After the military government seized Xiangcheng and Yancheng, it did not take any new actions except to conquer Wuyang and Xiping counties and block Yuan Zongdi from the north and began to be busy integrating the newly occupied land.

It is May now. If the military government speeds fast enough, it can still plant some beans, millet and sweet potatoes in Xuzhou, Linying and other places, harvest autumn grains for the whole season, and plant winter wheat.

At this time, the military government was busy resting and replenishing the army, while the officials were busy preparing for summer harvest and restoration.

Wuyang County, county yamen.

After the Chibei Army captured this small and medium-sized county, Chen Debiao, the secretary of the military government's shogunate, hurried to Wuyang County to complete the task given to him by Gao Huan.

Wuyang County belongs to Yuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture. It is a small county town with a small population. It is the same as Dengfeng. It is far away from the official road. It is a relatively closed and poor place.

Because Wuyang is mountainous and has a small arable land area, there is naturally no food. After the rebel army captured Wuyang and looted all the wealthy families, they evacuated from Wuyang.

When the Chi Bei Army captured Wuyang, the county town was occupied by a group of local thieves, which made the county town chaotic and most of the people fled.

After Chen Debiao arrived in Wuyang, he asked the soldiers to open a bill to restor the people. He hurried to the county government to find the county's documentary book and the Wuyang County Chronicles.

Gao Huan asked Chen Debiao to come to Wuyang to find iron ore, but Chen Debiao asked the people in the city, but no one knew that there was iron ore in Wuyang, so he could only find information from the county files and county annals.

Chen Debiao checked the county's white book. The Ming Dynasty began with Taizu and implemented the yellow book system and compiled the people of the world into the yellow book, making the court well aware of the local area.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shang Yang pointed out that if the country wants to be strong and prosperous, it is necessary to know the data of the official granary, vault, middle-aged men, women, elderly people, children, officials, scholars, straitors, merchants, horses, cattle, and animal forage.

Only with this data can the country know how much tax it should be imposed and how many soldiers it should be imposed in war, and exert its maximum strength without exceeding the burden on the people, which will cause the society to collapse.

Therefore, during the Qin Dynasty, the Qin State had detailed records of information about each county, even every township, and even every household for the government to check it out.

The government records clearly how many people in your family, how old, how much land you are, what industry you are in, how many horses, how many cows you raise, what crops you plant, how much tax you have to pay, and updates these information from time to time.

This system allowed the Qin Dynasty to exert its strong mobilization ability. After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, Liu Bang entered the pass and Xiao He, who was a minor official in Qin, did the first thing he did was to get these documents.

After that, the Han Dynasty and all dynasties inherited this system, and by the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow Book system was formed.

The yellow book of the Ming Dynasty was placed in the county, the other in the province, and the other in the yellow book library on Xuanwu Lake outside Nanjing.

The yellow book is updated every ten years to facilitate the court to grasp local information. If the county pays less taxes, the court can find out how much taxes the county misses after checking the files in the yellow book database.

In addition, if a large household encroaches on the land of a small citizen and the small household handes the complaint, the large household can bribe the magistrate but cannot tamper with the yellow book. As long as the imperial court transfers the file and investigates it, it can start from the Hongwu period and knows the ownership of the land.

The yellow book system can enable the court to control the local government and prevent local governments from doing anything randomly. However, by the late Ming Dynasty, the yellow book system of the Ming Dynasty was basically over.

On the one hand, the yellow lists in the Xuanwu Lake Yellow List Library are negligent in management and destroyed a lot, causing the original information to be lost. Once the original information is lost, the people below can create the yellow list again and they can talk nonsense.

For example, during the Longqing period, there was a county in Fujian, whose registered household registrations decreased by two-thirds compared with the Hongwu Dynasty and three-fifths less.

The prosperous Yingtian Mansion in Jiangnan is even more exaggerated. The number of household registrations in the late Jiajing period was only half of that in the Zhengde period. By the Wanli period, it was only one-fifth of that in the Zhengde period.

Local officials colluded with local gentry and large households, concealed a large number of household registrations and land, and made the yellow book a fake account through means such as fleeing households, abandoning wasteland, and tampering.

In fact, there were no wars or natural disasters in these places. The population and economy were growing, but the court could no longer impose taxes.

The imperial court relies on the information recorded in the yellow book. Local tyrants colluded with local officials, and there were thousands of acres of land. Ten acres were registered in the yellow book. There were minerals in the county, and they registered for mining, or the mine cave was destroyed and could not be mined. Some people even became black households directly, and there was no name on the yellow book, and there was no need to pay off corvee and taxes.

As a result, with the corruption of the Yellow Book system, the Ming Dynasty not only did not know the local situation, but also could not collect taxes, and the court was doomed to decline.

However, the burden on the people in the local area has not been reduced.

The yellow book became a fake account that fooled the above, but everyone knew that if there were fake accounts, there were real accounts, and the real accounts were white book held by local officials and clerks.

These white book records the real situation of each county. The county collects taxes through the white book, and the taxes levied mostly enter the officials' own pockets.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by these officials and gentry.

Although the court later learned that the white book existed and even thought about replacing the yellow book with white book and ordered each county to submit the white book, it was unanimously opposed by local officials, and each county denied the existence of the white book.

Therefore, Chen Debiao was looking for the white book. The information on the Ming Dynasty yellow book was very absurd and no useful information was found. Only by looking at the white book can you understand the basic situation in the county.

Chen Debiao looked at it for a few days and still found no records of iron ore mining. However, he accidentally found that there was a tax on the Wuyang white book that had been taxed, so he read the county annals and found that there was a salt ore in Wuyang County.

At this moment, Chen Debiao sued the military government, and salt was also an urgent need for the military government, which was a huge expense. Gao Huan then instructed to start mining salt mines and expand the scope to continue looking for iron ore.

Chen Debiao could only organize absenteeism and dig wells and salt while continuing to expand the scope and search for iron ore. Finally, he found an iron ore in the mountains south of Wuyang County.

And the iron ore is located in the Wugang City that Gao Huan remembers.

Wuyang is adjacent to Wugang. Wuyang produces salt mines with a reserve of 30 billion tons. Wugang was a city that appeared later because of steel. It was established very recently. It was under Wuyang's rule in the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Huan Dedao reported that he immediately ordered Chen Debiao to organize manpower, build roads, and secretly mine them in the mountains.

Salt and iron are the lifeline of a country's economy.

In this way, the military government has its own iron ore and has also discovered a salt ore. As the salt and iron can be produced by itself, the military government's finances will inevitably improve in the future.

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