In the following days, with Qingxue's help, Guo Ye was very free and began to seriously think about the next path.

Guo Songtao was a little worried, and when Guo Ye was drinking tea again, Guo Songtao came over with a sad face.

"Brother Xian, your plan is very good, but we don't have any money, you cut taxes in Shandong, and the income of Shandong Province has dropped by more than half, just paying the province's salaries is a little nervous, plus we have to pay the money and grain in front of the monk king, we can't do anything!"

Guo Ye looked at Guo Songtao and said with a smile: "Big brother, you just need to see how much silver we have to spend in total, as for the lack of money, you don't need to worry about it, naturally I will figure it out." ”

Guo Songtao said astringently: "Brother, this is not a little bit worse, the army of the monk king and Lord Shengbao, plus the three towns of Shandong, a total of 60,000 troops, this eating, drinking, Lazar plus the compensation for casualties, a year down, how can it be less than two million taels, plus the salaries of officials at all levels in Shandong, no one million taels is absolutely impossible to get down, just these are three million taels, in addition, we also have to help the victims, as well as all aspects of the project, a year, it is definitely more than four million taels!" ”

Guo Ye sighed, specially, forgot the military expenses of the monk king, now the world is in chaos, the imperial treasury is empty, there is no money and food to support the local war, all of them are prepared by the provinces themselves, and then deducted from the finances handed over to the central government by the provinces, the imperial court promised to exempt Shandong from taxes for two years, but in addition to the military salary of the monk and the king to suppress the bandits, the annual financial taxes paid to the imperial court were not much more, and they did not think so far. was actually exploited by this guy King Gong for such a big loophole!

Four million taels. Other years. Shandong Province's fiscal and tax policies for a year can barely be supported, after all, Shandong can be regarded as a rich land, compared with Henan, Shaanxi and other places are a lot stronger, but their own implementation of tax reduction, tax exemption policy, where is enough? Not to mention the construction of various factories and mines!

Guo Songtao looked at Guo Ye and said, "How is it?" Now you know you're worried, right? Now Shandong has long ceased to be prosperous during the Yongzheng years, and there is only a slight surplus every year, and there is no money. It's all empty talk! ”

Guo Ye gritted his teeth and replied, "Okay, big brother, I said, you don't have to worry about money, I naturally have a way." ”

"What's the solution?"

Guo Ye said in a low voice: "Big brother, we are all confidants, just revealed to you a truth, didn't the British and French forces rob the Summer Palace?" ”

Guo Songtao nodded. He replied: "Yes, the British and French forces have robbed the Old Summer Palace. The royal garden, which took more than a hundred years to build, was destroyed, but what does this have to do with us? ”

Guo Ye smiled mysteriously and replied: "Hehe, the British and French forces have robbed a lot, but they have not been able to transport them all, haven't you heard that their belongings have been robbed?" ”

Guo Songtao's heart was shocked, of course he knew, at that time, the smoke of the war was still dissipating, and the British and French troops were about to transport away the looted materials, but on the broken road from Beijing to Zhangjiagang, they were robbed more than ten times in a row by bandits on Taihang, and the British and French troops not only suffered heavy casualties, but also suffered huge property losses, according to the statistics of the legation, at least more than two million taels worth of materials and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and millions of taels of silver, all of which were robbed!

Isn't it that these things were not robbed by bandits, but!

Guo Songtao looked at Guo Ye with a shocked face and asked, "Brother, won't you, you robbed the foreigners?" ”

Guo Ye said with a smile: "Of course, if they are only allowed to rob China, we Chinese are not allowed to rob them?" However, there are not a lot of robbers, only more than 200,000 taels of gold and more than 2 million taels of silver, and the others are some precious antiques, but this money is enough for us to support for a while! ”

Guo Songtao shook his head and replied: "Brother, this money, we must invest it in a place where we can make money, and it cannot be used to pay official salaries and military salaries, and after all, the source is unknown, such a huge amount of money is easy to arouse the suspicion of others." ”

Guo Ye nodded and replied: "You are right, my plan is to use this money to set up a bank, a Western-style bank, more than 200,000 taels of gold, plus more than 2 million taels of silver, which is enough!" Then we lent the money from the bank in the name of the governor of Shandong Province, the Yamen, and the political envoy Si Yamen, and used it to set up factories and mines, so that the money for the establishment of factories and mines in the Yamen was available, and the money was exported......"

Guo Songtao's spirits lifted, what a good idea, kill two birds with one stone!

Immediately, Guo Songtao's eyes dimmed a little, and asked: "Just two or three million taels of silver is not enough, after all, this money is still a little stretched for so many affairs......

Guo Ye smiled: "Of course, these are not enough, but this bank is my own, a bank's own capital is not the main thing, but how much savings he can absorb, these are our focus, although Shandong is rich, but this money village is not so developed, the developed money is in Shanxi, we have the governor's yamen as a support, plus my name, as long as those people are not stupid, they will naturally know where to choose where to store real money, with one Bo ten, this is the main thing, As for the finances of Shandong Province, it doesn't matter, it is completely possible to borrow from the bank in the name of the yamen, and use the taxes for three years in Shandong Province as collateral, as long as Shandong Province is given three years, when the time comes, factories, mines and private businesses will bloom everywhere, and I am afraid that Shandong will not be able to pay it back? ”

Guo Songtao closed his eyes and thought for a while, and replied: "These are barely enough, but what about others?" You forget, you still have to build a harbor and commercial port, you also have to build Weihai Weijun Port, and you have to set up a naval division in Shandong, these are the big heads......"

Rub, Guo Ye also scratched his head a little, gritted his teeth, and shouted: "Xiaohai, Xiaohai!" ”

Chen Hai hurriedly ran in from outside and asked, "My lord, did you call me?" ”

"Xiaohai, immediately take twenty or thirty people, fully armed, rush to Liaocheng, then take the canal, go to Huairou, bring all our goods to me, and transport them to Jinan, remember, be fast, be careful, don't let people find flaws!"

Chen Hai was shocked, and hurriedly nodded in agreement and ran down.

Guo Ye continued: "Big brother, we still have a large number of antiques, this batch of antiques, I plan to mortgage them to foreigners at a discounted price, and borrow a huge amount of money from foreigners!" ”

(To be continued.) )