The financial income of the Northern Song Dynasty is actually very rich, taking Xining ten years as an example, the income of that year was 57 million guan, stone, horse, two (Guan is money, stone is grain, horse is cloth, two is silver), if Chongzhen is given these incomes, I am afraid that he can be happy to death, then there is still a need to worry.

However, the fiscal expenditure of the Northern Song Dynasty was also high, and these expenditures were mainly divided into: military expenditure, official expenditure, annual currency expenditure, farmland and water conservancy expenditure, royal expenditure and some other expenditures.

First of all, military spending, military spending is usually divided into military maintenance expenses and equipment costs, there are Khitan in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, there are party items in the northwest, and they have to gather heavy troops in Hebei and Shaanxi for a generation to defend themselves, in addition, the Great Song Dynasty has recruited the homeless people to act as a box army every time there is a disaster, which certainly reduces the threat of the homeless rebellion, but also makes the number of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty more and more.

It costs money to raise soldiers, and it also costs money to buy equipment for them, if the border is fighting, then the expenses will be more, and the military expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty accounts for half of the financial expenditure during the Taiping period.

Then there is the expenditure of officials, the number of officials in the Great Song Dynasty is famous, and the annual expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty is about three million yuan.

In this way, the expenditure of the New Year's currency is not much, and now it is only 200,000 taels of silver and 300,000 horses of silk every year, but this money is really too embarrassing.

The expenditure on farmland water conservancy varies from year to year, because Kaifeng was built on the edge of the Yellow River, and the water conservancy of the Yellow River has become the focus of the imperial court's attention, and it is often necessary to spend tens of millions on it, plus the water conservancy expenditure in other places is even more.

The royal expenses include daily expenses, palace repairs and mausoleum construction, sacrificial expenses, and clan expenses, which are not easy to check, but judging from the fact that Shenzong spent 700,000 yuan to marry the princess, this figure will never be small.

The annual income of nearly 60 million guan, the military expenditure is cut by more than half, and there is only more than 20 million guan left, in addition to the expenditure, farmland and water conservancy, and royal expenditure, the Great Song Dynasty really does not have a few dollars left in a year, and the Great Song Dynasty has repeatedly had a fiscal deficit that cannot cover the expenditure.

At one point, even the reward that should have been given to the forbidden army after the death of the emperor could not be moved, and the forbidden army almost mutinied, and it was not easy to scrape together a large amount of money to promote new seeds and build a firecracker factory under such circumstances.

Otherwise, Wang Anshi wouldn't want to change the law and reform, but he couldn't scrape together the money for a while, but Shen Long had a solution, "It's not difficult to do this, but I don't know if Jiefu is willing to do it." ”

Shen Daochang, can't he still turn stones into gold? Wang Anshi hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask the Taoist, what can you do?" ”

"What is money? Copper coins are money, but are silver and gold money? Shen Long asked rhetorically, he really had a way to get a large sum of gold and silver.

"Of course it's money." Wang Anshi replied decisively, thinking about the history book that Shen Long had given him, Wang Anshi's mind flashed, and he felt that he had guessed Shen Long's thoughts, "Didn't Dao Chang Mo know that there were gold and silver mines there?" ”

"Yes, but it's not in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so I asked Jiefu if he was willing to do it." Shen Long said with a smile, in fact, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is not a gold and silver mine, such as the Zhaoyuan gold mine in Shandong, at this time there were already people mining gold there in the imperial court, and by the time of the Yuanfeng period, Zhaoyuan produced 10,000 taels of gold every year, accounting for more than ninety percent of the country's gold production.

But this is far from the mining limit of Zhaoyuan gold mine, Zhaoyuan's gold mine was mined from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and then from the Ming Dynasty to modern times, and it is still not exhausted; But since there are gold mines in foreign countries, why should we mine our own?

"There are many gold and silver in the Wa Kingdom, among which the Sado Gold Mountain and Iwami Silver Mountain have the most reserves, but the Japanese people do not know it at the moment, Iwami Silver Mountain is on the main island of the Wa Kingdom, and it is still a little difficult to do at the moment, but the Sado Gold Mountain is an island in the sea outside the Wa Kingdom, which is the place where the Japanese exile prisoners, and is not valued by the Japanese people; If the Great Song Dynasty can take this island to mine and mine gold, what is a mere firearms factory? "It also took time for Su Song to come back from Liao, and then learn how to make arquebuses, just in time for gold mining.

What are you afraid of if you don't have money? If you don't have money, you will rob it, you will cheat it, you don't even dare to rob money and cheat money, what else do you say about changing the law to strengthen the country? Shen Long deliberately took this opportunity to encourage Wang Anshi.

As for whether the influx of a large number of precious metals into the Great Song Dynasty will cause inflation, he is not too worried, with the economic volume of the Great Song Dynasty, the gold in Sado Jinshan can be completely digested.

"The Wa Kingdom has always admired my Great Song Dynasty, and there is no disrespect for my Great Song Dynasty, if it is only a little gold and silver to attack the Wa Kingdom, it seems to be ...... It seems that ......" Wang Anshi couldn't turn a corner for a while, and he couldn't cross the hurdle in his heart.

"Otherwise, what about Jiefu? Is it to raise taxes and squeeze the people, or to go to Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo to grab food? Shen Long sneered.

"The Great Song Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom are far apart from each other, and if you want to lead the army to attack the Wa Kingdom, you have to sail the navy; It's just that since the king of Jiyang County led the army to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, my Great Song Dynasty has not rectified the water division for many years, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch it. "Wang Shao's discipline is less than Wang Anshi's, and he has already begun to think about how to attack the Japanese state.

"The sailor is a small matter, and I have the fastest and strongest sea-going ship in the world." Why don't we just get on the treasure ship and go to Galen? I have a model ship here, and a craftsman can take it apart and make it.

"And it doesn't necessarily mean war." At the beginning, the European colonists were not only good at fighting, but also good at deception and bribery.

"The Japanese have long admired the elegance of the Great Song Dynasty, but the court of the Japanese Kingdom has no direct relationship with my Great Song Dynasty." At this time, there was no formal diplomatic trade, limited to private trade, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that formal diplomatic relations were established between the two sides.

"Therefore, you can send a few envoys who are greatly admired by the Japanese people to the Japanese country, whether it is a lease or a purchase, find a way to take Sado Island, and use the gold and silver to build warships and firearms while mining gold and silver, and when the sailors are strong, the Japanese country will not be able to regret it even if they want to!" Shen Long said.

"Moreover, if you want to subdue the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future, the sailor can also go north from Dengzhou and go straight to the land of Youyan, but it is not easier than going east from Hebei and the northwest of the mountains to attack the city all the way?" It would be a waste if the sailor was only used to bully the Wa Kingdom.

Wang Shao couldn't help but start imagining that thousands of firecrackers suddenly killed Youyan at the mouth of the sea and killed the Khitan by surprise, Wang Yan seemed to be more moved, but Wang Anshi was still silent.