After returning to Chang'an, Yu Wenhe truthfully reported the good situation in Taozhou to the emperor. Yu Wenhe even drew a long scroll with his own hand, consisting of hundreds of paintings, which truthfully painted the scene he saw from leaving Beijing to Taozhou.

Li Yuan and Pei Ji and other ministers watched together. Yu Wenshiji's paintings were pretty good. Although they were relatively simple, they painted many scenes very clearly.

On the scroll, Taozhou is simply a prosperous scene.

Build cities and roads, build water conservancy, and reclaim wasteland and farmland.

Beside the river valley, Guanzhong immigrants were everywhere driving cattle and horses to plow the land, and Tuyuhun slaves were working behind them, and women were sending water to the fields.

On the hillside, there are also people cutting down trees and burning wasteland and reclaiming terraced fields.

Along the newly cultivated fields in the river valley, there is a very wide road. Beside the road, you can vaguely see the post station, the pier, the military mansion and the immigrant trough in the distance.

There are guards and soldiers wearing swords and guns in Dunbao to inspect passing business trips.

Among the continuous mountains of Taozhou, there are several cities, as well as piers, beacon towers, tun villages, etc.

New Town, Lintan City, and Jiangxin City, these cities are tall and full of vitality everywhere.

Especially Jiangxin City, located on a peninsula in Jiangxin, a large area of ​​towns, streets, shops, and countless merchants, cattle and horses, piles of goods, and cattle and horses.

Li Yuan even saw that some of these merchants were wearing fur, braids, and holding cattle and horses. They were obviously foreign merchants. Many of them wore bullheads and robes were Han merchants.

These people were talking together in groups of three or three, and it was so harmonious.

In several scrolls, there are soldiers in the military palace training, flags fluttering, and neatly arranged.

"This Taozhou is no worse than that of the prefectures and counties in the capital!" Pei Ji sighed.

Although he had never been to Taozhou, he was also the palace supervisor who guarded the Jinyang Palace in Taiyuan and served as prime minister for several years. He was more clear about the situation that a border prefecture should have.

Taozhou was obviously completely beyond everyone's expectations. Even if they had collected 30,000 stagnants of money and materials from Zhang Chao to the court before, they would not have expected Taozhou to be so good.

It’s really true to see it. The true picture is placed there, which makes them feel like they are here in person.

"Your Majesty, I came back this time and brought a Tuyuhun war horse worth 100,000 yuan!"

The Tuyuhun war horses have always been excellent war horses. One horse has a discount of twenty stagnants, which is not an exaggeration. Five thousand horses have a discount of tens of thousands, which is not a false report.

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Five thousand Tuyuhun war horses are good things."

Last time, Li Yuan transferred his Yuan Dynasty from the Imperial Army to Li Shimin, and several thousand were killed in battle. In the end, all the remaining ones were left in Longyou.

Now, in just a few months, Zhang Chao has paid 30,000 guan and 5,000 war horses, worth more than 100,000 guan.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Wenyuan asked me to report to Your Majesty that Taozhou will be able to provide 10,000 guan of money and materials to the court every month!"

One month is 10,000 yuan, one year is 120,000 yuan.

Even physical objects mainly made of cattle, sheep, or fur, are very amazing.

Pei Ji and others praised him repeatedly after hearing this. The governors of more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty were like Zhang Chao, so they would be easy to be prime ministers.

Yu Wenshi presented a box to the emperor.

The eunuch opened it and there were many books and books inside.

"This is?"

"Back to Your Majesty, this is the household registration statistics of Taozhou. There are now 17,775 households in Taozhou, with more than 113,000 households, and more than 26,000 slaves. There are horses..."

Statistics are from the number of households in Taozhou, to the number of entries, to the number of slaves, to the number of cattle and horses, to the number of sheep, as well as the number of fields assigned to the government, office fields, vocational fields, Yongye fields, and the gutter fields.

What shocked the emperor and others the most was that there was a map presented by Zhang Chao.

It was a map of Taozhou, including Min, Dang and Fang. There was also a newly included land, which was more than 300 miles north and south and more than 200 miles east and west, which was very vast.

This territory that was originally a black and li has now been incorporated into the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty.

Three hundred miles away!

Each item is enough to shock the king and his subjects for a long time.

"The population of Taozhou has exceeded 100,000? I remember that before the war, the four prefectures of Taomin and Dangfang combined were less than 40,000 people."

Everyone was amazed that even if Zhang Chao immigrated from the pass to Taozhou this time, the population would only increase by 60,000 to 70,000. In addition, the remaining population of about 20,000 in the four prefectures after the war would not exceed 80,000, but now it is more than 110,000.

Where did these people come from?

Even Li Yuan was a little strange. The court was only responsible for moving the families of the ten thousand soldiers over.

Yu Wenshi and his new arrival from Taozhou are naturally the ones with the most say.

"After the war, the population of Taomin Prefectures was indeed not large, but it was more than 40,000. The main reason was that there were many departments, and they were not registered household registration."

Although these foreigners have attached themselves, they do not have a household registration in the Tang Dynasty and do not pay taxes. Anyway, they are very special. This is also a unique phenomenon over the years. The borders have placed them in for those who are willing to attach to the foreign tribes. They still manage their own tribes and do not pay taxes. They just occasionally pay some local tributes and fight soy sauce when fighting.

But Zhang Chao changed this traditional custom when he was in Taozhou.

All the foreigners must be included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and there were no people outside the country. The Yeli tribe was unwilling to do so, and was uprooted by Zhang Chao.

With the dead chicken of Yeli tribe, the other big and small tribes in the four states were finally honestly registered with the Tang Dynasty and received the Tang Dynasty ID card.

They became the registered households of the Tang Dynasty, and even the households were marked as Han people, and they were no longer barbarians of the foreign race.

They all share the land and land, and also have to bear the rent and mediocre adjustments, and also abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, these people under Zhang Chao have become Tang people.

Although there are so many people, they can't even speak Chinese.

With this alone, Zhang Chao increased the number of households in Taozhou a lot.

In addition, many people in Longyou in the pass took the initiative to go to Taozhou to settle down, so Taozhou now has a population of nearly 120,000 and more than 17,000 households.

I read about three times compared to the household registration I had before the war.

This kind of performance shocked the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

Let’s look at Zhang San’s land in Taozhou, the number of fields is even more amazing. The report presented by Zhang San shows that he has granted land in Taozhou, and the total number of fields in Taozhou has reached more than 8 million mu.

Dare you believe this?

More than 80,000 hectares of land.

If one hundred acres of land is paid, more than 80,000 men can be awarded. The taxes in the Tang Dynasty were mainly rented, which means that the land was granted according to Ding oral and then taxed according to Ding.

Each Dinner rents two stones, two meters of silk, three taels of cotton, and serves for twenty days.

This is equivalent to more than 160,000 stone grain, 160,000 feet of silk, and more than 240,000 pieces of cotton a year.

Even if the court now has an immigration policy, plus the post-war lenient exemption, Taozhou will be exempted for three years, but what about three years later? Even if it is calculated at half of these lands, it is quite amazing.

Taozhou is a border prefecture, not a wealthy place such as the Guanzhong Plain, Hedong, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, Jianghan and other wealthy places.

Moreover, Li Yuan knew that Taozhou was still a pastoral area, where the livestock industry was even more developed than agriculture.

"Your Majesty, I have another good news!" Yu Wenshi and the others must numb Li Yuan and the others today.

"Oh, what else is good news?"

"When I was in Taozhou, I was able to explore minerals with Zhang Wenyuan. I was blessed by His Majesty and found three large mines in Taozhou."

Li Yuan sat upright and leaned forward slightly.

"What mineral is it?"

"A gold mine, an iron mine, and a copper mine."

Yu Wenshi and himself are still quite shocked. He followed Zhang Chao around for a few days, and then discovered three mines. The craftsmen have also determined that they are minerals with high mineral reserves, especially the gold mine. I heard that the reserves are very scary. Moreover, these three mines are easier to dig and exploit.

"How many annual output can be produced?"

"As long as there are sufficient personnel, the gold mine can mine 800 kilograms of gold per year. Iron ore can mine more than 300,000 kilograms of iron ore, and copper ore can smelter 100,000 kilograms of copper ore!"

Eight hundred kilograms of gold, three hundred thousand kilograms of iron, and one hundred thousand kilograms of copper.

The three numbers were placed there, and Li Yuan, Pei Ji and others couldn't help but breathe heavily.

If this number was placed in later generations, it would not be as large as the scale of a township enterprise, and it could only be at the village level. However, it was amazing in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the early Tang Dynasty.

The amount of gold mining in the early Tang Dynasty was not larger than that in the Western Han Dynasty. Li Yuan knew very well that in recent years, the annual gold mining volume of the imperial court was less than 30,000 taels. 30,000 taels was less than 2,000 kilograms. Now there is a large gold mine in Taozhou that can produce 800 kilograms of gold annually.

The iron production of the imperial court was slightly higher, about two million jin a year, and the copper production was only about two hundred thousand jin a year.

Taozhou can produce 300,000 jin of iron and 100,000 jin of copper a year.

These three numbers are not small in comparison, not only a lot, but also very many.

Although gold was not a currency in the Tang Dynasty, it was also very important. It was a valuable item given to the emperor's meritorious officials. Therefore, sometimes gold, like copper coins and silk, was hard currency.

As for iron and copper, it is even more important. Iron can make iron armor and iron helmets, and can make steel and make swords. This is a weapon, a country's weapon.

As for copper, the imperial court has always lacked money. In fact, it is because of the lack of copper raw materials, and copper is too expensive. In particular, many copper ores are far away in the Jiangnan and Lingnan areas, where mining, casting, and transportation are extremely costly.

The cost of minting money in Jiangnan must be seven or eight hundred cents. The cost of minting money in Lingnan and freight is sometimes even costing 2,000 yuan.

When the court made a piece of money, not only did it not make any profit, but it also lost thousands of dollars.

A large copper mine was discovered in Taozhou, with 100,000 kilograms of copper a year, which is equivalent to the original half of the annual output.

To cast a furnace of copper coins, more than 20,000 kilograms of copper can be used, and more than 3,300 kilograms of copper can be used. To cast a furnace of 100 coins a year, more than 2 million kilograms of copper can be used.

The current annual output is 200,000 kilograms, which is a drop in the bucket.

Although the copper ore in Taozhou produces 100,000 kilograms of copper per year, it can only cast five furnaces of coins, which will cost about 10,000 jin.
To be continued...