Chapter 1223: Fragile feudal era

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As the generals under Liu Bei went to their respective defense areas, a large number of generals and soldiers originally stationed in Yecheng also left one after another.
In the end, even Wen Chen gradually began to follow the army and left. The original city surrounded by the army became deserted a lot, but the city was more prosperous.
The withdrawal of a large number of military camps and the departure of a large number of soldiers ended the military control of Yecheng. Yecheng, who was originally due to the war, once again regained his original popularity.
After all, it is one of the most prosperous cities in the North. After ensuring that food and grass are worry-free and injecting more suitable trade policies, the prosperity of business has led to the prosperity of the entire city.
But in general, Yecheng is unable to reach the level of Feng Gao's commercial prosperity to the extent that it has suppressed agriculture. From the beginning, the positioning of the two sides is different. Feng Gao's positioning is the center of the world's business, and Ye Cheng's positioning It is a strategic military center in the north.
In the feudal era, in an era in which manpower could not be completely stripped from the land, there could not be too many commercial centers like Fenggao in the world. It is also reasonable for the world to emphasize agriculture and suppress business as a national policy.
If the food and clothing cannot be solved, business flow and even basic materials will become a problem, so Chen Xi will not be extravagant to build a second world commercial center now. Even if someone is constantly noisy, Chen Xi will not agree.
"Who proposed to change Yecheng's commercial tax this time?" Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at Jia Xu. He didn't ask him to give an explanation last time.
"This is the appeal of the Yecheng businessmen, and we are now using a lot of Jizhou scholars, and they are also working hard in this regard. After all, the changes in Taishan County have indeed greatly increased our taxes." Jia Xu This I didn't dare to block Chen Xi's words again.
"Oh, to put it plainly is Xuzhou. Yanzhou, Yuzhou. Jizhou's appeals?" Chen Xi raised an eyebrow, Jizhou merchants' appeals? Joke, believe it or not, Chen Xi appeals to people from Jizhou, and other states will jump out and say that they also have this demand.
"It's true." Jia Xu nodded silently.
This is indeed the common demand of the states under the rule. Although the benefits of transaction tax are obvious for small businessmen, for large businessmen supported by wealthy banks, the benefits are even more!
But there is a big problem here is that it takes a lot of miles to transport the goods to Fenggao, and it would be better if they could get nearby. The problem is that only Liu Feng is the case under Liu Bei's governance, and other high counties have not thoroughly adopted Feng Gao's commercial tax.
In fact, this is a local economic and central economic issue. Chen Xi naturally developed and strengthened local power under the precondition of consolidating the central government, and controlled local rule by political and economic means as much as possible.
He didn't want to have a big place in the end one day, and became the same as the Shishizhou Mu in the late Han Dynasty. The ruling power must be in the hands of the central government, so that it is a unified country!
If all regions have independent and independent military and political forces, even if they are united around the leadership of the central government, what a complete empire? Federation and empire are completely different. To be called a unified empire, at least the center must have the strength to overwhelm all local unions.
"Since you all know why these things came to me." Chen Xi looked at Jia Xu with dissatisfaction. Jia Hu, who has been worrying about it, actually had some time to block it.
"Because I think they have a certain truth." Jia Xu said, staring directly at Chen Xi. "Taishan County's tax revenue is basically comparable to that of Jizhou, the head of Kyushu, and money is very important to us."
"In the present situation, the people who ruled the people who were completely liberated from the land are probably less than 10%." Chen Xi was helpless. Even wise men like Jia Xu can't escape the shackles of history, which is really impossible.
"It is true. About one-tenth of the people under our control are unproductive." Jia Xu nodded and said that they also calculated this data. The other nine adults are basically farming.
"Among these people, there are about 70% of the merchants who remove the family lineage and family service." Chen Xi felt that it was necessary to make things clear with Jia Xu. Nothing is a step in the sky. If the whole map transaction tax can solve the problem , Chen Xi has long changed the business tax on the whole map.
Jia Xu calculated the number of people slightly, and nodded to indicate that this was indeed the case.
"There are still 50% of them who are out of work, whether they are first-line veterans, low-level officials, or Tuntian soldiers, should be counted." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

The last 20% are mostly craftsmen who can support themselves. That ’s why I ’m not recruiting. It ’s also the reason why I do n’t do promotion tax.
Chen Xi shrugged and said, 90% of the people are still thinking Struggling with land, business is now limitless.
"That is to say, now that we want to maximize tax revenue, the most important thing we should do is to make the original nine people support one person, to eight, but less." Jia Xu said with a frown, but also lost money to him Can understand what Chen Xi said.
"It used to be about fifteen or six people to support a childbirth, so I always said that Hanmou is very important." Chen Xi said with a sigh, this era is so pitted, what can you do?
The result of forcibly increasing the number of out-of-workers is that people do n’t talk about life. If adult labor is not enough, then it is a very big problem. This era is a pit. You do n’t even have enough food. You want to develop business and raise taxes. Ensure that the people are full. Anyway!
"According to my estimation, even if we extend the new farming methods to the world, and continue to increase the number of out-of-workers, the world can only build two more trading offices." Chen Xi has seriously considered this aspect.
There is no way, instead of the shortage of materials for the merchants, it is better to make early restrictions to make the supplies surplus, while the merchants of bulk trade are stabilized at a reasonable number. Although this is not conducive to commercial circulation, it is much easier to manage.
By the way, even in the later generations, some trades cannot allow individuals to let go of their hands. As for the merchants who are trading in bulk trade, they have not reached the upper limit.
"Is this the case?" Jia Xu barely understood Chen Xi's thoughts. "It's my thoughts, but I dare to ask where are the other two trading points you chose?"
"One is in Luoyang, the other is in Jiangling, Xiangyang or Wancheng. I haven't figured it out yet." Chen Xi also hesitated. "In fact, if I can play the Central Plains, I want to establish a trading office here. "
Jia Xu silently remembered these places, especially the one overseas, and when he turned around, he went to prepare for the enclosure, and this was the chicken that actually laid the golden eggs. (To be continued.)