Li Jing recovered Liaodong and western Liaoning, first defeated Goguryeo and Bohai, then defeated Khitan, and subdued Tatars and Xi. In the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing's prestige reached a height that all Tang people looked up to.

Although Gao Pian was known as a famous general, his greatest achievement was that he defeated 200,000 Southern Barbarians in Annan and then retreated to Nanzhao in Xichuan. It can be said that these achievements seem dazzling, but they are just to defeat the enemy that violated the border. Compared with Li Jing's achievements in regaining a large area of ​​territory, they were immediately overshadowed.

However, when Li Jing's reputation reached its peak, Tian Lingzi, Lu Xie, Gao Pian and others became afraid.

The trees are fascinated by the forest, and the wind will destroy them!

Now, Li Jing, who has been sealed by the Five Towns, was granted the title of Prince of Andong, has jurisdiction over 16 prefectures, has five million people, and has commanded 200,000 soldiers, is like the hot sun in the sky. Even if he wants to keep a low profile, it is impossible for him to keep a low profile.

"I sent me to Anzhou to work as an employee of the country, immigrants to build roads, cultivate land and reclaim land, and build water conservancy. I did a great job and made great contributions."

"I dare not make a contribution to the post. On this basis, it is the commander-in-chief, and on the basis of the military and civilians. On the inside, there are the support of the public, and on the outside, the people work hard. I just fulfilled my duties and did some duty..."

"You don't have to be too humble." Li Jing waved his hand and said, "I have ruled the sixteen states, but I am on the front line like Anzhou, but I am so good at local affairs. But I have also been the governor of Dengzhou, so I naturally know the difficulty of being in charge of civil affairs in a state. Especially Anzhou is still on the front line, which is even more difficult. The ability to send it is really superior. I also know that sending it is humble and mature, and I am a capable official, so I came to tell you about some important things."

"Listen to the teachings of the prince!" Gai Yu said respectfully.

Li Jing nodded and said slowly: "A few days ago, welcoming Mr. Cui from his family outside the city to Dengzhou. Do you know that it is not only Mr. Cui and Song Wen and other generals who came here. There are also envoys from Gao Pian in Huainan, as well as tax envoys sent by the government affairs hall, and there are eunuchs sent by Tian Lingzi to build a civil service department in Dengzhou?"

When Gai Yu heard this, although he had already seen it from the newspaper, his face pretended to be moved.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, a paratrooper envoy was established in Guangzhou, with eunuchs serving as paratrooper envoys. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, a paratrooper envoy was established in Annan. Paratrooper envoys were in charge of maritime trade and imposed tariffs. Although Dengzhou had always been a major port in the north, it had never been a paratrooper envoys. First, although Dengzhou Port was the four major ports in the Tang Dynasty, it was not as good as Guangzhou. Second, Dengzhou's maritime trade was developed mainly after Li Jing took over Dengzhou. Due to the previous closeness of Li Jing and the emperor, no one mentioned this matter.

Now, Tian Lingzi suddenly sent someone to Dengzhou to be a market envoy, undoubtedly heading straight for Li Jing.

However, on the other hand, Dengzhou has now become the most prosperous maritime trading port in the Tang Dynasty. If the imperial court wants to set up a Maritime Warehouse Department, it is a thing of the past.

However, the imperial court sent people to collect taxes, which was a bit unreasonable.

After the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the tax system was reformed and the two tax system was formed. The two taxes collected by the local government were not all handed over to the court, but formed a two-tax three-point system of offerings, sending envoys, and liuzhou. According to the tax system of the Tang Dynasty, the court lived within its means.

Taxation is based on the tax amount of one year in previous years, and each state distributes it equally. These two taxes have a fixed quota. After the tax on this fixed quota is increased, it must be divided into three parts: the upper supply, the envoy and the residency.

The offering is naturally the offering. Some of the vassal states account for one-third of this part, while others account for one-fifth. For example, Ziqing Town, the offering account for one-fifth of the history of the offering.

The remaining two parts are given to the vassal states and the states are left in the states.

It turned out that the five prefectures in Ziqing Town were pacified by Emperor Xianzong of Ziqing and divided the eleven prefectures in Ziqing into Ziqing, Tianping and Taining. The first two taxes on the five prefectures in Ziqing were 193,980 guan and 70,000 guan and 70,000 guan and 150,000 guan and 50,000 guan and 100,000 guan and 50,000 guan and 100,000 guan and 50,000 guan in the three prefectures of Tianping Army.

For a long time, Ziqing Town has provided 200,000 guan and 70,000 guan of millet to the court every year according to this standard. The general's mansion has left 600,000 guan and 210,000 guan and 200,000 guan and 70,000 guan and 70,000 guan of millet in the five subordinate states below.

However, although the imperial court has reiterated that no other money should be imposed besides the two taxes, in order to support the soldiers, each vassal state generally used the tax to collect the soldiers. The additional money was imposed to support the soldiers.

Li Jing now commands the sixteen states. If two taxes are all levied, the average total amount of two taxes in one state is 250,000 guan and 80,000 shi of millet. The total amount of two taxes in the sixteen states is 4 million guan and 1.333,000 shi of millet.

According to the old system, Li Jing had to pay one-fifth of these two taxes to the court as a gift, which would be 800,000 guan and 266,000 shi of millet.

This amount of money and grain is not much, but Li Jing did not pay the two taxes to the court, and he has never paid it. However, Li Jing handed over one million guan a month to the court. Although this million guan is watery and many tributes are worth a lot of money, even if you calculate half of the money, it is at least 500,000 guan, and 6 million guan a year. The two taxes of the court are worth at most 2 million. After all, Li Jing actually gave the court four million guan a year.

In addition, in addition to levying two taxes, salt, tea, iron and salt, which accounted for a large part of the income of the court. Li Jing served as the transferor of salt, iron and salt. In order to cheat Li Jing, Tian Lingzi directly set a fixed quota of two million yuan for Li Jing a year in order to cheat Li Jing.

Now the imperial court receives at least eight million guan of taxes on offerings and salt and iron tea from Dengzhou every year. This amount of money is already quite large.

"Is it because the imperial court is aggressive to pay 800,000 guan a year and 266,000 guan a year, so why don't we stop paying 1 million guan a month?"

Li Jing stared at Gai Yu, shook his head, and sighed, "The emperor is the young emperor. He ascended the throne at the age of twelve, and he is only sixteen years old now. Moreover, the emperor was lured by Tian Lingzi, an old thief, and only knew how to play. The government affairs in the court were decided by Tian Lingzi in one sentence."

Gai Yu snorted coldly: "The revival of Emperor Xianzong and the little family fortune accumulated by Emperor Xuanzong were all shattered by Emperor Yizong and his father and son. Tian Lingzhao was not a capable person. The court had fought with Nanzhao for a long time and finally stopped the army. In recent years, he fought with Shatuo and the thief. He raised his troops for years, and the luxury of the palace, and the national treasury had already been empty."

"Authentic." Li Jing also sneered: "The treasury of the imperial court has long been empty. Now even the southeast, which has always provided blood to the imperial court, has been in chaos due to thieves. The southeast towns have begun to strengthen military equipment and reorganize military equipment, which has left no spare money to transport to Guanzhong. The imperial court has no money to support the army and the emperor has no money to play with. Tian Lingzi set his mind to us."

Although the Tang Dynasty implemented the law of two taxes, in fact, some local vassal states or prefectures changed the tax system. However, the imperial court was unable to restrain the local government, so the local government collected local taxes. As long as the local government could pay the part of the offering according to the quota of the two taxes, it would turn a blind eye.

If Zhen** has comprehensively reformed the tax system and changed the two-tax system to the system of dividing into a sub-acre system, the court naturally knew it early, but no one cared about it. After all, the money Li Jing handed over to the court in one year is not a small amount.

But now, Tian Lingzi is already crazy, or after seeing Li Jing's current momentum, he is already scared, so he sent a tax collector to test it.

"Tian Lingzi's tax collector has already seen him. He conveyed the meaning of Tian Lingzi. In the sixteen prefectures under my rule, one-third of the annual tax revenue will be handed over to the court. In addition, at Dengzhou Port, Duli Port, Qingnipu Port, Qinhuangdao Port, Qingdao Port, and Shiren Wang Port, all of them must establish civil service officials to collect maritime trade taxes, and the merchant ships and goods entering and leaving the port must be taxed, and the court will receive two-thirds of the income tax and one-third of the tax. In addition, the tax on salt and iron tea has also been changed, and each bucket of salt is levied for hundreds of cents."

"Tian Lingzi is really crazy!" Gai Yu couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this detailed content. Previously, the town was 8 million jin of jin a year, which was already a huge amount. But now, Tian Lingzi obviously saw the prosperity of the town and knew that the tax revenue in a year must be more than two taxes. Especially the prosperity of the town and the extremely developed salt industry in the town, almost monopolized half of the Tang Dynasty.

They now propose tax reform, and no longer collect taxes according to the fixed quota, but instead directly take away one-third of the tax revenue after Li Jing's new tax law. In addition, they also need to build a Maritime Trade Department to steal two-thirds of the interests on the sea trade side. Even the profits of the salt industry are unwilling to let go, and they will collect taxes of hundreds of cents in one bucket.

"Tian Lingzi is not just coming to grab money, he is still testing us. If we agree, he will naturally grab a large amount of money. If he takes the tax away, it will be difficult for us to develop in the future. If we refuse to agree, Tian Lingzi will probably know that we will not compromise. Next, it will inevitably be inevitable that we will never stop fighting and change the secret struggle to open disputes." Gai Yu said, a little excited in his heart. If Tian Lingzi and the court really pressed step by step, with Li Jing's personality, he might fight back. He felt his blood boiling all over, and he kept shouting, "Let's go against it, it's his mother!"

"Everything has a bottom line. In the past, I was tolerant of Tian Lingzi and Gao Pian because we still needed time. But now, Tian Lingzi wants to steal the money from the town, and Gao Pian is coming to mobilize troops again. Do they really think I am easy to deceive?" Li Jing was a little unbearable to the provocations of Tian Lingzi and Gao Pian. Now Bohai, Goguryeo, and Khitan are all defeated by the town, and Tatars and Xi are both subordinates.

Although Goguryeo has not been completely destroyed, Li Jing has already managed a stable and peaceful rear. It can be said that the foundation has been settled and the hegemony has begun to be completed.

Moreover, after Tian Lingzi made such a request, Li Jing had no choice but to retreat.

He came to find Gaiyu because he knew that Gaiyu was not loyal to the Tang Dynasty. What he hesitated now was to what extent would it be if he wanted to fight back.

"Save Tian Lingzi's envoys with delicious food and drink, put them under house arrest, and at the same time, they directly stopped the monthly tribute to the emperor." Gai Yu wanted to speak loudly and persuade Li Jing to directly pull the flag and fight against the Tang Dynasty, but this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment.

He is no longer the Gaiyu he was in Daibei. He has matured a lot in the past few years with Li Jing. Everything is a matter of interest. It is not a good time to rebel now. The citron that has made the lead is rotten first.

Neither the court can make progress, nor can it cut off its own way out.
Chapter completed!