Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 886 Sealing the Country
The southern part of Burma in the previous life is now the Luzhou uncle.Li Jun, the lord of the country, was feeling a headache looking at the financial statement in front of him.

"No money, no money!"

This is really a cause for the ruler's sorrow.Fortunately, Luzhou uncle's army entered Zhuluo country last year and made a lot of money. Whether it was the spoils or the "dividends" after the Zhuluo country's war compensation, it was a lot of money.Otherwise, the fiscal surplus on the financial statements of Lu Kingdom for the first half of this year would not be in black, but would be a fiscal deficit.

"My lord, I'm really out of money. Even if the construction plan for the second half of the year is stretched, where is the money left to buy a ship?" The minister's words were filled with a feeling of 'distressed'.

"How is this money spent?"

Li Jun has a splitting headache now, and he will regret that he came out to 'travel the world'.Lu Qian gave him preferential treatment, and allocated the Lower Burma region facing west to Li Jun as a fief.This is an absolutely good place, the land is fertile, the rainfall is abundant, and the temperature is even warmer.Three crops can be grown a year in Boguo, and the rice and sugar cane harvested every year in the past few years are the largest and most stable source of income in Luzhou Boguo.

Even the profits from the fishing industry and gem mining are far from comparable.

Moreover, the geographical location here is superior, facing the Tianzhu sea area to the west, and there is an outlet to the sea. Unlike the Malay Peninsula that Li Jun originally imagined, although the geographical location is also superior, it is tightly wrapped in the center, and there is no major development. future.

Lower Burma is suitable for planting. If you only want to be a rural rich man, Hunjianglong's little life will be very good.

But no matter how incompetent Li Jun is, he still has great ambitions. He doesn't want to farm like Fang La at all. Hun Jianglong's idea from the beginning was to plunder.

Besides, Li Jun also has his own understanding of building a country, from agriculture to industry and commerce, city construction to transportation construction, and finally military construction. Spending money is really like running water.

Especially the last point, with Lu Kingdom's small body, it has maintained a capable navy and army from the very beginning. It would be strange if the finances can be good.

The dense rainforest in Myanmar also provides a hiding place for the local aborigines. So far, the local resistance forces have not been quelled, which to a certain extent has also hindered Li Jun.

But the most important thing is Li Jun's heart.

Because of the geographical location of the country of Lu, facing the entire vast Tianzhu, he set his sights on the Baltic Dynasty [Bengal] early on, which determined the route he would take—not only to build an army capable of fighting, but also to Create an army capable of both water and land.That is a real gold-swallowing beast, a bottomless pit that cannot be filled with one mouthful.

If it weren't for the fertile land and abundant water conservancy in the country of Lu, and the fact that rice is harvested three times a year and harvested every year, Li Jun's life would only be more difficult.

We must know that Myanmar is rich in precious wood resources, such as teak suitable for shipbuilding, as well as various hardwoods and valuable hardwoods such as sandalwood, chicken wings, iron, rosewood, rosewood, etc., which are located in the northern part of Myanmar in later generations. , which is Upper Burma.Including the famous Burmese jadeite in later generations.

It is now under the jurisdiction of the Nanyun Province of the Lu Qi Dynasty.Li Jun's territory in Luzhou Boguo is limited to Lower Burma.Although this place is suitable for farming, it really doesn't have many resources, that is, there are few minerals.

"How much silver is left in the treasury?" Li Jun asked immediately.

It's only the first half of the year and I'm going to run out of money, how will I live in the second half of the year?

"My lord, I'm afraid there is not much money in the treasury..." The minister under him whispered a figure.

"Ah, so few..." Li Jun exclaimed.

"Since last year's cool season [September-October to the first month of the next year], the middle school has purchased some iron tools, farm tools, cattle, horses and livestock from the mother country, and built channels and roads in various places, spending nearly one million silver dollars..." The minister said: "Today Lord Sui bought another gunboat, three warships, countless armors from his mother country, and another one million yuan was spent..."

"And for the construction of the shipyard, the DPRK and China allocated 20 funds..."

"The exploration and mining of metal and gemstone deposits in various places, as well as the expansion of the fishing fleet, and the expenses of officials in the DPRK and China have also cost millions..."

If you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive firewood is!

"Now there is not much surplus in the treasury, so it is very difficult to carry out the plan for the second half of the year as scheduled." The meaning of the minister's words is very clear, Li Jun spent too much money on armaments.

If he expanded his fishing fleet alone—it was for whaling.Ceylon, which is 'not far' from Luzhou, is a land surrounded by whales, and as long as the whaling industry can enter normal operation, it will surely provide a large amount of funds to the owners of the fleet.

Whether it's baleen, bone, meat, or oil, it's money.

It's not a big deal for Li Jun to expand the fishing fleet alone, but he also wantonly strengthened his military equipment, opened a shipyard, and spent a lot on internal affairs. The stalls in Lu Kingdom are too big!
Even Li Jun, who was conferred the title of Bo of Luzhou, is the number one among several uncle states, no matter in terms of territory or his own capital.Hun Jianglong, who has the support of the Tong family brothers, is not far behind Hou Guoyan in terms of overall strength.But no matter how abundant capital is used to build a country, all aspects still go hand in hand, which seems stretched.

Therefore, Li Jun was the first to pass the bank certification. By issuing Luzhou Boguo bonds and mortgaging ports and acres of land, he raised about 1000 million yuan in funds.

But it is also spent like running water.

In the next few years, apart from repaying the debts, Lu Kingdom would not stop expanding its national debts all the time.Just because it shows enough "capital" correspondingly, whether it is the sugar industry or rice, these are all fixed sources, as if a person has a fixed income, the day when the loan is repaid seems not so far away out of reach.

The alluvial plain of the Dajinsha River [Irrawaddy River] is full of flat rice fields and sugarcane plantations here and there. With these two fixed sources of income, the reputation of Luzhou Boguo is still very strong.

Unless Li Jun had always wanted to develop his military ambitions, his finances would never have been so tight.

However, Hun Jianglong couldn't control his wanton heart.

If he had such ambition, why would he come out and work hard?

Isn't it because the Central Plains has no chance for him to show his fists, so he came outside the Central Plains?

Lu Qian is also the beauty of an adult, so he was placed in Lower Burma, and this guy really prepared his troops from the beginning of the fight.

When Lu Qian himself didn't know when he would attack Tianzhu, Li Jun started to prepare.

The water army with good training and equipment.It was all made of money!

Is it a joke to have both water and land?Especially the navy.If he only develops the army with peace of mind and saves the cost of the navy, then the entire national economy will be greatly improved.

Of course, all the money was worth it, and it was all spent wisely!

Luzhou Boguo now has tens of thousands of naval forces, and its navy has five gunboats as the main force - three sea dragon boats, two sea dragon boats, and more than ten old seagoing ships, all of which are worth two thousand. , has a 2000-strong professional marine corps.Compared with the target he aimed at - the Boluo Dynasty, this power is terrifying.

Li Jun looked at the financial budget for the second half of the year submitted by his subordinates. It is estimated that two cities, two seaports, and twelve roads will be built in the country. These are long-term investments and are necessary for the development of Luzhou Boguo. Less.

In addition, the output of Tangliao continued to increase, but there was no need to transport a large amount of sugar to the Central Plains. The nobles in Tianzhu mainland also liked sugar.

The other thing is education.

Life, the people who migrated here no longer need to worry.There is so much food in the Uncle Luzhou that we can't finish it, otherwise how could it be imported in large quantities into the Central Plains?In the latter years, cotton planting and silkworm affairs have increasingly crowded out the living space of food crops.

Regardless of whether it is for reserves or to balance the price of grain on the market, Lu Qi is always importing a large amount of grain.

However, it is obviously difficult for the education in each feudal country to develop rapidly.

Recruiting teachers from the Central Plains is a drop in the bucket, and cultivating teachers by yourself is far from quenching your thirst.

Just like the water army that Li Jun has always vigorously developed, his goal is the Polo Dynasty, which makes him salivate.But as long as this war is not triggered for a day, and Li Jun has won, the wealth of the Polo Dynasty will never belong to him.

All he can look forward to now is the imminent harvest of mid-season rice in the rice fields, and this year's late rice, as well as the benefits of Tangliao and whaling. Lu Kingdom's finances have no room for large-scale construction as planned.

unless……

"Master, do you want to make a short-term loan from the chamber of commerce, and you can use the newly discovered copper mine in the north as collateral..."

If not, it would be strange if the city and port could be built on schedule.

(End of this chapter)