Chapter 214
The money I just obtained was not warmed up yet, and Liu Jun pulled out a large amount of silver one after another. The 100,000 taels of silver were pulled out and paid to the deposit for ordering grain signed by various prefectures and counties and farmers in Huguang. The 100,000 taels were the raw material purchase funds for each workshop of Hutoubao, and 200,000 taels were given to the newly recruited soldiers. The construction of the salt farm and the recruitment of craftsmen were paid 300,000 taels, and then a large sum was sent to Fu Shan to Beijing.●⌒,
Another 300,000 taels of silver.
Spending money is like flowing water.
The hundreds of thousands of taels of trophy that Liu Jun had obtained when he entered Sichuan some time ago, as well as more than 100,000 yuan in the military workshop's weapons, millions of silver shares in the salt field, and 100,000 yuan in the prize money, all of them were flowing out again in a blink of an eye.
Liu Jun's books were empty all of a sudden, and only a batch of property left by Jiutou Bird was still consigned in the hands of Lu Weizhang and Zhao Zhen. The batch of property was probably able to bring back about 300,000 taels of silver for Jiutou Bird, but it could not be cashed out immediately for a while, and it would take time.
Fortunately, after spending a lot of money, everything was on track.
However, outsiders did not understand Liu Jun's real situation. For example, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Yunyang, stared at Liu Jun. He did not see Liu Jun's huge expenses, but only saw Liu Jun's Yingcheng Salt Field, which suddenly got a million taels of silver, issued a prize ticket, and got another hundred thousand taels of cash in the same time.
Looking at Liu Jun's huge investment, Zhu Dadian, a famous corrupt official who had to pluck his hair when he passed by, and had to shave his feet on the ground, couldn't help it.
Liu Jun only invested more than one million taels of silver in a short time. As Liu Jun’s boss, shouldn’t he share the benefits? Even if he gets 100,000 taels of silver.
Moreover, Zhu Dadian is now in a hurry to lack money. He recruited all the Yunyang soldiers whom Liu Jun had sacked into Fubiao Camp, and recruited more than 7,000 additional people, making his Fubiao Camp reach 13,000. After restoring the size of Yunyang troops, troubles also followed.
Although the troops under his command are of the fourth battalion, it is not cheap to maintain such an army.
It turned out that the Yunyang soldiers had to pay more than 200,000 yuan in annual food and salary, and they cost more than 20,000 taels of silver every month. Now the imperial court has no money to pay, so everything has to be done by itself. Zhu Dadian has been searching everywhere during this period, but the treasury of Yunyang was already empty when Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang.
Now Zhu Dadian can barely supply the food of the Fubiao camp. But after a while, when it comes to paying the salary, if Zhu Dadian cannot afford the money to pay the salary, then the minority of the price will be difficult to continue, and in severe cases, there may be trouble or even mutiny.
Zhu Dadian himself is very rich. Although he was born in poverty, he has been a local official over the years and has been greedy for millions of wealth. But he would never want to ask him to take money out of his pocket to support his soldiers.
"Didn't Liu Jun just raised 100,000 taels of money? Since it was a raising money, the money raised must of course be from Fubiao Camp." The person who spoke was Zhu Wanhua, the son of Zhu Dadian, who was also a very brave young man. Like his father, he was also jealous of the 100,000 taels of money raised by Liu Jun.
However, Zhu Wanhua knew that Liu Jun was not an ordinary general and did not buy his face very much, so he did not dare to say that the money Liu Jun raised would be transferred to the governor. He only said that there was also a share of their Pacific Camp.
In theory, this should be true. Since this money is under the name of raising funds and pay, then as a soldier in Yunyang Town, Fubiao Camp should of course have their share of the money.
"There are now ten battalions of troops in Yunyang, the second battalion of Guerrillas in the fourth battalion of Biao in the town of Liu Jun, and the fourth battalion of Fubiao. Then the 100,000 taels of silver should be divided equally according to the battalions. Liu Jun should take out 40,000 taels of silver for us Fubiao." A Fubiao general said.
Zhu Dadian nodded. He didn't expect to get the transfer of the ten taels of silver, but at least he had to get his own share.
He didn't even ask for half of it. He only asked for a split of equality by the battalion, only 40%. I think Liu Jun could not even refuse such a request.
Zhu Dadian did not send anyone to tell Liu Jun to visit him. He sent his son Zhu Wanhua to Liu Jun's general's office to meet Liu Jun himself.
In the General's Mansion, Liu Jun personally met Zhu Wanhua and listened carefully to Zhu Wanhua's words conveyed by Zhu Dadian.
"This requirement of Lord Futai is very reasonable and reasonable." Liu Jun nodded first, and then changed his subject, "However, Lord Futai is unaware that the prize money issued this time was issued with 250,000 taels of prize money. The prize money was 175,000 taels, and then there were 15,000 taels of various costs, such as printing, issuance and publicity. Therefore, the final income is 60,000 taels of silver, not 100,000 taels!"
When Zhu Wanhua heard this, he hurriedly said, "This is wrong, isn't the winner still paid the tax? The 20% bonus is 35,000 taels."
Liu Jun smiled slightly, "The young master also knew that this was a tax reward, so the money would naturally be handed over to the court."
"Submit it to the court?" Zhu Wanhua was stunned for a moment, and then he looked like he was cheating. The money he raised had to be handed over to the court. This is fooling around.
"Tax is tax, donation is donation, these are two things, and we can't confuse them." Liu Jun ignored his suspicious expression at all and continued, "I understand the meaning of the governor. Of course, this donation of this donation is from Fubiao Camp. However, our Yunyang Town has 50,000 troops and 10,000 troops, and 40,000 battalions of each battalion, and 60,000 taels of silver are evenly divided by each battalion. The governor's 10,000 battalion is 12,000 taels of Fubiao Camp. I am ready to send someone to send it. Since Mr. Zhu is here, you can sign and collect it directly."
"Ten thousand taels? No, no no, this number is wrong, it is not calculated like this. There are more than 100,000 taels of silver in total. Even if you deduct a fraction of the money for your issuance, there are still 100,000,000, ten battalions in Yunyang and four battalions under my father will get 40,000 silver."
"Young Master Zhu is wrong. The court gave Yunyang a quota of 50,000 troops, the governor and generals each 10,000. The deputy generals and guerrilla guards and other departments. How could the Fubiao battalion be 12,000? Besides, the silver quota is for the entire Yunyang Town 50,000 troops. In addition, the soldiers in Yunyang also have shares of the troops everywhere. As for taxes, I still say the same thing, that is for the court and the emperor, and it cannot be used automatically."
"I don't think so, the tax may be in which pocket."
Liu Jun snorted coldly, "The silver is there, 12,000 taels. If Lord Futai is not satisfied, then forget it."
This is already a bit of gunpowder.
If Liu Jun hadn't wanted to be too incompatible with Zhu Dadian, he wouldn't want to give this 12,000 taels. But Zhu Dadian was a governor, his immediate boss, and had 10,000 troops designated by the emperor. If Liu Jun had raised funds but did not give Zhu Dadian some of his writing, I was afraid that Liu Jun would not be able to get it if this matter was caused.
Now Liu Jun gave Zhu Dadian a copy, hoping that Zhu Dadian could understand the situation and not make progress. As long as Zhu Dadian is willing to cooperate, Liu Jun is still willing to share the benefits of Zhu Dadian, win-win cooperation and enjoy the benefits.
Zhu Wanhua was annoyed and left with a swing of his sleeves. He didn't ask for the 12,000 taels of silver. Because he felt that if he took the silver now, it would be difficult to settle the score with Liu Jun. If he didn't take it now, Liu Jun would have to send more silver when he turned around. When he left, he did think so.
When he returned to the Governor's Office, Zhu Dahua told the conversation between Liu Jun in the General Office as it was. Zhu Dadian heard that he had repeatedly given up, but Liu Jun still refused to give him any face. He also looked at him and asked for 40,000 taels, but Liu Jun only gave him 12,000, so why are he still getting taxes and costs?
I have never heard of the silver raised in the money that is taxable, nor have I heard of printing tens of thousands of prize tickets, but the cost is 15,000 taels of silver. It is too much to deceive people.
"Come, go to the General Office to tell Liu Jun to see my pussy." Zhu Dadian shouted angrily.
Immediately, people from the Governor's Office ran to the General Office to pass on the orders. The Governor's Office and the General Office were both in the same city, so the order was soon passed.
Unfortunately, Liu Jun did not come immediately and sent someone to bring back a reply.
"General Liu went to inspect the town camp to practice, and was not in the General Army's Office."
"Go to Zhenbiao Camp to pass the message and let Liu Jun come to see my comfort!"
The people from the yamen ran to the town model camp again, and ran to several military camps in a row before they found Liu Jun. As a result, after hearing the order, Liu Jun just replied lightly, "I don't have time."
In just two short words, it revealed endless contempt. Zhu Dadian, who received this reply, was furious and almost went to the military camp to find Liu Jun to fight desperately. In the end, it was the master who persuaded him, and finally he finally held back.
The next day, Zhu Dadian sent someone to tell Liu Jun to see him, but he still had no time to reply. This was the case for three consecutive days. Zhu Dadian also understood that Liu Jun was a slut. He went to the inspector's yamen in person, trying to find the inspector to complain to Liu Jun. As a result, the inspector Huang Daozhou was not in the yamen. After careful investigation, he realized that the inspector's censor was tracking down the Yunyang Guard's occupation of military farmland.
When Zhu Dadian heard this, he immediately returned home. He knew that the military officers invaded the military farm and could not get involved. Huang Daozhou actually jumped in, so he should wisely stay away and not let himself get rid of mud. He turned to Yang Tinglin, deputy envoy of the military farm, but Yang Tinglin actually followed Huang Daozhou to investigate the military farm.
After going around for a while, he returned to the starting point. In this Yunyang Town, he, the governor, could not even control the generals of his subordinates. But this is true. He really couldn't control Liu Jun. All he could do was write memorials to the court and impeach them, waiting for the result of the court.
"Why!"
After a long sigh, Zhu Dadian felt a little exhausted. He successively governed Shandong, Fengyang and governed the grain transportation, and served as the Minister of War. But now the governor of Yunyang, he met a domineering general like Liu Jun. He had never encountered such a person before.
"Go and bring back the 12,000 taels of silver."
"That's all forgot about this?" Zhu Dahua asked.
"Of course I can't forget it." Zhu Dadian said hatefully, "But let's take the money back first." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!