Lu Chengqi also knew that if he directly recruited shipwrights according to the previous shipbuilding method and used the method of forced labor, he would not have to pay shipwrights compensation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In this way, there is no need to spend money on shipbuilding timber, no need to pay for shipwrights' wages, and even the land for building a dock can be requisitioned by the government, and the land can be occupied without any compensation at all.

But Lu Chengqi came from later generations and knew the pain of being expropriated, so he ordered to compensate the people who occupied the land at market price. Coupled with the thousands of shipwrights' wages, the first three million yuan allocated by the state treasury actually did not last long.

Knowing a little bit about how money is spent like flowing water, Lu Chengqi is also a little uneasy. However, the plan to strengthen one's military power by replacing the box army with the forbidden army cannot be abandoned halfway. The Xiang army is too erosive, and if it is not rectified, it is better to disband on the spot. An army without combat effectiveness, it's just that the imperial court uses money to support a group of wasters. It does not contribute to society, but consumes national strength.

Lu Chengqi planned that after rectifying the Xiang army, after the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army and the Xiang army was close, he would defend and counterattack the Khitans. Among today's enemies, Liao is Dashun's most powerful opponent, and it is also a dangerous opponent that may put Dashun in danger. The battle under Youzhou City was won before, but it was only by sneak attack and the stupidity of the opponent. Pin your opponent's stupidity on the winner and loser, and lose half of it before you fight.

Besides, strengthening one's military power is extremely beneficial to both Dashun and to oneself in securing the throne. If you want to completely promote the commercialization of the entire country, it is beneficial to have a strong military power. It's just that Dashun's army now has more than 600,000 people, in addition to 200,000 auxiliaries, there are 400,000 soldiers. With such a large number of troops, the amount of food and salary consumed every year is staggering. In the era when the land was not abundant, raising so many soldiers was equivalent to being reckless.

Lu Cheng has investigated by the Supervision Department that almost 20 peasants can raise one soldier, which is already a very large proportion. Although there are now more than 100 million people in Dashun, there are only about 80 million peasants. The taxes paid by the peasants in Dashun should be used in various aspects in addition to raising soldiers. Therefore, it is not that the more soldiers, the better, and raising so many soldiers can drag Dashun into the abyss of financial collapse at any time.

Lu Chengqizai carefully read the recital presented by the household, and it took almost half an hour. After putting the music together, Lu Chengqi said slowly: "Xu Qing's concern is really reasonable. ”

Xu Chongguang said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, if this continues, there will definitely be no money left in the treasury." If there is another natural disaster at this moment, and the court is unable to provide disaster relief, I am afraid that the people will be resentful! ”

Xu Chongguang has such an idea, also because in this year, the Yellow River burst is commonplace. The people of Dashun already have some feelings about natural disasters. At the slightest disturbance, the people along the Yellow River will have to leave their hometowns, and this life is miserable. If the imperial court does not provide relief to the disaster, the people's grievances will be light, after all, after the disaster, the victims can do anything in order to survive.

Lu Chengqi nodded, and first asked the personal chamberlain to bring a chair to Xu Chongguang, who had been standing for a long time, and sat down, before he said slowly: "The treasury is not enough money, and throughout the ages, it is just to open sources and reduce expenditure. I thought that we could create a fiscal plan to budget for next year's fiscal expenditures and revenues. It is feasible to reduce some unnecessary expenses and save some for the imperial court. ”

Xu Chongguang has been a secretary of the household department, and he can be regarded as a "professional", so it is not difficult to understand Lu Chengqi's words, and he immediately agreed.

Lu Chengqi continued: "If we open source, I still think that it is necessary to develop business in order to increase the revenue of the treasury. If there is no business, then the economy is a backwater, and it will definitely not work. ”

As a representative of the gentry, Xu Chongguang looked down on businessmen. But for some reason, as the king of a country, in fact, the largest landlord, it is a bit unbelievable that he should cultivate another class that can shake his foundation!

But in the face of the huge commercial tax, not only Xu Chongguang, but other officials compromised. If the treasury has no money, it will not even be able to pay it. Coupled with the ubiquitous supervision of the Supervision Department of the little emperor's dehumanization, and there is not even a gray income, wouldn't the officials starve to death? Between their own interests and the development of business, the official gentry class represented by Xu Chongguang still compromised.

Xu Chongguang's idea is that if they are well controlled, these businessmen will not be able to make any waves. Xu Chongguang would not have known that when the merchant class became strong, they would not only demand wealth, but also political demands.

Coupled with Lu Chengqi's encouragement, will such a time be far away? At least ten years, at most twenty or thirty years, Dashun must be a different scene. Combined with the rudimentary industrial system, it was predictable that the landlord class would be greatly weakened. As for the fate of the landlord class, it must have been drowned in the wave of commerce. The advanced productive forces will certainly eliminate the backward productive forces, and this is the inevitable development of history.

Of course, Xu Chongguang, who did not have this understanding, would not have known that a moment of soft-heartedness actually allowed the development of history to enter another track.

Xu Chongguang is also more pragmatic, and seriously inquired about how to develop business. Lu Chengqi took out the budding set of capitalism, and vowed to say: "Open factories, prosper sea trade, and at the same time ensure that the people have enough consumption power......"

Xu Chongguang heard it in a fog, but in fact, Lu Chengqi also knew nothing. However, he knew that as long as the merchants were allowed to develop on their own, the prosperity of commerce would be absolutely unstoppable. Be a night watchman for a while, and then carry out state regulation, and then you can support business. As long as the business develops, and then uses commerce and industry to feed agriculture, then Dashun will really be on the right track.

It's just how to operate, Lu Chengqi didn't pay attention to this content before, so he could only cross the river by feeling the stones. Fortunately, he is the emperor with supreme power, and he is not the same. If you strengthen the military power in your hands, then Dashun will not be able to mess up.

As long as commerce is carried out, and the landlords and gentry see that the output of land is far less than the benefits brought by commerce, the landlord class itself will collapse. After the disintegration of the landlord class, land annexation will be alleviated to a certain extent. However, if land annexation is to be eliminated completely, land reform is necessary. But to carry out land reform, it is not a frivolous sentence, but to kill people. The landlord will definitely not easily hand over the land in his hands, how to force them to hand over the land with both soft and hard means is a headache for Lu Chengqi in the future.

Now Lu Chengqi's template is only the future heaven and dynasty. There is no way, he grew up under the red flag since he was a child, and he is most familiar with the form of political power in his own country. According to the experience of foreign countries, whether it can be Chengdu or not is two words. It's just that Lu Chengqi's thinking is not very clear now, and he doesn't know much about what he says, and Xu Chongguang has a hard time listening.

"Wait, what Your Majesty said about the sea trade, the old minister can understand, but what is the factory?" Xu Chongguang said very puzzled.

Lu Chengqi thought for a while and said: "It's a large-scale workshop, but it's not an apprenticeship, but an employment system." For example, a printing workshop is a printing factory after it becomes a factory. The factory hires employees on a contract basis and provides them with wages. Employees create value for the factory during working hours. This is the form of the factory, which can make a lot of money by concentrating the productive forces and improving the efficiency of labor......" (To be continued. )