Chapter 301 Forced out tricks
The Liao army's ferry boat capacity was limited.
They also lack horses, and they lack good horses.
Wei Wuji's subordinates, one man and two horses, which one is not a BMW with five feet high on his shoulders?
Who is not jealous when you see it?
"Why did there be no Liao people attacked me in two months after the Chinese New Year?"
Wei Wuji tilted his head, and he couldn't turn over and was very sad.
"Is it just a retaliation against Li Guangli?"
"Isn't it right?"
"The secret spy department of the Liao Kingdom is no worse than the imperial city department of our Great Zhou."
"Don't they know?"
"Does our stable large number of troops rely on commercial taxes to support us?"
"Send hundreds of light cavalry without a trace."
"It can make people panic and cut off their trade routes, which is simply a huge profit!"
"Why wait till now?"
Anyway, those landlords and wealthy families will not run away without losing their money.
The Liao people only needed to cut off the source of commercial tax in Anding Prefecture.
The Eastern Army, soldiers from various towns and towns, and even Li Guangli's naval army.
Without commercial tax support, how large can it be maintained?
How much combat power is left?
A few hundred rangers can cut off the livelihood of tens of thousands of soldiers.
It's indeed a huge profit.
Even if the entire army is wiped out, it is very cost-effective.
At worst, just send it again.
The few of you here looked at Wei Wuji with admiration.
This guy's vision is quite unique!
The eunuch party is also talented!
Zhou Yuan thought about it and laughed.
"Otherwise! Maybe the Liao people don't want to make peace and trouble?"
"Wei Jianjun, you have overlooked a secret issue."
"smuggling!"
"In the past, the most active smugglers were actually the ones who were stable."
"This is a tacit consent of the court."
"Through smuggling, the Liao people were able to get away with many urgently needed items from Anding."
"But what do we lack the most?"
Wei Wuji's eyes were filled with greed.
He blurted out.
"War Horse!"
The horse politics in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty had long been abandoned.
Ninety percent of the sources of war horses must be smuggled from the Liao Kingdom.
This is something that can't be done.
Anding Prefecture has the largest mule and horse market in the north.
There are no less than 200,000 war horses, scattered horses and plowing oxen every year.
Not to mention the large number of fat sheep.
Of course, the proportion of war horses is very small.
In the past, even if the navy encountered livestock ships trafficked from the North Shore.
They all turned a blind eye.
Zhou Yuan nodded and said.
"What Wei Jianjun said is true."
"Last year, the transaction volume of Anding Mule and Horse Market exceeded five million taels of silver."
"If the commercial tax was levied from the beginning."
"That's nearly 400,000 yuan in taxes!"
Wei Wuji's eyes were brighter and his saliva was almost flowing down.
Shen Zhongxin added with a smile.
"When smugglers in Liao Kingdom sell horses, cattle and sheep, will they return home with a lot of money?"
"No! They are not that stupid!"
"They want to replace it with goods in the settlement and make another profit when they go back."
"As long as there is no involvement in weapons, iron and other strategic materials."
"We will still let it go!"
"This is another hundreds of thousands of commercial tax, right?"
Wei Wuji was thinking.
In addition, domestic merchants entered and left Anding Mansion, bought and sold.
Isn't it?
The entire Anding Prefecture has one year's commercial tax.
Normally, it is definitely more than one million per year?
In comparison, the summer and autumn taxes are added to the other three counties.
Almost negligible.
Because the tax rate in the big week is not high, the main reason is that the land yield is too small.
Each household pays about 300 to 500 cents of land tax every year.
Of course, if labor is converted into it.
It may reach one or two per household.
But Dazhou has a population of more than 20 million, and the money on the books is scary.
In fact, the ones that can be collected into the treasury are often less than five million taels.
The situation in the peace of one prefecture and four county prefectures may be better.
For 150,000 households, more than 100,000 yuan in taxes will definitely be received.
In previous years, the money should be divided into three parts.
Leave it to Zhending Mansion, which is also considered to be one-third of the treasury.
Distributed to one-third of the Chanzhou army.
The last tens of thousands of taels are kept by themselves.
But this year the imperial court doesn't want it anymore.
It seems that life in Anding Mansion will be much better.
Actually, it is not the case.
On New Year's Eve, the pension silver and the money for purchasing equipment exceeded 400,000 yuan.
The remaining commercial tax was only tens of thousands of taels at that time.
Chen Zhongxin has escorted the money, and the government has to pay it back.
This is enough for Anding Mansion to pay back the debt for seven or eight years.
Therefore, Wei Wuji was not interested in that money at all.
What he cares about now is business tax.
Only by restoring the word "stability" can you make a fortune!
"Everyone, if Li Guangli stops harassing Liao Kingdom."
"You said, will the Liao people withdraw their troops?"
"It's a good thing to do with one another!"
"Everyone is doing smuggling together, how good is it to get each of them?"
"Are you all losing money when fighting and killing?"
This is pertinent.
Li Guangli went to the north shore to rob, and the Liao people had to mobilize troops to put out the fire.
In any case, the loss of a large amount of property cannot be saved.
The navy went to the villages and towns that were near the river to fire a wave of turbulent bombs.
The loss is too great.
The Liao people came over and attacked them?
Anding Prefecture has no peace of mind to grow crops, let alone develop commerce.
If the two sides remained stalemate, the smuggling business could not be done.
How much money do you lose every year?
The ones you get are better than losing more in secret!
Li Chengfeng expressed doubts.
"If we withdraw the navy, the Liao people will stop?"
Chen Zhongxin's eyes flashed and he thought.
"Yelu Dayue, the King of Yingzhou, should have been beaten and hurt."
"He is the largest smuggler in the Liao Kingdom."
"If this stalemate continues, his losses will exceed one million every year."
"He's more anxious than us."
On the north bank are 150,000 cavalry of Liao Kingdom.
It can cost several times more than the cost of raising infantry in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
But the Liao court not only did not allocate military food and wages to the local governments.
I have to ask for it from the local area every year.
The northern policy that the Great Zhou Dynasty pursued over the past ten years was learned from the Liao Dynasty.
A tiger cannot become a dog.
In fact, there is no support from wealthy areas in the south.
The military and combat effectiveness of the northern border troops are declining sharply, and they are getting worse every year.
Zhou Yuan was a little moved.
"or?"
"Try it first?"
Wei Wuji slapped the pillow, but it touched the arrow wound on his butt.
He couldn't help but hissing.
However, this guy is quite proud.
He came up with the idea!
"Try it!"
"The price we paid is heavy enough!"
"We have to make an agreement in advance!"
"Once the Liao people no longer harass Anding Prefecture."
"Send troops to suppress the bandits, you must not let your hair down."
Several local bosses looked at each other.
Donkey balls.
This dead eunuch, I understand very well!
Chen Zhongxin gritted his teeth and said.
"Wei Jianjun, look at what you said, why are we dragging us back?"
"Chen Yi has prepared all the five thousand cavalrymen."
“The only trouble is.”
"The Liao people's rafting may not leave so quickly."
"The time limit is set for the bandit suppression, this..."
Wei Wuya laughed.
"Simple!"
"You go and notify Chen Lin!"
"He doesn't have to send troops."
"However, he must send cavalry to ensure the trade routes in Anding County."
"At worst, our family will continue to pay him a salary."
"Once the commercial tax is rich, it will be enough to give him an extra 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year!"
"Old Shen, you can also take back the money you paid in advance as soon as possible!"
This chapter has been completed!