Chapter 394 Financial Crisis
Yang Menglong didn't know that at this very moment, a group of blood-soaked soldiers were standing on the city wall of Gaizhou, waving blood-stained weapons and shouting long live Daming.After enjoying a sumptuous dinner, this bastard was sitting in front of the desk with his legs crossed, flipping through the statistical reports in a serious manner.As early as half a month ago, he sent people back to ask the health offices to complete the statistical reports. Those unlucky thousands and hundreds of households were so busy that they finally completed the statistics within the stipulated time limit. After they were done, they were about to collapse, wiping off cold sweat and kept saying that it was terrible, this bastard was even more difficult to serve than the emperor!The emperor was easy to be fooled, a colorful article could fool him from east to west, north to south, but this bastard was different, what he wanted to read was not beautiful rhetoric, but detailed data!
The report was compiled by Cheng Qi, and all data are clear at a glance:
This year, more than 4000 military households have been added to the Wuyang and Luoyang guards. The military households in Wuyang guard have increased to 1, and the military households in Luoyang guard have also increased to [-], approaching the [-] mark. ———Hey, with such a large population, it is enough to build another county!The most terrible thing is that the number of military households is still growing;
After three years of hard work, Wuyangwei's military farmland has increased to 60 mu, and Luoyangwei's military farmland has also doubled to 40 mu, a total of 100 million mu. Military households have five acres of land per capita;
This year, Wuyangwei planted a total of 30 mu of wheat. Thanks to effective irrigation and sufficient fertilizer, the yield per mu reached a record 350 jin. This incident even shocked the court;
15 mu of potatoes were planted in spring, and 30 mu of potatoes were planted in autumn, both of which had a bumper harvest, and the yield per mu reached an insane [-] shi, which brought a lot of money to Wuyangwei;
The trial planting of [-] mu of flax was a great success, with an average yield of [-] jin of flax fiber per mu.This result is too far behind modern agriculture, but this is in the Ming Dynasty where there is no pesticide, and even the fertilizer is pitiful. Yang Menglong is already satisfied with such a result;
Throughout this year, Wuyangwei has produced a total of 20 tons of steel and 250 tons of pig iron and wrought iron. Excellent iron farm tools have successfully entered the homes of ordinary people.Yang Menglong is quite satisfied with the total amount of steel production. Next year, two [-]-ton blast furnaces will be put into operation, and the total amount of steel production will definitely double. If the production continues with this momentum, it does not need many clever strategies and tactics. He can also pile up the gold to death in the pile of steel!
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Luoyang Wei is still in its infancy and will not recover its cost until next year at the latest.No way, agriculture is like this, high investment, slow return, no rush.However, Luoyangwei also had a bumper harvest of potatoes this year, with an yield of nearly [-] shi per mu. Potato starch processing plants were blooming all over the place, making grain merchants happy.

What makes Yang Menglong a little dissatisfied is that Wuyang Yantian has not gained much so far.He had already poured 7 to 800 taels of silver there, but what he had harvested was a mountain of dirt and stones.According to the progress, the deepest salt wells have been drilled to a depth of more than [-] meters, and there is still no brine. This salt mine is really not easy to mine!

The nitric acid factory has also been put into operation, but the results can only be described as disastrous: less than one thousand kilograms of nitric acid can be produced every month!Yang Menglong was completely dumbfounded. You must know that he threw more than 3 taels of silver into the nitric acid plant, and what he got in return was this little nitric acid?To put it a bit exaggerated, let alone making explosives, it is not enough to quench his thirst!
Alas, nitric acid...

Yang Menglong clutched his head with a headache, not knowing what to do with the nasty nitric acid.If you want to make yellow explosives, you must be inseparable from nitric acid, but with such a small output, it is not enough to make a large amount of explosives. The input and output are simply out of proportion!

Cheng Qi pointed to the column of nitric acid, and asked, "Why do you insist on spending so much money on this Laoshizi nitric acid? That thing can't be sold for money, and it can also destroy gold and stones. It's too dangerous. It's so dangerous if you do it." What are you doing?"

Yang Menglong chuckled: "You will know in the future!"

Cheng Qi shook her head and said: "You are fooling around, you don't spend money like this! Look, you put the ready-made firecrackers and cannons and don't use them. You insist on making something new and doing some rear-loading guns and rear-loading cannons. After tossing and tossing for a year, seven or eighty thousand taels of silver were taken in without even making a fuss! Don’t you think you have too much money!?”

Yang Menglong looked at the column of scientific research expenses, and sighed in frustration... As Cheng Qi said, those scientific research teams have spent a whole year of tossing and spending 8 to [-] taels of silver, without even giving him a bubble. get it out.It has never been an easy task to engage in scientific research. Every little bit of progress is made with real money, and often astronomical amounts of money, manpower and material resources are invested, but in the end they get nothing. This is how modern Chinese enterprises The reason for not being willing to engage in scientific research and innovation for quite a long time is that the investment is too great. It took hundreds of millions to develop a new technology. As a result, competitors only spent a few million to poach a few core engineers without any effort. Then they produced exactly the same product, which made them want to cry. Who would be willing to engage in scientific research?They all keep their eyes open to see who comes up with a new technology, and then go to poach people.Now he wants to transition from front-loading smoothbore guns to breech-loading rifled guns and rifled guns in one step. Materials, technologies, and design concepts must all be overthrown and restarted. Let alone a year, it may not be possible to see it in a few years. results.

Xiao Yufang flipped through the collection of Yuefu poems, and said, "Cheng Qi, don't keep complaining, he must have his own intentions for this arrangement."

Cheng Qi said angrily: "What purpose does he have? I think he thinks he has too much money and is messing around!"

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, I'm willing to spend so much money to develop new weapons, of course I have my intentions!" The big advantage of guns and artillery is that they can be reloaded quickly. It takes enough time for the front-loading guns to fire once and the rear-loading guns to fire three or four times. Is there something wrong with my brain?"

Cheng Qi curled her lips: "I don't know if your breech-loading guns are so good, I only know that the technicians who are in charge of researching breech-loading rifles and breech-loading rifles are about to jump off the building!"

Yang Menglong was taken aback: "Are you about to jump off the building? What's going on?"

Xiao Yufang said angrily and amusedly, "Didn't it be your fault? You asked them to make guns that could be loaded from the rear. Who can engrave any rifling on the barrel and the inside of the barrel?"

Liu Ziyan raised her head from the book and said, "That's right! Not to mention that there is no such sharp knife, even if there is, there is no way to stuff it into the gun barrel and barrel to carve the rifling you want!"

Xiao Yufang said: "Every time they come to apply for funding, they keep shaking their heads and sighing, saying it's difficult, it's too difficult..."

Yang Menglong's eyes bulged: "It's not difficult, it's not difficult for me..."

Liu Ziyan interrupted: "It's not difficult, it's not difficult, what do I want them to do, right?"

That tone is exactly the same as Yang Menglong's!
Yang Menglong nodded confidently: "Of course! If there is no difficulty at all, I will give them so much money and let them squander it?"

Xiao Yufang smiled, stretched out her hand to look at the report for a while, and said, "It's really a waste of money... The groups that study guns spent 8 to 4 taels a year, according to what they handed in. The budget for next year may have to continue to increase. The group that studies gunpowder spends even more money. With only a dozen or so people, they squandered [-] to [-] taels of silver a year, and the results achieved are only less than one month a month. A thousand catties of nitrate..."

Yang Menglong said, "Nitric acid."

Xiao Yufang said: "Yes, nitric acid. They said that if they want to increase the production of nitric acid, they must invest more money and improve the production line. They are simply a monster that eats gold. Those who study machine tools are not to be outdone, such as milling machines, grinding machines, what Gantry planers, large drilling machines, thread processing machines, and hydraulic forging machines are all desperately devouring money." She closed the report, settled Yang Menglong, and asked softly, "Are these important to you? "

Yang Menglong said: "Important, very important!"

Cheng Qi snorted: "Why is it important? Sister Xiao is important? She hasn't bought a new dress for a whole year!"

Yang Menglong was taken aback: "Why?"

Cheng Qi's voice raised eight tunes: "Why? It's not that you spend too much money! It's building factories, doing some inexplicable research and running schools, and the money is not enough! Let me tell you the truth, this year Wuyangwei's finances are beyond their means, not to mention that they don't have a penny, and they owe thousands of taels of debt! Elder sister Xiao saved all the money for buying clothes and cosmetics and gave it to those lunatics to squander!"

Yang Menglong was even more surprised: "How could it be possible to spend so much money!? We obviously got several 10 taels of silver this year!"

Cheng Qi pointed at his nose and cursed: "How could it be impossible to spend so much money? Those lunatics used gold to build some kind of nitric acid pond, and silver to do various practical experiments. The best copper would cost thousands of catties at a time. Take it to make cannons, build one after another, dissatisfied, melt down and redo, even if you have a golden mountain, you can’t afford them to squander like this! You still have to pay wages and benefits to military households, and to the army To distribute military salaries and quilts, to allocate a large sum of money to the school, to produce tens of thousands of swords, guns and armor, hundreds of thousands of crossbows and ammunition, and to support a group of people who do nothing, just a day It’s a miracle that he didn’t go bankrupt for the lunatic who was thinking about how to carve the rifling in the barrel all night!” Gritting his teeth, he said bitterly, “And those two damn blast furnaces, it’s okay that you smelt so many What is steel for? Can it be eaten as a meal? I made you so mad!"

Liu Ziyan held her chin and said as if she had a toothache: "He also brought back more than 80 warships from Denglai! Next year, there will be an extra sum of money for repairing warships in his expenses, and sister Xiao's life will be even more difficult!"

Yang Menglong blinked, not daring to speak anymore.It wasn't until now that he realized that he was so hotheaded that he started too many projects in a rush, and his family was already in financial crisis...

Xiao Yufang said: "Okay, okay, don't talk about him, he must have his reasons for doing this." Tapping the table with her fingers, she asked Yang Menglong in a deep voice: "Back-loading rifles and breech-loading cannons are different. Are you really that important?"

Yang Menglong said: "Very important! With them, our Heluo new army will be invincible no matter what kind of opponent we face... No, with them, no matter how fierce the enemy is, we will be defeated when we meet Heluo. Luo Xinjun, the battle will turn into a one-sided massacre!" Some distressed said: "But those technicians are too disappointing, they haven't been done for me for so long, I'm really mad!"

(End of this chapter)

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