"Your Highness, the tax revenue of the Great Chongqing State is mainly based on agricultural taxes, and now His Royal Highness has exempted the fief from paying taxes for three years, which is equivalent to cutting off the income of the government. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Pang Yukun explained when he saw Xiao Ming frowning at the accounts.

"As for this commercial tax, there are only more merchants in Qingzhou, but this is only concentrated in winemaking, soap and other handicrafts, and the silver taels collected are only tens of thousands of taels, which is really small compared to today's expenses."

Pang Yukun is engaged in logistics, his attention is on silver, but he doesn't care what Xiao Ming is doing, but this Galen ship is not much necessary in his opinion, but it is just a waste of money and labor.

Pang Yukun's meaning, Xiao Ming knew clearly, it was nothing more than to remind Xiao Ming not to engage in some big projects that cost the people and money.

This is a heavy burden on the economies of the six states, which are just starting to improve.

However, for Xiao Ming, each of his plans has its own purpose, and he will not get a big return if he does not spend money on investment, which Pang Yukun estimates not to see.

After Pang Yukun's words were finished, Xiao Ming looked at Li Kaiyuan.

This governance fiefdom is also like the management of the company, the army, the people's livelihood, and the government are all big spenders, and the chamber of commerce represented by Li Kaiyuan is a big moneymaker.

So every time he sees Li Kaiyuan, Xiao Ming is always happier than when he sees Pang Yukun.

Because as soon as Li Kaiyuan opened his mouth, he made a lot of silver, and Pang Yukun spent a lot of money as soon as he opened his mouth, and then he reached out to ask for money.

"Your Highness, for more than a year, the domestic market in Dayu is not as hot as it was at the beginning, and this soap and perfume can be used for a long time after buying once, during this time, the demand has dropped greatly, as for Zui Qingzhou, although it has declined, it is still stable, these things add up, and the Chamber of Commerce can also account about 300,000 taels of silver a month." Li Kaiyuan said.

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming's face was a little ugly, "So little? ”

"It's a lot, Your Highness, you auctioned off all the sales rights, and now we can only make a small profit, but after the Hao clan was destroyed, the market in Chang'an was in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce, and I have arranged and opened a store in Chang'an during this time." Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming was speechless for a while, he made a lot of money by auctioning sales rights at the beginning, but now the sequelae have come out.

After spending a lot of money, this is not used to living a poor life, although the monthly income of the Chamber of Commerce is 300,000 taels is already a huge amount of money, but it is not enough to see the big fact that he wants to do.

"Since the market of the Great Chongqing Kingdom is saturated, the market of the Golden Horde seems to be still very large."

Xiao Ming's words almost made Li Kaiyuan, who was about to drink water, squirt out the water.

He said in a panic: "Your Highness, are you going to do business with the barbarians?" Now this Bei Shan hates us, and the caravan has not been directly cut off when it arrives on the grassland? Besides, this barbarian is full of stinky and never bathes, will they like this soap and perfume? ”

"But the barbarians like wine, the north is bitter cold, and this liquor is an excellent thing to keep out the cold." Niu Ben said slowly.

Xiao Ming looked at Niu Ben and then at Li Kaiyuan, "Now you understand, even if the two of them fight, but this war is a war, and there is no need to involve war in business, not to mention that we are making money from barbarians, why not?" ”

"I'm afraid that this liquor can only be exchanged for cow and sheep skin when it reaches the grassland." Li Kaiyuan said: "Barbarians rarely use things like silver. ”

"This is okay, it is best to exchange it for horses, this cow and sheep skin is also a commodity that is lacking in Dayu Country, and it is the same if you sell it again." Xiao Ming's eyes flickered.

Lu Fei slapped the table and laughed, "Your Highness, I, Lu Fei, really admire you, Li Kaiyuan, try to exchange the horses as much as possible, and I will invite you to drink when the time comes." ”

"I'm not unusual." Li Kaiyuan's neck shrank, "When the time comes, I don't know if I have a life or not?" ”

Pang Yukun is now unprincipled for the sake of silver, he said: "There are still a lot of merchants who come and go between Qingzhou and the grassland, when the time comes, we will turn a blind eye, you take care of these merchants, they will naturally know how to do things for you, and now there is silver everywhere, we can count on you." ”

Pang Yukun's praise made Li Kaiyuan suddenly raise his eyebrows, and he felt that his status was still important.

Although Xiao Ming elevated the status of a businessman, the traditional thinking of the people could not be changed for a while, because he still felt inferior everywhere in the government, and now he finally straightened his waist.

"In that case, I'll give it a try." Li Kaiyuan said with a smile.

Xiao Ming nodded, "By the way, how is the Qin family's Cao Yun fleet receiving now?" ”

Qin Chuanyun was hanged in Cangzhou City, leaving behind thirty merchant ships of the Qin family, which Xiao Ming had received from Pang Yukun to Li Kaiyuan.

Speaking of this, Pang Yukun looked ashamed and said: "Your Highness, after the news of Qin Chuanyun's arrest spread, the merchant ships in Qingzhou were controlled, but after the merchant ships outside learned the news, many merchant shipwrights directly took the merchant ships as their own and sold them, and now there are only twelve merchant ships that are really handed over to the Chamber of Commerce." ”

"With the purchase of the Chamber of Commerce from Jinling City, the Chamber of Commerce now has forty-five merchant ships." Li Kaiyuan added.

"Well, these merchant ships should be enough in Chongqing."

Xiao Ming sighed, his family background is still a little thin, and the workshop area seems to be in full swing, but in fact, it is just a few workshops.

If you really want to make Qingzhou rich, you have to trade all over the world.

The meeting said that here, basically everything that should be reported has been reported, as for the Bowen College and the newspaper, there are not many problems, so Xiao Ming can only arrange it.

After the meeting was dismissed, Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang to stay, and the others went back.

"Your Highness, what is the new city wall that this meeting is talking about?" Zhan Xingchang asked.

"Reinforced concrete walls." Xiao Ming said that this is another big project for Qingzhou.

Without waiting for Zhan Xingchang to ask, Xiao Ming picked up a pen and paper and said to Zhan Xingchang.

Reinforced concrete structures are the strongest structures in contemporary architecture, and they are used in many large-scale projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam and nuclear power plants.

Later, this structure was used in residential buildings, and this structure can generally be used to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 8.

The reason why this structure is so popular is that the concrete is compressive, while the steel is tensile and the combination of the two materials is the perfect material.

Cangzhou City faces the grassland side is a long and narrow valley, the city wall is 500 meters long, and the construction of a reinforced concrete city wall at a distance of 500 meters is basically equivalent to the construction of a community of ten 50-meter-long residential buildings.

If this project is just a small project in modern times, it can be completed by a construction team of several hundred people in half a year, but it is a big project here.

But even so, Xiao Ming was determined to build, because even the barbarian wall would no longer have to worry about the barbarians' gunpowder blasting.

(To be continued.) )