The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 545

After listening to Qian Bin’s report, Qin Huan simply called Xiao Xinru and a group of female officials of the interior government to hold a joint meeting to find out the bottom, so as to plan and guide the business development next year.

After all, relying solely on them to develop the economy, it is impossible to say when there will be major problems, because today’s economic development speed is beyond their control.

No, I don’t know. I’m scared when I ask.

Although the expenditure of the interior government is also quite large, and the expenditure this year is also as high as 102 million, the money earned is twice the tax revenue of the Government Council, as high as 200 million.

Among them, salt and grain naturally occupy the big end, and the second is cotton cloth cotton, perfume, soap glass mirror and other luxury products produced in Nanyang industrial area.

“Your Majesty, isn’t it good that the house of interior has a balance of nearly ten thousand liang of silver?”

Seeing that Qin Huan’s face was not right, Zhang Yan asked puzzled. Others looked at him in the same doubt.

“Of course not. If it goes on like this, there will be big problems. I’m afraid that in a few years, the world’s wealth will be concentrated in the hands of the royal family, which will definitely affect economic development. Therefore, whether it is the interior government or the Government Council, the annual revenue and expenditure must be balanced, even the interior government. The Government Council even has to spend more than its income every year. Only in this way can a virtuous circle be formed!”

Qin Huan said with a dignified face. He couldn’t help worrying because it was so terrible. I’m afraid the people all over the world earned less money than the royal family.

Qin Huan has heard of the theory of fiscal deficit operation, but it is the same thing. It is very difficult to achieve it.

Qian bin was better. Anyway, the Government Council was not his. Qin Huan would lose money every year, but Xiao Xinru and Zhang Yan were heartbroken at the thought of spending all the money they earned every year. A hundred and twenty were unwilling.

“Your Majesty, this year has been a big spender. It has spent only 100 million liang of silver for war, reward, shipbuilding and road construction. How can the remaining 100 million be spent? And in the coming years, it can’t be given in vain?”

At this moment, Zhang Yan was like a miser. She wanted to cry without tears. With the thoughts in her mind, she really didn’t know how to send 200 million liang of silver every year. The key is that the situation is very good, and the silver she earns will only increase year by year.

“Joke, where is the silver? I don’t know how to send it? As the saying goes, “take it from the people and use it for the people. Next, we should do a lot of education. We should vigorously renovate official roads and build wooden tracks all over the country. What we want is silver. At that time, the silver will never be enough, not endless!”

Qin Huan didn’t have a good way. Seeing that they all looked at themselves foolishly, he didn’t know how to spend it if he didn’t give them specific rules.

After pondering for a while, he continued: “the silver hoarded by the central bank should be made into ingots as soon as possible. It is printing 400 million denominations of treasure bills. Next year, all of them will be spent on me. People will be hired to build official roads and wooden tracks everywhere, as well as the new capital construction in Wuhan. By next year, taxes will be used as military expenses except official salaries, The interior government is responsible for the expenditure on education. All the surplus silver will be used to expand the scale of factories and mines and recruit more people to work. In the future, Royal commercial banks, banks, factories and mines will also pay taxes! ”

Qin Huan thought for a moment and said, “now the world is settled. Food is no better than salt. In the future, allow other businessmen to deal in food and ironware!”

With the Royal firm as a giant, he is not afraid that those businessmen are hoarding grain and driving up grain prices, because they can’t do royal capital at all.

Qin Huan originally intended to put education under the jurisdiction of the Government Affairs Council. The royal family will only be responsible for examinations and teacher training in the future, but we still have to wait a little longer. Otherwise, the Royal money will really not know how to spend it. After all, the royal family and the country must be standardized in the future, and the responsibilities of both sides should be clear.

In his plan, the royal family is mainly responsible for guiding commercial development in the future. As for government affairs and military affairs, it is mainly supervision and does not directly intervene.

The royal government and the Government Council will work together to compete with each other in the research and development of heavy industry, military industry and new technology.

For example, a shipyard, an ironmaking plant, a royal office, a government council office, and an arsenal. The quality of that one is good and cheap. The military and Government Council will purchase which one, and so will the Research Institute. The Tiangong institute belongs to the royal family, and the Government Council will set up another Baigong Institute.

No one expected that this temporary joint meeting would last three days, and more and more people would attend. Finally, they had to move from the imperial study to the Fengtian hall.

Qin Huan basically arranged what he would do next year. The house of internal affairs and the government council would spend 800 million taels of silver, including two wooden tracks, which would cost nearly 100 million taels of silver.

One of the two wooden tracks is from Beijing to Wuhan, and the other is from Lanzhou to Kaifeng. All local people are employed to build the subgrade, which is also equivalent to work for relief. After all, the people in the north and northwest are now unable to open the pot and just waiting for relief.

Will throwing so much money at once cause inflation?

This is certain, but as long as it is controlled within a reasonable range, there will not be much problem.

After all, most of the money will be spent on ordinary people and craftsmen. 800 million sounds terrible in ancient times, but if it is shared among thousands of households, it will be nothing.

What will people do with money?

Nothing more than buying salt, grain, cloth and iron. As long as these four commodities are not out of stock, the purchasing power of treasure money will not depreciate.

The output of these four commodities has now fully doubled or tripled compared with that of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to well salt and Huai salt, several seaside salt drying farms built last year have also been completed, which can fully meet the needs of 200 million people.

The number of Xichuan iron factories has also doubled. With the addition of small iron factories around the country, the consumption of weapons and firearms will be reduced, so as to free up more wrought iron and make agricultural tools and appliances for the people. I believe that the price of iron should not be too expensive.

Only the prices of grain and cloth may rise significantly. Although the cotton in Kaifeng has been harvested for two seasons, and the fields in Jiangnan are being destroyed on a large scale, the demand for these two things is too great.

The former is due to the continuous natural disasters, the production has not been resumed in the north and northwest, coupled with the consumption of long-distance transportation, it will certainly not be able to completely meet the needs of the north and northwest. I’m afraid we can only buy in limited quantities to ensure that we don’t starve.

The production process of cloth is cumbersome. Whether it is cotton or silk, it takes dozens of hundreds of processes from sericulture and cotton planting to weaving into cloth, so I’m afraid it can’t meet everyone’s dressing needs in the short term.

As for a few quilts in a family, let alone.

In fact, Qin Huan didn’t know much about finance, but he knew that as long as the treasure money in people’s hands could buy what they wanted to buy, and could not go to the bank to exchange it for Yuanbao, the treasure money would not depreciate.

He thought about it. If the supply of salt, grain, cloth and iron was really short of demand, he would send troops to conquer the Japanese country. If the goods were not enough, he would use women to collect them.

It can not only be sold to those singles to be their wives at one time, but also be operated in Fengyue place to recycle treasure money for a long time!

Of course, the imperial court and the royal family will not do such uncivilized things.