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Chapter 121

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    With the arrival of the first day of the first lunar month in the ninth year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, the Pingxi Palace, which lives in a corner, has also ushered in the best era since the establishment of the mansion.  In the past year, relying on monopolizing the exclusive planting rights and export tax-free rights of the Eight Banners Fushou Gao, the Pingxi Palace has earned a full three hundred  The fiscal revenue of more than two hundred thousand taels of silver, ranging from Prince Wu Sangui to ordinary soldiers and vassals, needless to say, each of them made a lot of money, and it completely made up for the fatal weakness of the Pingxi Palace's inability to support itself in food and wages.  The necessary degree of financial dependence of the Qing court was also greatly reduced.

    Faced with such a situation, most of the civil and military generals of the Pingxi Palace and the family members of the vassals and vassals are of course blushing, their wallets are bulging, and they worship Wu Sangui and Fatty Lu who brought them this fetish like gods. Wu Sangui has also done it several times.  Waking up from the dream with a smile, I am extremely grateful to God for giving me such a living treasure as Fatty Lu¡ª¡ªliving treasure for short.  However, some people of insight in the Pingxi Palace, such as Wu Sangui's four great think tanks Hu, Liu, Wang, Fang, and Wu Sangui's Xia Guoxiang, Liu Yi, Gao Dejie, Guo Zhuangtu, Qiu Kesun and Yang Shanzi, etc.  , but they were all worried about this situation, discussing with each other to find an opportunity to remind Wu Sangui.

    The best opportunity is undoubtedly in the few days after New Year's Eve. In order to celebrate the New Year, most of the backbone of Pingxi Palace, including Lu Fatty, the number one rising star of Pingxi Palace, all returned to Kunming with their families, and  Wu Sangui celebrated the Spring Festival together. Basically, apart from Wu Yingxiong, who was held hostage by Xiao Mazi in the capital, all the wolves, tigers and leopards in the Pingxi Palace had arrived.  After a few days of intense preparation, on the second day of the first lunar month, the four major think tanks of Pingxi Palace, Lu Fatzi, Xia Guoxiang, Liu Yi, Gao Dejie and more than ten people came to Yin'an Hall together, and jointly asked Wu Sangui to receive him.  .

    After waiting patiently for a long time, Wu Sangui, who was still drinking on his face, finally arrived at the Yin'an Hall. He was not wearing the prince's formal attire, but casual clothes.  I sent people to drink and celebrate with you, why did you all refuse? Why are you all here now? Walk around, it¡¯s rare to have a good year, and you need to celebrate more, and accompany me to Anfu Garden to drink.  Let¡¯s talk about what¡¯s going on there.¡±

    "Father-in-law, if we have important matters to report, we should ask father-in-law to speak in the Yin'an Hall." Hu Guozhu, the eldest son-in-law of the old traitor Wu, kowtowed and said.

    "Important matter?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, and said, "For the New Year's Eve, is there any important matter that we can't talk about in a few days?" Even so, Wu Sangui still didn't insist on objecting when he saw many hard-core confidants kneeling in Yin'an Hall with serious faces.  Soon he sat on the Tuanlong Chair in the middle of Yin'an Hall, accepted the etiquette of the hard-core dog legs according to the rules, and said: "Pingshen, if you have anything to say, just say it."

    Everyone was not in a hurry to talk, only Hu Guozhu gave a wink to Cao Zhangyin Liu Yi, the number one financial expert in Pingxi Palace, Liu Yi understood, came out and knelt down on his knees, holding out a thick account book but did not open it  , and said directly: "My lord, the financial revenue of my Pingxi Palace in the eight years of Kangxi's reign is as follows: Yunnan land tax, Ding tax and salt tax and other taxes totaled 293,326 taels of silver.  Three cents of the money, one hundred and five thousand two hundred and ninety-seven taels of silver for various taxes in Guizhou, and one cent of the money for the Eight Banners Fushou Gao in Yunnan, which was allocated by the imperial court  The military salary is 3.4 million taels."

    "The total income is 7,055,616 taels and 4 cents. Compared with last year's 3.72 million taels, the increase has almost doubled!" said  Now, Liu Yi paused, and then said in a deep voice: "If we add the secret income of my Pingxi Palace's private mining of copper coins and mining of gold sand, the financial revenue of my Pingxi Palace this year has actually exceeded eight million.  Two! Excluding military pay, weapons, salaries and other expenses, the actual savings are more than 4.8 million taels!"

    "Zuochang (character Liu Yi), Gu has asked you for this number several times, and how many times have you reported it carefully?" Wu Sangui said with a smile on his face: "These are all thanks to you, especially  Yifeng, your Eight Banners Fushou Ointment has really helped our Pingxi Palace a lot, starting from this year, we no longer have to be afraid of being choked by others."

    "Father-in-law, please listen to Master Liu's performance first." Hu Guozhu reminded with a serious face.  Wu Sangui was taken aback, quickly lifted his spirits, and made a gesture to Liu Yi to continue talking.

    "My lord, because the imperial court is investigating the grain case in Gansu, Wang Hongzuo, the former Minister of the Household Department and a native of Baoshan, Yunnan, has been dismissed and interrogated, and replaced by Hao Weina, who is at odds with our Pingxi palace, so the ministers and others can no longer directly control the imperial court.  The financial revenue and expenditure can only be inferred based on public information analysis, and roughly estimated." Liu Yi said unhurriedly: "Weichen and others estimate that the imperial court in Kangxi??Familiar numbers.

    "Then you hope that this king will draw out two million taels of silver to expand his armaments, and how do you plan to spend the money?" Wu Sangui asked again.

    "Return to the lord, the ministers and others have already listed the expenditure details!" Liu Yi raised his hands above the head of the account book in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "The humble staff have been working non-stop these days, and have already compiled a detailed list of armaments. Guaranteed  Spend every penny of the prince's money wisely, please take a look at it!"

    "Don't look at it." Wu Sangui waved his hand, suddenly slapped the dragon case in front of him, and shouted: "Add double for this king, and do the calculation again! Don't you want two million taels? This king will give you four hundred."  Ten thousand taels! This king is already fifty-six this year. If you don¡¯t bring the silver with you when you die, instead of leaving it in the treasury to mold, it¡¯s better to leave some life-saving magic weapons for the descendants of the Pingxi Palace! Let people all over the world,  They dare not take our Pingxi Palace as a fish and slaughter it!"

    "My lord is holy, my ministers and others swear to die to be loyal to your lord!" Fatty Lu and the others were overjoyed, kowtowed and shouted together, Liu Xuanchu, Fang Guangchen and other old people even burst into tears, and finally saw Wu Sangui's high spirits for once.

    "Also, give Yifeng 50,000 taels alone!" Wu Sangui pointed at Fatty Lu again, and shouted, "Yifeng, let me continue to make those Western things you told Gu back then, the more the better! The more powerful the better!  Good! Also, the airship you mentioned last year to Qi and Gao Dejie, which can let lonely soldiers fly to the enemy to throw explosives on the airship, you must make it for Gu! It¡¯s done, Gu Daigui  Be the master, I promise you my granddaughter Xiaotu!"

    "Thank you, my lord, for your trust." Fatty Lu replied loudly: "Within this year, if you can't let the lord's sons fly into the sky and fly freely, please ask your lord to punish you!"

    "Okay, Gu believes in you!" Wu Sangui took another look at the Tuanlong case, suddenly slowed down, and said with a smile: "Okay, if there is nothing else, let's accompany me to Anfu Garden for a drink.  It was picked from the wine table, and the guests over there are still waiting for loneliness." (To be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please log on to www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support the original version  Read!) (Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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