On December 28, only two days after returning to Beijing, Zhu Youdong appeared at the State Council meeting again.

In fact, according to his original intention, he had been away from the capital for such a long time, and he should hold a meeting immediately after returning. But there was no other way. The emperor personally went to conquer the capital. Not only beheaded the other party's king, he also cut up other people's territory and divided his own.

Relatives were assigned there. These handwritings were so numerous that in addition to going to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to explain to Concubine Wanli and Zheng Guifei, he also spent a lot of time guiding Zhang Shize to set the tone for the propaganda of the six major newspapers.

After these things were done, government affairs across the country had to be handled quickly, and in the end he didn't even have much time to spend with his son and daughter.

"Hey." Taking a deep breath, Zhu Youdong shook his head helplessly: "Let's get started."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cao Sanxi was the first to stand up.

"From last year when our court began to build a large number of warships in the two major shipyards of Binhai and Changsha, until the emperor returned to Beijing on the 25th of this month, the court spent a total of 16.3 million yuan on this war against the Japanese and Siamese thieves.

Among them, the war fund paid 6.3 million yuan, the Ministry of Household Affairs also paid 6.3 million yuan, and the rest was borne by the emperor's internal treasury. The war fund was mainly responsible for the construction of warships, the purchase of gunpowder, the transportation of materials, and additional civilian salaries.

etc. The Ministry of Revenue and the emperor’s internal treasury are mainly responsible for the military salaries and pensions of the ten new military towns and three fleets.”

Well, it seems that when Wanli aided Korea to fight against the Japanese, it took only 7 million taels of silver to defeat the Japanese in six years, right? Even if silver has continued to depreciate in the past 20 to 30 years, even if this is a modern military operation... I have spent this year and a half

More than 10 million seems a bit too much?

"Um, President Cao, does this expenditure include the loss of the more than a thousand Dafu ships in the Gulf of Siam?"

"Include."

"Oh~" He breathed a long sigh of relief: "How much will the follow-up expenses be? I'm asking about the pension that needs to be reissued so far."

"Your Majesty, according to current statistics, in the past year and a half of the war, more than 4,200 officers and soldiers of our DPRK were killed in action, and more than 12,000 were lightly or seriously injured. According to the death pension, each person is 100 yuan, and the serious injury or disability is 70 yuan.

, after recovering from minor injuries, only 10 yuan will be paid. A total of more than 830,000 yuan in pensions should be paid. 330,000 yuan has been paid."

Hey, sure enough, in this era, human life is really the cheapest. This is just the beginning. I am afraid that the next battles will become more and more tragic.

He sighed with a heavy heart. Zhu Youdong said to Xu Honggang: "Has the revenue and expenditure of the Ministry of Household Affairs been released this year?"

"The liquidation has been completed." Xu Honggang stood up: "Your Majesty, everyone. In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, thanks to the completion of the nationwide yellow rolls and the absence of national catastrophes this year, the revenue of the Household Department this year is: rice

A total of 47.5 million kilograms of wheat items were handed over by civilian households and military households. Thanks to the Royal Bank's branches and warehouses being laid out at the provincial level, the loss rate of these items has been significantly reduced, compared with previous years.

30% dropped to less than 10%.

Since the emperor began to supervise the country six years ago, he arranged for Eunuch Wei to reform the twenty-four yamen in the palace. Today, all the in-kind taxes on silk, silk, linen, cotton, etc. levied by the royal family and the Ministry of Household Affairs have been changed to monetary taxes. Last year this time

The discount for one piece of silver is 4.53 million yuan.

Forage, horses, etc. have all been converted into monetary taxes, which is equivalent to 2.3 million yuan in silver.

During the emperor's inspection of the yellow rolls, it was clearly stipulated that corvees could be replaced by silver coins. This year, a total of 3.3 million yuan in silver from corvees was received.

Next is the salt tax, with a fixed amount of 12 million yuan per year. The tea tax, uh, the tea tax is only 43,000 yuan. The metallurgy tax (metallurgy, porcelain) is 430,000 yuan. The shipping and merchant tax, because sea trade has not been opened up, so this tax

The income is only 132,000 yuan. Finally, the toll collection of the highway that has been completed has been completed. As of early December this year, a total of 1.35 million yuan has been received.

To sum up, last year the household revenue totaled 47.5 million shi from various grains and 21.785 million yuan from various silver coins."

Zhu Youdong didn't know how much Spain's income was in a fiscal year at this time. If he knew that Philip could have more than 40 million silver dollars in the national treasury alone in a year, he would probably cry a lot: even if the current market price of two stones

If grain is worth one silver dollar, the Ming Dynasty, which had the largest population in the world, would only have a total income of 40 million this year!

However, when I was four years old, when I first participated in the ceremony hosted by Wanli, the total national income was only more than 19 million taels after being converted into silver, and the actual silver in the treasury was only more than 5 million taels.

It seems that you can still accept it?

However, the next part of Xu Honggang's expenses made Zhu Youdong depressed again.

"In terms of expenditures, last year, the Ministry of Household Affairs paid a total of 11.25 million yuan in salary and salary to civil servants, officials, and officers. It paid various materials, salaries, deployment fees, etc. to military towns such as Jiubian and the Beijing camp, which were converted into silver dollars

, worth 6.35 million yuan. Paid 4.68 million yuan in salary, deployment, and pension for the newly-built New Army's fourth to tenth towns. 400,000 yuan was allocated to the shipyard for research and development, and 400,000 yuan was allocated to the Ministry of Industry to produce various types of gunpowder, bombs, cannons, and firearms.

The cost is 3.65 million yuan. Two new highways from Shanhaiguan to Liaoyang and Xi'an to Chengdu have been started. The construction period of the former is three years and the latter is ten years. This year, 2 million yuan has been allocated to the Ministry of Industry... In addition, special paper for the reconstruction of Huangceku

A total of 3.78 million yuan was spent on expenses, various administrative expenses, disaster relief in a few areas, and new allocations from the Taiwan government. In addition, due to frequent military mobilization last year, tens of thousands of troops in Liaodong were stationed in the Yalu River for a long time. So this

The loss of food is also very large. Last year, 13 million dan were consumed in military rations alone. In addition to the food eaten by the soldiers, the main reason was the loss along the way, and to appease the local people after taking back Hainan. Not only was it tax-free for a year, but it was also given to

The local people received two shi of grain per person...as well as the grain that was invested in the founding of Taiwan in advance...Of course, according to the rules of our dynasty, part of the expenditures on officials, military towns, salaries, wages, and disaster relief were replaced by grain.

Therefore, the actual expenditure last year was: 21.755 million yuan in silver dollars and 29.35 million shi in various types of rice and flour. The actual balance of the Ministry of Household Affairs in various types of grain was 18 million shi."

Seeing the ministers below twirling their beards and smiling, showing expressions of relief. Zhu Youdong just wanted to shout angrily: Is this a balance? What a fart balance! If it weren't for the War Foundation and my internal treasury subsidies, where would there be any balance?

It's obviously a huge loss, right?

Not to mention anything else, all the expenditures so far on the first to third towns of the New Army, as well as the two fleets of Li Guozhu and Yan Siqi, as well as Fangshan School and the laboratory, and half of the expenditures of the two royal military academies, are mine.

Is it okay for the internal treasury to bear it alone? I spent more than 4 million yuan on these alone last year.

In addition, the logistics to maintain the mobilization of huge troops during the war, the construction of additional warships, the purchase of gunpowder, etc. all depended on the War Foundation. This amount is also more than 6 million! If these are included, the national finances actually have nothing at all.

The balance - not to mention that all the more than 40 million shi of grain in the treasury will be poured into the market, which will cause the price of food to be cut in half or even reach a quarter. Even if we calculate it based on two shi of grain and one silver dollar, we will lose at least several hundred dollars this year.

Ten thousand silver dollars, right?

In fact, this year, except for the decisive battle in the East China Sea, the Ming Dynasty mainly fought against Siam. Moreover, it did not even fight a few battles against Siam. In this way, the national finances suffered losses. What about fighting Japan next year? In the future, the size of the new army will be increased.

How about expanding it at least ten times and engaging in a global war?

The problem Zhu Youdong faces now is actually the same as Philip: the time traveler has been slightly strengthened, but essentially the Ming Dynasty is still the model of a medieval country, and it cannot support a long-lasting, large-scale modernization war.

What's even worse about Zhu Youdong than Philip is that his business taxes are still not paid, and he currently has no colonies that can provide stable and continuous blood transfusion to the mainland.

Although there must be a considerable amount of money from the sales of salt mines in the Ministry of Accounts and the fire consumption at the bank. But what does it mean to lose money every year in the fiscal year?

Fortunately, Siam has been defeated now. There is a basis for solving the above two problems.
Chapter completed!