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Chu Suiliang used to follow Xue Ju, the overlord of Western Qin, at that time his father Chu Liang was Xue Ju's Huangmen squire, and Chu Suiliang was a general and a servant, in charge of the edict and the presentation of the case, all of which were important positions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info later Xue Ju died of illness, and his son was defeated by Li Shimin on the road to Chang'an, and the father and son followed Li Shimin.

Chu Liang became the literature of the Qin Palace, and Chu Suiliang became the armor of the Qin Palace. Later, Chu Liang became one of the eighteen bachelors. Now Chu Liang is a free rider and a marquis of Yang Zhai County.

Now Li Shimin reuses Chu Suiliang, thinking that he is academic, upright, and especially loyal to him, like a bird and a bird. For Chu Suiliang, he is very important, and now he is not only in charge of the Xiuwen Pavilion, but also serves as an important subordinate servant, which is the deputy official of the subordinate province.

This is also in line with the new emperor's current preference for employing people, and a large number of young people have been promoted, and many officials who were not high in official positions have jumped into the center. For example, the six people who are tied for the first place in Xuanwu Gate, except for Qin Shu, Baowei and Chi Gong, Li Chao and other four people have already entered the center, Fang Xuanling has added the school book order, Li Chao, the eldest grandson Wuji, and Du Ruhui have all added flat chapters.

Chu Suiliang jumped to the Yellow Gate Shilang and entered the center, winning the trust of Li Shimin.

"The minister will never believe that Li Chao can have such a record, this must be a lie!" Chu Suiliang is only in his early thirties, and he has won the trust of the emperor, so he is young and vigorous. For Li Chao, who is younger than him, he is also a little unconvinced.

Li Shimin waited for him to finish speaking, but said, "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it." ”

As soon as these words came out, Chu Suiliang's face was ugly, and the emperor refuted him so directly.

Many people in the hall were still a little excited, looked at Chu Suiliang, and said secretly, although Chu Suiliang has been very popular recently, he is still invincible to Li Chao.

Li Wenyuan has been relegated to 1,500 miles away, but his position in the emperor's heart is very important.

Chu Suiliang was very unconvinced, he really didn't believe that Li Chao could achieve such a record. Although he has never fought, he has also gone on many expeditions, who has such a ability?

Even King Qin may not have such a ability, how can Li Chao have.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go to Lingzhou to preach and condole!"

Xuan-Fu condolences, it sounds very good, in fact, he plans to go to Lingwu in person and carefully inspect it. If Li Chao dared to make a little lie, he would definitely be able to pierce it.

"Chu Aiqing is my Huangmen squire, and the province is inseparable from Qing."

Li Shimin really likes Chu Suiliang, but seeing that he suddenly ran out to bite Li Chao, Li Shimin had a headache and was a little unhappy.

However, Chu Suiliang was very persistent.

In the end, Li Shimin agreed, although he believed in Li Chao in his heart, he was also a little surprised by Li Chao's victory, and he wanted to know what was going on. With a trip to Suiliang, the news will definitely be more objective and accurate.

"Chu Shilang, then I will give you the Xuanfu envoy of Shuofang Town, and escort the consolation materials to Shuofang to comfort the front-line soldiers."

Shuofang Town, Lingzhou.

After taking back Lecheng without blood, the biggest benefit is to get the treasury materials in the city.

Huilecheng, as the capital of Liang Guo, which has been operated by Liang Shidu for several years, although the population did not exceed 100,000 at the peak, it still hoarded a lot of grain and grass. In particular, Liang Shidu also used this place as an advance base for attacking the Tang army, and last year it was also an offensive base for the Turks all the way south, so there were a lot of materials stored.

All the treasury is intact, and no one dares to steal it.

"Rice, wheat, corn, beans, millet beams, etc., totaling more than 1.1 million stones!"

"More than 300,000 bunches of grass."

"There are more than 50,000 war horses, more than 100,000 crossbow horses, mules and donkeys, more than 50,000 cattle, and more than 300,000 sheep."

"Tens of thousands of catties of ..... such as jerky"

Su Dingfang smiled and reported the statistical results to Li Chao.

In just three days, the Tang army has swept the entire urban and rural areas of Lingzhou, in addition to catching many defeated soldiers who have escaped, the biggest gain is a large number of rural population, as well as all kinds of materials.

"Many of these materials belong to the local people, and these must be clearly registered and cannot be appropriated."

These people used to be from the Liang Dynasty, but now they belong to the Tang Dynasty, and the interests that should be protected must still be guaranteed.

Of course, the property belonging to the Liang Shidu and the original Liang Dynasty, as well as the property of the Turks, of course, was unceremoniously returned to the Yamen.

"What about the population?"

In addition to money and food, Li Chao is more concerned about the population.

In ancient times, one of the most important resources was population. Especially in the early years of the country, after the war, the population was even more important. In order to increase the population and increase the cornerstone of the imperial court's tax collection, the imperial court can be said to have spared all kinds of methods.

At the age of fifteen, you must get married, otherwise you will be forcibly married by the government, and you will even have to pay a heavy fine.

One of the most important evaluations of local officials' performance is also to collect the population and increase the number of household registrations.

Lingwu's original population was not large, but in the Liang Kingdom, it accounted for at least one-third of the population. There were tens of thousands of civilians, and many armies.

"All registrations have been completed, and the total registered population is now more than 137,000 people."

"So much?"

Li Chao was a little surprised, it turned out that there were only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

"We include the army and the people in the court. Originally, Lingwu had 20,000 troops, but this time the Liang division transferred another batch from several nearby states, so it increased a lot. At the same time, this pseudo-beam also has many hidden households. ”

The generals and bureaucrats of the puppet Liang Lingzhou, and the local tycoons, all owned a lot of property, many slaves, and a lot of people who took refuge in their names. None of these people are registered with the government, and there are quite a few of them.

After Li Chao recovered Lingzhou, although he was also very benevolent, he attached great importance to the hukou people, and the hidden household was not allowed to exist, and even many slaves were directly released, under the careful investigation of the army.

Now the registered Lingwu population has reached more than 130,000, young and strong women and children, and even hidden slaves, all of them are registered.

"Immediately start the land grant, and the original hermits, fugitives, and slaves will be granted land. For unmarried young men and women, the government should give them a marriage match to form a family, and the men should be divided into 30 acres of land, adult women should be divided into 20 acres, and middle-aged men should also be divided into 20 acres. ”

When there was no water to irrigate the land, they were given grass, two-thirds of which was divided into fields, and one-third of which was Yongye fields.

In fact, even if it is not watered land, it doesn't matter much, when the place is stable, then dig a ditch and divert the Yellow River water for irrigation, and it will become watered land. With the fertility of the Xitao Plain, it is not a problem to divide a million acres of land.

There are not many powerful places in Lingwu, plus those puppet official families of the puppet Liang Dynasty, the fields and so on they occupy are actually only a small part.

"Give them a review of the title deed, etc., and then give them a change of deed. If some of the land has no contract or has been seized by illegal means, it will not be exchanged for the deed and will be taken back directly. If the land property exceeds 100 mu and the house exceeds 1 mu of land, the deed tax shall be charged for the exchange of deeds, and the deed shall be levied at 10% of the market price of the land. ”

Su Dingfang smiled.

"I knew the teacher wouldn't let these people go so easily. In fact, if you want me to say, why is it so polite to them, directly check their details, these people must not be clean under their buttocks, and when they find evidence of crime, it is more convenient to directly raid their homes. ”

"That's too rude, we have to make them spit out some blood, but we can't really kill them all, we don't just recover one Lingzhou, Shuofang still has eight states. It's not good to go too far, they spit it out, and we'll forget it. If anyone dares to resist ignorance of current affairs, then do as you say. ”

"The same is true for the tenants and slaves owned by these people, and they must be allowed to surrender the population on their own initiative. If they have slaves with a more legal contract, we can pay for it. ”

With these 100,000 people, plus Li Chao's 50,000 garrisons in the future, as well as the families of the government soldiers, there will be enough population on this plug.

With population, prosperity can be achieved.

Whether it is digging ditches to divert yellow water, digging ditches and draining water, or planting grain and grazing, and developing the local economy, these are all foundations.

"Dingfang, you see that March is almost over in the blink of an eye, what about you, take someone to find those wealthy and powerful families, and collect this year's summer tax from them."

In many places, there are various ways to avoid taxes and exempt from military service, and generally speaking, the main way is that someone in the family becomes an official or obtains a knighthood.

But now these people of the former pseudo-Liang State can't enjoy such treatment.

Li Chao directly asked people to collect taxes.

"Remember to be taxed according to the newly registered land deed of the government! There is as much tax as there is land. ”

"Teacher, isn't the court rent modulation, aren't they all fixed taxes?"

"One yard to one yard, our Shuofang Town is now a war zone, and we are implementing wartime policies. As long as it is within the quota of our land grant, we will pay taxes according to the rent, but for those large households who own more land than the land quota, we will also levy two taxes. One is the household tax, which is levied according to their household level, and the other is the land tax, which is levied according to the land actually owned by each family. ”

Li Chao thought for a while, "The specific standard of this land tax is to levy one bucket and two liters of grain per mu." ”

If the household level is higher, the household tax will be paid, and if the land is more, the land tax will be paid.

Li Chao actually levied two taxes in advance in Shuofang and implemented a new set of two tax laws, but he did not stop the tax adjustment law for rent.

Ordinary people practice rent modulation, giving them equal land and land.

As for those rich and wealthy households, as long as the amount of their land exceeds the standard of land grant, then there is no land to divide, and they have to bear two taxes on household land in addition to a rent and tax adjustment.

This is a very direct discrimination and oppression of large households, but Li Chao believes that this is a reasonable social obligation.

Anyway, Lingwu's Haoqiang, those are all pseudo-Liang people, people who have just been conquered and occupied, they dare to mess around, Li Chaoke has a reason to do something to them.

Li Chao has always liked to salute first and then soldier. (To be continued.) )