Naturally, it is impossible for the cabinet to take all the seven million, and in fact, at least one million of them were directly pulled out to the royal treasury as royal funds.

Well, this million is naturally not spent by the royal family themselves, but as the military expenses of the Guards, the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy, the Young Military Camp, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Royal Academy of Sciences and other institutions directly under the royal family.

As for the living expenses of the royal family, it is actually not much, and the royal family itself has additional income, and in recent years it has not spent royal funds.

Otherwise, why do you think Li Xuan went to all the trouble to let the Royal Family Industry Department do business, not to subsidize the finances!

Really calculated, the final funds that the cabinet and other departments can get will not exceed six million, but this six million is the same as in previous years, and it is also a serf turned into a master!

You must know that last year, when Xuanping was in the fourth year, the cabinet's financial budget support was only a pitiful two million taels of silver, and it was almost an impossible task to maintain the rule of the great Tang Dynasty with two million taels of silver.

This is also an important reason why many departments in the Cabinet are struggling to increase the revenue of their respective departments.

Fortunately, the salaries of local officials do not have to be borne by the central government, otherwise, the Tang Dynasty would have been unable to sustain itself.

With money, the cabinet ministries have begun to pay full salaries on a small scale this year, especially the grassroots officials, otherwise the salaries will be in arrears for three days, and the opinions of the grassroots officials below will be too great.

After all, although there are corrupt officials, for many grassroots officials, they still rely on their salaries to live, especially the lowest level of staff members such as the largest number of Zheng Jiupin and Cong Jiupin, and the arrears of wages have too much impact on their lives.

However, the salaries of middle and high-level officials are still a part of cash and then a part of the treasury bills.

After all, if you have some money, you can't use it all to pay wages, and if you really want to make up for the arrears of wages over the years, it's tens of millions of taels of silver, and you really can't make up for it!

Most of the funds will still be used for various government affairs, such as the college promotion plan promoted by the Ministry of Rites, and the government-run juvenile colleges and colleges in various places will cost money, and the money spent is no longer a small amount.

Then there is the water conservancy construction that the Ministry of Agriculture has always wanted to do.

Then there is what the Ministry of Transportation Department wants to do to rest the official roads and rivers in various places, these are all gold-swallowing beasts, and no matter how much money is thrown, it is not enough.

Although the money is still not much, it can barely carry out some work, and it will not be the same as in the past, and it can only rely on the donations of the local gentry to carry out construction.

Therefore, although life is still quite hard, the cabinet officials all see hope, because Li Xuan has already personally revealed to them that by next year, the internal affairs expenditure is very likely to reach more than fifteen million taels of silver.

Li Xuan naturally didn't let go indiscriminately, but after thinking about it, after all, he couldn't always suppress the internal affairs funds, otherwise there would be chaos sooner or later, and at the same time, he also knew that next year's financial situation would be greatly improved!

Because Li Xuan has received an official report from the Ministry of Taxation, it is expected that there will be a significant increase in tax revenue next year!

This year's tax revenue is still on the small side, especially in the Jiangnan region, the huge place is only 10 million, which makes the tax department very dissatisfied, and so on next year, the tax department will dig out the potential of the land in the south of the Yangtze River, when the time comes, I dare not say much, only Zhejiang, Nanzhili (south of the Yangtze River) these two places, the tax department is sure to collect more than 20 million taels of silver.

The heads of Shang Shu and Shilang of the Ministry of Taxation have already patted their chests and assured Li Xuan that the tax revenue in the land south of the Yangtze River will reach at least 20 million taels of silver next year, and the overall tax revenue will probably exceed 40 million taels of silver.

The Ministry of Taxation dares to say so, and it is also confident!

Because of the impact of the war at the end of last year, Jiangnan was somewhat turbulent, and tax evasion in the early days of the reign was more serious, so the tax collection was not very complete, but next year, if it is not possible to fully tax the land in Jiangnan, then it can basically be judged that the tax department is derelict in its duties.

And the Ministry of Taxation said this, there is another very important reason, that is, many new enterprises under the rule of Datang will begin to pay taxes on a large scale from next year, even if many enterprises are still half tax, but the business tax of enterprises will be very considerable.

In order to encourage industry and commerce, the Tang Dynasty adopted the policy of two exemptions and three reductions for some new industries, especially industrial factories, and most of the factories under the rule of the Tang Dynasty were also intensively built the year before last and last year.

In other words, in the past few years, the Tang Dynasty did not receive much business tax from various new industries such as textile enterprises and machinery, but only collected some taxes through indirect means, such as customs duties and business tax on retail stores.

By next year, there will be a large number of new tax-free enterprises that will end the two-year tax-free preferential period and enter the half-tax preferential period of the next three years.

The industry and commerce of the Tang Dynasty can now be said to be developing quite well, and the Pearl River Delta area, there are a large number of strong businessmen, all kinds of messy factories and workshops are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and even a few big businessmen have raised funds to build a machinery company in Guangzhou, enter all kinds of machinery manufacturing industries, and compete with the government-run Zhaoqing Machinery Factory.

And these are all staring at the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, waiting for the end of the tax holiday, and then starting to collect business tax on a large scale.

The officials of the Ministry of Taxation were full of confidence, and even Li Xuan was a lot more relaxed, so in order to appease the cabinet, they revealed that next year's internal affairs expenditure would reach more than 15 million taels of silver.

And these are all hopeful for the cabinet officials!

Therefore, the military expenditure is rising year by year, and they endure it, and they have no funds but to find a way to maintain it themselves, and they have endured it.

All of them are waiting for a better day.

And this year, apparently, a good start!

Next year, it will be able to live a good life, not to mention anything else, just the salaries of officials, it is estimated that they will be able to be paid on time when the time comes, even the salaries of middle and high-level officials do not need to be offset by national debts.

If this lasts for so many years, will the Tang Dynasty still be short of money?

There is no shortage!

Well, this is what those officials think, and Li Xuan's idea is: missing!

And what is lacking will be a lot of money, not a shortage of tens of millions, but a shortage of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver!

Because Li Xuan still has many huge plans1

For example, universal primary education, the construction of water conservancy and roads and many other infrastructure throughout the country, the construction of a huge naval colonization of the world, and the construction of a railway network to set off a wave of industrialization.

These, no matter which one they are, are gold swallowers!

Fortunately, Li Xuan is only thinking about these plans at present, and he will not do them for a while, otherwise, if the cabinet officials know about Li Xuan's huge plans, I am afraid they will be scared to death!

After Zeng Ziwen finished reporting on the army's recent work, Bao Yifen of the navy also came, and what Bao Yifen said was similar to Zeng Ziwen's, and he also talked about the navy's recent work plan.

After the first few simple and unnutritious nonsense, Bao Yifen, who knew that Li Xuan's time was precious, did not have superfluous nonsense, and soon presented a thick report, and at the same time said: "Your Majesty, the sixth cruiser of the Navy has been successfully launched recently, and it is expected to be able to enter the Second Fleet in half a year!" ”

Li Xuan listened and watched!

"With this cruiser, there will be two cruisers on the second fleet's side, and with the cooperation of four frigates, it will already be able to initially form ocean-going combat effectiveness!"

At this time, Li Xuan spoke: "A few days ago, I received an excerpt from the governor of Zhejiang, saying that there have been frequent pirate attacks in the waters of Zhejiang recently, and the coastal fishermen and maritime merchants are miserable, what does the navy think about this?" ”

When Bao Yifen heard this, he immediately knew that the local government had stabbed the pirates up, and while scolding the governor of Zhejiang for having a lot of, he didn't give them face to the navy, and on the other hand, he was also careful to organize the language: "Back to Your Majesty, although the navy has been escorting the merchant ships coming and going, it has also strengthened its daily patrols, which has curbed the rampant activities of pirates to a certain extent, but due to the small number of naval ships and the heavy tasks, there are sporadic pirates who have evaded the patrol of our navy and attacked merchant ships!" ”

"So, you don't have enough ships in the navy?" When Li Xuan spoke, although his tone was still calm, Bao Yifen, who had been with Li Xuan for several years, could see that His Majesty seemed to be dissatisfied with the navy recently.

That's right, Li Xuan is really a little dissatisfied with the performance of the navy!

Bao Yifen himself said earlier that their navy even has five cruisers, and there are more than a dozen frigates in total, which adds up to more than 20 warships.

And these warships are all professional warships, not armed merchant ships with half a barrel of water, and the construction of these warships alone costs almost two million silver.

And although those pirates have many people and ships, but the ships of these pirates can be compared with the professional warships of the navy? Impossible!

Although there are many pirates, but today's Datang Navy is not the Datang Navy of a few years ago, if you can't beat the pirates, it will be really humiliating and lose home, and the sailors of the Ming Dynasty want nothing, and it is not the same as many pirates and even Francois have no temper.

The current situation on the navy's side gives Li Xuan the feeling that the level is high and the equipment is high, but the fart is useless.

It doesn't matter if you can't take control of the Yangtze River, after all, the Yangtze River is not suitable for warship activities, so Li Xuan endured it.

However, it was impossible to deal with pirates on the sea, which made Li Xuan unhappy, and the Tang Navy, which had invested millions of taels of silver in the past few years, could not even exterminate the pirates.

If this is the case, the army will definitely say: Don't need tens of millions, just give 10 million, and our army will immediately send a fleet to destroy them!

Yes, you read that right, the Datang Army also has a fleet!

In the logistics department of the Privy Council, there are many transport ships, not only inland river transport ships, but also offshore transport ships, and many of these ships are equipped with artillery, and they can fight when they are pulled out!