Chapter 80 Why Is There So Much Money?

All the way west, the speed of Chen Ying and his party gradually accelerated.

Although the speed is fast, I look at it casually, but Anxi, a place where Li Xiuning has lived for two years, gradually makes Li Xiuning feel a little unrecognizable.

In Li Xiuning's impression, most of Anxi was dilapidated. Thousands of miles, a hundred years without human population.

But after just over three years, there is no more desolation on both sides of the road, most of which are built workshops and smoke-smoking chimneys. As the intersection of East and West, the Western Regions is the frontier where the collision of Eastern and Western civilizations is most intense. Here, the trade between the East and the West, carrying the civilization of the East and the West, occupies an important position in the history of the world economy and culture.

What shocked Li Xiuning the most was that in the Western Regions today, almost any village and town has a school, Tang Yan School.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you actually did it!" ”

Li Xiuning vaguely remembered that Chen Ying once said: "That is, one day in the future, I will let tens of millions of people from tens of thousands of miles of land all bite the wooden plug to learn Tang Yan, and fight big, and Tang Tang will lie hot...... Haha, haha, although it was painful to learn, and I wanted to see my neck in pain, I still had to learn from the cone of the head - that scene must be spectacular. When I think of this, my heart is so happy! ”

Chen Ying corrected: "Now, this is the beginning. In the future, I want to make the Pacific Ocean, which is east of the East China Sea of our Datang, and then to the Atlantic! ”

Chen Ying saw that Li Xiuning was confused, and smiled and took out the world map in his carriage, there were three such maps in total. One is in the hands of Li Jiancheng and one is in the hands of Li Shimin. One copy is in Chen Ying's hands.

Li Xiuning said curiously: "How did you do it?" I saw that they were learning very painfully, but they didn't hire tongue people, but specifically and seriously studied Tang Yan? ”

Chen Ying smiled: "It's actually very simple! ”

"Very easy?" Li Xiuning asked even more suspiciously: "What is the solution?" ”

Chen Ying is very clear about the ethnic characteristics of the Western Regions, as one of the four major countries in the Western Regions, Qiuci as an example, Qiuci has belonged to China since the Han Dynasty, the indigenous people of Qiuci at that time migrated from the area of present-day Gansu, and they are also yellow people, but the cultural system is completely different. From the outside, there is only a slight surprise.

Moreover, most of the people in the Western Regions do not have the concept of "national integrity", when the Xiongnu are strong, they call themselves the Huns, and when the Xianbei people control the Western Regions, they call themselves Xianbei people. When the Turks were strong, they called themselves Turks.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is strong, the people of all ethnic groups call themselves Tang people to the outside world.

However, they, the Tang people, will not admit it. In fact, what Datang admits is only the people on the books, and the people who have the modulation of rent. Chen Yingqi formulated three household registration systems for the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. Both yellow, blue and white. Chen Ying stipulated that war slaves, or prisoners, all had white nationality, no personal freedom, no political status, and the second was blue nationality. The blue nationality includes the people who surrendered voluntarily, as well as the displaced people who defected.

It is the same as the yellow book and household registration in Guanzhong. Such people can be in the army or as officials, and there are no restrictions. And the taxes paid are generally the same as those in Guanzhong.

Datang implements the equalization system, and the implementation method is that Ding Nan over 20 years old will be granted 100 acres of land, of which 20 acres are Yongye fields and 80 acres are divided fields. After his death, he divided the land into eighty acres and returned it to the government. The government collects rents from the people based on the records of land grants.

Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they will pay a fixed amount of rent. The rent is the rent of the field, and two stones of corn are paid every year. Yong is forced labor, serving the government for 20 days a year.

With the income of the most ordinary peasants in this era, one hundred acres of land can collect about one hundred and fifty stone of grain.

However, the natives of the Western Regions are different. They originally enjoyed the beef leg tax. A cow has to pay a tax of one per year. The gap is simply too big. So many people in Anxi are very jealous.

For the Yellow Book served for twenty days, and two stones of grain or the equivalent of something. The blue status is implemented at half of the original tax standard.

The three types of household registration are not dead, but can be changed. For example, if the white household registration performs well, it can be changed to a blue household registration, and the blue household registration can be converted to a yellow household registration.

However, the first hard criterion for changing household registration must be to be able to speak Tang Yan.

If you don't want to feed the cow yourself, and the government takes away a cow leg a year, you can only study Tang Yan desperately and advance in the annual assessment, otherwise you won't be able to keep the cow leg.

At this time, the people of Anxi found that learning Tang Yan could not only exempt some taxes, but also join the army and receive rewards for meritorious service.

In fact, in the era before Chen Ying crossed, because the state gave preferential treatment to the young people in all aspects, many people saw that it was profitable to change the nationality and change their ancestors.

Contrary to the ridiculous "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, the people of Anxi at this time took the initiative to "turn Hu into Han" in order to pay less taxes.

To become a yellow citizen, you not only need to be able to speak Tang dialect, but also need to wear Hanfu and practice Han customs, so that you can officially join the Tang Dynasty army and rely on the way of joining the army, making meritorious contributions, and becoming an official.

Of course, this kind of turning Hu into Han was also fake at the beginning, but because most of the people themselves look yellow-skinned and black-haired, and many people are of mixed Hu and Han blood, and it is not uncommon for people in Anxi to speak Chinese, so it is extremely easy to "raise the nationality", which is nothing more than saying Tang Yan and changing the style of clothes.

Although it is said that the blue nationality is only equivalent to half of the old tax rate in Anxi, it is for this half of the tax. Not far away, the tribe defected to Anxi from the far west and became Tang people.

At the beginning, this kind of change was only superficial, and they would speak Tang Yan, wear Hanfu, and practice Han customs on formal occasions, but as the time of pretending continued to deepen, more and more people have developed a habit. The people of Anxi threw away their knives and forks and their Hu leather robes......

In order to integrate, Chen Ying's policy is actually very domineering.

For example, in intermarriage, the Tang people will be rewarded with the right to reclaim 100 acres of land for each Hu concubine, of course, this cannot be forced, it can only be voluntary.

The indigenous people of Anxi have no concept of land, but the people who have migrated from the hinterland, as well as the displaced people, have no less understanding of the land than the nomadic people's feelings for war horses.

Money, no one is too much.

There are not as many peasants as there are land.

The craziest thing is that a broken household named Zhang Muzhi came to Anxi alone and was allocated five houses and a hundred acres of land. Later, after becoming familiar with this rule, he accepted more than 160 concubines in one go, including Ding Lingren, Gaoche Ren, and Qiuzi Ren, and in a blink of an eye, he became a landlord with nearly 2,000 acres of land.

On the morning of that day, Chen Ying and his entourage met an Anxi army on the gallop road, which was not very numerous, only four or five hundred people.

But they were all cavalry, one man and two horses, as if they were on some mission.

The knight slowly disappeared from sight. Li Xiuning looked at the flags flying in the air, vaguely the words of Datang Water Mill Town. Li Xiuning suddenly said to Chen Ying: "The Anxi Army is really mighty and majestic, an elite division, well-equipped and well-trained."

"This army should be the self-consolidating army of Shuimo Town!" Chen Ying shook his head and said: "In Anxi, there are no less than a thousand such troops, which are only second-rate troops, not first-class elites!" ”

"What, just a second-rate army?" Li Xiuning questioned: "Didn't you see it? They marched like a cloud of water, skillful movements, except for the neighing of war horses, not a single soldier made a sound, which shows that they are rigorously trained, and they exude a strong murderous aura that even the horses can't resist, such an army is just a second-rate army? ”

Chen Ying smiled and said, "That's just the case......"

The equipment of the Tang Army can be said to be not bad, but it is more than a little worse than the local village Yong of the Anxi Army.

The armor of this army is not like ordinary armor, which is assembled in small pieces one by one, and they are simply one large piece at all. The entire front chest is a single piece, and the back is a whole piece. The arms and legs were no more than four large pieces of armor.

Li Xiuning wondered how a large piece of steel could be processed into an arc shape that just matched the shape of the human body...... This is definitely not the processing technology of this era.

Actually, Li Xiuning's guess is right, this is indeed not the craft of this era.

In this era, in addition to hoplites, ordinary soldiers are equipped with armor and leather armor, and the defensive ability of Mingguang armor is the most powerful in history except for the legendary infantry armor of the Song Dynasty.

However, the production efficiency of Mingguang armor is too low. Later, Anzay invented the hydraulic forging press, which changed the standard of armor.

However, he could take a hydraulic giant stamping machine, and with a direct press, the armor would be formed, and with only thirty-nine pieces of armor in total, he could make armor that could defend against a stone bow within a distance of twenty paces.

The armor has been carefully polished and polished, and it is as bright as a mirror. At least it won't be worse than the bright light armor that people use now.

Li Xiuning was secretly surprised, the Anxi Army was so equipped even with a second-rate army of thieves, and it could not be said that it was rich and rich.

Li Xiuning was speculating that Chen Ying not only vigorously wooed the down-and-out warriors and homeless people, but also borrowed from the peasants at such a low interest rate, where did his money come from?

Why is there so much money?

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