Jingzhou, Xiangyang County.

When Liu Biao heard that Li Qi had captured most of Yizhou, he was actually quite panicked.

The geographical location of Jingzhou is, to put it mildly, a battleground for military strategists. To put it bluntly, everyone wants to attack you.

Cao Cao was a big threat in the north, and Sun Quan was a feud in the east, so he hoped that Liu Zhang in Yizhou would be a little more peaceful. As a result, Liu Zhang was taken over by Li Qi. If Li Qi also wanted to get a piece of Jingzhou's pie, Liu Biao would probably be on pins and needles.

Already.

Fortunately, Qin Mi came to express his goodwill, which made Liu Biao relieved.

In fact, Liu Biao is not an idle person. Think about how majestic he was when he rode into Jingzhou alone, conquered Jingzhou, and ruled Jingzhou. But now that he is older, he doesn't want to bother, but his mind is still very comparable to others.

Qin Mi came to express his goodwill simply because he wanted to use his status as a Jingzhou shepherd and a clan member of the Han Dynasty to help Li Qi become a Yizhou shepherd.

At that time, Liu Biao did not agree to the request, but asked people to entertain Qin Mi and discussed it with his subordinates.

Kuai Yue said: "I don't think it's appropriate. Liu Jiyu is the legitimate Yizhou Shepherd. Who is Li Qi? Is he also qualified to lead the State Shepherd? Besides, Liu Jiyu and the Lord are from the same clan, so how can there be any reason to help outsiders rectify their names?"

Kuai Liang also said: "Cao Cao once appointed Li Qi as the county magistrate of the ancient city and the governor of Xicheng. This guy did not want to repay, but he used troops to occupy Yizhou without authorization. Now Cao Cao has sent troops to garrison Xicheng, Shangyong, and there is always someone to clear out Li Qi.

Possibly, my lord must not go up to the table to cause a estrangement in Cao Cao's heart."

The civil servants and generals said in unison: "I hope my lord will think twice!"

Liu Biao said nothing and nodded silently.

It feels like these guys are quite united!

Good thing? Bad thing?

When chatting with Liu Bei about his concerns, Liu Biao mentioned this matter intentionally or unintentionally.

Liu Bei felt miserable. He didn't know where Li Qi came from, and how could he occupy Yizhou? My great uncle, the Han Dynasty Emperor, was still living under someone else's roof.

However, Liu Bei had something to say about the Kuai brothers' objection to Liu Biao's petition for Li Qi to be the shepherd of Yizhou.

Liu Bei said: "Although Li Qi has seized Liu Jiyu's foundation, and we, as clan members of the Han Dynasty, should despise him, this person is bold in his actions and can be regarded as a hero of the world. We should win over him and make him a force to fight against Cao Cao.

Don't exclude him and push him into Cao Cao's camp."

Liu Biao said: "My dear brother's words are very much in line with my wishes. How come the ministers don't agree to it? What can I do?"

Liu Bei sighed: "I see Cai, Kuai and the two clans want to line up to welcome Cao's thieves to Jingzhou. Brother Jing Sheng should be cautious."

Liu Biao nodded.

Since the Han Dynasty Emperor Xian's Clothing Edict incident, the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao have basically become famous.

Cao Cao is the biggest enemy of the Han Dynasty, not Li Qi.

What Liu Bei was thinking was, let alone whether he could win over Li Qi and make him the backbone of the resistance against Cao Cao, at least he couldn't let Li Qi be pulled back by Cao Cao again.

After some discussion, Liu Bei and Liu Biao actually proposed that Li Qi be the shepherd of Yizhou at the same time, which completely put Li Qi on the opposite side of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was furious when he saw this, and almost wanted to send his army directly to Yizhou.

Of course, Cao Cao was not that impulsive, and it was far from time to send troops to Yizhou. First, the north was undecided; second, Liu Biao, Sun Quan, and Ma Teng were still watching from the south.

As long as Cao Cao does not send troops to Yizhou and the surrounding princes agree, then Li Qi can use his power to carry out drastic restructuring of Yizhou.

The first is the tax system.

The taxation system of the Han Dynasty mainly included land tax, accounting tax, oral tax and Gengfu.

The land tax is thirty taxes per one, which is already very low and cannot be lowered any further;

Those aged 15 to 56 should pay a tax once a year, and each calculation is worth 120 yuan; merchants and slaves should pay twice a year, which is 240 yuan;

The koufu is for children between three and fourteen years old. Each child pays 23 yuan per year.

In fact, it used to be 20 qian. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, he found that the treasury was empty, so he changed the 20 qian for those between seven and fourteen years old to 23 qian for those between three and fourteen years old.

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Gengfu is for people aged 20 to 55 who need to perform military service. If they do not want to perform military service, they can pay 2,000 yuan a month.

In addition, there is Minqian (property tax), including vehicle and boat tax, livestock, salt, iron, liquor tax, customs duties, city rent (business tax), etc. If you are a family in a food area, each household must pay 200 yuan to the princes every year.

Eat, drink and have fun. For example, Wan Huhou's annual pocket money is 2 million, which does not include income from other positions.

These are the so-called exorbitant taxes.

Although Li Qi wanted to improve the taxation, he could not make major changes. He made too many changes, firstly because he had no money to use, and secondly because he made the mistake of allocating land to local tyrants in the ancient city.

After discussions between Li Qi, Zhuge Liang, Fazheng and others, they decided to temporarily change the oral tax to household tax. That is, taxation was based on population in the past, but now it is only taxed on the basis of family.

In fact, this reform is not Li Qi’s original idea.

In history, it was Cao Wei who actually came up with this policy.

Changing the oral tax to the household tax has at least two advantages:

First, people no longer need to hide their population. In the past, if you gave birth to one more child, you would have to pay one more person's oral tax, so many people did not report the birth of a child and became a black household population. Now, no matter how many children you have, they will be paid according to the family unit.

With taxes, people do not have to hide their population, and states and counties can more accurately grasp the population within their jurisdiction;

The second is to stimulate population growth. For a family, if the cost of taxes is fixed, having more children will result in an extra labor force, while having fewer children will result in losses.

As for the still-retained taxation based on population, ordinary people have no right to choose at all. No matter how many children they have, as long as they are male, they must serve in the military. Otherwise, 2,000 yuan per month will cost them.

old fate.

At the same time, Li Qi reduced some business taxes on livestock, salt, iron, wine and other business-related taxes as appropriate to stimulate business activities in Yizhou.

Merchants have existed since ancient times, but in feudal society, their status was very low. Coupled with complicated taxes, commercial activities were very sluggish. And the facts of more than two thousand years have proved that without active commercial circulation, it is difficult for a region to

prospered.

The above measures are to stimulate the activity of Yizhou, which will definitely be beneficial in the long run, but it is difficult to create considerable profits for Li Qi in the short term.

So Li Qi still had to think about ways to make quick money.

He invited Li Fu and the three great families of Wang, Ren and Jia to Chengdu and held a Yizhou family representative meeting.

Without further ado, Li Qi asked directly: "Do you want to make money?"

Everyone is laughing, who doesn’t want to make money?

Representative Ren said to Li Qi: "Li Yizhou might as well tell him what he thinks and let's discuss it!"

Li Qi: "???"

How much did this guy drink? Does he want to follow in his father's footsteps?

However, Li Qi initially settled in Yizhou, but his foothold was not yet stable. The Ren family had a strong foundation in Qianwei. Moreover, Li Qi's entry into Shu was still very much credited to the Ren family.

Li Qi didn't care about it for the time being, and just asked: "Brother Ren, you have a lot of money in Jianwei County, but if you want to do a business in Zitong County, how do you bring the money there?"

Ren said without hesitation: "If you can trade in gold, trade in gold. Otherwise, of course, use a horse-drawn carriage to transport the coins."

Li Qi smiled and said: "What do you think of the cost of forming a team to transport coins? What about the safety?"

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