It's April, the first time of the year to pay taxes.

In April last year, Yunzhou County directly ate a full stomach with the newly arrived Nanli County!

Not only did the people under his command have something to eat, but they could also leave a large amount of food to buy people in Guannei, and in one fell swoop, the number of Song people under Zhao Jun's command increased to more than one million!

Of all the regions now under Zhao Jun's rule, the population of the Song people alone has reached about 2.2 million.

Many of them came early in the Song Dynasty, but also in this year to start a family, pregnant with children, is expected to usher in a wave of newborns under Zhao Jun around June.

To say the least, it can bring another 40,000 or 50,000 people to Yunzhou County.

And this year, compared with last year, Zhao Jun once again has two more counties of territory.

Whether it is Woye County, which has been in hand for half a year, or Yoel County, which has just arrived, they are also ushering in the spring harvest like Nanli County at this moment.

During the autumn harvest last year, Zhao Jun collected nearly 50 million stone in grain taxes from Nanli County and Woye County alone.

After deducting the 10 million stone sold and the 10 million stone used as grain preparation and market supply, there was a surplus of nearly 33 million stone of grain in Yunzhou County during the entire autumn harvest.

Before Wang Cezhi's mission, Yunzhou County had just completed the collection of winter taxes.

In the past, due to the lack of population and cultivated land, as well as the war, only 12,930,000 stone of grain was collected in the autumn.

But when the winter tax was collected, after a large number of Song people, a large area of the originally barren land in Woye County was reclaimed, and there was no impact of war.

The winter tax of Woye County actually collected a winter tax of 30 million stones.

Coupled with the 46 million stone of grain stabilized in Nanli County, the entire Yunzhou County of Winter Tax has obtained a grain reserve of more than 76 million stones.

Coupled with the balance of the previous autumn harvest, at the end of the winter of 23, the reserve grain of Yunzhou County has reached as much as 115 million stones!

At this time, Yunzhou County is no longer worried about the lack of food, with the population of Yunzhou County, this food is enough for all the people under Zhao Jun's command to eat for ten consecutive years!

But then the problem came, so much grain, Yunzhou County could not find a suitable place to store it, although Yunzhou County Nanli County and Woye County had already begun to build granaries after the autumn harvest.

But the problem is that building a large granary that can store so much grain is a huge project in itself, and it is not so easy to complete.

But as the season passed, the goal of making each county a big breadbasket was not met.

But nearly ten granaries have been built in each county.

With the original establishment, each granary was able to store about 3.5 million stone of grain.

These thirty granaries are still not enough!

There are still nearly 8 million stone of grain that cannot be stored.

In desperation, Zhao Jun had no choice but to order that all the more than 8 million stone grain that could not be processed be transported to Guannai for sale and processing.

Such a large amount of grain naturally cannot enter the customs in a grand manner, not to mention anything else, if his emperor Lao Tzu knew that he could actually take out such a large amount of grain to sell in the customs, he would definitely doubt himself.

Maybe the real situation of Yunzhou County will also be exposed.

However, if Yunzhou County wants to enter the pass, there is only one way to go through the Liaoyun Pass, but the guard Li Wei is his father's man.

That is to say, if the eight million stone grain entering the customs does not want to be known by his own emperor Lao Tzu, then he must not let Li Wei know.

But Li Wei is the guard of Liaoyun Pass, and eight million stone grain is not a small amount, how could he not find it?

At this time, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered a person, he just wanted to be an idle chess player.

But I didn't expect that it would become my own trick now.

Zhao Jun thought of no one else, it was the deputy general of Liaoyun Pass, which deputy general Peng Li was responsible for guarding the general pass every day!

Zhao Jun didn't forget him after he picked up his idea at the beginning, but regularly asked the secret guard to send him a little "small gift", and after he slowly accepted it, the two sides began to get straight to the point.

Everyone is an adult, and everyone knows the reason why the other party is good to them for no reason.

Therefore, Peng Li also directly assured after being corroded: "In the future, as long as things from Yunzhou County will enter the customs, tell him that he will solve the safety problem!" ”

Peng Li is not stupid, he is just a small deputy general, why should people win him over and give themselves benefits, it is nothing more than that he is beneficial to them, and where does he have such value?

There is no doubt that it is the Liaoyun Pass that he is in charge of.

This is also the only place where he can help them, so Peng Li directly made his own promise.

Now is the time to deliver on that promise.

Zhao Jun directly asked Wang Huaien to go to Liaoyun Pass with his warrant, and then the matter of eight million grains entering the customs was successfully resolved.

Although Li Wei is a guard, he will not come to inspect every day, but will inspect the pass for ten days and half a month, and Peng Li is completely responsible for guarding the pass every day.

And Zhao Jun's eight million stone grains only need to be broken into zero, and a small batch can pass the pass at night, and with Peng Li's cover, he can enter the pass unnoticed.

And all Zhao Jun needs to pay is a little benefit to Peng Li.

This is a drop in the bucket compared to the benefits that can be brought by the 8 million grain after entering the customs.

But this is not a long-term solution, Zhao Jun is also ordering Feiyun Commercial Bank to open up the Hedong Corridor as soon as possible.

As long as the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce can open up this trade route, then many things in Yunzhou County will not need to enter the pass from Liaoyun Pass at the risk of being discovered.

You only need to go a little farther and send things directly from the grassland to the Hedong Corridor.

However, this is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time, as the Hedong Corridor has been around for thousands of years, and the conflicts of interest involved in it can be described as extremely complex.

Although Feiyun Commercial Bank is now a well-known commercial house in the Great Song Dynasty, for those multinational chambers of commerce that walk the Hedong Corridor all the year round, Feiyun Commercial Bank is still very immature.

Far from being able to join them, they are excluded.

Therefore, it is not realistic to open up the Hedong Corridor in a short period of time, and it needs to be slowly figured out, and the only way in Yunzhou County is still this Peng Li.

After solving the grain that could not be stored in eight million stones, Zhao Jundang even had a sense of urgency.

The sense of crisis does not come from the outside world, but from themselves.

Now it's only two seasons of food, and they have no place to store it, but with the war with their body poison, another county is in their hands.

Seeing that Yunzhou County will have another large amount of grain tax in April, the warehouse is still insufficient.

At that time, it will be more than just 8 million stones that need to be solved.

With that amount of materials, no matter how powerful Peng Li was, it was impossible for him to send the god into the customs without Li Wei noticing.

So before the next grain levy, the problem of the granary must be solved!

Finally, at a revised meeting in January, Yunzhou County approved a proposal to increase the number of construction workers to build the granary.

The Yamen of Yunzhou County will recruit nearly 50,000 people from each of the three counties to participate in the construction of the granary, and speed up the construction of the granary in each county as much as possible.

Solve the problem of too much grain in Yunzhou County and the inability to store it as soon as possible.

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(End of chapter)