The speed of the Han army's advance made those spies from other countries who wanted to see the Han army deflated were completely confused.It's not that they don't know that Li Xie can fight in winter, but in the eastern Handong region of Chu State, a large number of people actually "fell from the wind", which they did not expect.Li Xie personally went out on horse, and he didn't encounter a single hard battle, and in a decent battle, the crocodile only dispatched the squadron leader.Moreover, the squadron was not yet formed, it was a downsized squadron, and the auxiliary troops became the part that contributed the most in this operation.After the suburbs were gradually controlled by the Han army, the spies of the countries who were still in Shangxiang finally couldn't sit still this time, and went south one after another, waiting for the arrival of the Han army in Huyi.It's just that Li Xie shook a shot, and the troops rested a little north of Yongxi, and Yishaha brought an expanded brigade, plus two brigades of brave men, and the Sanguan troops who went south to join forces with Shen Lu.This place is more special, when the Chu National Alliance joined forces, it was here that they imitated Lutai, and then swore to the sky that they would never betray the alliance.Even if the entire eastbound passage of the suburbs is completely cut off at this time, then even if the Chu State finally comes to the death wave, it will have to face many difficulties after crossing the Han River.At that time, the ancestors of the Chu State laid a large number of transportation arteries in hilly areas, coupled with important nodes in water and land transportation, so that the Chu State could ensure logistics, easily transport troops to the front line, and then fought several battles with Hanyang Zhuji, and finally settled the battle in Pusao.Now if you want to copy the routine of your ancestors, there is basically no hope.Li Xie and Shang Wuji are one south and one north, and their calculation is to divide the connection between Handong and the hometown of Chu, at least in terms of transportation, and directly prohibit exchanges.Not only are all the boats on the Han River managed by the "Canglang Jun", starting from the banks of the Yangtze River, the Zhu Palace on the south bank of Yangshui, the state capital of Yunmeng Zenan, the Yonglu between Hanshui and Lishui, plus Shenlu and Lulin, and the middle interval follows the Tang Dynasty.If you want to attack behind enemy lines, it's not impossible, give assistance; If you want to engage in the occupation area to fight guerrillas, it is not impossible to give assistance; If you want the beacon fire and wolf smoke to burn non-stop, it is not impossible for the Han army to be tired of extinguishing the fire, and give assistance.As long as the Chu State grits its its teeth, works as one, and uses the heritage of the Chu State clan and the old family to squeeze out the annual financial income of several Chu courts, it is no problem.But this is just the most beautiful imagination, the actual situation is that the local clans of Chu State are impossible to pay money to the central government of Chu State, let alone a large amount of money.This has something to do with the fact that the state of Chu has been imitating the system of the Zhou family, and the counties of the whole country are actually fiefdoms, and one by one, over time, the natural territory is getting bigger and bigger.But if you want to say how awesome the central army is, it is not necessarily true, on the contrary, the local troops are not big, and eventually form the Dou clan and other wonders.During the period of rapid development, the dividends of the war can drive the Chu people to move forward bravely, but with unprecedented setbacks, there will definitely be a situation where everyone will sweep the snow in front of the door.Taking Li Xie leaving Zhu Palace and personally conquering Handong as an example, normally speaking, even if he didn't welcome Xiong Sheng, the king of Chu, back and steal it back, at least he would have to create a little trouble for Li Xie and make his rear unstable, which was an imbalance in the morale of the front-line army.But none of this happened, because the biggest force in Yingdu now is the Dou clan, and according to the comparison of strength, the Chu State is generally weak, but the proportion of power of the Dou clan has increased significantly.Today's Chu State Ling Yin is owned by the Dou clan again.And Sima Xiangba is the in-law of the Dou family, and the Quan Yi Dou family sent 20,000 slaves to Huaizhong City in the form of a caravan.In the eyes of the old clan in the core ruling area of the Chu State, the Dou clan is betraying the country, and it is still a traitor.In this case, unless Emperor Dou takes out a part of the power to divide it, he can stabilize the situation, so that the clans in various parts of the Chu State, even if they are not very willing, are willing to pay money and people to make trouble.But Chu State ordered Yin Douhuang, there are some things that he can't tell the old clan, he can't tell the old clan, he Douhuang relies on his intuition, thinking that the man Li Jie's evil dog is not simple, it may be to calculate them, so now let's forget it, develop with peace of mind, and don't wave everywhere.Even if it turns out that Douhuang is right in the end, it is still unreasonable to say it now, so he simply doesn't say it, and naturally he can't artificially disperse the power that has been so hard to concentrate.Douhuang's idea is relatively simple, since the Han Li Xie also knows that he can't be a fat man by eating in one breath, and he will beat all the Chu Kingdom, with the size of the Han Ziguo, there is no way to digest it quickly.As long as the Han army dares to cross the Han River, the old family of Chu will dare to retreat while fighting, and it is really impossible to learn from the left army, and flee to Ba in one breath, and then to Shu and Dongting in the south.Those who can always run away, as long as they have money and equipment on hand, they are not afraid to regain their foothold in the wilderness.Because there is a precedent, for example, Douzun, the earliest fief of the "Duke of Danyang", is actually in the west of the Chu State, and he has to fight against the Baipu people all year round.Another example is the remnants of the Luo Kingdom, who have now been migrated to the south of the Yangtze River, and the rebuilt Luo Kingdom has been fighting with the Yangyue tribes for decades, and hundreds of thousands of acres of rice fields have also been opened up.As long as you can stand firm, you can always live.However, this is the most extreme case, and Douhuang naturally doesn't want to go to this point.From the point of view of Emperor Yin Douhuang of the State of Chu, he did not know that Li Xie digested Handong one day earlier and pacified Handong, and for Chu State, it was necessary to face many risks one day earlier.The combat effectiveness of the Han army was too strong, and the Douhuang had no hope of victory at all.The only thing he can expect is that the Han army will gradually run out of elites in the long-term siege war of attrition, so in this case, there is still hope for a counteroffensive.That day may be very far away, and Emperor Dou has even made up his mind that he will never see that day, and his greatest determination is to consume the Han Ziguo to death in two or even three generations.Prior to this, what Douhuang was preparing to start was nothing more than to rebuild the capital of Chu, follow the example of Qin and Qi, and set up a number of capitals, but the actual ruling core must be retreated, and an effective defense line must be established in Hanxi.Even if you can't defend against the Han army, give the core ruling area a reaction time to evacuate, that's pretty good.So, knowing that the Han army set out from Zhu Palace, first leveled Yongxi, and then advanced to Shangyan, the Chu side, especially the central Chu State, did not take any action.Even when someone in Yingdu criticized Ling Yin Douhuang, Douhuang turned a deaf ear and pretended not to hear this cynicism.As for the court meeting, on the one hand, he wanted to win over the Empress Dowager Zhao and seek the political support of Li Xie and the King of Chu, and on the other hand, he did come up with some benefits for the clans that obeyed him.For example, the Qu clan of Chuxi and others, Douhuang allowed them to organize a horse team to go to Bashu to purchase raw silk, and at the same time, they resold the raw silk of Bashu to the Huaishui Valley.At the same time, on the bank of Yangshui, it is clear that Zhu Palace and Yingdu can see each other, but they are still at the natural junction of the two places, and a market for mutual trade has been opened.A wooden bridge on Yangshui, one south and one north, each has a trading market.Here, all kinds of specialties of the Han Ziguo will be gathered in Henan and then sold to Hebei.The bridge is not long, it is only a dozen zhang long, but from the south of the bridge to the north of the bridge, a transaction is the completion of an import and export.Although there are official incentives for the warehouses on both sides of the strait, there are also quite a lot of temporary warehouses built by the private sector.There are even some controlled items, such as bronzes, grain, and jade, which are traded with one eye and one eye closed at this time.In order to stabilize the situation in Yingdu and prevent the riots, Emperor Yin Douhuang did his best, while promoting all the children of the Dou family, and used the people he trusted the most in key positions of real power; On the one hand, we are raising materials everywhere, not only to ensure heating for the winter, but also to ensure that food is hungry.To complete this difficult task, Emperor Dou even let the Baipu people go, and the administrative order allowed the Baipu people to enter the territory of Chu and go to the allowed market to trade.This is the same as the previous policy of the Chu State in the face of the Baipu Ministries, which was basically a comprehensive overthrow.In the past, the national policy of the Chu State was to force the dog barbarians to death, and the dog barbarians were forced to death, so naturally the territory was their own.In the process of persecution, they will also defeat the subordinates of the Chu State and send their fiefs to the vicinity of these dog barbarians, so that they can fight to the death with the dog barbarians.With such a two-pronged approach, in the absence of trade, the Baipu tribes, which are backward in weaponry and unbalanced in nutritional intake, can only continue to develop deep into the mountains and into the southwest region.But now Emperor Yin Dou has passed a decree that allows the Baipu people to go to the Guan market in the territory of the Chu State to trade, that is to say, for the first time, the Chu State has to play a moderate policy with the dog barbarians, instead of just going to the end.You must know that even when facing the most domineering old monsters, the state of Chu collapsed, and it was still when the state of Wu was a dog barbarian, but this dog barbarian was more capable of fighting.There is no doubt that what Douhuang did this time directly caused the entire core ruling area of Chu State to be shaken, but the shock is shock, and Douhuang's finances in winter are still rising.The reason is that the various materials accumulated by the Baipu tribes over the years can be released through the Chu State, and even if the people of the Chu State do not use these materials, they can exchange them for more needed winter materials from the Han State even if they are transferred to the Zhu Palace.Among them, the largest stock of the Baipu tribes is all kinds of furs, antlers, rhino horns, ivory, precious stones, feathers, minerals, wood, and so on.These are basically useless for the current Chu State, but for the Han Ziguo, they are in great demand.The military uniform of the Han army was institutionalized, and the distinction between officers and soldiers was mainly based on metal badges and feathers of different colors.These things are relatively expensive and seem to be useless, but they are still helpful for the unity and cohesion of the troops.In the whole process of trade, on both sides of Yangshui and the Chu State port in the north of the bridge, the customs and city taxes range from two out of one hundred to one out of ten according to different goods.Ling Yin Douhuang is aiming at different commodities, according to the volume of goods traded at the customs clearance port to set taxes, throughout the winter, basically able to achieve one thing and one tax.The tax on bulk goods is a little less, the tax on luxury goods is a little more, and at the same time customs duties and city taxes are levied only once.At the same time, both parties to the transaction will invite the customs ambassador to be the official Chinese person at the customs clearance port, so that each transaction can be estimated according to the market price of the customs clearance port.Chu ordered Yin Douhuang to estimate the export transaction at the customs clearance port, calling it the "valuation and sale method", because the export from the country is relatively easy to control, and the businessman basically has no ability to resist, it is easy to do a little trick on this, and he is not greedy, about two percent.This is definitely not low for President Li before the crossing.But in these years, it is normal to draw one out of twenty, one out of ten, and four out of ten, so for many local clan vest caravans in the Chu State, it is not very inconspicuous.At the same time, for Ling Yin Douhuang, the "valuation and sale method" has relieved a lot of statistical pressure, which is basically concentrated on transactions at treaty ports, and in many cases, there is no need to collect taxes after the transaction is completely completed.At the beginning of the transaction, the tax can be drawn in advance, and then the tax payment certificate can be issued, similar to the "jade slip" between merchants, and the next thing is to let the caravan out of the customs.Or it is to import a large amount of white paper from Huaizhong City, because white paper is very expensive, used to make tax payment certificates, quite perfect, and easy to write, as long as you make a backup, you can trace who is the official person in charge of a certain batch of export transactions on a certain day according to the archive.For Douhuang, if there is tax evasion, he doesn't have the heart to find out how to escape, he only needs to arrest the person in charge and then raid his house.The income from the seizure of the family can naturally make up for the tax evasion.So, when Li Xie was busy sweeping in Handong, Chu State Ling Yin was not idle, and was also busy "sweeping", but he did it more elegantly and quickly restored the central finances of Chu State.At the same time, the focus of Douhuang on restoring finances is not on exports, but on imports.The big head is naturally imported from the Han country, and after a large number of luxury goods come in, in order to avoid irritating the Han people during customs clearance, the caravans of the Han country are often put in and stamped on the city tax.Tariffs are a little less, or even directly reduced.But the city tax will be directly raised, and because the city tax is treated equally, the caravan of the Han country, except for protests, has no good solution, unless it can be said that the man Li Xie will launch another war against Chu in order to reduce the city tax of the Chu country.There is Chu Han and the covenant, and this idea is a dream in the short term, so luxury goods enter the market, such as high-end silk, high-end pottery, lacquerware, porcelain, glassware, gold and silverware, etc., and the emperor is not worried about receiving money.Even if you don't collect money and collect taxes in kind, as soon as the central government of Chu State changes hands, you can use these high-end luxury goods as a devolution of money, as long as it is an aristocratic family, there is no way to refuse.Because people are always going to die, this year, the ancestor of the family died, and there was no decent good object to accompany the burial, and the whole family would be ashamed.It's not that I don't want to, but I can't.Douhuang eats this share of people's hearts, because these old clans go to the market to buy, and the price is more than 20% more than in previous years.After all, it is long-term that luxury goods have a price and no market, and the problem of eating, their own family has a fief, and there is output in the field, so they are afraid of a fart?
However, imports from the Han Kingdom are still not the focus of Douhuang's work.The focus is on Baipu, Yangyue and other barbarians.In the past, the state of Chu was determined to die against these barbarians.But now it is different, in order to ease the finances, Ling Yin Douhuang gave these tribes sweetness, and at the same time purchased local products at a land price, he also established a market with some neighboring tribes, following the example of Yangshui customs clearance port, in the main activity area of the local tribes.However, the establishment of this market, Ling Yin said that this is the release of goodwill from the Great Chu State, in order to show sincerity, everyone takes a step back, and in the future, everyone who comes here to trade, except for the Chu State and the local Tu people, will be taxed.Then, every time a trading market was expanded, the local Tu people had to continue to maintain this fine style and strengthen the long-term friendship between the Great Chu State and the Tu people.In a word, when outsiders enter the market, the taxes are all collected to the fucking death!
As soon as the Baipu people are summed up, anyway, they are not afraid of Pakistan and messy small states, the only one who can kill them seems to be the Chu State, so let's agree.As a result, the remnants of the three armies of the Lingshi who slipped into the west of Chu were all stunned, and they suddenly found that one day when they went to the Baipu people to purchase dried meat, grain, and timber, they actually had to pay a lot of money.And you can't trade privately, you have to go to the market to trade.In the market, I also met the envoy from Yingdu, who specially helped the villagers of Baipu and established a perfect tax collection work.Just such a move made a large number of local military leaders chrysanthemum unspeakable.In the big winter, it's not impossible to grit your teeth and grab a handful of Baipu people, but the risk is there, it's easy to grab things, and it won't be easy to have a good time in the coming year.As soon as the weather gets warmer, the Baipu people are not stupid, and they will definitely retaliate.Between the advance and retreat, some unruly military leaders sent their henchmen to Yingdu as soon as possible, saying that they wanted to congratulate the Queen Mother on the New Year