After the charter was finalized at the court meeting, matters began to move as soon as possible.
First, Zhao Jun immediately asked Wang Huaien to spread the news of mobilizing money and food to Yunzhou County.
As soon as Yunzhou County received the news, they immediately began to prepare.
On the day he received the news, Zhu Tuo, who was temporarily in charge of the affairs of Yunzhou County, immediately summoned the Yunzhou County Governor's Yamen team and issued the latest order from Bianjing.
in meeting.
"The above is the order sent by His Majesty Bianjing. The relevant departments must prepare immediately and strive to transport all the money and grain to Bianjing as quickly as possible.
In addition, the Tiangong Institute has made a budget. How much appropriation is needed?
After reporting it, if there are no problems, the county magistrate's office will immediately approve and allocate it. You can place orders to major workshops and let them manufacture them as soon as possible. "
Zhu Tuo made arrangements for various things, and then Fan Zheng, the director of the Grain Reserves Department, actually raised his hand.
Zhu Tuo looked over and then said: "Tell me."
Fan Zheng immediately said:
"Governor, what I want to ask is, should we send this batch of 200 million shi of grain to the warehouse as new grain that was put into the warehouse last year, or should we send the old grain from previous years to Beijing?
In addition, for such a huge grain shipment, the manpower of our Grain Storage Department alone is completely insufficient, and at least hundreds of thousands of people are required to transport it.
Expenditures in this area need to be allocated by the Yamen before the Grain Reserves Department can start taking action. "
Zhu Tuo nodded when he heard this and replied: "The grain shipped to Bianjing this time will be put into the national treasury. According to your Majesty's wishes, part of it will be used as military ration for the southern expedition.
Therefore, the Grain Reserve Department must use all new grain and not old grain.
In addition, regarding the manpower to be activated, I can transfer 500,000 men and women from my body to the Yunhe Army. The Grain Reserve Department only needs to transport 200 million stones of grain to Liaoyun Pass. There will be people there. Take over.
All the money and food you need to spend during this period can be reported to the county magistrate's office for reimbursement. "
After receiving the answer, Fan Zheng immediately handed over his hand and said, "There is no doubt about this."
After saying this, Fan Zheng sat down and began to think about the regulations for this matter.
On the Financial Secretary's side, Financial Secretary Shen Wanqian thought about it and then said with a grimace:
"County Governor, if we give Bianjing 20 million taels of silver, our Yunzhou County will have no balance last year, and we will have to allocate 5 million taels from the reserve fund."
Seeing Shen Wanqian's face in pain, Zhu Tuo rubbed his forehead with a headache.
Shen Wanqian's character is suitable for a financial position, but his stingy character always makes people helpless.
"This matter is an order issued by His Majesty himself. Even I have no choice but to obey it. Director Shen, please prepare as soon as possible."
Zhu Tuo had no choice but to move out of Zhao Junlai.
This sinking is so honest.
Since it was the boss's order, he had no choice but to obey it.
Soon, Shendu received the demand from Yunzhou County and immediately recruited 500,000 civilians to transport two mountains of grain from the warehouse to Yunzhou County.
In addition, the dumping of food grains to other countries will be stopped at the same time.
The grain tax originally collected by Shendu every year will have a large part left for sale after satisfying the local use and storage of Yunzhou County.
Now that 200 million shi of new food have been moved at once, the part sold to the outside world this year can be used to fill the granary, and there is no need to sell it to the outside world.
In Yunzhou City, the Finance Secretary directly requested 5,000 people from the county governor's office, recruited 10,000 more civilians, and began to transport 20 million grain and silver.
Because silver is different from others, these five thousand Yunzhou troops will go to Bianjing with this batch of gold and silver.
It is also worth mentioning that when he learned that the Yunzhou Army had a team going to Bianjing, Li Sitang from the Western Region Protectorate immediately rushed to Yunzhou County to accompany the convoy to the pass.
This was something Zhao Jun had promised a long time ago. After the Yunzhou County Yamen obtained the relevant identity certificates for him, he was asked to follow the Yunyin team towards the pass.
At the same time, the major military workshops in Yunzhou County received a large number of orders for the manufacturing of equipment for 200,000 troops. Such a large order is enough for them to last for a year this year.
After receiving the order, we immediately started working and started to get busy in full swing.
Because of these actions, the entire Yunzhou County became lively.
But at the same time, the news that Yunzhou County tax revenue will be attributed to the imperial court starting this year has made many people very uneasy.
Especially the large number of people who fled to Yunzhou County.
A certain tavern.
This is the liveliest tavern in the neighborhood, with customers coming and going from all over the place. It is also the most well-informed place in the neighborhood.
"Hey! Have you heard? Starting from this year, our Yunzhou County tax will no longer be independent and will be turned over to the court!"
"What? Are you telling the truth or a lie?"
"How can this be false? The county governor's notice is posted at the city gate, and there are even government officials who go to every village and household to publicize it."
The breaking news instantly aroused heated discussion among everyone.
A middle-aged man dressed as a businessman said with a sad face: "It's not easy to get rid of those messy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Yunzhou County, and I only made a little money doing this small business.
Now that the tax revenue of Yunzhou County is returned to the imperial court, will the tax revenue of Yunzhou County become the same as that of Guan Nei in the future?
It was a sad day.
well……"
The merchant sighed, and although the companions around him were in the same mood, they still comforted him: "Okay, okay, maybe you are overthinking it. Even if the tax goes to the court, then maybe there won't be any excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, right?"
"Do you believe this?
It’s not like you don’t know how greedy those officials in the customs are! "
The comforted merchant retorted.
The comforting man was stunned now, because he also knew very well what kind of virtue those officials were.
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the entire tavern became depressing. The fact that Yunzhou County tax revenue was returned to the Yamen made everyone worried, fearing that the days would go back to the past.
However, at this moment someone else ran in excitedly, shouting excitedly as he ran: "Good news! Good news!
The latest detailed news is that although the tax revenue belongs to the imperial court, it is not collected by the imperial court. The tax revenue of Yunzhou County is still collected by our own Yamen, and then the Yamen will report the figures to His Majesty, and His Majesty will then set the amount to be given to the Ministry of Household Affairs before shipment. .
It's not like the court can charge as much as it wants.
Your Majesty is the prince of our Yunzhou County. You don’t have to worry about those corrupt officials coming to Yunzhou County to harm us! "
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked up in disbelief at the person who just came in, and asked quickly:
"Brother, are you telling the truth?
Are they really not here to collect those officials from the imperial court? "
The man nodded repeatedly: "Of course it's true, my cousin works in a government office.
Although our Yunzhou County now has to pay taxes to the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is not officially included in the imperial system.
To put it bluntly, although we have to pay money to the Ministry of Revenue, we are still His Majesty's people, and we are still self-officials. Those officials in Guanzhong cannot be dispatched at all. "
It took everyone a while to digest the good news, and the whole tavern suddenly became lively.
Everyone celebrated with singing and dancing.
The news that it is still autonomous for the time being makes everyone happy. There is no need to worry about facing the exploitation in the past. How can everyone be unhappy?
The news here also reached Zhao Jun's ears, and he suddenly realized it when he heard that the people below had such a reaction because of taxes going to the national treasury.
Yunzhou County cannot be arbitrarily merged into the Song Dynasty system. Yunzhou County needs to have a certain degree of independence to prevent the good situation from being deceived by these officials in the customs.
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(End of chapter)
