Chapter 310 Funds

Of course, if Shang Ji doesn't care about anything and just wants to make money, he can make millions of gold even in a poor place like Liaodong in a few years!

However, Shang Ji is naturally not the kind of short-sighted person. Not only does Shang Ji not intend to make money, but he is also planning to throw money into it!

Now he is very lucky, fortunately Liu Meng got the Qiankun Good Fortune Ring back then, fortunately Liu Meng picked up the Qiankun Good Fortune Ring, otherwise Shang Ji would have to worry about money and die!

"Hong Zhu, go ahead and tell everyone the specific situation in Liaodong in detail, so that everyone can understand!" Although he has enough confidence at the moment, Shang Ji does not intend to reveal it for the time being, but instead signals Deng Yan to continue talking about Liaodong. The bad situation, put pressure on everyone!

"Because of the influence of the Xianbei invasion, the internal tax revenue of the entire Liaodong County has been greatly affected. It is estimated that in the last three months of this year, the tax revenue can only be between one-fifth and one-third of the normal level. Not only that, due to the impact of the war, a large number of The people are displaced and need our relief, and it is expected to cost at least two million gold!"

"In addition, according to the military plan just now, you need to invest at least 30 million gold in the next three months to ensure the smooth progress of the military reform! And after the army is completed, it will also need at least 2.5 million gold per month for basic maintenance costs. If training is strengthened, the cost will increase sharply. In the event of a large-scale war, the specific cost cannot be calculated!"

"Counting the repair and upgrading of necessary buildings, the distribution of official salaries, the repair of water conservancy roads and other messy things, our Liaodong fiscal deficit this year will be as high as 50 million gold! And if the financial situation does not improve significantly, the deficit will become larger and larger !"

After Deng Yan finished speaking, he fell silent, giving everyone time to digest.

Everyone under his command, especially the generals, opened their mouths wide, their faces full of disbelief.

Although they knew that building an army was expensive, they never thought that it would cost so much money, nor did they think that Liaodong County's financial situation was so bad. Many people were frightened, worried whether the military reform, which seemed ambitious just now, could go on smoothly under such circumstances.

After a while, Deng Yan continued to speak: "In addition to the bad financial situation, we are not optimistic about other aspects."

"The first is law and order. Due to the impact of the war, there are many bandits. At present, bandits are almost everywhere in Liaodong."

"Secondly, Liaodong County is located in a remote area, and its food production cannot be completely self-sufficient. It needs to buy nearly ten million shi of grain from other states and counties every year to ensure that there will be no large-scale famine. If a war breaks out, it may cause us serious damage. Deadly threat!"

"In addition, Liaodong County is almost behind the inland states and counties in forging, smelting, medicine, literature, construction, commerce and other aspects. Except for the outstanding force, Liaodong County has almost nothing to compare with the inland states and counties!"

Deng Yan smiled wryly, and concluded helplessly.

In fact, it is not correct to emphasize the prominence of force. Liaodong County is located in a frontier fortress, and the force value of ordinary civilians may be three to five points higher than that of ordinary people in the interior.

However, at the level of historical generals, Liaodong County once again returned to the bottom position.

In the entire Liaodong County, the only historical military general who can be called famous is Xu Rong, then the big family of Gongsun Du, and then Liu Yi.

The third is the cannon fodder-level historical military general like Yang Yi. Compared with the situation of the top famous generals in the mainland, it can only be said to be quite bleak.

Of course, it was impossible for Deng Yan to know about these situations, and Shang Ji didn't intend to do anything unnecessary. Everyone has been hit hard enough, and if they get hit again, they will probably lose confidence.

"What? Are you depressed like this? At the beginning, we had less than ten thousand soldiers, less than ten, and only occupied a small area of ​​black water. We still had the courage to go deep into Xianbei to seek skins from tigers. Now we have tens of millions of people under our jurisdiction, and the distance between the north and the south of our jurisdiction is close. Tens of thousands of miles, hundreds of fierce generals, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, the conditions are not only a hundred times better than before? They were not afraid at the time, why are they retreating now?"

Seeing the depressed faces of the people, Shang Ji immediately encouraged him.

"What my lord teaches is,

I am ashamed! "

After being said so, everyone immediately realized that the situation was so difficult at that time, and if they were not afraid, why should they be afraid now? Immediately they cheered up and said to Shang Ji.

"Let me tell you another good news. I have reached an agreement with the wealthy businessman Wuji Zhen. Zhen has agreed to lend us a huge amount of money. The specific amount will be kept secret at Zhen's request, but I assure you that we will not There will be financial difficulties!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone including Deng Yan and Liu Yi cast their eyes on Shang Ji, with uncontrollable joy in their eyes!

"No wonder brother (brother) Qiankun insisted on training 500,000 special units. It turned out to solve the funding problem. It seems that I was worrying too much!" The two sighed in their hearts at the same time.

"My lord is really a hero, to be so favored by the Wuji Zhen family!" Tai Shici looked at Shang Ji with admiration, and couldn't help but sigh.

Although Shang Ji said that the specific amount would be kept secret, Deng Yan just said that there will be a fiscal deficit of more than 50 million yuan this year, which means that Shang Ji got at least 50 million gold from the Zhen family.

Fifty million gold! This is also quite a huge number for the Zhen family.

Shang Ji smiled and said nothing when he heard the words, as if he was holding a wisdom pearl.

The facts are of course not what Shang Ji said. Although Shang Ji did find Li Cai and asked Li Cai for a loan, no matter what he said, Li Cai bit him to death and could only provide a loan of five million gold at most. Not one more point. And this money has to be mortgaged, and the collateral is the hundreds of thousands of high-quality war horses that Shangji had retained before!

Most of Shangji's construction funds came from Helian's "friendship contribution", but the money was not visible, and Shangji had to find a reasonable source of funds for himself.

The person who put forward the condition for keeping the specific amount confidential was not Zhen, but Shang Ji. Taking advantage of the information asymmetry between the two parties, they made a small trick.

The Shang Ji army or the outside world will only think that the funds are provided by the Zhen family, and the Zhen family will not be able to figure out the specific financial situation of the Shang Ji for a while. Keep it a secret.

And when Shang Ji sinks to a firm foothold, the Yellow Turban Uprising breaks out, and the authority of the imperial court plummets, it doesn't matter even if the secret is revealed in broad daylight.

"Mr. Zhen doesn't want to say anything about this matter. You still need to keep your mouth shut. Don't make a big deal of it, lest some villains have an opportunity to take advantage of it!"

To act is to do a full set, Shang Ji saw the excitement on everyone's face, smiled and waved his hands, explaining to everyone.

"Your subordinates obey!" Everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, that's the end of today's meeting. Lieutenant Liu and Juncheng Deng stay here for a while, and everyone else can go to rest first!"

"Subordinates leave!"