Xia He on the bed was gentle and understanding, but when she and Li Ze sat on both sides of the big case and faced the open book, she immediately became a qualified financial officer.

"No money!" She looked at Li Ze, even though the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were still full of spring, her tone was extremely serious.

"Childe, your plan to build another new city seems to me to be impossible to realize in a short period of time." Xia He said: "Although Wuwei Festival Town now has eleven states under its jurisdiction, the territory seems to be bigger, there are more people, and there is more income, but the expenses are also rising rapidly. This year we are just trying to get around. Xia He picked up the summary account and put it in front of Li Ze. This year we were barely able to equalize, again because of the dividends of the war. But now, there is not much left. ”

"It's not long before the autumn harvest." Looking at the numbers on the account that were deliberately smeared red by Xia He, Li Ze said: "It should still be able to connect the tops." ”

"Childe, do you know how much money you have for the officials under your rule? Even if these people don't care about the money, what about the greater number of officials? They want these to feed their families! Xia He sighed: "Feeding these people is a big expense, but this can't be saved, and you still point to these people to work for you!" Without them, the whole of Wuwei would not be able to function effectively. ”

If you want the horse to run, you naturally have to give the horse grass to eat, and from time to time you have to feed more food to make the horse energetic, Li Ze is naturally clear about this, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

"Officials' salaries, soldiers' salaries, these are the two biggest expenses." Xia He's forehead wrinkled into a Sichuan character, "Compared with the officials' salaries, the soldiers' salaries are even more amazing." In the past, Chengde, the entire festival town combined, there were less than 10,000 soldiers who received military salaries, but now how many do we have? ”

Without waiting for Li Ze to answer, Xia He continued: "More than 50,000 people. There are 10,000 Shizhuang troops stationed in Dingzhou, 10,000 Wang Sili in Yizhou, and more than 10,000 people in the Zhenzhou Tu Lichun Division, and there are more than 10,000 people, Gongzi, your personal guard is from 3,000 people, Liu Chenglin has more than 7,000 people, Li Rui has 3,000 soldiers in Shenzhou, Li Hao is in Dizhou, Chen Chang'an is in Cangzhou, and there are 3,000 people each, although Li Han has only 1,000 people, but these 1,000 people are all Mo swordsmen, they can have 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, although there are only 100 people in the Chengde Wolf Cavalry Regular Army, but its supplementary cavalry is as many as 1,000 people. These people are paid for the army. In the event of a war, it has to be regarded as a settling-in allowance, a bereavement payment, and so on. ”

Xia He didn't look at Li Ze's face either, and said straightforwardly: "In this way, all the tax revenue of Wuwei Festival Town for a year will be smashed into it." Not to mention building a new city, it is to build roads and bridges, build water conservancy, open medical centers, and build education and other livelihood projects, all of which have no rice to cook. ”

"None of this can be saved." Li Ze grabbed his head and said helplessly: "Although these seem to be inputs, they will be golden roosters that can lay eggs in the future, and if you don't lay a good foundation in front of you, it will only get more and more difficult in the future." ”

"I can't save anything, but that's all I can earn, what can I do?" Xia He spread his hands and said. "It's nothing more than opening up sources and reducing expenditure, and now I've done my best. It depends on whether the son can open up another source of wealth! ”

"Tuhu has opened a trade route to the south." Li Zedao: "What you just said is just our Wuwei's tax income, Yixingtang is now integrating the business of the entire Wuwei Festival Town, and there should be more than one million yuan of income every year." ”

Xia He nodded: "But Childe, there is going to be a war soon." ”

"I know." Li Ze nodded: "This time, I don't want to be passive defensive, but I have to take the initiative to attack, and I can't burn the war on my own territory." Defend the enemy outside the country, go to other people's territory to fight and kill. This year, Wuwei Festival Town will almost be able to fully complete the acres of Zhangli fields, clean up the people, after completing this work, to next year, whether it is a poll tax or a land tax, there will be a large increase in endowment. You should factor that growth rate into account. ”

"But Gongzi's plan to build a new city will inevitably cost too much, so I still suggest postponing it for the time being, and then win Zhang Zhongwu first." Xia He suggested.

Li Ze shook his head: "You can think of this new city as a long-term plan, just calculate it in five years, but the first phase should be started immediately, not only because the craftsmen who moved here can settle down, but also because after they settle down, they can create benefits for us as quickly as possible." After that, we will make additional budget investments every year. ”

"I've calculated that just starting this new city will require more than 500,000 yuan of silver at one time, and within two years, we won't see any benefits." Xia He is a quiet tunnel.

"500,000 is 500,000." Li Ze slapped the table: "I can't bear the child to catch the wolf, I have already asked Gao Xiangsheng to contact me with Sihai Commerce, see if they still want to invest in me?" ”

"Childe, the Four Seas Trade is a fierce tiger."

"Tigers? Ha ha! Then I want to be a hero who fights tigers. Li Ze said: "I'm not afraid that they will be greedy for me, I'm afraid that they will not pull out a dime." ”

"It's just a hypothesis, and you don't necessarily get money."

"Borrow!" Li Ze continued: "Wuwei Festival Town, under the jurisdiction of eleven states, how many rich people, let's borrow from them!" ”

"Childe, I'm afraid it's not easy, these people are now very dissatisfied with many of your policies, but under Childe's strength, they have to spit out a lot of their original interests, and now they borrow money from them, they don't want to, is it possible that we can still use the strong? Isn't this bad for Childe's reputation, and it also doesn't match Childe's original strategy of uniting all those who can unite to deal with foreign enemies first? If these people are really anxious and cause civil strife, it will not end well. ”

"I don't rob, I don't force donations, I am dignified in Wuwei Festival Town, General Qianniuwei personally borrowed an IOU from them, and I think this three-point thin noodles can still be worth some silver. Of course, I'll give them some compensation too! Compensation other than interest. Li Ze said a little angrily.

"Childe, you must not sell your official position!" Xia He almost subconsciously thought that Li Ze was going to do this.

"How is that possible?" Li Ze laughed: "Zhanghui, have you settled down?" ”

"Of course." Xia He said: "The son specially wrote to ask him, where did Xia He dare to be the slightest slack?" Now on the banks of the Lishui River, Wuwei Academy has broken ground, a month later, the first batch of buildings will be completed, Wuwei Academy can start classes, and now Mr. Zhang Hui, as well as that Mr. Chun Yue, almost every day on the construction site to supervise it! ”

"Whoever has lent me money, I will allow them to send five of their own children to study at Wuwei Academy without examination." Li Zedao: "In the future, most of the officials under our Wuwei rule will have to be selected from the Wuwei Academy, and if they can enter this academy, it is almost equivalent to getting an official body, which is a great way for them to be promoted. ”

"Childe, what's the difference between this and selling officials?" Xia He said helplessly.

"Of course there is a difference." Li Ze said proudly: "If you enter the academy, you may be an official, but you may not be an official." You still have to pass the selection level, and if you are not good enough, it will naturally be difficult to get ahead. And this trick can also allow me to kill all these elite children under my rule, hehe, kill two birds with one stone. ”

The literacy rate in the eleven states under the current rule of Wuwei is outrageously low. Even in places like Zhenzhou, it is difficult to find ten literate people among a thousand people. And these literate people are basically concentrated in the rich families, the powerful families, and the powerful families, and these people can indeed be called the elites of this era.

"Our academy not only has a great Confucian like Zhang Hui, a great power of a Legalist like Chun Yuyue, but also a professor like Cao Zhang and Yang Kai at that time, hahaha, Xia He, tell me, can't most of the officials we cultivate in the future be in my pocket?"

"I only know how to settle accounts, and I don't know anything else." Xia He was a little ignorant about this. "As long as Childe can borrow money, I can make every penny of this money be used to the best of my ability."

"Excellent." Li Zedao: "I'm responsible for getting money, you are responsible for using money, I'm outside the Lord, you are the perfect partner." Xia He, do you know, this time not only Tian Bo has an official body, but you will also be an official of the Tang Dynasty soon! ”

Xia He was stunned: "Childe, I am a woman." ”

"What's wrong with the woman? When the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, women were officials who didn't know what to do, how could you not come out and do things! Li Zedao: "After the Wuwei Festival Town, the financial game of chess, the administrative game of chess, the military game of chess, after this time the general meeting, these three rules will be decided, this time at the meeting, I will propose the establishment of a unified degree branch division, you are the first director of the Du Zhi Division, the official of the five products, how about it?" Unhappy? ”

"If Childe is happy, I'll be happy." Xia He didn't have the slightest interest in being an official, and when he heard that he was about to be a fifth-grade official, he just shrugged his shoulders, and his attention turned back to the account book in front of him.

"If Childe can borrow more than two million yuan, then this year and next year, even if a big war breaks out, our life will barely be able to pass. Of course, the premise is to win on the battlefield. ”

"Of course you can win." Li Ze narrowed his eyes, "Zhang Zhongwu is just the first step up in my eyes." Killing him is only the first step in a long march! ”

"In this case, then I have to think carefully about how to use this money to maximize benefits."