The fourth update is here!

Yelixiong stood on the grass by the Tao River.

On the Tao River in summer, it is the time when the water and grass are lush. The cattle and sheep of the Yeli tribe are leisurely eating grass by the river. This place has always been the pasture and pasture of the Yeli tribe. Their tribe has been here for a hundred years.

This section of Taohe River, a hundred miles long, has more than a dozen tributaries on both sides that flow into the Taohe River. These river beaches and valleys have belonged to their Yeli tribe for a hundred years. They grazed here and lived here.

From the Western Wei to the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, they were all masters here.

But now the new Taozhou governor wanted to take away this pasture they had owned for generations, leaving only a small river valley for them. He also wanted to recruit their tribe's men to patrol and stand guard for them, and even pay taxes to them in the future.

This group of greedy Han people.

no way!

"Clan leader, the Tang people have sent someone to deliver the letter again!"

A soldier came on horseback.

"How dare they come?" Norioto was a little surprised. He had just whipped the Han official who had been whipping them to grazing at the Zhidi Ranch last time. Why did he dare to come now?

"The Tang people asked us to go to Taozhou to attend their meeting, saying that we must arrive three days after receiving the letter, and all the Taozhou divisions participated."

Noriho took the letter and threw it into the Tao River without reading it. He watched the letter sink into the rolling river.

"Class leader, will it be bad if we ignore the governor's order?"

"There is nothing bad. This is the pasture of our generation and I will not hand over it."

The military mansion in Taozhou is still under construction bit by bit, but from the beginning it has been built in the planned direction.

The land has been distributed to the soldiers of the government, but it is not time for the soldiers to go home to farm. Zhang Chao organized these soldiers to build villages and roads. Other people in Taozhou also received orders for labor. Fortunately, Zhang Chao only allowed each person to serve for one month, which was only more than the prescribed ten days. However, because Taozhou is exempted from renting from rent in this year, the people can accept ten more days.

Taozhou is changing every day.

The military office of Zhoucheng County was guarded by soldiers, and there were frequent patrols of joint militia on the roads. There were checkpoints everywhere, and the public security situation was excellent. There was no post-war theft, etc.

There were a few people who were blinded before and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob, but they were immediately caught by the officers and soldiers, and then hung on the Taozhou city gate to swing on a swing.

Construction is busy everywhere.

The fields were not in a hurry to plow, but the border market in Taozhou did not stop.

On the contrary, it is becoming more and more lively. The border city has been officially named Jiangxin City, Taozhou. Jiangxin City has begun to take shape, houses have been built, shops have been built, Cross Street has been expanded into four streets, and has nine areas.

The original ten-day border market transaction was changed to once every five days. It was a big market every five and ten, six times a month. In addition, when it was not five and ten, Jiangxin City was still open. Although there were not so many merchants and so many goods, because there were shops and warehouses here, there were also many sporadic transactions.

Zhang Chao not only built exchanges, auction houses, but also commercial banks, staples, warehouses, etc. On the island, these are not publicly owned, nor are they privately owned by Zhang Chao. Instead, he asked all the Taozhou soldiers and officials to work together, and everyone has one, and there are relatively more officials.

To be said, some are similar to party money.

The money earned by these businesses is used as office expenses in Taozhou and the bonuses for all officials and soldiers. The bonuses are paid once a month and again at the end of the year, which means taking out part of the income and paying dividends.

As for the tariffs in Taozhou, the tariffs in Jiangxin City are used as the food and salary expenses of the soldiers.

At the beginning of the month just now, Zhang Chao had already given the first reward to the officials and soldiers of Taozhou. The ordinary soldiers who received the least money also had 500 yuan. In addition, Zhang Chao also gave the soldiers subsidies, which was considered as the money they were working on duty this month, which was 500 yuan.

After all, each soldier got one thousand coins, and also got five dou of grain, two kilograms of salt, and one piece of cloth.

The soldiers of the government were very surprised and surprised when they got the money and food. Envoy Liu said there would be rewards, but it turned out that there were really, and there were so many more.

The surrounding states have not yet reopened border cities, and more and more merchants are rushing here.

Now the Jiangxin City in Taozhou has become the largest border market in the southwest and the largest tea-horse trading market. In addition, green salt has also become a bulk trading commodity. Tang people's tea, cloth, silk, even wooden bowls, ceramic pots, etc. are all very popular.

Zhang Chao's business not only acts as an intermediary to help them match the purchase and sale of goods, but also accepts goods reservations from merchants on both sides, helps them contact sellers and organize goods.

Tuyuhun horses, yaks, sheep, various medicinal materials, and various furs. Although Jiangxin City has opened shortly after its opening, it has quickly become the most active market on the entire Tangtu border.

With the protection of the Tang army in Taozhou, the market has always been prosperous and safe. In particular, Zhang Chao's many management regulations and the way of market operations have made this market very prosperous.

Zhang Chao also made a lot of money from it, including tariffs, transportation fees, agency fees, and service industries and leasing industries. He made a lot of money, especially the newly prosperous brothels and gambling houses. Since they are exclusive monopoly business in Taozhou Yamen, although there are several brothels and gambling houses, their operations are different and their business is booming.

Taozhou can already bear the administrative expenses of Taozhou, and even pay the salaries and bonuses of officials. The food and salary of more than 5,000 soldiers in the palace were solved by themselves, and the soldiers could even get subsidies and rewards, which was very high.

However, to do this, Zhang Chao did not rely on the public farms and government money as traditionally, nor did he rely on military farming, but on business and border markets.

An inconspicuous peninsula in Jiangxin quickly became a trading center for the Tang, Tubo, Tuyuhun, and many tribes of all sizes around.

There are no exchanges, commodity circulation, and profits are amazing.

Now what Zhang Chao lacks is the population. When the population is full, the castle villages will be established by then, and Taozhou will become a real border town and a commercial center like Zhangjiakou.

When every merchant comes, each person and each horse have to pay ten kilograms of rice to Taozhou. If it is other grains, it must be converted according to the price. A kilogram of rice is only 11 taels of rice, and a kilogram of corn is only 12 taels of rice, and if it is millet, it only 8 taels of rice.

These grains cannot be paid in exchange for money, they can only pay grain. No matter whether you pay rice, grain, wheat, and millet, they must be grain. This makes some merchants complain, making them have to work hard to transport grain every time they come to trade.

But rules are rules, no one can break them.

Even those merchants have to bring food. Of course, they can also use lamb or jerky as discounts, and there are discount standards.

Taozhou is currently unable to supply more than 5,000 soldiers of the government, so Zhang Chao can only raise his own food in this way.

However, soon there were smart merchants and Han merchants. They began to purchase grain from nearby areas and then transported it to Taozhou, specifically for those merchants who came to Taozhou to trade. Although the price was very high, for many merchants, they would rather buy grain in Taozhou and pay it for themselves than purchase it for them. It was too troublesome to transport grain on the way.

Zhang Chao doesn't care about this, as long as there is grain in the warehouse.

However, Zhang Chao added a new tax in Taozhou, and the transaction tax was 20 draws one. Anyone who traded in Taozhou, would draw one draw for 20 draws one.

In addition, opening a store in Taozhou requires a housing tax, and a 50-yuan fee is 1. Some smaller stores have a fixed quota tax.

For relevant taxes on the border, if there is no tax, there will be over taxes. The over tax is lower and 2% will be levied.

There are many checkpoints in Taozhou, but only once is levied. If you pay tax once, then the same batch of goods for the same person will be exempted from other checkpoints. However, as long as you enter and exit the country, you will have to impose a tariff of 5% once.

The four types of taxes, customs taxes, residential taxes, transaction taxes, and the four types of taxes established in Taozhou are all commercial taxes. Zhang Chao specially established a tax bureau, responsible for tax collection and inspection.

Zhang Chao even set up a special tax supervision bureau to supervise the collection of taxes.

Although he set up four types of commercial taxes himself, he would never allow the following people to make a clever name and charge random fees. Although there is a need to collect taxes in a market, it cannot charge randomly, as it would only make a market doom.

Zhang Chao set up four types of taxes, which add up to a lot of taxes, but the border market is not an ordinary market in the Central Plains mainland. The transactions here are very profitable because of their special nature. Even after tax payment, there is still a high profit.

In order to deal with tax evasion smugglers, Zhang Chao also set up an anti-smuggling team.

With money, you can buy grain and maintain the Taozhou area. When the soldiers and their families come here, they can still withdraw money to help reclaim land and farmland, and even the government will pay to buy cattle to build agricultural tools and rent them to the people.

In the long run, Taozhou at least has to farm and solve the problem of grain supply by itself. Only when it can produce self-sufficient food can it be truly safe here.

Even with enough food, the market can be supplied here, so that it can guarantee the needs of more merchants.

At present, relying solely on the little food paid by those merchants is far from enough. Zhang Chao has to spend a lot of money to buy food. Buying grain from outside is not the money to buy food, but the cost of transporting grain.

Taozhou is a good place, with many rivers, valleys and valleys that can be reclaimed. There is plenty of water here and flat land. It is a Longshang water town. But there are still many things to do to develop this place.

Immigration, resettlement of immigrants, reclamation of wasteland, and construction of water conservancy, and military affairs cannot be ignored. In short, there are too many things to worry about.

Therefore, like Noribu, Zhang Chao really doesn't have much time to make trouble with them.

"Have you ordered all the troops?" Zhang Chao asked.

"Go back to the governor and order a total of 2,600 troops!" Yisuo Gu Shenqing replied.

There are more than 5,000 soldiers in Taozhou. Field battles are organized by two armies, while garrisons are organized by six military prefectures. As long as they do not leave Taozhou, Zhang Chao, the envoy of the border state, has the right to mobilize the soldiers of the two armies under his jurisdiction.

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