At this time in China, Zhou Lang has also completed internal integration.

In all parts of the country, the simple tax system based on the commercial management method experimented in Guangzhou has been promoted, and a large number of new tax officials have been efficiently trained through formal schools that teach accounting and mathematics.

In civil affairs, Wang Fuqian basically followed the traditional management system, the so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside, the squires and landlords are still the grassroots managers, how stable in the past is, how stable is now.

The whole country has been restored to the state before the White Lotus uprising, of course, a lot of destruction is inevitable, Wang Fuqian completed a population inventory from last year to this year, the population of the whole country is more than 280 million, compared with the last statistics of the Qianlong Dynasty, a full 10 million less people, this is the price of this chaos.

However, Wang Fuqian thinks that this is the way of the holy king, and there has never been such a small damage to the change of dynasty in ancient times, which is also the case, that troubled era is not after reducing the population by one-third or even more, the contradiction between man and land disappears by itself, and then slowly turns into a prosperous era. Under the management methods of traditional agricultural society, Zhou Lang believes that there is a limit to good and bad, and the efficiency is far from comparable to modern management based on digitalization.

The civil affairs managed by Wang Fuqian have basically resumed the normal tax collection work, and the tax rate has been redetermined, which is as low as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but a large number of additional distributions during the Qianlong period have been canceled, and the overall income is even less than that in the Qianlong period, but the lack is very limited, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty has a false name of never increasing the tax, and after re-measuring the land, the new fields opened up in the past hundred years have been included in the tax base, offsetting the reduction brought about by the cancellation of the additional distribution.

Due to the abolition of the domestic tax card, the effect of flattening the price of rice is very good, the price of rice has generally fallen across the country, and the price of rice in the grain-producing areas has rarely risen. However, commercial taxes have not decreased as a result, but have increased significantly.

Zhou Lang's management of business cannot be said to be very good, because the executors under him are not excellent, but the management is relatively standardized, and this kind of regulation has canceled a large number of restrictions that should not exist.

For example, in the past, the salt law greatly restricted the production of salt, and the government did everything possible to monopolize the channels of salt to obtain rich tax revenues, but the suppression of salt production was extremely obvious. Zhou Lang treats salt production as an ordinary factory, and as long as he applies for a license and pays a low authorization tax, he can freely make salt.

As a result, from Guangdong and Fujian to Jiangnan and Shandong, all the merchants with a little wealth in the areas near the sea actively participated in the establishment of salt factories, and even the poor salt workers in the past also took their own stoves and set up salt cooking workshops. Salt production has increased dramatically, although there is a fixed salt tax missing, but more and more salt workshops pay more and more taxes, which has reached the past by officials extorted a sum, exploited by salt merchants, after giving the emperor a sum of salt tax, that is, two million taels, the two million taels of salt tax, is paid by 100,000 salt workshops and more than 200,000 salt shops across the country.

If Zhou Lang is willing, he can actually restore the salt tax to the level of the Qianlong period now, or even more. Because after the liberalization of salt production, a large number of places that were not allowed to produce salt began to produce salt, and a large number of merchants who were not qualified to produce salt began to produce salt, which led to a significant increase in salt production.

As long as the scale of production is expanded, why worry about not collecting taxes?

However, the time for tax reform is not yet time, and the current tax system is still to encourage production. Because production is still rising, new salt farms are still applying for licenses, which shows that the salt industry is still profitable, the salt market is not yet saturated, and it is not yet time to tax production and regulate production.

In the past, they relied on the monopoly of the government to operate and allocate sales markets in different areas, and they had nothing to fear, resulting in a large number of adulteration by officials, but the quality of private salt was of high quality. Now a large number of new competitors have joined, as long as they apply for a license and pay a low shop tax, they can sell salt, and small and medium-sized salt merchants no longer rely on the supply of those Yangzhou salt merchants, and can go directly to the salt factory to purchase. Salt shops that face consumers should not sell adulterated salt.

The living standards of the common people have improved substantially, and the era of buying salt and even higher expenses than buying rice in the past is gone, not to mention, the quality of salt has increased, so the long coastline is guarded, but a large number of people suffer from big neck disease because of lack of potassium and salt.

Another phenomenon of the decline in the price of salt is that the income of fishermen along the coast has increased, and their income has increased, of course, it is related to the fact that some people directly open salt farms.

Fish is a commodity that is difficult to transport long distances, because fish meat is easy to rot, in the era of no freezing technology, only fresh fish can be transported, which has caused the strange phenomenon that the transportation cost far exceeds the price of fish itself, the people in the mainland generally cannot afford to eat fish, the delicacies of the mountains and seas can go hand in hand, and the meat that can be obtained by hunting is far from being compared with fishing.

Now that the price of salt has dropped dramatically, fishermen can make large quantities of their catch into salted fish and sell them, and the mainland market can become a market for marine fish. With such a long coastline in China, it is a country that traditionally eats river fish, and this strange phenomenon is also beginning to change.

In the era of food shortage and the inability of the aquaculture industry to expand rapidly, it is clear that the prospects for sea fishing without any breeding costs are very bright, the Dutch are mainly involved in protein through the ocean, and China relies on plant protein, and the voyage is lacking.

Once the fishing industry develops, it will lead to the development of the shipbuilding industry, and it can also be seen from the number of shipbuilding licenses applied for, there are as many as 10,000 shipbuilding workshops across the country, and the vast majority of them are manufacturing small fishing boats.

The restrictions on handicraft industry brought about by standardized management have greatly unleashed the ability of China's industrious craftsmen, and other industries have also seen rapid expansion. This is mainly due to the general decline in transportation prices, one is that the sea and land have begun to flow smoothly, and the other is all kinds of extortion on transportation, and taxes have been abolished.

So starting from Guangdong, then Fujian, and then the Jiangnan region, the handicraft industry ushered in a period of rapid development.

Guangdong's handicraft industry has the characteristics of being export-oriented, thanks to the policy of opening up, exports have increased sharply, and various Chinese handicrafts have flowed into the Western market; Fujian's shipbuilding industry and iron industry have expanded rapidly driven by military production; Jiangnan has its own strong capital support, and was one of the most developed regions in China before, and it can live well without foreign trade. Now the merchant ships of foreigners can be docked directly in Ningbo, docked in Nanjing, these high-end handicraft products of the highest quality in China, which can only be envied by Westerners in the past, have also begun to be exported in large quantities, and the handicraft industry in the south of the Yangtze River can be developed by relying on the domestic market, and the recovery speed and expansion speed are more fierce than Guangdong.

The expansion of trade has led to a substantial increase in tariffs, but it is still only a small number, only more than 2 million taels a year. Obviously, there is a lot of room for tariff rates to be raised.

With the recovery and rapid expansion of industry and commerce, the commercial tax has exceeded 10 million taels, and it is no longer a tax that is casually ignored. China can't be called a commercial society yet, but the commercial component has definitely increased.

These circumstances made the finances of the Great Zhou regime extremely relaxed, after all, the traditional government was originally a low-cost bureaucratic system, and the agricultural taxes levied by Wang Fuqian were more than enough to feed a government that was cleaner and less redundant than during the Qianlong period.

The commercial organization built by Zhou Lang is also based on a simple tax system, which means that it is easy to collect, supervise, and low cost.

Therefore, whether it is the household department that spends money on civil affairs, or the Ministry of Internal Affairs that spends money on commercial institutions, there is a large surplus.

The surplus began to be used to repay the previous bonds, which greatly increased the credit of the national debt, and after a few more visits, a bond system that was recognized by the people was established.

At this time, the opponents of the Great Zhou regime, the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, also gained a firm foothold in Ili, and after gaining the support of the Russians, they received a large amount of weapons and equipment, and their training level was greatly improved.

The only flaw was that the finances were starting to become strained, and they could not support a military force of this magnitude on nomadic herding as they already had no financial resources. So Jiaqing had to start taxing the steppe tribes that did not levy taxes in the past, which was proposed by Zhu Qi, a civil servant, who believed that since the Russians could tax the herdsmen, so could the Qing Dynasty, because now they had no other tax objects besides taxing the herdsmen.

On the one hand, taxation, on the other, desperately to find new sources of revenue, Yili's economy has always been based on a nomadic economy, but there has always been a tradition of gold panning, and the Jiaqing regime began to desperately tap the potential of those gold mines. Due to the loss of the Kannai management structure, they lacked the relevant personnel, so they had to hire engineers and technicians from Russia to expand the gold mines.

These still could not meet the military strength of more than 100,000 people and the expenses of a simple administrative organization that was so cheap that they only had enough to eat, so they began to settle in Ili Tuntian.

Let those Wenchen who follow Jiaqing engage in commerce and industry, they can't do it, but let them Tuntian, they are very good at it.

In addition to the nomadic cavalry, a large number of Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu green battalion soldiers who followed out of the pass became Tuntian soldiers, who not only had to produce rations for themselves, but also provided food for the more than one million soldiers and civilians in the entire Ili.

Those horsemen who moved from Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will not farm, and they cannot be idle, Xinjiang has a large amount of pasture, so they can raise cattle and sheep to provide meat for everyone, which is called tun grazing.

Jiaqing and his officials tried their best to maintain the precarious finances in Yili.

They still call themselves the Qing Dynasty, but they already have a special name for them in Guannai: Western Qing!

In that year, the Liao State was destroyed by the Jin State, and the Khitan magnates went to Central Asia to rebuild the Liao State, which was known as the Western Liao in history; The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and the Sima clan went to Jiangnan to rebuild the Jin Kingdom, known as the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history; The Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and the prince of the Northern Song Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River to rebuild the Great Song Dynasty, known as the Southern Song Dynasty in history; The Yuan Dynasty was destroyed, and Emperor Yuan Shun ran to the grassland, still called the Great Yuan, but the history is called the Northern Yuan.

Regardless of whether the monarch dies or not, as long as the capital is lost and the center of power is moved, the dynasty has already changed.

Chinese officials did not call the Manchus a puppet, and it was polite to call the Western Qing.

But this Western Qing Empire himself is not polite, and he has been holding back his strength to fight back to Guannai, and the direction they chose is not to re-take the Hexi Corridor destroyed by them, but to go south from Outer Mongolia!

After the winter of the third year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the whole year of rest and recuperation in the fourth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty had already recuperated and waited for the extermination of the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Western Qing forces.

Gou Quan, the three main forces, plus the three Mongolian cavalry corps recruited, totaling more than 70,000 people, went out of the pass to the north, to stop the enemy in the Horqin steppe, and if there was a chance, to attack Kulun, Uriya Sutai and other places, and expel the Western Qing forces from the Mongolian plateau.