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After the capture of Manila, Zhu Youxiao divided the original Fujian Naval Division into three, and on this basis, the new Fujian Naval Division, Nanyang Naval Division, and Lengzhou Naval Division were formed respectively. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also prepared to set up a Guangdong Water Division.

In order to build the Daming Navy Division into the most powerful naval division in the world, Zhu Youxiao officially renamed the naval division and built two imperial naval officer academies in Fujian and Tianjin to train naval talents.

Zhu Youxiao is also preparing to start construction of a total of several hundred first-, second-, and third-class warships, while fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-class warships will be purchased from the civilian sector. The cost of raising four naval divisions at the same time is an astronomical amount, and it will cost 2.5 million to 3 million taels of silver to build a first-class battleship, and millions of taels of silver to build a second-class battleship. Coupled with personnel and military expenditures, Zhu Youxiao believed that after the formation of the four naval divisions was completed, his internal funds would also be exhausted.

Tens of millions of silver dollars were smashed into it, and two major shipbuilding bases were gradually formed at the Yangtze River port and the Pearl River port. Under Zhu Youxiao's instructions, the Imperial Bank gave policy support to shipbuilding workshops, and the interest rate on loans was as low as one or eight cents, and hundreds of shipbuilding workshops, large and small, sprung up in these two places. With a huge influx of funds and policy support, the imperial shipbuilding industry finally reached its peak again after several years of development.

However, raising funds has become something that Zhu Youxiao is about to face. Xiaoice Although the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry has solved the employment problem of more than 100,000 people in the empire, there are still many people in the empire who depend on the sky for food, and once a natural disaster occurs, the consequences can be imagined.

The imperial bank's deposit and loan system has just been implemented, and there are quite a few loans, but there are not many people who have deposited money, and it will take a long time for Zhu Youxiao to gather the idle funds in the hands of ordinary people.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao thought of the lottery as a way to collect idle funds from the people. The money raised by issuing lottery tickets alone is enough for disaster relief.

The origins of the lottery can be traced back to ancient gambling in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. In 1530, Florence, Italy, created the world's first public lottery agency. There is also a view that as early as more than 2,000 years ago, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Zhou countries launched a power struggle. It is said that a reformer named Zhang Liang invented a Kaino lottery to raise military salaries.

Zhu Youxiao thought of the lottery and immediately convened the cabinet to discuss the issue of lottery tickets.

"My decision to form the four naval divisions of Fujian, Guangdong, Nanyang, and Lengzhou at the same time is already known to all Aiqing, and after the formation of the four naval divisions, there is not much internal money left, and the military expenditure of the empire cannot be maintained only by internal funds, and I will gradually transfer military expenditures to the treasury. From next year, the imperial court budget will include military expenditures. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, since the implementation of the New Deal, the treasury revenue has indeed increased every year, but the expenditure of the empire is huge, and natural disasters have continued in recent years, and the new policies such as compulsory education and the construction of galloping roads have been very expensive, and the treasury has no surplus at all." Guo Yunhou replied.

"The defense budget, that is, military spending, is a matter of the empire, and no matter what, we have to find a way to raise this money." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, this matter needs to be cautious." Han Yi said.

"I now have two ways to solve the problem of military pay, and you can choose one of them." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, please." Han Yi and others said.

"First, the implementation of the tax law reform in the new deal, raising commercial taxes, and levying levies; Second, establish a lottery bureau, issue lottery tickets, and collect idle funds from the people. Zhu Youxiao said.

"What is a lottery?" Guo Yunhou asked.

"Lotteries are simply raised by lottery." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said.

"I think it's the best choice to issue lottery tickets to make money." Lai Zongdao said.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Han Yi continued.

"Then according to what you Aiqing said,Establish a lottery bureau,Lottery bureau into the unified management of the household department,First in the south and north of the establishment of lottery sales points for trial,Lottery using the method of public lottery,Lottery public lottery location is located outside Zhengyang Gate,Every Thursday and every eight for the lottery draw date,Each note of the lottery ticket is five copper dollars,The award is divided into two classes,They are the first prize and the second prize...... "Zhu Youxiao introduced it in great detail from beginning to end.

Lottery tickets have just begun to go on sale,Zhu Youxiao did not dare to use a very complex lottery sales model,He is afraid that it is too complicated for the people to suddenly be difficult to accept,Instead, the choice of the 3D direct selection lottery model of the later generations,But the bonus does not use a fixed prize,It is still 50% of the sales of each period as a bonus.

When the cabinet members heard Zhu Youxiao's introduction, they were a little dumbfounded, and they didn't even fully understand it. Zhu Youxiao doesn't need them to fully understand, he just needs the people and people in the lottery bureau to understand.

Guo Yunhou asked weakly, "Your Majesty, did you make this out?" ”

"Of course, I thought about it day and night, and it took a lot of hair to fall out." Zhu Youxiao is serious nonsense. In fact, Zhu Youxiao, as a senior lottery player, is just a matter of ease for him.

"Your Majesty, do you expect the lottery to solve the problem of military spending?" Guo Yunhou asked.

"It's definitely not enough, at the beginning, I estimated that the income would be about hundreds of thousands of taels of silver dollars a year." Zhu Youxiao said with the calculation in his heart.

In the 60s of the 19th century, the Spaniards issued lottery tickets in Shanghai, initially obtained 400,000 taels of silver per year, and after twenty or thirty years, they could obtain 1 million taels of silver per year, and in more than 30 years, they gathered about 20 million taels of silver in China. In the 21st century, China's lottery sales are as high as hundreds of billions, converted into silver, up to hundreds of millions of taels a year. Of course, the current conditions and GDP are incomparable with those of future generations, and it is impossible to achieve the sales of future generations.

But according to Zhu Youxiao's plan, the lottery in the future will also be issued to the entire empire, and his goal is to obtain millions of taels of silver dollars every year through lottery sales, which can greatly relieve the pressure on the treasury.

"If there can be an annual income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it will indeed relieve the pressure on the treasury, but it will not be enough to solve the problem of military expenditure, if the expenditure of His Majesty's new army is calculated, it will take about six hundred to ten million taels of silver per year to completely solve the military expenditure." Guo Yunhou said.

"What Guo Aiqing said is extremely true, to increase the revenue of the national treasury, tax law reform is the king." Zhu Youxiao said.

(End of chapter)