With the arrival of the end of the year, the annual report of the financial budget has begun.

The Ministry of Industry reported a series of projects completed in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and last year the imperial court directly allocated 100 million yuan for the construction of water conservancy projects in the northern provinces.

The 100 million yuan fund was thrown out, but a lot of things were repaired.

Water conservancy facilities have been built in Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, and these water conservancy facilities are mainly carried out around the Yellow River.

The construction of these water conservancy facilities has caused only one embankment failure in the Yellow River basin in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and the treatment has begun to take effect.

In addition, the northern highway network built by the imperial court has been mostly completed in terms of provincial roads, and in the northeast, the highway construction speed is the fastest.

The shipbuilding industry has also developed rapidly, with 826 merchant ships of more than 1,000 tons manufactured in the six years of the Apocalypse, of which nearly 703 were manufactured by state-owned shipyards, an increase of 30% compared with last year. Of these, 35 are 2,000-ton ships. However, the gap in the demand for merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty is still relatively large, mainly because the expansion speed is too fast.

"Now there are more than 200 6,000 merchant ships under construction, which will be completed and launched next year, and the shipbuilding capacity of state-owned shipyards is gradually transferring to 6,000 merchant ships." Wang Weiwei, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, reported.

"How many ships can start construction next year?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"According to the plans submitted by various state-owned shipyards, 350 merchant ships with 6,000 materials will start construction next year." Wang Wei replied.

"Hmmm! Very good. Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, the increase in merchant ships meant that Daming could get more grain and raw materials from the outside.

In today's era of underdeveloped transportation, shipping is the biggest weapon. Nowadays, the shipbuilding funds of state-owned shipyards are all bank loans for shipbuilding, except for the interests of maritime trade, and the rate of return on merchant ships is very stable, and it is basically impossible to lose money. And the tonnage of merchant ships is getting bigger and bigger. Adaptation to sea conditions will also be enhanced, and nautical accidents will be reduced.

The profits of maritime trade are very staggering, especially in the current situation where most of the ocean-going trade is monopolized by state-owned capital, although with the expansion of the scale of trade, some things are not so profitable, but the volume has gone up.

Although private merchant ships can also enter some regional trade. However, because the windfall profits were gradually eliminated, the scale of privately-owned merchant ships did not rise, so the situation of profiteering ocean trade has basically ended. And those profiteering trade objects were monopolized by state-owned capital, such as trade with the Portuguese.

Today, with the exception of the Portuguese, who were able to transport large quantities of silver from the Americas to East Asia, both the Dutch and the Spanish were driven out of East Asia.

Trade with Japan was also relatively lucrative, but it was also monopolized by the government, and private merchant ships could not enter.

The purchase and sale of luxury goods in various places are basically purchased and transported by commercial banks opened by state-owned consortia. It is difficult for civilian merchant ships to buy these goods.

If North Korea's ginseng, mink and other commodities are monopolized by a few state-owned consortium firms. These firms are now open everywhere, all over the South Seas, as well as in the Indochina region.

These comptoirs are mainly responsible for selling goods to various places, buying local raw materials, grains, and natural luxury goods, and then shipping them back to China.

Of course, the tonnage of privately-funded merchant ships is smaller, and the flexibility of cargo transportation is a major advantage, and state-owned merchant ships are more inclined to transport bulk commodities.

The Ministry of Household Affairs also submitted a financial income statement for the sixth year of the Apocalypse. In the six years of the Apocalypse, the fiscal revenue has grown rapidly. The New Deal area commercial tax, personal income tax, as well as luxury tax, deed tax and other taxes are loaded together. It reached more than 5,600 yuan.

After a year of rectification and anti-smuggling, the salt tax was raised to more than 18 million yuan.

The revenue from seigniorage has also increased with the issuance of paper money, reaching more than 2,600 yuan.

With the development of a large amount of cultivated land in Northeast China and the agricultural tax in Taiwan, Luzon and other places, there has been a small outbreak, reaching more than 4,200 yuan in revenue.

In addition, the imperial court earned more than 3,100 yuan from the sale of assets. At this time, the imperial court still had a large number of assets obtained from the seizure of the family, as well as land assets obtained from expansion, which were not sold.

The dividends paid by state-owned enterprises reached more than 2,100 yuan, and the proportion of dividends paid by state-owned enterprises at this time was 12%, which was not a very high proportion. The main reason is that state-owned enterprises are still expanding and need a certain amount of funds.

Customs revenues have grown rapidly. It has been increased to more than 3,300 yuan.

The fiscal revenue of Tianqi in the six years reached more than 22,800 yuan, an increase of 74 million yuan compared with last year.

Last year's budget 2. 800 million yuan, including 80 million yuan of the previous surplus.

In total, the treasury surplus in the six years of the Apocalypse was more than 2,700 yuan, and the royal family spent 13 million yuan, and the actual surplus was 14 million yuan.

The 14 million yuan is basically reserved for next year's royal expenses, and the royal family's expenses have not received a penny from the treasury over the years, after all, the emperor is doing business.

The Ministry of Household believes that the imperial court's fiscal revenue will grow rapidly next year, first of all, after Shandong entered the reform, Shandong has become a bright spot in the growth of tax revenue. In addition, the development of the Northeast region will continue, and the fiscal revenue provided to the imperial court will increase.

At the same time, tax revenues will increase further in Taiwan, Luzon, Java, and Malacca.

Customs revenues and salt tax revenues will also increase.

In addition to the expansion of the scale of production and the expansion of overseas markets, another important factor in the growth of fiscal revenue is the growth of currency issuance.

One of the additional amounts of currency issuance is the inflow of silver, and the other is seigniorage.

According to the statistics on grain stocks and the scale of grain production, the household department believes that an additional 60 million yuan of seigniorage can be issued for the construction of the project, and under such a quota, there will be no abnormal rise in grain prices.

In addition, in terms of fiscal revenue, another 50 million yuan was thrown, and the financial budget of the seven years of the Apocalypse reached an astonishing 3. 500 million yuan.

After such a large financial budget, the military department will directly take 80 million yuan in military spending, first of all, the increase in naval expenditure, and the other is that next year it will launch a war to recover the Western Regions, which needs the support of relatively large military spending.

Affected by this, the Ministry of Industry has only reached 60 million yuan in the project construction budget for seven years, and the focus is still on the construction of water conservancy in the northern provinces of the Yellow River Basin.

The rest of the budget was split up by other expenditures.

Although the official investment in construction funds has decreased, the scale of construction has not actually decreased, but has shown an increasing trend. Because the main force of construction is still a state-owned capital consortium, plus some private funds.

The growth of the construction scale will further increase the demand for workers.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty will be able to obtain a larger amount of commercial grain, and at the same time, the scale of the fishery will be further improved, which can feed a large number of workers. (To be continued.) )