Emperor Luo Cheng never forgot to run his own small treasury, and after the imperial court lowered the salt tax, the annual financial income is now more than 25 million stones, more than 25 million taels of cloth and silk, and more than 55 million yuan of money. Last year, the emperor's inner treasury collected more than 15 million silver tigers.

A silver tiger is worth two thousand, which is equivalent to almost thirty million yuan.

This income is quite staggering.

However, the royal family has its own advantages, Luo Cheng bought a large number of slaves brought by the war, and then opened mines and built workshops all over the country, gold, silver, copper and iron and other important minerals, and now the Royal Mining Bureau has a large share, royal mining, strong exploration technology, technical support, strong funds, and sufficient manpower.

The royal family is neither short of money, nor lack of slaves, once it can explore high-quality minerals, it will invest huge sums of money in mining, on the other hand, it will immediately establish smelters and other supporting industries, from exploration to mining, to smelting and processing, and then to the casting of gold and silver coins, gold and silver jewelry, copper coins, cast iron, etc., their complete industrial chain production, and scale, it can greatly reduce costs, has a huge competitive advantage.

The royal also has shipbuilding, porcelain, glass, papermaking, winemaking, salt making, tea-making, engraving printing, sugar and many other in-demand commodity technology, in addition to the royal also engaged in sea trade, border trade, it can be said that the most profitable industries, the royal have intervened, and almost all of them are very large-scale, occupy a large share of the industry.

Not to mention that the royal family is also engaged in coinage, money banks, banks and other financial businesses, lending, mortgage, exchange, etc., with the royal gold medal reputation, the royal money is like grabbing money.

Luo Cheng replaced most of the Huangzhuang fields in the Central Plains to the border land, and then used slaves to plant grain, sugarcane, etc., and engaged in manor planting, which was not lower than the income of those in the Central Plains, after all, one acre of land in Luoyang could be exchanged for ten acres in the frontier. As long as there are enough slaves, cattle and horses, the income of ten acres of land is definitely higher than that of one acre of land.

In Luoyang, Chang'an, Fanyang, Taiyuan, Guangling, Denglai and other important cities, the royal family established many large workshops, in the frontier places, such as Guanwai Liaodong, North Korea Andong, and such as Lingnan Guangnan and other places, established a large number of manors, in Longyou, Saishang and other places, also established many pastures, as well as fur processing workshops.

In fact, Luo Cheng's engagement in these is basically equivalent to the state-owned enterprises of later generations, going deep into various industries, relying on capital, technology and scale, as well as the emperor's credit.

This is also the place that has been attacked by many civil servants in the court for a long time, they think that the emperor competes with the people for profit, and everything must be intervened, and whoever makes money, the emperor will enter which industry.

The royal industry has even become a price butcher, which industry has the royal entry, then there will inevitably be a sharp drop in commodity prices, but the quality of the royal products is still very strong, especially they have a strong ability to mobilize commodities, the national market is a game of chess, and the scale of rest is large, who has done them.

Many people shouted that it was not easy to make money, especially in the past, in some places, the big families of the wealthy and powerful clans in some places used their local influence, and even the protection of officials and businessmen, with pricing power, and even market protection, so the money earned was called a comfortable one.

But now the royal brand is sweeping everywhere, they are large-scale, low-cost, have many commercial goods, and have strong deployment capabilities, so everyone can only follow the price reduction, but their own costs are high, so the profits are reduced. Either it is hard to hold on, the market is preempted, and the gains are less.

But no matter how dissatisfied they were, Luo Cheng never paid attention to it.

The royal firm never evaded taxes, although the price was lowered, but it was not a dumping price war, but the unreasonable price was reduced a little, such as paper and ink, which were necessary for the imperial court and scholars, and the price in the past was too high.

It was so high that the emperor couldn't stand it.

Books are sold by selling the number of pages, a page of a book is dozens of dollars at every turn, and a volume of scriptures is often more than a dozen or even more expensive. Even if it's paper, it's a piece of paper that costs a penny.

The emperor's royal paper mill produced a variety of papers, from expensive rice paper to jute paper for the imperial court, to bamboo paper for printing, all kinds of paper, but no matter what grade of paper, it was several times lower than the paper of the same grade in the past. In this regard, the emperor did not spare any hands and directly suppressed it, and countless paper mills went bankrupt, but the emperor did not care, either being bought by the royal paper mill or closing the door directly.

Paper is an important commodity for people's livelihood and must be reduced.

The emperor is ruthless, and even the salt tax, an important tax of the imperial court, can be reduced by 20 million yuan a year, and there is nothing he can't be ruthless.

Nowadays, the entire royal industry, all over the north and south of the river, outside the four sides, the number of slaves in the royal industry is as high as more than one million, which is very amazing, it can be said that Luo Cheng is the real big slave owner.

It is precisely because of this huge industrial scale that the royal industry only has an income of 30 million guan a year, and it also contributes millions of guan in taxes to the imperial court every year.

A large number of prisoners of war eventually became slaves in the royal mines, serfs in the granges, and slaves in the workshops, because of the huge demand, even stimulated the slave market to flourish, and slaves were delivered to the coastal ports and border cities every day.

Many surrounding feudal states and tribes began to engage in this kind of buying with amazing profits****** such as the royal caravan in Lingnan, they sold all kinds of exquisite goods to those lords and barbarians in Lingnan, and the lords had no money to pay? It doesn't matter, you can owe it on credit. If they can't pay it off when due, they can allow the lords to pay off their slaves to the caravanserais.

Many of the Xi slang officials are still in the tribal system, and they do have some slaves, but there are certainly not many. So in order to exchange the goods they wanted, they began to take the initiative to fight with other tribes, plundering other tribesmen as slaves, and even some of the lords sold their own people to the royal merchants as slaves.

These people were originally poor people, and most of them borrowed money from the lord of the mountain, and their debts were not settled, so they were used by them to sell them to Qin merchants.

Such a situation is staged everywhere in the Mobei grassland, in the mountains and forests of the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, in the deep mountains of Yunnan and Qianzhong, and even in the forests and Zhenla in the south of the sky, and in the countries of the Western Regions.

The Qin merchants' commercial goods were deeply loved by them, and these people began to consume in advance under the instigation of the Qin merchants, and in the end they could not pay it back, so they could only sell cattle, horses, wives and daughters, and some could only sell themselves as slaves to pay off their debts.

Those chieftains and lords also began to attack each other, plundering each other's populations and selling them to the Qin people as slaves.

And the Qin merchants, even now, don't need to do the dangerous business of catching slaves by themselves, as long as they bring the goods to trade, it is easy and profitable.

The emperor made money no less than the imperial court levied taxes, and he could be called a truly rich country. However, although he earned 30 million yuan a year, the emperor did not indulge in enjoyment, he did not like luxury, nor did he like to build palaces.

Compared with the imperial court, which has a budget for the coming year every year, the emperor also asks the Ministry of Internal Servants, the Province of the Palace, and the Province of the Secretary to make the budget for the coming year.

As far as the budget made this year is concerned, the main expenditure of the royal family next year is to build hundreds of new merchant ships of all sizes to increase the strength of the Bohai and South China Sea fleets.

At the same time, the imperial court also planned to set up a canal fleet and a Yangtze River fleet, as well as a fleet of Hetao from Lingwu to Yulin, as well as the Huai River fleet, the Han River fleet, etc., after the completion of these fleets, not only can greatly enhance the transportation capacity of the royal industrial commodities, at the same time, the escort team equipped with each fleet can also become a royal elite soldiers, in a critical time, can play an important role.

Another large budget is that this year's royal plan is to open Huimin pharmacies and Anle hospitals in every county this year, and even in some large counties, and it is expected that in the next ten years, more than 1,500 counties across the country will open Huimin pharmacies and Anle hospitals in every county.

This year, more doctors and nurses will be recruited from military hospitals, and the royal family will pay for them, and after the training in military hospitals is completed, they will be assigned to Huimin pharmacies and Anle hospitals stationed in various places.

Shipbuilding, building a new fleet, recruiting more fleet guards, adding Huimin pharmacies and Anle hospitals, and recruiting more medical commission trainees all require a lot of money.

The emperor's money came quickly, but the emperor's money went quickly, but the money was not used to build the palace, and it was not used for all kinds of luxury, and the emperor thought it was worth it.

In addition to these large projects, the emperor also approved an increase in the budget for orphanages and nursing homes established by the royal family, in order to take in more abandoned babies or orphans, as well as to provide for those who are lonely, widowed, and poor. Although he did not have the ability to take in all the lonely old people and abandoned babies and orphans in the world, the emperor increased the budget every year and built new orphanages and nursing homes every year, which was the responsibility of the imperial court, but now the emperor also let the royal family silently bear a part.

This year, the imperial court wants to add 12,000 soldiers and horses to Anxi, which is a big expense, but fortunately, last year, the imperial court got hundreds of thousands of slaves, millions of cattle, sheep and livestock, and countless wealth.

This money, Luo Cheng ordered, was not included in the financial revenue, but listed separately as a reserve fund for the imperial court. There was no snow in many places last winter, and officials have warned that there may be a major disaster this year.

In the absence of snow in winter, the biggest plague of the coming year may be locust plague.

For this reason, the emperor deliberately set aside the money for the extermination of the turtles and the rat Nishi, except for part of the expenses for the new 12,000 soldiers and horses in Anxi, the rest was retained, and no half of it was allowed to be embezzled, and it was used for preparing for disaster relief and emergency response.

In order to deal with the catastrophe that may occur this year, the emperor even did not forget to summon several frontier generals to talk in detail again on the Wufeng Tower.

Contrary to the speculation of the ministers, the emperor talked to these border generals, not to make any big moves, but to prepare to destroy several more countries, on the contrary.

When Luo Cheng talked to Li Jing, Xu Shiji, Su Dingfang and others, they all explained again and again that they should be stable this year, and if they can not fight, they will not fight, and if they can defend, they will not attack.

Even if the war on the Anxi side is not over yet, the emperor also asked Xu Shiji to control the scale of the war and not to fight any decisive battles for the time being, because this year the imperial court has to prevent it in advance, and if the border areas expand the scale of the war, the imperial court may not be able to reinforce at that time.

Everything is stable.

Stability first.

Even earlier, the emperor specially summoned the envoys of the three feudal clans in the south of the Yangtze River, praised the loyalty of the three feudatories, and also rewarded the three feudatories with a lot of imperial gifts, the purpose is to hope that the three feudatories can be honest this year and not cause chaos.

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