Just when Ye Zongliu and the Xu family were intriguing and each had their own thoughts, Liu Juntao was not very happy, and he was worried in the Dongping Prefecture Government Office.

At this time, Liu Juntao had just settled in Dongping Prefecture, and was frequently walking around with the hundreds of households in the city and the officials in the yamen, so as to clear the obstacles for the upcoming ordnance station and win the strong support of the civil and military officials in the city.

After all, it is not enough to have the permission of Lei Bo, the commander of the city guard, if there is no support from the civil and military officials in Dongping Prefecture, Liu Juntao will not be able to move an inch at all!

But at this moment, Tang Yu, who had been busy with the affairs of the Ministry of Commerce in Yushan Town, suddenly rushed over, as if something had happened, and went directly to the Ministry of Commerce to find Liu Juntao, and handed Liu Juntao a copy of the income and expenditure accounts of the Ministry of Commerce in recent times.

Liu Juntao opened it and looked at it, and was immediately dumbfounded.

It turns out that although the income of Yushan Town has increased significantly, the expenditure of various affairs has also increased, and even the increase has exceeded the increase in income!

Especially when Ye Zongliu led the army of bandits under his command to make trouble in Qingzhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion before, not only the industries of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Yushan Town suffered huge losses, many farmers and men suffered misfortunes, but also a large number of people in the two prefectures were displaced.

Faced with this situation, Liu Juntao immediately ordered the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs to restore the destroyed industries, compensate the farmers and men of the Ministry of Commerce who were killed, and took out a large amount of silver to assist the Qingzhou Mansion and Yanzhou Prefecture to help the people, which won great praise from officials in Qingzhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture.

Although this move has made Liu Juntao gain a lot of praise and pull a lot of points for serving as the head of Yanzhou Prefecture's militia training, it has also put a heavy economic burden on Yushan Town.

Now, in just over a month, the silver in Yushan Town's inventory has been reduced by one-third, and nearly one million taels of silver have been spent on relief to the people alone!

Moreover, the industries that have just been restored by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs cannot be profitable in a short period of time, and can only be resisted with silver, which has caused a significant reduction in the income of Yushan Town!

The money and grain in Yushan Town's inventory are also rapidly decreasing, and Tang Yu even concluded that in the future, Yushan Town will even have a phenomenon of making ends meet!

This will affect the alliance between Yushan Town and the Confucian Mansion and Ren Chengwei in Qufu County, and even those two families will be hostile to Yushan Town because of the reduction in dividends!

Tang Yu said worriedly: "Mr. Lian, the situation of the Ministry of Commerce is like this now, and the situation we are facing is very grim!" At least in the next three or five years, the income of our Yushan Town will not increase much, and the expenses of various affairs will continue to increase! So for the sake of safety, I suggest that our Yushan Town should not make too big a move in a short period of time, and it is best to do nothing, and wait until the income of our Yushan Town begins to increase significantly, and then consider other things. ”

After hearing this, Liu Juntao also smiled bitterly a few times and said, "Do nothing? I want to do nothing, but now more than 10,000 bandits led by Ye Zongliu are nesting in Xuzhou Mansion to recuperate, and they may make a comeback at any time; And the Xu family is also eyeing us, and they can't tell when they will attack us; Moreover, these two have been linked together, do you think we can still do nothing? ”

Tang Yu also sighed and said, "I understand all this, we really have to deal with it carefully." How to do the preparation of the practice? I still have to remind Mr. Lian that the stalls in our Yushan Town are too big now, and we must have enough money and food in our hands to make an emergency, otherwise something big will definitely happen! What big things Mr. Lian wants to do, at least ensure that the income of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs can support it! ”

Liu Juntao also sighed when he heard this, and sighed: "Where did you say the silver went?" If you can't say enough, it's not enough! ”

Tang Yu also smiled bitterly, having nothing to say.

Liu Juntao paused, as if he had made up his mind, and said to Tang Yu: "I originally planned to expand the escort team after the Dongpingzhou Ordnance Institute was completed, and our Yushan Town Escort Team and Yanzhou Mansion Militia are added together, and the strength is at least about 20,000 to be considered appropriate!" But now it seems that the matter of our army expansion can only be postponed for a while, and it is better to prepare for other things first. ”

"Something else? What else is Mr. Lian going to do? ”

Looking at Tang Yu's puzzled expression, Liu Juntao smiled slightly and said, "Isn't the income of our Ministry of Commerce reduced now?" Didn't our family in Yushan Town become thinner? I plan to get some silver first, first let our Yushan Town have a rich family background, let our Yushan Town gather the silver of the whole of Shandong and even the surrounding provinces, let these silver gather into a vast ocean, and then concentrate on doing great things! ”

Tang Yu also came to the spirit when he heard this, and he didn't feel that Liu Juntao was talking big.

In the past few years, Tang Yu has experienced so many things by Liu Juntao's side, Liu Juntao can always come up with good ideas at critical moments, and the difficulties encountered by everyone will be solved.

"How is Mr. Lian going to make these silver gather into a sea? What do I need to do? Tang Yu said with some excitement.

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Now there are many heroes, gentry, and officials all over Shandong, and there are countless large families in Nanzhili, and there are not a few large families in the surrounding provinces!" You know, these big families are all wealthy, we can find a way from this aspect to gather all the money in the hands of these people! ”

"What?"

Tang Yu was dumbfounded after hearing this, and the excitement just now was swept away in an instant, and he thought that Liu Juntao had made great achievements over the years, so that it was too inflated, so that he wanted to go everywhere to rip off bamboo and fight the autumn wind when he was short of money!

So, Tang Yu hurriedly said: "Mr. Lian! This is absolutely inappropriate! Our Yushan Town can get to where it is today......"

Just when Tang Yu wanted to continue to persuade him, Liu Juntao waved his hand with a smile and said, "Don't misunderstand me!" I'm a serious businessman! How could he be like that Ye Zongliu? ”

Tang Yu was right when he thought about it, Liu Juntao always acted above board and put reason first, even if he had the strongest army in the entire Shandong, he would never do anything to bully others or do evil, how could he do anything out of the ordinary for the sake of silver?

So, Tang Yu hurriedly asked, "Then how is Mr. Lian going to gather the silver?" How could those wealthy families listen to Mr. Lian's meaning and obediently hand over the silver? ”

I saw Liu Juntao laughing, stretched out two fingers at Tang Yu, and said, "Fundraising!" ”

"Fundraising?"

Tang Yu asked puzzledly: "Mr. Lian, I have been in charge of the Ministry of Commerce for several years, and I have seen a lot of winds and waves, but this is the first time I have heard of this fundraising!" Fund-raising, fund-raising, in the literal sense of the word, is nothing more than pooling the money, but how to do it? ”

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Come here, listen to me come slowly!" This fundraising is only a result, and the means to achieve this result is a magic weapon! ”

The last time Tang Yu heard Liu Juntao mention the words "divine weapon" was when the Yushan Military Bureau developed the orthodox nine-year-style bird gun.

At this time, since Liu Juntao compared this method of collecting silver with the orthodox nine-year-old bird gun, it must be a very unusual means!

In this regard, Tang Yu couldn't help but be excited, and hurriedly came to Liu Juntao, only to hear Liu Juntao whisper like this, Tang Yu's eyes instantly became smart, and even the essence flickered, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.