Chapter 626 Overseas Development
By September 1793, after Lin Chong destroyed the Maori family, the Chinese Empire occupied Kyushu, all four countries in Fusang, as well as the territory from Kyoto to the west of Honshu Island.
According to the Fusang people's own inspection figures, the total output of these lands is about 8 million old stones, accounting for about one-third of the total territorial output of Fusang.
However, due to continuous wars, this output will definitely not be able to reach this year. In fact, according to the Chinese people's own economic research, it would be good that this number could reach 40%.
If calculated based on 40%, and according to Lin Chong's rent reduction policy in Fusang, the estimated tax revenue of the area occupied by the Huaxia Empire this year is about 1 million to 1.2 million Yuanshi.
This number is enough to support the military rations consumed by 130,000 occupied troops, and even a large balance can be used for domestic supply.
Since Lin Chong has no right to exempt Fusang people from taxes in the occupied areas, those Fusang people who are unable to farm due to war and cannot pay taxes will be taken away and demoted to slaves and sold to the country - this is not a very difficult job, because the reduction of production of up to 5 million stones has become a foregone conclusion. If those who cannot grow food do not want to starve to death, then selling themselves as slaves is the only way out.
In fact, not only the Chinese-occupied areas, but even the territory under the control of Fusang Daming has generally reduced production by a large margin due to the chaos this year (the male and livestock were transferred to war, and the land would naturally be abandoned). Although this level of production reduction will be lower than that of the Chinese-controlled areas, there are still 20% to 30%.
What's more, the Daming people know that it's just a temporary truce, and they dare not relax the expropriation of manpower and material resources. It is estimated that many lands will not be cultivated next year, and there are actually not many roads that ordinary people in Fusang can choose.
Otherwise, you will choose to starve to death, or you will become a bandit and eat others. Otherwise, you will flee to the controlled area of China and be a slave to make a living for the Chinese.
In fact, the last path is the best way to go.
The Imperial Domestic Cabinet has agreed to keep all taxes and grains in Fusang this year, regardless of how much taxes and grains are earned. Xu Shiyang even agreed to transport 6 million kilograms of salted fish from the country to soothe the hungry Fusang people.
In this way, as long as you voluntarily sell yourself as a slave, at least you will be fine if you eat enough.
So many Fusang people fled from the controlled area of Fusang Daming to the controlled area of Huaxia to seek survival.
For the Chinese Empire, conquering Fusang has now entered an ideal state that can be enough to support war. Although the empire did not require the tax and food this year, they can recover part of the cost by a large influx of Fusang slaves - it is estimated that by the end of the year, the domestic Fusang slaves will exceed 4 million!
There are also the mineral deposits in Fuso, especially the Ishimi Yinshan Mountain, which has been remembering about in China and the Biezi Tongshan of the Shiguo (Ishimi and Biezi are the largest silver and copper veins discovered in the world in this era, respectively) that have fallen into the hands of China, which is of great benefit to alleviating the pressure on the empire's hard currency reserves.
In addition, there is the sulfur mine in Kyushu, which is also a key focus of the industrial department and the Ministry of War.
The empire can use local human resources in Fuso to mine these important mineral veins. It is expected that this alone can bring the empire a profit of 6 million SGDs this year. If everything is normal, it can even double next year.
With such huge gains, the cabinet can even expect to completely make up for the expenses required to conquer Fusang within two to three years. If other areas of Fusang can be conquered, then the Koshu gold mine, Zuwei Tongshan, and the remaining Fusang people and land can bring more profits to the empire.
This is also the reason why the empire's attitude towards Fusang and towards Goryeo is so different - Goryeo was so poor. During the Goryeo period, Lelang County had an annual tax of only 200,000 shi. Even if Goryeo was completely swallowed, the benefits it could bring were a huge loss compared with the occupation expenditure. Therefore, it was better to maintain the rule of the Goryeo Dynasty than to annex this country and gain indirect benefits.
But Fusang is different. This country is very rich and water-filled. Transportation is actually not difficult through sea routes. Therefore, the Imperial Cabinet's policy to Fusang has always changed according to the situation - no one has given up the plan to directly annex Fusang.
Everyone is waiting for the next action of the Fuso Expeditionary Force.
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In Yanjing in October, the climate is pretty good.
Xu Daizhuo sat in a courtyard of the Prince's Mansion, poured a plate of green vegetables and half a portion of braised pork into a bowl full of rice, stirred it with chopsticks for a few times, and then picked up the bowl and slapped the rice into his mouth.
To put it nicely, it is a generous spirit of a military man, and to put it bluntly, it is similar to a pig's food, so that several palace maids can't help but cover their mouths and laugh secretly.
"Eat slowly!" His biological mother Zhao Shan sat at the table and scolded softly: "It's not like a noble family in the Tian family at all, but like a crop-handle."
"Mom, I'm not expensive at all." Xu Daizhuo swallowed the food, took a sip of tea, and smiled slowly: "The real noble is the second son, he is the crown prince, and I am just the eldest grandson of the emperor."
"Daizhuo!"
"Okay, okay, mom, I know, stop nagging."
At his age, he always doesn't listen to his parents' words, and he will think they are nagging.
"Besides, the second child is in the naval school now, so I guess he won't be much better than me in his eating habits."
Zhao Shan didn't say anything else. Her son's words just now made her feel uncomfortable - why are they all the same father? My son is lower than Wenyue's son?
If it is an ordinary family, it will be lowered, but now the Xu family is the Tian family, and the children are lying down, which is like a difference between clouds and mud.
"Mom, I'm going home during the autumn holiday this year. I want to tell you and my father something." After dinner, Xu Daizhuo put down the sea bowl and said seriously: "I may not go home during the holidays in the past few years."
There is no summer vacation in schools nowadays, but there is an autumn vacation. The purpose is to allow children to participate in field labor in the important autumn harvest season and make up for the shortage of labor. It is also a labor course to remember the bitterness and think about the sweetness.
"Don't go home during holidays in recent years? What does it mean?"
"I want to participate in the expedition." Xu Daizhuo said seriously: "An expedition to a more western than the Western Regions."
"Not allowed! What are you doing when you go so far!"
"Mom, I'm going to start my own career."
Zhao Shan was speechless when she looked at her familiar and unfamiliar son.
"This time, General Zuo (Zuo Helin) and Uncle Wu (Xu Shizhen) talked to me about this expedition to the Western Regions." Xu Daizhuo explained softly: "It is true that the Empire will be my father in the future, but my father will be my second brother after him, so it has nothing to do with me."
"I can choose to stay in China, Yanjing or Quancheng, but then I may be just a prince who is idle at home in the end, and then I will become a pig."
Chapter completed!