"Go home! Chinese New Year! On the day of the new year, the children who lived and studied in the library cheered and brought gifts home.

Children living in close proximity line up, and distant localities hire vehicles to deliver them to their homes or villages.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also generous, taking a holiday, starting from a young age, until the fifth day of the first month, this year everything is smooth, happy.

Yesterday, the last time the accounts were settled, the imperial treasury had more than 8 million guan in revenue this year, more than 5.9 million guan in expenditure, and more than 2.1 million guan remaining.

This year, I have already spent a lot of money, but I didn't spend it, and when I came to work, when I went back, many people bought things, iron pots, kitchen knives, sickles and other iron tools.

When they get home, they will also buy pottery to enrich the family's belongings as much as possible.

The final purchase, combined with the tax provided by the sale of Xiaqiu Village, brought the total revenue of the state treasury to more than eight million guan.

According to Zhu Wentian's thoughts, there should not be a balance of 2.1 million yuan, and a surplus of money means that the people have earned less.

Unlike the money in the palace, the income of more than 10 million guan, the expenditure of more than 3 million guan, and the remaining more than 6.6 million guan.

Most of this money came from overseas trade, gold, silver, copper, grain, medicinal herbs, spices, and ......

Then there are greenhouse vegetables, which used to be hundreds of wen a catty, and now they are twenty wen a catty.

The people waited for two more days to buy, and now they are afraid of bad food, and they use it for hot pot for the New Year, gritting their teeth, buying meat and fresh vegetables, and having a good New Year.

There are dumplings in Yingtianfu that can be wrapped in wheat flour because flour can be bought, and dumplings are also eaten in Taiping Mansion and Ningguo Mansion.

Other people who have inconvenient transportation and don't want to spend money on flour make indica and glutinous rice at home into various foods.

"It's going to be good next year! The army doesn't have to spend that much money. "Zhu Yuanzhang ate dumplings in Xiaqiu Village at noon.

The weather is warm, the ice rink is fully melted, nine days have passed since the beginning of spring, six days are six days away from the rain, and the night is not so cold.

The vegetables in the greenhouse in Xiaqiu Village are going out of the garden, and they are sent back to Yingtianfu for sale for the last time in the thirtieth day.

Then the vegetable greenhouse began to raise seedlings, grabbing time for planting after the beginning of spring, and not making money for greenhouse vegetables.

However, the greenhouse in the palace continued to grow vegetables and sell them for money, and sent them to the north by boat, plus drunken crabs.

Zhu Yuanzhang was happy, and the remaining money was the amount that the imperial court could not collect in a year.

If it weren't for the war and the creation of new weapons, the army would have eaten well, and there would have been more money left over to build ships with steam engines.

The lieutenant chief was happy: "As the Yi people continue to send good things back, I believe that more and more people will participate in the business team, and the scale of trade will be even greater next year." ”

Zhu Wentian was silent beside him, and slowly tasted the delicious dumplings one bite at a time.

He knew that due to the promotion of overseas trade, the countries in Europe would change the history of the Great Voyage and would send more ships to the Ming trade in advance.

Now most of them are Arabs, i.e. big cannibals, who are in charge of intermediary trade, and some people from European countries have joined the ranks.

There were no canals in the Mediterranean, so they took a land route and then took a boat.

Either you have to go all the way overland, from a bunch of stans, or Afghanistan, and the British don't want to come by boat......

Big food is the best at buying and selling, and at the same time willing to fight.

And the Ming Dynasty must go out, this closed country is not good, all good resources are occupied by others.

The point is that those races are too aggressive, and history proves it.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of watermelon soup and smiled: "As soon as the weather is warm next year, our fleet will go out first, the wooden ships will cruise along the coast of Daming, and the big steam engine ships will trade outside."

You're a good one, but you've already set a policy for next year's development, focusing on internal stability, strengthening national education, and maritime trade.

The military doesn't care about it first, as long as the Northern Yuan doesn't come over, and by the way, he goes to Yunnan to collect the land. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang expressed his stance on the thick inscription compiled by the lieutenant governor before, and the officials in the court unanimously approved it.

Next year, there will be a force to intimidate and persecute the Liang king of Yunnan, who was sealed by the Northern Yuan, and Yunnan has cut off contact with the Northern Yuan emperor.

Da Ming has sent people over to send some gifts, and then help hunt or something.

Adopt the same strategy as next year's trip to Guangdong, and use guns to intimidate local tribes.

Then the people read together and did not delay in farming, and by the way, they taught the use of soil fertilizer and pesticides for farming.

Foreign trade began with four steam engine ships of 1,000 stone and one ship of 3,000 stone.

If you continue to build 3,000 stones, 3,000 stones are suitable for sails, and no matter how big they are, the sails will not be suitable.

If the steam engine ship does not have sails, it is worried about the lack of fuel and fresh water, so use sails when it is windy, and power the steam engine when the wind is bad.

Other things are gone, as for repairing bridges and roads, it is a normal arrangement of the imperial court, and small problems must be done every year.

Queen Ma followed beside her and said: "The main thing is that there is money, and the most worrying thing is that the treasury has no money available, and the people are affected by the disaster, so they can only reduce the rent."

In Sichuan, for example, the affected areas not only reduced their land endowments for two years, but also transferred grain from other nearby places so that the people could eat.

The steam engine slowly transported it, so it replenished the grain that had been pumped up, and brought back local products from there by the way. ”

Queen Ma said the most clearly, she had food in her hands, she didn't panic in her heart, and the food exchanged for trade was more useful than gold and silver.

"The queen is right." The lieutenant chief agreed: "There will be no big unpreventable disasters next year, everyone will farm safely, and when the harvest is time, we can use the money to collect grain." ”

"Yes, the extra grain is collected with money, and then the people spend money to buy things, and the money has to be circulated.

Let's save the food, and use it when we need it, and we can't slack off.

It is necessary to establish a few more seed planting bases, the climate of different places is different, and seeds from other places may not be suitable. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know that the past few years had been the most difficult time for him, and he had been fighting wars and encountering disasters everywhere, droughts, locust plagues, floods, crops, droughts, small earthquakes and hailstorms were all small things.

At this moment in history, the people of Beiping, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Hebei died and fled, and the key was that they had not fought the Northern Yuan, and they had to send people to take precautions.

Now Shandong's production has increased, and soybeans and sorghum have been planted in places where one crop of wheat is planted every year, and the harvest has been completed, and the people have deliberately sent people to send them.

The family will give a catty, so that His Majesty will know that his family is not short of food, and he will not worry about next year.

"What Your Majesty said is very true." The chief continued to echo: "The most scarce utensils in the people's homes, one more kind of pot, the more choices the people have for cooking, as long as the price is cheaper, the people will be willing to buy, so as to take back the money in the hands of the people." ”

"In such buying and selling, it is the treasury that makes money, they collect taxes, and the people ...... Next year, more pottery kilns will be opened, at least pottery plates, bowls, and plates. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang instantly thought of who took advantage, and corrected his thoughts.

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