Chapter 133: The Ancestor's Testament

Twenty-seven years of Zhaowu.

After the Second Battle of Nanyang, ten years of peace allowed Nanjing to regain its vitality.

It's not just Nanjing that has regained its vitality, it seems that the whole world has recovered from the chaos during the Chongzhen period. In particular, in the past 10 years, no troops have been used abroad, and no major projects have been carried out at home except for water control.

Yao Qisheng has also served as the first assistant for 20 years.

In the past 20 years, one of the main things Yao Qisheng has done is to sort out the system in Zhang Xuan's heart.

The power structure of Bactria was also thoroughly stabilized.

The Privy Council, the Cabinet, and the Inspectorate are three-legged from top to bottom, and even the lowest counties have branches of three institutions, and the county orders are connected to the prefect and the governor to the cabinet. And the county lieutenant docked with the staff general and the general with the privy council. Under the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the Criminal Division, and at the prefectural level is the Division. At the county level, there is the Department of Justice.

As for the state-owned enterprises, such as the manufacturing bureau, the mint, the iron yard, the salt yard, the ship yard, etc., they are either subordinate to the Cabinet, or to the Privy Council, and some are also directly subordinate to Ouchi.

It's just that in Zhang Xuan's eyes, this set is not perfect.

There is still great room for improvement, and Zhang Xuan is already preparing to levy a commodity tax on a large number of workshops in Jiangnan. Yao Qisheng has even launched a series of pilot projects in Nanjing.

It is to find a way to make the goods produced by these workshops have to pay taxes as soon as they leave the factory.

There are also ways to reduce the cost of tax collection.

If you go to the workshop one by one to collect it, not to mention how many tax collectors are needed, how can you be sure that these tax collectors will not fill their pockets?

Zhang Xuan was also proficient in taxation in his previous life.

Therefore, all he could think of was just a prototype, and he could only let Yao Qisheng improve it.

The reason why Zhang Xuan found a way to tax in this area was not that Zhang Xuan got into the eyes of money, or that Daxia's finances were quite unhealthy.

Contrary.

It was ten years after Zhaowu, and the finances of Daxia were getting healthier day by day.

In the eleventh year of Zhaowu, the talent earned 30 million yuan. And coinage, customs, salt taxes. There are already other miscellaneous annual incomes, and there are as many as 15 million yuan.

Therefore, before the start of the First Nanyang War, although it still had to invest as much as 8 million to 10 million yuan a year in water control, the imperial court had already paid off the national debt owed by the Northern Expedition with interest.

The Battle of Nanyang and the pacification of Zheng Jing did not have the need to issue treasury bonds at all.

After the Second Nanyang War, the benefits of the imperial court from the Nanyang region had an explosive period, especially the encirclement and suppression of many local natives, and the direct benefit was about 100 million yuan.

Then they all went down.

However, the annual income of the imperial court is also rising year by year. After all, this Great Xia has also included North Korea, Vietnam, and the South Seas in its territory.

In the 20th year of Zhaowu, the annual income of the imperial court was 40 million yuan, and Zhaowu was two

Fifteen years is about 56 million yuan.

Yao Qisheng even estimated that in the 30th year of Zhaowu, the annual income of the imperial court could exceed 60 million yuan.

Although Zhang Xuan didn't think it was useful to save too much money. On top of many projects, they are willing to spend money, such as changing clothes. For example, building ports, building fleets, and building official roads, and so on.

But the strength of the people in the court to recover was so strong that it was too late for Zhang Xuan to spend money.

Therefore, in the twenty-seventh year of Zhaowu, the balance of the imperial court had reached as much as 60 million taels.

So Zhang Xuan is not short of money.

The reason why he is committed to taxing goods. In fact, it was for two things, the first thing was to manage the increasingly prosperous commodity economy, so that the imperial court could realize the importance of industry and commerce.

Say it to everyone a thousand times and ten thousand times, it is better to let them find out that they are inseparable from business.

When commerce flourished, the imperial court had money.

Nowadays, although the imperial court has a good income, agriculture still accounts for the lion's share. If the germ of capitalism is transformed into capitalism, Zhang Xuan does not know, and he does not know very well.

But I had to try.

Secondly, it is to reserve funds for a big use of money.

This one thing is nothing else, it is the Northern Expedition.

After 20 years of recuperation, Zhang Xuan has prepared ten horse farms in the Northwest Shandan Racecourse, overseas Jeju Island Racecourse, Qinghai Racecourse, etc., in the past 20 years.

These ten horse farms range from 20,000 to 100,000, and the number of war horses owned by the government has reached as many as 600,000.

The number of such horses is enough to launch an expedition to Mobei.

And in the past twenty years.

The imperial court soldiers have passed several rounds, Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, and 300,000 horses in six towns. 100,000 people were left behind in Beijing. 300,000 were left behind in Nanjing.

Southwest, Sichuan, Annam, Nanyang, North Korea. There were 130,000 army and 200,000 sailors.

A total of more than 900,000 elite soldiers.

All soldiers.

These troops were all expanded little by little after the 25th year of Zhaowu, and the annual military expenditure reached about 20 million yuan. You must know that before the fifteenth year of Zhaowu, when the military expenditure exceeded 10 million, Yao Qisheng would slap the table on the Privy Council at the budget meeting.

They all changed into the three generations of Zhaowu firearms. The technology of flowering shells has completely matured, so both large and small cannons have popularized flowering shells. There are not many solid bullets left.

So, the conditions for the Northern Expedition were ripe.

It's just that Zhang Xuan can't see it.

In the twenty-fifth year of Zhaowu, Cao Zongyu, the king of Tang, died.

Cao Zongyu, the king of the Tang Dynasty, fought on the border for 20 years, especially after the fourth year of Zhaowu, and often led the light cavalry out of the pass to fight with the Dongyu, so that the Donglu did not dare to peep at the Great Wall.

Although ten years after Zhaowu, Shunzhi moved the capital to Helin. Completed the reign of Mobei.

There is a lot less smoke along the Great Wall, Cao Zongyu travels between Nanjing and Beijing almost every year, and almost everyone has become Cao Zongyu as today's Xu Da.

It's just that I never expected that the big war has not yet begun. Fold the general first.

In the twenty-sixth year of Zhaowu, Yuan Shizhong, the king of Wei, died of illness.

If Zheng Chenggong's death is still abnormal, but the death of Yuan Shizhong and Cao Zongyu is very normal.

Since ancient times, generals have been like beauties, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world.

Because when you see a white-headed beauty, you are not a beauty, but a beauty in the twilight.

But the general is fighting hard, and his body has long been overdrawn, and he can't live long at all.

Especially when Cao Zongyu was in the first battle, he was almost pulled out of the pile of dead.

From now on, you can't do anything with people.

Cao Zongyu, who was invincible in the battlefield, was gone. If it weren't for Zhang Xuan sending a national player to stay by Cao Zongyu's side all the time, Cao Zongyu estimated that he would not even live to Zhaowu for twenty-five years.

Although the death of these people made Zhang Xuan sad, it did not make Zhang Xuan unable to support it.

But in the twenty-sixth year of Zhaowu, Luo Yujiao and Yaya died one after another. But it was the biggest blow to Zhang Xuan.

Since ascending the throne as the emperor, Zhang Xuan has been busy every day, and he has no time to spend with the harem.

It's just that Zhang Xuan's heirs are a little thinner.

Luo Yujiao gave birth to four children for Zhang Xuan in a row, and she lost her body a lot, and finally in the winter of the twenty-sixth year of Zhaowu, she couldn't hold on. And Yaya is the same reason.

Yaya is thinner than Luo Yujiao's disciple.

When Luo Yujiao was a child, although she was displaced, she was only there with Luo Ru, and in terms of food and clothing, she would never treat Luo Yujiao badly, but Yaya was the same.

Hungry and full, some injuries when you are a teenager will follow you for a lifetime.

The departure of the two women Zhang Xuan loved the most made Zhang Xuan finally realize that the luck God gave him was limited. Although he was fortunate to be able to come to this era from the afterlife, in the face of time, all this is useless.

So in the spring of the twenty-seventh year of Zhaowu, Zhang An began to supervise the country as the crown prince.

Zhang An was by Zhang Xuan's side as Zhang Xuan's assistant, dealing with the government for more than ten years, and under Zhang Xuan's hand-in-hand dealing, he had the most thorough understanding of Zhang Xuan's ideological ideals of governing the country.

Zhang An has no problem supervising the country.

However, when Zhang Xuan lingered on the sickbed for more than a year, in the winter of the twenty-seventh year of Zhaowu, he could no longer hold on.

Doctor Li had already told Zhang An that if he could pass this winter, he could hold on for a year, and if he couldn't, he wouldn't be able to get by.

Zhang An even put aside government affairs and served the decoction in front of Zhang Xuan. Seeing this, Zhang Xuan smiled gloomily in his heart, and he knew about his condition.