"So there are so many Taos here!" After listening to Wang De's explanation of the inner treasury, Zhao Hao muttered, which completely broke his inherent concept of spending money on the emperor in the past. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is an ancient system in traditional China: but the king does not. This means that the Son of Heaven does not need to be accounted for or audited. This is also the legal basis for the establishment of the Son of Heaven's private treasury in ancient times, that is, how much wealth the Son of Heaven's private treasury has, all of which is squandered by the Son of Heaven, is squandered by the Son of Heaven, and it is pulled down after it is spent. So much so that in modern times, many people, including Zhao Hao, think that 'under the Putian, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it was not the king's family in the era of the world, and the emperor spent his own money, of course, he spent it as he wanted, and no one could control it.

Zhao Yu still thinks so when he comes to this era, when he opened the mansion, he complained that the emperor and the queen mother gave him so much money and secretly slandered him, but after listening to Wang De's words, he forgave them. In fact, in the concept of the scholars of the Song Dynasty, it was not that the world belonged to the Son of Heaven, but that the king was selfless. The people need to have clear private property rights, but the Son of Heaven should not have private property, and not all the things in the inner treasury belong to the emperor, and all this has to start from the time when Taizu set up the pile sealing warehouse.

The original intention of the establishment of the Sealing Pile Library was to deal with the war in the north and recover Yanyun, which was the reward that Taizu used to buy the heads of the Khitans according to the legend of later generations. Later, Taizong ascended the throne, inspected the treasury and saw the money piled up inside, so his eyes were red, saying that so much money Emperor Xian was still worried about not enough to spend, so let's just separate, I will save some consumption for you by the way, so the treasury is divided into the inner treasury and the left treasury.

According to the agreement between the monarch and the ministers at that time, the Zuozang Treasury was the national financial center, responsible for controlling the financial operation of the entire country, providing the Kyoto officials' salaries, the army's food supply, and the cost of recruiting additional soldiers and rewards when the war came, as well as the annual southern suburbs gifts and natural disaster relief expenses in daily life. The Inner Treasury is responsible for making up for the shortfall in the state finances; sponsorship of military spending; disaster relief and poverty alleviation; Responsible for the investment of the imperial court's government and commercial institutions and the daily expenses of the royal family. The income of the left treasury mainly comes from the two taxes, and the purchase; The income of the inner treasury comes from the state surplus, gold and silver, pit metallurgy, mountain and monopoly profits, new coinage, Zhulu silk and local government offerings, and the net profit of the workshop is also a fixed name for the inside.

At a cursory glance, there is no problem, the inner treasury does have the nature of the private treasury of the Son of Heaven, but a closer examination will find that the inner treasury is not so much the 'other collection of the Son of Heaven', but the country's strategic reserve. This concept is basically the same as what Zhao Yu thought when he was the prince, he thought that he was subsidizing the local government and the army, but now it seems that he should share it. However, most of his money came from the seizures of war and the printing of counterfeit money, but he did not take a penny from taxes and taxes, so he really lost money.

"Your Majesty, don't be cheated by them, these people will hit the idea of the inner treasury if they don't have money, if we only get in and don't leave, sooner or later they will be vacated!" Although Wang De didn't know what the little emperor and Lu Xiufu said, he also knew that without money, it would be difficult for His Majesty to speak, so he persuaded him.

"Well, I see!" Zhao Yu nodded, he had already woken up at this time, it turned out that the salt tax should belong to himself, according to his previous idea that it should be used by the imperial court, he didn't get anything except the title of inventor, and he gave away the initiative of bargaining in vain. But at this time, he understood that it was Lu Xiufu who should say good things to himself, so he should have a good talk to him......

"Your Majesty, I don't know how much salt can be produced in a year by the salt drying method?" The next day, Lu Xiufu and others really took the initiative to come to chat with His Majesty early, and talked about the weather for a while without words, and chatted about the terroir of Qiongzhou for a while.

"The weather in Qiongzhou is hot, salt can be dried in all seasons, if you find seawater with high salt content, each stone of seawater can get about half a kilogram of salt, and the annual output of three thousand catties per mu of salt field is." This Zhao Yu is really not sure, he roughly estimated based on the data he knew in his previous life, this should be a conservative output, and it should be higher than this output in Hainan.

"If you make a profit of 20 yuan per catty of salt, then you can make a profit of 60 yuan per mu, and if you have 10,000 mu, you can make a profit of 6 million yuan!" When Lu Xiufu heard this, he immediately turned around and counted the small accounts.

"Hmph, you're too conservative!" Although the voice they said was small, Zhao Hao, who pricked up his ears, still heard it clearly, and said secretly in his heart. My own idea of 10,000 mu is just an experimental field, anyway, the salt is used in the beach, will not occupy the fertile land, this era will not engage in tidal flat farming, only equivalent to waste utilization. The current price of salt is between 50 wen and 100 wen, and even if the cost and consumption are removed, the profit will be doubled.

"Your Majesty, if you can really implement it, the income will be enough to maintain the expenses of the imperial court." Lu Xiufu muttered for a while, turned his head and said.

"Well, we have captured nearly 10,000 enemy troops in this battle, and I want to organize them into a tun army to develop the salt pans, and dry the salt for profit for the army and the internal army!" Zhao Yu nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, this is not appropriate!" Lu Xiufu was stunned when he heard this, and his face immediately turned cloudy, hearing this, the little emperor didn't want to use the salt profit with the imperial court at all, he muttered for a while.

"What's wrong? I know that the current income of the imperial court is not much, and part of the income obtained from the inner treasury is allocated to raise soldiers to reduce the burden of the imperial court, does the prime minister disagree? Zhao Yu asked rhetorically with a look of surprise.

"No, no, it's not that the minister disagrees, but ......" Lu Xiufu waved his hand again and again, but he didn't know how to explain it for a while.

"Since the prime minister agrees, just do it as such!" Zhao Yu smiled and said, he looked at Lu Xiufu's black line, and had to admire the political skills of the ancestors, collecting local money and grain to cut the foundation of the military generals' rebellion, and the division of the treasury into two restrained the power of the prime minister and strengthened the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, the minister only agreed to use salt profits to support military supplies, but instead of agreeing to attribute all salt profits to the inner treasury, it should be divided into the left treasury to maintain the operation of the imperial court." Lu Xiufu only thought that the little emperor didn't understand what he meant, and quickly explained, of course, what he said this time was very straightforward.

"Sizzle...... Lu Xiang, this is not appropriate, this example was established by the ancestors, I have not yet been in power, how can I change the law of the ancestors, I still need to ask the Queen Mother! Zhao Yu shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty, this matter can't be specialized, but the state affairs are urgent, so don't be bound by the laws of your ancestors!" Lu Xiufu knew that the Queen Mother was cowardly, and she didn't have the courage of the child in front of her, so it didn't make sense to talk to her...... (To be continued.) )