Zhu Cihong didn't ask anything, the financial report was on the table, read it for yourself!

As soon as he saw it, he knew that something was going on to make him head up again!

The fiscal surplus of 6.55 million taels is real! There was not a single tael of silver, and the accounts were very conservative, with a large amount of "war preparations", "disaster relief preparations" and "large-scale work preparations" being made.

If all these preparations are washed back, last year's fiscal surplus was even as high as more than 16.5 million taels.

And this surplus is not only so high that it is astonishing, but also exceeds the total amount of taxes and silver recorded in the imperial court of Chongzhen in the past twenty years!

At present, the income of the Ming Dynasty is divided into two types: "tax silver" and "tax grain".

Among them, the imperial court tax and silver revenue is mainly made up of salt tax, customs tariff, domestic tariff, local tax, North and South Ocean package tax, two lines of seigniorage, two lines of silver interest income and other items.

One of the largest projects is the salt tax, because the salt industry in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places has successively issued contracts, so that the total amount of salt tax package in Chongzhen 20 years has exceeded 9 million taels, becoming the absolute majority of the imperial court's tax and silver revenue.

The customs tariff and the South and North Ocean tax packages could have been worth millions of taels of income, but because the people in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty ruled by Zhu Cihong were short of grain, these two taxes took as much grain as possible, and the tax silver in the two taxes was only about 1 million taels last year.

Domestic tariffs and local commercial tax divisions are both items that are cut by Dr. Nassi! Because of the "crusade incident", Emperor Zhu's control over the local area has risen to a new level, so the total amount of domestic tariffs and local commercial taxes recorded last year exceeded 2 million taels.

The silver income generated by the seigniorage of the two lines and the interest income from the deposit of silver in the two banks together is about 1,300,000 taels.

In other words, the silver income of the Ming court in the twenty years of Chongzhen was 13.3 million taels...... It's another number that can drive Chongzhen Mingjun crazy!

Of course, this figure is still a little less than the silver income in the early years of Shunzhi in history, when the Qing Dynasty first entered the Central Plains.

At that time, the Qing Kingdom could receive more than 21 million taels of silver a year!

In the early years of the Shunzhi Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty did not unify China, and due to the massacre policies adopted during the Ming and Qing wars, the total number of people in the country was less than the population of the Southern Ming Dynasty today. Moreover, because the 40-year tug-of-war with the Zheng Ming regime had just begun, the trade and industry and commerce in the southeast sea withered, and there was not much customs and commercial tax.

In this case, the Qing Dynasty can still receive 21 million taels of silver, which shows how high the ability of people to gather is.

However, Zhu Cihong's ability to make money is not weak, although the silver he received last year was only 13.3 million, less than the 21 million in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in history.

However, the Southern Ming court under Zhu Cihong also received more than 55 million stone of rice grain income in the twentieth year of Chongzhen!

This amount is far more than the more than 5.6 million stone rice, wheat beans and more than 2.9 million bunches of forage in the early years of Shunzhi.

The 55 million stone of rice grain is mainly composed of three major items: military land rent, ransom rice and tariff grain (including the North and South Ocean tax package).

The rent of military land comes from more than 80 million mu of military land under the management of the Juntun Division, and the actual storage is more than 35 million stones, which is the absolute majority.

Thanks to Li Zicheng's blessing, Zhu Cihong also got a lot of ransom rice from Hubei last year, and the total amount also reached more than 16 million stones.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also received more than 3 million stone of customs taxes through the four major customs of Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai, as well as the Yamen of the Governor of Nanyang.

And Chen Rui's financial surplus of 6.55 million taels and the various preparations of almost 10 million taels were obtained by selling the grain stocks of Yingtian and Wuhan Warehouses!

Of course, the 55 million stone grain collected by the Ming Dynasty could not be put in the warehouse to become moldy, and part of it had to be spent and sold.

For example, it is used for the relief of refugees and disaster relief in the north, for the labor costs of various major workers, for military rations and horse administration, for raising financial funds, and for stabilizing food prices......

Among them, relief, large work, military rations, horse administration, and raising financial funds are all budgeted in advance, and it is impossible to produce a surplus of several million taels - because of the "prince begging for food" incident, the Ming court is now highly concerned about food security, and would rather save grain than silver.

For this reason, the imperial court also spent a huge amount of money last year to build the Yingtian Grain Depot and the Wuhan Grain Depot, which can store up to 20 million stones of rice!

If they are all full, Emperor Zhu will be able to feel at ease.

As for the silver or something, Zhu Cihong is not worried at all - if you don't spend enough, you can issue bonds, he is an expert in this area! Since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he has been preparing for the issuance of bonds step by step.

His purpose in establishing Yanshang Bank and Haishang Bank was to form a financial market that could provide liquidity for government bonds, which were inevitably high interest rates and short maturities!

Now that there is so much silver in the accounts of the Ming Dynasty (there are more than 10 million taels of silver deposited in the two major banks), it must be the income from the sale of grain!

"The price of rice in the southeast has risen again?" Zhu Cihong asked, "How much money is there now?" Can you survive the spring famine? ”

He didn't want to beg for food again...... And where to ask for it? The last time the begging army arrived in Guangdong, where can they go? Going to Annan to ask for food?

Okay, the dignified heavens are in the kingdom, and you have to go abroad if you want food......

"It's been calmed down!" Chen Rui frowned, "When Chen left Nanjing, the price of brown rice was about one or two or five yuan per stone......

It's not cheap! Nanjing's brown rice is only right for one or two silver!

"As for the grain storage," Chen Rui said, "there are still more than 8 million stones in the two warehouses of Yingtian and Wuhan...... All these can be used to stabilize grain prices and relieve famine, and there are other reserves of military rations, about 13 million stones. ”

There are more than 21 million stones...... It's a lot, but it's not much at all!

Because the land rent of the Juntun Division and the rice ransom in Hubei were collected in the autumn, more than 51 million stone rice was collected at that time, and it was only a long time, and 30 million stone was gone...... Although the rations and rice of the 16 generals' palaces (mainly distributed to the resettlement of refugees and new officers and soldiers in training), the military rations of the troops stationed in the tun, and the relief rice allocated to the various northerner refugee gathering places were distributed centrally before the end of the year.

But when these aspects are combined, it doesn't take as much as 30 million stones!

"How much do you sell?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"More than 8 million stone brown rice was sold." Chen Rui said, "Because the stored grain is recorded according to one or two folds, there is a surplus of more than 6 million taels when 8 million stones are released......

You're whitewashing the report! Zhu Cihong said: I have seen too much profit made by your kind of accounting......

"That's 8 million stone less, can it be stabilized this spring and summer?"

"This ......," Chen Rui frowned, "This depends on the situation in Shandong." Last year's harvest in the southeast and Huguang was good, and grain prices remained stable until November. Unexpectedly, a large number of Shandong refugees went south in November and December, and the price of food in the market skyrocketed. The ministers had no choice but to immediately sell the grain stockpile, and finally suppressed it. If the situation in Shandong can be stabilized and so much fertile land on the east bank of the canal can be reclaimed, grain prices will not be too high. Otherwise......"

I blame Dorgon for this!

Zhu Cihong's face was already a little blue, because he discovered a weakness of the Ming Dynasty - the tight grain supply in the southeast and the huge fluctuations in grain prices caused by the free sale of grain!

Fortunately, Dolgon didn't make a big attack on Huainan last year! Otherwise, so many people in Huainan would have to run away, and the price of grain in Jiangnan would not have to rise to the sky? At present, there are many people in the southeast who eat "commercial grain", not only refugees from the north, citizens in the industrial and commercial towns south of the Yangtze River, but also many peasants who also need to buy rice to eat because they have switched to cash crops.

If the price of food rises to the sky, there must be no chaos in the southeast?

Just when Zhu Cihong was drenched in cold sweat, Yan Yingyuan suddenly came in from outside in a hurry, saluted and said, "Your Majesty, urgent military report!" ”

"What's wrong?" Zhu Cihong became nervous for a moment, but don't Dolgon go south...... The price of rice in the southeast can not rise again!

Yan Yingyuan smiled and said, "Dolgon has retreated from Qufu!" ”