Wuyi, Xindu and other places have entered the busy autumn harvest work. Unlike previous years, this year, due to the existence of Yixing Society, the autumn harvest work has progressed extremely rapidly, and it is still the same thing. Yixing Society organized young and strong people from all over the country to concentrate their work and use the scattered labor force together, greatly improving labor efficiency.

Li Ze must seize the time now. Every time he grabs one more day, he will have more day to prepare for the battle. If he grabs one more day, the corresponding one on Henghai is equivalent to a day missing.

Although the harvest has been affected to a certain extent this year due to a rainy summer, the impact on Wuyi is relatively small, and Xindu has many problems. As time goes by, the output reported by various places is also summarizing day by day, and reducing production is a foregone conclusion. Even though Wuyi has reclaimed more wasteland this year, the output still cannot make up for the losses.

Xia He has made a preliminary estimate that the food gap in Wuyi, Xindu and Shiyi is roughly more than 30%, and these 30% need Li Ze to make up for it.

Yizhou is now unreliable, and they are also short of food.

Fortunately, because of an agreement with Gao Xiangsheng, Yixingtang, who was in charge of Tuhu, had opened up the trade routes between Chengde and Zhaoyi, Wei Bo, Luoyang, Chang'an and other places. Although he had to pay a lot of tolls to the entrenched local bosses, Li Ze could not care as long as he could bring in the food.

Now he doesn't lack money, he just needs to turn the money into the supplies he needs. And this year, he believes that he will no longer have to be controlled by others in food.

Walking on the dam of the Lizi River, looking at the large area of ​​soybean fields that had turned golden, involuntarily smiled on his face.

This was the renovated Lizi River in Wuyi last year. It was a fertile land that was originally a wasteland and rocky land. After covering the soil dug out of the river, it has now become a good land. Unfortunately, it was too late to plant spring wheat at that time, so it was only time to plant soybeans. Now these soybeans are also in the harvest season.

Soybeans can not only be used for feeding livestock, but also used as staple food after processing.

"Fat Soybean Field!" Pointing at the continuous soybean field that was afraid of tens of thousands of acres, Li Ze said to Hou Zhen: "By next year, these lands will be produced in large quantities. County Magistrate Hou, you have vision. I heard that you bought 5,000 acres of land by the river in one breath?"

Hou Zhen smiled and said, "This is a blessing for the young master. The Hou family did buy 5,000 acres of land. In fact, with our financial resources at that time, we could buy more."

"Then why not buy more?" Li Ze laughed: "Wuyi is not short of labor now."

Hou Zhen smiled and said, "This is because the tax system formulated by the young master. We have calculated that 5,000 acres is a node. At this point, the profit we make is the largest. If it exceeds this point, the profit will drop sharply. If it exceeds 10,000 acres, it is a real loss-making business."

The taxes formulated by Li Ze were progressive. Every person who entered Wuyi had a mu of garden land, which was not required to pay taxes, and was considered food fields. Then as the land increased, the taxes gradually increased. When other places in the Tang Dynasty were still using the population as the basis for paying taxes, Li Ze used the amount of land owned by himself as the basis for paying taxes, which was the land tax. Without a single piece of land, people who simply did business had another tax system called commercial tax. Compared with the land tax, commercial tax was much higher. Of course, commercial taxes were also divided into many types, such as grain and food. Now Wuyi, Xindu, and Shiyi are tax-free, while tax rates such as salt and iron are as high as 100%.

From the first day Li Ze took power, his tax system implemented a classification of taxation under his rule, which was extremely obvious different from the one-size-fits-all approach to commercial taxation in Yizhou in the past.

This also brought more fiscal revenue to Wuyi Xindu and other places.

Since Yixing Society and Yixingtang merged with local governments, Yixingtang has given up the operation of strategic materials that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but auctioned these businesses to other people who want to do business. For example, those who came from Texas are very willing to participate.

Because Li Ze's rule imposed tax exemptions on food and other food businesses, many merchants from other places began to traffic in Wuyi, which greatly alleviated Wuyi's food crisis.

Hearing Hou Zhen's words, Li Ze couldn't help laughing: "As a matter of fact, they are all cunning guys. I spent a lot of effort to set tax rules. Have you studied them thoroughly so quickly? I was going to trick a few people who don't know how to be awesome!"

Hou Zhen was also Yan'er: "Young Master, who can afford to buy thousands of acres of land, hasn't raised some talents in the family? The first time we arrived in Wuyi, we took all the policies formulated by the Young Master and then studied them carefully. This tax rule is naturally the top priority. There are many people and the power is great, so it is not surprising that the traps in the Young Master's tax rule will be calculated soon. I think the young master will not blame him, right?"

Li Ze shook his head: "How could it be? If you have the ability to find out the loopholes in these tax rules and exploit them, I have nothing to say, and there is no prohibition on the law. Of course, if you find these loopholes and take advantage of me, I will definitely plug this loophole next. This is a process of two parties' game. Over time, our tax rules will become more and more perfect."

"What the young master thinks is always different from us." Hou Zhen smiled and said, "When we say this, we really have to dig our minds to find loopholes in the young master's policy."

"It's okay!" Li Ze said with a smile. He didn't dare to say anything else. It was almost impossible for Hou Zhen and the others to find out how big they could take advantage of the tax rules.

"But Hou County Magistrate, you are now the big landlord of our Wuyi, but you are also the county magistrate of Wuyi, the lord of one county. Don't confuse these two identities." Li Ze reminded.

"I dare not, public is public, private is private, and I will never dare to abolish private because of public interest." Hou Zhen bowed.

Li Ze said: "You are a person with a clear mind, and I don't think you won't. But you still have to focus on some people in the country. Some people cannot take advantage of loopholes in policies, so they will use some illegal means to gain benefits. For such people, they must be severely cracked down on them, and even if necessary, they must even kill one to warn a hundred."

Hou Zhen's heart sternly, and he nodded repeatedly to say yes.

"Wuyi is my experimental area, and I will never allow his development to be biased." Li Ze said: "In fact, this tax rate also means to curb land annexation. Can you understand the interests here?"

Of course Hou Zhen understood.

Farmers are all dependent on the land, just like his Hou family. Now there are 5,000 acres of land, so they have to hire people who can plant 5,000 acres of land. In fact, they turn these people into people who need to rely on their own lives in disguise, which means they are another kind of subordinate. The more land, the more people they control. When a certain amount reaches, a constraint on the government will naturally form.

This is the problem of a big shop bullying customers or a big shop bullying shop.

After beating Hou Zhen for a few words, Li Ze pulled the topic back to the ground in front of him.

"When the beans are harvested, what are you going to plant in the fields? This winter is not far away, and there are not many people available for planting, right?" Li Ze asked.

"I rushed to collect this line of beans, and then I could only plant cabbage and radish."

"This is good, this is good!" Li Ze said with a smile: "You can eat cabbage after pickling it for a year, and you can also make dried pickles, and radishes can also be made into dried radishes. These things can be used as military rations!"

"That would require a lot of salt." Hou Zhen said. "Young Master, we are still subject to others for things like salt!"

Li Ze nodded: "Don't worry, this situation will improve in the future. Hedong produces salt. Where can we get salt from in the future? The Lianghuai region has a large amount of salt resources. Of course, we still have to rely on ourselves now. When we take over Henghai, we will have a coastal area, which can always solve some of the needs."

Hou Zhen nodded. In his opinion, Henghai was already breathing in his stomach, and it was not certain whether he could survive this winter.

The two of them walked slowly along the ridge of the soybean field. Li Ze bent down, picked a few pods, and gently rubbed them in his hands. More than a dozen round beans rolled in his hands. Li Ze was very happy to look at the plump beans.

In his previous life, he never had such obsession with food. Now, he finally understood why the ancient Chinese country was established, and emphasized the need to be based on agriculture. Although there were still large deviations in the actual implementation process.

Only with food can we support so many people, and more people can we do more things. If even the people under our command cannot support them, it would be strange if something happens.

"When you get the harvest, I'll give me a few liters and I'll try it out!" Li Ze put the dozen beans in his arms and said to Hou Zhen with a smile.

"This is the honor of my subordinates. At that time, the young master will definitely choose the best one." Hou Zhen said.

The two walked around talking and laughing, but suddenly there was a sudden sound of horse hooves on the river bank. The two stopped and looked back. Li Mi, who had been following them, had already rushed to meet him. After the two whispered a few words, Li Mi trotted to Li Ze.

"Young Master, Mr. Cao sent an envoy, and it seems that there is something urgent to see the young master." Li Mi said.

"I understand." Li Ze nodded.

When he returned to Wuyi City, he saw the letter sent by Cao Xin, but Li Ze was stunned.
Chapter completed!