Chapter 2 Entering a Positive Cycle of Finance

In the end, Fang Yizhi couldn't refuse Yao Qisheng after all.

Because he only has the right to be chosen, and not the right to choose. As long as he dared to refuse, maybe he wouldn't be treated at that time. But it will definitely be put into a separate book by Yao Qisheng.

Although Zhang Xuan was very active in summoning ministers, but really speaking, most of the ministers that Zhang Xuan actively met with were high-level officials, such as cabinet members, several members of the Privy Council, and several people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It's a small circle of a dozen people.

Although Fang Yizhi is famous in Zhang Xuan's heart. But it was not very easy to meet Zhang Xuan.

Therefore, it is not a very bad choice to cling to Yao Qisheng.

Here in Zhang Xuan, cabinet ministers have special channels.

When Yao Qisheng took Fang Yizhi to the Qianqing Palace, he saw that on the corridor outside the Qianqing Palace, there were many people on the edge of the corridor, a solemn and solemn, like a clay sculpture.

At the end of the year, it was also the time when Zhang Xuan summoned local officials on a large scale, and those who were outside were all outside the prefecture and county officials. That's why they're the way they are. First, they are likely to enter the palace only this once. Second, wait a while, the time they spent in front of Zhang Xuan could even be calculated in minutes. After all, at the end of the year, there were six or seven hundred county officials, more than 100 prefects, and several senior officials in Daxia, and the time was very tight.

They were nervously working on the draft, how to attract Zhang Xuan's greatest attention in the shortest possible time. So that you can make yourself on the rise. Where is there time to think about anything else.

Yao Qisheng came, Li Fuguo immediately came over, and the two of them went over.

Zhang Xuan also sent the others away.

Foresight Yao Qisheng.

"So? This year's budget and final accounts cannot be done. Zhang Xuan's tone was light, but it made him feel a depressed feeling, as if it was dense clouds and no rain, although he didn't say anything, but just like this, Yao Qisheng felt great pressure.

In the past two years, Zhang Xuan has also become familiar with the new profession of emperor. Although because he is no longer fighting abroad, although he is diligent in government every day, it has to be said that the amount of exercise when he is an emperor is too different from the amount of movement when he is out on conquest. So after a long time, Zhang Xuan's body will inevitably have some fortune.

Now Zhang Xuan is over 30 years old. He also left a beard.

Although the short beard is not long, it makes Zhang Xuan look more majestic and majestic. Back then, the young man became much more vulgar.

Yao Qisheng hurriedly said: "If it is not that the ministers do their best, it is really beyond the reach of the whip, Your Majesty has only been in charge of Nanjing for a few years, although there is a heart to sort out the world, but the world is mostly the old ministers of the former Ming Dynasty, heard and witnessed, and most of them are the old politics of the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty." Your Majesty wants to change it now, and it will not be possible in one year. ”

"Jing Shichen has already straightened out clearly, the Metropolitan Inspectorate, the Privy Council, the cabinet ministries, and even the palace expenses, the ministers dare to say that every penny

It's just right, but only the provinces are difficult to synchronize, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, these places are relatively close to Beijing, and they can be accounted for clearly, but other provinces, the data they reported, how much can be true, how much is false, and the minister is really not clear. ”

"The minister can only repay His Majesty with integrity."

"Your Majesty can ask Lord Fang. You can know the local situation. ”

Zhang Xuan set his eyes on Fang Yizhi, and Fang Yizhi immediately said: "The minister was measuring the land before, and the officials from all over the country really made the minister's memory still fresh. ”

Immediately, Fang Yizhi told him a lot of things that had happened between his measurements of the land, and told them one by one.

There is time not to discuss the lower limits of certain bureaucrats.

Knowing that measuring the land in the world is the national government presided over by Zhang Xuan, these people still dare to do tricks.

There are some things that Fang Yizhi said, Zhang Xuan knows, after all, measuring land is the most important policy for Zhang Xuan, so many things go straight to the interior.

However, Zhang Xuan didn't care too much about this.

It's not that Zhang Xuan has become indifferent.

It's that he has seen too much, and the world is so big, there is never a shortage of tragic things. Every time Zhang Xuan heard something, he cried bitterly. Zhang Xuan didn't have to do anything else.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Xuan asked Yao Qisheng lightly.

Yao Qisheng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and knew that he had passed the level. said: "The minister is preparing this year's budget and final accounts, only the central government, and next year will be the local, please Your Majesty give me a year, and the minister is willing to inspect the prefectures and do this thing." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Okay. This one thing, you go and talk to Zhang Shoufu. If the local officials have any grievances, Zhang Shoufu will naturally clean them up for you, this is the top priority, and you must not slack off. ”

Yao Qisheng's heart moved, he knew that Zhang Xuan's words had the meaning of beating.

The dispute between Zhang Zhen and him, although confined to a small circle. But how can Zhang Xuan not know, the relationship between the people below is too good, Zhang Xuan is worried, the relationship below is too bad, and Zhang Xuan is worried about national politics again.

Yao Qisheng immediately said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister must want to ask Lord Shoufu for instructions." ”

Zhang Zhen said: "Let's put this matter aside, this year's finances are still abundant." Yao Qing did a good job. ”

Yao Qisheng said: "This matter is the work of Lord Fang. The minister did not dare to take credit. ”

The autumn tax of the second year of Zhaowu is for Great Xia. It's a shot in the arm. It was a great supplement to Xia Jun's finances.

Jiangnan, Zhejiang. This is the key area of China's traditional finance. After the large-scale clearance, the tax revenue has a great complexion, but the tax burden in Jiangnan is not light, and no matter how much it increases, it will not increase anywhere. However, the smooth collection of taxes is compared to the taxes of the whole country in the first year of Zhaowu.

It can be seen that the increase is huge.

What makes Zhang Xuan even happier is that the burden on the people is not too heavy for such a tax collection.

Coupled with other provinces, some places have been cleared, and some places have not yet been cleared. However, Zhang Xuan expects that this year's tax revenue will exceed 20 million taels. Even if it's worse, it's pretty much the same.

And that's just the land tax.

In addition to the land tax, Zhang Xuan has a lot of other income, such as customs duties, taxes on the ports of the Yangtze River, and taxes on merchants in big cities such as Nanjing and Suzhou. Especially those thousands of looms, almost factory workshops.

As soon as Zhang Xuan has free time, he will study how to receive taxes from above, which can not only discourage enthusiasm and be conducive to the expansion of production capacity, but also allow the government to take a share of such an industry, because only interests are the source of power for the government to support the development of capital.

Otherwise, when Zhang Xuan was alive, he could still be encouraged, and when he died, he would cry out. The situation is also untenable.

Of course, in addition to these, the two most important are national debt and seigniorage.

Needless to say, the income from the national debt, and the income from the seigniorage is close to the major item of the field tax. Under Zhang Xuan's planning, the silver dollars imported from the West can only be purchased after being exchanged for standard silver dollars at the port, and you must know that most of the silver dollars that flow into China are the mother of the silver coins imitated by Zhang Xuan, that is, the Spanish silver dollar, but Zhang Xuan wants to weigh the Spanish silver dollar in two silver dollars, while the Daxia silver coin is worth one or two silver, you must know that although Zhang Xuan's silver coin is also one or two, it is actually only seven coins of silver. It is equivalent to collecting an extra tariff of 20% out of thin air.

Westerners are helpless either. It can only be regarded as a cost.

Of course, this is only one of the sources of the Mint's silver. After all, there are not a few silver balances in the domestic reserves of Great Xia. Under Zhang Xuan's decree that the circulation of silver taels was prohibited and only silver coins were allowed to circulate. Every day, large quantities of silver are exchanged for silver coins in various places.

Zhang Xuan saw the rolling financial resources from it, which was also another leg in Zhang Xuan's financial income.

Of course, even so, it could not support the huge expenses of the war, and it can only be said that the financial recovery of Great Xia exceeded Zhang Xuan's expectations. Even Zhang Xuan discussed with the cabinet and felt that if there were no natural disasters, Zhaowu would be three years old, Zhaowu four years, and the fiscal revenue in the past few years should be able to maintain a fairly high growth rate.

This is also an important reason why Zheng Chenggong and Azig were safe after the Battle of Bihu Pavilion.

Because to fight a war is to fight for money, and only with money can we fight, and there is no way without money. In the previous Korean war, the treasury of Nanjing had been burned down, especially the cross-sea expedition, and a lot of materials were consumed, but the price had increased several times.

Maybe Xia Jun is not too familiar with this mode of operation, in short, the cost of sea freight is extremely high.

But at the same time, because of the good financial prospects, Zhang Xuan became bold and wanted to find some trouble for the Qing court, which was also the sudden popularity of the Korean general. So much so that Zheng Chenggong had to come back first.