Chapter 147: Astronomical

"The minister also knows the strategy of harnessing the water and attacking the sand, how effective is it, the minister doesn't say, the minister only says a little, it costs money." Zhou Chen said.

Zhu Qizhen also knows that ordinary river embankments are just one, but if you want to harness water and attack sand, you need at least three, although these three river embankments do not need to be built as strongly, but in terms of cost, they are also much higher than ordinary river embankments.

Zhou Chen's mouth was like beads for a while, so that Zhu Qizhen heard the voice of abacus from his mouth.

Zhou Chen said: "One mile of embankment, all kinds of costs are also different, if it is only rammed earth, about five hundred taels is enough, but if it is required by the section of the Daqing River in Hebei, the minister is estimated to be around three thousand taels." After all, iron and stone are mostly used, and the price of this stone and the price of iron are not cheap. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to it and understood that Zhou Chen had guessed Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

In many things, it is possible to cut corners, the same embankment, five hundred taels can be built, one thousand taels can also be built, and ten thousand taels can also be built, such as the section of the embankment on the east side of the triangle lake, the cost per mile is not cheap, maybe it can reach ten thousand taels. After all, I don't know how many catties of light and iron have been used.

Two pounds of silver. Large-scale purchases, and even iron prices will rise.

Zhu Qizhen was already extremely ashamed of the incident of the Yellow River breaking, how could he save money on this. It must be that he would rather ask for more money and seek long-term peace and stability.

Zhou Chen said: "Nowadays, the construction of river embankments is not only river embankments, for example, in Zhangqiu Town, it is necessary to repair the sluice gates. There have been all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, showdown into the river work, the minister tentatively set a mile of five thousand taels, that is, as much as thirteen million taels. ”

"And it's very urgent, if it can't be repaired before the peach blossom flood next year, it is estimated that it will be another disaster."

"It's just that in the imperial court's Taicang treasury, it's only this amount, even if it is withdrawn several times, it can't be moved. In the will of His Majesty, the annual expenses of various departments have been determined, and when the month comes, all parts will go to the household department to receive money, and the silver in the Taicang treasury, although it is still stored in the treasury, but most of them are ownery. ”

"So ----"

Zhu Qizhen said: "Needless to say, you just say how much the imperial court will spend on this project." How much money do I have to pay in my inner treasury? ”

Zhou Chen said: "There is no need too much, Zhili, Shandong, and Henan are all rich in the treasury, and the three provinces combined, there are about more than two million taels, and there is still a lot of grain on the canal that was originally going to be transported to Beijing, which can be used by Shandong at this moment." Therefore, the minister thought that it would be enough to divide it into three parts, and allocate three million taels. ”

This is the reason why Zhu Qizhen is inseparable from Zhou Chen.

An account in Zhou Chen's heart is clearly calculated.

Even if it is Zhu Qizhen, he doesn't know how much money is in the accounts of Shandong, Henan, and Zhili provinces

。 First, Zhu Qizhen didn't have the heart to take care of it too much. Second, local officials do not want to let the above know about the accounts in their hands, and they will not put them forward as a key point.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is now considered good, after Zhu Qizhen reformed the salt tax, on the whole, the finances are quite abundant, and all financial crises are caused by emergencies.

If Zhu Qizhen can be divided in peace and learn from the Queen Mother, it will not take ten years, it will be a situation where the internal carrier warehouse, the Taicang silver warehouse, and the Beijing warehouse are all full.

Therefore, at this time, the imperial court's financial scraping of the following provinces is not so serious.

But don't forget, the year of Xuanzong is not far away, in fact, the biggest problem facing Emperor Xuanzong is the financial crisis, Xuanzong is not unaware, step by step strategic contraction is not right.

But say 1,000 to 10,000, without money, what can be done? He also had to pay for Emperor Taizong, who overissued an unknown number of Ming treasure banknotes for the Northern Expedition.

This is a number that Emperor Taizong himself does not know.

At that time, Emperor Xuanzong had made a political envoy to the yamen to collect the balance of the domain.

The so-called wealth is not exposed, this is the case for the emperor, if the emperor does not have money, he is not tough when he speaks to the minister. If the magistrate did not have money in his hands, he would not be tough in his face with the gentry.

Therefore, many magistrates who want to do a career will not easily take the initiative to report the local finances to the imperial court.

But the problem is, if you don't report the people above, you won't know.

I'm sorry, Daming has a royal law, the tax comes up, the place is divided into a few percent, how to intercept it, there are precedents, for experts like Zhou Chen.

There is no need to send someone to check, just by looking at the account books here in the imperial court, you can find out how much money the local treasury has, even if there is a big project in the local area, they have to report it to the imperial court.

How much is the balance of each province, Zhu Qizhen is in the fog, knowing that there is such a sum of money, but the specific amount is not very clear. But Zhou Chen watched the text like a palm.

He dared to transfer the burden of nearly three million taels to the locality, and he was definitely prepared.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let's do it, this first batch of three million yuan will be shipped from the internal transportation warehouse." You arrange it right away. ”

Zhou Chen said: "Yes." ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Neiku just got a little better, so he hit back again." ”

The improvement of the inner library is because of the Shaofu.

Liu Dingzhi runs Shaofu, and he is also very hardworking, and Shaofu's revenue exceeds one million taels a year. It is mainly divided into two major blocks, the first of which is gold and silver mines, and the income from this area exceeds 500,000 taels.

In particular, the gold discoveries in Hercynian are kept. He can earn 60,000 taels of gold a year, and the ratio of gold to silver is 600,000 taels of silver.

Zhu Qizhen in order to support Haixi

During the war, most of the income from this piece was allocated to the Hercynian Division. Support the Haixi Metropolitan Division to operate Tuntian.

But the people below will also not say anything at all.

Every year, at least 10,000 taels of gold enter the inner treasury, that is, 100,000 taels of silver.

The rest is the industrial revenue of the inner library, note that it is coal and iron, Mentougou Coal Mine has monopolized Beijing's coal consumption, two or three hundred thousand taels a year, as for the iron Zunhua Iron Plant.

In fact, if the Zunhua Iron Works alone has a lot of income, but the problem is that the Shaofu also has to bear some obligations, such as the weapon replacement of the imperial horse supervision soldiers and horses, and the weapon replacement of the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp.

I'm sorry, but it's impossible to collect money from the army for these weapons.

If you really want to discount this weapon, you still have a few million taels of income.

The income of the Zunhua Iron Factory is still the income from selling farm tools for the sale of iron, and even then there are more than 100,000 taels.

And after Liu Dingzhi cleaned up the mines near the capital, he was ready to start from the bottom two, one is the official kiln in Jingdezhen, and the other is the weaving in the south of the Yangtze River.

After all, Liu Dingzhi is still mixed with sea trade.

He found that although salt became one of the bulk goods of the Ming Dynasty, it was still inferior to porcelain, silk, and tea compared with traditional commodities.

And the weaving in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River and the porcelain in Jingdezhen were all pulled out to the management of Shaofu.

Liu Dingzhi did not make a difference.

He didn't manage it directly before, but Liu Dingzhi knew the priorities, and the matter of the mine was the most important because of Ye Liuzong's matter, and it should not be delayed. As for Jiangnan weaving and Jingdezhen porcelain, this is a simple matter of making money, but it is not important.

Because of Liu Dingzhi's excellent management, the transportation warehouse in Zhuqi Town has been hovering around 10 million taels to more than 12 million taels.

And with Zhou Chen's meaning, the remaining millions of taels, I am afraid that the household department will not take them all out. Zhu Qizhen's inner treasury still has to be emptied of a large amount of money.

Zhu Qizhen sent Zhou Chen away and asked Zhou Chen to prepare.

It's just that Zhou Chen prepared money, and Zhu Qizhen also hemorrhaged, so there should be no problem in this regard.

As for Ruan An, he has already gone to investigate, and he wants to come to the Water Conservancy Institute to probably send all the staff out.

Although the Institute of Water Conservancy has only been established for less than ten years, with Ruan An, Zhu Qizhen also believes in technical strength. It's just that Zhu Qizhen can't be sure about another point.

It is who is sent to preside over the overall situation.

If you can't do it, you won't do it, this is Zhu Qizhen's principle of doing things. The same thing, in the hands of different people, is the exact opposite effect.

Such a big matter, Zhu Qizhen did not dare to entrust it to others at will.

There is only one person who can make him trust, and that is Yu Qian.