However, words like this are not suitable for being said on the bright side, in case this Liang Zilong's words come true next year, it is also possible, so just keep this in your heart, and wait until next year's salt tax comes up to see if this Liang Zilong's words are right.

By the way, it shows that this Liang Zilong does have such a hand, if it is not right, it can only mean that this Liang Zilong is just in vain, and he can only do a clerical work safely.

From ancient times to the present, salt, iron, and coinage, but now Fengtian has not even laid a good foundation, and where does the energy come from to develop these, although these things will provide millions of income every year if they are done well, and even become the pillar of Fengtian's finances, but these can only be dealt with slowly first, and the current big problem is to solve the current Fengtian area is vast and sparsely populated.

There is also the current financial situation, not to mention the other things, the military expenditure of this fifth town is a large amount, the household department is only responsible for military salaries, this monthly ammunition consumption in the fifth town is Wang Bin himself to pay for it, the cost of 10,000 taels a month is still there, and the patrol police Wang Bin also has to pay money, not to mention the two towns of the Fengtian Standing Army that are still being trained, these expenses alone have reached 200,000 taels, and the money spent on the army alone has reached more than 2 million taels this year.

In addition, there are many places where a huge Fengtian province has to spend money, such as education and construction, education is a firm grasp in the past or in modern times, education determines the quality of the people and the spiritual outlook of a country, not to mention the current China but all those who have received education have a blood, as long as the education is grasped in the hands of a group of talents is not a problem, as long as there are these talents, the strength of Fengtian is just around the corner, Therefore, Wang Bin invested 350,000 taels of silver in the early stage of education funds.

There is also this construction, Fengtian has been in war several times, and some places need to be repaired, and this one alone also requires more than 100,000 silver taels, so the cost of this year is to be three million silver taels, you must know that this is still the lowest consumption, and the support of the previous provinces can only allow Fengtian to survive for a year.

Not to mention other messy expenditures, anyway, Mukden's current finances are far from enough.

Anyway, according to Xiong Xiling's report to himself, if we talk about comprehensively carrying out reforms in all aspects, I am afraid that the expenditure of Fengtian Province will reach about nine million taels.

However, it was not enough to sort out the salt business and increase the commercial tax, so Wang Bin had to find another source of money.

Industry and commerce aside, this thing has only appeared a sign now, and the rest is only the arsenal every month to supply the Beiyang armies with a large amount of arms, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the two sides also stopped arms trading, and the sales of the arsenal also turned to the Beiyang New Army, here the arsenal has to mention that the Russian army provided itself with a group of skilled technicians After the end of the war, Wang Bin only kept some of the technicians, and most of the technicians still chose to return to China with the army.

But even if there is no order from Japan and Russia, it doesn't matter, you must know that after the completion of the training of the six towns of Beiyang, the six towns of Beiyang plus the arms market of Zhili are all Wang Bin's, this total is the arms business of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the monthly ammunition consumption and ordnance supply are now orders from Wang Bin, and now the orders for this arsenal under Wang Bin are pouring in like snowflakes, especially the demand for artillery and grenades is in short supply. In this way, the monthly order money is not a small amount.

But for the financial situation of Fengtian, this can only play a small role, so Wang Bin put forward several solutions, the first is the problem of agriculture, in Fengtian this place is vast and sparsely populated, agriculture can still be done, especially in the future here is a soybean, grain production area, which also fully shows that the soil environment here in Fengtian is extremely excellent, followed by the textile industry and cement, Wang Bin's textile factory as early as the Russo-Japanese War opened the northern market, As for cement, Yuan Shikai needs to use it.

Among these aspects, Wang Bin is most concerned about the link of agriculture, first of all, the technical difficulty of agriculture is very low, many people will farm, so once the development of agriculture is good, but with the excellent land resources of Fengtian, the vigorous development is naturally not a problem.

There are also some sideline industries that have gradually evolved with agriculture, according to Wang Bin's current understanding, Fengtian's traditional economic pillars are still there: oil extraction and winemaking, and once agriculture develops, these sideline industries will also develop.

More importantly, the development of agriculture also involves attracting people outside the Kanto region, and only a good environment will attract countless people to enter the Kanto region.

"Cui Yun, how to solve this agricultural aspect?"

After Liang Zilong expressed his views on salt affairs, Wang Bin asked Cui Yun again.

The General Administration of Agriculture and Forestry originally just wanted to manage agriculture and forestry, but in the end it was found that there was also this fishery and animal husbandry to be managed, but this fishery is now underdeveloped and no one goes out to sea to fish, so Wang Bin handed over the fishery to the General Administration of Agriculture and Forestry to manage, as for this animal husbandry Wang Bin was still handed over to the army to manage, originally the emergence of this animal husbandry is to improve the food situation of the soldiers, and now the development of animal husbandry is not very large, so this animal husbandry Wang Bin was directly handed over to the army to manage.

And Cui Yun himself was originally a man of action, and as soon as he took office, he had been going around studying everywhere and had already come up with a report, so after Wang Bin asked this question, Cui Yun hurriedly stood up and said: "After taking office, my subordinates studied the soil and crops here, and my subordinates found that the soil fertility here in Fengtian is second to none not only in the country, but even among all nations, and the yield of crops will be higher than that of other lands. After investigation by his subordinates, it was found that wheat was most suitable for growing wheat on this kind of land. ”

"There is also too much land in the Fengtian area at present, and my subordinates suggest that these uninhabited lands should be counted and then taken into public ownership, and even these fertile fields can be sold, but the fertile fields sold must be reclaimed, and the adults can also sell these fertile fields to the common people at a very cheap price according to the population, which can not only increase additional income, but also attract displaced people in the Guannai."

Cui Yun's words went directly to Wang Bin's heart, which allowed the people to own these lands at a very low price, which can recruit a considerable number of people in a very short period of time, and can greatly solve the current situation of vast land and sparse population.