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Chu Suiliang used to follow Xue Ju, the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty. At that time, his father Chu Liang was Xue Ju's yellow party minister. Chu Suiliang was a member of the affairs and was in charge of the imperial edicts and submitted cases and was both important positions in the center. Later, Xue Ju died of illness and his son was defeated by Li Shimin on the way to Chang'an. The father and son surrendered Li Shimin.

Chu Liang became the literature of the Qin Wang Mansion, and Chu Suiliang became the military officer of the Qin Wang Mansion. Later, Chu Liang became one of the eighteen scholars. Now Chu Liang is the regular attendant of the Sanqi cavalry and is named Marquis of Yangdi County.

Now Li Shimin valued Chu Suiliang, believing that he was academic and upright, especially loyal to him, as if he was as loyal as a bird. He was naturally very particular about Chu Suiliang. Now he not only let him be in charge of Xiuwenguan, but also served as an important position as a minister of the disciples, who was the second-rank official in the disciples.

This is also in line with the new emperor's current preference for employing people. A large number of young people were promoted, and many officials with low official positions jumped into the center. For example, the six people who ranked first in Xuanwu Gate, except for two generals of Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong, Li Chao and four others had already entered the center. Fang Xuanling was appointed as the chief secretary of the Central Secretariat, Li Chao, Changsun Wuji, and Du Ruhui all added Pingzhangshi.

Chu Suiliang jumped to Huangmen and entered the center, and was deeply trusted by Li Shimin.

"I will never believe that Li Chao can achieve such a record, so this must be a lie!" Chu Suiliang was only in his early thirties and was deeply trusted by the emperor. He was still young and energetic. He was also a little dissatisfied with Li Chao, who was younger than him.

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he said, "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it."

As soon as these words were said, Chu Suiliang's face looked ugly, and the emperor refuted him so directly.

Many people in the hall were a little excited and looked at Chu Suiliang and said intimately that although Chu Suiliang was very popular recently, he still lost to Li Chao.

Li Wenyuan was demoted to 1,500 miles away, but his position in the emperor's heart was very strong.

Chu Suiliang was very dissatisfied. He really didn't believe that Li Chao could achieve such a record. Although he had never fought a war, he had gone to war many times. Who has such ability?

Even the King of Qin may not have such ability, how could Li Chao have it?

"Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Lingzhou to pay tribute to you!"

Xuan-fu condolences, it sounds pretty good. In fact, he is planning to go to Lingwu in person and check it carefully. If Li Chao dares to make any false reports, he will definitely be able to expose it.

"Chu Aiqing is my Huangmen Minister, and his subordinates cannot do without you."

Li Shimin really likes Chu Suiliang, but seeing him suddenly running 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. He wanted to know what was going on. With the news of Suiliang's trip, the news would definitely be more objective and accurate.

"Shilarious Minister Chu, then I will grant you the title of Xuanfu Envoy of Shuofang Town, and escort the military supplies to Shuofang to visit the soldiers on the front line."

Shuofang Town, Lingzhou.

After taking back to Lecheng without any blood, the biggest advantage was that the city's treasury supplies were obtained.

Huilecheng, as the capital of Liang State, which had been run by the Liang State for several years, although it did not exceed 100,000 people at its highest, it still stocked up a lot of food and grass. In particular, the Liang State also regarded it as a base for attacking the Tang army. Last year, it was the offensive base for the Turks to move south, so it stored a lot of materials.

All the treasurys are intact and no one dares to steal and misappropriate them.

"The rice, wheat, millet, beans, and millet are a total of more than 1.1 million stones!"

"More than three million bunches of grass."

"More than 50,000 war horses, more than 100,000 crossbows, horses, mules, and donkeys, more than 50,000 cattle, and more than 300,000 sheep."

"Jelly meat waits for tens of thousands of pounds"

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

In just three days, the Tang army had swept the entire city and countryside of Lingzhou. In addition to capturing many defeated soldiers who fled, the biggest gain was that many rural populations and various supplies were also obtained.

"Many of these materials belong to local people. These must be registered clearly and cannot be encroached on."

These people were from the Liang Dynasty before, but now they have already belonged to the Tang Dynasty. The interests that should be protected must be guaranteed.

Of course, the property belonging to the Liang Shidu and the former Liang Dynasty, as well as the property of the Turks, was of course unceremonious to take it back to the Jiedushi Yamen.

"Where is the population?"

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

In ancient times, the most important resource was population. Especially in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China after the war, 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 could say that it would not miss all kinds of methods.

If you are over the fifteenth year of age, you must get married, otherwise the government will forcefully marry you, and you may even have to pay a heavy fine.

The most important part of the performance assessment of local officials is to search for the population and increase their household registration.

Lingwu's original population was not large, but in Liang State, it also accounts for about one-third of the population. There are tens of thousands of people and many armies.

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

"so much?"

Li Chao was a little surprised. He originally said that he had a population of only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

"We have also counted the army and the people in the palace. Originally, Lingwu had stationed 20,000 troops, but this time the Liang army has drawn a group from nearby states, which has increased a lot. In addition, there are also many hidden households in this pseudo-liang."

The generals, bureaucrats and local tyrants in the pseudo-Liang Lingzhou all had a lot of property, many slaves, and many people entrusted to their names. These people were not registered in the government, and there were a large number of them.

After Li Chao recovered Lingzhou, although he was very kind, he attached great importance to the household registration and was not allowed to exist in a hidden household. Even many slaves were directly released and were carefully investigated by the army.

The Lingwu population registered now has more than 130,000, and many of them are registered in the book.

"Everything the land will be opened immediately. The original hidden households, escaped people and slaves will all be granted land. For unmarried young men and women, the government will marry them and form a family. The males will be divided into 30 acres of land, adult women will be divided into 20 acres of land, and middle-aged men will be divided into 20 acres of land."

If there is no water to irrigate the land, give them the grassland, two-thirds of which are divided into the mouth and one-third are Yongye fields.

In fact, even if it is not irrigated, it doesn’t matter much. When the place is stable, digging and irrigating the Yellow River water will become irrigated. With the fertility of the western Taurus Plain, it will be irrigated. It is not a problem to divide the land of one million acres of land with a fertility of the west Taurus Plain.

There were not many powerful people in Lingwu, and the pseudo-official families of the pseudo-Liao dynasty actually accounted for only a small part of the land they occupied.

"Check them for land deeds, etc., and then exchange them for contracts. Those that comply with the rules set by us will only be replaced. If some of the land has no contract or are robbed by illegal means, they will not be exchanged and will be directly recovered. If the land property exceeds 100 acres and the house exceeds one acre of land, the deed tax must be charged and 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, I asked me to say that I was so polite to them. I just check their details. The bottom of these people's butts will definitely be unclean. It is more convenient to find evidence of the crime and directly raid their house."

"That would be too rough. We have to let them spit out some blood, but we can't really kill them all. We are not only regaining one Lingzhou, Shuofang and Bazhou. It's not good to do it too much. If they spit out, let's forget it. If anyone dares to resist and do not know the current situation, then do what you said."

"The same is true for the tenants owned by these people. They must let them take the initiative to save the people. If they have slaves with more legal contracts, we can pay for them to redeem them."

With this population of more than 100,000, plus the 50,000 Li Chao's garrison and the families of the soldiers in the future, there will be a sufficient population in the block.

With a population, you can prosper.

Whether it is opening a canal to dig yellow, digging ditches and drainage, growing grain to grazing, and developing local economy, these are the foundations.

"Dingfang, you see that March is almost over in the blink of an eye. What about you, take people to find the wealthy households and collect the summer tax this year with them."

Many local tyrants have various ways to avoid taxes and exempt service. Generally speaking, the main method is that some people in their families will become officials or obtain titles.

But now these people from the original pseudo-Liang Kingdom cannot enjoy such treatment.

Li Chao directly asked someone to collect taxes.

"Remember to collect taxes according to the newly registered land deeds of the government! As much land as you have, you have to charge as much taxes."

"Teacher, aren't the court's rent and mediocre system all fixed taxes?"

"One code is the same as one code. Our Shuofang Town is now a war zone and implements wartime policies. As long as it is within the quota of equal land, we will collect taxes and dispatch services according to rent and mediocre land. However, for those big households who own land exceed the land amount, we will have to collect two taxes. One is household tax, and the corresponding household tax is levied according to their households, and the other is land tax, which is levied according to the land that each company actually owns."

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

If the household is at a high level, you have to pay more household tax. If the land is too high, you have to pay more land tax.

Li Chao actually issued two taxes in advance in Shuofang and implemented a new two-tax law, but the tax adjustment law for renting and mediocre taxation has not stopped.

Ordinary people implement the system of renting and mediocre people, and give them equal land.

As long as the amount of land for wealthy households exceeds the land grant standard, the land they have to be divided into. In addition to paying a tax on renting and taxes, they also have to bear two taxes on households and land.

This is a very direct discrimination and oppression against the big investors, but Li Chao believes that this is a reasonable social obligation.

Anyway, the powerful Lingwu is all from the pseudo-liang people, and they are people who have just been conquered and occupied the area. If they dare to do anything, Li Chao has reason to attack them.
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