After the matter on the side of the Guangzhou City Bosi was dealt with, Han Xiao, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, did not return to Beijing with Li Guangtai, the imperial historian of the left capital. Instead, according to Zhang Lingyang's instructions, he boarded the ship from the Guangzhou wharf and headed for Quanzhou City in Fujian.

Since the major smuggling case of collusion between officials and businessmen in the Guangzhou City Shipping Division, Zhang Lingyang no longer has much trust in all the Municipal Shipping Divisions in Dazhou.

So he issued an order to make Han Xiao check one city and one city company.

It was not until mid-February of the 14th year of Tai'an that Han Xiaofang returned to Beijing after completing the investigation.

During this period, some collusion between officials and businessmen was naturally discovered, but there was no such thing as rampant as the Guangzhou City Bosi.

During this period, Zhang Lingyang was holding the first court meeting in the fourteenth year of Tai'an in Luoyang City.

Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household department, was a little jubilant today, and was the first to report to Zhang Lingyang after the last dynasty: "Your Majesty, in the thirteenth year of Tai'an, the income of my Great Zhou treasury exceeded 30,000 taels of silver.

Among them, the agricultural tax revenue was 41,173,136 taels of silver, the mining tax revenue was 37,325,314 taels of silver, the commercial tax revenue was 6,02,568,008,000 taels of silver, the salt tax was 9,236,412 taels of silver, and the tariff was 3,127,305 taels of silver......"

Zhang Lingyang was surprised, saw Zhu Kaishan's recital, and asked, "Why did your income increase so much all of a sudden?" ”

Zhang Lingyang remembers very well that the tax revenue of the Great Zhou treasury for thousands of years was only 250 million taels, and last year it suddenly increased by 50 million taels, how could Zhang Lingyang not be surprised?

Zhu Kaishan replied: "Your Majesty, Weichen was also surprised at first, but after a detailed understanding, Weichen found that because of the reconciliation with Yingyi, in the past year, the amount of goods traded between the two sides was as high as more than 70 million taels of silver, of which the tax was increased by more than 10 million taels of silver in my big week.

In addition, because the management of Tianzhu, Burma, Borneo, Java, Luzon and other places has been on the right track, and the annual tax and silver paid have also increased by half compared with previous years, so the national treasury revenue has increased so much at once. ”

"Sure enough, it deserves to be the global hegemon!" After listening to Zhu Kaishan's words, Zhang Lingyang said in his heart.

Just imagine, in addition to England, the trade volume between the whole of Europe and the Great Monday was just over 10,000 taels of silver, and England alone reached 70 million taels of silver.

But if you think about it, this is also a reasonable thing. The Great Zhou's exports to Europe were mainly three commodities: silk, tea and porcelain.

Previously, because of the hostility between the Great Zhou and England, the demand for these three items in England was very scarce.

Therefore, as soon as the Great Zhou and England reached peaceful exchanges, countless English merchant ships poured into the Great Zhou to import these three goods.

This is naturally a good thing for Da Zhou, but there is no doubt that because there are too many imports from the English side, it has also led to the inflation of goods.

Originally, those English merchants happily came to Da Zhou to buy goods, but when they returned to China, they saw that the streets were full of these goods.

There is no way, they can only sell, or it will not be good to smash it in their hands.

When other merchants saw that someone was selling, they immediately became calm, and they also sold off, so it led to the result that many merchants lost their money.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past year, hundreds of maritime merchants in England went bankrupt and went bankrupt

"What about this year's spending budget? Have you ever done it? Zhang Lingyang asked again.

"It's done, please Your Majesty!" As he spoke, Zhu Kaishan took out another piece of folding and sent it over.

When Zhang Lingyang was watching the folds on the dragon chair, Zhu Kaishan said in the hall: "Among this year's expenditures, the budget of the Ministry of War is 56 million taels of silver, of which in addition to the normal military expenditure of 24 million taels of silver, the Royal Navy plans to build 25 warships of more than 500 tons this year, and the silver consumption is estimated to be 13 million taels.

In addition, this year's weapons research and development budget is 10 million taels of silver, and the Firearms Bureau also plans to hoard 9 million taels of silver in weapons and ammunition. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang nodded noncommittally.

Whether it is the Royal Navy's shipbuilding plan, weapons research and development plan, or weapons hoarding plan, it is a decision made by Zhang Lingyang after consultation with the middle and senior leaders of the military.

Seeing that Zhang Lingyang had no objections, Zhu Kaishan said: "This year, the Ministry of Industry also plans to build more than three roads between Sichuan and Shu, which will take five years, and more than 300,000 people will be recruited, and it is estimated that 15 million taels of silver will be used.

In addition, several important rivers such as the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the canal will need to be repaired, and it is estimated that more than 30 million taels of silver will be used. ”

The construction of infrastructure is already a huge investment, and Zhang Lingyang is naturally clear.

The three main roads leading from Sichuan and Shu to Guanzhong cost more than five million taels on average.

Sichuan and Shu are mountainous, the road is not easy to build, and with the scientific and technological level of this era, in addition to building with people's power, there is no good way to do it.

But fortunately, there is gunpowder to open the mountain now, otherwise, let alone fifteen million taels of silver and 300,000 people, even 30 million taels of silver, millions of people, they would not be able to build a qualified road.

Let's talk about a few rivers, in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, once they encounter the rainy season, they basically burst their banks every year. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate the flooding of the Yellow River, Zhang Lingyang decided to build a river embankment with cement after consulting with the ministers of the DPRK and China.

The process of manufacturing cement here in Dazhou has been fully matured, but because of the great demand in all aspects, the price of cement is not cheap.

Besides, the cement consumed to build the embankment of the Yellow River is not a small amount, so of the 30 million taels of silver used to repair the embankment, 20 million taels were used to repair the embankment of the Yellow River.

Even 20 million taels of silver cannot complete the repair of all the embankments in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and this year only this section of the embankment in southern Henan will be repaired.

"Also, education here!" Zhu Kaishan continued: "In addition to the education fund of 3 million taels, this year the Ministry of Rites plans to build at least one school in each town, so the financial budget for education is 27 million taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang frowned, "Cao Rui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is here?" ”

"Wechen is here!"

"I ask you, the Ministry of Rites has made such a huge plan, and the teachers are enough?"

"The faculty is sufficient!" Cao Rui replied, "In addition to the talents and people from all over the country, the number of graduates from the university halls in various provinces this year will exceed 100,000, and it can be guaranteed that there will be at least three teachers in each school." ”

Seeing Cao Rui say this, Zhang Lingyang gave up.

Zhang Lingyang is not unaware of the importance of education. On the contrary, Zhang Lingyang understood the importance of education better than any minister in the court, so he was worried about the blind expansion of the Ministry of Rites, and finally the school was built without a teacher to teach.

But now that Zhang Lingyang saw that the teachers were sufficient, Zhang Lingyang gave up......