Seeing this, the reinforcements immediately retreated, and where was there time, Yao Xiong led the cavalry to break away from the battlefield and immediately chased after him. Seeing that he was about to reach the city of Baozhou, Yao Xiong led his men to kill him.

In the southeast valley under the noses of the defenders of Baozhou City, a one-sided battle began again.

But this time with troops, Wang Ju still focused on benevolence and righteousness, and seeing that this reinforcement was scattered and fled, Yao Xiong ordered his subordinates to shout loudly in the local dialect, and surrendered with their heads on the ground, not to kill.

In fact, there are a lot of troops in the city of Baozhou, in addition to this force of nearly 10,000 rescuers, there are nearly 10,000 defenders in the city, but seeing that the Song army is so fierce, they dare not go out of the city to rescue one by one, so they watched Yao Xiong escort the Yu army to the distance.

On the other side, the war is over.

However, more than 20,000 enemy soldiers fled, and in the end, more than 10,000 defeated soldiers managed to escape to Dali City and join Yang Yizhen's army.

There is no way around this, although the four battles are not counted except for the battle in Huanzhou Village, but the main intention of that battle is to force Yang Yizhen's troops into the Huazhubu River Valley, and the remaining three battles are the real annihilation. All three battles were fought in river valleys or valleys, and the battlefields were relatively open.

However, it is surrounded by lush mountains and lush vegetation, and as long as you can escape the battlefield, you have a good chance of escaping the Song army.

As for the remaining two coalition forces, they were all killed or captured, including Gao Shengtai's uncle and nephew, Yang Zhenhe, all of whom died in the chaos.

Yan Da sent men to continue to pursue the fleeing enemy soldiers, and then let the Song army in the rear take the grain and grass materials left by Gao Yang's family to Huazhu to settle down first. Then several armies converged. Slowly arrived at the foot of Baozhou City.

Wang Ju is in the city of good interpretation. Looking through a huge amount of information.

Enter the City of Shanxi. Wang Ju lived in Gao's house. However, he inadvertently found a large number of valuable materials in the huge study of the Gao family, including the maps of the prefectures and counties of Dali, household registration, tribal distribution, property, and tax income.

Wang Ju estimated that the information in Dali City was not as detailed as the information on the Gao family's side, so much so that Wang Ju said: "With these information, it also shows that the Gao family has a heart of disobedience." ”

This information is invaluable. Even if Wang Juguang sent scouts, the information he inquired about was less than one-tenth of these materials.

He immediately summoned several competent stewards to come and sort them out.

He also has to watch it himself, at least roughly flipping through it, so that he can have a comprehensive understanding of Dali. He also sent people to continue to interrogate the various powerful leaders held in the city, and further supplemented this information with their confessions.

After watching it for a few days, he was dizzy and dizzy, so Wang Ju came out of the study and called Huang Hua to discuss, mainly to discuss the exemption money.

In the future, the income of Yunnan Road is one and two taxes. Because it is a light tax system of 10 taxes and 1 tax, this income is actually not high.

The second is commercial tax. After Wang Ju beat the local tyrants, he can basically implement the Qi business tax policy, as long as it is Qi business tax, the business tax is still considerable, and Wang Ju plans to open up the trade routes between Bashu and Guangnan West Road and Dali, and try to use the advantages of the Fuliang River waterway to communicate with Jiaozhi, at least to radiate the southeast area of Dali. This item will see if the Ancient Tea Horse Road can be further expanded, and the trade route with the Tubo Plateau will be expanded.

Therefore, this commercial tax will become the main source of income for Yunnan Road in the future.

Wang Ju resolutely disagreed, but planned the tea trade to be levied together in the commercial tax.

The second is salt, which is not a big problem, because the production of salt has always been very high, although it is far away, and further cost savings can be made by using waterways. In fact, before this, there was a part of the salt sold to Dali, Dali has salt, but the cost of well salt mining is higher than the price of salt after the Song Dynasty.

Then it is to take advantage of the opportunity of fighting local tyrants to collect some pit mines with high output and easy to exploit into state-owned, and in addition, it is necessary to set aside some cultivated land as tuntian for future soldiers.

These are all things that have been agreed on a long time ago.

However, the exemption money has not been negotiated, mainly because it is not clear how many errand soldiers will be needed in Dali in the future and how many households there are in Dali.

However, with the formal operation of Dali, this exemption money will also be settled, and there is no clear and transparent tax system, and the people will be worried if it is ambiguous.

Also, once Dali is taken, the imperial court will send many officials to govern.

But now there is a lot of mess in the new policy, such as the green seedling loan, the market change law, and so on, once it is implemented here, and if the officials have a bad style, it will be very bad.

Therefore, it must be settled first, so that this tax system is a foregone conclusion, and the imperial court will take into account the particularity of Dali, so it will not dare to change or add a messy tax system at will.

Wang Ju said: "This is the number of households in Dali, a total of more than 400,000 households, but almost all the areas of the confinement are not included in the household register, and the phenomenon of hidden households is more serious than that of our dynasty, so I estimate that the total number of households in Dali is about 800,000." ”

"Shaobao, it should be about the same, in fact, I estimate that it will be a little more."

"But some really can't be counted, such as Tengchong Mansion and Jingyun Jiucheng area, the northwest region of Shanju County, and the southwest region of Yongchang Prefecture, even if I come to govern, it will be a real fetters in the future."

"Yes, to run this area, it is better to seriously run the Southwest Yi."

The western part of Shanju County is the Hengduan Mountains, and it is undoubtedly an extremely difficult task to seriously manage the Hengduan Mountains in this tragic era.

As for Tengchong Province, the ninety percent area is the northwest region of Myanmar, including a small part of the future Indian territory, the famous Savage Mountain. Even Savage Mountain is only located in the middle of Tengchong Mansion, and the real boundary of Tengchong Mansion has to go far to the west, all the way to the border of Tianzhu. As for the more tragic Jingyun region, not to mention, if you can operate the Jingyun region, then you can operate the entire Southeast Asia......

However, these three areas are sparsely populated and extremely backward places, and it doesn't matter if they don't operate, they are not the core areas of Dali, as long as they are restrained.

Wang Ju said: "But after the cultivated land is evenly divided, most of the hidden households can be counted, so I think the final number of households can be more than 500,000." ”

Actually, it's not all, but there are some areas. The western part of Ru Mou Tong Mansion is also mostly a snow-capped plateau area. and some other places with harsh terrain. There is also Jianchang Mansion near Yazhou, where there are many Tibetan people who used to maintain a close attitude towards most of the Song Dynasty, so there is no need to start. Moreover, in the Wumeng area of Dongchuan Prefecture, in order to quickly pacify, many areas still use the Zhao'an policy, so they have to continue to be restrained.

This is the real bondage. Then it is impossible to count the specific number of households.

So Wang Ju estimated that there were about 500,000 households.

This is very important, only by deriving the specific number of households, can we estimate the number of future servants, can we calculate the approximate conscription money, and then it is convenient to apportion.

Huang Hua said: "Shaobao, you still can't be too optimistic, let's count it as 500,000 households." ”

"I'm going to divide it into about 500,000 to 55 households, and I'm going to divide it into five households according to the standards of my dynasty."

Huang Hua nodded.

Don't think that if the arable land is divided equally, it will be the same household.

Even if Wang Ju is ruthless. In fact, it is estimated that the land can be divided equally, and it is estimated that it is only more than forty percent. Of course, these are more developed civilizations and densely populated areas, although the area may be more than forty percent of Dali, but the population can be close to seventy percent. But as long as most of them can be included in the household register, in a sense, it can be called real governance. Just like Huanqing Erzhou, how many percent of the households are placed in the household register?

Therefore, even if the remaining households are counted, because of the constraints, various taxes are still a big problem.

Even if the cultivated land is evenly divided, there are still some poor and backward areas, but they are still fifth-class households. However, the most are fourth-class households. Even in some small developed areas, a part of the third-class households can be produced.

In addition, there are some big households that accumulate good deeds, Wang Ju let go of the past, and there are some feudal barbarians who can govern, as well as retained merchants, these people will produce some first- and second-class households.

This must also be clearly divided, otherwise the tax will be a big trouble in the future.

Wang Ju said again: "I plan to levy 400 wen yuan per household for the fourth-class households, and the third-class households are consistent, the second-class households are five times, and the first-class households are ten times. ”

In fact, if Wang Ju promotes the development of farming technology, these areas will be a paradise in the future. Because the annexation of the Song Dynasty was already very serious, just like the Liangzhejiang Road just counted, the main households were about 1.4 million, and the households below the fifth grade were about one million. In the five counties of Suzhou, there are no less than 150,000 households from the fifth to the first class, and no less than 5,000 households from the third class to the first class. This shows that the population of Liangzhejiang Road is super dense now, only the main households, and the Song Dynasty still has more than 30% of customers, that is, one Liangzhejiang Road has reached 2 million households!

Secondly, it proves the seriousness of the merger, the number of households above the fourth class is only 400,000 of the two million households, the fourth class households are subsistence households, the third class households are considered well-off, and the rest are poor households. That is, the proportion of poor households has reached 80%!

Of course, if it weren't for this situation, the imperial court would not have agreed to Wang Ju moving so many people overseas.

However, after Wang Ju's "land reform", the number of first- and second-class households in Dali may decline in the future, but the number of fourth-class households and above may exceed 50%!

What is a fourth-class household, according to the division of the Song Dynasty, it has 13 to 31 acres of first-class land, or 16 to 41 acres of first-class land, this first-class field is rarely found in Dali, most of them are below the third class field or land, the third-class field is 15 to 38 acres, and the third-class land is 25 to 62 acres. If it is a standard thin field, the ninth class field is 66 acres to 166 acres.

In fact, according to the previous tax system of Dali, 40 acres of Zhongtian had to pay at least two taxes and 30 stones, and now only 8 stones of tax grain, the price of grain in Dali is a bit low, but no matter how low it is, 22 stone grain is only worth 400 Wen, and the actual rice is more than 400 Wen.

Besides, after paying this 400 wen, there is no need to serve the conscription anymore, think about how heavy the Dali conscription was before.

Huang Hua pondered.

This was contrary to the Song system, which had its own standards for the division of households and the apportionment of exempt money.

For example, in Suzhou, although there are many households below the fifth grade, compared with many areas of Jinghu South Road, the fifth-class households are equivalent to the third- and fourth-class households on Jinghu South Road, and the income of the third-class households may be equivalent to the first-class households there.

It's not that it can't be unified, Guan Jian is the second-level administration of the Song Dynasty, which is actually the state capital, who listens to whom? Although there are capital states in all directions, if the governor of the capital state does not appease the temporary envoy of the war. There is no right to transfer officials from other state capitals. So who listens to whom?

That's why the exemption law caused a lot of commotion. It's like Liangzhejiang Road. The law of exemption from service was implemented, and the people were dense, and the number of households was terrifying, but the area was not large, which meant that the number of errand soldiers was not so much, and the income of the people was much better than that of other roads, so it would not be difficult to bear the money for recruitment. There are undoubtedly no complaints.

However, in Zizhou Road, the area is vast and mostly mountainous, which means that the number of errand soldiers is not less, and the people are scarce and poor, so when apportioning the exemption money, many people feel struggling, so they complain.

This is the reason why the Bashu region is the region with the strongest opposition to the exemption law.

However, Dali took into account its particularity, and Wang Ju had already written a book to set up a standing envoy of economic strategy, promotion, transport, prison, farming, and the chief of soldiers and horses, which was actually equivalent to taking the road as a second-level administrative organization. And the state capitals are three-level administrative bodies, so they can be regulated.

Such as some states in poor areas. There are many fifth-class households, and the conscription money cannot pay the salary of the errand service, so the excess conscription money can be transferred from other wealthy state capitals, as long as the overall recruitment money can pay the salary of the errand service along the way, which is equivalent to reducing the burden of the people in the poor areas.

But this basis is that the recruited money can afford to pay the salary of the entire Yunnan Road in the future.

He thought for a long time and said, "Shaobao, it's too much." ”

"Why?"

"Shaobao, I understand your intentions, if you want to be light, then the people here can quickly settle down. However, in order to raise up the recruitment money and the surplus money, other regions even apportioned it to the sixth, seventh, and eighth class households. But here, the fifth-class households are no longer apportioned, so what do the officials of the inland state capitals think? And it is too relaxed, and in the future, there will be officials who like to study more and increase taxes in order to achieve political results. ”

"That's true......"

Also, the future of Yunnan road vast, unimaginable, although there are many big rivers, but are the upper source of the big rivers, the water flow is turbulent, not suitable for navigation, not become the convenience of traffic, but the Pingchuan Plateau cuts, become the harm of traffic. This means that many servants will have to be recruited in the future for officials to govern the region successfully. Although this is not enough to pay as much as the salary of the Central Plains, I estimate that the money collection at this rate will still be seriously insufficient. ”

"Yes, I'm overly idealistic." Wang Ju said that the area of Dali is too large at present, including a part of western Sichuan, nearly one-third of the Hei-Burma region, and nearly one-fifth of the Laos region, Wang Ju suspects that the area may reach more than 700,000 square kilometers, which is almost equivalent to the area of six or seven Fujian roads, which is a lot larger than the combined area of the two Guangzhou, and even the core area is at least three times the area of Fujian roads.

If you want to govern, this area also has to be considered.

"Shaobao, in my opinion, it is best to divide it into nine grades according to the scale of our dynasty." Huang Hua said again.

Don't ask that there are nine grades of evenly divided fields, some extremely backward slash-and-burn areas, even if they are given sufficient arable land, can only be equivalent to the income of most of the eighth and ninth class households in the Song Dynasty.

It can only be said that it is different from history, now that Jiaozhi is officially recovered, and Fuliangjiang can barely communicate, if Jiaozhi develops, it will bring many conditions for Dali to promote.

Huang Hua continued: "Households in the eighth and ninth classes need to be moderately subsidized according to the situation, and there is no tax below the seventh class, including two taxes, and it is best to be exempted. No apportionment is made below the sixth grade, including conscription money. Sixth-class households need to pay the most basic two taxes, fifth-class households have to pay 300 wen for each household to pay 300 wen for exemption, and fourth-class households have to pay 500 wen for exemption, so these two problems are solved together. ”

Wang Ju thought seriously.

At present, his plan is that the future government will have these revenues and taxes, but what's more, after a long time, all kinds of apportionment and miscellaneous taxes are inevitable, and what about it, will there be less science and distribution? Will there be less harmony?

Therefore, it is said that it will never be endowed, and it will never be finished.

If the population increases, the number of officials will inevitably increase, the country will be stable, prices will rise, and wages must increase.

However, if your starting point is too high, you will not be able to recruit enough servants at that time, so how can you talk about governance? So what's the use of starting again?

Thinking of this, he said, "So be it. ”

Then he sighed again: "Actually, a country is really not easy to govern." ”

This is just a tax, a region, especially a region like Dali wants to be stable, not to mention taxes, military, farmland and water conservancy, education, ethnic policy, poverty alleviation, economy and commerce, planting and breeding, and government governance...... I don't know how many things there are.

Can Zhang Qi really manage it?

Therefore, Wang Ju said again: "Brother Alcohol, I plan to let you assist Zhang Zhifu for two to three years in the future, what do you think?" ”

"I'm afraid I can't do it alone, if Shao Bao has this intention, at least ten shrewd and capable stewards will be left." Huang Hua said that as a person, he definitely does not want to stay by Zhang Ju's side to do things, at least not as comfortable as staying by Wang Ju's side, but Dali has been really important in recent years, once he causes chaos, Wang Ju is not only useless, but has passed. He still understands the importance of this, so he made a request.

"This is okay, if possible, I will secretly allocate millions of yuan every year in the future, and exchange them for various materials that are in short supply in Dali, and transfer them to Dali to support you."

"That's great," Huang Hua did not refuse, anyway, from next year, there will be no shortage of economy overseas, and smuggling will start from this year, and the income from smuggling alone will be enough for Yunnan Road to generate a lot of funds for activities next year.

In fact, the future planning of Yunnan Road has basically come out.

At this moment, good news came from the front line, saying that the officers and soldiers of the Gao family in Baozhou City had surrendered on their own initiative.

"Surrendered?" Wang Ju was stunned for a moment.

The scale of Baozhou City is far less than Shanlu, but it does not mean that the larger the city, the easier it is to defend, if so, Kaifeng is not easy to be breached.

On the contrary, Baozhou is surrounded by mountains and rivers, which is more difficult to break than Shanxian City. Wang Ju was waiting to settle Shanxian City, and rushed to Baozhou City with all the siege equipment.

So Wang Ju asked the messenger, and the messenger replied to Wang Ju's laughter.

The valley where the battle was held, the locals called Longling Valley, the battle of Longling Valley, coupled with the cavalry led by Yao Xiong to chase to the next battle of Baozhou City, scared the soldiers in Baozhou City stupidly.

Yan Da and Yao Lin led a large army to the city of Baozhou, of course, it was also seen that it was relatively difficult to attack.

Anyway, when Wang Ju brought siege equipment over, he asked Duan Zhengming's brothers to come to the city and surrender.

As a result, the next day, the officials in Baozhou took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

"Didn't you say that the defender of Baozhou City was the closest general under Gao Zhisheng?"

The messenger replied: "Shaobao, General Yan sent two princes to shout, and when there was a dispute in the city at night, in the early morning, the guard general let the other generals in the city lead people to kill, and then opened the city gate and asked for surrender." ”

"The trees are falling apart," Huang Hua sighed.

However, this time, it disrupted Wang Ju's plan, and Wang Ju had no choice but to leave Huang Hua in the city to preside over the affairs of the city, and he led the army to Muzhou, one south and one north looked at Dali City.

Yang Yizhen was more than Wang Juxiang's bachelor, and when he heard that Baozhou City surrendered without a fight, he immediately sent an envoy to ask for surrender.

Shaobao, as you said, the three families compete for power, depending on their respective skills, if they are defeated and withdraw from this land, if they win, allow me to surrender...... (To be continued......)