All in all, Xu Kuang is not short of money now, he is now very rich, and even Henry wants to knock a sum of money from Xu Kuang.

This is not bad for Henry's gaffe, and the textile factory reported the second month's tax return to the tax office, and the results are very surprising.

For this industry alone, the tax amount paid this month is close to 150,000 gold coins, remember, this is the tax payment, not the turnover, according to the tax rate of Mushroom Ridge, the turnover of this industry is probably going to reach millions of gold coins.

And according to Xu Kuang's estimate, there may be more in the next month, because more merchants are coming, not only to buy cloth, but also to buy high-grade liquor.

Xu Kuang immediately made a decision and immediately listed the production method of liquor as the top secret.

In addition, there are more than a dozen branch industries such as sugar and non-staple foods produced by Mushroom Ridge have also begun to heat up, although their scale cannot be as large as textiles, but when they are gathered together, they can also bring tens of thousands of gold coins in taxes to Mushroom Ridge every month.

Mushroom Ridge has to collect more than 200,000 gold coins every month just by collecting taxes.

With money, Xu Kuang began to issue better policies, and better policies attracted more people to come, so there was enough labor in all walks of life......

It seemed to be a virtuous cycle, so good that Henry was envious.

Xu Kuang also used all the tech tree fragments on his body, raising the metal smelting branch in the tech tree by one level again.

Now Mushroom Ridge, even the barrel of the five or six types does not need to be made by Xu Kuang, and other guns, such as Makqin, for example, M1 heavy machine guns, and other guns, Mushroom Ridge now also has the ability to manufacture independently.

It is a pity that the production capacity of gunpowder is not enough.

Even if Xu Kuang worked hard to increase the production capacity of gunpowder, it was still not enough.

The people of this world do not attach much importance to the development of sulfur, so Xu Kuang can only prepare it himself, and after this preparation, the production capacity of Mushroom Ridge will be reduced a lot.

All in all, the firepower of Mushroom Ridge is now greatly strengthened. After the last battle, Xu Kuang seemed to want his soldiers to prefer long-range attacks rather than melee combat.

So a platoon was stuffed into a general-purpose machine gun, three light machine guns, six submachine guns, and fifteen semi-automatic rifles.

Of course, this is only a preliminary adjustment based on the present, and if there is a war in the future, the firepower will be doubled.

The five cannons were also taken out by Xu Kuang at an opportune time, and Zhang Dameow was overjoyed when he saw this.

Now the more than 4,000 people in Mushroom Ridge have twelve cannons, don't underestimate this number, when these twelve cannons are fought, it will be a nightmare on the opposite side.

The military academy also opened smoothly, with Xu Kuang as the principal, Zhuge Duan as the vice principal, and Xin Jian as the director of teaching.

The city wall has also been built now, and now if the people from Baihua City come over again, Xu Kuang will be able to rely on the city wall to build a defense.

A new round of cultivation has also begun.

……

Xu Kuang rubbed his head, there were too many things he needed to worry about.

He sat in his newly built office, looking out the window with some wistfulness.

Suddenly, it started to rain heavily outside the window.

Xu Kuang hurriedly came to the corridor and quietly admired the first heavy rain in three years.

Zhuge Duan's voice came from behind Xu Kuang:

"I don't know how many people can be saved by this heavy rain?"

Xu Kuang didn't answer, but just asked:

"Has the river widened?".

Zhuge Duan replied:

"It's already been broadened."

Xu Kuang nodded with satisfaction and said to Zhuge Duan:

"Sir is always so detailed.".

Zhuge Duan laughed and said to Xu Kuang:

"The lord praised it."

Xu Kuang remembered the question he had asked before, so he asked again:

"If you ask Mr. to speculate on the amount of water now, will Sir's answer still be the same as before?"

Zhuge Duan was stunned for a moment, and then wondered in his heart:

"This Orange Town hasn't been seen in recent months, why does the Lord Guild care so much about this Orange Town......

Zhuge didn't know, and he simply didn't think about it.

He simply replied:

"It's still the same, it must be able to make the assault boat sail on the water."

Xu Kuang nodded, he was very satisfied with this answer.

Xu Kuang looked not far away and asked:

"How long does the rainy season suppose this rainy season will last?".

Zhuge Duan calculated, and then said to Xu Kuang conclusively:

"At least a month."

Xu Kuang was a little unconvinced, and he couldn't help but say:

"Isn't that going to be a flood next month?"

Zhuge Duan's face was unbearable, but he replied:

"I'm afraid that's exactly what happened."

Xu Kuang frowned, he wasn't too worried about Mushroom Ridge, Mushroom Ridge was high and had a well-developed drainage system, so there would be no big problem at all, what he was worried about was that people from other places would not be able to come, so his business would be affected.

Zhuge Duan saw Xu Kuang's thoughts, he sighed, and said to Xu Kuang:

"Lord, you must be prepared to have no harvest within a month."

Xu Kuang nodded, he remembered something.

The single-cylinder engine, the drawings left by Xu Kuang's previous mission, now seems to come in handy, but the question is what to do without oil.

Speaking of oil, Xu Kuang's thoughts drifted away, and he took advantage of the rain to arrange all the officials of Mushroom Ridge together and held a meeting.

The theme of this meeting is also very simple, which is to describe the appearance of oil, and let everyone look around the neighborhood to see if there is oil.

In fact, Xu Kuang has no hope at all here, at least there are stubborn rock formations not a few meters underground in Mushroom Ridge, even if there is oil, it cannot be exploited at all according to the current ability.

Xu Kuang remembered the small drilling platform in his storage space again, that was also a problem, not to mention the cost of 1,000 gold coins every day, and it became a piece of Xu Kuang's heart.

Xu Kuang sighed, he didn't know what to say, so he had to forget about these things for a while.

The rainstorm came as scheduled, and it was no different from Zhuge Duan's calculation.

In the second week after the rain, the Mei River joins the Pearl River.

The sailors began to drill in the rain, and they drove the assault boats as fast as they could on the river, each with a Maxim, and whenever the speed of the assault boat slowed down, the machine gunners seized the opportunity to open fire.

Xu Kuang stood on the shore and watched the sailor drill.

So far, the sailors have behaved well, which makes Xu Kuang quite happy.

Even happier is the leader of the sailors, Xu Kuang suddenly attaches importance to the sailors, which is a major benefit for him, which means that his future will be brighter.

Xu Kuang breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't know what he was thinking, but he knew very well that the next things would be more than before, not less.

At the same time, Viscount Birch kept roaring in his mansion.