In the Nanhaiwei barracks, Jiang Wan looked at Xu Caining with some curiosity. Zhao Yuan and others who were stranded in Taiyuan Mansion due to the war finally arrived at Yan'an Mansion under Xu Caining's personal guidance.
Although this was the best situation Jiang Wan could think of, he was still a little curious as to what method Xu Caining used to convince Zhao Yuan, the head of the Ministry of Industry, to willingly come to the bitter cold land of Shaanxi.
Moreover, how could the Ministry of Industry release people?
"I didn't say anything!" Xu Caining said matter-of-factly: "I just told him that you are rich, very rich, and have a close relationship with the Folangji people. If you let him build a firearms workshop in Yan'an Prefecture, he will
Develop whatever firearms you want, money and materials don’t matter!”
"Is this enough?" Jiang Wan was stunned. What Xu Caining said was too simple!
"Yes, that's enough!" Xu Caining nodded: "You don't know that in the past, although our Duke Dingguo gave him money every month, that little money was really not enough for him to do anything. When the firearm fired, the cannon
Wanliang, his father has spent his whole life making firearms. If there was money and food from the imperial court to support us, we wouldn’t even have to buy our cannons from the Folangji people!”
"The Ministry of Industry just let him come here?" Jiang Wan asked uncertainly.
"I didn't ask about this. I sent a letter to my elder brother. Since Zhao Yuan has brought people to Taiyuan, I think it should be my elder brother who has taken care of this matter. Besides, he is a nerd who develops firearms, even though he has the title of chief.
, but apart from wasting money from the Ministry of Works, he really didn’t achieve much. I’m afraid those people from the Ministry of Works have long wanted to send him away. No matter how much money the Ministry of Works has, it won’t be enough for the people who make firearms!”
"Then I'll be relieved!" Jiang Wan laughed.
"But, you are really rich now!" Xu Caining glanced at him and said with a guilty conscience: "Last time I seemed to hear you calculating Nanhaiwei's accounts, and I seemed to think that you don't have much money now.
Come on, I hope the money and food allocated to you by the imperial court will come down, but I don’t know when it will be..."
She looked a little uneasy: "You have so many soldiers outside the city, and there are so many salt farms and refugees. To be honest, I don't dare to ask about your accounts!"
"How is it possible that there is no money?" Jiang Wan was stunned and smiled awkwardly: "Yes, there will be money. As long as you use your brain, there will always be money. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. This
Ordinary people know some truth, why don’t I know it?”
"If it's hard to turn around, I still have some savings!" Xu Caining's face suddenly turned red for no reason: "I earned it from my building in Beijing in the past few years. If you want to use it, I'll give it to you first.
Lend it to you!"
"No need!" Jiang Wan shook her head repeatedly: "Public is public, private is private, they cannot be confused. Besides, I am a grown man, I have to be so destitute to use your money. I am really short of money to that extent.
Well, why don't I go directly to Qingyang Mansion? I can probably dig out some three melons and two dates from those bandits!"
"As long as you have an idea!" Xu Caining smiled and his face returned to normal: "I'm just afraid that you will keep silent. Once this firearms workshop opens, it will become a big money maker. By then, the money and food will not be able to keep up.
It’s all in vain!”
"Don't worry, you can go and rest. You've been running all the way!" Jiang Wan said firmly: "Of course I know it well!"
When Xu Caining left, the smile he forced on his face relaxed. Seeing that no one was in the room, he couldn't help but touch his chin and frown.
He has something in his mind!
Grain is exchanged for green salt produced in the salt field. So far, grain has been exchanged for salt. Whether it is Yan'an Prefecture or Nanhaiwei, Shanxi people have never seen a tael of silver. Of course, if you want to care about this,
Maybe he should still give money to the Shanxi people, but this cannot be settled this way.
Anyway, Fan Yongdou and his gang will definitely not lose money when the green salt is transported out. Because of this matter, I will not pursue them for the crime of "funding the enemy" for the time being. In the end, they still made a lot of money.
In Jiang Wan's eyes, people like Fan Yongdou would not be wronged even if they were all killed. The reason why they are kept now is because they are still useful. As for the fate of these people in the future, it depends on whether they will
As a person, if they have made great achievements and can really atone for their sins, he will not be able to let them go. However, in his eyes, these guys are just sinners now.
He magistrates the court officials and recruits a few criminals to do things for the court. The criminals still want money? Give them face!
Nanhaiwei's military pay was paid before leaving Beijing. It was not paid after arriving in Yan'an Prefecture. However, this is not a big problem. There were only a thousand people who arrived in Yan'an Prefecture first, and those who followed did not arrive here for a long time.
, and then I was constantly being attacked by rogue thieves, so I didn’t care about it.
However, this is still an expenditure of tens of thousands of silver after all.
It can be a little late, but it must be sent!
In Yan'an Prefecture, the money and food that theoretically had to be paid for the military were converted into food and sent to the mouths of the refugees outside the city. Although I tried my best to find jobs for these refugees, none of these jobs could bring immediate results.
Seeing what happened with Yinzi, it meant that Jiang Wan was almost single-handedly supporting these refugees outside the city.
One day when the military pay provided by the Yan'an Prefecture was finally used up, Jiang Wan was already worried about it. This is why Xu Caining asked him about it and he was a little embarrassed.
What he lacked was a lot of money, not the little silver that Xu Caining had saved up. Now the firearms workshop was about to open again. Without thirty to fifty thousand taels of silver, he simply couldn't get through this hurdle.
Just like Xu Caining said, counting on the money and food allocated by the inner court of the capital is really a matter of the Year of the Monkey and the Horse. If there is, there will definitely be it. When it will be there, no one knows.
He was thinking about his own affairs with a sad face in the room, but he didn't see Xu Caining walking out of the door. Although he didn't look back, there was a smile on his lips.
"I would rather rob the thieves of Qingyang Mansion than use women's money..." Xu Caining was in a very happy mood. After following this man for several months, he could be considered to have experienced life and death with this man. At this moment, the man said
When she said such words, she didn't even have to think about it. This man definitely really meant it.
She felt that her days in Yan'an Mansion were much happier than her days in Beijing. Even if her building in Beijing did not make any money, she would still have a few thousand taels of silver a month. However, in Yan'an Mansion, so far,
She didn't even receive a tael of military pay, but she was still very happy.
She didn't follow him to Yan'an Mansion just for a small amount of military pay!