The Emperor of Red Mansions: Many Children, Many Blessings, Opening Draft

In addition to the Nine Border Affairs, the East Factory branch office has been rapidly expanding due to the incorporation of the remnant army of Prince Beijing and the continuous expansion of the East Factory.

So the East Factory branch office can now almost cover all parts of Da Wu.

It is just because the East Factory expanded too quickly, so the people in many local East Factory branches are still lacking in ability.

However, this is only a small problem, because the East Factory is still constantly airdropping elites to various places to take charge of management.

It is worth mentioning that from the investigation of Prince Beijing and his cronies, the investigation of tax embezzlement, the investigation of Jiangnan Salt Industry, the investigation of corrupt officials and local tyrants who colluded with officials and businessmen, etc., significant gains have been made.

First of all, Da Wu has recovered a large number of fertile fields. Secondly, the stolen money seized has been transported back, and the stolen money on the way but has been registered has reached more than 100 million (150 million) taels of silver.

So much money went into the national treasury and Li Chenghan’s treasury.

In addition, such a strong crackdown on corrupt officials has also made the administration of the Wu Dynasty clean.

Basically, no one dares to touch the various appropriations of the Wu Dynasty, let alone exploitation at all levels.

So the appropriations of the court are truly used for the army, local construction, disaster relief and other matters.

On the contrary, Li Chenghan's tax reduction and exemption did not reduce the tax to meet the needs of the country as everyone thought at the beginning.

Not to mention that the national finances are now rich and there are no economic difficulties in the financial sector.

Just say that the land tax has been greatly reduced and the population tax has increased.

Because there is no collusion between officials and businessmen to evade taxes, the taxes collected from commercial taxes have grown like a blowout.

Not to mention other things, the commercial tax alone is twice as much as the land tax.

The increase in the population tax is also due to the fact that the people have money to pay this tax, and they don't have to hide their population to avoid taxation, or flee to find another way to avoid the population tax.

So even if there are still a large number of wealthy families who hide their population and don't report to the government, the population tax is no longer reduced year by year like before.

There is also a salt and iron tax.

Because of the strict control and seizure by the East Factory, countless salt merchants who hoarded and sold private salt were arrested, and the tax silver paid by the salt tax also increased significantly.

And the more than 150 million taels of silver seized by the court were mostly seized from these wealthy salt merchants.

Of course, don't look at the amount of silver seized, it's really not much at all.

Because there is still a lot of money hidden and not found.

The East Factory's spies are powerful, and the tortures are terrifying.

But with so much money, they want to hide it, and it is impossible to find every penny of the stolen money without telling the East Factory.

Take the top family chamber of commerce in Da Wu as an example. After deducting all expenses, the pure profit of this chamber of commerce is as high as tens of millions of taels of silver every year.

They divide it among those who are responsible for managing the business in various places.The shopkeeper had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

And this family also sold private salt.

When their family was raided, the clan leader committed suicide by taking poison.

And the stolen money seized from this family was only more than 9 million taels.

As for where the rest of the money went?

Naturally, it was hidden by the clan leaders of this family from generation to generation, and left to the descendants to take it from generation to generation if they failed to manage the business well.

And where the money was hidden, only the clan leader knew.

But the clan leader was gone, and no one else knew. No matter how severely the clan leader's wife, legitimate son, and illegitimate son were tortured by the East Factory, they knew nothing at all.

So from this we can see how rich those rich people and officials in Da Wu are, and how much wealth is hidden in various parts of Da Wu.

As for why salt is not poisonous, the imperial court has to rectify and prevent it so vigorously. Anyone caught will be beheaded.

That is naturally because salt tax is a major tax revenue of the imperial court. Secondly, it is naturally to prevent salt merchants who resell private salt from deliberately raising the price of salt and levying heavy taxes on the people.

You should know that salt and food are important ingredients for people's daily needs.

Without food, the people will starve to death.

But the imperial court can hoard a large amount of food as reserve food, but it cannot hoard all the food in the world.

On the contrary, the imperial court can control the salt in the world.

If salt is maliciously hoarded by merchants and the local area has no salt, then the people who have no salt for a long time will be physically weak, have no appetite, and have heart damage.

In this way, the local people will be like a famine with no food to eat, with corpses everywhere.

And this is a man-made disaster.

So in order to stabilize the price of salt and make it affordable for the people, the court has strict control over salt.

And the people hate salt merchants, just like the drug dealers in Li Chenghan's previous life.

In addition, the completion and use of the imperial prison has become a nightmare for countless people. (To read the novel, go to Fulu Novel Network!)

And the completion and production of the East Factory Armament Department also produced countless sophisticated weapons for the Great Wu.

First of all, the Armament Department forged and produced bows, crossbows, crossbows, chariot crossbows, arrows, and crossbows that were more cost-effective but of better quality.

The second is the more cost-effective and better quality long spears, sabers, official swords, armor, etc.

In addition, there are horse lances forged by the Armament Department specifically for the Imperial Guards and the Brigade Army.

If blunt weapons are the natural enemy of armor, then horse lances are the natural enemy of sharp weapons. []

Horse lances are expensive, but they are sharp enough to break armor like paper.

And horse lances can also be used for swinging and chopping, which can be said to be a great weapon for marching and fighting.

And horse lances are standard equipment for the elite Lufeng Army.

Why did Li Chenghan replace the long halberds of the Imperial Guards with horse lances? It was naturally because the long halberds were too long.

The Imperial Guards were stationed to defend the palace with halberds over five meters long. Although it looked intimidating, the weapons were too long and would not be conducive to fighting the enemy after something happened in the palace.

In addition, the halberds were not as powerful as the horse lances.

However, the horse lances that Li Chenghan asked the Military Department to make for the Imperial Guards were not short, because each of the horse lances that Li Chenghan asked the Military Department to equip the Imperial Guards was three meters long.

After all, the Imperial Guards were here, and it would not be appropriate if the weapons they held were small or light.

Li Chenghan first gave priority to the Jiayuguan garrison and then equipped and replaced the weapons made by the Military Department to the other nine important towns.

At the same time, Li Chenghan also equipped all the border troops except the Qiexue Army with uniform armor.

The defense and flexibility of these armors are definitely beyond doubt.

Secondly, these armors are simply "cool".

First of all, the armors that Li Chenghan equipped the nine northern frontiers were all uniformly black, even the military boots, waistcoats, pants, and uniforms were all black.

These armors are first used for defense.