The Ministry of Industry of the Great Zhou, at present, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry is Qiu Zhangpu, and the waiters of the Ministry of Industry are Liao Jiyuan and Wang Jien respectively.

Qiu Zhangpu is a decent person, and he is usually relatively low-key, and this old man generally does not participate in the affairs of the court.

Liao Jiyuan, last time was locked up by Emperor Guo Rong in the craftsman to supervise the creation of horseshoes, a pass is four or five months, after Guo Rong died, Guo Zongxun succeeded to the throne, and it was not good to immediately lift the ban on the craftsman department.

Therefore, it wasn't until a while ago that Guo Zongxun issued an order to lift the ban on the craftsman's office, and Liao Jiyuan was released together.

There are 300 craftsmen and 5,000 people who are responsible for building Guo Rong's mausoleum, Guo Rong was buried in Youzhou, and the mausoleum in Kaifeng is equivalent to useless, and all the people are disbanded and returned to their hometowns, just to participate in the autumn harvest.

Three hundred craftsmen plus craftsmen from the craftsman's institute, a total of seven hundred, Guo Zongxun handed them all over to Wushuangmen, these people failed to get the iron rice bowl of the imperial court, but they got the identity of Wushuangmen craftsmen.

Wushuangmen, Guo Zongxun is going to be used as a royal craftsman sect, as long as these craftsmen have real skills, in Wushuangmen, it is equivalent to having a more reliable talisman and livelihood.

The Ministry of Industry of the Great Zhou Dynasty was thus streamlined, and the work of craftsmanship was stripped out of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry basically only had administrative functions left.

Wang Jien was transferred from Qizhou only two years ago, Guo Zongxun also felt a little dramatic, but he didn't expect that it was because of the transformation of farm tools in this house, which greatly improved the agricultural production efficiency of the Great Zhou.

This can be regarded as an eclectic and bold promotion of talents, and the emperor does have this power.

After taking office, Wang Jien was probably influenced by Qiu Zhangpu, and he did things in a decent manner, without major mistakes, but he did not make any big achievements.

"Wang Jien, leave it to Wang Pu to deal with, if it is determined that he has fraudulently taken someone else's invention, he can deal with it as he wants."

Guo Zongxun didn't want to waste time on such a person, let Wang Pu deal with it, and also give him a chance to perform.

"The old slave obeys."

"Go and call Chen Danwang, the head of the household, I have something to ask him."

Guo Zongxun has always been a little strange, the Great Zhou court seems to be quite rich, his father and emperor drove the expedition in person, and the grain and grass needed by hundreds of thousands of troops have never been missed, and even his recent series of big moves, and even preparing to start a war on two fronts, the household department has not called for no money.

Since ascending the throne, Guo Zongxun has wanted to do a lot of things, and the issue of agricultural taxes is still quite normal, and Guo Zongxun's accession to the throne has neither been lowered nor raised.

But as for commercial taxes, Guo Zongxun felt that it was time to pay attention to the merchants and families who controlled most of the wealth of the Great Zhou.

Since Guo Zongxun launched the state-run business model, the development momentum of the Hundred Battles Heroes Hall has been very good, with the support of the imperial court, and to ensure the bloodline of the personnel who enter the state-run commercial stores.

The little emperor is now a rich man with a lot of private money.

Otherwise, he couldn't wave his hand, so he gave Princess Shou'an 50,000 taels of silver for repairing the princess's mansion.

So, what about the household department, tossing until now, I didn't see Chen Danwang start crying poor, but it aroused Guo Zongxun's curiosity.

Not long after, Chen Danwang came to the imperial study to meet the little emperor.

"Chen Danwang will see Your Majesty."

"Chen Aiqing is exempt, I asked you to come to the imperial study today because there are some things that I am afraid that asking directly in the court will cause unnecessary turmoil, I want to ask you, now, how much silver is there in my Great Zhou treasury?"

Chen Danwang bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, excluding the expenses that have been planned, the silver money remaining in my Great Zhou's treasury is less than 300,000 taels."

No, there are only 300,000 taels left, so little, but Chen Danwang's answer reassured Guo Zongxun a lot, and Chen Danwang has set aside the expenses in the plan, which shows that the family foundation left by my father is still thick enough, otherwise I wouldn't be able to bear such a toss.

"After the autumn harvest this year, after the taxes paid by various places are charged into the state treasury, Chen Aiqing predicts how many silver taels there will be."

Guo Zongxun probably already knew why Chen Danwang had been crying poor, and there was still a tax for the autumn harvest that was about to be collected.

During this time, Guo Zongxun did not just spend money and did not make money, and all the fields and properties of the Daomen in various places were included in the Huangzhuang, which was not as simple as paying taxes, except for the taxes and the necessary living materials left to the tenants of the Huangzhuang, the rest of the income was all income from the little emperor's internal funds.

A while ago, Luoyang began to pay off the arrears of taxes with great fanfare, and all of them were charged into the state treasury.

The relatives led by King Wei and Princess Shou'an took the initiative to hand over all the food under their names to the little emperor, and Guo Zongxun also collected all these land and properties into the imperial village.

Empress Dowager Fu Jinhuan finally has a serious business, and it is something she is very interested in, managing all the imperial estates and helping the little emperor count money.

This is something that can't be helped, the royal family must have privileges, this is the evil feudal society, Guo Zongxun now feels that it is natural and peaceful.

"Your Majesty, this autumn tax, it is estimated that the silver that can be included in the treasury can be close to 10 million taels, excluding the official salaries and normal expenses, the silver money that Your Majesty can use in the treasury is estimated to be 2 million taels."

Guo Zongxun frowned, how could it be that there were only two million taels, and it would take more than seven million taels of silver to support the daily expenses of these officials and the imperial court?

"I'm afraid two million taels is not enough, Chen Aiqing has any good way to get me more money."

Chen Danwang bowed and said:

"Your Majesty's forgiveness, because the minister did not report it clearly just now, of the more than 7 million taels of silver that is expected to be spent, three million taels are reserved by the household department in accordance with the usual practice, which is also what the emperor did when he was on the throne."

It turns out that the concept of reserve money has existed since ancient times.

Guo Zongxun nodded, what his father Guo Rong said, what is the establishment of the world, he will wait until he no longer goes out to fight and will start exploring at ease, this is the modesty of his father.

Guo Rong is worthy of being an eloquent emperor, and he has been doing his best to take care of the Great Zhou world inherited from Taizu Guo Wei.

The reason why Guo Rong died young was of course due to injuries in foreign battles for many years, but the bigger reason was that Guo Rong exhausted himself to death.

Guo Zongxun looked up at the roof of the imperial study, and silently paid tribute to his father who was buried in the Sixteen Tombs of Youzhou in his heart.

Father, don't worry, the child will also do his best for the country of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the people of the world.

"Chen Aiqing, now my Great Zhou is mainly to fight in the Quartet to defeat the ministers, but the people's livelihood is also equally important, you must know that with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Great Zhou, the places that have just been recovered must be given the opportunity and time to calm the people's hearts and resume production, and the existing silver money in the treasury is far from enough."

"Your Majesty, the minister is going to wait for the autumn tax to be paid, and then report to His Majesty in detail, but His Majesty thought of the minister's front, and the minister was ashamed."

Guo Zongxun waved his hand, he was still very satisfied with Chen Danwang, he was a capable official, and he was a competent household secretary.

"Chen Aiqing, I am also taking precautions, since Chen Aiqing already has a plan in his heart, then, tell me, how do you plan to properly solve the upcoming silver shortage?"