As an island, although the Qiongzhou Strait is not big, it is still separated by a strait in the final analysis, and the population on the island is not large, and many of them are still Li people, many of them live in Qiongzhou Island, and basically do not interact with people in the coastal areas of Qiongzhou Island.

The total population is not much, and the development of agriculture is not very good, so the local economy is naturally not very good, and the taxes cannot be collected much.

Several counties in Qiongzhou Prefecture, all the annual taxes add up to about 100,000 taels of silver, and the Qiongzhou Mansion occupies most of it, because the Qiongzhou Strait is close to the Qiongzhou Strait, and it is also the main port on the Qiongzhou Road.

But the other counties are all poor jingles!

There is a huge Qiongzhou Mansion, and the annual tax revenue is only more than 100,000 taels of silver, most of which have to be handed over to the national treasury and provincial finance, and the local finance of Qiongzhou Mansion is only tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Compared with other areas with better economies, this figure is simply a big gap, any prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of taxes, and the tax revenue of Songjiang Prefecture can reach more than three million.

One can imagine how excited the Qiongzhou government was when it found out that it could collect taxes on the Erjiu Fishery Company!

An Erjiu fishery company can contribute tax revenue comparable to the tax revenue of the entire province in the past!

Lingao County ordered Feng Kailong to look at Lu Square's eyes, that is, it was no different from looking at the God of Wealth!

This is more than 100,000 taxes, not to mention that the Erjiu Fishery Company will directly and indirectly drive local employment, but also drive the economic development of the entire Lingao County.

If he takes the opportunity to revitalize Lingao's economy and build a few more factories, for him Feng Kailong, it will be a huge political achievement, and it will be a matter of minutes for him to be promoted.

Today's Tang Dynasty, although it has not yet shouted any slogan of economic leadership, but for local officials, the people's livelihood economy is still very important, and doing a good job is a great political achievement.

At present, the Tang Dynasty has quite high requirements for local officials, especially local leaders at the three levels of county commanders, governors and prefects, and the first and most important point is to maintain local stability!

This is similar to the previous dynasties, if the people on whose territory are not able to make a living, and there is any chaos, the local officials will be finished.

Thirdly, it is indoctrination, what is indoctrination? Four words to describe: Zhongjun education!

Specifically, it is to cultivate the sense of identity of the gentry and ordinary people to the imperial court and loyalty to the ancient saints!

Of course, there are details such as filial piety and literary prosperity.

And stability and education come again, that is the people's livelihood!

The people's livelihood, to put it bluntly, is to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, whether it is the development of agriculture or industry, it is always to let the people have food, clothing, clothing and housing, so that the people can live a stable life.

People can live, and even live a better life, naturally they will not go into the mountains to become bandits and play rebellion when they have nothing to do, after all, they can live well, and no one wants to take the risk of rebellion.

Therefore, the development of people's livelihood economy actually has the role of maintaining local stability!

In addition, there is also a very important point that the Tang Dynasty spent more money, and its dependence on taxes was very serious, and if you want to collect taxes, the local economy has to go up.

For example, in Lingao County, if there was no Erjiu Fishery Company, it would have collected tens of thousands of taels of silver a year if it died, but now, with the Erjiu Fishery Company, Feng Kailong pondered that the annual tax revenue was expected to exceed 200,000 taels of silver.

That's 200,000 taels of silver!

Except for those high-class rich counties, few can reach this number, and even the traditional agricultural counties in the south of the Yangtze River do not mean that they can reach it.

At that time, Lingao County will be able to obtain a large amount of land tax revenue, even after the three levels of national tax, provincial finance, and government finance, the remaining land tax here in Lingao County is estimated to be one or two thousand silver.

With this money, you can do a lot of things.

For example, the roads in the county town will be renovated and renovated, and then the farmers will be subsidized to open up wasteland, and then the support will be given to see if a few more factories can be built.

After sending Lu Fang away, Feng Kailong gathered all the subordinate officials in the county yamen, what to do, hold a meeting!

What to do in a meeting, is to figure out how to spend money!

According to Feng Kailong's estimate, the land tax revenue left in the county at that time is estimated to be 15,000 taels if it is less, and it may be able to have 20,000 taels of silver if it is more.

Don't look at the inconspicuousness of one or two thousand, but for such a poor county, it is a lot of money, this money cannot be spent indiscriminately, it must be used on the blade!

Well, in fact, they don't dare to spend money, let alone corruption, the people of the Inspectorate are staring at these local officials all year round, for the officials of the Inspectorate, they usually provide public prosecution for ordinary cases, unless it is a big case, otherwise, the help for the career is limited, because that is their essential work, and it should be done well, and if it is not done well, it will be over.

Want to get promoted quickly?

Based on the experience within the Inspectorate, there are three shortcuts to take:

The first one, there are people above, needless to say, whether it is in the Inspectorate or in other institutions, it is an unspoken rule, if you have your back to the big guy, it is always easier to be promoted, regardless of the big guy behind you because you appreciate you, or because of the relationship between relatives and friends for special care, the effect is almost the same, but there are people behind it, there are always a few, and most of them still have to climb up on their own.

The second article is to handle big and important cases, and the influence of this kind of big and important cases is generally very large, and sometimes it can even be listed in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, so it is not the national edition, but as long as it can be on the provincial version, it can also gain a lot of prestige, and promotion is a certainty, but how can this kind of big and important case be so easy to encounter!

The third one, and the easiest to achieve, is to catch corrupt officials, the imperial historians within the Inspectorate, the favorite thing to do is to catch corrupt officials, regardless of whether it is the Inspectorate in Jingshi, or the County Inspectorate in Lingao County, regardless of whether it is the imperial history of the capital, or a small ordinary imperial history, their favorite thing to do is to catch corrupt officials, as long as they can be caught and successfully convicted, then it is 100% to be promoted and knighted.

Therefore, the imperial historians in the Inspectorate stared at the officials of other institutions every day when they had nothing to do, and in Lingao County, several imperial historians of the County Inspectorate stared at Feng Kailong and them every day, if they dared to spend this finance, tomorrow the imperial historians of the Inspectorate would dare to charge them with dereliction of duty.

If Feng Kailong and they are bold enough to directly get the money into their pockets, they dare to stab them directly into the provincial inspectorate, and then apply for house arrest investigation, and generally if there is more obvious evidence, the higher-level inspectorate usually will not refuse to apply, on the contrary, they will support it!

And once the corrupt officials are found out, don't expect to lose their official positions and go to work, the lightest one will have to be sentenced to exile, the heavier one is beheaded, confiscated assets, and more serious will implicate family members, then it is not a family raid, but an extermination!

When corrupt officials were exiled, their homes raided, and their clans exterminated, the imperial historians were also promoted!

Therefore, whether it is in Jinling City or at the local level, whether it is at the provincial or provincial level or at the county level, the Inspectorate and local officials are inherently opposed.

As a member of the Cabinet Civil Officials, Feng Kailong naturally knows how difficult those guys in the Inspectorate are, not to mention corruption, and even dereliction of duty needs to be absolutely avoided.

So this money, you have to think about how to talk about it, and you have to spend it well!

At the meeting, everyone also expressed their opinions, some said that they would subsidize the peasant households, estimated the land reclamation, and sometimes returned to the school building of the county school, and then issued a certain amount of subsidies to the enrolled students, striving to cultivate more talents.

Others talk about repairing official roads, building water conservancy facilities, and in short, saying everything.

And one of the proposals that Feng Kailong is very interested in, that is, to follow those big commercial cities and build an industrial zone in our Lingao?

Engage in industrial zones? The idea has to be said, very bold!

Everyone knows that industrial zones are good, but there are not many cities that really dare to do it, or can do it!

At present, the best industrial zones are naturally the five major treaty ports, and then there are other sub-level cities, but with various advantages such as industrial and commercial foundations.

There are not many relatively large industrial zones, only a dozen, all of which are in big cities.

And there are many small and medium-sized ones, because the Tang Dynasty basically maintains an encouraging attitude towards things like industrial zones, and there is strength and confidence on the ground, and you don't even need to declare it, you can do it yourself.

Of course, don't expect to get a subsidy from the higher authorities.

However, there has never been a simple county that has built its own industrial zone, and it is basically dominated by the prefecture-level yamen, or even the provincial/provincial-level yamen.

Even in the case of Shanghai County, a treaty port, although the Shanghai Industrial Zone is located on the outskirts of Shanghai County, this industrial zone is not carried out by the county magistrates of Shanghai County and the local officials of Shanghai County, nor is it even the responsibility of the Yamen of Songjiang Prefecture and Jiangnan Province, which was directly established under the direct leadership of the cabinet.

More than half of the huge investment was contributed by the central government, and the Jiangnan Provincial Finance Department was responsible for the remaining part, the Songjiang Prefecture Finance was responsible for another part, and the Shanghai County Finance was only a small part.

Lingao also has an industrial zone, can it get financial support from the higher levels? Interested Qiongzhou government finance can support one or two, but don't count on provincial finance, let alone the central government.

When it comes, it will be enough to squeeze out 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, which will not only be used to level the terrain, build roads, expand ports, and build basic factories, but also squeeze out money for tax subsidies.

It's not that easy!