Gong Wenbao was taken aback by his sudden forward pressure, although the two were still separated by a table, his whole body still involuntarily retreated!

Now he knows why the outside world would call this man Chen Ren Tu!

Nima, I'm scared to death!

This man is not just a scholar like his appearance at all, he seems to be thin and angry, but now Gong Wenbao thinks that in the depths of this man's seemingly thin nature, there is a hidden demon who can choose someone to devour at any time.

After being startled by Chen Lifu's actions, he remembered what this person had just said!

Mountains of silver, rotting wooden boxes, silver scattered all over the ground!

Mom, if what Chen Lifu said is true, then how much money does this Chen family have?

Also, the Chen family is like this, so how rich should the other gentry and landlords in the Jiangnan area be?

The Chen family has a certain reputation in the Jiangnan area, but it is definitely not the top official family in the south of the Yangtze River, at least the Chen family has never had a high-ranking official, although there are children in the past dynasties, but most of them are in the middle and lower levels, and their Chen family has never had an official above the third grade.

However, such a family can be so rich, so how much money do other families have?

Gong Wenbao doesn't know!

Not to mention that Gong Wenbao doesn't know, even the so-called all-pervasive tax department actually can't figure out how much the landlords in the Jiangnan area have.

They can find out how many acres of land they have, their shops and so on, but to be honest, wealth can exist in many forms, and it is impossible for the tax department to go directly to people's homes to see how much money they have in their cellars, nor can they say to see if the furnishings in people's houses are priceless treasures.

The Chen family, judging from their ostensible industry, is actually just an ordinary landlord family, with thousands of acres of land and dozens of shops, which is nothing in the south of the Yangtze River.

But such a family can keep millions of cash in the cellar?

It sounds, but what's even more is that there are so many families who are richer and have more money than them!

Then Gong Wenbao suddenly had such an idea in his mind: The defeat of the Zhu Ming Dynasty is not unjust, the gentry and landlords in the world are so rich, but the financial income is only a few million taels of silver, and this can still let them exist for nearly two hundred years, which is simply a miracle!

He had heard from a fellow villager who worked in the budget department of the Ministry of Taxation that the country's finances were now in difficulty, and if next year's fiscal revenue could not reach more than 50 million taels, I was afraid that next year's big guys' salaries would be in arrears again.

And he also casually asked a colleague in the budget department at that time, saying, according to the situation of our country, how much money does it cost a year to spend?

When the fellow villager heard this question, he first smiled, and then said, "Enough flowers?" But it is impossible, with the budget system of our country, no amount of money is enough to spend!

If there are 50 million, other ministries and the military will dare to raise the expenditure budget to 80 million, and if there is 60 million income, they will dare to raise 100 million, even if there is really 100 million, they will dare to shout 200 million when they open their mouths! ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and then said: "But if it is according to this year's situation, next year's 70 million will almost be barely maintained!" ”

70 million, and it's just barely maintained!

This is the expenditure budget of the Tang Dynasty next year, and in terms of the revenue budget, the people on the tax department estimate that it is only 65 million, in other words, there is a gap of 5 million taels of silver.

But this is only theoretical, in fact, when it is really time to decide on next year's budget, the Son of Heaven will definitely raise the butcher's knife and cut the military expenses of the army, and cut the funds of other departments, for example, the Ministry of Commerce has long been shouting that there will be at least 8 million taels of silver tomorrow, so that the work can be carried out smoothly.

But will it really give eight million?

!

It is impossible to cut half directly, and if you can give two or three million silver, those people in the Ministry of Commerce should be snickering, and in fact, it is true, if there is really three million taels of silver on the side of the Ministry of Commerce next year.

The high-level officials such as Shangshu and Shilang of the Ministry of Commerce will definitely drink and raise a glass to celebrate the victory of Xuanping's seven-year budget war!

Because, in the sixth year of Xuanping, that is, this year, the total annual funds of their Ministry of Commerce are only 800,000 taels of silver.

The eight million, they simply added a zero to the end, and they didn't expect to be approved.

At the end of each year, all departments will fight for next year's budget, trying various ways to increase the financial budget of their own departments, in the spirit of crying children have milk to drink, these departments are basically crying every day in this month at the end of the year, and life is too hard.

At the same time, in line with the principle of asking for money all over the world and making a counteroffer, their psychological bottom line is one million taels, they dare to shout 10 million directly, the mind is very simple, even if you don't give me a discount, just two or three folds, then I will make a lot of money.

At that time, it was just a careful consideration of other departments, and the people in the budget department of the Ministry of Taxation were like mirrors in their hearts, and they would investigate on their own and then submit the expenditure reports of each department for the current year.

An organization only spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver this year, and next year it says that it will start some big project, and then it will ask for several million? , the people in the tax department are not stupid.

As the money bag of the Tang Dynasty, the tax department collects taxes, although their most important job, but controlling financial expenditures is also their important job.

Because once the financial support budget is approved, and the amount exceeds the fiscal revenue, how can this fiscal gap be solved? They only ask for money, and in the end, they still have to let their tax department try their best to make money to close the financial gap.

In order not to make themselves miserable, the people in the tax department would rather be forced to people in other departments!

The Tang Dynasty's annual financial income of tens of millions of taels of silver is difficult to maintain, and now it still owes the salaries of many officials, and as the occupied area gets bigger and bigger, there are more and more officials, and the number of arrears is getting bigger and bigger.

You must know that a part of the arrears were owed every year before, and in the past few years, the total accumulated amount of the official salary treasury bonds has exceeded 15 million taels of silver, and the annual interest expenses alone have reached nearly one million taels, and some of the three-year salary treasury bonds are now due one after another, and the principal of the salary treasury bonds that Xuanping needs to repay in seven years is as high as 3 million!

In addition, the Tang Dynasty also issued construction treasury bonds with a total of 8 million silver to the public, and the interest and life of this treasury bond and salary treasury bonds are the same!

In other words, at present, the Tang Dynasty owes a total of 23 million taels of silver in national debt!

As a central dynasty, it owes so much money, to be honest, it has never appeared since ancient times, but what makes the people of the Ministry of Taxation helpless is that the Son of Heaven does not seem to care about the debt pressure, and even makes the people of the Ministry of Taxation prepare to continue to expand the scale of the issuance of construction bonds in the seven years of Xuanping, and to what extent?

Ten million a year!

The Son of Heaven said that in the seventh year of Xuanping, at least 10 million construction bonds will be issued!

However, people in the Ministry of Taxation are worried that if the total amount of national debt continues to expand, it will inevitably be necessary to borrow new debts to repay old debts, and the annual interest will be several million taels of silver, and the finances will not be able to support it at that time.

In the Tang Dynasty, tens of millions of taels of silver a year are not enough to spend, and they also need to issue treasury bonds, while the Ming Dynasty only has a few million a year, and it is not surprising that they were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty.

Gong Wenbao took a few deep breaths in a row to calm the excitement in his heart, suppressed many messy thoughts, and then looked at his subordinates on the side, and saw that these people were also dumbfounded.

Ma Dan, they were also frightened by Chen Lifu's words!

After coughing lightly and hiding his embarrassed expression, Gong Wenbao said: "Director Chen is worthy of being from a family and well-informed, Gong is from an ordinary family, not to mention one million taels of silver, even if it is ten thousand taels of silver, I have never seen it!" ”

Gong Wenbao is actually not low in knowledge, hundreds of thousands of millions of taels have also seen, but all he has seen are bank cashier's checks, but they are someone else's, and although the numbers on the bank cashier's check are huge, they are just a series of numbers, which is definitely not as shocking as cash.

Chen Lifu didn't speak, he didn't deliberately show off the wealth of the Chen family, in fact, there is nothing to show off about this money, money, after a certain extent, basically doesn't have much meaning, and in this world, there are many things that money can't help him solve.

For example, what Chen Lifu is pursuing now, money can't bring him!

He wants to drive out all the rebellious ministers and thieves in the court, and he wants to help the Holy Monarch to create a prosperous era of Xuanping, can this money help him?

No!

And in Chinese society, money is important and important, and it is not important to say that it is not important, especially in Chen Lifu, power is definitely more important than money!

With power, he can realize many ideals in his heart, but the millions of assets in his family cannot help him realize these ideals.

He said this, just to make it clear: "Lao Tzu is not short of money, and he will not ruin his future and extinguish his ideals for a mere hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!" ”

Well, this is just Chen Lifu's own thoughts, because in his eyes, it is just a few hundred thousand taels of silver.

Gong Wenbao calmed down his mood and continued to ask another question he was concerned about, which was also the question he was most concerned about: "Director Chen Bingchen, the housekeeper of your mansion, should be very familiar, let's talk about this person!" ”

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