Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 92 Liaodong Officialdom ([-])

a year and a half later

Spring of the first year of Yuan Ding

Royal Manor
too study room

"Two sisters, let's discuss last year's budget submitted by Jiacheng." Xu Caiwei said to Wang Roujing and Wang Yaojiao with a smile.

In the past two years, the system of the family cheng and the family elders has gradually improved.

Unless it was an emergency, the Patriarch Wang Changzhi would basically not be bothered.

In the whole year of last year, the total income of the Wang family was [-] gold, and the expenditure was [-] gold.

[Income: Luoyueyuan [-] gold, Liaodong Islands [-] gold, forest harvest [-] gold, overseas islands [-] gold, Korean trade [-] gold, food income [-] gold, accumulated [-] gold]

[Expenditure: The manor consumes 120 gold, the horses consume [-] gold, the soldiers consume [-] gold, the maintenance of equipment and ships consumes [-] gold, the servants and maids consume [-] gold, and the marriage banquet with other families consumes a total of [-] gold. It costs [-] gold to build ten small merchant ships, [-] gold to build a medium-sized merchant ship, [-] gold to be cut off by the court, [-] gold to buy the industrial facilities of powerful people at a low price, and [-] gold to recruit [-] six unemployed craftsmen , the continuous construction cost of Taohuayuan is [-] gold, and the cumulative cost is [-] gold]

The soldiers are gradually dying, and now only 51 soldiers are still alive, so the cost is much lower than before. In addition, the Wang family keeps reclaiming farmland on overseas islands, so overseas income is increasing year by year, and the trade with North Korea is even bigger. is the most important part of income.

At the same time, due to the severance of trade with the Central Plains and the continuous shipment of a large number of tenants of Luoyueyuan to overseas, the income of Luoyueyuan is declining year by year. During Wang Tairan's period, the highest output of Luoyueyuan once reached a year Eight hundred gold, now only five hundred gold is left.

In order to increase the volume of trade with North Korea and at the same time transport tenant farmers to overseas reclamation faster, the Wang family has been building more merchant ships over the years, and the expenditure is also huge.

As for the biggest expense, two thousand gold to buy the industrial facilities and equipment of Liaodong tycoons at a low price is a must.

These things, if you want to buy them on weekdays, at least tens of thousands of gold, but now that the imperial court wants to run them officially, those tyrants have to reluctantly sell them to the Wang family at a low price, so as not to be forced to run them by the imperial court.

"There was a shortfall of [-] gold in the whole of last year?" Wang Luojiao frowned. Such a big shortfall is hard to make up for.

"Our Wang family managed to make a profit for less than two years, and then it started to lose money again, and it was still such a large amount." Wang Roujing also sighed aside.

"No, the two thousand gold for purchasing the property is just a budgetary expense. It hasn't been actually spent yet, but there is a high probability that it will be spent, so it is recorded in it." Xu Caiwei quickly explained.

At this moment, they are holding a lot of hemp paper, which is full of various financial revenue and expenditure, and even the details of how much a certain maid spent on a certain day.

Therefore, this year's financial report of the Wang family can no longer be written on bamboo slips or wadding paper.

There are too few characters on the bamboo slips, and the wadding paper made of silk is too expensive.

A year ago, a craftsman of the Wang family accidentally leaked one of the processes of papermaking, causing the papermaking part to enter the Central Plains. Although the Wang family executed the craftsman Ling Chi soon after, it was too late.

Then people in Central Plains carried out continuous experiments based on the leaked part of the process, and finally produced a kind of paper called hemp paper a few months ago.

Although this kind of hemp paper is very rough, it is far less smooth and delicate than wadding paper, but wadding paper is made of silk, and the cost is extremely high. Even a powerful family does not have the capital to use it casually, but hemp paper is made of hemp cloth as raw material It comes out, and the cost is greatly reduced, which is very suitable for use as a poor family, or as a government record for a large number of documents.

Faced with this situation, the Wang family had no choice but to use hemp paper to reduce their writing costs tearfully. At the same time, they further stepped up technical review to prevent the leakage of advanced technology.

After reading last year's financial calculations, Xu Caiwei took out another piece of paper and said, "Then, let's start adjudicating Jiacheng's proposal."

The content of Jiacheng’s proposal is relatively small, so in order to keep the writing clear, he continued to use more expensive wadding paper, and the financial plan had to use rough hemp paper because of too much content.

Xu Caiwei: Proposal [-], fully open the papermaking technology.

Wang Roujing and Wang Ruojiao: No!
Xu Caiwei: Proposal [-], to implement different tenancy policies for each land reclamation area, continue to collect [-]% of the rent in Luoyueyuan, only [-]% in the Liaodong Islands, and only [-]% in the overseas islands, so as to encourage tenants to go more Overseas to reclaim wasteland for my royal family.

Wang Roujing and Wang Ruojiao: Yes!

Xu Caiwei: Proposal [-], marriage with the Korean royal family, marrying the daughter of the royal family into the Korean royal palace as a princess.

Wang Roujing: Yes!
Wang Luojiao: No way!

Xu Caiwei: Proposal [-], resume trade with the Central Plains.

Wang Roujing: No!

Wang Luojiao: Yes!
Xu Caiwei, proposal five,...
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Liaodong County
"Whose family's children will be prosecuted to be officials in the imperial court this year?" Wang Changzhi, the prefect of Liaodong, asked his master Wang Changtu.

"It seems to be the Li family in Fangxian County." The head bookkeeper Wang Changtu replied.

At first, Cao Dong, a soldier in Liaodong, died of illness, leaving a position for an official, so Wang Changzhi took the opportunity to stuff his cousin Wang Changtu in.

Later, since the last master book was the Zhong family, after the Zhong family was exterminated, the position of the master book was also vacant, so Wang Changzhi promoted Wang Changtu to be the master book again, and quickly arranged for his other cousin Wang Chang'an to be the master book. Bing Cao.

Although he didn't dare to forcibly dismiss other officials in the county mansion for fear of offending too many people, he could safely and boldly insert people into the vacated positions.

It was a child of your family who died of illness, not me, so I can't blame Wang Changzhi.

Although I dare not dismiss these people directly, but when they die for various reasons, I will take the opportunity to stuff the Wang family in, slowly, every few years, and sooner or later the Liaodong County Mansion will be filled. Completely turn Liaodong into the royal Liaodong.

As for whose turn it is to check, it is a deal between Wang Changzhi and the major families in Liaodong.

Since the Wang family previously spent two thousand gold to buy the property of the tyrants at a low price, the property now belongs to the Wang family, but when it was time to pay the big families, the Wang family found that they did not have so much money. Bankruptcy at a deficit.

So Wang Changzhi negotiated with those families who sold their properties to the Wang family, that is, instead of paying directly, they used the number of inspections to pay off the debt.

For example, the discount price of the property sold by the Li family to the Wang family is [-] gold, so one quota is [-] gold. Wang Changzhi needs to recommend the children of the Li family in six Fangxian counties to be officials in the court, which can be regarded as paying [-] gold to the Li family.

Now the Wang family owes a total of [-] gold in debt, which means that at least [-] inspection places are needed, but only two inspections can be made each year. Pay off your debts as soon as possible.

Although directly handing over your property to the imperial court can also increase your rank and rank, everyone knows that the Chang'an court is very stingy. It robbed your property, but gave you only sesame officials. It would be better to give the property to the Wang family and use the property. From Wang Changzhi, the Liaodong prefect of the Wang family, in exchange for a place in the examination.

After all, those recommended to the imperial court through the procuratorate system are much higher than the sesame officials given by the imperial court just at the beginning.

(End of this chapter)