By September 1793, after Lin Chong had eliminated the Mori family, the Chinese Empire occupied all of Kyushu, Shikoku, and the island of Honshu west from Kyoto to Fuso.

According to the Fuso people's own land seizure figures, the total output of these lands is about 8 million old stones, accounting for more than one-third of the total territorial output of Fuso.

However, due to the continuous war, this output will definitely not be able to be reached this year, in fact, according to the Chinese people's own economic research, this figure can reach 40% is considered good.

If calculated according to 40%, and according to Lin Chong's rent reduction policy in Fusang, the estimated tax revenue of the occupied areas of the Chinese Empire this year is about 100 to 1.2 million old stones.

This figure is enough to support the consumption of military rations for the 130,000 occupation troops, and there is even a large surplus to be supplied to the country.

Since Lin Chong did not have the right to tax exemption for the Fusang people in the occupied areas, those who were unable to farm because of the war and were therefore unable to pay taxes would be taken away and sold as slaves to the country—this was not a very difficult job, because the reduction of production by up to 5 million stone was a foregone conclusion, and those who could not grow food did not want to starve to death, then selling themselves as slaves was the only way out.

In fact, not only the Huaxia occupation areas, but even the territories still under the control of the Fuso daimyo have generally reduced their production significantly because of the chaos this year (the land will naturally be abandoned when men and livestock are transferred to fight), although the degree of this reduction will be lower than that in the Huaxia-controlled areas, but there are still 2 to 3 percent.

What's more, the daimyo know that it is only a temporary truce, and they dare not relax the requisition of manpower and material resources, and it is estimated that a lot of land will still not be able to be cultivated next year, and there are actually not many paths that ordinary Fuso people can choose.

Either they choose to starve to death, or they will be bandits and eat others, or they will flee to the Huaxia-controlled areas and feed the Huaxia people as slaves.

In fact, the last path is the best way to go.

The imperial cabinet has agreed to keep all the tax and grain in Fusang this year, no matter how much tax and grain is earned, and even Xu Shiyang has agreed to bring in 6 million catties of salted fish from China to appease the hungry people of Fusang.

In this way, as long as you voluntarily sell yourself into slavery, at least you will have no problem getting enough to eat.

As a result, many Fuso people fled from the area controlled by the Daimyo of Fuso to the Huaxia-controlled area in order to survive.

For the Chinese Empire, the conquest of Fusang has now entered an ideal state that is enough to feed the war with war, although the empire does not ask for those taxes and grain this year, they can recover part of the cost through the large influx of Fusang slaves - it is expected that by the end of the year, the domestic Fusang slaves will exceed 4 million!

In addition, the mineral deposits of Fuso, especially the Iwami Silver Mine, which Huaxia had been thinking about, and the Besko Copper Mine in Shikoku (Iwami and Besshiko, respectively, were the largest silver and copper veins ever discovered in the world at this time) had fallen into the hands of Kaxia, which was of great benefit to alleviating the pressure on the empire's hard currency reserves.

In addition, there are sulfur mines in Kyushu, which are also the focus of the industrial sector and the Ministry of War.

The empire can use Fuso's local human resources to exploit these important veins, and it is expected that this alone will bring the empire six million Singapore dollars this year, and if all goes well, it can even quadruple next year.

With such a huge profit, the cabinet could even count on fully compensating for the cost of conquering Fuso within two to three years, and if it was able to conquer the rest of Fuso, then the Koshu Gold Mine, the Ashio Copper Mountain, and the remaining Fuso people and land would bring more profits to the empire.

This is also the reason why there is such a big difference between the empire's attitude towards Fusang and Goryeo - Goryeo is so poor, and the annual tax of Lelang County during the Goryeo period is only 200,000 stones, even if Goryeo is completely swallowed, the income it can bring is a huge loss compared with the occupation expenditure, so it is better to annex this country than to maintain the rule of the Goryeo Dynasty and gain indirect benefits.

But Fuso is different, the country is very oily, and transportation by sea is not difficult, so the Imperial Cabinet's policy towards Fuso has always changed according to the situation - no one has given up on the plan to annex Fuso directly.

Everyone is waiting for the next move of the Fuso Expeditionary Force.

……

In Yanjing in October, the climate is not bad.

Xu Daizhuo sat in the courtyard of a courtyard belonging to the Prince's Mansion, poured a plate of green vegetables and half of the braised pork into a sea bowl filled with rice, stirred it twice with chopsticks, and then directly picked up the bowl and snorted and picked up the rice in his mouth.

In this way, it sounds good to say that it has the bold spirit of a soldier, but to say it is ugly, it is similar to pig arch food, so that several palace maids can't help but cover their mouths and snicker.

"Eat slowly!" His biological mother, Zhao Shan, sat at the table and reprimanded softly: "It's not like a heavenly nobleman at all, but like a crop." ”

"Mother, I'm not expensive." Xu Daizhuo swallowed the food, took a sip of tea, and said with a slow smile: "The real nobleman is the second child, he is the emperor's grandson, and I am just the emperor's eldest grandson." ”

"Dai Zhuo!"

"Okay, mother, I know, stop nagging."

At his age, he always couldn't listen to his parents, and he would hate them for nagging.

"Besides, the second child is now in the Naval Academy, and I don't think he will be much better than me."

Zhao Shan didn't say anything more, her son's words just now made her very uncomfortable - why are they all the same father, my son is a head lower than Wen Yue's son?

If it is in an ordinary family, one head will be one head lower, but now the Xu family is a heavenly family, and the child is one head down, which is tantamount to the difference between cloud and mud.

"Mother, I came home from autumn vacation this year to tell you and my father something." Xu Daizhuo finished eating, put down the sea bowl, and said, "I may not go home during the holidays in recent years." ”

Nowadays, there is no summer vacation in schools, but there is an autumn vacation, the purpose of which is to let children participate in field work during the important autumn harvest season to make up for the shortage of labor, which can be regarded as a kind of labor course that remembers the bittersweet and sweet.

"Not going home for the holidays in recent years? What do you mean? ”

"I'm going on an expedition." Xu Daizhuo said seriously: "An expedition to the west farther west than the Western Regions. ”

"Don't go! What are you doing so far! ”

"Mother, I'm going to start my own business."

Zhao Shan looked at this familiar and unfamiliar son, speechless for a while.

"On this expedition to the Western Regions, General Zuo (Zuo Helin) and Fifth Uncle (Xu Shizhen) talked to me." Xu Daizhuo explained softly: "It is true that the empire will be my father's in the future, but my father will be the second brother after him, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

"I can choose to stay in China, either Yanjing or Quancheng, but then I may end up just a prince at home, and then I will really become a pig."

"So General Zuo and Fifth Uncle plan to support me to go overseas to explore, I am also a noble family of heaven, and I am more trustworthy than those foreigners."