Sun Chengzong looked at Li Xiao for a full minute, making Li Xiao feel a little embarrassed.

"How on earth does this kid have such a long head that he can come up with such a method? In this way, the money to attack India will actually come from the Indians themselves."

"The Indians are really unlucky to have met an opponent like you. But this is also the luck of our Ming Dynasty. We have people like you leading the Ming Dynasty, hehe! Our people of the Ming Dynasty will have no worries for three generations!" Zhang Huangyan stroked his beard and looked old.

The disgusting look of Huai Dawei.

"Boy! How many bonds are you planning to issue? The household department will take 40% of it."

"Well! The Ministry of Industry can help with 30% of the sales!"

"Didn't you two say... that the court has no money?" Li Xiao was so angry that he was almost speechless. When he asked for money just now, he looked like a poor man, but now he sees the benefits.

Push up hard.

These two old foxes are so shameless. Li Xiao has a new understanding of how shameless these two old foxes are.

"Hmph! The income is reliable, and there is a large amount of interest to be earned every year. Of course, we have to have a hand in this kind of investment that is sure to make money without losing money. Our Ministry of Accounts just wants to make the money in the treasury generate money!"

"You have to discuss this with us carefully in the future for such good things."

"That is, young people should not develop the habit of eating alone, otherwise they will not be able to survive in the court for long."

Li Xiao was so angry that he wanted to overturn the table. These two old bastards were so shameless. They were so fucking scary. Li Xiao decided that for the sake of his own heart, he would have less to do with them in the future.

After eating crabs and boiled fish, the two old guys left with hungry stomachs. Li Xiao was left under the grape trellis to calculate the appropriate number of bonds to issue!

He wanted to issue five million silver coins, but Ai Husheng said eight million silver coins was no problem. In the end, Li Xiao adopted a compromise plan and issued 20-year bonds of six million silver coins. The interest rate was three times higher than bank time deposits.

Ai Husheng said that the interest rate was set high, and finally decided on an interest rate of two and a half times.

As for the interest, Li Xiao is not worried at all. According to the news from Luzhu, this time almost all the mineral resources in the states that India cooperates with have fallen into the hands of Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, just digging these mineral deposits can fill this hole. Moreover, the agreement signed on these ports and mineral deposits is for fifty years. In other words, the bond principal will be paid off after twenty years. Li Xiao can still

Make money from these mineral deposits and ports for twenty years!

Li Xiao wanted to calculate how much the money was, but he couldn't figure it out. After Ai Husheng calculated it, he said that it was a huge sum of money, and he was truly as rich as any country.

Ai Husheng started publicity very cleverly. When bonds were associated with patriotism, Li Xiao felt that even if he issued 20 million bonds, there would be no chance of unsales.

Facts have proved that the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty were patriotic. When they heard that these bonds were paid with the proceeds from the attack on India, all the powerful people went crazy.

Only then did Li Xiao understand that the people who had followed him to conquer the world over the years had all become local rich people. Normally, he would cry when he saw Li Xiao, but now his true colors are revealed one by one. When it comes to subscribing, it is called a positive attitude.

, even Shi Kefa, who was always known for his integrity, also subscribed for a bond of 600,000 silver dollars.

Ai Husheng is so angry these days that he can't even walk without looking at the sky with his nostrils. In order to subscribe for more quotas, the rich and powerful have reached the point of shamelessness. This method of making money without stealing, robbing or corruption is like Tang Monk's meat.

popular.

Zheng Zhilong came to visit Li Xiao personally because he was related to Li Xiao.

"I said, Marshal, I have a big family. There is a way to make money without breaking the law. You should at least think about us. No matter how you say it, we are still relatives."

"I said, Minister Zheng, who doesn't have a large family? You don't know how expensive the housing prices in Beijing are now. If the younger generation buys a house, it will cost the lives of old guys like us.

Commander, if something good happens, you have to think of me." Just as Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, Shi Kefa came in through the Moon Gate.

"Everyone has a share! Everyone has a share!" Li Xiao looked at the group of people in front of him with a smile. Ai Husheng couldn't deal with them, so he pushed them here.

They were all old men who had given up their military power and were willing to contribute to the Ming Dynasty. Li Xiao couldn't bear to be too mean to them. After all, although he had the advantage back then, he didn't know how many people would die in a real fight.

The Ming Dynasty was really devastated and riddled with holes, and it is not something that can be recovered in just a few years.

Li Xiao knows that the unification wars in history. Although later generations are praising the greatness of the unifiers, no great unification was built on mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

Even if Taizu and his elders are described as being so great, they cannot cover up the fact that millions of people died in the three-year war.

It is easy to reduce the population, but it is too difficult to increase it. An adult man needs to grow up for eighteen years. During this period, he must be free from illness and disaster, and there must be no natural or man-made disasters.

But if you want this person to disappear, a bullet worth only a few copper coins can turn an adult living person into an adult dead person.

In the ten years since the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has been unprecedentedly powerful, and the people have gained abundant crops. However, the population has only grown to 200 million in these ten years. Compared with such a huge territory, a population of 200 million is nothing.

Although the imperial court repeatedly advocated immigration and gave immigrants many preferential policies, except for the victims of the disaster, no one wanted to immigrate outside the Great Wall. The farmers who had been imprisoned for many years by the idea of ​​​​relocating to their homeland had never thought of leaving the place where they depended on for their survival.

Land. Although, they will not consider moving to other places until the land can no longer support their family.

Taking the Northeast as an example, villages are dotted here and there among the white mountains and black waters. Some people cultivate the fertile land, but no one wants to cultivate the poorer land.

As for the Heilongjiang Basin further away, except for a few residential areas, it is thousands of miles away from people. As far as the Waixing'an Mountains, it is almost like an uninhabited land.

Not to mention the more remote Northwest, where no one goes there.

The reality is this. In Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the two lake basins, there are so many people crowded together. But in the northeast and northwest, there are many places where you can walk for a day without seeing a single family.

Huguang is relatively better, but most of Huguang's population has been filled in Sichuan.

There is nothing we can do about it. That bastard Zhang Xianzhong did so much evil in Sichuan that when the Ming Dynasty took back Sichuan, there was not much of a population at all. They could only immigrate to Sichuan from Guangxi and Hunan. Many times, immigration was based on strong orders.

The government used guns to force the landless tenants to leave their hometowns, and then redistributed the land to Sichuan.

The situation in Guanzhong is similar. After the Uighur Rebellion, Guanzhong was in severe decline. People had to migrate from Shanxi and Henan to Guanzhong. Every time they moved, they almost had to send troops to escort them.

Due to the propaganda of many scholars, the common people did not believe that the imperial court would give them land for free and would not collect any taxes for three years.

It wasn't until the soldiers took guns to the edge of the field and the village chief told these ragged people that the land in front of them belonged to them. Only then did these guys squat on the ground crying and looking at the vast land with tearful eyes.

Many people have been tenants for eight generations, and have never thought about owning their own land. They did not expect that today, they would be escorted to get their own land. Even after the soldiers left, many people still had no time to calm down, and they actually had land.

After planting, it will still be like not paying taxes for three years.

Fortunately, Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan have put a lot of effort into domestic affairs in recent years. Many new roads are built every year, and railways are basically connected between important cities in the north.

Cities like Beijing, Jinan, Tianjin, Xi'an, Jinzhou, and Liaoyang are beginning to gradually popularize electricity. There are more and more street lights on the streets of Beijing. Now even in small alleys, electric poles are erected and hung.
Chapter completed!