Zhang Qi strode in from the outside, rubbed his hands again and again, and said in his mouth: "Yes, yes, there is today!" ”

Du Zhongxiao, who was checking the account books, raised his head and asked with a smile: "Deployment, what's there?" ”

"If you have money, you can be considered rich today!" Zhang Qi looked a little excited. "In a few freight yards, the rent has been collected for dozens of times! In addition, today's wine is selling well, and it is enough to sell more than 1,000 catties! Zhijun is right, today some Khitan people bought the wine of the big altar and rushed back to Shengzhou, and it rose tenfold at once. If you add the rent of the shops in the city and the taxes of the merchants, my corporal will not have to worry about money and food! ”

Du Zhongxiao laughed when he heard this: "It turns out that the deployment is worried about the stomachs of the soldiers in the city!" Alas, deployment, there is no need to worry about this. ”

Zhang Qi shook his head and sighed: "Zhijun, don't you know that I have been worried about this matter in the past few months. Now there are more than 600 soldiers in the city, and there is a lot of money and food every day, and your volcanic army can't afford to supply it. If you can't make money, you have to think about whether to defend Tanglong Town. ”

Seeing Zhang Qi's serious expression, Du Zhongxiao also felt a little embarrassed. Why did Pan Mei prefer to move the people into the interior rather than send troops to defend this area? These places are actually money-losing goods. Zhang Qi led his troops to stay here, worrying about the stomachs of his soldiers every day. The Volcano Army has been fully supporting it in the past few months, will it be the same in the future? Coupled with the original garrison, the Volcano Army could not support the hundreds of extra soldiers and horses. Tanglong Town must make money, and it must earn enough money to raise soldiers in order to support it for a long time.

Asked Zhang Qi to sit down, instructed the officials to serve tea, Du Zhongxiao said: "Deployment, where is the place that collects the most money in the city?" ”

Zhang Qi said: "How do I know this! I just need to know that the money I collect will be able to support the army. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Then I can tell the deployment, you don't have to worry about it." In the future, the money collected by Tanglong Town will not be able to raise an army of 10,000, that is, it will not do well! ”

Zhang Qi was taken aback, and after a while, he carefully asked Du Zhongxiao: "Zhijun, do you know how much it costs to raise a soldier here for a year?" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The forbidden army is about thirty runs, and the box army is also about twenty runs, no less than that." ”

"Zhijun, two or three hundred thousand a year, just this small city, is it possible that there is gold buried in the soil!" Zhang Qi shook his head again and again. "If you raise a thousand soldiers, with the means of knowing the army, I still barely believe it. 10,000 troops, joke! ”

Du Zhongxiao just smiled and said to Zhang Qi: "How much money does the cabinet make today?" More than a hundred—"

"What!" Zhang Qi jumped up from the stool. "Isn't Zhijun confused? More than 100 times a day, how is it possible! ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "On the first day of the opening of the market today, I made more money, and of course there will not be such a good business in the future, but there will always be dozens of times." However, there will be more business in the future, and there will be more opportunities to make money, and the deployment will look like it. That's a hundred thousand dollars—"

"With 100,000 yuan, the army will earn 300,000 yuan a year? Money is so easy to make, why should the court worry about money and food! ”

"Of course, it's not so easy to earn, and the only place that can make this money is Tanglong Town. You must know that this is a place of free trade recognized by the imperial court, and there are many yamen who help to make it convenient. Doing business makes money quickly, and deployment can be known to make money faster than doing business. ”

Zhang Qiqi said: "I only heard that the rich people in the world are nothing more than rich businessmen, what is more profitable than doing business?" ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled slightly: "Cabinets, money banks, bonds, and insurance in the future, the fastest way to make money with money!" ”

If industry and commerce make a lot of money, the financial industry is blood-sucking. There are all kinds of conveniences and tax exemptions in Tanglong Town, Du Zhongxiao can't do charity here, but find a way to collect the money. It is easier for businessmen to do business, and in the same time, they can do more business and make more money. This is what they paid for more labor, but Du Zhongxiao had to use financial means to scrape away part of the extra wealth. Otherwise, what would be used to support such a big scene in Tanglong Town?

This kind of border trade, which is more profitable and risky, is naturally a playground for the financial industry. If the same method is used in the mainland, it will cause trouble, but here there is no scruples. The Fanhu businessman is taking a risk here, losing or earning, and resigning himself to his fate. It is not only necessary to make one person rich overnight, but also to make some people poor in the blink of an eye, that is exciting. Honest businessmen do their duty to make money, and adventurers go to the waves, this is the charm of a place like Tanglong Town in Du Zhongxiao's heart.

From the imperial court's recognition of Tanglong Town's free trade, Du Zhongxiao's most attentive is the various financial industries with the cabinet as the core. Now let's get the bonds out and let the business prosper as quickly as possible. There is a bond market behind it, where bonds are bought and sold. Later, there is also the contract buying and selling of the club, and the stock market of this era is built. Later, there are various guaranteed loans and commercial insurance, so that businessmen can do business with confidence. Later, there is financial management.

The general fiscal principle of the Song Dynasty was to tax assets, not income, and those who could make more money were really rich, while those who had a lot of money were not. In the case of asset tax, if you lose the ability to make money, no amount of savings will be quickly collected. The gentleman's ze, the third generation and beheaded, I don't know how many families in Tokyo City have fallen for three generations. The prime minister's grandson was too poor to eat, not one or two.

What if there is no means to make money and there is no huge wealth? You can go to this kind of place and give it a try. There are very few taxes here, and everyone is encouraged to make money with money, as long as you have the skills and luck.

Is Tanglong Town small? At its peak, there were one or two thousand households in the city, and the area under its jurisdiction was hundreds of miles. Compared with the cities in the Central Plains, this is a small place, but in this remote place, it is a big city. Historically, at the beginning of the great development of industry and commerce in Europe, the size of cities was no more than that. There is a vast hinterland market in the Central Plains, and the north is a boundless prairie, which is well managed, what is it to earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, and several farms on Hebei Road can also earn more than one million yuan a year.

Du Zhongxiao is looking forward to a bright future, but Zhang Qi is not interested. He didn't have the leisure to take care of these twists and turns in business, as long as he had enough money and food to keep his subordinates from starving.

After drinking tea for a while, Zhang Qi said: "Today's business in the city is prosperous, it can be said that the first battle was successful, and we will drink a cup of the army." ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "Okay, I've stayed up for a winter, and now that the new dishes are on the market, let's improve the taste." ”

The two of them went out of the yamen, took a few retinues, and headed for the largest smoke willow tower in the city. Tanglong Town is located in the loess mountains, merchants from afar are accustomed to seeing the desert yellow sand, hear the name of the smoke willow building, they can't move their legs.

This is the official restaurant of the Volcano Army, and a former director of the government operates here. Seeing Du Zhongxiao and Zhang Qi coming, he hurriedly welcomed him into the building.

Seeing that the hall below was full of guests, mixed with Chinese and Chinese, all kinds of strange languages, and noisy. Du Zhongxiao said: "Director, is business okay today?" Yingtianwu brewed a lot of wine there, just waiting for the exchange of money here to go back. ”

Director Dong said: "Back to the officials, business is okay." Since dawn, the following seats are full, and today there are many merchants who buy wine from the big altar and transport it away. The small one has already sent a big cart back to the camp to pull wine, but I am afraid that it will not be enough to sell. ”

Zhang Qi smiled: "You are a poor supervisor, where is this kind of business just passable!" It's all like this, the officials in the city are servants, and they don't have to worry about money and food! ”

Du Zhongxiao just laughed. Zhang Qi has been in this bitter cold area for a long time, and has suffered countless hardships, and he is dedicated to the money and food of his subordinates.