Philip, the most optimistic disciple of Du Wei under the Blue Return Sect, has won Du Wei's great trust since these rìzi. In Dewey's view, Philip was young and calm. There is real talent in the chest. He has a good understanding of the situation in the northwest, and he is also extremely respectful of himself, and he never looks down on himself because he is young.

If Philip had not been too young and had no qualifications, Dewey would have appointed him governor of the province of Dessa.

But even so, although Philip does not have the title of Governor now, in fact, Du Wei has already entrusted him with almost everything. Whether it is the construction of a new city or the financial money, Philip is almost in charge of the overall situation.

After all, Philip is a disciple of the Blue Sea Sect, and after being summoned by Du Wei, he first asked to pass on the message to win the hearts of the people, and knew that the Duke was talking to someone from the Northwest Army.

Someone from the Northwest Army?

Philip sneered, just after autumn, the Northwest Army really sent someone to ask for money. Fortunately, Du Wei and Philip had already taken a countermeasure to this matter, and he was not in a hurry at the moment, and took what he had prepared, and then came to see Du Wei.

Philip's place of work is in the governor's palace, and he arrived in a moment, and when he pushed the door in, Du Wei was still chatting casually with the general Dodoro, and after Philip came in, he first saluted Du Wei, and Du Wei introduced him.

Tatara was also very polite to the young man who walked in, and he didn't mean anything contemptuous. After all, in the past few months, after this young duke came to the northwest, the Northwest Army has also observed this duke for a long time, knowing that this young man named Philip is now almost Du Wei's right-hand man, and almost all the decrees of the governor's palace are from this young man's hand, and Du Wei, the young duke, does not care much about anything. Just make some decisions about publishing, and leave the rest to this Philip. Although this guy is only a curtain liao under the name of Du Wei, he can actually be regarded as half a governor.

"Philip, General Dodoro is here today for the autumn military expenses, and the financial revenue for each quarter should have been reported, right?"

"Yes, sir. Philip immediately opened a booklet he had brought, and then handed over a thing: "My lord, this is the autumn income of the province of Dessa. ”

Du Wei pretended to take it and looked at it, with a suspicious expression on his face: "This, Philip, is the number mistaken?"

Philip was serious: "My lord, the numbers above are correct. ”

Du Wei coughed, and then slowly pushed the things on the table in front of General Dodoro at the end of this century: "General Dodoro, this is the financial revenue of the Desa Province in the autumn is a total of 71,000 gold coins, of which the agricultural income is 46,000 gold coins, well, according to the practice you said, the Northwest Army should draw forty percent."

Tadora's face changed: "How much?!"

"Eighteen thousand four hundred gold coins. Philip repeated it again with a blank face. Du Wei couldn't help but smile, but sighed on his face: "Hey, this number seems to be a little less, the soldiers of the Northwest Army have worked hard for the country, so let's do it, I'll add some more privately, just make up a whole number: 20,000 gold coins!"

He pretended to be generous here, but the Tatara next to him was almost so angry that his nose was crooked.

The politeness on his face just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, and he said in a deep voice: "Lord Duke, I heard you right, right?

"Absolutely. Philip was the first to reply: "The Governor's Palace has just checked the agricultural taxes collected from various places."

Tadoro's face turned red, and there was still a trace of reason to suppress the anger. He didn't look at Philip, but turned his face to look at Du Wei, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Duke! But a province with a population of one million, and an income of only 70,000 gold coins a quarter, is it ridiculous to say?"

After a pause, a trace of anger appeared in Tadora's eyes: "This year, there are still more than 20 nights of income in each season, and autumn is the season of harvest in the farmland, according to previous years, there should be at least more than 300,000 yuan, right!

"General Todoro!" Philip suddenly sank his face, his voice became cold, his eyes narrowed, and he said lightly: "Please pay attention to your words! You are talking to an imperial duke!!"

Then Philip said coldly: "I think you also know that we are building Loulan New City recently, and the cost of building the new city is huge, and the public expenses of tens of thousands of craftsmen and every rì expenses are a huge and heavy burden! In addition, in order to motivate the people of the territory to move to the new city, the Duke issued a tax exemption order at the beginning of the construction of the city! Anyone who registers and is willing to move to the new city with his family can be exempted from tax for one year. Dessa's original fiscal revenue was not much, and after such a few huge expenses and tax cuts, this quarter's income was naturally less, what is strange. ”

Duoduoluo originally tested Du Wei's attitude today, after this little duke came to the northwest, he has not dealt with the northwest army, just now he thought that the other party was obediently cooperating, but now it seems that he is playing this kind of grinding with himself.

Thinking of this, Duoduoluo couldn't help but be even more angry, his dignified general in the northwest, holding the material power of the legion, here in the northwest, who didn't give him some face, even the old fox of Bohan was polite to him, but he didn't expect this kid to dare to play with himself.

What about the duke? What is the Northwest Army afraid of?

"Lord Duke!" Duo Luo Huoran stood up and said lightly: "I think your subordinate may not have figured out the laws and regulations of the northwest! Of course I know that you are building a new city, but according to the laws of the empire, the Northwest Army has the right to intercept part of the income from agricultural taxes as military expenses! Military expenses have priority, and before the military expenses of the Northwest Army are withdrawn, local governments are not allowed to use agricultural taxes first! And now, this aide of yours told me: " Our Northwest Army has not yet received military expenses, and he has already spent all the money on building a new city, is that what it means?"

Du Wei looked at the angry fat man and said slowly: "General Dodoro, please sit down, your anger has no effective remedy for the current situation, or let us discuss how to solve it, you see?"

Dotaro snorted.

Du Wei smiled, looked at Philip, and said solemnly: "Philip, although the account is calculated correctly, the military expenses of the officers and men of the Northwest Army must not be in arrears! You just have to tell me how much it should be before deducting these expenses this quarter. ”

Only then did Philip pretend to be reluctant: "If your Excellency calculates normally, the original income is about 250,000 gold coins, which is a little less than in previous years, after all, you have exempted many civilians who are willing to relocate from taxes." ”

Todora's anger calmed down a bit, the total number of 250,000 gold coins was about the same! Although it was a little less, it was also within the acceptable level. If it is 250,000, 40% will have 100,000 gold coins.

"That's not easy. Du Wei immediately made a bold look again: "According to the income of 250,000 yuan, forty percent should be 100,000 yuan, then you can spend 100,000 yuan from the treasury." ”

Philip sighed, as if he was a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "But, Lord Duke, we don't have so much money in our treasury now." ”

"What !!"

A loud coax, with infinite anger and doubt!

But the problem is that it wasn't Toddoro who was about to get angry, but it was the duke who roared first.

The little duke took the case, fell in love with undisguised anger, and glared at Philip fiercely: "What did you say!!"

He suddenly threw the teacup in front of him to the ground, and said angrily: "Mr. Philip, please explain, I am a province! But in the treasury of the capital treasury. There are always savings and reserves over the years! Is it true that we can't even take out 100,000 yuan of financial funds in our hands in a dignified province!!"

Du Wei's preemptive attack, and his voice was so loud that it startled Dodoro.

"Give me an explanation!" Du Wei cried out as if he were about to swallow people, "Philip, is this my territory? Is this my province of Dessa! Or have you used your authority to embezzle the squatting in the treasury!! If you can't explain, I will arrest you at once for corruption!"

Philip immediately looked aggrieved, and defended again and again: "My lord, I have never been greedy for a gold coin!!"

Then this Philip seemed to be angry: "My lord, once you arrived in the northwest, you never took care of the finances. Naturally, I don't understand. If you want to build a new city, I will try my best to dissuade you, but you just won't listen to my opinion, and I can only do my best to keep everything running for you, but I also have difficulties!"

Speaking of this, he seemed to have just made up his mind: "My lord, do you remember when I first arrived here, I handed you a report on the storeroom stockpile?"

Du Wei seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then said impatiently: "I'm not interested in those things, just have you deal with it for me." ”

Philip smiled bitterly: "My lord, you are a magician. Of course, you have no interest in these mundane things, but in my report to you, it says everything, but you have not paid attention to that report."

Du Wei seemed to remember something, and frowned: "What's wrong with that report?"

"My lord," Philip sighed, "When we took over Desa a few months ago, the treasury of the entire province was only 190,000!

"This can't be!!"

Again, Tataro didn't have time to speak first. Du Wei jumped up before him again, blushing and glaring at Philip: "In a dignified province, the reserves over the years are only more than 100,000 ??!!."

"But it's true, my lord. The detailed list of statistics in my report. Philip had a bitter expression: "You put all your jīng power into the study of great divine magic, so you ignored these things, although I have repeatedly reminded you, but you have not paid attention"

Then, as if cautious, Philip continued: "This number, of course, makes people feel unbelievable. Who would believe that there is only such a small amount of stock in the treasury of a province? Not to the test"

"But nothing. ”

Coughing, Philip gritted his teeth and said, "However, before you took office in the northwest, the administration of Desa was always the acting of the governor of Bohan."

This sentence is already obvious!

When Tatara heard this, he couldn't help but secretly accept this statement.

It seems that before handing over the chassis, Bohan scavenged the land of Desa before leaving, and emptied the entire house, which is a very reasonable explanation.

Du Wei and Philip just stared at each other, Du Wei was full of anger, and Philip looked aggrieved. After a long time, Du Wei gritted his teeth and said: "What a Governor of Bohan! He actually played such a trick for me! Hmph! No wonder when I passed through Mulan City on my way to take office, this old guy had such a strange attitude towards me, it turned out that he actually left me an empty shell in the factory quietly!"

Philip immediately put his hands together: "Your jīng power is all focused on the study of great divine magic, I have said it a few times, but you have not listened to it. ”