After Yu Wenshi returned to Chang'an, he truthfully reported the good situation in Taozhou to the Son of Heaven.
Yu Wenshi even painted a long scroll with his own hands, the whole scroll is composed of hundreds of paintings, on which he faithfully depicts the scene he saw from Beijing all the way to Taozhou.
Li Yuan, Pei Lin and other ministers watched together, Yu Wenshiji's painting was not bad, although it was relatively simple, but many scenes were painted very clearly.
On the picture scroll, Taozhou is simply a prosperous scene.
Build cities and roads, build water conservancy, and reclaim barren fields.
On the edge of the river valley, there are immigrants from Guanzhong driving cattle and horses to plow the fields, and there are slaves from Tuyuhun working behind, and women carrying water to the fields.
On the hillside, there are also people cutting down trees and burning wasteland to reclaim terraced fields.
Along the edge of the newly cultivated fields in the river valley is a wide road, and beside the road, you can faintly see post stations, bunkers, and military offices and migrant bunkers in the distance.
The fort was guarded by soldiers armed with swords and guns to check the passing merchants.
Among the continuous mountains of Taozhou, there are several cities, as well as a number of dungeon forts, beacon towers, tunzhuang and so on.
New towns, Lintan City, Jiangxin City, these cities are tall and full of vitality.
In particular, Jiangxin City is located on a Jiangxin Peninsula, with a large number of towns, streets, shops, and countless merchants, cattle and horses, piles of goods, and groups of cattle and horses.
Li Yuan even saw that some of these merchants were wearing fur, braids, and leading cattle and horses, and they were obviously merchants.
And many of those wearing hats and robes were Han merchants.
These people are talking together in twos and threes, and it is so harmonious.
In several picture scrolls, there are government soldiers training in the military government, flags fluttering, and neat queues.
"This Taozhou is no worse than Gyeonggi County," Pei Lin sighed.
Although he has never been to Taozhou, he was also the palace eunuch who guarded Jinyang Palace in Taiyuan back then, and he was the prime minister for several years, so he was relatively clear about the situation in a border state.
And Taozhou is obviously completely unexpected.
Even if they had received the 30,000 yuan and silk materials that Zhang Chao had transported to the imperial court before, they didn't expect Taozhou to be so good.
Seeing is believing, and the real picture scroll is there, which makes them feel like they are there.
"Your Majesty, the minister came back this time and brought a Tuyuhun war horse worth 100,000 yuan."
Tuyuhun war horses have always been excellent war horses, and a horse is discounted by 20 times, which is not an exaggeration.
The discount of 5,000 horses is 100,000, which is not a false report.
Li Yuan stroked his beard and laughed, "Five thousand Tuyuhun war horses, but it's a good thing." ” Last time, Li Yuan transferred 10,000 of his Yuan from the forbidden army to Li Shimin, and thousands were killed in battle, and the last remaining ones were all left in Longyou.
And now Zhang Chao has handed over 30,000 yuan and 5,000 war horses in just a few months, worth more than 100,000 yuan.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Wenyuan asked his ministers to report to His Majesty, and Taozhou will be able to supply 10,000 yuan of money and silk materials to the court every month in the future." 10,000 a month, 120,000 a year.
Even if it is mainly cattle, sheep or fur, it is very amazing.
Pei Lin and the others also praised again and again after hearing this, the assassination history of more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty is the same as Zhang Chao, so they will be prime ministers.
Yu Wenshi presented a box to the emperor.
The chamberlain opened it, and inside were many books.
"This is" "Back to Your Majesty, this is the household statistics of Taozhou, and now there are a total of 17,775 households in Taozhou, with more than 113,000 mouths and more than 26,000 slaves.
Arima" The statistics of each item, from the number of households in Taozhou, to the number of mouths, to the number of slaves, to the number of cattle and horses, the number of sheep, and the number of fields granted, such as public fields, vocational fields, Yongye fields, and mouth fields.
What shocked the emperor the most was that there was also a map presented by Zhang Chao inside.
It is a map of Taozhou, including the three prefectures of Min, Tang and Fang, and there is also a newly included land, which is more than 300 miles from north to south and more than 200 miles from east to west, which is very vast.
This piece of land that was originally Heiyeli has now been included in the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty.
Expand the border for 300 miles Each of these was enough to shock the monarchs and ministers for a long time.
"The population of Taozhou exceeded 100,000, and I remember that before the war, the population of Taozhou, Min, and Fangfang combined was less than 40,000."
Everyone was amazed, even if Zhang Chao immigrated from Guannai to Taozhou this time, it would only increase the population by 60,000 or 70,000, plus the remaining 20,000 or so people in the four states after the war, it would not add up to 80,000, but now there are more than 110,000.
Where did these people come from?
Even Li Yuan was a little strange, the imperial court was only responsible for moving the families of the 10,000 soldiers over.
Yu Wenshi and he just returned from Taozhou, so he naturally has the most right to speak.
"After the war, the population of the four states of Taomin is indeed not large, but it is more than 40,000.
The main thing is that there are many departments, and none of them are editors. ” Although these people are attached, they don't have a Datang hukou, and they don't pay taxes, so they're very special anyway.
This is also a unique phenomenon for many years, the border pass for some Fan tribes willing to attach, are settled, they still manage their own tribes, do not pay taxes, is occasionally on some local tribute, when fighting, follow the soy sauce.
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But Zhang Chao is in Taozhou, but he has changed this traditional custom.
All the Fan people must be included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and there are no extraterritorial people in the country.
Yelibu just didn't want to, and was uprooted by Zhang Chao.
With the dead chicken of the Yeli Department, the other large and small departments in the four states finally honestly went to the Datang household registration and received the identity card of Datang.
They have become the people of the Tang Dynasty, and even the household stickers are also indicated as Han people, and they are no longer barbarians.
They have the same land division, they also have to bear the same rent, and they have to abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty, anyway, under Zhang Chao, these people have completely become Tang people.
Although there are many people, they can't even speak a word of Chinese.
For this alone, Zhang Chao has increased the number of households in Taozhou a lot.
In addition, many people in Guannei and Longyou took the initiative to settle in Taozhou, so now the population of Taozhou has reached nearly 120,000 people, with more than 17,000 households.
Compared with the pre-war period, the household registration has almost tripled.
This kind of performance shocked the Tang monarchs.
Looking at Zhang San's fields in Taozhou, the number is even more astonishing, and Zhang San's report shows that he has granted land in Taozhou, and the total number of fields in Taozhou has reached more than 8 million mu.
It's unbelievable More than 80,000 hectares of land.
If one hundred acres of land are used, more than 80,000 men can be awarded.
The tax of the Tang Dynasty is mainly rented, that is, the land is granted according to the Dingkou, and then the tax is levied according to the Dingkou.
Each dina rents two stones, two zhang of silk, and three taels of cotton, and serves for 20 days.
This is equivalent to more than 160,000 stone grains a year, and 160,000 zhang of silk, and more than 240,000 horses of cotton.
Even if the imperial court now has an immigration policy, plus post-war relief, and Taozhou is exempt for three years, but after three years, these lands, even if they are counted as half, are quite amazing.
Taozhou is a border state, and it is not a rich place such as the Guanzhong Plain and Hedong, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, Jianghan and so on.
Moreover, Li Yuan knew that Taozhou was still a pastoral area, and the livestock industry there was even more developed than agriculture.
"Your Majesty, there is another good news for the minister" Yu Wenshi and today must shock Li Yuan and them numb.
"Oh, what good news" "When the minister was in Taozhou, he and Zhang Wenyuan explored and searched for minerals together, and with the blessing of His Majesty, they found three large mines in Taozhou."
Li Yuan sat up straight and leaned forward slightly.
"What kind of mineral?"
"A gold mine, an iron mine, and a copper mine."
Yu Wenshi and himself are still quite shocked, he followed Zhang Chao around for a few days, and then found three mines, and they have been judged by the craftsman to be minerals with high mineral reserves, especially the gold mine, I heard that the reserves are very frightened.
Moreover, all three mines are relatively easy to excavate.
"How much can be produced annually" "As long as there are enough manpower, that gold mine can mine 800 catties of gold a year.
Iron ore can mine more than 300,000 catties of iron ore, and copper ore can smelt 100,000 catties of copper ore" 800 catties of gold, 300,000 catties of iron, and 100,000 catties of copper.
The three numbers were placed there, and Li Yuan, Pei Lian and the others couldn't help but breathe heavily.
If this figure is placed in later generations, it will not even be comparable to the scale of a township enterprise, and it can only be at the village level.
But in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the early Tang Dynasty, it was very amazing.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the amount of gold mined was not larger than that of the Western Han Dynasty, but Li Yuan knew very well that the annual gold mining volume of the imperial court in recent years was less than 30,000 taels. 30,000 taels is less than 2,000 catties, and now there is a large gold mine in Taozhou that can produce 800 catties of gold per year.
The iron output of the imperial court was slightly higher, about 2 million catties a year, and the copper output was only about 200,000 catties a year.
Taozhou can produce 300,000 catties of iron and 100,000 catties of copper a year.
These three numbers, when compared, are not a lot at all, not only a lot, but also a lot.
Although gold is not a currency in the Tang Dynasty, it is also very important, and it is a valuable gift from the emperor to the heroes.
Therefore, in some cases, gold is a hard currency like copper coins and silk.
As for iron and copper, it is even more important, iron can make iron armor and iron helmets, and steel can be made to forge swords.
This is a weapon, a weapon of the state.
And copper, now the imperial court has been short of money.
The lack of copper coins is actually because of the lack of copper raw materials, and copper is too valuable.
In particular, many copper mines are far away in the Jiangnan and Lingnan regions, and the cost of mining, casting, and transshipment is extremely high.
Jiangnan casting has always been money, the cost has to be seven or eight hundred yuan, and the money of Lingnan casting, plus freight, sometimes even costs two thousand. made a coin, and the court not only did not make money, but also lost thousands of dollars.
A large copper mine was discovered in Taozhou, with 100,000 catties of copper a year, which is equal to half of the original annual output.
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To cast a furnace of copper coins, it takes more than 20,000 catties of copper, and you can get 3,300 yuan.
The imperial court started the furnace with 100 coins a year, and minted 330,000 coins, using more than 2 million catties of copper.
Now the annual output is 200,000 catties, a drop in the bucket.
Although the copper mine in Taozhou produces 100,000 catties of copper a year, it can only cast five furnaces of money, and it has to be 10,000 yuan.
But at least it's good news, Zhang Chao can find a large copper mine with an annual output of 100,000 catties in a few days, maybe there is a big copper vein in Taozhou With a copper mine, there may be more Anyway, that's good news.
"I don't know how to reward Zhang Wenyuan for his work."
The courtiers are too powerful, and they really give the emperor a headache.
Zhang Chao is less than twenty-two years old, he is already the founding marquis, Shangzhu Kingdom, and the prince's guest, which is a real positive third product.
It's a bit too fast to get a reward.
He's still so young, he's going up like this all the way, what if he can't be promoted in the future Li Yuan looked at the old man Pei Lian.
Pei Lin received Li Yuan's eyes and immediately understood.
"Your Majesty may confer on his father, give his wife a decree, reward him with land, and give him a beautiful Kabuki."
"I remember that Zhang Wenyuan's father is the founding barony of Ningmin County, so I decreed that Zhang Tiegun was crowned as the founding uncle of Ningmin County, and Zhang Wenyuan's wife Cui Shi was specially named Mrs.
Rongguo.
Add Zhang Wenyuan true seal 200, a total of 500 real food seals before the pass" After thinking about it, Li Yuan added again.
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