Chapter Seventy-Five: The Jackal Reigns
Silla lost several cities stolen from Goguryeo during the Great Cause period, Silla lost the northern defense line, Silla lost the northern frontier, Silla lost the royal city, and the Silla queen ran away with her friends.
"A small country, it's better to die early."
Zhang De invited the staff of several local bigwigs in Hebei to drink tea, and it was not very convenient for the local assassins to visit everywhere, so the staff had to play their due role.
In the past two years, Lao Zhang has shown off his muscles in Hebei, throwing money and people, and even the old hooligans in Yizhou don't want it. So much so that now Lao Zhang has opened a small Hebei Provincial Loyal Monarch and Love the People Symposium, and many people have come.
In order to build the Bohai Economic Circle, the chief officials of all the states in Hebei Province have rallied around the second-generation leaders of the Tang Dynasty with Emperor Li as the core, striving to quadruple the income of the people next year......
It's not difficult to quadruple, and there are a lot of empty land, and the yield of farming is yes. The difficult thing is that this quadruple income has to be real money.
There is so little currency circulating in the market, the common people bury it in the soil with a little spare money, and there are scum who get thousands of catties of silver, cast it into helplessness, and put it at the door disgusting bureaucrats and thieves.
"the father, if Silla dies, I don't know if this rice grain is sold, can it be used to make the profits of the five boats again?"
In fact, the grain production in Pingzhou is not high, but because of the small population, the relative per capita number of acres of land is relatively high. The benefit of five ships is actually the quota of the grain ship trade fleet at the Zhanghe wharf, and Pingzhou wants to add five ships.
Because the Denglai Navy repaired the water village and dock on Turtle Island, and added 500 sailors, if the merchant ships were not too stubborn, they would not have to worry about pirates and pirates at all.
Now the bulk of grain consumption is Zhuzi Island, and Zhang De is proportioned according to the daily consumption of three catties of rice per person. Nowadays, the routes developed are relatively stable, as long as they do not encounter typhoons. The basic discount rate will not exceed three boats. In the past, after the empty ship, gold ore, whale oil, timber, stone, jerky, seafood and other products were transported back to the sea, and the profits were extremely high.
Among them, the bulk of whale oil consumption is the Shicheng Iron and Steel Plant, and then from Youzhou, go to the Monan grassland north of the Great Wall, and the whale oil will be transported to Beihetao. The bulk of whale oil consumption in Beihetao is the Fengzhou silver mine. Then part of it was transferred to Xihetao, and a small amount entered Chang'an mixed rosin essence processing, and sold to the bald donkeys in various workshops.
There are also a lot of things to consider in Pingzhou, mainly because all the states in Hebei Province now have a consensus that the imperial court is going to fight Goguryeo, and Liaodong of the Han Dynasty must be recaptured. At that time, Pingzhou Yingzhou will no longer be the front line, but the rear. The rear has to be in charge of production. Instead of smoking.
"Needless to mention, all grain-producing states have increased their quotas."
Zhang De drank tea by himself, and then motioned to the staff of the assassins in various states to drink together, and after a while, Zhang De said again, "You have heard of it, and there are also those who don't know the details. When I came here today, I guess there was no answer. It's not good to repay the kings. β
All the staff members laughed, and they have been in contact with each other for a year or two, and the sequelae of Li Desheng's period have also been calmed down by Zhang Deda's miracle, and now the relationship between the two sides is very harmonious.
Harmony makes money, besides, the male backer of Liangfeng County is very hard. The relationship is iron.
More than half of the dozens of staff members who are working on the history of the old and young thorns will go to Beijing to take the exam next year, and the way to carry out the papers will be implemented, and it is useless to speak in the history of the assassins in Xiazhou, and there must be forces in Beijing. The relationship between the male and the royal family in Liangfeng County is also said to be similar. If you find a prince to do the scroll, it is not much stronger than the paddle courtiers of the foreign court?
"That's right, the news that some of the gentlemen have inquired about is true. China Resources has discovered a large silver mine in Fusang, with an estimated annual output of 2 million taels ......"
Lao Zhang's letter to Tang Jian said that the annual output of the copper-silver mixed mine in Danma was 1.4 million taels, but in fact, the people on Wang Ansui's side went around there, and compared with the Fengzhou silver mine, it was estimated that the annual output was 140,000 taels.
Where can 140,000 taels attract people, right? So Lao Zhang added a zero and gave the old-timers in Chang'an a shot of cardiotherapy, saying that they had to make all of them have heart attacks or come back from the dead.
As for these jackals in Hebei Province, if you let them be the masters of the people, they will do it; You let them have a breeze on their sleeves, and that's perfectly fine; You let them plague the village, without any pressure. It all depends on the needs of the above, and bureaucracy actually has the attribute of doing things according to the rules.
In the past two years, Lao Zhang has given the bureaucratic comrades in Hebei Province a delusion, what the man from Liangfeng County said can be a fart? That must mean that whatever is said, you look at Shicheng Iron and Steel Plant, the output of the concealed report can make the Dingxiang Army even the underwear made of stainless steel, and you can also add a lock!
So when Lao Zhang said that there was a silver mine in North Fusang, with an annual output of two million taels, everyone didn't believe it at all, but was excited and hot.
That's two million taels a year! , what is Datang's annual financial income? 20 million? One-tenth of Datang's fiscal revenue? However, the bureaucrats know better than the common people that because of the low production of silver, the hidden added value of silver is higher than the high price in the market.
It's just that Datang didn't use gold and silver as currency.
"Goo."
The conference hall was very quiet, and the sound of someone swallowing saliva or tea could be heard clearly.
Old Zhang Shen is here, and he looks like a small amount of money is worthless. However, these assassin staff who planned to go to the imperial examination next year suddenly wanted to stay in Hebei Province and work hard.
Dedicate yourself to the cause and make a name for yourself, what is it?!
",,,,...... it! β
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The old face is dark, you stutter no problem, the effect of your stuttering is very uncomfortable.
"it! Two, two million taels! β
"Two million taelsβ"
"it! the man, if it's a ship, a ship, a ship, a ship...... The shipyard is new and new, and the big ship is new, and one is added, no, two, three! β
"it! There are also some ways to go to Qingcui Dafang, if you can ......"
Talking nonsense, there was no time to react, and a swarm threw personable. The primitive instinct of human nature made this group of Confucian scholars reddened in mania. The kung fu of nourishing qi, among the scholars, must be of Wen Yanbo's level to have it.
This account is very easy to calculate, two million taels of output a year, ten years is 20 million taels, according to the purchasing power of Datang, one tael of silver, the fineness is not too good, it can be exchanged for 1,200 to 1,500 Kaiyuan Tongbao. And because of the shortage of money, many places have always been not a thousand copper plates, but seven hundred.
The spread is staggering and terrifying. In this situation, don't talk about etiquette, even if you come from people, it's useless.
Lao Zhang was still there, put down the teacup slowly, he straightened his head, leaned and said: "Why do you want to move like this, in addition to silver mines, there are also gold and copper mines, each with its own output." Last month, there were 30,000 taels of gold at the floating wharf. β
The chamber fell silent again.
"Goo."
"it!"
Without waiting for everyone to go crazy again, Lao Zhang didn't bother to raise his eyelids, raised his hands and pressed down: "When I say gold, I mean the quality of tribute gold." β
There was an older assassin who couldn't bear his heart a little, sat on a chair, gasped for air, and then gulped down tea.
The tribute is dedicated to the emperor, and the condition is more than ninety percent five, and the eldest grandson queen has a set of equipment, which has been used for more than ten years, but it was rewarded by the old chairman when he was called the emperor, and it was nine out of nine.
The conference hall was quiet again, this time, there was only the sound of drinking tea, and everyone was looking at Zhang De with longing eyes, no way, no desire.
30,000 taels, 30,000 taels of gold, which made it enough for the temporary marching commander to rebel against the loyal adjutants under his subordinates. Thirty thousand taels of gold were put out, and the soldiers of the United Military Mansion could immediately forget the emperor's special surname Li.
Of course, Lao Zhang is bragging, just like he can blow two million taels of silver in an annual output, how can Tsukushi Island have 30,000 taels of gold for him to send back then? Most of it is just gold from trading with the lords of the islands.
It's just that Lao Zhang took a detour, making people think that this special thing was mined from the gold mine of Tsukushi Island. In fact, the Chikushido Gold Mine has just been built and the construction site has just been built. Although the surface gold ore can be mined, most of it still needs to be dug, and it is conservatively estimated that the depth of the mine is 50 zhang.
Play tacit understanding with the emperor, after returning to Beijing next year, don't think about important positions, so whether or not the Bohai Economic Circle can continue to develop depends on the appetite of local people's servants.
If Lao Zhang doesn't give the carrot bolt in front, he will be a strong donkey, who will bird you?
After the symposium on loyalty and love for the people, the staff of the old and middle school and the young thorns could not calm down for a long time, but they only looked at the one person sent to them by the man of Liangfeng County, a China Resources gold coin, and they knew that this was not a dream. (To be continued.) )