Funing Palace.

"Your Majesty! Zhang Shilang left Huaihe Tower. ”

"Oh? Left? ”

Zhao Jun, who had just been lying down, sat up again, lifted the yellow curtain and asked:

"How?"

Wang Huaien had a smile on his face:

After Zhang Shilang left, there were bursts of shouting and scolding in the Huaihe Lou restaurant, and there was the sound of things smashing, and many officials who went to the Huaihe Lou to attend the banquet left with black faces.

Come to think of it, they didn't negotiate. ”

Zhao Jun also smiled: "That's natural, so you should rest assured, right?" ”

Wang Huaien said with shame on his face: "It is the slave maid who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and Zhang Shilang can get the favor of His Majesty, but he must not be such an ordinary person, it is the slave and maid who are wrong." ”

"Hahahaha! You! You! Don't you dare to underestimate people in the future? ”

Zhao Jun smiled and shook his head.

The night passed quietly.

Time is also gradually entering late autumn in the yellowing of autumn leaves.

October 18 of the fourth year of Xingwu.

The army, which had been on the march for several months, finally returned to Korea.

The imperial court held a grand celebration party for the victorious Bai Zhenjun and others.

In addition, the imperial court did not delay in the slightest, and all the rewards that should be given to those who made contributions to this war of annihilation were handed out.

All those who should be promoted have been promoted.

As for the old prince Zhao Chongguo, the old man naturally wants to be rewarded as the coach, but the old man is already a prince, and he can't be promoted, but the old man offered to give as long as he gave silver.

Zhao Jundang rewarded the old man with a large amount of silver.

What he lacks most now is silver, and what can be solved with money, in Zhao Jun's opinion today, it is not a problem. After the celebration banquet, the imperial court began to enter a busy state.

From late autumn to the end of the year.

The annual autumn tax collection is the most important event in the year of the Great Song Dynasty.

Both up and down are extremely important.

The household department waited for the autumn tax to be credited to fill the treasury, while the other imperial court ministries were staring at the autumn tax, thinking about whether they could share more this year.

The Privy Council is the highest military institution in the Great Song Dynasty, and several military bigwigs in the court are looking forward to collecting more taxes and increasing military spending next year.

It can be said that the top and bottom are staring at this tax money.

This year, we first dealt with smuggling, and then started a war with the fat country.

There are two major events, and these are big things that can affect taxes.

When winter approached, after the tax and silver of each county were escorted into Beijing, the household department went through a full half a month of calculation and counting, and finally reported the tax revenue, which shocked the Manchu Dynasty.

Last year, the entire Great Song Dynasty collected a total of more than 400 million taels of taxes and silver.

Among them, 150 million taels are the same as in previous years, and they are grain taxes and other conversions of tea, iron, and salt.

And the remaining 250 million taels are the income brought by the sea trade last year.

Although there was smuggling last year, smuggling also made the entire maritime trade more prosperous because of tax revenue, and the transaction volume of each household hit a new high.

After the imperial court suppressed smuggling in various places, the supplementary payment was made up, and the beheading of the family was beheaded.

In the end, this year's sea trade income was directly increased to about 200 million taels.

The remaining more than 50 million taels are all benefits gained from destroying the country.

Although the manuscript cost of the Qi Kingdom was quite high because of the previous years of war, it was also a country, and the Great Song Dynasty did not spend much effort to attack the Qi Kingdom, and the most consumed military expenditure was the consumption of grain and grass.

After conquering the Kingdom of Ji, a lot of silver was collected in the hands of the local yamen and those who resisted.

In the autumn tax period, a wave of taxes was collected, and this was a full 50 million taels.

This is a one-time income.

After learning about this year's tax revenue, the plans and budgets of all ministries for next year were immediately put forward in the court, for fear that the silver would be snatched away if they were one step too slow.

Listening to them dividing the taxes there, Cui Shangshu Quanchen of the household department had a black face.

I can't wait to rush forward on the spot to give them a kick, and save them the tax money they have always remembered in the treasury.

There are always many places to spend money on a large court, but some are necessary and some are unnecessary.

Zhao Jun knows very well that don't look at what the current books say is like a river, but in fact, the number they reported is a large imaginary number, just to be able to make a little more budget.

But if they really allocate funds according to their budgets, then no amount of tax revenue will be enough for the imperial court.

In the end, after the discussion of the court, the compromise and reduction of the ministries, Zhao Jun finally cut down some of the projects that were used by the ministries to make up the number, and finally counted the budget of each ministry next year plus military spending and the salaries of officials.

The imperial court's tax revenue of 400 million taels this year will be used out to a full 250 million taels.

The main part is still in the infrastructure construction and military spending in various places.

These two alone already account for a full half of the budget.

But for these two points, Zhao Jun is willing to spend money.

The construction of infrastructure in various places, especially roads, can speed up the march of the imperial court to transfer troops to transport grain and grass, and can also make merchants in various places interact more frequently, which is beneficial to the construction of commerce and economy.

It's worth the investment.

And military spending is also necessary.

The reason why a country can enjoy peace is not because he is lucky, his surroundings make him at peace.

Something peaceful, an appendage of great military power.

When your strength is the strongest around, then no matter what chaos happens around you, you can be peaceful.

But if you are the weakest, then no matter how peaceful the neighborhood is, you will not be at peace, because the strangely strong country will care about everything about you.

A strong military is the foundation of peacekeeping.

In this way, the investment of military spending is indispensable.

Zhao Jun has always believed in a sentence, if you don't use the silver to increase the funds, is it possible that you want to keep it and wait for the war to be paid after the defeat?

Therefore, the investment in military spending is indispensable.

Of the remaining half, only half was spent on the salaries of officials and the necessary expenses for the operation of the imperial court.

The other half is to be invested in the three counties of the country.

The three counties were newly established, and after a war before, it is not an exaggeration to say that the country is in ruins.

Since it is now the land of the Great Song Dynasty, it naturally needs to be rebuilt.

At the same time, in order to enhance the control of the Great Song Dynasty over the Fat Kingdom, the Great Song Dynasty also had to migrate a group of people from the interior to the Fat Kingdom to fill the population of the Fat Kingdom.

It also costs money.

Zhao Jun knew that a large number of population migrations would inevitably cause the displaced people to suffer, but since the imperial court had already taken the three counties, it was impossible to let them go.

Sometimes the necessary sacrifices are unavoidable.

All Zhao Jun could do was to give them a little more compensation to the people who had been divided into migration, so that they could have a little better off.

In this way, a lot of silver is needed.

and other matters constitute next year's spending budget, and in the end, if everything goes smoothly according to the plan, Da Song can save 150 million taels of taxes this year and save a little money.

And after the construction of the three counties of the Kingdom of Fat is completed, Zhao Jun also believes that the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty will be increased by a part next year.

It can be said that everything is thriving.

Until......

(End of chapter)