In the fourth quarter of the second year of the Apocalypse, the largest financial profit was naturally minted coinage, and through the cooperation with Shanxi ticket numbers, a large amount of silver was transported to the capital to be minted into silver dollars. The silver minted throughout the year reached 230 million taels, and the profit reached 45 million yuan. It is 20 million yuan more than the original budget of 25 million yuan.

The mining of copper mines in various places and the minting of copper coins are not too profitable, only about 4 million yuan, but 12 million yuan worth of copper coins and copper dollars were minted throughout the year. The main reason for the low profitability is that the mining cost of copper ore is relatively high. Because of the vigorous mining of copper ore, many copper ores that are not too valuable are also being mined.

While the mining of these copper mines has driven down profits and raised material costs, it has supported many workers, which is perfectly acceptable.

At the end of the year, most of the assets of those smuggling businessmen were realized, and they received about 13 million yuan in funds, plus the funds from Zhu Youxiao's remaining 15 million yuan in his hands.

So much so that by the end of the year, the silver in Zhu Youxiao's hands had reached 48 million yuan.

Unconsciously, Zhu Youxiao has already revitalized his finances. However, this way of increasing fiscal revenue mainly relies on coinage and raiding, and then achieves the purpose of wealth redistribution.

In this way, there is nothing to do for a large population like the Ming Dynasty, and when the productivity has developed to a certain extent, there is completely enough manpower and material resources to be deployed.

Wealth is actually created by labor, and it also depends on the amount of resources per capita. Daming's resources are actually not lacking, but there is a problem with their allocation.

So the wealth is redistributed. Spending this wealth to nourish the people at the bottom of society can make the economy dynamic. Driven by the market. Naturally, more wealth will be created.

With so much money suddenly in hand, next year's budget is obviously very abundant.

At the end of the year, the cabinet is stepping up the budget, constantly communicating with the six ministries, and reporting the expenditure items to Zhu Youxiao one after another.

Military spending continued to increase in the third year of the Apocalypse, and the military budget of the central army rose to 15 million yuan, and the treatment of the central army was relatively high. The military salary, plus the consumption of daily military supplies, as well as the replenishment of equipment wear and tear, requires 15 million to maintain.

The military expenditure of Liaodong Town increased to 8 million yuan. The treatment of soldiers has been improved to a certain extent, but the soldiers in Liaodong Town still have a self-sufficient model. Liaodong has fertile land and self-sufficiency, but it can still be maintained if there is enough land. An increase of 3 million yuan in military spending. First, it is used to improve treatment. Second, it is used to build forts and continue to strengthen fortifications.

The military expenses of the Dongjiang Army were given 3 million yuan.

There are also border army towns, according to the previous restructuring plan, each soldier is given 7 stone of food every year, and nearly 5 million stone of military food needs to be spent. Basically, the agricultural tax for a year in the north was reserved for the border army towns. Converted into silver dollars, it is about 7.5 million yuan.

At the same time, various other personal guards. and 7 garrison mixed brigades, 3 million yuan will be allocated for military salaries.

Newly formed Navy. The military expenditure has been allocated, and the navy still has about 5 million yuan in expenses, but it does not need to be included in the financial budget for the third year of the Apocalypse.

In total, the three years of the Apocalypse still need to spend 36.5 million yuan on military expenditures to maintain the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty. But if you fight with Jiannu, the scale is not small, and you don't leave tens of millions of yuan, it is obviously untenable.

"Next year, our Ming Dynasty will inevitably need to move in Liaodong, and it is impossible to focus on defense like now, so military spending must be indispensable." Sun Chuanting said to Zhu Youxiao, "The minister thinks that the reserved military expenditure of 8 million is not enough. ”

"The internal treasury will leave 30 million yuan to deal with the war situation in Liaodong. When will all the troops be deployed? Zhu Youxiao asked Sun Chuanting.

"By the end of the year, most of the troops will be in place. Eight infantry divisions have now been transferred to Golden State, and the artillery division is not expected to be transferred to Golden State until the middle of next year. ”

"Okay, Aiqing is ready to prepare, next year, Aiqing still has to sit in Jinzhou for me, otherwise there will be no one in the central army to take command. The formation of the Central Army, Aiqing basically participated in it, that is, Aiqing knew the Central Army best, and it was not safe to change someone else. Zhu Youxiao said to Sun Chuanting.

"Obey." Sun Chuanting knew that this matter could not be shirked, and there was indeed no one else to choose for the emperor.

In terms of familiarity with the Central Army, there is indeed no courtier who can compare with Sun Chuanting. And no one knows the strategy formulated by the high command better than Sun Chuanting. At the same time, when it comes to governing the army, there are only a few who can compare to Sun Chuanting, but there is no way to go to Jinzhou.

The Ming Dynasty used literature to unify the military, which is a convention. If such a system is hastily abolished, it is likely that something will go wrong. After all, this system is a foolproof strategy to maintain the stability of the central imperial power. The lessons of the blood of the past generations gave birth to such a system. Since the Song Dynasty had been a rebellion against military generals, the Chinese dynasty had never been in rebellion.

There was a saying in later generations that 'reform paved the way for revolutionaries', and the reform of the last dynasty was often the one that hastened its demise.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is already implementing reforms, he is as cautious as walking a tightrope, walking on thin ice, and does not dare to relax at all.

At this time, the command of the generals can be improved, but it is better not to disturb the practice of civil and military affairs. What Zhu Youxiao did was to set up a general headquarters to make civilian officials more professional in military affairs, so as not to have laymen command insiders.

Now the only one who has not been restrained is Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army. The prison commander Zhang Yan has been withdrawn, and Zhu Youxiao has not sent any more civilian officials to control it. The main reason is that the Dongjiang Army's combat mode is rather special and requires greater autonomy. Moreover, most of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army had a common enmity with Jiannu, and the imperial court had never treated the military salary and war materials badly, so there was basically no possibility of rebellion. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is only sending people to maintain the military discipline of the Dongjiang Army at present, and giving Mao Wenlong an operational goal, and how to implement this goal specifically, Mao Wenlong has a great deal of autonomy.

Jinzhou is different, more than a dozen divisions of the Central Army are gathered here, and Zhu Youxiao's remote command in the capital is not very reliable, after all, the war is changing rapidly, and there is no time to react. Therefore, it is necessary to send a Wenchen to Jinzhou to be the coach, not to choose a military future to be the coach.

There is no first in the text, and there is no second in the martial arts. Once a military general breaks the balance of power and suppresses other generals, even if there is no objection, it is very tricky to deal with.

From Zhu Youxiao's point of view, that is, Sun Chuanting is more suitable. Sun Chuanting has no problem in terms of loyalty, he exterminated Jiannu in the day, and it is easy for him to remove military power as a civil official, and there will be no pimples between monarchs and ministers. (To be continued......)