“…… Hezhou Racecourse has 16,732 horses, 1,270,000 sheep, 7,000 cattle, 5,400 sold, 870,000 sheep, 3,000 cattle, and a profit of 1.3 million yuan, deducting various expenses, a total net profit of 300,000 yuan; Hezhou's tax revenue of 380,000 yuan has been transferred to the treasury, and Shanzhou's tax income of 210,000 yuan has been transferred to the treasury ......"

On the seventh day of December in the first year of Shangyuan, it was time for the year-end accounts, Li Xian, who was dressed in a white fox robe, was sitting in the study, listening to the account manager report the accounts of the states that had been summarized, and this heard that the northern states were all bumper harvests, although Li Xian's face was still calm, but the corners of his mouth were unconsciously slightly upturned, in his heart, needless to say, he had a sense of achievement, no, the total income of the northern states alone had reached one-fifteenth of the national treasury, and the territory and population were far less than one percent of the borders. This kind of income is really amazing, and this is the result of Li Xian's conscientious efforts for more than two years.

“…… Lanzhou's annual income was 437,800 guan and 300 wen, and the expenditure was 874,000 kan, and the shortfall was 436,100 kan and 700 wen; Linzhou's annual income is 213,000 guan, the expenditure is 584,000 guan, the shortfall is 370,000 ......, and the total deficit in Hexi is 963,800 guan and another 400 yuan. ”

Li Xian was obviously happy too early, the account manager is the standard first to report the good news and then the worries, and then the southern states suffered a comprehensive loss, cumulatively, not only did not have a little profit, but the deficit was huge, and Li Xian's teeth hurt when he heard it, no way, the daily expenses of the government are not big, the problem is that Li Xian has been training the army in the past two years, and building factories, and most of the factories built are military industries. That's definitely not enough for Li Xianhua.

I have a headache, this time it's a real headache, 960,000 yuan, this is not a small amount, the money that can be transferred out has been misappropriated by Li Xian, even if it is the "Deng Ji business", there is no way to enter the account, if you really want to move again, then the whole trading company will not be able to operate in the coming year.

"Lone knows, go down." Looking at the honest and frightened account manager, Li Xian was a little helpless, and he didn't have the heart to appease him, but he frowned slightly and waved his hand, and sent it away, but he sat behind a few people in a daze, thinking hard about the way to get money.

"Ahem!"

Once Li Xian has thoughts, he will not dare to interrupt at will, but Zhang Cambodia, who is sitting on the side, is not among them, this time Li Xian's face is about to wrinkle into a bitter melon, and he really has some pity in his heart, not for anything else, just Li Xian's behavior of preferring to suffer himself rather than increase taxes made Zhang Cambodia extremely emotional, which made Li Xian cough a few times, interrupting Li Xian's contemplation.

"This situation, heh, Lone is really a headache, I really don't know what happened to Lin Hu and Wang Haibin, it's been more than a year, and I haven't seen a letter, hey, Lone really miscalculated, does Mr. have any good plans for this?"

At the beginning of Li Xian's plan, he considered to strive for benefits with scale, and to sacrifice short-term interests in exchange for the rapid development of the whole Hexi, the idea is good, but the risk is also big enough, which Li Xian knows in his heart, but time is his biggest enemy, in a word, he does not have enough time to move forward slowly, he can only take risks, the only hope is that the great navigation plan can get back a large amount of silver, but this hope is that this hope has fallen into the void - go to the east, The ship of the South China Sea route has indeed run back and forth twice, and has made a lot of wealth, but compared to Li Xian's expectations, it is quite a gap, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a drop in the bucket.

"It can't be said that there is no way, but it is an expedient measure to mend the sores after all, and it is not a fundamental way, if you don't increase taxes, then you can only act at two ends, one is to suspend the construction of the factories of the research institute, and secondly, the funds reserved by the states will be temporarily transferred to the governor's office, so that it should be enough to make up for the shortfall."

Zhang Cambodia was in charge of the actual work of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and he had a good idea of the actual treasury silver intercepted by the states, so he gave two expedient measures.

"Well, the factory can't be stopped, Gu would rather tighten his belt to live, and he can't shorten the amount of money for the research institute, as for the treasury of the states, Gu will think about it again."

Li Xian is a veteran in charge of the place, Zhang Cambodia's strategy he has long been worried, but, no matter how difficult, he does not want to cut off the food of the research institute, you must know that ammonia, nitric acid and machinery manufacturing plants and other projects are the biggest obstacles to Li Xian's rise, not only the need to conquer Tibet, but also the future Li Xian to kill back to the court where the hole card is, but also the future Li Xian after the reform of the military system, in the future Li Xian after the reform of the military system, in this period of the situation is about to rise, Li Xian really dare not postpone it, as for the state treasury silver, Li Xian wants to call it first, But I am worried that I will not be able to fill it in time, and once it affects the daily work of the states, the chaos will be big, and I can't be careless about freedom.

"If neither of them is feasible, you might as well borrow some money from Murong Wenbo, who is a wealthy easterner, for more than a year, they can be regarded as making some windfalls, and they all have a lot of money in hand, and it should not be difficult to make up hundreds of thousands of yuan."

Seeing that Li Xian had doubts about the previous two strategies, Zhang Cambodia didn't mention it anymore, and instead turned his idea to Murong Wenbo and other people in the northwest of Hebei who opened a factory and became rich.

"Lone has also thought about this matter, it is not difficult to find them to adjust some inches, but Lone is unwilling to do so, Lone is still counting on them as an example to tempt Ming Qi and others, and now there are some eyebrows, if it makes another wave, I am afraid it will hinder the overall situation."

Since the establishment of the "Hexi Tribes Alliance", the public order situation in Hexi has been greatly improved, and the various tribes have been constrained, and there are few troubles, and with the full cooperation of Ming Qi, several major projects planned by Li Xian also have sufficient manpower to mobilize, whether it is to build roads or strengthen city defenses, they can be carried out smoothly on time and with good quality, and more than a dozen small tribes have followed the example of the northern tribes, abandoning their clans to engage in business, as for the leaders of the big tribes such as Fugu and Tongluo, although they are still waiting and watching, But there are already many clansmen in his clan who have left the tribe privately and switched to the newly opened factories in Hexi, becoming a member of the army of industrial workers, so far, Li Xian's plan to divide and disintegrate the tribes has been completed for nearly half, and then it is the turn of those big clan leaders, at such a delicate moment, Li Xian is reluctant to move Murong Wenbo and others, in case it is too small to lose the big, then the consequences are extremely unbearable.

Yes, this time it's good, the three strategies in a row were vetoed by Li Xian, Rao is Zhang Kham's wisdom, at this time, there is no way to think about it, as for counting on the court's relief, it is better to expect the rooster to lay eggs, not to mention anything else, the prince alone can't pass the pass, not to mention that there is the evil woman of the Empress Wu sitting in the palace, how can Li Xian take advantage.

"Your Highness, Guangzhou is in a hurry!"

Just when Li Xian and Zhang Khan were both a little helpless and silent, they saw Liu Ziming hurriedly turn out from behind the screen, holding a thick letter, strode in front of Li Xian, and hurriedly reported in a loud voice.

"Oh? Hand it over! ”

Li Xian originally set the starting point of "Wang Ji Firm" in Hangzhou, it was because of the fact that Hangzhou has many shipbuilding craftsmen, and is located in the hub, so it is easy to mobilize all kinds of commodities, but after all, Hangzhou is an important place for the transfer of grain from the court, and there are many government offices, not only the Yamen of the assassination of the history of the history, but also the Yamen of the river governor controlled by the party of the Empress Wu, there are many people and miscellaneous eyes, even if there is a history of Le Sihui in Hangzhou, it may not be able to completely calm the scene, in order to avoid possible troubles, the headquarters of the "Wang Ji Firm" is not located in Hangzhou, but in Guangzhou, Since the year before last Lin Hu and others went to sea, Li Xian has secretly ordered to mobilize a group of skilled craftsmen from Hangzhou to Guangzhou to build a new shipyard, and now, the fleets to and from Dongying and Nanyang are docked here, which is another important economic pillar under Li Xian's command in addition to the "Deng Ji Firm", therefore, as soon as he heard that it was an urgent matter from Guangzhou, Li Xian did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and took the letter from Liu Ziming's hand, and some of them couldn't wait to tear open the seal, take out a thick stack of documents inside, and spread them on a few pieces, I took a closer look.

"Hahaha......, okay, good Lin Hu, finally live up to the trust of Lonely, sir, Lone has won the bet!"

Under Li Xian's careful look, the original sadness disappeared in an instant, replaced by extreme excitement, raised the document in his hand, and laughed and teased Zhang Khan Yiyi.

"Bets? Hmm, isn't it the triumphant return of the fleet that went to the Great Food Country? It was just in time for the rain. ”

Hearing Li Xian's words, Zhang Cambodia was stunned at first, and then quickly reacted - Li Xian had made a bet with Zhang Cambodia at the beginning, saying that the fleet that went to Dashi would definitely be able to bring back a huge amount of wealth, the bet was not big, it was just money, Zhang Cambodia would not take it to heart, not only did he not mind, but he laughed with relief.

"It's timely rain, this timely rain is good, it can be regarded as a solution to the big problem of loneliness, sir, a trip back and forth is enough to earn as much as three million, this is the net profit after deducting various expenses, amazing, amazing!"

Li Xian naturally didn't take the so-called bet to heart, and handed the document to Zhang Cambodia with a smile.

"Well, it's amazing, but how should this big food country go?"

After Zhang Cambodia quickly went through the document, he was also very happy in his heart, after all, he was in charge of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and if he had no money, the first person who was embarrassed was not others, it was him Zhang Cambodia himself, but he was not only concerned about money, but when he saw that the document mentioned the matter of the Great Food Country, the doubts in his heart were raised again......