Iron Dynasty

"His Royal Highness, the taxation of Dayu Kingdom is mainly based on agricultural taxes. Now that His Royal Highness exempts the fief from taxes for three years, it is equivalent to cutting off the government's income.

Seeing Xiao Ming frowning at the accounts, Pang Yukun explained.

"As for the business tax, there are only more merchants in Qingzhou, but this is only concentrated in the handicraft industries such as wine, soap, and the amount of silver collected is only tens of thousands of taels. Compared with today's expenses, it is really insignificant. "

Pang Yukun was engaged in logistics, and his attention was focused on silver, and he didn't care what Xiao Ming was doing, but in his opinion, this Galen ship was not necessary, but it was a waste of money.

Xiao Ming knew what Pang Yukun meant, and it was nothing more than reminding Xiao Ming not to do some big projects that would hurt people and money.

This is a heavy burden for the six-state economy that has just improved.

However, to Xiao Ming, each of his plans has its own purpose, and investment without spending money will not get a big return. Pang Yukun probably does not see this.

After Pang Yukun finished speaking, Xiao Ming looked at Li Kaiyuan.

This rule of fiefdom is also like managing companies, the army, people’s livelihoods, and government offices are big spenders, while the chamber of commerce represented by Li Kaiyuan is a big spender.

So every time I see Li Kaiyuan, Xiao Ming is always more happy than seeing Pang Yukun.

Because when Li Kaiyuan opened his mouth, it was just how much silver he made, and when Pang Yukun opened his mouth, it was how much silver he spent, and then he asked for money.

"His Royal Highness, in the past year or so, the domestic market in Dayu has not been as hot as it was at the beginning, and this soap and perfume can be used for a long time once you buy it. Since this time, the demand has dropped greatly. As for Zuiqingzhou Although it has declined, it is fairly stable. When these things are added up, the Chamber of Commerce can accumulate about 300,000 taels in a month." Li Kaiyuan said.

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming's expression was a little ugly, "So few?"

"That's a lot, Your Majesty, you auctioned off all the sales rights. Now we can only make a small profit. However, after the extinction of the wealthy family, the market in Chang'an has been in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce. During this period of time, I have arranged arrangements in Chang'an. , Opening a shop.” Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming was speechless for a while. He made a good profit from auctioning the sales rights at first, but now the sequelae have emerged.

After spending a lot of money, this is not used to being poor. Although the Chamber of Commerce's monthly income of 300,000 taels is already a huge sum of money, it is not enough to look at the big facts he has to do.

"Since the market in Great Yu is saturated, the market in the Golden Horde seems to be very large."

Xiao Ming's words almost caused Li Kaiyuan, who was about to drink water, to squirt out the water.

He panicked and said: "His Royal Highness, are you asking the Chamber of Commerce to do business with the barbarians? Now this Bei Shan hates us. The caravan is not directly cut off on the grassland when the caravan arrives? Besides, the barbarians are stinking. Never take a bath, would they like this soap and perfume?"

"But the barbarians like wine. The northern part is bitterly cold. This white wine is an excellent warmth from the cold." Niu Ben said slowly.

Xiao Ming looked at Niu Ben, and then at Li Kaiyuan, "Now you understand, even if the two are fighting, but the war is the war, the business does not need to be involved in the war, let alone we are making money from the barbarians, why not? "

"I'm afraid this liquor can only be exchanged for cow and sheep skins on the prairie." Li Kaiyuan said: "Barbarians rarely use silver or the like."

"It's okay. It's best to exchange for horses. This cow and sheepskin is also a commodity that the country lacks. It's the same if you resell it." Xiao Ming's eyes shone brightly.

Lu Fei slapped the table and laughed, "His Royal Highness, I really admire you, Li Kaiyuan, Li Kaiyuan, I will try my best to exchange horses, and then I will invite you to drink."

"I'm not rare." Li Kaiyuan's neck shrank, "I don't know if I'm dead by then?"

Now Pang Yukun doesn’t need principles for the sake of money. He said: “There are still many merchants in Qingzhou and the grassland. We will turn one eye and close the other. If you take care of these merchants, they will naturally know you to do things. There is money everywhere now, and we can count on you."

Pang Yukun's words made Li Kaiyuan exhale, feeling deeply that his status is still important.

Although Xiao Ming raised the status of a businessman, the traditional folk thoughts could not be changed for a while, because he still felt inferior everywhere in the government office, and now he finally straightened his back.

"In that case, I will try my best." Li Kaiyuan smiled.

Xiao Ming nodded, "By the way, how is the Qin's water transport fleet receiving now?"

Qin Chuanyun was hanged in the city of Cangzhou, leaving behind 30 merchant ships belonging to the Qin family. These merchant ships Xiao Ming had been received by Pang Yukun to Li Kaiyuan.

When talking about this, Pang Yukun looked ashamed and said: "His Royal Highness, after the news that Qin Chuanyun was arrested, the merchant ships in Qingzhou were controlled, but after the merchant ships outside learned the news, many merchant ships The boatman directly took the merchant ship as his own and sold it out. Now only 12 merchant ships are actually handed over to the Chamber of Commerce."

"In addition, the Chamber of Commerce purchased from Jinling City, and the Chamber of Commerce now has 45 merchant ships." Li Kaiyuan added.

"Well, these merchant ships should be enough in China."

Xiao Ming sighed, his family is still a bit thin. The workshop area seems to be in full swing, but it is actually just a few workshops.

If you really want to make Qingzhou prosperous, you have to connect with the world.

The meeting said here, basically everything that should be reported was reported. As for the Bowen Academy and the newspaper, there are not many problems, so Xiao Ming can only arrange it.

After the meeting, Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang to stay, and the others went back.

"His Royal Highness, what is the new city wall mentioned at this meeting?" Zhan Xingchang asked.

"Reinforced concrete city wall." Xiao Ming said, this is another big project for Qingzhou.

Without waiting for Zhan Xingchang's question, Xiao Ming picked up a paper and pen to talk to Zhan Xingchang from UU Reading www.uukanshu.com.

Reinforced concrete structure is the strongest building structure in contemporary architecture. This structure is used in many large projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam and nuclear power plants.

Later, this structure was used in residential buildings. This structure can generally be used to withstand earthquakes of magnitude seven or eight.

The reason why this structure is so popular is that the concrete is compressive and the steel is tensile. The combination of these two materials is the perfect material.

Cangzhou City faces the grassland and is a long and narrow valley. The city wall is 500 meters long. The construction of a reinforced concrete city wall at a distance of 500 meters is basically equivalent to the construction of ten residential buildings of 50 meters long.

If this project is only a small project in modern times, it can be completed by a team of hundreds of people in half a year, but it is a big project here.

But even so, Xiao Ming was determined to build it, because even the barbarian wall would never have to worry about the blasting of the barbarian's gunpowder.

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