As the clan of the empire, Juzhou Xu is undoubtedly the richest family in the world at present.

Moreover, this kind of wealth is not the kind of wealth that counted the whole world as private property in the past, but the kind of wealth that has become the first capitalist family of the empire through industry.

From a small dock lord in Juzhou to the emperor of the empire, in addition to the expansion of territory and political status, the Xu family's industry is also expanding simultaneously.

At present, the Xu family owns about 50 million mu of cultivated land in Fusang, Taidao, Liaodong, Annan and other places, and almost twice as many pastures and forest farms.

About 1,000,000 slaves and 500,000 hired laborers (mainly common people) worked on it, paid taxes, paid salaries and slave rations, and provided the royal family with 8 million stone of various grains every year.

There were about 30,000 horses, 50,000 cattle, 30,000 donkeys, 10,000 mules and 9,000 camels on the royal family's farms and pastures.

The number of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese eaten for meat is even more staggering.

There are also economic tree species such as mulberry, oak, peach, plum, and apricot trees in the royal family's forest farms, and cash crops such as cotton, flax, and sugarcane are also planted on a large scale on the farm.

The wool produced in the pastures, as well as various cattle and sheep, are also supplied to the inner government's own textile and tannery.

This cycle brought astonishing wealth to the imperial royal family.

This is actually not the biggest income, because of the existence of Xu Shiyang, the imperial family has always taken the lead in economic investment, and is in a certain position as a guide.

The empire's new industrial products, such as sugar, edible oil, cotton, woollen cloth, enamel, glass, perfume and other industries, as well as restricted exports of steel, military industry, shipbuilding, machine manufacturing, etc., have a large number of enterprises involved in the country.

Had it not been for Xu Shiyang's order to nationalize the minerals and salt industries, the royal family would have made even more staggering profits from industrial production.

In addition to the factory, there is also an ocean-going fleet of 200 galleons in the inner province, which can go straight to Tianzhu and even Pars for international trade.

The government also has its own private bank.

If you have a large amount of liquidity, you will naturally invest in other industries, or directly buy treasury bonds to earn some income.

With such a huge industry, the direct income brought to the inner government every year is more than 100 million taels!

With so many private gains, the clan naturally didn't bother to spend the cabinet's funds, and the provincial government listened to the cabinet's nagging all day long about annoying things like "extravagance".

Ah, the royal family is not entirely free of controversial income from the public.

The largest amount of money in this is the annual tribute paid by the vassal states and foreign countries to the emperor and His Royal Highness the crown prince.

The tribute to the empire was completely different from that of the previous dynasties, in the past, the Waibo state (whether the envoys were true or not) paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty, and after collecting the tribute, the imperial court had to give at least equal value, and in many cases, even premium gifts.

But the Huaxia Empire doesn't play this set, since it is a tribute, then Waifan should be honest, complete on time with quality and quantity, and should not expect any rewards - otherwise wouldn't this be a deal?

How can this show the loyalty and respect of the subject country to the mother country of China?

If you want to trade, you can trade with the caravans of the empire, or trade in the empire with a letter of pardon every year, and at other times, it is strictly forbidden for the caravans of the subject countries to wander around the empire.

Since the tribute has become a tribute in the true sense, the tributes sent by the subject countries and the foreign countries every year have naturally become pure benefits.

For example, the annual tribute of the first king of Goryeo in Waifan is: 1,000 taels of Korean ginseng, 30 pieces of mink, 500 taels of gold, and 2,000 taels of silver (non-paper money).

Compared with the amount stipulated in the Ganghwa Treaty, except for a slight increase in gold and silver, Korean ginseng remained unchanged, and the rest were reduced considerably.

But there are too many Waibo who can't stand the empire, Waibo Sauron, Waibo Mengwu, Waibo Western Regions, Waibo Tubo, a large group of Nanyang tributary countries, and several remnant countries on Fuso Island, all add up to nearly 4,000, each of which pays an annual tribute of 500 Singapore dollars and taels, that is, two million.

These tributes were considered by the royal family to be used by the Inner Government.

However, the cabinet believed that it was not earned by the internal government enterprises, but was forced to send it by virtue of imperial coercion, and should be at the disposal of the cabinet's finances.

At the end of each year, during the tributary period, the inner government and the cabinet have to fight less fiercely over this issue, not that these two million are important, but there are some idlers on both sides who think that the matter of competing for these tributes on behalf of the outer Tibetan is more important than these two million.

Xu Shiyang did not stop them from arguing.

If you like to be noisy, just go for it, and don't affect the normal work progress.

And it could also attract the attention of the cabinet and keep them glued to the real little coffers of the royal family.

Sometimes, Xu Shiyang felt that the cabinet was more like his wife than Wen Yue and the others - although the imperial clan no longer spent a penny on the cabinet, and even the salaries and salaries that officials should have, the cabinet still secretly wanted to take charge of the royal private money.

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Republic September 1797.

The king of Chu, who had the support of the inner government, finally gathered the troops necessary for him to go on an expedition to expand overseas.

The basic core of the Chu army came from the former Zhou army, and most of them were soldiers that Xu Shisong himself had led - these people's loyalty to Xu Shisong himself was still guaranteed.

In addition, there are other Imperial nationals who have volunteered to participate in overseas exploration.

Among these people, the most powerful is Xu Muhai, who is from the imperial clan, but does not have any titles, and is not even a citizen.

In the past few years, the clan, stripped of all titles, has been hoping to participate in overseas development in order to regain its crown, but the cabinet has not agreed.

This time the king of Chu went south, Xu Muhai took Xu Shisong's path again, and got the consent of the king of Chu, which made the cabinet agree to let him go.

Xu Muhai himself does not have any strength, but he is a clan after all, and the forces that are willing to support him are not small, such as the monks of the Shi family, in order to compete for the faith of Nanyang (Nanyang generally believes in Buddhism, but the biggest opponent of this expedition, Manjapahit Boyi, is a Tianzhu country), but also to confront the domestic Taoist forces, this time the domestic Shi family made a great effort.

Only the Songshan Shaolin family sent 300 stick monks to Xu Muhai, and other major domestic temples also contributed money and efforts, and gathered 2,000 monks with guns and knives before and after (the so-called stick monks are just a title, of course they will not really only take sticks to the battlefield).

During the War of Unification, Southern Shaolin, who had been directly praised by the imperial cabinet for his desperate resistance to the Pu family in Quanzhou, also sent out 200 stick monks, and these 200 people were directly given arms by the empire - including a complete set of equipment such as armor, Japanese knives, pistols, and rifles.

The cabinet even directly gifted a 500-ton sail transport ship "South Shaolin".

Of course, other monks did not have this honor, and they had to prepare their own weapons and equipment.