Overlord!

Speaking of the rebellion in Hebei, we have to mention the Montenegrin Army.

Zhang Zhao said: "Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army is the leader among the bandits in Hebei. Yuan Shao has the ambition to become emperor, so he naturally wants to wipe out the bandits near the capital. Shao Nai takes Yuan Shang as his general and supervises Gao Lan, Han Meng, Yan Rou, Tao Sheng and other generals. More than [-] soldiers joined forces and entered the entrance of Cangyan Valley in Chaogeluchang Mountain. The soldiers entered Heishan and beheaded tens of thousands of people. They were all slaughtered on the wall of the camp."

Hearing this, all the generals in Jiangdong felt a sense of urgency. Yuan Shao sent another fifty thousand troops?

The total number of Yuan's troops on these battlefields was [-]!

Although not all of the [-] people are elites, it is not difficult for the [-] people under Yuan Shang's supervision to fight against bandits.

Sun Ce asked calmly: "Although Zhang Yan is not a hero, when he rescued Gongsun Zan, he claimed to send out troops in three directions with more than [-] people. How could his power be so defeated?"

It is said that there are more than [-] people. If it is not a bluff and multiplied by ten like Lu Meng, it is obvious that there are only [-] people, but it is one hundred thousand people.

There should be a scale of [-] or [-].

Coupled with the men and women from various camps in the Black Mountains, Zhang Yan's so-called [-] people should not be a complete bluff.

Now that Yuan Shang has beheaded tens of thousands of people, can Zhang Yan give up?
  He is not the kind of princes like Han Sui and Ma Teng who only know how to plunder, so he disobeys Yuan Shao and fights to the end through him. Just know how to rely on your own talents and be ambitious.

The Black Mountain Army under his command did not just plunder in the Black Mountains, but also farmed and fought. They were very influential in the Changshan, Shangdang, and Hanoi areas.

If Yuan Shang attacks from one direction, it may be difficult to eliminate Zhang Yan.

Zhang Zhao said: "The king's eyes are as sharp as a torch, it is true. Zhang Yan's troops are crisscrossing the Black Mountains, retreating and fighting. I heard that they have moved to Shangdang and Taiyuan."

"But the disadvantage of the situation is that the brothers Gao Gan and Gao Rou have been operating in Bingzhou for a long time, with tens of thousands of soldiers. They attacked the west of Heishan, and Yuan Shang attacked the east of Heishan. They also built Jingxing and Huguan to connect the two. The land and grain roads allow the officers and soldiers to pass through unimpeded, but the Black Mountain bandits can only take dangerous risks along the key roads, so the Black Mountain is already in danger of being overrun."

Jingxing, Huguan and Tianjingguan are collectively called the "Three Shangdang Passes".

Yuan Shao basically controls this place, which means that his control over Bingzhou will be further strengthened.

Senior cadres have always claimed that they have tens of thousands of soldiers. How true this is is very doubtful.

Fang Zheng never saw where these tens of thousands of soldiers were during the Battle of Guandu.

Sun Ce had reason to doubt whether they were barbarians from the other side. Sun Ce asked: "As Gaogan becomes more powerful in Bingzhou, how will the local Qiang and Hu react?"

Obviously no one has accurate information in this regard. Jingzhou Shepherd Zhang Hong said: "This is still difficult to predict, but when Yuan Jun attacked Hedong, the Xiongnu Shanyu led thousands of cavalry to assist in the battle. It can be seen that Yuan Shao is indeed a powerful bowman and horseman. , care for and control the soldiers, and recruit virtuous people."

Speaking of the Hu horse cavalry, Gu Yong, the governor of Qingzhou, said: "It is not yet known whether the Hu cavalry in Bingzhou will surrender to Yuan Shao. However, there are tens of thousands of Hu cavalry in Youzhou who are willing to surrender to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao gave Wu Huan a generous reward, and all the kings were listed as singles. , the people of Wuhuan all surrendered to Yuan Shao. Only a few princes such as Xian Yufu and Qi Zhou did not surrender."

"It is said that there is a war in Youzhou, and there are countless people crossing the sea to the south. Qingzhou has admitted more than [-] refugees and obtained more than a thousand war horses."

After hearing the news, Sun Ce was overjoyed and said: "It can be seen that the sea has gradually leveled off, and there are signs of peace. In the past, celebrities from Qingzhou and the people crossed the sea to Youzhou to seek refuge. Now, the sea has gradually leveled off, and the people have returned one after another! "

Since Sun Ce mainly imposed land taxes and did not levy poll taxes, Qingzhou officials naturally did not make detailed statistics on how many refugees returned across the sea.

But Sun Ce said: "Now that the trend of concealment in the world has subsided, I hope that after the ministers return to the states and counties, they will conduct a detailed census of household registration to determine the world's population. The government will support the widows and widowers, and provide care to the old and young."

This is also a census.

Since there is no interest in concealing the population, the resistance to household registration checks will be greatly reduced.

Sun Ce also wanted to know how many people there were under his rule since the seven states had become somewhat peaceful and the states and counties had thoroughly investigated the hidden households!

Although taxation is not based on head count, the determinable population can still provide a reliable reference for future corvee work and engineering projects.

In case the population is obviously between [-] and [-] million, but the government is still cautiously recruiting tens of thousands of corvees, it may affect the people's livelihood.

There was definitely no population of [-] million under Jiangdong's rule, but more than [-] million should not be a problem. Sun Ce was more curious about whether it was [-], [-] million, or [-] million.

Because this is also related to the amount of conscription.

Conscription was the main agenda of this meeting, so Sun Ce said: "With the chaos in Heishan and the heroes of Youzhou, each gathering tens of thousands of people to separate one side, even if Yuan Shao becomes emperor, he will not be able to fight a decisive battle with us immediately, so he wants to recruit troops." Tens of thousands of people are accumulating grain and training troops, waiting for good opportunities. All the ministers will talk about the situation in each state and claim their share of recruiting troops."

It is said that there is a large-scale recruitment, but in fact the main recruitment direction is still in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

Except for Xuzhou, all the newly-involved areas under Sun Ce's rule were less than a year old, and some were only a few months old.

Therefore, there was no time to expand the army from these states and counties before.

But now there is the most important problem. The states that need to expand their military are actually the ones with the poorest finances and taxes.

As a long history officer, Zhang Zhao had an overview of the military and political affairs, so naturally he was the first to speak, saying: "As far as I know, in the four prefectures of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Qingzhou, all taxes have not been collected, and coins are in urgent need. If we only rely on the prefectures and counties , I’m afraid it will be extremely difficult to recruit troops.”

These four states did not collect all the taxes, not that they were not collected. This involves a key point: why Sun Ce did not give tax exemptions to the newly conquered counties as he did in the past.

The current situation is no longer the same as when Jiangdong Tongbao was founded.

With the development of commerce in Jiangdong and the continuous casting of Tongbao, a large amount of Tongbao inevitably circulated to the north of Jianghuai.

Especially in the Yuzhou area, because it is close to the Huaihe River and has close exchanges, in fact, there are already a large number of Tongbao among the people.

But the scale is still a little insufficient, so it is difficult to collect taxes.

In order to ensure the tax payment of the people in these states, the General's Office has taken special care and allowed the government to set up Changping warehouse to collect grain. One stone of grain is equivalent to thirty yuan in rice.

Therefore, there have always been sneaky businessmen among the people who transported rice from the south of the Yangtze River to the north to earn the price difference from the government. The traffic of caravans also brought a large amount of treasures and goods, which greatly alleviated the hunger of the people.

Sun Ce said: "Conscription is one of the ways to alleviate the shortage of money in the north. Soldiers are paid a salary of one min a month. Ten thousand soldiers have a salary of hundreds of millions a year. Tens of thousands of soldiers are enough to provide civilians with money. Fill up hundreds of millions of money and solve the shortcomings of people's livelihood."    Then Sun Ce looked at the three envoys and asked: "How much food is there in the Jiankang government treasury now?"

Bu Zhao, the envoy of the Third Division, stood up immediately, raised his hands to the governors and generals, and said: "Since I was ordered to take charge of the Third Division, whenever the country expands its territory, the territory continues to expand. The most important Tian Cao among the Three Divisions is now registered in the Tianji Register. Forty and seventy million acres, including [-] million acres of official land."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this figure. The [-] million acres of fertile land was already [-]% or even [-]% of that of the Han Dynasty.

But even in terms of territory, Sun Ce's current situation is not as strong as two-thirds of the world.

Obviously, under Sun Ce's rule, the south has been greatly reclaimed. Compared with the past days of the Han Dynasty, southern agriculture has been greatly developed. A large number of newly reclaimed fields have been opened up, and a large number of water conservancy projects have been built. .

Jiangdong fields are divided into upper fields, middle fields, and lower fields for taxation. Everyone immediately paid attention to Xiang Buzhao. With so much cultivated land, how many are fertile fields, and how much can be taxed?
  Bu Zhao continued: "Of these more than [-] acres of cultivated land, although the people can cultivate it in rotation, or plant mulberry, medicine, kudzu, hemp, etc., the government only levies taxes per mu, and the tax per mu is four." Ten qian, the middle field tax is [-] qian, and the lower field tax is [-] qian. The state collects taxes based on acres, and the total land tax is [-] million yuan, of which the upper field tax is more than [-] million yuan, and the levy is [-] million yuan, leaving the middle field tax. He and Shimoda earned a total of [-] million yuan."

As soon as this number was revealed, not only Sun Ce was dissatisfied, but all the ministers and generals in the hall also frowned!

Everyone couldn't help but feel resentful. There were too few Ueda!
  There are only over [-] million acres of farmland, accounting for one-tenth of the total, but nearly half of the taxes are levied.

Assuming that all fertile fields in the world were cultivated, the field tax alone would be able to collect [-] million yuan!
  That country must support at least seven or eight hundred thousand troops, not just one million troops!
  Then why worry about the world being unfair?

Sun Ce also looked at Bu Zhi and Zhang Zhao with burning eyes. Bu Zhi's report almost had the word "paying money" written on his face.

If Shuicao can allocate a lump sum to develop water conservancy in the world, tens of thousands of water conservancy projects will be opened this year, and at least hundreds of thousands of new taxes will be added next year.

Today, the number of fields is too small.

The projects in Yangxian and Piling areas have opened up about two million acres of fertile land for Jiangdong, which has increased the land tax of more than [-] yuan and nearly [-] yuan for Jiangdong.

If several counties along Taihu Lake, as well as Yuhang and Qiantang, can be developed, there will be no wilderness and a land of plenty, and it will be easy to increase the tax revenue of one million yuan in these ten counties.

Going a step further, the Jiankang area and the important areas in the capital are developing like Wu County. It may not be long before the wealth of Jiangnan alone can be equivalent to today's tax revenue.

After all, since the mid-Tang Dynasty, national tax revenue has only looked to the southeast. By the Song Dynasty, the wealth in the southeast accounted for more than [-]% of the world's wealth.

Sun Ce said: "Sure enough, the country is located in the southeast, and it is more convenient to collect taxes and wealth. Today, there are [-] million yuan. I believe that I will wait for the world to be peaceful and develop water conservancy with all my strength. In the southeast, the tax revenue will be more than this. .So the land tax in Jiankang’s treasury is more than five million yuan?”

Bu Zhao shook his head and said: "It's not just that. The country also has salt and iron, Shibo, Shiwei and other departments, which together also receive more than three million yuan."

"Now the Jiankang treasury has a total of [-] million jins, [-] million pieces of silk, etc., more than [-] million shi of sea salt, and a total of more than [-] jins of gold and platinum. They are accumulated in Changping warehouses in various places. There are no less than [-] million stones, and there are more than [-] million stones in stock near Jiankang alone."

After hearing this number, Sun Ce nodded slightly, which showed that the scale of Jiangdong's minting had indeed increased.

It is impossible to mint just a little at a time. The amount of coins minted in Jiangdong is probably equivalent to that of the Song Dynasty. There are clear historical data on the amount of coins minted in the Song Dynasty. The maximum amount of coins minted by the Song Dynasty was about three million guan each year, and it was around [-] million guan all year round.

Although there are mountains of copper and iron in Jiangdong, the copper output cannot be compared with that of the Song Dynasty. However, the coinage of Jiangdong also has an advantage that the Song Dynasty cannot match, that is, there are a large number of Han Dynasty copper coins available in Jiangdong.

Jiangdong does not need to rely entirely on Tongshan to mint new currency.

As long as Jiangdong can mint small coins and five-baht coins in the past, it can ensure that there is a large amount of currency among the people.

Coupled with the copper mountains in Yuzhang and Danyang, which produce tens of thousands of tons of copper every year, it is enough to barely maintain the operation of Jiangdong Tongbao as a new currency.

At present, Jiangdong mints at least billions of coins every year, and as many as more than two million coins, so he can have more than nine million coins in Jiangdong's treasury!
  As for how many private coins were cast privately, Sun Ce could not say.

This problem could not be eliminated from the moment copper coins came into being to the end of the feudal dynasty.

The situation only depends on the quantity. Nowadays, Sun Ce is relatively loose on private coinage, so the number of privately coined coins must be quite large.

Otherwise, the northern states would not have popularized Jiangdong Tongbao so quickly.

This can only be said to have advantages and disadvantages.

If you want to revive currency circulation, it cannot be achieved easily without any cost.

Otherwise, Cao Pi, Zhuge Liang, and Sun Quan would not have had such difficulties, but they would still be unable to complete the currency reform.

Sun Ce is already very satisfied with the current situation of the three divisions. The problems encountered in development can only be solved by development!
  Sun Ce was full of confidence in the future prospects of the Third Division, and said with a smile: "The Third Division is very capable, and I am very relieved. In addition to the agricultural tax, the national tax is actually more than [-] million yuan?"

Sun Ce was already very surprised at this scale.

You know, it seems that it was not until the Song Dynasty that industrial and commercial taxes exceeded agricultural taxes, right?
  Sun Ce indeed paid great attention to industry and commerce, but he did not expect that the three ministers would actually collect so many taxes in addition to agricultural taxes.

How did he collect it?
  Bu Zhi immediately explained: "Most of this is household tax."

Sun Ce nodded slightly, understanding somewhat.

Household tax is a new tax established by Sun Ce after imitating the Two Tax Law. It was originally created by Cao Cao after he conquered Jizhou.

Cao Mengde could set up a new tax category, and so could Sun Ce.

After the implementation of the Two Taxes Law, Datang collected more than two million yuan in household taxes.

Although Sun Ce's population statistics are not very detailed, the statistics of large taxpayers are still very clear.

In one year, it should not be difficult to collect household taxes worth millions.

Bu Zhi continued: "In addition to the household tax, the most important thing is the industrial and commercial tax in the southeastern areas such as Jiankang and Wujun."

This shows the advantage of the country's location in the southeast. The three divisions are very strict in collecting taxes. Women's houses and boat houses outside Jiankang City must pay taxes. It is naturally extremely difficult for industry and commerce in the southeast to evade taxes. (End of chapter)