After taking stock of the performance of light and heavy industry, the financial industry, the money bag of the Red River Valley Reservoir, and the agriculture and animal husbandry industry in the past year, the overall income has reached 20 million pounds, and more than hundreds of thousands, less hundreds of thousands of pounds is no longer the focus of Li Fushou's attention.

In Li Fushou's industrial layout, pasture is a rare industry with a large area of loss, with a huge herd of 35 million sheep, 80,000 cattle and 1.3 million sows, and a loss of 170,000 pounds per year.

Another important industry is the collective farms under the Red River Valley Corporation, which have basically maintained a balance of income and expenditure over the course of the year, with a slight surplus.

Agriculture and animal husbandry basically do not make a lot of money, but this is the basis of the rule of the Red River Valley, which solves the employment problem of more than 400,000 strong laborers, produces a large number of agricultural and animal husbandry products to supply the market, and strongly supports the large-scale resettlement plan and the mainland's "Young Eagle Plan", which is the foundation of all development.

Through large-scale reclamation of wasteland, crop rotation, deep ploughing, and application of farm fertilizer, the farm has formed the prototype of a mechanized farm, and the labor efficiency has been greatly improved.

According to the current capacity, the Red River Valley Farm can easily provide the food consumption needs of five or six million people, and has the ability to further increase the production of agricultural products.

Farms generally use fallow, half of which is left for fertile fields and half for various crops, and is rotated on time.

The widespread loss of ranches is a policy-oriented tool in the Red River Valley's hands to put pressure on the hardliners in the South, to crack down on the most stubborn groups of white ranchers, to dissolve the policy ice in the southern states, and to advance the strategic consideration of the southern extension of the coastal railroad.

From this point of view

No other industry is as powerful as agriculture and animal husbandry, and its strategic and importance is far from being a core basic industry that can be replaced by millions of pounds.

For Li Fushou, there are only two weapons that can crack the ice of the white fortress in the south, one is wool and the other is gold.

There is no way to stop gold, as long as it is mined and obtained from all over the world, it is hard currency, and it is impossible to limit it.

The wool industry is different, as the world's best large-scale pasture, Australian pastures are more extensive than Argentine pastures, with a pleasant climate, abundant water and grass, excellent wool quality, and worldwide product competitiveness, which has always been a traditional export pillar industry.

The importance of wool, which was the lifeblood of white ranchers in the southern states, to be able to control the fate of the southern states by choking the wool industry by the throat is by no means overstated.

Which of the industries under the command of the Red River Valley can have such a strategic position in agriculture and animal husbandry that is comparable to nuclear weapons?

After taking stock of the above income, it seems that it should come to an end.

Not really

As the feudal lord of Queensland and New South Wales, the Earl of Queensland owns an area of 220,000 square kilometers of Red River Valley pastures, from Brisbane and the star-studded Twin Cities of the Red River Valley all the way to the south, through Suzaku City and continue south, through several towns and villages to Songjiang Town, which is a hot land under development.

From Songjiang Town to the south, through Gusu Town, Hangzhou Town, Ningbo Town, Wenzhou Town, Fuzhou Town, Xiamen Town, Shantou Town, Chaozhou Town, Foshan Town, Songshu Town, Zhuhai Town, Wisconsin Town, Wuyang Town, Maoming Town, Edinburgh Town, Beihai Town, Novorossiysk Town, until Beilun Town on the Kongsby Plateau, across the narrow bay and Sydney in the distance, chickens and dogs smell each other.

Among the top ten towns in Australia, the Red River Valley alone accounts for 8, and the economic output accounts for more than 80% of the whole Australia, accounting for 25 of the top 30 most populous towns.

Only Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Darwin barely hold a spot.

The powerful Red River Valley has been able to surpass the economy in a big way, mainly thanks to the vigorous development of industrial scale, and the output value of the woolen mill alone is comparable to the economic output of the entire city of Melbourne with a population of 400,000.

In terms of city size, white-dominated Melbourne is in second place, Sydney is in fourth place, Adelaide is in 16th place, Canberra is in 28th place, and Darwin is in 30th place.

With the exception of Darwin, a northern town, all of them are located south of Sydney, a long-established British colony with centuries-old southern states, including southern New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

The core is in the vast area between Sydney and Melbourne, with a straight-line distance of about 868 kilometers, 590 miles in British terms, thousands of white ranches, rich reserves of Victorian gold fields, urban education and technology are more developed, and it is the traditional economic center of the whole Australia.

This piece of fat is the territory that Li Fushou has coveted for a long time, suffering from the white traditional hardliners who are as vigilant as hedgehogs, and carefully guarding against the infiltration of influence in the Red River Valley, so that he has no idea where to start.

As a city owner with the feudal lords of the Red River Valley and many new industrial towns in the region, he formulated his own industrial and commercial tax policies with reference to the British mainland, and the huge profits during the period were far beyond the reach of ordinary cities.

Because these towns are all invested and built by the Earl of Queensland, they are responsible for the development of towns, from municipal construction to commercial street development.

In addition to various taxes, there are also a lot of housing rental costs, shop warehouse rental costs, and hidden income is very amazing.

The more prosperous the city, the higher the income, and the more sesame seeds bloom.

Combined, the two incomes will bring in more than 700,000 pounds of income every month, which is a staggering 8.5 million pounds a year.

analysis by source of income;

The tax revenue accounts for about 13, and the tax revenue of dozens of towns is about 26~280,000 pounds a month, and the average level of 7 to 8,000 pounds in a town.

Suzaku City, Baihu City, Songjiang Town, these important industrial and commercial towns have higher taxes, more than 70,000 pounds per month, less than 30,000 pounds of taxes, these three important towns have accounted for 55% of the total tax proportion, the rest including Beilun Town, the average town is about 1,000 pounds out of the nod, less farming and animal husbandry towns are only 3,500 pounds, the gap between each other is very large.

Lease expenses for fixed assets account for the remaining 23, and the situation is similar to that of taxes.

The difference is that the thriving city of the Red River Valley accounts for the lion's share of rental income, earning nearly £230,000 a month, which is comparable to dozens of other towns combined.

In the vicinity of a dozen streets in the city center of the Red River Valley alone, there are hundreds of shops, Qinlou Chu Pavilion, restaurants, theaters and nightclubs on the street with nightlife, and hundreds of trading companies and law firms, and the monthly rental fees paid are as high as 157,000 pounds, adding up to more than 1.6 million pounds a year, which is much more than taxes.

More than eighty percent of the entire city in the Red River Valley is the property of Lord Earl, plus dozens of new towns, the position of the city boss is as stable as Mount Tai, and it is terrifying to think about it!

The essence of the city boss lies in the accumulation of time, as the prosperity of the city becomes more and more prosperous, every pound invested in the construction of the city, the feedback is 2 pounds or even 3 pounds, over the years.

Compare it to

The construction of a complete sewer infrastructure, the construction of bridges and roads, and the construction of central town buildings on a wasteland are not to mention the cost of these basic works.

The construction of towns and cities will not only fully create employment opportunities, but also bring a steady stream of huge benefits to the Red River Valley.

As long as there is a steady stream of immigrants, this is the most cost-effective investment, and there is no need to worry about losing money.

After the first three years of paying off their loans and saving up to buy private property, the majority of immigrants looked around to find that the prices of property in the towns were no longer as cheap as they were at the beginning, but had risen with the prosperity of the city.

Either you grit your teeth and spend a lot of money to buy a property, or maybe you have to go to Huitong Bank to borrow a large amount of money, which is another interest income.

Either you give up the idea of buying a property and rent it, which also has to pay the lease fee.

As long as you live in the town, it is impossible to bypass the city boss, this is the amazing background of the city boss, and you can see thunder in the silence.

Sum up

Red River Valley's annual income is close to 30 million pounds, not counting the gold mines and Li Fushou's various investment income, such as investing in the equity of DuPont in the United States, Edison Electric Light Company, Siemens AG in Germany, Krupp Company, Charles Pfizer Company, etc., enjoying a lot of dividend income every year.

With so much money, Li Fushou can't put it all in his pocket.

The implementation of new towns, investment in education, immigration, subsidies for agriculture and animal husbandry, the promotion of important scientific research, and the improvement of the health system are all important measures that cost tens of millions of pounds a year, and the expenditure of town administrators, taxation, urban management, sanitation and police departments will cost more than 2 million pounds, and the funds for the dragon, tiger, leopard and wolf four cavalry guards plus the pro-guard, as well as subsidies to the Queensland Coast Guard, are 2 million a year.

The six-month clean-up operation in northern Queensland alone cost £410,000, from the soldiers' equipment to the clothing, food, shelter and transportation of every bullet fired, and the bereaval and resettlement of the dead and disabled soldiers, all of which had to be paid for by the Earl.

The four Seagull II ocean-going cruisers purchased out of his own pocket were spent more than 400,000 pounds.

And that's just the beginning

There is also a long list of bills for training maintenance costs, daily expenses, fuel costs, construction costs of dedicated port mooring facilities, shell reserves and consumption costs, and so on.

In addition, there are large-scale construction costs, such as the Songjiang Reservoir, the Twin Cities Double-track Railway, the second phase of the production base of the General Machinery Company, the No. 6 Wool Spinning Factory, the No. 7 Woolen Spinning Factory, the construction of the new plant area of the Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, the construction of the Beilun base of the Hongshan Shipyard, the Port of Moresby, the Jayapura Port, the Shangri-La Island Resource Survey and Expedition Fee, the Marine Police District Barracks, the survey and design cost of the northern extension of the coastal railway, the Red River Valley Industrial Corporation Building, etc., which are roughly calculated to be more than 3.7 million pounds a year.

In addition to these expenses, there are also some overt and covert expenses, such as the Red Fort, the Black Guard, the Gusu Mansion, the Duke of Victor in London, and the high society in Europe, helping the weak, influencing public opinion, co-opting pro-immigrant groups, using them for charity, and bribing those in power in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and other places......

All in all, more than 1.3 million pounds to be spent, which has already removed more than 20 million pounds.

The remaining tens of thousands of pounds will either be left in the company's account as funds for the next step of expanding reproduction, or set aside for the purchase of wool raw materials, or part of the loan will be repaid, and the old debt can be repaid and new debts can be borrowed.

No more than 4 million pounds can really be used by Li Fushou at his discretion, and this huge amount of money will be used for his own purposes, and of course it will not be used for war preparations.

Therefore, Huitong Bank was required to continue to borrow 3.8 million pounds to be used as a reserve of war materials.

This is both a deceptive ploy and a necessary disbursement, and it cannot be delayed.

As a feudal lord, while enjoying the rich benefits of the city boss, he also has to bear the heavy responsibility of guarding the territory and protecting the peace of the party, which is the sacred duty of a noble lord.