After arguing with the matter of dealing with Qin Hui, the Minister of Revenue Chen Go reported on the fiscal revenue and expenditure last year. The benefits of opening the sea and commerce to the Song Dynasty have already shown that the related tax revenue was recorded in four million taels of silver.

The income of 50 million yuan is equivalent to the taxes of two taxes and the taxes of salt, wine, iron, etc., plus the miscellaneous income of the imperial court's fiscal revenue is not much different from the best year of this dynasty. The treasury has surplus, this year

The situation is better and is expected to continue to grow, and he, the Minister of Revenue, has also become a much better place.

This is all because of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty who had a good plan. Last year, nearly half of his income was spent on military expenditure alone. However, the emperor was quite kind and allocated two-thirds of the seized property into the national treasury and one-third entered the property.

The treasury was not much money for the imperial court. However, the emperor assigned the tasks of road construction and water conservancy construction, both of which were also money-burning tasks. Chen Gou calculated that this could not be achieved overnight.

As long as the work is broken down into a few years, the finances can still be supported, and there is no need to borrow money from the emperor anymore.

"Mr. Chen, now the two routes of Yanjing and Dading have already taken over me, but the land there is vast and sparsely populated. Although there are thousands of miles of fertile fields, no one can cultivate it. The southeast, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Sichuan are densely populated, and the land is sparse, and the price of land soars,

You can recruit landless tenants and refugees to move to both places to serve as border defense!" After hearing the introduction, Zhao Qiong said that he didn't know the specific numbers, but he knew it in his mind. At least he could do it from the Jiaozi accounts issued by his own cabinet shops.

I saw a rough idea, so I was not surprised. I was afraid that the court would not spend all the money, so I found a way for them again.

"Your Majesty said it is good, but the south of the Yangtze River is rich, and no one is willing to go to recruit. It is better to move from the densely populated areas to the north!" Chen Gao shivered again. Recruitment comes at a price, not only providing travel expenses,

You have to provide houses, oxen and farm tools free of charge. The expenses are very high, but the overall immigration is not only rich or poor but also saves a lot of money.

"Although forced immigration costs less, it can easily cause chaos in the people. Moving to the north is also unstable. It often escapes from the consequences of losing money. Don't be reluctant to leave the money. As long as the population in the north increases and the land is developed, it will become a new one in a few years.

The place of wealth should be farther away!" Zhao Qi knew that there were not many people who were not stingy in charge of money, so he kept his money bag tightly. He said with a smile, "I don't want to go because of the conditions."

If you are not satisfied, everyone can become a landlord after going there. I don’t believe that no one is willing to apply for the recruitment. You have to explain to the people carefully that someone will be willing to go!”

"I understand, and immediately order the county and counties in Jiangnan to recruit!" Chen Gou blushed when he was exposed by the emperor.

"Mr. Chen, you can ask Your Majesty for more advice on recruiting immigrants. At that time, there were constant wars in the rivers. The population losses were serious. After Your Majesty pacified the northwest, it increased hundreds of thousands of people in a few years and reclaimed millions of hectares of fertile land.

The fertility is comparable to that of Jiangnan!" Xu Jingheng turned his head and said to Chen Go. He was an eyewitness back then and admired the emperor's methods.

"I have also heard of Your Majesty's great achievements in governing the Northwest. I have to ask Your Majesty for his advice!" Chen Gou then remembered that the emperor had also been struggling in the local area for more than ten years, and there was no way to raise his arms in the Northwest and responded to it.

Yun. Can a hundred thousand troops be gathered in a few days? Therefore, this is said from the heart...

After everyone had a few jokes, Zhang Shuye, Minister of War, gave a special report on the formation of the Kruel Army and the Loyal Army, and the expansion of the desert brigade, the hunting brigade, and the artillery brigade. Now the organization of each department has been formulated and the funds required are allocated.

The personnel are being recruited and selected. The distribution of weapons is not a problem, but it has become a problem, especially the supply of artillery and ammunition is not enough because the Song Dynasty lacks copper.

After hearing this, Zhao Qi turned his attention to Chen Go, the Minister of Revenue, who wanted to hear his explanation, because he knew that the output of gold and silver in the Song Dynasty was very low, but on the contrary, the output of copper reached a very high level. He issued an edict to give priority to the supervision of military equipment.

Using copper to gradually reduce the casting of copper coins and replace paper jackson and silver to supply military demand. Why did it end up being so nervous that it affected the expansion of the army? If the war broke out again, it would be "shaomi".

"Your Majesty, I have done my best. We have produced more than 25,000 kilograms of copper every year. After using some of the casting tools, the rest will be sent to the military weapon prison, but the gap is still huge and can only be recycled.

After the coins were refining, the military weapon surveillance was supplied, but now there were few copper coins exchanged, so there was no supply for a while!" Chen Gou saw the emperor's bad eyes and hurriedly explained.

"For hundreds of years, there are more than one trillion coins, how can no one exchange them?" Zhao Qi calculated 25,000 Song Jin, and the total unit of measurement was 15 tons, which was not as good as a small workshop in later generations.

The output is, but the copper cannon is often hundreds of kilograms. Compared with this little copper, this output is a very impressive figure under the production process and production conditions at this time. However, the history of Chinese coin minting

It has been a thousand years, and the copper coins accumulated over a month have reached hundreds of millions of scattered coins. Couples from previous dynasties can be used in the market without any obstacles. Only these can be recycled and used for a while.

"Your Majesty doesn't know what to do. To sum up, it is the storage of the government treasury and private people, the second is to cast copper coins, and the third is to flow out of our dynasty." Chen Gou said again, "The small country of foreign countries cannot be cast.

Whenever money is obtained, it must be stored in the warehouse to be stored as a treasure for the country. Therefore, those who enter the foreign countries do not go to copper coins, and foreign goods do not sell them. The foreign ships are tall, deep and wide, and one ship can carry tens of thousands of them.

Guanwen left, and our merchants also collected copper coins more than once, so that exchanges were rare every day.”

"Well, so that's it!" Zhao Qi nodded. He was a businessman, and the gangster and white paths were both known. Chen Go understood the mystery as soon as he mentioned it.

The Song Dynasty was the highest-developing empire in the world at that time and one of the largest maritime trading countries. In addition to tea, silk fabrics, porcelain, lacquerware, etc., its exported goods were also important export materials cherished by many foreign countries. However, it must be pointed out that

Copper coins are different from tea, silk fabrics, porcelain, lacquerware and other export items, and are illegal smuggled export items. The Song Dynasty strictly prohibited the export of copper coins, and stipulated that "moneys will leave the Chinese border and be executed for the crime", and "re-established rewards and make people

Accused of arrest.”

The value of a commodity depends on the amount of labor consumed to produce the commodity. Many countries from Japan to Africa need currency due to economic development; and due to difficulties such as copper smelting and coin minting, it is temporarily impossible to have large quantities.

Production of copper coins. Under this condition, Chinese copper coins have become the "treasure of the country" of these countries and become a very expensive and extremely popular hard currency internationally.

Because the Song Dynasty's copper smelting and casting process was relatively advanced, the value of copper coins was necessarily much cheaper than that of foreign countries. On the contrary, many foreign special products, such as various spices, pepper, precious wood, ivory, rhinoceros horn, etc., were also of course worth more than that of foreign countries.

China is much cheaper. Therefore, overseas trade has become a huge profit cause. "Every ten-point number can be used to make a new product with a new product; if a hundred-point number can be used to make a new product with a new product with a new product with a new product with a new product with a new product with a new product."

Therefore, the export of large amounts of copper coins is unstoppable. If the annual export of 100,000 jin in three hundred years is 30 million jin, which is about 90,000 tons; if the annual export of 200,000 jin is 6,000, it is about 200,000 jin per year is 6,000

Wanguan, about 180,000 tons. But in fact, there is no way to count how many copper coins are exported. Now he has stopped minting copper coins, making it a scarce material, which has invisibly increased the value of copper coins. Zhao Qiong believes in getting rid of the sea.

In addition to business, officials, scholars, and even navy soldiers would be involved in the smuggling trade with copper coins. I am afraid that the orders that strictly prohibit the export of copper coins would be nothing more than a pile of waste paper under such huge profits.

"Can the mining farms in the Song Dynasty continue to increase their output now?" Zhao Qiong thought for a while and asked. He knew that the best way to curb this situation is to increase production to stabilize copper prices.

"Your Majesty, our Chao Mine Co., Ltd., Xinzhou Qianshan Farm, Dexing Xingli Farm, Shaozhou Cen Shui Farm, Tanzhou Yongxing Farm and other mines have fully implemented their wet copper smelting technology, and the country can obtain copper copper

One million pounds, all of them are trying their best, and it is very limited if you want to improve!" Chen Go replied.

"Well, can we still find a larger copper mine?" Zhao Qiong knew that this kind of copper was a copper smelting method, using the chemical method of copper-iron replacement to extract copper. It sounded like the output could reach one million, but it contained

There is not so much iron after re-smelting and removing impurities. This method is already the most advanced method in this era. Due to the limitations of the times, I can't think of a better way, so I can only expand the scope.

I've figured out a solution.

"Your Majesty, I have done my best!" Chen Go said bitterly, bowing and bowing.

"Oh?! It's not your fault!" Zhao Qi saw that he forced Chen Go, the Minister of Revenue, who was good at dispatching, to no avail, and said helplessly, he understood that China is also a country that lacks copper, even in modern times

Technology has helped to discover that copper minerals are scarce, not to mention that it is now an era where almost all rely on manpower.

"I am guilty and cannot share your worries for Your Majesty!" Seeing this, the ministers were so worried that the emperor was quickly apologized. They also knew that the reason why the Song army relied on was firearms, and copper was an indispensable part of the production of firearms.

The ingredients are hard to cook without rice!

"I know that there are many copper mines in Dali Country, can you discuss with them to buy them?" Zhao Qi suddenly remembered that Yunnan is an important copper production area in China, but it is now the territory of Dali Country.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of Dali's New Year has not left yet, I am willing to discuss with him!" Ma Kuo, the Minister of Rites, immediately asked for his order when he heard the emperor's words.

"Well, copper is related to my lifeline of the Song Dynasty. This matter must be resolved as soon as possible. It is best to rent and buy its mine. If it promises, we will not let them suffer any losses. If so...huh!" Zhao Qi said with a brief thought.

"I obey the order, go and do it myself!" Ma Kuo was so excited that he was furious that he was furious in the emperor's gloomy tone that he answered hurriedly, while the others felt the murderous aura of the emperor, and knew that this matter would not be what he wanted.
Chapter completed!