Kangxi looked at Zhou Peigong, Zhou Peigong looked at Kangxi, and the ministers and princes looked at Kangxi and Zhou Peigong, and then looked at each other.

It's a headache, and there's no money.

The gold, silver and jewelry that Yanjing can bring out are all classified by Kangxi as his own property, antique calligraphy and painting are actually worthless in this troubled era, but they also bring out a lot, but who wants these now?

Just like all the princes and nobles regard their money bags as their own, and the public's money bags as their own, Kangxi is the same, no one is a fool, it seems that the whole world and the whole Qing Dynasty are Kangxi's, but Kangxi wants to raise a large group of people, and the palace can pay for this group of people, and the palace is public, there is a difference.

The treasury was empty, and the rats shed tears when they passed by, but in fact, despite the loss of the Guannei, the various nobles and officials outside the Guan, except for Hanchen, actually had a lot of family property.

But these will definitely not be given to Kangxi, and Kangxi will not take out his own money to give to the Qing treasury, because entering the treasury is everyone's money, not his money.

"I will allocate 300,000 taels to the Imperial Forest Army, and another 100,000 taels will be allocated to the Ministry of War to reorganize the soldiers and horses in various places, and the princes of each family shall not be less than 300,000 taels for the preparation and reorganization of the Praetorian Guard, and the excess will be handed over to the Ministry of War, and the other soldiers and horses will be reorganized for the salary of the servant army.

In addition, donations were collected from businessmen and officials from all over the country, and the higher the official rank, the more they appeared, and each person with a super grade should not be less than 100,000 taels, a grade of no less than 80,000 taels, a second grade of no less than 60,000 taels, and so on.

The donations made by the officials were used for household expenses, and the merchants below did not contribute to the expenses of the household, according to their wealth, and the minimum was not less than three thousand taels, and no three thousand taels were offset against their shops and possessions.

The common people shall be subject to an additional war tax, and each household shall not be less than ten wen. The proceeds are used for local expenditures, and 20% is handed over to the state treasury.

In addition, envoys were sent to Goguryeo and Japan, demanding that they donate money, and at the same time collect local taxes and war taxes, and 30% of the proceeds were used for their own expansion of troops and horses, local garrisons, and expenses, and the remaining 70% were transported to Shengjing for Qing expenses and entered the treasury. ”

Kangxi's decision made the Great Qing Kingdom that was still in chaos even more chaotic, and the Han subjects of the Great Qing Kingdom, which had not yet been settled, were even more dire at the moment, and countless cool officials and tax collectors swept by like locusts, looting all valuable things, burning down the grain and houses, making 18 million loyal Han people flee their homes one after another, scattered in the mountains and forests between the white mountains and black waters, and escaped from the control of the Great Qing Kingdom.

Three million people became horse bandits, bandits, all kinds of beards, dreadlocks, and endangered the locality, plus the local green battalion soldiers, Han army banners, and the harassment of the old soldiers of the Eight Banners, the remaining 15 million people were killed from time to time, endured hunger, bought and sold children, and fell into a miserable situation.

Under the maintenance of Goguryeo officials, although the tax burden is very heavy, the people of Goguryeo can still live, but the people of the Great Qing Kingdom are becoming more and more difficult, some people return to Guannai, secretly take refuge in the Huaxia Kingdom, and become a member of the prisoner camp, they would rather stay in the prisoner camp and wait for pardon, rather than be killed and tortured to death in the Great Qing Dynasty.

As a result, the population of the Qing Dynasty was further reduced, and when some officials of the Qing Dynasty woke up, the Han people of the Qing Dynasty were less than 7 million, and compared with the Han people, the Mongolians, the Japanese, the Goguryeo, and the people of the Eight Banners, they still lived a little easier, and they were not treated so harshly.

However, they were not easy, because they had to face as many as three million Han bandits, beards, and bandits who were killed and exploited, and the Qing patrol battalion colluded with these bandits from time to time to oppress and bloodbath them, which made them also panic.

As a result, the finance of the Qing Dynasty could no longer collect much tax except for the first tax of up to 100 million taels of silver received before, and the completion of Kangxi's reorganization and expansion of various troops, and the establishment of local patrol battalions.

Kangxi didn't know what these bureaucrats were doing, or he didn't interfere because he wanted space and territory from the Russians.

The 300,000 ethnic Russians living in the Far East were rich in meat in his eyes, and after the reorganization of the soldiers and horses was completed, he sent 10,000 Mongolian cavalry to trouble the Russians, kill them, and drive them back to their towns, and then sent 30,000 Japanese servants, 10,000 Goguryeo servants, and 5,000 Qing cavalry to uproot the Russians' strongholds one stronghold after another, kill the Russians wherever they were, or reorganize them into their own servant army units.

At this time, Russia's power in the Far East is not very strong, because the Far East is cold and freezing, life is difficult, so there are not many Russians, and in terms of weapons and operations, Russia's current strength and quality, can no longer be compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Chinese Army fought nearly 20 years of war in the firearms age, the firearms in their hands have long surpassed the small cannons in the hands of the Russians, arquebuses, at most the initial flintlock pistols, the Qing Dynasty is now holding the Huaxia Army where the singles and a rear-loading rifle are.

The Qing people, who had learned from the war, had comprehensively surpassed the soldiers and horses of the Russian Far East, who had previously oppressed them.

Although the Far East is barren and cold, there are many tall trees in the mountains, which is now a good wood for shipbuilding, building houses, and making furniture, and the Qing Dynasty that occupies this place quickly cut down a large number of them, and then transported them back to Shengjing, rebuilt his palace, and enjoyed it, Kangxi could not bear the simplicity of the Shengjing Forbidden City, and some Qing merchants secretly sold these woods to the Chinese merchants in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Chinese merchants sold these woods to the Chinese military sailors for the construction of larger warships.

And this kind of wood is in short supply, from Australia, Nanyang, and even the Spaniards and the British need it, so this has become one of the sources of wealth in the Qing Dynasty.

Along with the trade of these woods, Liaodong's ginseng, deer antlers, lingzhi, tiger skins, tiger bones, and other medicinal materials continued to flow into the Huaxia Kingdom, and the Qing Dynasty actually raised a lot of funds in this way.

Compared with the huge land in the past, tens of millions of people had to be raised, the Qing Dynasty now only has a population of 24 million, a small piece of land, and this kind of income actually makes the Qing Dynasty rich.

As a transit point for trade in the Qing Dynasty, the trade of the Ryukyu Kingdom began to flourish again, and the Qing Dynasty supplied these materials, and the Nanyang Kingdom of the Spaniards and Zheng Zhi, the Xinlu Kingdom of the Second Prince, the British, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and even the French all came.

Hong Tianpao snickered at the white silver and the red Huaxia Yuan, his kingdom's tax revenue has increased dozens of times this year, from the loss before the previous rebellion, the debt of 20 or 30 million Huaxia Yuan, to the current profit of 60 million Huaxia Yuan, which makes him wake up with a smile in his dreams.

His current population is only in the middle of more than three million to four million, and with so much income, he feels that he should spend some money to replace his sailor equipment.

It's too shabby, the best warship is actually the new warship of the Huaxia Army ten years ago, the worst warship, the six-hundred-ton warship, was actually converted by a Dafu ship of the Huaxia Army 25 years ago, and then the Huaxia Army retired for 20 years and lost it to the coast guard for patrolling, and later resold it to merchants for offshore trade.

(End of chapter)