Outside Li Ze's public hall, there is a small meeting room. Usually the individual pairs are done in the public hall, and if there is a small meeting of three or four people, it is in this room. Of course, just like being able to play directly with Li Ze, there are very few people who can enter this small meeting room.

In the small conference room, some new furniture was replaced, which Li Ze took time out of his busy time to design and then let the craftsmen make it. Li Ze called it a sofa. As for why it is called a sofa, Li Ze himself can't say why, and the people below are naturally not good at chasing him to the bottom of the matter, the left and right are just a name, even if it is called a cat and a dog, as long as Li Xiang himself is happy.

Li Ze can't get the spring now, although the craftsmen have received this task, but after more than a year of hard work, there is no eyebrows at all, and it still seems that it is still a long way to go.

Li Ze can't get that kind of hard sponge mat, and he also knows very well that with the current chemical level of Datang, he is afraid that he will not be able to see this thing for the rest of his life.

But that didn't stop him from creating similarly comfortable furniture.

The best wood is first made into a variety of sofa shapes, and then the process of manufacturing horse mallet poles is used to make poles with excellent elasticity, and they are installed on the seat cushions one by one, and then the soft packaging wrapped in cotton cloth and silk cotton is nailed on it, and finally covered with fabrics of various colors, and finally, one by one the decorations are carried out, and the sofa of Meilun Meihuan appears.

Li Ze is very satisfied with the craftsmanship of the craftsmen.

Of course, the cost is too high.

A single sofa costs hundreds of pieces, and the long one is hundreds of pieces, which is more expensive than the elastic horse lance pole.

Cao Xin didn't like this kind of soft furniture, and as soon as he sat down, he felt rootless and uncomfortable. But Li Ze likes it, Xia He likes it, Zhang Hui and Gongsun Changming also like it.

After Zhang Hui and Gongsun Changming experienced it, they even unceremoniously moved from this conference room to their own public hall.

So now in this conference room, Li Zezheng is comfortably posing in a posture of Ge You's paralysis, half-squinting his eyes.

Zhang Hui was majestic and stuffed a small sofa to the brim.

Gongsun Changming was thin and small, but he occupied a large sofa, and the whole person seemed to be wrapped.

Xia He sat very decently, good at the moment, although he was dressed in men's clothes, but after all, as a woman, it was impossible to be too relaxed.

As for Cao Xin, he still sits on a Taishi chair, upright, and does not lose his military style.

These five people are now the most core figures in the Zhenzhou Imperial Court, and they are also the team that Li Ze relies on the most.

Several people were listening to Xia He's report.

In front of Xia He, there was an account book. The autumn fu has been basically put into storage, and some of the remaining mantissa are basically negligible.

"This year, Wuwei locality, including Dingzhou and Yizhou, is ripe, bumper harvest, and taxes are paid in full, in addition to the state's due expenditure, as well as the transfer payment of various large-scale projects, a total of 12 million yuan has been paid to the central government in various taxes." Xia He's crisp voice was exceptionally clear in the small conference room.

"Cangzhou handed over 2.13 million guan, 570,000 guan more than last year, mainly due to the opening and use of Haixing Port, and the huge profits of sea trade have had a significant impact on Cangzhou. Dizhou handed over 1.11 million yuan this year, Jingzhou is 1.08 million yuan, and Dezhou is still trying to keep the same this year because the new city is still investing. Ulzhou paid 720,000 guan, and Shuozhou paid 1.48 million guan. Zhuozhou handed over 750,000 yuan this year. Also, the Hezhong Prefecture paid 880,000 guan. ”

Speaking of this, Xia He paused, glanced at a few people in the room, and said, "This is all our income this year, a total of two thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand." ”

Cao Xin showed a smile on his face, Zhang Hui nodded lightly, and he was also quite satisfied, Li Ze still didn't move, only Gongsun Changming was frowning.

"In addition to the above, all the other states are in debt. Hedong's accounts are still being checked, but progress is slow, but with what we know about Hedong this year, his deficit must be real, depending on how much he owes. And Luzhou, Weizhou and other places, this year basically out of harvest, Weizhou, Bozhou, Lanzhou, Xiangzhou although the situation is better, but the deficit is also inevitable, these places, the household department of the personnel have just entered, want to completely take over, at least half a year or more. Xia He continued.

"Tell me about the next expenses." Li Ze raised his head.

Xia He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stood up, picked up a stack of papers from in front of him, and distributed one to everyone: "The final budgets of the states have not yet come out, but according to the scale of last year, counting the inflation factor, our total expenditure next year will be about this amount." ”

"Thirty million!" Cao Xin was so shocked that he almost jumped up, "This, isn't this a loss of tens of millions?" ”

"The Ministry of Household anticipated the factors that could lead to war." Xia He said: "There are five million yuan of war emergency reserves. ”

"That's five million pieces missing!" Cao Xin was speechless: "After this year's hard work, why are you getting poorer and poorer?" ”

"How can you not be poor?" Gongsun Changming said with a smile: "This year, there has been a war for almost half a year, and the money has gone out at a high price, and after the war, Luzhou, Weizhou and other places have almost become a blank land, and the people are waiting to be fed, and the investment in roads and water conservancy is money." The original Zhaoyi region, the Weibo region, is now a gold-swallowing beast, and if you want to heal their scars, you may not be able to do it next year. ”

Zhang Hui browsed the expenditure budget table in his hand, this is estimated by the Ministry of Households, and when the state's own budget comes out, this figure is afraid that it will be greatly exceeded, and then it will be a dispute between the two sides. The local government wants to strive for more interests for itself, and the central government wants to withhold more funds, and the final result is mostly a process of mutual compromise.

And this, but also involves the contradictions between the states, like Wuwei local, pay more, naturally want to get back more, for their money to be taken away by other poor places have a natural dissatisfaction, and poor places are eager to get rid of the poor situation, but to do this, but first need a large amount of capital investment, naturally want to get a handful from the central government.

Who doesn't want political achievements!

"Why did the Hezhong Mansion pay 880,000 guan?" Cao Xin shook his head and said: "Shuozhou was only acquired by Zhang Jia at the beginning of this year, and in a year, it has paid more than 1.4 million yuan, and the territory of Hezhong Mansion is several times larger than Shuozhou, and the number of people is also several times larger. At least it should be side by side in Zhenzhou! ”

"It's not that there is no money in Hezhong Mansion, but that this money does not go into the official government, but most of it falls into the hands of those wealthy families." Li Ze snorted coldly and said, "This time they handed over such a little bit, probably because they wanted to test us, right?" If Ding Jian pushes it again, he will definitely spit it out a little. ”

Gongsun Changming gloated and said: "It seems that Ding Jian's life is not easy, it is not an easy thing to deal with these people." In my opinion, the matter of measuring the earth temple and cleaning up Dingkou must be carried out quickly in Hezhong Province. Cao Shangshu, I think I should send some helpers to Ding Jian as soon as possible. ”

"Ding Jian specially wrote me an excerpt." Li Ze moved his body and said, "I hope to give him a certain amount of time, he swears that he can coordinate everything, and before the New Year, he will pay us another million yuan." ”

"This can also be bargained?" Gongsun Changming snorted. "Since the officials can't go in, then send the past of the Yixing Society."

"Ding Jian had long thought that we might make this move, and he specifically emphasized in the excerpt that we couldn't do it. As soon as the personnel of the Yixing Society passed, the bottom was about to be chaotic, which was not what he wanted to see. Li Zedao.

Zhang replied: "At this point, I still agree with Ding Jian, at least until Luzhou, Weizhou, Weibo and other places are completely digested, it is better to keep this place in the river as calm as possible." When we completely control these states and the economy is up, no matter how chaotic Hezhong Fu is, it will not affect the overall situation. ”

"This place in the river is my last chance to give Ding Jian!" Li Zedao: "Let him thoroughly understand that there are some things that cannot be solved by reform and compromise." He has been in Yizhou for so long, and his thinking has changed a lot, but this person thinks that Yizhou does not have special characteristics, and Hezhong meets all the characteristics of his improvement, if he fails, he will completely recognize the face of the wealthy family, and if we don't eradicate these thieves, how can we achieve our goal? ”

"This man is quite influential in the South, and if he can be completely converted, it will be very helpful for our future experience in the South. If I am right, Ding Jian must be annoyed and angry in the end, and the means will become more and more tough, and those people in the river will also breed more arrogance because of Ding Jian's repeated concessions, and the conflict between the two sides is inevitable, and at that time, we will intervene again to solve the problem in one fell swoop. ”

"The officials and the household department will stand by coldly for the time being!"

"Yes!" Cao Xin and Xia He responded.

"Yang Kai's side, I'll greet him." Li Ze rubbed his temples, "Although it seems that there is a gap of millions of yuan in the budget, the opening is not too big, and it should be able to hold up." Xia He is on top of the next budget with the states, more pressure, some things don't matter, drag it back as much as possible, the days will always get better and better, don't rush for quick success. ”

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