Liu Ying made a posture of warm words and persuasion, and Yangcheng Yanzi could only put on a posture of listening to his ears.

It's not that Liu Ying is now, but she already has the personal charm that makes Yang Chengyan shake his faith.

But from Liu Ying's mouth, when he heard the sentence 'must be used', Yang Chengyan remembered what they said in the morning, when they returned to Chang'an in the same car with Prime Minister Xiao He and Prime Minister Zhang Cang.

"Those who want to use it at home are not stone bricks, but stone bricks for building Chang'an······"

"The labor required to renovate the Zhengguo Canal should count on this stone brick 200,000 ······"

"Among the stone bricks, you can really jump out of the force······"

Recalling the inexplicable words of Xiao He and Zhang Cang, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but sit up straight, raised his head with doubts, and looked at Liu Ying, who was sitting five steps away.

Seeing Yang Chengyan's behavior, Liu Ying couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and after a moment of silence, she raised her head with a warm smile.

"Fang Cai, Shaofu also said: My father ordered the construction of the capital city of Chang'an, but because of the emptiness of the treasury, Chang'an City could not be built for five years."

"That is, Shaofu has exhausted all his spare strength to mint money, and when he is five years old, he only gets 200,000 stone bricks; It is used to build the four walls of Chang'an, but it is only half of the wall. ”

Speaking in a calm tone, Liu Ying couldn't help but smile.

"That being the case, Shaofu might as well say: Now, why is the treasury empty?"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, even if he was confident, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but say a little before he arched his hand with a calm face.

"The treasury, although it is only one word, is actually divided into two, that is, the treasury and the treasury."

"The government is the young government of the minister; The treasury is the treasury held by Xiao Xiang. ”

"Most of the revenues of the state treasury are mainly agricultural taxes; Where the inner money enters, it is even more verbal. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but sigh a little.

"Since His Majesty established the Han Society, he has allowed the people to recuperate and recuperate, and the tax is light, and the agricultural tax is only one out of fifteen; Oral endowment, it is calculated for the household, that is, one hundred and twenty dollars. ”

"One out of fifteen agricultural taxes will make the tax grain collected by the state treasury directly determined by the abundance of the peasant households' autumn harvest."

"If the peasants get abundant grain, the agricultural taxes will be abundant, and if the grain harvesters are few, the agricultural taxes will be low."

"And the mouth endowment, one hundred and twenty dollars per household, so the amount of money in the Shaofu is determined by the number of households in the world."

"If there are many households, there will be more mouths; If there are fewer households, there will be fewer mouths. ”

After speaking, Yang Chengyan froze for a moment, lowered his head and pinched his fingers for a while, and then raised his head again and looked at Liu Ying with a heavy face.

"Do you know if you have a family membership: Today, there are nearly 3 million households and nearly 17 million people living in rural households."

"There are three million households of this people, about twenty-eight hundred and fifty-thousand, which are eaten by Chehou; For the princes and citizens, there are nearly 1.5 million households. ”

"Those who are concerned with agriculture in Guanzhong, donate agricultural taxes to the national treasury, and pay to Shaofu are only concerned with more than 900,000 households in China, and the names of several counties such as Hanzhong, Ba, and Shu, totaling no more than 1.3 million households."

"and the north, Longyou, but unable to pay taxes, into the customs, but need the court to allocate money, food, so that the people of the border pass, will not starve to death······"

Listening to Yangchengyan's string, although it is not too accurate, it can also intuitively show the current population and financial status of the Han family, even if he expected it in his heart, Liu Ying's face couldn't help but sink.

Of the 17 million people and 3 million households, nearly one-tenth was given to the Chehou class, and nearly half was divided among the Kwantung vassal states.

The central government can directly collect taxes and taxes only from more than 900,000 households in central China and nearly 300,000 households in Hanzhong and Bashu······

"Population trough, ah······"

Liu Ying was thinking about it, when he saw Yang Chengyan clear his throat again, and put more intuitive data in front of Liu Ying.

"Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and the land of Ba and Shu have 1.3 million households, and His Majesty has granted the people a title of land, and the households have 100 acres of land."

"If we take the average grain output in Guanzhong last year, that is, two and a half stones of millet per mu, this household will be 1.3 million households, and the households will donate nearly 17 stone in agricultural taxes and pay 120 yuan."

"In this way, the annual tax on agriculture in the treasury is nearly fourteen million stones; If the Shaofu gets a mouthful, it will be more than 15,000 yuan······"

Hearing that Yangcheng Yan said this string of data, Liu Ying couldn't help but nod slightly with a heavy face.

Although Liu Ying didn't know much about the specific financial income of the Han family before, he probably knew how much agricultural tax and oral tax could be received by the treasury and internal treasury every year.

The oral endowment is from five years ago, when the father Liu Bang ascended the throne as the emperor and established the Sheji, he was condemned to death: each family pays 120 yuan a year.

Since that year, Shaofu's oral income has increased year by year from 10,000 yuan, and has risen to nearly 15,000 yuan in the past two years.

It is not that in the past five years, the population of the world has exploded significantly, but as the world gradually stabilized, many people who had taken refuge in the deep mountains and old forests due to the war gradually walked out of the 'peach blossom springs', went to the government to register information and household registration, and took away the 100 acres of farmland given to him by Liu Bang, the son of heaven, as well as a farmhouse.

As for agricultural taxes, there is not much difference.

-- From the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the national treasury revenue and agricultural tax were 9 million stones, and in the past few years, it has gradually risen to about 14 million stones.

In fact, according to the agricultural tax of 1.3 million households, each household is about 17 stones, the annual agricultural tax should actually be between 21 million and 22 million stones.

However, agricultural taxes, as the only government revenue of the Han dynasty today, are not all paid to the state treasury.

After the annual agricultural tax is raised, all localities will retain 3 to 40 percent of the agricultural tax collected by the autonomous authorities to be used for the administrative expenses of the local government in the following year.

As for the six to seventy percent that goes to the treasury······

"From the fifth year of the Han Dynasty to the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, Shaofu gave more than 40,000 yuan, and now it has melted nearly 30,000 yuan to mint three baht."

"In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, the oral endowment has been mostly three baht privately minted by the people; Last year, this year, there is almost no money and half a tael. ”

Liu Yingzheng was thinking about it, and then Wenyang Chengyan continued: "Although the agricultural tax income from the national treasury is more than 10,000 stones, most of it is used for the income of courtiers and local officials. ”

"The rest are mostly used by His Majesty to lead the army to the expedition and quell the rebellion of the princes with different surnames."

With a heavy face, Yang Chengyan finally straightened up slightly and bowed his hand to Liu Ying.

"This is the solution to the question asked by the family, 'Why is the government and the library empty?'"

"—The agricultural taxes of the state treasury are used for the servance of the officials, and for the consumption of the grain and grass of the army; The mouth of Shaofu is also used to melt and mint three baht. ”

"Since the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, when the mouth was mostly three baht, the money of the Shaofu has really existed in name only······"

After speaking, Yang Chengyan bowed slightly to show that he had finished speaking.

Seeing that Liu Ying heard this, she only sighed sadly, and looked at Yang Chengyan with a slight sigh in her eyes.

"This, it is the reason why the young government is forced to do not mint three baht······"

"If you don't immediately mint three baht, and when the money stored by Shaofu is half melted away, Shaofu will no longer have the slightest authority·······"

The reason couldn't be simpler: as the private treasury of the Son of Heaven, the power of the Shaofu is almost firmly bound to financial resources!

As the only department in the Chang'an court, and even in the entire Han political system, independent of the administrative system and directly responsible to the Son of Heaven, the only way for the Shaofu to compete for the right to speak in the court is to throw money!

As far as the court renovated Zheng Guoqu was concerned, the Shaofu (Son of Heaven) and the treasury (foreign court) had no money, so everyone could only discuss and communicate politely.

But if Shaofu is rich?

Not to mention the discussion of the court, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, gave an order, and the Shaofu himself could get things done, and there was no need to bring the court to play at all!

Shaofu completed it single-handedly, and it was all domestic money, this credit, let alone a piece of the pie, can't even touch it!

But if it is the opposite situation, that is, the treasury (foreign court) has money, and the Shaofu has no money, it will be a little embarrassing.

As the saying goes, if you ask for others, you must pay tribute to others.

As the founding emperor, Liu Bang naturally has the energy of 'the world has to listen to me'.

But if Liu Ying ascends the throne and encounters a place where money is needed, and it coincides with the full treasury and empty internal funds, then it is inevitable to discuss with Prime Minister Xiao He with a warm and pleasant face, or even put down his body to beg.

To put it bluntly, the relationship between the treasury and the Shaofu is like a pair of partners who cooperate with each other and compete with each other at the same time.

Shaofu represents the Son of Heaven, that is, the monarchy; The treasury represents the foreign dynasty, which can also be roughly understood as the power of the prime minister.

And in the competition between these two parties, whoever is richer will have more confidence and will have a greater right to speak.

The external power is big (rich), and the monarchy is weak (no money), that is, like Liu Ying in his previous life, he was sprayed by the prime minister with the sentence 'Hang the arch and rule the Holy Son of Heaven', and he will be closed in the palace for several years.

If the foreign dynasty is weak (no money) and the monarch is strong (rich), then it is like Liu Che, the martial emperor in history, with Tianxian in his mouth and his words.

Fight the Huns, the foreign dynasty does not agree?

- It's okay, I pay for the military out of my own pocket!

Build a palace room, and the courtiers have opinions?

- It's okay, I have to use the money in the treasury as funds!

Although it may sound outrageous, in this era, the essence of the power struggle between monarchs and ministers is indeed like this.

Whoever has money has confidence; If you have confidence, you will have a loud voice, and if you have a loud voice, you will have the right to speak!

Previously, the reason why Liu Ying wanted to use the excuse of 'officials and slaves should be used to repair canals' to forcibly stop the process of Shaofu's melting and minting of three baht coins was precisely for this reason.

- Today's Shaofu, but in the name of 'mouth endowment', is collecting unusable three baht coins from the hands of the people, and at the same time, the half tael of coins in his hand is also melted into three baht coins with no circulation!

If Liu Ying doesn't stop shouting, and Liu Ying ascends the throne after more than a year, Shaofu will run out of money!

Daddy is here, and it doesn't matter if Shaofu has no money - the founding emperor, the whole world is his, and no one dares to prick a thorn.

Even if he made the move of 'allocating half of the treasury to Shaofu', absolutely no one would say a 'no' to Liu Bang.

But Liu Ying, a hairy boy who is less than twenty years old and has not yet been crowned, if he doesn't even have money after ascending the throne, how can he fight with those old foxes in the foreign court?