The New Year's holiday is five days, and for several years, Guo is the only one who is not in Luoyang City for these five days, but outside Luoyang City.

Taking the children to rest and play in the hot spring Huangzhuang and enjoying this wonderful atmosphere is also an excellent life seasoning for Guo someone.

At the end of the holiday, on the morning of the fifth day, after breakfast, the royal family was ready to return to Luoyang and return to their daily lives.

When he was about to drive back to the palace, Su Yuan came up and handed the report he had prepared to Guo Peng.

"Your Majesty, according to your instructions, the old slave has counted all the mineral deposits that can be exploited in the country, please read it."

Guo Peng took Su Yuan's paper report and looked at it carefully.

At the end of the first year of Yande, Guo Peng had already instructed Su Yuan to send some capable people to leave the capital and go to various places to investigate the mineral deposits in various places, especially the mineral deposits of important minerals such as gold, silver, copper, and iron, and conduct a comprehensive survey.

Guo should know the number and distribution of mineral deposits that have been discovered in the country, as well as the mineral deposits that have not yet been discovered but are indeed very large in Guo's memory.

Guo doesn't know much.

It is also known that Shuzhong is rich in mineral deposits, and if you explore carefully, you can find a lot of iron ore and copper ore.

Danyang County, along the Yangtze River, has a huge and rich iron deposit.

Taiyuan and other places have huge and abundant coal mines.

Qingzhou is rich in gold mines, and Liaodong also has gold mines.

He only knows a big range, but it's better than not knowing anything.

After that, he sent people from the inner court to explore these places with some old miners who had been engaged in the mining industry for many years.

It took some time to discover unmined iron ore in Danyang County and unmined gold ore in Qingzhou.

As a result, Guo's long-planned work of using the inner court to open mines and enrich the source of funds in the inner treasury is about to begin.

The dispute between the emperor's inner treasury and the imperial court's treasury is still quite interesting, generally speaking, there have been all dynasties, but it has not been as fierce as the Ming Dynasty.

The peak of the struggle in the Ming Dynasty was on the mining tax, and the battle for the mining tax was really fierce and protracted, many people died, many eunuchs died, and many thugs also died, and the whole thing was a mess.

All in all, it was the emperor and the local forces who grabbed the money, and the local forces were unwilling, so the emperor robbed it, and then triggered a series of incidents.

It's still a very interesting thing, and neither side is a good person.

The imperial officials wanted to eat this part of the profits themselves, so they obstructed it in every possible way, and the emperor also wanted to eat it, and the food was ugly, and the tax supervisors sent out were not fuel-efficient lamps.

It's basically two bastards who is more asshole.

But at least one of the bastards can get a little money for the emperor and put it in the inner treasury, and the other bastard is trying to get money out of the emperor's inner treasury.

Standing in the emperor's position, he must have chosen the former bastard.

However, in this way, those mining tax eunuchs will do unscrupulous acts in the local area and destroy the local economy, which will also indirectly reduce local tax revenues and reduce the revenue of the national treasury, turning into a vicious circle.

The emperor is rich, and the moths are rich, but the treasury is out of money, and when something happens, everyone pretends to be deaf and dumb to shirk their responsibilities, and no one wants to pay for things, and they have to pull each other back.

In the end, it is the people of Li who suffer.

is corrupt from top to bottom, all bastards, and it will not be destroyed at this point, it is really supported by the reforms of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Juzheng.

In fact, the emperor's inner treasury can play a role in the empire in many cases, and the smart emperor will make reasonable use of his inner treasury inventory, and once he wants to do something, whether the internal treasury is sufficient or not, can lead the direction of this matter.

Spending money from the treasury to do things is to have a fight with the officials of the empire, and if you spend money from the treasury to do things, no one can say no.

Guo's inner treasury has a huge amount of money, but the expenditure is just as huge.

It costs a lot of money to build a secret workshop, and it is a bottomless pit to build the Linzi camp, where officials are rewarded during the New Year's holidays, and the army is rewarded to army generals and soldiers for meritorious service.

The expenditure of thousands of people in the inner court has to go to the inner treasury, and if there is any major or minor disaster, the emperor will also take out some money from the inner treasury.

The emperor seems to be rich in the world and owns the four seas, but in fact, he is also a poor character who is eager to break a penny in half and spend it.

In order to maintain a decent life and maintain the dignity of the emperor, it is not enough to spend money, and if there is no money, it should be spent as money.

Therefore, at the end of each dynasty, the emperors ate one by one and became ugly, and they went out to grab money from the ministers in person, and they didn't even want the mystery of the emperor's superiority.

It's not that the emperor is shameless, he really has no money, and his usual consumption is still very large, and if he doesn't make some money, there will really be a problem.

Guo's consumption is also quite large.

Therefore, although there is a large amount of income, a lot of income is determined to be useful, Guo himself does not use much, and the savings in the inner treasury are also limited, and he also tries to reduce expenditures in the inner court and strictly control any expenditure.

Since the establishment of the Ten Eunuchs of the Inner Court in the first year of Yande, through the control of the Cabinet Audit Department, Guo has killed at least 30 ugly-looking eunuchs.

It's not that they don't want to get some oil and water, and they want to get some oil and water for their own future, Guo will turn a blind eye and pass it.

But some people eat really ugly, and they commit taboos, so they don't say it, treat them as fat sheep, fatten, slaughter, and the money still goes to the emperor and the inner treasury.

But the huge inner court always has to be done by someone.

Now the amount of expenditure is increasing, but the source of income has not increased, and Guo someone's small treasury will have problems sooner or later, so mining to make money is also regarded by Guo as a good way to open source his own source.

In this regard, he is different from the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty opened mines, and indeed some eunuchs made money for him, but there are still some of them who can't open mines at all.

At that time, the emperor did not want to find professionals to explore, to step on the point in advance, often heard that there was a mine somewhere, so he sent someone to open it, but there was no mine at all there.

The mining tax eunuchs finally came out to make money, and the news that there was a mine in this place was all released by themselves in collusion with local officials to deceive the emperor, and they finally came out, how could it be so easy to leave?

He just wants to collect the mine tax, and if there is no mine, he will also collect the tax.

Where does the tax come from?

Who is the unlucky?

Emperor Wanli was notoriously greedy for money and shrewd, but he was not a professional, and he didn't know where there were mines and where there were no mines, so he recognized money, and whoever gave him money, he was happy, regardless of anything else.

Therefore, those mining tax eunuchs were beaten and killed, and some of them were really self-inflicted.

The people of Li had no choice but to suppress it, so they rioted, made mass trouble, and beat around the residence of the mine tax eunuch, and the mine tax eunuch would die without a place to be buried.

The public is angry, if someone is really going to die, the emperor does not dare to pursue it, and the ministers are even more happy to hear it, and they have to speak for the people of Limin.

That's a mess.

The bureaucracy itself is not unified on the issue of whether or not to open mines, and the so-called [civilian-bureaucratic clique] has never had a unified position.

Guo is much better, at least he still has some knowledge of the location of famous mineral deposits in his head, and he also respects professionals very much, and also gives professionals a higher status and right to speak.

Although he didn't know the specific location, he could just know the general range, so he drew a circle and asked professionals to explore, tossing for a few years, how could he toss it.

Of course, it is one thing to discover mineral deposits, and it is another thing to mine them with current technology, so Guo also has to ask professionals to evaluate and tell him whether the mine can be opened, how to open it, how much cost is needed, how much output is needed, and so on.

The most important thing is, of course, whether you can make money, if you can't make money, you have to post money, then leave this mineral deposit to future generations, and wait for their technology to progress before mining, don't head iron.

Anyway, you have to understand it in place, and Guo did not relax at all.

After more than a year of tossing, the exploration team sent by Guo reported good news one after another, and finally identified seven new mining sites that could be mined, one gold mine, two coal mines, two iron mines, and two copper mines.

Regardless of how much is expected, it is definitely possible to make money anyway, and the mining cost is not very high.

Guo was very happy.

The small treasury can be regarded as a practical and effective guarantee.