"You go to recruit the Huang family, the Guo family and other principals to see Gu, in addition, above the chief military officer in Taiyuan and the commander of the Yamen of Shanxi Prefecture, all come to see Gu!"

When he finally finished dealing with the involvement of these logistics and food, Li Jing patted his head, it was not easy to be a big family, just such an expansion of the army, and the final preparations before the destruction of the Ming Court, cost him a million taels of silver, but these are all worth it, as long as he has survived this initial difficult day, he will be easy in the future. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Think about it, exhausting the land of mountains and Shaanxi, feeding a full 300,000 soldiers and horses, almost every 20 people, there will be a soldier, how can the Ming Dynasty do this proportion?

At present, in the inner treasury, if all the antique jade is exchanged for money and grain and transported into Shanxi, then counting the current surplus of two million taels, there will be no problem in supporting the army to fight for another year, and when the spring of the next year comes, the vitality of Shanxi and Shaanxi will be restored, and then a full million stones of grain and taxes will be collected, so that the balance will not be large.

At present, the monthly military needs are about 600,000 to 700,000 taels, and this figure will not be much different in peacetime, and if there is a war, the 1 million taels a month will not be able to withstand consumption.

However, according to the statistics of Shaanxi and Shanxi, the total number of acres of land, plus the newly reclaimed wasteland to plant sweet potatoes, it is absolutely impossible to starve to death, and once all the taxes are collected, there will be millions of stone of grain, which should be down every month, and there is absolutely no shortage of food to support the army and officials, and there is even a surplus.

In addition to the trade routes controlled by himself, the monthly income of the provincial government and the inner treasury is 1780,000 taels, counting the other tax items that have been greatly reduced, there should be about 250,000 taels, so that the annual calculation is 3 million taels, of course, many of these are due to the emergence of new commodities, such as pancreas and Shanxi native products, bronze mirrors and the latest spices.

These began to appear in large quantities in Gangnam and Gyeonggi. Even exported to overseas Korea and Japan, Li Jing recently planned to send people in the name of the Qin Wangfu to openly stationed in Yangzhou and Suzhou. Let's see if we can find some Westerners to sell this kind of bronze mirror and pancreas to Europe, but these are long-term plans, at least for now. He had to plan for his army's money and food.

There is a shortfall of 400,000 taels of silver a month, at least within half a year, and this situation will not get the slightest improvement, unless Li Jing can quickly take Sichuan and get the tax supplement from Yantian, Sichuan Province will hand over about 600,000 taels to the central government of the Ming court every year, which is enough for Shaanxi and Shanxi combined.

Of course, Shanxi at this time did not include Datong Town and Xuanhua and other places, so these two places were as high as 300,000 stone per year. The tax equivalent to more than 500,000 taels of silver is not counted, and Li Jing canceled the share of military households, and this part of the annual tax is changed to a regular tax, of course, a part of the input is missing.

And Shaanxi has been fighting for four years, and it has been completely empty, and it even requires Li Jing to invest a lot of money to restore the vitality of Shaanxi. Can't relax.

Therefore, as long as the salt tax in Sichuan is won at the moment, and the local clans are swept away, some people will go to mine refined salt. This part of the money and food alone is enough to feed an army of 100,000.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin, all the generals have arrived."

Yao Dequan saw Li Jing pondering in place, and suddenly whispered up,

"Oh, now that it's here. Tell them to come in. ”

At the moment, the business is important, waiting for the businessman to enter first, Huang Sihua, this kid has finally grown a lot, and now following behind Guo Xingwen, after coming up to salute in a proper manner, he didn't dare to sit down, just stood like this,

Li Jing took a look, got it, and could only wave his hand,

"Sit down."

"His Royal Highness King Xie Qin."

After all, his identity is different, Guo Xingwen is not the big businessman who said everything in Henan Mansion in the past, just saying that he is still relying on Li Jing to eat now is enough to make him feel restrained, not to mention the identity of the other party, it is a world of difference from him.

"I called you here today, there is nothing else, just say that the business is a way, you must do it with all your heart, the army can not be short of money and food, the people's warehouses and righteous warehouses in various places, you must be more compassionate, the silver is not earned all these years, and the prosperity of the family has to be calculated for a hundred years."

Huang Sihua was young, so he came over instead of his father Huang Shanren, that is, he brought an ear, as for the rest, he only had to follow Guo Xingwen, how he said it, he would accept it, so half of his butt was next to the chair, and he began to listen with his ears pricked up.

"What the King of Qin said is very true, we are willing to be a prosperous family under the rule of the King of Qin for a hundred years, but not only focus on the present, my Guo family is not only willing to pay 50,000 yuan in silver, but also willing to buy 20,000 stones of grain and grass from Huguang and donate it to the local people's warehouse in Shanxi!"

Guo Xingwen was able to move from Henan to Shanxi back then, and put himself into Li Jing's command together, this decisive ability is absolutely not lacking half a point, silver, what he has is, just in the past few months, just talking about bulk commodities such as pancreas and copper mirrors, going back and forth with Beijing and Beijing, and selling well in Jiangnan, the monthly income is about 100,000 taels, which can only be earned by the Guo family in half a year in the past, so he took it out, and he didn't feel any pain.

"Good~! The Guo family's move, great goodness, the lonely king is fortunate to have such a love for the people and wealthy businessmen, the order, will be prepared benevolent and righteous businessmen plaque up, give it to the Guo family, choose its Xu a son to be graced, enter the country to study, from now on, within three generations, all my Li descendants must be taken care of! ”

Li Jing made an abacus in his heart, Guo Xingwen was white, but what he didn't expect was that this shot was so generous, 50,000 taels of silver and 20,000 stone of grain, to put it bluntly, it was only his month's income, but it was such a little silver, and he actually got such an important thing, this plaque, for the Ming Dynasty, that is the gold medal for avoiding death!

So he knelt down excitedly, and bowed to the ground and said, "Xiaomin, Xiaomin is grateful, thank you Lord Longen!" ”

As he spoke, he was full of excitement, and he didn't hide it, and he directly used the courtier's honorific words to the emperor to Li Jing, but no one cared.

"Xiaomin is willing to offer his family property, and pay another 200,000 taels of silver to buy 100,000 stone of grain and dedicate it to the King of Qin."

At this time, if you don't hurry to show loyalty and role, when will it be? As a businessman, he has to work hard with civil and military officials from all over the country on weekdays, in order to earn more silver and maintain the inheritance and prosperity of the family.

But to the next level, they have no chance, if a businessman is given a chance to completely catch up with the big man in the mansion, then they are sometimes even willing to go bankrupt, in the past, Lu Buwei and other famous people in history, Guo Xingwen thought that he couldn't be it.

But at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan and others, he still wanted to do it, and the one in front of him was never stingy with his own people, Ming Taizu was notoriously mean and unkind, can this be compared?

"My Huang family is also willing to give 200,000 yuan in silver to His Royal Highness the King of Qin,"

No matter how stupid and stupid Huang Sihua is, he also knows that now is the time for him to make a move, and he thinks that the Huang family has a much greater advantage than the Guo family, he himself is now the clerk of the Qin Palace, and his relationship with Li Jing is also close.

What a glory this is, can this be endured? Even if he thinks about people's hearts, he knows what he should do, otherwise when he goes back, his father will have to whip him to death, although the iron rooster does not pluck a hair, but it also has a target.

For that kind of bitter descendant, it is naturally a dime a dozen, but for His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who is thinking of a way to stammer, then to put it bluntly, if Huang Shanren is here, he will have to shout at least 500,000 taels of silver, and say that his eldest wife's mother's family, because of the relationship between the Huang family, has caught up with the business of the Qin Palace, and earns more than the Guo family every year.

And look at other people's homes, after Taiyuan Mansion was breached, either the house was stolen, or the family property was confiscated, and none of the people protected by the Huang family moved, this is the benefit of a good relationship with King Qin!

"Okay, come on, give the plaque together,"

Even if Li Jing knows that this kind of thing can only be done once or twice, but if he can solve his urgent needs and get benefits, why not do it?

When they went out, the two direct competitors left together with laughter, and the servants behind them carefully protected the plaques made of two high-number flowers and trees, as if they were for the ancestors' spiritual position, and they went home directly.

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"These account books, you also take a look, the deficit of 400,000 taels of silver every month, counting the silver in my treasury every month, make up for a year, if it is more, I am afraid that even I will have to reach out and beg for food."

In front of these generals, Li Jing has always spoken a little casually, these are all his cronies from the beginning of the army, who is not close to them, who is close.

"My lord, I have mobilized a cavalry army to open up the wasteland on the spot, grow some grain and grass, even if it is only for horses and livestock, it can reduce various expenses,"

Liang Sijiu spoke first and said the way the garrison opened up the wasteland, but these are just small roads after all.

"Now the cavalry army and the cavalry of the various armies are established, there is still a shortage of war horses, according to the requirements of the lord of a pair of horses, the shortage is still very large, if the military funds are difficult to raise for a while, the last general will ask the lord to slow down for the time being, after all, a thousand days into an army, not in a hurry."

It is also said that the entire Qin army has just completed the expansion now, and the money, food and equipment needed in various places are all large sums of silver expenditures, and if this goes on for a long time, I am afraid that it will drag down the country. (To be continued.) )