On the Jiuzhou Pond, Luo Cheng and Wei Zheng were boating in the pool.

A pot of tea, the tea aroma is attractive.

The emperor held the teacup and looked at the tea leaves stretched in the tea, "This small piece of tea can now bring eight million yuan of tax revenue to my Great Qin Imperial Court every year, which is really amazing." And this porcelain is also a sought-after commodity in the trade. My province has established many tea estates and porcelain kilns in various parts of the world, and has made tens of millions of profits by growing tea and making porcelain for sale. ”

Wei Zheng also looked down at the tea and teacup in his hand, "Tea is grown in the south, mostly in the mountains, and it does not occupy people's land and cultivated land, which can increase income for the people, increase taxes for the imperial court, and increase the income of the inner treasury for His Majesty, which is indeed a good thing." Especially those nomadic herders, now they are more dependent on tea than the people of our Central Plains, and they will eat tasteless if they don't drink for a day, and if they don't drink for a month, they will get sick. ”

The sales of tea are getting higher and higher, and it has become a very sought-after commodity in foreign trade, and the supply exceeds the demand. Nowadays, there are more and more tea plants, a variety of tea varieties have been developed, and there are more and more ways to process them, such as black tea, green tea, white tea, yellow tea, black tea, and so on. Expensive tea, such as Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao, West Lake Longjing, Anxi Tieguanyin, Dongting Lake Biluochun, Lushan Yunwu, Junshan Yinzhen and other teas that were brought to fire by the emperor, are called expensive.

Especially among the top grades, more expensive than gold, tea has tea pieces, tea bricks, loose tea and other packaging, the most expensive several kinds of tea are not priced by two, are weighed by money, West Lake Longjing, one or two straight money forty thousand, Junshan silver needle one or two straight gold two taels, but although the price is expensive, but there is still a price without a market, ordinary people can not buy it at all.

And the lowest price is sold to the grassland of black tea bricks, these tea is made of the most inferior tea, some even directly called knife tea, that is, after the good tea is picked, the last knife directly cut off the tea leaves with stems and leaves or even branches, and then processed into tea bricks, this kind of tea bricks, the cheapest cost 16 yuan a catty.

And this sixteen yuan is only the price of the tea garden, which has not yet been taxed, and the tea tax is ten taxes and two at this time, and the tea garden has to collect three dollars and two taxes when it appears, and the tax increase becomes nineteen dollars and two. Merchants then sold it and finally transported it to the grasslands, and the price has doubled.

Such low-grade black tea, cheap sixteen, expensive sixty out of the garden.

And some teas, it is more than thirty or forty to thousands of dollars per catty, as for more high-end tea, that is, a tea is hard to find, no matter how high the price is, there are people who want it.

Nowadays, the imperial court has more and more control over tea, and the direct implementation of the monopoly system is the same, and the tea policy is like the salt policy.

The practice is that the private officials collect and sell it, and the people grow tea, and they can only sell the tea of the imperial court to buy it, and all kinds of different tea have different purchase prices.

After the tea is received from the government, the tea merchants come to buy it again, and the tea merchants have to pay taxes before buying tea, that is, they first obtain the tea introduction, and the tea quotation is the tax payment certificate.

Although the tea merchants obtained the tea quote, they only paid the tea tax, so they should pay the municipal tax and tariff in the process of trafficking.

Of course, there are also such powerful royal tea merchants as the Imperial Interior Ministry, who not only have a large number of their own tea gardens, but also a large number of highly skilled tea workers and workshops, and the tea leaves can be added a lot after processing in their hands with the royal signboard.

The salt tax has been reduced, but the tea tax and wine tax have increased significantly, and now there is even a sugar tax, a tax on cars, horses, boats, and boats.

"The financial budget formulated last year originally set aside several million for backup, but now there are still a few months before the Chinese New Year, but the imperial treasury has been seriously deficient. This Jinghu water conservancy is a bottomless pit, and millions or even tens of millions of dollars will have to be invested in it every year in the future. ”

Wei Zheng is also a little worried about the finances of the imperial court, although the imperial court's ability to open source is quite strong now, but the ability to spend money is even more powerful.

"Fortunately, this year's troops in the Western Regions and Xishan and Jinghu have not lost, and there are still some gains, otherwise, the pressure will be even greater."

Cheng Yanjin used troops in Anxi at the beginning, and wiped out Rat Nishi and Qiuzi at once, and the Rat Nishi Department was slaughtered, but most of their millions of livestock still fell into the pockets of the imperial court, including a large number of war horses, weapons, etc., and there were also many tents and other tribal property, which is not a small number.

"Taifu Temple has successively sold most of the cattle, horses, sheep, camels, etc., especially the hundreds of thousands of horses, which is a big investment."

Horses have always been precious, even in a herdsman's house, horses are precious, a herdsman family may raise hundreds of sheep, dozens of cattle, but their horses are definitely not many, and it is difficult to raise more horses.

"However, in comparison, it is still more beneficial to destroy the Qiuzi country, although tens of thousands of Qiuci people have been killed, but the remaining hundreds of thousands of Qiuci people have been reduced to slavery, which is worth more than 10 million yuan. In addition, there were many cities, fields, houses, shops, gold, silver, and livestock. ”

A powerful country in the Western Regions was directly destroyed, and it has not suffered much loss from the war.

Before, the imperial court had not included these in the treasury revenue, first, it had not been sorted out, and second, the money was still prepared for other use.

After all, the income from the war is not a regular income, and it is not something that is paid every year.

"All those Qiuzi slaves were sold, and some of them were used as rewards for the officers and soldiers in the army, so that the court did not have to pay for rewards. In addition, everything in the country of Qiuzi can be sold, fields, houses, shops, livestock, etc., can be sold, and the proceeds of these sales can be transferred to the treasury. ”

"Wei Zheng, I think the battle of Anxi is a good idea, you see this battle, it is only the local garrison of Anxi, and the imperial court does not have much additional military expenditure, and even the rewards and pensions afterwards are from the war capture, this is a business that does not lose money, and now the court has a lot of expenses, I want to do such a few more votes."

Wei Zheng hurriedly reminded the emperor, "The Battle of Anxi is just an exception, and the war is often only lost but not earned, just like last year's Northwest War, the imperial court mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, mobilized millions of militia and people, and finally spent tens of millions of dollars to wipe out the treasury." ”

"It was different at the beginning, but now that such an opponent is gone after all, I am ready to send more troops and horses to Su Dingfang, give him greater freedom of action, let him launch more offensives, and be ruthless against the Qiang people in Xishan, especially those who are arrogant and disobedient to the king, and have an autumn offensive!"

Luo Cheng tasted the sweetness of the war, Cheng bit Jin Anxi and wiped out a country and a tribe, and its income was even equivalent to the normal taxes of the imperial court for two or three years, and the expenses were almost negligible.

"Your Majesty, be cautious."

"I think that when it is time to make a move, I will make a move, now that Anxi is stable, taking advantage of the civil strife in Tibet, I don't clean up the Xishan Zhuqiang at this time, I am afraid that there will be no such a good opportunity to turn back, at this time, I can use troops to sweep Xishan, and I can also cooperate with Cunxiao and Du Fuwei in Yunnan."

The Qiang people in the West Mountains are very poor, poor mountains and bad waters, these Qiang people are not nomalist, they like to build bunkers, but Luo Cheng still thinks that they should fight or fight, and even if the Qiang are poor, but catching Qiang as slaves is still very valuable, and although the Qiang people have no belongings, their cattle, sheep, and horses are also very valuable.

As long as Su Anfang follows the previous way of playing, there is no reason for the imperial court to lose money.

Luo Cheng never had a good impression of those Xiqiang who did not accept the king's transformation, and he didn't regard them as any people at all, and he had to have a naturalized barbarian with a household registration in Great Qin to be regarded as a Qin person, and the rest were just barbarians, not people.