The meeting ended late at night, and Xiong Jing woke up the next day to look through the minutes to see if there was anything missing, and it was then that he remembered the quarrel over the allocation of the various provinces.

Under the strong argument of Zimo and others, the mansions of the palace are still owned by the royal family because they are in Yingdu, so as to make up for the loss of the city's tax, mountains and seas, ponds, and mouth-to-household endowments, but the prices of iron, coal, cement, papermaking, and land are subject to certain restrictions, especially iron.

The profit of coal is not high, after all, the output is only more than 10,000 tons, and even if a ton of coal has a profit of 200 yuan, it is only 2 or 300 gold a year. Lu Li, who is profiteering outside the iron, dressing mirrors, Lu Li utensils and all kinds of Lu Li beads, especially dressing mirrors and Lu Li utensils are the most profitable. There are more than 1,000 yuan in profit for a mirror, and there are still more than 3 million households in Dingkou outside the Qin State in the whole world, and there are 10,000 gold for selling 100,000 dressing mirrors a year; The price of Lu Li utensils and Lu Li beads is more expensive, and the profits they make every year are not less than 10,000 gold.

The profit of papermaking is higher than imagined, and the output of paper has been expanding, at the beginning the output was only two or three tons a day, and there were six or seven hundred craftsmen, and now the output has reached twenty-five tons, and there are five or six thousand craftsmen.

The paper is copied, and the larger the paper, the more difficult it is to copy, so except for the large sheet of paper used for printing, which is one meter square, the size of the rest of the standard paper is about 49mmx39mm, which is a quarter of the printing paper. Forty sheets of paper of this size are one kilogram, and a worker who works for eight hours a day can copy thirty kilograms of paper, that is, one hundred and twenty sheets, and get one or two hundred dollars according to the selling price.

The one hundred and twenty yuan minus the raw materials, cooking, pounding, wages, and depreciation, the net profit is at least eighty yuan. Of the 6,000 craftsmen, 5,000 were making paper, and the profit was 41.6 gold. This money does not seem to be much, but it is a net profit for one day, and there are 15,000 gold a year.

Cement has not yet been sold to the outside world, the actual production capacity is too small, this is also a profit by volume, the actual profit will be the same as coal, a year is only a few hundred gold. The same is true for drying salt, the profit of salt lies in the salt tax, which has been collected by the counties themselves, and the profit of the salt works is not high. Of course, it is not high compared to the three of iron, land and paper, and it is normal to see that a few hundred gold is already a huge profit, which is equal to the annual income of a county.

A set of huge armor has half a set of gold, 50,000 sets is two or five thousand gold, but unfortunately the armor can not be sold openly, after the 50,000 sets of Qi State, at most 50,000 sets will be purchased, and there will be a profit of 25,000 gold. This is also the reason for selling military armor to Zhao Guo, if it sells another 50,000 sets to Zhao Guo, then there will be another 25,000 gold income.

And in China, since the finances of the counties have been separated, the private soldiers' armor is naturally purchased with their own money, and the price of the armor has become very sensitive.

The peasant households in Chu had to pay 10 percent of the land rent every year, 30 yuan per stone was about 5 or 600 yuan, and they also had to pay oral taxes, and one hundred and 12 yuan for one household with three large and two small households; In addition, they have to pay military levies, and they buy military armor from Yingdu with military endowments, and the common people can't squeeze much money. Even if each set of giant armor is only sold for two hundred yuan, there are many people who can't afford it.

After fighting back and forth, they had to set a price that would not lose money, and they also had to help each clan popularize the ink furnace in exchange for not collecting iron taxes nationwide, and the ownership of the iron mine east of Liuyi. The armor does not make money, but the daily pig iron products make money, this money is a small profit, a few dollars of gadgets, a dozen dollars, dozens of dollars of farm tools, cooking utensils, a year of profit is less than 10,000 gold.

In addition to the huge iron system, luxury goods such as Luli products and porcelain were also restricted, and the ministers believed that these things had nothing to do with national use, and it was best to sell them abroad to earn money from foreigners.

Because it involves culture and education, the price of paper is also considered too high, the price of a piece of paper is one penny, and it is sold for at least one and a half cents on the market.

Xiong Jing woke up in the morning and had breakfast and began to read the meeting minutes, and in the morning he summoned Shi Yan, who wanted to figure out how much money he still had, so as not to be in debt like King Zhou. Shi Yan had long been aware of the royal family's finances, and after Xiong Jing asked him, he replied: "Your lord, if you don't count the profits from the sale of Qi national armor, the mansion has no money. ”

"No money?" Xiong Jing tilted his head and looked at him, "How can there be no money?!" ”

"The king doesn't know that the cost of attacking comes from the mansion, and the service of the honorable people also comes from the mansion. Although the annual income of the mansion is nearly 100,000 gold, the cost is very huge, and at the end of the year, the mansion will be empty. After Shi Yan finished speaking, he asked: "Dare to ask the king, is the Su of Ao Cang owned by the mansion?" ”

"Okura's Su?" Xiong Jing shook his head helplessly, "The Su of Ao Cang is a war capture, that is, a war capture, and it should be owned by all the generals." ”

"The king's pawn is the king's division, and the king's pawn is also under the king's rule, and the two are 80,000 people......" Shi Yan said again.

"The king's pawn will not be owned in the future." When it comes to the king, Xiong Jing is not happy. "There are more than 40,000 people in the division of Yingdu, and they can get the war catches, but the war gains are all owned by the generals, not the most......" Xiong Jing thought about the distribution of the spoils, more than 60 million stone grains, one-tenth of which belonged to the owner of the boat, even if they only went out of the boat - this is also the meaning of Xiong Jing, it cannot be worse for the native than for the foreigner, Zhao Guoyun got one out of ten, and the Qi country was probably the same standard, and the Chu people naturally had to get one out of ten. The remaining nine-tenths, forty and a half are non-commissioned officers, forty percent are officers, according to the size of the rank, as for him, the king, at most only half of the percent.

"No, it's worth up to 3.2 million stones." Xiong Jing said leisurely.

"Here's 10,000 gold." A few months ago, the price of millet rose to 200 yuan a stone, but before the new millet was put on the market, some businessmen ordered millet from peasants for 100 yuan, but the price of millet only slowly dropped to 150 yuan. The price of Ao Cangsu really fell, and Shi Yu didn't dare to count a hundred dollars a stone, but only dared to estimate at a price of thirty dollars a stone.

"Cai Wanjin?" Xiong Jing was a little disappointed, he thought it would be worth 30,000 gold.

"King, if 65 million stone grain is transported into the Chu State, the price of millet will inevitably plummet." Shi Yan is very experienced in this. "There are only a few people who buy millet, and 10 million stone millet a year is enough, and farmers have their own corn and do not need to buy it in the market. The minister thought that 30 yuan and a stone were too high, and as soon as the corn in Aocang entered the Chu State, the price of corn was less than 20 yuan, which hurt the peasants. ”

There is no corn that has skyrocketed to 200 yuan, and the massive influx of corn has fallen below 20 yuan. The price of millet below 20 yuan really hurts the peasants, Xiong Jing asked, "How should this be good?" ”

"The king, the court is discussing the relocation of the people to Jiangdong, and the Chu State will still be short of grain in the coming year, and the minister thinks that the Gaofu should buy grain for thirty yuan and one stone, and sell it again in the next year, and he can make a huge profit." Shi Yan came up with an idea.

"But isn't there no money in the mansion?" Xiong Jing looked at him strangely.

"Although the gold in Dafu is exhausted, there are old coins, and there are many old coins." Shi Yan smiled very chicken thief.