Everyone pretended not to hear. As for Li Ke, he didn't care about this at all. What's so embarrassing about this?
"Li Xin is right. The biggest part of the money did flow into my hands, but what did I use the money for? One is to provide military pay for the 50,000 elite soldiers stationed in Xizhou in the Tang Dynasty! Their military pay comes from Come out here! Secondly, all the funds for city construction and other matters in Xizhou's "First Five-Year Plan" also need to be spent by me."
"Finally, we will build an official service area to hire retired soldiers, which will also cost a lot of money in the early stage."
"In the later stage, you should know that I will renovate the roads in Chang'an City. For example, some of the main roads in our Xizhou may even be renovated with cement. These will cost money!" Li Ke said calmly.
As soon as everyone heard this, the weird expression just disappeared. If you think about it carefully, it is indeed true. These things all cost His Highness money! Think carefully about how much money it costs to build a city! Everyone’s scalp is numb! The amount of money spent is not a small amount, and now His Highness is solely responsible for it!
It is conceivable that if His Highness does not find a way to make money, how can he possibly be able to support the entire Xizhou! Thinking about it this way, everyone understood Li Ke's behavior of making money just now.
Your Highness, it’s not easy!
However, among these people, Li Yan didn't have any special expression on her face. She just looked at Li Ke who was talking eloquently with a gentle look on her face, while Li Xin had a somewhat weird expression.
Although what you said is right, Third Brother, Third Brother, the steel factory, cement factory, limestone field, including the fishing boats, the linen sold, etc. all belong to your own business, Third Brother.
Then all the herdsmen hired also work for you, Third Brother, and almost all the funds earned by these herdsmen are spent in your business, Third Brother.
In other words, the circulation of this money finally formed a complete closed loop... and the scale can continue to expand... Third brother, did you really spend the money? It seems that you have to spend raw materials to build roads, cities, etc., but the problem is that from the production of raw materials to the final finished product to the final construction process, a complete closed loop is your own industry. If you think about it, all your costs are It can be seen as labor cost.
And you have earned back all the money you spent on labor costs.
Li Xin lowered his little head like a quail, and we didn't dare to speak.
"Your Highness, do we want to sell our ironware to others?" Li Daozong asked.
"No, we need to use a lot of iron for our own construction. We don't have any balance for sale at the moment. We can only sell it to all the people in the Xizhou territory, which means we can exchange our food stamps for it." Li Ke shook his head simply. He shook his head. Although his steel output was large, at least for now, he didn't actually have much leftover.
There are several cities here. Just building these cities requires a lot of steel. Oh, I have to say it at this point. Li Ke’s city building really cannot be called reinforced concrete. After all, the premise of reinforced concrete is that inside It's a steel bar, but Li Ke's is called an iron bar at best.
Anyway, using iron bars can ensure good quality. Although the shelf life is shorter, iron bars can be used for twenty or thirty years, right? Then it’s just a matter of maintenance.
How can there be so much steel used at present?
"Then Lu Hai, you will follow this when selling to other countries." Li Ke said.
"Yes! Your Highness!" Lu Hai immediately bowed.
"By the way, five hundred kilograms of the first batch of salt sold in Chang'an City will be sent to the palace. I will pay for it." Li Ke said.
"Yes." Lu Hai did not refute. The accounts of the trading company must be smoothed. This is what His Highness entrusted to them. Even if the entire trading company belongs to His Highness, public and private matters must be kept separate. Even after one year, the trading company will transfer the profits to them. Give it to Your Highness and prepare the accounts again next year.
"Then Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian." Li Ke said.
"I'm here."
"Starting tomorrow, you will each lead five thousand cavalry to start the distribution of cattle and sheep, and prepare to distribute seeds. Alfalfa can be planted this year." Li Ke said.
"yes!"
Statistics on the population, cattle, sheep and horses of the entire Xizhou have also come to a result. Currently, with the previous wave of herdsmen going out, many herdsmen who fled into the deep mountains and old forests have come out again, and a large number of herdsmen are coming from the direction of Tubo. Migrate in this direction.
The migration of these Tubo tribes is divided into two parts. One part is due to the propaganda of the Tuyuhun herdsmen. Although these Tubo tribes are all skeptical, there are also many people who are tempted, because they are also exploited by the nobles, and many of them cannot survive.
Now His Highness King Qin of the Tang Dynasty has publicly stated that anyone who enters the territory of Xizhou is a common person of the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, if you become a Tang Dynasty citizen, you don’t have to worry about being exploited by the previous nobles. What’s more, there are people from Tuyuhun who have come out to express their opinions, saying that His Highness will give everyone Distribute Yongye sheep, cattle, and horses.
They believed this, because there was Yongye Field in the Tang Dynasty, and they didn't know how to farm, so it was normal for them to have cattle, sheep and horses.
Therefore, many small tribes directly drove away the cattle, sheep and horses that helped the nobles to herd.
But what they didn't know was that they didn't have to sneak away the nobles and they wouldn't have a chance to trouble them, because almost all the Tubo nobles south of the Kunlun Mountains had been swept away by Murong Shun!
The other part of the people who migrated was because they didn't really believe the rumors about Tuyuhun. After all, in their opinion, were the nobles of the Tang Dynasty so kind-hearted? Are you willing to give them cattle, sheep and horses?
But who knew that Murong Shun would come and kill all the Tubo nobles! But they were released.
Now...it's impossible not to run away. If the Tubo Zanpu arrives, these herdsmen will definitely be killed by other nobles. These people are forced to migrate. Instead of waiting to be killed, it is better to go Find a way out, maybe His Highness Datang is really like that.
No matter why they started to migrate, as long as they migrated here, Li Ke was not afraid of them running away!
Counting these people, the current population of Tuyuhun is only 473,000, with 112,000 households, averaging about 4.2 people per household.
Now, the total number of livestock in Tuyuhun is 3.07 million sheep, 1.02 million cattle, and 720,000 horses.
Based on the number of cattle, sheep and horses, Li Ke finally made a decision. The sheep were divided according to the number of people. On average, each person was divided into 6 Yongye sheep, and the males and females were evenly distributed. In this way, a total of 2.83 million sheep were allocated. Cattle are allocated on the basis of two per person, with a total allocation of 946,000 cattle, while horses are allocated on the basis of 5 horses per household, with a total allocation of 560,000 horses.
To be honest, after this number was calculated, Li Ke was not surprised by the number of cattle and sheep, but the number of horses was less than Li Ke expected.
After careful inquiry, Li Ke found out that in fact, there may be only one horse belonging to these herdsmen per household, and most of the other horses belong to the nobles, because the nobles also control the number of herdsmen's horses.
720,000 horses sounds like a lot, but leaving aside foals, old horses, pregnant mares, and those born with mixed qualities, the number of qualified war horses is probably only one-tenth.
In fact, the term "war horse" was only distinguished in the Tang Dynasty. For example, when many herdsmen went to war, they would ride their own horses directly to the battle. That was considered a war horse, but in fact their war horses were not up to standard in many aspects. .
For example, the war horses of the Tang Dynasty had to undergo strict training. For example, horses of appropriate age were selected, and then the horses were used to collide with some paper dummies first, and then gradually increased to become dummies made of straw. Use some spears made of straw to stab these war horses, making them think that these "spear" stabs will not hurt them. It will not be successful until they dare to charge directly against some infantry squares and cavalry squares. .
However, the horses of many of Tuyuhun's cavalry did not meet this requirement at all. Some of them met, and the other part was directly coerced into charging.
As for the excess cattle, sheep and horses, Datang Royal Ranch can be established.
