After September, the weather gradually became colder. For more than three months after that, Wen Yuan either trained new recruits at the Xia Ying Tao Military Camp or inspected the progress of the construction of Fenghuo Tun in various places in Julu. However, what Wen Yuan paid the most attention to was the upcoming construction project.
Money and food collection!
Entering October, the annual money and grain collection begins. Inside and outside Yingtao, carts loaded with grain can be seen everywhere. There is a long queue from the treasury to the door. In addition to the land tax, other taxes for the year must be paid.
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In the past, every time this New Year came, the common people would look sad. In the Han Dynasty, the land rent was quite light, but the poll tax was relatively heavy. Especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the politics was dark. The burden on the common people became even heavier. Every 1 year old~
14-year-old children, regardless of gender, have to pay a "koufu" of 23 yuan every year (royal taxes go to the Shaofu, 3 of which are horse-mouth money, which are special military expenses and go to the chief minister); the adult head
The tax is called "Shuangfu", and each person aged 15 to 56, regardless of gender, pays 120 qian per year (the government tax goes to the chief agricultural officer, merchants and slaves double the amount, and each person pays 240 qian per year. In order to encourage childbirth, women aged 15~
Those who are not married at the age of 30 are divided into five grades, with one additional tax for each grade; if a woman is pregnant, her husband will be exempted from the tax for one year)
If the land where the land is located has a lord, each household will need to pay a "household tax" of 200 yuan every year, and it is not included in the calculated tax. In addition, there are also "donation fees" that are randomly allocated. Every adult male and female must pay a "household tax" every year.
63 coins must be 'dedicated' to the emperor to cover court expenses (there are a lot of arbitrary local fees, so don't count). 'Corvee' means that every man with Fu registration (over 17 years old) must serve one month of free service every year in the place of household registration.
Labor is engaged in civil engineering, building bridges and roads, managing rivers and canals, transporting grain and other infrastructure labor. The levy of corvee is said to be limited to thirty days, but as long as the quality of the project is not up to standard and needs to be reworked, it is called "not counted"
Corvee means not included in the fixed service period. It can be seen that corvee service often exceeds one month. In addition, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, it is never new for local officials to issue corvee indiscriminately.
Therefore, when the common people of the late Han Dynasty reached this age, they would turn in more than half of the year's harvest. In good years, they might still be able to keep food, but in bad years, they could only sell their sons and daughters and become sharecroppers or members of a family with a tragic fate.
However, compared with previous years, the faces of the people who came to pay their rent and taxes this year were filled with happy smiles. Just because a prefect came to Julu County who loved the people like his own son, in addition to the necessary oral and calculated taxes, he was exempted from the additional tax.
All other exorbitant taxes and duties included!
On the eighth day of November, heavy snow fell for the first time in Julu County. More than 200 beacon villages and dozens of refugee resettlement camps built in various places were finally completed before the heavy snow came. More than 30,000 people who had sneaked into Julu County were finally able to live in the newly built buildings.
Among them, only the construction work on the shore of Dalu Ze had to be temporarily suspended. However, after more than three months of hard work by nearly ten thousand people, the main part of the academy and martial arts hall has been completed and can be put into use after some modifications.
However, according to Wenyuan's requirements, more than half of the land that was leveled out on the mainland this time is still unused. When there is time in the future, more buildings will be built there according to Wenyuan's plan!
In December of the first year of Chuping, the weather was cold and the roads were blocked by heavy snow. After two months of money and grain collection, all the money and grain rents in Julu County for that year were put into the treasury. After accounting, Julu County collected a total of more than 400,000 dendrobium of grain that year.
, more than 23 million yuan, which is a lot of money and food, but after deducting official salaries and other consumption, and then paying half of the tax to the state government, the remaining amount cannot even supply 10,000 soldiers and horses!
However, in the previous battle in Heishan, Wenyuan seized more than 700,000 hu of grain and grass. Although part of it was distributed to the people, the rest could support the giant deer's 30,000-strong army and horse for the next autumn harvest. By that time, Xin
The one million acres of farmland reclaimed will be able to start paying land rent, and then one can earn tens of thousands of husks of military grain a year!
Compared with food, Wenyuan's large-scale construction projects have caused even more exaggerated consumption! Maintaining Julu's normal expenses requires money, hiring people to build houses, and repairing Fengtun also requires money. Wenyuan opened such a large stall all at once, even if
The three thousand gold bonus sent from the Zhen family cannot withstand Wenyuan's consumption in the past three months. Fortunately, all projects have entered the final stage. With the tens of millions of money seized from Heishan, we can insist on collecting taxes in the coming year.
It should be almost done.
But if we survive this year, what will we do next year? With the speed at which Wenyuan spends money so lavishly, one year's income, even with the extra money from the Zhen family, will be gone in three to five months (for those who like to play Glorious Three Kingdoms games)
My friends should be like this in the early stage), I’m short of money!
Wen Yuan remembers hearing an entrepreneur once mentioned in a speech: The way to make money is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Today is a troubled world. Reducing expenditure is undoubtedly self-destruction. There are many ways to increase revenue, but Wen Yuan was just an otaku in his previous life.
We don't know how to make glass. We don't have the recipe to make gunpowder.
But speaking of Ning'er, she is proficient in Taoism. Why not let her try to refine a few tons of gunpowder for herself?
No, no! Developing gunpowder is too dangerous!
However, it seems that Ning'er is also proficient in medicine. Recently, it seems that selling ** is popular among the time traveling people to make a fortune. Why not let Ning'er refine **?
No, no, no! Ning'er is his unmarried daughter-in-law, how could she tarnish her mighty image in front of Ning'er with such a dirty thing!
Otherwise, sell sanitary napkins...
One idea after another flashed through Wen Yuan's mind. Either they didn't meet the conditions at all, or they were too dirty. They were all rejected by We Yuan in the end. After going around in a big circle, We Yuan finally decided: brew wine!
The brewing industry is a hugely profitable industry at any time. Otherwise, why would the prime time before Xinwen Network in the previous life be filled with advertisements for some wines?
Brewing requires a lot of grain. In the past, grain and grass were tight in Xiaquyang, so Wenyuan did not dare to brew. Now that Cherry has a lot of grain, using some grain to make wine will not have much impact on supplying the army.
Most of the wine in the late Han Dynasty was rice wine. After some investigation, Wen Yuan almost understood the process, which is to cook rice (glutinous rice or japonica rice) or yellow rice raw materials, let them cool, add koji, soak rice water, or add
After the yeast is stirred, it is saccharified and fermented in the tank. After the fermentation is completed, it is pressed, and the pressed liquid is rice wine.
The wine in Wen Yuan's previous life was mostly white wine. As for the brewing process, Wen Yuan didn't know much about it. He only vaguely remembered that he had to dig out a large cellar. After fermentation and distillation, he could obtain extremely high-alcohol white wine.
Once it is brewed into liquor, Wenyuan is confident that it will be popular in China, and the yellow rice wine of this era will inevitably be swept away! If he exclusively masters the brewing technology, will he not be able to make a lot of money by then?
In this matter, Wenyuan never thought about handing over the wine-making technology to the Zhen Family Chamber of Commerce. After all, wine-making in this era is a sophisticated technology that can capture more wealth than papermaking. Moreover, through papermaking, Wenyuan has firmly secured the Zhen family.
The earth is tied to himself, and as Zhen Yan originally thought, Wenyuan will naturally not put all his eggs in the same basket.