Speaking of which, there is also a large amount of kaolin in Ukraine, and refractory bricks and ceramics are also a good industry in Ukraine. But in the case of Crimea, the soil quality of the Kerch Peninsula can only be said to be okay. The production capacity of the four caves attached to the Great Railway Supervisor has not been able to go up. It takes five or six days to produce a kiln, and the total of the four caves is less than 10,000 bricks.

Now Qin Cang's house has been preferentially transformed into a three-entry courtyard, with two three-story mansions connected. And to the east of Qincang's house, near the harbor, the new government building is also basically completed. Meng Zhuoyan, Wang Rongfang and Qin Chang'an, as well as Wang Chun, Chen Jia, Chu Jing, Yang Hongda, Liu Yujing and others also lived in the family building next to them. Some of the surplus bricks were transported to the four colonies to support the local colonists.

In the rest of the city, most of them are old houses made of stone and mud. But this kind of treatment is actually good. You don't see that in Bulgaria, Serbia and other places, the natives still live in "rabbit holes"; The Bulgarians are not the worst, many Eastern European hairy people do not even have rabbit holes, and many serfs can sleep in stables.

The first choice for the highest standard of living in Europe is of course Lombardy in northern Italy, which is also the place with the best economic conditions at the moment.

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The schedule is to be set up for February. The light rain that was pouring down for several days finally stopped.

Wang Rongfang returned from Yanhuwei, and after three months there, he finally cooked the first pot of salt. This batch of new salt is about 400 catties, and it doesn't seem to have many impurities, but the color is obviously not as beautiful as the so-called snow-white. It's also about the technology being not so good. After all, the purification of salt is progressing step by step, and Europeans used to eat the same salt as "soil" like the late Qing Dynasty. The salt that came out of the salt mine was uglier than what it was boiled out of.

"On this trip, the old man used nearly 2,000 green bricks, destroyed the cooking stove eight times, and used hundreds of catties of charcoal!" Wang Rongfang sat in the government's study, looking embarrassed.

"I sent someone to the city of Kaffa to find out, and a liter of salt is about two-thirds of the price of the gold florin. If converted to the bad coin of the Hyperon, it is the high price of two gold coins of the Hyperon! If salt is trafficked to the Tatar tribes, who are short of salt and iron, the price should be higher. Qin Changan came in, and his black cauldron-like face looked a lot more relaxed.

"Qin Duzhi's face is happy, has he finally figured out the financial benefits?" Meng Zhuoyan personally poured a cup of tea for Qin Changan.

Qin Changan nodded and took out a piece of paper from his arms.

"Hmm...... Up to now, the Chizhou Strait toll tax has accumulated more than 2,600 gold coins (Chapter 48 is mistakenly written as a florin, in that case, the money collected is too much, it is simply a robbery of merchants), and there are a large number of messy silver coins, which are very poorly worked! It's a waste of money! If it were me, I would have smelted it and made new silver coins! Qin Changan drank the water in one gulp, and then continued:

"In addition, taxes have begun to be collected in the territory. Now that it has been announced, according to the price of one gold to seven silver, one silver to twenty small silver, and a small silver to more than a hundred coppers, and the price of one Kapha and a Modi (about 12.8 kilograms) of grain and a sea of peron, I boldly think that every household in the territory can pay two sea peren of taxes. It can collect about 2,000 hyperons per year. If the price of grain is high, the grain will be collected, and if the price of grain is low, it will be discounted into silver......."

"Qin Duzhi, isn't it good to collect so fiercely at the beginning?" Meng Zhuoyan started from the perspective of territorial stability, hoping that Qin Changan could take a break.

"As far as I know, there are 90,000 mati in the king's granary, which is about 10,000 stones. Is it better not to collect taxes this year? The foundation of each family is still very thin! ”

Wang Rongfang didn't speak, but still showed a look of approval.

The salary of Meng Zhuoyan and the others was paid by Qin Cang, and it was currently set at twenty florin gold per month, and seven or eight people added up, which cost more than 100 florins a month, which was quite expensive. Qin Cang's vault contained his internal money, and now he had saved more than 1,200 florins, most of which were exchanged new coins. In order to facilitate the use of the treasury for exchange, the newly repaired treasury is next to Qin Cang's inner treasury. To the left is the treasury, and to the right is the treasury.

"Hmph, I'm not in a hurry. Chizhou commercial tax, foreign port commercial tax, the two add up to about 600 Hai Peilun. Hey, sooner or later, the old man will have to build a mint, this mess of coins is really bad. Qin Changan took a few more sips of water.

"Anyway, there are currently more than 3,000 Happeren in the treasury, which can be regarded as very rich. The old man is not ignorant of the people's feelings, and this year's tax is tentatively set to move after the autumn harvest, and it will be calculated by taking one out of twenty first. At present, only grain tax and commercial tax will be collected, and the rest will be discussed later. Qin Changan said, touching the other document in his arms.

"This is an application for the construction of the Mint Division prepared by the old man. Meng Zai, you can show it to the king. ”

Meng Zhuoyan accepted it, and then he asked Wang Rongfang: "I heard that Director Wang's ranch has expanded for hundreds of miles, and it is connected with Nanzhouwei in parallel, and the new wool has been sent to Director Yang's Jinjian. I don't know how it went. ”

"Well, eating and dressing is also a matter of national importance. It is also known that the cloth of the city of Kaffa is expensive, and if you look at the wool woven from wool, then the woolen velvet is sixty hpperon. I think the quality of woolen is even higher than that of the linen sold by the Genoese, so the sales should not be bad. Qin Changan still remembers the treasury he managed.

Wang Rongfang secretly thought, these two guys, just want to pick their own wool.

But who let Wang Rongfang's prisons be the most profitable?

"Yang Hongda told me last month that after eliminating most of the difficulties and recruiting 300 female wool washers, his Jin Jian could produce about 100 woolen wool horses a month. Wang Chun's wool supply is okay, and there is no shortage at present. After the sale, you can earn a thousand dollars a month! At present, the warehouse has stored 160 woolen horses, and it is not impossible to put them in Kfa City to test the waters. ”

Wang Rongfang's words still surprised Qin Changan and Meng Zhuoyan!

"Haha, Wang Gongbu, I want to build a road from Chizhou to Deshengwei, but unfortunately the people are not enough, and the financial resources are also insufficient. Now it seems that it is not impossible to recruit dead people to build roads! ”

Meng Zhuoyan's excitement obviously made the other two God of Wealth a little confused. After a long time of emotional inquiry, you just want to steal money from us, don't you?