The financial budget system of the Tang Dynasty, from the beginning of the implementation, has already determined such a model, at the beginning of the year has basically been the budget for the current year to allocate everything, how much money, where to spend money, how much to spend, these have already been determined.

Even if there is a part of the emergency fund set aside in addition to the expenditure budget, it is not very difficult to get this part of the emergency fund.

Because since it is an emergency fund, it means that the money can only be used for emergency relief, such as a sudden, unexpected war, which needs to be temporarily allocated to temporary war funds, or a certain place is affected by a disaster and needs to be relieved.

Even last year, that is, in the fifth year of Xuanping, the more than one million taels of silver emergency funds left behind were not used for military spending, but for disaster relief and restoration of people's livelihood.

But all departments and even the military, they are short of money!

So they're going to have their sights set on extra-budgetary income!

This part of the extra-budgetary income is actually the profits of state-owned enterprises, the seizures of wars, and the seizures of criminals.

Because the Tang Dynasty is currently in the midst of rapid external expansion, state-owned enterprises are almost all national defense enterprises related to national security, in order to meet the needs of national security, has always been in large-scale expansion, so although these state-owned enterprises are profitable, but they are basically invested in the expansion of scale, even if they are handed over to the treasury, but they are also earmarked, and they will be invested in the expansion of state-owned enterprises in the future.

However, the seizure of the war and the seizure of criminals are different, but the loot seized in the war is quite a lot, except for some military materials, some cash such as gold and silver in the government warehouses and other kinds of materials are all trophies.

In the case of criminal raids, in fact, the main purpose is not those ordinary gentry and merchants, but mainly from the puppet Ming vassal kings and puppet Ming official families.

And the seizure of such a wealthy group as Yangzhou salt merchants, to be honest, is also the first time for the Tang Dynasty.

When I heard that the Ministry of Taxation had confiscated more than 40 million yuan of various assets in Jiangbei Province, including more than 10 million yuan in cash alone, the scholars of various cabinet departments and the generals of the military could not sit still, and rushed to Li Xuan directly, for fear that they would be robbed by others if they came slowly.

Listening to the various complaints and crying of poverty from the group of people below, Li Xuan's heart was bored!

The Ministry of Rites said that there is an urgent shortage of funds for the preparation of government-run primary and secondary schools, and that the Ministry of Rites has embezzled a lot of funds for preparing for the township examinations in various provinces this autumn in order to prepare for the schools, and if we do not think of a way, I am afraid that we will have to delay the township examinations this autumn.

After the split, the Ministry of Industry, which has greatly reduced its powers, also said that the flood control situation of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River this year is extremely unoptimistic, and it urgently needs funds to repair the river embankments and dredge the rivers.

Perhaps because they felt that this was not convincing enough, the people on the Ministry of Industry suggested that they were already studying the promotion of railways and trying to build a railway connecting the iron ore mining area with the Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, the Jiangnan Arms Company, and the Dangtu Wharf in more areas, especially in the Dangtu area.

The preliminary plan is only about twenty-five kilometers long, and one mouth is the cost of one million taels of silver!

Then he said that he wanted to build a super railway from Jinling City to Youzhou, with a total mileage of more than 1,000 kilometers, and he asked for 50 million taels of silver when he opened his mouth, so it was better to take the money from the salt merchants in Yangzhou to repair the railway, although the money was still not enough, but the more than 10 million taels were enough to start the preliminary project.

Let the people in other departments listen, and they all couldn't help but gasp and be paralyzed, even if we ask for money, but at most it is hundreds of thousands of millions of taels of silver, and that's it, it is still a sky-high asking price, and I don't expect to get so much at all.

The people in your Ministry of Industry are so crazy, one mouth is 50 million taels of silver, and more than 10 million taels of silver is just an early investment!

Regarding the words of the Ministry of Industry, Li Xuan listened to a few words about water conservancy and official roads in the front, but what kind of railway in the back, Li Xuan selectively ignored it!

It was too expensive to build a railway, and the amount of steel needed was not ordinary, and more importantly, the steam engine technology was not perfect, far from being able to pull a train.

It is possible to build railways now, but at most it is to build some short routes of a few kilometers or more than ten kilometers, which can be barely used by horses, and as for the north-south arteries of thousands of kilometers, we will talk about it when train technology develops.

However, the request put forward by the Ministry of Taxation is quite reasonable, and the Ministry of Taxation requested additional funds to increase the number of tax investigators.

Li Xuan thought that there was a gift to gain, and if there was not enough tax funds, he would not be able to collect enough taxes, so although he hadn't said anything yet, he had already promised in his heart that the funds of the tax department could be appropriately increased, and the manpower would be sufficient, especially if the number of tax investigators was larger, and it would be easier to collect taxes.

The various departments of the cabinet, each of which did not fall behind, said their own reasons.

And the generals of the military, whether it is the navy or the army, or the generals of the Guards, they tacitly did not speak!

waited until the people on the other side of the interior spoke dryly, and a group of generals finally spoke, but the first to speak was not Lei Wan and other powerful generals, but Zeng Ziwen.

Although Zeng Ziwen is not in the real position of the Minister of War, he is still an active lieutenant general of the Tang Army, serving as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and has become the highest-ranking general in the Tang Dynasty.

Even though he no longer holds a position of real power, he still often goes in and out of the imperial study, and this time he went north, and he also drove north.

I only heard Zeng Ziwen say: "Your Majesty, now the war in the north is still going on, and the rear is in urgent need of troops, the army is really unsustainable now, the general Fang who went west to Henan wrote a few days ago, saying that the Fourth Army is now almost struggling in difficulty, and I can't wait to treat one person as ten people, once it continues to march to Shanxi and Shaanxi, even if the soldiers of the Fourth Army are extremely loyal, but I am afraid it will be difficult to continue!" ”

I only heard him continue: "Now in the rear provinces, basically there is only one mixed regiment stationed in a province, and many newly built mixed regiments are still insufficient in strength and equipment, and they are simply unable to maintain the task of bombing and suppressing the huge province, and the militia in various places has not yet been systematized, if you want to completely maintain the peace and tranquility of each province and locality, each province must have at least one infantry division to garrison!" ”

"Judging from the current situation, the army needs at least fifty divisions to barely maintain the situation in the whole country!"

Zeng Ziwen did not talk about the problem of military spending, but said that there are few troops!

But the number of troops is directly related to the amount of military spending, and these generals know this, and Li Xuan also knows it.

However, although Zeng Ziwen said a little exaggerated, on the whole, he still said the actual difficulties that exist in the Tang Dynasty at present, that is, the regular army is too small, and although the militia organization is easy to use, it is not yet formed in many areas and is difficult to play a heavy role.

However, even if Zeng Ziwen said so, it was impossible for Li Xuan to directly prepare for the establishment of fifty divisions according to Zeng Ziwen's words, which was really nonsense.

A division can spend at least 1.5 million silver every year, fifty divisions? That's 75 million taels!

It is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to come up with so much money to maintain such a large regular army, otherwise, why would Li Xuan concentrate on the militia organization, it is not because the militia organization has little cost and can barely use it.

In the militia system of the Tang Dynasty, it is prepared to form a militia organization with retired soldiers and some local young people.

What is important is nothing more than the ability to maintain a relatively large number of militias with a small number of military training, which does not cost much money.

In the later stage, Li Xuan will also prepare to establish a reserve force, with retired soldiers as the second-line troops, only maintaining the most basic framework in peacetime, training for a period of time a year, and then directly recruiting and then pulling out to fight on the battlefield.

And these plans are all designed to supplement the problem of insufficient numbers of regular troops!

Since it is impossible to maintain a super-large regular army, it is impossible to maintain a regular army on a large scale, and we can only find other ways.

But now, the strength is indeed insufficient, and since there is money in hand, the army should be expanded, but it is impossible to expand as much as Zeng Ziwen said, at most it is just a few divisions of the army.

In fact, based on the current financial income of the Tang Dynasty, it is already very difficult to raise the current 200,000 regular troops, and no matter how much, it will really be financially bankrupt.

Since the army has expanded, the navy is naturally no exception, the navy did not cry poor this time, and directly gave Li Xuan a three-year fleet development plan, this fleet development plan said a lot, a lot of bang, and Li Xuan had a headache when he saw it.

The core of it is nothing more than two points: building ships and repairing ports!

However, every bit of it costs a lot of money!