If it was Yu Shengjun's era, Yu Shengjun's income in all aspects would be about 10 million, mainly from the tax revenue of the business zone, Shanghai Xinguan and Huzhou Donation Bureau.

After the official raising of the flag, although the Chinese army quickly occupied southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and relied on the above two places to obtain tens of millions of financial revenues, but at the same time, the expenditure also surged several times.

From the end of last year to the present, the Chinese army has never stopped large-scale warfare, and the war expenses have far exceeded the cost of maintaining the army in peacetime!

In addition to the surge in military spending, after the expansion of the control areas, in order to effectively rule these areas, it may be necessary to invest a lot of administrative funds, the establishment of central ministries and agencies, provincial and local administrative agencies, not to mention anything else, but you have to pay the salaries of officials, and the salaries of state civil servants alone are a large amount.

It can be said that at present, the vast majority of the financial expenditures of the Chinese Empire are the salaries of personnel, including the salaries of military officers and soldiers, and the salaries of civil servants in administrative agencies, and the salary expenditures of these personnel account for at least 40% of the entire financial expenditures!

Although the year 1857 has not yet passed, as far as the financial system is concerned, the fiscal year of 1857 has already passed, and the largest expenditure at the end of the year, that is, the remaining part of the military's military expenditure of 6 million in the fourth quarter, has been paid, and then the Ministry of Finance will have to work hard for next year's financial revenues and expenditures.

After the effective accession of the newly occupied areas, and it is expected to provide a certain amount of tax revenue from next year, and at the same time, the empire's financial powerhouses in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang have benefited from the sustainable development of local people's livelihood and contributed tax revenue. In particular, the industrial and commercial tax and customs tariffs have continued to increase, coupled with the traditional field endowments in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. The tax revenue contributed by salt, tea, raw silk, etc., has also returned to the level of peacetime after the war.

And the two places of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang remain stable and continue to develop, which is enough to effectively guarantee and support the unification war of the empire!

But the income is more. It still can't stand up to the multifaceted expenditure needs, first of all, the military is the majority!

When they heard that the Ministry of Finance had a budget of 88 million yuan for next year's fiscal revenue, they immediately drew up a plan for next year's expansion and operation according to 80 percent of the total budget, that is, 70 million yuan!

The General Headquarters, the General Staff, the Military Training, the Ordnance Department, the Quartermaster Department, the Admiralty Department and many other departments joined forces to formulate the 1858 annual training and expansion plan!

First of all, the Navy, which proposed to invest in the order of five 1,000-ton steam dark ships at the end of 1857 and the beginning of 1858, and at the same time invest in the development of warships with a displacement of 2,000 tons. It was also expected that by the end of 1858, the Shanghai Shipyard and the Linde Machine Factory would complete the technical preparation of the hull and naval guns for the smooth start of construction. At the same time, a number of inland river offshore gunboats and river gunboats of less than 100 tons will be built.

At the same time, in order to meet the needs of naval officers and sailors who will be built and put into service this year and next year, it is expected that the recruitment of sailors will be carried out at the end of this year and the beginning of next year, and it is expected that 8,000 sailors will be recruited, and the total strength of the navy will be expanded to 20,000 by the end of next year.

If it is successfully completed, it will have more than seven thousand-ton warships, more than 10 river gunboats of 300 to 1,000 tons or small long-sea warships, more than 40 river gunboats of less than 300 tons, and other transport and traditional sailing ships. More than 100 small patrol boats, etc., are expected.

However, the development of the navy as a technical arm does not only say the expansion of warships and sailors, in fact, the navy also needs to build ports, and they are also responsible for coastal defense batteries.

So at the same time, in order to meet the needs of the expanded base of the Navy. It is proposed to build a large-scale military port facility in Shanghai and Fuzhou!

He also proposed to strengthen Shanghai's coastal defense, control the Yangtze River estuary, and defend the Gyeonggi region. The plan was to build a massive fort and fortress in Shanghai. The number of sixty-four-pound shore defense heavy guns alone reached twenty-six, and it was also planned to be equipped with breech-loading rifled guns!

Breech-loading rifled guns that the Navy planned to equip. In fact, it is the semi-finished product of the 'Armstrong gun' purchased by the Linde Machinery Factory in the UK a few years ago, when the Linde Machine Factory went to Europe to purchase advanced artillery, in the end it failed to find a mature rear-loading gun technology, and only found a Armstrong gun that has not yet completed the design, only a semi-finished Armstrong gun, and at that time the Armstrong gun was immature, and it did not enter the sight of the British army, in fact, the British army still did not pay attention to the design of the company's rifled rear-loading gun.

Therefore, at that time, through Xinde Foreign Company, I spent a certain price to purchase part of the technical information of the gun, and naturally obtained the right to use the patent in China.

Then Linde Machinery Factory continued to improve the design on the basis of this semi-finished product, of course, it was those foreign engineers who presided over the follow-up design.

Some time ago, I heard that they had already made two foreign cannons and achieved a successful test launch! However, it is not without problems, on the contrary, there are many problems, although the Linde Machinery Factory is mainly based on foreign engineers as the main R&D personnel, and the main equipment is imported equipment, if only the staff and equipment are concerned, it can barely keep up with the second-rate level in Europe.

However, even so, it is still difficult to solve many technical problems of the rear-loading rifled gun, and the successful test-fired foreign gun has a huge quality problem of the lock tail bolt and the lock bolt, and the two parts on the test-fired gun have cracks to varying degrees. More importantly, this is purely a technical process problem, relying on the Linde Arsenal's own technical capabilities are fundamentally difficult to solve, and later had to be proposed, limiting the amount of charge, reducing the firing range, and at the same time thickening the thickness of the above-mentioned parts, as far as possible to extend the life of the parts, it is also strictly stipulated that after each gun is fired twenty-five times, the tail bolt and bolt must be replaced in order to continue shooting!

In addition to the technical problems, there was also the problem, that is, the cost, the Linde Machine Factory made an offer to the Navy for 7,000 yen for each 100-pound breech-loading rifled gun, 9,000 yen for a 150-pound breech-mounted rifled gun, and as for the caliber of more than 150 pounds, the Linde Machine Factory could not manufacture it for the time being. As for those with a caliber of less than 100 pounds, the Linde Machine Factory simply did not propose a design plan. Why?

Because the price comparison is too low, the Linde rear-loading rifled gun based on the Armstrong gun is used. It was extremely expensive to build, because the gun had to be multi-rifled, which was a complex and difficult process to mass-produce.

By and large, the cost of producing a sixty-four-pound Armstrong gun is not much more than that of a hundred-pound Armstrong gun!

And the technical characteristics of the new era of the Armstrong cannon also determine that this kind of artillery cannot be equipped in batches at all, and the larger it is, the more cost-effective it is!

And the bigger it is, the heavier it is. This is also the reason why the Navy is not currently using rear-loading guns on warships, which are too expensive and cost-effective!

But these problems can barely be solved on land, and the weight is not a problem when used as a shore defense gun, it can be built greatly, and the cost performance will come up if the caliber is larger, and more importantly, the navy proposes to establish a defense fortress at the mouth of the Yangtze River. It is used to point guard Gyeonggi.

Truth be told, for many people, this fortress is more important than the entire fleet of the navy, so it is more likely that it will be funded to equip newer artillery.

This ambitious plan of the Navy. The cost is naturally huge, and a military budget of more than 10 million yuan is proposed!

Relative to the Navy various fortresses, fleets. The port plan is different, the plan on the army side is much simpler!

Proposed on an existing basis. The Royal Army is to expand by five more infantry divisions and one Guards division. The size of one artillery brigade, two cavalry regiments!

At present, the Royal Army has seven infantry divisions, one guards division, three cavalry regiments, and several independent artillery battalions!

If this expansion plan is completed, it means that the size of the Royal Army will explode to the size of twelve infantry divisions, two guards divisions, one artillery brigade, and five cavalry regiments, with a total strength of 120,000, with nearly 300 guns of 12-pounder caliber or more, and more 6-pounder, 4-pounder and 9-pounder mortars.

On the whole, the Royal Army wants to double the scale, and if it doubles, the expansion cost and maintenance funds of the Royal Army next year will be tens of millions, and the army is still fighting.

If you think, a flowering bullet costs dozens of taels of silver, and in this battle, you have to shoot hundreds of rounds to say the least, and the life of rifled rifles in these years is actually very limited, often after a large-scale battle, the loss of guns in the army will be very serious, which will cost a lot of military expenses to replenish guns and ammunition for the troops.

And then the army is not only the Royal Army, there is also an auxiliary defense force, and it is expected that the size of the auxiliary defense force will continue to increase next year, although these auxiliary defense army soldiers are forced to serve as cannon fodder, but sometimes they are also issued with silver, in addition to the basic rations still to be guaranteed, although there is no technical difficulty in equipping them with cold weapons, but the sword is actually not cheap, this equipment is more, and the demand for military spending is also very large.

For these, among the many plans formulated by the high command for the army, there is no more, no less, exactly 60 million military spending.

Together with the Navy's 10 million, it is 70 million!

In the face of the military's lion's big mouth, Qi Xuanhao of the Ministry of Finance was angry, this total is only more than 80 million, and if the military is going to 70 million, then will the administrative organs of the entire empire still operate?

"Your Majesty, our Finance Department also understands the difficulties of the Navy and Army, and the recovery of Shenzhou is also the expectation of all of us, but this year's military expenditure is only 30 million, and next year it will be as high as 70 million, and the Finance Department is really unsustainable!" When Qi Xuanhao spoke, the whole person looked extremely depressed!

Lin Zhe listened, and didn't speak directly, why?

Because the military's plan was proposed, and finally the budget for military spending was submitted to the Ministry of Finance, Lin Zhe must have known about it and acquiesced in it.

However, looking at Qi Xuanhao's expression, he knew that this time the military really forced the Finance Department to be a little ruthless, but the development of the military could not be restricted because of the difficulties of the Finance Department.

So he said, "I know the plan of the military!" After saying this first and setting the tone, he said: "How are the bonds I asked you to make some time ago are being prepared, and if they can be successfully issued at that time, it should be able to relieve some of the financial pressure!" ”

When Qi Xuanhao heard this, he sighed in his heart, Lin Zhe told him what kind of bonds he wanted to engage in, and then when he issued them, he wondered, this was obviously to ask for money from the rich businessmen in the private sector!

For example, the salt merchants of the Qing Dynasty were raised as pigs by the Qing court, and a few were killed when they were fattened, and they could make millions of taels of silver in a blink of an eye, which was enough to effectively relieve the pressure on the treasury!

But didn't the bond that the Son of Heaven said raise a pig-killing knife to these wealthy private businessmen, and even said that they wanted to borrow it?

And it's the kind that will give interest! (To be continued......)