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Dozens of technicians and supporting assistants, hundreds of people in the place where Sun Yuanhua discovered copper ore exploration, the Military Command Department also sent more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers to guard the periphery, by the way, Sun Jingting also ate and lived at the exploration site, lived in the tent and waited for news, Lingqiu came to most of his people He also knew the roots, and he could be regarded as commanding on the spot with Li Dongxue.

Tian Jitang, who came over with Zhang Han and Li Zhuang, was in full swing settling accounts.

"My lord, I have always had a surplus in my account, but now I really have nothing."

In the signing room, Tian Jitang smiled bitterly, and the numbers on the account book were also clear, and it was clear at a glance that He Yusheng did not have much money now.

"I know you like to keep your hands." Zhang Han said with a smile: "But I estimated that it should be less than 50,000 taels, and I didn't expect it to be less than 100,000 taels. ”

Tian Jitang smiled bitterly and arched his hand, and only said: "My lord, I know that the next step will definitely be large-scale copper mining, I have calculated, recruit workers, build living quarters, this amount of silver is not too much, and it can be provided financially." However, I would like to remind your adults that in addition to the great victory, there has always been a reward for the soldiers, and in addition to the compensation for the fallen soldiers, after this expenditure, the more than 90,000 taels of silver may not be much left. ”

Tian Jitang lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "It's the seventh day of October, and there are still about 20 days before the Jingshi and other branches solve the last month's income, and the silver of the account bureau, we can't overdraft too much, at the moment we have overdrawn nearly 200,000, and the next repayment is only about 20 days, and the branches around the country, the silver money that has been solved, at most 200,000 yuan, come and go, and deposit silver at most about 30,000 yuan. In particular, the expenses of the army are extremely high, and there are also the expenses of various departments and departments, and 30,000 taels is not enough......"

Now the army has more than 10,000 soldiers, more than 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, although the army will not be expanded a year ago, but the army even daily expenses and salaries, a month of salt and vegetables silver is nearly 5,000 taels, in Lizhuang, a month is less than 3,000, now the army is in the north, but also plus transportation costs, the cost is of course higher. In addition, more than 60,000 taels are needed for daily training and salaries every month, and the army's savings alone are no longer enough.

In addition, the income of the mule and horse dealers and the account bureau is almost the fastest return, but all the income in this area in the past two months has been used to repair the north-south trunk canal, and the expenses for going north with the people are also among them.

Tian Jitang said: "In September, more than 300,000 taels were brought back from the Japanese state, and more than 100,000 taels were intercepted from Taiwan. ”

When Tian Jitang said, Zhang Han was also looking at the account books he brought, the entries were clear, and with the level of Zhang Han having seen the account books for more than ten years before and after, he knew at a glance that there was no major problem.

Tian Jitang finally said with a bitter face: "There is also a reserve fund for collecting grain......"

Because grain was regarded by Zhang Han as a militaristic weapon, even if it was a war with the northern captives, and the eastern captives had a lot of harvest because of the battle of Guangning, and the smuggling trade was greatly affected, the grain purchase has not stopped, and the expenses in this regard are of course very large.

The expenditure in this regard was allocated in advance by Tian Jitang and other financial personnel according to the income of the whole year, and the reserve fund for grain purchase has always been no less than 100,000 yuan, and once it reaches below the warning line, it will be replenished immediately, but with the current financial predicament, it seems that Tian Jitang will not be able to give Li Yuchun and them the silver.

Zhang Han knows that the current financial predicament is mainly because of the soaring military spending and the shrinkage of smuggling, these months are in the war, as the saying goes, a cannon sounds ten thousand taels of gold, and the consumption everywhere is really huge. How much copper is used for more than 1,000 doors?

There are also quite a few cannons and tiger squat cannons!

There are also Hongyi cannons, in addition to a large number of firearms loss supplement, cavalry sabers must also be constantly replenished, the cost price of each knife is four to five taels, a medium-sized cavalry battle may lose more than a hundred sabers, large-scale cavalry battles are fought down, and the fight is white silver.

Tian Jitang has already done a good job, the income distribution everywhere is in an orderly manner, if it weren't for such an old tent to check it, just Li Dongxue them, whether they would be able to be a good family is really uncertain.

"Lao Tian," Zhang Han said with a smile on his face: "You have complained about your hardship for a long time, and I also know that you are in trouble, now tell me what you think." ”

Tian Jitang's face flushed, but he still gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, I heard that I have won a lot on the grassland, and in the end, I hit the waist and defeated the northern captives, I must have gained a lot, right?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Han told him: "There are more than 5,000 taels of gold and about 110,000 taels of silver. However, I plan to use this silver as a reward and pension, and I can't wait for your money to come, otherwise the morale of the army will be affected. In addition, leave some early expenses for mining, and you don't have to worry about it here. ”

Tian Jitang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, so that he could save a lot of money, and his hand would be much more relaxed, but after thinking about it, the financial embarrassment situation still did not improve...... Silver is still not enough.

Of course, there is a reason for this, the smuggling trade has shrunk, and it has earned more than 100,000 yuan a month, and the loss of such a scale can not be made up for all at once, and the expansion of Yusheng is too powerful, not to mention the investment of this scale on the grassland, that is, nearly 200,000 taels have been invested in Taiwan alone, and this silver is enough for the imperial court to raise a mainland military town, but on the Taiwan side, only a preliminary base has been built, and a large-scale base has been built, the port has been built, and the fleet has been built. The shipyard is still too far away from these goals.

Thinking of the scale of expenses in Taiwan and the grassland in the past few years, Tian Jitang suddenly held his cheeks and felt a toothache!

His eyes also became weird, although he was a half-old bad old man, his eyes really had a bit of a sense of resentment.

The adult in front of him can't keep up with the fact that ordinary people can't keep up with making money, but this ability to spend money, I'm afraid it's not as good as him today. The emperor's biggest trick now is to use Liaodong with more than 300 taels a year, which is not more than 5 million taels a year, which is the most important frontier defense expense of a large empire with a population of hundreds of millions. And Zhang Han in front of him, now has an annual income of nearly three million, but he has no surplus of a penny of silver, and now he still owes some silver, and the level of this spending money really makes Tian Jitang roar in his heart and write a big word.

"What else?" Tian Jitang asked unwillingly, but he didn't have much hope, the Beiyu are getting poorer than the other, and it is already good to be able to grab these gold and silver, this is still the income after beating the main force of the Beiyu, if it falls into a stalemate, I am afraid that even this income will not be available.

"And?" Zhang Han laughed, he stood up from the chair, and said, "Then follow me to the city tower and take a look." ”

Tian Jitang was confused, but he could only follow Zhang Han out, there were a lot of pedestrians along the way, many merchants were in a hurry, the war had come to an end, at least in a few months, the snow was severe and cold, plus the preparation for winter, no Mongolian tribe would be crazy enough to choose to go to war in winter, the merchants rebuilt the chamber of commerce in several important military forts, and were trying to sell the backlog of goods on hand.

It's also interesting to say, not long ago, the Mongols were fighting with He Yusheng to the death, as soon as the war stopped, the Chamber of Commerce was already planning to send people to Qingcheng and the Taobu, of course, there are Mobei, Karaqin, Hazhushen and other ministries to negotiate, no matter what, the merchants want to ship, the Mongols need materials for the winter, no matter how poor they are now, there are still a few catties of iron nails in the broken ship, as long as they can come up with something, the Steppe Chamber of Commerce will trade with these damn Tartars.

As soon as Zhang Han went out, he happened to run into Zhang Ziming, who came from Xiaohehe Fort.

"I've seen an adult," Zhang Ziming's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly came up to give a salute, and after getting up, he said: "There is something here that asks to see an adult and ask for a favor." ”

Zhang Han returned the salute with a smile and said, "Ziming doesn't have to be polite, please speak up if you have anything." ”

Zhang Ziming is a member of the Council of the Grassland Chamber of Commerce, and is a very important director, in the most critical time with Yusheng, Zhang Ziming and other Han businessmen did not give up, helped to do a lot of things, and also saved Yusheng a lot of manpower and material resources, for such businessmen, Zhang Han in the attitude is actually an equal, as a partner.

Zhang Ziming's face showed a look of emotion, he said: "There are two things, the first is that the council decided to send people to Qingcheng, the time should not be delayed for too long, I heard that the Tartars were in a mess, and the adults finally decided to let go of Ah Cheng's department and ambush the Xi Ling color department, it is really a wonderful hand, this son fell, and it was really difficult for the northern captives to integrate." ”

The current situation is that the Mongolian ministries are in chaos, Xi Lingse's prestige has plummeted, and the strength has also been lost, and the Zhutaiji of the Acheng Department have not been able to elect Taiji who controls the overall situation, the left post is in chaos, and the right post is not much better, it can be said that although Tumut still has 70,000 dingkou left, most of the entire population of nearly 200,000 is actually a pig and sheep waiting to be slaughtered on the board, but when will Zhang Han, the butcher, start, when will he be able to slaughter and eat meat.

Before the slaughter, it is really better to continue to earn the gold and silver of these guys, and in the hands of Mongolia's Taiji, there is still some inventory.