4. Miscellaneous to 50,000 guan
For each province of the Tang Empire, the proportions of the three products of Shangshang, Sending Envoys and Liuzhou were different. Generally speaking, in areas such as western and eastern Zhejiang, where there is not so much military pressure, the proportion of supply is higher, more than half; In areas with greater military pressure, such as Xichuan and Xingyuan, the proportion of sending envoys to Liuzhou is higher, because it is necessary to raise troops.
"Previously, the Holy Lord sent another 4,000 Huaixi soldiers, and the number of soldiers in this town also increased, that is, the amount of Guanjian (the regular teams of the Baicao Army and the Huaixi Soldiers, which are supported by the money sent to the envoys, and the first-level finance of the Jiedu Envoy) is 11,000, and the amount of the Tutuan (the state soldiers unite their children, raised by the money of the state, and the state-level finance) is 5,000, and the Guanjian needs to have rations, clothing, and miscellaneous rewards, and the Tutuan needs to have grain and pickles for the collection, plus the food and materials of the Fuzhou officials, so that the total military funds are 320,000 per year."
Then the so-called "military money" is mainly used for six purposes:
the officials' fortunes;
clothing, rations, sauces, and vegetables for the army;
The cost of building armor and weapons is a small expense, because the imperial court now agrees to pay it, for example, Li Shi will give 30,000 yuan to Xingyuan Mansion, which is specially used to build soldiers;
Reward money, that is, "reward" and "banquet", under the recruitment system, whether it is recruiting soldiers or letting soldiers maintain loyalty, they are inseparable from money and wine and meat, which is a huge expenditure, and it is impossible to measure the quota, if the military money is not enough, you have to find another way to obtain, such as levying two taxes on the people;
Money for military horses, money for buying war horses and raising war horses, needless to say;
This part of the money must also be drawn from the military money.
Hearing Wei Zhiyi's calculation, Gao Yue nodded, and motioned for him to continue.
Wei Zhiyi said that in addition to the military money, there is also the "miscellaneous money" of Xingyuan Mansion, and the annual amount is 80,000 yuan.
This so-called "miscellaneous money", to put it bluntly, is Gao Yue's "private treasury money" of the Fu Yin Heyang and Li Erzhou Assassins, similar to the emperor's Qionglin and Daying Treasury, of which Gao Yue has 50,000 guan on his head, and the thorn history of the other two states also has more than 10,000 guan.
Hearing this number, Gao Yue couldn't help but be stunned, he had just arrived at the Shaoyin of Xingyuan Mansion, and he was busy taking the army out to fight, but he didn't expect that the miscellaneous money from the Duzhen side would be terrifying!
Gao Yue couldn't help but quickly calculate a small account in his heart - now he is the Shaoyin of Xingyuan Mansion, and the internal and external official material system of my Tang Dynasty stipulates that the monthly salary for Jingzhao and the Great Yin of various prefectures is 80 yuan, and the monthly salary for Shaoyin and Chang'an and Wannian Erchi County is 40 yuan; He also served as the assassin of Liangzhou, and his monthly salary was seventy yuan; He is also a regimental training envoy of the three states, and he has to pay 120 yuan per month; As the history of Liangzhou Thorn, there is also a "military sword money" of 70 guan per month, in addition to miscellaneous money of 30 guan - that is, he can get 330 guan money per month just from the branch of the imperial court, which is about 4,000 guan money a year, not including the so-called 100 households and the local income of the Shaoyin of Xingyuan Mansion and Liangzhou Thorn History.
Now that there is 50,000 yuan of "miscellaneous money" every year, I will go, no wonder that Ma Ling can spend 200,000 yuan in Beijing to repair the middle hall.
Finally, finally, when I was a Zhengzi in Jixian Academy, I paid six times a month, and I had to rely on the money of Ah Ni fat powder to subsidize the family, and I never returned.
Of course, this private money is not handed over to Gao Yue directly to his own cabinet, to put it seriously, it is regarded as the "private office funds" of Gao Yue's local officials, and there are many uses for it, such as "salt cheese paste salary", such as "lady fat powder money" (it is Gao Yue's turn to give his wives and concubines this expense), such as "private banquet guest money" (for example, if you hire a shogunate official to give gift money and luggage money, this money is included), and for example, the "personnel bribe money" used to pay all parties (note, this article is crossed) and so on. Of course, if there is a flood or drought disaster in the state or county under your control, or if the people are unable to pay taxes and need money urgently, you should also use this private money to advance, which is closer to a reserve fund for each province and state in addition to public expense, but the control is in the hands of the envoys or assassins, whether it is used in the right way, it really depends on the personal conscience.
In the end, it was the money supplied to the Jingshi Imperial Court, a total of 150,000 yuan.
As for Hudou rice, according to the proportion, if there are 200,000 stones, the central and local governments are divided into one to seven, that is, it is enough to transport 25,000 stone of grain to Jingshi, plus the foot price and loss, it is enough to pay 50,000 stones, and the remaining 150,000 stones are kept in the Chiya warehouse.
The proportion is less than 30% of the total tax money of the two taxes of Xingyuan Prefecture.
"Well, in addition to the two taxes now, what additional income does my Xingyuan Mansion have?" Gao Yue turned the topic to Liu Demuro again.
Because under the two tax laws, the proportion of central and local tax distribution is relatively fixed, as long as you can pay the annual supply of 150,000 guan and 50,000 stone rice in place, and guarantee the amount of sending envoys and staying in the state, then the other financial "surplus" is owned by the local government, and the elasticity of the lower is relatively strong, so most of the festival envoys and thorn history are still willing to invest energy to fight the economy - this is also the reason why the central authority declined and the finance shrank in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, but the local prosperity was active, and many of the towns that were also very famous in later generations. Many arose during this era.
Liu Deshu spread out the copywriting he carried with him, and summarized to Gao Yue that I made a preliminary statistic of the "surplus" of Quanxing Yuan Mansion except for the two taxes, which are about the following items:
40,000 yuan from discounting, adding, and servitude;
The rent of Quanxing Yuanfu and the commercial tax money in addition to Mo, in addition to the fixed amount of the supply, can also get 90,000 yuan.
Guantian, Gongyantian, and Juntuntian together can obtain about 157,000 stone of grain, and now the average price of each bucket of grain is about 70 or 80 yuan, so if converted into money, it is about 120,000 yuan;
The principal interest of each department and official can be obtained more than 5,000 yuan.
In short, the envy mentioned by Liu De's room is mainly four, one is the local tax plus or minus, the second is the local commercial tax, the third is the local land income, and the fourth is the interest income from local loans.
After listening, Gao Yue frowned slightly, and said in public: "Discount and substitution retention, and the cost of additional consumption and official party will be abolished!" In addition, the military camp field of my Xingyuan Mansion is now Guangshan Heyan and Chiya Pass, and it should be able to obtain 150,000 stones of grain and grain every year, why is it that the income from the official field, the public field and the vocational field is so small, adding up to only 7,000 stones? ”
Liu Demu hurriedly replied that because the official fields, public fields, and vocational fields were all harvested by tenant farmers, and the tenant farmers had no enthusiasm for labor at all, and the situation of land shortages occurred from time to time, so the harvest was very poor.
"That's simply, except for the fields that should be set up as tea gardens, weaving workshops, mule workshops and herbal gardens, all other official fields, public fields and vocational fields were first made by Brother Fang Zhai to make a book, and then they were all given to the people of Xingyuan Mansion as Yongye Fields!"
As soon as Gao Shaoyin said this, a group of people under the canteen corridor of Huguo Temple were immediately in an uproar.