"Zhou's restaurant dividends once a month, 40% of the profit each time; The relationship between furniture workshops and planers has not yet been imitated, and even if there is a cost, it is very high, so this part of the profit is also considerable; The soy sauce workshop is only better because it is sold to Xuzhou, which is relatively high-end and cannot be bought by the non-middle class. But the price of salt and soybeans is also desperate; The main income of the medicine shop is invested in the cultivation of spirit animals and intelligence work...... There is no way to realize the seafood processing workshop immediately...... "Li Ming looked at his own financial resources, and suddenly felt a headache.

Many workshops are joint ventures, so they need to wait two to three months before they can pay dividends once. Before the dividends, the fields in Yuyao were actually borrowed by the Xun family to help buy them, and they also bought a small number of tenant farmers to maintain their daily operations.

For Xun Cai's sake, Xun Biao did not charge interest, but the field is a big deal, and at least a year's dividends will be smashed on it. If you are lucky and have a good harvest next year, then there will be many benefits.

There will be no expenses for the next year, so the income for the next year will definitely be tight. As an eldest woman, Xun Cai naturally has to take precautions, at least to ensure that there is enough at home.

"Lord, as a councillor, you should be responsible for many things in the county, such as the problem of spirit beast breeding, which should not be the responsibility of the lord!" Chen Ying is now also under Li Ming's command, and this time he was mainly called over to help deal with financial problems, and he was at a loss after watching it for a long time.

"This is the financial situation of Huiji County, you can take a look!" Li Ming sighed helplessly and handed over the account book for the last month.

"There's still a deficit of 5,000 guan!" Chen Ying only felt that the pit, the remoteness of Huiji County was remote, and polders were opened everywhere this year, but he made a lot of money, so there was still a deficit? !

"That's normal!" Li Ming was helpless, "You know what the situation of the commercial tax of the Han Dynasty is, and you can't collect any money at all." The key is that grain prices have increased, and the distribution of money and grain is in parallel, which means that fiscal spending has further increased. The salt and iron are all in charge of the Zhang family and the Zhu family, and the main mining areas are very few, and the key is that there is no well salt in Jiangdong. ”

Yes, well salt and not sea salt! The main source of salt in these years actually comes from well salt or mineral salt, but not from sea salt! Even though Qingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, Xuzhou and Yangzhou are all close to the sea, there is actually not a single salt boiled from the sea.

There is no other reason, people in these years do not know filtration technology, the salt of seawater is not only suction, the mixed product is bitter to death, no one will eat it at all. I heard that some people almost died after eating sea salt, and as a result, no one wanted to boil sea salt.

A small amount of well salt is basically in the hands of the Zhang family, and the purchase of bulk salt goods is almost monopolized by the Zhang family. Therefore, the other party can only collect taxes according to this amount of output reported by the other party. As for concentrating on cracking down on illegal salt and private mines, Xun Biao has also stopped it, and now with his strength, if he dares to contaminate, then he is afraid that he will be murdered by the Jiangdong family.

Even this farmland problem is tried in Yuyao, but it is unlikely that it will be fully promoted. After all, in an era when grain is the main hard currency, the maximum amount of grain allowed by the family to produce per acre of land is only one stone!

Yes, this number cannot be exceeded, and any means that can increase production will be discarded! It was a matter for the court to starve the people to death, but because of the collapse in food prices, the family could not make money, so they could use all means to kill people!

"I was vaguely aware of the ...... before," Li Ming couldn't help but sigh, "Fighting is a simple mode, and administration is a difficult mode, if this is a game, then the balance of this game is too poor?" ”

It's a pity that this is not a game, and there is no way to adjust the difficulty of the game, so he can only find a way to open up sources and reduce costs. The most important thing is that there is no way to throttle, so you can only choose open source!

"Why don't you find someone to try to boil the sea for salt...... It seems that the use of charcoal can adsorb sediment, as for the follow-up filtration, you can try slowly, and put the huge coastline without boiling salt or even drying salt, which is a waste of the name of the traverser! Li Ming muttered.

It's just that if the boiling Haifa is successful, or even the salt drying method is successful, then the salt industry will inevitably suffer, and then the Zhang family will only be afraid to fight with himself. However, for the sake of the finances of Huiji County, there are some things that cannot be done without doing!

Just when the two of them had a headache, Xiao Tao came in with two bowls of things, and said in a low voice: "Master, just now the Peng family of Wuyi Mountain sent some tea leaves (yes, it is indeed a soup, and it was simplified to tea in the Middle and Tang Dynasty). Madame said that you are responsible for the housework, so I ordered the slave to cook some and bring it to you and the guests! ”

"Okay, put it here!" Li Ming nodded, he was really not used to the so-called cooking tea.

Tea is called a leaf not to mention, it is also cooked with a lot of condiments, and it is better to say that it is tea than tea soup. It's no wonder that I used to hear 'eat tea and eat tea', but now I know that TM actually means this.

"Eh, this tea (continue to call it tea for trouble), it's a bit of a waste......" Li Ming took a sip, only to feel that there was a fragrant smell in a stream of grease and messy seasonings.

This is the most original taste of tea, and the key is that the taste is much better than many teas.

"That's right, Wuyi Mountain! Isn't the tea produced in Wuyi Mountain the same as Da Hong Pao? No, when the time comes, you must take a look at those big red robe mother trees! Li Ming stood up suddenly, Da Hong Pao Mother Tree Tea, I heard that it was no longer available after 2007, and the year he came, he couldn't drink it if he wanted to, of course, he couldn't afford it himself.

"Anyway, there seem to be a lot of tea trees here in Huiji County?" Li Ming looked at Chen Ying.

"There are indeed a lot of wild ones, mainly concentrated in Qiantang and Wu County, but if you want to talk about Huiji County, there will be one to look for, among which Gaolu tea is the most common, and it can be found in many places in Huiji County." Chen Ying didn't know why Li Ming asked, maybe he was planning to start in this regard, so he kindly reminded, "Lord, tea is only enjoyed by a few scholars, so the sales are very small, and there is no trend, and it is not easy to sell at a good price!" ”

"That's them, my side...... There's always a way! Li Ming smiled bitterly, and he remembered that although he knew that the tea ceremony would be in the later stage, it would directly develop into fried tea. However, whether it is the early group tea, or matcha, to the later stage of fried tea, he doesn't know what the process is.

I guess I'll have to explore it carefully, but there is a direction after all. Crucially, tea is definitely popular in winter, although it's only late April. Not to mention the grassland guys, tea can definitely be sold out of stock in the grassland.

However, this means consignment trade with a caravan that can go directly to the grassland...... In the end, do you still have to be cheap Xun's, or even Xin's?!

Li Ming thought about it so much, and wanted to be able to swallow all the profits by himself once, but it turned out that in this year, especially in this year when transportation is very inconvenient, he wants to eat alone, unless his own strength is strong enough.

It's a pity that what the Li family lacks most now is hard power!

"Forget it, let's find some tea first, and find a way to explore it first!" Li Ming muttered, "I didn't expect Peng Die to have the characteristics of a wangfu?" Just short of money to spend, it reminds me of the tea business! ”