Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 252 Spring of the 24th year of Tiansheng, the spring tax will be collected!

The time has come to April again, when Shendu pays taxes for the first time in a year.

In April last year, Yunzhou County was full with the help of the newly acquired Nanli County!
Not only did the people under his command have food to eat, but they also had a large amount of food left over to buy people in the pass, and even increased the number of Song people under Zhao Jun's command to more than one million in one fell swoop!
Among all the regions under Zhao Jun's rule, the population of Song people alone has reached about 220 million.

Among them, many Song people who came early, even got married and started a business within this year, and became pregnant with children. It is expected that Zhao Jun will usher in a wave of newborns around June.

To say the least, it can bring another [-] to [-] people to Yunzhou County.

And this year, compared to last year, Zhao Jun has two more counties under his command.

Whether it is Woye County, which has been acquired for half a year, or Yore County, which has just been acquired, at this moment, like Nanli County, it is also ushering in the spring harvest.

During the autumn harvest last year, Zhao Jun harvested nearly 5000 million shi in grain taxes from Nanli County and Woye County alone.

After deducting the 1000 million shi sold and the 1000 million shi used as grain preparation and market supply, the entire autumn harvest in Yunzhou County has a surplus of nearly 300 million shi.

Before Wang Cezhi's mission, Yunzhou County just finished collecting the winter tax.

In the previous Woye County, due to insufficient population and cultivated land, coupled with the war, only 1000 shi of grain was collected in autumn.

But when the winter tax was collected, after a large number of Song people filled in, large tracts of originally barren land in Woye County were reclaimed, and there was no spread of war.

The winter tax in Woye County actually collected a winter tax of 3000 million shi.

Coupled with the stable 600 million shi of grain in Nanli County, the entire Dongshui Yunzhou County has obtained a full grain reserve of more than 600 million shi.

Including the balance from the previous autumn harvest, at the end of the winter of 23, Yunzhou County's grain reserves had reached as much as 500 million shi!
By this time, Yunzhou County was no longer worried about the lack of food. With the population of Yunzhou County, this food was enough for all the people under Zhao Jun's command to eat for ten years and more!
But then came the problem. With so much grain, Yunzhou County couldn't find a suitable place to store it, although Nanli County and Woye County of Yunzhou County had already started to build granaries after the autumn harvest.

But the problem is that building a large granary that can store so much grain is a huge project in itself, and it is not so easy to complete.

But as one quarter passed, although the goal of each county being a big granary was not achieved.

However, nearly ten granaries have been built in each county.

Based on the original establishment, each granary can store about 350 million shi of grain.

These thirty granaries are still not enough!

There is still nearly 800 million shi of grain that cannot be stored.

In desperation, Zhao Jun had no choice but to order all the more than 800 million shi of grain that could not be processed to be shipped to the customs for sale.

Naturally, such a large amount of grain cannot enter the pass openly. Among other things, if his emperor Lao Tzu knew that he could sell such a large amount of grain into the pass, he would definitely doubt himself.

Maybe the real situation in Yunzhou County will also be exposed.

However, if Yunzhou County wanted to enter the pass, the only way to go was the Liaoyun pass, but the guard Li Wei belonged to his father.

That is to say, if the 800 million shi of grain entering the customs is not wanted to be known by the emperor Lao Tzu, Li Wei must not be known.

But Li Wei is the guard of the Liaoyun pass, and 800 million shi of grain is not a small amount, how could he not find it?
At this time, Zhao Jun suddenly thought of a person, at first he just wanted to be a free player.

But I didn't expect that it would become my own wonderful move now.

What Zhao Jun thought of was none other than Liaoyun pass's lieutenant general, the lieutenant general in charge of guarding the general's pass daily, Peng Li!
Zhao Jun didn't forget about him when he raised his thoughts at the beginning, but asked the hidden guard to give him a little "small gift" on a regular basis, and after he slowly accepted it, the two sides began to get straight to the point.

We are all adults, and everyone knows the reason why the other party treats us well for no reason.

So Peng Li also directly promised after being corrupted: "In the future, as long as things from Yunzhou County want to enter the customs, tell him that he will solve the security problem!"

Peng Li is not stupid, he is just a small pass lieutenant general, why do people want to win him over and benefit him, it is nothing more than being beneficial to them, and how can he have such value?

There is no doubt that it is the Liaoyun pass that he is in charge of.

This was also the only place where he could help them, so Peng Li made his promise straight to the point.

Now is the time to deliver on that promise.

Zhao Jun directly asked Wang Huai'en to take his warrant to the Liaoyun pass, and then the matter of 800 million grain entering the pass was successfully resolved.

Although Li Wei is a guard, he doesn't come to patrol every day. He only visits the pass every ten days and half a month. Peng Li is in charge of guarding the pass every day.

As for Zhao Jun's 800 million shi of grain, he only needed to break it up into pieces, and pass through the customs in small batches at night, and with Peng Li's cover, he could enter the customs without anyone noticing.

What Zhao Jun needs to pay is only a little benefit for Peng Li.

Compared with the benefits that can be brought after the 800 million grains enter the customs, this is completely a drop in the bucket.

But this is not a long-term solution. Zhao Jun is also ordering Feiyun Commercial Bank to open up the east corridor as soon as possible.

As long as the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce can open up this trade route, many things in Yunzhou County will not need to enter the pass through the Liaoyun Pass and risk being discovered.

You only need to go a little further and send things directly from the grassland to the Hedong Corridor.

But this cannot be achieved in a short period of time. The Hedong Corridor has existed for thousands of years, and the conflicts of interest involved in it can be described as extremely complicated.

Although Feiyun Commercial Bank is already a well-known large commercial firm in the Song Dynasty, it is still very immature for those multinational chambers of commerce that have been walking along the Hedong Corridor all year round.

Far from being able to join them, they are excluded.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to open up the Hedong Corridor in a short period of time. It needs to be figured out gradually. At present, the only way in Yunzhou County is still Peng Li.

After solving the 800 million shi of grain that could not be stored, Zhao Jundang even felt a sense of crisis.

The sense of crisis does not come from the outside world, but from themselves.

Now it's only two seasons of food, and they actually have no place to store it, but with their war against the body poison, they got another county.

Seeing that Yunzhou County will have another large amount of grain tax in April, but the warehouse is still insufficient.

At that time, what needs to be solved is not only 800 million stones.

With that amount of supplies, no matter how powerful Peng Li was, it was impossible for Li Wei to send them into the pass without anyone noticing.

So before the next grain collection, the granary problem must be resolved!

Finally, at a revision meeting in January, Yunzhou County passed a proposal to increase construction workers to build granaries.

The Yunzhou County Yamen will recruit nearly 5 people in each of the three counties to participate in the construction of granaries, and try to speed up the construction of granaries in each county.

Solve the problem of too much food in Yunzhou County and cannot store it as soon as possible.

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(End of this chapter)