There was laughter and laughter in the swagger building this night.

After a few glasses of wine, several people seemed to open the conversation, Han Liang not only agreed to mention a few words to Zhang Lingyang after returning to the palace for the leader of the council, but also accepted the daughter of Yin of Incheon Mansion as his concubine.

In Han Liang's opinion, after returning to China anyway, who in Goryeo Kingdom would know if he had mentioned it to Zhang Lingyang?

Besides, growing up so big, it was the first time Han Liang had come into contact with an exotic woman, so he naturally had a different style.

Lingyizheng and Yin Tou of Incheon Prefecture not only promised Han Liang to provide all the supplies needed by the First Fleet of the Great Zhou Royal Navy for free, but also presented Han Liang with two excellent Dongzhu and a few Korean ginseng.

Women cannot be placed on a warship, even if Han Liang is the commander of the fleet, he cannot violate the regulations.

Reluctantly, Han Liang sent Xinna's concubine Kehui onto a merchant ship bound for Da Zhou, and told the merchant to send Kehui to his own mansion in the capital, so that he could be relieved.

After the replenishment was completed, the First Fleet set sail again, bypassing the Goryeo Peninsula and heading directly to Fuso, across the sea to the east......

At this time, the Spring Festival is approaching, and snowflakes with goose feathers are floating in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The snow fell heavily for two days and two nights before it stopped.

At this time, the inside and outside of the capital are covered in silver, a white expanse, and the scenery is very good-looking.

After seeing this different kind of beauty, Zhang Lingyang couldn't help but want to chant a few lines of poems such as "Northern scenery, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting......" to show his male and female strategy.

But when I thought of it, it seemed a bit secondary, and it wasn't something that an adult should dare to do, so I didn't mention it.

However, it can also be seen from this that Zhang Lingyang's life is very good these days.

Zhang Lingyang is going to be a father again.

Except for Concubine Li, who was diagnosed as pregnant during the southern tour, she has reached the day of childbirth, and several concubines in the palace have become pregnant one after another this year.

There are many more children all of a sudden, how can Zhang Lingyang be unhappy?

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Lingyang not only promoted all the pregnant concubines to their positions, but also rewarded the good things in the inner money as if they didn't need money.

Today's Zhang Lingyang can be said to be wealthy, not only the treasury is abundant, but even his own internal funds have exceeded 10 million taels of silver this year.

Zhang Lingyang spent his own money to reward his concubines, and the minister naturally couldn't say anything.

But Zhang Lingyang did another thing that caused controversy among the ministers.

Seeing that the treasury was gradually abundant, Zhang Lingyang was happy, and announced at the court meeting at the end of the year: all the ministers' salaries would be increased by half.

This would have been a good thing for the ministers.

Although it is a dispensable thing for the ministers, who would think that they have a lot of money?

However, after Zhang Lingyang announced a salary increase for the ministers, he proposed to raise the salaries of the soldiers across the country by half, which aroused the opposition of the ministers.

Li Guangtai, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, objected on the spot: "Your Majesty, I have a total of more than 2 million soldiers on Monday, and each person's monthly salary is one tael of silver, and it will cost more than 24 million taels of silver a year, which accounts for half of the treasury revenue.

If Your Majesty wants to raise wages now, then more than 90% of the income of the national treasury will be distributed to the soldiers, then next year's salaries of the soldiers will occupy more than 70% of the income of the national treasury. ”

Although Li Guangtai said this, Zhang Lingyang was very unimpressed.

The number of soldiers on the face of the Great Zhou Dynasty is indeed more than two million.

But don't forget, more than sixty percent of these soldiers are auxiliaries, and they only need to be paid six taels of silver a year.

Besides, the salaries paid by the imperial court to the soldiers of the guards were not only silver, but also food. Of these, grain accounts for more than half.

In other words, in fact, the silver distributed by the imperial court to the soldiers every year was less than six million taels at all.

Otherwise, with a huge figure of more than 20 million taels of silver, no matter how rich the imperial court is, I am afraid that it will not be able to support it.

A few years ago, when the revenue of the state treasury was five or six million taels of silver, the imperial court distributed grain to the soldiers of the guards in various places, otherwise, it would be impossible to support the normal operation of a country with an income of five or six million taels of silver.

Although after the tax reform, the national treasury was abundant, and the amount of silver money distributed by the imperial court to the soldiers of the guards in various places began to gradually exceed the grain, the recital sent by the military department a few days ago showed that the amount of silver distributed to the soldiers this year was actually only 13 million taels.

As for the remaining nine million taels of silver, all of them were converted into food and distributed to the families of the soldiers.

Therefore, the annual salary of the guards in various places is not more than one-third of the court's tax at all, which is not much at all.

Don't think that military salaries account for one-third of the court's income, which is considered a lot.

In ancient times, military salaries were the bulk of the court's expenditures, and more than half of the taxes of many dynasties became military salaries.

This was a normal phenomenon in ancient times.

It is a matter of course to be paid as a soldier, otherwise, why would you want others to work for you?

Besides, the eighteen provinces of Great Monday have a population of more than 40,000, if these two million soldiers are not maintained, will the world be so stable?

I'm afraid that when the Jiangnan flood was like this year, when I encountered officials who were misbehaving in the south of the Yangtze River, the people below would have rebelled a long time ago.

In the final analysis, there are still local health centers to deter them, so the affected people do not dare to rebel.

In this way, it is not an exaggeration to say that the soldiers of the guards in various places are the foundation for the normal operation of the Great Zhou.

Besides, in the past two years, the stability of the surrounding frontier is mostly the result of the hard work of the soldiers, so what is the point of increasing their salaries? It's not that the court can't take out so much silver?

Zhang Lingyang understands this truth, and the ministers naturally understand this truth, but the ministers just don't want to give this money.

Li Guangtai advised, and Zhu Kaishan, the secretary of the household department, also came out to advise, anyway, what he said was something like "the court is finally rich, and you must be diligent and thrifty".

"Well, since you say so, don't increase your salary!" Zhang Lingyang was a little angry and said directly.

"Your Ministers obey!" Li Guangtai, Zhu Kaishan and other ministers directly knelt down and kowtowed to thank him.

This salary is simply dispensable for the ministers, and it is nothing if they don't add it, anyway, they don't want to see the military expand.

This time, Zhang Lingyang, the son of heaven, was choked half to death.

"Do you think that if you unite against me to raise the salaries of the soldiers, I will have no way to increase the salaries of the soldiers?" With a turn of his mind, Zhang Lingyang smiled in his heart, and he had a good idea......

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