Chapter 218 A Visitor from the Mother’s Family

Jiang Tangtang is engaged in infrastructure construction, and Lu Shiyan is also building a military defense fortress in full swing.

  In fact, as soon as the war ended, Lu Shiyan began to prepare to repair the city wall and build a new defensive fortress.

  Because Baodao's later reinforced military defense fortresses were very successful, Fu Jingchu was also responsible for the construction of city walls and fortresses throughout Lingnan this time.

  Fu Jingchu and his workers visited the entire Lingnan border and re-measured and designed the drawings.

  The new fortress not only allowed soldiers to avoid enemy bows and arrows, but also built crossbows, trebuchets and other weapons.

  If this fortress is repaired, half of the troops can be saved to defend the city.

  Lingnan is thriving and developing in all aspects. The only downside is that it's too expensive.

  The gold and silver that Jiang Tangtang brought from the secret treasury of Xiang, Song and others have now been spent, leaving only some large ornaments and antique calligraphy and paintings that are not easy to liquidate.

  Jiang Tangtang was thinking about how to get another large sum of money when Yuan San hurriedly came to report, "Madam, someone is coming from Anyang's house."

  "Who?" It took Jiang Tangtang a while to realize that this was someone from the original owner's natal family. .

  In fact, she completely forgot about the original owner's family, and it's no wonder she was there.

  She had just traveled through time and was on the road to exile, busy fighting against obesity. After that, he was busy with his career, coupled with the war...

  In addition, the original owner's natal family was far away and had no sense of existence. Wasn't this forgotten?

  She tried hard to look through the memory of the original owner and wanted to know about the situation in Anyang House.

  "The people who came said they were your second uncle and second aunt... After the people at the border checked and confirmed that they were not panicking, they sent someone to send them over. They are waiting outside now. Do you want to see them?" "

  I Second uncle!" Jiang Tangtang suddenly shouted, with a look of disgust on his face.

  As far as she knew, this second uncle should be Jiang Caiwei's biological father!

  What bad luck!

  "Don't worry about him for now. Let the people from the Staff Office come over to discuss the matter."

  Now there are two Staff Offices in Lingnan. One is the Zuo Staff Office, which followed Lu Shiyan to conquer the world. Most of them are military talents.

  The other one follows Jiang Tangtang's right staff office, which is full of ambitious people who help her make suggestions and help her manage her family and country.

  However, Jiang Tangtang has seen too many people in later generations and has a wide range of knowledge. She often comes up with countless ideas without them having to speak.

  These people also went from being unconvinced at the beginning to being admired and ashamed at the end.

  Now their main role is to help Jiang Tangtang improve her ideas after she comes up with them, taking into account some issues that Jiang Tangtang has not thought of, and to ensure that her ideas are executed perfectly.

  However, Jiang Tangtang called these people here today, intending to let these people help find a solution.

  When everyone arrived, Jiang Tangtang's first words were, "I called you here today mainly to let everyone brainstorm and discuss how we can increase fiscal revenue."     The role of money in rebellion has always been huge.

  Whether it is the weapons that soldiers use to fight, military pay, or military rations, money is inseparable from everything.

  If there is a lack of military pay at a critical moment, it will be a disaster for the soldiers on the battlefield.

  The army suffered a defeat, and those who relied on them would not end well either.

  As soon as this question came up, everyone in the staff office frowned in thought.

  After a while, Wen Minshun, the oldest scholar in the staff office, said: "If we don't increase the tax a little, to be honest, the tax set by my wife is too low, which is equivalent to giving land to the common people. "

  As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Chi objected: "No, no, it's my lady's policy of light taxation that benefits the people, which makes the reputation of the general and his wife rise steadily, making more and more people regard his wife and the general as the best in the world. Lord, won't increasing taxes ruin your reputation?"

  Someone else asked: "Why don't we impose a certain security tax on the aristocratic families who move to Lingnan for refuge?"

  "We only accept aristocratic families and not ordinary refugees. I'm afraid we won't be able to convince the public. If everyone If you accept it, how should you determine the price? It's impossible for ordinary refugees to charge one tael of silver, while aristocratic families charge one thousand taels of silver, right?"

  Everyone kept talking to each other, but no one had a good idea.

  Seeing everyone arguing and arguing, Jiang Tangtang had some ideas, "What do you think about building some houses in the bustling streets and buying them?"

  If you don't ask the family for money openly, just let the family pay willingly.

  In fact, the main reason was that she suddenly thought of the means of generating revenue for modern local finance. In addition to real estate, there are also tax increases on merchants and attempts to issue national bonds.

  Jiang Tangtang told her several ideas.

  The previous several ideas have received a lot of praise, but only the national debt, people don't quite understand what it means.

  Jiang Tangtang briefly explained, "It means that the government will come forward to borrow money from the people, and then we will pay them a certain amount of interest."

  This requires the government to be very credible before it can be implemented. She is not sure whether it can be done.

  The staff are not sure, but regardless of whether it works or not, let's try it first.

  Jiang Tangtang was discussing with his staff the location of the house, the sale price and other details, when another servant came.

  "What's the matter?" Jiang Tangtang felt a little tired and raised his hand to rub his temples.

  The servant was a little confused: "Madam, your second uncle and aunt are making trouble outside. Do you want to send someone to send him away?"

  Jiang Tangtang said casually: "What are they making trouble?"