The carriage passed through the market, Li Zhongyi raised his hand to lift the corner of the curtain, and looked all the way over, most of the shops along the way were closed, and did not open for business.

However, there are many food stalls on the street. Obviously, the lower the people, the more they need to make money to support their families, and they dare not delay for a day.

The landlord's family also had no surplus food, but it was just a joke. The real ones who have no food to spare are actually these small traders and hawkers who don't have much savings in their pockets.

In this era, the overall purchasing power of a city is not to look at those luxurious restaurants and tea houses, but to look at these small merchants and vendors on the streets.

As the saying goes, no one does a loss-making business, as long as there are enough huge profits, even if you know that you will die if you are caught, there are people who dare to take risks!

At the moment when the salt and iron monopoly was monopolized, most of the local gangs that risked their lives to sell illicit salt were of the nature of triad violence.

The logic is actually very simple, these gangs tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers and sell illicit salt, how can they not carry weapons with them?

Before Li Zhongyi took charge of Pinglu, the violent gang that sold illicit salt had the courage to besiege the patrolling officers and soldiers, and the public order situation was simply terrible.

With the deployment of village and pavilion in place, as well as the continuous formation of the township army belonging to the reserve, it is equivalent to limiting the flood of illegal salt from the root.

Li Jiajun's multi-horse and random patrol methods increased the probability of illegal salt being seized on the road by more than 100 times, which effectively curbed the momentum of the flood of illegal salt.

During the period of imperial autocracy, the main sources of fiscal revenue of successive dynasties were additional revenues such as land endowment, poll tax, commercial tax, city entry tax, and salt and iron franchise.

The field endowment is generally divided into two categories, one is to pay grain according to the number of acres of land, and the other is to collect silk and other physical goods according to households.

In practice, silk has always served as a general equivalent, that is, the function of money.

Under Li Zhongyi's conscious leadership, the actual situation of Li Jiajun is very different from that of previous dynasties.

Objectively speaking, the Li Jiajun is actually a bully army built on the basis of powerful armed forces, mainly robbing large households and colonizing foreign races.

Based on the reality that there are many salt lakes in Goryeo, Li Zhongyi vigorously suppressed the sale of illicit salt in the Pinglu area, and at the same time, he transported the salt from Goryeo Lake to the Pinglu area in a steady stream by sea and sold it to the people at a very low price every month.

Who gets up early without profit? The profits of the smugglers in the Pinglu area have shown a precipitous downward trend, and the main contradiction between them and Li Jiajun has changed from competing for profits with the people to a crackdown and resistance against cross-border smuggling of smuggled salt.

After Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, the first order he issued was actually related to the economy.

The head tax that has been collected for thousands of years has been completely abolished, and all kinds of goods entering the city are concentrated in the Xiaoyaojin Market, where Li Zhongyi once made a fortune.

In the Xiaoyaojin Market, all the goods shipped from all over the country were registered and registered, and then sent to the warehouses of each shop under the supervision of the officials and soldiers.

Commodity registration and entry into the city do not need to pay taxes, only the sales revenue, need to pay the commercial tax in full according to the standard of five taxes and one standard.

In the Celestial Empire in history, because of light commerce, the nominal commercial tax has always been outrageously low, basically hovering within the range of twenty taxes and one.

However, because commodities pass through every state and county, they have to be taxed once, and the actual commercial tax is very high, which greatly restricts the free circulation of commodities in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

When Li Zhongyi was in Pinglu, he abolished the city tax on goods, and the uniform tax rate was five taxes and one tax, and it was levied only after the money was taken from the sale.

The unified registration of commodities into the city is Li Zhongyi's invention and creation, and it is extremely advanced from the practical point of view.

Under the premise of the registration system, Li Zhongyi does not need to raise more tax officials at all, and it is easy to collect sufficient commercial taxes.

The logic is actually very clear, the total number of goods entering the city, minus the retained goods in the warehouses and shops, is the goods sold, and there is no tax evasion, which is clear at a glance.

At the time of Pinglu, some big businessmen who did not believe in evil deliberately made a few false accounts in an attempt to deceive the government, relying on the convenience of filing their own tax returns.

As a result, these wealthy businessmen all fell into the trap that Li Zhongyi had dug a long time ago, and all their property was confiscated because of the huge amount of tax evasion.

Now, Li Zhongyi has entered Kaifeng City, so he is naturally brewed in the same way. Kaifeng City is the world's largest city in this era, the city is full of shops, all kinds of wealthy merchants gathered, Li Zhongyi's harvest of spot checks, must be many times more than Pinglu.

In front of the palace, the guards were unusually strict. The huge rejection of horses is lined up, and only one person is allowed to enter sideways between the gaps in the character shape. If a person with bad intentions wants to break into the palace, his end will be very miserable.

When Li Zhongyi rushed to the front of the palace, Li Yongtang, the commander of the artillery battalion, was on the inner tower of the noon gate, adjusting the firing angle of the 6-pounder cavalry-style bronze gun.

Someone reminded Li Yongtang that the Lord had arrived, but Li Yongtang did not go down the city tower immediately, but waited for the training to be completed, and then ran down the steps quickly.

Li Zhongyi got out of the carriage and saw Liao Shanhe and Li Yongtang coming side by side, he waved his hand to stop Liao and Li from saluting.

Liao Shanhe, as the commander of the Guards, was naturally familiar with Li Zhongyi's unconventional temper, but he just arched his hand and performed a simple courtesy.

For a while, Li Yongtang stayed in the artillery camp with Li Zhongyi all day long, and he also knew very well that Li Zhongyi didn't like the habit of red tape, so he simply saved the gift.

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, Li Yongtang doesn't pay much attention to the arbitrariness of etiquette, which proves a fact: professionals who are only good at technology have surprisingly high IQs, but most of them have low EQ, so it is difficult to mix well in officialdom.

In the history of the Celestial Empire, under the principle that all things are inferior and only scholars are high, rulers and scholars have never attached importance to the development of science and technology, and generally regarded it with contempt: ingenuity and prostitution.

As for the craftsmen who rely on technology to eat, they are included in the ranks of lowly people. The children of artisan families were not only forbidden to take the imperial examination, but also were not allowed to intermarry with the children of good families, which was the tragedy of the times when the ruling system restricted the development of technology and led to the backwardness and beating of modern China.

In the history of the world, many epoch-making scientific inventions, such as gunpowder, originated in the Celestial Empire, but under the natural obstacle of the great unification system, they went astray from the path of climbing the tree of science and technology.

The old European bandits, armed with gunpowder cannons and muskets, robbed the world's indigenous people by boat, plundering countless global wealth.

In the Great Heavenly Empire, gunpowder was used to make firecrackers to drive away ghosts and gods, which is really a pity!

"Master, the subordinate has just checked the garrison inside and outside the palace, and has found an abnormal situation, under the wall of the imperial garden, after in-depth exploration and excavation by the engineer battalion, two secret passages have been discovered." Liao Shanhe approached Li Zhongyi and whispered this amazing big inside story.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and smiled mysteriously, when Han Tong led people to copy his gift, he must have discovered the secret passage to abscond.

As the saying goes, the three holes of the cunning rabbit, with the high degree of precaution against him by the Queen Mother, will he dig out the secret passage of escape according to the gourd drawing.

Therefore, before Li Zhongyi entered the capital, he secretly ordered Liao Shanhe to dig along the root of the palace wall after controlling the palace, and be sure to find out the unknown secret passage.

From the local tyrants and gentry in Goryeo, to the bully landlords in Pinglu, to the wealthy Han families on the Youjida Plain, these big families generally have the "good" habit of digging cellars to hide money and digging tunnels for escape.

Unlike any of the warlords' troops of the same era, the basic skill of the Li Jiajun was to raid the house. To put it bluntly, Li Jiajun is good at raiding homes, and he was forced out.

Can't you beat down the mansion of the local tyrant, but you are empty-handed, right?

After so many years of training, Li Jiajun's technique and process of searching for hidden treasures can be described as a growing realm.

"What is Empress Dowager Fu's mood?" Li Zhongyi thought about it, then stopped, turned his head and asked Liao Shanhe, who was following by his side.

Liao Shanhe said with a bitter face: "According to your orders, the subordinates restrain their guards and prohibit trespassing on the forbidden palace north of the Vertical Arch Palace. However, according to Qiutong's sisters, the Funing Hall where Empress Dowager Fu lived could always hear the sound of smashing things, and it never stopped. ”

"Well, that's good." Li Zhongyi nodded in approval of Liao Shanhe's prudence and obedience, although he entered Kaifeng City and ascended to the throne of the ruling king, however, he was a Zhou minister after all.

If Li Zhongyi's subordinates disturbed the forbidden palace where the concubines lived. Once the news is leaked, the notoriety of "Dong Zhuo" who insults the palace concubine will definitely be deducted from his head.

Although Li Zhongyi and Du Qinniang have a J relationship that is cut and untidy, it is a stealing joy that you and I are willing to do after all.

Li Zhongyi has always been a daring character, however, the fish didn't eat in his mouth, but it caused a bloody mess, and he was definitely not happy to get involved.

Liao Shanhe was complimented, couldn't help grinning, and whispered: "The subordinates themselves pondered, it was not good to replace the henchmen and eunuchs around the Empress Dowager Fu, so they ordered someone to seize the opportunity for them to go to the thatched house alone, go out of the palace to drink water, or go back to the house to sleep, and arrested a lot." ”

Li Zhongyi was amused, he didn't misunderstand Liao Shanhe, this kid is a clever ghost who seems to be honest and honest, but has a ravine.

After fully grasping the latest situation of the palace, Li Zhongyi pondered it carefully and immediately changed his mind. Now when I go to see the Empress Dowager Fu, I will definitely not gain anything except to find scolding myself.

Li Cuixuan, who was waiting in the carriage, originally planned to take a break for an hour to replenish her physical strength and energy. No way, she was so crazy last night, her back hurts.

Li Cuixuan had just laid down not long ago, but she didn't think that Li Zhongyi came back and got into her thin quilt.

PS: There is also a big update, at least 3,000 words, for the encouragement of the monthly pass, thank you!