"The financial data of the first half of the fifth year of Yuanyou are in hand, and the figures we preliminarily calculated are that the income is 50.8 million yuan, which is equivalent to 250 million yuan of Chenji money, and the expenditure is 62.85 million yuan, which is equivalent to 310 million yuan of Chen base money, and the deficit is 12.05 million yuan, which is equivalent to 60 million yuan of Chen base money, and the deficit rate is 20%. Isn't that a surprise to you? Liu Xin raised the statistics folder in Yang's hand.

"What's going on? How is it so much more than normal history? Shouldn't the historical data of Yuanyou's five-year annual income be only 100 million yuan? How can we wait for the autumn harvest to reach halfway? Wang Neng wondered.

"Nonsense, that is, we flapped our wings too fast and paid taxes too aggressively, which directly and indirectly led to a faster increase in taxes than in history, so the scale is 15% more than normal. However, the increase in the deficit is definitely directly related to us, and the sale of a large amount of glass to the royal family and the various yamen that eat the imperial grain for decoration has increased the budget by 5 million yuan. As for the expenses from the sale of cement and steel to the major military defense institutions, which have been included in the table of defense bonds, they are not reflected here. ”

"I said Lao Liu, your accounting firm has begun to accept the training of the directional audit committee of the three divisions. Why haven't you got a list of past royal spending items? The Empress Dowager spends more than 4 million a year? It is impossible for her to eat gold and wear silver alone, so much? How do I set a price for this table? In the later period, if the Empress Dowager still wants sheep placenta, you can't stand it if you call me for nothing. ”

"4 million is not too much, don't be unconvinced. Do you know how much it costs for the emperor to go on an outing and a sacrifice once a year? Up to 12 million pieces! The Empress Dowager does not spend much at all, which also includes part of the expenses of ** and the rewards of the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and other internal and external wives. This proportion of the royal family's expenditure was much lower than that of the later generations. The royal expenses plus the imperial administrative expenses for maintaining officials only accounted for 30% of the total, and military expenses were the largest part. According to the calculation of 50 guan per person in the forbidden army per year, 800,000 forbidden troops will cost 40 million guan, plus 500,000 to 600,000 local soldiers, and 10 million to 18 million guan will be calculated for 20 to 30 guan per year, plus the maintenance of arms and military facilities, etc., the military expenditure of 70 million guan will not be able to sustain it. The annual income of 100 million yuan is just right, and the extravagant hope of achieving fiscal balance can easily be shattered by natural disasters. As soon as the Yellow River is diverted, taxes will be raised, and the Liao State is quite honest, while the Xia State often harasses the border, and once the war starts, it will run a deficit. Liu Xin counted the bulk of the empire's expenses to the people present.

"The treasury bonds we helped issue simply saved the lives of the officials in charge of the three divisions of the Great Song Empire, Liu Xin, do the people under you often accept banquets from the officials of the three divisions?" Li Ji asked.

"Definitely, many of my accountants are supernumerary staff of the Third Division, and there are almost big and small banquets every day, and when I see those officials of the Third Division with shining eyes, my scalp is numb and my tongue is knotted. The major restaurants under our Golden Grottoes receive them every day and earn more than a quarter of their turnover. Many subordinates have applied to be transferred from their posts, and since you invented the Banquet Sea Offensive, almost half of the rest time of officials, large and small, has been soaked in our territory, which not only improves our efficiency in making money and gathering intelligence, but also makes our subordinates in public relations and auditing suffer. Xiao Zhang was found to have alcoholic liver, this is the first case! 80% of the highly distilled spirits are consumed by our own people in the PR and intelligence departments. ”

"This is normal, you don't want to think that the best ingredients and dishes have always been the first to be consumed by the people with the most spending power, the people with the most spending power in our country are always the royal family and high-ranking officials, unlike the West, which may be aristocrats and wealthy businessmen. Can China's private funds outweigh public funds? The problem of deficit is very easy to solve, we can help the political axe to issue some debts, we must help the Great Song Empire political axe to establish a more efficient accumulation machine as soon as possible, the public debt system, the circulation tax system, the colonial system, the customs system, the monopoly system, the insurance fund system, and so on are all advanced systems urgently needed by the Great Song Empire's finances that are overwhelmed by deficits. As long as the right to print money is in our hands, the above systems are our ATMs. Lao Liu, you should first make a three-year financial plan with a fiscal surplus of 80 million yuan and send it to Lu Dafang and Lu Xianggong, and the focus will be on national debt and tax reform. I believe that you can perfectly come up with a plan to make the Great Song Empire's financial surplus of 200 million yuan in three years, but that is not necessary, keep a low profile, okay, don't make that joke about building a global futures system like last time, exposing our long-term plan too early will cause trouble for yourself. ”

"I have a ready-made plan, but can Chen Guanxian and Wang Neng agree to it? Will the 80% fiscal surplus be concentrated in three years, or will it be accumulated separately in three years to accumulate 80 million yuan? ”

"Separate in three years! You just stick to one principle, so that the officials of the three divisions of the financial department of the Great Song Empire can't use the money if they want to! ”

"How can there be a situation where you can't spend your money if you want to? Those officials can spend 50 million yuan if they casually propose a plan to control the Yellow River or seal Mount Tai! ”

"That's where the protégés of the audit department you train come into play. Do you think the Empress Dowager will be able to tolerate corruption and waste with a full understanding of the movement of every money? Excess money and financial surpluses are sent to the inner treasury. The Inner Treasury is nominally a strategic reserve and a reserve for the recovery of Yanyun, who doesn't know that it is the emperor's internal treasury? Who would tolerate a clerk touching his own vault and the money that is going to go into his vault? It's easy to send money in, but it's hard to get money out of it! ”