Jiangning County.

Fang Shiyu walked around the streets and followed Xia Yuanji Pinto said, "No, no, this Jiangning is definitely a genius!"

"Jiangning is close to the capital, with hundreds of thousands of troops guarding the Beijing camp, another guard in the county town, and local captive houses. The public security is good!"

Fang Shiyu did not show any particular surprise about Jiangning County's appearance. Although Jiangning County has indeed changed a lot, it has not yet been so big that it shocked Fang Shiyu.

When he walked to a stall with a sign hanging and selling pork, Fang Shiyu asked, "Heroine, how much does a pound of meat cost?"

"Ten stakes, five stakes, seven stakes, two stakes!" The butcher held a picking knife in his hand and pointed at the pork on the stall one by one at the price. The price of different meats is naturally different.

Fang Shiyu nodded and said, "Well, two pieces of calf meat are enough for one pound!"

"Okay!"

The butcher took the picking knife and started to do it directly. Seeing this, Fang Shiyu asked, "Heroine, how much can you sell this day?"

"A pig, two or three hundred kilograms of meat. If you catch a banquet, three or four pigs are not enough to sell!" the butcher said with a smile.

The smile on his face is not like making a fake.

Fang Shiyu came to Jiangning County on a whim. He saw what changes had happened in Jiangning County, and he did not issue any official documents. After all, Jiangning County is still very close to Yingtian Prefecture.

It is no exaggeration to say that Jiangning County is a part of Yingtian Prefecture!

Carrying the meat, Fang Shiyu said, "Then how much money can you make by selling a pig?"

"You can earn almost three or four hundred guan. If you deduct taxes, you can leave about three hundred guan!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Shiyu nodded and continued to ask, "Is it enough?"

"Of course it's enough. A bucket of rice is only ten cents of treasure money. You can buy thirty buckets of rice a day, but you can't eat it!" The butcher smiled. At this time, two middle-aged women who came together came to the stall and wanted to buy meat.

Xia Yuanji pulled Fang Shiyu and said, "Your Highness, it seems that the county magistrate of Jiangning County is also an expert. Should I go and meet?"

"See? Then go and have a look!" Fang Shiyu nodded slightly and walked towards the county government. He wanted to see what was going on in Jiangning County and started breeding.

Outside the county town, Fang Shiyu saw more than a dozen large ponds, and he didn't know how many fish there were inside, but the farmers threw the fish fry in and did do the breeding industry.

Moreover, there are many mountainous areas near Jiangning, and animal husbandry is not impossible. Although it is not as good as the development of animal husbandry in the north, if Jiangning becomes the center of the breeding industry, there will be a solution to meat in the south in the future.

But when Fang Shiyu came to the county government office, the entire county government office was deserted and the government gate was closed. Fang Shiyu looked back and said, "What the hell is going on?"

"The security in Jiangning is very good. It is normal for the county magistrate not to sit in the hall and find a way to develop the economy of Jiangning County." Xia Yuanji said awkwardly.

Shaking his head, Fang Shiyu said, "Forget it, go back."

The 28th year of Hongwu, June 7th!

Taihe Gate.

Fang Shiyu said, "I went to Jiangning. The local development is indeed rapid. The animal husbandry and breeding industry provide a large amount of meat. The people of Jiangning County have a high happiness index, high wages and low prices!"

"This is the credit of the Jiangning County Magistrate. Jiangning County should also be divided into a role model for the New Dynasty. All prefectures and counties should put the people's livelihood and people's plans in their hearts!"

"High income, low prices, not low income, high prices. The Ming Dynasty is not short of food now, and the imperial court opened warehouses and sold grain three times a year!"

"Ministry of Revenue will talk first!"

Fang Shiyu was quite satisfied with the style of Jiangning County, low prices and high income, breeding farms, animal husbandry, slaughtering and sales, all provided a lot of jobs to the local people.

At this time, Xia Yuanji spoke: "In response to the matter of Jiangning County, the court should commend local officials, and be promoted first when the term of office is transferred!"

"In addition, the development guidance of Jiangning County is particularly important for the leading role of the country. Weichen believes that the court should select certain duty-free areas and vigorously support the development of commerce."

Xia Yuanji knows how to manage finances, knows how to spend money and make money, but he can't think of any better way to promote the prosperity of trade.

But the tax exemption method is indeed once and for all

Fang Shiyu shook his head and said, "If you are tax-free, forget it. The court vigorously supports the development of commerce and trade in order to collect commercial taxes. If tax-free, a large amount of wealth will remain among the people, causing inflation and causing the depreciation of Baochao, but it will also prone to breed corruption."

Fang Shiyu waved his hand and said that if he was exempted from duty, it would be better to do it now. According to Fang Shiyu's thoughts, he would wait for the end of this voyage. After Lan Yu returned, the court also took the place of the place.

Instead, we can try it. We will implement policies to reduce and exempt commercial taxes on the site so that more mainland merchants can colonize and export the site to ensure the rapid restoration of the livelihood and strength of the site.

Hou Tai, the Minister of War, spoke: "Your Highness, the founding Duke Chang Mao, has led his troops to fight. According to the course of the matter, I am afraid that the founding Duke's army will arrive at the intersection and will be about to begin winter!"

Departing in June, you will waste at least three months on the road. Arriving at the intersection in September and launching an attack. Another month has passed.

Fang Shiyu nodded slightly and said, "The founding Duke expanded the territory for the empire and maintained the complete unification of the ancestral territory. The Ministry of War should unconditionally support military rations and military supplies."

"As for when to arrive at the front line, when to start the war, and when the entire territory of the reunion will be regained, it is entirely determined by the founding Duke!"

Fang Shiyu had no chance to go to the battlefield. After all, he still had a general who could take advantage of his skills to lead troops to fight. When it was time to fight in person, it meant that the court lacked an arm.

Why did Zhu Di personally expedition Mongolia? If it weren't for Qiu Fu's defeat in the Northern Expedition, Zhu Di wouldn't have had to go to the battlefield himself.

Lan Yu was driven to the sea by Fang Shiyu, but there were no casualties among other generals, so Fang Shiyu didn't need to fight in person.

Suddenly, Fang Shiyu's mind turned around, as if she had remembered something, and asked, "Chen Di, what is the intention of North Korea?"

"Report to your highness, the moves of King Lee Sung-gui of Korea have not been clear yet. He has negotiated with North Korean envoys many times, and North Korea is not willing to give up its own mercenary army and let the Celestial Army protect the troops!"

"The Crown Prince of Joseon Lee Fangyuan, however, proposed the idea of ​​buying the Celestial Firearms. However, the court strictly prohibited the firearms from flowing out. In the end, they could only part in a bad mood and leave in vain!"

Chen Di said word by word. He had negotiated with the North Korean envoys many times. According to Fang Shiyu's intention, North Korea could completely give up its military power and the Ming Dynasty implemented military protection on the Korean Peninsula!

But North Korea seems to be obviously unwilling to give up this power it has finally obtained.

Fang Shiyu shook his head and said, "Hou Tai, how efficient is the Firearm Manufacturing Bureau? How many can the annual production rifled guns meet the standards?"

"The data given by the Firearms Manufacturing Bureau is that it produces 130,000 per year. As long as the court pays the money, it can be equipped with the entire army in three years!"

Hou Tai said firmly.

"How does that compare to the power of the rifled rifle and the musket?" Fang Shiyu continued to ask.

"The rifled gun is far beyond the rifled gun in both the reloading speed and range." Hou Tai did not have much rigorous data, but he had seen the difference between the rifled gun and the rifled gun, which could really be considered one in the sky and one in the ground.

Of course, when the Hongwu Type 24 musket was created, compared with the previous mesh rope guns, it was also in the sky and underground!

"How many muskets will be eliminated in three years?" Fang Shiyu frowned. It seems that North Korea cannot afford such a large number of eliminations.

"There should be approximately 400,000 muskets retired! Seal!" Hou Tai could only find a rough data in his mind. After all, the Ministry of War has not been in a decimal place every year in recent years.

"Ask North Korea how much they can eat and how much money they can exchange for. In addition, 300,000 poles are intercepted. After Duke Liang returns, the court will sell these to all parts of the world!"

Fang Shiyu's face was calm. These guns had been in service for four years and shorter years, and they served for one year. Now that the Ming Dynasty developed rifled guns, these muskets would naturally be retired.

When I bought them for 400,000 yuan, it cost at least 500,000 yuan of money and millions of taels of silver. Now I sell them overseas.

Whether it is sold to vassal kings in various places or to many countries in Xiniu Hezhou, funds can be reflowed.

What's more, why can't a gun worth five million be sold for tens of millions? The gun is not the most profitable, and the most profitable one is always bullets and gunpowder.

"Your Highness, these muskets are wandering overseas, once..." Hou Tai said quickly. So many guns, 400,000, are enough to arm a superpower. With these 400,000, I am afraid that the world will change its color.

Fang Shiyu said: "It's useless to stay in the treasury, not to mention that the technology of the rifled rifle has matured. When the rifled rifle is loaded, I don't know if the musket is sold clean!"

"In addition, for reserve countries with more than 100,000 yuan of notes, the Ministry of Rites negotiated and allowed them to purchase orders from the court and the Firearm Manufacturing Bureau!"

"Just block the advanced technology and ensure that the latest firearms will not be left overseas! The purchase price of foreign countries in the Firearm Manufacturing Bureau should be twenty-five times that of the Ministry of War, and the purchase from the imperial court should be fifteen times that of the Ministry of War!"

Fang Shiyu wanted to fight. Although the Ming Dynasty's commercial tax provided a lot of wealth to the Ming court, as soon as the war broke out, Chang Mao's army still used muskets.

Waiting for the rifled rifle to be equipped with the entire army, the cost of a rifled rifle is as high as twenty guan Baochao, and the purchase price of the imperial court is thirty guan Baochao per Baochao.

One tael of silver, you can only shoot out thirty-three bullets

Not counting the consumption of training, a large-scale war would not allow millions of projectiles to be killed? Chang Maozheng brought six million projectiles to the site.

This is still a musket. If it is a rifled rifle, one million bullets will be 30 million treasures, and six million will be 180 million treasures.

Horrible price.

"I accept the order!" Chen Di thought in his mind that if he could sell it, there might be nothing wrong with it. After all, the imperial court has better firearms, and the eliminated firearms are not convenient to use.

It becomes moldy when placed in the warehouse, and it is like a waste of money!

Fang Shiyu said: "Retreat the court!"

After saying that, Fang Shiyu stood up, just took two steps, suddenly turned around and added: "Low prices, high salary! The Ministry of Revenue has re-developed the salary standards for the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system and sent them to the Ganqing Palace!"

Department of Revenue.

Xia Yuanji's threshold was trampled.

Countless officials of the court, whether they are fourth-rank, fifth-rank, third-rank, and second-rank, all squeezed into Xia Yuanji's yamen.

This is really about their survival plan.

Zhang Jue said: "Xia Yuanji, how do you plan to formulate a salary for the second rank?"

"Shangshu Xia, you must take care of it. Your Highness gives you such an important thing, and he must really want to increase our salary!"

"Pity my old dog, if he had increased his salary earlier, he wouldn't have to starve to death!"

Xia Yuanji sat on the chair and looked at the people in front of him, feeling helpless. Fang Shiyu handed this matter to Xia Yuanji for statistics. After doing it, Xia Yuanji is a great hero and a great benefactor in the eyes of all court officials.

But once he doesn't do well, or if Fang Shiyu just asked Xia Yuanji to take the blame, he actually never thought of increasing the salary of all officials. Then Xia Yuanji would be excluded by countless people in the court.

Everyone thinks that Xia Yuanjiding's salary was too high, which made Fang Shiyu dissatisfied, thus blocking their possibility of a increase in salary.

Xia Yuanji sighed and said, "Don't squeeze everyone. I still have to ask Your Highness about this matter and hear what Your Highness said. If you really want to raise your salary, you should also get your Highness to the level!"
To be continued...