Age of mythical princes

Chapter 68
The inspection tour of Dongning Island came to an initial conclusion, and Jiang Hua returned to the Sheriff's Mansion again.

Just after two days of dealing with government affairs, Jun Chengyu came over with a ledger with a serious expression on his face.

"My lords, if we continue to spend at the current rate in Yancheng, we will run out of money in three months."

???

How did you run out of money so quickly?
Didn't he just get coins with a total value of at least one billion from Yang Cheng?
A billion dollars, spent so soon?
Seeing Jiang Hua's puzzled expression, Jun Chengyu put the bill in front of Jiang Hua and began to explain at the same time.

"We in Yancheng used to be relatively wealthy, and we did save some money, but the money was stored in the internal treasury and would not be used unless there was a war."

Jiang Hua nodded, indicating that he understood.

There are generally two storage places for Yang Cheng's money.

One is the prefect's mansion and the other is the inner treasury.

The money of the prefect's mansion is mainly the annual tax.

The source of the money in the internal treasury is more complicated.

There is money earned by the shops run by the heads of the Jiang family, and there is also money that the city owners of the past have gone out to rob.

"Today's prefect's mansion doesn't have much money."

"If it wasn't for getting a lot of wealth from Yang Cheng this time, there would be no money in two months."

"There are so many places to spend money."

"My lord, you have changed from a county magistrate to a prefect, and we have also risen, and the people below have also changed from county officials to county officials."

"Now, when the War of Integrity is approaching, the county soldiers have become county soldiers, and their training has been further strengthened, but their training expenses and daily food consumption have also increased accordingly."

"County soldiers have changed from 1 to 2. After the expansion, [-] soldiers have reached the level of county soldiers in the past after a little training. The remaining [-] people are just at the level of township soldiers. Practicing Daoyin, visualization, and breathing, every day of training costs money!"

"The [-] county soldiers are now closed in the barracks, training from morning to night."

"This kind of high-intensity training requires eating meat every day, each person has a cup of spiritual spring every ten days, and a group medicinal bath every three days..."

"On average, each person spends more than 300 yuan per day. With [-] county soldiers and one day of high-intensity training, at least [-] million yuan will be gone. After three months, [-] million yuan will be gone."

"This is just the most basic training, and this is just a county soldier."

"If you add the wear and tear of weapons and armor, if you add newly forged weapons and magic weapon-level chariots, etc., the various materials spent every day are converted into coins, which is an astronomical figure."

"This is only for the army. Now the people are collectively migrating to Dongning Island. This is a century-old plan. It is related to whether Yancheng can fight for a long time and cannot be delayed."

"After the people migrate, they need to open up wasteland, and they don't have strong labor force, so they can only send out Taoists and let alchemists help open up wasteland. Alchemists are more efficient, but it all costs money."

"The Taoist team is also expanding now. It was named after the ten heavenly stems, but now the twelve earthly branches are all used up. In less than a month, the expansion has more than doubled."

"The ones who join the Taoism team are at least warlocks who have comprehended the true meaning of the five elements. They are more effective, but they also cost more."

"There is also a school. 20 children are about to enter school. The cost of building a school is not much, but cultivation is very expensive! Very expensive!"

"Even if we set the medicated bath in the junior school as once a month, and drink the spiritual spring as one cup a month, 20 children is not a small number."

"The three families of 170 are willing to pay this money. Is it possible for them to pay?"

"This concerns the foundation of Yancheng. Letting them serve as teachers is already the result of our lack of Taoists, and we have to win over and compromise. If they are asked to pay again, what is the surname of this school?"

"There is also Dao Palace, and now more and more doctors are joining us."

"These doctors are all Taoist priests with real abilities. Where their cultivation level is, the treatment cannot be too low. Otherwise, other people will think that our Yancheng is too arrogant and treats talents poorly."

"Then Uncle Yu, what can you do?" Jiang Hua asked directly.

"There is no good way, but there are a few bad ways with endless disasters."

"Directly ask for money from the three 170 companies. If they give money, we will give power. As for what power to give, we can discuss and discuss it slowly."

Understand, the first strategy is to sell the official title.

Jiang Hua couldn't help but began to recall his previous life, the strategy of selling officials to sell titles was used by almost all emperors in all dynasties.

During the Han Dynasty, Chao Cuo suggested that wealthy merchants who donated food to the frontier should be given titles directly, and Emperor Han Jing agreed.

This is the emperor with excellent reputation in the Han dynasty.

When it came to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he even sold officials directly.However, Lingdi's reputation is not so good.

After the Han Dynasty, all dynasties have sold official vends and nobles, but the items sold are different each time.

Sometimes, the emperor wants to save face, instead of selling officials directly, he sells the admission places of Tai students.

When he arrived in Qing Dynasty, he made no secret of it and donated directly to officials.

At first glance, it sounds like a heinous evil policy to sell officials, but this evil policy has been repeatedly adopted by the rulers.

However, Jiang Hua still decided to reject this evil policy.

If you want to get back the power sold today, you will have to work at least ten times and a hundred times harder to get it back in the future.

Brother Axiu won the world in just a few years, but at the cost of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty for 200 years, the aristocratic family controlled the government and controlled the world.

Brother Axiu gave away the power for conquering the world, but after working hard all his life, he never got it back.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, Jiang Hua did not intend to take this method.

Jiang Hua thought for a moment: "What else?"

"The second strategy is to open mines. Mines are money. Conquer prisoners, death row prisoners, captives, and slaves to mine."

"This is also a common method used by nobles."

Jiang Hua didn't want to do this method either.

In today's Yancheng, every population is wealth.Especially for the millions of people now, this is the foundation of the country and the foundation of the future.

Those nobles don't care about the loss of population, they just go to the wild to capture the savages after they die, but Jiang Hua cares.

"anything else?"

"Borrow money from wealthy merchants. Some wealthy merchants have tens of thousands of private soldiers, many masters, high prestige, and strong strength."

"These wealthy merchants use their powerful strength to travel between countries and specialize in business between countries."

But the question is, if they are not relatives or relatives, why do these wealthy businessmen lend money to Yancheng?

What will Yancheng use as collateral?

"Any more?"

"and also……"

Listening to Jun Chengyu's list of methods, Jiang Hua thought hard.

At the end, Jun Chengyu couldn't help sighing: "Master, I also know that these methods basically have more or less sequelae."

"But the current situation in Yancheng is like this. Even if the lord is willing to take out all the money in the internal treasury, we can't last long. This year is no problem, what about next year? What about the year after? The duration of this war is not one or two years, but It started in ten years, and it is possible for a hundred years or even several generations.”

"So, I intend to take the initiative to bear the notoriety."

"A few days later, when you go to Dongning Island to inspect, the minister will take the initiative to interview the 170 three families in the name of Jun Cheng."

"At that time, all the evil policies will be decided by the ministers themselves."

"One day in the future, my lord, you can use your subject's head..."

Looking at Jun Chengyu who was ready to die, Jiang Hua shook his head directly: "No, no, I don't have other abilities, but I still have a lot of ideas."

(End of this chapter)