The East India Company definitely did not have that many warships, at most more than forty.

That is, the East India Company put thirty or forty warships of the Dutch Navy into it?

Not bankrupt now?

The Dutch East India Company was a private equity company with an 18% stake in the state and paid an annual dividend of 18% to the Netherlands.

At the same time, the Dutch East India Company had the right to mint money, as well as the right to enter into agreements overseas to hire the Dutch navy to fight.

Note that this is employment.

Employment costs money, and salaries are paid by the East India Company.

Now the warship and the officers and soldiers are all finished, and it is estimated that a large amount of money will have to be compensated to the Dutch political axe, and bankruptcy is indeed a very likely situation.

The Dutch East India Company was the richest private company in this era, but it couldn't stand such a toss! The cost of more than 30 warships is at least 5 million taels, and it is not necessary to build a few if you want to. Add to that the compensation for the losses of those soldiers who died in battle and were captured, and it will cost even more.

In the report, Wen Bangliang estimated that the value of the goods on the merchant ships he had grabbed in the past six months would be about 15 million taels.

This year, Zhao Yan is definitely making a lot of war money, and the war dividend has reached about 40 million taels.

Although there is a lot of silver in Daming, the gross domestic production is very high, and silver is very valuable, and it is far from simple to make silver in Daming.

Overseas, however, the productivity is backward, the gross domestic product is low, and there are many silver production areas, so it is much easier to get silver.

A Western pirate, who grabs a gold coin, is likely to only be able to buy two or three cows, but in the Ming Dynasty, he can buy five or six cows.

That's the gap.

Precious metals earned overseas by means of correct channels and violent means, and Daming can exert stronger purchasing power when you get it, and Daming has the largest manpower and material resources in the world, and it is the royal way to make money by grabbing precious metals from overseas and shipping them back to Daming.

But this pure plundering of precious metals is not the royal road to development.

Spain plundered a lot of precious metals in the Americas, right? Why is the national strength getting weaker and weaker?

This is entirely because the Spaniards do not have enough industrial support, so they can only plunder precious metals, but precious metals are not valuable in their own country, many things are imported, and precious metals are exported in large quantities.

The reason why it is the royal road to wealth is based on the fact that the gross domestic product is very high.

Therefore, the royal road to development is to vigorously develop industry, and it is not only precious metals that are plundered, but also overseas raw materials.

As long as the production is high, then the precious metals will continue to be valuable, and there will be no outflow.

Now the total amount of precious metals and the gross domestic production value of the Ming Dynasty are not equal, not only because the precious metals are not as large as the gross production value, but also because of the large gap between the rich and the poor, a lot of silver is put in the warehouse to play.

Zhao Yan grabbed gold and silver overseas, which is equivalent to printing bills, which is possible to cause inflation. Therefore, production must keep up so that there will be no inflation.

However, inflation is not bad in one case, that is, to throw money at the common people, to build roads, to repair water conservancy or something, and to throw money on the lower classes.

And those who leave their money in the warehouse to play, their wealth will continue to shrink, and the gap between the rich and the poor will slowly narrow.

It's just thinking about it, Zhao Yan doesn't have that much money to sprinkle. Although this year's fiscal revenue has reached a new high, it is far from the point of throwing money everywhere.

At the end of the year, the time has come again for the fiscal review.

…… Yanzheng's income of 9 million taels of income has not increased much, and he will give Chongzhen one-third, and there will be 6 million taels of income, Zhao Yan does not plan to give Chongzhen half of it this year, one-third is about the same!

The textile income is about 6 million taels, and the capital of the textile mill has turned to 20 million taels of silver, and it is expected to leave only 10 million taels of capital next year, and the other 10 million taels will be withdrawn for other purposes after being cashed.

The income of the glass industry is about 5 million taels, and the sales of glass mirrors are not as hot as before, and the price can be reduced again next year to expand profits.

The iron and steel industry, the income is about 6 million taels, half of which is contributed by military spending, self-produced and sold, and it will be calculated as this because of the reading power accounting, in addition to the needs of the Ordnance Bureau, other profits are about 3 million taels.

The bank's income is about 1 million taels, and the deposit has reached the level of 30 million taels.

The commercial tax, about 5 million taels, nearly half is collected by themselves, and the remaining half is collected from other merchants.

The import tax of those industries is very high, some even reach 30%, but the Denglai market is too attractive, foreign merchants are still constantly transporting goods to Denglai, because the import tax is high, the price of imported goods is higher, so it gives the local industry a huge opportunity for development.

The export tax is not high, most of them are 10%, but this year, in addition to the export by land, Zhao Yan's own organization of marine trade has completely stagnated, because there is a war all year round, there is no idle transport force to carry out marine trade, and at the same time, the special treatment of this aspect has also made Shandong lose the market. In addition to Zhao Yan, no one in Shandong has done this, resulting in some industries related to sea trade has been hit hard, the first two years have just developed, this year many industries have lost the shipping channels of sea trade, and they have completely collapsed.

Agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, the total income of 4 million taels, most of which is contributed by the fishery, the fishery has developed greatly this year, in addition to the increase in the number of fishing boats, fishing technology is also constantly improving.

The grain that goes into storage is not included in the fiscal revenue, but the amount of old grain sold out of the warehouse is taken as the agricultural income of the year, and the livestock in the herd is also not included in the fiscal revenue, and only the money sold is regarded as income.

Stocked livestock has developed greatly this year, and each tun has a special farm to breed pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and fish in a professional way.

There are also free-range livestock in the people's homes.

There are also a lot of reading farms, the scale of this reading farm is larger, and the techniques are more professional, in addition to breeding, there are special nurseries.

The livestock raised by the people were their own, and the livestock raised in the cantonment fields were used to supply the needs of the market, except for the people who participated in military training.

The workers on the farm are some idle labor, such as those who are physically defective and unable to carry out high-intensity labor, so they are assigned a light and manpower-intensive job on the farm.

For example, sheep herding, chickens, ducks and so on, many elderly people can cope with it. The heavy lifting, such as preparing and carrying the feed, is done by someone else.

Recently, the efficiency of the farm has improved a lot, because the farm is equipped with Japanese slaves known as 'overseas laborers', and these Japanese slaves only need to give them food and two cotton clothes a year, and they do not need wages at all. The farms set up by Zhao Yan in Getun cost the most workers' wages and the needs of training. Now we can lay off workers, but we can't lay off those idle laborers, because this is a place for them to be employed, and those young and strong laborers can be engaged in other industries. The slaughter of livestock should continue during the training, and let those young and strong people eat more meat in order to improve the overall quality of the soldiers, so it does not matter how profitable the farms in the tundi are, the important thing is to raise more livestock without losing money.

The grain bank did not make much profit, and the money it earned was basically used to stabilize food prices.

In the Ming Dynasty involved in the industry and the main income is also these items, a total of 33 million taels of fiscal revenue, and the textile industry has drawn out 4 million taels of capital, which is equal to 37 million taels.

The Honshu Mixed Brigade grabbed about 20 million taels of goods in Yueben, and it is estimated that it will increase in the future, and the Nanyang detachment grabbed 15 million taels of goods in Nanyang.

72 million taels of income!

And this year's financial expenditure for the whole year has been overdrawn by 14 million taels. The first is the overdraft of military spending, which was originally budgeted only for the current navy and the military expenditure for the Manchu war.

As a result, this year's wars were frequent, and under the crusade of the east and the west, coupled with the severe expansion of the army, the military expenditure was overdrawn by about 7 million taels, the road and water conservancy repairs were overdrawn by 2 million taels, the construction of war horses and ships was overdrawn by 3 million taels, and the miscellaneous budgets were overdrawn by more than 2 million yuan.

Only 58 million taels can be budgeted this year, but with nearly 60 million taels of fiscal revenue, next year's budget will be very generous.

The proceeds of the California Colonies and the Hawaiian Colonies have not yet been reported, but they certainly will not be less than 10 million taels.

Zhao Yan felt very satisfied.

Although you can't throw money around, you can still make a small amount of money next year.

The local fiscal revenue is not too high, and the high is still the interests obtained from overseas, most of which are snatched naked, and there are many precious metals such as gold and silver overseas.

With so much money, how to spend it is really a big problem.

Naturally, you can't spend money indiscriminately, you have to use it wisely. When various departments learned of this year's total fiscal revenue, they couldn't help but be stunned.

People have always been violent Qin who died in war, but Shandong is getting richer and stronger the more it fights, and in general, it still has a way to make money.

Using violence to plunder overseas wealth is currently the fastest way for the Shandong group to get rich.

Violence = Get Rich!

War is like doing business, some people are not good at management, and fighting a war makes the people so poor that they wear crotch, and the national strength is seriously depleted, which is a loss-making type. Some people are good at business, and they can make a fortune by fighting, and the people will not be poor, which is a profit-making type.

Choosing the right way to do business is at the heart of building a war machine.

How to spend money has become the main content of discussion among various departments at the end of this year. This money is not used to build a palace, nor to repair the yamen, nor to raise salaries.

It's about how to develop better.

The core of development is to strengthen the country and enrich the people, and to expand the territory.

Anyone can put forward any opinion that meets these two points. Before the budget, Zhao Yan gave an order to the officials in Shandong, and everyone submitted a policy.

It can also be regarded as a test to assess the ability of officials.

(To be continued)