Playful and cute concubine

Chapter 715

In mid-to-late June, the disaster relief arrangement in Xiling and the courtiers' disaster relief work were carried out in an orderly manner.

Through the letter sent by Costin, A Moyuan sent officials thousands of miles away to go to Lingnan for disaster relief, because he had a general understanding of Lingnan at the beginning, and everything was developing in a good way.

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"All the money I've worked so hard to save for more than a year has been washed away by the water!" Ah Mo looked at the amount of relief money Lou Mingyue sent, and almost didn't recover from his eyes.

She was throbbing with heartache and couldn't eat for a day.

Think about it, what her father left her was Xiling who was impoverished and had no money, and she finally brought it up, and searched a large group of moth money to enrich the treasury.

At that time, seeing the huge amount of silver account made her secretly happy for a while. At any rate, the bottomless pit of expenses was finally filled, but as soon as it was filled, half of the silver was lost to her.

Xiling has been plagued by disasters year after year, either by locust drought or flood and plague. It took more than half a year to stabilize the capital by rebuilding the capital, allocating land, appointing officials, etc., but the lack of finances made her want to cry.

Think about it, she was originally a noble party who regarded money as dung, but now she has become a vulgar person who sees money.

In this flood, she was completely reduced to the pauper she was a year ago.

All the money I had accumulated was gone all of a sudden.

Bi Yuewu really wanted to despise her, no matter how poor she was, she couldn't afford to have nothing to eat as a person in power, but seeing her young master so devastated, she still kindly swallowed her bad words.

Li Luo covered her lips with a funny smile, and came out to comfort Ah Mo's wounded heart. "You can still make money after the money is gone, but you can't keep the money and ignore the tens of thousands of victims in the south of the mausoleum."

"Oh." Ah Mo sighed, of course she knew, but spending money is like running water, but getting money is a slow process.

She can't just copy the homes of wealthy families. Most of Xiling's income, except for land taxes, is commercial taxes. Because of the successive years of disasters, she had to adjust taxes, and basically there is not much income in the past two years.

Originally, she also wanted to increase business taxes like other countries. After all, businessmen have nothing else and have a lot of money, but doing so is undoubtedly killing chickens and taking eggs.

The commercial tax is already higher than ordinary taxes, if the price is raised again, it may cause changes and even affect ordinary people.

Xiling intends to develop commerce and increase the revenue of the treasury, and as long as the officials are clear, the people's life will be easier.

For example, the major commercial ports along the coast, because of the establishment of shipping departments for coastal trade, the local towns have developed very fast, not only earning more business taxes than before, but also driving the local people.

Most of the sea trade is tea, silk, porcelain, etc., so these related plantations are very common nearby, and the surrounding towns are even more prosperous.

A year ago, because the local officials joined forces with the aristocratic family to monopolize all the markets and raise taxes several times without permission, the common people had fields that were abandoned because of the astonishing taxes, and ponds that were not allowed to raise fish.

She copied a lot of dukes' mansions involved in this matter, and found out a surprising amount of silver, but the copied silver can only be used to restore local prosperity.

Taxes have been reduced, but the operation of Xiling still needs money, and the salaries of officials are also a considerable expense, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of troops supported by her, and the annual military expenditure is also terrible.

If you are not in charge, you don’t know how much oil and rice are. The operation of a country involves all aspects, and where there is a small problem, there may be a collateral reaction.

Fortunately, Xiling is a new dynasty, and her father is the Emperor Taizu, so there are not so many relatives and relatives who are free to ask her to raise them for nothing.

"Oh." Ah Mo didn't know what to eat, it was really painful.

Now she just wants to go back and make money.

(End of this chapter)