A huge city, with countless merchants and frequent trade, but there are only tens of thousands of taels of silver in the treasury, which is too chilling to say. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Ran opened the account book of Nanchang City and took a look, only to know why this was happening.

Earlier, there was indeed a lot of money left in the treasury of Nanchang City, which was worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but after Dong Min's governance, the silver taels in the treasury of Nanchang City were reduced by two-thirds in an instant, and they were all taken away when Dong Min fled.

Later, Wang Mastiff took office and brought a large number of elite Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, which consumed a lot of food and salary every month, which made the financial situation of Nanchang City even worse. With the remaining tens of thousands of years of silver, I am afraid that it will no longer be able to support Wang Mastiff's army for three months.

This is also why when Lin Ran mentioned the gold mine to Wang Mastiff, Wang Mastiff would be so concerned and proactive.

What made Lin Ran even more difficult was that because of the lack of money, Wang Mastiff adopted a policy of imposing heavy taxes in Nanchang City, and there were countless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which greatly reduced the vitality of Nanchang City's trade.

This is even more because Nanchang City's source of financial revenue is close to drying up.

In addition, according to the statistics in this ledger, the monthly expenditure of many officials in Nanchang City alone was as high as 50,000 taels of silver, plus some other miscellaneous military expenditures, a total of more than 130,000 taels a month. Last month, Nanchang City's income was only 100,000 taels.

In other words, before Wang Mastiff died, he did the last thing that disgusted Lin Ran, leaving Lin Ran with a bad debt.

Lin Ran looked at the account book, the joy of just winning Nanchang City disappeared more than half of it at once, the most urgent thing now is to change the economic situation of Nanchang City in the shortest possible time, and the alliance has not much money left after this big battle. If Nanchang City becomes a financial burden on the alliance again, I am afraid that the alliance will have a great financial crisis!

Lin Ran took the account book to the military department to show everyone, everyone's faces were a little heavy, and they all realized the danger of this bad account.

"Lack of money, lack of money!" Lin Ran suddenly stood up at this time and smiled at everyone: "If you break out and let other people in Yangzhou know that our Xiaobai Alliance actually said that we have no money, I'm afraid they will angrily scold us for pretending to be poor." ”

"Who's money dog in this world has used it!" Ah Fei smiled and put forward a suggestion: "If you want me to say, since we are short of money, let's find a rich person to 'borrow', there are many rich people in the rich area of Nanchang City." Those family lords in the north of the city must have a lot of money in their hands. ”

"No way!" Zhao Ying objected: "Now to move these rich merchants and clans, you can only do your best to fish and set up more enemies for the alliance." You took away the money of those rich merchants, what businessmen will dare to come to Nanchang City to trade in the future? You have offended these big families, we are still fearless in Yuzhang County, and it is nothing to offend them. But these families are all rooted all over the world, and their interpersonal networks are complex, and if they offend a family, they may offend a group of people at once. In the future, if our alliance wants to take Yuzhang and Linchuan, I am afraid that it will encounter more resistance. ”

Lin Ran nodded and said, "That's exactly what I thought." These wealthy businessmen can't touch them for the time being, at least according to the current situation. What else can you do? ”

Zhao Ying said: "Since open source can't work, let's throttle." ”

"Throttling?" Lin Ran asked, "What kind of throttling method?" ”

Zhao Ying said: "In Nanchang City, there are hundreds of officials, large and small, redundant officials are serious, many officials are taking money and not doing things, kicking these people out of the Taishou Mansion can not only save silver taels, but also improve the administrative efficiency of Nanchang City." ”

"That's a good idea." Zhao Ying's method made everyone's eyes shine and found a new idea.

"Actually, open source is not impossible, but we have to find a right direction. I heard that in Nanchang City, it is not only those wealthy businessmen and family lords who have a lot of wealth, but also many corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Zhuge secretly reminded.

"Definitely. It's just that many of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials are involved in those family valves, and I am afraid that it will affect the whole body. Winesmith said.

"Then don't move those with backgrounds first, and clean up those corrupt officials without backgrounds first, which can alleviate the financial situation of Nanchang City to a certain extent, and can also have the effect of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger." Zhuge said darkly.

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In the time of a meeting, everyone in the military department put forward many effective plans, which made Lin Ran very satisfied, no matter how smart and powerful a person is, his ability is limited after all, and only by absorbing more talents can a huge organization like the Xiaobai Alliance flourish.

Soon, the alliance's measures to rectify the finances of Nanchang City began to be implemented.

First of all, a large number of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the cities were abolished, and a medium tax of 20 percent of the trade volume was uniformly levied. Fair measures are conducive to attracting more businessmen to trade and enhance the trade vitality of Nanchang City. However, the effect of this measure may not be reflected until a period of time, and in a short period of time, it will not change the financial predicament of Nanchang City.

At the same time, a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials were found in the Taishou Mansion, totaling more than 200 people, all of whom were middle- and lower-level officials. For these people, Lin Ran is just one word, copying the house.

A large number of soldiers poured into the mansions of these officials, taking away their belongings, dismissing slaves and servants, and even the mansions were sealed and auctioned off at a later date.

In the end, more than 200 corrupt officials contributed nearly 100,000 taels of silver to Lin Ran. Although these are some small shrimps, and the real big ones are still on those high-ranking officials, Lin Ran is already very satisfied, these 100,000 taels of silver are enough for him to get through this month's financial danger period.

At the same time, a large number of other officials who did nothing during their tenure and were mediocre were all cut down and streamlined their administration.

As soon as these measures came out, the foul officialdom atmosphere in Nanchang City was brought to rest, and the remaining officials all stopped one after another and respectfully abided by the law.

And those officials who were punished and those who were dismissed were naturally very dissatisfied, but there were more than 200,000 elite troops arranged in Nanchang City at this time, and the army of the alliance could be seen almost everywhere, what could they do?

A month later, the number of merchants coming and going in Nanchang City increased significantly, and the trade volume increased greatly, and at the end of the month, Nanchang City finally got rid of the financial deficit, with an income of 150,000 taels, an expenditure of 80,000 taels, and a surplus of more than 70,000 taels of silver.