After September, the weather gradually became colder, and for more than three months after that, Wen Yuan either trained recruits in the Xia Gall Tao military camp, or inspected the progress of building beacon camps in various parts of Julu, but what Wen Yuan paid the most attention to was the upcoming collection of money and grain!

In October, the annual collection of money and grain began to be implemented, and inside and outside the gall pottery, you can see carts full of grain, from the treasury to the door in a long line, in addition to the field tax, but also to pay other taxes for a year.

In the past, every year of this year, the people would be full of sadness, the Han Dynasty's land rent was quite light, but the poll tax was relatively heavy, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the politics were dark. The burden on the heads of the common people is heavier, all 1 ~ 14 years old children, regardless of men and women, but also pay 23 yuan per year of the 'mouth tax' (royal taxes, to the Shaofu, of which 3 money is horse money, belonging to the special military expenses, to the big Si Nong); adult poll tax is called 'calculation of the fu', 15 ~ 56 years old, regardless of men and women, each person pays 120 money per year (the government tax is returned to the big Si Nong, the merchant and the slave are doubled, 240 yuan per person per year. In order to encourage childbearing, women who do not marry at the age of 15~30 are divided into five classes, and each liter is subject to an additional levy; If a woman is pregnant, her husband is exempt from paying for one year)

If there is a feudal lord in the land, each household also needs to pay a 'household fee' of 200 yuan per year, and it is not counted in the calculation. In addition, there is also an indiscriminate apportionment of 'contributions', all adult men and women, each of whom has to 'give' 63 yuan to the emperor every year for court expenses (local fees are also as many as cattle hairs, not counted). 'Conscription' means that every man (over the age of 17) is required to serve one month of unpaid labor in the place of household registration every year, engaged in civil engineering, building bridges and roads, regulating rivers and canals, transferring water valleys and other infrastructure work. It is said that the levy is limited to 30 days, but as long as the quality of the project is not up to standard and it is necessary to rework, it is called 'do not count as requisition', that is, it is not counted in the fixed service period, and it can be seen that the levy is often more than one month in fact. In addition, because of the relationship between the emperor and the emperor, it is never new for local officials to issue conscription indiscriminately.

Therefore, at the end of the Han Dynasty, as soon as the people arrived at this year, most of the year's harvest would be handed over, and they might be able to leave food in the good year, and they could only sell their sons and daughters in the disaster year, and become tenant farmers or families with tragic fate.

However, compared with previous years, the faces of the people who came to pay the rent this year were overflowing with happy smiles, just because Julu County came to a Taishou who loved the people like a son, in addition to the necessary oral endowment and calculation, all the other harsh taxes including the more endowment were exempted!

On the eighth day of November, the heavy snow fell in Julu County, more than 200 Fengtun built in various places, and dozens of displaced people were finally completed before the heavy snow fell, and more than 30,000 people who sneaked into Julu could finally live in the newly built homes, only the construction project on the shore of the mainland Ze had to be temporarily suspended, but after nearly ten thousand people Zhuang lasted more than three months of hard work, the main part of the academy and the lecture hall has been completed, and it can be put into use after some modification.

However, according to Wenyuan's requirements, more than half of the land leveled out on the mainland is still unused, and when there is time in the future, more buildings will be built there with Wenyuan's plan!

In December of the first year of the first peace, the weather was cold, the snow closed the road, after two months of money and grain collection, all the money and grain rent in Julu County that year were all put into storage, after accounting, Julu collected a total of more than 400,000 grains and grass, more than 23 million yuan, speaking of which these money and grain are a lot, but these deduct the consumption of officials and so on, and then pay half of the tax to the state government, and the rest of the 10,000 soldiers and horses can not afford to supply!

However, in the previous battle of Montenegro, Wenyuan captured more than 700,000 grains and grass, although some of them were distributed to the people, the rest could also support more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of Julu to harvest in the autumn of the next year, and at that time, the newly reclaimed million acres of farmland could begin to pay field rent, and then tens of thousands of military rations could be obtained a year!

Compared with food, Wenyuan built a lot of construction, and the consumption generated was even more exaggerated! It takes money to maintain the normal expenses of Julu, and it also costs money to hire people to build houses and repair Fengtun, Wen Yuan spread out such a big stall all of a sudden, even if there is a 3,000 gold dividend sent from the Zhen family, he can't afford Wen Yuan's consumption for these three months, but fortunately, now that all projects have entered the stage of sweeping, relying on the tens of millions of money seized from Montenegro, it should be almost the same to insist on collecting taxes next year.

But if you survive this year, what will you do next year, with Wenyuan's speed of spending money so lavishly, a year's income, even if you have the extra money from the Zhen family, it will be gone in three or five months (friends who like to play the Glorious Three Kingdoms game should be like this in the early stage), lack of money!

Wen Yuan remembered that he once heard an entrepreneur in a speech mentions: The way to make money lies in opening up sources and reducing expenditures, and now it is a troubled time, throttling is undoubtedly self-destruction, open source, there are many methods, but Wen Yuan was just an otaku in his previous life, making glass, we can't, making gunpowder, we don't have that formula at all.

But speaking of which, Ning Er is a refined channel, why don't you let her try to refine a few tons of gunpowder for herself?

No, no, no! It is too dangerous to develop gunpowder!

However, it seems that Ning'er is still proficient in medicine, and it seems that it has become popular to sell ** to make a fortune recently, so it is better to let Ning'er refine **?

No, no, no! Ning'er is her little daughter-in-law who has never been through the door, how can she tarnish her mighty image in front of Ning'er because of such a dirty thing!

Otherwise, sell tampons......

One thought after another flashed in Wen Yuan's mind, either they didn't have the conditions at all, or they were too dirty, and they were all vetoed by Wen Yuan in the end, so after a big circle, Wen Yuan finally decided: make wine!

The winemaking industry is a profiteering industry at all times, otherwise why is the prime time before the news broadcast in the previous life full of some wine advertisements?

Brewing requires a lot of grain, and in the past, there was a shortage of grain and grass in Xiaquyang, so Wenyuan did not dare to brew, but now the cherries have quite a lot of grain, and taking out some of the grain to make wine does not have much impact on the supply of the army.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, most of the wine was rice wine, and Wen Yuan almost understood the process after some investigation, that is, the rice (glutinous rice or japonica rice) or yellow rice raw materials were steamed, cooled, and then added to the koji, soaked in rice water, or added yeast to stir, saccharified and fermented in the tank, and pressed after the fermentation was completed, and the liquid pressed out was rice wine.

The liquor in Wen Yuan's previous life was mostly liquor, and as for the process of making wine, Wen Yuan didn't know much, but he vaguely remembered that it seemed that a large cellar was to be dug out, and after fermentation, after distillation, a very high degree of liquor could be obtained.

And once it is brewed into liquor, Wenyuan is confident that it will be able to sweep China, and the rice wine of this era will inevitably be swept away! Monopolizing the technology of sake brewing by yourself, isn't it a lot of money at that time?

In this matter, Wen Yuan never thought of handing over the wine-making technology to the Zhen Chamber of Commerce, after all, in this era, wine-making is a more advanced technology that can grab wealth than papermaking, not to mention that through papermaking, Wenyuan has firmly tied the Zhen family to himself, and as Zhen Yan originally thought, Wenyuan naturally would not put all his eggs in the same basket.