Jaro's face looked a little ugly. After hesitating for a moment, he replied with a thorn in his mouth: "Your Majesty, the reduction in grain tax is because most areas of Wuzhou, Fuzhou and Dongzhou have suffered from summer droughts and there is no continuous rain in March. If it were not for the benefits of the canals, the fertile fields would be able to obtain meager water, most areas of the three states would not have any grain harvest!"

"Drought?" Ying Chang's face turned gloomy and asked in a deep voice: "Why does my imperial platform have no memorial about drought? Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster?"

Jaro hurriedly knelt down on the ground and apologized in fear and fear: "The three states are indeed drought, but local officials and ministers believe that there are canals that can protect the fertile land without worry, and there is no need to report a memorial to make His Majesty worry. But who would have thought that the canals did not provide much water, which led to the uneven quality of crops this year, and the grain tax of the three states plummeted!"

"I am guilty of dereliction of duty, I hope your crime will be reduced!"

Ying Chang narrowed his eyes and looked at the Du Yushi Changqing. Chang Qing nodded slightly, indicating that he had checked it, and it was indeed drought.

When Ying Chang learned that it was indeed a drought, he calmed down a little. Drought was nothing, but he was afraid it would be a man-made disaster.

"The drought is irreversible, no wonder you are on your head, but you have never reported it. I was a blind cat and sent an order to punish the Minister of Revenue for three months. The officials involved were suspended for one month. If there is another time, the crime will be increased and severely punished!" Ying Chang shouted coldly with expressionless face.

"I will obey the order!" The ministers quickly bent down and bowed and shouted in unison.

"Get up, the decline in grain tax has been explained clearly. Now let me explain the tariffs, commercial taxes, and the three states outside the customs!" Ying Chang said.

Jaro wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, slowly stood up from the ground, leaned over and replied: "Report to Your Majesty, the taxes of the three states outside the customs have dropped because the Zhao Dynasty has declared war on our Great Qin Dynasty, and then seized the goods of Qin merchants in Zhao and drove them out of the country!"

"There are also the Xia Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. Although the Chu Dynasty is not as extreme as the former, it temporarily prohibits Qin Shang from entering Chu. There is also Qi Dynasty. Although the Qi Dynasty did not expel Qin Shang or prohibits Qin Shang from entering the country, it has increased the tariffs on entering Qi, causing many Qin Shangs to retreat when they are in trouble!"

"There is also the Zhongshan Kingdom. The Zhongshan Kingdom has completely broken up with our Great Qin. Although it has not declared war on our Great Qin, it has learned from Zhao Xiahan, knocked on our Qin merchants' wealth and goods, and was expelled from the country. Because Xia, Chu, Zhongshan Kingdom and Qi did not allow Qin merchants to enter, Qin merchants could not move south, and Qin merchants who had previously moved south were also driven back one after another!"

"The Qin merchants in the southeastern countries of Jiuzhou realized something was wrong, and they also borrowed the Wei Dynasty and Yue Dynasty to return to Qin from Yanshui Pass. In just half a year, the situation in the world changed, and merchants from other countries dared not enter Qin, which caused the decline in tariffs and commercial taxes in the three states outside the pass!"

"The Qin Dynasty can only digest the passes by itself. I expect that the annual fiscal revenue will decline sharply again. I am also preparing to propose to reduce the budgets of various ministries and save some money for our dynasty!"

After hearing this, the ministers of the court finally understood how the fiscal revenue dropped. It turned out that the problem was here.

Ying Chang was also a little confused. He didn't take this into consideration when he declared war.

Be careless again.

"The Qi Dynasty is a bit too much. He sent his great-grandson to the banquet to discuss the attack on Qin, and now he has raised the tariffs on Qi!"

"It seems that the nations not only want to send troops to attack me, but also want to rely on commerce to drag my Qin Dynasty's finances to death!"

"If the finances of our Great Qin will be like this in the next five years. With the annual consumption of our Great Qin, the treasury may be squandered in five years!"

"Damn Zhongshan Kingdom, bold, and mere vassal states are so presumptuous!"

"Zhongshan Kingdom has been brave enough to eat leopards. The population is less than 500,000, and we still have to learn from all countries to attack Qin!"

"Hmph, it won't take long, and Zhongshan will surely destroy people!"

The ministers were indignantly cursing the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Qi Dynasty, especially the Zhongshan Kingdom, a small country with a population of less than 500,000, but they were so presumptuous. It was like a little kid standing in front of a general and scattering and peeing.

Naughty kid, just beat him to death.

Ying Chang listened to the curses of the ministers, and also noticed a mistake that he had, which was that he should not delay the attack on Xia and Zhao.

The original intention of giving the nations time to unite troops was to catch them all in one go, and the Qin Dynasty in the city saved them to fight to the decisive battle one by one. This move was tried and tested when conquering the northwest desert, so Ying Chang entered a misunderstanding of thought and thought that this move was also effective for the nations.

This move is also very convincing to all officials, but if you think about it carefully, the Huns and Qiang people in the northwest desert did not engage in trade with the Qin Dynasty and had already started a war. The Qin Dynasty used this move, but all the countries had traded with the Qin Dynasty and had not started a war.

The longer the war starts, the longer the war lasts, and the Qin Dynasty's tariffs, commercial taxes, etc. will suffer a severe blow.

Thinking of this, it is a huge mistake to give time to all nations to join forces.

"What is the fiscal budget this year?" Ying Chang asked immediately.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Feizi immediately took out the prepared budget memorial from his arms and presented it with respect to both hands. Pei Ji immediately stepped down from the platform, took over the budget memorial, and handed it to Yu Yingchang.

Ying Chang took over the budget memorial and opened it and saw the content of the budget memorial as follows:

[Sheng Qin 28th Annual Budget]

[Ministry of War: The Ordnance Department budget is 100 million taels of silver; the army budget is 40 million taels of silver and 30 million stones of grain; the navy budget is 15 million taels of silver and 1.5 million stones of grain; the reserve battalion budget is 72 million taels of silver and 16 million stones of grain; the Ministry of War daily expenditure budget is 500,000 taels of silver]

[Ministry of Rites; Daily expenses of 200,000 taels of silver]

[Ministry of Revenue: The three prefectures outside the pass need 44 million stones of grain to maintain the survival of 13 million herdsmen. The annual expenditure of government officials in the Qin Dynasty and officials from all over the country. The budget for salaries of court officials is 21 million taels of silver, and the budget for daily expenditure of the Ministry of Revenue is 300,000 taels of silver]

[Ministry of Industry: Daily expenditure budget of 300,000 taels of silver]

[Ministry of Personnel: Daily expenditure budget of 300,000 taels of silver]

[Zhongshu Academy: The daily expenditure budget for schools in various places is 6 million taels of silver, while the daily expenditure budget for schools in Zhongshu Academy is 500,000 taels of silver]

[Right Prime Minister's Office: The budget for subsidized treatment expenses of the court is 40 million taels of silver; the budget for pension in the nursing home is 45 million taels of silver!]

[The annual fiscal budget for the 28th year of the Great Qin Dynasty's dynasty to Qin is: 342,220 taels of silver and 91,500 shi of grain!]

For the upcoming decisive battle, the Ministry of War will provide five times the usual grain to the major battalions. The more grain it provides, the more labor it needs, and there are also the navy, which has a high maintenance cost.
Chapter completed!