Xu Mujiang and Xu Muhe both used to be officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty and had a certain understanding of the financial operation of the feudal court, so when they heard Xu Mujiang mention this, Xu Muhe also quickly reacted:

"That's true, why are our finances so much better than the imperial court?"

Xu Muhe now asked himself, and then pondered and replied to himself:

"Our field endowment is not high, I estimate that it is only half of the previous imperial court's field endowment in Jiangbei, or 4 percent."

"Salt class? The imperial court also collects it, and it is more ruthless than ours, salt, wine, tea, and spices in the south of the Yangtze River are all franchises, and all the income is from the imperial court. ”

"Hmm. It seems that the main reason is that our industrial and mining banks, as well as commercial taxes, are much stronger than the imperial court. ”

"It's true, but it's more than that." After finishing the matter, Xu Shiyang didn't mind giving his father and Uncle Science a look: "We really have no forced labor and light agricultural taxes." But only for the salt industry, we use the salt drying method, the output is more than 20 times that of the Jiangnan salt boiling method, without iron pot firewood, the manpower required is only 30%, so the cost is very low. ”

"We produce a pound of salt, the price is about one-fiftieth of the Jiangnan court, the quality is not low, we can even seize the private salt market in Jiangnan, so no matter how much we output, we are not afraid of not being able to sell, although the profit is meager but the output is very large, so our salt industry net profit is not even worse than the court!"

If the Great Zhou Dynasty didn't still have the bill income of salt citation, the economic benefits of the Qi Wangfu in the salt industry might be even more than that of the Jiangnan Imperial Court.

For a local government that only gained access to three provinces in the second half of this year, this income alone is staggering enough.

"Also......."

Xu Shiyang continued:

"The officials appointed by our family have not yet learned to be corrupt."

After all, the Qi Wangfu is a rising new regime, and the current grassroots officials are either newly promoted newcomers to the Yamen, or non-commissioned officers who have retired from the army, everyone knows very well how hard the previous days were, so they have a certain sympathy for the common people.

In addition, as Xu Shiyang said, the various methods used by the old oil officials in the feudal society to exploit, such as: big buckets in and small buckets out, floating income, levies, kicking tips, etc., they really don't know how to use them.

Another example is the transportation of military rations and salaries, in the Great Zhou, the actual income of the troops can reach 70%, which shows that the civilian official in charge of transshipment is quite honest.

In Qi Province, the number on the books must be equal to the actual amount, and the rations of the migrant workers in charge of transshipment must be counted separately, and if there is a problem with the sea transportation and part of the food is lost, the civil official in charge of transportation must submit a detailed report, and if the report is not passed, he must be held responsible.

Thus, even if one were aware of the unruly exploitation methods, the Qi regime's growing pie would attract their attention to some extent – promotions and benefits within the system were more appealing than risk-taking a few buckets of food.

Without layers of exploitation, or the unnecessary waste and corruption in the process of tax collection and transportation, the tax efficiency of Qi Province is naturally much higher.

Of course, the fact that officials do not use these means now does not mean that they will not use them in the future. Although King Qi, Xu Shiyang, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs all have to send people to cross-audit, they can always find loopholes.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang began to implement a new type of loan accounting and reporting system five years ago.

In order to clarify the economic indicators of local officials at all levels, Xu Shiyang emphasized the importance of percentages in the new financial system.

Coupled with the budget at the beginning of the year and the summary at the end of the year, these new financial and accounting tools are implemented, and the Qi Wangfu and the Sixth Ministry can get a more accurate economic figure and use it as a standard for supervision.

The new accounting system has increased the workload of local officials, and the traditional civil officials who "usually talk with their hands and talk about their hearts, and report to the king when they die" are not open in Qi Province, on the contrary, they are closer to the so-called officials in the past and are popular under the command of the Qi Prince's Mansion.

At the beginning of the year, these officials are required to prepare and summarize their department's budget and compare it with last year's budget. In what way? What do you want to accomplish by increasing your budget?

Even if you reduce your budget, you should include a description in the same format.

Then, at the end of the year, officials have to submit statements and similar explanations: Did the budget prepared at the beginning of the year achieve its purpose? What percentage has been achieved compared to the plan at the beginning of the year? What is the reason if the plan is not fully achieved? What's not going to be done? If it goes beyond plan, what is causing it? Can this factor be carried forward in the new year?

These relatively modern financial management systems are of great help to the healthy economic development of the provincial government, and are also very conducive to cross-supervision by various departments.

"Anyway, that's it."

Xu Shiyang explained a lot of modern financial systems, and then concluded:

"How can our economy be bad if our industry makes the output per unit of population higher than the same period last year, and our financial system makes unnecessary processes consume very little, and open source and throttle?"

"Somewhat." Xu Mujiang and Xu Muhe nodded together - although they were actually a little blindfolded when they heard it, it seemed to really make sense?

"In short, the Ministry of Household wants to carry out the new financial system, and in the future, there will be a new customs import and export system and a new taxation system, and the existing financial system is only a trial operation, and there will be a long period of improvement, and then it will have to be fine-tuned and improved every year."

"It's so troublesome......."

"Father, you can't be afraid of trouble when governing the country."

Xu Muhe likes to listen to this very much.

……

In fact, Xu Shiyang said too much nonsense to his father and uncle, and Qi Province's economic advantage was just the result of the total suppression of other surrounding forces by a semi-industrialized modern regime.

Qi Province could now receive cheap wool, oxen and sheepskins, and horses from the Mughuls; Cheap manpower, timber, minerals, and grain were obtained from the Koreans; get cheap grain and minerals from Jiangnan; Cheap sulphur and copper ...... from Fuso, Qi Province imported all raw materials or minerals.

then salt, woollen cloth, tea, and distilled liquor were exported to the Mughals; export glass products, munitions and Liaodong specialties to Jiangnan; exporting salt, munitions, and cloth to Fuso; Goryeo is a typical semi-colony, where any product of Qi Province can be dumped; Add to this the huge surplus of Jurchen smuggled luxury goods.

This kind of dumping of industrial products with imported raw materials has an economic model that has no market competitors at all, and as long as there is a reasonable financial system, of course, it is extremely healthy.

This is simply the favorite economic model of traditional imperialism, well!