Hongzhi was also stunned - Liu Shoufu actually had something to say?

As the head of the cabinet, if you want to say a few words, you can't be refined?

"Aiqing, please speak", Hongji's face slowed down and nodded at Liu Jian.

Liu Shoufu Chrysostom is rare, if he opens his mouth, no one will be left speechless, then the question arises - is he for me or against me?

Hongzhi stared at Liu Jian intently with a mood of seven up and eight down.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also looked at Liu Jian expectantly, doubtfully, or apprehensively - he will always be the most eye-catching "star" at a critical time.

The first assistant of the cabinet does his job, and he can't accept it!

"Your Majesty, today is the end of the year, and the financial revenues and expenditures of various places have been counted, so why don't you listen to this year's harvest of our Ming Dynasty?"

Hongzhi also frowned slightly, but he had to continue to allow him to finish his words: "Aiqing continues to ......"

"Most of the Ming Dynasty's financial revenue comes from farmland taxes, followed by tea tax, mining tax, commercial tax and other ......" Liu Jian talked eloquently, and began to explain the financial revenue and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty to Hongzhi and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

The financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty is mainly composed of the following items: agricultural tax, salt tax, tea tax, commercial tax, banknote tariff, and mining tax.

Among them, the agricultural tax revenue mainly comes from land taxes and military cantonment rents.

The collection of land endowments shall be carried out in a system of both discounts and discounts. Its field endowment basically follows the two-tax system since the Tang and Song dynasties, stipulating that it is divided into two "summer taxes" and "autumn grains". It is stipulated that "the summer tax shall not exceed August, and the autumn grain shall not exceed February next year". The implementation is a system of expropriation, and almost all of them are expropriated in kind. In addition, the summer tax is also levied on silk, and the autumn grain is also levied on cotton in some provinces, and others such as silk, silk, safflower, linen, jujube, etc.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty also took a large number of measures to encourage the production of military tuns. Set a quota and stipulate that the performance of the commander is linked to the production situation (this is also one of the reasons why most of the guards in the Ming Dynasty can only farm and not fight: if the land is planted, they can be promoted, who the hell will fight to the death?), reduce the rent of some military tuns, which makes the production of military tuns continue to increase, the government's financial revenue is greatly improved, and the supply of military salaries is guaranteed.

“...... In the present year, the income from farmland taxes alone has been converted into silver, which has reached 2,500 and 90,000 taels, of which 1,230,000 taels are from fields and 1,360,000 taels from military tuns......"

The financial income of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the field endowment and military rent, the largest is the salt class, "one out of twenty". During the Hongwu period, a total of six salt transfer divisions were established, namely Lianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Changlu, Shandong, Fujian, and Hedong. Seven salt divisions, namely Guangdong, Haibei, Sichuan, Yunnan Black Salt Well, Yunnan White Salt Well, Yunnan Five Wells. In addition, there is also a salt division, that is, the Shaanxi Lingzhou Salt Division. During the Yongle period, a west field was added in addition to the east field of the Hedong Metropolitan Salt Envoy Division. In the seventh year of Yongle, the salt department was set up in Vietnam, which had four under its jurisdiction, which was later revoked.

“...... This year's income from the salt department is 600,000 taels of silver from the two Huai salt transport departments, 140,000 taels of silver from the salt transport envoys from Zhejiang Province, 120,000 taels of silver from the Changlu Salt Transport Division in Hejian, 50,000 taels of silver from the Shandong Salt Transport Division, 22,000 taels of silver from the Fujian Salt Transport Division, 194,000 taels of silver from the Henan Salt Transport Division, 36,000 taels of silver from the Shaanxi Salt Division, more than 11,000 taels of silver from the Guangdong Lifting Division, more than 71,000 taels of silver from the Sichuan Lifting Division, and more than 35,000 taels from the Yunnan Lifting Division, totaling more than 1,299,000 taels of silver......

Tea classes in the Ming Dynasty were also one of the important revenues of the government. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated: "Where tea is sold, the Propaganda Division will be ordered to take one out of thirty."

“...... This year, a total of 100,000 and 30,000 catties of tea and tribute tea will be obtained, and 11,384 ......taels of silver will be taxed."

According to its jurisdiction, the Ming Dynasty is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, and collects all kinds of things from rice and grain; The other is local concern. In the Ming Dynasty, the commercial tax was "thirty and one".

“...... This year, the annual tax is 190,500 stones, which is nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and in addition, 227,000 taels of silver are collected from the banknotes......"

The mining areas of the Ming Dynasty were mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, and Yunnan. Mining taxes include silver, iron, copper, and mercury. Silver and iron classes are the mainstay, and copper and mercury are less numerous.

“...... This year, the tax amount in Fujian has increased to more than 30,000 taels, Zhejiang has increased to more than 80,000 taels, and my mining income this year has reached 420,000 taels......"

To sum up, Tian Fu and Juntun were rented 25,090,000 taels, salt was 1,299,000 taels, tea was 11,384 taels, commercial taxes were 100,000 taels, banknote tariffs were 227,000 taels, and mining taxes were 420,000 taels. Then the financial revenues of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi were 27,147,400 taels.

"This year is a bumper harvest year, 27,147,400 taels of silver, which is considered to be a lot of wealth, but how these 27 million taels of silver are spent, can the Holy One know?"

Liu Jian's position as the first assistant of the cabinet is by no means mixed up - to be able to say all kinds of financial income like a few treasures, it seems that there is "overtime" every day!

Hongzhi smashed his mouth and didn't answer - if Lao Tzu can know everything clearly, then what do you want you, the head of the cabinet, to do?

"Palace expenditures, clan salaries, court officials, river defense and water conservancy can still have a stable number, but this military expenditure is a bottomless pit", Liu Shoufu went around most of the circle, and finally wanted to say his key point, "The military salary of the Ming Dynasty can basically be solved by the military tun, and this year's military expenditure is mainly spent on Datong ......"

The military tun system of the Hongzhi Dynasty has not been strictly destroyed, and the military salary is basically solved by the military tun. Therefore, the main military expenditure in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi was the war cost of the Ming Dynasty in Datong and the fire sieve fight, and the cost of these wars was quite large.

"At the beginning of the year, Pingjiang Bo fought with the fire sieve and spent nearly 3 million taels; when the hussar general took office as the deputy chief of Datong, it was even more terrible, starting from the Daxing method of 'recruiting troops', until the end of the winter war, a total of 5,620,000 ......taels were spent before and after."

Ping Jiangbo smashed his mouth and quickly turned his face away.

Wang Rui also buried his head even lower - Lao Tzu only fights in Datong, how much money is spent!

"This year's military expenditure of more than 8 million taels accounts for 40% of the DPRK's financial revenue. In addition to the expenses of the palace, the salaries of the clan, the official salaries of the imperial court, the river defense and water conservancy, etc., can there still be 8.62 million taels of silver left to fight these two battles for Ping Jiangbo and the hussar generals?"

"No! Excluding the expenses of the palace, the salaries of the clan, the salaries of the imperial court, the salaries of the court officials, and the water conservancy of the river, there will be less than 3 million taels left in the treasury this year......

"Pingjiang Bo and the hussar general are in Datong, just open their mouths to ask the court for silver, but they don't know that these two battles have already spent all the savings of the court in the past three years!"

The great Liu Shoufu voice was like a bell, covering the Golden Palace, and no one dared to refute it. When he said this, he finally had to make a concluding speech - the more the courtiers went on, the more they understood what Liu Shoufu meant, and now they finally had to wait until Lord Shoufu showed his cards!

"This is still under the premise that the Ming million-strong army has a military tun as a basis, if the military system of the guard is reformed, the military tun is abolished, and the army is completely supported by the imperial court's salary, dare to ask the saint, under the income and expenditure of the imperial court, what will be used to support the million-dollar army?"

As soon as Liu Shoufu's words came out, the dynasty was in an uproar!

Liu Jian's tirade simply means this: Now the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty is 27 million taels (including 13 million taels of military income), except for the two extra ones with the fire screen this year, which are not included in the budget, and the other expenditures are about 24 million taels, that is to say, in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi under the military system of the guard, if the fire screen is not used, there will be a balance of 3 million taels; The fiscal revenue fell to 14 million taels (because the military tanning system of the guard was removed, and the military tun was canceled), and other expenditures plus the full burden of military salaries of 13 million taels (the military tun was canceled, since the imperial court allocated funds to support the army), the financial expenditure changed from the original 24 million taels to 37 million taels!

That is to say, if the military system of the guard station is abolished and the law of "recruitment" is implemented, it is very likely that the financial revenue and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty will appear in the future: 14 million taels (income) - 37 million taels (expenditure) = minus 23 million taels......

This is an extremely simple arithmetic problem!

Is Liu Jian opposed the abolition of the military system of the guard?

No!

"The hussar general's 'recruitment' method and the addition of 'four headquarters' are indeed beneficial to the dynasty and the policy of seeking the country, but Your Majesty, how big the pot can only be as much rice as it is, it is not that the Ming Dynasty should not abolish the military system of the guard and carry out the 'recruitment', but that our Ming Dynasty does not have such a large financial resource......"

From the bottom of his heart, Liu Shoufu is optimistic about the method of "recruitment", and he wants to abolish the military system of the guard, but the reality is cruel - he knows the most about the income and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, and he has the most right to speak.

This time, it was the turn of the "humerus" of the imperial court to breathe a sigh of relief-Liu Shoufu is Liu Shoufu, as soon as he opened his mouth, the saint had nothing to say!?

Hongji really has nothing to say?

Liu Jian is the first assistant, and he has a clear understanding of the income and expenditure of the dynasty, Hongzhi is the emperor - a wise and martial emperor, he may not be as clear as his "big housekeeper" about his "family business income and expenditure", but he has a number in his heart!

Therefore, Liu Shoufu raised such a cruel practical problem, and he also considered it - he has been discussing with the hussar general in the past few days to improve the military system of the abolition of the guard, how many of you think he is playing mahjong in the card game?

Hongji slowly drifted his gaze to the hussar general - little bastard, it's time for you to get out!