Regarding Huang Xing's questioning, Li Zhigao didn't know what to say for a while.

Could it be that I told him, big brother, don't look at me making a lot of money, but there are more places to spend money, the bigger the territory I occupy, the more money I spend, and now I don't have much money under my hands, otherwise I wouldn't have invited so many business celebrities to come over this time? Isn't this a self-destructive shortcoming? As long as Li Zhigao is not hopelessly stupid, it is impossible to say this.

Li Zhigao doesn't look at the fact that he can go back and forth between the two worlds, and he is very happy to make money, but let's not say that he spends more and more money, let's just say that the speed at which he makes money has reached a bottleneck at this time.

In the past, Li Zhigao's main means of making money was to exchange a batch of cheap industrial products from modern society, and then rely on the high added value of these light industrial products to sell them at high prices, and use the gold standard system prevailing in the world to pan for gold, and then take them back to modern society and continue to buy all kinds of materials.

But this situation can not last, first of all, Li Zhigao's foothold is in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and China has always been very short of gold at this time, so the implementation of the silver standard, so Li Zhigao in the early stage of the local private gold reserves, it is basically difficult to obtain gold in the short term, although there are foreign gold imports in the later period, but because the powers and countries also have various restrictions on gold exports, the total is not much, to this day, Li Zhigao has successively used various means to get gold, a total of more than 200 tons!

More than 200 tons of gold, what is this concept? If these gold quantities are counted as reserves, then Li Zhigao personally can be ranked before the Philippines in modern society, purely from the country's gold reserves, he can at least rank in the top 30, not to mention China, even the entire South Africa where Li Zhigao stayed. The official gold reserves are only 124.7 tons, which means that South Africa's official gold reserves are not as much as Li Zhigao's.

If this is not intuitive, then if 200 tons of gold are exchanged for the currency of modern society, then according to Li Zhigao's current general 340 yuan per gram in the modern world, then 340 * 1000 * 1000 * 200 - good guy, that is 68 billion yuan! That's $10.88 billion. This is going to be exposed, definitely a member of the billionaire club!

However, don't worry, gold is no longer a normal circulating currency in modern society, and these gold belong to unknown origin, Li Zhigao's strength in modern society is not strong, it is impossible to spend it openly, and it is impossible to spend it in large quantities, so Li Zhigao basically stores these gold. Just using the identity of a jewelry company and the way of money laundering, coupled with the resale of jewelry and jade, about 5 billion US dollars have been exchanged one after another. These five billion dollars have basically been turned into all kinds of precision machine tools, automation equipment, spare parts, industrial facilities, raw materials and other modern materials, and other parts have been replaced with arms.

In other words, Li Zhigao currently spends less than one-fifth of the gold in total, and the remaining four-fifths have been hoarded by him, not that he wants to hoard. It's really impossible to release so much gold at once, that's it. He has been targeted by many people, and the previous incident with the Portman family is for this in the final analysis.

In addition to 200 tons of gold, Li Zhigao also had assets of more than 30 million silver dollars, most of which were invested in his wholly-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and only a small part was used for personal and administrative expenses. And he also has his own modern mint. He used the silver purchased from the modern society to mint silver dollars here and circulate them in his own bank to make high profits, and in addition, he also used silver dollar rolls and other banknotes privately issued by him in the occupied territory. In terms of finance, he actually does not lack anything at all, not only is he not lacking, if his wealth is exposed, even in this Republic of China, he is the absolute richest man, and the wealth of Sheng Xuanhuai and others is not worth mentioning in front of him.

In the past, Li Zhigao did not have a detailed concept of funds, only knew how to make more money and spend less money, plus he was timid, so he only wanted to have more soldiers and more weapons before the Northern Expedition to unify China.

However, after discussing with Zhao Jiayi, Zhao Jiayi felt that Li Zhigao's way of making money and spending money in the past was too conservative, and based on the current situation, he redesigned four new spending plans for Li Zhigao, namely the major road repair plan, the rural transformation plan, the industrial and commercial support plan, and the large-scale army expansion plan.

The major road repair plan is to take advantage of China's manpower advantages, let Li Zhigao pay out of his own pocket, spend a lot of money on investment, and use investment and construction to boost GDP and let China's economy rise rapidly.

Specifically, it is necessary to vigorously expand the scale of the construction team in the areas occupied by Li Zhigao, to build construction projects in various localities, to increase the scale of cash-for-work projects, to repair all kinds of infrastructure including 3,000 kilometers of railways and related electric wires, telephone lines, and stations within one to two years, and to build or purchase enough trains to connect the major cities with railways, highways, electric wires, and telephone lines, so as to ensure that the roads between the major cities in the occupied areas are unimpeded, and to realize the basic electrification of several large cities.

On this basis, relying on the main railway lines, we should vigorously develop the construction of highways and telephone lines in the towns and villages near the cities, and even if we cannot connect villages with roads, we must strive to ensure that the roads between the townships and the townships are connected by telephone. That is to say, the railway is the main line, the highway is the branch line, through the railway, highway, electric wire, telephone line, to connect every township, this is the so-called major road repair plan, once the plan is completed, not to mention the role of promoting the economy, just the speed of transmission of an administrative order and the efficiency of governance, will be increased several times.

In order to achieve this major road repair plan, it is initially estimated that a minimum of more than 500,000 people will be hired to complete the project.

The rural transformation plan is to let the peasants in the towns and villages in the ruling area spend money to hire these idle peasants when they are slack, and Li Zhigao himself spends money to hire these idle peasants, plus some work teams sent by Li Zhigao, so that they can build water conservancy and roads in various places. What is special about this plan is that rural women can also participate in the construction of water conservancy projects without having to work hard to repair them, and unlike in the past, which was only labor, Li Zhigao paid for the hiring, and the wages were not less, so the whole plan was implemented. The number of people employed may exceed a million.

Once these water conservancy projects, including reservoirs, are completed one after another, the effect on the entire agriculture and the improvement of the ecological environment will be obvious. At the same time, due to the large-scale employment of farmers, it is also more convenient to publicize the government's phalanx policy, so that farmers are more inclined to the government and easier to understand the government's policies. Overall, it's a great thing, but it's just a little bit more expensive.

The industrial and commercial support plan is to use its own industrial and commercial bank to release the funds accumulated in the bank as soon as possible in the form of low-interest loans, so as to support the group of small and medium-sized businessmen, enliven the business atmosphere of the people, and increase the speed of commodity circulation.

As for a small number of big capitalists with a certain amount of capital and strength, such as Zhang Jian and others. They use their own equipment and technology to form new companies with those capitalists in the form of joint stock operations, so as to quickly generate profits and increase their control over the big capitalists.

That is to say, for small and medium-sized businessmen, it is pure financial support, and for large capitalists, it is to use technology and equipment to join shares, and at the same time, they will not relax their own heavy industry construction, in this regard. Zhao Jiayi also did not agree to give high-tech industries to private capital, which not only has the factor of secrecy. There was also the factor that China's national capital was not strong at this time.

As for the last major expansion plan, as the name suggests, it is to expand the army, especially to increase the size of the reserve forces and the size of the mercenaries. To put it simply, it is to rely on the overhaul road plan and the rural transformation plan, and to base the vast number of peasants in the entire occupied area. Efforts should be made to re-register all peasants and gradually improve the original mobilization mechanism so that a huge military force can be mobilized at a critical moment.

For mobilized soldiers, it is still the original system, which is farming in peacetime. The difference is that due to the large Chinese population, the second- and third-level mobilized soldiers basically do not need to be trained, and those who participate in military training only need first-level mobilized soldiers, that is, those young and strong people can participate, and a certain amount of economic compensation, that is, salary, will be given when participating in military training. And those second- and third-level mobilized soldiers can go to participate in the rural transformation program.

That is to say, during the slack time, let the young and strong go to participate in military training, and let the middle-aged men and women go to build water conservancy.

According to preliminary estimates, if all the mobilized troops are mobilized, it will only be under Li Zhigao's jurisdiction, and even if only first-class mobilized soldiers between the ages of 18 and 25 are recruited, more than one million people will be recruited, and this million people will have to provide them with food, drink, salary, clothing, weapons, and ammunition during their slack time, which will be a considerable expense every year.

Of course, the mobilization of soldiers is only to prevent accidents, and mainly relies on mercenaries, that is, volunteers. According to the new plan, within one year, three more Category A field divisions and 10 Category B garrison divisions will be formed one after another. In the future, Division A will be changed to 12,000 men per division, and Division B will be 15,000 men per division, plus other auxiliary personnel, so that another 200,000 people will have to be recruited, and together with the existing troops, a modern regular army with a total number of 300,000 will be established at that time.

With 300,000 fully armed regular troops, plus a million mobilized soldiers, when the time comes, it will scare those warlords to death, if you want to unify the whole country, it should be effortless, no matter how much Yuan Shikai tosses, it is impossible to deal with such a huge force.

There is no doubt that once Zhao Jiayi's four plans are implemented, the funds consumed will be massive, not to mention that there is only a major road repair plan, Zhao Jiayi plans to build 3,000 kilometers of railways in the Jiangnan region within one to two years, and it will be surprising if this plan is said. You must know that at this time, the American Pacific Railroad is also 3,000 kilometers, and it took seven years to build it, and it will take you one year to complete it, although it is not impossible, but it will definitely increase manpower and machinery and equipment, and as for several other plans, it will also cost a lot.

Obviously, the core of these plans is one, that is, to spend money vigorously, and use the method of spending money to mobilize the productive enthusiasm of people from all walks of life in the jurisdiction, so that they can all be stimulated by funds.

It is conceivable that once the funds are in place one after another, when these plans are implemented, then the area occupied by Li Zhigao will become a large construction site, and it is okay to say that in the city, but outside the city, there will definitely be a lively scene everywhere, and the stimulation of production links and circulation links will be increased.

Once this happens, it will create a virtuous circle that will increase the overall wealth creativity, and in the short term, such a high investment will also create a group effect. It causes a kind of madness that is no less than the period of the Great Leap forward.

Regarding Li Zhigao's worries, Zhao Jiayi also said that this is the big *leap* advance plan of the variant, but unlike the big *leap* advance of another time and space, this is in a controllable way. A small range of large leaps and forwards with technical support, so it is called controllable large leaps.

This new big leap forward will not allow you to do the kind of large-scale steelmaking that requires high-tech strongmen to do difficult things, but let you overhaul roads and water conservancy, that is, build infrastructure on a large scale and do some low-tech work. Strictly speaking, this is more like Roosevelt's New Deal, giving full play to the power of low-quality labor and allowing money to flow through labor. Create higher value. It's just that Roosevelt's New Deal was paid for by the government, and this New Deal was paid for by Li Zhigao himself, and of course, the final result was also enjoyed by Li Zhigao personally. For example, the ownership of the railways, roads, water conservancy facilities and other infrastructure built will eventually belong to Li Zhigao personally. Therefore, if you dislike the big *leap* advance, it doesn't sound good. It can also be called Lee's New Deal.

Anyway, Li Zhigao has a lot of ways to make money, such as the plan to use modern silver to buy gold during this period, coupled with his own low inflation policy of issuing more silver coins and paper money, these plans will run more smoothly.

According to Zhao Jiayi, since the Republic of China is still the silver standard, and silver is cheap in modern society, it is about to become a cabbage. You have a large amount of silver as a backing, and the banknotes of the silver dollar roll have gradually built up credit, and when you are short of money, you can start your own machine to mint silver dollars and print money. With the current situation of an agrarian society in the Jiangnan region, inflation will increase a little. On the contrary, it can stimulate the operation of the economy and build the necessary industrial base more quickly.

Of course, although these plans are very beautiful and huge, but when they are implemented, it is certainly impossible to spread them all at once, little by little, and the first thing to do is undoubtedly open source, that is, to make good friends with the big capitalists, to put out some of the civilian technologies that Li Zhi has mastered and the machinery and equipment that he can manufacture, and to cooperate with these capitalists with technology, equipment and policies.

Why did you invite these businessmen to come over for this military exercise? In fact, in essence, it is to talk to them about cooperation, and the reason why they are allowed to watch military exercises first is to give them a beating first, and by the way, to give them a reassurance, so that they know that there is no problem in cooperating with the government, or Li Zhigao. Look, with a strong army as a backing, what are you afraid of?

Sure enough, next, Li Zhigao no longer paid attention to Huang Xing, but according to the established process, he beckoned the group of businessmen of all sizes to go down to the observation building and to another large board room workshop that had been prepared a long time ago.

Inside the board room, there are racks of large or small machines, there are nameplates next to the machines, and there are many young people wearing blue workers' uniforms, these people are the commentators, who are responsible for explaining the functions of different machines to these specially recruited entrepreneurs.

"Mr. Zhang." Li Zhigao pointed to a spinning machine and said to Zhang Jian, "This thing, you won't be unfamiliar with it, right?" ”

"It's ...... Spinning machine? Zhang Jian said hesitantly.

"That's right, it's the spinning machine." Li Zhigao nodded with a smile.

"Spinning machine? Why don't you see the spindle? Zhang Jian asked.

"Because it's the latest air-spinning machine." Li Zhigao said, "This machine is the use of air spinning, simple structure, faster speed, higher efficiency, the only disadvantage is that the spinning yarn is coarse, not as fine as the ring spinning, but in this era, this so-called coarse, is also much better than the yarn spun by your machine, not to mention, the fabric is thicker is more durable, isn't it?" Of course, if you want a finer ring spinning frame, we have it here, look, over there. ”

"Oh." Zhang Jian nodded noncommittally.

"Don't worry." Li Zhigao smiled and said, "Wait a minute, you can ask the technical commentators here, they will explain to you, and demonstrate on the spot, in short, these machines will not disappoint you." ”

"Everywhere, we are convinced of Li Dudu's promise." Zhang Jian said with a smile, "However, you said before that in addition to new spinning machines and looms, there are also a number of advanced industrial equipment such as combine harvesters, cotton gins, oil presses, and flour mills, isn't that true?" Are these machines doing the same? ”

"Of course." Li Zhigao nodded, "Most of the machines you said are available here, and some of them can't be put away here, and they are displayed in another room, there is a lot of time, you can take your time to watch and choose slowly, don't worry." ”

"Oh." Zhang Jian nodded, "Then what you said about providing a full set of technical information and sending technicians over to guide is also true?" ”

"Of course." Li Zhigao said, "For projects such as refined sugar, cement bricks, glass manufacturing, small hardware accessories manufacturing, as well as matches, soap and other projects, I will provide a full set of technical information, and also provide equipment and technical personnel to ensure that the package will be taught." In addition, we will also provide a lot of policy support, such as tax reductions and exemptions, to ensure that there will be no double taxation. Hehe, of course, I'm providing these to cooperate with you, since I have shares, I can't treat myself too badly, right? ”

"That's that, that's." Zhang Jian smiled and said, "You have these things, that must be good, I don't know the specific cooperation, I mean the shares, what algorithm do you plan to use?" ”

"As I said before, I provide equipment, technology and policies, and invest in equipment and technology, and you contribute capital, land, factories and labor. As for how to divide the shares, we will develop a price assessment for different equipment and technologies, and after evaluating the price, we will show you. When the time comes, my equipment and technology, according to those prices to calculate the shares, what about you, if you want to cooperate with me, at least according to the same price of funds into the shares, more investment is of course better, then you will account for more shares, that is to say, you must at least account for half of the shares in the new company, and invest the corresponding funds.

After the establishment of the new company, I promise not to interfere with the operation of the company casually, of course, I don't have that time, so the specific management of the company is actually up to you. Of course, because I am also a shareholder, and I am still the top leader of the local area, my identity must be anonymous in the company in which I am a shareholder, and the workers must also implement a minimum wage protection system, so I can't say that the company I have a stake in is too harsh on the workers, right? ”

"That's that, that's." Zhang Jian said, "Chairman Li is kind-hearted, and we all admire him. ”

"That's not kind." Li Zhigao smiled, "It's true that my equipment and technology are the most advanced, and the new factory will inevitably be very profitable at that time, so there is no need to squeeze those poor workers." Only when a worker has a high income and can support his family can he not cause trouble for me, right? If you deduct workers' wages too much, something will happen sooner or later. In short, if you want to cooperate with me, you have to follow my rules, I promise to make you all money, but you also have to support me, listen to me, and you can't go against me, understand? ”

"Understood, understood." Zhang Jian nodded hurriedly, "Chairman rest assured, on behalf of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, I guarantee that everything will be based on Chairman Li's lead, promise to support Chairman Li, and promise not to go against you, what you say, we will do anything, there will be absolutely no ambiguity." (To be continued......)