Chapter 608 Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes
After Cui Hongsheng left Gaochang with 30,000 people, he was stationed in Zhangye County because he had a mission to keep an eye on the Western Regions.
After the Northern Expedition of the Great Sui Dynasty, it would not be a joke if the Western Turks came from behind.
Although the Western Turks suffered a heavy defeat and suffered heavy losses, the Xueyantuo and Tiele tribes that were with him became even more tightly attached because of the ruthless defeat.
Tong Yehu was an awesome man. After escaping back to the Turks, he was quickly elected as the new Khan by the tribes.
Historically, Tong Yehu was the pinnacle of the entire Western Turks. His territory was larger than that of previous generations, and he was the most powerful leader of the Western Turks in history.
After he returned to Sanmi Mountain, the first thing he did was to move his tent from Sanmi Mountain to Qianquan City (in Kyrgyzstan). He was worried that the Sui Dynasty would follow him. After all, Sanmi Mountain is today's North Halke, Kuqa County, Xinjiang.
Mountain, relatively close to Sui Dynasty.
The Sui side was very satisfied with this attitude, and Tong Yehu continued to bow to the Sui Dynasty and sent people to send the 20,000 horses used in exchange for Qibi Geling to the Sui border, as well as some tributes.
Attitudes change between countries. We are a fragile group. Today I can be a vassal, but tomorrow I can turn against you. As the same saying goes, those who are not of my race must have different hearts.
The imperial court sent envoy Wei Jie and deputy envoy Cui Yi to the Western Turks in order to appease them.
After all, people probably knew what was going on in the Sui Dynasty. Among them, Cui Yi was the younger brother of Cui Zhen, the Han strategist in Geling, Qibi. Cui Zhen was now mixed up and had not been included in Tong Yang Guang's account.
He became someone's strategist, because in last year's small battle in Guanzhong, Yang Ming once advised that if we fight until Wuwei, we can move on, otherwise the small army's front line will be stretched and they will die.
Cui Zhongfang is the same as Pei Yun. Apart from eating and sleeping, his mind is always trying to figure out the leader's intentions. Cui Zhen is the leader, and so is Ye Hu.
People who are good at understanding people's hearts often do not have extremely low emotional intelligence. Cui Zhongfang said:
Debts are also divided into categories. If you don’t have some debts, you have to pay them off even if you sell things. If you don’t have some debts, you won’t be able to repay them in a curve.
That's called exorbitant taxes.
"When you were born in martial arts, you should serve in the army. You said hello to Wei Xuan. The two of them followed me north that time. They have also seen the Eastern and Western Turkic cavalry. They are inexperienced. This time, we are expecting seven of them to go out.
Success can be achieved immediately.”
"The counties in Hexi are already stretched thin just to supply Kang Yanyan. They can no longer procure food from outside," Kang Yanyan retorted to Yu Zhongwen at the court meeting.
As Kang Yanyan's marching commander, Kang Yanyan is actually qualified. After all, the big man knows how to fight, but he has no strengths. You know how to intervene.
Yu Zhongwen nodded quickly. It was not July yet. Cui Hongsheng would have to leave in early July. It was not even two months ago. Time was indeed very tight.
It is obvious that Yu Wenshu is not expressing his position, but whether he intends to fight for it. He means to tell others that they will see that you are rejecting it, but you have to resist Kang Yanyan.
Because selling one's official position is tantamount to cutting off the promotion channels for the scholars above.
If you have that transparency, you will become the emperor's favorite.
"Yiwei Zuozuo, you have brought them all back. Including the guards recruited from Guanzhong, there are about 170,000 soldiers and horses. We need much less food and civilians. He has to finish things for you before leaving."
The imperial court owed Wu and He two a total of 2.7 million yuan. Ye Hu personally owed it to him, but the current situation was that he might not be able to repay it in the next seven years, so he became a trustworthy person.
Li Jing, Su Lie, and Ye Hu would have been released if they were good, but I still hope that Xu Shiji and Hou Junji can go out and have some experience.
Yu Zhongwen is also very hard-working. As the main manager of the middle road, I also have to be responsible for coordinating recruitment in the sky. You are so tired, why is he forcing you?
"Actually," Cui Zhongfangsi guessed what Ye Hu wanted to do again: "There are few vacancies at the moment, but there will be no vacancies in the future, so we cannot be given priority."
As the chief dispatcher, before I went to Luoyang, it was Si You who persuaded Cui Zhen to postpone it for another month. After all, Cui Zhen was still leaving in Jiangdu, so I was the one who took the most time.
Cui Zhen's fortune was spent on the treasury, and at least the appearance was a little more glamorous. These two pigtails were purely begging for food.
It was also the first time that Yu Zhongwen heard such a shameful method, and he exclaimed: "That method is bad. After a small war in Guanzhong last year, there were many shortages in the county offices. Bashu was rich in food, and they were all here."
A watch from a local wealthy family, if we are willing."
Although he was a treacherous minister, in the eyes of the emperor, a loyal and treacherous minister was also a bad minister.
In the evening, the two people were called into the East Palace and had dinner in Ye Hu's palace.
Ye Hu laughed: "You can say that, it will definitely count as a donation, but we will not get any harm."
The two nodded hurriedly, so moved that they sobered up.
Ye Hu smiled: "You chose the two of them. As the saying goes, the master leads the door. Practice is personal. Merits are achieved through hard work. Only those who know how to seize opportunities will have no future.
, the title of wife and yinzi relies on opportunities, and they both have to seize it."
Kang Yan only felt that his mind was haggard and his whole body was exhausted. Seeing this, all the ministers spoke and waited for the court to leave.
According to history, I followed Cui Zhen in Jiangdu and was killed together.
Yu Zhongwen and others hurriedly said something to the prince to take care of himself, and then went in and out one after another.
I'm wrong. Donating money sounds bad, but it's actually not selling one's official position.
As for Kang Yanyan, he came back and only listened to me:
The ministers whose names are recorded in history are all complicated people, and Cui Zhongfang didn't have a single characteristic that Ye Hu still disliked. This was not loyalty.
Ye Hu smiled and said: "We can only use the shortages in Guanzhong and Bashu to donate money. Other places can do it. As for how to donate, Xu Guogong drew up a method before leaving and handed it over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Personnel for implementation.
slow."
I am the marching general manager of the West Route Army. You are only responsible for fighting, but they have to prepare everything you need for the war, so you can do it.
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But we are also very sad. The prince is our nobleman. After tonight's meal, the prince is not our patron. From now on, he is a master and servant.
Cui Zhongfang is now the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and personnel appointments are under the control of others. He does not have the right to appoint or remove anyone in the seventh rank.
Xu Shiji hurriedly said: "The prince has high hopes, and he despises his position and swears to repay the favor to the death."
But just before Yu Zhongwen retorted, Yu Wenshu immediately fell silent.
Ye Hu looked at the seven people who were at ease, motioned for us to relax a little, and then said:
Ye Hu really has a way. If Ran is willing to use the method of donating money, the bad thing is that Xiao Sui's imperial examination is in its infancy. If he sells officials, it will affect the young man. If he sells officials in the Ming Dynasty, this gang will
Officials who have read the books of sages can spray him to death with spittle.
In fact, it's not that Ye Hu wants to default on the debt, but it can be done in vain. He has to explain the disadvantages of matching to others. Does Samurai Xun want to buy an official position? I want to do it more than anyone else. I want to settle it in one step, and then
Add some money to buy a minor official.
"That's right, the money was borrowed from the palace. I have heard about it. In the small battle in Guanzhong, the soldiers bravely killed the enemy. Naturally, the court must distinguish rewards and punishments. The warriors Xun and He Chou helped a little, but ours
Should it also be called donation?"
Kang Yan said with a smile: "The grain from Hexi has been requisitioned, and Kang Yanyan is starving. The consequences are too slight. Please call on the wealthy businessmen in Guanzhong and Bashu to donate their salaries."
"In another ten days, you will have to leave for Luoyang anyway. Can he count on you for Guanzhong's affairs?" As he said that, Yu Zhongwen winked at Cui Hongsheng, which meant that he asked the prince to find a solution for him.
Little did we know that Li Jing deliberately led us outside.
The two of us are still very young, so we know that Ye Hu is trying to win over us, because we are both really qualified for the prince to win over us.
So when Kang Yan had to solve that matter, I was willing to bear the debt. Of course, like my father, I was also willing to repay the debt.
The donation thing started when Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty destroyed the eight feudal lords, and was carried forward by Kangxi. Within two years, 80,000 county magistrate positions were sold in Shanxi and Gansu. The next eight tours of Jiangnan included Qianlong's visit to Jiangnan.
In fact, it's not about asking for money. The wealthy businessmen, officials and gentry who passed along the road had to pay money. Gradually, it developed into a kind of tax, called a tax. As long as the emperor passed by him, you had to pay that tax.
Ye Hu smiled and said: "He is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He is in charge of the appointment and dismissal of civil servants, examinations, promotions, promotions, awards, and transfers. You have intervened. He can handle it himself."
"Despite the humble position, it is difficult to repay it with death," Hou Junji also said.
It was a small honor. As the two of us, we are actually quite qualified. Although we relied on this small battle last year to get a first-grade Suide Lieutenant and a fourth-grade Lieutenant Huairen respectively, but he needs to know,
Very few officials below the eighth rank could have dined with Ye Hu.
At present, preparations in various places in the north are very easy, and postponement is almost possible. You can always go out hungry.
"Last year, the imperial court did not borrow a sum of money from the warriors Xun and He Chou. You borrowed the money and the imperial court has to repay it," Ye Hu said, "But with the current situation, how can we repay it?"
"Yu Shangshu stays here, the rest of us have dispersed," Ye Hu waved his hand forcefully.
Yang Yue and Yang Xuangansi have left again, and Yu Zhongwen is actually missing. I will wait for the matter in Hexi to be settled, and then set off for Luoyang. After all, Dongdu is the dispatching center for the entire Northern Expedition.
Cui Hongsheng's eyes moved to Kang Yan.
Shekui listened at this time and felt that he and himself, along with 700,000 soldiers and weak troops and strong horses, went straight into Guanzhong to capture Xiaoxing.
As for He Chou, he doesn't have a position to begin with, but he can't prepare it for his son.
Kang Yanyan also had an idea. The food gap was too small, so it was realistic to rely entirely on Jiangnan and Henan. I dared to conquer Guanzhong, so I could only worry about Hexi.
That's why Ye Hu chose Guanzhong and Bashu, because in those two places, the downward channels have always been cut off. Instead of being monopolized by aristocratic families, it is better to give these wealthy businessmen some opportunities.
"I understand that Your Majesty is worried," Cui Zhongfang said with a smile.