During the Chinese New Year, the happiest one is undoubtedly the child.

They are not very sensible. Even if they are poor, they will have to find ways to make some delicious food during the Chinese New Year, so this is the best time for children.

But for adults, it is the most difficult.

Originally, during the Chinese New Year, all kinds of forced debts would flock to you, and many people had to do everything possible to sell their property, or even sell their children to fill these debts.

In ancient times, the New Year was called "New Year's Eve", which means that the New Year was like passing a level.

If the scope of this year's end of the year is expanded a little, the court can be regarded as parents and the whole world can be regarded as children.

No government is short of money.

No matter how much money you have, as long as you dare to distribute it, the people below will dare to use it up.

The slightly exception is that when the Japanese bubble economy was at its worst in the late 1980s, the central government had too much money, and each municipal administrative unit issued 200 million yen in cash.

In some places where there is really no money, they cover 200 million with bulletproof glass for the public to visit.

Of course, this situation will never be seen again after the bubble economy collapses. The Japanese local governments are as poor as dogs, and they want to lick them even if they are soaked in shit.

Dakang used to be pretty good, at least there was some surplus every year, especially grain and private food.

Otherwise, Dakang would not be able to hold on to the successive disasters in recent years.

But this year, when encountering such a large-scale foreign invasion, the entire Gansu has been destroyed, the entire western Liaoning Corridor has been destroyed, southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian have been destroyed, and half of Jiangsu has been destroyed... After this round, even if Dakang has a little bit of surplus grain and money, it will be used cleanly.

The emperor has begun to owe the salaries of the imperial officials, and even the Empress Dowager’s Spring Festival rewards are gone. You can imagine how serious it is!

After all, those who suffered disasters in the past few years did not encounter wars, and those who suffered wars this year did not encounter disasters in the past few years, but without exception, they basically took turns.

It's really ridiculous.

But no matter what, life has to continue, and Dakang has to continue to maintain it.

So you have to make money.

The Dakang court generally recorded two items: tax and grain tax.

The grain tax is twice a year, including summer and autumn fu, a total of 80 million stones of rice and wheat.

Commercial taxation costs 96 million taels of silver a year, which is very terrifying and is also the main source of Dakang's finances.

Food is not of high value, but it is the most important factor in making people feel at ease.

People may not know how much money you have.

But if you say how much food you have, the people will feel at ease.

This year, Dakang's food consumption is very serious, but the consequences are not so serious.

Why?

Because most of the cities that were besieged, the food from previous years was stored in the attacked cities.

In the past few years, even if it was a flood or drought, the court did not draw grain from these cities.

Now it's OK.

Once several major forces attack and siege the city, the food inside played a major role.

An ordinary man may eat one pound of food a day, but if it is a matter of fighting to defend the city, it is not enough to eat four or five pounds of food that day.

Without sufficient food, there is no sufficient strength, and there is no sufficient courage.

So this is also an important reason why these foods in defensive cities have not been transferred before!

This year is the time to get rewards.

Whether it is Tianshui, Jiayuguan, Yinchuan, Jinzhou, Datong, or Ningyuan, it has supported this year's arduous war with its elite soldiers and sufficient food.

Then the second reason is that the two lakes, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Shandong, which have been repeatedly affected by disasters in the past few years, have achieved rare harvests in recent years because there were no military disasters and the weather and rainfall conditions this year.

Their great harvest in turn gave back the identities of Jiangnan and others who had been supporting them in the past few years.

This is the true cycle of cause and effect, good will be rewarded!

Food is enough.

But fighting is not just about food.

The soldiers still have to receive military pay before they can buy things, build houses, buy land, buy clothes... etc., all of which cost money.

More importantly, this year, more than 500,000 soldiers were killed in Dakang, and more than 7 million people were poisoned by invasions and other places.

What is not a cost of money for the pension and compensation for the soldiers, resettlement for the people, etc.

In addition, dozens of cities were damaged, occupied and burned in Dakang. If you want to repair it, you will have to spend a lot of money.

Compared to these big heads, it is a piece of cake for mere officials to owe wages.

...

After clarifying the problem, now is the time for the emperor to discuss how to make money with a group of court bosses.

All the people who discussed these issues today are big bosses in the court.

But in the warm imperial study room, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

The person who spoke at this time was the former deputy prime minister Nangong Ji.

I said before that Nangong Ji straightened out the Ministry of Revenue, which was almost taken away, and would retire and even plead guilty and be punished.

But more than a year has passed, and Nangong Ji is still in the position of the Ministry of Revenue. He is not the Minister of Revenue, but he is doing the work of the Minister of Revenue.

The old man is really amazing.

Although he was already 62 years old, after being beaten to the end, he was more energetic and gradually put the Ministry of Revenue on the right track. In the midst of the disaster and war, he also mobilized various money and food, but there was no problem at all.

It has really supported Dakang's various battlefields.

From this point of view, Nangong Ji is enough to overcome his merits.

Even the toughest Ge Songdao and Miao Yan also wrote in the document that "the crime should be sentenced to death, but then they will have the great contribution of atonement" to express their opinions.

Because Nangong Ji is so outstanding, he cannot be left behind in this financial difficulties.

So this old man who has no official position is destined to be in charge of all major affairs of the Ministry of Revenue for the third year.

What he is talking about now is the expenses that the court should spend next year: "To sum up, in addition to normal expenses, we need to spend a total of 327 million taels of silver. Although it does not require all of them in one year, it should be filled in at the latest in three years, otherwise the peace of the world will be affected."

"More than 300 million taels..."

Prime Minister Cao Yi smiled bitterly, "In the history of Dakang, there has never been a time when he has so much income in a year."

Feng Yuqiang, who has always been strong, also shook his head: "Although it is three years of expenditure... it is still very difficult! Where can I find so much extra income?"

That's it!

I feel that I have worked hard enough and saved enough. I haven’t built this palace for many years?

But even so, I can't make so much money!

Jing Hedi nodded while worried, but then he saw everyone looking at him.

The emperor was shocked, "What do you think I'm doing? I have no choice! Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked you to discuss how to make money!"

"His Majesty……"

Ma Haoqiu asked, "I remember you have two magic weapons!"

Ge Songdao said: "The first one is to issue a certificate of tribute to monks, nuns and Taoists, each of which costs 1,000 taels of silver."

Zhong Chang continued: "The second is the order of grace from the royal family. Anyone who intends to add a title to the concubine's son can donate to obtain the title promotion."

Jing Hedi was too big, "Didn't I take out all the money? This year, I'll get tens of millions of dollars!"

"not enough."

Ge Songdao said lightly: "Now the world is facing a catastrophe, and the young and strong are suffering serious losses. Ge Songdao, deputy minister of Dakang and the prefect of the imperial capital, asked His Majesty to issue an imperial edict, ordering all monks, nuns and Taoist priests under the age of 40 to return to secular life to enrich the people's population and reproduce their descendants!"

Even though these people had already discussed the general matter before entering the palace, Ge Songdao's words still made a group of important officials take a breath.

This Ge Honglian is really cruel!

Originally, everyone was thinking about the proposal of "monks, nuns, Taoists under the age of thirty to return to secular life", and asked the emperor to pressure the temples and temples to buy more certificates of vassals.

But now Ge Songdao has raised his age by ten years old in one breath to forty years old!

If we really want to distinguish it according to this age, how many people can do their jobs in the temple? Those old men dare to take this risk?

They can't handle this catastrophe if they don't have much bleeding!

This important official of the Legalist scholar is really not inferior to Miao Taisheng in terms of his ruthlessness!

Emperor Jing He was even more stunned, "Hong Lian...you, you are too exaggerating, right? Isn't this forcing them to lose everything?"

"Spend all your money?" Ge Songdao snorted coldly, "State, nunnery, and Taoist temples should have property? They are all trusting men and good women to worship Bodhisattvas and gods! Bodhisattvas and gods are both compassionate. At this time, they will definitely be willing to take it out and accommodate the suffering victims in the world!

If they don’t want to, it is contrary to the principles of Buddhism and Taoism, then there is no need for these temples, temples and Taoisms to exist, just get rid of them!"

"this……"

Emperor Jinghe wanted to curse people, saying that if you dare to do this, wouldn’t the Empress Dowager be angry to death?

But before he opened his mouth, Cao Yi next to him shook his head, "Ge Xiang's words are bad. This is too rough and completely in line with my great ambition's benevolence and righteousness."

"Yes! The Prime Minister is right!" The emperor nodded repeatedly.

But Cao Yi immediately added, "But your idea of ​​suggestion is quite good... Your Majesty, on the one hand, there are monks who never do anything for childbirth and who only know how to enjoy incense, and on the other hand, there are hungry and suffering people, soldiers who defend their country and widows, which one do you think is more important?"

Emperor Jing He was speechless!!

He can see now that these guys just want him to be evil people!
Chapter completed!