435 Animal Husbandry Departmen (1/2)

Merchants chased for profits, which made them one of the hardest bunch to control. While they made contributions to the development of the territory, they too earned a lot.

An unavoidable matter was that due to profits, merchants would join in the battles and fights in an area.

Towards this, Ouyang Shuo would naturally be wary and defensive.

Apart from the Financial Department Business Division managing everything, they needed to develop more Chamber of Commerces to prevent a monopoly.

Local Chamber of Commerces would knock heads with the big ones.

Of course, this only solved the problem in the short term; the root cause remained.

Ouyang Shuo was planning to build a Business Association to increase the monitoring levels on the various Chamber of Commerces.

This matter still needed much planning.

After all, the current territory was still in the basic development stages, and they needed to borrow the strength of the various Chamber of Commerce. Hence, they could not land a blow to their eagerness.

Out of the three prefectures, Lianzhou Prefecture naturally developed the quickest.

Although Shanhai City was cut out from the Lianzhou Prefecture, the Lianzhou Prefecture that had four Houses and one city remained the biggest of the bunch.

The newly established Shenjuan House had already survived the toughest time period, and the city building had reached its later stages. Its unique industries like animal husbandry and leather processing was growing everyday.

Tianfeng House and Broken Blade House focused on water products and pearl cultivation to bring in money. Apart from that, one could not underestimate the tea gardens and the mulberry gardens located around them.

Especially the mulberry gardens, which along with the colored silkworm production, was enough to make one's eyes red with envy.

The colored silk that Shanhai City produced had long started selling in the nine imperial cities. The merchants and the rich men loved this silk, forming sort of a trend.

Out of the four Houses, Mulan House was formed from a territory merging over. Regretfully, as it had a special geographical position, their profits were a little awkward.

The most important aspect was Mulan House’s lack of advantageous industries.

Probably only after they occupied the Guangxi Province would Mulan House rise from the ashes.

Of course, however eye-catching the three prefectures were, they could not cover the glow of Shanhai City.

The outer city construction of Shanhai City was still spreading like wildfire. Everyday, no less than a thousand people would move over. These people were not newly spawned refugees but commoners from the various imperial cities.

Shanhai City's population had already broken through four hundred thousand. Ouyang Shuo predicted that by the 10th month at the latest, Shanhai City could upgrade to a grade 2 prefecture and break through the five hundred thousand population upper limit.

The current Shanhai City was a place where roads and paths intersected. If Ouyang Shuo did not bring a guide with him, even he would lose his way. His area of activity was basically limited to the imperial city.

On the other hand, Bing'er, who was on holiday, started to crazily run around the city like a released wild horse. Occasionally, she would even teleport to Yashan City to take a look at her ‘territory’.

In Yashan City, she was basically a princess.

Governor Tian Wenjing not only sent men to build the Lord's Manor extravagantly, he even built a wild animal park for Bing'er to play around in outside of the city.

The construction of the zoo was all because Bing'er said, “There are so many animals here.”

When Ouyang Shuo learned of this matter, he shook his head speechless.

He did not expect the cold faced Governor Tian Wenjing to actually love Bing'er so much and pamper her.

As the main camp of the territory, Shanhai City was the most prosperous. Based on the calculations of the Business Division, till date, a total of 37 Chamber of Commerces had moved in.

The nine imperial cities all had Chamber of Commerces that moved in.

Apart from the Business Division, the military industry naturally supported the development of Shanhai City.

After more than a year of development, the military industry finally started to explode. Along with the building of the east region, the overall production capacity of the military industry increased by three folds.

Till date, the production of equipment in the city not only met the requirements of the army, it even met the orders of the Shanhai Alliance members.

The military industry that was firing on all cylinders could be called a real money maker.

The administrative meeting began.

Financial Director Cui Yingyu reported the financial situation of the 7th month.

”Shanhai City has earned 85,700 gold, Lianzhou Prefecture handed over 52,700 gold, Leizhou Prefecture currently has no money, while Qiongzhou Prefecture handed over 41,500 gold. Including the profits of 55,000 gold from the Business Division, the total profits of the 7th month is 234,900 gold.”

When he heard that the monthly Income had crossed two hundred thousand, Ouyang Shuo was delighted.

It was not easy.

However, what she reported next made Ouyang Shuo's face turn black.

”7th month, 80,000 gold was spent, which mainly consisted of the 20,000 gold used on Shanhai City’s city building and 60,000 on Leizhou Prefecture. Apart from that, Nanjiang Governor-General House spent eight thousand gold and military expenditure was 135,000 gold.”

One legion would normally require around 35,000 gold.

In the army, the Dragon Legion and Tiger Legion were full. Including the 1st division of the Leopard Legion, the Guards division, and the palace Guards, its expenditure had reached 95,000 gold.

The Nanyang Navy included the 1st division of both the Yashan Squadron and the Beihai Bay Squadron, its expenditure was around twenty thousand gold.

All things considered, daily expenses alone would cost 115,000 gold.

The 7th month military expenses also needed to consider the payments to families during the Battle of Leizhou and the Battle of Julu.

Hence, military expenditure used up more than half of the overall income.

This was just the game. If he really ran a country like this in real life, his people would definitely revolt.

As Cui Yingyu reported the military expenses, she had unconsciously eyed Du Ruhui.

Du Ruhui knew the reason and did not say anything.

At this point, before the armies fully formed up, they could earn extra income through raiders.

At the moment, the military expenses were not a huge burden to the territory finances.