Chapter 226

"Your Highness, the tax revenue of Dayu state is mainly agricultural tax. Now your Highness has exempted the tax for three years, which is equivalent to cutting off the revenue of the government."

Pang Yukun explains when he sees Xiao Ming frowning at the accounts.

"As for the business tax, there are only a few more businessmen in Qingzhou, but it's only concentrated in wine making, soap and other handicraft industries, and the money collected is only tens of thousands of taels. Compared with today's expenses, it's really a small drop."

Pang Yukun is engaged in logistics. His attention is on money, but he doesn't care what Xiao Ming is doing. It's just that the Galen ship is not necessary to him, but it's just a waste of money.

Xiao Ming is clear about Pang Yukun's meaning. It's just a reminder to Xiao Ming not to engage in big projects that waste people and money.

This is a heavy burden for the newly improving six state economy.

However, for Xiao Ming, each of his plans has its own purpose. Without spending money on investment, there will be no big return, which Pang Yukun does not expect to see.

After Pang's words, Xiao Ming looks at Li Kaiyuan.

It is also like managing a company, the army, the people's livelihood, the government and the Yamen. The chamber of Commerce represented by Li Kaiyuan is a big spender.

So every time I see Li Kaiyuan, Xiao Ming is more happy than Pang Yukun.

Because Li Kaiyuan made a lot of money when he opened his mouth, and Pang Yukun spent a lot of money when he opened his mouth, and then he asked for money.

"Your Highness, for more than a year, the market in Tai Yu is not as hot as it was at the beginning, and this soap and perfume can be used for a long time. The demand has dropped considerably during this period. As for Qingzhou, it has been declining, but it is still stable, and the business associations can add up to about three hundred thousand and two yuan a month. 。” Li Kaiyuan said.

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming's face was a little ugly. "So few?"

"Quite a lot, your highness. You've auctioned all the sales rights. Now we can only make a small profit. However, after the destruction of the luxury family, the market of Chang'an has come to the hands of the chamber of Commerce. During this period of time, I've arranged and opened shops in Chang'an." Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming was speechless for a while. At first, he made a lot of money by auctioning the sales rights, but now the sequelae came out.

After spending a lot of money, he can't get used to living in poverty. Although the monthly income of the chamber of commerce is already huge, it's not enough to see the major things he has to do.

"Since the market of Dayu is saturated, it seems that the market of Jinzhang Khanate is still very big."

Xiao Ming's words almost let Li Kaiyuan who was ready to drink water spray out the water.

He said in a panic, "Your Highness, are you going to do business with the barbarians? Now Bei Shan hates us very much. When the caravan arrived on the grassland, it was not beheaded directly? Besides, this barbarian is stinking and never bathes. Do they love soap and perfume?

"But the barbarians like wine. It's bitter and cold in the north. This white wine is an excellent defense against the cold." Niu said slowly.

Xiao Ming looked at Niu Zhen and Li Kaiyuan, "now you know, even if two people fight, the fight is war. Business doesn't need to be involved in war. What's more, we're making money from barbarians. Why not?"

"I'm afraid that when the liquor comes to the grassland, it can only be exchanged for cattle and sheep skins." Li Kaiyuan said, "the barbarians seldom use silver or something like that."

"It's OK. It's better to exchange for horses. The cattle and sheep skins are also the goods that Dayu lacks. It's the same if you sell them again." Xiao Ming's eyes twinkled.

Lu Fei slapped the table and laughed, "Your Highness, I really admire you, Li Kaiyuan. I'll try my best to exchange the horses. I'll buy you a drink then."

"I'm not rare." Li Kaiyuan's neck shrunk. "I don't know if I'm going to die at that time."

Pang Yukun now does not have a principle for the sake of silver. He said: "there are still a lot of businessmen in Qingzhou who come and go with the grassland. We will turn a blind eye at that time. If you manage these businessmen, they will naturally do things for you. Now there is silver everywhere, and we can count on you."

Pang Yukun's praise made Li Kaiyuan feel proud and proud, and felt that his position was still important.

Although Xiao Ming elevated the status of a businessman, the traditional folk thought could not be changed for a while, because he still felt inferior everywhere in the government. Now he finally straightened up.

"In that case, I'll try my best." Li Kaiyuan said with a smile.

Xiao Ming nodded, "by the way, how is the Qin family's water transport fleet receiving now?"

Qin Chuanyun was hanged in Cangzhou City, leaving behind the Qin family's 30 merchant ships, which Xiao Ming asked Pang Yukun to take over to Li Kaiyuan.

Mentioning this, Pang Yukun looked ashamed and said: "Your Highness, after the news of Qin Chuanyun's arrest spread, the merchant ships in Qingzhou were under control. However, after the merchant ships outside learned the news, many of the boatman directly owned the merchant ships and sold them out. Now only 12 merchant ships have been handed over to the chamber of Commerce."

"Plus what the chamber of Commerce bought from Jinling City, it now has 45 merchant ships." Li added."Well, these merchant ships should be enough in Chongqing."

Xiao Ming sighed. His family background is still a little thin. The workshop area seems to be in full swing. In fact, it's just a few workshops.

If we really want to make Qingzhou rich, we have to do business all over the world.

The meeting said that basically everything that should be reported has been reported. As for the school of liberal arts and the newspaper office, there are not many problems, which can only be arranged by Xiao Ming.

After the meeting, Xiao Ming asks Zhan Xingchang to stay and the others go back.

"Your Highness, what is the new city wall mentioned at the meeting?" Zhan Xingchang asked.

"Reinforced concrete walls." Xiao Ming said that this is another big project for Qingzhou.

Without waiting for Zhan Xingchang to ask, Xiao Ming picks up a pen and paper and talks to Zhan Xingchang.

Reinforced concrete structure is the strongest building structure in contemporary architecture, which is used in many large projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam and nuclear power station.

Later, this structure was used in residential buildings, which can be used to resist earthquakes of magnitude 78.

The reason why this kind of structure is so popular is that the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of steel bar are the perfect materials.

Facing the grassland, Cangzhou city is a long and narrow valley with a wall of 500 meters. The construction of a reinforced concrete wall at a distance of 500 meters is basically equivalent to the construction of ten 50 meter long residential buildings.

If this project is in modern times, it is only a small project, and the construction team can complete it in half a year, but it is a big project here.

But even so, Xiao Ming is determined to build it, because even if the barbarian wall will never have to worry about the barbarian gunpowder explosion.

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