"In fact, in Liaodong, land transfer money is already the main income of the local government. If there is no income from the land transfer fee, the local government will not even be able to pay the money. ”

Li Hao didn't care about Sun Xing's difficulties at all, just talked to Li Xiao vigorously.

"It's all come to this? Where do the local taxes go? Could it be that Ai Husheng can't even figure out this bit of money? ”

Li Xiao has already eaten it, and the local government actually regards the land transfer fee as the main income. This......

"Let Ai Shangshu tell you!" Li Hao kicked the ball directly to Ai Husheng.

Today is Li Xiao's inspection of the capital, and even the second assistant lord is following, and those Shangshu adults will naturally follow.

Hearing Li Hao's order, Ai Husheng could only come out and salute Li Xiao: "Handsome!" ”

"Tell me, what's going on?" Li Xiao asked with a cold face.

Fiscal issues are a major matter that has a bearing on the foundation of the country. The Zhu dynasty has fallen to this point because it has no money.

The Ming Dynasty is so huge, there are hundreds of thousands of officials. In addition to the servants of various ministries, the officials of each yamen are numbered in the millions.

These people are the cornerstone of governing the country. But these people are all eating imperial grain, but they have to be fed by Daming with silver dollars.

"In the past, you have always been opposed to tax increases. Therefore, financially it is all dependent on foreign trade.

There is also the plundering of foreign wars in order to maintain the balance of finances.

At that time, the national army had only four field divisions, and there were some local garrisons.

The four field divisions, plus some reserve troops, were only 300,000 men.

And the troops in the garrison area are only more than 600,000 people in the whole country combined.

The total number of troops in the country is no more than a million.

Feeding a million people, plus all sorts of research expenses. Military spending was already huge, but overseas trade flourished at that time.

Our trade surplus, combined with the gold, silver, and resources plundered in foreign wars, did not burden the imperial court too much.

But three years ago, we started a big war with the Europeans.

The trade routes in Europe were almost completely cut off, and the amount of trade that was smuggled was less than 10% of what it was before the war.

In addition, after the start of the war, our army expanded unprecedentedly, and Xi'an and Sanya respectively built rectification centers.

Various equipment factories are constantly being launched, and tanks, infantry vehicles, airplanes, and airships are all in full production.

Not to mention, all sorts of ammunition factories. That's overtime production!

Marshal, you are fighting on the front line. But you don't know that in the first year of the war alone, more than 38.13 million rounds of artillery shells of various types were used on the front.

More than 100 million bullets were used.

Dashuai, it's all money!

These are all filled in by the sea of gold and silver.

But the traders' routes were cut off, and customs tariffs plummeted.

There is simply no way to have so much profit from the volume of domestic trade. The exploitation of Australia and India has reached its limit.

If we intensify exploitation, it will provoke civil revolt.

On the one hand, it costs money, and on the other hand, the income is cut off, and the ministers are ......, and it is difficult for this household secretary to be a book. ”

Ai Husheng, who already had gray hair on his sideburns, thought of the difficulties of the year, and tears were already in his eyes.

"Uh......!" Ai Husheng burst into tears, and Li Xiao was a little embarrassed.

Ai Husheng has been following him for more than 20 years, and in the past 20 years, no matter how big the battle is, no matter how difficult it is.

As long as he made up his mind, he never let the matter of money bother him.

My attitude just now is indeed a bit excessive. But now in front of so many people, he can't openly admit his mistakes, which makes Li Xiao a little embarrassed.

"Ai Shangshu, it's not easy to know you. So, I will support you in whatever you do. Li Hao patted Ai Husheng on the shoulder.

"On my Ming Dynasty's wealth, I must be the first to mention Liaodong.

Because Liaodong was the first place to develop industry, there were many factories there and the income of workers was also high. They also have more purchasing power and are willing to live in a good house.

More importantly, because there are many factories in Liaodong, the scale of the city is also large.

Therefore, I ordered that ninety percent of Liaodong's taxes be handed over to the state treasury. It's called national tax!

The remaining 10% is collected into the local treasury and called it land tax!

Shandong, Gyeonggi, Hebei, and Jinling in Xi'an and Jiangnan all did this.

That's it, we also issued 200 million silver dollars of war bonds, which can be regarded as filling the big hole in the European war.

There was a time in the local area where the poor could not even pay their money.

Even inside the yamen, there was no money to buy paper. The clerks of the county government actually used bamboo slips and wooden desecration.

Of course, we know that the difficulties are not so difficult, these are the magistrates who are taking eye medicine.

However, it is also a fact that local funds are tight and poor.

There is no choice but to decentralize the policy to the local government.

They were allowed to sell the land to local merchants, and of course, we didn't sell it all at once.

Instead, it sold them the right to use it for seventy years, and every inch of the Ming Dynasty territory belonged to the Ming court.

The merchants bought land from us, built houses on it, and sold it to the people.

As we said just now, the people of Liaodong are very wealthy. Their willingness to buy a home is also high!

As a result, many buildings were built in various cities in eastern Liaodong.

As a result, we found that cities with more houses are prosperous economically.

Because masonry cement is needed to build a house, the benefits of a masonry cement plant are good. The masonry cement produced is not worried!

Working day and night, the merchants raised the wages of the workers.

And they're hiring more workers.

This allows more people in the local area to work and earn a living.

There are also more and more migrant workers working on the construction site.

These people farm in the countryside when they are busy farming, and come out to work to earn money when they are not working. People who originally had an ordinary family background gradually became solid after a year or two.

As for the house after it is sold, someone needs to decorate it. It is also necessary to add a lot of furniture and household objects.

After all, it can also support a lot of decorators and furniture factories.

Moreover, we also found that when everyone became rich, housing prices began to rise.

Cities with large populations are not only rising, but also soaring.

But the more prices in cities that rise, the more people will buy houses.

And the price of housing has risen, and the land transfer fee has also risen.

Last year, the land transfer fee has exceeded the national tax.

In the past few years, it has been the land transfer money that has supported the war in Europe. Li Hao slowly told Li Xiao the ins and outs of the matter.

"The government makes money by selling land, and the more expensive the house, the more expensive their land is.

Then the magistrates don't have the impulse to speculate the housing prices to the sky. Thinking of the consequences of exchanging land for money, Li Xiaoling shuddered.

In later generations, the high housing prices in Sijiu City made Li Xiao not even have the courage to listen to it. If it continues like this, that kind of thing is likely to happen in this world.

Don't underestimate people's greed, and don't overestimate the integrity of officials.

Both of these things are extremely unreliable.

"The higher the price, the more people will buy.

Many people say that buying a house goes up or doesn't go down. As long as the number of houses rises, the higher the popularity, the better the local economy.

Even the taxes were much more than they were before the house was built.

There are already people who specialize in buying and selling houses, and in many places, this is already a very prosperous business.

In Liaodong, the annual real estate transaction tax has reached more than 40 million silver dollars.

If this policy is promoted throughout the country, you will have to fight two more European wars, and there will be no problem. ”

Ai Husheng likes the current land policy very much, and Li Xiao nationalized all the land at the beginning, which is simply too clever.

Especially in places like Liaodong, whether it is to build railways or roads, or to demolish and build buildings.

Because the land belonged to the imperial court, there was much less trouble with land expropriation.

High! It's really brilliant!

Li Xiao has two big heads, but there is no way. It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, even if Ai Husheng is powerful, it is impossible to conjure money out of thin air.

Over the years, I have been fighting on the front line, and I always ask the rear for this and that. In the rear, I never told Li Xiao how difficult it was financially and how much it was unable to make ends meet.

Now they have found their own way to solve the problem of war funding. Supporting themselves to fight this war, if they are disposed of, it will definitely be inappropriate.

If he really dared to do this, Li Xiao felt that the betrayal of his relatives was just around the corner.

After all, a boss who is not interesting enough will never have employees who are interesting enough.

Besides, the war in Europe is only a temporary end.

The Ming Dynasty needs a broken Europe, a broken Europe, and will never allow such a behemoth as Germany to appear.

What is now Germany annexed France and England, and also annexed half of Poland and a third of Austria.

Whether in terms of land area or population size, it has the potential to become a competitor of the Ming Dynasty.

And Li Xiao has always regarded them as competitors.

Ashie is not a Russian tsar, he is a very capable person.

If he is given ten years, God knows what Germany will be able to swell.

Since the war is only a temporary stop, then the army cannot be disbanded. Moreover, the Ming army also needs more aircraft, tanks, and artillery.

More shells, more supplies, more supplies of all kinds, are needed.

The Ming also needed to raise an army of more than three million people overseas.

All these have put forward more stringent requirements for the treasury finances.

It is not easy to have the current situation.

"Big brother, the population of the country is growing. Building a house can not only solve the problem of employment, but also allow the people to earn a living.

Moreover, it can increase local taxes.

More importantly, the population of the Ming Dynasty has gradually increased in recent years. The expenses of the imperial court are also getting bigger and bigger!

It's like some towns and villages, after actual calculations, the commercial population is already very large. Now, it has been changed to a county.

With more and more people, there is naturally a need for more houses.

It takes two or even three years to build a building, and you can have a child, and you can get pregnant in ten months.

According to the estimation of the Ministry of Households, we may have to build a house for 20 years before it is enough for the existing population of the Ming Dynasty to live.

And that's just the current number!

But when the moon goes, so do I! Our houses are being built quickly, but the number of children is increasing.

When this wave of children grows up, they still need housing if they have children.

We can always tear down the old and build the new.

Mr. Tang said that after his calculations, the total population of Daming may exceed one billion in 15 years.

Twenty years later, the population of Daming will quickly exceed 1.1 billion.

Thirty years later......

Don't dare to go on like this, we need to prepare so many houses in advance. Let everyone live in a spacious and bright building. ”

Li Hao is full of ambition in building a house, and looks at the shantytown in front of him as if he is looking at a field of crops.

Li Xiao also looked at this large shantytown!

Indeed, sooner or later, shanty towns need to change.

Dirty, bad, mosquitoes and flies, sewage flowing, such shantytowns cannot be compared with buildings.

It is also a good thing to change their living conditions through demolition.

But ......, but Li Xiao is really worried that one day the house price will reach the point of a dream, so that young people don't even dare to have the idea of buying, but choose to lie flat.

But what can he do? After all, there will be a second European war in another year. This time, Germany needs to be defeated, so that Germany, which is tepid on the surface but is actually catching up, will pay the fate of being dismembered.

Money! It's all about money!

No way, let's do it first. After all, selling land to build houses now seems to be an important means of improving the living conditions of citizens and collecting money for the country.

The people of the Ming Dynasty still support the European war, the reason is that the European war actually has little to do with many of them.

There was no tax increase because of the European war, and there was no forced force to join the army because of the European war.

On the contrary, many people made a fortune because of the military supplies of the European war!

Therefore, the people of the Ming Dynasty had a very tolerant attitude towards the war that took place in distant areas.

But if taxes are increased substantially, the common people will definitely have another impression of the war in distant Europe.

"Okay, let's do it first. If there is anything in the future, I will talk about it later. Li Xiao was also helpless, so he could only admit to doing so first.

But he also has confidence!

As long as Germany is torn apart, the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty will immediately prosper again.

After all, many things in the Ming Dynasty have now been industrialized. It has also completed the product, from the first stupid big black coarse, to the current straight and beautiful transformation.

Overseas trade is booming, and the Ming Dynasty naturally has a huge trade surplus every year.

At the same time, tariffs will rise sharply!

At that time, the Ming court will have a lot of money, a lot of money.

When that day really comes, Daming goods will become absolute hard currency.

When money isn't an issue, it's a lot less of a hassle.

Li Xiao nodded, and continued to walk on the streets of the capital surrounded by the ministers with his hands behind his back.

From time to time, I still look left and right decently, and discuss the price of vegetables with the vegetable sellers. After we finished talking, we didn't buy it, but after listening to his story like a story, the mysterious tour guide next to us began to use cold and violent words on us.