Zhao Han's idea is very simple. The treasury allocates money to the inner court every year, and the inner court uses the money to buy things. Although there will definitely be tricks in the purchasing process, it is always more transparent than eunuchs running around to mess around.

Today, the total annual fiscal revenue of the seven provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui is more than 13 million taels of silver.

This statistics is incomplete because many farmers pay grain directly, and the real total tax payment is estimated to be more than 16 million taels.

Among them, industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs are growing rapidly and will definitely continue to grow in the future.

The annual tariff revenue from the five major ports of Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and Macau alone exceeds 5 million taels. Shanghai's tariffs are growing particularly rapidly and are very likely to double next year!

In addition, after the reform of the Salt Law, salt taxes are also increasing.

The salt-drying method has been basically popularized in the Lianghuai Salt Fields. This method was invented by the salt fields in Fujian and Guangdong in the mid-Ming Dynasty, but it has not been able to be extended to the Lianghuai River because the seawater in the Lianghuai River has a lower salt content.

During the Tianqi period, Xu Guangqi improved the salt-drying method so that the Lianghuai Salt Fields could also dry salt.

Unfortunately, bureaucracy and slow promotion.

After it became privately owned, in just one year, all Lianghuai Salt Farms used the sun-salting method.

If people's livelihood in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui can be restored, Zhao Han's annual income in the seven provinces alone may reach 20 million taels next year!

With money, being an emperor is not a waste of time. He will ascend the throne in half a month!

(The fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty was actually not as bad as imagined. Even after the One Whip Law, a large amount of physical taxes were retained. Adding these physical taxes together, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty must have been more than 10 million taels, and may even exceed 15 million taels.
Chapter completed!