"What about funding? Can we afford the Treasurer? ”

Li Tianyang nodded, without the slightest look of surprise.

"The major economic sources we have in the past two years are mainly the trade income led by Qixintang, as well as the commercial taxes from the past ships passing through our Hongmen waters, as well as the commercial taxes on the territory controlled by Hongmen, and the agricultural and commercial taxes paid by the people under our command."

"Last year, the fiscal revenue of our Hongmen reached 3 million yuan, plus the fiscal surplus accumulated in the previous two years, as well as the bonds issued by our door, a total of 9.53 million yuan in total inventory."

"Excluding the reserves to ensure at least the daily expenses and staff salaries for the year, the funds we can use are eight million yuan."

"In the more than half a year since the Liaodong Theater entered the customs, our capital consumption has exceeded four million yuan."

"In other words, if we want to continue the large-scale and high-intensity war, all our resources and funds will only last for a maximum of one year, right?"

Li Tianyang raised his head and asked thoughtfully.

Li Tianyang's calculation method is still somewhat different from the conclusions reached by their secretariat and other relevant departments, but if it is really necessary to open up sources and reduce expenditure, there is actually no problem.

"So to speak."

Miao Yuanzheng replied approvingly.

"A year?"

Li Tianyang frowned, the answer he got was far from the goal in his mind, but the fact is the truth, not how beautiful Li Tianyang imagined, how beautiful it could become.

Compared with the size of their Hongmen themselves, from Shengjing outside the Guanwai to Shanxi and Hebei today, the territory controlled by Hongmen has expanded several times.

And the biggest problem of Hongmen now is that although the violent organization of their audience, the Hongtang Army, has delegated the power to expand its troops to the hands of several major army commanders, but judging from the news they have returned, their expansion is not going well.

It's right to think about it, with the Hongmen government agencies next to them to hinder their army's greatest means of recruiting soldiers from the civilian population, then it has become a bigger problem to expand the army in this miserable land in the north.

However, since Li Tianyang and his Hongmen have taken the step of fighting for world domination, he doesn't want to give his biggest opponent now, the Zhu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, too many opportunities and time.

Although Hongmen blocked the maritime trade for the first time, making the largest economic income channel of the Ming Dynasty government become a decoration, but the Ming Dynasty has a lot of wealth and industry, even if it loses the channel of maritime trade, the taxes brought by the commercial and trade activities of the Jiangnan generation, as well as the agricultural taxes, are still considerable.

Of course, the adverse effects of the blockage of maritime trade channels were already beginning to be revealed at this time, and many new production of various silk and cotton cloths, tea and porcelain, etc., gradually hoarded in the warehouses of various merchants or factory owners in the Ming Dynasty because of the lack of buyers.

I am afraid that after a while, the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty government has only grown up with great difficulty, and the capitalist class, which is already a certain size, will begin to be restless.

For Hongmen, these are all afterwords, and what Li Tianyang is thinking about now is how to go further in this matter related to Hongmen's future, until he becomes the only victor after doing it.

"Repair a letter to Wu Jie and them, so that they can prepare for another battle before this year, with the goal of reaching the Yangtze River."

Li Tianyang's appetite is quite big, and the next plan arranged for Wu Jie and them is so huge, but other than that, Li Tianyang seems to have no other specific plans.

"Yes!"

Miao Yuanzheng picked up the pen and made a record in the notebook he carried, if someone carefully observed, he could see that the pen used by Miao Yuanzheng at this time was similar to the pen used in later generations, at least now I see him writing for a few minutes, and I don't see him dipping the pen and the like.

In today's Hongmen, what Li Tianyang needs to do is to give a general direction, and then delegate it to various departments, and these professional departments will formulate more professional plans.

For example, now, before the target given by Li Tianyang is handed over to Wu Jie, it will inevitably go to the Military Department's Aircraft Department, the Logistics Department, and the Ministry of Finance to look at it one after another, and each department will formulate and calculate the corresponding plan according to the current goal, and then give a relatively balanced plan after several parties sum it up, and finally submit it to Wu Jie, the Beijing Division, for reference.

Of course, Wu Jie, as the commander of the battle, has his own judgment on the use of this plan, but in the end, all the plans he made on the front line will also refer to the various data sent by the Hongmen headquarters, and then correct it himself.

"Isn't this a big step?"

In his leisure time, Gan Dabiao invited Li Tianyang to drink and chat, and only halfway through the drink did he begin to reveal his original purpose.

"Our financial situation is not enough to support such a huge battle plan, it means that we still have a surplus of millions of dollars, but after a battle, we need to pay a lot of money regardless of victory or defeat."

"Where is this war, this is simply smashing with money!"

After drinking a few large pots of wine and gaining a bit of courage, Gan Dabiao began to complain without scruples.

"You said that the lives of our soldiers are precious, so try to use firearms as a means of warfare, and every time muskets and artillery are sprayed out, they are gunpowder and bullets purchased and manufactured with real money!"

"To put it mildly, it's all money!"

"Look at our soldiers again, although I agree with a lot of what you said, the soldiers are fighting on the front line, they are using their only life to fight for the future of our Hongmen, we are not wrong at all to give them the treatment they deserve!"

"But every time a Hongtang soldier is sacrificed, for our Hongmen finance, it is a burden that has been shouldered for more than ten or twenty years!"

"It doesn't matter if there are one or two, but hundreds, thousands, thousands of burdens, they can all drag us to death!"

"Now your plan is to advance the control area to the Yangtze River line, do you know what that means?"

"This is half of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Millions of miles of mountains and rivers can really be achieved overnight? How much do you think our Hongmen soldiers will pay for this, and how long will it take? ”

The shocking words came out of Gan Dabiao's mouth passionately, including the voice that Gan Dabiao had not been able to say for many years.