"What is the business tax revenue?"

"Back to the king, in the past two years, the commerce of my Wu country has flourished, and the tax customs market, boats and cars, women's houses, shops, etc. are different."

Ji Ran replied, "The taxes paid by the merchants, and the income from the monopoly of salt and iron, include gold, cloth, silk, five baht coins, etc., and when converted, the ministers estimate that they are no less than six billion yuan!"

"Shhh

Hearing this, the ministers and doctors above the court couldn't help but be dumbfounded and gasped.

Six billion dollars, what is this concept?

According to the value of gold measured by the five baht coin, the common currency of the Wu State, 10,000 coins is equal to one tael of gold.

Those six billion dollars are equivalent to 600,000 taels of gold!

Han, Zhao, Wei, Fan, Bank of China, and Zhiliujin combined, the total annual treasury revenue is probably less than half of Wu's commercial tax......

It can be imagined how rich the country of Wu was at this time.

It is worth mentioning that in terms of commercial tax, Wu State levied taxes once every two years, and in the first year, 15 percent was levied every year.

In the middle year, 10% per year will be levied.

In the inferior year, five percent is levied every year, and there is no change in the event of famine!

Therefore, the commercial tax of 5 billion yuan must be halved before it can be regarded as the commercial tax income of Wu in the previous year.

Rao is like this, the business tax of three billion dollars is only high, not low.

If Qingji, like the countries of the Central Plains, set up a name and levy additional taxes, I am afraid that the fiscal revenue of the national treasury will be more than that.

"Being left, what is the tax of the mountains and seas and ponds?"

Qingji looked at Shaofu again's body and asked.

Shaofu, one of the Nine Emperors, is under the jurisdiction of Dazai, like the rest of the Secretaries.

However, the functions of the Shaofu are different.

Shaofu was a functional institution that managed the private wealth and life affairs of the Wu royal family.

There are two main aspects of his duties:

First, he was responsible for collecting taxes on mountains and seas and ponding and collecting local contributions for the use of the court.

Second, it is responsible for all the supply and services needed by the palace such as food, clothing, daily life, safari and entertainment.

To put it simply, the treasury of Shaofu does not belong to the national treasury, but the private treasury of King Wu (Wu royal family), also known as "inner treasury".

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Which one is it?

Weapon baggage!

Wu Guo is a veritable "weapon dealer", bows, crossbows, armor, swords, halberds, spears and other weapons, excellent performance, perennial peddling in the world of the world, so he makes a lot of money.

Every year, the income from weapons alone is no less than one billion dollars for the state of Wu.

As wars become more frequent and the scale of wars in various countries continues to expand, Wu's weapons income is bound to increase.

If we take into account the foreign exports of the Wu government, especially the tea, ceramics, silk and other commodities peddled through the Silk Road, as well as the annual tributes of more than a dozen vassal states, I am afraid that the annual financial income of Wu will not be less than 10 billion and 5 baht......

Rao is like this, and the various expenses of Wu Guo every year are an astronomical amount.

"Where is the history of Zhisu?"

"The minister is here."

Zeng Dian, who was named by name, immediately stood up.

"What is the total amount of various expenses of my Wu Kingdom?"

"Back to the king, the total amount of expenses for last year was about 3,476,200,000 dollars."

Zeng Dian took out a piece of music and said, "This is the treasury of the last year, all kinds of expenditures, all listed on it, please look at it!"

After the CRRC Fu ordered Jiao to slip over the chapter, he handed it to Qingji to read.

The annual expenditure of the state of Wu in various fields is enormous.

Military spending, in particular, accounts for one-fifth of the total.

Regarding the royal family, the palace, carriages and horses, servants, utensils, food, guest marriages, ancestral funerals, etc. are not less than 100 million yuan.

There are also the construction of the tomb of King Wu, the repair of the palace, the courtiers and officials and the generals and so on, I don't know how many.

To sum up, Wu Guo's expenses of more than 300 million yuan a Chinese New Year's Eve are still within the acceptable range.

The main reason why military spending is so large is that last year, Wu State had frequent foreign wars, and the loss of weapons and baggage was extremely large, and the pensions for the wounded and wounded soldiers and the rewards for meritorious soldiers were not a small amount.

To date, how much surplus is there in the treasury of the state of Wu?

Qingji secretly calculated an account by himself.

Aside from Qingji's private wallet "inner money" and the mountains of corn and grains, the hard currencies such as gold, cloth, silk, and jade in the treasury are no less than 100 billion yuan......

How?

Many!

This is also due to the fact that Wu has been fighting foreign expansion wars for many years, and every time a country is destroyed, many rare treasures can be taken out from its palace treasury, which is the savings of more than ten generations, or even dozens of generations, how can it not be much?

Compared with the abundant treasury, Wu's annual financial expenditure of more than 3 billion yuan can be regarded as a small thing.

It is worth mentioning that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the kingdom of Tianxia produced the idea of "saving money with nine styles", stipulating that nine purposes should be used to control fiscal expenditure.

The nine styles are mainly:

The endowment of the state, the expenses for the banquet guests;

The endowment of the suburbs is used to raise cattle, horses and livestock;

Bangdian's endowment, the cost of making articles for labor;

the endowment of the family, for the distribution of the goods of the princes and officials;

The endowment of the state and county, the gift fee for the guest to be given;

the endowment of the city, the food and clothing of the king and his family;

The endowment of the mountains and rivers is for funerals and famine relief;

The surplus of the coin, the cost of the playthings and treasures that the king needs.

Its purpose is to achieve the matching of revenue and expenditure, earmarked funds, limit the unlimited expansion of fiscal expenditure, avoid excessive waste of the royal family, and ensure that the balance of revenue and expenditure is surplus in finance.

On the issue of fiscal expenditure, Wu Guo did not make clear regulations, but spent what should be spent, and even Qingji spent money lavishly.

Uplink and down.

How many people in the whole country can be diligent and thrifty?

Confused little lamb

Acai continues!