Quick wear is not a cannon fodder

As the "observers" reported back the news, those who were curious were no more. After being curious, they just discussed it with a few friends. But those who wanted to conquer the country like An Ran and were ready to absorb experience suddenly discovered that the experience of Ping An Mansion. It's no use at all.

First of all, Ping'an Mansion exempted all excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and then lowered the taxes. The poor people only had to pay a small amount of taxes. This also led to many people to settle down in Ping'an Mansion.

That alone is something they can't do.

Because it's very simple. Conquering the world is very expensive. Armor, weapons, food, grass, and soldiers' pay all cost money. They can't survive with low taxes.

Ask how Ping An Mansion can survive.

An insider revealed: Ping'an Mansion can receive a lot of commercial taxes, so it's just a drizzle for the mud-legged people, so it's fine if they don't.

And this, others cannot imitate.

Why not follow suit?

Because there are not so many merchants on their territory. Why are there not so many? This is not very simple. Unlike Enron's territory, they have simple laws and do everything in accordance with the law. There has never been a case of ransacking a merchant's house without any reason. business, so merchants dared to do business on Enron's territory.

But, do merchants dare to do business on other people's territory? It's simply impossible, they don't dare to go.

Once these tycoons in troubled times ran out of money, they would always find an excuse to ransack the homes of merchants. In their view, the merchants were not engaged in production and ransacked their homes, and the common people would not object, and then they would There's nothing wrong with getting military qualifications.

But I never thought that after doing this, no merchants would dare to do business on their territory. If there were no merchants, where would they collect taxes? If you can't tax merchants, you can only tax farmers.

And because their territory is generally small, but the army they maintain is very large, and the money required is also very large, in this way, they cannot be like Enron and only charge very low taxes from farmers, because they collect more taxes. , it is not much different from that under the previous imperial court. In this case, how can people believe that the imperial court they build in the future will be better than the current imperial court? In this way, it is not like Enron's rule that can gather people's hearts.

They envy An Ran's method of gathering people's hearts, but they can't do it. After all, in war, there will always be times when someone doesn't take advantage of them. If the money is spent, the farmers will not be able to squeeze much money out of them. Without looting the homes of merchants, Where did the money come from?

And once they continue like this, how can any merchant be willing to come to their territory to do business? Without merchants coming to do business, where would they get rich business taxes? Without abundant commercial taxes, it is naturally impossible to lower agricultural taxes.

As a result, they quickly fell into a "chicken-and-egg" cycle and could not find a way out.

There is another thing they cannot learn.

An Ran is now taking in refugees. Although it is not like when he was in Taiping Village at the beginning, he only took in those with families and children. Only young and strong people were not accepted. Now he only takes in young and strong people, and An Ran also takes in them - but usually he will monitor them secretly to see them. However, spies sent by others may have committed illegal and criminal acts - but Enron's recruitment still prioritizes the children of other families, and basically does not accept bachelors - this alone makes those who want to join the Enron army It's hard for people who let spies in. After all, who would let someone take the whole family to be a spy? If you have family ties, you will be wary, so how can you be a good spy?

After they were collected, they called them soldiers, saying that the patrols were all fighting for their families. If they fell, the family members behind them would suffer. Therefore, these people could only fight in an ordinary way. It was hard to tell that once they encountered a tough battle, , often fight desperately, for fear that they will not be able to defeat the city, and their families will suffer disaster. Their combat effectiveness will increase sharply in an instant, making people unable to guard against it. Unlike their army, once they are defeated, not to mention their combat effectiveness will increase sharply, but their morale will often increase. It will disintegrate in an instant, and then there will be a rout, which is completely incomparable.

Nowadays, heroes from all sides recruit mostly single young men, because generally speaking, in troubled times, such people are most likely to sign up to join the army. On the contrary, those with families who are burdened by them do not want to join the army for fear of death. The family has no one to take care of them.

I don’t know how Gu Wufu persuaded those people with families to sign up. Anyway, judging from the intelligence, most of the troops led by Gu Wufu were good family members with families.

——This is what these heroes don’t understand. The better life is, the more people want to protect such a good life for their families. If you spread the word again, if there is no one to protect you, enemies will come. Once the city is broken, the good life will be gone. In this way, there are many good family members who are willing to join the army. On the contrary, life is not good under their rule. The taxes collected by the superiors are too high and their own families cannot take care of them. How can they be willing to work for them? It’s normal that you can’t recruit good family members.

Of course, heroes from all sides would rather recruit bachelors to join the army, because those who are burdened by families will always be timid in a fight and pretend to be dead if they can. Unlike those bachelors, who can fight hard as long as they have enough money. Enough.

They also don't understand why Liangjiazi, who was unwilling to risk his life under their rule, is willing to risk his life under An Ran's rule. They are really seeing a ghost.

Of course they don't understand that people are willing to fight for a good life, but they won't fight for a hard life. They naturally have to protect their lives and take care of their families who can't survive.

In addition to the two major points of money and soldiers, there are many things that they cannot imitate. For example, they offer free education and ask teachers to teach people how to read. Anyone can go to study regardless of their background and there is no charge.

They feel that this is purely a wasteful thing that has not been produced in the world yet. What are you doing with these useless things? No, not only are they useless, but they also cost money, so they are harmful. God knows what Gu Wufu is doing. These.

So after some investigation, these people found that Enron's experience was completely useless to them, and in many places they didn't understand why Gu Wufu did what he did.

In the end, I can only think that it seems that I still have to conquer Ping'an Mansion. When Ping'an Mansion is conquered, won't everything be clear? If you have never been exposed to it, you naturally don’t understand the use of Gu Wufu’s doing this.

So that day, because they couldn't understand the situation of Ping'an Mansion and simply stopped trying to figure it out, Xijiang Fucheng in the west dispatched troops and generals to prepare to attack Ping'an Mansion, so that after it was defeated, they would have money and ways to manage internal affairs. .

In addition, there is also food - it is the autumn harvest season, and the news comes that this year, the five counties under the rule of Ping'an Prefecture plus the prefecture have a bumper harvest of grain. The amount of grain harvested is enough to make the Xijiang River a long time. Time has passed, and with so many good things, the leader of Xijiang felt that he could not let them not belong to him, otherwise he would not be able to sleep at night.