Listening to the explanation of the financial department and looking at the paper financial report in his hand, Zhang Mingyi frowned.

If there is no error in this report, then the current financial situation of Qi Province can be said to be amazing.

According to the imagination of traditional Chinese scholars on finance, the so-called "three years of abundant savings with one year" can be regarded as a good year.

If it can reach the level of "nine years of abundant reserves for three years", then these nine years can be evaluated in the history books.

But in fact, even the Great Zhou court, which is known as the rich world, has a deficit in finances every year.

On the Qi Provincial side, the fiscal surplus of this year is enough for a year and a half of fiscal expenditure! A year of abundant savings and a year of savings?

This is still an achievement achieved under the condition that Qi Province has built a large number of labor and water conservancy, and has been fighting with the Liaodong Tartars.

Well, if we take into account the fact that there is no human tax in Qi Province, the average agricultural tax is maintained at 10 to 15 taxes, and there is still a large amount of surplus grain in the hands of the peasants, then the current financial situation of Qi Province is inevitably .......

It's too much of an exaggeration!

'How?' ’

Zhang Mingyi has always believed in the concept that "sufficient food and pay for the soldiers, and the strength of the soldiers can win the world's strong army", so he has always attached great importance to the financial aspects of food and salary.

This year's financial results of Qi Province are so beautiful, of course he wants to figure out how this is done.

So he listened to the financial representative continue to talk about it while thinking about finding the key points for himself.

The representative said: "According to this year's census, there are 330,000 male and female households under its jurisdiction, with 1.55 million people, and more than 80,000 slaves; It is expected that the population may reach 2 million next year, and the number of slaves depends on the outcome of the war. ”

'Qi Province has a small population. This was Zhang Mingyi's first impression, but when it came to slaves, he flipped through the previous army report.

'Well, 7 or 8 percent of the expenditure of the Great Zhou is the consumption of redundant soldiers and redundant officials, and here in Qi Province, although there is a cost in the war, because of the continuous winning, there are also a lot of materials captured and even a lot of profits. ’

As for the officials, it seems that the two parts of the official processing factory dividends are the two parts of the official Feng, so the official Feng is not high...... well, the factory divides ......, this factory is so profitable! ’

Really take a closer look, the income of the factory in Qi Province this year is 330 million catties, and it bears all the official services, education and new factory capital and surplus!

And this is a figure that comes after the factory has already included the dividends paid to civil and military officials at all levels into the cost!

Zhang Mingyi also has factory shares himself, and he also received a factory dividend this year, which is not a small number, but he thought that he was one of the top bureaucrats in Qi Province and received extra care.

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that the factory really pays dividends strictly according to the shares held by the beneficiaries and individuals.

If you have the chance, you have to find out what the factories are making so much profit. ’

"Next year we want to increase the land to the level of 18 million acres." The finance representative continued: "The plan made by the finance department is that the revenue should be increased by more than 30%, to a level of about 1.28 billion or 90 million ....... ”

"As for how much the troops can get next year, and how much aid from Jiangnan will come, this is not something we can manage financially, if you have it, you can use it, and if you don't have it, it's nothing."

Yes, and assistance. Zhang Mingyi was stunned.

The economic situation of Qi Province is so good, it is not polite to ask them to help them from Jiangnan, and they will be converted into 150 million catties of grain.

This Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is really greedy.

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During the break, Zhang Mingyi went to the financial representative, hoping to get a more detailed financial report from him, but the man refused.

Zhang Mingyi suddenly realized that most Qi provincial officials probably did not regard themselves as "their own people" at all.

It's no wonder, after all, he is actually a prison army sent by Jiangnan, and it is understandable that he is not trusted, and it is also normal to hide many key details from himself.

However, Zhang Mingyi couldn't suppress his curiosity, so he turned his head to Xu Shiyang, hoping to get some answers from this friend like the "prince" of Qi Province.

"The detailed report is very thick."

Xu Shiyang gestured with his hands to the length of his forearm, and said with a wry smile:

"That's why I asked all departments to summarize in advance."

"Brother Zhang wants to know something, you can check it in the archives of the Governor's Mansion, I can only tell you the details I pay attention to and understand, it is very incomplete."

Speaking of this, Zhang Mingyi began to be curious about another thing.

"You will definitely inherit the position of Metropolitan Governor in the future, if you don't know the details, how will you manage your territory?"

"The Metropolitan Governor is not a god, and he cannot be omniscient and omnipotent. Can't you do it over there? Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "The plan on our side is to divide the functional departments, and the metropolitan governor is only responsible for the overall situation, and the subordinate departments do things according to their own responsibilities." ”

"How to divide it?" Zhang Mingyi asked.

"The next meeting will be mentioned, and next year the Governor's Mansion will set up six ministries."

The so-called six parts are:

the Household Department in charge of finances;

the military department in charge of the military;

the Ministry of Works, which is in charge of industry and construction;

the Penal Department, which is in charge of the criminal name;

the Ministry of Officials, which is in charge of the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials;

The Ministry of Etiquette is in charge of education, etiquette, and foreign affairs.

Very traditional Chinese-style division of six rights.

The current status of Qi Province is equivalent to a vassal state for the Great Zhou, and the establishment of its own independent six departments is not overstepping.

Zhang Mingyi even felt that it was too late to start preparing for the construction of the six departments.

"It's only now that we're starting to divide responsibilities, mainly because we have so few people."

Xu Shiyang smiled bitterly:

"The person who reported the financial situation today used to be the owner of the dock fort, I personally hate to use this kind of person, but it doesn't work if you don't use it, now the school education has not seen results, whether it is in the local area or on the side of Quancheng, the officials are still mainly the lord of the dock fort, and the officials are the relatives of the former dock lord housekeeper......

"This situation will continue for a long time, and it will not start to change until the school trains our own cadres."

Zhang Mingyi thought for a while and asked seriously, "Who are the six chiefs?" ”

"The meaning of the metropolitan governor, the chief officials of the six ministries are directly called Shangshu."

Xu Shiyang replied:

"The secretary of the household department and the secretary of the ministry are concurrently served by the governor himself."

It is understandable that in such a shortage of people, it is impossible for Xu Muhe to be the shopkeeper, and the governor himself directly controls the financial and personnel power, which is a necessary condition for maintaining the authority of the governor's office.

"I carry the secretary of the military department and the secretary of the ministry of engineering on both shoulders."

This is also a normal phenomenon, the Qi provincial army (including the new army and the militia) was established by Xu Shiyang, and it is impossible for him to hand over the military power to others.

In the same way with the Ministry of Industry, the factory and layout of Qi Province are also handled by Xu Shiyang, and it is normal for him to continue to manage it.

"The Ministry of Rites is my uncle who has been responsible for rolling out primary education in the local area."

Xu Mujiang was placed under house arrest by Xu Shiyang for several years, and only came out to do things again in the last two years, these days he has done a lot of work in popularizing education in Qi Province, plus he is the elder of the family after all, and he is in charge of a Ministry of Rites that does not involve core interests, which can be regarded as a symbol of the reconciliation of the second room of the Xu family and the unity of the family.

"Finally."

Xu Shiyang said with a smile:

"Shangshu of the Criminal Department, I recommended you to the Metropolitan Governor, Brother Zhang."