Jia Luo's face was a little ugly, and after a little hesitation, he replied stubbornly: "Back to Your Majesty, the grain tax has been reduced because most of Wuzhou, Fuzhou, and Dongzhou have been hit by summer drought, and there has been no rain in March. ”

"Drought?" Ying Chang's face became gloomy, and he asked in a deep voice: "Why is there no one about drought in my imperial platform, is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster!" ”

Jia Luo hurriedly knelt on the ground, and pleaded guilty in fear: "It is indeed a drought in Sanzhou, but the local officials and ministers think that there are canals, which can ensure that the good fields are worry-free, and there is no need to worry Your Majesty, but who would have thought that the canals did not provide much water source, resulting in uneven crops this year, and the grain tax in the three states plummeted!" ”

"The minister is guilty of dereliction of duty, and I hope Your Majesty will be guilty!"

Ying Chang's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Du Yushi Changqing, only to see Changqing nodding slightly, indicating that he had already checked, it was indeed a drought.

Knowing that it was indeed a drought, Ying Chang's face softened a little, drought is nothing, I am afraid that it will be a man-made disaster.

"The drought is irreversible, no wonder you are on your heads, but you have not reported it, let me be a blind cat once, pass on the decree, punish the household department Shangshu for three months, and the officials involved will be suspended for one month, if there is a next time, the crime will be added to the crime, and the punishment will be severe!" Ying Chang shouted in a cold voice with an expressionless face.

"Your Ministers obey!" The ministers hurriedly bent down and saluted, and shouted in unison.

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

Jia Luo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, slowly got up from the ground, leaned over and replied: "Your Majesty, the reason why the customs duties, commercial taxes, and taxes of the three states outside the customs have dropped is because the countries are united, and after the Zhao Dynasty declared war on my Great Qin, it seized the goods of the Qin merchants in the Zhao realm and expelled the Qin merchants from the country!" ”

"The same is true for the Xia Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, although the Chu Dynasty is not as desperate as the former, it also temporarily prohibits Qin merchants from entering Chu, and the Qi Dynasty, although the Qi Dynasty did not expel Qin merchants and did not prohibit Qin merchants from entering the country, but it increased the tariffs on entering Qi, making many Qin merchants retreat!"

"There is also Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom has completely torn the skin of my Great Qin, although it did not declare war on my Great Qin, but it learned from Zhao Xia Han, knocked on my Qin merchants' goods, and expelled them, because Xia, Chu, Zhongshan Kingdom, and Qi did not allow Qin merchants to enter the country, resulting in Qin merchants not being able to go south, and the Qin merchants who went south before were also driven back one after another!"

"The Qin merchants in the southeast of Kyushu sensed that something was wrong, and they also borrowed the land of the Wei Dynasty and the Yue Dynasty to return to the Qin realm from Yanshui Pass, in just half a year, the situation in the world has changed, and merchants from other countries are not afraid to enter Qin, so it will cause the three states outside the Guan, tariffs, and commercial taxes to decline!"

"The countries are closed, Daqin can only digest it internally, the minister expects that the annual fiscal revenue will decline sharply again, and the minister is also ready to propose to reduce the budget of each ministry to save some money for our dynasty!"

After listening to these words, the Manchu ministers finally understood how the fiscal revenue had declined, and it turned out that the problem was here.

Ying Chang was also a little confused, when he declared war, he didn't take this into account at all.

Careless again.

"The Qi Dynasty is a bit excessive, and he sent his great-grandson to the banquet to discuss the invasion of Qin, and now he is raising the tariff on entering Qi!"

"It seems that the countries not only want to send troops to attack me, but also want to rely on commerce and trade to drag my Great Qin finances to death!"

"If in the next five years, my Great Qin's finances will be like this, with my Great Qin's annual consumption, after five years, the treasury may really be squandered!"

"Damn Zhongshan Kingdom, bold, so presumptuous of the vassal states!"

"Zhongshan has eaten leopard gall, with a population of less than 500,000, and it has to learn from the countries to cut down Qin!"

"Hmph, it won't be long before the Zhongshan Kingdom will be wiped out!"

The ministers were indignant and scolded Zhongshan and the Qi Dynasty, especially Zhongshan, a small country with a population of less than 500,000, but it was so presumptuous, it was like a little kid standing in front of a general to and pee.

Bear child, just kill it.

Ying often listened to the scolding of the ministers, and also realized that he had made a mistake, that is, he should not delay the time of the war against Xia and Zhao.

The original intention of giving the nations time to join forces was to catch them all, and the Great Qin of the province looked for them one by one to fight a decisive battle, this trick was tried and tested repeatedly when conquering the northwest desert, so Yingchang entered the ideological misunderstanding, thinking that this trick was also effective for the nations.

This trick is also very convincing to the hundred officials, but if you think about it carefully, the Xiongnu and Qiang people in the northwest desert do not trade with the Qin Dynasty, and have already started a war, the Qin Dynasty uses this trick, there is no disadvantage, but all countries trade with the Qin Dynasty, and there is no war.

The longer the war dragged on and the longer the war lasted, the Qin Dynasty's tariffs, commercial taxes, and so on would suffer a heavy setback.

Thinking of this, it was a huge mistake to give the nations time to join forces.

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

When Zhang Feizi heard this, he immediately took out the prepared budget fold from his arms, and presented it respectfully with both hands, Pei Ji immediately stepped off the high platform, took the budget fold, and handed it over to Yu Yingchang.

Ying Chang took the budget fold and unfolded it, and the budget fold was as follows:

【Twenty-eight Annual Budget of Shengqin】

[Ministry of War: The budget of the Ministry of Ordnance is 100 million taels of silver; The army budget is 40 million taels of silver and 30 million stone of grain; The budget of the sailor was fifteen million taels of silver and one and a half million stone of grain; The budget for the reserve battalion was seventy-two million taels of silver and sixteen million stone of grain; The daily expenditure budget of the military department is 500,000 taels of silver]

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

[Hubu: The three prefectures outside the Guanxi need 44 million stone of grain to maintain the survival of 13 million herdsmen, and the annual expenditure of the local government in Daqin and the budget of local officials and court officials are 21 million taels of silver, and the daily expenditure budget of the household department is 300,000 taels of silver]

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

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

[Middle School: The daily expenditure budget of the schools in various places is 6 million taels of silver, and the daily expenditure budget of the Chinese Academy is 500,000 taels of silver]

[Right Prime Minister's Mansion: The imperial court subsidizes the budget for medical treatment with a budget of 40 million taels of silver; The budget for nursing homes and pensions is 45 million taels of silver! 】

[The annual financial budget of the twenty-eighth year of the Great Qin Dynasty is: 342,220,000 taels of silver, 91,500,000 stone of grain!] 】

For the upcoming Armageddon, the military headquarters had to provide five times as much food to the major battalions, and the more food provided, the more labor was needed, and there were also sailors, who had high maintenance costs.