all, and the corresponding person was Yang Ming. The affairs of Yandi are handled well, and the strategic issues in it can even affect Qin's national policy of ruling the land of the six countries in the future.

Yang Ming didn't know whether the path he chose was wrong, but Yang Ming knew that if nothing changed, the path belonging to Qin State and Qin Wangzheng must be wrong, and the ending of Zulong's death and land division is still inevitable.

In that eight-year war, the harm caused to this world was unimaginable, because it was a war without a bottom line. After the eight-year war, the newly-built empire was so weak that even the emperor I can't find a few horses of the same color to pull, which shows how much damage that war has caused to this world.

It has been more than 200 years since the melee of the Seven Kingdoms has destroyed the world to such an extent.

It would be better if the war that lasted eight years could not happen.

However, where should the first step in governing the country of Yan begin?Of course, it starts with measuring the land. In this world, the land is the foundation.

It is undoubtedly an extremely difficult thing to measure the land up and down the country of Yan. Fortunately, Yang Ming has already made preparations for this. He has been preparing for this for ten years. There are many, and most of the Habayashi guards around him can use this aspect.

At the end of September in the 16th year of Qin Wangzheng, starting from Jicheng, thousands of soldiers of Yulin Guard had their own new identities, divided Yan Kingdom into ten regions, began to draw map books, checked the population, and then grasped the real status of Yan Kingdom. Data, and then go to the next step of the plan, everything starts from bit by bit.

As the Qin army began to check the land within the local area of ​​Yan, the entire Yan land was already restless. Things like land checking and population census were what the Yan State wanted to do in the past dynasties, but no one could complete it. The various relationships within the Yan Kingdom are intricate and complicated, and it can be described as an extremely bloated country. The local forces are intertwined with each other, making the original Yan Kingdom's court control the smallest power.

This is also the reason why the country of Yan is called the weakest country even though its territory is not small and its population is not too small.

What Yang Ming has to do is to completely control this power, and then use this power to do other things.

Yang Ming insisted on doing things that the kings of Yan could not do in the past dynasties, because he is not the king of Yan, and he has no scruples of the king of Yan. As for the turmoil, the turmoil that can erupt immediately is not turmoil.

Because the Qin State is at its peak at this time, even if turmoil breaks out, Yang Ming and the Qin army under his command can extinguish it immediately. In the course of the historical trajectory, when there is a problem within Qin, it will be truly fatal.

Sure enough, with the census of the entire Yan territory, various problems emerged one after another. After killing his people, confiscating his family property, and sending his family members to Liaodong, after the initial turmoil, more people became fearful and silent.

At the end of October in the 16th year of Qin Wangzheng, and about to enter the 17th year of Qin Wangzheng, after the 32 major clans were exiled and [-] clans were exiled, the investigation of Yandi was officially completed.

Jicheng, the residence of Prime Minister Zuo.

In front of Yang Ming was a mountain of albums, these were all the land and population of Yan Kingdom, including those hermits and slaves.

In front of Yang Ming, dozens of people were busy collecting all kinds of information, and finally gave Yang Ming a complete data.

Sure enough, Yan State is not weak, at least in the complete data, the details of Yan State are not weak, various types of arable land reach tens of millions of acres, and the population is nearly 400 million, and this is only the land south of Yanshan Mountain, if Coupled with Liaodong, this data will become even more beautiful.

However, the land population can quickly complete the inventory in a violent way, but a deeper investigation requires another method.

In the country of Yan, where the aristocrats are everywhere, the land is only one of their assets, and there are other things besides that.

In this era, although there is no such thing as powerful, but many things are interlinked. Although there are no powerful in this world, there are rich and powerful, and powerful and powerful are enhanced versions of powerful. How to deal with these "enhanced strong"? Although Ming couldn't find a better way, he had experience to follow.

Among the many dynasties in history, there was once a dynasty that was omnipotent in combating powerful people, and various methods emerged in an endless stream. Coincidentally, if we look at it from a historical point of view, that dynasty is far from the current one. Time and space are not too far away.

Among the means of checking the assets of "Hao Qiang", there are two very interesting means, called counting and reporting.

The so-called counting money is also called counting money.A kind of property tax tax law levied in the early Western Han Dynasty, which is similar to the existence of progressive income tax, levies taxes on people whose income reaches a certain level. Because its starting point is not low, it is mainly aimed at merchants, handicraftsmen, usurers and vehicles. taxes levied.

As for suing money, it is even more extreme. The so-called extension of suing money and counting money is to encourage people who have paid and calculated money to be false.If the revelation is true, all the property of the defendant will be confiscated, and he will be fined to guard the border for one year. The whistleblower will be awarded half of the confiscated property, and the other half, of course, belongs to the official.

More importantly, in addition to those engaged in handicrafts, in Yan State, merchants, usurers, and people with a large number of vehicles and boats are almost all rich and powerful families. In Yan State, there is no so-called merchant class, so there are too many rich and powerful people here , has already extended his tentacles to all walks of life that can make money.

It can be said that the calculation and notification that will appear in the future are suitable for Yandi at this time, at least for Yang Ming's plan. Cultivate an excellent system of tax bureaucrats.

Yang Ming is very clear about how important an excellent and efficient team of officials can play in a country's ruling system, because taxation corresponds to a country's finances and is the most important component of a court's power.

The principle that money is easy to do can be applied anywhere.

Therefore, after Yang Ming handed out the documents in his hands, those in the hall were selected by Yang Ming, and the soldiers and officers who will form the tax system of Yandi in the future fell into deep thought.

"Master Prime Minister, will this be too strict? It's fine to sue, this is a matter of suing?" said a very special existence among the crowd.

Among these people, including Yang Ming, they are all young people, but he is already over [-] years old, so he can be said to be the oldest person.

"Liu Ji, do you have any objections?" Yang Ming looked at the man who spoke.

"Prime Minister, there is no problem in implementing this policy of suing. No one can refuse the temptation of a big reward, but doing so will also have a huge hidden danger." Seeing that Yang Ming did not look angry, Liu Ji felt relieved A lot, and more courage to speak.

"Let's hear it." Yang Mingdao, Liu Ji, although his fighting skills are not very good, and his martial arts are not good, but he also has something he is good at, that is, the talent in people's livelihood, and the low-born He knows what most Guishou needs, and he also has his own sympathy, so he can see many things that even a genius like Qin Wangzheng can't see.

Most people born in the royal family in this world will have the arrogance of belonging to the royal family. This is true for geniuses such as Qin Wangzheng, and Han Fei, who is a master of law and Confucianism. As for Yan Dan, although he can see the power of villains, But he never knew what those villains in his eyes wanted.

"Once this whistle-blowing thing becomes popular, there will be a consequence, that is, there will be countless whistle-blowers, and these whistle-blowers will get huge benefits, which will only stimulate more people to stare at others and only think about doing whistle-blowing. For a long time, people will regard whistleblowing as a profitable thing, and forgetting morality for the sake of profit will only lead to the collapse of the people's morals, which will be very detrimental to the prime minister's long-term governance of Yan." Liu Ji said his own questioned.

As Liu Ji expressed his doubts, everyone in the hall cast their eyes on Liu Ji. For the only related household in the Habayashi Guard, and also the oldest person, everyone in the Habayashi Guard couldn't see it. In fact, because Liu Ji's ability does not seem to have much room for display in the barracks.

But now that Liu Ji is able to say such a thing, everyone's reactions are completely different. Some people are sneering, laughing at Liu Ji questioning Yang Ming's decision, while others are contemplating, contemplating Liu Ji's decision. The meaning behind Ji's words.

Of course, then more people turned their attention to Yang Ming. How would Prime Minister Zuo react when Liu Ji questioned his decision?

The Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army, including the Yulin Guards, were all trained by Yang Ming himself. Over the years, they have followed Yang Ming from Chu to Yan. In the true sense of the war, they were invincible. The prestige among the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army has already reached an unimaginable height.

Will such a Yang Ming tolerate other people's doubts?

Sure enough, Yang Ming's gaze never left after it fell on Liu Ji. After a long silence, he was unimaginably depressed.

"It seems that you are not suitable to be a tax official." After a while, Yang Ming said quietly.

(End of this chapter)