In the past, the southern part of Myanmar was born, and now it is the country of Luzhou. Li Jun, the lord of the country, looked at the financial statements in front of him and felt a deep headache.

"No money, no money!"

This is really a cause for the sorrow of rulers. Thanks to the fact that last year, the army of Luzhou Boguo also entered the Zhuluo Kingdom and made a lot of money, whether it was the spoils of war or the 'dividends' after the war compensation of the Zhuluo Kingdom, it was a lot of income. Otherwise, the fiscal surplus on the financial statement of the first half of this year will not be black, but a fiscal deficit.

"Lord, there is really no money. Is the construction plan for the second half of the year stretched thin, where is there still money left to buy a ship? "The minister's words were filled with a feeling of 'heartache'.

"How did you spend this money?"

Li Jun has a splitting headache now, and he has to regret that he came out to 'break into the world'. Lu Qian gave him preferential treatment and assigned the west-facing Lower Burma region to Li Jun as a fief. It's an absolutely nice place, with fertile land, plenty of rainfall, and warm temperatures. The rice and sugarcane harvested every year in the past few years are the largest and most stable source of income in Luzhou.

Even the profits from fishing and gem mining are far from comparable.

And the geographical location here is superior, facing the Tianzhu Sea to the west, there is an outlet to the sea, unlike the Malay Peninsula in Li Jun's original photo, although the geographical location is also superior, but it is tightly wrapped in the center, and there is no great development prospect.

Lower Myanmar is suitable for planting, if you just want to be a pastoral landlord, the small life of the mixed river dragon will be very beautiful.

But Li Jun is also ambitious, he doesn't want to learn from Fang La's farming at all, and the idea of mixing Jianglong from the beginning is to plunder the outside world.

Besides, Li Jun also has his own understanding of the establishment of a country, from agriculture to industry and commerce, from urban construction to transportation construction, and finally army construction.

Especially the last point, with the small size of the Lu country, it has maintained a capable army of water and land from the beginning, and it would be strange if this finance can be good.

Myanmar's dense rainforests have also provided a safe haven for the local natives, and the local resistance has not been quelled, which has also dragged Li Jun back to a certain extent.

But the most important thing is Li Jun's heart.

Because of the geographical location of the Lu Kingdom, facing the entire vast Tianzhu, he aimed at the Baltic Dynasty [Bengal] early, which was destined for the route he had to take - not only to build an army capable of fighting, but also to establish an army with both land and water. It was a real gold-eater, a bottomless pit that could not be filled.

If it weren't for the fertile land of Luguo, the abundant water conservancy, and the rice harvesting three times a year and the bumper harvest every year, Li Jun's life would only be more difficult.

It is important to know that Myanmar is rich in precious wood resources, such as teak, which is suitable for shipbuilding, as well as various hardwoods and precious hardwoods such as sandalwood, chicken wings, iron power, sorrel wood, rosewood, etc., which are all located in the northern part of Myanmar in later generations, that is, the upper Burma region. Including the famous Burmese jadeite in later generations.

It now belongs to the jurisdiction of the Nanyun Province of the Lu Qi Dynasty. The territory of the province of Le Chun Lu was limited to Lower Burma. Although it is suitable for farming, there are really few resources, even minerals.

"How much silver is left in the treasury?" Li Jun then asked.

It's only the first half of the year and I'm going to run out of money, so how should I live in the second half of the year?

"Lord, I'm afraid there isn't much money left in the treasury...... his minister whispered a number.

"Ah, so little ......," Li Jun exclaimed.

"Since the cool season of last year [from September and October to the first month of the following year], the country has purchased a number of iron tools and farm tools, a number of cattle, horses, and livestock from the mother country, and built various channels and roads, spending nearly one million silver ......dollars," the minister said: "This year, the lord of the country has purchased from the mother country a gunboat, three warships, countless armor, and an expenditure of 100,000 yuan......

"And for the construction of the shipyard, the DPRK allocated 200,000 funds......"

"Millions of ...... were also spent on the exploration and exploitation of metal deposits and gem minerals in various places, the expansion of the fishing fleet, and the expenses of the DPRK and Chinese officials."

If you don't have a home, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!

"Now that the treasury does not have much money left, it is difficult to carry out the plan for the second half of the year as scheduled." The meaning of the minister's words is very clear, Li Jun has spent too much money on armaments.

If he had expanded his fishing fleet alone—it would have been for whaling. Ceylon, not far from Luzhou, is a land surrounded by whales, and as long as the whaling industry can operate normally, it will certainly provide a lot of money to the owners of the fleet.

It doesn't matter if it's baleen or whale bones, whale meat or whale oil, it's money.

Li Jun's expansion of the fishing fleet alone is nothing, but he also vigorously strengthened his military armament, opened a shipyard, and spent a lot on internal affairs construction, and the stalls of Lu Guo are too big!

Even though Li Jun, who was named the Earl of Luzhou, whether it was his territory or his own capital, he was the leader among several Boguo. With the strong support of the Tong brothers, the overall strength of the Tong family is not much worse than that of Hou Guoyan, who is even better. However, no matter how abundant capital is used to build a country, all aspects go hand in hand, which seems to be stretched.

Therefore, Li Jun was the first to pass the bank certification, and through the issuance of Luzhou Boguo bonds, mortgage ports and acres of land, he brought in about 10 million funds before and after.

But it's also spent like flowing water.

In the next few years, in addition to repaying his debts, Lu Guo stopped expanding the amount of his national debt all the time. Just because it correspondingly shows enough "capital", whether it is sugar or rice, this is a fixed source, as if a person has a regular income, the day when the loan is paid off does not seem so far away.

The alluvial plains of the Dajinsha River [Irrawaddy River] are full of flat rice fields and sugarcane plantations, with these two regular sources of income, the credibility of Luzhou Boguo is still very strong.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Jun had always had the heart to show his military ambitions, his finances would definitely not be so tight.

However, the mixed river dragon couldn't control his heart of waves.

If he didn't have this ambition, why did he come out to work hard?

Isn't it because the Central Plains has no chance for him to show his strengths and feet, so he came to the Central Plains?

Lu Qian is also an adult beauty, and put him in Burma, and this guy really prepared his troops at the beginning of the fight.

When Lu Qian himself didn't know when he would attack Tianzhu, Li Jun began to prepare.

That naval army is well trained and equipped. That's all money heaped up!

Is it a joke to have both land and water? Especially the trolls. If he only develops the army with peace of mind and saves the cost of the army, then the entire national economy will be greatly improved.

Of course, all this money is well spent, and it is all spent on the blade!

Luzhou Boguo now has tens of thousands of naval forces, and its naval division has five gunboats as the main force - three sea boats, two sea dragon ships, and more than ten old-style sea ships, all of which are 2,000 materials facing up, and has a professional naval army of 2,000 people. Compared to the target he targeted, the Baltic Dynasty, this force was terrifying.

Li Jun looked at the financial budget for the second half of the year handed by his ministers, and the country is expected to build two cities, two seaports, and 12 roads, which are all long-term investments and are indispensable for the development of Luzhou.

In addition, the production of sugar liao continued to grow, but a large amount of granulated sugar was not necessarily shipped to the Central Plains, and the nobles of Tianzhu Continent also liked sugar.

And then there's education.

Life, the people who have migrated here do not need to worry about it anymore. There is too much grain in Luzhou Boguo to eat, otherwise how could it be imported into the Central Plains in large quantities? In the latter years, cotton planting and silkworm matters have increasingly crowded out the living space of grain crops.

Whether it is reserves or balancing the price of food in the market, Lu Qi is always importing a large amount of grain.

However, it is obviously difficult for education in various feudal countries to develop rapidly.

Recruiting teachers from the Central Plains is a drop in the bucket, and training teachers by yourself is far from quenching the thirst of the near.

Just like Li Jun's vigorous development of the naval army, he aimed at the Polo dynasty, which he coveted. But as long as the war is not triggered for a day, and Li Jun has been victorious, the wealth of the Polo dynasty will never be his.

All he can hope for now is the middle rice in the paddy fields that is about to be harvested, and this year's late rice, as well as the benefits of sugar liao and whaling, and the finances of Lu Guo do not have the spare energy to carry out large-scale construction as planned.

Unless......

"Lord, if you want to make a short-term loan to the Chamber of Commerce, you can use the copper mine just discovered in the north as collateral......"

Otherwise, it would be strange that the city and the port could be built on schedule.