On September 20, all the land taxes in the six counties in autumn were finally collected.

According to statistics, the seven counties (including Chenjiazhuang County) have a total of 390,000 mu of cultivated land, 120,000 shi of land tax, and 110,000 shi of tenant rent (public land).

This food alone is enough for the military military, and the political system is still in a year of hard work.

Because the land tax collected by the military government does not need to be paid to the central government (Song Ting), it is very abundant.

In addition to the above-mentioned income without capital, Liu Yu also purchased 600,000 shi of grain from seven counties in Guangzhou and several surrounding counties, spending half of the cash flow from the military government at once.

Including part of the futures contract signed earlier that expired, the military government's grain storage has reached 1.3 million stones.

A very scary number.

It is enough for the people of seven counties to eat for one year without harvesting particles.

This is still the savings of the military government, not including the food stored by the people at home, nor the food stored by the landlords' homes.

The military government was established through rebellion, and most landlords did not trust it and secretly resisted it, so their food was basically hoarded.

If the Land Law had not stipulated that private food was not allowed to be sold on a large scale, it would have been estimated that those landlords would have taken away the grain from tenants and self-cultivated farmers, and the military government would not have purchased 600,000 stones of grain.

Chen Xunyou remembered Liu Yu's expression of relief when he reported to him: "I finally don't have to transport grain from the South China Sea to Guangzhou anymore. Every year, I feel sad when I get back one ship after another."

Yes, no matter what you transport something, it is more profitable than transporting food.

But grain is the foundation, and you don’t feel panic when you have grain in your hands. In the past, Chenjiazhuang’s grain production could not satisfy your own use, so how dare you not transport grain?

After learning the news, the military generals under him said excitedly: "It's good if the territory is large." "The Song Ting's arable land exceeds 10,000 acres, so how much food does it have to be collected."...

In fact, not all arable land on the mainland will have such high yields as Guangdong, and the yield per mu can exceed 300 kilograms.

In the north, it is enough to produce more than 100 kilograms per mu in a quarter (or one year, or half a year).

The ratio of seeds and harvests in Jiangnan can reach 1:30, and the ratio of seeds to harvests in the north is only 1:15.

Otherwise, in history, dynasties were generally unified from north to south, or from west to east.

Because the lives of the people in the north and west are too hard, the hard life has forged their tough bodies and barbaric spirit.

The people's personalities created by the comfortable life in the south have been separated after meeting on the battlefield.

It is not that the people in the south have poor personalities. The Ming Dynasty in later generations was unified from south to north. It is just that the majority of people in the north have a physical strength than those in the south.

By the same token, if you sow a handful of seeds on the ground in Southeast Asia, you will have enough food to eat in the coming year, and the nations there will be even more lazy.

At least the Chinese nation is diligent and excellent is rooted in the depths of its soul.

With enough food, the military government's most shortage of materials has become iron ore.

The iron ore located in the Tiantangshan lineage of Zengcheng County is the only iron-producing area in Guangzhou. It was originally mined by the Song Ting government officials. After hundreds of years of evolution, the iron ore there has now become private mines.

More than half of the iron ore required for Chenjiazhuang's production in recent years is purchased from there.

Since the Chen family army launched an uprising and occupied six counties in Guangzhou, the demand for iron ore has increased significantly, and the increased demand has basically been purchased from Tiantangshan nearby.

In the past six months, the iron ore production in Tiantangshan has doubled.

According to those miners, this kind of output increase has been very powerful, but for Chen Xun, it is only twenty yuan to double the ten yuan, and it is still not enough to deal with it.

Not to mention machinery, those miners are too primitive in their use of absenteeism and have no independent enthusiasm for absenteeism.

According to Pei Ren's investigation, more than half of the absenteeism on the Tiantangshan iron mine are "debt slaves".

In other words, if you owe money from landlords, wealthy businessmen or mine owners, you can't pay back the profits and pay them back the debts by working on the mine.

For those mine owners, these debt slaves are equivalent to free workers and it is impossible to give them the opportunity to escape. For those debt slaves absent from work, the day to pay off their debts is far away and there is no end. How can these people be motivated? It is only a day to be a day.

In addition to debt slaves, there are also thalassin peasants, unemployed refugees, hiding people who run away from crime, etc. The absenteeism is very complicated.

The treatment given to these people by the mine owner is fixed wages, and the supervisor is responsible for supervising it. The fixed production volume is completed every day before the money or food is paid.

In addition, the tools are simple, poor or almost no safety facilities, and the lack of cooperation between them.

How high can this production model be?

In Chen Xun's view, this small-shop mining model must be abolished and organized by the military government to use the power of machinery to mine on a large scale, exponentially increasing iron ore production.

In addition, Tiantangshan also produces coal, and the preliminary smelting of iron ore can also be placed near Tiantangshan to avoid the waste of manpower, time and cost transportation of iron ore and coal back and forth.

In Chen Xun's plan, the Tiantangshan lineage will become a heavy industrial production base for the military government in the future, and will support the iron needs of the military government's initial development, until the military government's territory expands and a more suitable and larger-scale heavy industrial production base is available.

The idea is very good, but it is very difficult to operate.

The previous commercial tax collection forced merchants to gather in Foshan Fort to "rebellion". If they wanted to collect the iron ore and coal mines of the mine owners, wouldn't they be so powerful?

The collection of commercial tax only increases the cost of merchants doing business, while the collection of mines directly destroys the jobs of those mine owners.

Moreover, the absenteeism that mine owners can gather is completely different from the craftsmen that merchants gather.

Looking at how many powerful troops there were in history, the army was composed of absenteeism, and you can know how high the innate advantage of this job was in rebellion.

Speaking of this does not mean that Chen Xun will give up his plan.

Chen Xun had promised Liu Yu that he would take back the mine of Tiantangshan in the next year.

The plan implementation time is placed after the New Year because only after the New Year, the second batch of new recruits in the Chen family army can be completed, and Chen Xun's side can draw a large number of Chen family army to directly deal with the mine owners of Tiantangshan by pressing the top of Mount Tai.

Only by pressing the top of Mount Tai can the losses of both parties be minimized.

The mine is snatched, and the military government also needs to absent from work to mine. Otherwise, if they are killed, who will mine for the military government?

And Chen Xun also wants to give those mine owners some opportunities.

During this period, Chen Xun would make a noise, and the military government planned to take back the iron ore and the coal mine was officially launched.

Let’s see which mine owners choose to surrender or resist by force.

If he chooses to surrender voluntarily, Chen Xun will give them corresponding compensation.
Chapter completed!