In the face of many excerpts from the impeachment of the Inspectorate and the military, although Lin Zhe, the son of heaven, said that he summoned Shen Jingshan again the next day, and told Shen Jingshan that the Inspectorate should pay attention to the way it works.

But on the other hand, he did not release these impeachment excerpts, which also means that Lin Zhe supports and acquiesces in the recent actions of the Inspectorate.

Even though they all say that it takes a long time to rectify the rule of officials, we should not be impatient, so as not to undermine the overall situation of stability.

But for Lin Zhe, the so-called stability is definitely not the stability of officialdom, and there is no need for stability in officialdom!

The Chinese Empire is not a ruling institution that has been in operation for many years, it is still very young, immature, and imperfect, and this means that Lin Zhe can make any necessary adjustments to the administrative body at will in the current state, as for the consequences of instability?

Lin Zhe can be said to not care, as long as there is an army, he can ensure the safety of the rule, and there is no need to worry about some unrest in the officialdom!

In other words, it is a very serious problem in the eyes of many ministers in the cabinet, but for Lin Zhe, it is actually a dispensable problem, whether it is good or bad, it cannot affect the overall situation.

Therefore, the rectification of the Inspectorate must continue, what he wants is not to arrest how many corrupt officials or the like, but to clean up the officialdom left over from the former Qing Dynasty, and then establish a standard for the future work of the officials, and tell the majority of officials: The former Qing Dynasty's set does not work in the Chinese Empire, and if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you must follow the rules set by me Lin Zhe.

What Lin Zhe did in this era was to break all kinds of old rules, and then erect new rules. Instead of following the rules and acting according to the old rules.

To put it simply. Lin Zhe is letting the world adapt to him, not him adapting to the world!

Continue to support Shen Jingshan's work of rectifying the rule of officials. As for how to solve the many difficulties after the rectification of the cabinet officials, such as the shortage of grassroots officials, these are all problems that the ministers of the cabinet need to consider, and what Lin Zhe wants to see is their specific work results.

If Bi Yu and others are unable to maintain the operation of the imperial administrative system when there is a shortage of officials, then Lin Zhe does not mind changing the cabinet and letting those who can solve these problems do it.

For the empire, excellent high-ranking generals are scarce talents, but the words of ministers and civil officials can be grasped casually in the huge empire. You can catch hundreds of them.

For example, this Bi Yutong, if it weren't for the fact that he was the first staff member to follow Lin Zhe, with his background and ability, if he could mix with a cabinet prime minister in peacetime, then the world's scholars would have to collectively jump into the sea to shout injustice.

And in the empire, there are tens of thousands of people with better talent and ability than Bi Yutong!

So Lin Zhe put aside the dispute between the cabinet and the inspectorate and continued to let them make trouble, even in the last few days he has not paid attention to these things, and he has been concerned about two things recently. One is that the First Army and the Fifth Army of Northern Jiangsu can completely wipe out the enemy in Taoyuan and Huai'an and lay the foundation for the overall situation in Northern Jiangsu.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Finance has recently begun to count the fiscal revenue and expenditure for the fourth quarter of this year and has begun to make a budget for next year.

Lin Zhe had to have a clear understanding of the empire's finances. In this way, sufficient resources can be mobilized to the maximum extent to maintain the military's campaign!

"The last 6 million yuan military expenditure of the military in the fourth quarter has been fully disbursed, and with the military expenditure allocated before this year, a total of 30 million yuan has been spent on military expenditure this year!"

When Qi Xuanhao, Minister of Finance, talked about military spending. There was a look of pain on his face, and he must know that this year's statistical financial revenue is only more than 40 million.

And military spending is accounting for a full seventy percent!

Almost the entire empire's finances are working hard to feed the military's more than 200,000 troops!

And when it comes to other things, it is squeezed and squeezed. For example, education, which is regarded as fundamental to strengthening the country and enriching the people, is only allocated to a mere 2 percent of the funding. There are less than one million dollars.

Its funding is not even as good as that of the newly established General Affairs Department of Customs, which is independent from the Ministry of Finance and then directly under the cabinet, with a budget of about 3 million yuan this year, accounting for 7 percent of the total financial expenditure, and its funding is second only to the military and the Ministry of Finance.

The reason for the funding is that the newly established General Affairs Department of Customs not only has jurisdiction over many of today's customs, but is also responsible for customs anti-smuggling, and most of the police officers and ships in the original Jianghai Patrol Police Department of the commercial and trade zone have been transferred to the General Affairs Department of Customs, and the inspection and smuggling tasks will be carried out by the General Affairs Department of Customs itself.

Due to the need to purchase ships and maintain a large fleet of inspection and smuggling, at the same time, the staff of various customs are generally of high quality, and there are many foreigners, so the salary cost is relatively large!

Seventy percent of military spending, 12 percent of financial spending, 7 percent of customs spending, and the remaining 11 percent were divided among the civil affairs, foreign affairs, education, and industrial and commercial departments.

The construction part, which was originally a large expenditure, that is, the construction of the Imperial Palace, the office buildings of various ministries and the maintenance funds of Nanjing City, because these expenses were all non-routine expenses, were all separate expenditures at the beginning, and the Construction Office was responsible for them.

Its sources of funding are relatively diverse, and its main funding comes from the booty captured by the Chinese army when it conquered Nanjing, including precious metals such as gold and silver, as well as a large amount of real estate!

During the occupation of Nanjing by the Taiping army, the population of Nanjing dropped sharply from 780,000 to 150,000, and many buildings in the city were also expropriated by the Taiping army, and there were more ownerless properties.

In addition to being used as offices, these properties were rarely given by Lin Zhe to middle and high-ranking generals in the military, or to some senior executives of civilian officials to live in.

A small number of the remaining residences, shops, and other properties were taken over by the Treasury of the Imperial Cabinet and became part of the Imperial Family's estate, but most of them were taken over by the Cabinet Finance Department.

And what about the Cabinet Finance Department? Naturally, it is sold one by one, after all, there are too many real estate taken over, basically more than one-third of the real estate in Nanjing City has been taken over by the original Chinese army, most of which have come to the side of the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Finance can not always eat on the land and houses, so in addition to leaving a very small part, the rest have been sold one after another to return the funds!

And where did this part of the money go? Basically, it is used for the Zhonghua Palace and the office buildings of various ministries, as well as for the municipal construction of Nanjing, and the main funds of the Construction Office come from this part of the funds.

It can be regarded as a special fund, but this is far from enough, for this reason, the Ministry of Finance often reaches out to the Finance Department of the Palace Affairs Department, today to a thousand, tomorrow to tens of thousands, this half a year, the Palace Department of Finance has been to the construction of the Office of a cumulative allocation of 100,000 yuan.

However, this money also has an exclusive purpose, and the Empress Dowager Lin specially instructed that the money must be used for the construction of the palace, and must not be misappropriated for the construction of office buildings in other departments, let alone in other departments.

These money are all the private property of the royal family, and Lin Zhe formulated a series of royal regulations, although it is said that a certain amount of royal maintenance fees can be obtained from the treasury every year, for example, this year's quota is 5 million yuan, but in fact, the Finance Department of the Palace Affairs Department only took more than 200,000 yuan, and the Finance Department took back 100,000 yuan to the Construction Affairs Office, that is to say, in this year, the maintenance fee that the royal family got from the treasury was only 100,000.

This amount of money is not enough to even pay salaries to royal employees!

The current cost of living for the royal family is basically supported by the income of the royal industry!

Although he became the emperor of the empire, Lin Zhe actually did not enjoy the material supplies given to him by the empire, on the contrary, he often paid out of his own pocket!

Now is a difficult time, Lin Zhe doesn't want to be like Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who just took Nanjing, he had a lot of fun, and then ended up in a situation where the city was broken and people fled.

This may sound like a lot of hard work, but in fact, it is not the case, there is so much money in the royal industry, and according to the traditional saying, this royal industry is the inner treasury, and the people in the finance department are staring at it one by one, eager to bite off a few pieces of meat from Pan Lixuan to fill the loopholes in the treasury expenditure.

"This year is indeed a bit harder, but we have initially stabilized our position in southern Anhui, northern Jiangsu and Fujian, and the financial officials sent over have almost straightened out the local tax system, and by next year, these places will be able to contribute a certain amount of income to the empire, although the number is still not comparable with southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, but it will not be the same as now to the central finance to fill the local loopholes!"

Lin Zhe put down this year's financial report, and then asked, "How is next year's financial budget?" How many can there be? How much support can be provided to the military? ”

Hearing Lin Zhe ask about next year's budget, Qi Xuanhao was determined, and then said: "The detailed budget has not yet appeared, and some details are still to be discussed, but they have generally been made!" ”

Qi Xuanhao said: "Next year's fiscal revenue budget is based on our existing actual control areas, first of all, the customs, it is expected that Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen can collect about 20 million yuan of import and export tariffs.

Then the local taxes on agriculture and commerce, as well as salt and tea, can provide us with at least 16 million tax revenues. Jiangsu Province, in addition to the business zone, can provide about 25 million in tax revenue. Zhejiang should also have 15 million, Fujian is less, but 5 million is still available. In Anhui, it mainly depends on the southern Anhui region, and there are quite few in northern Anhui, and the two should add up to about 6 million.

Combined, there should be 88 million yen in revenue! ”

"However, although the fiscal revenue has doubled compared with this year, the control area has been increased, and the military strength has also been increased again and again, and this expenditure will also be doubled!"

When Qi Xuanhao said this, he also sighed repeatedly, although his finance department collected more and more taxes, but there were more and more places to spend money, and the more than 80 million was still not enough! (To be continued......)