In Shamen Town, since Li Jing set up a night banquet on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, invited hundreds of representatives of merchants on the island, and performed a sword skill in public at the banquet, the new business administration regulations began to be enforced on the island.

More than 1,000 shops and hundreds of warehouses on the island, as well as the island's shopkeepers, men, craftsmen, guards, and the people at the docks, were forced to register their names and receive identity badges at the registration points temporarily set up on the docks, villages, towns, and streets.

The newly expanded reconnaissance capital, with 200 men, was immediately under the leadership of Li Wei and Xuancheng, and the Burning Cake Island, which was sandwiched between the Pearl Gate waterway, was used as the training base for the reconnaissance capital, and Niutongzi Island and Yangtanzi Island were used as two sub-bases, and the three affiliated islands of Shamen Town were to be fully guarded and defended by the reconnaissance capital.

After the military police were expanded, they also immediately divided more than 200 men into four divisions according to Li Jing's instructions, took over the four wharves of Fenghuangshan Wharf, Shikou Wharf, Taishan Wharf, and Beishan Wharf, and established garrison fortresses on the wharf. In addition, Li Jing also organized a city management team and a city guard, the former is responsible for patrolling all villages and streets on the island in turns, and is specially responsible for public security inspections. The city guard, on the other hand, is composed of some elderly people and women over the age of 50, who are responsible for the garbage sanitation on the island.

Of course, none of this is free. Either way, Li Jing has set a clear fee standard.

In just a few days, the expenses added up, and Li Jing successfully collected an average of ten yuan from each shop. There are nearly 3,000 shops, warehouses and workshops on the island. For this alone, he received 30,000 yuan in cash. After taking over four additional docks. The daily intake of the wharf is not small. On average, each ship boarding and leaving the wharf is charged at least a consistent fee, and now all the loading and unloading work on the wharf is taken care of by Li Jing and specially designated for the newly established wharf loading and unloading team. The people of the loading and unloading team were originally the feet of the people on the wharf, and they carried the work all year round, but many times they worked hard, but they didn't earn much money, and their lives were hard. Li Jing organized all these people. A loading and unloading team was formed.

All the loading and unloading work on the dock is contracted by the dock, and then reasonably arranged to all the dock workers. The price of cargo handling has increased a lot compared to the past, and there is less work than before, but the wage is more than before. Although the ships that entered the dock were a little dissatisfied, and the cost of loading and unloading had increased a lot, now that the dock was completely in the hands of Salmon Town, they had no other choice.

Every day, the four wharves had to transport boxes and truckloads of copper coins and silk cloth back to the town. Every time, Zhang Hong had to come to the warehouse in person. Looking at the boxes of copper coins and horses of silk cloth. Zhang Hong's smile never stopped.

Shamen Town finally has a stable income, and it is no longer the situation of sitting on empty mountains in the past. He, the big butler, finally felt a little relaxed.

With money, it's easy to get things done.

Last time, he extorted a large sum of money from Wang Jin and Feng Zhang, and sold a lot of money for the use of those pirates' first-level waste, and after calculating it, Feng Zhang knocked out 40,000 yuan and 300 sets of equipment. Wang Jin also gained a lot there, extorted 50,000 yuan, and had a complete underground workshop, not counting the money confiscated by the Wang family's shops and warehouses. Those heads were also sold by Li Jing for almost 50,000 yuan. This time, he got 30,000 yuan from the merchants on the island.

Do the math, there is actually an input of 170,000 yuan. Coupled with the 100,000 guan money seized after the war, the remaining 50,000 yuan after the condolence pension was stolen, and Shamen Town had a full 220,000 guan in its account. For the first time, there was no deficit on the books of the town general's office.

Without those bright red pen deficits, Zhang Hong felt like a few mountains were missing from his head. The whole person is also brisk, the smile is always there, and even in the morning, I have to drink an extra bowl of white porridge.

"General, we now have 220,000 yuan in cash in our account, and it is not a matter to put such a large sum of money. Even if you get rid of the money you keep for building the city, you still have a lot of surplus. In my opinion, we might as well repay the 100,000 yuan of usury owed to the Han family now. This debt is pressed on the body, and it always makes people feel panicked and unsure. No debt, no debt, light, save worry. Zhang Hong took the account book and followed Li Jing and said.

Li Jing had just come out of the military academy and was discussing some construction matters with several craftsmen on the construction site in Nancheng. Hearing Zhang Hong say this, he couldn't help frowning. This Zhang Hong is indeed very attentive to finance, but there is a shortcoming, too small peasant consciousness. Usually the town general uses two coins, and he is always reluctant to pick the rope, and he can't wait to turn a copper coin into two petals.

Just like now, the town general's mansion finally got a few extra pieces, and with some money to spare, the first thing he thought about was to repay the debt.

This kind of thinking is normal in this era, and it is an idea that you will live. But for Li Jing, a person from later generations, such an idea is too backward. What does it mean to be debt-free and light? For Li Jing, who came from later generations, he has to owe as much as he can owe, and it is the master who is in debt, and the creditor is the grandson. Which of those corporate groups in later generations does not want to do everything possible to borrow from banks, and the more the merrier? Using the bank's money to do business, that's called empty gloves white wolf.

Li Jing deeply agrees with this financial concept, and from the first day he proposed to borrow money from the Han family, he has not thought about how to repay the borrowed money in the future. Although it cannot be said that Li Jing had already made up the idea of not repaying his debts from the beginning, for Li Jing, he was not afraid of borrowing money, but he was afraid that he would not be able to borrow money. Although there is interest on borrowing money, as long as it is operated well, that interest is nothing at all, even if it is a high interest.

"The Han family's money is still three years away, why are you in such a hurry. It's still so much interest now, so it's better to wait until it's due. Li Jing said with some hatred that iron does not become steel, "Besides, do you think we are really rich now, and we will not be bad for money in the future?" ”

Li Jing spread out his hand and counted Zhang Hong one by one, "This new city is urgent to be built, and we didn't have money before, so we can only build the city wall first." Now that we have the money on hand, you can't let everyone live in a nest outside the city all the time, can you? It's good that it's colder now, but when spring begins and the rain comes up, how can people live in the nest at that time? Now that there is money, the construction plan of the new city must also be moved, and the construction of the city wall and the residential area must be started at the same time. ”

"In this expansion of the army, we have recruited almost all the young men into the army. Although there are many people on the island now, there is a serious lack of strong male strength. My plan is to recruit another group of young people from Taishan Village and Beishan Village to repair the city, and I can also go to the hometowns of our soldiers and craftsmen to recruit another group of people to come over. My idea is that this time I will only recruit young people to come, and I don't need to let them bring their families for the time being. The more people, the better, and within three thousand, we can all digest it. ”

After this expansion, the number of soldiers and horses on the island reached more than 4,000, and almost all the families brought by Li Jing were soldiers, and all the young and strong men were recruited at once. Except for a few teenagers and old people, the city and workshops are now almost entirely women. The demand for young and strong men on the island suddenly became great, and Li Jing had to start preparing to recruit a group of relatives and fellow villagers of the soldiers from Qingning Township.

"The construction period of the new city is tight, and the manpower must be increased, and I am ready to spend 100,000 yuan to carry out the first phase of the construction of the city wall, city fortifications and residential areas." Li Jing said: "In addition, we have newly expanded more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, and there is still a huge gap in weapons. Although more than 1,000 sets of equipment were captured last time, and several hundred sets were obtained from Salmon Island, all of them combined, and the equipment we have now is only enough for half and one-third of the combat battalion. Coupled with the 1,000 sets of equipment that were about to arrive from Song Thorn Shi, even the battle barracks could only barely equip them. ”

"In addition, the auxiliary battalions reorganized this time, their equipment needs to be specially made, more than 1,000 rifles, round shields, helmets, horizontal knives, and battle robes, which are not small expenses. In addition, we have to build heavy weapons such as catapults and heavy crossbows, all of which cost money. Although we now have craftsmen who can make their own, and the cost is cheaper, but the materials also cost money. ”

Li Jing estimated that the new army of more than 4,000 people would need at least 100,000 yuan to equip all the new army.

In addition to the equipment money, the monthly consumption and food expenditure of the new army of more than 4,000 people is also a large amount of money, one person has two liters of rice a day, and more than 4,000 people have to consume more than 300 stone of grain every day, which is 10,000 stone of grain a month. If you add the food allowance to the soldiers every month, as well as the food allowance for the soldiers' families, it will cost two or three thousand stones. And the salary of each soldier is tens of thousands of dollars a month.

It's all money, although it is easy to recruit soldiers, and it has pulled up a team of more than 4,000 people at once. However, it is not easy to train them, not to mention that it is difficult to become an army without long-term training, just the cost of arming their equipment, consumption, and food and salary, etc., which is an astronomical amount.

There was a lot of money extorted from the king, but it was not very common.

Although Zhang Hong, Lin Wei and others all proposed to Li Jing whether to lower the salary standards of the soldiers, this article was vetoed by Li Jing. The soldiers licked the blood on the tip of their knives, risking their lives to fight the front line, if they didn't even have basic food and pensions, then where would the morale come from, and who would be willing to work hard. That combat effectiveness will inevitably decline, and even military discipline will be gone.

Zhang Hong felt that there was a lot of money in his account of more than 200,000 yuan, but Li Jing felt that there was a lot of money everywhere. Li Jing rubbed his forehead, it seems that he has to find a way to get some more money, should he start with the merchants on the island and squeeze a little more, or do he think of something else? (To be continued.) )