Lantian, county office.

Li Chaosheng is reading the financial statements of various localities this year, as well as relevant policy reports on grain expenditure, farm tool expenditure, water conservancy construction, and taking in displaced people.

Guo Bao stood aside at this time and said to Li Chaosheng: "County Zun, the current financial situation is a little tight, and we will develop five provinces at the same time this year, which will be a huge pressure on the entire Lantian area." ”

What Guo Bao said is the truth, this year, Lantian has rapidly expanded into five provinces, and Lantian has only developed Shaanxi and Hubei, which has developed most of it, and Gansu has also developed some, but not much.

The two provinces have to be financed by Qinghai, Hunan, Guangxi, Henan, the four major provinces, as well as parts of Hubei and Gansu, which together are five provinces.

And then they will be stationed in Shandong, Li Zicheng is ready to fight Shanxi and Hebei, and when Li Zicheng finishes fighting, Lantian will also receive it, and Sichuan is obviously fast, Qin Liangyu can no longer hold on, and I heard from the spies in Sichuan to report, saying that Qin Liangyu's health is getting worse and worse, and now he is often bedridden to deal with military affairs, and his life is not long in coming.

If Qin Liangyu dies, his son Ma Xianglin, a guy with great ambitions and talents, can't play Zhang Xianzhong, and when Zhang Xianzhong occupies Sichuan, Li Dezhen's army will start attacking Sichuan, and then developing Sichuan will be a big expense!

Although Lantian has accumulated as much wealth as possible over the years, it is also a little difficult to cope with this growing territory, and at this year's financial meeting, Lantian has a fiscal deficit for the first time in a decade.

At this moment, Lantian realized that our money could not be enough to spend!

So they hurriedly came to the county zun, this kind of major event must be the county zun to take the helm, if the county zun does not come out to preside over the overall situation, they are afraid that there will be internal disagreements, and there will be discussions on the development of these five provinces.

To develop external provinces, we should not sacrifice the quality of life of the people in Lantian to support the rapid development of these five provinces.

After Guo Bao summed up the opinions of the big guys, he came to Li Chaosheng with this year's information, and they needed Li Chaosheng to give them a direction.

They are very confused now, and they need a leader to give them a clear direction, and Li Chaosheng is Lantian's Dinghai Shen Needle, at this time, as long as Li Chaosheng points out a direction, then Lantian people will work hard towards this goal, even if it is hard, they will never regret complaining, this is Li Chaosheng's people accumulated in Lantian for more than ten years.

And Guo Bao's purpose here is to hope that Li Chaosheng will give a general direction, and they will be able to work hard.

After reading this year's financial statements, Li Chaosheng found that the deficit was not as big as he imagined, a deficit of only 15 million silver dollars, but if we add in the acceptance of Shanxi or Hebei this year, the fiscal deficit will reach 20 million, and this fiscal deficit will be very large.

If this question is handed over to Da Ming, then Da Ming will definitely scratch his head and don't know what to do, because Da Ming, or Chongzhen, does not have the right to currency in his hands, he can't interfere with the circulation of money, of course, there is nothing to do about it.

But Li Chaosheng is not Chongzhen, he is Lantian County, a modern person who understands modern economics, and after his continuous efforts in the past ten years, his Lantian has laid a strong foundation.

This deficit does not mean that the people of Lantian cannot afford to support other provinces, but that the tax revenue of the Lantian government is not enough to support the development of other provinces, and this problem can be solved.

There are several solutions here.

At present, to solve the financial deficit, the first is to use the surplus funds of previous years, and this money cannot be used, because the surplus of previous years has been thrown into the army by Li Chaosheng, and the five major army corps of Lantian have been expanded, each of which now has more than 100,000 people, and the main force of Lantian now has 500,000 people.

So don't think about the balance of previous years, and the second thing is to reduce expenses.

This won't work, at present, Lantian doesn't have any redundant yamen, whose expenses are you reducing?

There is also open source, open source is what Li Chaosheng is doing, and the largest open source project at present is that Li Chaosheng has had friendly communication with the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.

Specifically, Shi Lang led the battleship equipped with Lantian's latest artillery to block the door of the plaster country, and fought a naval battle with the plaster country, the effect was obvious, the Tokugawa shogunate was subdued, and was willing to cooperate with Lantian to develop the largest silver mountain in the plaster country, Iwami Silver Mountain.

This silver mountain is very important to Lantian, you must know that according to the estimation of Lantian miners, the silver content of this silver mountain is several times higher than the silver content of the entire Gansu silver factory, and it is a truly inexhaustible treasure land.

So Li Chaosheng started a deal with the Tokugawa shogunate, and the mining rights of the silver mountain were given to Lantian, who could dump some cheap cloth, gunpowder, and handmade products to the Tokugawa shogunate at a very low price!

The Tokugawa shogunate was very interested in this, and after asking about the low price of Lantian, they directly purchased it on a large scale, which could not make the Tokugawa shogunate not excited, the price of gunpowder given by Lantian, the price of cloth, and the price of handmade products were all one-third of their own country, and this price could not even recover the cost, could they not be happy?

So he happily signed an agreement with Lantian, and after the Lantian envoy passed the news to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng almost laughed and smoked, this stupid plaster countryman!

Not only did he get the mining rights of Iwami Silver Mountain for nothing, but he also allowed himself to dump industrial products into their country on a large scale, where can such a good person be found?

Soon, the actions of the Tokugawa shogunate dealt a devastating blow to the handicraft industry in the embryonic days of the plaster country, and the gunpowder workshops, cloth, and various handicraft workshops all began to close, and people's livelihood began to erode from the roots.

There is no way not to rot, Lantian's gunpowder and cloth, which are all produced on a large scale, even if they are sold to the plaster country at a third of the price, it is profitable, and the quality of this kind of large-scale production is good, much better than those made in small workshops.

The people of the plaster country are not stupid, can they not know which one is good and that is not good?

This imported from Lantian is good and cheap, and the one made by their own family is poor and expensive, as a normal person knows which one to buy, so Lantian products are called a best-seller, and their local handicraft products are not cared for at all, which leads to the closure of local handicraft products, and the shopkeeper directly goes to the ground to become a farmer again, and the industrial enlightenment of the plaster country is directly strangled in the cradle.

As soon as these gunpowder factories in Japan went out of business, Lantian directly opened the recruitment mode, and sent all the skilled masters and craftsmen to Jeju Island in a boat, benefiting the people of Jeju Island.

This directly led to the fault line of craftsmen in the entire plaster country, there were no craftsmen, and the rest were all farmers, the Tokugawa shogunate was not a fool, and it didn't react at first, but after a year or two, it reacted, and the factories in their own country were almost closed, and at this time, some people wanted to restrict the dumping of Lantian goods in Lantian.

However, it was not going well, because Lantian was smart, he was smart because he did not directly do business in the plaster country, but looked for the nobles of the plaster country, dumped the goods at a low price, and they acted as agents, and then sold them, but Lantian stipulated that it must be lower than the cost price of local products.

But even so, these nobles of the plaster country who were selected by Lantian also became rich overnight, it doesn't matter if the price is low, let's go to the volume, and even several small nobles of the plaster country, because of their relationship with Lantian, they have directly become the hottest upstarts among the nobles, so Lantian's goods in the plaster country are valued by more and more nobles.

Even the younger brother and son of Tokugawa Iemitsu of the Tokugawa shogunate, and even Tokugawa Iemitsu's mother were on this chain of interests, and then Tokugawa Iemitsu wanted to work hard and limit the dumping of Lantian goods, and the final result was the boycott of most of the nobles, and even his son, brother, and mother did not support him, and he really wanted to cry without tears.

And because Lantian carried out large-scale business activities in Japan, this caused the dissatisfaction of the Zheng family in Fujian, Zheng Sen angrily led the fleet to attack Jeju Island, and met Shi Lang, it was really an enemy who was very red-eyed when they met, Shi Lang was killed by Zheng Sen The whole family, at this time the eyes were green.

With the battleship equipped with the latest artillery of Lantian and the old Zheng pirate, Shi Lang sank one battleship, damaged five battleships, and completely annihilated the thirty-two Zheng family warships led by Zheng Sen, and finally only Zheng Sen's head ship was left to run fast, otherwise Shi Lang would make Zheng Sen hate the waters of Jeju Island.

This battle history is called the Battle of Jeju Island, and it is this naval battle that completely established the status of the Lantian Navy, and at the same time greatly injured the vitality of the Zheng family, in the process Zheng Sen was also injured, and after returning to Fujian, he collapsed, and Zheng Zhibao even took the opportunity to annex half of Zheng Sen's team.

After Zheng Sen knew about this, he was furious, and finally he was in a hurry, and he died at a young age, and since then the land of Fujian has been managed by Zheng Zhibao, but Zheng Zhibao's military level is obvious to all, and the entire Zheng pirates can only shrink into the land of Fujian under his leadership, and wait for the Jeju Island Navy to grow and annex them, or Shi Dalei raised troops from Jiangxi, went south to the land of Fujian, took Fujian, Guangdong, and cut off the roots of Zheng's pirates.

At present, open source is a good way, but silver mining takes time, so Li Chaosheng can't be in a hurry.

However, the funds for the development of these five provinces cannot be saved, so the current open source method cannot solve the immediate trouble.

Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said to Guo Bao: "After you go back, you will immediately hold an economic meeting, so that the Ministry of Finance, banks, and other relevant financial systems will all be centralized, and I will propose solutions at the meeting." ”

Guo Bao heard the words and said: "County Zun, what a plan, this is a hole of fifteen million." ”

Li Chaosheng glanced at Guo Bao and said with a smile: "This amount of money will stump your dignified Lantian Political Minister, there is no interest, I will give you two plans, the first is to issue additional currency, and the second is to issue treasury bonds!" ”

"Issuing additional currency, issuing treasury bonds??"

Guo Bao looked confused, Li Chaosheng knew that these two later generations were very simple ways to solve the financial deficit, which were ahead of the time for people in this era, so he said: "The method is very simple, our Lantian has now fully popularized paper money, that is to say, this money, we can use it by printing it ourselves, aren't you just 15 million short?" Just print fifteen million. ”

"Ah, it's that simple! No, the county, let's print money like this, and we won't destroy the paper money policy that we have built up with great difficulty like in the Hongwu period! ”

Li Chaosheng said: "No, the fundamental reason why Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu treasure banknote collapsed and turned into a blank paper is the collapse of credit, that is to say, this money cannot be exchanged for silver, but our Lantian can be exchanged normally, and there is no danger of collapse." ”

"But the issuance of additional currency is indeed a very hurtful thing for the people, in fact, this is equivalent to diluting this money to the people, a deficit of 15 million silver dollars, we now have a population of about 12 million, which is equivalent to everyone charging them more than a dollar in taxes, but they don't have to pay, we will distribute this money to them directly from the source of the currency."

More than a piece of money is a piece of silver dollar, and now the average salary in Lantian is about three yuan and a half per person per month, to be honest, such a big release of water is a bit hurtful to the people.

Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "It's not easy for the people, this additional currency can't be too ruthless, let's issue 8 million more currency in this way, so on average, the price will not rise much, as for the remaining holes, 12 million national bonds are being issued!" ”

"National debt?"

Guo Bao frowned, Li Chaosheng said: "That is, the state borrows money from the people, and the interest rate is 5% to issue treasury bonds to the whole people, don't worry about this money, we are only in temporary difficulty now, with 20 million silver dollars, the development of our five provinces can enter the fast lane, and when the time comes, we can earn back dozens of times, hundreds of times, this is not a problem." ”

Li Chaosheng is not wrong in what he said, if the 20 million is smashed, Li Chaosheng will be able to obtain the wealth of five provinces, not to mention anything else, even if these five provinces grow a single grain, Lantian will be able to return to a large number of capitals in the coming year, and then industry, animal husbandry, forestry, commerce, and all kinds of measures will go up to do a good job in the lives of the people, and the tax will be able to return to the capital in one year, and then Lantian will be invincible.

With the wealth blessing of Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, and Henan, the foundation of Lantian is solid, and there is no need to worry about money anymore, because the stall is big enough!

When the rest of the places want to develop, Lantian will mobilize the wealth of seven provinces to help, and there is no need to issue treasury bonds, and Lantian's tax revenue will be enough every year!

At that time, the funds of the plaster country can also be returned, and Lantian can also go to the stick country to develop, and this money will have to be Lantian sooner or later.

So the fiscal crisis is only temporary, and it is good to get through this period.

Guo Bao came in dejected, but when he left, he was full of smiles, worthy of being a county honor, so easily solved the matter of how many days he had been troubled, Lantian has a county honor, why worry about not being strong!

Thinking about Guo Bao, he saw a pile of military information in Gu Zi's hand, the two said hello, and Gu Zi entered the house and saw the county zun and said: "County zun, there are changes in the north!" ”

(End of chapter)