Chapter 384: Propose to go

Ning Yuancheng fell into madness, filled with joy and laughter. A complete victory eliminated the martial law in Ningyuan City, whether it was soldiers, residents, or foreign merchants, they were all overjoyed and flocked to the streets to celebrate, and the general's mansion was no exception There was jubilation.

"Li Lang, is this true?" Pei Xiaoniang blinked her incredibly big eyes, and the 'color' of her pretty face was complex, containing joy, admiration, pride, worship and fascination.

There was no politeness, the beauty was irresistibly picked up, looking at the national 'color' Tianxiang who was close to the skin touching, especially the expression of the 'desire' refusal to welcome and the 'desire' words to rest, Li Huaitang showed signs of wolfing.

"My little beauty, don't worry about marrying me. There was not a single Hu man standing outside the city, and there were many lying down. After this winter, I will personally go to Chang'an to propose to the emperor and the Pei family, and marry you into the 'door'. ”

"Huh!?" Pei Xiaoniang's face couldn't be more red, and her face couldn't be more ashamed. When she woke up one night, she was pleasantly surprised to hear that the Qianghu coalition outside the city had been wiped out, and she was suddenly picked up by Ai Lang to continue to sweeten her heart with surprise.

"Huh? Go to Chang'an! Li Lang, Li Lang, the concubine is also going, you promised the concubine. Liu Meiren, who was snickering just now, reacted very quickly, and was the first to jump out and get carried away and pull Li Huaitang's arm. Then Su Zizi and 'Bo' Sishan were not far behind, launching a gentle offensive around Li Huaitang, completely ignoring Pei Xiaoniang, who was embarrassed lying in the crook of Li Huaitang's arm.

"Okay, okay, let's go." Li Huaitang said with a smile, his eyes inadvertently saw Ye Ji, and Yiren smiled lightly on the side. Li Huaitang put down Pei Xiaoniang, crossed the bright 'flower' bush, and walked to Ye Ji's side with an apologetic gesture and stroked her face with both hands.

"Shiro rest assured, the concubine will take care of herself." Ye Ji struggled to maintain a smile.

Li Huaitang said: "Seeing that I am dizzy with joy, I am going to Chang'an, but I have to wait for the little Li Lang in your belly to be born, right?" ”

"Shiro, I," Ye Ji said, but was blocked by one of Li Huaitang's fingers on the side of his lips.

"Don't worry, I will be with you, the first cry of the little life, no matter what, the husband will not miss it, that is the sacred moment when I become a father." Li Huaitang teased Ye Ji as if no one was around. In fact, there was no one beside him, and the figure of a group of beauties had just disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

At this moment, Ye Ji is like a small boat, and Li Huaitang's 'chest' arm is like a safe harbor, and the boat is berthed into the harbor, warm and quiet...... Until a rush of footsteps disturbed the minds of the two of them, and the world flowed.

The person who came was six monkeys, who came in a hurry and broke the good thing.

"Sister, that, that, General, there are people outside, and many people ask to see them." The six monkeys have always called Ye Ji sister. Because of the special thing, he didn't think about it so much, and crashed into the back 'flower' garden. Ye Ji's face 'color' and twisting movements told him that something was wrong with him.

There was indeed a big event outside the 'door', I don't know who led the leader, and I couldn't count how many people came, in short, the heads were rolling, the black pressure was overwhelming, and the crowd was 'excited' and abnormal, and they all 'wanted' to donate money and send things into the general's mansion. The guards tried hard to stop them, trying in vain to persuade them to leave.

"Listen to me!" With a loud sound, a burly figure appeared in the field of vision of the crowd, standing on the big 'gate' of the General's Mansion.

Seeing the general appear, the crowd erupted in cheers, and the 'agitation' made them deprive the general of his right to speak first.

"General, this is our heart, please accept it." A white-haired old man knelt down on the spot with the support of his family.

"Hurry up, please! Ah Weng is an elder, how dare Li? Li Huaitang hurriedly stepped forward to help the white-haired old man.

The old man choked back tears and said, "Deserve it, deserve it!" If it weren't for the general, I am afraid that we would all become the souls of the Hu people, and besides, it is because of the general's favor that we have been able to live and work in peace and contentment and enjoy a peaceful and prosperous life in the past two years. This bit of wealth cannot be compared with the general's contribution to us, but it is also a little of our heart, I hope the general will not dislike it! ”

The residents who gathered around nodded their heads in agreement.

"That's right! That's right! The Admiral never collected our taxes and distributed food and goods to us from time to time, and today he has defeated hundreds of thousands of Qianghu for us, saving us from being slaughtered. Today, if the general does not accept our gratitude, we will not leave, and we will not be able to kneel for a long time! Another elderly man shouted excitedly, his sensationalism resonated with the crowd, and they all knelt down collectively, and for a while, the scene in front of the 'door' of the General's Mansion was spectacular.

If you don't gather people's hearts at this time, when will you wait? Li Huaitang jumped on the highest place in front of the 'gate' and said loudly: "It was the Ningyuan Iron Cavalry soldiers who defeated the Qianghu coalition army, and you should be grateful to them, they sweated silently, and even shed blood and paid for their lives, just to defend the peace of our Ningyuan City!" Let's pay tribute to the heroic and invincible Ningyuan Iron Cavalry! Ning Yuan Iron Cavalry is mighty! ”

"Ning Yuan's iron horse is mighty! The Admiral is mighty! The cheers of the crowd spontaneously brought their general, and the effect that Li Huaitang wanted came naturally.

Under Li Huaitang's persuasion and arrangement, the crowd moved to the barracks of the Wucai Army, where the representatives of the soldiers went out to receive the heartfelt thanks of the residents.

For two days in a row, Li Huaitang was busy with a lot of trivial matters inside and outside the city, such as the rewards for meritorious soldiers, the medical care and condolences for wounded soldiers, the beckoning of recruits, the placement of prisoners, the cleaning and burial of corpses, and so on.

It's not easy, it's easy to be non-easy. The rewards given to the meritorious soldiers alone were stumped by the Wu 'Meng' and the little chestnuts, although there were many captures, but compared with the rich exploits of the soldiers, it was obviously a drop in the bucket, and although the wealth moved out of the inventory of the General's Palace, there was still a shortage.

At one point, U'mong suggested lowering the material standard of rewards and raising honorary rewards. However, Li Huaitang did not agree.

Li Huaitang's answer was: "The reward can be reduced, but not now, but in the future, before the army implements the monthly salary, everything will be as usual." ”

"Moon!?" Little chestnut showed signs of fainting on the spot and was breathing abnormally. You must know that the entire Ningyuan Iron Cavalry has 50,000 soldiers, even if the 'door' point is picked, the average person will only pay two dirhams per month, 100,000 a month, and 1.2 million a year, and the tax revenue of Kangguo, the head of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, is only hundreds of thousands of dirhams a year, which does not include the expenditure on equipping war horses, mules and horses and food for the soldiers, and God knows whether the general will expand the size of the army in the future, depending on the situation.

"It's a monthly salary." Li Huaitang seemed to have trouble with the little chestnut, and continued to hit him with astronomical amounts: "I have thought about it, the soldiers need to pay an average of ten dirhams per month. ”

Little chestnut's tongue is knotted: "Ten, ten? Oh, my God! ”

Li Huaitang explained: "It's not much, and a standard shop in the market will cost 10 dirhams a month. ”

"But, in a year, we need at least six million dirhams, General, we don't have that much money." Wu 'Meng' and 'desire' dispelled Li Huaitang's seemingly absurd ideas, and counted as relieving the little chestnut.

Li Huaitang said: "There is no now, but it does not mean that we will not have it in the future." There are three main sources of the soldiers' monthly salaries, one is from our tax expenditure, the second is from the dividends from the mines, and the third is ......"

"Wait," Wu 'Meng' interrupted Li Huaitang and asked curiously, "What is a dividend?" ”

Li Huaitang said with a smile: "Some time ago, we found a huge coal mine in the Fergana Mountain Range, and I plan to take 20% of it as a part of Ningyuan Iron Cavalry, I call it shares, and the profits earned from the mine are divided into shares every year, and the profits are considered dividends." This is true not only for our coal mines, but also for our copper-gold mines, as well as for other mines to be discovered in the future. ”

"What about the third?" Little Chestnut asked with concern.

"Seizures, of course. There are two kinds of seizures, in addition to the reward, the one that enters the General's Mansion is used as an emergency reserve. Of course, you have to pay me back this money in the future, otherwise I won't have the money to support my wife and children. ”

"Well, forget about it this time?" Xiao Lizi plans to play tricks, after all, Ningyuan City has just started, and the financial pressure is extremely huge, and this year, in addition to tens of thousands of Tang people, there are also many war refugees to join, and the cost is amazing, Xiao Lizi feels big when he thinks about it.

"Good! Not an example! "Li Huaitang is very hearty and crisp." Well, the monthly salary of the army is related to our safety and development, this is only my personal preliminary idea, you will continue to improve, especially the ratio of the three sources must be properly determined, and it is best to adjust it every two years. ”

Whether the pace of development is steady or whether it is rapid and the rational distribution of resources and interests is closely related, of course, there is no absolute reasonableness, different periods of time and different environments need different policies, what politicians need to do is to adjust in a timely manner, try to maintain a reasonable allocation, so that the society will continue to progress.

After dealing with trivial affairs, Li Huaitang began to work on the construction of the mine, and tens of thousands of prisoners were driven to the two mines, although it was a cold winter, but the start of the mine could not be delayed, otherwise what more than 200,000 Qianghu could not do would be completed by these more than 70,000 captives: eat the poor Ningyuan City!

"Wow! Li Lang, this coal mine is really big! As one of the major shareholders, Liu Meiren followed Li Huaitang to the scene, only to see that the former pasture had become a mine, at the foot of the mountain were rows of barracks, and there were more than a dozen bulldozed sites, which were full of black 'colored' coal, and the dense miners on the mountainside were competing with the earth to take out the coal that Ningyuan City wanted.

After more than 10 days of hard work by 40,000 slaves, the coal mine has already taken shape, and the black 'color' torrent is constantly being transported into Ningyuan City, into the furnaces of various workshops, into the kitchen stoves of residents, and into the heating furnaces of military camps...... Correspondingly, a large amount of profit money is rolling back into the hands of mine operators.

For the marvel of the beauty, Li Huaitang just smiled slightly, compared with the annual output of millions of tons in the market, this coal mine can only be said to be a small thing. In this era, there are no advanced tools, and mining basically relies on manpower, fortunately there are a large number of strong slaves, the cost is not large, and fortunately, the coal mine can basically be mined in the open sky, easy to mine, so it will bring huge profits.

The arrival of Li Huaitang and his entourage attracted the two operators in charge of the mine, Kang Shalai and Shang Qi. More than 10 days ago, Li Huaitang invited almost all the merchants in the city to the palace in the name of the general's mansion and informed the merchants of the opening of the mine and his ideas.

Seeing the dust on the faces of Kang Shalai and his brother-in-law Shang Qi, Li Huaitang was a little proud, and these 'colorful' businessmen have become his long-term workers.

"I said, will you be able to make money this year and share it with the shareholders?" Li Huaitang cares about making a profit.

Konshalai sneered, "The Admiral smiled. This is just the beginning, and the profit will have to wait until at least next year. ”

"Did you encounter any difficulties?" Everything is difficult at the beginning, there must be a lot of difficulties, Li Huaitang can't give any good advice on the operation of the mine, but he can solve the problem for them.

Shang Qi said: "Everything else is easy to say, don't bother the general, we can solve it ourselves." But ......"

"But what?"

Shang Qi said: "General, there are two main problems here. One is that there is not enough money, and there is a barter situation before our coal is sold, and the second is that the sales channel is too narrow, except for Ningyuan City, there is only Xijian City, which is transported to Datang for a long way, and it is necessary to open 'spring' to pass. These two deficiencies have seriously limited the pace of our development. ”

The lack of coins Li Huaitang already felt that most of the cash that merchants paid for their shares was only a written promise, and they needed to transport coins from all over the world to cash in. However, this problem, and even Shang Qi's second problem, Li Huaitang thought of a way to solve it.

"As for the coins, you can rest assured. We will have our own coins next summer, and from now on, you will step up the mining of copper and gold, and as long as you can mine them, I will be able to mint the gold and copper I have obtained into Ningyuan coins, and then there will be as many as I want. ”

"The sales of coal will not be an obstacle for us, the same next year, our coal will be sold to Shiguo, and the sales of the following year will increase the rest of the Zhaowu countries such as Kang, Shi, Mi, An, and Cao."

"Huh? The general wants to capture Zhezhi City? And the city of Samarkand? Everyone present understood what Li Huaitang said.

"Is this true?" Shang Qi's eyes lit up, as Li Huaitang said, then his money will be immeasurable, an inexplicable excitement in his heart 'stirred', he once again determined that his original choice was very correct, at that time Li Huaitang was a giant gold mine that was not known by the world, but he was insightful. He was very proud, proud of his extraordinary vision and courage, and glad that he had two beautiful girls......

"Nonsense! Our general has always been true to his word! Ammez raised his head and proudly answered for Li Huaitang. The 20% stake in the coal mine surprised him quite a lot, this is a huge fortune, if the previous general gave him a foothold and a place to use, then this is undoubtedly to let him enter the aristocracy again. Gratitude arose, and naturally became a die-hard fan of Li Huaitang. Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "War Owl in Tang" written by the wolf under the moon