Looking at this thick ledger, Duke understood that Conceptis was prepared, but it was also confirmed from the side that Stormcastle was developing everywhere, and the financial plan and budget of the treasurer were very difficult to do, and Conceptis could be regarded as complaining to himself.

"Don't look at it, I know about the financial difficulties, put this matter aside for the time being, Bashir, you can talk about the problems of the Sea Clan and Storm Harbor. ”

Hearing Duke ask himself, the civil affairs officer Bashir replied solemnly: "Tell your lord, the addition of the Sea Clan of the Wave Tribe, according to the data provided by the Fasqi Patriarch, the number of the entire Wave Tribe should be around 112,000. And their current food supply rate, even if they are fully fishing, but because of the limitation of the fishing range, at most they can only meet the general supply, which means that our Storm Fortress will provide a food supply of about 60,000 people. ”

"According to the current price of grain procurement, this expenditure will reach the amount of at least 10,000 gold coins per month, and as the Sea Tribes join the construction of Storm Harbor, even according to the standard salary of volunteer workers, that is, the level of one silver coin per month, the monthly expenditure of 60,000 Sea Tribes workers will be 6,000 gold coins. ”

"As for Stormport's building materials, we are basically self-sufficient, so we just need to pay for labor, which means that we will need to spend at least 16,000 gold coins per month in the future. ”

For this figure of sixteen thousand gold coins, it was within Duke's acceptable range. But this is only for the Sea Clan, you must know that even if Dwarf City and Storm New City are currently suspended, with the construction of Storm Castle, the hydroelectric factory and mine will definitely fall into full operation, and there will be tens of thousands of workers' wages to pay.

And many of the hydroelectric factories belong to skilled workers, and their salary level is at least five silver coins a month, plus Storm Castle itself also needs to purchase a large amount of food or something, and it is impossible to stop without spending thirty or fifty thousand gold coins a month!

And with the addition of five thousand elite Sea Clan warriors, they will be paid according to the Storm Army's salary standard of five silver coins per month, and the Storm Army has suffered such a large casualty, the future Storm Army's personnel replenishment, recruit recruits, and even the shortage of tens of thousands of equipment will be an astronomical amount for the current Storm Castle.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Duke really doesn't know what to do in the face of this situation. To put it more practically, the small Storm Castle has a big dream, and without the support of the economic base, there is more and more of a feeling of being militaristic.

"Andy, according to the current business development plan of Storm Castle, how much income can be made next month, and what is the income plan for the future. ”

Duke asked Andy, the commercial officer of Stormcastle, that Duke had basically transferred all the powers of Stormburg's external business plan and the development plan of Stormburg to Andy.

After all, the development plan of the Storm Firm has been determined, and the next step is how to operate and expand, and there are too many periods for Duke to pay attention to as a lord, and it is impossible to go to the Storm Firm store in person without opening a new store like before.

Hearing Duke's inquiry, Andy replied calmly and methodically: "Lord Hui, at present, the Andorra City store of the Storm Comptoir has about 100,000 gold coins in sales a month, and the net profit is 70,000 gold coins. Mainly because of the convenience of the Prince of Andorra, the products of Stormcastle can completely cross the mountain city and go directly to the city-states of Andorran territory, saving a lot of intermediate costs. ”

"The Imperial Capital flagship store of the Storm Trading House does not have any income at present, but I believe that the porcelain and ironware that were transported in the past when the store was opened should be almost sold out, which will bring us an income of about 100,000 gold coins. At the same time, the second shipment had already been transported by the Storm Caravan by the time we returned to Storm Fort. ”

"But now limited by the long distance and the capacity constraints of the storm trading house, even if the sales are good, the market and the goods we can transport in a short period of time are very limited, in fact, the sales of the imperial capital cannot exceed the Andorran pro-kingdom by much, plus the cost is greater, I predict that the profit is only 100,000 gold coins per month at most. In other words, it is optimistically estimated that Storm Castle will earn a maximum of 170,000 gold coins per month in the future, which should normally be 150,000 gold coins. ”

"However, in the future, Andorra's share of trade will continue to decrease as the market becomes more saturated, and will eventually remain at a fixed level. However, the market of the French Empire will continue to expand, and the future fiscal revenue should not have much impact. ”

After Andy said this, the treasurer Kang Si continued to add: "By the way, Lord Lord, Storm Castle still has about 1,000 gold coins in commercial taxes every month, and when the autumn harvest comes, it will probably be able to get a few thousand gold coins in taxes." ”

Hearing Concept's addition, Duke simply had the urge to smile bitterly, now that Storm Castle started with a shortage of hundreds of thousands of gold coins, what is the use of these two thousand gold coins? If it really can, Duke plans to cancel the agricultural tax.

"You've said so much, and it can be summed up in one sentence, Stormcastle can't even afford to pay even the most basic pension at the moment?"

In the face of Duke's rhetorical question, all the officials of the Storm Castle City Hall were silent, this is the current situation of Storm Castle, it is true that there is no way to pay the pension of up to 300,000 gold coins, and even this does not include the subsidy in hand, if you really want to calculate it in detail, you can't basically solve the problem without four or five hundred thousand gold coins.

Looking at the expressions on the faces of his subordinates, Duke didn't know what to say now, and sure enough, when the cannon went off, there were ten thousand taels of gold. A war of this magnitude can't even make a little wave on the continent of Europa, and it may be out of the Storm Castle, and it is a pro-kingdom of Andorra that knows about the attack of the ice demons.

But even so, Stormcastle couldn't afford the consequences of such a war. However, in any case, there must be no shortage of such things as pensions, which is related to the credit of Stormcastle and his lord.

The financial crisis Storm Fort can endure for the time being, after all, there is food to eat in these years, and the endurance of ordinary people is far beyond that of future generations. But once there is a lack of trust, there will be problems with the Storm Army's fighting faith in the future, and this is the real big problem.

"Kangsi, first of all, to ensure the monthly living allowance of the families of the fallen soldiers, as for the pension issue, it can only be paid in batches. According to the current financial revenue, we must strive to solve the problem of bereavement pensions within half a year, and we must ensure that no one is missed or underpaid!"