"Greetings, Your Majesty. Long live the Emperor!”
"No need for formalities!" Lin Beifan smiled." My dear minister, what happened? Why do you look so worried?"”
" Your Majesty…" He Shen cupped his hands and said with a bitter smile,""Our national treasury is running out of money. If we don't increase our income and reduce our expenditure, we won't be able to pay our salaries next month! That's why I've specially informed Your Majesty of this matter!”
"So fast?" Lin Beifan was stunned.
"Of course!" "Your Majesty, you don't know this. Ever since you announced the recruitment, you've already gathered millions of workers. The monthly salary has already exceeded 300,000 taels!”
"In addition to maintaining the operations of the imperial court and the army, we have to pay more than 300,000 taels of silver every month! In total, he would have to pay nearly 700,000 taels of silver every month!”
"Two months have passed and the national treasury has already allocated 1.4 million taels. There are only less than 300,000 taels left! If there's no income, we won't be able to pay next month. Your Majesty, please investigate!”
"What about food?" asked Lin Beifan.”
"There is no problem with food at the moment!”He Shen cupped his hands at Yaoyao and said," Miss Yaoyao has always been transporting food, so we have plenty of food. We just don't have money!"”
"What about taxes?" Lin Beifan asked.”
He Shen immediately reported,"Your Majesty, the tax revenue is about 200,000 taels of silver every month!”
Lin Beifan frowned." Why hasn't there been any change? I've given out so much money. Could it be that the business hasn't started?"”
"Your Majesty, you did give them money, but they couldn't bear to spend it, so they saved it all!" If he couldn't spend money, where would he get business? Without business, where would the tax come from?”
"That's true!" Lin Beifang slapped his head. They were all hard-working people who were used to living a hard life. The first thing they did when they earned money was to save it, not spend it!”
"Little fatuous ruler, I knew it. Your method won't work. In the end, you'll suffer a huge loss, right?”Yaoyao laughed loudly.
"Your Majesty, the national treasury is really out of money. The best way now is to disperse all the refugees and continue to open up the river when we have money in the future! It was fine if they didn't disband them, but they wouldn't be paid. They would only be provided with food. He believed that there would be a group of refugees who would choose to stay!”He Shen took the opportunity to offer advice.
Lin Beifan shook his head." We can't dismiss them. We can't pay them less either. Otherwise, it will affect the progress of the various projects!" Time is money, I can't afford to delay!”
"But Your Majesty, we really don't have any money!”He Shen said anxiously.
At this moment, Yaoyao waved her hand at Lin Beifan.""Little fatuous ruler, if you're short of money, you can borrow money from me! I don't want much, just 30 minutes!”
Lin Beifan was speechless. He still said that he didn't want much?
30 cents interest was already considered usury!
Did he really think that he was a sucker?
Lin Beifan shook his head."There's no need to borrow money. I can handle such a small matter!"”
Yaoyao was stunned. Your national treasury has no money. You can't make something out of nothing, right?”
"I really don't have money, but don't the people have money?”Lin Beifan smiled." I've already given out 1.4 million taels of silver. They have a lot of money on them!"”
Yaoyao's brain turned.”
Lin Beifan shook his head." How could I do such a crazy thing?!" I have a way to make them willingly and impatiently hand over the money!”
Yaoyao and Heshen were dumbfounded.
How could there be such a method?
" Minister He," Lin Beifan asked," I want to ask you, did you keep the iron ore residue left over from forging?"”
He Shen bowed." I have listened to Your Majesty's instructions. The iron ore residue left over from the forging was not casually disposed of. Instead, it has been kept. Now, it has already piled up into a mountain!"”
"Good!" Lin Beifan nodded in satisfaction.”
"Your Majesty, the limestone has also been mined and has now piled up into a mountain!”
"Not bad!" Lin Beifan nodded again in satisfaction.”
Lin Beifan stood up and shouted,""Brush, ink, paper, inkstone, serve me!"
A moment later, the eunuchs came over with brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.
Lin Beifan picked up the brush and started writing on the paper.
Yaoyao and Heshen felt their hearts itch.
After a moment, He Shen couldn't help but ask,"Your Majesty, what are you doing?”
Lin Beifan put down his brush and smiled.""I'm preparing to make cement and build houses!”
"cement? Build a house?" Both of them were stunned.
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