Iron Dynasty

His Royal Highness, the taxation of the Great Yu Kingdom is mainly based on agricultural tax. Now, His Highness has exempted the taxation of the fief for three years, which is equivalent to cutting off the income of the government.

Pang Yukun explained when Xiao Ming frowned at the account.

As for this commercial tax, there are only a few more merchants in Qingzhou, but this is only concentrated in brewing, soap and other handicraft industries, and the silver taels collected are only tens of thousands of taels, which is really nothing compared to today's expenses.

Pang Yukun was involved in logistics, and his focus was on money, but he didn't care what Xiao Ming was doing, but the Galen ship was not necessary in his opinion, but it was a waste of money.

What Pang Yukun meant, Xiao Ming knew, was nothing more than to remind Xiao Ming not to engage in some big projects that would cost the people and money.

That's a heavy burden on the nascent six-state economy.

However, for Xiao Ming, each of his plans has its own purpose. If you don't spend money on investment, you will not get a big return. Pang Yukun probably can't see this point.

After Pang Yukun finished speaking, Xiao Ming looked at Li Kaiyuan.

This management of fiefs is also like managing companies, the army, people's livelihood, and government offices are all big spenders, while the chamber of commerce represented by Li Kaiyuan is a big moneymaker.

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

Because Li Kaiyuan said how much money he made as soon as he opened his mouth, Pang Yukun said how much money he spent as soon as he opened his mouth, and then he asked for money.

His Royal Highness, for more than a year, the domestic market in Dayu is not as hot as it was at the beginning, and this soap and perfume can be used for a long time after one purchase. During this time, the demand has dropped significantly. As for Zuiqingzhou Although it has declined, it is still stable, adding these things together, the Chamber of Commerce can also receive about 300,000 taels of silver a month. Li Kaiyuan said.

300,000 taels? Xiao Ming's face was a little ugly, So few?

A lot, Your Highness, you auctioned off all the sales rights, and now we can only make a small profit, but after the wealthy family was wiped out, the Chang'an market is in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce. I have already arranged it in Chang'an during this time. , the matter of opening a store. Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming was speechless for a while. At the beginning, he made a lot of money by auctioning the sales rights, but now the after-effects have appeared.

After spending a lot of money, he was not used to living a poor life. Although the Chamber of Commerce's monthly income of 300,000 taels was already a huge sum of money, it was not enough compared to the big facts he wanted to do.

Since the market of the Great Yu Kingdom is saturated, the market of the Golden Horde seems to be still very large.

Xiao Ming's words almost made Li Kaiyuan, who was about to drink water, squirt out the water.

He panicked and said: His Royal Highness, are you asking the Chamber of Commerce to do business with the barbarians? Now this Bei Shan hates us, and the caravan didn't have his head cut off when they arrived on the grassland? Besides, the barbarians were stinking. Never take a bath, will they like this soap and perfume?

But the barbarians like wine. The north is bitterly cold. This white wine is an excellent thing to keep out the cold. Niu Ben said slowly.

Xiao Ming looked at Niu Ben, then looked at Li Kaiyuan, Now understand, even if the two fight, but this is a war, there is no need to involve war in business, and we are earning money from the barbarians, why not do it?

I'm afraid that this liquor can only be exchanged for cattle and sheep skins on the grassland. Li Kaiyuan said: Barbarians rarely use silver and other things.

This is also possible. It is best to exchange for horses. This cattle and sheepskin is also a commodity that Dayu lacks. It is the same if you sell it again. Xiao Ming's eyes flashed.

Lu Fei clapped the table and laughed, His Royal Highness, I really admire you, Li Kaiyuan, try to exchange the horses, and I will invite you to drink at that time.

I don't care. Li Kaiyuan shrank his neck, I don't know if I'm dead or dead by then?

Pang Yukun is now unprincipled for the sake of money, he said: There are still a lot of businessmen in Qingzhou and the grasslands, when we turn a blind eye, you can manage these businessmen, they will naturally know you to do things, Now that there is money everywhere, we can count on you.

Pang Yukun's praise made Li Kaiyuan immediately raised his eyebrows and felt that his status was still important.

Although Xiao Ming has raised the status of businessmen, the traditional thinking of the people cannot be changed for a while, because he still feels inferior everywhere in the government office, and now he finally straightens his back.

In that case, I will try my best. Li Kaiyuan smiled.

Xiao Ming nodded, By the way, how is the Qin family's water transport fleet doing now?

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

Speaking of this matter, Pang Yukun looked ashamed and said, Your Highness, after the news of Qin Chuanyun's arrest spread, the merchant ships in Qingzhou were brought under control, but after the merchant ships outside got the news, many merchant ships The boatman directly took the merchant ships as his own and sold them, and now there are only twelve merchant ships that are actually handed over to the Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to the ones purchased by the Chamber of Commerce from Jinling City, the Chamber of Commerce now has forty-five merchant ships. Li Kaiyuan added.

Well, these merchant ships in Da Yu should be enough.

Xiao Ming sighed, his family is still a little thin, the workshop area seems to be in full swing, but in fact it is only a few workshops.

If you really want to make Qingzhou rich, you have to do business with the world.

The meeting said that here, basically everything that should be reported has been reported. As for Bowen College and the newspaper, there are not many problems, only Xiao Ming can arrange it.

After the meeting, Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang to stay, and the others went back.

His Royal Highness, what is the new city wall mentioned at this meeting? Zhan Xingchang asked.

Reinforced concrete city wall. Xiao Ming said, this is another big project for Qingzhou.

Before Zhan Xingchang asked, Xiao Ming picked up the pen and paper and started talking to Zhan Xingchang.

Reinforced concrete structure is the most sturdy building structure in contemporary architecture. This structure is used in many large-scale projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam and nuclear power plants.

Later, this structure was used in residential buildings, and this structure can generally be used to resist earthquakes of magnitude seven or eight.

The reason this structure is so popular is that concrete resists compression and rebar resists tension, and the combination of these two materials is the perfect material.

The side of Cangzhou City facing the grassland is a long and narrow valley. The city wall is 500 meters long. Building a reinforced concrete city wall at a distance of 500 meters is basically equivalent to building a community of ten residential buildings with a length of 50 meters.

If this project is only a small project in modern times, it can be completed by the construction team of several hundred people in half a year, but here it is a big project.

But even so, Xiao Ming is determined to build it, because even the barbarian city wall will no longer have to worry about the barbarian gunpowder blasting.