Chapter 919: Zero City and Ten Thousand Towns

"As for the other parts of the grassland, our army's defeat of Xianbei is still there. Nuoda's grassland is only guarded by a mere 600,000 troops, but it is as stable as Mount Tai. Whether it is the grassland tribe that has completed the registration of Qimin, or Gongsun Zan, Liu Yu and other neighboring princes They didn't dare to have the slightest intention of attacking."

Speaking of this, Deng Yan still had a little bit of regret in his tone. As one of the most core officials in Pingzhou, he naturally knew that there were hundreds of millions of war spirits guarding the grassland, and he wished for some greedy princes who didn't have long eyes to invade the grassland.

It's a pity that the Pingzhou Army was too powerful. Even if Shang Ji and the main force of the Pingzhou Army were not there, the princes would be too scared to move around, which made Deng Yan's expectations come to nothing.

"In the past year, we have migrated about 30 million people to the grassland, and the migrant population is mainly concentrated in Zhenbei City and a few big cities. The big migration is also the main reason for the sharp increase in grassland food consumption. However, our understanding of the grassland The support is not without return. Last year, the grassland produced 200 million cattle, 3.8 billion sheep, and 30 million horses of various types, including 2.3 million high-quality war horses (intermediate and above war horses).

Through barter, money redemption, tax payment, etc., most of the cattle and sheep and nearly 80% of the horses fell into our hands. After giving priority to meeting our internal needs in Pingzhou, the remaining goods are sold to all parts of the country through the channels of Zhen's firm.

In the trade of horses, grain, cattle and sheep, we have made a total profit of 186 million gold. In the past year, the total amount of foreign trade in Pingzhou was 831 million gold. The main foreign trade goods were medicinal materials, elixir, weapons and equipment, large-scale ordnance, cattle, sheep, war horses, and finished military rations. The total accumulated trade profit was 200 million Forty million gold.

Due to the large number of aliens participating in the national war, the sales of medicines, equipment, etc. have dropped sharply. If it is not supplemented by the trade of war horses, cattle and sheep, our total foreign trade revenue last year may not be as good as the year before.

In terms of taxation, last year, a total of 280 million yuan in taxes and taxes were collected, a year-on-year increase of 36%. Last year, the cumulative disposable income of Pingzhou's finance was 531.62 million gold, which was a very significant increase compared with the previous year. "

After listening to Deng Yan's report, Shang Ji also grinned.

The finance of 530 million gold is not taken seriously by Shang Ji, and the harvest during the national war is far more than this.

However, the gold coins harvested from the national war and the gold coins from Pingzhou's taxation are completely two concepts.

For example, in modern society, the former is like a currency issued by a sovereign country, as long as it wants to, it can issue as much as it wants.

However, even if a hundred times more currency is issued, it is impossible to directly improve the overall strength of the country even a little bit.

The latter is a real manifestation of productivity,

If the two can be freely converted, Shang Ji is willing to convert all the national war wealth into Pingzhou productivity at a ratio of ten to one.

To put it simply, the former is just gold and silver, while the latter is combat power!

Of course, the benefits of mastering a large number of gold coins are also obvious. He can use the gold coins in his hands to pluck the wool wantonly, just like the United States used the dollar hegemony to pluck the wool of the world in the real society.

However, this is also a technical job. You can't just catch one sheep, and the frequency of the sheep must not be too high, otherwise it will be easy to kill the sheep.

"but!"

After talking about the harvest, Xi Zhicai changed the subject and continued: "Last year, our expenditures on civil affairs, military affairs, education, infrastructure, etc. totaled as high as 1.6 billion gold, and the ratio of income to expenditure was nearly one to three!"

After a pause, Xi Zhicai added: "This does not include the Lord's investment in the army before participating in the national war."

The rapid development of Pingzhou can almost be said to be achieved by throwing money at it.

A set of the most intuitive data, when Shang Ji first took up the post of Pingzhou Shepherd, the annual tax of the whole Pingzhou was only 68 million gold, and the expenditure was only more than 90 million (before the imperial court would subsidize remote states and counties) money subsidy). Over the past few years, Pingzhou's fiscal revenue has increased by more than eight times, and its expenditure has increased by nearly twenty times. The population has also increased from more than 60 million to more than 500 million. Such a huge change is all due to massive capital investment.

Whether it is large-scale immigration, reclaiming wasteland, repairing cities, or building roads, all of them do not require a lot of financial support, especially the construction of roads is a big expense.

If it hadn't been for Shang Ji to take over Xianbei's lair and loot all the wealth accumulated by Xianbei for a hundred years, Pingzhou's own financial resources alone would not be able to cover Chidao in Pingzhou in ten years.

A year ago, Shang Ji might still have been worried about financial issues, but now he is only worried about not being able to spend the money.

Deng Yan also knew the inside story, and reporting the financial deficit was just a routine matter. Seeing that Shang Ji didn't care much, he immediately skipped this part.

"In the past year, a large number of aliens have been lost, and the progress of our Ten Thousand Villages Project has been relatively slow. Last year, only more than 3,000 villages were established, which failed to achieve the expected goal.

All the high-level and top-level colleges in the plan were completed, and three great Confucian scholars and twenty-nine great Confucian scholars were invited to give lectures in Pingzhou. At present, the cumulative number of students enrolled in Pingzhou Senior College and above is 46,000, and more than 8,000 qualified graduates can be trained every year, more than half of them have reached the standard of third-rate scribes, exceeding the task set by the lord. "

After listening to Deng Yan's report, Shang Ji nodded in satisfaction. The graduation requirements of Pingzhou Advanced College are quite strict, and the minimum standard is a senior scribe. The minimum graduation requirements of the two top academies have even been raised to the level of third-rate scribes.

With the construction of dozens of colleges, Pingzhou finally has a stable channel for cultivating scribes, and it also allows Pingzhou to completely get rid of the hat of cultural and educational desert.

As for Wancun's plan being blocked, that's nothing. From the beginning to the end, players have been the most powerful promotion group for the Wancun Project. This year's failure to achieve the expected goal was entirely due to the impact of the national war.

"It doesn't matter if Wancun's plan is temporarily frustrated. The return of Yiren will bring new impetus to the advancement of Wancun's plan. However, given the current situation, it is a bit inappropriate to continue to call Wancun's plan. In this way, the plan will be revised to [Thousands of cities and ten thousand villages] The overall goal of the plan is that in the next three years, the total number of small and medium-sized cities in Pingzhou, including Wang Juju, will reach 5,000, and the number of villages and towns at all levels will reach 200,000. How is it? Does Hongzhu think this goal is possible to achieve? "

Deng Yan was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked at Xun Yu again, and finally nodded, indicating that there is no problem!

Currently, within the control area of ​​the Pingzhou Army, there are more than 3,000 city-level bases (including tribes on the grassland) and about 100,000 village-level bases.

Doubling the number of existing bases within three years may seem difficult, but it is actually not impossible.

The return of national war players brings not only new motivation, but also ready-made bases.

Shangji has strong capital, more than one billion national war points, and his eyes are fixed on Jucheng and Wangcheng. Ordinary players don't have this ability. Wouldn't it be nice for them to exchange all their wealth for a small village, and then get a village head to enjoy a field that only local tyrants and lords could set foot in before?

Tired of the cruel battlefield, there are not a few players who have this idea of ​​retirement. And Shangji has always had a good reputation, and also performed well during the national war against the mainland, so Pingzhou has naturally become the first choice for such players.

Deng Yan and the others were already discussing the introduction of policies to attract this wave of farming players to take root in Pingzhou.

Taking this as an opportunity, with a large amount of capital investment, the feasibility of completing the business within three years is still very high!