In fact, the imperial court is still rich, after all, the total revenue of the previous year was more than 200,000 yuan, which is only the funds obtained through taxes.

The overall income of the imperial court was divided into three parts, one was taxation, the second was commercial taxation, and the third was coinage.

If the first two are counted, the total income of the imperial court last year was about 700,000 guan, excluding the ones kept by various localities, and the ones that were actually handed over to the imperial court were about 300,000 guan.

However, next year's budget is 396,778.

Where does the extra money come from? The answer, of course, is coinage.

Over the years, through internal excavation and the introduction of money from Japan, the imperial court has produced millions of coins.

But there is no way to release this money immediately, after all, there is an inflation problem to be taken into account.

All the ministers shared the same view on this point, that the money should be released year by year and used appropriately in accordance with economic growth.

There are two reasons for inflation, one is the lack of production capacity, the supply is less than the demand, and businesses at all levels are waiting for the price to sell, so as to make a lot of money.

Another reason is that the supply exceeds the demand, that is, the court has too much money in its hands, and it is invested in it at one time, which causes the value of the currency to depreciate and the price to rise.

No one wants to encounter this kind of problem when Datang is just starting out, so they can only endure it, even if they have money, they can only release it step by step, and release it in a planned way.

If the economy comes to a standstill, then the next year's money release plan will have to be cancelled.

Otherwise, the losses caused by an economic expansion will be far from being borne by the imperial court.

Of course, at this stage, it is still far from inflation, and the hard requirement of inflation is credit money, not real money now.

Although Li Yuanji's worries are somewhat groundless, after all, he is not an economic major, and it is purely normal to have these worries.

The banquet went on like this, and Li Yuanji toasted the soldiers who died in battle in a place that could only be seen in the front row, and also toasted the soldiers who were victorious and triumphant.

And this move was once again supported by all the soldiers.

Li Yuanji, like those ordinary soldiers, took the civil and military officials, and sat down at the very front, that is, near the city gate, and ate a banquet with those soldiers in this wind and cold.

The only difference is that there are not many people at Li Yuanji's table, only Su Dingfang, Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie, and Li Yuanji.

After half a full meal, three rounds of wine, looking at those slightly sad soldiers, Li Yuanji sighed helplessly, he was happy to see that Mao was happy to come back from a victory, but he became like this when he came here?

Moreover, there is a more serious problem, among the more than 70,000 people who have returned, more than 60,000 have exceeded their service period, and it has become a big problem for them to stay or not.

The disadvantage of the rank system is that after the four-year service period, there are only two options, one is to enter the sergeant rank, and the other is to retire and go home.

According to the core of the military rank system, the backbone is left, and soldiers who do not have particularly outstanding performance in the army retire and go home.

In peacetime, this system can ensure the circulation of blood in the army, so that after a long time, an army will forget how to fight, and it can also prevent them from getting carried away because of their past achievements.

But the disadvantage is that once the war starts, most of them have military merits, although they may not be particularly good in this army, but compared with those troops who did not go to the battlefield, their advantage is too great.

On the other hand, overtime service is only calculated according to the fifth year of military age, and the military rank is still the original, so there is also a problem, there are tens of thousands of more corporals at once, and they can't be let be ordinary soldiers, right?

"How many soldiers want to stay?" For this problem, Li Yuanji also had a headache, so he could only look at Su Dingfang.

As early as when he ordered his class to return to the court, he had already informed Su Dingfang to make statistics on the way back to see how many people wanted to leave and how many wanted to stay.

To be honest, Li Yuanji did not want to let go of these people, because they were the only troops in the Tang Army that had combat experience in the near future.

"About half of the people who want to leave......" Su Dingfang was a little embarrassed, he didn't expect it to be this result, in fact, the people who wanted to leave had already accounted for sixty percent, but he didn't dare to say it.

Li Yuanji nodded secretly, not feeling that this number was too much.

This is normal, the government soldiers are still at home during the period of the soldiers, they are soldiers in wartime, and they are farmers in peacetime, but they need regular assembly training, and the government soldiers in the village will also gather together to train privately when the farmers are slack, plus the Tang Dynasty has a martial style, so the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers can be guaranteed.

But regardless of whether they have private training or not, these trainings are all carried out in the vicinity of their homes, and even if they are organized by the military government, they are only going to the county for half a month, and they can take care of everything in time.

The longest time away from home was during the war, which was as short as half a year, or as long as two or three years, and the other was when he accepted the task of garrisoning the border.

Generally speaking, after a government soldier becomes a government soldier, if he is lucky, he only needs to go to the border once in this life, and if he is unlucky, he needs to go to the border twice, but three times this situation is absolutely impossible.

For three years and three years, a unit held for seven years at Yumen Pass, which was still relatively common in the early Tang Dynasty.

Because at that time, there was war everywhere inside, and there was no way to spare troops to rotate, and this situation was not changed until the middle and late stages of Zhenguan.

Of course, that is only history, as early as after the military reform, Li Yuanji had already rotated the troops on the border.

The professionalization of the army means that once you join the army, you need to be unable to go home for four years, even if there is a vacation, but in fact, most of the holidays are for non-commissioned officers and above, and ordinary soldiers have no chance to enjoy the holidays at all, unless there are major family changes before they can be allowed to take vacations.

They have survived four years, although the treatment is very good, and the treatment will be even better, but they don't know if they will be so lucky to survive in the next three years.

It's not that they're afraid of death, it's because they haven't seen their families for too long, they want to go back, and some people are even worried that if they don't go back this time, will they be cut off?

This is a question that most people are worried about, and it is also a more embarrassing question.

Tang Jun's age of joining the army is eighteen, that is, after becoming a Ding man, this age is just the age of getting married, although some people will be earlier, but due to family economic factors, many people are delayed again and again.

In other words, the soldiers in the army who are about twenty-two or three years old are actually the best soldiers at this age, but most of these people are singles.

In later generations, this age is still young, but in this era, they already belong to old men.

In the matter of succession, even if Li Yuanji is the emperor, he can't interfere with others.

"Those who want to go will be issued travel expenses, and the post stations along the way will be notified that those who have a certificate of retirement must be received unconditionally, and food rations must be prepared for them and a place to rest. In addition, each of them was given another two months' military salary as a resettlement fee for retirement, and this money was temporarily paid from the inner government. Li Yuanji thought about it, although he also wanted to give more, but he was limited by not having too much money available.

Those spare funds are okay, but if they give too much, they will ruin their plans, so they can only do this for the time being, and then compensate them when they have money later.

And making amends afterwards is actually a good way to buy people's hearts, at least it proves that the court has not forgotten them, the veterans who once spilled their blood on the battlefield.

And after these veterans return home, they also play a vital role in the stability of the entire Tang Dynasty, and it can even be said that if they are pacified, they can basically put an end to the rebellion that may occur in a certain area, because it is impossible for these people to allow them to destroy this long-lost tranquility, as well as destroy the emperor's country that they will never forget.

"As for those who want to stay, they will also be given travel expenses and given them two months off to return to their hometowns to visit relatives, but before leaving, they must first complete the work of conferring titles.

Other......

Whether it is left or stayed, the roster must be kept, and I do not hope that one day in the future, future generations will not find traces of their struggle for this nation. Li Yuanji looked into the distance and couldn't help but say.

The expeditionary force was divided into three parts, one part of which was under the charge of Li Jing's lieutenant general Gao Yang, who continued to guard Tubo (Gaoshan Prefecture), and the issue of the military rank of these people had not yet been resolved, but they had been allowed to return to their hometowns to visit relatives in turn.

The other part is in charge of Zhang Liang, who continues to guard Tuyuhun and Yumen Pass for a generation.

And the last part is the more than 70,000 people brought back by Su Dingfang.

To be honest, Datang can't afford the fact that a large number of soldiers are retiring now, so in any case, most of them must be left, but some must also be let go.

It's not because they're not good enough, it's that the court has to fulfill its promises.

This year is a relatively large retirement period, and nearly 500,000 of the more than 700,000 troops in the entire Datang have reached the deadline, and if 500,000 people are replaced at once, the combat effectiveness will inevitably be unguaranteed, so we cannot do this, and we can only retire gradually in batches.

These people who came back were lucky, because they didn't have to stay too long, but they were also unlucky, because after they left, they would inevitably be inferior to those who stayed behind in terms of treatment.

And those who remained, not only did their salaries rise, but they also got a promise that they would be able to report a year in advance if they wanted to retire, and then they would arrange for them to leave, and when they retired, they would receive a one-time military salary subsidy for one year.