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10,000+ mercenaries.

As if he has become Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande is also one of the major forces besides Mu Yuan.

The south was occupied by the Song Clan and Du Fuwei in the south because Yu Wenhua and the remaining Sui army went north.

The Song clan also rebelled, with tens of thousands of mercenaries.

To say that the world of the Great Sui Dynasty is now completely divided, and there are wars everywhere.

But among the several big forces, Daxia, the most powerful in the eyes of all forces, has been silent at this time.

It seems that the changes in the outside world have nothing to do with them.

Chapter 348 Yongzhou with Abundant Supplies

Yongzhou.

In Shangdang County.

A huge granary.

Mu Yuan in plain clothes stood among them.

There are dozens of huge grain depots, and a large amount of grain is piled up in the grain depots.

Beside Mu Yuan, stood the officials in charge of the granary, Li Shanchang, the military commander Su Dingfang, and Zhao Yun.

Su Dingfang was the person Mu Yuan summoned during this year.

Once summoned, it is the strength of the peak of the heavenly realm.

Now Mu Yuan has a total of three masters of the Heavenly Human Realm, Wang Yue, at the early stage of the Heavenly Human Realm, Pei Min, at the middle stage of the Heavenly Human Realm, and Su Dingfang, at the peak of the Heavenly Human Realm.

Following Su Dingfang was summoned the Xuanjia Army, all cavalry.

A total of 5000 people, [-] light cavalry and [-] heavy cavalry.

Mu Yuan's army also expanded to 20.

Fifty-five thousand cavalry and 14 infantry.

After more than a year of rigorous training, the combat effectiveness of the 20 Xia army has become quite capable.

Compared with the strength of the various places that are still fighting for territory, the Xia army is simply an army that can destroy them.

Today, Mu Yuan came to Shangdang County, where the taxes and grains of Yongzhou for this year are stored.

For this reason, a huge granary was specially built in Shangdang County.

This granary can store 1000 million shi of grain, and now, this granary is full of all kinds of grain.

There is wheat, there is rice, there is corn, and corn.

These are staple food crops.

The remaining non-food crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes are not within the scope of taxation.

However, because of its huge yield per mu, almost every household in Yongzhou will allocate at least one mu of land to grow potatoes or sweet potatoes.

People use these potatoes or sweet potatoes as food to deal with natural disasters.

After all, potatoes and sweet potatoes can easily yield one or two thousand catties per mu, which is really attractive.

However, the food used to pay taxes can only be wheat, corn, rice, and corn.

But even so, this year's Shangdang County granary is already full of grain.

And Shangdang County is just one of the granaries in Yongzhou.

There are three large granaries in Yongzhou, and a small granary in each county.

There is also a considerable amount of food stored in it.

The few are hundreds of thousands of stones, and the many are even tens of millions of stones, which are similar to the granary in Shangdang County.

This year, Yongzhou collected 300 million shi for taxes and grains alone, much higher than the previous estimate of 500 million shi.

The main reason is that Muyuan has acquired millions of skilled craftsmen of all kinds.

The various workshops they opened have transformed agricultural tools and constructed various water conservancy facilities.

Plus the popularity of high yielding crops.

Moreover, no major natural disasters occurred in Yongzhou this year.

So this year Yongzhou is indeed a bumper harvest year.

Many people in Yongzhou were stunned when they saw the thousands of catties of grain at home when they harvested it for the first time.

This was after the taxes were paid. They never imagined that one day, their family's annual harvest would amount to thousands of catties of grain, and families with a lot of fields even had tens of thousands of catties.

Enough to feed them for several years.

This is all because of Muyuan's millions of craftsmen, almost every village has been sent at least ten craftsmen by Muyuan to instruct them how to farm the land so that they can reap the most.

How to use fertilizers is a matter of transforming agricultural tools.

Therefore, Yongzhou's annual grain output has reached at least 2 million shi.

This output is already higher than the current grain output of the entire Sui Dynasty.

But now the Sui Dynasty has existed in name only.

Although the anti-kings in various places established the people of the Sui Dynasty as emperors.

But everyone knows that those emperors are puppets, and after a while, they will give way to those anti-kings.

Although this year in Yongzhou disappeared in the ears of all the anti-kings.

But the people of Yongzhou enjoyed it.

It can be said that the people of Yongzhou have been the happiest in their lives this year.

Mu Yuan's prestige in Yongzhou was extremely high.

It has even been deified by many people.

When every commoner mentioned Mu Yuan, they worshiped it from the bottom of their hearts.

And because of this reason, Xia Jun's army expansion has become a selection of people to join the army, not a conscription.

Because there are so many people who want to join the army.

So let Xia Jun get excellent soldiers, excellent weapons, and rigorous training.

Xia Jun's combat effectiveness has reached a very terrifying level.

In addition to food, there are also a large amount of cloth, cotton, silk, linen and the like, a total of 300 million pieces.

The cloth received was about 100 million bolts.

Cloth can be used as money, and it can also be used as a tax-paying material instead of food.

And many farmers will allocate one or two acres of land to plant cotton and mulberry trees.

They cherish food very much, and they don't want to pay taxes with food, so they pay taxes with cotton cloth and silk.

Therefore, the Yongzhou household department also received a lot of cloth, about 100 million pieces.

And there are about three to four million pieces of folk cloth.

Generally speaking, people like to use cloth as money.

Because copper coins are really difficult to carry, and the quality is not sure.

But cloth is much simpler and light, and can be used as clothes and gifts.

And there are not many people who can use gold and silver.

After all, many people have never even seen what gold and silver look like in their lives.

In the past year, Yongzhou has received more than 800 million taels of tax money.

It is also much higher than previously estimated.

Most of them are actually taxes collected from the Western Regions and other dynasties who came to Yongzhou to do business.

Yongzhou's commerce and trade have been very developed this year.

Because of the abundance of supplies in Yongzhou, many businessmen from Turks, Yuezhi, Western Regions, or other dynasties like to do business in Yongzhou.

And more than 800 million taels of silver have already reached one-third of the peak period of the Sui Dynasty.

This is only silver, and there are also a lot of copper coins. If you calculate it, there are more than 500 million guan.

The tax silver of the entire Yongzhou, including copper coins, has even reached more than 300 million.

It reached half of the peak period of the Sui Dynasty.

Compared with other places in the Sui Dynasty, Yongzhou can be said to be the wealthiest place at present.

Anti-kings in other places can only continue to squeeze the people, and local tyrants maintain their rule.

(Qian Haohao) But Yongzhou doesn't need to do this at all.

To a certain extent, it can even be regarded as hiding wealth from the people.

Although Yongzhou's tax revenue is not high, the tax revenue received is enough to support the Xia army's foreign conquests.

The military materials that can be used include food and grass, the most important material.

A total of 20 Xia troops can support the consumption of foreign wars for four years.

This is an extremely scary number.

This is already comparable to the Sui Dynasty at its peak.

Although the number of troops is not yet comparable.

But the fighting power of the Xia army is definitely much stronger than that of the ordinary Sui army elite.

It can even be compared with the most elite Xiaoguowei.

Although there are only four of Mu Yuan's elite troops of war spirits.

But these four elite troops of war spirits can definitely compete with the Xiaoguowei at its peak.