Although the King of Han was looting everywhere, he still had to support the domestic soldiers and horses in the bloody battle with the imperial court, so Chen Xu thought that his economic pressure should be a bit great.

Otherwise, the Angkor Dynasty would not have extorted three million taels of silver from the Angkor Dynasty recently.

"Let's go, Uncle Yunyang, the end will take you around." When Song Xian heard what he said, he smiled.

Chen Xu looked puzzled and followed Song Xian to the north.

There is a newly-built Saigon Wei in the north, Saigon Wei leans against the sea and builds, the Acropolis is only more than five miles away from the sea, at that time 20,000 local people were mobilized, plus more than 5,000 soldiers of the guard, the basic structure was built, and the main buildings were built, and it is still being perfected.

Chen Xu followed Song Xian to this side, and when he saw the city wall or a wooden structure from a distance, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you use wooden walls for the acropolis?" ”

Chen Xu said: "Build a simple one first, because a lot of manpower will be used for port construction and shipyard construction, and then rebuild the wall when the outside is built." ”

They used wooden planks as a mezzanine, and sandy soil in the middle and by the sea, and built a simple wall first.

Chen Xu originally thought that this was a temporary guard, and he would return to China in the future, but when he heard Song Xian say this, he would have to rebuild the guardrail wall in the future, which would definitely be permanent.

When approaching the Acropolis, Song Xian took him to the west, and then he found that there was a newly built street in the west, Song Xian said that on both sides of the street, there were houses of people who helped build factories and ports, and the houses were of course relatively simple, most of them were built of wood, fortunately, it was not as cold as in the north of the Ming Dynasty, so it would not be so cold in winter.

After Chen Xu got closer, he found that the street was actually very prosperous, with people coming and going, and there were a large number of shops.

According to Song Xian, some of these shops were opened by merchants from Guangdong and Fujian in the Ming Dynasty who saw the business opportunities opened here, and some of them were made by the Wei Institute itself.

"We pay the people, and the soldiers of the guard station also have a lot of money in their hands, and they always have to find a place to consume, and the king asked us to do business here, sell local specialties and various daily necessities, and then encourage the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to come over and drive the consumption here."

"In this way, part of the money and wages we have sent out will be returned to us."

Song Xian said that the king had already invented white sugar, which is now very popular in the local area and sells the best, and even the sergeants of the guard post will come to buy it if they have spare money in their hands.

After that, I took him to a shop.

According to Song Xian, the shopkeeper of this shop was sent by the Han Palace, but there were five regular soldiers in the guard to help.

And five different sergeants come in turn every month, the shopkeeper pays the salary, and the monthly sales data is brought back by the sergeant, and Song Xian counts.

Chen Xu immediately understood, the people of the King of Han and the people of the guard had a role in supervising each other.

This Han Wang Zhente Niang will make money, and she is scheming, Chen Xu is secretly surprised.

For the first time, he saw the white sugar like snowflakes, and reached out to dip it into a little, and it was really sweet and delicious.

When he was in Thang Long, he knew that the Han King had organized the natives from Yunnan to plant Ganshu in Thang Long with the local people, and that the vicinity of Thang Long in Annam was originally an area where the local people cultivated Ganshu.

"This white sugar, now only King Han can get it, right?" Chen Xu said in a deep voice at this time.

"Of course, now where white sugar can be produced, there are troops to protect it to ensure that secrets are not leaked."

Of course, after the technology of this thing comes out, it will definitely not be hidden, but it can be hidden for as long as it can be hidden, at least Zhu Gaoxu wants to make a jackpot.

Song Xian said at this time: "Now that the king is raising troops, military resources are tight, and he has to rely on white sugar in exchange for money and grain, so brothers, for the time being, I still use brown sugar." ”

"Of course, Yunyang Bo is different from ordinary soldiers, and every month in the future, an appropriate amount of sugar will be sent over."

"Hahaha, polite, polite, King Han is really -—— so polite." Chen Xu laughed, admiring King Han more and more in his heart.

King Han can make money, he can also spend money, a lot of money is paid, but he can find a way to earn it back, this is really awesome, Chen Xu is now in five bodies.

He already knew very well at this moment that if nothing else, the emperor would definitely not be able to get the king of Han.

The King of Han has money, soldiers, and will buy people's hearts, and Zhu Di killed all sides after the success of Jingnan, offending many civil officials and people of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that he should not be the opponent of the King of Han.

He immediately thought of a question: "Our 150,000 brothers in Angkor have a lot of money in their hands, and it seems that they will also learn from this side." ”

Song Xian said with a smile: "General Mu has already started to do this. ”

"Okay, okay, I'm fully supporting." Chen Xu said on the spot.

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When Li Jinglong led an army of 500,000 troops to attack the north for the first time, because the cotton clothes in winter were not in place, a large number of soldiers died of frostbite and frostbite, and their morale and combat effectiveness were greatly reduced.

At this time, it was already winter, and Zhu Gaoxu also decisively temporarily withdrew his troops, because most of his soldiers and horses adapted to the warm climate in the south, and there were not enough cotton clothes, which would attack the Jiangnan area, and the weather would be very cold.

It is said that the north is cold, but in fact, the cold in the south of the Yangtze River is more unbearable than in the north, and many northerners in later generations are not used to it after coming to the south of the Yangtze River, and they are not frost-tolerant.

When Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses were in Yunnan, Guangdong and other places, they did not need to consider winter clothes, and the military supplies at that time were also in artillery, bows and arrows, armor, siege equipment, etc.

Now after occupying the provinces, Zhu Gaoxu did not act rashly, while organizing the provinces to start preparing winter supplies, and on the other hand, training soldiers and horses, waiting for the next wave of decisive battles.

As he thought, after the defeat of four provinces in a row, and the fact that winter was approaching, the imperial court suspended its offensive.

In other words, the imperial court is recruiting troops and horses, and it does not have the strength to launch a new offensive, or the imperial court thinks that as long as it drags on, with the strength of the whole country, it will be able to drag Zhu Gaoxu sooner or later.

Of course, the same was true in the previous Jingjing, where the court and the Yan army stopped fighting, otherwise they would not have fought for a few years.

Therefore, since the end of the Zhongjiang War in Sichuan, the whole Yongle has been quiet for four years, and the two sides have formed a temporary tacit understanding and quit the army to recuperate.

In late November, Zhu Gaoxu returned to Yunnan from the front line, and his main role was to stabilize the hearts of the Yunnan military and civilians and hundreds of officials.

After Zhu Gaoxu returned, he first summoned civil and military officials to understand the current basic situation in Yunnan, and how many soldiers and horses could be requisitioned? How much food is available annually? How is the non-governmental propaganda work doing?

Hou Hai, the political envoy, reported to Zhu Gaoxu that there was a problem with the king's tax policy.

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly asked: "What went wrong?" ”

The sooner the problem comes out, the better, which is why he wants to reform the tax now, and it can be changed before the whole country is unified.

Hou Haidao: "The lower officials will use the military fields in Yunnan as an analogy? ”

The original military land of Yunnan was 1.2 million mu, and Zhu Gaoxu brought in the three guards of the Han king, recruited tenants in Yunnan, and trained troops in Tuntian, and after several years, now the military field plus the land of the Han king has 1.46 million mu.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the tax and grain on military land were relatively heavy, with one bucket per mu.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, it was changed to one bucket and two liters. (Note that regardless of your yield, count by number.) ）

According to this standard, assuming that 1.46 million mu of land in Yunnan is arranged, according to the original standard of Zhu Di, the taxable grain of Yunnan's military fields is 175,000 stone.

Zhu Gaochu later abolished the taxation method of the Ming court, because the original way of the Ming court's military fields was very bad for farming sergeants, and Zhu Gaochu had to change it if he wanted to win over the grassroots sergeants.

Previously, the Ming court stipulated that in the first three years of military land, one for each regular army, 12 acres of land and six stones of rent.

The rent (tax) of 12 acres of land is 6 stones, and if the yield per mu is 2 stones, a total of 24 stones, a quarter of the rent (tax) must be paid.

This was for the first three years, and after three years, it was changed to one liter and two buckets per mu, which sounds like a rent (tax) has been reduced, but "for each cent of land (fifty acres), twelve stones of grain are self-supporting for the army." The surplus grain is the food for the officers and soldiers of the guard. ”

Suppose you have 50 mu and an annual output of 100 stones, and the sergeant who farms can only take 12 stones to support himself, and on average he can only get 2 buckets and 4 liters per mu.

After removing the tax grain (rent), the rest was handed over to the unit (health office), saying that it was ration, and in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was basically all for senior officers.

Therefore, according to the original calculation, the Ming army could only get two buckets and four liters per mu of land, and the imperial court collected 175,000 taxes, most of which belonged to senior officers (commanders of various guards and thousands of households)

Now Zhu Gaoxu has changed, and the tax is collected by one percent, not according to the real number, but according to the number of percent.

How much you yield per mu, I will only harvest 10%.

Assuming that the yield per mu is two stones, and Yunnan's 1.46 million mu of military land, Zhu Gaoxu can collect a tax of 292,000 stones.

The other ninety percent goes to the sergeants, and the sergeants can get one stone and eight buckets per acre.

Look, Zhu Gaoxu's tax collection method not only increased the tax revenue of the imperial court, but also greatly increased the income of the sergeants.

It's an explosion.

Of course, in this case, the interests of high-ranking generals, especially at the command level, and at the thousand-level level will be hit hard.

Originally, the imperial court counted 12 stones from each (50) mu of land, taxes and soldiers, and distributed them with grain.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he was still complacent, look, how good my taxes are, the imperial court has more taxes, and the sergeants have increased their income.

But when Hou Haiyi explained, he knew that something was wrong.

Zhu Gaoxu's tax policy has three problems.

First, the income of ordinary sergeants has skyrocketed, and second, the interests of senior officers have been violated (but this is not obvious at this time, because the matter of deducting food and salaries and embezzling the interests of ordinary sergeants has only occurred in large quantities before and after the time of Ming Yingzong, and now most senior officers do not dare to do this, which is also one of the reasons why the army's combat effectiveness is relatively strong now.) Third, Zhu Gaochu also had to pay an additional military salary and one more expenditure, which meant that Zhu Gaoxu's overcharged taxes were sent out again.

Hou Hai said at this time: "According to the original tax collection method of the imperial court - 'surplus grain is the food of the officers and soldiers of the guard', the extra grain is used to offset the food of the officers and soldiers, and the imperial court only needs to pay a small amount of copper coins and salt. ”

"The king has no surplus grain, so now he has to spend a lot of money and salt, and the original high taxes are directly filled in, and even subsidized."

"Throughout this year, Yunnan military fields collected nearly 300,000 stones, and the generals spent more than 400,000 stones on grain.

“。。” Zhu Gaoxu looked at Hou Hai depressedly,

This is really a big problem, and if we don't come back at the time of the truce, we can't afford to pay food another day, and something really will happen.

(End of chapter)