Previously, there were 40,000 new naval and land troops in Qi Province, and military expenses and additional war expenses were equivalent to 400 million catties of food.

After the implementation of the new military system, the treatment of soldiers will be improved to a certain extent, and reservists will also be able to receive certain economic benefits, as well as the three-level military academy system and the equipment costs of the navy and army, all of which will cost money.

Therefore, the budget of the Longdao Military Department in four years needs at least 1.2 billion catties, and if you add the war expenses that will definitely occur, it is estimated that it will reach more than 1.3 billion catties.

Another skyrocketing expense is the bureaucracy.

After the regime gradually stabilized, the areas under the jurisdiction of the Qi Prince's Mansion were gradually reconstructing officials at all levels, and the phenomenon of one person holding multiple posts and only receiving one salary in the era of the Governor's Mansion was gradually disappearing, and the local government structure corresponding to the six ministries was still adding civil servants - the personnel expansion ratio of the Ministry of Officials was even larger than that of the Ministry of War.

Moreover, King Qi also has to consider the issue of high salary, low salary, and high treatment to attract talents.

Therefore, the king of Qi, who was also in the official department, revealed to Xu Shiyang that in the four years of Longdao, the budget of the official department would reach 600 million catties of grain - three times that of the three years of Longdao, and the only advantage was that it would not have to prepare an additional war budget like the military department.

The Ministry of Household Finance is financed mainly from several sources: first, it provides loans to immigrants on newly developed land; Second: funds for the construction of water conservancy facilities in Hebei Province and southern Liaoning; Third: investment in new factories and mines; Fourth, the distribution of relief to the recruited displaced people and the provision of initial rations, livestock and farm tool rental, etc.

There is also a fifth: the cost of the Qi Palace's own is not a small amount.

The total budget of the five items is 400 million catties, of which the factory, mine, water conservancy and other parts are jointly borne by the Ministry of Industry.

Although the military academies under the Ministry of War bear most of the education problems for orphans, Xu Shiyang has always emphasized that the night schools for workers and peasants, the literacy classes for farmers and peasants, etc., also need to be invested, and 200 million catties of funds in this regard is not much.

The Criminal Department itself does not need a large budget, but the above expenses combined, even if there are no accidents and do not exceed the budget at the beginning of the year, it will require 2.4 to 2.5 billion catties of grain.

This figure is about three and a half times the actual cost of Longdao in two years, and about twice that of Longdao in three years.

In terms of income, according to Xu Muhe, Qi Province currently has 22 million mu of taxable cultivated land, 6 million mu in southern Liaoning (including land directly under the jurisdiction of agricultural companies), and 980 million jin (an average of 35 jin per mu) in the summer and autumn of Longdao for three years.

The Ministry of Household hopes to develop taxable cultivated land to 25 million mu in Qi Province in four years in Longdao; 10 million mu in southern Liaoning; The level of 10 million mu in Hebei Province. The tax grain is expected to reach 1.5 or 1.6 billion catties.

Agricultural taxes were still the largest source of revenue for the former governor's office and the current Qi regime, but their share of total revenue had been greatly reduced.

The second largest item of income is still the salt industry, and in addition to its own consumption, the sea salt in Qi Province has been marketed to Goryeo, Fuso and the grassland market, and even with the support of some powerful people in Jiangnan (including but not limited to Xu Shiliu and others), it also has a very strong competitiveness in the private salt market in Jiangnan.

The actual income of Longdao's salt industry in three years is equivalent to 500 million catties of grain, and the household department hopes to reach 800 million yuan by next year.

In the second year of Longdao, Qi Province developed a new port in addition to the original two main ports of Rizhao and Dengzhou, and at the location of Fushan (another island city).

In addition, after the security situation in southern Liaoning was stabilized, Port Arthur was also transformed from a simple military port to a dual-use port.

In this way, Liaodong's specialties: ginseng, mink, Dongzhu, deer antler velvet and other goods can go directly to Jiangnan through Port Arthur.

In addition, Qi Province monopolized Goryeo's foreign trade, and foreign export goods such as Korean ginseng and fur and Jiangnan goods needed by Goryeo needed to be re-exported to the ports under the jurisdiction of King Qi, which was another large amount of income.

The commercial tax of the Governor's Government in Longdao is actually equivalent to 480 million catties of grain, which is almost directly chasing the income of the salt industry, and it is expected that Longdao will rise rapidly to 800 million catties in four years, reaching the same level as the salt industry.

As with commercial taxes, revenues have risen rapidly in factories and mines under the Ministry of Industry, as well as banks under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households.

The development of coal and iron ore allowed Qi industry to provide cheap weapons and agricultural tools on a large scale, especially agricultural tools, which could provide considerable returns whether as loans to newly recruited displaced people or exports to Goryeo and Fuso.

At present, the highest income in the textile industry is the wool industry, and the profits in this area are close to that of the steel mills, which mainly buy wool from the Mughal people through caravans, weave wool cloth and sell it back, or export it to Goryeo and Fuso.

With the increasing maturity of the whaling fleet, the income of the fishing industry has also grown rapidly, especially after cooperating with the salt industry, providing salted fish, pickled whale meat and all kinds of seafood on a large scale, which has made a great contribution to the protein supplement of the people of Qi Province.

At present, the luxury goods industry is mainly wine and glass handicrafts, and the main export destinations are Jiangnan and the Mengwu people, in addition to Xu Shiyang's secret smuggling to the Jurchen aristocracy in large quantities.

Other industries are still in the layout stage, and it will take a long time to see profits.

Banks are now purely making money out of clean water - profiteering, and they can recover profits equivalent to 200 million catties every year just by loan interest.

Factories, mines, and banks have paid 500 million catties of profits in Longdao in three years, and the household department is expected to reach 800 million yuan by next year, which will become the largest profit growth point of the Qi Wang regime together with the salt industry and commercial taxes.

The normal income of the Governor's Office in Longdao for three years was equivalent to nearly 2.5 billion catties of grain, and the income of the abnormal "foreign wealth" - robbing Goryeo and Jurchen was equivalent to 500 million catties.

The total income is 3 billion catties - most of them are not real grain, but coexist with grain and cloth in the situation of gold, silver and copper currency or grain stamps, and the actual expenditure is 1.3 billion catties.

Longdao is expected to have a fiscal revenue of 4 billion catties (excluding robbery income) and an expenditure of 2.4 billion yuan in four years, and the financial situation is still very healthy.

Relatively speaking, the military salary and the support given by the Li family from the Jiangnan court, as well as the annual tribute from Goryeo, were actually dispensable, and now they only have some symbolic meaning.

"Our fiscal ......." Xu Mujiang hesitated and said, "It always seems that it is always a lot better than expected...... ”

In the traditional feudal dynasty, half of the annual income was used to raise soldiers and pay salaries (if a war broke out, it might reach 7 or 8 percent), and half was used to support officials and salaries.

Then spend millions of stone taels of royal expenses, if it is a weak court like the Great Zhou, you have to add the annual coins to the northern invaders.

Even if you don't go through the construction of the people, the necessary expenses add up to simply make ends meet.

Like Qi Province, the continuous construction of water conservancy, without a year without war, the Metropolitan Governor/King of Qi Xu Muhe is also extravagant by nature, but the annual expenditure is still only 4 to 6 percent of the income, and the regime that can accumulate huge money and grain every year does not dare to say that there is no one who will come later, at least it is certain that there is no one before.