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There are mostly cargo ships on this pier, but there are also several passenger ships. Li Xuandu, Qin Su and others boarded a passenger ship and headed north.

Among the four seas, the North Sea is cold due to its location, and it is not as good as the East Sea or the South Sea. However, there are often pirates and even sect fleets on the East China Sea and the South China Sea. On the contrary, the sea surface of the North China Sea is quite peaceful, and the number of ships traveling is no less than that of the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

Li Xuandu is familiar with ships. Qingweizong started his business with a fleet. However, Qingweizong is called "Swordsmanship". Merchant ships are equipped with cannons. When they encounter ships that do not abide by the rules of Qingweizong, they will directly attack. If you are sunk, or confiscating all of your goods, it is like walking around with a sharp sword in your hand, it can be said to be very vivid and vivid. On the other hand, Qin Qing was open-minded in Liaodong and did not have many other rules besides banning pirates.

From this point of view, Qin Qing is indeed a person with great strategies. At that time, Situ Xuance also thought of reorganizing the Qingwei Sect and changing this kind of sword-making business that had been passed down for hundreds of years. However, Situ Xuance died, and Li Daoxu no longer managed the affairs of the sect. He put these things in place All of them were handed over to Li Yuanying's hands, which led to the Qingwei Sect still maintaining this status quo.

When Li Xuandu was young, he was full of passion and thought about changing the Qingwei Sect, but at that time he was just passionate, and there was no way, and he had no ideas, so he was naturally just a joke. After Li Xuan had his own ideas and paths, he was no longer in Qingwei Sect.

But Li Xuan didn't care about these things either. There is priorities in matters. No matter from any perspective, the Qingwei Clan belongs to the category of "slowness" and "lightness", and it is not yet time to be urgently resolved.

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Along the way, Li Xuandu not only accompanied Qin Su to enjoy the sea view, but also had conversations with the passengers and the boss on the boat. Most of the people who took the boat north were merchants, so Li Xuandu had a commercial tax on Liaodong. A rough understanding.

Then he roughly made up the bill.

Those who have traveled through the world have a rough understanding of the length of the journey. From Jinling Mansion to Imperial Capital, the shortest waterway is 3,500 miles, and you have to pass twelve cash passes, and the fee is about 350 cents, which is an average of each mile. A penny is the way. When the price of Dawei rice is the lowest, you can buy one stone of 90 cents, and the average price of rice is about 10 cents per kilogram. This price is not expensive, or it is not cheap.

However, the money is not about asking anyone to ask for money. There are three things that don’t collect: the official’s ships are not collected, the eunuch’s ships are not collected, and the Jinshi and Juren’s ships are not collected. This leads to many means of evading fees. Some erected signs on the bow of the ship, and wrote "The Criminal Office of the Criminal Office" on the other side, and wrote "The Criminal Office of the Chengxuan Office of the Government" on the other side, pretending to be an official boat; some asked Jinshi or Juren to sit on the seat. As an amulet on the ship. When people pass the money, they ask for money, so they let the amulets come out to deal with it. It is too risky to impersonate an official ship. If you ask a Jinshi or a Juren to be amulet, you can try it all. A story is recorded in the book, a scholar, a scholar. At the same time, they escorted the two civilian ships and received five taels of silver. Jinshi and Juren have more identities than scholars. They are more qualified to help people with no tolls, and the rewards they receive are naturally higher.

Through Murong Hua and Xuanzhen’s eldest princess, Li Xuan has learned about the annual harvest of the imperial court last year, totaling about 36 million taels.

Among them, the remaining wheat rice is divided into silver, silk cotton, tax silk, agricultural and mulberry silk is divided into silver, cotton cloth and rami cloth are divided into silver, and the salary of government departments and other government departments account for about 10%; horse grass is divided into silver. About 10%; grasslands are broken into silver, horse houses are broken into silver, wheat beans are broken into silver, and household registration is broken into silver, accounting for about 10%; each prefecture is changed to silver and account for about 20%; each salt transportation department and each commission department The silver accounted for about 30% of the surplus salt, salt tax and other silvers.

Next are the major banknotes, which account for about 10%. Then the stolen silver penalty accounted for half of the total, including commercial tax, fish classes, wealthy households, calendar days, civilians, archers, and other items of silver, including garrison, change of cash, monthly grain, etc., about half of the total.

In general, agricultural tax and salt tax account for the majority, while commercial tax, including banknotes, only account for a little more than 10%.

The reason for this is that in the early days of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, trade was severely damaged by the golden tent, so Emperor Taizu announced that most of the commerce was exempted from taxes in order to restore business.

The emperor told the Ministry of Revenue: "In the past, the treacherous ministers gathered and had all the taxes and fifties, which I am very ashamed of. From now on, the military and civilians' weddings, funerals, sacrifices, boats, charms, silk cloth, etc. are not taxed."

The commercial tax was not re-exhausted until the Wude period. The commercial tax collected is also very light. For any commercial tax, one will be taken at thirty, and the mistake will be considered as a violation of the order.

Commercial tax is thirty-one tax, and agricultural tax is also thirty-one tax, but the two cannot be compared in any case.

There is already very little commercial tax itself. Because merchants move, the majority of income is in miscellaneous taxes such as money checks, but there is a saying that money checks will not be collected. This leads to ordinary people being overwhelmed in doing business, while gentry doing business is almost equivalent to not paying taxes. No matter how much trade transactions of silk, tea and porcelain were made, the court could not get a penny. The court had no money and could only put all the burden on the agricultural tax. In the end, the people were overwhelmed and sold the land to gentry and became tenants. The gentry's land was not taxed. The court could only continue to oppress ordinary people who had not sold themselves as tenants. , if you keep going through this cycle, you will eventually be a dead end.

Liaodong is obviously intending to avoid this deadlock. Liaodong's commercial tax is much heavier than the court's commercial tax. The 15th tax is only for merchants of a certain scale, while small merchants still maintain the original 30th tax. .

In addition, Qin Qing integrated all the Liaodong families to do business together. The Qin family took the lead in this matter, but in fact, they were doing business in the name of the Governor's Office. At the same time, Zhao Zheng's Governor's Office also invested part of the tax into it and became the owner. After the business was profitable, dividends were distributed. In this way, Liaodong was involved from top to bottom, and naturally worked together. The result was equivalent to bypassing the commercial tax. It was no longer the gentry doing business and the court collecting taxes, but the court itself did business, and the amount of commercial tax was no longer so important.

However, in this way, the requirements for officials became extremely high. At least most of the Confucian disciples who read the books of sages were not competent, and some professional businessmen were needed. This was one of the reasons why the Qin family dragged many families to do it themselves. This led to the confusion between public and private, and it was difficult to distinguish where the boundary between the family and the government was. Now it is only three states, with Qin Qing and Zhao Zheng in control, it can barely avoid mistakes. If it is implemented throughout the world, it may not be possible to avoid mistakes.

But then again, this is already a remarkable change. Liaodong almost followed the Wei Dynasty, filling up many "holes" one by one, and looking brand new.

In any case, Li Xuandu still admired Qin Qing and Zhao Zheng very much. They were able to make Liaodong a major concern for the imperial capital in less than ten years. They were indeed extraordinary.

If Princess Xuanzhen was extremely disappointed with the Wei Dynasty after leaving the imperial capital, then Li Xuandu was full of confidence in Liaodong after visiting Liaodong.

Liaodong got off to a good start.

The passenger ship took two days to dock. Li Xuandu and Qin Su had left Youzhou and entered Liaozhou, which was farther away from the pass and closer to the Golden Horde. If Youzhou was the commercial center of the three states of Liaodong, then Liaozhou was the military center of the three states of Liaodong. In most cases, more than half of the Liaodong cavalry were stationed here to guard against the army of the Golden Horde. However, as the civil war in the Golden Horde intensified, the Governor's Office had already begun to mobilize troops to the south, and now there were only about 50,000 border troops left in Liaozhou.

In Liaozhou, Zhao Zheng vigorously promoted military settlements, so one can see one garrison after another in Liaozhou, as well as a large number of ordinary people who were reclaiming wasteland. These settlements can not only supply the needs of the Liaodong army, but also feed back to the densely populated Youzhou.

Li Xuandu and Qin Su once again turned to riding the wind. Although the land under their feet was sparsely populated, large tracts of farmland were connected into a piece, with no end in sight, which was very pleasing.

However, there were still more uncultivated wastelands and various deep mountains and old forests. It was common to see groups of hunters entering the mountains and forests to hunt, or using small boats to cast nets and go out to sea to fish.

This was fishing and hunting in addition to farming and grazing.

Li Xuandu said, "To be fair, Liaodong is a fertile land besides its cold climate. As long as it is well managed, people can live and work in peace and contentment. It seems that I was right to ask Taiping Bank to lend money."

"That's natural." Qin Su said softly, "Liaodong is bitterly cold, with vast land and sparse population. It is mostly deep mountains and old forests, so what is lacking is not land, but population and money. Fortunately, there are many refugees in the interior now. After they were moved to Liaodong, the population of Liaodong has been greatly increased, and you asking Taiping Bank to lend money has really helped a lot."

At this time, Qin Su had already noticed Li Xuandu's thoughts to some extent, but she never pointed it out, and took the initiative to lead the way. She still believed in her father in her heart. The Qin family had lived in Liaodong for hundreds of years, and they would never let the people of their hometown poke their spines thousands of years later.

Now it seems that Li Xuandu is undoubtedly satisfied. He doesn't frown much, and he will soon relax. Most of the time, Li Xuandu is smiling, and it is the kind of faint smile that is not concealed and comes from the heart.

Li Xuandu lowered his body and came to a wheat field. He squatted down and touched the leaves of the wheat seedlings. He grabbed a handful of soil and kneaded it gently in his hands. Finally, he put it under his nose and smelled it.

When Li Xuandu fell into a state, he also farmed, so he was not completely ignorant of farming.

Compared with Li Xuandu, Miss Qin didn't understand anything at all and just stood aside.

Li Xuandu threw away the soil in his hand, stood up, and exclaimed: "Good, really good."

Qin Suxiao asked: "What's good about it?"

Li Xuandu said: "The world I think of is probably like this, so it's good."

While speaking, Li Xuandu looked far away. At the end of his sight were continuous mountains, and the dense forests on the mountains seemed like an undulating blue-black curve.

This line seemed to define a boundary for the "world" that Li Xuandu said.