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At the end of the summer tax, Li Jing opened the summer tax report handed over by Li Rang, looked at the rows of Arabic numerals on it, and couldn't help laughing.

Now the entire prefecture and county under Li Jing are saying that the king of Andong County loves the people like a son, and has changed a new tax law that is extremely benevolent and loves the people. If there are only 10 acres of land, then as long as 300 yuan is paid, even those big landlords who own 10,000 acres of fertile land are only 300,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 300 yuan. For these big landowners, three hundred yuan is just a set of good glass ornaments.

Even in the recent newspapers, magazines and weekly magazines in Dengzhou, there are countless literati vying to write poems to praise Li Jing, which makes Li Jing feel a little proud when he reads the newspaper every day.

Everyone thought that Li Jing vomited blood and lost a lot of money, but in fact, Li Jing did not lose money at all. Before this year, Li Jing had not taxed those immigrants at all, and this year was the first time that he had been taxed. And those common people in the Central Plains to increase taxes, miscellaneous taxes or something, Li Jing has never done this at all under his rule.

Everyone only saw that in the land of 55 counties in ten prefectures under Li Jing's rule, more than 3 million people only received 300,000 yuan in summer taxes, and therefore had to promise the people that they would no longer be levied for free to do Yao labor, forced labor, and so on.

But who knows that in fact, the 300,000 yuan was earned by Li Jingbai. At least, a few years ago, Li Jing never received a penny in taxes.

Of course, this refers to the Tian Fu.

Li Jing still collected a lot of commercial taxes in the past few years. Even the commercial tax of 30 taxes and 1 announced now is only a superficial situation. In fact, the complete commercial tax is still quite a lot. On the territory of the Zhenguo Army. Jishui, Yellow River. There are also checkpoints in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the coastal ports and supply points within their jurisdiction. Caravans pass by, and this is a tax. In addition, in various states and counties, caravans entering the city also have to pay taxes. In addition, all shops and caravans in the territory of the town must apply for business licenses, which are also subject to taxes. If there is a shop to operate, you also have to pay taxes.

All kinds of taxes are paid. It will never be less, but it is nothing compared to the profits of the merchants. This tax collection figure is very well controlled by the Zhenguo Army. What's more, the Zhenguo Army also has many special commodities, such as salt, tea, iron, armor, weapons, wine, perfume, glass, rock sugar, etc., which are all included in the special commodities. Without exception, these goods are heavily taxed.

The Dengzhou salt of the Zhenguo Army has a huge output and is sold all over the country, and it has almost reached the level of dumping. There is no salt pond or salt factory salt that can compare with Dengzhou salt, Dengzhou salt is of good quality and cheaper like sand. No matter how cheap it is, it can't stop the huge market sales volume that Zhen Guojun has. Under the mode of small profits and quick turnover, Dengzhou Salt killed Huai Salt, which was also sea salt, and made the salt solution of Lake Salt, and even impacted the green salt in the northwest.

The no-input, pure profiteering business of drying salt can bring Li Jing a lot of profits every month.

Now Li Jing doesn't need to sell salt by himself at all, dozens of salt factories only care about producing salt, and then directly transport it to the port and hand it over to those salt merchants. The salt merchants paid a heavy tax and were able to buy the Dengzhou salt they wanted at a low price. You can have as many as you want, unlimited.

Dengzhou Port has now surpassed Guangzhou and has become the first seaport in Datang. Dengzhou City now has 500,000 residents, making it one of the top ten cities in the Tang Dynasty. The new Dengzhou City built by Li Jing has been expanded twice, has three city walls, and has countless neighborhoods, and is the city that never sleeps in the entire north.

Only 300,000 guan was collected in the summer tax field, but more than 10 million guan was collected on the commercial tax side.

Li Jing counted many times before finally confirming that it was not that he was wrong, it was indeed more than 10 million yuan. It's a bit unbelievable.

However, this is not Li Jing's biggest benefit, Li Jing's biggest source of wealth is not taxes, but all the workshops, caravans, and sea fleets in these feudal towns owned by the Zhenguo army. There are countless workshops throughout the town, as well as countless workshops and shops that are run in cooperation with those merchants and clans.

The profits brought to Li Jing by the three monopoly commodities of glass, liquor and salt alone are extremely amazing.

In the first half of the fourth year of Qianfu, Li Rang's report to Li Jing clearly stated that the Zhenguo Army now had more than 23 million yuan in stock, and more than 12 million stone of rice, wheat, millet, and soybeans, as well as more than 10 million stone of potato powder, taro powder, and lotus root powder.

The treasury of the Zhenguo Army is incomparably rich, enough to support it for five years.

Although potatoes and taro are coarse grains, they are not very tasty. But for those hungry immigrants, these high-yield foods are simply treasures. In particular, after Li Jing set up mills in various counties and townships, this year he attracted more people to plant potato medicine and taro. Last year, the Zhenguo Army planted a total of about 2 million mu of potatoes and taro, and the harvest was gratifying, with an average of 1,500 catties per mu, and a total harvest of 25 million catties. About five catties of potato medicine and taro can produce one catty of flour, more than five million catties of flour.

I heard that last year, a family of people who had fled from the Central Plains used potato powder, taro powder, lotus root powder, and radish together in winter to make pink bricks and build a pink brick wall at home. It is said that this is a method passed down from the elders, and the brick walls made in this way will not break for decades. In a year of great hunger, you can directly take off the bricks and soak them in water, and then cook them to satisfy your hunger.

I heard that many people's homes now have more or less made such a piece of pink brick wall.

Hearing these things is funny and sad. Those who have not experienced the great famine will never understand the value of food. The roots and leaves of the grass are eaten up, even the soil, and even the people. Although the life of the Zhenguo Army has begun to make them eat and wear, although everyone is not short of food, when they can farm, they will still plant a lot of potatoes and taro, and they often make bacon, dried fish, salted eggs, preserved eggs, etc. No matter whose house he went to, although the family still had enough rations after handing over the purchased grain, they still had to eat coarse grains at every meal.

However, although there was already a surplus of grain, Li Jing did not stop buying grain from the southeast and Lingnan. Every month, a fleet of ships carries grain from the sea, and then deposits it in many other cities such as Duli Town, Beisha City, Jian'an City, Anshi City, Niangniang City, Jiankou City, Wugu City, and Pyongyang City. In addition, in Shanhaiguan, Lulongsai, Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou and other places, Li Jing also continued to store grain.

Many officials felt that in the current situation, even if the Zhenguo Army no longer bought grain, they would not have to worry about the food problem, and they would no longer need to spend so much effort and price to buy grain.

The time has reached the fourth year of Qianfu, and Li Jing knows very well that the Huangchao Rebellion is about to enter a new wave of climax, and then the towns will begin to be chaotic. When the world is in chaos, food is the most important material. Li Jing had to store more grain, otherwise it would be difficult to buy grain by then. With food, more can be done.

Money is a thing that is really useful as long as it is circulated.

After the summer planting, Li Jing also began to send the people who were bought and transported from all over the country to Liaodong by various means, and sent them to Liaodong by boat, bringing many farm tools built by various workshops, as well as many cattle and horses stored in Liaodong, and distributing them to various states and counties to carry out a large-scale reclamation operation in full swing. At the same time, the various armies that took turns to attack and rob in actual combat also sent back the looted people and livestock to the rear in a steady stream.

Those people of Khitan, Goguryeo and Dongying who were robbed, Li Jing all let them go to Liaodong to build roads first.

On the Liaodong Peninsula, from Duli Town to the southern apex, one along the western coast, through Jizhou, Jianzhou, to Anzhou at the mouth of the Liao River. At the same time, the other trunk road is along the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, all the way through the Biliu River and the Zhuang River through Shicheng and Shirenwang, and then to Daxing City, and finally to Jiankou City and Hushan City. Then divide into three roads here, and go north to Wugu City and Lijiabao City. Cross the Yalu River to the south and repair directly to Pyongyang. The other continues east to the inner city.

At the same time, an east-west trunk road from Anshi to Lijiabao to the domestic city will be built, and an east-west trunk road will be built from Jian'an through Niangniangcheng to Jiankou City.

By widening the roads, the cities of the Liaodong Peninsula were connected more closely. At the same time, it also began to mine some large iron ores, copper mines, and coal mines in eastern Liaodong.

The development of Liaodong is in full swing, but there is always a shortage of manpower. There are so many cities, so many fields, so many mines, and what is lacking is people.

And by this time, it was difficult for the Tang army to attack and grab people, and both the Goguryeo and Khitan people began to gather the tribal people and rely on each tight city. If there are fewer soldiers in Zhenguo, they can't bargain, and if there are more people, it may lead to a big war. But at the moment, Li Jing is unwilling to really fight with them so early, the newly occupied states in Liaodong have not yet been consolidated, and if they can't destroy the Khitan or Goguryeo in one battle, they will never rush to send troops.

While busy with the steady development of the prefectures and counties in eastern Liaodong, Li Jing also paid close attention to the movements of the Central Plains and grasslands.

After the secret alliance between the Khan and Li Jing, Li Jing sent troops from Shanhaiguan in Pingzhou, Lulongsai and Liaoshui in Anshi to attack the Khitans, and the Khan began to fight more and more fiercely with Diera.

At the same time, after Gao Biao arrived in Zhenhai, Huang Chao, who was attacking Zhenhai's headquarters in Runzhou, fled when he heard the news, went all the way south, captured Hangzhou in July, conquered Yuezhou, the headquarters of eastern Zhejiang, and captured Cui Xuan, the observer of eastern Zhejiang.

In less than two months, the land of Hangyue, which was known as "cocoon tax fish and salt, food and clothing for half the world", fell into the hands of Huang Chao, but before he had time to feel the deliciousness of the fruits of his victory, Gao Yu, who had just taken office in Runzhou, had already commanded the army to catch up.

Gao Biao used his two most powerful generals, Zhang Lan and Liang Zhang, as the forward, and attacked Hangzhou and Vietnam separately. Gao Yu's name is not in vain, Huang Chao mustered up the courage to fight it, but lost again and again.

Dozens of generals such as Qin Yan, Bi Shiduo, Li Hanzhi, and Xu Qing were defeated and surrendered to Gao Biao.

Under the heavy setback, Huang Chao had to give up Hangzhou and Yue Erzhou, escape into the deep mountains and old forests, turn to Xianxialing, split the mountains and open the road for 700 miles, and fled into Fujian, which is poor and bad.

After the First World War, Gao Yu's prestige became even more famous.

Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to sweep Liaodong, Gao Biao Zhenzhen Navy shocked the southeast, and the two most courageous generals in the Tang Dynasty today echoed each other from afar! (To be continued......)