The Tang Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty, not the world of the Jiangnan gentry and merchants, but the world of rebels born in mud legs, although the current Tang Dynasty is also adopting various policies to ease the relationship with the landlords and gentry, but it is only a relaxation.

In fact, in the process of the continuous expansion of the Tang Dynasty, there were more landlords and rich people who were exterminated by the Tang Dynasty, otherwise how do you think the Tang Dynasty supported the huge consumption of 100,000 troops?

A considerable part of the military expenditure comes from the rich families of landlords who have been exterminated!

Under the strict salt monopoly system, the original salt merchants either continued to sell illegal salt because of resistance and were exterminated, or they began to transform, these salt merchants are very rich, this salt business can't be done, they can also do other ah, for example, now Datang encourages industry and commerce, maritime trade, especially industry, so many smart salt merchants have begun to do other businesses, and they are still alive and well.

This also ensures that the salt tax of the Tang Dynasty has been fully guaranteed, although there is still a large number of private salt sales, but the salt tax is relatively much higher than the Ming Dynasty, it is expected that the salt tax income of Xuanping for three years can reach about 1.5 million taels, more than 1 million taels a year, just a beginning!

Under the salt tax, there is the customs duty, and then there is the tea tax, and other bits and pieces of taxes!

A total of three years of Datang's financial revenue: nine million!

This figure is almost two or three times the central fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, you must know that the central fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty is notoriously small, only a few million taels of silver a year, and only three or four million taels of silver in many years, and the standing silver in the treasury is only a few million taels of silver.

Therefore, it is actually very easy to want to be rich and rival the country in these years, and a large number of businessmen can do it, and even some high-ranking officials have a much higher net worth than the country's annual income.

However, although the financial income of the Tang Dynasty is already very high, it is far from enough compared to the huge financial expenditure of the Tang Dynasty.

In the three years of Xuanping, the military budget expenditure alone exceeded the 10 million taels of silver mark!

Then the financial expenditure of a dynasty, in addition to military spending, there are other expenses, such as administrative expenses, even if it is a few millions, the Tang Dynasty cannot be the same as the Ming Dynasty, which gives officials dozens of taels of silver a year, and then let the officials go greedy for money, the Tang Dynasty's treatment of officials is not very rich, but it will also allow officials to live a decent life.

Second, water conservancy construction, urban construction, industrial and commercial development, and so on in various localities all need money, and the budget of the cabinet is that even if Xuanping saves more in three years, the administrative expenses still need more than 3 million taels of silver.

After all, the current Tang Dynasty is not a mountain king, but it is also a local government with three provinces and an army of 100,000.

At present, the main expenditure of the Tang Dynasty, although only military expenses and administrative expenses, add up to 13 million, that is to say, in the Tang Dynasty budget for the three years of Xuanping, there is still a gap of up to 4 million taels of silver!

Seeing such a huge number, Li Xuan felt a deep headache!

Such a gap is not easy to solve, even if there will be a follow-up to confiscate the official property of the Ming Dynasty, the property of the vassal king, and the floating income of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but there are few fat pigs like King Jingjiang!

The huge financial deficit also made Li Xuan choose to give up his plan to continue to expand the army for the first time!

Even he had a plan to suspend the offensive on some fronts first to save war costs.

For example, on the Yunnan side, there is no Mao, and there is nothing good to get after the fight, but it is necessary to invest a lot of troops and spend a lot of military spending.

Although the financial gap is huge, the war is still going on, and the fighting in some directions cannot be stopped, especially the war in Huguang, which has entered the most critical moment, and it is necessary to maintain the full supply of the army in the direction of Huguang, so that we can seize the southern part of Huguang and step out of the land of Liangguang.

The financial gap of up to four million taels of silver has been pressing on Li Xuan's appreciation, so that when the Spring Festival comes, Li Xuan is worried!

The Spring Festival has arrived, which means that it has entered the Xuanping three years, although strictly speaking, the Tang Dynasty has only been three years and two months from its establishment to the present, but in terms of chronology, it can be said that it has entered the fifth year.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Xuan began to entertain the courtiers in the palace according to the practice of the previous two years, and this banquet for the courtiers naturally needed to maintain the royal style, so there were all kinds of mountain and sea delicacies.

However, the money spent is not the silver in the treasury, but the silver in the inner treasury owned by the royal family, and it can't even be said to be the royal funds allocated in the treasury, because these money are basically invested by Li Xuan in the guards, which can be regarded as part of the military expenses.

Even the imperial treasury, that is, the emperor's personal private money, except for a few that was used to continue to build the imperial palace, most of the rest was also invested in the guards.

The empty treasury in the royal chamber can run mice, so how is the living expenses of the royal family solved?

That's because most of the expenses of the royal family now come from the private money of the Empress Dowager Bai!

Yes, that's right, it's the Empress Dowager Bai's private money!

If you count the royal family and even officials of the entire Tang Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Bai is definitely the richest, from the time of Xingquanfu, the treasury and the inner treasury of the Tang Dynasty are relatively clear, and the private money of the Empress Dowager Bai has nothing to do with the royal treasury.

The royal treasury, which is Li Xuan's private money, or the family property of the entire royal family, has several main sources, one part is the royal funds allocated from the financial revenue, and some is from the imperial village, most of these imperial houses are confiscated from the official land of the Ming Dynasty and the land of the vassal king, part of which is used to distribute to the soldiers, and the other part is controlled by the royal family and becomes part of the imperial village.

Part of it comes from the commercial profits of some industries and businesses invested by Li Xuan, Li Xuan has set up a royal obstetrics department under the Hanlin Academy, which is specially used to invest in and manage the royal assets, and also invested in the establishment of a number of factories in the name of the imperial obstetrics.

For example, there are soap factories, paper mills, and glass factories, among which the glass factory is still in the construction and research and development stage, why, because until now, the Tang Dynasty has not figured out how to make transparent glass.

There are also several factories dedicated to supporting the arsenals under the Ministry of Industry, such as lumber mills, machinery factories, ironworks, etc.

Although the scale of these royal factories is relatively small, far from being comparable to the large factories of the Ministry of Industry, in fact, the profits are not low.

In addition, the assets in the imperial treasury also include confiscated treasures, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are confiscated and difficult to realize in a short period of time, or treasures of great significance, calligraphy and paintings, etc., but these things are used as decorations in the palace or as rewards for courtiers, and there is not much liquid value, so they can be skimmed over.

The Imperial Treasury, although it has a lot of assets, is actually a poor egg in order to maintain the expenses of the Guard.

But the Empress Dowager Bai had a lot of money on hand, and the Empress Dowager Bai had a lot of private money on hand, and later followed Li Xuan, appointing her henchmen and aunts to invest in factories outside, and also followed Li Xuan's advice to invest in the textile industry, and gained a lot.

Of course, although these assets of the White Empress Dowager are also nominally owned by the royal family, Li Xuan, who is a son, is naturally not good at taking the private money of the White Empress Dowager, so it has caused the current situation.

But fortunately, the Empress Dowager Bai has money, otherwise, the royal family, which is empty of the imperial treasury, is afraid that there will be no money to hold the Spring Festival state banquet.

After the Spring Festival state banquet ended, Li Xuan also returned to the harem to continue to eat a family banquet, this Chinese New Year's Eve, he had to eat twice, in the daytime he had to eat a state banquet with the courtiers, and at night with his family to have a family banquet.

The next day, Li Xuan had a rare day of rest, did not go out to work, but stayed in the harem to accompany Empress Taibai and a group of concubines, and accompanied Empress Dowager Bai to watch several operas, Li Xuan was dizzy when he watched it!

A dance connoisseur who is accustomed to seeing rows of long legs and twisting on the stage in the waves, to be honest, really has no interest in the tightness of these bags in front of him and the babbling opera he sings.

If he has to watch opera or dance drama Yes, he prefers to watch the dancers in the palace dance in the private occasions of the harem, why do you like to watch it, four words: light gauze and thin wings!

However, Empress Dowager Bai was very interested in watching this Kunqu opera, even Queen Dong, who was pregnant, was also very interested in watching it, and from time to time she talked to the daughters of the Dong family who came to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to her.

Now the Dong family has long been trapped in the Tang Dynasty and can't extricate themselves, not only the daughter of the Dong family has become the queen of the Tang Dynasty, but even the descendants of the Dong family have now all entered the Tang Dynasty to serve in the army or for.

Dong's father, who was an official in Jiangnan, was also rescued by an envoy sent early, and Dong's father wanted to commit suicide to show his allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know why he figured it out, and now he is an honest official in the Tang Dynasty, and now he is serving in the Ministry of Rites.

After resting for a day, the next day, that is, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xuan had already started to work normally, the army was still fighting fiercely with the Ming army in Huguang, they couldn't spend a Spring Festival happily, and many government affairs were still waiting for him to deal with, in this case, whether it was him or the middle and high-level officials in the Tang Dynasty, in fact, they couldn't rest for too long.

However, when Li Xuan began to flip through the first recital, he frowned instantly, then pressed the bell and said to a waiter who pushed the door in: "Convene a cabinet meeting immediately!" ”

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