At this meeting of the Ministry of Industry, Li Xuan also expected in advance that the Ministry of Industry would raise various difficulties, including financial problems.

After all, almost all the factories built by the Ministry of Industry are asset-heavy factories with huge investment, and because the various products produced are basically ordnance products, in order to ensure that sufficient ordnance products can be purchased with limited military spending, the prices cannot be too high.

Although the military's purchase price will leave a certain profit for the arsenal, and this profit is not strictly speaking, this profit is to meet the operation of the arsenal itself, and it is naturally possible to expand appropriately.

But if you want to spare money to directly build another large arsenal on a large scale, it is too much to do!

Therefore, Li Xuan expected that the Ministry of Industry would carry out a series of constructions in the Jiangnan area, and the funds must be very tight, and it was reasonable to find his own support, but he did not expect that the gap on the Ministry of Industry was so big!

Two million taels!

This is the figure proposed by the Ministry of Industry, and the two million taels of silver are not only used to build a series of defense-related enterprises starting from Jiangnan, but also to large-scale expansion of related defense enterprises in Liangguang, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian.

Because the Ministry of Industry has planned a series of huge national defense industry construction programs, it is ready to build a large-scale arsenal and related supporting enterprises in every important area.

At the same time, in the Jiangnan area, it is to build a super-large-scale arsenal and supporting enterprises.

In this set of national defense construction plans prepared by the Ministry of Industry, several arsenals and related supporting factories in the two regions were directly integrated to prepare for the establishment of the South China Arms Company, and the original Zhaoqing Arsenal and Guangzhou Arsenal were all included in the unified management.

At the same time, all kinds of supporting enterprises are also integrated, and separate machinery companies, chemical companies and so on are established.

After the integration, the output of guns, artillery, and ammunition will reach more than 80 percent of the total output of various types of ordnance in the Tang Dynasty.

This will be a huge military-industrial complex, involved in almost all ordnance products, and even all the heavy industries that can be carried out at the moment.

At the same time, in Huguang, the Ministry of Industry plans to continue to expand the scale and build a large arsenal and supporting factories here.

Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, and other provinces did not have much of a plan, but only had some ordnance repair factories and small ammunition factories.

And in Jiangnan, as well as in the future Jiangbei region, the Ministry of Industry ambitiously proposed a series of enterprises starting from Jiangnan, and these are ready to be hung under the name of Jiangnan Arms Company.

To put it simply, the Ministry of Industry is preparing to integrate existing resources and prepare to build two huge weapons companies in South China and Jiangnan, and at the same time build a medium-sized weapons company in Huguang.

Two big and one middle, this is the planning of the Ministry of Industry!

In order to realize the layout of the national defense industry of the Ministry of Industry, money is naturally indispensable.

Two million, this is the price code of the Ministry of Industry!

And to be honest, this number stumped Li Xuan.

You must know that the tax income of the Tang Dynasty this year is only more than 20 million, although there are other messy incomes, but even if you count it, it is only more than 30 million.

And one of the expansion plans of the Ministry of Industry is to open his mouth to ask for two million, and Li Xuan has no way to free them up.

The tax revenue of 25 million was already divided by the fiscal expenditure budget at the beginning of the year, although Li Xuan still had millions of miscellaneous income in his hand, but part of the money would eventually be invested in the army in the name of 'temporary war expenses', and part of it would be used to improve people's livelihood, disaster relief, etc., and then he had to leave a little emergency.

The Ministry of Industry has two million mouths, and Li Xuan can't give it to them!

But he also knew that the Ministry of Industry was indeed short of money, and without this money, their huge national defense construction plan would not be able to be carried out, and finally Li Xuan proposed a compromise plan for them, asking them to ask the military for money!

Speaking of the richest in the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally the military, especially the army, which is not bad for money.

Of course, if you want the army to directly pay the Ministry of Industry, it is impossible, but if you slightly increase the price of a few weapons, and let the military not default on the payment due, then I dare not say, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands can still be squeezed out.

Then Li Xuan also agreed, even if it was financially difficult, but when the time came, he would support the Ministry of Industry, there was not much money in the treasury, but two or three hundred thousand could still be taken out.

Li Xuan estimated that with a two-pronged approach, he would be able to solve seven or eight hundred thousand!

With this money, it is enough for the Ministry of Industry to carry out this plan, as for two million, Li Xuan didn't take it seriously, if the Ministry of Industry really wanted two million, they might not say two million, but three million or even four million.

The price is all over the sky, and the money is repaid on the ground, which is naturally applicable to the fight for funds.

And judging from the smiles on the faces of the people from the Ministry of Industry when they left, they were probably satisfied with the answer given by Li Xuan!

In fact, Li Xuan still underestimated the faces of those people in the Ministry of Industry!

It is true that the entire huge national defense construction plan needs 2 million, but this 2 million will not be invested at one time, but will be divided into at least two years.

Moreover, although the profits of defense-related enterprises under the Ministry of Industry are relatively low, several textile companies under the Ministry of Industry, such as Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Foshan Iron Works, are all profiteering, and these profits can be used to support national defense construction.

Therefore, the psychological bottom line of the people in the Ministry of Industry at the beginning was that it was enough to ask Li Xuan to help solve about 500,000 taels of silver, and they could find a way to solve the remaining hundreds of thousands of shortages this year.

But he didn't expect that Li Xuan directly solved the gap of at least 800,000 taels of silver for them, although most of them had to be taken out from the military.

But since Li Xuan's dictation was there, they just raised the price directly, and the military didn't agree, so they moved out of Li Xuan directly.

No, people from the army and navy soon came to Li Xuan to complain about it, saying that the military expenditure was not very sufficient, and now the Ministry of Industry is raising prices, and the cost of purchasing ordnance is immediately hundreds of thousands more, which will affect the current military's Northern Expedition plan.

In this regard, Li Xuan pretended not to know 1

Besides, this year's military expenditure is so much, and this year's military has not fought any large-scale battles, and has not spent too much war money at all, and most of these military expenditures have been turned into guns, ammunition, equipment, and hoarding.

Therefore, the gap of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is nothing to the military, and it can be solved by overcoming one or two.

Of course, the military people are not so easy to dismiss, and in order to send them, Li Xuan said that he will make some compensation to the military in the military budget next year.

With next year's compensation, Li Xuan finally fooled things over, and the people in the military were also good at seeing it, what kind of jokes, the price increase of ordnance set by His Majesty himself, and even the specific proportion of the price increase was stipulated, and it was impossible for them to oppose it.

But the crying child has milk to drink, if you don't complain to Li Xuan, maybe Your Majesty will think that their military has a lot of money and has nowhere to spend it.

Nowadays, the military, whether it is the army or the navy, is spending a lot of money, okay!

The navy has a series of warship construction plans, as well as many military port construction plans, which are very expensive.

Not to mention the army, just to reorganize the existing many main forces into a standard establishment, it is to spend a lot of military expenses on the army, and at the same time, the army has also expanded a main division and a mixed regiment, all of which require money.

At the same time, the army was still stockpiling a large amount of ammunition to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Whether it is the army or the navy, there is no amount of money to spend now.

As a member of the family, Li Xuan naturally wants to control military spending and the funds of various cabinet ministries from the perspective of overall planning, otherwise, no matter how much money he has, it will not be enough to spend.

Datang's financial income is not small, but the money is more expensive, anyway, until now Li Xuan is not even able to repair the palace is out of money, this Ming Palace repaired by Zhu Yuanzhang was taken over by the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has always wanted to repair it, there was a plan at the end of last year, and then it also tried to start construction, but it started, and then there was no follow-up.

For Mao, there is no money!

The limited repair funds were all used on the side of the royal palace, as for the big palace, it is still in tatters, sometimes Li Xuan even thinks about it, just build a new palace next to it, it is estimated that the cost of the new construction will not be much more expensive than the repair.

The cost of repairing the palace is huge, and Li Xuan is not the old woman of Cixi, in order to live better, she dares to directly embezzle military funds, anyway, the current royal courtyard is okay, this palace will come slowly, anyway, don't expect it to be repaired in three or five years.

In order to solve the problem of financial shortage, Li Xuan on the one hand asked the tax department to do a good job in tax collection, and on the other hand, he was also ready to think of a way from the Royal Bank.

When Li Xuan established the Royal Bank, he was going to use the Royal Bank to raise funds, but he never did it, because the risk of doing so was still relatively large, and if he didn't do it well, it would seriously damage the credit of the Royal Bank and even the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Xuan has always been more cautious about this.

But now, when various departments are successively proposing large-scale plans and funds are tight, Li Xuan is also ready to use the Royal Bank to solve the financial gap.

The first is the issuance of treasury bonds, this kind of thing has actually been done by the Tang Dynasty, when the salaries of middle and senior officials were paid before, it adopted the model of issuing a part of cash and a part of treasury bonds.

And now, Li Xuan is preparing to publicly issue treasury bonds to raise more funds!