Chapter 565

It's a sign that the temperature changes from hot to cool in a year.

Three days after the Tongzhou war, the situation about the Tongzhou war spread to Qingzhou. During this period, the converter steelmaking production line was also under steady construction.

"Your Highness, when he took TongZhou unexpectedly this time, the king of Wei would react and attack him in a large scale. At this time, Yue Yun should lead some warships to the river near Jinling City to make the king of Wei afraid. At the same time, Lu Fei should also send cavalry to huaizhou to pretend to attack and contain the king of Wei."

According to the current military system, the Tongzhou war report was first sent to Niu Zhen, who immediately discussed the matter with Xiao Ming.

Smell speech, Xiao Ming nodded.

The location of Tongzhou is the modern Nantong, which faces the sea in the East and the river in the south. From the Yangtze River in the south of Tongzhou to the west is Jinling City, where the palace of the king of Wei is located.

This time he took Tongzhou, one was to revenge the Wei king for detaining his merchant ship, the other was to smash a nail in the hinterland of Wei, which would make the Wei King feel pain all the time.

At the same time, a thorough mastery of Tongzhou also means that he has a stable coastal supply point, and this maritime trade also has a transit station.

"In terms of guarding the city, who can compare with the king's soldiers? This time, the king asked Yue Yun to bring 500 City guns. These city guns are regular guns, but they are not export-oriented guns sold to the king of Wei. Even if he wanted to break the city with the method of Dengzhou army, I'm afraid he couldn't do it."

"Yes, our artillery didn't kill his artillery at the first time!" Niu said with a smile. Now he finally understood why Xiao Ming had to make a batch of export-oriented guns.

It turned out that at that time he had considered the situation today.

When he handed the battle report sent by Ye Qingyun to Niu Zhen, Xiao Ming said, "in this case, as the governor said, we can now order the southern army to feint attack huaizhou."

"Yes, your highness." Niu Ying answered and turned to leave.

Seeing Niu Zhen leave, Xiao Ming looks at the map of the state of Dayu hanging in the main hall. At this time, the fiefdom of the king of Wei is marked by him.

There are 13 states in Wei, among which Pengzhou is a big state in the north. Now that he controls Pengzhou, he controls one tenth of the northern territory of Wei.

Now he has occupied TongZhou again, and now there are only 11 out of the 13 states. Huaizhou is the contemporary Huai'an generation, which is closely adjacent to Pengzhou. This is the place where he is going to attack next.

However, it seems that in view of the failure of the battle of Pengzhou, the king of Wei not only increased his troops in huaizhou this time, but also transported 50 guns to set up on the wall of huaizhou.

Xiao Ming took this reaction calmly. After all, no matter how many guns the Wei King took out, there was no threat to him.

It can even be said that Xiao Ming is not afraid of any army in Dayu. If his army can compete with the top army like the barbarians, how can he be afraid of these troops who have changed their color.

His only worry is that these forces will unite to attack him. He can fight alone. After all, his firearms force has been established for nearly two years.

Neither soldiers' thoughts nor the regularization of the army can be compared with those troops who are still in the age of cold weapons with lax organization and discipline.

On the map, Pengzhou has been drawn an X by him, and now he has drawn an X on Tongzhou, one in the South and the other in the north, just like a huge mouth ready to swallow up the feudal land of the Wei king.

Thinking about the next strategy for Wei, Pang arrived at the main hall after the announcement.

"Your Highness, the materials from Pengzhou brought by the old faction of Feige have arrived, including grain, cloth, salt, tea, raw silk and porcelain. Although Pengzhou's powerful families took a lot of gold and silver, most of their property was left. In addition to these things, there are tens of thousands of cattle. Feige asked his highness whether these cattle were left in Pengzhou or sent to Fengguo Within the territory. " Pang Yukun said in one breath.

"Naturally, it is left to the people of Pengzhou. Isn't Pengzhou the land of the king now?" Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun didn't respond for a moment. Then he suddenly realized the truth. He said with a bitter smile, "I'm confused. Your highness is going to merge Pengzhou into the feudal state. How can you favor one over the other now?"

Xiao Ming nodded, "that's the truth. When you write back to Feige, you say that all affairs of Pengzhou are handled according to Fengguo County, and that Pengzhou people should integrate into Fengguo as soon as possible."

"Yes, your highness." Said Pang.

After a pause, Pang Yukun said: "Your Highness, now the three-year period has passed. According to the truth, it's time to collect the agricultural tax."

"At the beginning, the king promised to exempt the people from taxes for three years. It's time for you to say so, but what's the harvest like this year?"

"Compared with last year's drought, this year's grain is also a bumper harvest. Moreover, this year's large-scale trial planting of potatoes in the counties near Qingzhou is also a bumper harvest, and the people are not worried about food and drink." Pang Yukun said with a smile.

In his view, the present feudal state is really prosperous. The common people have no worries about food and clothing, live and work in peace and contentment, and even have spare money to buy all kinds of goods.Today, the chamber of Commerce sells the most soap, salt, sugar and other goods in the territory of Fengguo. It can be seen that the people of Fengguo still have some spare money.

"In this way, the agricultural tax will be collected."

Xiao Ming pondered and said that now he can't think of being poor and generous. Now the army's eastward expedition and western war cost a lot. The bullets and shells are all silver, not to mention the warships, artillery and muskets that are constantly built.

During this period of time, the innovation of military equipment was fast, but it was all realized on the premise that Xiao Ming increased the proportion of military expenditure.

And the most important point is that after the Chang'an rebellion, the prices of all kinds of materials doubled, which also led to the huge military support becoming the financial burden of the fiefdoms.

What's more, with the refinement of government affairs, the government expenditure has increased. At the same time, there are also many feudal officials. In order to popularize education, he has been crying out at a loss.

After all, in this kind of farming as the main body of social system, agricultural tax is still the main tax.

However, although it is necessary to levy agricultural taxes, we should not use excessive force.

The result of his discussion with Pang Yukun was that only one tenth of each mu of land would be taken, which would be enough to ensure that people's lives would not be affected.

"Yes, your highness. In that case, the officer posted a notice and asked Qingzhou newspaper to publish the matter in the newspaper." Pang Yukun pondered for a while and said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "also, this tax must be clear down, the prefectural government is not allowed to set up a name to collect taxes indiscriminately, otherwise at that time, don't blame the king for using a knife."

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