"Your Highness, the taxes in the Great Yu Kingdom are mainly based on agricultural taxes. Now that your Highness has exempted the taxes for the fiefdom for three years, it is equivalent to cutting off the income of the government office."

When Pang Yukun saw Xiao Ming frowning at the account, he explained.

"As for this commercial tax, there are only more merchants in Qingzhou, but this is only concentrated on handicrafts such as brewing and soap. The silver collected is only tens of thousands of taels, which is really a witch compared to the current expenses."

Pang Yukun is doing logistics, and his attention is all about money, but he doesn't care what Xiao Ming is doing. But in his opinion, this Galen ship is not necessary, it is just a waste of money.

Xiao Ming knew what Pang Yukun meant, but it was nothing more than reminding Xiao Ming not to do some major projects that cost the people and hurt money.

This is a heavy burden for the economy of the six states, which has just improved.

However, for Xiao Ming, every plan has its own purpose, and he will not get a big return without spending money on investment, which Pang Yukun probably won't see.

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

This management of fiefdoms is like managing companies, military, people's livelihood, and government offices are all big money-spending owners, while the chamber of commerce represented by Li Kaiyuan is a big money-spending owner.

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

Because Li Kaiyuan made a lot of money as soon as he spoke, Pang Yukun spent a lot of money as soon as he opened his mouth, and then he asked for money.

"Your Highness, over the past year, the domestic market in Dayu has not been as hot as it was at the beginning. Moreover, you can buy soap and perfume for a long time. Over the past period of time, the demand has dropped significantly. Although Zuiqingzhou has dropped, it is still stable. Together, these things can be collected by the Chamber of Commerce in a month." Li Kaiyuan said.

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming's face looked a little ugly, "So little?"

"A lot, Your Highness, you auctioned off all the sales rights. Now we can only make some small profits. However, after the rich people were destroyed, the Chang'an market was in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce. During this period, I have already set up a store in Chang'an to open a store." Li Kaiyuan said.

Xiao Ming was speechless. He had made great money by auctioning the sales rights at the beginning, but now the sequelae have emerged.

After spending a lot of money, I can't get used to poor life. Although the chamber of commerce's monthly income of 300,000 taels is already a huge sum, it is not enough to see the big facts he has to do.

"Since the market in the Great Chongqing Kingdom is saturated, the market in the Golden Horde seems to be still large."

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

He said in panic: "Your Highness, are you going to the Chamber of Commerce to do business with the barbarians? Now Beishan is so hateful that we are. The caravan is not cut off his head when he arrives on the grassland? Besides, the barbarians are smelly and never take a bath. Will they like this soap and perfume?"

"But the barbarians like wine. The north is bitter and cold. This white wine is an excellent cold-proof thing." Niu Ben said slowly.

Xiao Ming looked at Niu Ben and then at Li Kaiyuan, "I understand now. Even if two people are fighting, this war is due to war. There is no need for business to involve war. Besides, we are making money from the barbarians, so why not do it?"

"I'm afraid that this white wine can only be exchanged for cattle and sheep skin when it comes to the grassland." Li Kaiyuan said: "The barbarians rarely use silver or something."

"This is OK, it's best to get a horse. The cattle and sheepskin is also a goods that the Great Yu Kingdom lacks. It's the same if you sell it again." Xiao Ming's eyes flashed.

Lu Fei slapped the table and laughed, "Your Highness, I, Lu Fei, really admire you. Li Kaiyuan, try to exchange the horses for you. I will invite you to drink at that time."

"I don't care." Li Kaiyuan's neck shrank, "I don't know if I have any life or not?"

Pang Yukun now doesn't have principles for money. He said: "There are still many businessmen in Qingzhou and the grassland. When we turn a blind eye, you can handle these businessmen and they will naturally know how to do things. Now there is money everywhere, so we will count on you."

Pang Yukun's words made Li Kaiyuan feel proud and deeply felt that his status was still important.

Although Xiao Ming raised the status of a businessman, the traditional folk idea could not be changed for a while, because he still felt inferior everywhere in the government office, and now he finally straightened his back.

"Since that's the case, I'll try it with all my might." Li Kaiyuan smiled.

Xiao Ming nodded, "By the way, how is the Qin family's canal fleet receiving it now?"

Qin Chuanyun was hanged in Cangzhou City, leaving behind thirty merchant ships from the Qin family. These merchant ships Xiao Ming was accepted by Pang Yukun to Li Kaiyuan.

When talking about this, Pang Yukun looked ashamed and said, "Your Highness, after the news of Qin Chuanyun's arrest spread, the merchant ships in Qingzhou were controlled. However, after the merchant ships outside learned the news, many merchant ships directly took the merchant ships for themselves and sold them. Now there are only twelve merchant ships that are actually handed over to the Chamber of Commerce."

"In addition, the Chamber of Commerce purchased it from Jinling City, and the Chamber of Commerce now has forty-five merchant ships." Li Kaiyuan added.

"Well, these merchant ships in Dayu should be enough."

Xiao Ming sighed. His wealth is still a bit thin. The workshop area seems to be very popular, but in fact it is just a few workshops.

If you really want to make Qingzhou rich, you have to go all out to the world.

The meeting said that here, basically all the ones that should be reported were reported. As for the Bowen Academy and the newspaper, there were not many problems, so Xiao Ming could only arrange it.

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

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

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

Before Zhan Xingchang could ask, Xiao Ming picked up the paper and pen and said to Zhan Xingchang.

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

Later, this structure was used on residential buildings, which can generally be used to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 8.

The reason why this structure is so popular is that concrete is compressive and steel bars are tensile. The combination of these two materials is the perfect material.

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

If this project is just a small project in modern times, it can be completed in half a year for hundreds of people in the construction team, but it is a big project here.

But even so, Xiao Ming was determined to build it, because even the barbarian city wall would no longer have to worry about the barbarian gunpowder explosion.
Chapter completed!