Yan Jizu and his party lived in Chifengwei for three days and talked to Li Xiao. By the time they parted, they were already familiar with each other as if they were old friends.

Of course, in these days, Li Xiao also explained to Yan Jizu in detail how Chifengwei recruits refugees, how to collect commercial taxes, how to reclaim wasteland, how to manage and manage, and Yan Jizu nodded repeatedly.

However, Li Xiao of course also reserved it. That is, some issues related to Li Xiaojun's development lifeline, such as steel smelting technology, woolen velvet production, cement production, cigarette production, etc., were all gently brought by Li Xiaojun and did not explain it in detail.

Three days later, Yan Jizu and his party returned to Jinan Prefecture, and Li Xiao gave him the precious Northeast Laoshan to participate in the big East Pearl, such as Fang Wenhe and each of them, and gave him some silver. Li Xiao's generous manner made Yan Jizu and others look more and more respectful to him, and they all returned with joy and satisfaction.

Watching Yan Jizu and others as they beat the horse away, Li Xiao and Zanhua Chen Zilong both looked thoughtful.

"Mr. Li, although the new official takes office for three reasons, do you think this Governor Yan can promote our Chifengwei practice in Shandong?" Chen Zilong asked.

Li Xiao shook his head gently.

"It's not easy!"

Li Xiao sighed softly, "I have military and power in this small Chifeng Guard. It has been two years since then, and there are still so many gentry and landlords who have been in control openly and secretly. Governor Yan, a new official like Shandong, has shallow foundations in Shandong, no trusted officials, and no strong financial resources. It is difficult to do a great job in this Shandong territory according to my Chifeng Guard model. According to my official's opinion, Governor Yan seems optimistic now, but he is afraid that he will encounter walls everywhere and will eventually give up."

When Chen Zilong heard this, he also sighed, and the two of them returned to the city.

On the way back to the city, Li Xiao asked Chen Zilong: "Wozi, have you ever counted how much income our army has per month now?"

Seeing Li Xiao’s question, Chen Zilong immediately replied: “Mr. Li, now there are iron tools, sea salt, wool velvet, raw silk, gold ore and other substances in the three places of Chifengwei, Tielong City and Jintang City. It is a key commodity project, and there is also a commercial tax that is an important financial supplement.”

"You can continue to explain in detail."

"Sir, now Iron City has built 6 blast furnaces and 4 fried furnaces. The daily production of iron is conservatively estimated to reach 72,000 kilograms, and the monthly iron production is at least 2.2 million kilograms. Among them, about 1.4 million kilograms of medium and low quality iron is used for the production of various types of ironware. It can be made every month such as iron needles, shovels, shovels, iron pots, iron buckets, iron spoons, kitchen knives, hoes, wine pots, basins, axes, fire chopsticks, strips, iron furnaces, nails, etc. Excluding costs and labor, as well as transportation and sales expenses, it is expected to obtain a net profit of more than 800,000 taels per month. It is actually the most important financial source of our army."

When Li Xiao heard Chen Zilong's report, he looked happy.

This steel project is the foundation of Li Xiao's army. Now, in addition to the main supply of armor and weapons to Li Xiaojun, there are no takeouts for the time being. The various iron tools produced have become the main production project of Iron City, bringing a lot of wealth to Li Xiaojun.

If the steelmaking technology research is fully mature and full-scale steel can be produced in large quantities, Li Xiao's profit will be even richer. Li Xiaojun's equipment will also be taken to a new level.

"How much profit can the sea salt project make every month now?" Li Xiao asked again.

"Sir, our army now has a total of 1,000 acres of salt fields, which can produce 3 million kilograms of salt per month, totaling 25,000 dan. In order to avoid disturbing the salt market, in addition to supplying Chifengwei, Tielong City and Jintang land, most of them are exported to Mongolian tribes, and a small part is sold to Dongjiang Town and some North Korean merchants. On average, if you count out all kinds of costs, you can get a net profit of 3 taels per choke, and you can get a net profit of 75,000 dan per month."

Chen Zilong paused for a moment and said to Li Xiao: "Sir, when the marine island is developed, another 2,000 acres of salt fields can be built. In that case, the monthly salt output can reach 75,000 dan, and the monthly profit can reach 225,000 taels."

Li Xiao showed a gratified smile on his face and continued to ask: "How much profit can the woolen produced in Jintang City make on average per month?"

"Sir, according to the report of Jintang City, there are now seven Mongolian tribes, including Tumote tribe, Naiman tribe, Kalaqin tribe, Lejin tribe, Yongsebu tribe, Asut tribe, Ordos tribe, and Barhu tribe, providing wool to our army in late spring and late autumn. In a year, a total of 15.2 million jin of wool can be obtained, and a kilogram of woolen wool is produced based on 4 jin of wool wool. One kilogram of woolen wool is about 5 zhang long and weighing about 4 jin. It can produce 950,000 timber pieces, all of which are sold at a wholesale price of 5 taels per horse, with a total selling price of 4.75 million jin, and a net profit of nearly 4 million jin per year, with an average net profit of 330,000 jin per month."

Seeing Li Xiao smiling, Chen Zilong smiled again and said, "Next, I'll tell you about the profits of raw silk to the adults."

"Well, Wozi, please continue."

"Sir, our army has now developed and cultivated mulberry fields of 30,000 mu, all of which are in Chifengwei territory. A mulberry field can produce about 1,000 kilograms of mulberry leaves and can reel 5 to 6 kilograms of silk. Based on the minimum output, it can produce 150,000 kilograms of raw silk, which is calculated as 120 kilograms per titanium, which means 1,250 kilograms of raw silk. Because our army has no overseas sales channels for the time being, it can only be sold in China. The price of raw silk in the Ming Dynasty is about 6 to 7 qian silver per titanium, and can make a profit of 90,000 taels per year, with an average of 7,500 taels per month."

After listening to Chen Zilong's introduction, Li Xiao frowned slightly.

The profits of raw silk nowadays are much less than those of iron tools, sea salt, and wool velvet.

Chen Zilong seemed to see through Li Xiao's thoughts, and he said with a smile: "Mr. Li, the reason why raw silk is not profitable now is because of the limited mulberry fields. If we wait for the 150,000 mulberry fields in Shan County and the 80,000 mulberry fields in the former Huang County and Zhaoyuan County, there will be a total of 260,000 mulberry fields, which can produce 1.3 million jin of raw silk. If sold in China, we can make a profit of 780,000 taels. If overseas channels can be expanded, the profit can double to 1.6 million taels."

Li Xiao knew that if the raw silk trade was trafficked overseas, it would be a real huge profit.

Overseas trade data at the end of the Ming Dynasty showed that many foreign merchants bought raw silk from Guangzhou and then sold them back to European countries, or transported them to textiles in the Americas, Mexico and other places. The purchase price was about 160 to 180 taels per tumble, which was about twice the domestic market price! If it was a high-quality raw silk with good quality, good quality, sufficient portion and no fraud, it could be as high as 260 to 300 taels per tumble!

Zheng Zhilong, a big sea merchant and pirate, completely monopolized trade with Japan. After trafficking raw silk produced in Fujian to Japan, the price per load was as high as an amazing 600 taels! This almost terrible price reached more than 9 times the domestic market price, which was really a complete huge profit!

However, if you only sell raw silk, you will not fully satisfy Li Xiao's ambitions.

Li Xiao smiled and said to Chen Zilong: "If you only produce raw silk, you will still make too little profit. I will send you to Songjiang and other places, hire a group of female textile workers with high salaries and buy a large number of silk looms, so that I can weave silk by myself. But I should not let the big profits be made by others."

Chen Zilong's eyes lit up and said hurriedly: "Students should obey the orders of the adults! If they can really produce silk by themselves, the profit will be huge. Didn't you say that one and a half pounds of raw silk can be made of one pound of satin? That 1.3 million pounds of raw silk can produce at least 850,000 pounds of silk, which can produce about 7,200 dans, totaling 576,000 pieces. If sold in China, each piece is 10 taels, and a total of 5.76 million taels of silver can be sold, and a monthly profit of 480,000 taels will be made. If it can be sold abroad, it can be tripled. We can make more than 15 million taels a year!"

When Chen Zilong said that when he was excited, his face suddenly turned red and he looked expectant.

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Very good! The silk-weaving matter needs to be done as soon as possible. I will send the staff of the Commercial Department to help you. At least half of the raw silk produced this year should be woven into silk."

Chen Zilong responded loudly and continued, "Sir, let's talk about gold mining. Since the Jinchiling gold mine was mined at the beginning of last year, a total of 18,000 taels of gold have been refined. In addition, according to the report of Ma Tang, the Mine Head, after repeated exploration, gold veins were found in three areas in Zhaoyuan. It is estimated that after all the four gold mines are successfully mined, a total of at least 75,000 taels of gold can be recovered every year."

After listening to Chen Zilong's report, Li Xiao was very happy.

In the Ming Dynasty, silver is cheap and precious. One tael of gold can even be exchanged for 13 taels of silver. Then, the amount of gold produced by Li Xiao in a year can be exchanged for nearly 1 million taels of silver, and this income is also absolutely considerable.

Chen Zilong finally said: "Sir, there are more than 1,000 merchants of all sizes and sizes in Chifengwei, Tielong City, and Jintang City. On average, each household pays 20 taels of commercial tax per month, and can receive 20,000 taels of commercial tax per month, and a total of 240,000 taels of commercial tax per month, and a total of 240,000 taels of commercial tax per year."

A comfortable smile appeared on Li Xiao's face.

Then after the Yantian, mulberry fields and textile industries are all established and improved, it can be calculated that iron tools can make a profit of 9.6 million taels per year, sea salt can make a profit of 2.7 million taels per year, woolen velvet makes a profit of 4 million taels per year, raw silk and silk are conservatively estimated to be 8 million taels per year, gold mines are 900,000 taels, and commercial taxes are 240,000 taels, so a total profit of 25.44 million taels per year!

This is a very amazing number. You should know that when Emperor Chongzhen ignored the lives and death of the people and vigorously urged to pay the three wages, the annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to all kinds of free-for-color grains, only received more than 20 million taels of silver.

What's even more a pity is that the money Chongzhen spent so much effort to plunder could only be consumed quickly, and even the deficit could not be filled, resulting in a huge fiscal deficit year after year.

There are some sad records in the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.

"Miscellaneous Notes on the Death of Mystery" records: "The thief ran west and got more than 70,000 taels of gold and silver from the palace. The camel took it away. The world was confused. He thought that there was a gold hiding in the palace of the late emperor, which was enough for decades. He looked at the addition of 2.4 million tuitions to make a fortune, which caused the collapse. Even if he was very stupid, he would not come to this. Wu Xuanshan said, "I once asked to issue the treasury and ordered the emperor to close the front to express his secret instructions that there was no treasury in the treasury, so he fell from tears."

"Jiashen Records" also records that "When I supervise the Secretariat, it was on the 15th day of the 19th month of Jiashen, I had a deal with the head Miao Yuan. The deposit was suspended for more than 2,300 taels of silver and 800 more money. The country's poverty reached this point, so I could laugh."

Li Xiao sighed in his heart that the expected fiscal revenue he earned based on these three lands alone was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty in one year, and was as wealthy as a country.

This shows how huge income trade and industry can bring to the country.

This is also the main reason why only the Netherlands, which was a large county in the Ming Dynasty, could make huge profits around the world by selling industrial products, trade and colonization, and gain the reputation of a maritime coachman, thus becoming the richest and richest country in this era of navigation.

In contrast, the Ming Dynasty, which was larger than the entire Europe, could only hold on to the little land tax revenue, and even commercial tax could not be collected, resulting in the central government's financial expenditures being insufficient, and eventually forced countless poor people to rebel.

In fact, Li Xiao's income was not the richest person in the Ming Dynasty. There was one person who was even richer than Li Xiao.

This person was Zheng Zhilong, who was the guerrilla general of the Five Tigers of Fujian at that time.

This person made huge profits through monopoly trade with Japan and Nanyang and forcing passing merchant ships to pay funds, and his annual net income can reach more than 30 million taels.

Only when the Zheng family made such huge profits could they form a large fleet and private army. Even in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Emperor Longwu was almost wiped out by the Zheng family and eventually became a victim, which is really sighing.

Zheng Zhilong, who was rich and powerful, made the Dutch East India Company, which also engaged in trade and pirates, feel inferior.

Li Xiao thought to himself that maybe when his cigarettes start to be produced and sold, his profits will be barely matched with Zheng Zhilong.

Because Li Xiao calculated last time that Li Xiao's 450,000 mu of tobacco fields can produce a total of 45 million cigarettes or 22.5 million cigars. Excluding various costs, a huge amount of silver can be made in a year of more than 5 million taels!

Li Xiao then roughly calculated the amount of money he had to spend every month.

If the three battalions of Chifeng Camp, Iron Dragon Camp and Jinlang Camp are all fully recruited. Calculated by the fact that each battalion has 3 general soldiers, each battalion has about 18,000 people, and the third battalion has a total of 54,000 troops.

The salary of the Third Battalion soldiers, plus the salary of various government officials, living allowances for the family members of the army, and pensions and condolences for disabled soldiers, etc., is initially calculated that it can reach 120,000 taels per month.

The wages, bonuses and subsidies of various factories under Li Xiaojun cost about 50,000 taels.

In this way, Li Xiaojun needs to spend a fixed monthly silver liang, which is enough for 200,000 taels. In a year, without calculating the food cost, it is only 2.4 million taels of silver.

Compared to the rolling wealth, the thing Li Xiao is most worried about now is the issue of grain production and supply.
Chapter completed!