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Xiao Qi looked at the bustling streets of Qingzhou and felt a little confused, he had already sent someone to convey the conditions of the truce back to Jinling City, but he was very pessimistic about the result.

In fact, after the failure of Hezong, Xiao Han slandered him in Jinling City, and his words were just flashy, and Hezong was just a stupid method.

But despite this, the King of Wei has not lost his trust in him, but the attitude of the King of Wei is also very clear, what he wants is for Xiao Ming to withdraw his troops and return to the city, but after seeing this truce today, he suddenly understood that Wei Di has completely become the goods traded by Xiao Ming and other vassal kings.

Because of this, he suddenly felt a sadness from his heart, once upon a time, Wei Di was the premier feudal state of the Great Yu Kingdom, even Xiao Wenxuan had to be afraid of three points, but now Wei Di could only tremble in the shadow of Xiao Ming.

Yes, King Wei has a bit of hard bones, but in his opinion, no matter how hard these bones are, they can't stop Xiao Ming's guns now.

It's just that now King Wei has not come out of this gap, and he has always looked down on Xiao Ming, and he is even more unwilling to give in to him.

Sighing, Xiao Qi closed his eyes, after Xiao Ming left this time, he suddenly had an ominous premonition, this feeling was strange, but he couldn't tell it.

However, the ominous premonition soon became a reality, and on the third day, he received the news that the Southern Expeditionary Army was attacking Huaizhou.

Hearing this news, he finally understood the meaning of Xiao Ming's words, as long as he did not sign a truce for a day, he would have time to continue to attack the city, and at this time, the envoys of King Yan and King Zhao were also helpless, after all, they were all caused by him.

And when the king of Wei agreed to this, it was estimated that Huaizhou was a city on the truce, thinking of this, he immediately wrote a letter to the king of Wei, telling the king of Wei to agree to the truce.

Otherwise, Wei Di would only lose more and more cities, and King Yan and King Zhao would not stop Xiao Ming.

In the palace of the king of Qi in the three streets of the Wei family restaurant, Xiao Ming also got the news that the Southern Expeditionary Army was attacking Huaizhou.

"Your Royal Highness, this King of Wei is reaping the consequences of his own evil this time, and we don't have to be polite, after taking Huaizhou, the land at the north gate of Wei will all be ours, and our fief will increase the population by one million." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, Pengzhou City has a population of 500,000, Tongzhou City has a population of 200,000, and Huaizhou City has a population of about 300,000, adding up to a total population of one million, which is equivalent to adding up to the population of one of the three people in the feudal country, and this south is indeed a densely populated place.

If he swallowed Wei land whole, he estimated that the population of the feudal kingdom would be as high as seven million, which was basically the same as the population of Britain in this era.

With this population base, he is no longer afraid of the crowd tactics of other vassal kings uniting, but Huaizhou is now heavily deployed by the King of Wei, and it is not easy for the southern expeditionary army to gnaw this hard bone.

"I only hope that Lu Fei can take Huaizhou soon, but what happened to the agricultural endowment you said last time, and did anything go wrong."

Attacking cities and plundering land is important, but internal affairs are the foundation of attacking cities and plundering land, so Xiao Ming must not dare to relax.

Pang Yukun said: "Your Highness, this time the lower officials came to talk about this matter, and the people of Liuzhou didn't say anything about the restoration of agricultural taxes, after all, they have all paid agricultural taxes before, and this time our agricultural taxes are very low, and the people are very happy, so the collection of agricultural taxes is very smooth." ”

After a pause, he continued: "However, some people are unwilling to pay grain to offset agricultural taxes, but directly hand over silver, cloth, raw silk and other things, I don't know what His Highness wants?" ”

"The people now know that there is chaos outside, and it is normal to want to keep more food, and besides, the collection of agricultural taxes in Dayu is a variety of materials to offset it, since someone is like this, just accept it." Xiao Ming said with a deep groan.

Pang Yukun nodded, and then asked a very important question, "Your Highness, will this levy stay in the government or hand it over to the treasury?" ”

Stunned for a moment, Xiao Ming asked, "Why are you asking this question?" ”

Pang Yukun said: "The agricultural taxes of the Great Chongqing State are left by the state government officials themselves, and the remaining part is handed over to the state treasury, but the tax method learned in the Bowen College is to let the state government pay all the taxes to the state treasury, and then the state treasury will distribute them to the state government according to the situation. ”

Xiao Ming understood, he said: "The state's self-retained tax will inevitably have the disadvantages of shoddy, corrupt and deductible, in order to avoid this tax being intercepted in the states and counties, you let them pay the accounts and taxes together to Qingzhou, and then return a part of them after the accounts are totaled." ”

"It's just that in this way, the cost of transporting these materials to Qingzhou will be very expensive for the states and counties." Pang Yukun reminded.

Xiao Ming reacted suddenly, he sighed, this era is still too backward, but even so, he still insisted on this method, he did not forget that during the Ming Dynasty, tens of millions of taels of silver taxes were intercepted layer by layer, and when he arrived in the capital, there was only a small part of the matter left.

In any era, the courage of corrupt officials is very great, and Xiao Ming does not believe that his feudal country is a clean official.

In fact, no matter in that dynasty, whether it was the founding of the country or the end of the world, the proportion of corrupt officials in the officialdom was higher than that of clean officials.

"Some of them are also sent, and all of them are still sent." Xiao Ming said: "And each village and county must have its own account books for inspection and verification. ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming continued: "Pang Shoufu, this tax is the easiest place for officials to be greedy, you have to hurry up, you can't rub sand in your eyes, and this king can't rub sand in his eyes." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun's expression was a little strange, he looked at Xiao Ming and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

……

Huaizhou.

Just when Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun were talking about this agricultural endowment, the Southern Expeditionary Army was launching a full-scale attack on Huaizhou City.

As the intelligence said, the King of Wei added fifty artillery pieces to the city of Huaizhou, but these cannons were smashed by the artillery of the Qingzhou Army before they were used.

Different from Pengzhou City, Huaizhou is very flat, and the terrain is flat.

Faced with such a city that did not even have a moat, Lu Fei boldly spread out his soldiers in front of the city wall, while Bai Mu's cavalry was on both sides of the infantry to protect the flanks, because there were 3,000 cavalry in this Huaizhou city.

This time, in order to defend Huaizhou City, King Wei can be said to have invested a lot of money.

Just talking about cavalry, how can these Huaizhou cavalry be the opponents of the Qingzhou cavalry who have personally fought with the barbarians, when the cavalry of the Huaizhou army first arrived in Huaizhou City, the cavalry of the Huaizhou army tried to attack the infantry lined up in array, but after leaving a corpse, these cavalry hid in the city and never came out.