Liu Guojin said quietly: "You tell me the specific total, and the detailed accounts, is it all right?" ”

"The detailed accounts are all right, even if the accounts of the household department are checked, there will be no mistakes or omissions." Li Guobin said tiredly: "But I want to remind you that there is no problem with the account, it does not mean that there is no problem with the person, the officials of the household department and the military department are all ancestral work, even if the account is fine, the problem can be found out......"

"We get that." Yao Zongwen said: "Lao Li, you continue. ”

"Jingyun, three million six hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and seventeen taels." Li Guobin cleared his throat and said loudly: "Guangning, one hundred and thirty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-two taels." Ningyuan Town, one million seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-five taels. Jizhen, 240,000 taels. Miyun, twenty-one million two hundred and forty-four taels. Yongping, one hundred seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-one taels. Tianjin warehouse, ninety-nine thousand five hundred and forty-four taels, the general grain hall, six thousand six hundred and eighteen taels, Beijing transport folded color and silver, four thousand and seventy-three taels. The second major item, shipping, totaled 629,824 taels. Summons, forty-five thousand taels. The use of miscellaneous items and the redemption of the capital side of the province total expenditure of the provincial direct silver, 88,240 taels. Total: five million one hundred thirty five thousand one hundred eighty-one taels. ”

As Li Guobin spoke, Li Pinghu's throat rolled, and there seemed to be a silver light flashing in his eyes.

Liu Guojin smiled inexplicably, calmly stroked his beard from time to time, Yao Zongwen also looked a little uncontrollable, but he was much calmer than Li Pinghu, Yao Zongwen's recruitment was a foregone conclusion, he was going to Liaodong soon to do this, it is expected to raise about 20,000 people, the imperial court approved him 200,000 taels of silver, this silver has not yet been settled, it is estimated that tens of thousands of taels are deducted from the silver allocation of the towns of Miyun Yongping in Jizhen Town, Guangning, and the imperial court is particularly interested in Yao Zongwen's recruitment of Liaodong to defend Liaotu, and the silver is also very generous. Yao Zongwen planned to take out tens of thousands of dollars to distribute to the people in Liao Town, and he would settle down to 100,000 yuan, take out 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to raise thousands of people to support the scene, and then disband the people after a few months or half a year.

"Lao Li," Liu Guojin said, "Household Budget Revenue Department, talk about it." ”

"Okay." Li Guobin rubbed his eyebrows and said: "The provincial capitals, prefectures, and counties levy five million two hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-three taels of silver, miscellaneous, ninety-six hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-three taels, salt class, ninety-thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five taels, tariff, twenty-seventy-one thousand taels, and additional miscellaneous items, six hundred and forty-eight thousand and seventy-eight taels. Among them, 434,783 taels of preferential treatment for students, 150,600 taels of military salaries and patrols at public expense, 20,000 taels of silver from the household department in Nanjing, 14,485 taels of silver from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, 18,000 taels of river bridge tax from Ganzhou Prefecture, and 2,210 taels of silver from the five cities of Nanjing...... In total, eight million three hundred eighty-two thousand six hundred and ninety-four are positive. ”

"Good, good, good."

Liu Guojin said a few times in a row, and several people present were full of red faces.

Yao Zongwen said with a smile: "The country's income has increased greatly, even if there is a Liao affair with silver, it can also be supported, very good, see who still says that our Donglin Party is not good at financial management, can not govern the country, and will only talk on paper." ”

Liu Guojin said: "In the future, the salary expenditure is huge, and it may have to be increased, but that is also a matter for the future, and in the past few years, this income alone is enough." ”

This is the second year of the Apocalypse, compared with the early years of Wanli's income of about 2 million, an increase of more than 6 million a year, of which the largest increase in income is of course the increase in land income, and then the miscellaneous income increase, that is, the intensity and magnitude of commercial tax collection have increased a lot.

The taxation during the Apocalypse was indeed very strong, and the pressure from the people was also great, which led to the slowdown of collection in Chongzhen's early years, and a lot of taxes were reduced and reduced, which later became one of the crimes of the Donglin Party.

In fact, from the Apocalypse to the Chongzhen years, the collection of miscellaneous taxes and commercial taxes to supplement the state is the consensus of the government and the opposition, Wei Zhongxian is not as capable and great as the descendants say, the increase in taxation is the Donglin Party began before the four years of the Apocalypse, four years after the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian maintained a high tax but also increased the waste, the central expenditure is huge, just to repair the mausoleum and give himself the ancestral hall wasted too much money, to Chongzhen had to reduce the tax in the early days, but then the peasant uprising and the Jurchen two sides of the attack, Chongzhen had to increase the endowment many times, not only the increase in the field endowment, In fact, the miscellaneous income of commercial taxes has been almost the same in the fourth year of Chongzhen and the year of the Apocalypse, only slight differences, but the Ming Dynasty's control of the local area is out of balance, and the tariff revenue has always been limited, and a large number of benefits have fallen in the hands of the noble eunuchs and civil officials and wealthy merchants, and they have not made use of the wealth of the southeast, which is a pity.

"It's not a foregone conclusion." Liu Guojin said: "Lao Li, you have to keep it secret. ”

"It's nature." Li Guobin said solemnly: "What a big deal this is, how dare I go out and talk nonsense?" ”

"Good." Liu Guojin said with satisfaction: "If you have something to do in the future, you will come back again, and the old man will always try to help." ”

"Thank you, sir." Li Guobin put his hands together and put it down.

……

After Li Guobin went home, it was already past the second watch, and the self-striking clock in the corner of the wall was almost pointing to eleven o'clock, he washed his feet and fell asleep in a hurry, feeling extremely mentally exhausted.

This sleep did not sleep well, kept dreaming, in the early morning Li Guobin woke up, he immediately thought of yesterday's events.

Li Guobin is a native of Beijing, and his background is also very wealthy, not expensive, but rich. But since he was a child, he has seen a lot of poor people, there are many poor people in Beijing, a metropolis with a population of about 1.5 million, it was unique in the whole world at that time, of course, there are countless rich people in this city, the richest people live in the Forbidden City, and then the east and west cities live in the nobles and officials, and there are also rich people who live in the square, and then down are the commoners who live in the north or south city, and then down are the poor people at the bottom, most of them are shop men, farmers in the south of the city, working hard, helping the idle and doing chores, These people have very little savings, and often eat without a meal, but they will eventually have a family, and the old and small family will live together. The most miserable is those who often come to the capital of the displaced people, the world is very big, but most of the displaced people come from the north, encounter the invasion of the northern invasion of the military disaster, earthquake, drought, flooding, the north everywhere encounters a disaster, there will be a large number of displaced people in the capital, drag the family with the mouth, there are old and young, Li Guobin once saw a family crowded under the eaves, in winter the sky fell a light rain, the bluestone slabs under the eaves are wet, the family huddled together and shivered, but then they left, the time was good again, they went home to farm.

At that time, Li Guobin asked them about the tax, but fortunately, the national tax was not heavy, but the white list was heavily levied, the government was like a wolf, and the government was like a tiger, and there was no silver left all year round.

Li Guobin has traveled to many places, seen many people, looked at their dark faces and the appearance of hard work in the fields, and also saw men holding cotton jackets in pawnshops in winter, because the children in the family were sick, so they had to take out their only thick clothes and pawn them.

It is these people who form a huge dynasty, Li Guobin has no idea about the Ming Dynasty before, at most in the past few years, he feels that the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty is not very good, there are always disasters, and there are troubles in the east, which is really hateful, and the officials are hateful, oppressing the merchants and the people, and there are few people who work hard for the state.

These thoughts were only faintly thought about before, but now Li Guobin feels that this Daming feels very wrong, really wrong.

Li Guobin didn't think too deeply, and Wang Faxiang's arrival interrupted him.

"It's really a bad deal." After listening to Wang Faxiang's words, Li Guobin looked very nervous, and he said: "In this way, Wang Wenyan is a figure like the mastermind, and he is more worthy of attention than ordinary Donglin Party officials. Blame us too, not being well-informed enough. ”

Wang Faxiang smiled bitterly: "The officialdom of the Jingshi is too complicated, and I have put in enough effort, but such a highest-level secret is really not something that ordinary people can inquire about. ”

Li Guobin hurriedly said: "I don't mean to blame you, in fact, we are active in Beijing, if it weren't for your sources, we would have to run into a wall many more times." In the words of Master Zhang, this is a make-up class, who told us that our foundation in Beijing is too shallow. ”

Wang Faxiang said: "In the future, we still have to put more effort into the officials, and ordinary people can't find out the high-level things." ”

Li Guobin nodded deeply, his family used to take the road of honorable nobles to do business with businessmen, and he was regarded as a high-level broker, and he had too little dealings with civil officials, and now he felt that the real people in charge of affairs in the Ming Dynasty were still civil officials, especially the civil officials who formed a faction and formed a faction in power.

"I have prepared another thousand taels of gold." Wang Faxiang had a bitter face, this thousand taels was an additional expense, and it was urgent, the price of gold and silver was one to eleven, he felt that he had been pitted, and it was troublesome to report the accounts, and the people from the Accounting Bureau of the Attendant Division were not so easy to deal with.

"Since you want to send it, of course you will send it." Li Guobin said: "I will explain this to you." ”

……

Li Guobin and Wang Faxiang are still sitting in a car, Wang Wenyan also lives in Xicheng, the mansion is very conspicuous, there are more than a dozen people standing in front of the door alone, a group of people are sitting on lazy stools and gossiping and chatting, and half of the street is blocked by these people.

When parking, Li Guobin said: "I heard that this person was originally a minor official of the Criminal Department, and now he has no identity, but his family is so flamboyant, it seems that his temperament will not be very good." ”

"We are giving gifts," Wang Faxiang looked quite relaxed, and said with a smile: "Reach out and don't hit the smiling person." ”

Li Guobin was still a little worried, he and Wang Faxiang handed over the post, of course, and presented the gift list, and then the two stood in front of the door and waited. The disciples of the Wang Mansion are all looking at these two people, Li Guobin is generous, and Wang Faxiang also has a unique temperament, although he is not an official, the disciples do not dare to underestimate them.

A quarter of an hour later, the messenger came to invite him, and Wang Wenyan waited in the living room.

Both of them have been here once, this time they don't have to hold their notebooks, and when they arrived in the living room, seeing Wang Wenyan sitting still, Li Guobin chuckled in his heart, knowing that something was wrong.