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Chapter 402 Dali's Finances

The next day, in the morning.

Just after Zheng Ming finished the small court meeting, Yuan Tiangang came to the study in a hurry.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

Yuan Tiangang paid homage.

Zheng Ming sat casually on the soft bed and said, "What's the matter?"

"Return to Your Majesty, all 38 evil gods have been arrested, and they are all being held in Jinyiwei Prison." Yuan Tiangang said.

In the past, there were 38 gods in the Dasheng Dynasty. Although these gods lost their positions due to the destruction of the book of gods, they were all gods of Dasheng after all, and it was inevitable that some of them were loyal to Dasheng.

Therefore, for more than a month, Jin Yiwei has been arresting these gods.

Zheng Ming thought for a while and said, "It's useless to keep those wild gods. You can deal with them."

He didn't refine the book of conferring gods, so he couldn't confer gods, and even if he conferred gods, he wouldn't use these wild gods.

As for how Yuan Tiangang would deal with it, Zheng Ming didn't care, as long as these wild gods didn't appear to cause trouble.

"My minister obeys the order." Yuan Tiangang replied.

Zheng Ming thought for a while, and then said: "You will go to Xiao Fuzi in a while, the cave left by the Dasheng imperial family is with Xiao Fuzi, this cave will be used as a training base for Jin Yiwei in the future."

The Dasheng Royal Family actually has several caves, but most of them are ordinary caves without special effects. The Dasheng Royal Family only uses them as warehouses.

The only top-grade cave is the one in the ancestral land of the Dasheng imperial family. The fairy spirit inside is stronger than the outside world, and it is a blessed place for cultivation.

Zheng Ming gave it to the Jinyiwei to use it in order to let the Jinyiwei cultivate more powerful people.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your gift." Yuan Tiangang said, his eyes brightened.

He is best at cultivating dead soldiers, but cultivating dead soldiers requires many inhuman methods. Having a cave as a base for cultivating dead soldiers can save a lot of trouble.

In the past, Tianyundongtian in Jiuyu Shenzhou was the place where he trained dead men, but today Yundongtian seems a bit tasteless.After all, there is no fairy spirit in Tianyun Cave, and only cultivators below the Cave God Realm can be cultivated.

Now that Zheng Ming handed over the Dasheng imperial family's Dongtian to him, it just made up for the lack of Tianyun Dongtian.

"Well, go get busy and pay more attention to Lingyuan Mountain." Zheng Ming waved his hand.

For more than a year, paying attention to Lingyuan Mountain has always been one of Jin Yiwei's main tasks.

However, the situation in Lingyuan Mountain is a bit troublesome, even Jin Yiwei has difficulty infiltrating it.

The reason for this is not how strict and powerful the casual cultivators in Lingyuan Mountain are.On the contrary, the casual cultivation in Lingyuan Mountain is very loose.

Most casual cultivators gather together with families, small sects, or even friends, or even live alone.

These people are like nerds, they stay in the deep mountains and old forests all day to practice, and rarely go out.

Jin Yiwei wandered around for more than half a year after entering Lingyuan Mountain, but in the end he couldn't figure out who is the leader of Lingyuan Mountain.

I just heard that there are three unfathomable strong men in Lingyuan Mountain, but few people know how deep they are, what they look like, and where they live.

As for the venerable who is suspected to be in the Immortal Realm who is connected with Gui Xiandao, Jin Yiwei has not found any traces until now, as if there is no such person in this world.

"Wei Chen retire."

After Yuan Tiangang finished speaking, he bowed and retreated.

Since then.

Zheng Ming had just drank a cup of tea when Xin Qiji came again.

Having just come into contact with the government of Xiandi Dali, Xin Qiji is still not familiar with many things, but most of them are still not used to him.

Xiandi and Jiuyu Shenzhou are completely different worlds.

Nine Domains Shenzhou pays more attention to ordinary people, and only needs to consider ordinary people in governance.

But in Xiandi, more emphasis is placed on cultivators. Governance must consider not only ordinary people, but also cultivators, especially cultivators above the Cave God Realm. They are completely in two worlds with ordinary people, and it is extremely troublesome to deal with.

Any policy that considers the difference between ordinary people and practitioners, it will be difficult to change the way of thinking like Xin Qiji who has just come to the fairyland.

Although Xin Qiji is currently serving as a cabinet minister in the cabinet, he is still in the adaptation stage and mainly deals with some simple things.

"Your Majesty, this is the current statistics of the treasury's money." Xin Qiji handed two thick booklets to Zheng Ming.

Zheng Ming nodded slightly, and said, "Sit down first, little Fuzi, and serve tea."

Then, he opened the booklet and read it.

The two booklets recorded different things, one was dedicated to money and spiritual stones, and the other was to record various spiritual materials.

These things are the legacy of the Dasheng Dynasty.

Among them are more than 450 million taels of gold, 3000 million more than 4000 million taels of silver, and [-] million more than [-] million guan of copper coins.

It looks like a lot, but it really isn't.

You must know that the Eighteen Counties of Dasheng used to be larger than the entire Nine Regions of China, and the population was also larger than that of Nine Regions.

Previously, Dali's annual financial income in Nine Domains Shenzhou could reach one billion yuan in silver coins.

In contrast, Dasheng has inherited 5000 years, so it is really not much to save money.

Of course, Dasheng still has Lingshi income.

At present, the treasury has more than 800 million spirit stones.

It's not too much, you must know that this is the accumulation of the Dasheng Dynasty and the royal family for 5000 years, but this is also normal. After four years of troubled times, the Dasheng Dynasty did not know how much resources it spent, and it is already more than 800 million Lingshi left It's not easy anymore.

Before Zheng Ming spent millions of spirit stones just to train 400,000 immortal warriors from Dali, but now Dali has 250 troops to raise and has to invest resources in various aspects. It is estimated that 8 million spirit stones will not last long.

In addition to gold, silver and spiritual stones, there are many spiritual materials in the national treasury. These spiritual materials are very valuable, and the value is more than 800 million spiritual stones.

Spiritual materials need time to accumulate.

Many precious spiritual materials cannot be artificially cultivated, and even if you want to buy them, you can't buy them.

Therefore, every powerful force has its own spiritual material library, which is specially used to collect and store various spiritual materials.

The more spiritual materials you store, the greater the benefits for refining elixirs and magic weapons.

For example, refining a high-grade elixir requires hundreds of spiritual materials. If one or two types are missing, other methods may be found to replace them, but if more than a dozen are missing, there is no way to refine them.

So sometimes what kind of pill to refine depends on what kind of spiritual material is in the spiritual material library, not what pill you want to refine.

In order to develop the alchemy and tool refining industry in the future, Dali cannot sell these spiritual materials, so these spiritual materials can only be kept in the warehouse for the time being, and cannot be exchanged for spiritual stones.

After reading the two booklets, Zheng Ming pondered for a long time.

At present, Dali is full of waste, and it is the time when money and spirit stones are needed.

Money can be transferred from the Nine Realms Divine State for temporary use, but there is no way for Lingshi.

"How many Lingshi mines does the Ministry of Industry currently have, and what is their output?" Zheng Ming asked Xin Qiji.

"The Ministry of Industry has currently accepted seventeen spiritual stone mines, which can produce about 52 spiritual stones per month." Xin Qiji said.

Spiritual stone mine is one of the main sources of spiritual stones, and there is nothing more profitable than mining.

However, spirit stone mines are very rare. There are only 23 spirit stone mines in the eighteen counties of Dali, and five of them are poor mines, with extremely low production of spirit stones.

In the past, the Dasheng royal family controlled thirteen Lingshi mines, and the remaining ten were controlled by the seven first-rank families.

But now there are only four of the seven first-rank families, so the Dali Chaotang has four more mines than the Dasheng Royal Family.

The income of more than 50 spirit stones per month is not too much. You must know that the monthly income of Qinglan Island is more than 30 spirit stones.

Therefore, mining is not as good as developing commerce, especially commerce within the sphere of influence of Tian Yuzong, which belongs to earning foreign exchange.

One of the reasons why Zheng Ming was unwilling to fight against the Tian Yuzong was that he could earn a lot of spirit stones from the Tian Yuzong's sphere of influence.

But Tian Yuzong can also earn a lot of spirit stones from Dali.

You must know that Tianyuzong's refining and alchemy level is higher than Dali's, and many of Dali's medicines and magic tools come from Tianyuzong.

"Currently, have you calculated how many spirit stones the court needs each month?" Zheng Ming asked.

Xin Qiji replied: "There are 800 more than 200,000 priests in the hall of worship who need to be paid, and about 250 spirit stones are needed every month. The Dudu Mansion has 300,000 million troops to support, and about [-] spirit stones are needed every month. Court officials Salary needs about [-] spirit stones per month."

"A minimum of 58 spirit stones is required per month."

Zheng Ming was speechless for a while.

The seventeen spirit stone mines produce more than 50 spirit stones per month, while the officials of the Dali Temple, the Governor's Mansion, and the court consume nearly 600,000 spirit stones per month.

It seems to be similar, only the output of the spirit stone mine is consumed.

But don't forget, Dasheng used to have 8 million troops, but now Dali only has 250 million troops.

If Dali's army is also expanded to 8 million, then the military expenditure alone will cost millions of spirit stones every month.

"What about Lingshi tax?" Zheng Ming asked again.

Xin Qiji said dully, "I haven't figured it out yet, but it's estimated to be around 3 million per year."

Zheng Ming nodded slightly.

In the past, in Sihai County, the annual tax was about 140,000, but now in 3 counties, [-] million is about the same.

If the status quo is maintained, tax revenue and spirit stone mine output are sufficient to support the operation of the court, but if Zheng Ming wants to develop Dali, the current income from spirit stones is far from enough.

"There is still a lack of spirit stones!"

Zheng Ming said helplessly.

After all, Dali's various industries are still underdeveloped, and various technologies are not good enough. If you want to open up business, you can only sell the most primitive spiritual materials.

If Dali has the level of Tian Yuzong's alchemy and weapon refining, he can earn a lot of spirit stones from outside the dynasty.

"Little Fuzi, ask Ximen Chuuxue to contact Xiaomeng and ask about the alliance with Tian Yuzong?"

Zheng Ming ordered.

Xiaomeng has been back to Tian Yuzong for more than half a month, and things should have made some progress.

"Also, tell Jinxian that it's time to expand the trade of the undersea demon clan." Zheng Ming said again.

In order to avoid hostility from the strength of the sea monsters, the trade of Qinglan Island was only within the range of the six surrounding monster clans.

Now that the Yaosheng Palace has started to make troubles, Zheng Ming doesn't need to worry about these anymore.

As long as he can earn spirit stones, he doesn't care about the demon palace.

The big deal is a big battle.

Thousands of years ago, Dasheng was able to resist the invasion of the Yaosheng Palace, and now Dali can too.

(End of this chapter)