When he entered the East Lake Palace again, Wu Sangui was already an official envoy of the Pingxi Army!

Although it is a party with heavy troops in hand and great power in hand, Wu Sangui does not feel any domineering spirit in himself at all...... is still preoccupied, full of debts like this, how to repay debts, where to find silver to fill the shortfall, and how to extract money from the huge daily expenses of the Pingxi Army every penny!

I have to say that the lord of this "limited liability domain" is not good at all.

You have to be responsible for your own profits and losses, you have to work hard, you have to deal with it properly, and you have to be careless...... It's the destruction of the domain!

He didn't come to Donghu Palace again today for anything else, but to find money to make up for the hole...... Before leaving Xi'an, he had a plan with his staff, this feudal lord is not easy to be!

Wu Sangui's jurisdiction is not small, with about 20 million mu of cultivated land registered, and about half of the 330 thousand households below – an average of 300,000 mu for 1,000 households. The remaining half was under the direct jurisdiction of the Guogong Prefecture (now the Jiedu Envoy).

It is said that it is directly under the government, but in fact, most of them have the lord, and the government (Jiedu Envoy) also has the right to levy individual taxes. But that's Shaanxi, how much tax do you want to collect? There is not much harvest in the dry land where there are not a few rains in the whole year, and 10 million mu may not be able to receive 10 million stone of flour, and 10 taxes are 1 million stones......

In addition, there are some cities and customs that can collect some commercial taxes. However, Shaanxi's commerce is not developed, and the commercial center is not on Wu Sangui's territory, but in Yulin.

Yulin is a place where grasslands and agricultural areas meet, and it is relatively easy to form a commercial center. And trading with the grassland can also generate huge profits - although exchanging firearms for grassland horses looks a bit "incorrect", but it can really make money!

After getting Shaanxi and Gansu, the Ming court didn't seem to be short of horses. But the supply of war horses is still in short supply - the horse breeds in Shaanxi and Gansu are also grassland breeds, that is, horse breeds that are close to the original ecology of nature. Of course, they are tall, short, fat and thin, just like humans. Among them, the steppe horse, which can act as a war horse, is equivalent to a strong man with great strength among human beings. Not to mention one out of a hundred, it is also one out of ten or one out of twenty.

In other words, in order to get enough good horses, it is necessary to have twenty or thirty times the number of horses. The number of horses in the Ganshan farming area is still insufficient, and with the standard of one out of twenty, the selected war horses may not even be able to meet the needs of Pingxi and Shuofang, where is the spare power to supply the southeastern Ming army?

Now the number of the southeastern Ming army has gone to 600,000...... Even if some of them are garrisoned in sub-towns and not on the front line, they can still be organized into at least 160 infantry regiments (400,000 people).

However, in order to organize these 160 regiments into 40 model divisions with strong field combat capabilities five years later, Zhu Cihong must take out at least 40 cavalry battalions and 40 division-level artillery regiments. This required the armament of nearly 1,000 three-pounder guns and 50,000 horses. Artillery is easy to do, because bronze cannons are very durable and will not be damaged for decades. So it's nothing more than casting 200 doors a year and 167 doors a month.

50,000 horses...... If prairie horses are the main ones (and they can't all be folded horses), there must be at least hundreds of thousands of horses to support this number!

Even if you have Ganshan, it is impossible to raise so many horses......

Therefore, Shuo Fangjun's "gun for horse" business can make a lot of money!

And Wu Sangui's Pingxi Army ...... Because of the previous detention of the Fifth Grand Lama, he fell out with the powerful Heshuo Special Department. Therefore, the Pingxi army did not dare to clean up the Mongols on the steppe of the Hetao like the Shuofang army - without Liwei, they could not do a good job! And to Liwei, it is possible to trigger a long-term war with the Heshute Mongols!

Therefore, the grassland trade of the Pingxi Army was not very good......

Therefore, Wu Sangui and his staff pulled the abacus beads for a while, and found that it was more than one million annual income.

Wu Sangui, who was preoccupied, followed the eunuch who led the way around the East Lake Palace for a long time, and finally stopped in front of a mansion with a good atmosphere.

The chamberlain who led the way was a very stout eunuch, who should be a "difficult eunuch" from the Jingjun, wearing a python robe, and taking Wu Sangui all the way, with the corners of his mouth twitching, looking arrogant. However, when he turned around and talked to Wu Sangui, he still smiled like a flower: "Grandpa, this is the Yongning Palace where the queen lives." ”

It turns out that I'm going to see my sister today!

Wu Sangui relaxed his mood for a moment, and then looked at the palace gate in front of him. It's not magnificent, but it's very exquisite, a bit like the garden of a wealthy and powerful family - this Hongxing Tianzi doesn't seem to like to put on royal prestige!

There are waiting guards here at the gate of Yongning Palace, and when they saw Wu Sangui coming, one of them ran in to report. After a while, the voice of the summons came: "General Pingxi, the envoy of the Pingxi Army, the Duke of Liangguo will meet you!" ”

Wu Sangui straightened his clothes, stepped into the Yongning Palace, and then followed the Da Jue all the way to a palace with quite good lighting. The palace is not big, and it is equivalent to the hall where the powerful entertain guests. But it was built very high, with windows on all sides, and now the weather is not very cool, so it is all open to let the sun in.

Zhu Cihong and Wu Sangui sat in the palace, Emperor Zhu sat behind a desk, and Wu Sanmei sat beside him. There are some papers spread out on the desk, and I don't know what it is? When Wu Sangui entered, Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei were watching.

"Uncle, don't kneel, come here."

"Second brother, come and see."

Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei didn't have a little fight, and warmly beckoned Wu Sangui to come forward to see something.

Wu Sangui was not polite, he stepped up and came to the side of the case, only to find that there were many prints on the case that seemed to be treasure money.

"This is the debt of the Pingxi Domain...... Uncle, what do you think of the printing? ”

O debt bills of feudal debts!

Wu Sangui sighed in his heart.

Zhu Cihong said again: "It's all 100 taels of face value, with a coupon of 6 taels a year, and it can be transferred...... Each of them must have the seal of the Maritime Bank or the Yanshang Bank, and the bonds held are also registered, and theoretically the transaction transfer can only be completed in the branches of the two banks. Uncle, what do you think? Still satisfied, right? ”

What are you satisfied with...... Wu Sangui is not satisfied at all!

Because no matter how he calculates, it is impossible to pay off these Hades' accounts!

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the interest on the feudal debt is not even yet, why don't you ask another master......"

As soon as Wu Sangui opened his mouth, he amused Zhu Cihong. In history, because Emperor Kangxi cut his domain, he raised troops to rebel!

Now that I'm being forced to resign with millions of debts, this is too much of a change, right?

"The fiscal deficit is normal," Zhu Cihong smiled and waved his hand, "Let the imperial court take over directly, and the deficit will only be greater...... Now that a town is self-governing and encouraged to maintain, it is always possible to minimize the deficit. Uncle, don't have any worries, just let it go, the court will support you!

Pingxi First Army, you can control it for life, and the position of Jiedu envoy can also be passed on to Ying Xiong! ”

I have to pass it on to Wu Yingxiong! Wu Sangui thought to himself: When will this domain be withdrawn?

Zhu Cihong said again: "Uncle Chang, you must not leak the matter that the Pingxi Army Festival Envoy is going to be hereditary, otherwise the debt bill will not be issued...... The Salt Commercial Bank and the Maritime Commercial Bank have already made a plan, and the new issue of bonds to be issued soon, with a total of 3 million taels of face value, and the annual interest rate will be given at most 10% of the face value. It was not only issued in Hankou, but also in Nanjing, Shanghai, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou.

In order to make this bond bill issue smoothly, we must convince people that the Pingxi Army will withdraw from the feudal domain in three or four years. Therefore, the imperial court will later set up a yamen of the governor of Shaanxi, and will also set up a military yamen of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. The governor of Shaanxi will be appointed by Wang Yongji, and the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi will be you! At that time, the imperial court will also issue a subsidy to the two towns of Pingxi and Shuofang in the name of using troops in Sichuan. With this news, the first phase of old debt will definitely rise, and new debt will be easy to issue. ”