Yanmen Pass.
Zhou Yafu led 30,000 Yingshang Tun troops and Li Guang was overjoyed.
There were eighty thousand soldiers in Yanmen Pass, countless crossbows, rations, and weapons.
Zhou Yafu led the army here, and the Yingshang Tun Army was completely different from the other Great Han soldiers.
The soldiers of the Yingshang Army each carried a bow and a crossbow on their backs.
Crossbowmen were good at using three-shot coordination.
After the first row of archers fired, they retreated to the last row, and the second row of archers fired.
When the second row of archers finished shooting, they would retreat to the last row and the third row would shoot…
After the third row of archers finished shooting, the first row of archers continued shooting.
In the Great Han Empire, crossbows had always been of utmost importance.
During the battle with the Xiongnu, the Great Han soldiers had tasted the sweetness of crossbows.
Ten thousand crossbows fired at once!
In an instant, the combat strength of the Xiongnu cavalry collapsed.
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On the top of the Yanmen Pass, Li Guang excitedly held Zhou Yafu's hand.
"General Zhou has come today, and our Yanmen Pass is impregnable!”
Ever since the Xiongnu's King Zuoxian invaded Yanmen Pass, Li Guang had been stationed at the pass.
Whether it was handling official business or eating, they were all at the top of the city pass.
Li Guang and the soldiers guarding Yanmen Pass swore that as long as the enemy did not retreat, he would not leave the city. He swore to live and die together at Yanmen Pass!
There were 80,000 troops at Yanmen Pass, and the Xiongnu could not break through.
However, how to keep the Xiongnu at Yanmen Pass still needed to be decided!
Li Guang and Zhou Yafu stood on the city pass and dismissed the guards. The two of them began to discuss in secret.
Zhou Yafu was an important general of the Han Dynasty. He was once the most trusted general of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.
Otherwise, how could Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty dare to give him the military power to quell the rebellion of the seven kingdoms?
It was only later that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was worried that Liu Che would not be able to intimidate him, so he found a crime and locked him up.
The Empress Dowager kept Chen Ajiao by her side. When the Empress Dowager was lonely, she would chat with the Empress Dowager.
Liu Che returned to Weiyang Palace.
For Liu Che, the world was still in chaos.
The strong Xiongnu enemies were still wreaking havoc at the border, so how could he have the mood to enjoy a gentle home?
Liu Che didn't want to do this, nor was he willing to let the Empress Dowager and Imperial Aunt Liu Piao decide his marriage.
In Weiyang Palace.
Liu Che flipped through the memorials submitted by the cabinet.
The memorial submitted by the finance minister, Wang Yong, reported the surplus of the Great Han national treasury.
Great Han had 13.8 million households and a total population of 61 million.
The household register of the Great Han Dynasty only recorded the head of the household. Even if there were hundreds of people in a clan, it would still record the head of the household as one household.
The taxes of the Great Han Dynasty were also collected by households.
Even for a large household with hundreds of people, the tax was equivalent to a household with three children.
Since Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty began to implement light taxes, the tax rate was so low that it made one's hair stand on end.
Liu Che flipped through the memorial of Minister Wang Yong.
The current tax system of the Great Han Dynasty was still the household registration tax, and the annual tax was less than 10%.
Liu Che flipped through the memorial of the finance minister and frowned more and more.
In the first year of the Han Dynasty, there were five vassal kings and 238 heirs to the throne.
Two hundred and twelve people succeeded to the title of duke.
325 marquises…
Not only did these Nobles have the royal bloodline of the Liu Family, but they were also the descendants of the founding fathers of the Great Han Dynasty.
These titles were passed down from generation to generation and never had to pay taxes.
The more Liu Che looked, the more shocked he became.
Not only did these parasites not have to pay taxes, but they also had the right to collect taxes locally.
There were thousands of heirs to the nobility…
These were not ordinary thousands of people.
Each of them represented a noble family, and they had a large amount of land that was not subject to taxation…
Other than these people, there were also wealthy families. The wealthy families had a population of several hundred and occupied thousands of acres of fertile land.
They actually paid taxes according to their household registration, paying the same taxes as a family of three.
The more Liu Che looked, the angrier he became.
Which one of the officials in the court wasn't from a wealthy family?
The taxes they paid were actually equivalent to that of an ordinary farmer…
Liu Che was looking for a business tax on the memorial.
However, the most important tax was not included!
The merchants of the Great Han Dynasty actually didn't pay taxes!
All the taxes were on the farmers.
The richer the rich, the less taxes they had.
The poorer the poor, the heavier the taxes.
Ordinary farmers actually paid the same taxes as wealthy families.
Ordinary farmers only had one mu of barren land, and the annual tax was one stone!
Tenants pay three stones of rent to the owner every year and keep one stone for themselves.
Even if the owner had a thousand acres of fertile land, he would only pay three stones of taxes!
Pa!
Liu Che slammed the memorial onto the table.
The eunuchs and serving girls outside Weiyang Palace trembled in fear!
"My Great Han Empire was destroyed by you bunch of maggots!”
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