The old ghost sat back in his position again: "The power of your Yin family has been seriously shrunk for decades, so now those music family industries outside can only be self-sufficient, and they can't help you develop their fiefdoms at all, so all your music and dance families exist, so how many years will you last?"

"That's true, but I, Tian Qi, never thought that I needed to rely on the supply of those industries to develop my forces. ”

"But now the tuntian under the command of Lingqiu, although it may be possible to stabilize the people's hearts, there is also a certain amount of taxes; the Sacred Heart Medical Center is only just the beginning of construction, and the income and expenditure in it can only be equal; the development of animal husbandry has not achieved results in two years, and it is necessary to continue to invest; the remaining breeding of spring silkworms is also an unknown number, and if it is not handled well, it will be a loss. ”

"In addition, it takes money to build the City Lord's Mansion, the school palace also needs money, the army under his command needs money to cultivate, and the rest of the various things need money, I don't know how long you can support it, Gongzi?"

Listening to the old ghost's thorough analysis of the forces under his command at one time, he also understood that he was far from a deficit from beginning to end, and they had only been in Lingqiu for more than a month.

So if this continues, maybe he will lose all the money of the two music and dance families in less than a year.

But looking at the old ghost's questioning, he finally decided to reveal a little: "I naturally understand all this, but the source of income I really prepare is not these unprofitable industries in front of me, but the industries I am going to build in the backyard of the city residence." ”

"What industry?" the old ghost wondered.

"Papermaking and movable type printing. Tian Qi looked at the old ghost with serious eyes, "Those two can be said to be more profitable industries than abacus, how many literati are there in the entire Nine Weeks Zhuzi Hundred Schools, the appearance of paper will directly replace the bulky bamboo slips, so how much profit does the old ghost think we will have?"

Although the old ghost doesn't know where the paper is, since it can replace the bulky bamboo slips, the profit margin is absolutely unimaginable, after all, the precious things of the hundred schools of Kyushu are inheritance and bamboo slips.

And the old ghost listened to Tian Qi's bamboo slips being bulky, but he thought that paper must be lighter than bamboo slips.

But then the old ghost still hesitated and said: "Childe, your paper is really that good, and it can really play the existence of bamboo slips?"

"Old ghost, will you wait for me for a while?" Tian Qi put away the nameless and walked out of the hall quickly, and after returning to his own courtyard, he took out a brocade box and returned to the main hall here: "Take a look for yourself!"

The old ghost took the letter suspiciously and gently opened the box.

And Tian Qi watched the old ghost take out the thin booklet inside, the waxy yellow paper was gently turned by the old ghost, and looked at the old ghost in shock: "Old ghost, this is just the paper after several experiments, if it is slightly improved again, the paper will be snow-white, and the quality of the paper will be much stronger." ”

The old ghost put the booklet into their respective places again, and then returned it to Tian Qidao again: "If it is really like the son, I believe that the hundred schools of thought will gradually abandon the bamboo slips." ”

"No, they will definitely abandon the bamboo slips then. Tian Qi said with great confidence.

Immediately, seeing that the old ghost didn't believe it, he said again: "When you read the booklet, have you ever seen the three-character scripture recorded on it, if I enlighten the school palace with one copy per person, how much financial and material resources do you think the old ghost needs?"

"If there is a volume for each of the 3,000 students, it will cost 300 gold according to the financial resources of the bamboo slips, and I don't know the cost of the paper, but the text on it is a hundred transcriptions, so it will take at least two hours. ”

Tian Qi smiled: "The cost of paper for a booklet is less than one dollar coin, plus the cost of wages and other expenses is less than five dollars, if it is a large-scale investment in papermaking, then the cost can also drop four dollars." As for the above texts and records, if the number of them reaches 100,000 copies, then the final cost of each volume is less than ten dollars. ”

"Shhh Although the top ten princes don't look down on this little profit, these profits are enough for Tian Qi to find power.

But then they reacted, and the crisis under this huge interest, those ordinary sons and families would not take care of so much, so in the face of no strong strength, in the end, they were still a little unable to hold on.

Tian Qi looked at the old ghost and reacted, but continued: "So we need a large number of soldiers, and the population is the resistance that restricts our development, after all, once the trade route is opened, then there will definitely be a lot of people who flock to it, so at the same time that some people are red, we must also quickly become stronger."

The old ghost looked at Tian Qi: "Childe, then how many soldiers do you think we need to raise?"

"Hehe!" Tian Qi smiled bitterly, after all, the total number of soldiers under his command was only eight thousand, and he also had to defend various places, so he didn't have the extra strength to deter everyone at all.

But Tian Qi looked at the old ghost's inquiring eyes, but still said: "It's not too little to give me 20,000 now, and it's not too much to give me 100,000." ”

The old ghost frowned: "Childe, if we are given 100,000, will we be able to raise an army of 100,000?"

Tian Qi was so sudden in his heart that he almost leaked his mouth!

Then he approached the old ghost quietly, and said in a loud voice: "Old ghost, in fact, there is a micro-line spiritual vein in the spiritual mound of Dao News City, if we can't even control the entire open and secret side, do you think I dare to find the spiritual vein?"

The old ghost raised his head and looked at Tian Qi, looking at the sincerity in Tian Qi's eyes, and wondered, "How can you be sure that there will be spiritual veins here?"

"Of course, I am sure that the spiritual veins have spiritual veins, after all, my master is guarded by the Qi Kingdom, and this is not the reason why I came to Lingqiu City. Tian Qi said nonsense.

And Tian Qi continued: "So if we don't cultivate the forces of the bright side, then we won't be able to guard the spiritual veins we have found. If we don't pave the way to make money, the source of the money of the forces we have developed will also make the sons of the hundred schools suspicious. Therefore, if everything is not ready, then the spiritual veins in the dark cannot be moved. ”

Of course, the old ghost understood the various doorways, but in the end, he said solemnly: "Childe, if there is a problem with the source of soldiers, I will find a way!"

Tian Qi looked at the old ghost since he took the initiative to come out to help solve the problem of the source of soldiers, and felt in his heart that it was not good to conceal the true spiritual vein of the other party, but looking at the firm eyes of the old ghost, he finally nodded and said: "The matter of the source of soldiers will be for you." ”

The old ghost has nothing, after all, since he chooses to stay and help Tian Qi again, then he will do it wholeheartedly.

Then the old ghost and Tian Qi chatted for a while, then they also said goodbye and left the City Lord's Mansion, and then slowly left Lingqiu City.

As for where the old ghost went, Tian Qi didn't ask, after all, the old ghost went to gather troops this time, but it was not like the Rao'an City farmers who supported him to defend the city, so Tian Qi let the old ghost deal with it.

Tian Qi also slowly left the main hall, looking at the side hall where the six departments were located, and everyone in it had already been arranged, and at this time, he was really discussing the details with the various commanders.

Time flies.

In order to put papermaking and movable type printing on the agenda, he also took the elite army and others to soak the raw materials used in papermaking, such as reeds, bamboo, manstalks, wheat straw, straw, dragon beard grass, etc., in the waterhole, so as to make preliminary preparations for papermaking.

The demolition and construction of the entire backyard of the castle lord's mansion has also begun, and Jin Nian and his craftsmen are busy building a paper mill and a printing workshop, as well as a dyeing workshop to prepare for dyeing cloth in the future.

After Tian Qi finished arranging the fiefdom, he also began to use the City Lord's Mansion to construct and began to dig spiritual ore in his bedroom.

Tian Qi dug down according to the location designated by Dafan, causing the rest of the whole person to keep digging down except for rest and cultivation.

Although the excavation is boring and tedious, only Tian Qi and Jinnian, as well as their mother Ji Ruxue, know the real purpose of the entire tunnel, and now there is one more fox.

After all, everyone else needs to be busy with other things, so the fox can only come to him, and finally knows that Tian Qi is not digging the secret room at all, otherwise he can't dig dozens of zhang and keep digging down.

And a kind of fox Daji has learned human characters and writing, and with its smart brain, it can also communicate with Tian Qi and others.

It's just that Tian Qi, Jin Nian, and Ji Ruxue were strictly forbidden to warn them not to get out of the matter here, and Tian Qi helped Fox Daji to vouch, and finally Fox Daji also repeatedly promised that Ji Ruxue didn't bother with Fox Daji about knowing the spiritual vein.