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New Year's Day, for the Chinese people in 1855, naturally did not have this experience. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It was the thirteenth day of the winter month, and while the Westerners in Wuchang were celebrating the arrival of the New Year, the governor's palace was more lively than usual, and the heads of the six ministries gathered here, and they had been arguing about one issue for some time - the budget.

The word "budget" is undoubtedly new to the Chinese people, at least in Huang Huijiu, who is the head of the household department, who has been a court official for 12 years, because he is "donated" and despised, and then resigned from the government and engaged in business for many years, and then was later arrested by the Taiping army and became a thief by the Taiping army, became the money and grain officer of the Taiping army, and finally became the "God of Wealth" of the main department of the household department step by step from the money and food officer of the righteous army.

"Where the accounting starts from the budget, and the cashier is from the is, and the final account, the budget method, each government department first discloses the amount of the subject, prepares the budget table, reports to the household department, and after the household department checks, it is sent to the Accounting Institute for inspection, and the cabinet decides, and if the department wants to increase the fee outside the budget, it will be declared to the household department and forwarded to the military office......"

It was precisely because of Huang Huijiu's report that Zhu Yifeng thought of the importance of the budget system, realized the "arbitrariness" of the current governor's office expenditure, at least primitive, and then transferred the report to various ministries, asking the household ministry to assist the ministries in formulating the budget.

In that fierce dispute, Zhu Yifeng's brows furrowed slightly, pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray, and then looked at everyone and said.

"Alright, let's stop for a moment!"

When the words fell, Zhu Yifeng turned his attention to Huang Huijiu again, for this money and grain official who has been following him from Huangzhou, he can be regarded as a "Conglong Laochen", so he naturally trusts him very much.

"Lin Chuan, tell me about the financial situation of the first year of the Han Dynasty!"

The "first year of the Han Dynasty" in Zhu Yifeng's mouth is actually a compromise after Zhang Liangji's speech on that day, although the temporary Governor's Office will not break with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but in the year name, the Governor's Office will implement the "Han Yuan", starting from the first month, that is, the first year of the Han Dynasty. This is actually a rupture.

"Back to the lord, the fiscal and tax revenues of the provinces are formulated according to last year, the annual income of the three provinces is 10,000 silver yuan, the annual income of the first year of the Han dynasty in Hubei is 10,000 yuan, the annual income of Hunan is 5.1215 million yuan, and the annual income of Guangdong is 10,000 yuan ......."

In order to master the finance and taxation of the three provinces, the three provinces have been using the old system, in addition to retaining officials, the same is true of taxation, although the traditional tax method is relatively inefficient, but it ensures the income of the governor's office, although after learning the finance and taxation of the West, Huang Huijiu has always wanted to suggest a fiscal and taxation system like the West, so as to increase the income, but it is limited by various reasons, especially the reason of talent, and has not been able to make the trip, but despite this, he still made some improvements.

For example, the current Metropolitan Procuratorate was restructured at his suggestion, because the duties of the supervisory officials were in charge of the Department of Punishment and Prosecution, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate was originally responsible for the supervision of 100 officials, but now the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for auditing work, and in accordance with the law, the major projects and financial revenues and expenditures of government departments at all levels, financial institutions, and enterprises are examined and supervised before and after the fact.

In the past, the Household Department was in charge of Toda and its special affairs, and now there are many changes in national taxes, customs duties, national bonds, and banks. However, even if it changes, taxes are still the most important basic income for the Governor.

"10,000 yuan...... Well, that shouldn't include the salt tax! ”

After calculating the tax income on paper with a pencil, Zhu Yifeng asked rhetorically.

"Back to the lord, according to the system of the Governor's Office, the salt business implements a monopoly, and there is absolutely no salt tax, only the profit special fund paid by the Monopoly Bureau ......"

This is simply a quibble, the profit earmark is actually a salt tax in disguise, and because of the monopoly, the actual profit of salt far exceeds the salt tax.

"Since the governor's control of Guangdong, with a large number of Guangdong salt imports, the price of salt in Huguang is declining, the current average price of the three provinces is 20 Wen per catty, because the mountain road in Hunan and Guangdong Nanling is not easy, and then the loss of water and land transshipment and other problems, Hunan salt profit is the least, plus Sichuan salt smuggling, but considering the sale of salt to Jiangxi, the monopoly bureau can still pay 10 million yuan of salt this year, if necessary, you can consider increasing the price by one to two ......"

Salt tax is the biggest input, in fact, if needed, only need to add a penny per catty, which can increase income by hundreds of thousands of yuan or even millions of yuan, which is a disguised poll tax, but now the governor does not have much pressure to increase the salt tax, and this average price seems to be only 20 yuan, in fact, because of the different locations, the price of salt is also different. The price of salt can reach as high as 50 wen in some remote areas, and it is obvious that it can no longer be increased.

"The salt tax will remain at this price this year, and now the arsenal is manufacturing American big-wheeled carriages, and if the Nanling Mountain Road is built this year, it can be transferred to the monopoly bureau for several hundred, and its capacity can reach 10,000 catties, which is ten times more than the old-style carriages, and can be pulled by buffaloes, so that the transportation cost can be reduced, and the profit should be increased."

Shaking his head, Zhu Yifeng categorically rejected Huang Huijiu's suggestion to increase the price, now the government is not so much money, more importantly, the change of transportation mode can reduce costs, the western four-wheeled carriage can pull five to six tons of goods, originally this kind of horse was used by the army to improve logistics and transportation, and now it can be sold to the people.

Yes, this kind of large carriage can be promoted to the people, but if this is the case, I am afraid that the official roads will have to be rebuilt in various places, and the official roads will be widened and renovated, but this is "service", at least in terms of labor, the government does not need to pay too much, and silently wrote "renovate the official road" and "carriage promotion" in the notebook, Zhu Yifeng asked again.

"What about the monopoly of special medicines?"

The "monopoly of special medicines" is only confined to Guangdong, because there are only 30 million people in Guangdong, but more than 3 million people eat and smoke opium; under the circumstance that it cannot be banned, Zhu Yifeng naturally acquiesced to the strict monopoly system implemented in Guangdong; of course, while acquiescing, he also did not neglect the supervision of its monopoly, and at the same time implemented a strict ban on smoking in Hunan and Hunan. However, on the other hand, the "monopoly of special medicines" is indeed a very considerable income.

"Because the "special drug monopoly" has just been implemented, it is expected that the annual income will be about 10 million yuan, and at most no more than 15 million, and 30% of the money will be used for cultural and educational matters in Guangdong Province......"

Nodding Zhu Yifeng wrote down a 4500, which is an approximate number, when he was writing in the notebook, Zhang Liangji and Luo Bingzhang both lowered their eyes, all of them turned a blind eye, in fact, they knew very well about the final total, four big characters.

There is money in the house!

There are many ways to make money in the house, in addition to the traditional finance and taxation, the monopoly of salt and tobacco alone is almost equivalent to the traditional financial income. In addition to these two, the Governor's Mansion also has other incomes, such as the profits of those factories, of course, the most considerable profits are probably the yarn mills, silk mills, plus other factories, a few million taels a year without any problems at all.

In addition, there are also the steamers of the Steamship Bureau, and of course the muskets, cannons and gunpowder produced by the arsenal are also a major input, which together is about 60 million yuan a year, and in addition to these, there are also public debts.

How much was the annual income of the imperial court back then?

However, it is forty or fifty million taels, and now the governor's mansion can get more than four million taels in three provinces, how can it not be surprising

But at the same time, there is another problem - there is no money in the house!

Money in the house is relative, and no money is relative. The reason why there is no money is because the expenditure is large, not to mention anything else, just the army's annual budget for raising troops is as high as 8 million yuan, plus the various expenditures for ordnance procurement, training, exercises, and so on, the army's budget needs as much as 12 million yuan a year, and in addition, the navy's budget this year has also reached 6 million yuan, and there are also 10 million yuan in special war expenses, which will be increased at any time if necessary. In other words, military spending accounted for nearly half of the Governor's expenditure, and although the scale of the rebel army was not large, it was definitely a lot of money.

Another department that spends money, the Ministry of Industry, which presides over the factory, also has a budget of more than 15 million yuan this year. Then the remaining 17 million yuan is the expenditure of other ministries and government offices at all levels in the three provinces, and even so, the 2 million yuan used by the Ministry of Rites for the establishment of schools and overseas students will be deducted.

Because of this, the Governor's Mansion really has no money. It is precisely because the Governor's Mansion has no money that everyone will fight for the budget, after all, they all know very well that these budgets determine their expenses for the next year, although the Military Mansion still has an additional special fee of 10 million yuan, and Han Du himself also has a special fee of 10 million. However, the "special expenses" that are used as deficits are spent cautiously, and they are additional budgets outside of the year, and each expenditure must be targeted.

"The estimated income for a year is 10,000 yuan, and the total budget has exceeded 62 million, plus 20 million from the two governments, that is, next year's expenditure may exceed 90 million!"

Put down the pencil and look at the people in the conference room, they are all the heads of each station, and they all want to fight for a little more money for their departments, which may be equivalent to the "Imperial Meeting".

60 million in revenue, 90 million in expenses, and a deficit of more than 50 percent...... This is an unavoidable reality. What to do?

Zhu Yifeng held a pencil and tapped the desktop from time to time, and after a while, he looked at everyone and said.

"Okay, let's increase the overall budget by another 2 million, I'll figure out how to do it!" (To be continued.) )