The current plan being discussed is for Shanzhai officials and their families to be transported to East Lake by merchant ships from the Chishan Association. For other people who are willing to move to Guangzhou, in addition to road guides, the Zhiji Prefecture will pay five cents of travel expenses to each household, and then they will be transferred to Guangzhou.

The corresponding settlement fee will be issued.

In addition, Han Qian plans to reorganize Huangchuan and Le'an counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, but even so, Guangzhou will only have a population of more than 70,000 households in the future.

Considering the possibility of maintaining a long-term military confrontation along the Huaihe River, these populations will mainly be located in the shallow hills and low ridges of the Huanghe River and the upper reaches of the Gushui River near Huaiyang Mountain and Tongbai Mountain.

In these areas, in order to arrange agricultural production well, it is necessary to build more dams to intercept water sources and divert water through canals.

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, more fields can be irrigated, and the cost of farming is higher than that in the plain area near the Huaihe River.

However, these things must be done in the cloud.

In Huozhou, Shouzhou, and Haozhou, Han Qian also guided the households to resettle southward as much as possible, tried every means to increase the population density along Chaohu Lake, and evacuated the residents in the central and northern parts of Shouzhou, Haozhou, and Huozhou near the Huaihe River.

household.

These are all preparations for the Mongol cavalry to march straight in and directly occupy or allow the Weizhou rebels to completely occupy the Hehuai area.

Fortunately, Huaixi is vast and sparsely populated, so the land is extremely abundant, and the land on both sides of Chaohu Lake and within Chuzhou is also more fertile.

Of course, Tangyi's reliance on Huaixi's land tax is quite limited. More importantly, it relies on the dumping of cotton, ironware and other primary industrial products to the hinterland of Dachu and surrounding forces. This also determines that Tangyi cannot simply do this.

A local separatist vassal power.

This time the Shu Kingdom ceded the two states of Xia and Liang. The geographical location was very crucial, but the fundamental reason why Tangyi was not taken was here.

What Tangyi has done so far is to make other forces unable to find excuses and unable to block the Chishan Society's trade.

By the end of the year, the three core prefectures of Chuchao and Xu had planted more than one million acres of cotton fields, harvested more than 900,000 dans of seed cotton a year, and expanded their export sales to 6 million pieces of cotton cloth and hundreds of thousands of waddings.

This project can directly contribute millions of dollars in income to the government every year.

In addition to the counties in Xuzhou, nine counties with high-quality coal and iron mineral resources, including Donghu, Longtan, Huaiyang, Tingshan, Yongyang, and Nanqiao, have also vigorously expanded the double-furnace ironmaking method.

The iron material produced also successfully exceeded the threshold of 12 million kilograms.

However, Tangyi's current export of iron materials, including armor and weapons, is mainly high value-added refined iron products, totaling less than 2 million kilograms, which can provide the government with 200,000 yuan per year.

income.

The iron materials refined and produced in Tangyi are currently mainly supplied for internal consumption.

This is mainly due to the operation and development of the Huaixi prefectures, which require a huge amount of investment in various types of iron tools. Last year, more than 6 million kilograms of iron were consumed in the production of agricultural tools alone, reaching an average of six kilograms per capita. However, it is precisely a large amount of high-quality iron tools.

Only after the large-scale distribution of agricultural tools in various ways did the agricultural production in Huaixi states recover so quickly.

Without such a huge amount of iron tools, the efficiency of reclaiming wasteland, weeding pear fields, digging canals and other projects would be much slower.

The subsequent demand for iron tools in Huaixi's agricultural production will remain at a relatively stable level. However, Han Qian intends to promote the application of iron products in bridge building and other construction work, and the internal demand for iron materials will also increase rapidly.

The price will continue to rise, but at the same time, it will also promote the strengthening of external dumping, taking advantage of the advantages in cost and quality as well as the business network spread by the Chishan Association to compete with the local iron smelting industries in various places.

This means that Tangyi's iron smelting still needs to develop in a big way.

Engineers from the Engineering School discovered a kind of bile water deep in the Quyang Mountains early last year, which could produce copper using the displacement method. Han Qian speculated that the commonly known bile water should be a solution containing copper compounds.

On this basis, the Engineering School summarized the method of smelting copper with bile water. In the second half of the year before last, it officially established a smelting plant in Quyang. Last year, it consumed two million kilograms of iron materials and smelted 800,000 kilograms of copper.

Since the previous dynasty, the iron smelting industry has been abandoned for a long time. Even so, a pound of Jianghuai refined iron only sells for fifty or sixty yuan. The price of crude pig iron is even lower, ranging from ten yuan to more than twenty yuan, but the price of copper is real.

One kilogram is worth more than a hundred dollars, and it can even be used as a hard currency trading commodity.

The copper coins cast in Dachu are also worth one thousand qian and four taels of copper.

For two and a half kilograms of crude iron, one kilogram of copper material can be obtained by smelting copper with bile water. No matter how you calculate it, it is a very cost-effective deal.

The newly established smelter in Quyang contributed an income of 40,000 yuan a year to the government.

Quyang is a newly established county, and households have been organized into households along the upper reaches of the river. As of the end of last year, there were more than 20,000 households, and more than 160,000 acres of farmland were cultivated. The annual field tax collected is equivalent to money and grain.

There are only about 40,000 yuan.

Of course, the consumption of iron materials is also huge.

Han Qian will not keep the bile water copper-smelting method secret. After all, only one bile water has been found in Xuzhou. If more bile water or other copper-containing compound solution resources similar to bile water can be found in other places, this

If the method is promoted, more copper materials will be produced.

On the one hand, if the scale of commerce in the Jianghuai region is further expanded, the production of more copper coins, as well as the promotion of the use of precious metals such as gold and silver in commercial transactions, can expand the private money supply. On the other hand, this method promotes

Going forward will directly expand the demand for iron materials, and the ultimate beneficiary will be Tangyi's growing iron smelting industry.

Although thousands of kilograms of iron materials and iron products are supplied internally, various taxes, city parking taxes and over-taxes are set at a low level, but such a huge scale still contributed hundreds of thousands of annual income to the government last year.

In addition to Butie, the annual output of Wuchuan well salt is stable at 120,000 shi, which also provides the Zhizhi government with an income of nearly 300,000 shi.

It is a pity that the output of Wuchuan Well Salt is difficult to continue to expand, otherwise the income will at least increase a lot.

Huaixi Zhuzhou counties currently have a population of one million, and their annual salt consumption is more than 100,000 shi. Currently, they can only buy and sell from the salt and iron transfer department, and then resell the salt in each county with a tax of 100 shi per shi.

Shang, every year, the salt and iron transfer envoys eat up hundreds of thousands of dollars of salt profits in vain.

Chen Jingzhou, the imperial envoy to Shu, Han Qian wrote a letter to Chen Jingzhou, hoping that after he arrived in the capital of Shu, he could negotiate an agreement with Wang Yong, the representative of Tangyi, in which Tangyi would bear the annual tribute promised by Shu.

However, the Shu Kingdom needed to cede Yantian Port, located in the southernmost part of Yuzhou, which could produce well salt, and merge it into Wuchuan County.

If this matter can be negotiated, the well salt that Tangyi can produce every year may be increased to about 300,000 dan. After deducting the annual tribute, Tangyi can still get an additional 100,000 and 200,000 dan of salt profit every year.

Another thing that Tangyi strongly promotes is coal mining. Currently, more than 500,000 tons of coal are mined in Xuzhou and Huaixi counties every year, but it can only be supplied for internal consumption in Xuzhou and Huaixi counties. In Han Qian’s view,

Coming is not enough.

The Wujianshan Coal Mine is being vigorously developed and is expected to be put into production after autumn. The output in the first two years will double Tangyi's coal output and be able to supply Gyeonggi and other places.

Although coal may not be as profitable as shipbuilding, the large-scale use of coal and iron is the basis for the rapid increase in productivity.

It is precisely because of the various taxes and municipal land tax revenue on primary industrial products such as cloth, iron, coal, and salt that it can reach such a scale. Han Qian decided at the beginning of last year that all land tax revenue should be reserved for prefecture and county local expenditure.

This is very different from the Shouzhou army who ruled Huaixi and squeezed the local area desperately.

This also determines that Tangyi, while maintaining strong military strength and deterrence, must also maintain fragile connections with all parties that cannot be broken off at will.
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