"Both are done at all costs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoCompared with China and Japan, it is natural that we have received a lot more silver, but we have to spend a lot more money. The Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head, "If you don't belong to your family, you don't know how difficult it is to be in charge, the same gold and silver mountains are spent, and you need money everywhere, and we still have to temporarily reduce the investment in the military expenses of the Beiyang Naval Division, so as to take into account the overall situation, not to mention the small country of Japan?" Their military spending has accounted for 27 percent of the financial expenditure, which is a very exaggerated amount," the Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes flashed, of course, as Ito Hirobumi said in the parliament, China is indeed a large percentage of military expenditure, but on the table, it is still a very small part, because a part of the military expenditure is the internal treasury of the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is no need to go through the household statistics, and the other point is directly minted by the bank, and it does not go through the account of the household department. So when these two sums are combined, it is impossible to say, "We don't have any money, and of course they don't have enough in Japan." ”

We have no money in the Qing Dynasty, this sentence sounds really a huge joke, how is it possible, so much silver continues to pour into China every year, if it is not for the Empress Dowager Cixi deliberately controlled, the silver will be taken out to buy warships, heavy machinery technology, etc., so as to outflow a part of the silver, the explosive growth of foreign trade in recent years has long been the same as the Ming Dynasty, sucking 80% of the world's silver into China's big belly, and is not ready to spit out.

However, the growth of foreign trade, except for the Ministry of the Interior's own industry, the rest of the trade is at most only tax, and does not directly earn profits from the state, so this increase in taxes cannot keep up with the cost of purchasing warships, let alone catch up with the expenses of the government and the government.

If the increase in the revenue from foreign trade has increased tenfold in the last twenty years, then the various inputs paid by the imperial court have increased more than fiftyfold.

The first most expensive is infrastructure, although the military aircraft department has changed once, but the basic direction of governance has not changed, the first is to start the construction of various transportation, the Ministry of Communications was originally the railway official road together, three years ago because there are too many projects that cost money, there is no way to split it again, the Ministry of Communications is divided into the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications is in charge of the construction of the official road, the Ministry of Railways is in charge of the construction of the railway and the construction of trains, the Ministry of Communications can also, after all, the best official road construction began to charge, The cost can be recovered, but the Ministry of Railways is completely different, the annual cost of building the railway can be called astronomical, some people have counted, the construction cost of the Ministry of Railways and the total financial income of Belgium is equal, this is a huge number, and as far as the railway construction is concerned, the national construction and private construction are absolutely different, the national construction is not only thinking about economic benefits, but to consider the overall situation of the whole country more macro-comprehensively, especially the long-term national interests should be put in the first place, Otherwise, how much effect can the previous Beijing-Zhangjia-Sutai railway have? Transporting wool? Yunnan-Guizhou Railway and then to the extension of Myanmar, what to transport, Myanmar's jade? The economic benefits of these railways are negligible, and the process of returning returns is particularly slow, so in recent years, no, since the beginning of the construction of railways, the former Ministry of Communications and now the Ministry of Railways, there is no year that is not a huge loss, and the businessmen are the most shrewd, only participating in the lines that may make money, and other railways will not be willing to make money.

The second is education, in education, the cost of building a school is not large, but all the teachers in the school are paid by the government, this is a huge number, not to mention, the teacher's income will be paid according to the salary of the nine officials, this is the education payment, the big head, the tuition of primary and secondary schools is only enough for the maintenance of the daily school, the imperial court took the initiative to bear the salary of tens of thousands of teachers across the country, compared to the Ministry of Railways is only slow income is not no income, The money spent here by the Ministry of Education has no economic return at all, not even indirect economic returns, only spending money, not making money, so it is no wonder that many people outside ridicule the Ministry of Education Shangshu is really "the first loser of the dynasty".

The third is the well-known Eight Banners reform, the Eight Banners reform abolished many people, but also raised many people, these Eight Banners want to train into qualified workers, it will take a long time, and now the efficiency of the factories of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is decreasing, a big reason is because these people, the income generated by their work is not enough to pay their wages, naturally it is needless to say that it can produce any more benefits, fortunately, most of them are digested by the income of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, otherwise Yan Jingming's head will lose a lot of hair.

As for military spending, hundreds of officials, and the river workers and disaster relief that existed before, there is naturally no need to talk about them. The first three things that cost the most money have already spent seventy-seven or eighty-eight of the taxes collected and the funds raised from the issuance of bonds, so speaking of which, the court has no money, which is really not a lie.

But the Empress Dowager does not allow anyone to have any objection to these things, of course, of course, the opposition can be opposed, but the Empress Dowager Cixi never listened, she knows better than anyone that the importance of education, the importance of state-owned enterprises and the importance of expanding domestic demand to invest in infrastructure to stimulate the economy, the more money is spent now, and the future returns will be more amazing.

"The emperor is right, people's livelihood costs money, and military costs money, so it's not easy there."

Prince Li hurriedly said, "Since the Japanese parliament is so firm and has rejected the increase in military spending, then Japan's military strength will not be able to rise for a while, and the slave thinks that in the future, the Japanese will be able to stop in Korea." ”

"Rejected?" Empress Dowager Cixi smiled slightly, "The Japanese parliament will definitely pass the decision to increase military spending, King Li, let's make a bet." ”

Prince Li smiled, "How dare a slave bet with the Queen Mother, it's really a sin." ”

"What's this?" Empress Dowager Cixi smiled slightly, "Whoever loses, please be a host when you come out of the hall, and if I lose, I will put it in the Old Summer Palace, if you lose, I will personally come to your house and ask you to entertain and sing a good song." ”

In this way, Prince Li wished that he had lost, the Queen Mother came, this is a great honor, the Queen Mother seems to have never been to any palace, if he pulled out this head, but it is very glorious. (To be continued.) )