Today's Chang'an is very different from a few years ago.

Although the dilapidated Chang'an City is still the dilapidated Chang'an City, at least it has undergone great changes inside.

Poor, still the same poor, but out of poverty to the bone.

The current Datang can only be said to be poor on the surface.

Where they should spend money, they never lack money, and where they shouldn't, they never get money.

What is different from the past is that there is more traffic in Chang'an City, and the streets are full of people coming and going, either relaxed and comfortable, or walking in a hurry.

Business has become a postcard of Chang'an.

Since the imperial court vigorously promoted commerce, a variety of shops have emerged in an endless stream, and for this reason, the imperial court has also deliberately vacated two lifang for special use of foreign trade.

And the most direct change is that the imperial court's tax revenue is really too much, although it is not enough to support the entire empire, but at least we can see hope for the future.

"In the first month after the year, Chang'an City generated a total of 61,630 yuan in taxes, and this is still subject to the impact of the New Year, so in fact, this tax can only be said to be the impact of half a month. In addition, the minister also made a comparison with the same period last year, and this year's tax revenue is more than double that of last year, and if this situation continues, the total tax revenue for the whole year this year will be between 700,000 and 800,000 yuan. Huangfu Wuyi held a form in his hand, and his face was even more excited.

There is nothing that makes people feel happier than having money in their hands, especially him, the secretary of the household department, the secretary in charge of money and grain.

Last year, he was still the same Shangshu who hid everywhere, but this year, he finally doesn't have to continue to hide, he can tell someone with confidence, when will your money be given, or not.

Although the household department is not rich, it is still enough to support the current needs, of course, provided that all the expenses of the royal family are removed.

The expenses of the royal family are not only as simple as eating, drinking, and wearing, including the palace people's salaries, rewards, food and clothing, and also include the repair of the entire Taiji Palace, which now do not need to be allocated from the treasury of the household department.

And how much does the royal family spend in a year? It can only be said that the current monthly income is not too much.

"What about the surrounding area?" A Chang'an doesn't represent anything, of course, if Chang'an can't, how can other places be?

"The situation in the surrounding area is not particularly ideal." Speaking of this problem, Huangfu Wuyi couldn't help but turn dark, and secretly said that it was not that I didn't work hard, but that there was really no good opportunity.

Complaining is complaining, this kind of thinking does not dare to show: "Sanyuan is still the same, you can have an income of several hundred yuan a month, you can't get rich and you can't starve to death, but after the New Year, it is obvious that Sanyuan's economy is declining, and the situation in Jingyang has improved, with the production of the beer workshop, a large number of merchants are coming to hear the wind, especially the Royal Business Group in Chang'an tried to launch a batch of beer, which was deeply loved by the people, and those merchants couldn't help it. Now there is a long queue at the business group's beer workshop in Chang'an, and the minister approved another 1,000 a few days ago as the cost of the workshop's expansion. ”

Li Yuanji didn't pay much attention to this matter, but he was a little surprised when he listened to Huangfu Wuyi's report.

Originally, the object of cooperation was the Royal Commercial Group and Jingyang County, and the technical investment of the Academy of Sciences was counted on the side of the Royal Commercial Group, but later felt that the money could not only be given to Jingyang, and beer was also a big project, Li Yuanji let the imperial court intervene again, so the proportion of shares occupied by the three parties was eighty percent five to one to 0.5.

That's right, the proportion of shares in Jingyang County has been compressed to 0.5, if the capital increase and share expansion, although the current name is not so professional, but according to the proportion of shares to contribute evenly or should.

And the imperial court, which occupies a hundred percent of the shares, actually invested a thousand yuan to expand? Wouldn't the commercial group, which occupies eighty-five percent of the shares, have to pay 8,500 yuan?

How?

More or less, the business group is not a fool, and Huangfu Wuyi is not a fool, if the return is obviously unable to meet the investment, will he pass the approval at this time?

"Hehe......" When he thought of the beer workshop, Huangfu Wuyi couldn't help but want to laugh, and regretted that he only occupied 10% of the shares in the first place. I should have done more.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, affected by the drop in food prices, so our costs have also dropped a lot, since the cost has fallen, the ex-factory price and retail price will naturally have to fall, after all, we are the imperial court, and it is impossible to ignore everything in order to make money like those merchants. Now a bucket of beer is only 100 yuan on the market, and our profit is as much as 50 yuan. Speaking of this, Huangfu Wuyi stopped, quietly probed around, and after ensuring safety, he smiled and posted it and whispered: "Yesterday, the minister went to check the accounts, the beer that has been sold, remove the cost or something, we have earned a total of more than 20,000 yuan, in addition, just the deposit alone has collected almost 20,000 yuan, if according to the current output, it is the current number of orders, and we will not be able to finish it next year." ”

Now Li Yuanji completely understood why this product was so generous and approved, this expansion of feelings does not need to be paid by the court at all, even if it is invested in a thousand yuan, the court can still take a thousand yuan from the dividends.

As for the deposit of 20,000 guan, this is just a deposit, and the transaction has not been completed, so the 20,000 guan cannot be taxed.

But even so, according to the rule of thirty taxes and one, just more than 20,000 guan, the imperial court can collect more than 600 guan, plus the taxes sold by merchants and the like later, this time just the tax can have about 1,500 guan, for a court, 1,500 guan tax is not much.

But you have to take into account that the imperial court still has a 10% share, and it is more than 2,000 guan, once and again, 3,000 guan, what can 3,000 guan do? It can meet the normal expenses of ten counties throughout the year, and can meet the expenses of the entire central court for half a month.

And that's just the result of a brewery.

"No wonder I see that you walk with floating ......" Li Yuanji couldn't help but quip, he thought of it, but he didn't expect beer to be so popular, just by relying on a workshop and the investment of land, Jingyang County can surpass Sanyuan in monthly income.

And this is just the book data on the workshop, in fact, Jingyang has surpassed Sanyuan County in an all-round way.

Because the purchase of grain is the priority of Jingyang County, and the recruitment of workers is also the priority of Jingyang County, after selling grain and having a job, there will naturally be money to spend, even if some people go to Chang'an to consume, but half of the people will definitely choose to stay.

As a result, Jingyang County, which was half-dead, came back to life.

A company saved a county, and when it was put in later generations, Li Yuanji often heard people talk about this kind of thing, but he couldn't believe it, but now, he really believes it.

"Of course, it's not that the minister is bragging with you, this beer, the minister also bought some back, and even the minister's wife and concubine like to drink it, so the minister thinks that this thing is better than the future of liquor."

Moreover, yesterday the minister also chatted with Luo Chen for a while, he is trying to expand around, build a workshop in Luozhou, responsible for the sales of the Central Plains and the east region, build a workshop in Yangzhou, responsible for the sales of the Jiangnan region, Chang'an is expanding, responsible for the sales of the entire Guanzhong and the Western Regions, and the other is to bring a batch of wine to Zhenzhou to test the water, if the effect is not bad, consider building one in Zhenzhou, after all, the price of grain there is cheaper, and the cost is lower.

The minister also preliminarily calculated, if it is really done, this year's income will be more, not to mention more, it is not a problem for the court to get tens of thousands of dividends in a year. The more Huangfu Wuyi talked, the more energetic he became, as if the money was his own.

Of course, this is indeed a good thing, but the problem is that this is a monopolistic operation, although there is no anti-monopoly law now, but it also shows that this is a unique business, you can rely on a beer workshop to feed a county, you can rely on the construction of branch workshops to feed four regions, but you can't feed the entire county town of Datang, although selling wine can also bring them a certain income.

"We can't stick to the rules, and we can't stop at what we have achieved so far. The beer workshop is just such a business, making money because there is no competition, but quality and safety must be paid attention to, and there must be no problems, otherwise for the imperial court, it is not a matter of money. In addition, think of other methods, just like engaging in dried fish, as much as possible to develop as many industrial clusters as possible, so as to drive more regions. Li Yuanji subconsciously ordered, although this matter is not under the control of the emperor, but the responsibility of the development province.

"Your Majesty, the Development Province has been busy recently, and the last time we had a private briefing, Ma Zhouke spoke amazingly, almost scaring these ministers half to death." Li Yuanji is an unintentional move, Huangfu Wuyi does not dare to answer at will, whose responsibility is his, and what has nothing to do with him must not interfere.

"Oh?" didn't pay attention to Huangfu Wuyi's shrewdness, Li Yuanji was a little interested in what Ma Zhou said, and wanted to hear it, what did this thing say? It almost scared the ministers to death.

"Ma Zhou said that the Ministry of Development is studying the pros and cons of lifting the curfew on Datang, but he was scolded back by Fang Xiang, saying that Ma Zhou did not study how to formulate policies and layout development, but studied these impossible things......"

Is the curfew lifted?

Li Yuanji raised his head slightly, perhaps, he already had the answer to Ma Zhou's idea in his heart!