Yuan Yao moved from Danglikou to Moling City.

Although he made it clear that soldiers were not allowed to loot, the post-war depression was inevitable, with few pedestrians on the streets and shops closed.

As soon as Yuan Yao arrived in Moling, he summoned the generals, the purpose was to assign the siege task, because Liu Yao's main force had been annihilated, so he had to take advantage of this gap to seize the territory as soon as possible, otherwise it would be troublesome for Liu Yao to recruit troops again.

There are a total of 12 county towns in the west and south directions of Moling, and Yuan Yao ordered the two generals under the seat to lead the army independently, Zhang Xun and Zhang Ying, respectively, and as for whether to surrender or attack, it was handed over to Lu Su to decide.

There were three other counties in Danyang to the east of Moling, and Yuan Yao handed them over to Sun Ce to pick them up, which was the first time he let Sun Ce lead the troops alone.

And if Sun Ce honestly completes the task this time, Yuan Yao will be ready to be promoted, because his merits have arrived, plus the previous merits for Yuan Shu to win the entire Lujiang County, he can already worship the general.

This is also the reason why Yuan Yao began to promote Lu Su, Zhang Ying, and Tai Shici as generals during this time, and someone must contain Sun Ce.

Sun Ce was very excited to receive the military order, and it seemed that it was also unexpected by him.

In addition to taking the three counties of Hushu, Jiangcheng, and Jurong to the east of Moling, his task was to cross the Danyang border, continue eastward into the territory of Wu County, and take the two county seats of Wu County, Qu'a and Dantu.

Unlike other counties in Wu County close to Hangzhou Bay, Qu'a and Dantu were closer to Danyang County and close to the Yangtze River, and they were controlled by Liu Miao before, so Yuan Yao planned to take it over before Wu County Taishou Xu Gong could react, and before he could figure out Xu Gong's political leanings, he would strike first.

Another important reason was that Yuan Yao had to prepare an estuary, and these two counties were the closest cities to the estuary of the Yangtze River during this period.

In later generations, Yangzhong, Nantong City, Chongming Island and other places are now in the sea, and have not been washed out by the silt of the Yangtze River, and even most of Shanghai is now at the bottom of the sea.

If Yuan Yao planned to build a city or seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze River in this era, he would not be able to go to the original location of Shanghai to build it, because it is now under the sea, which should be called "entering the sea", and if he wants to build "Shanghai", he can only build a site near Dantu, that is, near the inland city of Zhenjiang City in later generations, and now this is the coastal area.

Because of the lack of 2,000 years of erosion and precipitation, the land area of Jiangdong in the late Han Dynasty was much smaller than that of Jiangnan in later generations.

Yuan Yao's purpose in seizing this estuary was to build a harbor, because the "Compass" technology in the system technology tree was less than two months away from completion, and it was better to get the coastal area first to prevent accidents.

After building the harbor, Yuan Yao was able to build all-sail ships, and then he could go to Indochina and India to buy back the seeds of Champa rice and cotton.

These two well-fed treasures, the sooner they get their hands on them, the better, especially Zhancheng Rice, Yuan Yao is already a little impatient.

According to the current navigation technology, it is not impossible to reach the Indochina Peninsula from Jiangdong, but it is necessary to rely on oarsmen to row thousands of miles of coastline to reach the destination, and there must be a series of seaport supply lines along the way for oarsmen to go ashore to rest and replenish, but it is obvious that there is not so much infrastructure along the coast of China at this time.

Therefore, if you want to complete long-distance sailing, you can only rely on the ultra-long-range endurance of a full-sail sea boat.

This is also the main reason why Yuan Yao first studied the technology of "Compass", and first prepared for the Age of Discovery from the technical point of view.

As for commodities and markets, he still has an urgent problem to solve, that is, money and food for the soldiers and officials......

As mentioned above, relying on Danyang County alone, if taxes are not raised, it can only collect about 450,000 Hu Tian Fu per year, and Yuan Yao's 50,000 soldiers need to eat 1.08 million Hu a year, which is obviously not enough.

The easiest way to solve this problem is to raise taxes, but whether or not to increase them will have to be decided after some discussion.

Compared to the Central Plains, which is the base of the Yuan family, the people in Jiangdong do not welcome the Yuan family very much, and if the tax increase gives some people an excuse, they need to figure out what troubles they need to deal with before deciding.

Otherwise, the unforeseen errors and omissions in blind implementation will outweigh the losses.

In addition to the food for the soldiers, there are also military salaries and salaries, which can be distributed in money, which involves a tax.

The tax of the Han Dynasty was mainly the poll tax, which meant that people in this era had to pay money to the state while they were alive.

Including the 'household tax' that needs to pay 200 yuan per year;

All children aged 1~14, regardless of gender, have to pay 23 yuan per year;

The poll tax for adults is called 'calculation', and 15~56 years old, regardless of gender, each person pays 120 yuan per year;

The merchant and the slave were doubled, 240 yuan per person per year;

In addition, if an adult man is unable to perform conscription and military service, he can pay 300 yuan a year instead, which is to give more.

There are also some commercial taxes and duties that are not listed because they are small in this era.

The reason why it is a waste of talking about this tax system is because you will find a very interesting thing, that is, you want to know how much the head tax of the Han people is, just multiply the population by 100 to get an approximate value.

For example, in the first year of Emperor Yuanxing, the Han Dynasty had a 9237112 household and 53256229 people, and the poll tax that year was about 5.3575 billion, which was almost 100 times the population.

Other commercial taxes and the like are not counted here, because the poll tax was the main tax in this era.

Therefore, Danyang County has a population of 630,000 people, and it can almost be concluded that the poll tax is about 63 million a year, and the gap will not be too big.

Perhaps the people who instituted this tax system at that time may have deliberately organized it according to the population structure in order to accommodate the poor mathematical ability of the officials of this era, which would indeed save a lot of work for the local officials.

Now that you know the approximate taxes of Danyang, you also need to know what Yuan Yao needs to bear.

Danyang leads 16 counties, a large county full of 10,000 households, and the county order is a thousand stones, and the monthly salary is 80 Hugu; The magistrate of the small county is 600 stones, and the moon is 70 Hugu; The second county magistrate is 300 stones, and the moon is 40 valleys. plus county officials and county lieutenants with an annual income of 200-360 stone at all levels; With an annual income of about 100 stones, such as fighting food, assistants, etc., the county-level units of Guangdanyang County have to take out at least 10 million yuan a year.

This is calculated according to the parity grain, and the corn is 220 yuan per Hu in peacetime. If there is a disaster and a war, it may be a lot of money, tens of thousands of years ago.

These are the salaries of the local counties, and the salaries of the army are all small heads!

Yuan Yao's army of 50,000 had a military salary of 573,600 yuan a year, or 126,192,000 yuan......

In short, through a series of information verification, Yuan Yao came to a conclusion that if he wanted to feed his army, he needed at least two and a half Danyang County.

And that's not counting the food for the production of clones!

The existing 300,000 Hu grain may not be enough for Yuan Yao's consumption for two months, especially in wartime, and he has to levy and send people to transport grain, and eat while transporting it......

Zhancheng rice is far water, and it is also a fire with a population of more than 100 million, so Yuan Yao has to find another way to solve the near fire in front of him with a military salary of more than 100 million.

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