"In terms of other parts of the grassland, our army is still in Xianbei and Yuwei, and the grassland of Nuoda is only guarded by 600,000 troops, but it is also as stable as Mount Tai. Whether it was the grassland tribes that had completed the organization of households, or the neighboring princes such as Gongsun Zhan and Liu Yu, they did not dare to have the slightest intention of attacking. ”

Speaking of this, there was a slight trace of regret in Deng's tone. As one of the most core officials in Pingzhou, he naturally knew that there were hundreds of millions of war spirits guarding the grassland, and he wished that there were some unsightly princes who were greedy and invaded the grassland.

It's a pity that the prestige of the Pingzhou army is too strong, even if the main force of the Shang Ji and Pingzhou army is not there, the major princes are scared and dare not move, which disappoints Deng Yan's expectations.

"In the past year, we have migrated about 30 million people to the grasslands, mainly in the northern part of the town and a few large cities. The Great Migration is also the main reason for the surge in grassland food consumption. However, our support for the grasslands has not been without reward. In the past year, the grassland has produced a total of 200 million cattle, 3.8 billion sheep, and 30 million horses of various types, including 2.3 million high-quality war horses (intermediate and above war horses).

Through barter, money redemption, tax payment, etc., most of the cattle and sheep and nearly eighty percent of the horses fell into our hands. After giving priority to meeting our internal needs in Pingzhou, the remaining goods were sold to all parts of the country through the channels of Zhen's firm.

In the trade of horses, grain, cattle and sheep, we made a total profit of 186 million gold. In the past year, the total amount of foreign trade in Pingzhou was 831 million gold, and the main foreign trade goods were medicinal materials, pills, weapons and equipment, large ordnance, cattle, sheep, war horses, and finished military rations, and the total cumulative trade profit was 240 million gold.

Because of the large number of strangers to participate in the national war, the sales of pills, equipment and other aspects have dropped sharply, if it is not for the supplement of war horses, cattle and sheep trade, our total foreign trade income last year may not be as good as the year before.

In terms of tax revenue, a total of 280 million gold was collected last year, a year-on-year increase of 36 percent. Last year, the cumulative disposable income of Pingzhou's fiscal revenue was 531.62 million gold, a very significant increase over the previous year. ”

After listening to Deng Yan's report, Shang Ji also grinned.

The treasury of 530 million gold was not looked at by the merchants, and the gains during the national war were far more than that.

However, the gold coins harvested in the national war and the gold coins collected by the taxes of Pingzhou are completely different concepts.

For example, in modern society, the former is like a currency issued by a sovereign state, which can be issued as much as it wants to as long as it wants.

However, even if a hundredfold increase in currency is issued, it is unlikely that the country will directly improve even the slightest bit of overall strength.

The latter is the embodiment of real productivity, and if the two can be freely converted, Shang Ji is willing to convert all the wealth of the national war into Pingzhou productivity in a ratio of ten to one.

To put it more simply, the former is just gold and silver, while the latter is combat power!

Of course, the benefits of having access to a large amount of gold are also obvious. He can use the gold coins in his hand to pick wool at will, just like the United States used the hegemony of the dollar to gather wool all over the world in the real society.

However, this wool picker is also a technical work, you can't just catch a pickle, and the frequency of the pickup can't be too high, otherwise it is easy to kill the sheep.

"But!"

After talking about the harvest, Xi Zhicai changed his words and continued: "Last year, we spent as much as 1.6 billion yuan on civil affairs, military, education, infrastructure and other aspects, and the ratio of income and expenditure was nearly 1 to 3! ”

After a pause, Xi Zhicai added: "This does not include the investment of the lord in the army before he participated in the war. ”

The rapid development of Pingzhou can almost be said to be made by throwing money.

A set of the most intuitive data shows that when Shang Ji first took up his post as the pastor of Pingzhou, the annual tax payment in the entire Pingzhou was only 68 million gold, and the expenditure was only more than 90 million (before the imperial court would subsidize remote states and counties). In the past few years, Pingzhou's fiscal revenue has increased by more than eightfold, and its expenditure has increased by nearly 20 times. The population has also grown from more than 60 million to more than 500 million, and such a huge change depends on the massive investment of funds.

Whether it is large-scale resettlement, reclamation of wasteland, repair of cities, or construction of Chi Road, all of them do not need a lot of financial support, especially the construction of Chi Road is a big cost.

If it weren't for the fact that Shang Ji took Xianbei's nest and looted the wealth accumulated by Xianbei for a hundred years, Pingzhou's own financial resources alone would not have been able to cover the entire Pingzhou in ten years.

A year ago, Shang Ji might have been worried about finances, but now he was only worried about not being able to spend his money.

Deng Yan also knew the inside story, and reporting the financial deficit was just a routine, and seeing that Shang Ji didn't care much, he immediately skipped this part.

"In the past year, there has been a large loss of aliens, and the progress of our 10,000-village plan has been relatively slow, and only more than 3,000 villages were established last year, which failed to achieve the expected goal.

The planned senior and top-level colleges were all completed, and three Hongru and twenty-nine Da Confucian were invited to give lectures in Pingzhou. At present, the cumulative number of students studying in Pingzhou senior colleges and above is 46,000, and more than 8,000 qualified graduates can be cultivated every year, of which more than half have reached the standard of third-rate scribes, exceeding the tasks set by the lord. ”

After listening to Deng Yan's report, Shang Ji nodded with satisfaction. The graduation requirements of Pingzhou Senior College are quite demanding, and the minimum standard is a senior scribe. The minimum graduation requirements of the two top colleges have been raised to the level of third-rate scribes.

The construction of dozens of colleges has finally made Pingzhou have a stable training channel for scribes, and it has also allowed Pingzhou to completely get rid of the hat of a cultural and educational desert.

As for the obstruction of the progress of the 10,000-village plan, this is nothing. From beginning to end, players have been the most powerful promoters of the Ten Thousand Villages Project, and they have not achieved the expected goals this year, which is completely affected by the national war.

"It doesn't matter if the 10,000 Villages Project is temporarily frustrated, the return of the Inhumans will bring new impetus to the advancement of the 10,000 Villages Project. However, with the current situation, it is a bit out of place to continue to call the 10,000 villages plan. In this way, the plan was revised to "Thousand Cities and Ten Thousand Villages Plan, and the overall goal is to make the total number of five-level cities in Pingzhou, including Wangjuju, reach 5,000, and the number of villages and towns at all levels will reach 200,000 in the next three years." What do you think? Does Hongzhu think that this goal is possible? ”

Deng Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then lowered his head and thought for a moment, then glanced at Xun Yu again, and finally nodded, indicating that there was no problem!

At present, there are more than 3,000 city-level bases (including tribes on the grassland) and about 100,000 village-level bases in the area under the control of the Pingzhou Army.

Doubling the number of existing bases in three years may seem difficult, but in reality it is not unachievable.

The return of the players of the national war brings not only new power, but also a ready-made base.

Shang Ji has abundant capital, more than one billion national war points, and his eyes are all on the giant city and the royal city, and ordinary players don't have the ability to do this. Wouldn't it be nice for them to spend all their wealth in exchange for a small village, and then get a village chief to enjoy a field that only local tyrant lord players could set foot in before?

Because they are tired of the brutal battlefield, there are not a few players who have this idea of retirement. Shang Ji has always had a good reputation and performed well during the national war on the mainland, so Pingzhou has naturally become the first choice for this type of player.

Previously, Deng Yan and they were already discussing the introduction of policies to attract this wave of farming players to take root in Pingzhou.

Taking this as an opportunity, with a large amount of capital investment, the feasibility of completing the goal of business within three years is still very high!