The Nanyang Han family once married the eldest grandson family in Luoyang, which can be regarded as a momentary success.
It's just that now in the new dynasty, the eldest grandson clan has been exiled, and the Han family has lost its biggest backer.
Han Ying was originally the Duke of Yingchuan County, and his fief was in the north of Zhangbei, next to a lake called Goubo.
The imperial court renamed Han Ying as the Duke of Yongbian County, and his fief was also called the Principality of Yongbyon County.
By the edge of the dog's berth, a hundred miles of fiefdom.
The fief is not large, and it is at the northern foot of Yin Mountain.
The three dynasties of the Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties were either affiliated with Xianbei or attached to the Khitan.
In the past, it has been a pasture for nomadic herders, because there is a large lake in the territory, and there is a whirlwind river, the clear stream is turbulent, and here it turns to the east to inject another big lake, because the river has a whirlpool at the bend, so it is called the whirlpool river.
It is dry and rainless, but the groundwater is abundant, and there are lakes and rivers, so there are abundant aquatic plants, and some drought-resistant millet and millet can be grown, or potatoes and corn.
It is 400 miles away from Zhangjiakou and 800 miles away from Youzhou.
The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.
The Han family got this fief and has been in business for almost ten years now.
In the past ten years, they have built a castle from scratch here, an earthen fort made of rammed earth.
Using his family wealth, he recruited many immigrants and bought many slaves to establish ranches here.
Slaughtering and processing plants, leather and wool processing factories and so on have also been established.
Bulls and rams are slaughtered and dried into dried meat to make meat floss, milk is processed into cream, milk skins, etc., cow and sheep skins are processed, and cow wool is processed and woven into carpets, blankets, wool, ropes, etc.
They also opened some shops in their castles, purchased some nomadic cattle and sheep skins, furs, medicinal materials, etc., and also sold many Central Plains goods.
In the past ten years, from scratch, on this plug, it has begun to take some shape.
The Han family's castle has a guard of three hundred people, and the territory also has a population of several thousand.
The annual income is actually okay, especially since the Han family has been secretly engaged in smuggling all these years.
Sell some sensitive materials to the nomadic tribes in Mobei, such as ordnance and iron.
They avoided the imperial court in these transactions, and they were completely smuggling, and they did not pay taxes.
This year, Zhang Chao replaced Tang, the eldest grandson was uprooted, and Han Ying also stepped down from the position of squire in the military department.
When the tax officials of the imperial court began to collect taxes from the Han family, the Han family not only made false accounts of the tax accounts and evaded taxes, but also found various reasons to refuse to pay taxes.
After staying outside the Saiwai for a while, this Han Ying seemed to really think that he would not be under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
In fact, even if the Han family pays taxes truthfully, it is not much, after all, the imperial court only collects taxes, and it is only one-third.
The fiefdom run by the Han family did not rely on taxes, but on the profits they made from operating pastures, selling furs, ghee and jerky, and selling goods from the Central Plains.
Just two or three percent, they themselves took the lion's share.
But Han Ying just didn't want to give it.
In the past, he has always been a kind of evasion of the taxes handed over to the Tang court, but the court only turned a blind eye to this.
And now, the court does not want to indulge him.
In the winter, the frost has already fallen.
When I woke up in the morning, the ground was white.
After the frost starts, the grass also begins to wither.
At this time of year, the pastures in Yongbyon also start slaughtering cattle and sheep on a large scale to avoid lack of forage and lose fat after winter.
In the past, the herdsmen on the grassland slaughtered cattle and sheep in winter, leaving only some female animals and young lambs, but if they encountered heavy snowfall, they would still freeze and starve to death a large number of livestock, and the losses were huge.
But now, the pastures in Yongbyon are planted with grass every year, and the harvested forage is stored.
There will also be a winter ring, which can protect against cold and snow.
The thousands of people in Yongbyon themselves live mainly on the grain purchased from the Central Plains, and they also eat some cow and goat milk.
The Han family, like many princes in Monan, even bought sorghum, soybeans and other fodder from the Central Plains in the south.
I will even buy the green storage feed of some merchants in the Central Plains.
Han Ying watched the slaves slaughtering a fat bull and ram, and nodded with satisfaction.
These damn slaves work hard, but it's just too expensive, and it's not cheap to buy one.
This year, the price of live cattle and sheep has fallen again, and now this season, the number of merchants who come to collect cattle and sheep has decreased a lot, and even if they do, the price is far less than before.
It is better to sell raw cattle and sheep directly to them, than to slaughter them yourself.
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In this way, it can also be more fully utilized, and the beef can be dried into jerky, processed meat floss, and can also be made into canned meat.
Even bones can be sold, and skins can be sold as nitrate, or reprocessed into leather boots or leather clothing.
Cow hair can be used to make rope blankets, and wool can be spun into wool, which is more expensive.
The Han family raised very few horses, mainly cattle and sheep.
Horses are not worth much now, but they cost more to raise.
There is no shortage of horses in the Central Plains now, and it is not cost-effective to raise cattle and sheep to horses.
However, in recent years, the demand for milk and fur in the Central Plains is increasing, and when the weather is cool after autumn, it is also the time when a large number of cattle and sheep are sold to the Central Plains from all over the grassland every year.
Those experienced shepherds were able to catch tens of thousands of cattle and sheep along the road at a time.
The live cattle and sheep were directly sent to Youzhou, where they were transported on ships and headed south along the canal.
Or transport it to Jinmen, where it will be transported to various coastal areas by sea boat.
Although cattle and sheep are transported in this way, there are many mortality rates.
But these are still acceptable when converted into costs.
After all, live cattle and sheep are still more popular when they are transported to the Central Plains.
But what made Han Ying not very satisfied was that their family's fiefdom was eight hundred miles away from Youzhou, which was not far away, but compared to many other princes, it was a bit far.
For every 100 miles away, the purchase price of cattle and sheep will drop a lot.
There are too many princes who are divided into outside the Saiwai, these ghost places, there is very little rain every year, drought and little rain, and there is no future in growing food, so you can only run pastures.
But there are more people who raise cattle and sheep, and the price of everything is reduced.
Nowadays, the appearance price of an ordinary horse is less than five dollars.
A strong cow only sells twice.
Even in the Central Plains, a cow is only about five times.
In the past, many people did not eat beef in their lifetimes, and noble families did not dare to say that they could eat beef often.
But now, Hanjing's beef is only about 20 yuan per catty, and this low-priced peddler pawn can often cut half a catty of beef and beat his teeth.
Relying on the ranch alone, the benefits are there, but not much.
The Han family has made money over the years, mainly relying on an underground military workshop of their family.
Smuggled iron materials, then processed into swords and iron armor, etc., and then secretly smuggled them to Mobei to sell, relying on this, the Han family has indeed made a lot of money over the years.
"Grandpa, that Liu Yushi has come to urge taxes again."
A steward came to report.
Hearing the word Yushi, Han Ying looked unhappy.
The hairy boy in his early twenties, whose milk smell has not dried, dares to come to him every day is not happy.
Originally, Han Ying routinely gave them some benefits to the people who came to the court, and then everyone was good.
But the few imperial histories that came this time are more stinky than the other.
Like the stones in the pit, they stinky and hard.
The overseer Yu Shi stared at his three hundred guards every day.
There are only 300 people, what is there to keep an eye on, and the number of soldiers given to him by the imperial court is 3,000, but there are only a few thousand people in his fiefdom As for these 300 soldiers, he was divided into several shifts on duty, and then when he was not on duty, he was his herdsman, who had to go to graze cattle and sheep.
The most annoying thing is the tax royal history.
As soon as he came, he checked the accounts, and he asked people to send a bag of gold coins, which were a hundred of them, and they were returned as they were.
He gritted his teeth and added another hundred, but it was still returned. also asked someone to bring a sentence, and if he sent it again, he would hand it over to the court and report him for bribery.
Han Ying had no choice but to ask someone to give him the account book.
I thought that this account was leaky, but this bastard insisted on checking there every day, and it turned out that he really found some problems.
Then I clenched it and held on.
Han Yu's counterattack against this Liu Yushi was also very simple, he found various reasons to refuse to pay taxes.
Since this person is a tax collector, his task is to collect taxes for the imperial court, and then if he can't collect taxes, he is naturally derelict in his duties.
He wanted to force the man to bow his head and compromise.
It's just that he clearly underestimated this person.
"What's the matter with the surname Liu?"
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Liu Yushi is a lifter, and he is also a lifter in the reading exam in the Guozi Prison.
Generally speaking, those who can study in the national prison are not the children of noble officials, but also the children of local nobles, and they can't enter without some identity.
There are really a few poor students, and they are basically poor relatives of those aristocratic officials, and they are not really without any identity.
Liu Yushi has an uncle who is a five-grade official, and relying on the relationship between his uncle, he was recommended to enter the Guozijian for further study.
While studying at Guozijian, he took the imperial examination.
Although he didn't get a high school jinshi, at least he was a lifter.
In his twenties, he responded to the call of the imperial court and first entered the Shi as a test official, and then prepared for the Jin Shi examination in the future. worked in the yamen of the capital for two years, and now he has become the imperial history.
Supervising the imperial history is from the eighth grade, but they are the inspection of the imperial history, which is equivalent to the apprenticeship of the imperial history, only from the ninth grade, which is the lowest level in the real product, only a little higher than the officials outside the stream.
But even from the ninth grade, Liu Yushi is also very serious.
The hard work paid off, and he still caught a lot of problems with this Han County Gong, who was originally just tax evasion, but now it has become a tax resistance.
A piece of music was sent back to the Imperial History Stage, and now the matter has been pierced into the sky.
Liu Yushi was excited.
Dahua now has nearly 20,000 imperial histories at his level, but if he wants to return to the imperial history platform, he has to fight nine out of twenty thousand colleagues before he has a chance to go back.
"Han County Gong, Yu Shitai just sent an order to let Han County Gong go back to Beijing with a certain person."
When Liu Yushi saw Han Ying coming, he immediately said with a smile on his face.
I've been angry with this guy for a few months, and today I'm finally comfortable.
"What is the matter with the summoning of a certain person from the Yushitai into Beijing?"
"Naturally, there are some questions about the public tax payment of Yongbian County, and the Yushitai wants to listen to your face-to-face explanation."
Han Yu's face became very ugly, he couldn't imagine this kind of, and he actually stabbed Yushitai. t1706231537: